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Group Communication through Computers. Volume 1: Design and Use of the FORUM System. IFF Report R-32.
Vallee, Jacques; And Others
To explore the feasibility and usefulness of group communication via computer, a system called FORUM was constructed and used in research and management tasks using ARPANET, an international computer network. Working softward and data regarding the dynamics of groups using network communication were developed, and a prototype hardware system for conducting voice discussions in connection with planning computer conferences was designed and built. In this report components of the system are described and experience with other such systems is reported. Appendixes include a FORUM User's Guide and a description of program organization and performance. A bibliography is also included. (SK)
Descriptors: Communications, Computers, Conferences, Feasibility Studies, Group Discussion, Guides, Information Sources, Meetings, Networks, Program Design, Telecommunications, Teleconferencing
Institute for the Future, 2740 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 ($10.00)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Sponsor: Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), Washington, DC.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, CA.
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Origin of carry-on
How to use carry-on in a sentence
Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.'Babylon' Review: The Dumb Lives of Trigger-Happy Cops|Melissa Leon|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003|Vicky Ward|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
You just travel light with carry-on luggage, go to cities that you love, and get to hang out with all your friends.
It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.
Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The occasion should be seized also to increase the balances of depositors who carry unprofitable accounts.
They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
The text of the amendments designed to carry out these recommendations will be submitted by the Board at an early date.
The Professor, passing benevolently on, was glad he had now enough money to carry out his projects.Uncanny Tales|Various
British Dictionary definitions for carry-on
Other Idioms and Phrases with carry-on
Maintain, conduct, as in The villagers carried on a thriving trade, or They carried on a torrid love affair. [c. 1600]
Continue or progress, persevere, as in I'm sure you can carry on without me. [Mid-1600s]
Behave in an excited, improper, or silly manner, as in They laughed and sang and carried on rather noisily. [Early 1800s]
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Many of these experiences are captured in his book, “Excuse Me, Sir ... Your Socks Are On Fire, The Life and Times of a Wilderness Park Ranger in the Adirondack Mountains.”
The book, published in 2005 by North Country Press in Utica, is a humorous look at the backwoods lifestyle and is the first of three that Weill wrote on the subject. The book also includes stories about Weill’s time working as a fire tower observer on Pillsbury Mountain.
For those who enjoy spending time in the Adirondack backcountry, this book is a worthwhile and very easy, straightforward read. It’s also timely again because the assistant forest ranger program was ended this year by the state Department of Environmental Conservation due to a shortage of funding.
The book features appearances by people whom Adirondackers should be familiar with, including retired High Peaks ranger Pete Fish and former assistant forest ranger and interior caretaker Ben Woodard.
Fish was instrumental in getting the assistant forest ranger program off the ground in the late 1970s and Woodard was Weill’s predecessor in the West Canada Lakes Wilderness.
At the time, Weill started the job he was a struggling graduate student in forest biology at the SUNY college of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. Although he withdrew from ESF, Weill was able to secure the assistant ranger job with the DEC.
In the book, Weill describes the various characters he encounters in the woods, everyone from naive hikers and campers to experienced fishermen. His style is to exaggerate certain circumstances and people.
One of the more interesting characters Weill describes in his book is the late John Remias, who was the interior caretaker in the West Canada Lakes Wilderness.
At the time, Remias had worked seven years as an interior caretaker at the West Canada lakes, 13 at Cedar Lakes and six years as the forest fire observer on Tomaney Mountain.
“In other words, he had ‘been there,’ and I valued his opinions as much as I enjoyed listening to his stories,” Weill wrote.
Because of this experience, Weill often spent hours listening to Remias stories about the backwoods.
“I leaned back in my chair while John spoke, listening to his bit of anti-hiker sentiment,” Weill wrote. “I had heard it before, and I could understand where most of it came from. After so many break-ins, and so much time spent repairing senseless damage to lean-tos and outhouses, John had had enough. Not that he was antagonistic toward any one individual or group. On the contrary, he was extremely helpful and friendly whenever assistance was needed. But he often commented on the types of people in the woods ‘these days,’ and how they had gone downhill over the past twenty years.”
In another chapter called, “Long Island Folks,” Weill describes some of the campers who may have stoked Remias’ skepticism and who also inspired the book’s title.
Weill describes these campers as being “dressed in the latest combat-camping apparel, which evidently mandated a minimum of three army-style survival items, along with a machete which must have exceeded two feet in length. ... They all spoke with a pronounced Long Island accent, which I detected while overhearing two of them arguing over who should’ve brought the toilet paper.”
The men, strangely enough, had also staked out their campsite by putting a string border around it. That was to ensure that their terrority wasn’t encroached upon by other campers because they had heard that the sites could get crowded.
Eventually, though, the men decided their tent was inadequate and joined Weill in spending the night in a nearby lean-to. That night much of the conversation revolved around the local bear population, something that was of concern to them.
But the Long Islanders were prepared, having brought a rather large gun to defend themselves.
That night, as they were sleeping, that sound of that same gun awoke them, including Weill.
“I awoke in mid-air, perhaps two or three feet above the floor of the lean-to,” Weill wrote. “My eardrums were numb, my eyes were popping, and my heartbeat was somewhere up in the 250-300 bpm range. It was 2 a.m.”
“Yee-haa! I got rid of that bear in a hurry!” Paul screamed from the front of the lean-to.
Fortunately, Paul didn’t hit what he was said was a bear. Instead, he missed what actually was a beaver heading for its nearby lodge.
It is stories like this, full of hyperbole but based on reality, that make the book worth reading.
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Patents are the most important source of technology information. As a reward for their innovation, patents are granted to the inventor in the form a monopoly right for 20 years starting from the date of invention. These valuable documents are now easily accessible to the public thanks to the internet and advances in IT. Anyone with a basic understanding of the art can search through different patent databases to find the right patent document. There are many patent databases, including the USPTO, EPO and JPO that are freely available for public access. We can find a lot of information about the lifecycle of technological innovations if we look through patents that relate to a particular technological area.
A specific technology’s evolutionary path
o technological development,
o technology merges,
One of the major players in a specific technology area.
The key features of this technology
“The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), revealed that patent documents contain 90% to 95% all of the world’s inventions.”
The patent analysis can reveal valuable information that isn’t available elsewhere. The patent analysis is the most important part of patent search. One must be clear about the purpose of the study. You can use the information from the patent documents in different forms depending on your needs and map it accordingly to get a snapshot of the whole analysis.
For the preparation of technological landscapes, patent data can be used. The plotting of a technological landscape can be made easier by using logistic mathematics and circle mathematics. This map can show the evolution of a technology and how it evolved from a base technology. It also shows the time period of technological diversification as well as its nature. These maps will provide a detailed overview of how different technologies have merged to create breakthrough technologies. These maps will help R&D personnel to assess the current state of their technology and to identify opportunities to innovate and improve on existing technology.
Companies need to be aware of what technologies competitors can easily choke off, or may be trying to do so in today’s global environment. They need to be able to identify the technologies that are most in demand and where their competitors are investing their IP development and R&D. They must be able track patent acquisitions and develop strategies, and map the market. Before making an investment decision, companies need to understand the current pace of patenting in technology. They also need to know which patents contain fundamental ideas in technology. This will help them evaluate the vulnerability of their technologies to patent infringements. This information will help them make a decision about technology acquisition or technology development.
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Influences and Boolean functions representations
Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
AbstractMore than twenty years ago the important work of Kahn, Kalai and Linial gave general bounds on the influence of variables in arbitrary Boolean functions over the discrete hypercube. In theoretical computer science, though, often one is interested in particular types of "simple" Boolean functions such as constant-depth circuits, decision trees, low-degree polynomial threshold functions, etc. This additional structure raises the possibility that refined influence bounds can be obtained, and indeed it turns out that this is sometimes the case. This talk will give an overview of several such results and their applications, with an emphasis on currently open questions and directions for future work.
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In the 1930s, Aaron Copland wrote that he was making a significant change in his style. “I felt that it was worthwhile to see if I couldn’t say what I had to say in the simplest possible terms.” Additionally, he was committed to creating a distinctive American voice in music. “It was Copland’s genius for finding the memorable, evocative musical phrase that moved him from the avant-garde maverick to the voice of America.” (Barbara Heninger, program note annotator) He succeeded brilliantly. Composer Virgil Thompson called him “The President of American Music.” His music in this regard was so effecting, so endearing, so comprehensible, so identifiable as ours that he singularly defined the American spirit in music. On one occasion, the composer recalled that an audience member, after hearing Appalachian Spring in 1981, came up to him and said, “Mr. Copland … when I hear your music, I can just see the Appalachians and I just feel spring. …” Mr. Copland concluded, “Well, I am willing if they are!”
Appalachian Spring (for chamber orchestra) began as “Ballet for Martha,” referencing Martha Graham’s ballet troupe. According to Copland, the music was based on his friendship with Graham herself. “I was thinking primarily about Martha and her unique choreographic style, which I knew well. Nobody else seems quite like Martha: she’s so proud, so very much herself. And she’s unquestionably very American: there’s something prim and restrained, simple yet strong about her which one tends to think of as American.” Copland met Martha Graham in the early 1930s at a concert that featured his Piano Variations. She told the composer she wanted to dance to it; Copland told her that was “impossible.” Proving him wrong, she created the dance Dithyramb. Copland was thunderstruck. “Surely only an artist with an understanding of my work could have visualized dance material in so rhythmically complex and thematically abstruse a composition.”
The composer began work on Appalachian Spring in 1943, commissioned by the Foundation of Arts patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, who paid him $500 “for a dance piece.” Martha Graham (who actually titled the work) had been inspired for a ballet by Hart Crane’s poem, “The Dance,” which included these words:
O Appalachian Spring! I gained the ledge;
Steep, inaccessible smile that eastward bends
And northward reaches in that violet wedge
The ballet received the Pulitzer Prize in May 1945. Copland orchestrated the chamber score, and the Suite for Orchestra premiered in 1945 with the New York Philharmonic.
The setting is the early 19th century, on the site of a Pennsylvania farmhouse that was a wedding gift to a young couple. Copland wrote, “The bride-to-be and the young farmer-husband enact the emotions, joyful and apprehensive, which their new domestic partnership invites. An old neighbor suggests, now and then, the rocky confidence of experience. A revivalist and his followers remind the new householders of the strange and terrible aspects of human fate. At the end the couple are left quiet and strong in their new house.”
The ballet had 14 segments; the orchestral version eight. The composer kindly provided the following road map:
- Very slowly. Introduction of the characters, one by one, in a suffused light.
- Fast. Sudden burst of unison strings in A Major arpeggios starts the action. A sentiment both elated and religious gives the keynote to this scene.
- Moderate. Duo for the Bride and her Intended — scene of tenderness and passion.
- Quite fast. The Revivalist and his flock. Folksy feeling — suggestions of square dances and country fiddlers.
- Still faster. Solo dance of the Bride — presentiment of motherhood. Extremes of joy and fear and wonder.
- Very slowly (as at first). Transition scene to music reminiscent of the introduction.
- Calm and flowing. Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer husband. There are five variations on a Shaker theme. The theme, sung by a solo clarinet, was taken from a collection of Shaker melodies compiled by author Edward D. Andrews, and published under the title “The Gift to Be Simple.” The melody most borrowed and used almost literally is called “Simple Gifts.”
- Moderate. Coda. The Bride takes her place among her neighbors. At the end the couple are left “quiet and strong in their new house.” Muted strings intone a hushed prayerlike chorale passage. The close is reminiscent of the opening music.
The above became iconic American music, deeply embedded and embraced in our culture. The seventh section, “Simple Gifts,” sometimes tends to “steal the show.” In response, Copland made a separate arrangement for orchestra, titled “Variations on a Shaker Tune,” which has also become part of our American musical heritage.
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In my experience. The main reason that scientific naturalism doesn't have the same kind of popular following that Christianity or Islam does, is because it isn't very appealing on an emotional level.
Most people would rather be comfortable than aware.
This is why I think that Pantheism has such potential. It doesn't advocate any kind of supernatural realm or soul, and it provides all the solace and richness of religion. I am still learning about Pantheism, but its reverence for nature and respect for what is real resonate with me. I know that it might sound a little religious when it talks about "god". But God as is defined by a Pantheist simply refers to the laws of the universe and material reality.
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This study will explore the impact on secondary teachers in a NSW regional city of the 2020 COVID-19 learning-from-home period of schooling. Adopting a qualitative methodology, the proposed study will recruit 8-10 participants. Participants will be NSW Department of Education secondary teachers of different genders, settings, school sizes and localities in this regional city, who have taught in a secondary school for more than seven years and were teaching during and after the 2020 COVID-19 learning-from-home period. Participants will participate in a 40-minute semi-structured interview, either in person or online via Zoom. The proposed study will add to existing research by reporting on the lived experiences of secondary teachers as they reflect on their teaching during the 2020 learning-from-home period. Teachers are critical to schooling, therefore, developing deeper understandings of teachers’ experience of teaching during this pandemic is vital for education. | <urn:uuid:165bce4d-d908-4f3d-ae45-431587a3f332> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://app.education.nsw.gov.au/serap/ResearchRecord/Summary?id=336 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.961568 | 186 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Part of a great new series of comprehensive and accessible encyclopedias on our favourite animals, this is your definitive guide to the cat. Discover the cat throughout history and culture, its anatomy, appearance and behaviour, and take in a wealth of practical advice on how to choose a cat, care, health, breeding, and showing your cat. Information on evolution and classification is included before succinct clear entries go on to cover all the main breeds of domestic cat (nearly 60), split into shorthair and longhair and organised by type.
There are also entries on wild cats and helpful statistics and icons provide essential information at a glance.
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Type of support
120 000 €
Gold, the most timeless of precious metals, has actually evolved through the ages. Modern gold objects differ in craftsmanship and even composition from the gold worked by the Ancients. And it’s a good thing, too: Dr. Verena Leusch relies on this fact to carry out her chemical detective work, to the benefit of both today’s art world and archeologists studying the past. Her research contributes to the authentication of artifacts, a crucial service for museums, historians and society’s understanding of the past. Because, as she puts it, “All that glitters is not antique gold.”
Knowledge of ancient cultures contributes to our ability to date artifacts. For example, natural gold is actually a mixture of gold, silver and copper, and it is thought that people learned to refine their gold starting in the 6th century BC. When an excavation reveals a find that appears to be well older, yet is made of particularly pure gold, archeologists must question their assumptions about the skills of past civilizations—or the authenticity of the find. By analyzing a panel of artifacts from museum collections, like coins and ornaments, Dr. Leusch will address whether high purity gold can be used as a marker of forgery. Her work is unique for the number and variety of objects she will study: around 200 known authentic artifacts from across Europe and the Middle East, spanning the millennium up to 500 BC.
Because gold does not corrode, an artifact’s composition can be measured directly on its surface. Dr. Leusch will use a quick, precise technique called x-ray fluorescence analysis to obtain this information that speaks to the purity of the gold used in different places at different times. She will next look at the trace elements present in the gold, like platinum or tin. These are simply relics of the original geological source or the production process, like a “workshop fingerprint”. The profiles of these elements are significantly different between original antiques and forgeries, she says.
By going beyond isolated analyses of single objects, she will be able to take a broad view on ancient gold processing, providing necessary insight for the authentication of potentially high-value pieces of cultural history. The issue is of significant concern for museums and their funders, since costly showcases and facilities are created to display artifacts believed to be genuine. Telling forgeries from originals is essential for the insurers who provide coverage for the items of our collective heritage. On top of that, an important side effect of her work, Dr. Leusch explains, is that such conclusions affect everyone’s understanding of the past.
Scientific title: All That Glitters Is Not Antique Gold: Scientific Investigation On Ancient Gold And Modern Forgeries
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(a) The reference they were referring is : "Find a lower triangular matrix L, and a diagonal matrix D such that ". I don't see how this is relevant though.
Here's what I've done so far
From this, critical points are
The Hessian matrix will be
So what else do I need to do here to solve this? (I can't find any similar examples from my textbook)
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From: Dick Pennock <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] List owner
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:00:27 -0500
I haven't seen anyone address your question about Quaker abolitionists, so I'll
jump in from the heights of my ignorance.
The issue of slavery was a divisive one for Quakers as well as for the rest of
the country. From what I understand, although most Quakers opposed slavery,
many opposed abolitionists in general and the underground railroad in
particular because they broke existing laws. The Fugitive Slave Law, for
instance, may not have been just, but it was the law. Institutions like the
underground railroad which helped runaway slaves find their way to places where
they could live in freedom violated that law.
Because of such a division in the Kennett Monthly Meeting in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, a group split from that meeting and formed a Progressive Friends
Meeting, which sympathized much more strongly with the abolitionists. (I don't
know if they were "asked to leave" or if they left voluntarily.) The new
meeting was at Longwood, just a mile or two down the road. I was pleased to
learn that my Pennock ancestors were among those who shifted from Kennett to
I hope that helps at least a little. Good luck in your search.
R Kemp wrote:
> Okay, here's some of my questions.
> Weren't all Quakers abolitionists? Why were some people kicked out because
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Embrace uncertainty — it’s the only surety in life, we’re often told. New research suggests these words may be easier said than done, particularly when it comes to financial uncertainty.
During the Great Recession of 2008, stocks, bank accounts and IRAs weren’t the only things hurting. People were hurting, physically, and more so than usual. That year, Americans spent an estimated $300 billion on painkillers and other pain-related expenses, a 1,000 percent increase over two decades earlier and more than the combined yearly costs of cancer, heart disease or diabetes (based on the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey). Another national survey showed that from 2006 to 2012, painkiller dependence or abuse increased by 50 percent.
Many other data reveal a clear trend: In a world of growing economic uncertainty, physical pain is also on the rise. The question is, are these things causally connected, and if so, why?
The human body is a complex system, but through a series of six studies controlled for a host of variables (ranging from age and gender to household income and current employment status), we showed that economic uncertainty appears not only to occur commonly alongside physical pain but to actually produce it. Likewise, economic security leads to less physical pain.
Using data from 33,720 geographically diverse U.S. households, our studies specifically demonstrated that:
- Personal unemployment predicts greater over-the-counter (OTC) painkiller purchasing/consumption.
- State-level economic insecurity (as measured by the state’s unemployment rate) predicts greater physical pain among residents.
- There is in fact a causal connection between economic insecurity and physical pain, confirmed by a study in which we manipulated these two factors and examined their effects on each other. The insecurity may be personal or on a larger-scale level, such as within one’s home state.
- Economic insecurity leads to reduced pain tolerance.
The idea that humans suffer physical pain during uncertain times — a term now used routinely in connection with the American and global economies — is not too surprising on an intuitive level. Past studies have shown psychological distress and physical pain share similar neural processes, and economic uncertainty clearly produces mental and emotional distress. In addition, previous research has shown the potential for a malicious cycle to begin as a result of economic uncertainty; such a situation can impair physical health as well as cognitive functioning (including decision-making) and thus work against people’s ability to overcome their problems — and, therefore, their pain.
Our research went one step further by identifying the causal link between economic uncertainty and physical pain: an experience of the lack of control. Two of our studies showed that this feeling of losing control is the reason people feel more pain during uncertain financial times. Given our knowledge of anatomy, this finding, again, is not surprising; control is a fundamental human need, and a lack of it is known to activate the amygdala region of the brain, which in turn leads to experiences of anxiety, fear and stress — all detrimental to bodily and mental well-being.
Individuals, managers, and organizations should take heed at this point, for herein lies a call to action: If people can regain some sense of control over their lives — even while uncontrollable economic circumstances persist — physical pain may abate. As a result, not only will vicious personal cycles be stymied, but entire organizations and states, and indeed society as a whole, will benefit.
Implications: Why Pain Matters
Our studies showed that pain caused (primarily) by economic uncertainty afflicts people of any background, socioeconomic level, age, gender and educational level. A C-level executive is as prone as a minimum-wage worker to feel physical pain as a result of uncertain financial circumstances. Thus, this is not the familiar issue of the haves versus the have-nots, but of those who feel their lives are under their control versus those who do not.
Managers and policymakers everywhere should recognize this “painful combination” of financial uncertainty and a lack of control, and its potentially negative effect on citizens and employees: decreased productivity, work quality or creativity — even a failure to reach overarching organizational goals — as workers take more sick leave or come to work in compromised physical (and therefore mental and emotional) states. Workers and whole organizations performing under economically insecure conditions also may be:
- More likely to cheat or bend the rules (to exert desired control over their situation and thereby mitigate their physical pain)
- Less likely to want to invest time, energy or resources into new uncertain projects or pursuits, like R&D, even though those areas may also hold the most significant opportunities for a company
- Less likely to engage in good decision-making — including being willing to consider counter arguments and to examine disconfirming data, which may lead to additional uncertainty in the short run, but at the expense of long-run success and opportunities
In other words, the impact of physical pain reverberates, potentially hurting everyone in an organization, state or country in ways we are only beginning to understand.
Solutions: Restoring Control
As we enter a new year, financial uncertainty is clearly not going away anytime soon. This larger-scale financial unrest is compounded by individual-level insecurities — for example, an annual bonus or long-desired raise that remains in question; looming layoffs; innovations that threaten to eliminate the need for a business altogether; a profession that, by nature, yields an unsteady income level; or increasing costs of health care and insurance. In this context, it behooves managers and policymakers at all levels to find ways to help restore people’s sense of personal control. These interventions need further testing but may include the following:
- Do more to encourage healthy lifestyle habits, from good nutrition to regular exercise, which not only improve bodily wellness but also foster people’s sense of control over their bodies and lives, thereby weakening the impacts of financial uncertainty.
- Do more to foster strong, supportive relationships and communities within and outside workplaces (in part, enables people to exert control over their impact in the world).
- Offer personal finance resources or courses that give people tools to take control of their money and investments, even in small ways (e.g., monthly budgeting, creating a debt-payoff plan).
Of course, people experience pain for many reasons besides, or in addition to, economic uncertainty; our research acknowledges this fact, and realizes that some individual factors, such as clinical depression or anxiety (which may have a genetic basis), need further exploration to determine how they shape the relationship between economic uncertainty and pain.
Overall, our findings confirm the cause of an increasingly prevalent problem and, more importantly, a model for “treatment” that might just put managers and employers in as physically influential a position as their employees’ medical doctors.
Bidhan L. Parmar co-authored “Economic Insecurity Increases Physical Pain,” forthcoming in Psychological Science, with Eileen Y. Chou of the University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia Business School.
This piece originally appeared on Darden School of Business—Ideas to Action.
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Has some good climbing on the short left hand sections of the south side of Mt Keira. Degenerates to total choss further around towards the North areas. All accessible via a narrow track above steep jungle.
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Mt Keira Summit is 1.2 hr drive south of Sydney CBD. The summit overlooks the city of Wollongong (9th largest city in Australia) and has superb views up the southern coastline.
Access as for the West Face but go left of the Termite Mound down the rock-stepped track (Dave Walsh track) and hook around on the non-descript tracks (past Prow Prowess). Go to the left after descending about 25m vert (you will know you are there as you get to a red faced wall (on the left) with the route names (G) etched in the rock and a ledge track (heading east) that takes you past all the routes.
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Exodus 29Revised Standard Version (RSV)
The Ordination of the Priests
29 “Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish, 2 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour. 3 And you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams. 4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and wash them with water. 5 And you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skilfully woven band of the ephod; 6 and you shall set the turban on his head, and put the holy crown upon the turban. 7 And you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and anoint him. 8 Then you shall bring his sons, and put coats on them, 9 and you shall gird them with girdles[a] and bind caps on them; and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.
10 “Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bull, 11 and you shall kill the bull before the Lord, at the door of the tent of meeting, 12 and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of[b] the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar. 13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them upon the altar. 14 But the flesh of the bull, and its skin, and its dung, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
15 “Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram, 16 and you shall slaughter the ram, and shall take its blood and throw it against the altar round about. 17 Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head, 18 and burn the whole ram upon the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord.
19 “You shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram, 20 and you shall kill the ram, and take part of its blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and upon the tips of the right ears of his sons, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the altar round about. 21 Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his garments, and upon his sons and his sons’ garments with him; and he and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.
22 “You shall also take the fat of the ram, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination), 23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of bread with oil, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord; 24 and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. 25 Then you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar in addition to the burnt offering, as a pleasing odor before the Lord; it is an offering by fire to the Lord.
26 “And you shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave if for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall be your portion. 27 And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering, and the thigh of the priests’ portion, which is waved, and which is offered from the ram of ordination, since it is for Aaron and for his sons. 28 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is the priests’ portion to be offered by the people of Israel from their peace offerings; it is their offering to the Lord.
29 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them and ordained in them. 30 The son who is priest in his place shall wear them seven days, when he comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
31 “You shall take the ram of ordination, and boil its flesh in a holy place; 32 and Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting. 33 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to ordain and consecrate them, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy. 34 And if any of the flesh for the ordination, or of the bread, remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
35 “Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; through seven days shall you ordain them, 36 and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall offer a sin offering for the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it, to consecrate it. 37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy; whatever touches the altar shall become holy.
The Daily Offerings
38 “Now this is what you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening; 40 and with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a libation. 41 And the other lamb you shall offer in the evening, and shall offer with it a cereal offering and its libation, as in the morning, for a pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord. 42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you. 43 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory; 44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar; Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate, to serve me as priests. 45 And I will dwell among the people of Israel, and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God. | <urn:uuid:e07391f4-01bf-4e80-ab62-71b332f9f2ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+29&version=RSV | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00288-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972555 | 1,618 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Gender and Communication Skills
A common assignment on Gender and Communication Skills is as follows:
Write on the Gender and Communication Skills: Gender and Communication Skills Term Paper
Develop a three-page paper in which you examine the conclusions found from the following articles:
1. Gender Differences
2. Gender Communication Approach
3. What Men and Women Can Learn from each other
4. Do women and men communicate differently at work? What is the social construction of gender?
Answer the following questions in the Gender and Communication Skills Term Paper:
- Do men and women communicate differently?
- Does it make a difference in the workplace?
- Write on following Gender and Communication Skills (format below)
Focus: THIS IS MANdITORY for Gender and Communication Skills Term Paper:
• Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
• Must address the Gender and Communication Skills of the paper with critical thought.
• Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
• Must use APA style as outlined in the Handbook to document all sources.
• Must include, on the final page, a Reference List that is completed according to APA style as outlined in the Handbook.
The paper must be clear, engaging, original, and focused; ideas and content are richly developed with details and examples. Organizational culture and form enhance the central idea and theme; ideas are presented coherently to move the reader through the text. The voice of the writer is compelling and conveys the writer’s meaning through effective sentence structure and precise word choices. The writer successfully moves the paper through academic constructs and experiential documentation to critical analysis. The paper demonstrates a clear balance of these three components
Margins – 1” top, bottom, right, and left – DO NOT INCREASE MARGINS TO 1.25 Alignment – left side – DO NOT PUT ON JUSTIFIED
Note: APA Format – after a period one space – NOT TWO.
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Test Citations – Quote or Paraphrase
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The states intervened after French fishermen said they were unjustly prevented from sailing the waters of Jersey Island and threatened to use their boats to close the island’s main port.
According to them, the UK authorities, responsible for issuing the new permits, began to refuse many applications, which surprised the workers – only 41 out of 344 boats received the new license.
France and the United Kingdom transfer warships to the island of Jersey – Photo: Clone / T at Globo
The island authorities claimed that many had failed to demonstrate that they had a historical connection to that fishing area and that they had distributed licenses under the new rules.
The French government says that “conditions not foreseen in the post-Brexit agreement have been implemented.” He asks the British to “respect the commitments they have made.”
Fishing has always been one of the most sensitive issues in negotiating a post-Brexit trade agreement. But this is the first episode of diplomatic tension between the French and the British in the English Channel.
French fisherman on Jersey Island – Photo: Reproduction / TV Globo
In response to the United Kingdom and the ban on fishing, France threatened to cut off the light from the island, as 95% of the territory’s electricity comes from three large submarine cables leaving France.
With Brexit, the fear is that this tension will increase. On Thursday (6), the European Union called for calm in France and the United Kingdom, in a first attempt to end this climate of naval battles.
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By Doug Gross, CNN
* Charlie Chaplin is commemorated with a Google "doodle" for his 122nd birthday
* Honor for the iconic silent film star is the first time Google has done a video doodle
* The short black-and-white film stars members of the Google Doodle team
He's a comedy and cinema legend, a man still cited as an inspiration decades after his death.
And now, in honor of what would have been his 122nd birthday, Charlie Chaplin has inspired one of the most ambitious Google "doodles" ever.
Google Doodle team member Mike Dutton portrays Charlie Chaplin in a tribute video posted on the site's search page
On Friday, the space on Google's homepage that usually contains its multicolored logo instead featured a black-and-white YouTube tribute to Chaplin, whose birthday is Saturday.
The short "silent" film is Google's first-ever video doodle and was created with the help of the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.
"True pieces of art, Chaplin's films still feel fresh today even though some of them are nearly a century old," Ryan Germick, a member of Google's Doodle team, wrote on the company's official blog. "We hope that our homepage gets people talking about his work and the many virtues of silent film."
The project is the work of the Google Doodle team, which is devoted to sprucing up Google's plain search page with colorful images to commemorate holidays or other noteworthy dates or events.
For Google, doodles are oodles of fun
Team member Mike Dutton mimics Chaplin, who, in the two-minute video, attempts to make money by drawing his own doodle before tricking a mean police officer into buying him breakfast.
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The video will remain on Google's page through Saturday, according to the blog post.
In a recent interview, Doodle team creative leader Ryan Germick told CNN that the drawings started out as a way to humanize the search page, but became more elaborate as time went on.
"It's definitely something we try to mix up and keep surprising," said Germick (who doubles as the aforementioned mean cop in the video). "Our hope is you come to the Google homepage, and we're really thankful for that. We want to give back and try something fun."
See some behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot.
Some other notable doodles in recent months have honored novelist Jules Verne, Google's 12th anniversary, the emergence of coding language HTML5 and, perhaps most notably, the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, the '80s arcade game.
Chaplin is arguably the most iconic and recognizable star of early silent films, including such classics as "City Lights" and "Modern Times." Born in London in 1889, he was most known for his Little Tramp character, who sported a bowler hat, moustache, cane and baggy pants.
Chaplin died in Vevey, Switzerland, on December 25, 1977, at the age of 88.
CNN's Dan Simon in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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Your question is excellent, because it inquires after the intersection of math and physics philosophically. Be mindful this is a broad topic because one has to know math, physics, and philosophy, ideally in equal proportions with history somewhat mashed in there for perspective.
Mathematical physical theories greatly enhance and help to define what is meant by the physical universe and supplement our basic intuitions which are sometimes referred to as naive physics, but note also the psychology of naive physics is used by some to ground the origins and effectiveness of mathematical theory, a perspective known as mathematical empiricism.
