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Kaveh Kamooneh says he was just trying to get a little juice while he watched his middle-school-aged son play tennis. Instead, he was arrested.
Kamooneh plugged his Nissan Leaf into a 110-volt outlet at Chamblee Middle School in Georgia, according to local news reports. Shortly afterwards, a police officer told him he would be charged with theft.
The all-electric car, which takes about 22 kilowatts for a full charge and would need about twenty hours to fill up from a 110-volt outlet, used about 4 cents of power during the twenty minutes it was plugged in, local utility Georgia Power told NBC News in Atlanta.
The police department and the school system stand by the arrest. According to the police department, Kamooneh “made no attempt to apologize or simply say, ‘Oops,’ and [that] he wouldn’t do it again. Instead, he continued being argumentative, acknowledged he did not have permission and then accused the officer of having damaged his car door.”
Clearly, issuing the warrant was not just about electric-vehicle charging. The police department’s statement goes on to allege that Kamooneh wasn’t watching his son play tennis, as his son does not even attend that school, and was instead taking lessons himself despite being banned from using the school’s courts.
But back to car-charging. Although this a relatively bizarre case, the issue of access to charging is an important one for current and potential electric vehicle drivers. Ideally, people can find enough Level 2 or DC fast chargers that plugging in to 110-volt outlets anywhere and everywhere is not necessary.
The question of where those chargers are and who has access to them is just as important. One study has found access to fast charging is key to the adoption of EVs. The majority of charging is happening at home, anyway. For Nissan Leaf drivers without a 240-volt, Level 2 charger, it would indeed be challenging to simply find charge stations all day long if they were not provided at work. | <urn:uuid:0336ea21-82d1-4b0b-9e96-5ceb9829cc71> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.solarfeeds.com/nissan-leaf-driver-steals-energy-school/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981657 | 436 | 2.203125 | 2 |
By Daniel V. Cabrera
The tilapia industry has remained flat for the past five years. Despite efforts of both the government and the private sector to push the industry to a higher level, annual production remains stagnant at a level of 250,000 to 270,000 metric tons.
Of this volume, 93% comes from Luzon while Visayas and Mindanao contribute one and six percent, respectively. Within Luzon, production is concentrated in Central Luzon and Batangas.
Production is not growing because of numerous challenges such as fishkill, the need to limit the number of fish cage units in Taal Lake, availability of only quality fry, low survival rates, and unpredictable weather due to climate change. There is a need for a long-term solution if we want a sustained growth of the industry.
The way to grow is through more efficient operation of existing farms and new investments in tilapia farming. Efficient operations mean higher survival rates and lower FCR (feed conversion ratio), both of which lead to higher production and higher profits in existing farms. This in turn will encourage expansion and new investments. It is well then to focus on increasing survival and lowering the FCR.
Survival rate is the net result of two factors: fry quality and water quality. During the 1990s, when GIFT was newly introduced—and later superseded by GET EXCEL—the usual survival rate was 80 to 90%. Now a farmer is lucky to get 50%.
Sometimes, it can be as low as 30%. Farmers are quick to blame the low survival rate on fry quality. With the proliferation of hatcheries in Central Luzon and elsewhere, the quality of fry can no longer be assured. Some hatcheries may no longer be careful in breeder selection and sourcing, or worse, may be collecting feral fry with unknown pedigrees. It is clear that in order to protect their investment, it is important for the farmers to be careful with their fry and fingerling sources.
The second factor, water quality, is within the control of growers. By practicing proper water management and feed management, dissolved oxygen levels in the water will be at the optimum and ammonia can be prevented from increasing. Obviously, the use of extruded feeds with a high degree of stability and digestibility is necessary. This will effectively reduce FCR and increase profitability. Farmers should shift from being “feed-price conscious” to being “feeding-cost conscious.”
As was previously mentioned, tilapia production is very low in Visayas and Mindanao. For some reason, there are not as many freshwater fishponds in Mindanao as there are in Central Luzon, and the existing lakes are either already full of cages, or too cold, or ecotourism is prioritized by local governments. But there are several thousand underproductive brackishwater fishponds. Even if the saline tilapia strain has not taken off, there is no reason why the existing strains cannot be used in those fishponds where salinity does not go very high.
In Indonesia, the ordinary strain of tilapia are stocked and grown successfully in the brackishwater fishponds of Aceh province. One difference is that in Indonesia, the industry practice is to use only large fingerlings (10 cm), whether in freshwater or brackishwater. Tilapia is more tolerant of salinity at bigger sizes. Stocking at bigger sizes also ensures a shorter culture period and, more importantly, higher survival rates. This means lower FCR and more efficient operations.
At present, Filipino tilapia growers purchase their fry direct from hatcheries at Size 22 and stock these directly in their ponds. Since there are no nursery operators producing large size fingerlings in the Philippines, the best option is to maintain a small nursery pond where the fry can initially be stocked at high density and grown to large size fingerlings before stocking in the grow-out ponds. This is already being done by some operators.
In some areas, or due to the unpredictable weather, pond drying may not be possible during preparation. One good practice is the use of probiotics for bioremediation. This will degrade metabolic wastes, especially ammonia and sulphides, into mineral form so as to turn them into nutrients that can be used by phytoplankton. Probiotics are also useful even during the culture period to help maintain water quality. There are many products available in the market so one has to be careful as to which product to use.
For those who would like an additional income source, polyculture is a good option. Many farmers in Pampanga stock vannamei shrimps with their tilapia or milkfish. With only the cost of shrimp fry as an additional expense, the expected additional income from the secondary crop will more than offset the cost of feeds, adding profit to the operations.
To sum up, Santeh is recommending five pillars of sustainable aquaculture solutions for the tilapia industry: a) use of bigger fingerlings; b) use of extruded feeds, c) proper feeding management; d) use of safe biological products; and e) polyculture. Santeh’s technical sales representatives can provide guidance for free as part of pre- and post- sale service. Practical knowledge of farmers as well as caretakers is better when combined with knowledge based on science.
Santeh Feeds Corporation, as an industry leader, considers as its mission the promotion of sustainable farming methodologies for Filipinos not only for tilapia but also for all other aquaculture species. The local tilapia industry is vibrant and full of challenges. Filipinos must cooperate to make this industry sustainable and profitable for fish farmers as a way to provide safe and affordable tilapia to every Filipino.
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"The concept that G-d created a human being who is unable to find happiness in a loving relationship unless he violates a biblical prohibition is neither plausible nor acceptable."For background, read Homosexuality NOT Fixed, Change Possible: Study and also read Lesbianism NOT Genetic: Study as well as Psychologists Suggest Homosexuals Change Religious Affiliation
-- Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality
-- From "Rabbonim OK Therapeutic Approach to Homosexuality" by Hana Levi Julian, MSW, LCSW-R, Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) 12/28/11
A coalition of more than 150 Orthodox rabbis, community leaders, organizers and respected mental health professionals have given an historic stamp of approval to a document entitled a "Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality."
The treatment recommended in the statement is reparative or gender-affirming therapy . . .
The statement -- which goes out of its way to caution against castigation of the individual and notes "They deserve our full love, support and encouragement in their striving towards healing" -- is likely to be met with a storm of protest both in Israel and abroad.
The Declaration, written by a 25-member committee of rabbis, parents, "strugglers" currently in therapy and "success stories" -- those who completed therapy and today are living heterosexual lives, many with spouses and children, belies those claims.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Declaration On The Torah Approach To Homosexuality"
The Torah makes a clear statement that homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle or a genuine identity by severely prohibiting its conduct.
From a Torah perspective, the question whether homosexual inclinations and behaviors are changeable is extremely relevant. The concept that G-d created a human being who is unable to find happiness in a loving relationship unless he violates a biblical prohibition is neither plausible nor acceptable. G-d is loving and merciful. Struggles, and yes, difficult struggles, along with healing and personal growth are part and parcel of this world. Impossible, life long, Torah prohibited situations with no achievable solutions are not.
We emphatically reject the notion that a homosexually inclined person cannot overcome his or her inclination and desire. Behaviors are changeable. The Torah does not forbid something which is impossible to avoid. Abandoning people to lifelong loneliness and despair by denying all hope of overcoming and healing their same-sex attraction is heartlessly cruel.
The only viable course of action that is consistent with the Torah is therapy and teshuvah. The therapy consists of reinforcing the natural gender-identity of the individual by helping him or her understand and repair the emotional wounds that led to its disorientation and weakening, thus enabling the resumption and completion of the individual’s emotional development. Teshuvah is a Torah-mandated, self-motivated process of turning away from any transgression or sin and returning to G-d and one’s spiritual essence. This includes refining and reintegrating the personality and allowing it to grow in a healthy and wholesome manner.
The key point to remember is that these individuals are primarily innocent victims of childhood emotional wounds. They deserve our full love, support and encouragement in their striving towards healing. Struggling individuals who seek health and wellness should not be confused with the homosexual movement and their agenda. This distinction is crucial. It reflects the difference between what G-d asks from all of us and what He unambiguously prohibits.
To read the entire declaration, CLICK HERE.
From "Rabbis get biblical on same-sex lovin'" by Bob Unruh, World Net Daily 12/27/11
Among the signers who have chosen to go public with their endorsement of the position are psychologist and author Dr. Miriam Adaham of Jerusalem; Rabbi Simcha Feuerman, president of the International Network of Orthodox Mental Health Professions; Los Angeles psychiatrist and author Dr. Miriam Grossman; Dr. Joseph Gelbfish of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Rabbi Yaakov Salomon, psychotherapist and author; Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, a vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America and dozens more.
It contradicts a statement from 2010 signed by Orthodox rabbis who believed, "Jews with homosexual orientations or same sex-attractions should be welcomed as full members of the synagogue and school community. As appropriate with regard to gender and lineage, they should participate and count ritually, be eligible for ritual synagogue honors, and generally be treated in the same fashion and under the same halakhic and hashkafic framework as any other member of the synagogue they join."
The 2010 statement also rejected the idea of therapy to heal homosexuality, but the new declaration takes the opposite position.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
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In 1915, Albert Einstein formulated the theory of general relativity, which radically changed the concept of gravity that had been held until then. The charismatic scientist explained gravity as the manifestation of the curvature of space and time. Einstein’s theory predicts that the flow of time is altered by mass. This effect, known as “gravitational time dilation,” slows down time near a massive object. It affects everything and everyone; in fact, people living on the ground floor of buildings age more slowly than their neighbors upstairs, about 10 nanoseconds each year. This tiny but real effect has been confirmed in many experiments with very precise clocks.
Now an international team including, among others, Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, Ingrid Stairs from the University of British Columbia in Canada, Robert Ferdman from the University of East Anglia in the UK, and Dick Manchester of CSIRO (the Australian national science agency), has presented its findings on the relativistic effects experienced by a pair of pulsars located about 2,400 light-years distant from Earth.
A pulsar is a neutron star that spins so fast that it usually takes much less than 1 second to make one complete revolution. The pulsar emits electromagnetic waves from its magnetic poles. The misalignment of the magnetic poles with the axis of rotation of the neutron star causes the radiation beams to rotate in the same way as the foci of a maritime lighthouse, sending beam pulses towards eventual distant observers. The period between each pulse corresponds to the rotation speed of the neutron star.
A neutron star is the dead core of a star that previously exploded as a supernova but, despite being highly compressed, has not become a black hole. Although it is not as tightly packed as a black hole, its density is so great that in atoms it forces electrons to “stick” against protons, giving rise to neutrons. Hence, these kinds of objects are called neutron stars.
The observed pair of pulsars was discovered in 2003 and is a magnificent natural laboratory for testing the theory of general relativity. The two pulsars orbit each other, taking only 147 minutes to make a full revolution and reaching speeds of around 1 million kilometers per hour. One of the pulsars rotates very fast on itself, executing about 44 complete rotations every second. His partner is young and has a rotation period of 2.8 seconds. The movement of each pulsar around its partner has been helpful in measuring relativistic distortions.
Artistic recreation of a pair of pulsars. (Image: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)
This fast orbital movement of objects as compact as these (they have 30% more mass than the Sun but only about 15 miles in diameter) has allowed to verify seven different predictions of the theory of general relativity.
The research team has seen for the first time how the light is not only delayed due to a strong curvature of space-time around the companion pulsar, but also that the light is deflected by a small angle of 0.04 degrees.
In addition to the emission of gravitational waves and the propagation of light, the team has managed to measure the time dilation effect that makes clocks run slower when the gravitational field is stronger.
The study authors have also managed to “weigh” the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the fast-spinning pulsar in orbital motion. This radiation corresponds to a loss of mass of 8 million tons per second. Although this sounds like a lot, it is only a tiny fraction of the pulsar’s mass.
The researchers also measured (with a precision of 1 part in a million) that the orbit changes orientation, a relativistic effect also known in the orbit of Mercury, but that in the pair of pulsars it becomes 140,000 times stronger.
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|The Origin of GNCTR|
The concept of the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race started in the spring of 1974. The Alberta branch of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) discussed the possibility of sponsoring an event similar to the Concrete Canoe Race held in the United States. Accounting for the rugged climate of an Alberta winter and seeking a suitable vehicle, they agreed upon the mighty Toboggan. Professor Sid Simmons from the University of Alberta was the first to spark an interest in what was to become the GNCTR.
Wanting to combine design skills with a fun activity, Prof. Simmons explained the exercise to his students. After much debate the students decided that their vehicle of choice would be a concrete toboggan. The Student Chapter of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) then took over the planning of the event. By January 20th of 1975 the students had set the rules for the First Annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race. Along with the University of Alberta, three other universities and technical schools were invited to participate; they were the University of Calgary, the Northern Alberta Insitute of Technology (NAIT) and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). The response to the invitations was incredible. Seven teams registered, SAIT sending four teams of their own.
On March 1, 1975 at the Canyon Ski Lodge in the Red Deer River Valley the teams made last minute preparations. At 2:17pm, several hundred shivering spectactors watched as the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race was born and the first sled made its run. Manning the sled that day was Andy Fox, Wayne Wonnacot, Gerry Richards, and John Straw, all were pushed by Dan Barnett. The team quickly made their way to the edge of the run and many startled spectators. After some redirecting the first team crossed the finish line, taking only 16.6 seconds to descend.
Each toboggan got three runs and the winning team was determined based on the best time. A group from SAIT championed the day reaching an approximate speed of 50km/h - completing the run in just under 10 seconds! It has been said that the most spectacular aspect of that first race was the unpredictable finish to each run as the teams crashed into a wall of hay set to stop the toboggans.
The trophy for "The Fastest Concrete Toboggan In The World" was presented to the team from SAIT by Ernie Homgren, then President of ACI. It was presented at the final banquet and awards ceremony which has also become a much cherished and anticipated event at every GNCTR. During the awards ceremony Mr. Holmgren expressed his wish that the GNCTR become an annual event for Civil Engineering students all over North America - it seems that his wish has been fulfilled.
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On 9 and 10 November 2015, staff of member equality bodies joined hosts Equinet and the Equality and the Human Rights Commission in London for a capacity building seminar entitlted "A question of faith. Religion and belief in the work of equality bodies".
Several reports highlight the worrying rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim incidents in Europe in recent years. In particular, the attacks in Brussels, Paris and Copenhagen had a profound impact on religious communities and triggered the need for collective responses at national and European levels to combat religious hatred and discrimination on the ground of religion and belief, and effectively enforce the right to freedom of religion.
As part of this collective response, in October 2015, the first Annual Colloquium on Fundamental Rights organised by the European Commission focused on “Tolerance and respect: preventing and combating anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe”. (For Equinet participation and the Colloquium Conclusions, see here.)
The 2011 report from Equinet’s Equality Law Working Group “A question of faith: religion and belief in Europe” highlighted the sensitivity and the difficulty in dealing with cases related to religion and belief discrimination. As a complement to this legal analysis, in Autumn 2015, Equinet’s Policy Formation Working Group will publish a Perspective on the work and experience of equality bodies on the ground of religion and belief. The Perspective will serve as one of the bases for discussion at the upcoming Equinet Seminar.
The seminar aimed to take stock of legal and political developments, as well as remaining challenges in ensuring freedom of religion and combating religious or faith-based discrimination at European and national levels. It analysed the role of and challenges for equality bodies in addressing issues of religion and belief by discussing good practices in the use of their legal, research, communication and promotional functions.
The seminar built on previous work by Equinet in this field, notably on publications by its legal and policy formation working groups, and was hosted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (UK).
In particular, the seminar aimed to:
- Update equality bodies staff members on recent European developments related to religion and belief
- Build capacity of equality bodies staff members and strengthen their skills in combating discrimination on the ground of religion and belief by:
- Facilitating the exchange of good practices
- Sharing and discussing main conclusions of the upcoming Equinet Perspective on religion and belief with all Equinet members
- Initiating discussions on challenges encountered by equality bodies in this area
- Welcome and opening by Equinet (Evelyn Collins, Chair of Equinet, Chief Executive of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland)
- Opening address by EHRC (Baroness Onora O’Neill, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Great Britain)
- Keynote address (Prof. Isabelle Rorive, Université libre de Bruxelles)
SESSION 1 - The European legal and policy framework for discrimination on the ground of religion or belief
Chair: Evelyn Collins, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
SESSION 2 - Equality Bodies’ strategies to address discrimination on the ground of religion or belief
Chair: Tamás Kádár, Head of Legal and Policy, Equinet Secretariat
WORKSHOP 1 - Developing strategies to address discrimination on the ground of religion or belief
- Engaging with employers and companies (Facilitated by Sue Coe, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Great-Britain)
- Contributing to legislative change (Facilitated by Nikolina Patalen, Office of the Ombudsman, Croatia)
- Communicating on religious diversity (Facilitated by Katrine G. Pettersen and Maj-Christel Skramstad, Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud, Norway)
- Legal advocacy and strategic litigation (Facilitated by Imane El Morabet, Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities, Belgium)
SESSION 3 - Multiple discrimination and conflict with other grounds
Chair: Imane El Morabet, Legal Advisor, Interfederal Centre for Equal Opportunities, Belgium
- Multiple discrimination, intersectionality and conflicts with other grounds (Erica Howard, Associate Professor, Middlesex University London)
- Presentation of the findings of the 2012 Equinet Legal Report on religion and belief (Jayne Hardwick, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Great Britain, and moderator of Equinet Equality Law Working Group)
- Presentation of the findings of the 2015 Equinet Perspective on religion and belief (Zuzana Pavlíčková, Slovak National Centre for Human Rights and member of Equinet Policy Formation Working Group)
- The gender equality perspective: women and discrimination on the ground of religion or belief (Julie Pascoët, Policy Officer, European Network against Racism)
- Sexual orientation and gender identity perspective : LGBTI and discrimination on the ground of religion or belief (Alan Murray, President, European Network of Religion and Belief)
WORKSHOP 2 - Addressing multiple discrimination and conflict with other grounds
- Litigation and conflicts of rights – the Lee v Ashers Baking Co Ltd “Cake” Case (Facilitated by Anne McKernan, Director Legal Services, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland)
- Intersection of religion or belief with gender equality (Facilitated by Julie Pascoët, Policy Officer, European Network against Racism)
- Intersection of religion or belief with sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination (Facilitated by Alan Murray, Director of European Network of Religion and Belief)
- Rebecca Hilsenrath, Interim Chief Executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Great Britain
- Anne Gaspard, Equinet Executive Director
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An arraignment is the very first step in the court process after an arrest. In most instances, the arraignment takes place within 24 hours of the arrest. It is where an arrested person sees the judge for the first time. At the arraignment, an attorney pleads not guilty on behalf of their client. It is that not guilty plea that sets the court process in motion. Everybody pleads not guilty at the arraignment — it is a formality. It is thereafter that all investigation and negotiation with the prosecutor takes place. If a deal is to be struck, it is then that the arrested person changes his or her plea to guilty. If a deal is not to be struck, the case will move on a litigation path and eventually to trial.
Arraignment courts are generally of two types. The first is where someone is held by the police overnight and goes to see the judge the day after arrest. The other is where a person is not held overnight by the police, but rather is given a Desk Appearance Ticket to appear in court at a future date, usually two to three weeks later. The determining factor as to which arraignment court a case will go is usually the seriousness of the crime charged. Many of the lower-level charges will be sent to the Desk Appearance Ticket court. However, all DWI
and domestic violence cases will be held overnight to see the judge the following day, even where the case is not considered that serious. It is a police department regulation that requires this, and it is adhered to in almost all cases. The only exception is when a DWI arrest is made by State Troopers and not the county police. Troopers usually send their cases to the Desk Appearance Court.