The topic you reference is the relationship between mathematics and the physical world, which is called the mathematization of science (Google ngram) which is both a topic of interest in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mathematics particularly relevant to the question of math foundations. Obviously, the technicals of mathematical physics are best asked about in PhysicsSE. But I'll try to give you some pointers to ideas for the philosophical grounding of their intersection.
The systematic application of mathematics to the physical world starts at least as early as the Babylonians, which goes back to around 1,800 BCE who used it for astronomy and measurement. Babylonian math was very practical and very limited and might be considered the bare minimum needed to be considered the start of the mathematization of physics. About 1,500 years later, a big step forward was taken by Euclid of Alexandria with his axiomatization of mathematics known as Euclidean Geometry which took for granted certain presumptions about the physical world, such as the physical reality of parallel lines that largely went unchallenged until the 19th century. Gauss considered the mathematics of Archimedes, who was active around the same time, to also be one of the most important contributors to mathematics making him an important contributor to math and physics.
In this abridged history, the next outstanding contribution to the mathematization of physics undoubtedly was the work Galileo Galilei who used rigorous measurement in his experiments, a relatively new practice as science began to grow out of natural philosophy. The ancient Greeks had their sciences, as discussed by GER Lloyd, but around the 16th century, science entered a new phase of mathematical rigor, the next leap forward not occurring for about 300 years, with the advent of mathematical logicism and formalism of whom both Gottlob Frege and David Hilbert are considered major contributors.
But, before we get to the end of the 1800's and the start of the 1900's where the birth of the theories of QM and relativistic physics radically transformed mathematical physics, we need to take a step back and offer two other famous contributors of mathematical physics, Isaac Newton and his mechanics of motion and gravitation and Johannes Kepler and his astronomy. The early science of Galileo was done in a time when Aristotelian physics had been defended for a very long time within the Catholic church (and was part of the reason that the Church burned Giordano Bruno and imprisoned Galileo); by the time of Kepler, mathematics irrefutably killed the geocentric model of the universe.
Next is Big Al. This notion that mathematical theories of physics face resistance by intellectuals of the day didn't end with Kepler by any means. Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize for physics for the photoelectric effect because the scientist who wrote his recommendation thought relativity wasn't much of a theory. In Albert Einstein, we also see a physicist who did foundational work at the quantum level as well as the relativist level, and ironically didn't consider his math skills very good. Here are some quotations to show his sometimes wry humor, of which, I like:
"So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality."
Since then mathematical physics has churned out some theories about strings, dark matter, and multiverses, which some physicists see as being very non-scientific raising questions relevant to Einstein's insight above. For an amusing challenge to the notions that some of contemporary physics today is actually science, watch this short video by Sabine where she (rightly, IMNSHO) calls the multiverse a mathematical religion.
Philosophy, Math, and Science
What's going on here with this math and science stuff? Well, that's a little involved but we can offer quickly some philosophical ideas that can serve as a starting point to explore mathematical physics.
First, mathematical physics is an example of mathematical application and mathematical models. Second, in the models of mathematical physics, one is exploring quantitative relationships between the primitives of the physical ontology, such as energy, spacetime, and matter. But there's more to mathematical physics than ontological primitives, what might be thought of as physical entities, there are epistemological aspects. How do we know what we know in physics? This is one of the primary concerns in the philosophy of physics as well as the philosophy of science more broadly.
Let's just give an example of a transformation in philosophical thinking. After Newton simultaneously invented the calculus and mathematized force, mass, acceleration, and gravitation, scientist-philosophers saw the universe as being characterized by the mechanistic interaction of particles within a Euclidean space governed by the passage of absolute space and absolute time. What does that mean? It means that physics now had a rigorous footing on mathematics extending our naive physics into a very rational and empircal physics. In fact, by the end of the 19th century, some scientists thought there wasn't much new to learn about the laws of nature.
But there had been some developments in geometry, known as non-Euclidian, that had set the mathematical communities of the world abuzz, since Euclid's geometry was thought to justify the mathematics of physics. When the non-Euclidian geometries were accepted, mathematical philosophy was transformed because it turned out that grounding of mathematical theories in physics wasn't clear cut. It is on the basis of these theories that Albert Einstein reformulated a vision of the universe where time and space were related, relative, and the shape of the universe might be considered fundamentally curved. Later, this space was shown to be something akin to Minkowski space. In fact, there are now a plurality of models of space and time, keeping alive the question of the Ancient Greeks, what exactly is space and time?
This answer is already too long, but I'll leave off with the results of the mathematization of physics which continues to renew philosophical speculation and theorization. If math goes on in the mind of people, and mathematical theories are linguistic constructions of societies (constructivism), is the universe inherently real (scientific realism) or is it only an instrument of our minds (instrumentalism)? These are the sorts of philosophical considerations that arise when people combine mathematical thinking with physics.
You ask a tough question, because of the broadness of it. The logical positivists of the 20th century spent a great deal of time theorizing about math, physics, language, and philosophy, and we can say with certainty that we are still learning from their failures. This question is a great first step in the direction of following their thinking. About the only thing that can be said for certain is that anyone who claims to have all the answers probably doesn't, and the best thing to do is keep reading and thinking. Good luck!
- Relativity and Common Sense, Hermann Bondi - I love this book because it examines relatively conceptually, and is a classic.
- The Philosophy of Quantum Theory, Tim Maudlin - This is an excellent introduction starting with a short list of physics results in experimentation and a subsequent series of philosophical explanation including an introduction to Bell's Theorem as well as the mathematics involved. Written by a philosopher instead of a physicist, it's very clear.
- Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, 2nd Ed., Judea Pearl - This book is for you if you are interested in modern methods of mathematical causality. There are formal systems of non-quantitative and non-experimental approaches to causality, but this book has some mathematically rigorous methods, easiest to understand if pursued after a math education.
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Ed. W.H. Newton-Smith - The 1st edition has over 80 brief articles on important topics including "Mathematics, Role in Science". Tough to get through if you haven't studied some philosophy, such as epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, etc.
- Logical Positivism, A.J. Ayer - Written by one of their own after the movement had its heydey, an anthology of logical positivist thought.
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EC invests over €220m in green and low-carbon projects in Member States
The EC has approved an investment package of €222.7m from the EU budget to support Europe's transition to a more sustainable and low-carbon future. The EU funding will spur additional investments leading to a total of €398.6m to be invested into 144 new projects in 23 Member States.
The support comes from the LIFE programme for the Environment and Climate Action. €323.5 million will go to projects in the field of environment and resource efficiency, nature and biodiversity and environmental governance and information.
Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Karmenu Vella said: "I am delighted to see that this year again our LIFE programme will support many innovative projects to address our common environmental challenges. LIFE-funded projects use relatively little funding and with simple ideas to create profitable green businesses that deliver on the transition to a low-carbon and circular economy."
Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete said: "With the Paris Agreement entering into force, we must now focus on delivering on our promises. These projects will create the right conditions to promote innovative solutions and spread best practices in reducing emission and adapting to climate change across the European Union. In this way they support the EU's implementation of the Paris Agreement."*
The projects illustrate the Commission's ongoing commitment to its flagship circular economy package. A significant number of awards are granted to help Member States best make the transition to a more circular economy. Examples of recognised projects in 2016 include the new energy-saving hydrogen-electric garbage trucks in Belgium, technologies for reducing the health risks of sludge in wastewater pioneered in Italy and a project to help Greek municipalities, such as Olympia, increase recycling rates.
In the field of climate action, the investment will support climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation and climate governance and information projects totalling €75.1 million. Selected projects support the EU's target to reduce GHG emissions by at least 40 % by 2030, contributing to the shift towards a low carbon and climate resilient economy. Some examples of 2015 projects include restoration and carbon storage in peatlands in five EU countries (Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland), demonstration of the production of low-emission cement and concrete products in France, enhancing the climate resilience of vineyards in Germany and implementing adaptation measures in urban areas in Cyprus.
The 56 LIFE Environment & Resource Efficiency projects will mobilise €142.2 million, of which the EU will provide €71.9 million. These projects cover actions in five thematic areas: air, environment and health, resource efficiency, waste and water. The 21 resource efficiency projects alone will mobilise €43.0 million that will facilitate Europe's transition to a more circular economy.
The 39 LIFE Nature & Biodiversity projects support the implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives and the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. They have a total budget of €158.1 million, of which the EU will contribute €95.6 million.
The 15 LIFE Environmental Governance and Information projects will raise awareness on environmental matters. They have a total budget of €23.2 million, of which the EU will contribute €13.8 million.
The 16 LIFE Climate Change Adaptation projects will mobilise €32.9 million, of which the EU will provide €19.4 million. These action grants are awarded to projects in five thematic areas: agriculture/forestry/tourism, adaptation in mountain/island areas, urban adaptation/planning, vulnerability assessments/adaptation strategies, and water.
The 12 LIFE Climate Change Mitigation projects have a total budget of €35.3 million, of which the EU will contribute €18.0 million. These action grants are awarded to best practice, pilot and demonstration projects in three thematic areas: energy, industry and land use/forestry/agriculture.
The 6 LIFE Climate Governance and Information projects will improve governance and raise awareness of climate change. They have a total budget of €6.9 million, of which the EU will contribute €4.1 million.
Descriptions of projects can be found in the annex to this press release.
The LIFE programme is the EU's funding instrument for the environment and climate action. It has been running since 1992 and has co-financed more than 4 300 projects across the EU and in third countries, mobilising €8.8 billion and contributing €3.9 billion to the protection of the environment and climate. At any given moment some 1100 projects are ongoing. The budget for the LIFE Programme for 2014–2020 is set at €3.4 billion in current prices, and has a sub-programme for environment and a sub-programme for climate action.
For information on LIFE
Link to Annex
To contact the relevant national authorities see here.
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Individuals have the option of choosing coverage for main dwelling according to their personal need and preferences. You can value your property according to:
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The coverage offered by homeowners insurance policy in US on other structures like outhouses, servant quarters etc depends on total coverage for the primary dwelling house. 10-15% of dwelling cover is offered as coverage for other assets. Other property will be covered for $10,000 - $15,000 on a home covered for $100,000.
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Institutions in this ranking include private, not-for-profit and public schools which offer online MPH programs. None of the schools have been offered preferential treatment in the ranking, nor have any requested such. The methodology is fully disclosed so that any one person will be able to recreate the same ranking following the methodology and using the same sources. In some cases, when data was unavailable, an institution may have been omitted for those reasons.
Schools were scored based on four different numbers: the overall graduation rate, retention rate, residential cost of attendance (COA), and the overall grade given by students at Niche. Graduation and retention rates, the numbers stayed the same, only the % was dropped in order to made addition more simplified. For example, 65% would be considered as 65. While it is considered unheard of for any institution to have a total score of 400, it is possible for each of these four numbers to be 100 at their maximum.
Conversion scales, pictured below to the right, explain how affordability is ranked on a scale from 0 to 100 from the COA. There is also a scale which explains the letter to number conversion of grades obtained from Niche. After converting these into our numerical scale, the four numbers are added together to get a total score in order to rank the schools.
Why use graduation and retention rates? While these numbers are not always considered to be important factors for graduate students as they usually reflect students who are seeking out baccalaureate degrees, they were chosen as they are considered as a way to determine the overall success of an institution. For these reasons, they were chosen to be included in the ranking criteria.
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25. Liberty University
Established in 1971 by Jerry Falwell, Liberty University is a private, non-profit Christian research university which is located in Lynchburg, Virginia. Liberty is the largest Christian university in the world by enrollment size and as such it offers a large number of programs both on-campus and online. Liberty University offers its students a 100% online MPH program which is designed to guide working professionals through the fundamentals of public health and how we can learn from past events. Through the course of completing the degree, students will find themselves having the opportunity to look at public health in a number of ways and from different and distinct perspectives.
Students pursuing an online MPH at Liberty University must choose a cognate for their degree program from Global Health, Health Promotion, or Nutrition. The program consists of 42 total credit hours and up to 50% of the program hours may be transferred (if approved and allowable). After core and specialization courses are completed, the elective courses may be taken at the same time as completing the practicum.
24. University of Illinois at Springfield
Springfield, Illinois is home to the University of Illinois at Springfield which is a public university that was established in 1969. Students who are looking to enter or advance within the field of public health find that the Master of Public Health degree can provide them with the desired knowledge and, upon completion, credentials to get ahead in their chosen profession. The MPH degree is designed to help create future leaders in the field of public health in order to address growing concerns of our population’s well-being. Currently, all degrees by the department may be completed on-campus or may be taken entirely online, which include an MPH General, an MPH Environmental Health Concentration, and an MPH Professional Option and the student’s choice must be stated at the time of application.
All students participating in programs through the MPH department require 28 hours of core courses, which includes a 4-hour internship. Students who choose the general MPH or the MPH – EH options will have 48 hours of coursework to complete the program. The professional MPH requires 36 hours of coursework. There are also two joint programs, an MPH/MPA joint degree which requires 66 hours to complete and an MPH/HMS joint degree which requires 68. In order to change degree options, students must reapply. Students are required to pass a comprehensive written examination within one year of completing coursework in order to complete their degree. Students are allowed a maximum of three consecutive attempts.
23. Loyola University Chicago
The Windy City is the home to Loyola University Chicago (LUC) which is a private American Catholic research university which was founded in 1870. Today, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation. The online MPH programs offered at Loyola are both online and in-person and designed to prepare the future public health leaders through a personalized educational experience, mentoring, rigorous research, and community engagement. The interdisciplinary MPH program and career-oriented concentrations are taught through multiple departments and institutes of Loyola’s high-ranking university system which include:
- – the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
- – the Institute of Environmental Sustainability
- – the Stritch School of Medicine
- – the School of Social Work
- – the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
- – the School of Law
22. University of West Florida
Pensacola, Florida is home to the public institution, the University of West Florida (UWF) which was established in 1963. The online Master of Public Health program offered by UWF offers a high-quality interdisciplinary curriculum which is competency-based in order to teach students a deep understanding of public health so that they will be able to go on to become leaders in the field at local, national, and even global levels.
Students are able to choose from earning an online MPH generalist degree or an MPH in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior. The program is 42 semester credit hours and the required elective courses give students an opportunity to tailor their degree in order to fit their interests and career goals. Being a multidisciplinary course of study, students will be able to learn many aspects of the field and gain the ability to view public health issues, problems, and policies from different perspectives. The program is also allied with several academic centers or certificate programs which offer students even more educational opportunities to deepen their understanding of public health in specific areas.
UWF has a close working relationship with area hospitals and the state public health facilities and even the military in order to provide a strong foundation in both healthcare and public health communities. This also helps to broaden internship opportunities for students at UWF. There is a 2-semester 6 credit hour internship required as a component of the online MPH program. Students are able to complete this under the guidance of an MPH Faculty Internship Advisor or a qualified mentor. Students are also required to complete and pass a proctored, closed-book MPH Comprehensive Exam in order to earn their degree.
21. Florida A&M University
Florida A&M University (FAMU) is a public HBCU in Tallahassee, Florida which was founded in 1887. An online Master of Public Health (MPH) is offered at FAMU through the Institute of Public Health within the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and is designed to help working adults further their education and become leaders in their field helping to preserve and promote good health in communities both locally and globally. FAMU is home to the first MPH degree offered online at an HBCU as well as the first accredited public health program in North Florida. It is no surprise that the FAMU MPH is one of the top producers of African American public health professionals in the United States.
FAMU recognizes that working professionals as students often seek out online programs for the flexibility they offer, so anywhere, anytime access is a key feature of the online MPH program. Students are able to learn through streaming audio and video lectures and are offered support through virtual office hours. Students will also enjoy free access to SAS, the leading statistical analysis software. Research assignments are tailored to the student’s areas of interest which can allow them to take advantage of their current work environment. The online MPH program is 5 semesters or 50 hours for full-time students. Students who choose to earn their degree part-time will take two courses at a time in sequence. Practicums are completed the final semester.
There are impressive employment connections which can be made through FAMU, such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Congress, Florida Department of Health as well as other health departments across the country. Students may also choose to seek out employment in the private sector or community health centers. Opportunities are abundant for those holding an MPH degree.
20. Simmons College
Simmons College, located in Boston, Massachusetts, was established in 1899 and is a private women’s undergraduate college with a private co-educational graduate school. Simmons College offers students a 45-Credit online MPH program that takes 21 months to complete. The program is delivered through online courses, self-paced content, and in-person experiences designed to give students the real-world skills needed to become effective public health practitioners.
Students will explore the core areas of public health which include biostatistics, epidemiology, health policy/health services, social/behavioral health, and environmental health. Overall, students who complete the online MPH program at Simmons College will be prepared to become a leader in the public health field and to have a positive impact on public health at the local, national, and global level.
19. Mercer University
Established in 1833, Mercer University in Macon, Georgia is the oldest private university in the state. Mercer offers working adults an online MPH program which is taught by the same faculty as are found in the traditional classrooms on-campus. Students of the generalist MPH degree will learn valuable skill sets which can be applied to many opportunities in the field of public health. Mercer University has been educating public health care professionals since as early as 1998 and continues to be passionately committed to educating future leaders in public health.
Students learn how to promote wellness in ways such as improving access to health care and reducing environmental hazards, substance abuse, violence, and injury. Also, students will learn how to prevent disease as well as controlling infectious disease. Earning an MPH degree can be a rewarding opportunity to help improve the overall quality of life, and health, for families and communities.
18. Kent State University
Established in 1910, Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio. In addition to having an excellent on-campus program, Kent State also offers an online Master of Public Health program with a choice of two unique specializations for students to be able to tailor their degree in order to fit their interests and public health career goals. These specializations are Health Policy and Management (HPM) and Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS).
The award-winning MPH curriculum consists of a minimum of 14 courses, or 46 credits, which can be broken down into 7 core courses which include the practicum for 25 credits, 5 specialization-specific courses for 15 credits, and 2 elective courses for 6 credits. Students are able to complete the program within 24 to 27 months. During their studies at Kent State University, students will learn knowledge and skills to help them become leaders in the field of public health.
17. George Washington University
Located in Washington, D.C. and founded in 1821, George Washington University (GW) offers students an online Master of Public Health degree program through their Milken Institute School of Public Health. Students, regardless of location, will find themselves helping to create solutions and solving some of the biggest challenges in the field of public health locally as well as globally. GW’s long-standing relationships with some of the world’s most influential health organizations allow students to help develop innovative and groundbreaking models for both national and international health care reform. Students may also participate in leading initiatives or programs which fight disease, improve upon community health policy, or assess the quality of other’s health care around the world.
The online MPH program consists of a blend of both live classes in an online classroom and real-world experience working in a public health practicum. Students can rest assured that they are getting the same degree as their peers who attend on campus as the courses are designed and led by the same faculty who teach the on-campus courses. The online MPH program at GW provides future public health leaders with a flexible online education making it an excellent choice for working professionals looking to expand their education.
16. University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in Birmingham, Alabama, is a public research university which was established in 1969 but has educational roots dating back to 1936. The School of Public Health at UAB offers students several program options for an Online Master of Public Health. Each is rich with a dynamic blend of online content, high-level collaboration with both peers and faculty, and real-world experience. The online MPH is designed to be convenient for working students who are unable to leave their jobs or relocate in order to pursue their degree.
There are online degree programs offered in both Environmental Health Sciences and Health Care Organization and Policy. Each program covers the same basic fundamentals as the standard degree but includes content which is tailored to the student’s specific interests and career choices. Most of the following programs offered at UAB range between 42 and 45 credits:
- – Online MPH in Environmental Health & Toxicology (ENHQ)
- – Online MPH Industrial Hygiene (IHYQ)
- – Online MPH in Occupational Health and Safety (OHSQ)
- – Online MPH in Health Care Organization (HCOP)
- – Online MPH in Maternal & Child Health Policy & Leadership (MCPL)
There is also an online dual-degree program for an MPH in Maternal & Child Health Policy & Leadership/Master of Social Work which is coordinated with University of Alabama (UA) School of Social Work in Tuscaloosa. This degree program is designed to prepare social workers for practice in public health programs that are concerned with the improvement and promotion of health of diverse populations which include women, children, and families.
15. University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and was founded in 1885 as the first university of the Arizona Territory. UA offers students an online MPH degree program with concentrations in Applied Epidemiology, Health Services Administration, and Health Promotion. The online program is designed as a 2-year program for working adults and is an interdisciplinary, professional degree in public health. Students will obtain knowledge and skills within the core areas of public health and will be able to obtain proficiency in one or more specialized areas of interest through completing advanced coursework. Students will also gain experience in applying their knowledge in order to solve real-world health problems in community settings during their internship training. The world-class faculty at UA help create their dynamic online learning experience which includes direct interaction, collaborative discourse, and integrative thinking.
14. Creighton University
Creighton University is a private Jesuit, Roman Catholic university and can be found in Omaha, Nebraska. Currently, the university serves more than 8,000 students and offers a variety of online programs for students who are unable to attend on-campus. Creighton’s online MPH program gives students the latest tools and techniques to be able to make their mark in the public health sector. Students are prepared for leadership roles in a wide variety of health-related areas within the field.
Students will learn:
- – To identify the health problems and needs of populations as well as evaluate how to meet those needs.
- – How to assure conditions which protect and promote the health of populations.
- – How to plan and put into place as well as evaluate health programs that address public health needs in cooperation with community members.
- – How to synthesize and communicate to the public their findings from research, practical experience in the field, and their own critical self-reflection on topics of public health concerns.
- – To carry out broad public health functions across various settings with competency.
Creighton’s online MPH degree program offers a choice of two concentrations alongside its dynamic and interactive core curriculum so that students are able to match their interests and career path to their program. The Health Policy and Ethics concentration prepares students to be able to answer some of the most difficult and intricate questions in the areas of bioethics, health-related law, and health care reform. Meanwhile, the Healthcare Management concentration sets its focus on leadership and management skills needed in order to obtain a position of authority and influence within public health organizations.
The online MPH program offered at Creighton can be completed 100% online so that adult learners are able to continue their education without concerns of attending a traditional classroom. This program is also one of the few online MPH programs which do not require a residency. Students are able to take 1 online course per 8-week session and often are able to complete the program within 2.5 years.
13. Grand Valley State University
Allendale, Michigan is home to the public liberal arts institution of Grand Valley State University and is one of the 100 largest universities in the United States, fifth largest in Michigan. The university has a large number of online and hybrid programs and among these are two online MPH programs. One online MPH program is offered with Health Promotion emphasis and the other with Public Health Administration emphasis. GVSU offers students a quiz to make sure that they are ready for online college and that it is the best choice for their lifestyle. Online and hybrid programs offered at GVSU are challenging and innovative, yet offer flexibility for students who are already working individuals.
12. University of Southern California
The University of Southern California can be found in Los Angeles, California. The Keck School of Medicine of USC offers an online MPH program which can be taken with several different concentrations, such as:
- – Biostatistics & Epidemiology – This concentration has students to engage in high-level research and analysis to improve public health in order to play a key role in preventing, treating, and controlling the spread of diseases.
- – Health Education & Promotion – With this concentration, students will strive to improve upon public health through means of education.
- – Global Health Leadership – This degree concentration is designed to help its graduates change the world through public health. Connecting with a global community can help the spread of infectious disease through long-distance travel, but at the same time it makes connecting with other public health officials across the world faster and easier.
- – Geohealth – Students will be able to learn spatial methods to improve public health.
- – Health Services and Policy – This concentration teaches students how to improve the quality of health at local and state levels, as well as federal levels.
The online MPH program is delivered through a customized online learning platform and state-of-the-art technology and was designed for students who want to study online and receive the same stimulating and rigorous academic program as those who choose to study on-campus. Students who choose the online MPH program are able to access the material 24/7 from anywhere with an internet connection. Students are able to engage with classmates and faculty in regular online sessions and virtual office hours as well as having the ability to meet online with classmates for study sessions and group projects or perhaps just to socialize.
Graduates will also have a wide variety of career options ahead of them upon completion, such as Hospital Administrator, Public Health Clinician, Health Educator, Data Analyst or Epidemiologist to name just a few.
11. Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is home to Temple University. Temple offers students a choice of two online MPH programs, Social and Behavioral Sciences and Health Policy and Management. These 45-credit programs are designed for working individuals who are able to complete the program within 3 years part-time. Courses are delivered in an accelerated 6-week format.
The program offers flexibility partially in an asynchronous format so that students are able to study when it is convenient for them, allowing them to create a better balance between work, school, and time with their family. There’s also live-stream course delivery in order to create a stronger link between students and Temple faculty members and researchers. The program also includes a local fieldwork experience which is both guided and supervised by Temple faculty.
Temple offers an option for students to complete dual MSW-MPH degree online.
10. San Diego State University
San Diego State University in San Diego, California offers a fully online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Health Promotion and Behavioral Science. The program is offered through the SDSU Graduate School of Public Health and administered by the College of Extended Studies. The program has a 20-month duration and teaches students to be able to develop, implement, and evaluate public health programs. The program was designed for early- to mid-career professionals in the public health industry and, as it is fully online, allows its students to be able to study on their own time and be able to find a good balance between work, school, and home life.
9. George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia is where students will find George Mason University. Mason is home to a 42-credit online MPH program in the Public Health Practice concentration designed for students who wish to enter or advance in the field of public health. The online MPH program provides coursework in five core areas including biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health administration, as well as social and behavioral sciences. Students will examine social and environmental factors which are associated with improving community health, as well as the health of the overall population. Students who complete the course will also be prepared for the Certified in Public Health (CPH) examination.
8. University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina is located in the capital city of Columbia, South Carolina and offers students 2 different online MPH programs. Both are designed to help enhance the knowledge and skills of students either working in the public health field or plan to do so in the future. The Master of Public Health in Health Promotion, Education and Behavior offered by USC is designed for students who care deeply about the health and welfare of their fellow man and are either already working in the public health field or intend to upon graduation. Graduates of this 45-unit program will learn more about the fundamentals of public health and be able to contribute to the organization, the creation of policies, and learning and disseminating knowledge pertaining to public health. USC also offers a Master of Public Health in Health Services Policy and Management for students whose interests and career paths are better suited for this focus of study.
7. University of South Florida
The University of South Florida is located in Tampa, Florida and offers students a variety of online MPH programs in different concentrations so that students are able to find a program which is tailored for their chosen career path. Students participating in MPH programs at USF come from, and advance to, many different health organizations, careers, and locations. No matter if they are at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, in foreign military locations, or even in remote rural communities, it is certain that they are working hard and applying their academic knowledge to their real-life situations by mitigating health risks, working in a healthcare program, or working on public health policies. Students are able to choose between the following programs:
- – M.P.H. in Public Health Practice
- – M.P.H. in Public Health Administration
- – M.P.H. in Health, Safety & Environment
- – M.P.H. in Global Disaster Management and Humanitarian Relief
- – M.P.H. in Epidemiology
- – M.P.H. in Infection Control
6. University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and offers an online MPH in Public Health Practice. This is a general concentration which allows students to tailor their degree in order to suit the area of public health they are most interested in. It is a 42-credit course which is delivered 100% online, with no residency requirement so students are not required to visit campus. Students are able to take 1 to 3 courses per semester and since the program is asynchronous, fitting in school time with an already busy schedule is even easier.
5. Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana is home to IU Bloomington and offers students an online MPH in Parks and Recreation. The program is designed for students who either are looking to gain employment or are currently employed in positions such as parks directors, program coordinators, proprietors of private recreation facilities, and health department personnel among other careers. Students will learn the skills needed in order to make decisions on resource and land use with public health in mind. The 44-credit hour program can be completed in as little as 2 years for full-time students or 4 years for part-time students. The program is a non-thesis program, however, it does require a 3-credit field experience of practical application of public health.
4. Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana is home to Purdue University which offers students who are dedicated to public health a degree program which can be taken either on campus or online. The online MPH includes a concentration in Family and Community Health which focuses on the needs of the family unit. The program is designed for both professionals already working in the field of public health as well as students who are looking to enter the field. Students will learn enhanced knowledge about epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health sciences, and behavioral and social sciences in order to gain a better understanding of public health as a whole. There is also a 400 work-hour practicum included as part of the program which can be tailored to suit the student’s area of interest and will serve as a solid foundation for their career goals.
3. University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is located in the town of Berkeley, California and is considered to be a school of high academic prestige.The online MPH program offered through the School of Public Health is 14 courses totaling 42 semester units which is able to be completed mostly online with 2 intensive 1-week on-campus sessions. In all, students are able to earn their degree in about 2 ½ years. Students who complete the program can expect not only to learn in-depth knowledge about the core fundamentals of public health but should also prepare for rapid career growth upon completion.
2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers students four different online MPH programs to choose from. Many of the students are already professionals in one of the many different kinds of health organizations and enjoy the benefit of expanding their education at an institution which has a strong academic reputation.
The Executive Master of Public Health which is regarded by many to be one of top executive healthcare leadership programs in the nation is offered in a mostly online format. There are three annual visits to the campus at Chapel Hill consisting of 6 days in the fall semester, 4 in the spring, and 4 during the summer session.
MPH in Public Health Leadership with Leadership Track is another mostly online MPH program which only requires on-campus attendance for 2 four-day sessions which are typically held in August and May of the first year. This MPH offers four different focus areas which include public health practice, public health program development, public health nursing which is for BSNs only, and field epidemiology.
UNC at Chapel Hill also offers an online MPH in Public Health Leadership with Occupational Health Nursing Concentration. While most of the program is conducted online, there are 2 one-week on-campus sessions students must attend and they are usually held in late summer.
Public Health Leadership Global Online MPH is 100% online and was designed in order to create strong leaders with the intricate knowledge and analytical skills in order to create and implement policies or programs needed to address global public health issues.
1. University of Florida
The University of Florida, or UF, is located in Gainesville, Florida and is often recognized for its excellence in academics. UF offers a growing number of programs in the online format, which includes an online MPH program offered through the College of Public Health and Health Professions. The program is designed to give students all the benefits of the on-campus program offered fully online.
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Many are familiar with such wonders as steam power and the discovery that the planets revolve around the Sun. The fact that such phenomena were known to the ancient Greeks more than 2,000 years ago is less well known. Now, Science in the Ancient World fills this gap by covering all the major scientific developments during 4,000 years of ancient history.
Over 200 A–Z entries explore the origins of science, from astronomy and mathematics to medicine and chemistry. Giants like Aristotle and Plato are examined, together with more obscure figures like Nearchus, explorer of the Indian Ocean, and Hero, discoverer of steam power. Emphasis is placed on the diversity of ancient science, from the achievements of the Mesopotamians to the science of the Romans. The philosophies behind ancient science are explored, from the Epicurean pursuit of happiness to the asceticism of the Stoics. This comprehensive survey brings to the modern reader a long lost age of scientific discovery.
- A complete bibliography of primary source documents, secondary source biographies, and critical analyses
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Takizawa Honjin is one of historic site of Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture. It was used for the resting house for Daimyo during Daimyo parade. It is located near Wakamatsu castle. So, Daimyo used this house to change his official outfit before entering the castle or traveling to east.