At the arraignment in either court, the defense lawyer will make a bail application on behalf of their client. This is because the judge at arraignment has the right to set bail. Bail considerations are very clear — bail is designed to insure a person comes to court for all their court dates and to insure that a dangerous person is removed from the streets of the community. If a person is not a risk to flee and is not a danger to the community, then bail will not be set and the person will be released in their own recognizance. Alternatively, if the judge declines to set bail but wants some measure of supervision for the arrested person, they will release the person to the custody of the probation department. In lieu of paying bail, the arrested person will have to report to a probation officer during the pendency of the case.
Bail can be paid in one of two ways. Cash can be posted, in which case the cash will get returned to the person who posted it at the end of the case so long as the arrested person makes all his or her court dates. Alternatively, a bail bond can be posted. A bail bond can be issued by any number of bail bond companies. Essentially, a bail bond costs 10 percent of the bond amount in a nonrefundable fee, and the company will want to hold some collateral in addition. For example, a bail bond of $20,000 will cost the family approximately $2,000 in a nonrefundable fee, and the bonding company will want to hold a deed to a house as collateral. There are other arrangements that can be made with bond companies, and they can be quite creative since they want the business.
At an arraignment, it is important for family and friends to be present if at all possible. The lawyer will want to show the judge that their client has community support and is a highly regarded person. The lawyer will outline all the reasons bail should not be set, or at least that high bail should not be set. The lawyer will point out solid work history, cooperation with police, and any other factors that show their client is not a risk to flee or a danger to the community. | <urn:uuid:c18d1b79-e2b9-4e0c-b8e9-0bbac63eaf62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jrmlegal.com/criminal-defense/arraignment-courts-process | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.975172 | 793 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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The Witch shrieked and ran: in a few moments she was out of sight among the trees. Uncle Andrew turned to do likewise, tripped over a root, and fell flat on his face in a little brook that ran down to join the river. The children could not move. They were not even quite sure that they wanted to. The Lion paid no attention to them. Its huge red mouth was open, but open in song not in a snarl. It passed by them so close that they could have touched its mane. They were terribly afraid it would turn and look at them, yet in some queer way they wished it would. But for all the notice it took of them they might just as well have been invisible and unsmellable. When it had passed them and gone a few paces further it turned, passed them again, and continued its march eastward.
Uncle Andrew, coughing and spluttering, picked himself up.
"Now, Digory," he said, "we've got rid of that woman, and the brute of a lion is gone. Give me your hand and put on your ring at once."
"Keep off," said Digory, backing away from him. "Keep clear of him, Polly. Come over here beside me. Now I warn you, Uncle Andrew, don't come one step nearer, we'll just vanish."
"Do what you're told this minute, sir," said Uncle Andrew. "You're an extremely disobedient, ill-behaved little boy."
"No fear," said Digory. "We want to stay and see what happens. I thought you wanted to know about other worlds. Don't you like it now you're here?"
"Like it!" exclaimed Uncle Andrew. "Just look at the state I'm in. And it was my best coat and waistcoat, too." He certainly was a dreadful sight by now: for of course, the more dressed up you were to begin with, the worse you look after you've crawled out of a smashed hansoncab and fallen into a muddy brook. "I'm not saying," he added, "that this is not a most interesting place. If I were a younger man, now - perhaps I could get some lively young fellow to come here first. One of those big-game hunters. Something might be made of this country. The climate is delightful. I never felt such air. I believe it would have done me good if - if circumstances had been more favourable. If only we'd had a gun."
"Guns be blowed," said the Cabby. "I think I'll go and see if I can give Strawberry a rub down. That horse 'as more sense than some 'umans as I could mention." He walked back to Strawberry and began making the hissing noises that grooms make.
"Do you still think that Lion could be killed by a gun?" asked Digory. "He didn't mind the iron bar much."
"With all her faults," said Uncle Andrew, "that's a plucky gel, my boy. It was a spirited thing to do." He rubbed his hands and cracked his knuckles, as if he were once more forgetting how the Witch frightened him whenever she was really there.
"It was a wicked thing to do," said Polly. "What harm had he done her?"
"Hullo! What's that?" said Digory. He had darted forward to examine something only a few yards away. "I say, Polly," he called back. "Do come and look."
Uncle Andrew came with her; not because he wanted to see but because he wanted to keep close to the children there might be a chance of stealing their rings. But when he saw what Digory was looking at, even he began to take an interest. It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown.
"It's alive too - I mean, it's lit," said Digory. And so it was; though of course, the brightness of the sun made the little flame in the lantern hard to see unless your shadow fell on it.
"Remarkable, most remarkable," muttered Uncle Andrew. "Even I never dreamt of Magic like this. We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what sort of seed a lamppost grows from?"
"Don't you see?" said Digory. "This is where the bar fell - the bar she tore off the lamp-post at home. It sank into the ground and now it's coming up as a young lamppost." (But not so very young now; it was as tall as Digory while he said this.)
"That's it! Stupendous, stupendous," said Uncle Andrew, rubbing his hands harder than ever. "Ho, ho! They laughed at my Magic. That fool of a sister of mine thinks I'm a lunatic. I wonder what they'll say now? I have discovered a world where everything is bursting with life and growth. Columbus, now, they talk about Columbus. But what was America to this? The commercial possibilities of this country are unbounded. Bring a few old bits of scrap iron here, bury 'em, and up they come as brand new railway engines, battleships, anything you please. They'll cost nothing, and I can sell 'em at full prices in England. I shall be a millionaire. And then the climate! I feel years younger already. I can run it as a health resort. A good sanatorium here might be worth twenty thousand a year. Of course I shall have to let a few people into the secret. The first thing is to get that brute shot."
"You're just like the Witch," said Polly. "All you think of is killing things."
"And then as regards oneself," Uncle Andrew continued, in a happy dream. "There's no knowing how long I might live if I settled here. And that's a big consideration when a fellow has turned sixty. I shouldn't be surprised if I never grew a day older in this country! Stupendous! The land of youth!"
"Oh!" cried Digory. "The land of youth! Do you think it really is?" For of course he remembered what Aunt Letty had said to the lady who brought the grapes, and that sweet hope rushed back upon him. "Uncle Andrew", he said, "do you think there's anything here that would cure Mother?"
"What are you talking about?" said Uncle Andrew. "This isn't a chemist's shop. But as I was saying - "
"You don't care twopence about her," said Digory savagely. "I thought you might; after all, she's your sister as well as my Mother. Well, no matter. I'm jolly well going to ask the Lion himself if he can help me." And he turned and walked briskly away. Polly waited for a moment and then went after him.
"Here! Stop! Come back! The boy's gone mad," said Uncle Andrew. He followed the children at a cautious distance behind; for he didn't want to get too far away from the green rings or too near the Lion.
In a few minutes Digory came to the edge of the wood and there he stopped. The Lion was singing still. But now the song had once more changed. It was more like what we should call a tune, but it was also far wilder. It made you want to run and jump and climb. It made you want to shout. It made you want to rush at other people and either hug them or fight them. It made Digory hot and red in the face. It had some effect on Uncle Andrew, for Digory could hear him saying, "A spirited gel, sir. It's a pity about her temper, but a dem fine woman all the same, a dem fine woman." But what the song did to the two humans was nothing compared with what it was doing to the country.
Can you imagine a stretch of grassy land bubbling like water in a pot? For that is really the best description of what was happening. In all directions it was swelling into humps. They were of very different sizes, some no bigger than mole-hills, some as big as wheel-barrows, two the size of cottages. And the humps moved and swelled till they burst, and the crumbled earth poured out of them, and from each hump there came out an animal. The moles came out just as you might see a mole come out in England. The dogs came out, barking the moment their heads were free, and struggling as you've seen them do when they are getting through a narrow hole in a hedge. The stags were the queerest to watch, for of course the antlers came up a long time before the rest of them, so at first Digory thought they were trees. The frogs, who all came up near the river, went straight into it with a plop-plop and a loud croaking. The panthers, leopards and things of that sort, sat down at once to wash the loose earth off their hind quarters and then stood up against the trees to sharpen their front claws. Showers of birds came out of the trees. Butterflies fluttered. Bees got to work on the flowers as if they hadn't a second to lose. But the greatest moment of all was when the biggest hump broke like a small earthquake and out came the sloping back, the large, wise head, and the four baggy-trousered legs of an elephant. And now you could hardly hear the song of the Lion; there was so much cawing, cooing, crowing, braying, neighing, baying, barking, lowing, bleating, and trumpeting.
But though Digory could no longer hear the Lion, he could see it. It was so big and so bright that he could not take his eyes off it. The other animals did not appear to be afraid of it. Indeed, at that very moment, Digory heard the sound of hoofs from behind; a second later the old cab-horse trotted past him and joined the other beasts. (The air had apparently suited him as well as it had suited Uncle Andrew. He no longer looked like the poor, old slave he had been in London; he was picking up his feet and holding his head erect.) And now, for the first time, the Lion was quite silent. He was going to and fro among the animals. And every now and then he would go up to two of them (always two at a time) and touch their noses with his. He would touch two beavers among all the beavers, two leopards among all the leopards, one stag and one deer among all the deer, and leave the rest. Some sorts of animal he passed over altogether. But the pairs which he had touched instantly left their own kinds and followed him. At last he stood still and all the creatures whom he had touched came and stood in a wide circle around him. The others whom he had not touched began to wander away. Their noises faded gradually into the distance. The chosen beasts who remained were now utterly silent, all with their eyes fixed intently upon the Lion. The cat-like ones gave an occasional twitch of the tail but otherwise all were still. For the first time that day there was complete silence, except for the noise of running water. Digory's heart beat wildly; he knew something very solemn was going to be done. He had not forgotten about his Mother; but he knew jolly well that, even for her, he couldn't interrupt a thing like this.
The Lion, whose eyes never blinked, stared at the animals as hard as if he was going to burn them up with his mere stare. And gradually a change came over them. The smaller ones - the rabbits, moles and such-like grew a good deal larger. The very big ones - you noticed it most with the elephants - grew a little smaller. Many animals sat up on their hind legs. Most put their heads on one side as if they were trying very hard to understand. The Lion opened his mouth, but no sound came from it; he was breathing out, a long, warm breath; it seemed to sway all the beasts as the wind sways a line of trees. Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying:
"Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters."
THE FIRST JOKE AND OTHER MATTERS
IT was of course the Lion's voice. The children had long felt sure that he could speak: yet it was a lovely and terrible shock when he did.
Out of the trees wild people stepped forth, gods and goddesses of the wood; with them came Fauns and Satyrs and Dwarfs. Out of the river rose the river god with his Naiad daughters. And all these and all the beasts and birds in their different voices, low or high or thick or clear, replied:
"Hail, Aslan. We hear and obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know."
"But please, we don't know very much yet," said a nosey and snorty kind of voice. And that really did make the children jump, for it was the cab-horse who had spoken.
"Good old Strawberry," said Polly. "I am glad he was one of the ones picked out to be a Talking Beast." And the Cabby, who was now standing beside the children, said, "Strike me pink. I always did say that 'oss 'ad a lot of sense, though."
"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."
"No, Aslan, we won't, we won't," said everyone. But one perky jackdaw added in a loud voice, "No fear!" and everyone else had finished just before he said it so that his words came out quite clear in a dead silence; and perhaps you have found out how awful that can be - say, at a party. The Jackdaw became so embarrassed that it hid its head under its wings as if it was going to sleep. And all the other animals began making various queer noises which are their ways of laughing and which, of course, no one has ever heard in our world. They tried at first to repress it, but Aslan said:
"Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech."
So they all let themselves go. And there was such merriment that the Jackdaw himself plucked up courage again and perched on the cab-horse's head, between its ears, clapping its wings, and said:
"Aslan! Aslan! Have I made the first joke? Will everybody always be told how I made the first joke?"
"No, little friend," said the Lion. "You have not made the first joke; you have only been the first joke." Then everyone laughed more than ever; but the Jackdaw didn't mind and laughed just as loud till the horse shook its head and the Jackdaw lost its balance and fell off, but remembered its wings (they were still new to it) before it reached the ground.
"And now," said Aslan, "Narnia is established. We must next take thought for keeping it safe. I will call some of you to my council. Come hither to me, you the chief Dwarf, and you the River-god, and you Oak and the Owl, and both the Ravens and the Bull-Elephant. We must talk together. For though the world is not five hours old an evil has already entered it." | <urn:uuid:c7dac071-de1d-409e-b79b-67b247e9373b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://readbooksvampire.com/C.S.Lewis/The_Magicians_Nephew/10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989831 | 3,570 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Biological or Clinical Significance:
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra; also know as IL-1F3) is a 22 – 25 kDa member of the IL-1 family of cytokines. It is an acute phase protein that exists to dampen inflammation. IL-1 (β) is initially produced by monocytes in response to a variety of stimuli. Circulating IL-1 then binds to widely expressed IL-1 type I receptors (IL-1 RI) and initiates a number of pro-inflammatory events. On endothelial cells (EC), IL-1 induces PGE2 and IL-6 release, generating fever, thrombocytosis, and hepatic acute phase protein production. In synovial joints, IL-1 induces chondrocyte nitric oxide production, an event that leads to reduced collagen synthesis and chondrocyte apoptosis. Finally, IL-1 increase neutrophil counts, both in blood and tissue, and thus is able to promote a pro-inflammatory environment in multiple locations. IL-1ra blocks IL-1 action through competitive inhibition. More correctly, although IL-1ra fills the IL-1 binding site in IL-1 RI, it is also unable to orchestrate the creation of a signal-transducing IL-1 RI:IL-1R Accessory protein (IL-1 R AcP) heterodimer complex. Effective IL-1ra concentrations are generally 100-fold greater than local IL-1 concentrations. This is because the IL-1ra half-life is but 6 minutes, and very few IL-1 type I receptors need to be engaged by IL-1 to elicit a cellular response.
Principle of Test Method:
The IL-1ra method is a solid phase ELISA designed to measure IL-1ra in cell culture supernates, serum and plasma. This assay employs the quantitative sandwich enzyme immunoassay technique.
Jacques C, Gosset M, Berenbaum F, et al. The role of IL-1 and IL-1Ra in joint inflammation and cartilage degradation. Vitam Horm.
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Definitions of hollo in various dictionaries:
noun - a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
verb - encourage somebody by crying hollo
verb - cry hollo
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|bDefinitionb of bHOLLOb. 1. used to attract attention (as when a fox is spied during a fox hunt) 2. used as a call of encouragement or jubilation.|
|A cry of "hollo"|
|To cry "hollo"|
|a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)|
|encourage somebody by crying hollo|
|utter a sudden loud cry|
|Hollo, Western Finland, FINLAND|
|Hollo, Mali, GUINEA|
|Hollo, Halab, SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC|
|Hollo, Nordrhein-Westfalen, GERMANY|
|Hollo, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES|
Hollo is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:|
* Anselm Hollo (19342013), Finnish poet and translator
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Like every year, IBM 5 in 5 reveals its predictions for our world in 2018. Passwords will be replaced with devices that learn to identify people, cancer will be individually treated at a DNA level and more.
According to IBM:
The classroom will learn you
The classroom of the future will learn about each individual student over the course of their education, helping them master the skills that match their goals.
Buying local will beat online
The technology trends will move us back to brick and mortar—but with a difference. In the future, retailers will layer increasing levels of engagement and personalization on top of the shopping experience.
Doctors will routinely use your DNA to keep you well
Today, full DNA testing to help make treatment decisions is still rare. But cognitive systems and cloud computing may make this form of treatment mainstream.
A digital guardian will protect you online
Security is evolving from being based on rules, like passwords, to being automatic and made stronger through us just being us. This guardian will have your back, trained to focus on the people and items it is entrusted with based on a 360 degree of an individual’s data.
The city will help you live in it
For citizens, smart phones enabled by cognitive systems will provide a digital key to the city. People can have fingertip access to information about everything that’s happening in the city, whether an experience is right for them.
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q VEL AND q PUP (q Velorum and q Puppis). That's right, lower-case "q,"
which can make it difficult when starting a sentence. The names, q
Velorum and q Puppis, were assigned by that intrepid eighteenth century
explorer of the southern hemisphere, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille
(1713-1762), who lettered the deep southern stars that Bayer could not
see. Within constellations of his own
making, Lacaille first (like Bayer) used Greek
letters, then switched to Roman (but unlike Bayer, upper-case
first, then lower) roughly according to brightness. When he broke the
Great Ship Argo into its three parts (Vela, the Sails, Puppis, the Stern, and Carina, the Keel), the Greek letters went with
them. The Alpha and Beta stars (Canopus and
Miaplacidus) are in Carina, while
Gamma (Regor) is in Vela. Puppis does not
pick one up until Zeta (Naos). The Roman
letters on the other hand are consecutive within the individual
patterns, giving us q Velorum, q Puppis, and q
Carinae. Of the three, at third magnitude (3.40) q Car comes in
first, followed by fourth magnitude (3.85) q Vel then nearly fifth
magnitude (4.45) q Pup. The first two are used in their constellations'
outlines, while q Pup (in a busy part of the Milky
Way four degrees northeast of second magnitude Zeta Pup) is not.
Aside from their names, the three are quite unrelated, q Car a K3 giant, q Vel classed as an A2 dwarf, q Pup as a cooler A7
"giant" (but see below). At distances of 101.4 and 93.4 light years
(give or take just half), the q's presented here have an interesting
tale to tell. We adopt 0.06 magnitudes of interstellar dimming for the former,
zero for the latter. With a temperature of 8950 Kelvin, q Vel radiates
at a luminosity of 24.7 times that of the Sun,
which gives it a radius 2.1 times solar, and a mass of 2.1 Suns. With
a projected equatorial rotation speed of 97 kilometers per second, it
takes under 2.1 days to rotate. Cognate results for q Pup are 7930
Kelvin, 10.5 solar luminosities, 1.7 solar radii, 1.7 solar mass, 121
km/s, and under 0.7 days. Both are fairly young, q Vel and Pup (theory
showing it to be a dwarf) both less than halfway through their
respective hydrogen-fusing lifetimes of roughly 1.0 and 1.8 billion
years. Notice the sensitivity of luminosity to mass. We need only
change the mass a bit (here by a factor of 1.2) and the radiant
luminosity goes up 230 percent. In spite of more hydrogen "fuel,"
higher mass stars burn out faster than those of lower mass, the Sun
from start to finish taking 10 billion years.
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Book Name: 2022 Sura Rice Cake Maker's Handwriting & Practical
Regular price: 20,000 won
Author : Eunjung Kim
Publisher: Knowledge Oreum
Release Date: May 30, 2022
ISBN : 9791191292596
● Features of this book
Includes essential core theories according to the exam criteria
Expected questions for each unit + 3 mock exams, multiple questions included
3 additional mock exams provided when book purchase is verified
Pass the practical exam at once with vivid detailed images & detailed explanations
Intensive explanation of confirmed items
Free lectures for all lectures written by a rice cake maker and written & practical by the author
It contains the know-how gained over many years of teaching.
First, the difficult content is easy! Easy content made easier! Easier content is easier to memorize! I tried to solve the important content repeatedly.
Second, the expected mock exams were made more in-depth based on the previous questions, and included a total of 180 questions in 3 mock exams in preparation for the actual exam, as well as actual questions and explanations.
Third, we created a free online video channel for [Sura Sam's Rice Cake Maker] on Naver Cafe.
It is expected that the certification of a rice cake maker will continue to develop, which contains our traditions and history, and will allow you to study deeply about rice cakes, which have always been with you at important events and ceremonies in the past, and solidify the foundation. I hope that this book will be helpful to all those who are aiming to acquire the national certification as a rice cake maker and enjoy the joy of passing. thank you.
Basic theory of rice cake making
떡류 재료의 이해 18
떡류 제조공정 42
making rice cakes
떡류 만들기 69
떡류 포장 및 보관 90출제예상문제 96
Hygiene and safety management
작업환경 위생관리 144
History and culture of Korean rice cakes
떡의 역사 158
떡 문화 163
Basic knowledge and preparation for the exam
수험자의 지참도구 220
개인위생 및 안전관리 246
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The official documents issued by a national conference of bishops, usually called “pastoral letters”. 5. Pastoral letters issued by a local bishop for his diocese. old, because the faith is always the same yet the source of ever new light.”
What documents does the church issue?
The documents issued by the church were encyclical.
An encyclical was initially a globular letter sent to all the churches of an area in the ancient Roman Church. Encyclicals specify high papal precedence for an issue at a specified time.
What are the papal documents?
Encyclicals are papal letters – the word “encyclical” means “circular letter” – usually addressed to Catholic clergy and the laity and containing the pope’s views on church teachings and doctrine in a particular area.
What are the Church documents?
- Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) …
- Quadragesimo Anno (After Forty Years) – On Reconstruction of the Social Order. …
- Mater et Magistra (On Christianity and Social Progress) …
- Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) …
- Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples) …
- Laborem Exercens (On Human Work)
Which of the following documents is written and published by the popes?
Encyclical, pastoral letter written by the pope for the whole Roman Catholic church on matters of doctrine, morals, or discipline.
What are ecclesiastical documents?
Ecclesiastical letters are publications or announcements of the organs of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical authority, e.g. the synods, but more particularly of pope and bishops, addressed to the faithful in the form of letters.
How many documents did Vatican 2 produce?
There are at least five English translations of the sixteen documents; in addition there are other English translations of individual documents. The variety of ways in which the documents have been dealt with by translators shows the necessity of referring to the authoritative Latin text.
What is an apostolic letter from the pope?
The term Apostolic Letters (Litterae apostolicae in Latin) has two uses in Roman Catholicism: The letters of the Apostles to Christian communities or those in authority, i.e. the Pauline Epistles, the Letter to the Hebrews, together with the seven General Epistles of the other Apostles.
What is a letter written by a pope to explain a religious teaching?
who should select bishops. A______________ is a letter written by a pope to explain a religious teaching or outline a church policy.
What language are encyclicals written in?
The title of an encyclical is the first two words of the document in Latin, the official language in which encyclicals are written.
What are the 3 aspects of Catholic social teaching?
Catholic Social Teaching
- Life and Dignity of the Human Person. …
- Call to Family, Community, and Participation. …
- Rights and Responsibilities. …
- Preferential Option for the Poor. …
- The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers. …
- Solidarity. …
- Care for God’s Creation.
What are the four sources of Catholic social teaching?
Catholic Social Justice Quotes
Learn from the wisdom found in the four sources of NETWORK’s Catholic Social Justice principles: Scripture, Catholic Social Teaching, Catholic Social Tradition, and Lived Realities.
What is the meaning of encyclicals?
: addressed to all the individuals of a group : general. encyclical. noun. Definition of encyclical (Entry 2 of 2) : an encyclical letter specifically : a papal letter to the bishops of the church as a whole or to those in one country.
What three things did Pope Leo’s encyclical state?
The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists three principal aspects of the common good: 1) respect for the human person and his rights; 2) social well-being and development; and 3) peace, “the stability and security of a just order.”
Who is the first woman doctor of the church?
St. Teresa of Ávila was the first of only four women to have been named doctor of the church. Her ascetic doctrine and Carmelite reforms shaped Roman Catholic contemplative life, and her writings on the Christian soul’s journey to God are considered masterpieces.
Which pope died after only thirty three days as pope?
Pope John Paul I
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4th December was the International Day of Banks and while that might not sound like the most electrifying day of celebration, it at least allows us to look at just what is needed to get into a banking career.
Banking jobs are highly sought after, with thousands of students each year choosing subjects that they hope will eventually lead them into a lucrative position.
Your degree options might seem straightforward, but there are several left-field options too. It’s important to remember that certain specialist degrees have a well-trodden path to banking, but these courses might also narrow your options if things change throughout your degree.
If you are “all in” - as they say in poker - with your desire for a banking career, then find something as specific as you can, if not, it might be worth looking for something that will give you plenty of options for the future.
The bottomline is there are numerous routes to a banking job and not one definitive answer. Here are six degrees that can help you get into banking.
Well - duh. This might seem like the most obvious degree, to begin with, but it’s also the one that eventually leads to the most banking positions. However, economics is a much more wide-ranging degree than one that just shovels people towards banking.
An economics degree at a highly-regarded university will likely open all kinds of doors in the financial field, ranging from stockbroker positions to statisticians, from investment banking to accountancy. If you’re not exactly sure what direction you want to pick just yet, economics might be the best middle-ground option. For more information about job possibilities with an economics degree, this article from Essex University gives a good run-down. Also, find the Best Economics Courses in UK
Business is another choice that probably isn’t much of a surprise to those reading, but one that offers something slightly different than economics. While an economics degree gives you a much more complete picture of the entire economic world, a business degree is much more concerned with what would be profitable and feasible. In reality, the two do overlap on many topics, but it is worth bearing in mind.
Business studies courses tend to attract plenty of entrepreneurs which might partly explain why it has risen to be one of the most popular courses in the UK.
A degree in business gives you a comprehensive understanding of the business world and if you dream of opening your own business one day, this might be a good option. And the financial elements of a business degree are a sure-fire way to get the attention of the banking industry.
Short for: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, STEM degrees can be anything from Physics to Engineering, Computer Science to Chemistry.
These are areas that are constantly changing and it can be a truly exhilarating experience studying such topics that seem to be at the cutting edge of so much of what we do today.
Banking might not be the first job choice when you think about a STEM degree, but you would be surprised by how many choose that path. But the great thing about a STEM degree is that you are keeping your options open - wide open!
Biomedical engineering, computer programming and statistics are just a few of the numerous jobs associated with STEM. If eventually, you do choose a banking career, the maths and engineering component of the course will prove invaluable. For more information on your options with a STEM degree, check out Stem Graduates.
This is probably the most specific course you can do if you have a future career in banking in mind. However, the number of available courses is much lower compared to other degrees on this list. This is also the kind, of course, that limits your eventual options when you take it.
While a STEM course can be used for a whole catalogue of professions, a degree in Finance and Investment Banking points you towards a very specific set of jobs.
Maybe that’s exactly what you want. If you have your heart set on investment banking, then why waste your time on courses that involve a considerable number of components not associated with it. If you are 100% sure what you want, then this is the one for you.
Remember back in school when math teachers told you how important maths is in the real world? Well, it turns out they are absolutely correct. Maths might not be one degree you normally associate with banking, but you would be wrong. What may have simply seemed like a lot of equations and triangles at school often plays an enormous role in banking and financial practices.
Financial mathematics is an off-shoot degree that pushes you even further towards the banking sector. By blending an in-depth look at the economic world and the maths that governs so much of our lives without even realising it, this degree offers you a direct route to banking, but also one that doesn’t necessarily slam doors shut along the way.
Financial mathematics can be useful to get into analysis, trading, accounting, consulting and much more. For more information check out this article from the University of South Wales.
Last but by no means least, we come to Engineering. Traditionally when we thought about engineering we tended to think about buildings, bridges - maybe even some kind of mechanics. Not anymore. The field of engineering has changed dramatically over the last twenty years - arguably the course that has seen the biggest changes.
Even the word ‘engineering’ now incorporates a dizzying array of possibilities, including chemical, mechanical, computer and of course financial. Whatsmore, it seems that engineers tend to be highly regarded for their high work ethic and practically, and it's thought that between 10 and 15% of investment banking directors took engineering at university.
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For the sake of convenience, we shall in the following always refer to Å, except where is expressly indicated. * We obtained the primary cadences by observing the latent dynamism of the triad. Dynamically considered, no chord, no cadence is every completely final. Now relations between tones or chords are to be viewed not only dynamically but also hierarchically. " Instead of dynamic trends, we shall consider fixed relations. The two concepts are complementary: dynamism without hierarchy is boundless, hierarchy without dynamism is empty.
The results of number operations (division and multiplication) applied to the string are independent of the existence or nonexistence of parallel natural phenomena. * The two series are reciprocal. Musically, reciprocation means reproducing an interval in the opposite directionan operation clearly distinguished from inversion, which is the reproduction of a tone in the opposite direction. In inversion the interval changes, but the tones remain. In reciprocation, the interval remains, but one of the tones changes.
The system turns to a vertical position, and the tones at once assume the quality of pitch. At the same time, the two triads assume the qualities of major and minor as we know them. Looking at the major triad, we find that nothing has been changed through the influence of gravity. The generator is also the fundamental of the chord. Turning to the minor triad, we notice that generator and fundamental are divorced. Absolute conception and telluric adaptation (symbol +) are in contradiction to each other. | <urn:uuid:b4f1f8b4-63d3-4ef2-9ef6-35d392a23e1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pyfprod.ro/books/a-theory-of-harmony | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.859091 | 808 | 1.890625 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, DC, September 24, 2009
—Preparing for retirement and managing income while in retirement are among the top issues confronting American consumers, according to the 2009 National Consumer Survey on Personal Finance released today by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board). Despite these concerns, however, nearly two thirds of those households do not have a written financial plan.
CFP Board’s survey of 1,742 consumers shows that 51 percent of the respondents listed building a retirement fund as one of their most important financial concerns. Managing retirement income was cited in 40 percent of the responses. Other top pressing issues for consumers were generating current income (59 percent), providing health insurance coverage (55 percent) and managing or reducing current debt (53 percent).
Despite the personal finance concerns cited by the survey respondents, nearly two-thirds (64 percent), did not have a written financial plan in place. Only 17 percent indicated that they have a written plan in place and update the plan regularly.
Those consumers who do have a written financial plan in place feel strongly about the benefits of having a plan. Among those consumers who have developed a plan without the assistance of a financial professional, 48 percent said they benefitted from the written plan. The recognized benefits of having a plan increases significantly for consumers who used the services of a financial adviser to develop a plan, with 65 percent of those individuals saying a written plan is beneficial.
“Clearly, those consumers who have a financial plan in place have a higher degree of confidence that their finances are in order,” said Kevin R. Keller, CEO of CFP Board. “These people believe that the intervention of a financial planner positively influences their ability to achieve their financial goals.”
The goals that motivated consumers to seek professional assistance varied by the respondents’ education level. For example, among households that have a written financial plan in place, 17 percent of individuals whose formal education ended before or during high school cited the need for retirement planning. Of those who attended, but did not complete, college, 22 percent cited retirement planning. Of those who completed college, 61 percent cited retirement goals.
The goals that motivated consumers to seek professional assistance also varied by the respondents’ income level. Savings was the most frequently cited financial planning need among those making $50,000 or less a year (24 percent). In contrast, among those earning $50,000 to $100,000 a year, retirement planning was cited by 48 percent of the respondents, and savings goals was cited by 47 percent.
“These results tell us that Americans of every type of background and income level think carefully about their assets and how to improve their financial state,” said Eleanor Blayney, CFP®
, consumer advocate for CFP Board. “We also see that many lack an understanding that everyone can benefit from having a financial plan, regardless of one’s wealth or social status.”
Respondents who did not have a written financial plan cited a number of reasons for not preparing one, including: their finances were not that complicated, expense of engaging a financial professional, do their own financial planning on an informal basis, they get along fine without a financial plan, and confusion over the qualifications of financial intermediaries. Forty percent indicated they were not aware of any credential for financial professionals.
Those people who used a financial professional when developing their written financial plan put a premium on ethics and practice standards (89 percent and 87 percent, respectively), as well as enforcement of those standards (80 percent). All survey respondents had high recognition of those financial intermediaries who hold credentials representing high ethical and practice standards that are actively enforced. Respondents had the greatest awareness of those identified as Certified Public Accountants. CFP®
certification had the next greatest level of awareness, at 28 percent.
The results of the survey can be found at: www.CFP.net/downloads/CFP_Board_2009_National_Consumer_Survey.pdf.
About CFP Board: The mission of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is to benefit the public by granting the CFP® certification and upholding it as the recognized standard of excellence for personal financial planning. The Board of Directors, in furthering CFP Board’s mission, acts on behalf of the public, CFP® certificants and other stakeholders. CFP Board owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and federally registered CFP (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board's initial and ongoing certification requirements. CFP Board currently authorizes more than 60,000 individuals to use these marks in the United States. For more about CFP Board, visit www.CFP.net.
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At last somebody was doing something about the massacres in Rwanda. France ordered 2,500 troops to the region last week in Operation Turquoise, a rescue mission that appeared to be a generous act of humanitarian good will. For troubled consciences in Europe and America, French action came as a relief; the Western democracies have watched in horror as vast atrocities swept Bosnia, Rwanda and other countries, but they've blanched at the prospect of intervening themselves. Nowhere has the guilt hung heavier than over France, where a political party even took its name from the Yugoslav conflict: Europe Begins at Sarajevo. So last week the French were enjoying their high moral ground. "If we can save one child, it will be worth it," said Defense Minister Francois Leotard.
The French soldiers may save lives. But more likely they will prove to be precisely the wrong group to police the bitter Rwandan conflict. The French have long supported the Hutus, who have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis in recent months. From 1990 to 1993 France sent weapons and advisers to prop up the Hutu-dominated government, and Western diplomats say that French military advisers actually joined the front lines to help stave off Tutsi rebels who came within 25 miles of the capital, Kigali, early last year. Critics even charge that the French trained Rwandan death squads, known as the Zero Network. In other words, the French are no honest brokers. "We will consider French soldiers on our soil as invaders," warned Jacques Bihozagara, the European representative for the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the Tutsi-dominated rebel movement that appears to be winning the civil war.
France claims that its current operation in Rwanda is purely humanitarian. But the French are old hands at self-interested meddling in Africa, which has four times as many French-speakers as France itself. To preserve their sphere of influence, they have intervened in nine African countries since 1962, often in support of unsavory pro-French regimes. The Rwandan rebels, who speak mostly English, believe Paris might help the Hutus, partly because they're Francophones.
Operation Turquoise has a very limited scope. French troops will patrol only in western Rwanda, and many will remain at base camps in neighboring Zaire. Leotard said the mission would terminate by August. Both the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity are trying to assemble a peacekeeping force, but it may not be deployed by the time the French depart. Even if they accomplish something, the French will face the same problem as the U.S. forces who left Somalia earlier this year: no one to take over the mission.
France's intervention seems to have been inspired mainly by its lame-duck socialist president. Francois Mitterrand, whose term ends next May, is tweaking Bill Clinton with the notion that France plays a high-minded, activist role in rescue operations -- by implication, America does not. The Rwanda mission could well be Mitterrand's final flourish. "He is thinking of his place in history," says a French official. But France's interference could actually escalate the fighting by making the suspicious Tutsi rebels more aggressive than ever. If so, the grand French gesture will have made the world more shy of foreign adventures, not less. | <urn:uuid:4ef3d774-34c3-4b59-9627-966a07ee8242> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newsweek.com/nice-idea-wrong-army-189928 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00538-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966855 | 679 | 2.1875 | 2 |
We come together as black feminists to commemorate Stuart Hall who died on 10 February, 2014.
We come together as black feminists to commemorate Stuart Hall who died on 10 February, 2014.
Suzanne: I first heard Stuart Hall speak in the early 1980s, when he gave the keynote speech for the Norman Manley Memorial Association, in London. He was speaking as a Jamaican, to an audience that included members of the Jamaican establishment representing their country abroad. He spoke about arriving here in 1951, as a Rhodes Scholar and about his deep discomfort at being a beneficiary of Sir Cecil Rhodes’s accumulated wealth. As a young member of colonial Jamaica’s elite, the immediate experience was, no doubt one of pride and relief – at his escape. I have since seen a copy of the Jamaica Gleaner, where the ‘scholarship boy’ is pictured on the front page, shortly before his departure. Of course no mention was made of the irony of the scholarship’s origins. I was struck during Stuart’s talk by his candid manner and how his calm engagement produced a growing awareness among this audience who, as supporters of the Manley dynasty, were committed anti-colonialists but who were also socially conservative. More crucially, they were, as now, bound to a belief in the integrity of British institutions. His unveiling of this scholarship, which benefited so many Commonwealth leaders and intellectuals, was also an unveiling of the institutions that continue the economic, cultural and ideological dependencies of the ex-colonies.
It is true that meeting or seeing Stuart Hall in action was like a spa for the soul as much as the mind. Yet we also meet Stuart when we read, teach, debate his ideas, or listen and watch him in the many audio-visual recordings that survive him. Listen to his conversation with the sociologist Les Back or his Desert Island Disks and you will hear his sonorous warmth and keen wit – some of the many highlights of hearing Stuart speak. Something we will miss.
Nirmal: Stuart Hall’s voice and ideas first engaged me as a teenager in the early hours of the morning, when during his Open University TV broadcasts, he presented a sharp analysis of culture, society and power. I was an eager A-Level sociology student on a passionate journey, discovering a new ‘language’ of social critique; a language that was helping me – a British Asian teenager – to reflect on and question the world around me. I met Stuart in person as an MA student at Sussex University. A few of my classmates had heard that he was delivering a OU summer school lecture. We slipped into the lecture hall and heard him give an extremely clear explication of the intersections of race, gender and class. I had by then already encountered intersectional thought from the work of black feminists: Angela Davis, Bell Hooks, Sojourner Truth, Avtar Brah, the Cohambee River Collective, Issue 17 of Feminist Review, Southall Black Sisters, OWAAD and the collection The Heart of the Race. This was well before intersectionality became a mantra. There can be little doubt that to hear the words of these black feminists from a black male scholar, who delivered them with such challenging and analytic precision, shored up much needed support for black feminist struggles.
A vibrant presence, Stuart wore his expansive knowledge lightly. He wasn’t show-offy or undermining, as many intellectuals can be. If he was at home in an auditorium speaking to hundreds of people, he was equally adept at making himself small, to listen and coax out the stories of others. Stuart’s interview with C.L.R. James is spellbinding not only because of the terrific tales and wisdom elicited so gently from James but also because of Stuart’s rapt attention.
Gargi: On the picket line a colleague checks his phone and with obvious shock announces ‘Stuart Hall has died’. I am not a personal friend, but I felt that sick kick of loss. I carry on the picket with a nauseous weight in my stomach. If I am honest, there are many (many) scholars who I read with pleasure and admiration – but whom I do not wish to meet in person. There are a few that I have hidden from, in order to preserve the pleasures of the written text. As a tribe, we may be smart, even entertaining, but we are not always so nice to be around. Stuart Hall was a welcome reminder of the possibility of academia’s better self, the one where we remember to be kind and welcoming and to nurture new ideas and people. The one where we don’t forget that learning is a project that is personal, political and collective. I am grateful for the lesson – from Stuart’s writing and life – that intellectual endeavour is also a matter of how we conduct ourselves, as citizens, as comrades, as teachers and as colleagues in the widest and most embracing sense. It is a hard lesson to learn and to follow, but I, and so many others, draw on Stuart Hall to sustain the daily effort of trying and failing again.
Drawing upon European social theory – the likes of Antonio Gramsci, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault – as well as black scholars such as Franz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Stuart transported ideas to new audiences and social events. He had an eye for discerning huge schemes of power playing out behind the cultural curtains of ordinary life, from the racialised moral panic surrounding ‘mugging’ in the early 1970s to the screwed-up consumerism of neo-liberal consumption and the scramble for trainers in FootLocker in the 2011 urban riots.
Pratibha: I first met Stuart Hall at a party in Birmingham, encouraged by my friend Hazel Downing, a student at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, who knew I was deeply unhappy at another university. Within minutes of talking to Stuart about my research on the intersections of race, class and gender and Asian women workers in the UK he had invited me to come to CCCS. The fact that my research was grounded in my personal experience as the daughter of an immigrant mother who worked in a sweat shop and the fact that I was involved in the anti-racist movement were welcomed rather than being seen as a hindrance. My activist experience and biography became legitimate tools in the formation of my intellectual practice thanks to Stuart. Meeting Stuart was a major turning point in my life. At CCCS I found a ‘family’ of kindred spirits – Valerie Amos, Hazel Carby, Paul Gilroy, Errol Lawrence. As part of the Race and Politics group we co-wrote and edited a collection of essays, The Empire Strikes Back, Race & Racism in the 70’s Britain. This and other ground-breaking work could not have been written without Stuart’s intellectual and political leadership. Stuart’s precious gift to me is that he embraced an Asian woman with a youthful and naïve desire to understand who she was in the context of a racist culture shaped by a colonial history. "Miles Davis put his finger on my soul and it never went away,” Stuart Hall once said when talking about the blues maestro. Similarly now more than ever we need Stuart’s legacy not only to survive but to thrive for generations to come.
Stuart’s mentorship and collaboration with young people, extended to black artists, photographers and filmmakers, allowing him to pursue a longstanding interest in using representation to explore and subvert fixed ideas about identity. As he articulated it in the 1989 essay ‘New Ethnicities’ what was needed was ‘a change from a struggle over the relations of representation to the politics of representation itself.’ New Ethnicities dispelled any fantasy of a unified black experience, illuminating the diaspora as a hybrid of different histories and experiences, thick with paradoxes and inflections. As Stuart once put it, if we were to ask anyone where s/he is from, we should expect a long story.