It was constructed in 1678 and registered as national important caltural asset. This is the oldest remaining house built in Tohoku region.
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Google has just done something that will make virtual reality more accessible.
Virtual reality has been a hot topic for some time now, but it still has a very long way to go before everyone can easily experience the trending technology. Google offers a budget headset, called Cardboard, that attempts to make it more affordable for everyday people to access, and indeed, more than 5 million Cardboard viewers have been shipped, though it still takes a bit of effort to use Cardboard and thus experience VR.
In order to engage with VR content, you need to have a VR headset and use a dedicated VR app that supports said headset. This process restricts discovery because users are limited in what they can view and how (plus developers have to take on the expense of creating full-blown VR apps in order to showcase VR content). Well, Google's latest initiative, called VR View, is a new tool that's about to change all that for everyone.
VR View makes VR content more simple to implement, discover, and view. It's a tool that developers can use to embed 360-degree photos into not only apps but also websites. With this tool, VR photos should become something just about everyone can easily access, as it lets you click a button in your browser or tap a photo in an app in order to jump into an immersive experience.
With a few lines of code, developers can add VR content to their website or apps, allowing them to show off whatever their heart desires. Vogue could uniquely show off the latest looks on the runway online, or Ikea could offer engulfing demos of products. The possibilities are endless. To complement this tool, Google is also adding iOS support to the Cardboard SDK.
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The June figure brought the average inflation rate in the first six months at 4.3 percent, or beyond the Bangko Sentral’s target range of 2 percent to 4 percent for 2018. The higher rate indicates that certain assumptions made by government forecasters earlier were not met.
Data provided by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that the higher annual price increases of 6.1 percent in the heavily-weighted food and non-alcoholic beverages index largely caused the inflation in June to spike. The food index by itself climbed 5.8 percent in June, with higher annual mark-ups observed in the indices of rice, 4.7 percent; corn, 14.1 percent; meat, 5 percent; and vegetables, 8.6 percent.
The country’s rice supply was understandably short until last month when the National Food Authority finally imported the commodity. The prices of commercial rice in the market rose to as much as P45 to P50 per kilo with the absence of NFA rice in the market since March of last year. NFA administrator Jason Aquino earlier conceded that the agency failed to comply with the 15-day buffer stock policy for almost one year.
The increase in petroleum prices, along with the weak peso, may have also contributed to the steeper increase in the prices of other food items like vegetables and meat. Rising transportation cost inflates the cost of food products, especially those coming from the provinces.
The surprise inflation rate in June, meanwhile, will prompt the Bangko Sentral to take a more aggressive approach in raising interest rates to curb rising prices. Governor Nestor Espenilla Jr. described the higher-than-expected June inflation as a “setback.”
The government should also identify the artificial bottlenecks affecting the supply of goods and services. Unscrupulous traders and speculators may have already taken advantage of the high inflation rate by hoarding goods. / posted July 06, 2018 at 12:50 am by Manila Standard
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Parents need to know that this dramedy chronicles a pet lover's transformation into a hardcore animal-rights activist. The film portrays veganism and animal adoption positively and casts a negative light on game hunting, wearing fur, and eating meat. Molly Shannon's character is socially awkward and incredibly lonely, so there are some tear-jerking scenes of her after her beloved dog's accidental death. Children who have pets and/or love animals may be disturbed by photographic images of animal cruelty, a wall of mounted stuffed animals, and three instances of pets dying.
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The telescope resulted from his improvements to a mere curiosity
By Priscilla Long
December 19, 2012
Galileo did not invent the telescope. But he did modify a curiosity called the spyglass that in 1609 was beginning to be sold by spectacle makers and peddlers in Europe. He improved it and he pointed it toward the sky.
The spyglass grew out of the technology of eyeglasses. If I’d been born before 1300, I would not be writing this. I would not be able to see anything as minuscule as a word on a page. Reading glasses, made of convex lenses, became common after 1300, and by the middle of the 1400s, spectacle makers were grinding concave lenses for myopic persons who wanted to see who was waving at them from across the road. These two ways of grinding glass into lenses are significant because a telescope employs both types—a weak convex lens with either a strong convex or strong concave lens. It was a spyglass because of its remarkable military applications—you could spy on enemy ships and military maneuvers long before your enemy could espy you. Objects could be magnified three or four times.
At the time Galileo was a mathematics professor at the University of Padua who boarded students and ran a business selling instruments, including spectacle lenses, on the side. He received word of the spyglass and made one for himself. “What he did with the new device over the next six months was crucial to the history of astronomy,” writes Albert Van Helden, whose translation and introduction to Galileo’s highly readable announcement of his discoveries, Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messenger (Starry Messenger), makes it the edition you want to read. Galileo worked to improve his instrument, and by December he’d fabricated one that magnified about 20 times. When he turned it toward the sky his discoveries were, in his words, “of infinite amazement.”
First he looked at the moon and wrote, “It is most beautiful and pleasing to the eye to look upon the lunar body.” He informed the world (the part of it that chose to believe him) that the moon’s surface was not smooth, perfect, and unblemished, as was thought, but “uneven, rough, and crowded with depressions and bulges.”
The next amazement had to do with the swirling white haze—“whitish clouds”—that to bare eyes makes up big swaths of the Milky Way. “If you direct a glass to any of them,” he wrote, “you will meet with a dense crowd of stars.”
And finally, most astonishing and profound, Galileo pointed his spyglass toward Jupiter and discovered four new “wandering stars.” (Back then planets were called “wandering stars” and stars were called “fixed stars.”) For 53 consecutive nights (minus nine cloudy nights), he recorded the locations of these celestial bodies and determined that they were moons orbiting Jupiter. He termed them the Medicean moons (he was plumping up his CV, hoping for research funds from Cosimo II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany). We call them the Galilean moons—Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Galileo’s discoveries and prompt publication brought him international fame. Knowledge of Jupiter’s moons (we now know there are more than 50) supported the Copernican view that placed the Earth in the heavens. One argument in favor of the old, Aristotelian, view—that Earth was the center of all celestial motion—was the existence of our moon revolving around us. Galileo’s Galilean moons circling Jupiter killed that argument. In Van Helden’s words, the novelty and importance of Galileo’s 1609 discoveries cannot be overstated.
The spyglass was the first scientific instrument to amplify the human senses, to make previously invisible objects visible. Ever since Galileo pointed it up to the skies, scientists have been tinkering with it. I wish he could come back for one day and see the views provided by that improved spyglass known as the Hubble telescope. Galileo would be even more amazed.
Look for Priscilla Long’s next Science Frictions essay on January 2.
Priscilla Long is the author of Crossing Over: Poems. Her two new books, both published in 2016, are a collection of essays, Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? Where Are We Going? and Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators. Her essay “Genome Tome,” which appeared in our Summer 2005 issue, won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. | <urn:uuid:0e499588-4e38-4040-98ff-d8a8dbaacaf1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://theamericanscholar.org/galileos-spyglass/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971007 | 1,011 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Join Joseph Lowery for an in-depth discussion in this video Working with iOS for iPhone and iPad, part of Building Android and iOS Apps with Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Apple's iOS operating system, which currently drives the iPhone, the iPad, and…the iPod touch, is a true market leader.…Not only is iOS credited with breaking new ground, it is by far the most-used…mobile OS in North America as shown by the NetAverages graphic.…iOS is composed of five basic levels of technology.…For the most part, mobile application developers are only concerned with the…uppermost layer, Cocoa Touch.…But I think it's a good idea to get an overview of the entire iOS structure so…you better understand how it all fits together.…
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- Understanding the mobile app toolset
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By Dr. Mercola
Are you using artificial sweeteners and opting for low-cal "diet" foods in an effort to control of your weight?
If so, you may be surprised to learn that research has repeatedly shown that artificial no- or low-calorie sweeteners are anything but good news for weight loss... Contrary to popular belief, studies have found that artificial sweeteners such as aspartame can:
- Stimulate your appetite
- Increase carbohydrate cravings
- Stimulate fat storage and weight gain
Now, yet another study1 has been published showing that saccharin and aspartame cause greater weight gain than sugar.
The belief that artificially sweetened foods and beverages will help you lose weight is a carefully orchestrated deception. So if you are still opting for "diet" choices for this reason, you are being sorely misled. Ditto for diabetics, as recent research has shown aspartame also worsens insulin sensitivity.
The fact that these are still being promoted as "diet" flies in the face of any rational behavior. One wonders why the FTC doesn't come down like a ton of bricks on these companies for massively fraudulent marketing.
New Study Negates Weight Management Claims of Artificial Sweeteners
The featured study, published in the January 2013 issue of the journal Appetite2, was done by a Brazilian research team with the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University do Rio Grande do Sul. Rats were fed plain yogurt sweetened with either aspartame, saccharin, or sugar, plus their regular rat chow, for 12 weeks.
"Results showed that addition of either saccharin or aspartame to yogurt resulted in increased weight gain compared to addition of sucrose, however total caloric intake was similar among groups," the researchers write.3
The reason for the similar calorie consumption between the groups was due to increased chow consumption by the rats given artificially sweetened yoghurt. This type of compensation has been found in previous studies4 as well, indicating that when your body gets a hit of sweet taste without the calories to go with it, it adversely affects your appetite control mechanisms, causing increased food cravings. The authors concluded that:
"Greater weight gain was promoted by the use of saccharin or aspartame, compared with sucrose, and this weight gain was unrelated to caloric intake. We speculate that a decrease in energy expenditure or increase in fluid retention might be involved."
You Actually Gain Weight by Using "Artificial Sweeteners
A 2010 scientific review published in the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine (YJBM)5 discussed the neurobiology of sweet cravings and the unexpected effect of artificial sweeteners on appetite control. It cites several large scale prospective cohort studies that found positive correlations between artificial sweetener use and weight gain, which flies in the face of "conventional wisdom" to cut calories in order to lose weight. For example:
"The San Antonio Heart Study6 examined 3,682 adults over a seven- to eight-year period in the 1980s. When matched for initial body mass index (BMI), gender, ethnicity, and diet, drinkers of artificially sweetened beverages consistently had higher BMIs at the follow-up, with dose dependence on the amount of consumption. Average BMI gain was +1.01 kg/m2 for control and 1.78 kg/m2 for people in the third quartile for artificially sweetened beverage consumption.
The American Cancer Society study7 conducted in early 1980s included 78,694 women who were highly homogenous with regard to age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and lack of preexisting conditions. At one-year follow-up, 2.7 percent to 7.1 percent more regular artificial sweetener users gained weight compared to non-users matched by initial weight... Saccharin use was also associated with eight-year weight gain in 31,940 women from the Nurses' Health Study8 conducted in the 1970s."
Experiments have found that sweet taste, regardless of its caloric content, enhances your appetite. Aspartame has been found to have the most pronounced effect, but the same applies for other artificial sweeteners, such as acesulfame potassium and saccharin.
The reason why glucose or sucrose (table sugar) tends to lead to lower food consumption compared to non-caloric artificial sweeteners is because the calories contained in natural sweeteners trigger biological responses to keep your overall energy consumption constant. This was again evidenced in a study9 published last year, which concluded that:
"The results support the hypothesis that consuming non-caloric sweeteners may promote excessive intake and body weight gain by weakening a predictive relationship between sweet taste and the caloric consequences of eating."
In essence, real sugar allows your body to accurately determine that it has received enough calories, thereby activating satiety signaling. Without the calories, your appetite is activated by the sweet taste, but as your body keeps waiting for the calories to come, sensations of hunger remain.
"Human research must rely on subjective ratings and voluntary dietary control. Rodent models helped elucidate how artificial sweeteners contribute to energy balance. Rats conditioned with saccharin supplement had significantly elevated total energy intake and gained more weight with increased body adiposity compared to controls conditioned with glucose. Saccharin-conditioned rats also failed to curb their chow intake following a sweet pre-meal...
Increasing evidence suggests that artificial sweeteners do not activate the food reward pathways in the same fashion as natural sweeteners... Lastly, artificial sweeteners, precisely because they are sweet, encourage sugar craving and sugar dependence... Unsweetening the world's diet may be the key to reversing the obesity epidemic," the YJBM review states.10
That last statement is probably the most accurate conclusion there is. Americans in particular are addicted to the flavor sweet, which appears to trigger a complex set of biological systems, pathways, and mechanisms that in the end leads to excess weight gain whether that flavor comes loaded with calories or not.
Another Oft-Ignored Mechanism Driving Weight Gain from Artificial Sweeteners
Another reason for aspartame's potential to cause weight gain is because phenylalanine and aspartic acid – the two amino acids that make up 90 percent of aspartame -- are known to rapidly stimulate the release of insulin and leptin; two hormones that are intricately involved with satiety and fat storage. Insulin and leptin are also the primary hormones that regulate your metabolism.
So although you're not consuming calories in the form of sugar, aspartame can still raise your insulin and leptin levels. Elevated insulin and leptin levels, in turn, are two of the driving forces behind obesity, diabetes, and a number of our current chronic disease epidemics. Over time, if your body is exposed to too much leptin, it will become resistant to it, just as your body can become resistant to insulin, and once that happens, your body can no longer "hear" the hormonal messages instructing your body to stop eating, burn fat, and maintain good sensitivity to sweet tastes in your taste buds.
What happens then?
You remain hungry; you crave sweets, and your body stores more fat. Leptin-resistance also causes an increase in visceral fat, sending you on a vicious cycle of hunger, fat storage and an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and more.
Additionally, large doses of phenylalanine can lower important neurotransmitters like serotonin,11 which also influences satiety. Decreased serotonin levels reduce feelings of satiety, which can then lead to over-eating or binge eating. In the end, the research tells us that artificial sweeteners are nothing more than a pipe dream when it comes to being a dieter's aid, because contrary to what the marketing campaigns claim, low- or no-calorie artificial sweeteners are more likely to help you pack on the pounds than shed them.
What's the Answer for Stubborn Weight Gain?
The first thing you need to understand is that counting calories is typically useless for weight loss. This is because calories are NOT created equal, and will not have identical effects on your weight or health. And, as reviewed above, trying to fool your body with artificial sweeteners devoid of calories is not the answer. In fact, it will likely make matters worse.
Secondly, it's important to realize that the preferred fuel for your body is fat, not carbohydrates. Switching from a carb-based diet to a fat- and protein-based diet will help rebalance your body's chemistry, and a natural side effect of this is weight loss, and/or improved weight management once you're at an ideal weight. One explanation for this is that you don't really get fat from eating too much and exercising too little. Nor do you get fat from eating fat.
In fact, there's reason to believe that most people's health would benefit from having:
- As much as 60-70 percent healthful fats in their diet, and
- No more than one gram of protein per kilo of lean body mass or about 0.5 grams of protein per pound of lean body mass. (Can be increased by 25 percent if pregnant or aggressively exercising). To determine your lean body mass, calculate your body fat percentage and subtract that from 100. So if you are 20 percent body fat you would have 80 percent lean body mass. Then, multiply that times your current weight to get lean body mass in kilos or pounds
Dr. Richard Johnson's latest book, The Fat Switch, dispels many of the most pervasive myths relating to diet and obesity. He discovered the method that animals use to gain fat prior to times of food scarcity, which turned out to be a powerful adaptive benefit. His research showed that fructose activates a key enzyme, fructokinase, which in turn activates another enzyme that causes cells to accumulate fat. When this enzyme is blocked, fat cannot be stored in the cell.
Interestingly, this is the exact same "switch" animals use to fatten up in the fall and to burn fat during the winter. Fructose is the dietary ingredient that turns on this "switch," causing cells to accumulate fat, both in animals and in humans.
In essence, overeating and excess weight could be viewed as a symptom of the wrong proportion of macronutrients. You're simply not feeding your body the right fuel. It's not necessarily the result of eating too many calories, per se, but rather getting your calories from the wrong sources. In simple terms, when you consume too many sugars and carbs, you set off a cascade of chemical reactions in your body that makes you hungry and leaves you craving for sweets.
Even if you have the highest quality raw and organic foods, if you have a non-optimal combination with identical calories, you will likely gain weight. So listen to your body and if you are one of the two-thirds of people who are overweight, seriously consider radically reducing your carbs and replacing them with fibrous vegetables, lowering your protein levels to the quantity discussed above, and replacing those missing calories with healthy fats from coconut oil, olives, olive oil, avocado, pastured grass fed butter, and nuts. You can also try intermittent fasting, which will give you a radical jumpstart in your ability to normalize your weight. | <urn:uuid:1d521154-5471-4fcf-9489-dee1d361687a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/04/saccharin-aspartame-dangers.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950727 | 2,319 | 2.671875 | 3 |
STAUFFENBERG: MY LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF A HERO
By BERND WOLLSCHLAEGER, MD – Author “A German Life”
and DR.PETER JACKISCH
Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg: Bravery in The Face of Tyranny
By Bernd Wollschlaeger,MD & Dr. Peter Jackisch
July 20, 1944 marks a turning point in Germany’s history when a few brave men attempted the assassination of Adolf Hitler. Among them, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg who represented the one beacon of hope that pierced the dark cloud of tyranny which had settled over Germany. Unfortunately, the bomb failed to kill Hitler. Nearly six thousand men and women were subsequently murdered in the wake of Hitler’s revenge; many strangled in front of cameras. Hitler gloated while watching these executions captured on film.
Stauffenberg was one of the first to die, his body shattered by bullets, burnt to ashes, and scattered over unknown fields. His pregnant wife Nina was arrested by the Gestapo, confined to a prison then later to a concentration camp. Though their children were given up for adoption, all survived the war and later reunited.
I was born in 1958, the son of a highly decorated World War II tank commander who grew up in the house of family Stauffenberg.
I learned first about Stauffenberg’s heroic action from my father who dismissively called him a traitor.
My father, a German officer like Stauffenberg, was sworn to defend and obey Adolf Hitler. He grudgingly admitted to me that he knew about the murder of Jews but chose to ignore it; his inaction in stark contrast to the decision made by Stauffenberg. My father’s inability to admit to what I saw as his mistakes led to conflict and the dissolution of our relationship. From conversations with Stauffenberg’s widow and personal study, I tried to discern what, unlike my own father, had motivated Stauffenberg to break his oath and attempt tyrannicide.
According to close confidants who survived Hitler’s revenge, Stauffenberg received reports about the mass murder of Jews and was convinced of their authenticity. He himself witnessed the events of November 9-10, 1938, euphemistically called Crystal Night, when most synagogues in Germany were burnt down. Ninety-one Jews were killed and an estimated 20,000 were sent to concentration camps. This not only symbolized the beginning of the end of Jewish life in Germany but also convinced Stauffenberg that such a tyrant had to be removed from power.
His strong personal sense of religious morality and justice conflicted with his commitment as an officer sworn to defend his nation. He discussed Hitler’s removal from power with close friends and confidants but at the same time continued to serve his fatherland in the war, which had turned Europe into an inferno. He himself was almost fatally wounded in North Africa in 1943, yet despite crippling injuries, he joined existing resistance groups, eventually emerging as their leader.
In the absence of suitable candidates he volunteered to carry the bomb and tried at least twice to detonate it in front of Hitler even if it meant sacrificing himself. On that fateful day the third attempt to kill Hitler failed. One can only imagine how many lives could have been saved had he succeeded.
What did I learn from his bravery? That a solid ethical and spiritual foundation and commitment to act along those principles defines a moral person. Furthermore, that as citizens of any country, we should not blindly follow our leaders but must critically judge them, finding the courage to object and even to disobey.
Stauffenberg was not a martyr or tragic hero. He was a man who followed his mind and heart. His sacrifice reverberates as a timeless message of hope throughout my life. We should not forget him and all the other men and women of July 20, 1944.Their sacrifice gave hope for a new generation of Germans like me. | <urn:uuid:d7cf764d-3f52-43e0-9679-53e54448c350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stauffenberglife.com/synopsis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.97886 | 837 | 2.484375 | 2 |
This week, during MWC in Barcelona, BlackBerry announced that we’ll soon see the return of the famous optical trackpad that so many of us loved prior to the launch of BlackBerry 10. I’m among the trackpad loving crowd, and I’m reminded of this every time I try to move the cursor around my screen to edit text on any of today’s typical touchscreen devices.
Last April I took a mini-rant to Twitter, suggesting that BlackBerry simply create a virtual trackpad that appears when I need it.
You know what I'd love to see @BlackBerry do? Add a virtual trackpad using touch screen. It only appears when I need it.— Chris Umiastowski (@cumiastowski) April 24, 2013
So the official news of physical buttons returning to the hardware had me a bit confused at first. I’d rather not loose screen real estate (which I use all the time) to hardware that could be implemented as software instead. Today’s capacitive touch screens have extremely fine resolution, so I can’t see a problem with a virtual trackpad.
But then it occurred to me that the prior trackpad, which was originally manufactured by Avago Technologies, works with optical technology. If you trace Avago’s roots back you get to Hewlett Packard (HP). They invented the modern optical mouse circa 1999. It worked by taking high speed photos of the surface beneath the mouse in order to calculate positional differences. When the optical trackpad came out, it did the same thing, but upside down. It works by taking photos of your finger and calculating movement. Very cool stuff.
Here’s one thought: Could Avago have improved the sensor technology enough such that it can work as both a trackpad, and an fingerprint sensor? BlackBerry certainly hasn’t hinted at this, but it would be pretty cool if they did this, especially considering the Q-series is popular with corporate types.
Here’s another thought: Several years ago I know BlackBerry was working with Avago to redesign the sensor so it would sit under the glass and be illuminated in some way so as to give it an awesome, integrated and futuristic look. I’m betting this has now happened, since it makes so much sense.
Consider the following bullet point from BlackBerry’s press release
The 'Menu', 'Back', 'Send' and 'End' buttons and trackpad will be made an integral part of the device and user interface, enabling fast, precise navigation and a natural workflow within and between apps.
If the integration was going to be plastic keys and a trackpad poking out from a square hole in the case, why would they need to say anything? I think the wording “integral part of the device” hints at something new in the device’s industrial design. I’m looking forward to seeing the new hardware! | <urn:uuid:fc85958c-4ccd-45be-8b82-4e82ceb324d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://crackberry.com/why-blackberry-bringing-trackpad-back | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00375-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945701 | 606 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Summer HeathersHeathers are low-growing, shrub-like perennials that blossom into a sea of color. They look great planted with dwarf conifers, especially when a variety of shapes, colors and textures are used. Interplant late flowering varieties with deciduous plants that have colorful foliage in the fall for a striking display, and use them in camellia and rhododendron beds to add summer color. They are also used in rock gardens and as groundcovers.
Heathers enjoy an sunny site with good air circulation and an acid soil that doesn't dry out or become waterlogged. Acid soil is a must for summer heathers, and if your pH is too high, you should amend with aluminum sulfate before planting if necessary. Pale leaves and slow growth indicate that the soil is not acid enough.
You can help the soil retain moisture in the heat of summer by applying a mulch. Two inches of bark chips or cocoa shells make a good mulch for a bed of heathers.
Care and MaintenanceUse a fertilizer designed for acid-loving plants in spring and at regular intervals through the growing season as the package directs. It's best to use a soluble fertilizer rather than one that has to be worked into the soil because the roots are very shallow, and you can easily damage them by trying to cultivate around the plants. To encourage strong growth, shear off the plants in early spring before flowering begins.
Heathers are susceptible to fungus, and if your summers are hot and humid, you may want to have a fungicide on hand so you can treat your plants at the first sign of infection.
Taking CuttingsThe best time to propagate heathers is mid- to late summer. Fill a pot with a mixture of half sand and half sterile peat moss, and make holes for your cuttings with a thin twig.
Clip a 1-1/2 inch piece from the tip of a non-flowering shoot. Make sure the shoot is from the current season's growth. Strip the foliage from the lower half of the stem with your fingers, taking care not to damage the stem, and dip the lower end of the stem in rooting hormone. Make sure the rooting hormone covers the part of the stem where you have removed the foliage, then tap gently to remove the excess.
Place the cuttings in the holes that you have prepared and water the pot thoroughly but gently so as not to disturb the cuttings. Once the pot has drained, cover it with a plastic bag, making sure the sides of the bag don't touch your plants. If necessary, insert a few twigs in the soil to hold the bag away from the plants. Leave the bag in place for 6-8 weeks.
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18. Sarah A. "Sally" HARRISON was born on 18 July 1829 in Estill County, Kentucky.6,11 She died on 4 July 1901 at the age of 71 in Jackson County, Kentucky.
1860 Census. Jackson Co KY, Hh 429
Elisha Isaaks, age 36, famer, b. KY
Nathan 12. John 6. Ann J. 4. Mary Jane & Hiram both age 2. William, 3 months.
1870 Census. Kavanaugh Prec 4, Jackson, KY, P.O. McKee, Hh 110
Elisha Isaacs, 47. Sarah, 40.
Nathan 22. John B. 17. Anna J. 16. Mary J. 14. Hiram 13. Nancy 11. William 9. Lewis 7. Samuel 5.
1880 Census. Kavanaugh, Jackson, KY, Hh 364
Elisha Isaacs, 52. Sally, 49, wife
Hiram G., 24, son. Mary J., 22, Dau. William P., 20, son. Delilah, 17, dau. Lewis, 15, son
Nanry R., 14, dau.
1900 Census. Kavanaugh, Jackson, KY, Hh 166
Elisha Isaacs, b. Mar 1828, age 72
Sarah, wife, b. Jul 1830, age 69
Lewis Issacs was in Hh 161 with his family, b. Jul 1864
Find A Grave Memorial# 5987882. Buried Lakes Cemetery (Wind Cave), Jackson Co, KY
Sarah A. "Sally" HARRISON and Elisha ISAACS were married on 4 November 1852 in Estill County, Kentucky. Elisha ISAACS, son of Godfrey S. ISAACS and Elizabeth "Betsey" HOWARD, was born on 27 March 1827 in Kentucky. He died on 11 November 1904 at the age of 77 in Jackson County, Kentucky.
Elisha had possibly been married before he married Sally Harrison in 1852. The 1860 census shows him with a probable son, Patton, age 12, or born 1848. Later this son seems to be named Nathan...
In 1850, Elisha doesn't appear with a wife and son. Was this a child of Sally's?
Said to be in Owsley Co, 1850, then Jackson Co 1860-1900.
The 1850 Cemetery, Owsley, Hh 340, has Elisha Isaacs, age 26, living with Samuel Brandenberg and family as a laborer.
Civil War Draft Registration: Garrard, Madison Co KY and others
JacksonCo: Godfrey Issacs, 38, b. VA. Elisha Isaacs, 35, b. VA
Said to be buried Lakes Cemetery (Wind Cave Cemetery) behind Wind Cave Church, Jackson Co, KY. Many burials are listed twice on FindAGrave.
Sarah A. "Sally" HARRISON and Elisha ISAACS had the following children:
|Nathan ISAACS was born on 28 March 1848 in Kentucky. He died after 1870 at the age of 22. |
Maybe not Sally Harrison's child. They didn't marry until 1852. But Elisha in 1850 seems to have been a single man. I have not found any such child in 1850.
There is a son of Elisha & Sally listed on FindAGrave (they didn't marry until 1852) - b. 28 Mar 1848, Jackson Co, death unknown, buried Wind Cave Cemetery where Elisha and Sally are buried. His name is listed as Nathan H. Isaacs. The 1860 & 1870 Census does have a Nathan, age 12 and then 22, in the household. Since he is five years older than his nearest sibling, it would appear that Elisha may have had a brief earlier marriage.
|John Henry ISAACS.|
|Anna Jane ISAACS was born on 10 July 1854 in Madison County, Kentucky.|
|Hiram G. ISAACS was born on 15 March 1856 in Kentucky. He died on 7 December 1910 at the age of 54. He was buried in Wind Cave Cemetery, Jackson County, Kentucky. |
Hiram was married to Malinda Lakes - she was born 29 May 1856, died 12 July 1915. They share a grave marker in Wind Cave Cemetery, Jackson Co KY
|Mary Jane ISAACS.|
|William P. ISAACS.|
|Delilah ISAACS was born in 1863 in Kentucky.|
|Lewis ISAACS was born in July 1864 in Kentucky.|
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Ever since we were children, we’ve learned in grade school and from Ranger Rick about the cutting down of the rainforest. We learned that it’s bad—that lots of animals and trees are killed and people’s livelihoods are turned upside down. We’ve been told random facts and figures about how many acres are destroyed every second. We eventually start to become numb to it.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (also known as the World Wildlife Fund) released a new report detailing the new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas from 2009 to 2014. The report counted 211 new species, which comprise 133 plants, 39 invertebrates, 26 fish, 10 amphibians, one reptile, one bird, and one mammal.
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Lighthouse holiday cottages
Lighthouses have been keeping sailors on the right course since the early 18th century and it’s estimated there are approximately 60 of them dotted around the UK coastline.
So what exactly do they do and how can you go about booking one of these quirky and unusual buildings as a holiday cottage?
What exactly is a lighthouse?
Designed to warn sailors of dangerous coastline, rocks and reefs, lighthouses are tall structures which can be found right on the edge of the UK coastline.
They emit light in order to help ships navigate at sea (as well as some inland waterways) and were originally kept maintained by lighthouse keepers, who lived on site.
Nowadays, those that remain working are automated, leaving the buildings surrounding them free as some of the most quirky holiday cottage accommodation you can book in the UK.
What are the benefits of booking a lighthouse holiday cottage?
1.Uninterrupted sea views to die for!
Since lighthouses directly overlook the sea, staying in a lighthouse holiday cottage will give you fantastic sea views, right on the edge of the coast. They’re generally in less populated and more remote places, so the great news is that you’re unlikely to find hordes of other people sharing your views!
2.Watch the weather come in from the comfort of your lighthouse
Lighthouses are wonderful in the summertime, with long evenings and beautiful sunsets to admire over a chilled glass of Prosecco.
But they are also fantastic places to stay when the weather is less favourable. There’s very little to beat a bracing walk along the UK coastline only to return to watch an incoming storm from the warmth of your cosy cottage…
3.Support a charity dedicated to safeguarding shipping and seafarers
Many of the lighthouses in the UK are looked after and kept operational by the charity Trinity House, which is dedicated to safeguarding shipping and seafarers.
How to book a lighthouse holiday cottage in the UK
When you book a break away in a lighthouse on the UK coastline, generally speaking, you will be staying in one of the former lighthouse keeper’s cottages, located around the base of the lighthouse tower itself.
In order to find the perfect lighthouse for you, you can choose to narrow down your search by date and also location – for example, there are several lighthouses for rent in Cornwall as well as Norfolk, Kent and the north east coast.
We have lighthouse cottages that sleep from 2 people through to 6 people. As well as some that welcomes your pets. There’s even one with its own swimming pool!
And if you were a fan of TV in the ’80-‘90s, you can always opt to stay in the lighthouse made famous in the children’s TV programme Fraggle Rock!