Sara: I have been thinking of texts as companions. There are certain texts I carry with me wherever I go. I keep them near, so I can pick them up. Stuart Hall’s “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” has been one such companion text. I first read it in the first year of my PhD at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff. I had come from Australia to Wales (I chose Wales as a way of not choosing England, not coming to the country I had been taught to describe as the mother country). I was reading so many texts, as you do. I enjoyed them; I talked with and through them; I had arguments over coffee with my fellow students about them. They were like things I picked up, in order to put them down, so I could move on to the next, ready to repeat the process again. But Cultural Identity and Diaspora made a connection that has stayed with me, wherever I go, as an academic but also as a person. And it mattered because the ideas presented came home. Stuart’s description of identity as a site of struggle, culture as something alive and dynamic, made so much sense not only as an argument about something but as a making sense of the world I was in; of where I found myself. It allowed me to think of how my own experience as a daughter of a Pakistani migrant, who was brought up in a mixed family in a very white part of Australia. It taught me to think from that experience about identity; it taught me to appreciate how some of my own experiences gave me the ground to do intellectual work. Companion texts are homing devices, ways of reorientating our relation to our homes, ways of returning home, ways of moving home.
On the page or in life, Stuart Hall’s words have this uncanny way of sometimes rising up, tapping you on the shoulder and speaking to you directly – ‘Hey you there!’ as one of Stuart’s often quoted theorists, Louis Althusser, described how we can be hailed and pulled into identifications through ‘interpellation’. Stuart’s belief that identity is a process; a social and psychic journey without a pre-known destination, helped him to forge alliances between different disciplines and people.
Stuart Hall and his New Left Review comrades
Pat: I never had the pleasure of meeting Stuart Hall, but I think that without him it would have been much more difficult to imagine how I could be a black academic in Britain and maintain the qualities that are important to me as an African Caribbean woman – warmth, humour and a commitment to engage with the harsh realities of everyday lives. All of these qualities were epitomised for me on the one occasion when I saw Stuart speak. It was at a public gathering at the Nottingham Playhouse about fifteen years ago. The auditorium was packed out with academics and people that I recognised from much more localised forums in Hyson Green. Even though he was not in the best of health and had to sit throughout, Stuart filled the auditorium with laughter and thoughtful concentration. He managed to be both inclusive and challenging to the wide range of identities and agendas that people brought with them. Stuart Hall’s long demonstration of the potential of academic work to both attract and challenge a range of publics is his abiding legacy to all academics.
Stuart wrote not only widely but most often in collaboration with others. His work for journals such as the New Left Review and Soundings, his teaching materials for the Open University, and his partnership with arts foundations such as Autograph ABP ignited diverse conversations. He is one of the few sociologists (probably the only one) who has both been a President of the British Sociological Association and overseen the building of an arts project, as Chair of INIVA at Rivington Place in East London, which now holds talks, exhibitions and the Stuart Hall Library.
But it is important not to romanticise the ‘accessibility’ of Stuart’s work. Although he could communicate ideas clearly and without jargon, his academic writing was what Roland Barthes would call a ‘writerly text’, demanding effort from the reader.
Yasmin: On Monday morning, before we had heard about Stuart’s death, I was in a small tutorial with undergraduates. We were discussing Hall’s 1996 essay “Who Needs Identity?” It’s a hard read. We looked at certain ideas close-up. What’s is a Foucauldian discourse? Why is he leaving Foucault here and turning to psychoanalytic feminism? There was some stabbing in the dark. At one point we had to draw on the white board. Slowly, some of the struggle with the text gave way to one of those ‘Aha!’ moments. Layers of imagination and life were released, along with the realization that it’s OK not to understand everything; that part of the excitement and enchantment of learning comes with the mystery and the haze – the head that hurts. One student spoke “This essay, the way he writes, there’s fun there too, is that right?” She was so right.
Stuart’s ways of theorising diasporic flows, social systems of class inequality and neo-liberalism, or everyday visual economies of race and sexuality were an on-going and witty quarrel with determinism in its many forms. His lyrical insistence that it is a worked for and endlessly discovered connectivity, rather than an easy, organic commonality that we need to strive for, has been a backdrop and a steer for our racialised understanding of feminisms. At the same time, Stuart’s personal support of colleagues and students, artists and activists was consistent and real.
Vera: I met Stuart Hall for the first time at the Open University’s Summer School in 1980. A (very) mature student, I was doing the OU’s Social Sciences course in the hope of preparing myself to apply for a Sociology degree. Even more than the brilliance of his lectures and the encouragement he later gave me, what drew me to Stuart was how attuned he could be to people’s interests and feelings. In one of the very first classes, he was showing images/photos and we were supposed to raise our hand if we felt the image represented an instance of violence. One of the images showed several small children playing in the tiny balcony of a flat in a council estate. I immediately raised my hand – the only student to do so – and Stuart’s comment was: “Yes, you would, wouldn’t you?” How did he know, so early on, that I was someone who regarded poverty as violence? I never forgot that and I am glad I had the chance to tell him this when we got to know each other better.
Ann: Since Stuart has died, one strong, perhaps surprising, memory keeps replaying for me. It comes from being on a range of appointment panels and seeing how often two, or even three applicants put Stuart down as one of their referees. This strikes me as metonymic of Stuart’s contribution to academic life as an intellectual luminary but also as someone who was amiable and trusted. No-one risks asking for a reference if they have doubts or fears that a senior person’s asperity or insecurity might sour what needs to be a positive testimonial. Most important, these experiences reinforced my understanding of Stuart’s deep integrity and intellectual facility. He always produced references on time and he wrote no platitudes, presenting evaluations that showed his engagement with the field and a person’s contribution to it. Early career and senior colleagues alike were correct in believing that he knew their work, understood it in context and valued it and them. My admiration for this skill and generosity in taking time to give other scholars’ work a fillip is only one reason that I will miss him.
‘We are here, because you were there’ was both a popular activist credo and a point of analysis from which Stuart unearthed the interdependencies that underlie postcolonial and multicultural social formations. As we remember Stuart Hall as black feminists we also remember that intellectual and political struggle is always about inheritance and collaboration. We are here because he was there.
Sara Ahmed, Professor in Race and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, writes for Media Diversified
Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor of Social Sociology, University of East London
Yasmin Gunaratnam, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, writes for Media Diversified
Vera Jocelyn, Translator and writer, Brazil
Patricia Noxolo, Lecturer in Human Geography, Birmingham University
Pratibha Parmar, Writer/Director/Producer, London & San Francisco
Ann Phoenix, Professor of Social and Developmental Psychology, Institute of Education
Nirmal Puwar, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College
Suzanne Scafe, Reader in Caribbean and Post-colonial Literature, Southbank University
Stuart McPhail Hall 3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014
This piece was curated by Yasmin Gunaratnam for Media Diversified. First published there on 14 February 2014.
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Guilty of murder
THE fifth time was lucky for the Michigan prosecutors. On March 26th a jury found Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Thomas Youk, a Michigan man suffering from the advanced stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. On four previous occasions, Mr Kevorkian, who says he has helped more than 130 patients kill themselves, had been tried on charges of assisted suicide. In three of those cases he was found not guilty. A fourth case ended in a mistrial.
This case was different. To begin with, Dr Kevorkian administered the lethal drugs himself rather than getting his patient to activate a “suicide machine”, as he has in the past. The event was carefully orchestrated to move the public debate from doctor-assisted suicide to euthanasia. Dr Kevorkian videotaped his fatal bedside activities and offered the tape to the CBS news programme “60 Minutes”. Last November, millions of viewers watched as Dr Kevorkian sedated Youk, injected him with a muscle relaxant to stop his breathing and then stopped his heart with potassium chloride. “This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened,” Dr Kevorkian explained to his “60 Minutes” interviewer.
Prosecutors asked the jury to find Dr Kevorkian guilty of first-degree murder, a crime that carries a mandatory life sentence in Michigan. Dr Kevorkian, who has no formal legal training, acted as his own defence lawyer. (His former lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, has found more lucrative work. After being trounced in a race for governor of Michigan in November, he is now pursuing a $50m lawsuit against the owners of the “Jenny Jones” show on behalf of the family of a man who was killed after revealing his sexual fantasy for another man on the show.)
By all accounts, Dr Kevorkian's courtroom performance was bumbling. His only two defence witnesses, both relatives of the victim, were disallowed because they planned to testify that Youk wanted to die; the consent of the victim cannot be used as a defence for murder in Michigan. Indeed, prosecutors made a calculated gamble by dropping the lesser charge of assisted suicide, which would have allowed testimony about the victim's pain and suffering. But legal experts doubt whether a better lawyer would have changed much. The facts of the case were never in dispute; Dr Kevorkian, on videotape, administered the fatal drugs.
Jurors balked at sending him to jail for life. Instead, they exercised their prerogative to find the doctor guilty of second-degree murder, which requires no evidence of premeditation and carries a minimum sentence of ten years in prison and a maximum of 25. Dr Kevorkian, whose medical licence was suspended long ago, was also convicted of delivering a controlled substance, which carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
Americans are divided in their opinion of Dr Kevorkian's services. An ABC News poll found that 55% of Americans disagree with the Kevorkian verdict, compared with 39% who agree. A poll last year showed similar numbers on the more general question of doctor-assisted suicide. Democrats are slightly more likely to favour rather than oppose it; Republicans are split almost evenly on the issue.
Dr Kevorkian is free on bail until he is sentenced later this month. What he will do in the meantime is anyone's guess.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Guilty of murder"
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Five-judge Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoiand Justices Ashok Bhushan, D Y Chandrachud, Sharad Arvind Bobde and SA Nazeer delivered its historic judgement on Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid land dispute case. It unanimously declared that the land belonged to Ram Mandir.
What was the historic judgement?
Chief Justice RajanGogoi led bench ordered that the entire disputed land measuring went to 2.77-acres to Hindus for Ram Mandir but the bench also said that Muslims would get 5-acres of alternate land. The decision was just the opposite of Allahabad High Court verdict of 2010.
What was the Allahabad High Court verdict?
Allahabad High Court on September 30, 2010 ruled that the 2.77-acres of disputed land be divided into three equal parts and given to Hindu Maha Sabha that represents Ram Lalla, Sunni Waqf Board and Nirmohi Akhara. But the High Court admitted that the disputed land was the birthplace of Rama and that the Babri Masjid was built on the ruins of the Hindu temple.
Highlights of the SC ruling
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At Les Chemins de Traverse we explore ways of "augmenting" acoustical musical instruments with new sonic possibilities offered by computers. For doing so, we need ultra-low latency real-time audio processing programs. Pretty much the typical situation where python should not be used, right? Wrong. As it happens, that's exactly what we've been doing for the past few years.
Building on Olivier Belanger's wonderful pyo module and (ab)using python's flexibility, we developed custom software to allow us to express our musical ideas.
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By Andrew Gobin, photos by Francesca Hillery
The nuisance in the back yard known for its annoying sting and pungent earthy smell, nettle is not the most desirable flora of the Pacific Northwest. For northwest tribes, however, nettle is a cultural and traditional staple. The Rediscovery Program at the Hibulb Cultural Center began their spring harvest of nettle sprouts March 12th, working to reintroduce the use of nettle into the community and continuing the revitalization of our culture.
Inez Bill, who has spent the last ten years learning about how to use nettle, harvested nettle sprouts on the bluff above Arcadia on the Tulalip Reservation. Derek Houle, who has been involved with the culture program for most of his life, and Lauw-Ya Spencer, who became involved in 2012 through the summer youth program, joined Bill as they gathered the sprouts to use in the rediscovery program. They then process the nettle sprouts for use in foods and preserve some nettle for continued use throughout the year.
“Nettle was a staple for our people for hundreds of years,” explained Bill, “It has tremendous health benefits. For food you have to harvest the sprouts in the spring, or in the summer you can harvest the tops of the nettle, the stock gets too hard. Here at the museum we have expanded the uses. We make nettle tea and different flavored lemonades with nettle tea. We also have created Hibulb Bread, which is like buckskin bread, only more healthy and nutritional.”
Bill and her husband, the late Hank Gobin, learned to harvest and prepare nettle and other traditional flora from Valerie Segrest, Elise Krohn, and the late Bruce Miller, whose dedicated themselves to cultural revitalization and educating about traditional flora. Bringing that knowledge to the rediscovery program, Bill continues their work in revitalizing traditional plant use. As a girl, Bill’s elders instilled in her the respect and reverence for these traditional plants as foods and as medicines and she hands down those teachings throughout the rediscovery program. She also gets creative, incorporating nettle into many recipes.
“The Hibulb bread is diabetic friendly. It is made with ground almond meal instead of flour, and without salt or sugar. Ground nettle is added, but we had to play around with how much was the right amount.” said Bill.
A true superfood, nettle is packed with nutrients. It can be ground up and added to almost any dish for a healthy boost. The cultural center makes a seasoning, ground nettle for recipe ingredients, blanched and frozen nettle for later in the year, nettle stock, nesto (nettle pesto), and so much more. As a cultural staple, beyond food, nettle was traditionally made into twine and nets, it is one of the stronger natural twines.
To learn more about the rediscovery program, or to participate in activities, contact Inez Bill at the Hibulb Cultural Center at (360) 716-2638.
Nutrients of nettle mg/100g (About 1 Cup)
- Calcium 2900
- Magnesium 860
- Iron 41.8
- Potassium 1750
- Vitamin A 18,700 AU
- Vitamin C 83
- Thiamine .54
- Riboflavin .43
- Niacin 5.2
- Chromium 3.9
- Cobalt 13.2
- Phosphorus 447
- Zinc 4.7
- Manganese 860
- Selenium 2.2
- Sodium 4.9
- Protein 16.5%
Andrew Gobin is a reporter with the See-Yaht-Sub, a publication of the Tulalip Tribes Communications Department.
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The prestigious country estate at Overbury is situated on the southern lower slopes of Bredon Hill, an Oolitic limestone outlier of the Cotswold Hills. Silver Rill Pond, fed from springs, issuing from the limestone lies within the beautiful landscaped gardens of Silver Rill House. Built in 1740 the house was originally a mill powered by the stream and associated pond.
The management of the pond has been problematic for a number of years. The pond, located on the horizon between the limestone and lias clay was originally excavated in the hillside, the excavated material being utilised to form the dam. The latter has periodically overtopped, particularly during the major flood event in 2007 and evidence of slippage required remedial works to safeguard the structure.
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This article is a very interesting, possibly controversial, read: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20070622-000002.xml
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Interesting, indeed. What I find the most interesting, is that the "Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature" they picked out, and you called potentially controversial, are all about se x(sorry for avoiding the filter here). I'm not going to commit hate here, but I'm pointing a big finger at religion.
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After going through so many evasive, imaginary pages of psychology, I come across some truth here!
Truth is truth- no matter how hard you try to ignore it, it will relentless show you are wrong, it is right.
I read and skimmed and read and skimmed.
I didn't read carefully enough to make any comments.
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Originally posted by Mr Headshot
I thought it was a generally accepted fact that the scandanavians were here before the other Europeans?
This is still neat, but I didn't think this was still a point which needed proving...
In case you didn't know, that won't enrich your bank account either!
Originally posted by Hanslune
Yep the Norse were bouncing around the NE corner of NA for a century or two and Greenlander are thought to have continued to have come to Labrador for wood once the colonization attempt had failed.
One is talking very small numbers and limited contact-AFAIK
Vikings in Nunavut?
Find may indicate medieval Norse presence on Baffin Island
One of Canada's top Arctic archeologists says the remnants of a stone-and-sod wall unearthed on southern Baffin Island may be traces of a shelter built more than 700 years ago by Norse seafarers — a stunning find that would be just the second location in the New World with evidence of a Viking-built structure. www.canada.com...
The theory is a controversial one. University of Waterloo archeologist Robert Park recently challenged the dating of artifacts and Sutherland's interpretations of evidence in a paper published by the journal Antiquity.
Originally posted by AlienEyes
When we say someone 'discovered' such-and-such, it is a relative statement. For example, who discovered North America? The first people to step foot upon it's shores of course. So who was that exactly? Most likely the discoverers were Asians because that is the genetic trail leading backwards from the natives of North America.
To help settle the question, samples from deep within the walls of the tower were subjected to carbon-14 dating, which revealed that the mortar hardened (a process that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere) around 1680.
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Has anyone here heard of the kenewick man. These skeletal remains although not confirmed as that of scandanavian decent they were not decended from native americans either. The amazing thing is that they were dated as being around 8,000 years old. | <urn:uuid:8fa00a44-fd90-4233-a1b9-212a2f501d8a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread490231/pg8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00291-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969233 | 494 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Our main subject with this study was to observe and evaluate how the health clinics in Tanzania follow the national guidelines for antenatal care. During a 6 week period in the summer of 2003 we visited four antenatal clinics in Moshi town, Kilimanjaro region.We performed the study through observation and participating in the daily routines and data collection from registration books and delivery books. Background information and theory was found in literature and search in PubMed.
The general impression of the health personal performing the antenatal controls was impressive. They showed good knowledge and great experience, despite limited resources.The lack of equipment is the main reason why the national guidelines are not satisfactory followed. Improvement could easily be done by getting urine sticks, Hb measurement, tests for blood typing, syphilis and HIV. | <urn:uuid:bf0e96f2-0c38-4881-aaf6-d9048ca9a347> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/29038 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00366-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943186 | 157 | 1.914063 | 2 |
’t Got Time To Bleed Essay, Research Paper I AIN’T GOT TIME TO BLEED By: Jesse “The Body” Ventura In this book Jesse Ventura talks about when he was a Navy SEAL, being a pro wrestler, and his political career. It is a very interesting book because you learn about the real Jesse Ventura and understand his views a lot better.
’t Got Time To Bleed Essay, Research Paper
I AIN’T GOT TIME TO BLEED
By: Jesse “The Body” Ventura
In this book Jesse Ventura talks about when he was a Navy SEAL, being a pro wrestler, and his political career. It is a very interesting book because you learn about the real Jesse Ventura and understand his views a lot better.
After he graduated from high school Jesse Ventura and a friend of his went to the Navy Recruiting office and signed up because they both wanted to become SEALs. When they went to basic training each part of the Navy presented their division to them so that they could choose which part of the Navy they wanted to be a part of. When the SEALs came they showed a video then whoever wanted to try out for the SEALs could stay and take some tests. After him and his friend passed the test they went back to basic training. After basic they had to go to BUDS to train to be a SEAL. Finally after they graduated from BUDS they got sent over to Vietnam. During their four years in the Navy SEALs they had to do two nine month tours overseas.
Jesse’s hero was the pro wrestler “Superstar” Billy Graham, so when he got discharged from the Navy he trained to become a pro wrestler and dyed his hair to look like Billy Graham. He started working for regional promotions down South then moved around into all different territories in the United States. Then Vince McMahon lured him to the WWF up north. A few months after Jesse went with the WWF most of the regional promotions were put out of business by the WWF. The end of Jesse’s career came soon after he was hospitalized with pulmonary emboli. After that Vince McMahon asked Jesse to be the first heel(bad guy) commentator in wrestling to take the side of all the heels in the matches. The end of Ventura’s relationship with the WWF came when Jesse found out he was being ripped off on royalties from videos McMahon was selling of him. So Jesse decided that he was going to sue Vince McMahon to get the royalties that he missed out on and to collect future royalties.
He also talks about how he got into politics and gives his views on a number of issues. When he was living in Brooklyn Park, MN he felt that his city government was corrupted. So he decided to run for mayor to try and make a change. He got elected mayor and began to try to change everything that he felt was wrong. After his first term he decided not to seek reelection. Later he noticed that Minnesota had a huge surplus and instead of giving it back to the tax payers they decided they were going to spend it on more stuff. So Ventura got mad and decided to run for Governor. During the campaign Hillary Clinton came to Minnesota and said that a vote for Ventura was a waste of a vote, that upset Jesse and he made some comments about her and Bill. Then in 1998 Jesse Ventura shocked the political experts when he beat Norm Coleman and Skip Humphrey for the Governor’s office.
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When we talk about choosing a career path, most of us don’t know the basic things to consider and that is why you see so many of us moving in the wrong direction in life.
I asked a few people about the things they would consider before choosing a career path, and almost all of them prioritized high salary. Funny enough they failed to mention the most important thing on the list.
Although considering your salary is one of the things on the list of things to consider while choosing a career path, that is not the ultimate.
We have three terms to classify based on the title: choice, career, and path. The choice is the internal method of weighing the advantages and disadvantages of various choices and choosing one of them for intervention. Easy examples include choosing whether or not to read this post.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a career is a person’s path or progression in life (or a distinct portion of life).
It is commonly regarded as remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education). A profession is commonly viewed as a series of successive circumstances that comprise a person’s occupation. The path is the direction that you use to get to your destination.
Below are the factors you need to consider before choosing a career path
Every one of us possesses a talent; an innate skill or temperament. You should aim for something that you love performing and something you can do well without any rehearsal or tutelage. Consider a student who enjoys music but is required to learn medicine.