Need a hand looking for a lighthouse holiday cottage?
You can browse all our of lighthouse holiday cottages in the UK below. And then use the filter options on the left, to narrow down what is available until you find your favourite property. They are just one of our many quirky and unusual holiday cottages available to rent throughout the UK.
If you have any questions about booking a lighthouse holiday cottage please feel free to contact us – we’re always happy to help with questions about the cottages and to give you advice before you go ahead and book.
Or if you’d rather put your feet up and have a cuppa whilst we find the perfect place for you, then please contact our concierge service and tell us what you are looking for in your next holiday cottage.
We aim to get back to you with tailored suggestions within 24 hours.
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KINDNESS has been proven to boost our health, wellbeing and act as a measure of happiness.
But kindness revolutionary Jono Fisher says there is more than just science behind the phenomenon. "It is one of the few principles that can be agreed on by all regardless of race, religion or differences to be positive for all concerned,” he says. “Kindness is not just about being nice and sweet - it is about living fully, loving openly and having the courage to make a difference."
Here are ten ways you can strengthen your kindness muscle, today.
1. Kind to self
Holistic Lifestyle coach Jo Rushton says kindness towards others is possible only when you master the art of kindness for yourself. "If you want to be a kinder person, the number one rule is that you must first give yourself permission to be kinder to yourself," Ms Rushton says. Try running yourself a candlelit bath, booking a professional massage, or taking the time to prepare yourself a nutrient packed meal.
2. Anonymous acts
Jono Fisher from Wake Up Sydney! encourages people to do kind things, anonymously. Some suggestions: Pay for a stranger’s coffee next time you order yours. Put money in an expired meter to save someone a ticket. The recipient will get a nice surprise.
3. Spend money on others
University of British Columbia researchers looked at whether happiness can in fact be bought. They found that if you use your money to help others, it can. Next time you’re feeling cashed up, shout a friend lunch, buy someone an unexpected gift or give some to a charity you believe in.
4. Cyber love
A lovely way to show support for a person or business you believe in is to do it publicly via social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook. When someone feels strongly enough to state their positive opinion in public about you or your business, express your thanks and gratitude.
5. Your colleagues
Brighten up your workmates’ day with the following:
- Pick flowers to put into a cup on your colleagues desk
- Offer your colleague a tea when you get up to make your own
6. Free hugs
Remember the free hug guy? Juan Mann made a ‘Free Hugs’ cardboard sign and took it out into Pitt Street Mall, Sydney, in an effort to connect with people and make them happy. Not only did it work but it was the beginning of Free Hug movements all over the world. Hugs are good. Try giving one today. See www.freehugscampaign.org
7. Your lover
Leave loving written notes in the jacket, pants or bag pocket of your beloved. “They may just find it as they are going through their lowest part of the day,” says Ms Rushton.
8. Expand your awareness
By expanding your awareness into the world around you, Ms Rushton says you’re more likely to notice when someone nearby is struggling that you can help, such as:
- An elderly person with their shopping
- An over-committed waiter carrying too many plates
9. Parental love
Why wait for Mother’s or Father’s day to do something special for mum or dad? Pick up the phone, lock in a day to make them lunch, or choose a nice card to write on and pop it in the post.
10. Mother Earth
Picking up a piece of rubbish is an act of kindness. The unheard voice of Mother Earth says thank you.
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The Process and Effects of Mass Communication, Band 10
University of Illinois Press, 1971 - 997 Seiten
The nature of communication between. Media and messages of mass communication. Audiences mass communication. The nature of communication effects. Social effects. Public option and politics. Innovation and change. The technological future of mass communication.
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“The NFPA labels have educated our staff on specific hazards through color and symbols identifying the hazard and the appropriation precaution that should be taken.”
Lake Oswego, OR (PRWEB) January 10, 2013
Workplace safety throughout the nation is evolving due to better awareness and implementation of NFPA 70E (Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace). Business owners must protect their personnel from electrical hazards and meet the highest standard for electrical safety. Hundreds of deaths and thousands of disabling injuries still occur each year due to shock, electrocution, arc flash, and arc blast. Labeltac.com can help prevent such accidents from happening by now offering NFPA 704 industrial labels to identify the risks posed by nearby hazardous materials. Emergency personnel will be able to determine what protective equipment should be used, procedures followed, or precautions taken during the first moments of an emergency response.
The labels are constructed of a tough, tear-resistant material that can be applied to containers for indoor and outdoor use. The labels can be written on and are smudge and scratch resistant making it ideal when containers or bottles are in constant use by the handler. The labels are pre-printed with the multi-color diamond signature for NFPA or custom labels can be created in house by use of the LabelTac 4 or LabetlTac 4 PRO printers, also offered through LabelTac.com. A business can save extra time and money by printing labels in house by simply printing the required text and chemical information needed.
By offering employees training about the standards of NFPA will impact the company’s safety program and will ensure workers they are in a safe workplace. A business owner commented, “The NFPA labels have educated our staff on specific hazards through color and symbols identifying the hazard and the appropriation precaution that should be taken.”
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Looking for a versatile, flexible, and convenient option for protecting equipment or storing items? Consider coverall buildings. These structures offer many advantages and are quick and easy to construct. Here are three benefits of a coverall building.
1- Strong and Durable Coverall Buildings
Many people imagine fabric buildings are flimsy; after all, they’re made of fabric. However, that’s not the case. The buildings are made of a heavy-duty steel frame and covered with a strong fabric carefully engineered to withstand the elements. They are durable and tough with great longevity.
2- A Fabric Building Tailored to Your Needs
Coverall buildings are flexible, so they are ideal for a range of applications. You can have one customized to meet your specific needs for storing, guarding, or enclosing. A few of the many uses for coverall buildings include storing machinery, protecting livestock, hosting major events, storing boats or RVs, and displaying goods to clients. With their versatile nature, fabric buildings are the obvious choice for many different events and uses. They work well for temporary needs because they are affordable and easy to construct, but are also ideal for long-term solutions thanks to their durability.
3 – Environmentally Friendly Coverall Buildings
If you are interested in reducing your carbon footprint, choosing a coverall building is a great way to start. You don’t need to alter the land to construct a building, which has the added benefit of making it easy to remove or relocate a fabric building. Since they are naturally open and airy, you can enjoy great circulation and plenty of natural light while remaining protected from snow and rain. Plus, many coverall buildings are made of recycled materials.
As you can see, coverall buildings offer a number of benefits. Put them to work for you by ordering one designed to meet your specific needs for a durable, versatile building.
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By Bill Black, the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One and an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cross posted from New Economic Perspectives
Everyone now agrees that the so-called “fiscal cliff” is a stupid policy that threatens our economy and our people. Everyone agrees why the “fiscal cliff” is stupid – it inflicts austerity at a time when it is likely to throw the nation into a gratuitous recession. Causing a recession leads to increased unemployment and a larger budget deficit. We have all seen austerity force the Eurozone into a gratuitous recession in which Italy, Spain, and Greece have Great Depression levels of unemployment.
Here’s the short version of why austerity is a self-destructive response to the Great Recession. A recession occurs when demand to purchase goods and services falls and the economy contracts, causing increased unemployment. This simultaneously causes tax revenues to fall and government expenditures for programs like unemployment compensation to increase. The fall in revenues and increase in expenses causes the federal budget deficit to grow rapidly.
Austerity is a policy of raising taxes and/or cutting governmental spending for the purported purpose of cutting the deficit. If one raises overall taxes in response to the Great Recession the result is a reduction in private sector demand. If one cuts governmental spending the result is a reduction in public sector demand. The result of reducing private and public sector demand in the recovery phase from the Great Recession, where overall demand is already grossly inadequate, is to throw the nation back into recession or even a depression. That causes the budget deficit to grow. A policy of austerity undertaken under the claim that it will reduce the deficit causes a gratuitous recession that leads to a massive loss of wealth, far higher unemployment, and in increased deficit. That is why austerity is a policy that is the self-destructive economic analogy to the medical insanity of bleeding patients.
We have known that austerity is an idiotic response to a severe crisis for 75 years. The U.S. was in the midst of a strong recovery from the Great Depression until FDR’s neo-liberal economists convinced him in 1937 that is was essential that the U.S. adopt an austerity program to reduce the federal deficit. Austerity forced our economy back into a Great Depression.
It was only the stimulus of federal spending in World War II that brought the U.S. out of the depression. During World War II and for the remainder of that decade the ratio of debt-to-GDP was at or near historically record levels. The result was the greatest industrial expansion in history, full employment (including a massive influx of women), strong economic growth, and sharply declining deficits and debt-to-GDP ratio because the growth led to large increases in revenue and the low unemployment greatly reduced spending on the unemployed. We also defeated the Axis powers, created Social Security and the GI Bill, and began an extraordinary expansion of our housing stock to house the baby boom.
We learned many lessons from the catastrophic failure of austerity and the extraordinary success of stimulus in this era. The U.S. adopted a fiscal system of “automatic stabilizers.” These are counter-cyclical (they push in the opposite direction of the business cycle) fiscal effects that are designed into the system and do not require new legislation once the recession or inflation begins. The result of these automatic stabilizers has been to reduce the severity and duration of recessions. Indeed, studies show that the larger the national governmental role in the economy, the less volatile the economy. This makes sense because the stabilization function should be more effective if the stabilizers are larger relative to the economy.
Unfortunately, these sensible counter-cyclical policies that make theoretical and common sense and have repeatedly worked in the real world were forgotten by many due to a campaign of deficit hysteria funded by Pete Peterson, a Republican billionaire financier who has made it his mission in life to destroy the safety net. His ultimate goal is to privatize social security so that Wall Street can receive hundreds of billions of dollars in fees investing our retirement funds.
I’ve explained in a prior column how the fiscal cliff was created through an insane bipartisan deal in August 2011. The fiscal cliff was always a terrible job-destroying idea that also began to unravel the safety net by cutting Medicare. Everyone involved in creating the fiscal cliff acted irresponsibly and inhumanely in seeking to inflict austerity, cause a recession, and unravel the safety net.
What is forgotten, however, in discussions of the idiocy of creating the fiscal cliff is that it was part of a broader bipartisan deal intended to inflict even more self-destructive austerity and even greater damage to the safety net. The fiscal cliff was an act of idiocy in pursuit of a policy of depravity called “the Grand Bargain” that was actually the Grand Betrayal.
The bipartisan madness has increased since the August 2011 budget deal. Today, the parties are simultaneously screaming (1) that the fiscal cliff is a disaster because it imposes austerity and will cause a recession and (2) that it is essential that we agree to a Grand Betrayal that will inflict even greater austerity and cause an even more severe recession. Indeed, the Grand Betrayal mandates austerity over a decade so it is likely to cause and/or deepen multiple recessions. The Republican and Democratic variants of the Grand Betrayal are doubly destructive and inhumane because they cut the safety net. President Obama wants to begin to unravel the safety net and cut social programs even though an overwhelming majority of Democrats oppose it and even though doing so will inflict even greater austerity. That will cause a deeper recession and likely make the deficit larger, so it is as nonsensical as it is cruel.
During this this entire financial farce I have been unable to get the dominant media to make the most obvious point. Since we all agree that austerity (the fiscal cliff) is a terrible idea that will cause a recession and likely increase the deficit we must logically conclude that all variants of the Grand Betrayal are austerity programs that must be defeated in order to prevent a recession that is likely to increase the deficit. We should all be opposing any cuts in the safety net because they would inflict austerity. An overwhelming majority of Democrats and a majority of Republicans also oppose cuts in the safety net as inhumane.
So why don’t the Democrats and Republicans stop trying to do a deal that will inflict austerity? Why not simply repeal the Budget Act of August 2011? That would kill the fiscal cliff. Repeal would kill austerity, prevent the recession, save the safety net, increase growth, and shrink the deficit. All versions of the Grand Betrayal (Republican and Democratic) inflict austerity, are likely to cause a recession, begin to unravel the safety net, destroy growth, and increase the deficit.
Under the same logic we should be able to agree on two related actions – renew the extension of long-term unemployment compensation and renew the moratorium on collecting the payroll tax. These policies are superb counter-cyclical programs and have the added advantage of reducing human misery and inequality. Republicans and Democrats have agreed in the past on the desirability of both actions. | <urn:uuid:fc6d4777-840a-4db5-97ac-315ae8d7fda7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/bill-black-kill-the-fiscal-cliff-instead-of-the-economy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00239-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954814 | 1,475 | 2.328125 | 2 |
This antiquarian volume contains a complete and practical guide to magnetic healing, telepathy, mind reading, clairvoyant hypnosis, mesmerism, animal magnetism, thought transference, personal magnetism, and some other related subjects. Compiled into twenty-five accessible lessons, this guide is ideal for those with little previous experience, and is highly recommended for readers with a keen interest in hypnosis and the extraordinary capabilities of the human mind. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on hypnosis.
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The New Yorker, March 28, 1964 P. 29
Talk story about teen-agers being auditioned at WNDT (Channel 13, at 1657 Bway.) for "The Comers," a new TV program that features a permanent panel of 4 boys & 2 girls sitting around informally & talking about anything they like. Lee Polk, the producer-director told them to be "as free with your language as you feel. Have no respect for anyone." The first batch included a girl named Judy, from the Dalton Schools, Joyce & Tim from The School of Performing Arts; Philip, from Geo. Washington High, Upper Manhattan; Barbara & Andrea from a school in Westchester. The subjects discussed were: vandalism, cheating & stealing in their schools, the "school spirit" was also dealt with. Another set succeeded them. They came from a W. 147th St. neighborhood settlement house. They discussed the Beatles versus Presley. The third group was a mixed one. The boys talked about having "to fight for their territories They found that absorbing enough because "every day we got a different fight," they said. | <urn:uuid:a578e83a-3d39-4e88-ba77-361c9710c6f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1964/03/28/audition-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.975763 | 228 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Are you concerned that you are working hours that you are not being compensated for? Let’s talk about it.
Effective January 1, 2020, the minimum wage has increased to $13 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees and $12 per hour for employees with 25 or fewer employees.
Are you concerned that you are not being paid the right amount of overtime, or overtimes not being paid at all? Let’s talk about it.
In California, the general overtime provisions are that a nonexempt employee 18 years of age or older, or any minor employee 16 or 17 years of age who is not required by law to attend school and is not otherwise prohibited by law from engaging in the subject work, shall not be employed more than eight hours in any workday or more than 40 hours in any workweek unless he or she receives one and one-half times his or her regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight hours in any workday and over 40 hours in the workweek. Eight hours of labor constitutes a day’s work, and employment beyond eight hours in any workday or more than six days in any workweek requires the employee to be compensated for the overtime at not less than:
- One and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight hours up to and including 12 hours in any workday, and for the first eight hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek; and
- Double the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in any workday and for all hours worked in excess of eight on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek
Is your employer not allowing you to take uninterrupted rest breaks? Let’s talk about it.
Employers of California employees covered by the rest period provisions of the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders must authorize and permit a net 10-minute paid rest period for every four hours worked or major fraction thereof. Insofar as is practicable, the rest period should be in the middle of the work period. If an employer does not authorize or permit a rest period, the employer shall pay the employee one hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of pay for each workday that the rest period is not provided.
Does your employer retain control over your meal breaks, or are you not getting meal breaks at all? Let’s talk about it.
Under California law (IWC Orders and Labor Code Section512), employees must be provided with no less than a thirty-minute meal period when the work period is more than five hours (more than six hours for employees in the motion picture industry covered by IWC Order 12-2001).Unless the employee is relieved of all duties during the entire thirty-minute meal period and is free to leave the employer’s premises, the meal period shall be considered “on duty,” counted as hours worked, and paid for at the employee’s regular rate of pay.
Did you get fired and not receive your final pay check, or has your employer failed to pay you on time? Let’s talk about it.
In California, wages, with some exceptions, must be paid at least twice during each calendar month on the days designated in advance as regular paydays. The employer must establish a regular payday and is required to post a notice that shows the day, time and location of payment. Labor Code Section 207. Wages earned between the 1stand 15thdays, inclusive, of any calendar month must be paid no later than the 26thday of the month during which the labor was performed, and wages earned between the 16thand last day of the month must be paid by the 10thday of the following month. Other payroll periods such as weekly, biweekly (every two weeks) or semimonthly (twice per month) when the earning period is something other than between the 1stand 15th, and 16thand last day of the month, must be paid within seven calendar days of the end of the payroll period within which the wages were earned. Labor Code Section 204.
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The history of Burgundy wines goes back more than 2000 years. At that time wine was mainly produced and drunk by the Romans. When the Romans invaded Gaul and especially Burgundy, they realized that the Burgundian lands were ideal for wine production. They then began to produce Burgundy wines. Later in the Middle Ages, wine was considered a sacred drink by the Church and a lot of effort was put into developing the vines and the methods of winemaking. In the 17th century, power was no longer in the hands of the Church but rather in those of the members of the Court, the nobility and the Haute Bourgeoisie. Present at many of the great meals of the Court, the wine of France became an essential. Burgundy wine was no longer known only in France but also abroad, particularly in England. The 18th and 19th centuries are marked by the development of winemaking techniques, which are more and more advanced. There was a clear improvement and as a result, national classifications were organised in order to distinguish and promote the best wines on the market. With the World Wars at the beginning of the 20th century, the production and sale of wines declined. The fall in the production and sale of wine, pushes some winegrowers to sell their land to survive.See more
The vineyards that produce Burgundy wine extend from Auxerre to Mâcon over an area of 27,200 hectares. There are 5 sub-regions of production: Chablis and Yonne, Côte de Nuit, Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise and Mâconnais. These different sub-regions each have a different climate which allows them to offer totally different wines. There are 4 major grape varieties in Burgundy; Chardonnay (48%), Pinot Noir (36%), Gamay (10%) and Aligoté (6%). There are of course other grape varieties such as Sauvignon, César or Sacy for example, but these only represent 2% of the land.
In France, many prestigious wines are classified as Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wines. AOC Burgundy wines alone account for 20% of French AOC wines; an important and significant part of their excellence. There are 100 AOC Burgundy wines. They are grouped into 3 categories: AOC Regional, AOC Village/Communal and AOC Grand Cru. The AOC Régionales is an appellation that covers the entire territory of the Burgundy region and represents 23 AOCs. The AOC Villages/Communales bear the name of a commune and their territory is limited to this same commune; there are 44 AOC Villages/Communales. Finally, the AOC Grands Cru are wines produced on delimited plots of land; there are 33 of them. | <urn:uuid:a9f677d2-6d68-4be5-a156-0d87af9bcdf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://expertise.aguttes.com/en/estimate-wines-spirits/bourgogne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.969844 | 599 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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MUMBAI, India, April 23 (Itar-Tass) — An exhibition devoted to Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut, opened at the Nehru Science Centre in Mumbai, the Maharashtra state, on Monday. She made her space flight onboard the Vostok-6 spaceship on June 16, 1963.
The exhibition had been organized by the India-based office of the Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation and opened by Anil Manekar, director at the Nehru Science Center, Alexei Mzareulov, Russia’s deputy general consul, and Vladimir Dementiev, the head of the Russian center of science and culture in Mumbai.
Anil Manekar told Itar-Tass that the exhibition was vitally important for India which is actively developing its space program. He added that Valentina Tereshkova could serve as an example of determination and consistency of purpose to Indian schoolchildren and students visiting the Nehru Science Center.
It is noteworthy that Tereshkova visited India after her flight where she met the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. That meeting is reflected in the materials of the exhibition, which also features Tereshkova’s family photos and pictures taken with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The exhibition’s first visitors were drawn by photographs showing how Tereshkova had trained for her flight after being enrolled to the first squad of cosmonauts on March 12, 1962.
Valentina Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937. A two-week exposition devoted to her was organized at the Russian centre of science and culture in Mumbai and the Russian center of science and culture in New Delhi on the occasion of her birthday.
“The Indians are well aware of Soviet space achievements. They remember the names of Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. The first woman in space is a symbol of equality with men for Indian women many of whom are fighting for their rights. She’s a symbol of struggle which they should continue and in which they should win,” Vladimir Dementiev, the head of the Russian center of science and culture in Mumbai, told Itar-Tass.
After the exhibition’s opening ceremony, a Russian-Indian delegation and children from a school working under the Russian general consulate in Mumbai laid wreaths to the monuments to Yuri Gagarin and the first India-born woman astronaut Kalpana Chawla who died in the U.S. space shuttle Columbia crash.
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The book shows you how to analyze, design, measure and accurately evaluate the many detailed elements comprising noise temperature. After a thorough introductory overview, you delve into reflector performance issues, including material conductivity, perforations, protective coatings, the effects of terrestrial weather, and the influence of the EarthOCOs Sun.PDF. Ramo, S., and J. R. Whinnery, Field and Waves in Modern Radio, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1953. ... Westman, H. P., ITT Reference Data for Radio Engineers, 5th ed., New York: Howard W. Sams, Inc., 1969. ... and P. D. Potter, a#39;a#39;Improved RF Calibration TechniquesaA Practical Technique for Accurate Determination of Microwave Surface Resistivity, a#39;a#39; Technical Report 32- 1526, Vol.
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Dramatic scenes took place outside the European Council in Brussels ahead of the signing of the landmark CETA trade pact.
A group of protesters managed to enter a restricted area to demonstrate against the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU.
Around 15 people were taken away by police.
Those opposing the pact say they fear it will weaken existing standards and regulations on health, safety, environmental protection and workers’ rights.
A long time in the making
After seven years of negotiations all EU member states reached a consensus on Friday (October 28). All 28 nations had to endorse CETA for it to be finalised.
It is hoped the deal, which removes 98 percent of tariffs, will bring a trade increase worth some 10.9 billion euros a year.
EU exporters are expected to save up to 500 million euros in duties annually.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to the Belgian capital to sign the pact.
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Today, Real Networks is announcing "Real DVD", a software application due out later this month, that allows consumers to upload their DVDs onto their computer hard drive. Real Networks says it's obtained all the necessary DVD playback licenses for customers to legally digitize their DVDs.
With this $50 software (the introductory rate is cheaper) users can upload unlimited DVDs onto one hard drive. This allows someone who's constantly on the go to load up all their favorite DVDs onto their laptop for entertainment on those long flights.
What about copyright issues? Do the movie studios get a chunk of these revenues? Well, no, Real Networks says this has little to do with the studios, the company saying there are no copyright issues. Why not? Well this software doesn't change the encryption on the disc, and it also encrypts the digital file so it can't be shared. (It's similar to CDs where you're allowed to upload your CDs into iTunes on your computer.)
But here's the thing; it's based on trust. Each Real DVD application requires users to certify they bought the DVD. (Which means if you rented a DVD from Blockbusteror Netflix and then try to upload it onto your computer, you'd be very easily breaking the law).
So what does Hollywood think? For years, Hollywood has been counting on digital distribution of their movies and TV shows as a source of future revenue growth, and a key way to offset declining DVD sales. And it seems like this would replace digital distribution; why buy a digital version of a movie you already own if you can just permanently put the contents of your disc onto your computer?
- Who owns Real Networks
But this isn't a sure thing. For one thing, if you own more than one computer you have to buy an application for each, and then you have to upload the movies onto each hard drive. Then there's the fact that this application is only for viewing on your laptop, not your much more appealing big screen TV. So we'll see if this is really a game changer. And we'll see if the studios raise any concerns before then.
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It isn't often that I linger at work until after the sun sets. Tonight is an exception. This evening, our Victoria cruziana plants (also known by the common name of Santa Cruz Waterilies) are coming into full bloom in the Monet Pool. As I sit on a bench beside the pond, the heady pineapple scent of a first night's Victoria blossom drifts my way. The creamy white petals are visible between the bronze tinged sepals and soon the bloom will open fully . . . although they say that a watched pot never boils and I am beginning to think that the same principle may apply to night-blooming lilies.
Native to slow-moving water in the Amazon River basin of South America, the genus Victoria consists of two species: cruziana and amazonica. V. cruziana is the hardier of the two and therefore easier to grow in Denver's climate. This plant showcases large platter-like leaves with leaf rims that can reach a height of 4-6". The underside of each leaf consists of an impressive network of thick veins that allows for air to be trapped under the leaf, giving it the ability to hold a good deal of weight... an advantage that hasn't escaped the notice of birds hunting for fish or other prey in the waters below. Sharp thorns line the underside of each leaf and stem: an effective form of protection against would be predators, along with well-meaning horticulturists attempting to fertilize the plants!
The impressive features of the plants don't end with the leaves, which brings me back to the point of my evening. The plants bloom at night, with each bloom lasting only two nights.
The first night's bloom opens a pure, creamy white and smells strongly of pineapple. This fragrance, combined with the bright color that makes the flower more visible in the darkness, are lures intended to draw scarab beetles which pollinate the plant in its native habitat. The bloom also heats up (a horticultural phenomenon known as thermogenesis), which helps to spread the pollinator-attracting scent.
As the first evening comes to an end, the first night's bloom will slowly close, trapping the beetles inside. It will reopen the following evening but with one noticeable change. The flower will transition from a female bloom to a male pollen-producing bloom that is pink in color. As the beetles emerge from this second evening's bloom, now covered in pollen, they will once again be drawn to the luminescent glow of a first night's flower, thereby pollinating the plants.
It is now 8:30 p.m. at the Gardens. The crickets are serenading me as the twinkle of lights in the trees towering above the Monet Deck are reflected in the dark water. And low and behold, the petals of a first night bloom are beginning to slowly open.
The Victoria cruziana plants at the Gardens will continue to produce blooms throughout the summer months. First night blooms often stay open throughout the early morning hours. Also on display in the Four Towers Pool are Victoria 'Longwood Hybrid' plants (a cross between the two species) which should also be coming into flower soon. The Gardens are open from 9 am to 9 pm daily unless otherwise noted on our website. | <urn:uuid:ea3fbe8f-08f8-4d77-ac54-d95e26fe7d0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.botanicgardens.org/blog/santa-cruz-waterlily-now-bloom | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00477-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942583 | 677 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Research programme: heme-oxygenase 1 inhibitors - OstaAlternative Names: OB-24
Latest Information Update: 16 Jul 2016
At a glance
- Originator Osta Biotechnologies
- Class Small molecules
- Mechanism of Action Heme oxygenase 1 inhibitors
Orphan Drug Status
Orphan designation is assigned by a regulatory body to encourage companies to develop drugs for rare diseases.
On Fast track
Fast track status is assigned by the US FDA so therapies with the potential to address unmet needs can move faster through development.
Highest Development Phases
- No development reported Cancer; Prostate cancer
Most Recent Events
- 16 Jul 2016 No recent reports of development identified for preclinical development in Prostate-cancer in Canada (IV)
- 16 Jul 2016 No recent reports of development identified for preclinical development in Cancer in Canada (IV)
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Sewing Lessons for Dressmaking
At More Sewing we love teaching people to sew. Whether you want to learn dressmaking or craft projects, we can help.
From beginners, to improvers and experienced sewists we will be able to help you learn what you need. All our sewing classes are run at our lovely shop in Worthing. We have machines for you to use if you want and hundreds of fabrics for inspiration. Our sewing classes are kept small (the maximum is five) so you can be sure you will get the attention you need.
Is the class you want full up? Want to know about future dates? Questions? Drop us a line below and we will get back to you.
We will still maintain mask wearing and hand sanitising in the shop as required.
Please note – Patterns created by, and exclusive to More Sewing, are for personal use only and are not to be used for commercial purposes.
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-BUILD A MOUNTAIN BIKE
& HIKING TRAIL-
On any given day you will see people hiking, walking their dogs, and mountain biking on this trail. Along with helping the community be active, the trail also supports the local economy by bringing in tourists from all over the country.
Jackrabbit Mountain Bike Trail Haysville, NC
Bordering the beautiful Lake Chatuge and just outside of Nantahala National Forest is Jackrabbit Mountain bike and hiking trail. Located near the North Carolina-Georgia border, the trail draws locals and visitors from across the tri-state region. Jackrabbit Trail runs for 15 miles, with a 3.1-mile loop in the center of the forest and several trails stemming from the central loop, winding around the lake, through the woods, and up the mountain ridge.
The trail primarily engages mountain bikers, but is also accessible to walkers and hikers. It includes parking facilities, a bike gear repair station, trail heads, and signs identifying native plant species.
The trail system was created through a partnership between the Clay County Community Revitalization Association (CCCRA), Southern Appalachian Bicycling Association (SABA) and the U.S. Forest Service. CCCRA received funding from the U.S. Forest Service to initiate the trail, but community volunteers supported clearing and continue to maintain the trail.
Today, Jackrabbit Trail is visited daily by local hikers and out-of-town mountain bikers from all over the South. The trail has helped put Clay County on the map of outdoor adventure destinations around the country and has helped people get moving in the beautiful and historic outdoors.
Clay County’s total population is less than 11,000, and most land in the area is designated National Forest. Jackrabbit Trail is outside Nantahala National Forest, sitting right on the edge of a lake, just south of Haysville, the County seat. Jackrabbit Trail is easily accessible by car and is easy for all ability levels to enjoy, either by foot or bike. Clay County Communities Revitalization Association could not have developed the trail on their own. They partnered with the U.S. Forest Service and SABA to help fund and develop the new trail. Now, SABA promotes Jackrabbit Trail, and it’s used for races and trail riding. If you’re interested in building a walking or biking trail, consider building in an easy-to-access area from a town or major highway. Your trail doesn’t have to be tucked away in the forest to be successful.
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mental interests and abilities
His mind operates in a very deliberate and methodical manner and Peter Yarrow dislikes being rushed or forced into give an opinion before he has thoroughly ruminated and digested an idea. He is also difficult to sway once his mind is made up.
Though slower at grasping new concepts or learning new skills, he is patient and persevering and in fact, often becomes quite adept at whatever he sets his mind to for he is willing to devote much time and attention to it. Peter Yarrow succeeds, not so much because of his intellectual brilliance, but because he has the ability to concentrate and follow a project through to its completion. Peter has an aptitude for singing or drawing.
His mental skills and intelligence are directed toward practical matters, and Peter Yarrow is interested in the tangible effects of any abstract idea or concept. He is very interested in finance, economics, and moneymaking strategies.
An independent and original thinker, Peter is excited by new ideas, discoveries, and innovations. His mind functions in an intuitive, nonlinear fashion and sudden insights and ideas often come to him "out of the blue". Peter Yarrow grasps ideas very quickly and often becomes impatient with those who are slower or more cautious than he. More conservative minds deem him rather eccentric and unusual in his interests. Peter Yarrow does well in an open, unpredictable atmosphere where flexibility and quick responses are needed. Peter Yarrow has an aptitude for science, mathematics, electronics or astrology.
He is open and receptive to subjects that defy rational explanation, such as psychic phenomena, mental telepathy and metaphysics, and Yarrow could teach these subjects to others. His mind is imaginative and inspired and Peter Yarrow has an aptitude for art and creative writing.
Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:
Mercury in Taurus
Mercury in 2nd house
Mercury Conjunct Uranus
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Jim Brown, known as the chief architect of IBM's APL2, will be speaking on "APL2: the Early Years: Can you and should you compromise on technical issues?" at the APL Bay Area Users' Group on February 23rd, 2013. This talk was originally given at York University's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ken Iverson's book "A Programming Language".
APL2: the Early Years: Can you and should you compromise on technical issues?
Mathematical decisions are made by providing proofs and there is seldom a need to make arbitrary decisions. Yet Indiana bill #246 in 1897 mandated that the value of pi be set at 3.2 (although three other incorrect values for pi are mentioned in the bill). The bill did not become law but the case points out the folly of people attempting to decide technical issues by consensus.
Scientific matters should be decided by the evidence but often are supported by unproved hypotheses. For example, despite overwhelming scientific evidence of global warming, some choose to deny the validity of the premise.
Programming language design is much less exact. It involves issues of style and elegance that are subject to interpretation and taste.
It has been reported that decisions in the early days of APL were made by what was called "The Quaker Consensus" - decisions were deferred until all the parties agreed. As the APL community grew larger, the Quaker Consensus became impractical.
The technical decisions involved in the extension of APL to what became APL2 involved two sides with strongly held positions. I was responsible for the technical content of APL2 and I attempted to get agreement on as many facilities as possible.
While many of the compromises made in those days served to make APL2 a better notation, this presentation concentrates on compromise decisions that I made which I now regret. Some of these decisions were reversed before the production of the IBM Program product but others were not and remain in the language today.
Jim Brown's Ph.D. thesis contained many of the extensions to APL that put the "2" into IBM's APL2. He was IBM's chief architect for APL2. After retiring from IBM he founded SmartArrays with James Wheeler from STSC/Manugistics/APL2000. | <urn:uuid:d0105e20-73c9-485e-be63-85e665627329> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sigapl.org/Articles/JimBrown-TechCompromise.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.979042 | 473 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The BioMed Alliance, of which ERA is a member, is raising awareness of the possible consequences of a poor IVDR implementation. The date of application of the new EU Regulation for In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices (IVDR) is only one year away, and the BioMed Alliance healthcare diagnostic providers are seriously concerned about the status of implementation of the IVDR. To date, many critical regulatory elements are not in place and important guidance is still lacking, making it extremely difficult for the EU diagnostic sector to be fully prepared in time for May 2022 and thereby threatening to affect patients’ lives across Europe.
The enclosed statement entitled: “Implementation of the new EU Regulation for In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices: a ticking bomb for the diagnostic sector” clarifies the hard stop that the diagnostic sector will face for conventional CE-IVDs if we do not collectively stand up now. In addition, clear and appropriate guidance is needed for in-house devices, also known as laboratory developed tests (LDTs), in order to help laboratories to prepare in time for the new legislation and to support the development of innovative solutions for niche applications, rare diseases and rapid responses to health crises.
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Table of Contents
As programmers, we are constantly reading blogs or books about the latest trending topics, the new technologies… all about our work but we may forget about us, how to treat us better.
In my previous post, we already talked about how to stay healthy and avoid burnouts. In this post, I would like to share some non-tech books that have helped me to grow as a person, which in the end helped me to be a better programmer and be more productive.
This is already a classic written by Stephen R. Covey in 1989 which has sold millions of copies around the world. Covey shows a guideline to being effective in attaining goals following some habits that one has to learn step by step.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
There are 3 habits that you must work on yourself:
- Be proactive
As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives.
- Begin with the end in mind
To have a main objective and plan how to achieve it..
- Put first things first
We should be working mainly on what is important but not urgent. If everything we do is urgent, something wrong is happening. And if things are not important, we shouldn’t be distracted by them.
There are 3 habits to interact with other people:
- Think win–win
In any type of relationship, both parts should always be winning. When one of the parts is losing, there is no right collaboration.
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood
Put in place of the other person, try to understand them.
Find solutions that fit everybody.
There is a final habit above all:
- Sharpen the saw
Increase motivation, energy, and work/life balance by making time for renewing activities.
Continuous learning and improvement, as one of our values 😉
These seven habits were written a long time ago but they are still valid in our modern world. Read them carefully and think about them.
Another classic, in this case from 1936 (although there is a revision from 1981) by Dale Carnegie. With comprensible examples, Carnegie gives us some techniques about how to talk and deal with other people. As the previous recommendation, even though that book was written so many years ago, it is still valid to our days. And in the IT world, where people tend to be more introverted, it can be really helpful.
It’s divided in 4 parts, with a list of recommendations:
- Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
- Don’t criticize, condemn or complain
- Give honest and sincere appreciation
- Arouse in the other person an eager want
- Six ways to make people like you
- Become genuinely interested in other people
- Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
- Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
- Talk in terms of the other person’s interests
- Make the other person feel important-and do it sincerely
- Win people to your way of thinking
- The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it
- Show respect for the other person’s opinions. Never say, “You’re wrong.”
- If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically
- Begin in a friendly way
- Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately
- Let the other person do a great deal of the talking
- Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers
- Try honesty to see things from the other person’s point of view
- Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires
- Appeal to the nobler motives
- Dramatize your ideas
- Throw down a challenge
- Be a leader
- Begin with praise and honest appreciation
- Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly
- Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person
- Ask questions instead of giving direct orders
- Let the other person save face
- Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”
- Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to
- Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct
- Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest
In the previous books, habits are key for success to get what we want to achieve. But sometimes it is not that simple. Great habits are difficult to consolidate, bad habits are difficult to be changed or removed. In this book, published in 2018, James Clear talks about everything related to habits:
- How to start a new habit. For example, with the 2 minutes rule. You start doing a new habit but just for 2 minutes at the very beginning. It’s more important to show up and do it consistently, than start with a lot of energy and leave it aside a few days or weeks later.
- Be 1% better each day. Bit by bit, in the long term it is a huge improvement.
- How to break bad habits: for example, do it more difficult for you to do it. Like if you want to give up smoking, don’t have cigarettes at home.
- On the contrary, to have great habits, make it easier to achieve them. You want to eat healthier, have fruits and vegetables in the kitchen instead of snacks.
My main takeaway from this book is that being a bit better each day, having in mind your goals, with consistency and showing up every day, even just for a while, in the long term may have great results thanks to the compound effect.
In a world full of distractions, where the latest news or the trending topics are around us and dictates what to do, to watch, what to think. Ryan Holiday tries to show us an ancient way of living, which we may have forgotten but should be very present among us to have a more fulfilled and less stressed life.
Through some examples from lives from the ancients like Seneca or Marcus Aurelius, to modern lives like Thich Nhat Hanh or Nietzsche, Holiday guides us to follow stillness. Not in the sense of not doing anything, but to avoid distractions, to be fully present, to sit and reflect when, for example, we are in the middle of a crisis. Instead of reacting emotionally, the author talks about taking the needed time to think about it, especially if we want to get it right, if we want to perform our best.
My recommendation is to read this book and take lots of notes. And reread the notes from time to time to remember the great knowledge shared in it.Here is one of my notes:
Only those of us who take the time to explore, to question, to extrapolate the consequences of our desires have an opportunity to overcome them and to stop regrets before they start. Only they know that real pleasure lies in having a soul that’s true and stable, happy and secure.
This is a self-help book written by Robin Sharma in 1999. In this case, it’s the only book from the list which is a novel, derived from the author’s life after he left his career as a lawyer. In the form of conversation, one of the characters talked about how he has changed his life with some spiritual experiences. From this conversation you can take plenty of thoughts and reflections that may help you on a daily basis.
Take time to know yourself, to think about how the day went, what went wrong, what went well.
Train your willpower to do those difficult things you don’t want to do, to have new great habits..
Live your life.
It’s an easy to read book that will inspire you and for sure and give you some hints to improve your daily routines.
Written in 2020, Jay Shetty explains what he learned from his experience as a monk during 3 years and how those learnings can be applied in our daily lives. How to overcome our natural negative thoughts and habits and how to be more calmed in our lives and to live with a purpose.
From the book:
There are 3 ways to create space for reflection. First, on a daily basis you sit down to reflect on how the day went and what emotions you are feeling. Second, once a month go someplace you’ve never been before to explore yourself in a different environment (visit a park, a library, taking a trip). Finally, get involved in something that’s meaningful to you (a hobby, a charity, a political cause).
The less time you fixate on everyone else, the more time you have to focus on yourself.
Read the book and you’ll experience what Shetty lived as a monk and you may learn some habits to introduce in your routine.
Written in 2021 by psychiatrist Marian Rojas Estapé, this non-tech book guides us to a better, healthier and happier life through neuroscience, explaining how the brain reacts and works in different situations of life (e.g. stress)
Notes from the book:
Social connections benefit us, and loneliness kills. People who have more bonds with family, friends, or a wider community are happier, healthier, and live longer than people with fewer relationships. Loneliness has been shown to be profoundly toxic.
Happiness doesn’t lie in what happens to us, but in how we interpret what happens to us. It depends on the way we assimilate reality; our capacity to orient or focus that assimilation is key to our ability to be happy.
A good book for a better understanding of ourselves and to help us to improve our quality of life.
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Android App Inventor Going Dark December 31st
To make developing apps for Android easier Google came out with a project called App Inventor back in July 2010. Originally invite-only, it wasn’t long before Google made the project available to the public, with an emphasis on education.
App Inventor was essentially a WYSIWYG application development environment with various components (logic blocks) that you could drag and drop onto your work-space, then wire them up with very minimal coding — for basic apps. It was short-lived, and was discontinued some months ago.
The next step in the decommissioning process of App Inventor is taking it offline. Before they do that, Google is giving developers one last opportunity to download their projects — but you’ve got to act quickly! Google is turning it off December 31st, 2011, but they’re recommending you download your apps well before then.
If you’ve got apps that you don’t want to lose, login to your App Inventor account and click the Download All Projects button on the Your Apps page.
If you’re interested in the concept of drag-and-drop software development, you’re not alone. Sometime in 2012 MIT will be picking up where Google left off.
Dear App Inventor User,
As we announced on the App Inventor Announcement Forum, Google will end support for App Inventor on December 31, 2011, after which data in appinventorbeta.com will not be accessible and will be deleted from Google servers. You can preserve your App Inventor projects by simply clicking on the Download All Projects button on your My Projects page. This will download to your computer a zipped archive of all your projects. We recommend you retrieve your projects well before December 31st.
By the end of 2011 Google will also be making the complete App Inventor source code publicly available under an open source license, so that anyone can study the code and modify it as they desire.
In order to ensure the future success of App Inventor, Google has funded the establishment of a Center for Mobile Learning at the MIT Media Lab. Sometime in the first quarter of 2012, the Center plans to provide an App Inventor service for general public access, similar to the one Google is currently running.
In order for you to continue working with your projects in an open source instance (MIT or otherwise) of App Inventor you will need to download your data from appinventorbeta.com before December 31st and later upload them to an open source instance as it becomes available.
Please visit the App Inventor user forums to get future updates on App Inventor. You can also visit http://mobilelearning.mit.edu/ for updates on what is being done with App Inventor at MIT.
The App Inventor Team
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It’s a small room, but the view is large. Through its windows you can see the Columbia River and across it to Mount Adams and Underwood Mountain.
It’s a small room. Five recliner chairs, a couple of stools and a nurse’s station crowd the space. It’s a small room, but what happens here is not. It’s where people come to try and kill the thing that’s killing them.
The Infusion Center, as the room is called, at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital is where cancer patients come to receive chemotherapy.
Other intravenous drug treatments — called infusion therapy — happen here, too. Patients needing ongoing blood transfusions come here, as do those who need IV antibiotic therapy, treatment for lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, anemia and other conditions. But three-quarters of the patients sitting in the recliner chairs are battling cancer. The patients, their doctor and particularly the nurses who staff the Infusion Center are on the front lines together.
“The relationship between a chemo patient and a nurse becomes pretty special,” says Infusion Center nurse Carrie Kennedy. “Some patients are in here 6 to 7 hours at a time. This room just really becomes a second home to a lot of people.”
It is Kennedy and Lori Kitchin, the center’s primary nurses, and a staff of three relief nurses who see the patients week after week for hours at a time. They search for “good” veins in which to insert the IV needles. They keep a constant eye on their patients for signs of drug reactions. They talk with their patients about the drugs and how they work and what side effects to expect. And, often, they just talk to their patients.
“You’re in this little room and there’s nowhere to go,” Kitchin says. “So you talk.” Patients talk about world affairs. They talk about their families. They talk about their past and their future and their fears.
Benita Holmes is no stranger to the Infusion Center. Seven years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a mastectomy, then underwent several months of chemotherapy at PHRMH. (Infusion therapy at that time was done in another part of the hospital; the new Infusion Center opened in July.)
Holmes, 47, then underwent check-ups every few months for five years and the cancer never returned.
“At five years, they said I could act as if there had never been cancer and go to yearly check-ups,” Holmes says. A year later, in September 2001, the cancer was back — with a vengeance.
“It was on my liver, it was everywhere,” she says. Her doctor gave her 1 to 2 years to live. She went home and told her two kids, then age 7 and 10, that she had cancer again.
Holmes is one of the miracles at the Infusion Center. She’s been getting chemo so frequently for so long that doctors inserted a “port” in her chest where the drugs are injected. But the endless hours spent sitting in a recliner in the Infusion Center have worked. Holmes, who says she’s “95 percent better,” is once again beating the cancer.
“I just want everyone to know,” she says. “It’s a miracle.” In her weekly visits to the Infusion Center over the past two years, Holmes has seen a lot of people come and go. But one constant has been the nurses.
“I love them,” says Holmes, who frequently confides in Kennedy as the nurse is getting her chemo going. “They’re awesome. They’re friends and caregivers.”
Lois Allen is another regular in the Infusion Center. A year-and-a-half ago, shortly after undergoing gall bladder surgery, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Initial chemotherapy treatments were successful, but soon a large tumor appeared. She’s now on her second round of chemo as doctors try to shrink the tumor.
Lori Kitchin searched fervently during Allen’s visit last week for a vein to insert the IV needle in.
“We’re running out of veins,” Kitchin says. It’s just another hazard that goes along with chemotherapy. Allen hates this part worse than almost anything about chemo, yet she still calls Kitchin the “trooper.” Kitchin finally gets the needle in, hooks up the IV and the drugs begin dripping into Allen’s body.
Allen has the distinction of being the first patient to use the new Infusion Center when it opened in July.
“I thought they should name it after me,” she jokes. Kitchin agrees it has a nice ring to it.
Infusion therapy was formerly done in the short stay/same-day surgery unit of the hospital. Although the space was larger, it was much less private. But for many of the patients, including Allen, the space was far less important than the people in it.
“It didn’t make any difference to me as long as Lori came with it,” says Allen of the move to the new center. “The girls are real good.”
It’s “the girls” who are with the patients from the beginning of chemotherapy to the end. When patients and their doctor decide on a course of chemo, they immediately meet with Kennedy or Kitchin to discuss the treatment.
“We talk with them about how the drugs work, what the side effects may be and what to expect,” Kennedy says. “We want them to know what they’re going to be going through and get them prepared. We want to make sure this is the decision they want to make.”
Sometimes patients get better. Sometimes they don’t.
“You work with a lot of patients you know are going to die and that’s hard,” Kitchin says. “But you’re also part of a really unique time in their life. People tend to open up and share a lot with you.”
The view out the window of the Infusion Center is nice. But it’s the larger view patients here get, as they pass the time in the recliner chairs, that’s more important. They talk to the nurses about world affairs. They talk about their families. They talk about their past and their future and their fears.
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When I initially learned of Vice’s plan to publish True Norwegian Black Metal, I tempered my expectations, half expecting a hatchet job on one of the most significant music genres to develop over the past 20 years. Vice, after all, is well noted for its hipster status and sardonic treatment of subject matter -- both factors, combined with black metal’s rising popularity, leaving me with uneasy feelings about the project’s sincerity. I had no plans to pursue the book upon its release, but after learning about its presence on the shelf of a local bookseller, I soon fell to temptation and found myself in possession of a powerful piece of music history.
Compiled by documentary photographer Peter Beste, True Norwegian Black Metal is a collection of images captured over a five-year span during which Beste made some 13 trips to Norway to pursue his interest in the country’s notorious and reclusive metal scene. For those not up to speed on metal affairs, Norwegian black metal dates back to the early ’90s and can be generally identified by its extreme musical approach, as well as its aggressive anti-Christian ideology and nihilism. Founding members popularized the practice of wearing medieval-looking armor and introduced the wearing of “corpse paint" -- heavily applied black and white make-up, often highlighted by real or fake blood splatter. Many of the scene’s most prominent members have been convicted of a variety of crimes, including murder, church burning and violent assault. Among these is Gaahl, lead vocalist for Gorgoroth, who is one of Beste’s main subjects and in recent years has become sort of an unofficial scene spokesperson.
Black metal does not take kindly to strangers, so it is no small feat then that Beste was able to shed his outsider status and gain the kind of access that led to these unguarded and sometimes disturbing photos. Nattefrost’s offering of his upside-down cross on the book’s cover is a commanding introduction of what follows inside. Beste’s photographs are shot in a variety of contexts: live in performance, backstage and behind the scenes, candid and close up, and posed in the midst of the Norwegian wilderness. Striking images of the graven-faced Gaahl and the wary stare of a passerby at the corpse-painted Kvitrafn represent some of the book’s strongest work, but perhaps the most impressive of Beste’s shots is a two-page spread of Immortal’s Abbath lumbering down the path of a moss-covered forest.
Beste’s photography, presented both in color and black and white, contains a grainy haze that adds gloom to an already grim world of black metal and expresses in image a misanthropic perspective words would fail to articulate. Some of these photos have already appeared on the sleeves and in the liner notes of various recordings, but brought together in this collection they become part of a fluid narrative that illustrates Norwegian black metal’s complexity, from its isolationist tendencies and angry desperation to its prepubescent absurdity. Frankly, this book accomplishes what other attempts to document black metal’s sordid history have failed to do: allow for individual layers of interpretation without tabloid fanfare or scripted narration, a level of participation that both the bands and Beste would certainly encourage and invite.
And as if 157 pages of massively-sized (11.25” x 14.25”) photos was not enough, the book also includes 25 pages of noteworthy documents from Norwegian black metal’s early days, including various news clippings, letters, pictures and fanzine excerpts. The folks over at Vice should be commended for their commitment to this project, for it has resulted in a crucial piece of musicology. | <urn:uuid:3b8b344a-f13f-4aff-9abc-ad27bf7483ea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/true-norwegian-black-metal/Content?oid=2127820 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00443-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955601 | 790 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Dominic Chavez is a Boston-based freelance photojournalist, who formerly worked at The Boston Globe, specializing in global health issues. In the last year, the Ministerial Leadership Initiative has supported Chavez and writer John Donnelly's travel to the five countries that work with MLI: Nepal, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mali, and Ethiopia. In this first of five segments, one from each country, Donnelly interviewed Chavez about the images below. What follows are his perspectives on his two trips to Sierra Leone, including one which focused on the Ministry of Health and Sanitation’s efforts to roll out free health care for pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers, and children under the age of five.
"These pictures are from two different visits. Sierra Leone really hit home in a lot of ways. Even though I’ve been documenting global health now for a little over a decade, I’m still always surprised how it always hits home, and I guess that’s why I am dedicated to it. But going to Sierra Leone opened my eyes again, and it really opened my eyes to the dangers that women face in trying to have a family. It meant witnessing the real hardships and the death of a newborn baby, as well as watching a nurse save the life of a newborn boy. It steals your breath. To me, it’s very haunting."
"This is a picture of Dr. Samuel Kargbo, the head of reproductive health in the Ministry. Kargbo is like the Michael Jordan of maternal health care. He’s a sharp shooter. He’s very determined, his short and long term goals are very impressive, so I was very grateful I could get a strong picture of him in a meeting, which is what we have here. Meeting pictures can be very boring. But this one has strong color, and there is intensity in his eyes. There’s always intensity in his eyes."
"I like this picture photographically, it has some interesting colors and shapes to it. You are not sure where you are looking, or what you are looking into. I has some nice implied lines. I shot it from a stairway above a waiting room in a hospital. The story behind it is this is the launching of free health care at the hospital where the president of Sierra Leone announced it – on the same day as Independence Day this year. There is a lot of energy, lot of layers in this picture. It shows the depth of a full hospital. It was very chaotic, and I can only imagine it’s still pretty chaotic."
"This little kid, he was just one of those, well, he represented a lot to me. He was incredibly sick. His color wasn’t right. He was very weak. He had almost no personality, no energy, it’s like you couldn’t feel him. It’s like the mother was trying to talk to him, trying to nurture him, he was just so weak, that he was an example of a lot of kids who are really desperate for medical attention. What I was trying to do was to use the layers of the mother’s hands, and the faces in the background, but for this little boy to be the entry point, the focal point, and for the other layers to be the exit point of the photograph."
"This was in a clinic just outside of Freetown, and this woman, I was just really responding to how happy this woman was. She seemed incredibly healthy and happy. Her child was healthy. It just kind of represented a kind of success in one family, and I was just trying to make an image that was slightly more sophisticated, so I’m using an implied mother and baby on the left of the picture showing who she is talking to, and suggesting she is not the only one receiving help on this day when they rolled out free health care."
"Dr. Daoh is kind of another, well, not really a secret weapon, but a critical person in the Sierra Leone government. I was looking at him and trying to make a picture of the weight of the world that he carries. To me, it’s very clear that he carries tremendous weight on his shoulders. I find it very impressive how he can juggle what he does and still succeed because he’s dealing with lots of problems-- he and others are learning what works and what doesn’t -- a lot of things to take the wind out of your sails. He’s very impressive because he’s very persistent with his message and his concerns."
"This is a bit of a haunting picture where the kids are incredibly sick, with issues from diarrhea, and I’m just trying to layer the hands and the child in the top of the frame to show just how weak that they are, and how completely consumed they are by their illness. It’s just quite frightening. This is the other side of the fence that shows why things need to change, why the Health Ministries are trying to take such an important role because there a lot of people in need."
"It’s pretty dramatic because the baby came out blue. Immediately the nurse was trying to revive the child. She wrapped him in a blanket, ran around and put the kid on this table, and tried to clear the child’s air passageway. The interesting thing about this picture was you not only have the moment of the nurse using one finger to try to revive the heart – the one finger shows how fragile the child is – but then you have where the child just came from. The mother is on the operating table in the upper right in the background and in the foreground; lower right, you have a nurse’s hand with a needle. She is about to give the child an injection. You have three things happening at once and the baby is right on the line of living or dying. You are seeing back in the past, you are seeing the present, and you are seeing into the future.
"What hits home to me is the one finger – that’s how fragile this little baby’s rib cage is, and this little baby’s heart is. I’m not a father so it makes me realize how sensitive it all is. I haven’t been able to hold a baby since."
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When we sat down to develop PlatformOne™, it was clear to us that one of the most important things we needed was a simulated datafeed. This would be useful not only for testing but also for doing canned demonstration systems. So we thought about what we needed and we came up with the following list of things we’d like to be able to do:
- Record a whole series of ticks for a configurable set of records.
- Play those back in simulated real time.
- Speed up and slow down playback.
- Tick-by-tick playback
- Edit saved file of data.
And then that’s exactly what we built. The Recorder module can be used to capture data from any data feed for which there’s a PlatformOne™ handler or from any external platform for which there is a PlatformOne™ adapter. The Player module can play back the data for use within the same PlatformOne™ system or alternatively any external platform, again if there’s a PlatformOne™ adapter. The SimEdit module can be used for converting the saved data file into a nice, easy-to-edit text format and then back into the more efficient binary form used by Player, once you’ve tinkered with it. | <urn:uuid:cdf8e08e-e300-421f-989d-f8b2559e9492> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jpassoc.co.uk/simulation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.903715 | 259 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Once your child’s teeth are all erupted and are close together, you should start teaching your child to floss everyday! This usually occurs around the age of four. Here are four tips to make them a pro-flosser and get in the habit of flossing every day:
Learn to Count
For kids that are still young and are learning to count or their ABC’s, combine flossing and learning. Have them count their teeth while they floss and they will look forward to impressing you with their counting skills! You can also have them count backwards or in 2’s.
Side by Side
Once your child can floss their own teeth, floss your teeth together. Just like sons imitate their dads shaving, they will want to do the same exact thing! They’ll look forward to flossing if you do it at the same time as them!
It can be hard to get anyone to floss – even adults! Using verbal praise or maybe giving your child a sticker after they floss successfully can help establish flossing as a routine. The reward could even be simply having a schedule for the child and checking it off the schedule! It can make it an activity they don’t mind or even might enjoy doing instead of something they dread!
Today, they make waterpik flossers that squirt a stream of water between each tooth. They also make little flossers that look like characters from dinosaurs to Spongebob Squarepants. Have your child make a game involving the character and flossing! Maybe the dinosaur is helping get rid of the sugar so the sugar monster doesn’t come and mess with their teeth!
Flossing can be fun and not a chore if you just let it! Making it a game or rewarding your child is an easy way to make it a fun activity they look forward to on a regular basis! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us! | <urn:uuid:48c33ae0-3412-4795-a919-5c3120a9f9f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.morrindental.com.au/news/details/childrens-dentistry-4-tips-to-make-your-child-a-pro-flosser/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.953923 | 416 | 3.15625 | 3 |
- Were you looking for the article on the eternal ingredients in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King?
- For other beings of reverence see religions, Ancient guardian and demigods.
Eternals are Azeroth's immortal beings. These demigod-like beings are immortals with nearly divine powers. Eternals are conduits to divine power for several faiths; these include titans, Elune (in some sources called Azeroth's only deity) and other Ancients such as Cenarius, Ursoc and Ursol, Malorne the Waywatcher, Agamaggan, Aviana, Queen Azshara and Lord Xavius, the voodoo Loa spirits, the Elemental Lords and Old Gods, etc. Eternal is the term used for many of the gods, goddesses, demigods, deities, divinities, and other revered beings who have interacted in Azeroth's history and molded the world.
Eternals are the divine-like beings of Azeroth and the other planes, who shape the large arcs of history for good and ill. Many beings transcend the bounds of mortal power and play key roles in the world’s long history, either obvious or subtle. These beings are known as eternals. Wielding godlike powers, they battle to destroy or save the world, to disrupt or cultivate life upon Azeroth (and elsewhere).
These are beings known only in legends to the peoples of Azeroth. Yet they are beings who have shaped not only the course of history in the world of Azeroth, but often the world itself: the Elemental Lords, ruling over planes of pure power and awaiting the time when they will once again serve the banished Old Gods; the Titans, whom the dwarves believe created Azeroth and many of its races; the great and powerful dragons who watch over the titans’ creation; the moon goddess Elune, and the demigod-like beings She created to protect and guide the creatures of the land. They are the ancient powers. While mortals fight wars to lay claim to villages and kingdoms, the powers wage a perpetual struggle to determine who will dominate the whole of the universe, with Azeroth the nearest battlefield. Though rarely seen, the influence of the ancient powers is ever-present. It is known that They wrought Azeroth from pure chaos and formed it into the world it is today.
Most of the divine beings of Azeroth (known as eternals) are distant entities. They exist to assist those caught in the conflicts of a cruel, violent world. Never directly intervening in the affairs of the world, They use divine magic as a proxy. With their many healing and protective spells, practitioners of divine magic are at the vanguard of the Gods’ efforts to ensure Their peoples' survival. Priests whisper prayers to evoke power from beings such as Elune the Moon Goddess. Shadow hunters invoke the names of dark Gods (loa), ancient powers whose legends are stained in cruelty and bloodshed, but who are also capable of benevolence when appeased. For example a shadow hunter might venture onto grounds consecrated to the Old Gods and spill his own blood to entice the forces of primeval cruelty to come and visit their worst afflictions upon him.
The ancient powers rule supreme in their particular bastions, unsurpassed in power, knowledge and ability. Each also possesses its own personality and agenda, which has led each to interact with mortals in its own way. In some cases, an ancient power may take an interest in a hero early in her life. The powers have an innate understanding of prophecy and divination surpassing that of mortals, and they are often aware of a hero’s fate long before the hero takes her first steps onto the path of adventure. A power may send monsters to kill a nascent hero years before she has an opportunity to meddle in the power’s schemes, or it may subtly assist her by quietly guiding her toward allies, information or hidden artifacts that will help her achieve her destiny. When unable to act or unwilling to show their hands, the ancient powers use mortal heroes and villains as agents to further their own agendas — Sargeras used Azshara as his servant in an attempt to open the Well of Eternity, and the human wizard Rhonin was the cat's-paw of the dragons during the Second War. Heroes may be approached by an ancient power and asked to undertake a quest. They must take care when serving an Eternal, however, as completing a task for a power may mean incredible reward in thanks for a service well performed — or utter destruction as the Eternal hides its tracks.
A number of the eternals died during the War of the Ancients. This doesn’t, however, mean that those powers can have no influence in later eras. Many of the fallen powers still have followers 10,000 years later, such as the furbolg who follow in the path of the long-dead ursine demigods Ursoc and Ursol. Further, though written history says they perished, can eternals who possess the special quality of immortality truly die? Perhaps a "fallen" eternal simply sleeps away centuries while his wounds heal...
Eternals usually only appear before mortals only when they have truly earned the audience through their actions, such as by performing a great service to the eternal or by making a formidable stand against its plans. The tangled web of relationships among the eternals means that a favor performed for one may be a slight to several others.
Ancient powers operate not just on levels of power far above mortals, but also on a vastly different time scale: the youngest have lived a hundred mortal lifetimes, and their goals can lay millennia away. Events of the mortal world may be more than meaningless in the larger scope of history to Eternals. For those who are asked to undertake a mission on behalf of an Eternal, the Eternal may be unable or simply unwilling to explain the reasons behind the task to "mere mortals" who cannot possibly comprehend. The immortal lifespan of Eternals allows them to collect on debts from many decades previous, and they hold grudges much longer. For example; the great dragon Neltharion spent a lifetime disguised as a human noble, infiltrating the royal courts of Lordaeron and consolidating power in order to avenge himself upon the other dragon Aspects.
Eternals in the Warcraft universe include the titans, the Old Gods, demigods, and other powerful entities worshipped or venerated by the mortal races on Azeroth, often as part of Creation Myths of various people in the world.
History of the EternalsEdit
Below is a brief history covering eternals from the earliest known accounts to the present.
The Dawn of HistoryEdit
Most of the ancient powers were encountered during Azeroth's earliest days. It was the golden age of the powers, the dragons and Elune's servants watched over the young world, Elemental Lords thought the untamed land as comfortable as their home plane. Legends claim that the world's creators still lurked in the shadows finishing the details of their creation.
The Shattered WorldEdit
In the aftermath of the War of the Ancients and the sundering of the world, the Burning Legion was forced off Azeroth. Azshara vanished, and the dragons went into hiding. Even the elementals retreated, and thousands of years would passed before mortal spellcasters discovered how to summon them back across the planar boundaries. Though the eternals who survived were largely unseen for almost 10,000 years, they were occasionally encountered. The eternals were humbled by Azshara's bold attempt to rise to their level of power, and remained reserved and distrustful of both mortals who sought them out and mortals whom they employed.
Seers and scholars maintain that the Horde's arrival through the Dark Portal heralded the return of the ancient powers to mortal events. In the years since, the great dragons and the Elemental Lords have involved themselves in the war, and both Cenarius and Sargeras have returned. As the dwarves delve deeper into the lost secrets of the Titans, some have wondered whether the Titans ever truly left. Some have found they have unwittingly been drawn into or run afoul of the schemes of a returned eternal. The Eternals appear to have recovered from any uncertainty they suffered during their millennia of retreat, however, and those who seek them out do so at their own risk. Nearly every eternal has followers in the current age, from the worshippers of Elune among the night elves to the demon cults that revere the Burning Legion.
List of eternalsEdit
Of the beings listed here, Elune is considered the only "true god/goddess of Azeroth". Certain godlike entities exist other than those the night elves revere. In the same way the night elves draw divine magic from their devotion to Cenarius and Elune, other individuals may bear a faith in their "god" that allows them to tap into a divine source. These other gods include Dragon Aspects, the Burning Legion, the Old Gods, and the titans. The "gods" Hakkar the Soulflayer and the Old Gods may be close. Titans are not true "gods" per se but are demigods; and the most famous demigods include the Ancients. All Eternals are demigod-like beings. They are immortal and wield divine power, but not all of them aspire to be Gods.
Very little is known about the titans save for scraps the dwarves have unearthed and some vague night elf folklore. Few scholars actually believe the mighty demigods even existed. Legend holds that the great ones shaped the land when the world was young, then left the world to its own devices.
The Titans are considered demigods, though they are about as close to gods as any being presently known can be. Seeing that the lesser races have been able to kill some of the demigods — an example being Cenarius — while even the allied forces of the night elves, humans, and orcs were not able to kill Archimonde, who was only a lieutenant of a titan, suggests that the titans are more powerful than any demigod. They might not be gods, but must be seen as almost effectively that, being the most powerful beings to show themselves in the universe up to this point. (Elune is the only formal god/goddess known at the moment and to date has had no recorded contact with the physical universe).
- Aman'Thul the Highfather
- Eonar the Lifebinder
- Norgannon the Lorekeeper
- Khaz'goroth the Forger
- Golganneth the Thunderer
- Aggramar the Avenger
- Sargeras the Destroyer, a fallen titan. Disillusioned, he rejected the creative mission of his fellow gods, and then created the Burning Legion to destroy the ordered worlds they had created.
Titans were powerful enough to chain the Old Gods.
According to some sources, such as the Warcraft Encyclopedia, it is said that the titans are not actually gods, though they are more powerful than a number of gods encountered in Azeroth Other sources such as The Sunwell Trilogy claim that they are "Gods from the far reaches of the cosmos". Shadows and Light calls them "demigods". Alliance Player's Guide calls them akin to gods. They are also simply called a progenitor race.
Some accounts give them titles such as "Patron of All Life". To put it simply, they are intelligent designers.
The Old GodsEdit
The Old Gods were the evil rulers of Azeroth before being defeated by the titans. They were the masters of the Elemental Lords. Three remain imprisoned beneath the world, but continue to be worshipped by the Twilight's Hammer Cult and the naga. One of the Old Gods, C'Thun, managed to survive and has recently reemerged in southern Silithus to command the qiraji and the silithid. Another was revealed by the resurrected Ursoc as Yogg-Saron, "the beast with a thousand maws". The roots of the failed World Tree Vordrassil had penetrated his prison lair, and through them corrupted the rest of the tree, as well as the Grizzlemaw tribe of furbolgs that had moved into its shattered stump.
- Ula-Tek is a goddess serpent, who is widely worshipped among forest trolls in Zul'Aman. Believed to be an Old God.
The Burning Legion is undoubtedly potent and some of its leaders possess demigod-like power. Those who worship demons draw terrible divine magic from their dark faith. Most demons are not eternals. Sargeras, Archimonde, Xavius, and Kil'jaeden are the only confirmed exceptions. Archimonde wanted to become a god and wield powers that rival those of Sargeras himself.
The Earthmother is a benevolent and primitive earth goddess whom the tauren worship above all else. The tauren search for the wisdom of their eternal Goddess. She is the harmony of nature itself. She is described as the creator of the land, of the sun and moon, and of the tauren people. In some accounts, She may be roughly equivalent to Elune Herself (although in the legend Elune is Her Eye). Some conjecture that She may be a manifestation of the legendary Alextrasza, the red dragon Aspect of Life.
Elune is the benevolent moon Goddess of the night elves. She is the few full deities on Azeroth, the personification of the White Lady, and one of the Ancients. The tauren refer to her as Mu'sha, the Left Eye of the Earthmother. She is the counterpart to An'she.
Perhaps more so than other eternals, the Ancients of the night elves are treated like deities. Primal spirits of the natural world when it was young, They personify its most distinct and most powerful qualities. Although several of Them were effectively destroyed during the War of the Ancients and in later conflicts, They are honored still by races such as centaur, furbolgs, night elves, and quillboar. Elune the Moon Goddess, Azeroth's one true deity, remains a focus of worship for the night elves and other races, while the world grows warier of what the changed Queen Azshara may attempt in the coming future. Ancients are demigods.
- Malorne, called Apa'ro by the tauren, a white stag hunted by the tauren.
- Aviana, the falcon Goddess revered by all winged creatures and mistress of G'Hanir, the Mother Tree.
- Agamaggan, boar god of the quilboar.
- Ursol and Ursoc, the twin bear gods.
- Goldrinn (Lo'Gosh)
- Queen Azshara was the queen of the kaldorei. After the War of the Ancients she was mutated into a terrible demigod. Everything the naga do is according to her design — and she has had ten millennia to refine her plans. In modern times, the naga build statues and temples to Azshara in their underwater realm and worship her as the mother of their people. On the surface, there are many who curse Azshara for the destruction she brought to Azeroth…but there are some — particularly among the high elves and blood elves, and even mages of other races — who make offerings and dedicate spells they create and items they craft to Azshara's memory in thanks for opening the doors of magical power.
- Wolverine Ancient
- Fox Ancient
- Panther Ancient
- Pixies (possibly)
- Xavius is an Ancient revered and worshiped by the satyrs. Most Satyrs venerate Xavius as their creator and patron. Satyrs pay homage to Xavius by living gleeful, sinful lives and committing acts of treachery they feel will honor their dark Lord. Some worry about encountering eternals such as Lord Xavius; they worry he will return to take revenge on the night elves. Aside from demons, only a few warped individuals here and there pray to Xavius today, and they do so in the hope of being transformed into satyrs. A horde of Satyr may indicate the presence or influence of the eternal.
Many of them perished in the War of the Ancients; one of the few survivors of the War of the Ancients was the Forest Lord Cenarius, the child of Elune and Malorne, who serves as patron of all druids. He was killed by Grom Hellscream shortly before the Battle of Mount Hyjal, but continues to exist in the spirit realm of the Emerald Dream. It is said that Malorne may have been resurrected and lives at the side of His wife, Elune.
An'she is a male sun deity in tauren mythology, the right Eye of the Earthmother and the counterpart to the goddess Mu'sha (Elune), the moon. Since Mu'sha is Elune, it is possible that An'she is an as-yet-named elven sun god.
Troll Pantheon (Loa)Edit
The Loa are primal troll gods, each representing a different animal or domain. The ages following the Sundering were dark ones, and the Gurubashi trolls prayed to their pantheon of primitive gods to help them. Eventually, one of these gods, Hakkar the Soulflayer, answered their prayers. Hakkar was the darkest of the trolls' gods, though at the time they did not yet realize how dark He was. Shadow hunters revere many of these ancient dark gods, including the Old Gods as Loa. It is said that although these beings are mightier than elementals they are not quite as powerful as gods.
Hakkar the Soulflayer is the evil Blood God worshipped by the majority of troll tribes, and brought into existence in Azeroth by them, both in the ancient past, and in modern times. Hakkar is considered a god. He may be an Old God or the son of an Old God.
- Legba, Loa of Speed.
- Lukou, Loa of Healing and Respite.
- Ogoun, Loa of War.
- Dambala, Loa of serpents and treachery.
- Samedi, Loa of the cemeteries and the restful sleep of the dead.
- Shango, Controller of the Realm of Storms.
- Hir'eek, the Bat, channeled by High Priestess Jeklik.
- Shirvallah, the Tiger, channeled by High Priest Thekal.
- Hethiss, the Snake, channeled by High Priest Venoxis.
- Shadra, the Spider, channeled by High Priestess Mar'li.
- Bethekk, the Panther, channeled by High Priestess Arlokk.
- The Bear, channeled by Nalorakk.
- The Eagle, channeled by Akil'zon.
- The Dragonhawk, channeled by Jan'alai.
- The Lynx, channeled by Halazzi.
God was a deity connected to certain members of the Church of the Holy Light, referenced in early Warcraft Lore and sources, and alluded to in Day of the Dragon. The belief also included angels, Heaven, and Hell.
Elemental Lords & the elemental spiritsEdit
Former servants of the evil Old Gods, the Elemental Lords once ruled Azeroth. Yet when the titans defeated the Old Gods, they banished the Elemental Lords and all elementals to a planar prison known now as the Elemental Plane. Currently, Ragnaros the Firelord inhabits Azeroth, a somewhat unwilling captive of the Dark Iron dwarves who worship him; and while he seeks to return to the Elemental Plane, he may still wreak grave destruction upon Azeroth.
Elemental spirits include creatures that represent the power of the elements, these include beings such as elementals, spirits of the wilds, and pandaren elemental spirits. Not all elemental spirits are eternals. The Elemental Lords are known to be classified as Eternals, however, their minions are not Eternals.
The shamans draw their power from five natural elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and the Wilds. The Elemental Spirits are primordial elementals which embody these elements. They do not appear to be connected with the Old Gods, nor do they appear connected to their Elemental lieutenants. The Spirits communicate with the shamans through trances, dreams, images and emotions. Their exact motivations remain unknown, and it is unclear whether they act according to some grander design, or whether they act in reaction to events that threaten the balance. The Spirits may not even be connected to Azeroth, having a presence upon most, if not all, living worlds in the Great Dark Beyond.
Before leaving Azeroth, the titans empowered five dragons with tremendous power. They were to serve as Aspects, guardians over the world. They rule over their flights as powerful gods looking down on their less fortunate descendants. However, though several are revered as gods, most of the Aspects would not claim such status. The Aspects have many worshippers among the night elves and other isolated groups such as Dragonspawn.
- Nozdormu, the Timeless One. He has few worshippers, save perhaps among the Night Elves who wish to become once again timeless themselves. He pays no attention to those who venerate him, neither accepting nor disapproving of their efforts.
- Alexstrasza, the Life-Binder. Although many of Azeroth’s natural creatures revere the Great Red Leviathan, she is not a goddess and does not pretend to be otherwise. Alexstrasza is rarely venerated by any particular group, although some elven communities pay her homage. Druids of the Wild in particular appreciate her serene presence, considering her second in importance only to Ysera.
- Ysera, the Dreamer. The green Dragonflight is ruled by the dreaming goddess. Most Druids of the Wild venerate her; and even if some do not treat her as a deity, she is at least acknowledged as one of the greatest paragons of nature in existence.
- Malygos, the Spell-Weaver. His command of magic is quite impressive, rivaling that of a demigod, although he does not aspire to such power. The blue dragons are not at all religious. He is not revered as a god by his flight, for the Blue Dragons do not see godhood in scientific fact. They see science is truth, and religion only myth and misinterpretation. Despite that, they treat Malygos with a reverence one normally expect only due a god. Some sorcerers and magical creatures pay him homage, but he is not a deity and does not answer or acknowledge their efforts.
- Neltharion, the Earth-Warder, who would succumb to madness and take the name Deathwing. Although he is no deity, he is often worshipped by evil creatures and enjoys basking in the glow of abject servitude. He also likes to watch his allies fight among each other for favor in his eyes. Those who please him earn rewards; those he dislikes tend to meet with a torturous end. Venerating such a “god” is a dangerous proposition indeed.
Note: While Dragons are Eternals, they can die by the sword, or from poor living conditions. Ex: Tyranastrasz died while battling Deathwing, because of his old age and fragile health (induced by his low living conditions while captive).
Medivh is classified as an eternal in the legends chapter of Shadows & Light, but the book is unclear as to how or when he reached that status. It doesn't seem related to the fact he was a guardian, as other guardians are not Eternals, for example Aranda. Furthermore, there is no evidence to support that Medivh was worshiped. So it must have either been while he was possessed by the avatar of Sargeras, an Eternal, or when he became the legendary Oracle. The article is mostly about the period of time when he was possessed by Sargeras, so the former may be the case.
- The term "eternal" was coined by Bob Fitch and Chris Metzen because “immortal” didn’t feel right and “divine” also felt a bit awkward, although it was used in Warcraft III for units such as Cenarius (Whitewolf Quarterly, Fall 2004).
- All eternals are immortal, but not all immortals are eternals.
- Any dragon, elemental, fey, humanoid, monstrous humanoid, outsider, or undead could potentially become an eternal.
- Note that in the RPG game, contacting an eternal is the same as an Outer Plane demigod for the purpose of the Contact Other Plane ability. No beings are generally more powerful than eternals in the Warcraft universe, so making contact with a "lesser deity" or anything more powerful than a demigod is impossible.
- In the Cataclysm expansion, Cenarius is brought back to life. This shows that some eternals can come back some time after death, or at least their powers (like the power of the Aspect of Magic being induced into Kalecgos after Malygos's death).
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More should be done for the timely disbursement of funds to Guyana, the Norwegian government agency through which monies are channelled to pay Guyana for protecting its forests, has said even as it urged the de-politicisation of Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
“One of the reasons that deforestation rates have increased in Guyana is that very little has been implemented to mitigate the impacts of mining, which is the main driver of deforestation.
In turn, one of the reasons very little has been done is because of the delay in disbursing funds from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF), and so the existing financial set-up is implicated in the limited success in achieving NICFI’s climate objectives,” the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) said in a report released on Monday.
NORAD is a directorate under the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and since 2010, it has been monitoring Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) via which Guyana is paid to protect its forest. Under the Guyana-Norway partnership inked in 2009, Guyana could earn up to US$250 million from Oslo in performance-based payments for the period up until 2015, based on an independent verification of Guyana’s deforestation and forest degradation rates and progress on REDD+ enabling activities. REDD+ is a global initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
In its latest report, NORAD indicated that it sees a future for the forest protection pact and said that the NICFI should signal the continuation of the partnership as soon as possible in order to avoid a loss of momentum before the end of 2015, which would then need to be rebuilt during the following period.
However, it also recommended that Guyana “should be visited by a high-level, multi-disciplinary team” to discuss the reasons for the limitations to progress here and “whether and how NICFI support should be continued.”
NORAD said that NICFI can also help to maintain momentum for REDD+ between 2015 and 2020 by seeking to de-politicise the LCDS and increase bi-partisan involvement in the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee (MSSC). The agency pointed out that although it had previously urged a stronger bi- partisan approach to minimise the politicisation of the LCDS, this does not appear to have been achieved yet.
“At present the strategy is perceived as a mechanism for rewarding the government’s power base, and buying support from Amerindian communities,” NORAD said while adding that there is also the danger that opposition parties will seek political advantage from the delayed disbursement of funds from the GRIF. It also noted that political support for the LCDS, although, at least in the case of the opposition parties, not for a low carbon economy in general, could diminish across the political spectrum.
Further, NORAD pointed out that the combined opposition parties have gained a one-seat majority in the National Assembly and have been able to block government budget proposals relating to the strategy. “Although there has been widespread political support for the strategy in the past (and continues, at least in (underlying) principle), there appears to be growing opposition to the way specific ‘projects’/activities of the Low Carbon Development Strategy’s project portfolio, such as the Amaila Falls project, are being implemented,” the report said.
“The politicisation of aspects of the Low Carbon Development Strategy seems likely to increase, due to opposition party and civil society concerns about the way government appears to be trying to ‘control’ the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee and the use of the Strategy to favour the interests and perceived supporters of the government,” the agency added.
It said that the NICFI can also help to maintain momentum by providing clear communication on issues and concerns as they arise, for example, addressing the confusion over the Official Development Assistance (ODA) status of the funding, or the perception that REDD+ is an alternative to mining or logging, rather than being an incentive mechanism for undertaking low-impact mining and sustainable forest management. Providing clear communications on such issues would be greatly facilitated by having a NICFI representative/focal point in Guyana, NORAD said.
Meantime, the report said that one of the greatest concerns raised about the Guyana-Norway partnership is the slow disbursement of funds from the GRIF. Norway’s payments to Guyana are managed through the GRIF with the World Bank as trustee. Oslo has made three payments into the GRIF to date. Guyana’s deforestation rate has increased and payment for 2012 has been reduced by approximately US$20 million.
NORAD has noted that the Guyana-Norway partnership has been highly successful at developing a national-level monitoring, reporting and verification system, and reasonably successful at developing a financial mechanism for REDD+ payments. “Guyana is also the first country to have a national REDD+ funding mechanism, however, there are on-going concerns with the speed of disbursement, and further reform and development of the mechanism is needed. At present it does not represent a functioning ‘model’,” NORAD asserted.
NORAD said that almost all the stakeholders expressed concern about the slow disbursement of payments from the GRIF and noted that this was also raised as a concern four years earlier in the 2010 Guyana Country Report. The report said that government has cited the delay in disbursing funds as one of the barriers to implementing the enabling actions agreed to in the Joint Concept Note and this has also threatened the political and public acceptance of the Guyana-Norway partnership.
One major reason for the delay appears to be the time required to work through the World Bank’s and/or the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB), and/or the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) procedures, including their safeguard compliance processes, NORAD said.
It added that, however, the capacity of the Government of Guyana and the level of effectiveness of interaction between institutions are other factors. Apart from the World Bank, the current implementation partners are the IDB and the UNDP, and Conservation International is currently applying to become an additional implementation partner.
“Although there is serious concern about the impact of the delays, a number of stakeholders also commented that they believe the safeguard processes are important and necessary, particularly with regard to the financial safeguards. In addition, the use of intermediaries, such as the World Bank, may also have the benefit of ensuring the conditionality of a results- based payment approach, as they are not incentivised to disburse funds when the payment conditions are not met,” the report said. “On the other hand, the intermediary agency/ies should disburse funds as quickly and efficiently as possible when payment conditions are met, and at present the World Bank and other implementation partners are not incentivised to do so because their commission is not related to the efficiency or timeliness of disbursements,” it added.
The report said that in addition to the safeguard compliance process, respondents also suggested that some delays may be due to slow sign-off by the Guyana Ministry of Finance, and also the limited number of personnel available to develop “and a lack of a clear/transparent process for stakeholders to access” the project pipeline in the Guyanese Project Management Office.
There was also some confusion regarding the extent to which the expenditure approved by the GRIF Steering Committee would subsequently also go through a national parliamentary approval-by-voting process – apparently in an attempt to allow the Government of Guyana to report Norwegian funds as being part of their published national finances, the report said. It noted that this has given scope for opposition parties to vote against expenditure for the LCDS activities they feel have been politicised by the government.
The report said that there is increasing awareness among Guyanese stakeholders of the fact that Norway’s payments under the bilateral agreement are classified as being ODA. “Previously the payments were viewed by most stakeholders as being ‘earned income’, and there is a sense of puzzlement and disillusionment with the funding modality and institutional/administrative arrangements. With the benefit of hindsight, communication on this issue could have been better from the start of the partnership, and clearer communication may still be needed to address any remaining confusion and frustrations,” the report said.
According to NORAD, international non-governmental organisations could offer an alternative route for disbursing funding. The agency said that stakeholders commented that international NGOs, such as Conservation International or WWF, might be a good alternative route for disbursing funds as they have experience in working with communities, and their overall organisational objectives are aligned with the objectives of the Guyana-Norway partnership.
“An alternative view was that using such NGOs would be a backward step in terms of sovereignty and accountability, and that there would be a risk of such NGOs being compromised, become financially dependent on managing such funds, and be(come) unprepared to be critical of the Government,” the report said.
However, it is unlikely that a highly critical NGO would be appropriate either, and political neutrality may be a necessary characteristic for ensuring the efficient disbursement of funding, NOIRAD said. It noted that other alternatives suggested by stakeholders are a sovereign trust fund, direct bilateral disbursement from NORAD and individual payments to all citizens/voters in Guyana.
The agency noted that the development banks may be most appropriate fund managers for large capital projects, or projects where there is a high financial or fiduciary risk, and that other more flexible intermediaries, such as out-sourced disbursement agents or international NGOs, could disburse/ manage funding for smaller or less risky or NGO projects. “Another possibility is to have a revolving fund that is able to disburse small amounts of funding more quickly,” the report noted.
It observed that access to the project pipeline for the GRIF appears to be tightly controlled and most stakeholders did not know if or how they could propose projects for funding through the GRIF. In some cases government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency had ideas for interventions to reduce deforestation, or had limited resources for forest protection activities, but did not consider the GRIF as a possible source of funding.
“Other stakeholders commented that the first phase of projects was assumed to be restricted to government-nominated projects, and that the pipeline would be more open to proposals from other groups after that, e.g. with public calls for proposals. However, due to the slow disbursement of funding, five years after establishment this second phase has not yet been reached,” NORAD said.
It added that the restriction of access to the project pipeline may be justified by the fact that the amount of funding available is limited, and there are also high administrative costs associated with developing project proposals.
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There are many barriers to healthy eating at work, from a rushed or non-existent lunch break to that box of donuts staring at you in the break room. The reality is that healthy eating is just as important as remembering to take your acid reflux medication to reduce symptoms and manage your reflux.
The basics of healthy eating at work (and home) include eating small, frequent meals instead of a large meal. A small meal will place less stress on your stomach and decrease stomach discomfort, heartburn and bloating. It is also important to chew slowly and carefully so the food will digest well and you will avoid ingesting air, which can lead to burping or bloating. Avoiding foods that trigger symptoms will go a long way to reducing heartburn and discomfort too.
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- Make your own lunch so you can avoid high-calorie and high-fat foods that are typical lunch fare (fried food, gravy, sauces, salad dressing and rich desserts). Many adults with reflux report that high-fat and fried foods lead to digestive discomfort.
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Neil Smelser as a Sociologist of Synthesis
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, and Christine L. Williams
Future historians will write about Neil Smelser as an iconic figure in twentieth-century sociology's second half. Smelser has had an extraordinarily active career not only as a scholar but also as a teacher and organizational leader. Every participant in this volume has proudly been a "Smelser student" in one form or another. The distinction of these contributions speaks directly to Smelser's power as a teacher. His immensely impressive and varied performances as organizational leader are perhaps less well known, but they speak equally clearly of scholarly power exercised in a more political manner. His roles have included being advisor to a string of University of California chancellors and presidents; referee of the nation's most significant scientific training and funding programs, from the National Science Foundation to the departments of leading universities; organizer of the Handbook of Sociology and the new International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; and, most recently, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
In many respects, both Neil Smelser and the social sciences matured together in the second half of the last century. Smelser expanded his areas of research to include sociology, psychology, economics, and history at the same time that newly synthetic cross-disciplinary programs, area studies, and applied programs appeared. Through his work with commissions and foundations and as a spokesperson for the social sciences, he sought a greater public role for sociology and helped to foster the gradual infiltration of their findings and methods into other disciplines, practical settings, and popular culture. Smelser's early interest in comparative international studies anticipated their expansion, an increase in international collaboration, and greater awareness of globalization issues. His move from optimism about positivist approaches and functionalism in the 1950s to a more guarded optimism and plurivocality today has paralleled broader doubts within the academy and greater tolerance for other ways of knowing.
There is one fundamental respect, however, in which Smelser has broken with dominant trends. The last thirty years have been marked by increasing fragmentation and seemingly endless specialization. It has been an age of centrifugal conceptual forces and centripetal methodological rigor. These post-1960s scientific developments have unfolded against a background of ideological jeremiads, the continuous reference to social crisis, and alternations between elegies and eulogies to revolutionary social change. Through all this Smelser has continued to uphold generality and synthesis as worthy scientific goals. He has maintained his intellectual commitment to uniting divergent disciplinary perspectives, and even expanded significantly his own disciplinary reach. He has become ever more dedicated to bridging various conceptual and methodological divides. He has also maintained a quiet and impressive serenity about the continuing possibility for progressive social reform and democratic political change. He has kept his eye on the ball as well as on the ballpark, on what is enduring as well as what is new.
This book honors Smelser primarily as a man of ideas. It does so by exploring the sociological pathways that he has inspired others to take. In this brief introduction, we first make some general points about Smelser's intellectual career, highlighting what we take to be his most significant contributions. We conclude by returning to Smelser as a man and a teacher. It has been these human qualities, not only his intellectual ideas, that have inspired his students to move forward on our diverse paths of intellectual life.
Smelser the Scholar
Because he started so early and so fast, lasted so long, and matured so well, Neil Smelser has had an active life as theorist and researcher spanning almost fifty years at the time of this writing, and it shows no signs of slowing down. In 1962, at the age of thirty-two, he became editor of the American Sociological Review, the most influential editorial position in the discipline. Almost thirty-five years later, in 1996, he was elected president of the American Sociological Association, in recognition not only of his lifetime achievement but also of the influence, both scientific and organizational, that he had wielded over those decades.
Neil Smelser began his public life as a wunderkind. Having barely settled into Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 1952, he was tapped by Talcott Parsons, his Harvard mentor, to advise him about preparing for the Marshall Lectures at Cambridge. Parsons wanted to demonstrate that his newly developed AGIL theory could handle economics.1 However, he had stopped reading in that discipline before John Maynard Keynes's General Theory. Smelser was au courant with the Keynesian revolution and AGIL besides.
During their collaboration, it was actually Smelser, not Parsons, who suggested the scheme of double interchanges that allowed AGIL to be applied to social systems. This brilliant conceptual innovation formed the core of their jointly written book, Economy and Society (1956), which accomplished what its subtitle promised: an integration of economic and social theory. Along with Smelser's later work, especially The Sociology of Economic Life (1963), Economy and Society laid the foundations for the new field of economic sociology that has become central to the discipline today. It was only three years later that Smelser published the extraordinarily innovative and deeply researched book Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry (1959); and only three years after that, he brought out the equally pathbreaking Theory of Collective Behavior (1962).
While Smelser gained great distinction for this rush of early work, he also aroused great controversy. It was high noon for the functionalist paradigm. Smelser was its crown prince and its clear leader-in-waiting. His work was not only systematic, original, and erudite but also intellectually provocative and aggressive. It brimmed with great ambition and utter self-confidence, and it seemed to suggest that, with the emergence of action theory, the solution to sociology's struggles had arrived. Revealingly, the second chapter of Social Change in the Industrial Revolution was titled "Some Empty Boxes," and the chapter that followed was titled "Filling the Boxes." In Theory of Collective Behavior, Smelser began with the pronouncement that, "even though many thinkers in this field attempt to be objective," they had not succeeded. Because of their failure, "the language of the field . . . shrouds its very subject in indeterminacy." The aim of his study, he proclaimed, would be to "reduce this residue of indeterminacy" by "assembling a number of categories" so that "a kind of 'map' or 'flow chart'" could be constructed of the "paths along which social action moves." While he was strongly assertive, his goal appropriately was to reduce, not eliminate, the residue of indeterminacy.
The youthful Neil Smelser did, in fact, succeed in filling his boxes, forever broadening our view of the industrial revolution as a multidimensional social processñpolitical, economic, familial, cultural, and scientific, and very much contingent, all at the same time. He also managed to create an utterly new and fascinating conceptual social map, one that simultaneously separated and intertwined the different dimensions of collective behavior, social structure, and social movements in a value-added manner never before achieved. What he could not do, however, was assure the continuing sovereignty of functionalist theory. In the history of social science, much more than conceptual precision and explanatory power is involved. Every powerful approach tends to overreach and is partial and, to a degree, situationally conditioned.
Thirty years after his unabashed and triumphal entrance on the sociological scene, Neil Smelser penned a "concluding note" to his penetrating essay "The Psychoanalytic Mode of Inquiry." He warned his readers to be careful of their imperialist urge. Was he not looking back with rueful reflection on the grand ambitions and urgent polemics of those early years?
Whenever a truly novel and revolutionary method of generating new knowledge about the human condition is generatedñand the psychoanalytic method was one of thoseñthere emerges, as a concomitant tendency, something of an imperialist urge: to turn this method to the understanding of everything in the worldñits institutions, its peoples, its history, and its cultures. This happened to the Marxian approach (there is a Marxist explanation of everything), to the sociological approach generally (there is a sociology of everything), and to the psychoanalytic approach (there is a psychoanalytic interpretation of everything). (Smelser 1998c: 246)
In the halcyon days of the Parsonian revolution, there had always been a functionalist approach to everythingñthough few approaches, if any, could rival the power and insight generated by those developed by Smelser himself.
By the late 1960s, the functionalist approach had stalled. Attacked as ideologically conservative, accused of every imaginable scientific inadequacy, functionalism eventually lost its position of dominance. Yet Smelser's postfunctionalist career has also been an extraordinary one. He did not blame the enemies of functionalism for his tradition's weakening. Instead, he targeted the nature of Parsonian thinking itself. He engaged in implicit self-criticism. This required courage and maturity.
Smelser accused foundational functionalism of hubris, of overreaching conceptually and underreaching empirically. He dressed it down for being one-sided and polemical. After making those observations on the imperialism of every "truly novel and revolutionary method" that we noted above, Smelser continued with the suggestion that "it is always legitimate to ask about the relative explanatory power of the method in settings and circumstances in which it was not invented." Only on the basis of such further reflection is it possible to be objective about "what are the emergent strengths and weaknesses of the method" (Smelser 1998c: 246, italics added).
It was just such a commitment to the task of explanation, over and above the allegiance to any particular theory, that allowed Smelser not only to stay afloat but also to flourish after the functionalist ship sank. When Parsons published his first collection of articles, in 1949, he called them Essays in Sociological Theory. When, two decades later, Smelser published his own, he called them Essays in Sociological Explanation (1968). His ambitions were tied to the scientific goals of discipline, not to any particular approach.