Your career future can not be determined solely by the courses you take at university. When you continue to use your abilities, you will eventually become a kind of genius. You can learn knowledge and related skills along the way. Competence is what you have mastered. Add skills to your strengths, and you’ve got yourself a lucrative and rewarding future!
What is the most important thing to you as a person? Your ideals serve as the emotional foundation for everything you do. Satisfying jobs are founded on a strong alignment of professional ideals and the job itself.
Cash, being your own boss, travel, independence, service to society, advancement, strength, hard work, friendliness, personal development, status, imagination, and adventure are examples of values.
For eg, if you are looking for a career that is full of fun, this is the job for you. It is preferable to have moral beliefs and they will contribute to positive improvements in culture. In the long term, the ideals should add value.
What is it that you like doing so much that you almost feel bad being paid to do it? What piques your interest? What is your favorite pastime? Your hobby will also include a hint. What are your other interests? What are your strong likes and dislikes?
Your fantasies will also influence your future. Can you still see yourself riding a plane or bringing in social change? If you want to be a doctor, there is a course you should take.
THE GOD FACTOR
We can’t escape the fact that God has a plan for our lives. If you were not given the chance to chose your parents, complexion, height, or day of birth, it is wise to acknowledge your Creator. He loves you from the inside out and knows that the true ability will be realized.
Personal development is important regardless of the career path. Read books, listen to talks, tweets, and meetings that can help you become more productive. And if you are actually working one or more jobs to hold your body and soul together, you can still intend to turn your true passion into a profession.
Choosing a career path is not something you will always rush into, there are actually other factors to consider while choosing a career path, but then, these five listed above are the major things you have to look out for while choosing a career path
In picking a job, it may seem like a cliche, but it’s crucial to consider your own well-being. A significant portion of your waking hours is spent at work. It’s possible to find a job that makes you happy and makes you want to go to work each day. To have a successful job in the future, you need to take advantage of opportunities to follow your interests. It’s crucial to take advantage of chances to pursue what you love if you ever have them, since not everyone has that luxury.
There are many ways to find happiness, so don’t be afraid to explore new things. We don’t know. You could be content if you choose a career in the beauty industry. Meet new individuals and encourage them to feel better about themselves. Helping others may have a positive impact on your own well-being.
Attitude to work:
When working in the same setting, people’s reactions vary. It’s important to consider your work attitude while deciding on a career route. If you have a good outlook on work and can handle pressure, you may choose to pursue a more demanding and rewarding job or profession. Choosing a career path that is less stressful but still rewarding for you is the better option if you are the sort that cannot handle a lot of pressure, whether it’s from your family or your own nature.
You can’t be who you are without a strong sense of self-identity. Your personality reveals your thoughts, feelings, and actions to others. You should take your personality into account while deciding on a career path.
Your Work Style
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to the way people operate. While some people flourish under deadlines and discipline, others do better when left to their own devices. Decide on a job choice that fits your personality and your preferred working conditions.
Level of education
As long as it is still required and vital for you to earn such a degree, as it would provide you an advantage over a competition whenever the need for advancement comes, your level or degree of education is crucial in your career path. There are certain occupations that need a degree, while others may just require you to master the skills you need while working your way up the corporate ladder via on-the-the-job training. Whatever the case may be, having some level of formal education is critical.
Balance your needs and desires to get the best of both worlds. Another thing to think about is where you live. A city-based employment with a lengthy commute isn’t ideal for those who don’t like the noise and bustle of city life. Similarly, if you thrive in a fast-paced urban environment, you may not want to choose a job that requires you to work from home. But be careful not to put yourself in a bind! Keep in mind that persons are nuanced and those personality traits exist on a continuum.
For those who like working with others, it’s important to examine the workplace’s social atmosphere. Extroverts, on the other hand, require a lot more stimulus than introverts. Make an effort to choose a profession that meets your social aspirations.
Be open to new experiences! As a professional, you may benefit from new experiences. Trying new activities might demonstrate to potential employers that you are self-motivated and versatile.
Make a list of the most important things to you as you contemplate your professional future. Work-life balance may be achieved in a variety of ways. What are your priorities? Are you motivated by the prospect of a successful career in a certain field? It is possible to determine your own working hours as a self-employed beauty practitioner. You may also be able to exert greater influence over your profession and company. Prioritization may save you a ton of time and money in the long run!
If you’re considering a profession, this is the most apparent consideration. A profession or job description with a high annual income package will entice the typical individual. Salary is an important consideration, but it shouldn’t be the only one you weigh when deciding on a professional path.
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Home remedies for toenail fungus are treated as best bet as they are easy to use and safe and one can use them at the first sight of fungal infection before it grows out of proportion and causes social embarrassment without fearing of side effects. Fungal infection can occur under toenails and fingernails but it is very common and more troublesome in toenails as this part remains covered in the shoes for most of the time which provides ideal conditions for fungal infection to spread. Fungi and bacteria breeding in shoes are most common causes of toenail fungus. People can also catch an infection at moist and watery public places like locker rooms, common showers and swimming pools.
Diseases like diabetes and HIV can also cause this infection as these diseases reduce the blood circulation which decreases body's capacity to identify and cure the infection. Wearing shoes for longer periods and wearing tight shoes decrease the blood flow to toe which also allows infection to grow and spread. Sharing footwear, personal hygiene and poor immunity system are other causes of toenail fungus. Home remedies for toenail fungus can control the spread of infection and help the body in removing the infection before it becomes troublesome.
Yellow colored spot at the tip of toenail is the first symptom of toenail fungus. Gradually this spot spreads on to whole nail changing the color of nail completely into yellow or brown. Thickening of nail and crumbling edges are other symptoms of toenail fungus which arrive with the spread of infection. Flaky nails and presence of foul smelling debris under the nails are other symptoms of toenail fungus. There may not be any pain when a person is barefooted but it can cause pain after wearing shoes due to thickening of toenail. Appearance of streaks or spots on the sides of the nails and detachment of nail from the nail bed are other symptoms of toenail fungus. This infection can allow nail to fall off at later stages, toenail fungus shall be treated promptly to avoid any further complications to health. Home remedies for toenail fungus have been used by people for effectively and safely curing the problem.
One of the most effective home remedies for toenail fungus is provided by essential oils which can be used when a person notices first symptom of infection. Blend a mixture of tea tree oil, olive oil and thyme oil mixing all of these in equal quantities. Rub this mixture on the nail and let it stay for 15 minutes. After that scrub the nail with a used toothbrush to slough off the uppermost layer of the nail, brushing will also help the oil to move under the nail and cure the infection. The removal of upper layer will help to remove the infection as most of the infection affects the upper layer of nail. This is one of the most trusted home remedies for toenail fungus, keep applying tea tree oil on the nail even after infection is cured for preventing reoccurrence of infection.
Apple cider vinegar provides few effective home remedies for toenail fungus. Apple cider vinegar can be used to treat the problem by mixing it with any mouthwash in equal quantities and soak the affected foot in the mixture for 15-20 minutes everyday. Later wipe the foot well and let it dry in open air. Apple cider vinegar can be mixed with warm water too for soaking the affected foot, dry the foot using clean towel to cure toenail fungus. Mix coarsely grounded rice and apple cider vinegar to form a paste, use this mixture to scrub the nails with help of a cotton ball to exfoliate the upper skin of nail. This is also an effective treatment for toenail fungus. These are few very effective home remedies for toenail fungus using apple cider vinegar.
Mix Vicks vaporub and oregano oil to form a paste, make sure that it is not edible oregano oil. Apply this mixture on the affected nail with help of a cotton ball or brush to cure toenail fungus. This is one of the simplest home remedies for toenail fungus.
Application of mixture of two to three drops of oregano essential oil with olive oil on the affected nail is also one of the easiest and effective home remedies for toenail fungus. Mixture of olive oil and lemon juice on the affected nail also cures the infection and is treated as one of the effective home remedies for toenail fungus.
Mix carrier oil, olive oil and tea tree oil in equal quantities. Use this mixture as an application on the affected nail, cover this with a bandage or wear a cotton socks to allow it to stay overnight. This is also one of the most effective and easy to use home remedies for toenail fungus. Application of mixture of tea tree oil and lavender oil in equal quantities 2-3 times in a day also very effectively alleviates the infection and forms one of the simple home remedies for toenail fungus.
Soaking the affected foot in mixture of water and baking soda for 15 minutes and later scrubbing the nail with baking soda powder with finger or cotton ball also provides an effective treatment to the problem. Using bleach, hydrogen peroxide along with baking soda is one of the oldest home remedies for toenail fungus if a person's skin is not sensitive to these.
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WARSAW, Poland — The smoking wreck of the Polish government Tu-154 airliner, which crashed on April 10 near the Russian city of Smolensk, is casting a pall over the country's presidential election this Sunday.
Until the crash, the contest was going to be between Bronislaw Komorowski, the speaker of parliament and member of the ruling centrist Civic Platform party, and Lech Kaczynski, the incumbent, who was striving for another five-year term.
The result of the autumn vote wasn't really in doubt. Komorowski, a gaffe-prone aristocrat with a long and distinguished past in the anti-communist underground, was expecting to romp home to an easy victory against Kaczynski, a man who had sunk low in the opinion polls because of his divisive presidency and who was seen as almost unelectable.
But Kaczynski's death in the crash has upended the election.
The election was pushed forward to this Sunday, and Komorowski now faces off against Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, the edgier and more ideological of the twins who have dominated Polish right-wing politics for the last two decades.
Jaroslaw, prime minister in 2006 and 2007, had even worse poll numbers than his brother and was seen as one of the least trusted politicians in the country. But the shock of having his brother killed seems to have changed Jaroslaw — at least that is what his Law and Justice party is saying.
The party has seized on Lech's death as the latest in a long line of patriotic sacrifices made for the nation — although in this case the death was likely the result of pilot error and not enemy action. In part because he died on the way to pay homage to the more than 20,000 Polish officers murdered by the Soviets in 1940, Lech Kaczynski has entered the pantheon of national heroes — at least for Law and Justice supporters. That has solidified the party's right-wing base.
But Jaroslaw's transformation is aimed at getting a share of the political center, crucial if he is to have a chance of winning. The new Kaczynski has made overtures toward both Germany and Russia — historical Polish enemies he disparaged while in office.
“There are moments in history which can change everything, which can change the course of history,” he said in a televised address to Russia. “A great tragedy happened on the 10th of April. The outpouring of commiseration and sympathy from millions of Russians was noted by Poles. Noted and appreciated.”
In a leading German paper, Kaczynski called for greater Polish-German cooperation.
In his public appearances he has cut himself off from the radical anti-communist past; where he once compared his political opponents to communist era police thugs, he now calls for an end to conflict between Poles.
The new Kaczynski has proved to be much more popular with voters than the old model. He has steadily ascended in opinion polls, with most now showing him with the support of more than a third of the electorate, and his support continues to edge up.
Komorowski is still far ahead, although he has fallen below the 50 percent needed to win the first round of the election. In the event that no candidate gets a majority, a second round will be held on July 4 between the top two vote getters. It appears certain that the eight minor candidates will be knocked out and Kaczynski will face off against Komorowski for the country's top job.
Komorowski's main campaign pledge is that he will work closely with the government, which comes from the same party he does, and will end the obstructionism that had been a characteristic of Lech Kaczynski's presidency. Kaczynski argues for the need to defend against a monopoly of power by Civic Platform.
The outcome of the election could also affect Poland-United States relations. Kaczynski is instinctively very pro-American, seeking to balance the weight of Brussels and the European Union with a close security relationship with the U.S.
Civic Platform, like almost all Polish political parties, is also pro-American, but its view of the U.S. is more nuanced. The long-standing irritant of the U.S. refusal to eliminate visas for Polish travelers rankles the government, and Donald Tusk, the prime minister, was very annoyed when the U.S. administration dropped its plans to build a missile defense shield in central Europe.
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A new study, reported in Obstetrics and Gynecology (December 2004), found that women with urinary incontinence spend less time walking, working, or socializing with family and friends, compared with women without the condition. In the study, the researchers surveyed 2190 women enrolled in the Health and Retirement Study in 2000. The participants were born in 1947 or earlier. Among the women surveyed, 22% had experienced urinary incontinence in the previous month.
The results of the study indicated that women with urinary incontinence were less likely to have done house cleaning, shopped, physically shown affection, or attended religious activities recently, compared with women who did not have incontinence. Furthermore, the participants spent less time walking, working for pay, or engaged in personal grooming or hygiene.
The researchers concluded that the findings may shed light on why urinary incontinence has been associated with depression, social isolation, falls, and psychological distress. Women's fear of unwanted urine leakage may stop them from exercising or participating in other beneficial activities and reduce their overall quality of life. The condition may also increase their chance of other health problems. The researchers recommended that physicians encourage their patients to be more active and offer them solutions to manage their condition in order to maintain a healthy quality of life.
While many states across our nation are engaged in political battles over the recreational use of marijuana, researchers have been busy studying the medical benefits of cannabidiol.
News from the year's biggest meetings
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Medical Front Office and Electronic Health Records Program
Medical Front Office and Electronic Health Records - Overview:
Program Duration: 6 Months
Each time you or anyone in your family visits a doctor, hospital, or health specialist, a record of that visit is documented and maintained. Lab tests, prescriptions, and trips to the emergency room are all a part of an individual's health record. Today, doctors have access to a patient's complete medical history at the push of a few buttons. This information is gathered from multiple locations, yet able to be electronically accessed from one virtual place. The technology that intertwines health information from a variety of sources is known as an Electronic Health Record, or EHR. An electronic health record is a computerized lifelong health care record with data from multiple sources.
Within the allied healthcare system, employees are expected to know how to input and retrieve information into an electronic health record. This applies to individuals in both the clinical and administrative fields. It is extremely important that the health record be accurate. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in technology related to maintaining electronic records, along with a sharp increase in the ease of use of such systems. This surge had meant an increase in opportunities in this field, as well as a pattern of growth that will continue to develop over the next several decades. Some of the new positions that have been born out of this growth include: clinical analyst, health information technician, and records and information coordinator.
As with many other fields, individuals with certification generally have an easier time finding employment. They typically earn higher salaries and indicate that the individual has met standards of the certifying institution.
Positions Attainable upon Program Completion:
Training Program Overview
Our online video training program not only prepares you for a rewarding career, it validates your knowledge through national industry certification. The Medical Front Office and Electronic Health Records program prepares you for proper handling of patient data, fundamental records and document management, medical office procedures and more.
Program concepts include:
Our certified instructors deliver comprehensive video based training, allowing each student the ability to move through the training at their own pace at work, at home, or on the road. There is no more waiting for a course to be scheduled in the classroom or changing your schedule because of cancelled classes.
Our easy to use web based video training (Launch Demo) provides a hands-on, self-paced delivery of course content and grants you the ability to monitor your progress throughout your training.
Let our expert instructors assist you in developing the skill set you need for a productive job in the medical field. MyCareerSkill will provide you with an effective training program to launch your new career in Health Care.
Value of Certification
Our comprehensive Medical Front Office and Electronic Health Records program prepares you for the CEHRS, CMAA, and Microsoft Office Word/Excel certification exams. The Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist (CEHRS) and the Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) are nationally recognized certifications from the National Healthcareer Association (NHA). The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) is a globally recognized Microsoft certification.
By attaining these certifications, you validate your competency and reliability in the field, and you will be recognized as a Nationally Certified Allied Healthcare professional. The majority of hospitals, private practices and organizations require National Certification as a competency standard. Additionally, by obtaining certification you will obtain a higher level of marketability to potential employers. Employers will have confidence in your proven skill set for job placement!
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What are the National Healthcareers Association's requirements to take the NHA National Certification Exams?
The Student must meet one of the following criteria:
The Student must be at least 18 years of age and have a high school diploma, or equivalency, as well as one of the following:
The following is a breakdown of the courses included in the program: (Click for Description)
Employment is expected to grow much faster than the average. Job prospects should be very good; technicians with a strong understanding of technology and computer software will be in particularly high demand.
Employment change. Employment of medical records and health information technicians is expected to increase by 20 percent, much faster than the average for all occupations through 2018. Employment growth will result from the increase in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be performed. As the population continues to age, the occurrence of health-related problems will increase. Cancer registrars should experience job growth as the incidence of cancer increases from an aging population.
In addition, with the increasing use of electronic health records, more technicians will be needed to complete the new responsibilities associated with electronic data management.
Job prospects. Job prospects should be very good. In addition to job growth, numerous openings will result from the need to replace medical record and health information technicians who retire or leave the occupation permanently. Technicians that demonstrate a strong understanding of technology and computer software will be in particularly high demand.
EHR Specialist's duties will vary with size and specialty of the facility in which they may work. Many can specialize in varying areas or one aspect of the EHR such as entry level coders, encoding within a hospital setting, abstractors and/or coding specialists, HIPAA Compliance Officers or HIM (Health Information Managers) and be over entire departments within larger healthcare facilities. The duties an Electronic Health Records Specialist may perform include, but not necessarily be limited to:
What is MyCAA Funding?
The Military Spouses Career Advancement Account (MyCAA) program sets out to prepare eligible military spouses for the workforce by offering up to $4,000 of Financial Assistance (FA) from the Department of Defense (DoD). This is meant to encourage spouses of military personnel to pursue education, training, licenses, certificates and degrees leading to employment in Portable Career fields. The MyCAA program uses this funding to pay schools directly for coursework and exams taken by the approved spouse account owner.
Who is eligible for funding?
An eligible MyCAA candidate is the spouse of an active duty Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine service member, or activated Reserve member in pay grades E1-E5, W1-W2, O1-O2.
If you are the spouse of National Guard and/or AGR member, the sponsor must be on federal Title 10 active duty orders as reported in DEERS.
Spouses of Guard/Reserve members in an Alert, Transition Assistance, or Post Deployment status are not eligible.
MyCAA accounts will be limited to the new $4,000 maximum benefit with a $2000 fiscal year cap. Waivers to the fiscal year cap will be available for spouses pursuing licensure or certification with a cost that exceeds the $2,000 fiscal year cap up to the total maximum assistance of $4,000.
Spouses must finish their program of study within three years from the start date of the first course.
Funding is limited to only Associate's degrees, certifications and licensure programs.
How do I establish a MyCAA Account?
Visit the MyCAA Spouse Portal online at https://aiportal.acc.af.mil/mycaa. The first step is to read the MyCAA Fact Sheet, and then a real-time DEERS eligibility check will determine if you are eligible to establish an account. If eligible, you will be required to read and sign the MyCAA Spouse Terms and Conditions Agreement. For guidance with MyCAA Funding, eligible Military Spouse's should contact a MyCAA Career and Education Consultant for assistance. Consultants are available Monday - Friday, 7am-10pm and Saturday 10am - 6pm EST. Consultants can be reached by calling 1-800-342-9647.
For more information view the Military One Source MyCAA FAQ
Program Tuition: $4000
Program Duration: 6 Months
Included with your Enrollment:
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Control django-admin commands via the web.
Creating cron jobs for Django apps can be a pain, annoying and repetitive. With django-chronograph you simply create a single cron job to run every minute, point it at your site's directory and run manage.py cron. Then from the admin you can add jobs.
django-chronograph supports Django 1.1+.
Installation and Usage
Read docs/overview.txt for more information, build the documentation with Sphinx or view them online here.
You can also grab the latest release from PyPI:
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Surviving the cloud computing boom
Understanding the channel risks
Part 1 Cloud computing launches in Australia are coming thick and fast. Already, more than 30 companies position themselves as offering hosted cloud services, and the number is rising quickly.
The rapid acceleration in the cloud provider market looks very much like at least one other boom in the Australian Internet market: the VoIP boom after around 2006, when the number of providers rose very rapidly from fewer than 70 to around 300.
That boom rode partly on the back of short-lived wholesale relationships in which retail partners – little more than sales agencies with trailing commissions – signed up to flog low-margin (and often low-quality) VoIP services. They and their customers fell victim to wholesalers who showed little regard either for the health of their partners or the quality, and ultimately longevity, of the services provided to retail customers.
The same model is likely to emerge in the cloud computing market: not every wholesaler pitching a “white box” cloud service will know or care about the support they provide to partners or customers.
Yet although the cloud model is often pitched as a threat to Australia’s reseller and systems integrator channel, it’s also an opportunity. As cloud computing reaches downwards to the SME, and once it reaches “non-IT” SMEs who don’t know how to establish, manage or integrate services on their own, there will be a market for services over the top of cloud computing.
From the other end, there will also be demand for “feet on the street” from cloud providers. Their expertise in establishing infrastructure, configuring software, billing, and integrating services with networks – these skills are unlikely to be matched by providers’ understanding of the needs of small retail or services businesses.
Due diligence will be the channel’s greatest challenge as cloud wholesaling takes off. How do you make sure that the company offering wholesale cloud services has the infrastructure it claims, and will be able to deliver the services you need?
The risk to the channel is a given, says Darren Covington, head of strategy and sales at Bitcloud, which launched last year. While it’s impossible to “see through” opaque business models of wholesale cloud providers, he identified the following broad categories of risk to channels:
Technical risk – can the cloud provider deliver the services it offers? Are its billing systems and security systems up to the task?
Compliance risk – is the cloud provider familiar with regulatory regimes in different industries? For example, is it familiar with ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) requirements for different industries?
Brian Walshe, general manager for Microsoft solutions in Australia at Dimension Data, says SIs also need to be willing to work through the business risks they’re taking:
Terms and conditions – SIs have to take the time to work through the legal contract the cloud provider is offering, he said. “Have you signed away your IP rights with this provider?”
Management and financials – This research is vital, Walshe said. SIs need to know the history of the cloud provider’s management, and need to be able to confirm its financial position and backing.
Who’s in charge?
For the systems integrators, technical risk is easy to identify and easily understood. They have, after all, chosen a technical field as the basis of their income. Contractual risks are more difficult.
Walshe again: “You have to know whose laws apply, and you have to know whose laws are protecting your intellectual property if you find yourself unable to get the service you need and need to get your data back out of the cloud.”
This is particularly sensitive when an intermediary like a systems integrator is involved, since whatever goes wrong will damage the SI’s relationship with its clients.
“Too many people still think their local laws will apply,” Walshe said, “ but if the application is stateless, you need to be clear about the laws that apply.” For example, even replicating a client’s data to an offshore disaster recovery centre could expose that client to a jurisdiction outside Australia.
“That’s the whole point of the data sovereignty debate,” Walshe said.
The problem is, of course, that it’s particularly difficult for the outsider to prove the location of the service. Chy Chuawiwat, CEO of VirtualOffis, says “You can look at network tools to find out where things are ... but the registered IP address may not be the operational IP address.”
Chuawiwat says SIs should call on outside help in vetting upstream cloud wholesalers. “There are a few consultants who can help evaluating a service provider, who know the right questions to ask”.
Peter Neatnica, director of sales and marketing at Nextep, says the question of service level agreements (SLAs) can help differentiate companies offering wholesale cloud services.
Those SLAs, he said, should cover as much of the service as possible, since service availability and responsiveness stretches all the way from the data centre out to the customer’s network connection.
“Cloud computing needs a business-class service,” Neatnica said, with “low network contention, good quality of service, and the ability to provide information upstream through to the network core.” ®
Next – Part 2: What cloud wholesalers want from the channel
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You may have heard it said that, in life, you only get out what you put in. It is a nice thought but, if this were strictly true, it would be completely impossible for businesses to operate!
After all, businesses only exist in order to make profit, and profit depends on getting out more than you put in…
This is where ‘return on investment’ (ROI for short) comes in.
What is ROI?
‘Return on investment’ is a simple measure of how much you might expect to get back from any particular investment. ROI will basically tell you how much you will get out, when compared to how much you put in, expressed as a percentage.
You can calculate ROI using the following equation;
|ROI =||(Revenue from Investment – Cost of Investment)|
|Cost of Investment|
To get the ROI as a percentage, you would take the answer this equation gave you and multiply it by 100.
For example, if after doing the division part of the equation, you ended up with the answer 2, the ROI as a percentage would be 200%.
Confused? To make things clearer, here are some examples of what various ROI percentages mean in real terms.
-100% = You’ve lost all the money you put in.
-50% = You’ve lost half the money you put in.
0% = You’ve broken even. (Nothing lost, nothing gained.)
50% = You’ve got back what you put in, plus another 50% of that amount as profit.
100% = You’ve doubled your money!
Now, let’s take a look at a basic business example and see how this formula would apply.
Say some children wish to set up a lemonade stand on their street. They spend £5 of their pocket money on lemons, sugar and all the other ingredients that they need.
They have enough to make 20 cups of lemonade. They charge 50p a cup and manage to sell them all. At the end of the day they would have £10 in their till.
Their ROI formula would look like this;
|ROI =||(£10 – £5)||= 1 x 100% = 100%|
As we know, an ROI of 100% means they doubled their money, making lemonade look like a pretty good investment!
Of course, this example ignores the cost of their labour and time, but for big businesses (and your personal finances) these things are very important.
How Do Businesses use ROI?
Obviously, having a high ROI relative to your competitors is vital to running a successful business. Big businesses take a great deal of care in deciding how best to spend their money and they will attempt to calculate as accurately as possible the ROI of all the money they spend, from the wages they pay employees, to the their advertising budget.
In fact, businesses are so obsessed with ROI, some will even calculate the return on investment they get from spending money and time on calculating ROI itself!
The reason they go to such lengths is to ensure that their money is put to the best possible use i.e. the use that will yield the biggest return on investment in the end.
Sometimes this will involve doing something that at the time may seem a bit outlandish, but is justified by the eventual ROI.
In our article on opportunity cost we talked at length about the ‘time value of money’ and this is a big factor in figuring out ROI.
For example, when firms first splash out on TV advertising, it costs a very large sum of money. This is eventually made back, as their brand gets a bigger profile and they win more custom (assuming the advert isn’t a flop) but it takes time.
Another example might be the emergence of a new technology. Businesses will scramble to snap it up, not because of what it is worth now, but because of what it might be worth in the future.
The key to spending wisely is figuring out the eventual ROI of your investment, rather than merely looking at the cost. If the ROI is great (and you can be sure the projected ROI is correct), the cost is almost irrelevant (assuming available funds).
How Can I use These Ideas to Improve My Personal Finances?
Like a businesses, you to can make wise spending decisions by attempting to calculate the ROI they are likely to generate.
Of course, there are big differences between the way individuals and businesses spend their money.
A business only ever spends money on anything because it hopes to make more money further down the line. As cynical as it sounds, even when a businesses makes a charitable donation it will have most likely have one eye on the ROI that the positive publicity will create, not to mention the tax savings!
Unlike a business, people generally buy things simply because they want them, not because they will make us better off in the future. If anything we fully expect most of our purchases to make us worse off financially. In this case, we think of the ROI simply as the pleasure we’ll get from buying whatever it is we have our eye on.
That said, there are plenty of ways we can think like a business, spending money in order to make money.
Just as a business has assets, so do individuals. In most cases a person’s biggest asset will be their property.
It is possible to add value to assets by investing in them and there are a wide range of things you can do to increase the market value of a house, from something as simple as a quick paint job, to something as extensive as having an extension built. As these things add value, they bring a return on investment.
Smart people realise that, whilst it is important to consider the cost involved when undertaking such a project, ROI is the real measure of how best to spend money.
For example, you might spend £5,000 on double glazing, adding £10,000 to the value of your house. The ROI in this case would be as follows;
|ROI =||(£10,000 – £5,000)||= 1 x 100% = 100%|
You’ve doubled your money, not bad going…
However if you spend £10,000 converting your loft into a new bedroom, this might add £30,000 to the value of the house. Thus, the ROI is as follows;
|ROI =||(£30,000 – £10,000)||= 2 x 100% = 200%|
An ROI of 200% means you’ve tripled your money!
Though our ‘common sense’ tells us that the £10,000 investment is the bigger, more risky investment, a look at the ROI tells us that this is not the case.
The bigger the ROI the more value you get, pound for pound. So, though the double glazing seems the cheaper option of the two, you pay more dearly for every pound of value it adds to you home than you do with the loft conversion. It is, therefore, relatively speaking, a more expensive way of adding value.
Obviously, you need to have dependable figures to calculate ROI in the first place, but in the examples given above these can normally be found quite easily.
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It is an immense comfort to meet with reality in this world, where everything is so confused, and there are so many mixed motives at work. God looks for reality. Nothing less suits His mind, or meets His thoughts. In the scripture which heads this page there are deeply solemn lessons on this subject, which we do well to ponder. May the Lord Himself, by His Spirit, teach us, making our hearts willing and subject to His word. In the previous chapter we find the Lord getting His instrument ready for His work. This is a principle of the deepest value. God's instruments must not only be raised up by God Himself, they must be adapted and fitted by Himself for the work He has for them. Abundant instances and illustrations of this are to be found in the word. We shall only refer to one. God it was who raised up the man Moses to be the deliverer of His people Israel out of their cruel bondage. Of this Moses we read, "And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds." (Acts 7:22.) Nature would say, What a fitted, prepared weapon God has now at His hand! But this is the very thought which is short of the mind of God: for He will not, and does not accredit the qualifications of Egypt, but sends Moses to school (as we would say) for forty years, in order that he may be fitted and prepared and qualified for the work that God has for him to do. Oh, what reality there is in all this. How real is the fact that God's instruments must learn in God's school. There is no such thing, reader, as purchasing commissions in His army; there all must rise from the ranks.
Now, in the history before us, the same principle is found. God raises up Gideon, the son of Joash the Abiezrite, that through him God might deliver Israel out of the hand of the Midianites. His family is poor in Manasseh, and like David, he is the least in his father's house. Yet, what of all this? "Have not I sent thee?" withers up all such thoughts, and places a living reality before the soul.
Reader, have we known this? It is an easy thing in these days to put on an appearance before one another, and even to keep up, but do our own souls know the deep reality of having to do with the living God? And here remark that what is so sweet in the exercises of soul to which the words, "Have not I sent thee?" and "Surely I will be with thee," were a reply, is that what occupied the mind of Gideon was the relation between God and His people. "If the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us?" Now let us turn and look at the steps — shall I say the forms? — of the school of God, in which this mighty man of valour was trained, and see how reality marks it all.
First.— The relationship of peace must be set up between him and God. He is brought into the presence of God, and hears these words: "Peace unto thee," "Fear not." Sweet, precious words! O what reality.
Secondly. As it was with himself, so must it be with his own family, namely, the relationship with God must be set up; and hence Gideon is set to work at home before he is sent out abroad. "And it came to pass the same night that the Lord said unto him Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it; and build an altar unto the Lord thy God on the top of this rock, in the ordered place and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down." (Ch. 6:25, 26.) Reader, what a searching principle is found here! God's weapons are set to cut down the evil at home before they are used to cut it down abroad. It is the principle of 2 Timothy 2:21 "If a man therefore purge himself from these (see verse 21), he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work." There must not be in the Lord's vessel that which is unsuited to the Lord. It is true that in the sovereignty of God He condescends to use a variety of means to bring about His own purposes. But this is not the thought of being a vessel for God, sanctified and meet for His use. What God looks for in His servants and people is reality. To use the expressive language of another God does not want "a lifeless finger-board to point along a way he neither leads nor follows." He does want and desire one who is "strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus," who can endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ — who warreth, not entangling himself with the affairs of this life, and who laboureth as an husbandman, having first been partaker of the fruits. This is all reality, and this God looks for. He finds it in Gideon, the fruit, too, of His own gracious work with him. And now let us see how God looks for reality in the people who follow Gideon. He cannot trust His honour to the thirty-two thousand, they are too many for Him. What a solemn rebuke to the very thought that rises earliest and is cultivated latest in the natural mind. God will test that crowd. It cannot be that all are true to Him, some will surely go back. And so it is. When the ordinance of Deuteronomy 20 is gone through, which simply set each one to count the cost — to do, as it were, a sum in profit and loss — out of the thirty-two thousand, only ten thousand are found ready to stand in the face of danger and loss. But God has not yet finished. He says, "The people are yet too many for me." Most deeply solemn words these. Reader, He must work in a way which will leave no room for doubt that it is His hand that has wrought. So that the heart that is true to Him can say, "The Lord has done great things for us already." And why? Because He well knew there was in Israel a haughty uplifted spirit that would credit themselves with victory. And now, mark, there is great force in the Lord's words a second time to Gideon: "The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for thee THERE; and it shall be that of whom I say unto thee, this shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, this shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. So he brought down the people unto the water; and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down on his knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water." The significance of all this is striking! Out of the ten thousand which the previous testing had left, only three hundred are found to stand before and rise superior to the new test. And mark it attentively, reader, there are a greater number equal to the difficulty and danger than there are equal to what we may call the blessing; or, many who are able to face the danger fall before the blessing. But some one may say, What do you mean by all this? Was it wrong for thirsty people to drink water? Surely not. And that is not the point in the history at all, for the three hundred upon whom God set His seal of approval drank as well as the nine hundred and seventy who were sent away; but the point is, they used the water in passing, but were not engaged with it; the water which quenched their thirst and refreshed their body was not that which occupied their minds — they had not time to halt, their hearts were in the work — they were real and they exhibited reality. And, reader, has not this a solemn application to us in this day! How many a soul is there who rises superior to difficulties that utterly breaks down in the presence of prosperity, or a position where they are well to do. Alas! how true it is that few of us can be trusted in sunshine (that is, when all is smooth around us). When tested by the Lord, those who bowed down were not fit for His use, any more than those who were sent back through fear or loss. And this is just the testing of the present hour, for God is bringing out the three hundred who are occupied with that which occupies Him. It is reality we need, dear reader. There is no lack in our day of head knowledge — this is readily acquired, easily got up. Not only so, but nature likes it all, and turns it round to selfish purposes. In my mind, nothing is more sad or solemn than to see the way in which not a few, now-a-days, can talk about truth, and argue about it, who are themselves its living contradictions. Reality! reality! is the crying need of the day! Oh, reader, to be one of Christ's three hundred in this day of His rejection — to have found in Himself the real secret of superiority, not only to the difficulties and dangers, but as well to the prosperity, ease, and quiet of this day. Oh, to be in earnest — to be real for Christ. To have, I do not say low thoughts of self, but no thoughts of self, all, all thoughts fixed on Himself, the alone source and spring and channel of every blessing. Reader, be assured of it, in the history of every Christian, there is a time when he or she is being brought down to the water. When it is so, the Lord give us that occupation with Himself, and His thoughts, which will bear us above and carry us over the trial, and exhibit in that reality which is alone worthy of Him.
Jesus, we our cross have taken,
All to leave and follow Thee,
All things else for Thee forsaken,
Thou from hence our all shalt be.
Perish every fond ambition,
All we've sought, or hoped, or known!
Yet! how rich is our condition,
While we prove the Lord our own.
Let the world despise and leave us,
They have left the Saviour, too;
Human hearts and looks deceive us,
Thou art not, like them, untrue:
And, while Thou dost smile upon us,
God of wisdom, love, and might,
Foes may hate, and friends disown us—
Show Thy face, and all is bright.
Man may trouble and distress us,
'Twill but drive us to Thy breast;
Life with trials hard may press us,
Heaven will bring us sweeter rest.
O 'tis not in grief to harm us,
While Thy love is full and free;
O 'twere not in joy to charm us,
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The Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Program
Having celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2014, the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) is ASSE's only reciprocal exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State. The CBYX program provides a unique opportunity for 250 young Americans to spend a year in Germany, while at the same time, giving 300 young Germans the change to live a year in the United States! All the students live as members of caring host families and enjoy a variety of program activities, in addition to learning life in a new country. Over the years, more than 12,000 American and German youth have taken advantage of this important scholarship program. By improving not only their language skills, but also increasing their intercultural awareness, these students form a bridge of understanding between Germany and the United States and continue to strengthen ties between their two countries.
As the name might indicate, the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (known in Germany as the Parlamentarisches Patenschafts-Programm or PPP) emphasizes learning about each country's political life. During organized trips to their host country's capital, students have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with US Congressional Representatives and German Bundestag Members during their year abroad to discuss issues related to their exchange year.
Because the CBYX program awards full scholarships to each qualifying student, the application and selection process is competitive, but well worth the extra effort. So, what are you waiting for? Living and studying in Germany as a Congress-Bundestag student, is just a click away!
And, as American family, what better way to welcome a bit of Europe into your own home than by hosting a Congress-Bundestag student from Germany? As an ASSE host family, you will embark on a year filled with love, laughter and learning. To learn more about hosting an ASSE student click here. | <urn:uuid:4d9174e6-3206-4902-8eb3-ae83ca56dfee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://asse.com/scholarship_programs/the_congress_bundestag_youth_exchange_program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959732 | 402 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York works to promote sound and well-functioning financial systems and markets through its provision of industry and payment services, advancement of infrastructure reform in key markets and training and educational support to international institutions.
The New York Fed engages with individuals, households and businesses in the Second District and maintains an active dialogue in the region. The Bank gathers and shares regional economic intelligence to inform our community and policy makers, and promotes sound financial and economic decisions through community development and education programs.
Meta Brown, Andrew Haughwout, Donghoon Lee, Joelle Scally, and Wilbert
van der Klaauw
This morning, New York Fed director of research Jamie McAndrews joined Bank
economists to brief
the press on economic developments.
With this morning’s release of the Quarterly
Report on Household Debt and Credit for 2012:Q4, the briefing focused
specifically on recent developments in household debt and credit.
Fiscal stimulus, in the form of large discretionary
increases in federal spending and tax reductions, is often triggered by a strong
and persistent rise in the national unemployment rate. The most recent example was
the $860 billion (6 percent of GDP) stimulus contained in the 2009 American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), adopted in the context of rising
unemployment rates. The spending components of the program were varied, including
federal transfers to state governments to support education and social
services, assistance to unemployed and disadvantaged individuals, and funds for
capital construction projects. The majority of the stimulus funds were
allocated to state governments and, since the program was motivated by high and
rising aggregate unemployment, a reasonable expectation would have been that
states with high unemployment rates would receive large allocations. Our analysis of the distribution of ARRA funds across states shows that the expanded
assistance to unemployed workers was indeed highly correlated with state
unemployment rates. It turned out, however, that most other state allocations
had little association—positive or negative—with state unemployment rates. The ultimate
distribution instead seemed to reflect a number of practical considerations
involved in implementing such a vast spending program. In this post, we outline
what in our view were the key considerations that governed the distribution of
the stimulus spending across states, and we use the example of one component of
that spending—highway infrastructure investment—to illustrate how the stimulus
funds got to the states.
Marco Del Negro, Marc Giannoni, and Christina Patterson
In this post, we quantify the macroeconomic effects of central bank announcements about future federal funds rates, or forward guidance. We estimate that a commitment to lowering future rates below market expectations can have fairly strong effects on real economic activity with only small effects on inflation.
Imagine yourself a Roman citizen in the 1st Century
B.C. You’ve gone shopping with your partner, who’s trying to convince you to
buy a particular item. The thing’s pretty expensive, and you demur because you’re
short of cash. You may think that back then such an excuse would get you off scot-free.
What else can you possibly do: Write a check? Well, yes, writes the poet Ovid
in his “Ars
Amatoria, Book I.” And since your partner knows it,
you have no way out (the example below shows some gender bias on Ovid’s part.
Fortunately, a few things have changed over the past 2,000 years):
But when she has her purchase in her
She hugs thee close, and kisses thee
“Tis what I want, and ‘tis a pen’orth
In many years I will not trouble
If you complain you have no ready
No matter, ‘tis but writing of a
A little bill, not to be paid at
(Now curse the time when thou wert
taught to write.)
On December 12, 2012, primary government securities dealers bought just 33 percent of the new ten-year Treasury notes sold at auction. This was one of the lowest shares on record and far below the 68 percent average for ten-year notes reported in this 2007 study by Fleming. In this post, we examine recent data on the buyers of Treasury securities at auction to understand whether the December 12 results are part of a trend and, if so, what explains it.
How do bankers do calculations? Currently, on the computer
(or calculator). What about before computers and calculators? If they couldn’t
figure things out using pencil, paper, and pre-prepared tables, they used slide
rules (and pre-prepared tables; see p. 188 of this 1887 book
Since the onset of the subprime crisis, many places across the United States have been affected by high levels of negative equity (meaning that borrowers owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth), an associated flood of foreclosures, and loss of local wealth. In mid-2012, a community advisory firm, Mortgage Resolution Partners (MRP) approached the government of San Bernardino County, California (a region with particularly high levels of negative equity) and pitched the idea of using eminent domain to seize privately securitized mortgage loans in order to restructure or refinance them. The MRP proposal was largely based on a plan by Cornell University law professor Robert Hockett. In late January, this controversial plan
was abandoned by San Bernardino County, yet it remains under consideration in other counties. While a lot of the debate surrounding the plan has centered
on value judgments and legal issues, in this post we look at available data in
order to get an idea of the landscape of loans that could have been affected by
such a program in San Bernardino County.