In 1997, in his presidential address to the American Sociological Association, Smelser developed what has already become the most influential essay of his later career. In "The Rational and the Ambivalent in the Social Sciences," he developed an argument that exposed one-sided intellectual polemics as a simplistic defense against the ambivalence that marks human life. "Because ambivalence is such a powerful, persistent, unresolvable, volatile, generalizable, and anxiety-provoking feature of the human condition," Smelser suggested, "people defend against experiencing it in many ways." For intellectual life, the "most pernicious" of these defenses is splitting, which involves "transferring the positive side of the ambivalence into an unqualified love of one person or object, and the negative side into an unqualified hatred of another" (1998d: 176—77, original italics). Smelser went on to directly apply this critical observation to sociology itself. Admonishing his colleagues that, "in our search for application of the idea of ambivalence, we would do well to look in our own sociological backyard," he observed, "There is almost no facet of our existence as sociologists about which we do not show ambivalence and its derivative, dividing into groups or quasi-groups of advocacy and counteradvocacy" (1998d: 184).
In his third major historical-cum-theoretical monograph, Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century (1991), Smelser demonstrated how this advice generalized from the path that he had now chosen for himself. Rather than declaring all preceding theoretical boxes empty and announcing that he would now proceed to fill them in, his new approach made carefully circumscribed criticisms. It proposed a theoretical model based on reconciliation and synthesis. After reviewing Whiggish, functionalist, Marxist, and status-group approaches to the history of British working-class education, Smelser suggests that each must be "criticized as incomplete, limited, incapable of answering certain problems, and perhaps even incompatible with the others." The alternative, he writes, is "to develop a perspective that is synthetic," that "incorporates insights from approaches known to have usefulness" (1991: 16—18).
From his first, vivid entry into the field of intellectual combat, Neil Smelser exhibited one of the most lucid and coherent minds that ever set sociological pen to paper. As his career continued to develop, he revealed another distinctive capacity: he became one of the most incorporative and inclusive of thinkers as well. In fact, it has been Smelser's penchant for combining oppositesñthe acceptance of sociological ambivalence without fear or favorñthat has perhaps most distinctively marked his intellectual career. Here are some of the most important binaries that Smelser has successfully combined:
ï He is one of the most abstract of theorists, yet he became an acknowledged "area specialist" in British history.
ï He is a grand theorist, but he employed grand theory exclusively to develop explanations at the middle range.
ï He is a functionalist, but he devoted his theoretical and empirical attention almost entirely to conflict.
ï He is a liberal advocate of institutional flexibility, but he has written primarily about social paralysis and the blockages to social change (cf. Smelser 1974).
ï He is a psychoanalyst who has highlighted the role of affect, but his major contributions have attacked psychologistic theorizing and explained how to fold the emotional into more sociological levels of explanation (e.g., Smelser 1998b, 2002; Smelser and Wallerstein 1998).
ï He is a trained economist, but he has strenuously avoided economism, and he is a persistent student of economic life who has demonstrated how it is thoroughly imbedded in noneconomic institutions (Smelser 1968a).
ï He is a systems theorist who devoted his most recent historical monograph to exploring the unbending primordiality of class.
ï He is a close student of social values (e.g., Smelser 1998a) who rejects any possibility of purely cultural explanations.
ï He is a theorist of social structure who eschews any form of structural determinism (Smelser 1968c, 1997: 28—48).
ï He was a protégé of Talcott Parsons whom Parsons's sworn enemy, George Homans, publicly singled out for distinct praise.2
By avoiding the defense against ambivalence, Smelser demonstrated a remarkable ability to take the sword from the hands of those who would destroy him. He showed how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels could be viewed as conflict-oriented functionalist theorists (1973). He made the gendered division of family labor an independent variable in social change (1959, 1968b) decades before many feminist theorists made arguments along these same lines. He borrowed from Alexis de Tocqueville the idea of intransigent "estates" to explain that functional positions in the educational division of labor could be understood as status groups seeking the protection of their own power (1974). He used the idea of "truce situations," an idea that John Rex (1961) had introduced as the antithesis to functionalist consensus theory, to explain why the social differentiation, at the heart of functionalist change theory, developed in a back-and-forth, stuttering motion rather than a smooth and unfolding way. He explained how the differentiation between instrumental and expressive activities actually had been continued, not overturned, by the feminist revolution, and how this often corrosive process of social and cultural rationalization could explain the emergence of the new kinds of child-caring institutions and the increasingly difficult and negotiated character of socialization from childhood to adulthood (1998e).
Behind these specific and intellectual innovations, two overarching metathemes have animated Neil Smelser's contributions to sociology. First, there is the insistence that social reality must be parsed into relatively autonomous analytic levels that, in empirical terms, are concretely interconnected. As he wrote in his intriguing and continuously instructive Berlin lectures, Problematics of Sociology, "even though the micro, meso, macro, and global levels can be identified, it must be remembered that in any kind of social organization we can observe an interpenetration of these analytic levels" (1997: 29). There is every "reason to believe," he insisted, that all "levels of reality are analytically as important" as every other. Smelser's empirical and theoretical work consistently displays the deepest agnosticism about assigning causal apriority. His plurivocality is epistemological and insistent. He absolutely refuses to be absolute. He does not privilege any particular sector or level. Here lies the source of Smelser's famous theft from economic price theoryñthe notion that causality must be conceived as a "value-added" process (1962: 18—20). This apparently simple yet, in reality, quite subtle idea represents a seminal contribution to sociological thought. Social structure, beliefs, and emotions are all important, as is every level inside them. It seems fitting to incorporate this idea into the title for this honorary book.
Second, there is a deep sense that social structure can never, under any circumstances, be separated from the analysis of social process, from the study of social movement, from the flux and flummox of social change. Every book that Smelser has written, every article on social structure, every study of beliefs, and every discussion of emotions has been a study in the constructive and destructive crystallization of structures.
This double preoccupation with plurality and process, in the context of accepting ambivalence and ambiguity, led Smelser in his most recent historical monograph to a wonderfully sociological rendering of the British notion of "muddling through":
Like all such stereotypes, this one demands skepticism and a nonliteral reading. Nevertheless, it can be argued that if any sequence of social change manifested the principle of muddling through, the one I have studied in this volume is a good candidate. . . . Almost every proposal, whether ultimately successful or not, was accompanied by a series of disclaimers. These were that past good work in the area would not be dishonored; ongoing efforts would not be disturbed; what was being added would be no more than a helpful supplement to cover certain gaps; and the claims, rights, and sensibilities of interested parties would not be offended. . . . The aim was to squeeze limited increments of social change by and through them without disturbing them. [But] the results were often much more than proponents claimed in their modesty. And in the long run, the policy . . . revolutionized the educational system. The road to that end was marked, however, by a great deal of muddling through. (1991: 370, italics added)
Smelser writes here about the ultimate effects of what initially were intended to be modest proposals for reform. He might, in addition, be speaking about the cumulative effects of the flow of theoretical proposals he has generated in the latter part of his long scientific career. They, too, were accompanied by disclaimers and by the concern not to dishonor past good work. They, too, were launched in a manner designed to not overly disturb ongoing sociological efforts of other kinds, and were presented as helpful supplements rather than as unfriendly displacements. Indeed, Smelser did succeed in his effort not to offend the rights and sensibilities of other sociological parties. All the same, he challenged their claims, and in the long run his work has had, if not revolutionary, then certainly fundamental intellectual effects. Over the course of fifty years in the sociological trenches, he has muddled through in a remarkable and inspirational way.
Smelser the Teacher and Mentor
Few twentieth-century sociologists touched so many lives in so many positive ways as Neil Smelser. These include the lives of not only his immediate students and those who have learned from his voluminous writing but also those who have indirectly benefited from his role as a leading advocate for the social sciences and higher education.
These chapters by a small fraction of his students and colleagues are testament to his profound impact. Ernest Hemingway advised authors to show rather than to tell. This volume goes far in showing some of the intellectual and stylistic strengths that Neil passed on to his students. His intellectual legacy lies partly in his substantive contributions to diverse fields, such as British history, social change, collective behavior, higher education, the economy, and psychoanalysis, and partly in his exceptional leadership and service roles as a social science statesperson and representative.
His legacy also lies in the many lives he has touched through his teaching and cooperative scholarly endeavors. To many of us he demonstrated that the division between teaching and research was too sharply drawn. For the inspired instructor, teaching was a major vehicle for exploring ideas and exercising intellectual curiosity. It could be a kind of testing ground where ideas that would later appear in print were first put forth. Teaching was a means of coming to better terms with the contradictions in the world and within the social thought that sought to comprehend that world.
Teaching was also a way to communicate the love of ideas and appreciation of the rich intellectual heritage we were bequeathed. In his Social Theory 218 class, taken by most Berkeley graduate students over the more than three decades between 1958 and 1994, Neil communicated, as he continues to communicate, a sense of reverence for those giants of social and psychological thought who sought to understand the vast changes in culture, social organization, and personality associated with the development of the modern world. He showed us that we are not aloneñthat the social and ethical questions which assume such great importance today were wrestled with by the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century pioneers of the field. Yet his respect was tempered with critical analysis and the insight that every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. He honored our intellectual past without being stifled by it. Clearly there was lots of work left to be done, given new social conditions and the fallibility of any single approach considered against the richness of social reality.
Academic researchers are nourished by a rich network of inherited ideas initially obtained from those with whom we study. Under the best of conditions, our teachers go beyond offering substantive knowledge and methodological guidance to offering models for how to be in the world. We learn from our mentors directly, through the transmission of ideas, as well as indirectly, through observation. Those of us privileged to have been Neil's students and colleagues have been doubly blessed in this regard. We have benefited from his knowledge and intellect as expressed in his writings and lectures, from his incisive, but diplomatic and supportive, criticism of our work, and from his mentoring and guidance in how to be in the academic world.
In a world where many self-impressed academic egos could make Narcissus appear to have an inferiority complex and dwarf the sense of entitlement felt by the Pharaohs, Neil stands out by his support for and interest in others, his humility, and his low-key, friendly, western American manner. Perhaps the self-confidence that flows from unmatched career success and from good psychoanalysis partly accounts for this. But it also speaks to something more basic: he is simply a nice guy. And one who is also judicious, tolerant, conscientious, balanced, and fair. He sees that the big picture can be known only by looking at the many small pictures that make it up, and that our understanding of the latter is limited unless considered in light of broader, often interdependent factors.
The chapters in this volume are inspired by the authors' contact with the ideas and persona of Neil Smelser. Beyond their rich content, the work reflects some basic themes that Neil demonstrates and has passed on as a scholar and a human being. Like Neil, these chapters are intellectually diverse, crossing disciplines, methods, cultures, and time periods. They share Neil's emphasis on documenting the empirical and unique, not as ends in themselves, as with most journalists and historians, but as building blocks in the quest for more general and enduring (if not necessarily universal) statements about societies. Like Neil with his broad intellectual palette, the authors use a variety of methods (historical case studies, surveys, interviews, and simply thinking). Yet the starting point is always the question rather than the method. Unlike the strand of social inquiry that begins by asking which questions a preferred method can answer, the focus here is on which methods are needed to answer the question. Answers do not stand alone, and, as in Neil's work, in many of the chapters in this volume there is an effort to integrate diverse materials and methods.
Following Neil's model, most of the chapters deal with topics not easily quantified, such as historical change and subjectivity, yet they do so in a logical and systematic fashion. The authors draw upon the empirical to limit, justify, and extend the conceptual, while the conceptual brings some definition and order to the formless flow of the empirical. In some chapters there is attention to comparative international aspects, and in almost all of them the logic of comparative analysis can be found, even when the comparisons are between social forms rather than countries or cultures.
The chapters use theory as a compass more than as a fixed road map. While informed by the values and pressing issues of the day (e.g., change, equality, democracy, freedom, civil liberties, individuality, and citizenship), the chapters are balanced and scholarly. They put the pursuit of truth before the passion for change, without in any way denying the ubiquity and necessity of change in many areas. Indeed, as Neil's extensive efforts to advance national and international understanding of, and resources for, the social sciences make clear, purposive change not grounded in empirical fact and conceptual understanding is likely to fail, particularly in the long run.3 The basic commitment is to advancing knowledge about important social questions. If there is a dominant method, it is one called thoughtñto be judged by its scholarship, imagination, logical rigor, and empirical support.
Finally, while not lacking in argument or point of view, the articles, like Neil, are nondoctrinaire. They acknowledge complexity and the appropriateness of multiperspicacity. Many seek to go beyond being cross-disciplinary to being interdisciplinary and integrative.
Beyond sharing the abstract characteristic noted above, these articles are diverse in subject matter, method, and degree and kind of explicit theoretical argument. The coherence exists at a general level. This contrasts with many such volumes in which acolytes honor their mentor by exploring themes narrowly within the mentor's orbit. This again speaks to Neil's style, encouragement, and openness. He did not seek to build a school. His own independence and awareness of the variety of approaches appropriate to understanding a complex and changing world prevented this. There seems to be little of the often latent oedipal conflict found in many teacher-student situations. Rather, he was broadly supportive and encouraged us to follow our muse, guided by a quest for excellence and a willingness to work hard. Budding scholars worthy of the name (and the scholarly enterprise) are indeed well served when offered resources, support, and guidance to pursue their own interests, rather than being expected to add another plank to the building of their mentors.
Gary Marx, one of Neil's first Berkeley students, discussed the idea for a book such as this with Christine Williams, one of Neil's last students. Later, in planning for this volume, they learned that Jeff Alexander, a student at Berkeley during the middle years of Neil's career, was also planning such a volume, and we joined forces.
Neil's career has covered almost five decades, various locales (Cambridge, London, Berkeley, Palo Alto), and diverse academic, editorial, special-assignment, and service roles. In the language of football, Neil is a triple (or more) threat. These chapters are intended to reflect the research side. An appreciation of his contributions to teaching and his various public service roles is also in order.
Even restricting our emphasis to research alone, we have had to be more selective than we wished. Neil has taught numerous students, chaired more than fifty Ph.D. committees, and served as an outside member on many more. In editing this volume, we sought to make it broadly representative of the major areas Neil has worked in and of students across his career by including a sampling of his students who have themselves gone on to make significant contributions to knowledge. A few authors here are colleagues with whom he has worked particularly closelyñthey are his students in a less formal sense. Given the scope and scale of Neil's career, there are many other colleagues who could have contributed to this volume. We are sorry that resource constraints prevented our casting an even wider net.
Adams, Robert, Neil Smelser, and Donald Treiman. 1982. Behavioral and Social Science Research: A National Resource. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Gerstein, Dean, R. Duncan Luce, Neil Smelser, and Sonja Sperlich, eds. 1988. The Behavioral and Social Sciences: Achievements and Opportunities Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Homans, George C. 1964. "Bringing Men Back In." American Sociological Review 29 (6): 809—18.
Luce, R. Duncan, Neil Smelser, and Dean Gerstein, eds. 1989. Leading Edges in Social and Behavioral Science. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Parsons, Talcott, and Neil J. Smelser. 1956. Economy and Society: A Study of the Integration of Economic and Social Theory. New York: Free Press.
Rex, John. 1961. Key Problems of Sociological Theory. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Smelser, Neil J. 1959. Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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ñññ. 1963. The Sociology of Economic Life. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
ñññ. 1968a. "The Methodology of Comparative Analysis of Economic Activity." In Smelser, Essays in Sociological Explanation, pp. 62—75. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
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1. AGIL refers to the four "pattern variables" in Parsons's theory of social action. In particular, these are adaptation, goal attainment, integration, and pattern maintenance, later changed to latency.
2. From Homans (1964: 815):
My next contention is that even confessed functionalists, when they seriously try to explain certain kinds of social phenomena, in fact use non-functional explanations. . . . A particularly good example of this new development in functionalism is Neil Smelser's book, Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry, 1770—1840. The book is not just good for my purposes: it is good, very good, in itself. It provides an enormous amount of well organized information, and it goes far to explain the changes that occurred. The amusing thing about it is that the explanation Smelser actually uses, good scientist that he is, to account for the changes is not the functionalist theory he starts out with, which is as usual a non-theory, but a different kind of theory and a better one.
3. For examples, see Adams, Smelser, and Treiman 1982; Smelser and Gerstein 1986; Gerstein, Luce, Smelser, and Sperlich 1988; and Luce, Smelser, and Gerstein 1989. | <urn:uuid:ead59e88-ecc9-4dbc-9670-20e9a1c07f3c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520241374 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00281-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956094 | 7,359 | 1.554688 | 2 |
07 August 2012
South Australian Museum Scientist Dr Mark Stevens is describing a new species of springtail – the largest known land animal living on continental Antarctica all year round.
It's the first new species of springtail to be found in the Transantarctic Mountains for nearly 50 years and the first to be found on continental Antarctica for 34 years.
Dr Stevens has collaborated with Dr Ian Hogg from New Zealand who collected the specimen on a field trip to the Mountains over summer.
"At 84 degrees south, this region was known to have three species of springtail and they were described in the '60s. Now we've started to look at the morphology of the animal and it is very different to the others. So now we're describing the first new species in over 40 years from this region of Antarctica and it's very exciting," says Dr Stevens.
At one to two millimetres long, springtails are tiny, but considered the "megafauna" of Antarctica.
Dr Stevens is no stranger to taking on the world's harshest conditions and has been studying the Antarctic ecosystem with Dr Ian Hogg since 1998.
They are surveying the biodiversity of the Transantarctic mountains and the Australian East Antarctic Territory to understand what life exists on the icy plains and why.
Until quite recently, biologists thought that most of the life found on Antarctica arrived on the continent within the last few thousand years. But the DNA of soil organisms now shows that some of them have been around a lot longer. In fact, scientists think they've been there since Antarctica broke away from the ancient super continent Gondwana about 135 million years ago.
"They used to be classed as insects but now they have a class of their own – Collembola. They're a springtail because of the little spring organ that sits on the underside of the abdomen so when they're surprised or they just want to move from one spot to another, that releases and they spring off," says Dr Stevens.
"Collembola have a spring organ, six legs and segmented bodies. They also have a ventral tube which is one of the key characteristics. It helps them stick to surfaces and it can secrete a fluid which then goes up a central line to the mouth. This potentially enables them to rehydrate their bodies and cope with dry habitats like cold polar deserts."
The team are using sophisticated DNA technology to explore Antarctica's biodiversity. Rather than collecting the tiny animals from the ground by hand, they take soil so that they can extract DNA from it later, back in the lab. The scientists use satellite imagery in a GIS-platform, dividing the ice-free terrain into tiles to work out where to take samples from.
The method is already showing positive results.
"We have found more diversity than previously recognised and the methods are revealing insights into why life exists in some locations and not others. Also, we have been exploring the links between isolated pockets of land and found that several species thought to be cosmopolitan are not, and vice versa," he says.
"Identification of true levels of biodiversity will answer important questions such as 'what is there?' and 'how is it different?' This is important for managing specially protected regions, but also acts as a baseline so that we can detect introductions (if we didn't know what was there in the first place, we wouldn't know if it's introduced or not), and also to track biotic changes with climate - past and future."
Surviving in Antarctica
The wind chill can take the temperature down to -60ºC, so Dr Stevens and his crew have had to become survival experts on the icy continent.
"You've got jackets and footwear and everything that protects you from the cold, wind and also the sun. You're there in 24 hours' daylight, so protection from getting not only burns from the wind and the cold but also sunburn and with a lack of ozone layer, you really have to protect yourself."
They sleep in pyramid-shaped tents, which protect them from the wind, and eat dehydrated, frozen or semi-dried foods that have been prepared back home. Although supplies are better than those available for early explorers such as Sir Douglas Mawson, Dr Stevens says conditions are still harsh.
"You lose a fair bit of weight, especially after walking about 20 kilometres during the day. You use up a fair bit of energy. One season I lost about 11kg across two and a half months, just walking around but still eating really high energy foods, but you just use it up."
Getting to Antarctica is an expensive journey and sometimes conditions are too perilous for scientists to stay there. The team has to pay close attention to the weather and make sure they have everything they need to survive the freezing adventure.
About Dr Stevens' work
Based at the South Australian Museum's Science Centre (off Kintore Avenue, Adelaide), Dr Stevens' research has a strong focus on Collembola invertebrates, but also Crustacea and Hymenoptera. Dr Stevens works regularly on species groups in the southern hemisphere and studies in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands.
He was the first scientist to investigate the correlations between molecular dating, geological and glaciological hypotheses for continental Collembola. This work revealed a collembolan fauna that was likely to have been present on the Antarctic continent as it became glaciated and have remained there since.
At the South Australian Museum
Members of the public can see items collected from early explorers as part of the Australian Polar Collection. The collections on display from expeditions by Sir Douglas Mawson (1852–1958) and John Riddoch Rymill (1934–1937) include animal specimens, maps, survival equipment, papers and photographs. At more than 100,000 items, this collection boasts the largest number of artefacts from Sir Douglas Mawson in the world. The enviable display has attracted worldwide attention and allows visitors a hands-on experience of the explorer's adventures and scientific expertise. | <urn:uuid:de429bcd-ca9b-47c9-805e-2fc2f6e8fc7e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/media/unlocked/new-species-found-in-worlds-harshest-continent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725470.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00075-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964654 | 1,241 | 3.8125 | 4 |
|A hydraulic dredge filled with surf clams being hauled on board (N.Stolpe photo)|
- This is a means of harvesting bivalved shellfish from the
sand in which they are buried. This technique is employed in Mid-Atlantic
and New England waters where bottom conditions will permit it to harvest
surf clams and ocean quohogs.
The dredge, a large steel construction, is dragged along the bottom by the clam boat. A large pump on the boat pumps sea water through a large hose to a manifold on the front of the dredge. The manifold jets the water into the sand, temporarily fluidizing it and allowing the dredge to pass through. Due to the carefully set spacing of the bars making up the body of the dredge most of the smaller claams and other organisms pass through, the larger clams being retained.
While the impact of hydraulic dredges on the bottom at first glance seems severe, the mechanical restrictions that the gear imposes - hose length, pumping pressure, etc. - limits their use to shallow water. The sandy bottom environments in these areas are normally exposed to far greater perturbations during winter storms and take such disturbances in stride.
The surf clam/ocean quohog fishery was one of the first in the United States to be managed by individual transferable quotas (ITQs). The right to catch a certain number of clams each year is given to each member of the fishery depending on his prior performance in the fishery. Individuals who own rights to harvest these clams may sell or lease these rights to others.
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10 Ways to Save Money Grocery Shopping
1. Make a List: Making a list before leaving home, will help you on impulse items as well as the number of times you have to leave to go to the store. The more times a week, you have to go shopping, the more impulse buys you may make. So if you can cut down the number of times you are entering the store, the less money you will spend in a month. Print your grocery list
2.Go Shopping on a Full Stomach. Make sure you don’t go into the grocery store hungry. This one is a big one for myself, If I go into the store hungry, I generally will come out with a lot more processed junk, then I would of before. Everything looks “yummy” when your starving, and it won’t hit you in the fruit isle either.
3. Know some of your basic pricing. You should know where the cheapest price is to buy at least the staples in your house: Milk, bread, eggs, butter, meat per lb. The more pricing you can remember or start to write them down, If you struggle with knowing your pricing Check out our Newest CFS Tool : Virtual Grocery Price Book . This tool can also help with prices of items you don’t usually buy, perhaps its for a new recipe, or a new product you just heard about, and you want to know what approximately it will cost.
4. Know Your Store: If you know your store’s layout, You will know where they keep the clearance items, or where their on sale stuff is. Example In My walmart in the beauty section, their clearance stuff is on the back shelf near the Pharmacy. Today I bought 18 +14 Stayfree pads in a box for $3.47. I found it on the clearance rack, and today I noticed they are putting clearance stickers on some of the items through out the beauty section, I didn’t need any of it, but I now to keep an eye out on that section over all. Also in my walmart, they set up blue shelving in the middle of the bread Isle for the bread that’s going to expire. Get to know these things. Don’t be scared to look either. I’ve bought sour dough bread for $1.00 before on the rack, and had 2 days left to expire, just in time for me to make some spinach dip.
5. Pick up your Flyers. If you have the time, Grab all the stores flyers, and go through them all and decide what you would like to buy. This doesn’t mean you have to visit each store, and buy from each, but you certainly can do that, depending on where you live. For myself I live in a smaller community and the 3 main stores I go to our within a 2 block radius of each other, So I typically will do all three if I have the time. But you can go to Walmart and do a PRICE MATCH. I also know that NO Frills will do a Price Match. But the item must be identical to get this done. And just to let you know, It does annoy the cashier, and can annoy the customers waiting behind you. So it really depends on your personality.
6. Optimizing your points – If you have an airmiles points card, and Safeway has a good deal on some products, Make sure you physically go and buy those good deals from Safeway. But only buy those items. Same with Shoppers drug Mart. These Points programs are designed to lure you in the store, and they are hoping you do all your shopping with them based on their points. But when you start only shopping for points, is when you find your grocery bill getting higher. I love 20X points events at Shoppers Drug Mart, and do them when I can, but other wise, I try very hard to only buy what I need or what I want when shoppers has it on sale, and I try to hold out till there’s a 20X event. Sign up for their newsletters, so you can get a heads up of when there’s an event coming up.
7. Buy Extra Only when there is a Really Good Deal. Most stores have a 3 month cycle. This means generally the same Item will appear again at that price again in 3 months. So If you find a case lot sale on Campbells soup that works out to $0.50 a can or less, buy enough to last your self 3 months.
8. Watch Expiry Dates: Don’t go and buy 6 bottles of Ranch salad dressing, when you only use it once a week, because it was a good deal, because every food item has a best before date. This also includes Vitamins, Tylenol Etc. You should be careful of expiry dates, Cause this could mean your savings will be thrown out with the trash, and then that deal has costed you money.
9. Bring your own Bags: Be enviormentally Cautious and save a few cents every grocery trip. Many stores are now charging $0.05 per bag. ( In my area) , but those nickles can add up to a quarter every grocery trip you make. That can easily add up to $1.00 or more per month.
10. Use Coupons: I say this last, because it’s not for everyone. I’m not talking Extreme Couponing here, with giant stock piles of tooth paste, I’m simply talking about getting coupons on Items you use. . If you want to start finding coupons. Here’s 10 Ways to Get Coupons Article.
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Preventing and Recovering from RSI
Why Breaks Are So Important
By now, most computer users have heard that they need to take regular breaks to help prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI). There are many reasons why regular breaks are important; here are just a few.
OVERUSE LEADS TO MICROTRAUMA IN THE SOFT TISSUES
Sustained repetitive computer work fatigues the tiny muscles of the hand and forearm. Overuse can lead to micro-tears in the soft tissues, which can become swollen and painful. Swelling, in turn, can lead to pressure on the nerves, and conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
Breaks and rest allow the body to repair itself; continued work perpetuates the damage. The longer the activity continues, the longer the recovery period is required and the greater the risk of chronic disorder.***
TENDON SHEATH INFLAMMATION
Repetitive movements can also damage tendons. When muscles and/or tendons are frequently tense, inflammation can result. Further strain can lead to tears in the tendons. If adequate rest is not taken, the tendon fibers cannot heal, and may be permanently weakened.***
Tendons glide within sheaths lubricated by synovial fluid. If this fluid is diminished or thickened from overuse or prolonged static postures, friction between the tendon and sheath can result. The sheath becomes swollen and inflamed, leading to pain. Repeated forced movement may cause the inflammation of additional tissues, which can lead to permanently swollen tendon sheaths.**
CIRCULATION IS IMPAIRED BY PROLONGED SITTING
When you sit in static postures, circulation can be impeded. When the blood flow to an active muscle is impaired, waste products accumulate and the oxygen supply is diminished, which can over time impair muscle function. The development of fatigue is probably related to the adequacy of blood supply.*
This tendency can be offset by getting up and walking around regularly during breaks.
COMPUTER WORK DISTORTS AWARENESS OF TIME
Most people do not take breaks frequently enough, nor do they have an accurate idea of how much time has passed since they began working. They need timed reminders to be sure they take regular breaks.
For people with RSI, taking breaks before symptoms appear is especially critical. If you wait until you're in pain, it's too late, because the cycle of pain, inflammation and injury has already resumed.
* "Physiologic and Biomechanical Factors for Understanding Repetitive Motions Injuries," David M. Kiser, Ph.D., Seminars in Occupational Medicine, March 1987
** "Avoiding Cumulative Trauma Disorders in Shops and Offices," K.H.E. Kroemer, American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, September 1992
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The view through a telescope is especially intriguing because of the irregularity of Plato's rim, as shown dramatically by variations in lengths of shadows cast onto its floor. According to old measurements reported in Thomas Gwyn Elger's 1895 book, The Moon, three peaks on the eastern rim rise 1.5, 1.8, and 2.1 kilometers above the floor. On the western rim an obvious, large triangular massif is partially disconnected from the crater rim. This 15-km-long block, and another one farther north, resulted from giant landslides, where segments of the rim slid slightly inward, creating a scallop — a bite out of the circular rim. Variations in rim height and width may thus be due to slumping, but the height differences on Plato's east rim must be of older, unknown origins.
One Plato mystery with a simple solution is its lack of a central peak. Compared to other craters of similar size, Plato should have a 2.2-km-high mountain rising from its floor. However, since Plato is filled with a 2.6-km layer of lava, the peak is buried.For more than 100 years the floor of Plato has been the focus of intense quasi-scientific debate over suspected lunar changes. Three types of observations caused controversy: detection of small craters on Plato's floor, variation in floor darkness with changing Sun angles, and obscurations of the floor itself. Because the floor possesses a few small impact craters near the limit of visibility with small telescopes, there have been unofficial contests to detect the largest number of craters. Harvard astronomy professor W.H. Pickering apparently won in 1892 by announcing his mapping of 71 spots on Plato's floor. Comparison of hand-drawn maps with high-resolution photographs obtained by the Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft in 1967 demonstrates that the observers did detect the four largest craters, and some of the smaller ones, but their estimates of sizes, locations, and numbers were often seriously in error.
Craterlets were not the only source of controversial observations. According to Elger, "The gradual darkening of the floor of Plato as the sun's altitude increases from 20° till after full moon may be regarded as an established fact, though no feasible hypothesis has been advanced to account for it." Actually, just the opposite is true, according to measurements of the floor's brightness by sensitive photometers mounted on large telescopes. Like the rest of the Moon, Plato's floor brightens until near full, when it rapidly gets much brighter, and then darkens after full Moon.
The third of Plato's controversies concerns reports that the dark floor is occasionally obscured by mists or clouds. Most of the observations were made during the last century; Walter Goodacre's 1931 book, also called The Moon, mentions that there are "a number of well authenticated cases." Descriptions include a fog that cleared as the Sun rose, a "curious luminous milky kind of light," and a nondescript lack of detail. Another 19th-century observer found that the floor was covered by myriad points of light, "as if reflected from flocculent clouds lying near the surface."