Why do large
movements in exchange rates have small effects on international goods prices? This
empirical regularity is a central puzzle in international macroeconomics. In a
new study, we show that the key to understanding this exchange rate disconnect is to take into account that the largest
exporters are also the largest importers. This is important because when exporters
import their intermediate inputs, they face offsetting exchange rate effects on
their marginal costs. For example, a depreciation of the euro relative to the U.S.
dollar makes exports in U.S. dollars cheaper—but it also makes imports in euros
more expensive. Using Belgian firm-level data, we show that exporters that
import a large share of their inputs pass on a much smaller share of the
exchange rate shock to export prices. Interestingly, import-intensive firms typically
have high export market shares and hence set high markups and actively move
them in response to changes in marginal cost, thus providing a second channel
that limits the effect of exchange rate shocks on export prices. Our results
show that a small exporter with no imported inputs has a nearly complete pass-through
of more than 90 percent, while a firm at the 95th percentile of both import
intensity and market share distributions has a pass-through of 56 percent, with
the two mechanisms playing roughly equal roles. These findings have important implications for
aggregate macroeconomic variables.
The Federal Reserve in secret conclave ponders
Means to cure the nation’s cloudy state o’ercast
By stormy speculation. To-morrow morning’s news proclaims
The fury of their warning. Such dismal stuff will shake
The Wall Street world to marrow of its gambling bones;
These lines come from a 1929 play, Shakespeare on Wall Street, a mash-up of famous Shakespearean characters from various plays set to the story of the stock market crisis just then in motion. Written by a Harvard Law professor, Edward Henry Warren, the play features Shakespeare as a New York investor and his three sons—Hamlet, the bond salesman; Macbeth, a timid investor; and Falstaff, an anti-prohibitionist. The opening act parallels Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but with a twist: the three witches meet up in New Jersey. When Macbeth encounters the witches, he is willing to offer them as much as a golden
eagle for their investment tips. A few scenes later, Polonius mentions
that Macbeth has asked him to contact the Fed for assistance.
In the state of New Jersey, any child between the ages of five and eighteen has the constitutional right to a thorough and efficient education. The state also has one of the country’s most rigid policies regarding a balanced budget. When state and local revenues took a big hit in the most recent recession, officials had to make tough decisions about education spending. In this post, we analyze education financing and spending in two groups of high-poverty districts during the Great Recession and the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) federal stimulus period—the Abbott and Bacon districts. Analysis in our recent New York Fed staff report shows that the Abbott districts exhibited the sharpest declines—relative to trend—in both total funding and total spending per pupil during the post-recession era. Additionally, the Abbott districts were the only group of districts in New Jersey to present statistically significant negative shifts in instructional spending, even with the federal stimulus.
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Dear all,I am working on my own robot. It has: 2 DC motors which are connected to 5 AA bateries. a raspberry pi which is connected to a 5v miniusb phonecharcher an Arduino, which is connected to/powered by a USB port of the raspberry pi a servo which is connected to the same 5 AA bateries as the 2 DC motors. a microsonic distance sensor which gets its power from the aruino.The idea is to have the whole setup running on 1 power source consisting of one or more rechargeable batteries.At the moment de motors slow down if i use the servo.(because they are on the same 5 aa batteries.) How can I prevent that with the new powersource which will also power the raspberry pi and the arduino?
The raspberry pi needs exactly 5 volts. If i connect a powersupply of 5 volts, it should work. But what if i then run the motors and the servo from the same powersupply? Won't that give less power to the raspberry pi and making it crash? It is not an option to add more batteries and volts, because the Raspberry pi can only handle 5 volts.
Hi fungus,I did read your previous post. From what I understand I can hook up 3 batteries to the servo and the motors. also have the 3 batteries connected to a USB dc converter. The dc converter will allways power 5 volts to the raspberry pi. Also I need to put decoupling capacitors between the USB DC converter and the raspberry pi.
I have a similar situation. However I would like to use 2 batteries. 1 to power the motors/servos1 to power pi + arduinoAfter reading the specs, it seems to me that my best bet would be to power the arduino using a 2 or 3 cell lipo giving me 7.4/11.1 V which is within the allowed range for the arduino. Then wire a min usb plug to the arduino +5 and gnd pins to power the pi.
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"World Trade Center": From three-time Academy Award(R) winner Oliver Stone comes this inspiring true story about courage, family and our nation's unyielding spirit. Oscar(R) winner Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena ("Crash") star as John McLouglin and Will Jimeno, two New York City Port Authority policeman who were trapped in the rubble of September 11, 2001. As McLoughlin and Jimeno bond together in a fight for survival, the events of an unimaginable day unfold through the eyes of the two policemen, their loving wives (Maria Belo and Maggie Gyllenhaal) survivors and rescuers throughout the city. "Untold History Of The United States: Chapters 8-10": Chapter 8 - "Reagan, Gorbachev, & Third World: Rise of the Right" - Carter's dreams of change give way to Ronald Reagan's secret wars in Afghanistan and Central America. Gorbachev emerges. Fresh opportunities for peace arise. The debate over Reagan's legacy. Chapter 9 - "Bush & Clinton: Squandered Peace" - New World Order Russia introduced to American Capitalism. U.S. goes to war in Middle East. New World Order shaped. Chapter 10: "Bush II & Obama: Age of Terror" - George W. Bush's doctrine of an 'endless war' against terrorism manifests in the Department of Homeland Security, in Iraq, Afghanistan, and a worldwide global Security State. The cannibalization of the U.S. economy continues. Obama and the destiny of the American Empire. | <urn:uuid:8d120f26-6618-41fa-8dbc-dc38eba1e307> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/world-trade-center-untold-history-of-the-united-states-chapters-8-10-blu-ray/6000160803790 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884874 | 313 | 1.59375 | 2 |
In Los Angeles, an inversion, though not a four-letter word, is viewed with the same contempt that a four-letter word earns in polite company. Inversions exacerbate smog problems. In LA, (lower Arkansas), on a late August late afternoon, an inversion is a good thing if you are looking for a good shot. Inversions hold hazy layers close to the ground.
It was an overall lucky day. Earlier I found an old home place stand of trees in a “cotton patch.” See what I found on the Photo of the Week Page at Corndancer dot com. Click here to go there. A cool thing to do. We’ll wait here.
Back to the inversion.The sun was setting fast just a half mile or so from the Arkansas River levee east of Tamo, Arkansas. It was then that I spotted a layer of smoke from a shouldering field burn-off sandwiched between me and the sun. In the foreground were weeds standing tall along the road right of way, well nourished from fertile field runoff. The moment was fleeting.
A visual scan of the scene made me immediately grateful for whatever higher power steered me in this direction. A few moments earlier and the effect would not have been the same. A few minutes later and it would be gone forever.
The light and layers make for an eye-candy experience which begs to be explored and inexorably proves the theory that a fortuitous amalgamation of visual assets is greater than the parts. Here a common field, a distant treeline, weeds normally scorned, and a layer of smoke accentuated by natural late afternoon haze in front of a setting sun create a “Wow” moment. Beauty is where you find it.
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new report shows plant-based consumer choices rose in record numbers across 11 European countries, attracting sales worth €3.6 billion over the past two years.
It looks across plant-based food categories to identify the leading and most promising market segments, showing double and triple digit growth for plant-based milk, meat and cheese.
Dr Kai-Brit Bechtold, Senior Consumer Research Scientist at ProVeg International, which has published the report, said it shows that plant-based diets could become the new normal.
“We are at the very beginning of the growth of plant-based, already one of the fastest-growing lifestyles in Europe,” she said.
“The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the growth, since more consumers care about their health. This has added to the momentum of meatless meat achieving something of mainstream status.”
Mainstream supermarkets have seen double and triple digit hikes in the value of plant-based sales. Their shops in Germany, France and the Netherlands, saw growth of 114 per cent, 90 per cent, and 83 per cent respectively.
The fastest growing category was plant-based milks, with oat milk rapidly overtaking rivals.
“A lack of affordable ingredients is one of the main obstacles in under-developed categories”
Plant-based yoghurt and cheese have been making waves, with yoghurt seeing a 497 per cent sales growth in Belgium’s mainstream supermarkets. Cheese increased its total sales value by 165 per cent, 150 per cent, and 140 per cent in British, German and Dutch consumer markets respectively.
Dr Kai-Brit Bechtold said, “The market has expanded to those whose main concerns are taste, texture, price and availability.”
She pointed to opportunities in underdeveloped categories like plant-based cheeses and some baked goods, saying, “A lack of affordable, high-quality raw materials and ingredients is one of the main obstacles to meeting the increased demand for plant-based products.”
Sales of plant-based food in Germany grew by 97 per cent to €817 million. In the United Kingdom, the sales grew by 73 per cent to €750 million.
Horizon 2020 has funded the Smart Protein Project, made up of 30 partners, including universities, research institutions, small and large companies and non-government organisations.
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There is much controversy about violent toys which are far from beingconsidered politically correct. The toys that enter many grade school classroomsthroughout the country may also seem offensive to people who try to be aspolitically correct as possible. I can remember an incident involving myself, awater gun and a teacher back in grade four. What had happened was that Ipondered onto school grounds with a tiny plastic watergun. As I proceeded downthe hallway a teacher took notice of my “water-squirting” device. She approachedme and ceased the toy from my hands .
Many elementary school educators believethat violent toys can lead, and often do lead to violence if the children areallowed to play with the toys in an unsupervised environment. Something that used to be considered good clean fun has become aconstant frustration to teachers and parents everywhere. Many educators onrecess duty who have observed children at play have come to believe that roughplay which might look innocent can and often does lead to real violence. Thegoodness of teaching political correctness in the classroom is its ability toprotect our children from violence, discrimination, and the unfairness thatexist in this world. Political correctness is a good thing for kids to learn. I think thatbeing politically correct is just being polite and considerate for the feelingsof others.
I encourage parents and teachers to teach children about the fairnessand equality that political correctness implies. However If teachers and parentsallow political correctness to dictate the educational process, schools will nolonger work toward educating, but instead will shift their focus towardsaltering the attitudes and minds of students. It’s not always beneficial for a teacher to over-emphasize politicalcorrectness in the classroom because it limits the students’ ability to learn. It’s not right to isolate children from the books, toys, and games that let themlearn and have fun for the sake of being considered politically correct. Nearlyall of us grew up and experienced political incorrectness; with dolls such asBarbie, fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderella, toy guns andcartoons.
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Obtaining sexual favors certainly ranks as one of the worst misuses of charisma, but it is not the only misuse. In 2006, Paul Shaviv first posted the draft (in a series of comments on a post by Gil Student, later posted in full on several blogs; now in book form) of an essay profiling “Pied Piper” educators.
Among the dangers he points out are:
Among the dangers he points out are:
- A charismatic teacher will deeply affect and influence some students, but will almost always leave a trail of emotional wreckage in his/her wake.
- The emotional dependency and entanglement between teacher and student leads to boundaries being crossed.
- The teacher becomes party to knowledge about students and their families that reinforces the teacher’s view that they are the only teachers who ‘really’ are reaching the students. The teacher, however, is neither a trained counselor nor a social worker. That knowledge becomes power.
- A really charismatic teacher can end up running a ‘school within a school’.
- The teacher will often employ techniques (and texts) which take students to the extremes of emotion or logic, and will then triumphantly show them how they are holding they key to resolution (‘At this moment, you have agreed that life has no meaning -- but here is the answer’).
- The moment [the students] realize that they are not [protégés] (sometimes when the teacher ‘moves on to the next’), deep emotions come into play.
- Many charismatic teachers will lavish attention on a student or group of students as long as the student(s) do things the teacher’s way, or accept every piece of advice or ‘philosophy’ or Torah uncritically. The moment the student shows independence or objectivity, they are dropped.
- As soon as they are disillusioned or dropped, they are written out of the teacher’s story. Often such students, very hurt, leave the school.
Perhaps the most fundamental point in Shaviv’s critique is: “The problem is that at core, these are not educational relationships.” Charisma in general is a deeply problematic and risky trait in a teacher of Torah, as, by definition, the student is attracted more to the charm and personality of the teacher than to the material that is being taught.
The unfortunate reality is that each of the offenders mentioned above used deeply problematic methods long before there was any general awareness of the sexual aspect of their predations. This point was articulated well by Shayna Goldberg:
This is the real issue that has plagued my mind for so long. The fact that this man was never, ever fit to be an educator. The fact that knowing all the Torah in the world does not on its own make you trustworthy enough to be given a classroom’s worth of young, impressionable souls. The fact that long before anyone suspected inappropriate sexual behavior, it was glaringly clear that this person employed all kinds of unhealthy teaching methods in order to cultivate relationships with students. And the fact that no one but a few innocent teenage girls seemed to notice.
I hope that in the wake of this scandal, we don’t just talk about one outed, sick educator and then move on as if everything were okay. Let us not get so distracted by the outrageous details that we forget what was so grossly inexcusable about his conduct as a teacher, even had he never touched anyone….
Let’s talk about it.
Indeed, let us talk about the role of charisma in our educational system. Let us discuss whether there is such a thing as “good” or “safe” charisma (I am skeptical, but realize that I’m still in the minority); how a school, parents, and/or students can learn to recognize subtle warning signs; and—to paraphrase Rabbi Noam Stein of the Akiva School in Detroit—whether and how young charismatic teachers can be trained to use their talents in an educationally safe and sound manner.
There are three or four basic categories of charismatic teacher. The first is comprised of cases where the teacher has clearly crossed a line into psychological, physical, and/or sexual abuse, as in the cases mentioned at the beginning of this column. The second category is one where certainly no crime or abuse has taken place, but the techniques used by the teacher are unhealthy and unsound.
The third category is teachers who use charisma to manipulate students, but to positive effect. I am skeptical about the existence of this category, but many students of Rabbi Aharon Bina would vehemently contend that he fits this category, and that, indeed, he changed their lives for the better by breaking them down and building them back up. There is no doubt that R. Bina’s methods cause considerable damage as well. Is it possible to fashion a situation in which all such collateral damage will be eliminated? Perhaps, but I am skeptical.
The final category is “soft charisma,” a term I first heard in the name of Rabbi Menachem Schrader, the founding director of OU-JLIC (and thus my former boss), and which he uses to describe the educators he seeks for his program. He explained that, as opposed to “hard charisma,” in the case of “soft charisma,” the educator never becomes more central to the experience than the Torah that s/he is teaching.
In 2010, in the wake of the Motti Elon scandal, Rabbi Aryeh Klapper of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership explained why this distinction is so crucial: the Torah develops the self. Hard charisma effaces the students’ sense of self and replaces it with the teacher’s “self.” The difference between soft and hard charisma is thus the difference between developing the student’s sense of self—and distorting it.
The problem is that is it not always easy to differentiate hard and soft charisma. Building off of R. Klapper’s essay, the following is a preliminary taxonomy for identifying charisma and its dangerous manifestations. It goes without saying that teachers and students, and especially administrators and parents, must be vigilant even about “soft” forms of charisma, lest boundaries be crossed. “Failing” one of these tests should not automatically brand the teacher as a dangerous charismatic, but failure of multiple tests should raise red flags.
- Charismatic energy is easily transformed into eros, so any sort of physical contact or seclusion is a breach that warrants dismissal for a first or (at most) second offense.
- Does the teacher seek to persuade the student to see value in what the teacher values, or to persuade the student to see value only in what the teacher values?
- Is the teacher replacing the student’s friends?
- Has the student begun to imitate the teacher’s idiosyncratic practices and mannerisms?
- Is the student able to restate the teacher’s views in his own words and defend them without falling back on “but my teacher said”?
- What is the ratio of content to unmoored emotion in a teacher’s “inspirational” talks? Can the talks or lessons be quantified in terms of thinking, textual, or interpersonal skills, or only (or mostly) in terms of emotion and inspiration?
- How does the teacher respond to a student who questions, challenges, or rejects his/her assertions?
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Now that you know about the rule of thirds and a unique way to make your images more interesting, let’s talk about some things that may distract your viewers while looking at your photos.
A common mistake I see a lot in photography is when photos have crooked horizons. Sometimes images are tilted intentionally for a unique composition. This is absolutely different than it is when a photographer just isn’t paying a lot of attention to the surroundings of their photo, and not just the main subject.
Since this happens quite a bit, and blog readers may notice such fixable elements in your blog photos, this is one of those photo editing tips that will make your images more appealing to your readers.
WHY STRAIGHTEN PHOTOS?
Bottom line: If your image is really slanted, then it looks like your subject is going to fall out of the frame. It has been proven that human beings generally prefer straight and level lines, and that crooked pictures hanging within our own homes can irritate us. It can feel very unnatural to see crooked horizons.
Some photographers feel this is an artistic way of taking images. That is a personal choice. However, unless your tilt is quite drastic and looks intentional, your photo just looks like a tilted horizon. I generally try to get my horizons as straight as possible, with the knowledge that artistic composition sometimes allows me to break those rules as well!
STRAIGHT PHOTO EXAMPLES
It can difficult to identify the horizon or the lines in the scene that need to be adjusted or aligned. Sometimes you just have to follow your gut. If it looks visually pleasing to you, even with a slight tilt, perhaps keep it as is!
Photo Straightening Tutorials
You can use different programs to create straight pictures, such as Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, and iPhoto, but if you prefer to use a free program, check out this list of great sites for online photo editing. These videos from Courtney will walk you through the process in three different softwares:
Using Lightroom to Straighten an Image
How to Use iPhoto to Straighten an Image
Using Pixlr (free online editing program) to Straighten an Image
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“I’m not saying I can smell fear, but that’s just because I’m very modest.”
~Frederick Russell Burnham
The Boy Scouts of America have been around since 1910, and in that time they have made quite an impression on the nation. Some of you might associate Boy Scouts with your childhood, earning merit badges and going camping and learning how to like, tie knots? That’s a thing you did right? Others of you, like our staff, might also associate Boy Scouts with their childhood, only the focus is more on that one kid in your High School that really stuck with it, and while it was cool that he got to use a pocket knife and shit, he always wore knee-high socks with shorts and you know definitively that he did not get laid until he was well into his 20s. And still others of you might think of the Boy Scouts as an organization that is not particularly good at being nice to gay people.
But, something that almost no America thinks about in relation to the Boy Scouts are the men responsible for for the very idea of scouting itself. Scouting was first established in the United Kingdom by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907 as a way to support youth physical, mental and spiritual development. As you likely know, this goal was achieved through the focus on outdoor and survival skills, with the notion that a self-reliant child with a diverse skill set would be able to use what they learned through scouting and apply it to take constructive roles in society.
Now, “going outside” isn’t something that we really like doing much ourselves, and since we live in the age of the internet we don’t have to. But in the pre-internet age of the early 1900s when this all started, we imagine that going out and learning how to make fires and whittle sticks into shivs (we’re assuming that’s a thing Boy Scouts did) was probably both constructive and about as exciting of an activity as you could get. Either way, it’s an influential movement, and though it was started by a Brit, it was in fact inspired by an American man who basically taught Baden-Powell everything he knew. A tiny man with a powerful nose who you probably haven’t heard of, which is a right we’re going to wrong. Because there were few Americans as badass as…
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Coronavirus vaccine could be in UK by Christmas claims expert
Sir John Bell told Channel 4 News that the phase 3 programme to evaluate the coronavirus vaccine is fully underway. The Professor of Medicine added that if the vaccine is approved by the middle of September the UK population would be vaccinated before Christmas.
Sir John Bell said: "I can give you some good news which is that the phase 3 programme to evaluate this vaccine is fully underway.
"There are vaccinations going around 18 sites in the UK."
Channel 4's Cathy Newman asked: "How many doses could we have before Christmas in the UK?"
Sir John Bell replied: "Well I think the intention is to get up to 100 million doses in the UK.
The coronavirus vaccine could be approved by the middle of September
"Certainly 60 million doses by Christmas."
The Channel 4 host said: "So we could have this whole thing nailed by Christmas?"
The Oxford University Professor responded: "The answer is fingers crossed tailed wind behind us we could have a vaccine approved by the middle of September.
"If we do then it would mean we could get the population vaccinated by Christmas."
Coronavirus: WHO advise on use of face masks in public spaces
At the time of writing, Britain has the fifth-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world.
The UK has more than 284,000 cases in total as of June 4 and the current official death toll stands at over 40,000.
The Government has begun to relax the lockdown imposed in mid-March, with some workers now allowed to head back to the workplace if they cannot conduct business from home.
Non-essential shops across Britain are due to reopen on June 15 and the Government confirmed the day will also mark the start of compulsory face-mask wearing on public transport.
Former WHO chief explains the important of international comparison [INSIGHT]
Ken Clarke warns Rishi Sunak that he will be left to sort out 'mess' [VIDEO]
Nicola Sturgeon grilled over SNP's coronavirus failures [INSIGHT]
Worldwide there have been more than 6.8 million COVID-19 cases.
The death toll has reached more than 399,000.
More than 3.3 million people have recovered from the coronavirus across the globe.