In contrast with these visual observations, in none of the many photographs taken by space probes or by large telescopes have there been obscurations of Plato's floor. Perhaps, like UFO's, only believers see them. | <urn:uuid:775ebd3e-3aa7-467b-8f36-ae3d40c0ba4b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/the-mysteries-of-plato/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962416 | 688 | 4.34375 | 4 |
The European Commission yesterday (23 January) unveiled a package of draft laws which, if approved by member states, will lead to major energy and industrial realignments in the European Union. The package, intended to put the EU on a path to achieve its aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 from 1990 levels, will shape industrial policy in Europe for decades.
Despite last-minute changes to make the package more palatable for industry, the Commission’s proposals are still ambitious enough to put the EU on course to reach its targets.
The keyword of this package, ‘burden’, has been fairly spread. Under the Commission’s proposal, richer countries will carry the burden for cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) more than poorer ones. Industry will feel the heat of a reformed Emissions Trading Scheme, under which carbon permits will mostly be auctioned and not offered for free, as they are now. There will be a price for consumers to pay too, as the new measures are likely to increase electricity prices. If member states protect the poor and the vulnerable, higher electricity prices are good, as they are likely to prompt people to save energy and encourage the industry to invest in energy-efficient products.
The move to auction carbon permits is a welcome change. A tight cap on greenhouse gas emissions coupled with the auctioning of emission permits should ensure a high price for carbon. This, in exchange, will influence investment decisions and is likely to orient businesses towards investing in low carbon equipment and production cycles and renewable energy forms. A large part of the money obtained through auctioning emission permits should be spent on funding renewable energy projects, which will, in a first phase, need massive investment.
The main concern of manufacturing industries is that, by obliging them to adhere to strict measures to reduce pollution, while their foreign competitors are not bound by such requirements, the new laws would dramatically affect their ability to compete.
It is a fair worry. Unless companies outside the EU obey the same conditions, the proposed measures could lead to mass relocation of industries outside Europe, leakage of jobs – and of carbon – to other parts of the world, where the industry is still free to pollute. The impact is likely to be felt most painfully by energy-intensive industries. Therefore some transitory protection for such industries in the first years of the revised Emission Trading Scheme, although not ideal, is acceptable.
But the fact that unilateral measures to mitigate climate change will harm the competitiveness of Europe’s business is no good reason for the EU to shy away from confronting global warming.
The EU cannot afford not to make this first step in the fight against climate change. Being in the front line may be a short-term cost for the industry (according to the Commission’s calculations the cost of its proposals amounts to around 0.5% of member states’ gross domestic product), but it is certainly a long-term investment for businesses and for society.
EU industry will reap the benefits, perhaps later, of being a pioneer in adapting to a lower carbon economy. The Commission’s package will push industry to invest and develop low-carbon products and services. And while renewable energies are seen by many sceptics as extravagantly expensive, they are only pricey in comparison to cheap oil – and not to oil above the $100 a barrel mark, with reserves depleting.
The Commission’s package is a good – though insufficient – start if the EU is to cut its CO2 emissions to the necessary levels.
Member states should use additional instruments, including taxes, to achieve a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. National governments should consider using tax-breaks to promote the development and use of energy-efficient products, while the EU could contemplate cutting import duties for such products.
In the longer term, the fight against climate change must be fought at international level and the United Nations and the World Trade Organization (WTO) must adapt their rules to include it in their philosophies. This would open the way for a global carbon tax, which would be the best and fairest way to fight against climate change. Attitudes on global warming are bound to evolve in other parts of the world. The next president of the United States will pay more attention to climate change than George W. Bush does. China’s leaders are becoming increasingly aware that their country’s economic development will be hampered by the effects of climate change and environmental disasters, sooner or later. Chinese officials are requesting advice from Europe on how to include environmental concerns in their development plans.
Rich and developing countries will eventually embrace the fight against climate change and the sooner the EU makes the first step, the faster this is likely to happen. | <urn:uuid:9f814861-199a-4f4b-8e3d-7d5a59ed2385> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.politico.eu/article/carbon-cuts-buy-now-or-pay-much-more-later/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00559-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955142 | 958 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Vinyl plotter cutters produce designs made by a computer software application. After a design is created on the computer, it is broken down into vector fields and then sent to the machine to be precisely cut. Vinyl plotter cutters can create large signs, car graphics or several small vinyl graphics. Operating a vinyl plotter cutter may vary according to the cutter model; however, the basic operation steps are universal.
- Skill level:
- Moderately Easy
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Things you need
- USB/Serial cable
- Vinyl material sheet
Connect the computer to the vinyl plotter cutter. Depending on the make and model of the cutter, this process may vary, but it typically involves connecting the two units through a USB cord or provided serial cable. The owner's manual for the plotter will outline information on how to connect the computer to the machine.
Locate the tension rollers on the plotter. The exact location may vary according to plotter model, but tension rollers are typically found on the top rail. Release the rollers by releasing the locking mechanism.
Position the side gauge so it is at least 1-inch wider than the width of the vinyl sheet you'll be using.
Load the vinyl material sheet into the loading dock. Feed the material so it rests underneath the top rail and stop when 3-inches of the material protrude on the other side of the cutter.
Move the side gauge so it gently touches the edge of the vinyl sheet. This will ensure the vinyl is properly fed to the cutter.
Secure the tension rollers along the surface of the vinyl sheet. To do this, you will typically slide the tension rollers along the top rail. Make sure these rollers are evenly spaced. Lock the rollers into position by pushing on the locking mechanism.
Alter the blade pressure based on the thickness of the vinyl sheet. Depending on the model, this is done by rotating the blade pressure knobs on the side of the machine or through the control panel. If you have a more advanced plotter, the blade pressure may be automatically adjusted before cutting begins. Refer to your owner's manual to determine how to adjust the blade pressure.
Send the image file from the computer to the cutter. This process will vary according to the plotter cutter software program you have installed. After the file is sent, the cutter will perform self-diagnostic procedures to ensure the image is properly cut into the vinyl. Once completed, the plotter will begin cutting the image.
Press the "Trim" button on the plotter cutter once it has completed. This button may also be known as "Cut" or "Remove."
Tips and warnings
- Thoroughly read the owner's manual for the vinyl plotter cutter before use to ensure you perform the proper set-up steps.
- Never begin cutting an image without first setting the blade pressure as this could result in an image not being fully cut out of the vinyl.
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Aranda, Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, conde de (pā`thrō pä`blō äbär`kä tha bōlā`ä kōn`dā thā ärän`dä), 1718–98, Spanish statesman. He distinguished himself at first as a military commander, serving as director-general of artillery and captain general of Valencia and later of Aragón. His aristocratic background and advocacy of enlightened despotism made him ideally suited to play a reforming role in the administration of Charles III. In 1766 he became president of the council of Castile, a position he held with considerable distinction until 1773 when he was dismissed because of his failure to hold the Falkland Islands for Spain. Ambassador to France (1773–87), he was one of the signatories to the Treaty of Paris (1783), which recognized the independence of the United States. Under Charles IV he served briefly as foreign minister (1792), but fell into disfavor because of disapproval of war with France following the French invasion of Spain in 1794. He was one of the main luminaries of the Spanish Enlightenment. | <urn:uuid:93153a0c-1935-452a-a962-05e19f173ee1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Aranda%2C+Pedro+Pablo+Abarca+de+Bolea%2C+conde+de | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956461 | 248 | 2.90625 | 3 |
If being environmentally conscious is your concern, there are several options available to you. There are leashes made from hemp, recycled plastic, and even bamboo. There is a lot of selection available that you can choose from that doesn’t harm cows (like leather). If you are solely anti-animal cruelty, a regular non-leather leash at any store that sells pet products would be a good choice. The website below has a full online store of eco-friendly dog products.
A harness is a better alternative to use over a leash. It does not harm the dog like a leash does. At any pet store you will find harnesses (not made of leather) that will fit any sized dog.
Definately, a harness! You can buy these at any pet store like the previous answer stated in many styles, fabrics, and sizes. If you want to be animal-friendly don’t go with the leather option, go with a simple canvas or cloth one. Besides, these are softer materials that are easier to wash and maintain. Check out earthdoggy.com. They have a great selection for eco-friendly dog items for decent prices. Plus, they have a wide variety of choices to suit every dog and owner 🙂
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Tachycardia is a heart rate that's too fast. Tachycardia is often defined as a heart rate that's more than 100 beats per minute in adults.
The target heart rate is your ideal heart rate, or pulse, during physical activity. Your target heart rate is within 50 to 85 percent of the maximum heart rate, which is the highest heart rate you should have during exercise. Determine your maximum heart rate by subtracting your age from 220. You can monitor your heart rate periodically during exercise by checking your pulse are the wrists, the inside of your elbow, the side of your neck and the top of the foot. To get the most accurate reading, put your finger over your pulse and count the number of beats in 60 seconds.
Tetralogy of Fallot is a complex heart defect in which blood pumped to the body is lacking in oxygen, sometimes resulting in the skin taking a blue tone. There are four components to the condition involving various parts of the heart. People are born with this condition, or develop it soon after birth. Most children diagnosed with this condition have open-heart surgery before school age. Some infants with tetralogy of Fallot may need an operation to allow for increased circulation of oxygenated blood. Lifelong medical follow-up is needed.
Therapeutic hypothermia is a medical treatment that intentionally lowers the body temperature to protect the body following a period of insufficient blood flow due to such events as a cardiac arrest, embolism or stroke. Studies have shown that therapeutic hypothermia can improve survival as well as neurological function.
A thoracic aortic aneurysm is an abnormal bulging or ballooning of the portion of the aorta the passes through the chest.
Thrombolysis is the breaking up of a blood clot.
Thrombosis is the formation or presence of a blood clot inside a blood vessel or chamber of the heart.
Thrombus is a blood clot that forms inside a blood vessel or chamber of the heart.
If you often feel faint or lightheaded, your doctor may use a tilt-table test to find out why. During the test, you lie on a table that is slowly tilted upward. The test measures how your blood pressure and heart rate respond to the force of gravity. A nurse or technician keeps track of your blood pressure and your heart rate (pulse) to see how they change during the test.
When liquid vegetable oil undergoes a chemical process called hydrogenation to create a solid, trans fat is formed. Trans fat is sometimes used in processed foods to prolong shelf life and to give food a desirable taste and texture. Research suggests that consuming trans fat can raise LDL (bad) cholesterol and lower HDL (good) cholesterol.
Tricuspid regurgitation is leakage of blood backwards through the tricuspid valve each time the right ventricle contracts.
Tricuspid stenosis is a narrowing of the tricuspid valve opening. Tricuspid stenosis restricts blood flow between the upper and lower part of the right side of the heart, or from the right atrium to the right ventricle.
Triglycerides are the chemical form in which most fat exists in food as well as in the body. They circulate in the blood plasma and, in association with cholesterol, form the plasma lipids. Triglycerides come from fats eaten in foods or made in the body from other energy sources like carbohydrates. Calories eaten that are not used immediately by tissues, are then converted to triglycerides and transported to fat cells to be stored and used by the body as an energy source between meals. Hormones regulate the release of triglycerides from fat tissue so they meet the body's needs for energy. | <urn:uuid:ba1b7991-f911-4934-8f89-0b3ce912e3ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Encyclopedia/Heart-Encyclopedia_UCM_445084_Encyclopedia.jsp?levelSelected=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936826 | 771 | 3.265625 | 3 |
ISO 7439:2010 specifies requirements and tests for single-use, copper-bearing contraceptive intrauterine devices (IUDs) and their insertion instruments. (Some aspects can be applicable to medicated intrauterine devices and IUDs not containing copper.)
It is not applicable to IUDs consisting only of a plastics body or whose primary purpose is to release progestogens.
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2022-2023 School Year
Before and After School Programs
Returning to Form
After another unpredictable year, we look ahead to the new school year from an optimistic perspective. As safety protocols relax and we revert to our traditional routines, we’re excited to continue doing what we do best – creating an accessible, reliable, enriching community for kids and families to thrive beyond the school day; making sure AYS feels like home, for everyone.
Beginning in the 2022-2023 school year, AYS will be moving to a single pricing model for all before and after school programs. For a deeper explanation of this decision, please click here.
Weekly Price Per Child
|Before + After||$30||$45||$85|
|Before, After, or|
Before + After
Enrollment fee is $35 per child and is non-refundable.
Discounts: Faculty (see Locations page), Military (15%),
Multi-Child for 3+ children (10%), and Full Semester (7%).
Must be enrolled three business days in advance of first day.
We recognize that even small pricing changes may create hardship for some of our families – and we’re here to help. If you are concerned about your family’s cost increase and your ability to continue to participate in AYS, please don’t let that stop you from enrolling. Our financial assistance application is built directly into the enrollment process. It’s a quick and easy path that allows us to create an affordable solution for you in partnership with the Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning and AYS’ own Ellen Clippinger Fund. We are dedicated to serving all children and families, and will work with you to ensure you are able to enroll in our program. Please use our Financial Assistance Calculator below to determine your estimated weekly pricing.
What We Provide
- Active play
- Healthy snacks
- Homework support
- Hands-on projects
- Enrichment activities
Our Focus Areas
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
- SEL (Social & Emotional Learning)
Student Program Goals
- Make new friends
- Learn through active and engaging experiences
- Increase physical fitness
- Have fun in a safe and healthy environment
Before and After School Schedule
(Varies by Site)
✔ AYS staff welcomes students to program and records attendance
✔ Connect with peers, play, relax, and shift gears from school to AYS
✔ Eat healthy snacks and spend time setting goals, engaging in
group discussions, and building relationships in small groups
✔ Work on homework or reading with the help of staff
✔ Engage in robust enrichment activities by age groups
✔ Play outdoors or in the gym with varied physical activities
✔ Fridays: Boost learning with high-quality academic stations
AYS hires individuals who have experience and a passion for kids. All AYS staff members go through a drug test, TB test, and several criminal background checks. Staff has also been trained in health and safety protocols related the COVID-19 crisis. AYS staff members also receive training in First Aid, CPR, child development, conflict resolution, team building, and overall safety to ensure that your child has a great experience.
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Consumption of Cigarettes and Combustible Tobacco—United States, 2000–2011
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August 3, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. 30
CDC used data from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to calculate consumption for cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, pipe tobacco and cigars for 2000 to 2011. Over this period, total consumption of all combustible tobacco declined by 27.5%. However, while consumption of cigarettes declined by 32.8%, consumption of non-cigarette combustible tobacco increase by 123%. The largest increases were in pipe tobacco (482%) and large cigars (233%). Thus, overall combustible tobacco consumption decreased, but not as much as cigarette consumption; while consumption of non-cigarette combustibles doubled. Other studies show that among youth and young adults, cigar use and simultaneous use of multiple tobacco products is even higher.
Recent analyses of excise tax data reveal that the tobacco industry is adapting the marketing and production of cigar and roll-your-own tobacco products to minimize federal excise tax and thus reduce the price of these products compared with cigarettes. In addition, cigars and pipe tobacco are exempt from Food and Drug Administration restrictions on flavorings and descriptors such as "light" and "low tar."
The availability of low-priced and less-regulated alternative products to smokers who might have otherwise quit smoking has diminished the public health impact that excise tax increases and uniform regulation might otherwise have had on preventing youth initiation, reducing consumption, and prompting quit attempts. In addition, the increase in cigar and pipe tobacco use is a particular public health concern, as all tobacco smoke causes cancer, heart disease, and lung disease.
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by Joan Shivarpita Harrigan
Seekers, mystics, sages and saints—they all tell tales of exceptional human experience. From the first stirrings of energy flowing or tingling within to the presence of special intuitive or sensory abilities to profound aware stillness or elevated states of spiritual rapture, individuals of all cultures, eras, and religious affiliations (or none) have reported non-ordinary inner phenomena of the wondrous kind.
These varied wonders, subtle though they may sometimes be, are signs that a person is actively engaged in a journey of spiritual unfoldment. Going through uncommon experiences such as these is a natural and holy occurrence in the evolution of a soul, indicating that the deep quest for spiritual fulfillment is well underway. However, in a scientifically oriented culture, unusual experiences do not easily fit into the reigning paradigm of material reality, so they are often hidden or repressed by the alarmed seeker, who may fear being ridiculed or even pathologized.
Ancient spiritual texts from throughout the world differentiate these sacred signs from symptoms that indicate actual mental illness, and they offer reassurance and guidance to the beleaguered seeker, confirming that these are not indicators of maladjustment but gifts of the spirit. Such gifts set a person upon a path less taken, namely, the path of the seeker who yearns for the Truth. Urging and guiding them on this journey inward is their own inner spiritual guide, known in Indian philosophy as Kundalini Shakti and otherwise called the Holy Spirit, Mother Divine, or many other sacred names.
With the exception of those who know kundalini as a particular style of yoga or a kind of subtle energy work, the topic of kundalini in the popular media, if it is found at all, is rife with misconceptions. This results in it usually being defined as a wild or exotic energy that can suddenly come forth at any moment. Seekers are warned to avoid anything that might awaken the sleeping dragon that could unleash the intense and debilitating problems of a spiritual emergency. On the opposite side of the interpretive field are those who hail the awakening of this latent energy by the mere touch of a skilled initiator, thereby instantly releasing wellness, talent, bliss, and enlightenment. Still others think that kundalini has something to do with sex or the devil. Others yet see it is as an exclusive path for a special kind of skilled yogi. All of these misconceptions share a dramatic bent, and, as usual, the truth is much less spectacular—but exquisitely beautiful.
According to the study of this profound topic in the Vedic teachings of India, Kundalini Shakti is not just energy, its experience can be quite subtle, and everybody has it (active or contained). It is the grand potential and transformative helpmate at the heart of every human soul. When active, it leads the seeker through their inner tangled maze of accumulated karmic blocks and entrenched predilections to the sacred Source itself, liberating them from limited identification with the lower constructs of body, energy, and mind to direct experience of their true essential nature, the One and All. This journey is seldom a quick one, and it requires the combined skilled effort of both seeker and Shakti, the Devine.
The ancient spiritual science of Kundalini Vidya describes the intricacies of this blessed arduous journey inward with all its specific, varied patterns, revealing criteria for understanding the individual’s unique route and providing informed assistance every step of the way.
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Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the headline unemployment rate was "essentially unchanged" at 7.6 percent. Since January, the unemployment rate has remained between 7.9 percent and 7.5 percent. While the May unemployment figures appear to indicate that the employment situation has stabilized, the reality is far less rosy. The number of persons not in the labor force remains has historic levels, and is up nearly two million from May of 2012.
As shown in the graph below, the decline in the unemployment rate (right axis) over the last 3 years closely aligns with the decline in the labor force participation rate (left axis), which has been falling since the recession began in 2008. Remember, a person is not counted as unemployed unless they are actively searching for a job (i.e. part of the labor force). And for May participation in the labor force was also "essentially unchanged" at 63.4 perecent. The evidence continues to show that the relatively "positive looking" unemployment rate has more to do with people leaving the labor force than an improving labor market.
The Obama administration will no doubt try to spin the May unemployment rate proof the economy is on the right track and not getting worse, but this is wishful thinking. With the population increasing every day, and the number of people looking for work falling, the headline unemployment figure is increasingly an unreliable measure of employment.
Looking at the employment-population ratio, we see continued evidence that the labor market is reaching a new normal. This ratio has remained roughly between 58 percent and 59 percent since March of 2009, and for May of this year came in at 58.6 percent--exactly where it was in May 2012. It is possible that the U.S. could be experiencing a new normal unemployment rate of 7.5 percent to 8 percent, which is similar to that of many European countries, rather than the pre-recession normal rate of approximately 5 percent. This is bad news for America. | <urn:uuid:5457a2e1-728c-4487-9588-20063d5c1504> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reason.org/news/printer/a-labor-market-mired-in-historical | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970176 | 404 | 2.3125 | 2 |
By Carol Borchert
The Center for Environmental Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences held its inaugural research symposium this spring, giving graduate and a few undergraduate students the opportunity to showcase their research projects and present in a professional forum.
“This is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time,” said William Hanneman, director of the Center for Environmental Medicine. “It’s a great platform to present the scope of research work under way at the center, as well as give our students a chance to hone their skills at professional presentations in the setting of a scientific conference.”
The symposium opened with comments from Hanneman and Mark Stetter, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Keynote speaker was Roger A. Coulombe, Jr., director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Toxicology Program in the Department of Veterinary Sciences at Utah State University. He delivered a talk titled “Public Health Impacts of Particulate Air Pollution in Northern Utah – Translational Studies.”
Richard Slayden, CEM associate director, and Ron Tjalkens, CEM associate director of research, moderated the symposium.
More than 100 participants registered for the symposium, which featured 35 posters and four presentations. Student presenters represented three primary areas of study: toxicology; health and exercise science; and biomedical sciences. All faculty mentors are affiliated with the Center for Environmental Medicine.
Taylor Carpenter, a junior in the Department of Exercise and Health Science, is working with John Volckens in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, and presented on “Human Exposure and Ventilation Rates Whilst Commuting in Fort Collins, Colo.”
Taylor Carpenter presented a poster summarizing research into human exposure to air pollution while commuting.
“I started as a volunteer with Dr. Volckens my freshman year, so I’ve gotten to see this study develop from the beginning,” Carpenter said. “We’re looking at the rates of exposure to airborne pollution of commuters in the local community, particularly looking at exposures for people who commute by bike as compared to those who commute by car. Being able to present this data in a professional setting, and having to explain the research, really takes it up to the next level beyond the lab, which has been really interesting for me.”
The Center for Environmental Medicine plans to host the second annual spring research symposium next year, giving a new crop of students the opportunity to hone their professional skills in oral and poster sessions.
“We’re really pleased with the success of this year’s symposium and look forward to expanding participation and awareness next year,” Tjalkens said. “The symposium really provides a great environment for our students to experience a professional scientific presentation setting, as well as network with their peers and mentors to learn more about the research going on at the center.” | <urn:uuid:1416b1b4-3c4c-447b-ba86-1ea36f8da2a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Pages/CEM-spring-symposium-2013.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947012 | 620 | 1.5 | 2 |
Professor & Associate Chair
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
University of Michigan
- EECS 370. Introduction to Computer Organization
Basic concepts of computer organization and hardware. Instructions
executed by a processor and how to use these instructions in simple
assembly-language programs. Stored-program concept. Datapath and
control for multiple implementations of a processor. Performance
evaluation, pipelining, caches, virtual memory, input/output.
- EECS 483. Compiler Construction
Introduction to compiling techniques including parsing algorithms,
semantic processing and optimization. Students implement a compiler
for a substantial programming language using a compiler generating
- EECS 583. Advanced Compilers
In-depth study of compiler backend design for high-performance
architectures. Topics include control-flow and data-flow analysis,
optimization, instruction scheduling, register allocation. Advanced
topics include memory hierarchy management, instruction-level
parallelism, predicated and speculative execution. The class focus
is processor-specific compilation techniques, thus familiarity with
both computer architecture and compilers is recommended.
Some of my favorite quotes from Fall
2003 (EECS 370) teaching evaluations. See we do read your
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- "Mahlke is the hippest professor I've ever had"
- "I liked how you were very casual"
- "Nice teaching style!"
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- "Don't imply everything is easy when it isn't"
- "Count the number of times Mahlke says 'right?' in his next
- "All in all, I feel that Prof. Mahlke is a wonderful professor,
probably one of the best I've encountered"
- "Mahlke can move too fast. Be mindful of this, Scott"
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The films can make altogether new universes for us, yet that is one of their rarest endowments. All the more frequently, executives go for authenticity, for universes we can perceive. One of the numerous joys of “Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christmas” is that there is not a solitary conspicuous scene inside it. Everything looks unusual and frequenting. Indeed, even Santa Claus would be hard to perceive without his red-and-white uniform.
The film, which recounts the narrative of an endeavor by Halloween to add Christmas, is shot in a procedure called stop-activity movement.
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Join Diana Weynand for an in-depth discussion in this video Retiming to lengthen or shorten music and clips, part of Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x.
- Some say timing is everything,…and if you've ever edited the perfect clip…to cover a segment of narration…only to discover it's not long enough to cover it,…I'm sure you'd agree.…But, don't fret and don't go looking for a different clip.…Not just yet.…Trust your instincts and then simply…change the speed of the clip.…This technique may not always work,…but it's always worth a try.…In the project library, let's open the "Retiming" project.…
In this project we have three clips,…well, one's a compound clip of stills,…but we'll refer to that as a single clip.…Notice that the compound clip matches pretty well…to the end of Paul talking,…but the music clip stops short.…Now, this might happen in your own project,…where you have a music track and you like it,…and maybe whoever was shooting the music…shot a good amount of it,…what they thought was a good amount,…but it just didn't turn out to be…long enough for what you wanted to use it for.…
Sometimes you don't know that until you…get into the editing room.…You have a couple of choices.…
Note: This course was updated to reflect the changes to Final Cut Pro X v. 10.1.x. Although the course was not re-recorded from scratch, we updated the applicable movies by adding text overlays to guide you through existing changes. We also updated the exercise files to work with the most current version of the software. Please watch the "Understanding this update and using the exercise files" movie to learn exactly what to expect from this updated course. Working with an earlier version of Final Cut Pro X? Watch Effective Storytelling with Final Cut Pro X 10.0.9.
- Identifying story elements
- Finding the essence of a story
- Importing folders and stills as keyword collections
- Using keywords to make clips accessible
- Prepping clips for editing
- Developing story diversity
- Sculpting the story within the timeline
- Fine-tuning edits
- Organizing separate story segments into independent storylines
- Recording a narration track
- Adding sound effects
- Applying effects to enhance story elements
- Adding freeze frames
Skill Level Intermediate
Narrative Scene Editing with Final Cut Pro X v10.1.xwith Abba Shapiro3h 15m Intermediate
1. Defining Your Story
2. Gathering Story Elements
3. Organizing Story Elements
4. Building a Primary Storyline
5. Refining the Story
6. Previsualizing in Final Cut to Help Write Your Story
7. Embellishing Your Story
8. Moving the Story Along
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All standards used for training by accredited providers are registered by SAQA according to the NQF (National Qualifications Framework). By describing national standards and qualifications in terms of learning outcomes, the NQF is placing the national demands in respect of quality before the citizens of the country. No longer can the nation tolerate a situation where the range of competences that exist between holders of the same qualification is so wide that employers of qualifying students cannot be sure what the competences are. It is extremely important that the learning outcomes, standards and qualifications are clear so that there can be no doubt as to what may be expected of qualifying learners. | <urn:uuid:5ad4be60-4e33-4141-95e5-2fca6976bfbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://compuplus.co.za/accreditation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.957492 | 316 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Bible informs us that the end will involve destruction: “There will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now . . . In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved.” (Matthew 24:21, 22) But God promises us that many humans will survive: “The world is passing away . . . , but the one who does the will of God remains forever.”—1 John 2:17.
If you want to survive the passing of this world and ‘remain forever,’ what should you do? Should you start stockpiling supplies or making other physical preparations? No. The Bible strongly urges us to set different priorities. We read: “Since all these things are to be dissolved in this way, consider what sort of people you ought to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of godly devotion, as you await and keep close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah.” (2 Peter 3:10-12) The context shows that “all these things” that are to be dissolved include the ruling elements of this corrupt world and all those who choose such rulership rather than God’s. Clearly, if we were to stockpile material goods, that would not save us from such a destruction.
Really, our survival involves being devoted to Jehovah God and learning about the kind of conduct and deeds that please him. (Zephaniah 2:3) Rather than following the majority today and ignoring the clear signals that we are living in such important times, we need to “keep close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah.” Jehovah’s Witnesses can show you from the Bible how you can be a survivor of this upcoming day. | <urn:uuid:9315be9c-b7f9-4649-9f1a-1b64947adf3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/wp20150501/how-to-survive-the-end/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.960823 | 371 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie
An imposing architectural work linked to the work Cenacolo by Leonardo da Vinci, preserved in the refectory inside.
In 1460, Count Gaspare donated a chapel with a fresco of the image of Our Lady, called “Delle Grazie”, to ensure that a church and a convent were built. Guiniforte Solari began work in 1463, which ended in 1482. Later, by the will of Ludovico il Moro, who wanted it as a mausoleum for his family, the church was modified by Bramante.
The church was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 as one of the greatest testimonies of Renaissance art. | <urn:uuid:fec604d6-9314-4aa9-b7e7-f7b60a749c87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lovingbergamo.it/en/the-church-of-santa-maria-delle-grazie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977321 | 158 | 2.921875 | 3 |
|தல மரம்:||Peepal (Arachu)|
|தீர்த்தம் :||chakra thIrtham, brahma thIrtham|
|வழிபட்டோர்:||kamadhenu, vyAghrapAdar, pada~nchali, parashurAmar, kAlavaR^iShi, sun^dharar, pANdavas, karikARchOzan, kulasekaran, muchukun^dhan, aruNagirinAthar|
Referred to as kA~nchivAyp pErUr in sun^dharar thEvAram, pErUr is one of the very ancient temple in the Coimbatore region. This is also called western chithambaram (mElaich chithambaram). This temple gets mentioned in the sha~Nkara bhAShyam written by shrI sha~Nkara bhagavatpAdar. The noyyalARu which was known as kA~nchi flows to the north of this temple.
Long ago it was found that one cow used to pour its milk over an anthill regularly in the forest. There people found a self manifested li~Ngam. From that time the worship of the Lord is supposed to have started in this temple. The impression of the cows feet and its horn could be found on the shiva li~Ngam. karikARchOzan worshiped here to get rid of the sin of murder here. kulachEkaran got cured of the lepracy and muchukun^dhan got removed the darkness in his face praying the Lord here
Location: State : Tamil Nadu District : Coimbatore Situation: A town 6 km west from Coimbatore. Nearby Temples: veLLiN^giri, aiyAsAmy malai, marudhamalai, muttam nAgeshvarasvAmi temple, kAlaveshvara svAmy temple | <urn:uuid:ba835896-a1f3-47c1-ae0c-9a74591112ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shaivam.org/hindu-hub/temples/place/597/perur-pattishvarar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.832365 | 640 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The centre is for students of all ages and abilities. There are sessions twice a week and students attend at least one of these at a time slot agreed at enrolment.
Students are encouraged to work independently from the outset, although the Instructor and assistants are on hand to observe and guide them through the programmes and to give regular feedback. Good communication between home and the study centre is very important and whilst this is not possible during sessions, a message book is available for parents to request a meeting with or phone call from the Instructor. In addition there are regular meetings between the Instructor and parents to talk about each student’s progress and next steps.
The Kumon Hedge End Study Centre is located in the Hedge End Youth and Community Centre, which was the original school house in Hedge End. There is a waiting area for parents as well as a car park outside.
When students have completed their work they can visit the book corner while they wait for their sheets to be marked. For younger students there is also the opportunity to take the number board challenge in order to improve their number recognition, sequencing and motor skills.
The unique Kumon Maths and English Programmes pursue the potential of each child by developing confident, independent learners through individualised, advanced study. | <urn:uuid:1d28c67c-3ba2-40da-923c-af4c724396e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kumon.co.uk/Hedge-End/index.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975318 | 254 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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