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COMMIT TO CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
The best transportation systems and transportation plans are informed by the best available data
and research. Many information gaps currently remain in the GTHA, particularly with respect to
the movement of goods within the region. As
the RTP is being implemented, it will be
important to continue to improve our
understanding of transportation issues, and
the factors that affect our success. The ability
to offer innovative new programs over time
will require increased local knowledge and
understanding of transportation issues.
The Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS) is a
travel survey conducted in the Greater Golden
Horseshoe once every five years. Approximately
five per cent of the households in the region are
surveyed by telephone with questions pertaining
to mode choice, trip purpose, trip timing, trip
origin and destination, and other related issues.
This data is an invaluable resource to
One shortcoming of the TTS is that it counts walking
and bicycling trips only if they are undertaken for
work purposes. Walking and bicycling trips for other
purposes, such as going to school, shopping and
visiting friends, are not counted. As a result, these
modes are systematically undercounted and
information about their use for non-commute trips is
lacking, which hampers efforts to match the supply
of walking and biking facilities with the demand.
combine their pick-up with other trips.
10.1 Establish a Centre of Excellence for
Transportation in the GTHA.
10.2 Improve the coordination and
standardization of transportation data
collection, forecasting and modelling.
This could include:
- expansion of the Transportation
Tomorrow Survey (TTS) to gather
more detailed information on active
- analysis of global and regional
- development of a leading edge activity-based transportation demand model that can
serve as a common base for modelling throughout the region, by all stakeholders;
- analysis of socio-demographic dimensions of travel behaviour, and trends;
- analysis of trip assignment methodologies;
- analysis of transportation-land use integration; and
- analysis of effects of induced travel and congestion on emissions.
10.3 Develop a long-range land protection and/or acquisition strategy to accommodate future
transportation needs. This strategy should:
- identify and accommodate future needs for active transportation, transit, roads,
highways and goods movement, including the requirements for corridors, stations,
intermodal facilities and other elements of the network;
- review all public land holdings for possible applicability to RTP projects;
- establish a process to review RTP needs prior to the disposal of any publicly owned
- identify provincial and municipal tools that are necessary to protect lands for future
10.4 In collaboration with TransLink in Vancouver, the Agence Métropolitaine de Transport in
Montréal, and other partners, identify common approaches to prioritizing transportation
projects, including linking regional to national transportation benefits.
10.5 Consult with private and public partners, post-secondary institutions, and others to expand
the body of research related to the links between transportation and public health, socioeconomic
conditions, economic competitiveness and the environment, and on clean fuel
technologies and green vehicles.
10.6 Gather and disseminate knowledge about best practices in regional transportation
planning, drawing on examples from similar organizations in comparable regions such as
Agence Métropolitaine de Transport in the Montréal area, TransLink in the Vancouver
region, Transport for London in England, and Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg
10.7 In collaboration with the province, the Transportation Association of Canada, the Institute
of Transportation Engineers, municipalities and other relevant stakeholders, expand and
recalibrate road design standards and practices for more compact and fuel-efficient
vehicles. Over time, replace demand-driven standards with those that recognize
pedestrian, cycling and transit priority, as needed, to shift dependency away from single
10.8 Metrolinx will explore options, for the Province of Ontario’s consideration, to create a GTHA
Green Transportation Sector Initiative in collaboration with the federal and provincial levels
of government, the post-secondary education sector and others, that would foster a madein-
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Accession Number : AD0164045
Title : Adjustable Buoyancy Lift Device.
Descriptive Note : Patent,
Corporate Author : DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D C
Personal Author(s) : Hallanger,Lawrence William
Report Date : 19 MAY 1970
Pagination or Media Count : 5
Abstract : The invention is an adjustable buoyancy device for lifting objects in water. The lift device includes a hollow container which at its bottom end is communicable with the outside water environment. Provision is made to open the container to a gas pressure source so that water within the container can be displaced therefrom and means are provided to open the container to selected water pressures so that the amount of water therein and accordingly the buoyancy thereof can be varied for lifting purposes.
Descriptors : (*PRESSURE VESSELS, *PATENTS), (*UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT, RECOVERY), SALVAGE, FLOTATION, BUOYANCY, LIFT, VALVES
Subject Categories : Marine Engineering
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Moira Queen Quotes
Moira: There's only one way this night can end and we both know that, don't we, Mr. Wilson?
Moira: Please tell me both my children will live.
Thea: Mom! What are you doing?! Mom!
Moira: Thea, I love you. Close your eyes baby!
Slade: You possess true courage. I am truly sorry you did not pass that on to your son.
Oliver: Mom, I know a little something about sacrificing myself for the good of this city. It's what you need to do now.
Moira: I know.
Moira: Oliver. I know. I know. I've known since last year, I suppose. The night of the undertaking everything became so clear. It's pretty much the night I stopped sleeping.
Oliver: Before you say anything else...
Moira: There's nothing else to say. Nothing I need to say. Except I could not be more proud.
Moira: What should we drink to?
Slade: To friendship.
Slade: You and I have something in common.
Moira: What's that?
Slade: I know how difficult it is to pick yourself up when other people have written you off.
Charles Manson is relatively well known and I don't believe anyone is going to vote for him.
Malcolm: I hear you're throwing a party. I didn't get my invite.
Moira: Where exactly should I have addressed it? Starling City Cemetery?
Malcolm: I know that's where you wished I was right now. Lying beside my son.
Thea, I need you to understand what is going on here. Five hundred and three people are dead and there is a measure of guilt that is owed me. I am ready to accept my punishment.
Walter: You know, I read about people in forced captivity. Some of them said it was a simple thought that got them through the isolation and fear - returning to their loved ones. So I don't know really why I'm still alive, Moira, because I didn't have that.
Moira: Walter, please.
Walter: What do you think you could say to me to convince me that everything I knew, my whole life, hasn't just evaporated?
Moira: You know I would never willingly be a part of anything like this.
Oliver: I don't know anything any more.
So you'll atone for one murder, Robert, by committing hundreds, thousands?
I wasn't lying to hurt you, but to keep you safe.
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James Riddick Partington (30 June 1886 – 9 October 1965) was a British chemist and historian of chemistry who published multiple books and articles in scientific magazines.
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Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
The recent change to all-volunteer armed forces in the United States will eventually produce a gradual increase in the proportion of women in the armed forces and in the variety of women's assignments, but probably not the dramatic gains for women that might have been expected. This is so even though the armed forces operate in an ethos of institutional change oriented toward occupational equality and under the federal sanction of equal pay for equal work. The difficulty is that women are unlikely to be trained for any direct combat operations. A significant portion of the larger society remains uncomfortable as yet with extending equality in this direction. Therefore, for women in the military, the search for equality will still be based on functional equivalence, not identity or even similarity of task. Opportunities seem certain to arise. The growing emphasis on deterrence is bound to offer increasing scope for women to become involved in novel types of non combat military assignments.
1. The passage implies which of the following is a factor conductive to a more equitable representation of women in the United States armed forces that has existed in the past?
- The past service records of women who had assignments functionally equivalents to men's assignments.
- The all-volunteer character of the present armed forces.
- The level of awareness on the part of the larger society of military issues.
- An increased decline in the proportion of deterrence oriented non combat assignments.
2. Which sentence is an incorrect one?
- The difficulty is that women are unlikely to be trained for any direct combat operation.
- Opportunities seem certain to arise
- The recent change to all voluntary armed forces in US will produce a gradual increase in the proportion of women.
- The difficulty is that women are likely to be trained for any direct combat operation.
3. A suitable title for the passage might be?
- A current status of women in US teaching service.
- Current status of women in US military.
- Current status of women in US airforce.
- Current status of women in US navy.
4.The 'dramatic gains for women' and change in the attitude of a 'significant portion of the larger society' are logically related to each other in as much as the author puts forward the latter as
- A pre condition for any prospect of achieving the former.
- a public response to achievement of the former.
- The major reason for absence of the former
- a reason for some of the former being lost again.
5. According to the passage, despite the United states armed forces 'commitment to occupational equality for women in the military, certain other factors preclude women.
- having access to positions of responsibility.
- drawing assignments from a wider range of assignments than before.
- receiving equal pay for equal work
- being assigned all of the military tasks that are assigned to men.
6. The Primary purpose of the passage is to
- present a reasoned prognosis of the status of women in the new United States all-volunteer armed forces.
- present an overview of the different types of assignments available to women
- analyze reforms in the new United States all-volunteer armed forces necessitated by the increasing number of women in the military.
- present the new United States all-volunteer armed forces as a model case of equal employment policies in action.
7. Which of the following is closest in sense to the word "novel" used in the passage?
8. It can be inferred from the passage that
- The Government sanctions equal pay for equal work.
- The change to all-volunteer armed forces took place many years ago.
- Opportunities for women in military are certain to decline.
- The society encourages increased participation of women in direct combat.
9. It can be inferred from the passage that after the recent change
- Some join willingly, some are forced.
- Men are forced, women join willingly.
- Everyone joins the military under compulsion.
- Everyone joins the military willingly.
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The first episode of season 4 of Mad Men opens with Don Draper being interviewed by a journalist. He doesn’t tell him anything that’s of interest and then dodges the question Who is Don Draper? by claiming that he was taught as a child not to talk about himself. Scientists do an equally terrible job at communication, and for many of the same reasons. Cornelia Dean’s book Am I Making Myself Clear? offers fascinating insights into both journalism and science, and provides concrete ideas for how to do better.
Dean is the former science editor for the New York Times. Her extensive anecdotes and insights demonstrate how much experience she has working with both scientists and science writers. From this perspective, she shows incredible understanding why scientists are often wary of talking to journalists, what they think about them (and vice versa), etc. You really get the feeling that she understands both sides equally well, which gives a lot of weight to her advice (i.e., she’s not just a writer chiding scientists for being such bad communicators).
The first few chapters of the book give a rationale for why scientists should talk to the public, and discuss what works and what doesn’t in today’s science coverage in the news. That may not sound terribly interesting, but Dean covers a wide range of topics, including why journalists often feel the need to give equal weight to both sides of debates, even when there really is none, and the effect recent changes to media consumption and newsroom sizes have had on science coverage (hint: not a good one). Dean’s writing is also eloquent, engaging, and simply a joy to read. If you want to see a sample, I recommend one of her articles that she also cites in the book, Rousing Science Out of the Lab and Into the Limelight.
Every scientist (or technically-minded person, for that matter) should read her list of criteria that make for a good story (Chapter 3). Even if you still think there should be more science coverage on the news, this list tells you why there isn’t. It’s not that the criteria are all that surprising, but the way Dean frames and presents them makes you realize why they make sense.
The entire book is an example for how to write. Dean repeats a lot of the advice you’ve probably heard before: use the active voice, avoid the the verb to be, etc. Chapter 10 is essentially a tutorial for good writing, whether you’re a science writer or a scientist trying to communicate your ideas to the public. What makes this book so powerful is that it doesn’t just tell you how to write, it shows you how it’s done.
I did not expect to get much out of Chapters 13 and 14, On The Witness Stand and Making Policy. After all, I don’t expect to draft the UN Resolution on Visualization any time soon, nor do I think they’ll call me as an expert witness when those claims about parallel coordinates causing brain cancer turn into lawsuits. But like the rest of the book, those chapters provided not just useful insights into the processes and good advice, they argued for the importance of offering your expertise and taking a stand to make a difference. In a sense, the logical consequence of communicating your work is to try and make the world a better place with it.
At the end of that episode of Mad Men, Don Draper is again talking to a journalist. Only this time, he has a message, he has a plan, and has prepared stories to tell. That is a big part of what Dean recommends for scientists talking to reporters. Chapter 5 gives a lot of good advice about how to do that, how to prepare, etc. Perhaps the most important point is that you have to have a message. You can’t just talk about your research, you have to frame it in a way that shows where it is going to lead, or provide some other interesting thing to say that’s more than just your results. Dean quotes Frank Kauffman, who said: A message is not a fact, a message is a point of view. Facts, like statistics, prop up the message, but the message is bigger than the fact.
Why am I telling you all this? I think we’re lacking a message in visualization. We haven’t figured out how to explain what we are doing and what our work is really good for. This is rooted in our inability to even define what visualization is (and, consequently, what it is not). Just like the scientist who thinks that explaining his work in laymen’s terms means dumbing things down, we can’t let go of anything that might remotely be called visualization. As a result, we can’t explain what it is. And anybody can call anything visualization without a need to defend that (because nobody can claim that it’s not).
But that’s just part of the problem. How do you convey visualization as a story (and not just by showing pretty pictures)?. Say you’re supposed to explain visualization on the radio, how do you do that? And how do you tell a story in which visualization plays a role but that is not primarily about a particular visualization?
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When to nix winter weeds
No-till and reduced tillage have lots of perks, Moisture, soil, and time savings are a few. Unfortunately, these systems have one nagging drawback: They create a hospitable environment for winter annuals, biennials, and perennials to emerge in the fall and to plague next spring's crop.
In some cases, these infestations can make your field take on a whole new look. During the soggy spring of 2009, butterweed (with its yellow flowers) made some fields in east-central Illinois look like canola fields.
Butterweed, also known as cressleaf groundsel, is a winter annual that germinates and emerges from September through November. In spring, growth continues until the life cycle is completed in early June when butterweed produces seed.
“Glyphosate is very effective on this species when small, but it is much less effective on the near-mature plants,” says Aaron Hager, University of Illinois Extension weed specialist.
Big yield impact
Come spring, uncontrolled infestations from this winter annual and other weeds that make it through winter end up clipping more yields than you might think.
Iowa State University (ISU) research shows weed completion can clip yields by .5 bushels per day over a 16-day window from VE (emergence) to V2 (second fully extended leaf). Yield losses worsen the longer weeds remain. From V4 to V5 (fourth to fifth visible leaf collar), daily losses tallied 17.2 bushels over a seven-day time frame – a 120.4-bushel-per-acre yield loss. Fall weed control enables you to get a jump on winter annuals and others before they stifle next year's crops.
“Usually, we see an opportunity for fall-applied herbicides when farmers in conservation tillage have perennials like dandelion or winter annuals like henbit,” says Mike Owen, ISU weed specialist. “These weeds are more easily controlled with fall applications than spring applications.”
Fall herbicide application also does the following:
● Creates a better seedbed. “The field can be a mess with a thick mat of weeds if people have winter annuals and don't make a fall herbicide application,” says Carroll Moseley, Syngenta herbicide brand manager. “That (weed) mat can delay planting.” Thick flushes of winter annuals are also compounded by lack of residual herbicides the preceding spring and summer, he says.
● Controls insects. A salad bowl of weeds provides a lush environment for insects to thrive. “By controlling weeds, you prevent an overwintering site for nematodes and insects,” says Frank Carey, Valent field market development specialist.
● Conserves fertilizer. “Winter annuals use nitrogen (N) fertilizer,” says Carey. Nixing winter annuals before they start keeps fall-applied N intact for your crops next spring.
● Aids timely planting. “Fall application gets the product down and controls weeds prior to planting,” says Matt Foster, Authority XL product manager for FMC. “If you have a wet spring, you can have problems applying herbicide. When this happens, you lose yields that you can't get back.” It also helps ensure timely planting into a clean field during the spring time crunch, he adds.
● Thins the weed seed bank. “Winter annuals repopulate the seed bank when they seed in the spring,” says Jeff Carpenter, DuPont corn herbicide product manager. Fall weed control stops future infestations in their tracks.
● Adds modes of action. “Applying a preemergence herbicide is also good for resistant management,” says Foster. Mixing up herbicide modes of action helps forestall herbicide-resistant weeds from developing.
Will anything be left come spring?
There's a problem on the other side of the winter, though.
“Because herbicides begin degrading when you apply them in the fall, you will have less of them remaining at planting and less weed control of early season weeds,” says Bob Hartzler, ISU Extension weed specialist.
Thus, another herbicide burndown application will be needed to control weeds that break through the fall application.
“If you choose to go with a fall herbicide application, it must replace the need for the spring burndown,” says Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri Extension weed specialist. “Otherwise, a fall herbicide application is just an added cost in the overall weed-management program.”
There are cases, though, where winter annuals, biennials, and perennials can be so thick that a fall application is needed.
“If you don't kill marestail (which can follow a winter annual life cycle) early, it can develop a thick root mass and a big taproot that make it difficult to kill,” says Carey. “There are a variety of products you can use in the fall that will let you plant in the spring. You just have to pay attention to the replant intervals of the chemical you apply in the fall.”
Successful weed control will take more than glyphosate, for it must have a long-lasting residual component. The price also must be right, says Mark Loux, Ohio State University (OSU) Extension weed specialist.
Be careful, though. Most of your herbicide dollar is best spent in spring preemergence and postemergence applications. Loux advises budgeting between $4 and $12 per acre for a fall application and targeting problem fields with weeds like marestail and giant ragweed infestations.
Fall herbicide applications also tend to be suited best to certain regions. “Fall applications have their place like in the South, where many weeds tend to germinate in the fall,” says Rick Cole, Monsanto technology development manager. “Palmer amaranth is a great example. It germinates before and during the season, and then continues to germinate in the fall. Fall herbicide applications are not a one-size-fits-all solution.”
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“In France we’re not particularly advanced regarding digital integration, so we could follow the examples of what those before us have done. For Le Figaro, amongst others, the Daily Telegraph as well as the Italian La Repubblica were sources of inspiration,” Salvator said.
In an hour-long conversation with the j-school students, Salvator described how Le Figaro set about converging the printed paper and its online version, and the challenges of finding the appropriate business model online.
Le Figaro started to develop its online presence in 2003/04, relatively late compared to other papers such as Le Monde. “We started talking about convergence in 2004 and we’re not at the end yet,” he said, emphasizing that the difficulties in trying to marry print and online are the same for everyone.
Convergence of teams, divergence of content
The first step towards integration, Salvator explained, was the physical integration of the two newsrooms. In 2007 the online newsroom was moved together with the print one and in 2011 found itself at the very center of the newsroom, with the other desks around it in circles. Fundamental to real integration was the convergence of the teams; all journalists should be able to work interchangeably for both platforms.
Illustrating the main problems of integration, Salvator stressed the timing factor and the difference in editorial approaches. The news cycle clearly is very different online, compared to the printed version of the newspaper. The newsroom must therefore adapt to serve both.
Online is the expression of a new culture, where the image gets more space compared to the text. But where the two differ most is in editorial approach. The website and the printed version address different audiences. While the newspaper talks to about 300,000 people who pay for it, online there’s an audience of about 11 million users who do not pay. So, while the newsroom moves towards convergence, the content must diverge.
“We can’t give the same content to our newspaper’s readers – who pay – and to the site’s users, who don’t pay,” Salvator summed up. He cited the example of La Repubblica, which differentiates the print paper from the content available on the website: very few articles from the print edition go online, where they insist more on videos, posting a lot of them every day. “We’re trying to differentiate, to be sure we offer premium content to our print readers," said Salvator.
The problem online is how to make money, he said, given that online advertising doesn’t provide nearly as much income as traditional advertising does.
The real debate: free or paid?
The real discussion is no longer about print vs. online or the integration of the two, but rather free vs. paid content. News is a commodity, Salvator emphasized, and it is still difficult to convince readers to pay for news online. Online subscribers get a PDF version of the newspaper and some premium content accessible just to them. “But you can’t overdo the paid-for content on the website because you risk sending away users who look for the free part. It’s always a balance between the two," Salvator said.
Regarding mobile strategy, Salvator said it is relatively easy to ask people to pay for content on tablets, while on smartphones it is more complicated. | <urn:uuid:e6106d7b-3a3e-4bc2-b54b-a4dd44c19843> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blog.wan-ifra.org/2013/09/20/towards-newsroom-convergence-and-content-divergence-at-le-figaro | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00466-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951712 | 712 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Spanish worker's death shows need to adapt to climate change
RAQUEL REDONDO and BARRY HATTON
MADRID (AP) -- The death of a street cleaner during a heatwave in Madrid is driving a debate in Spain about the need to adapt labor rules to the realities of climate change.
Most importantly, officials and unions are trying to ease the heat inequalities faced by lower-earning workers and families.
When street cleaner José Antonio González started his afternoon shift in Madrid, the temperature was 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
Three hours later, the 60-year-old collapsed with heat stroke and died.
In Spain, activists are pressing for work hour changes during heat waves, while in Britain, unions want the government to set maximum heat standards for indoor workers. | <urn:uuid:61d71243-956a-4abe-8681-d903c6fa167b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cbs19news.com/story/46912539/spanish-workers-death-shows-need-to-adapt-to-climate-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.951833 | 166 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Question of Evil and Feminist Legal Scholarship
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In this article, we argue that feminist legal scholars should engage directly and explicitly with the question of evil. Part I summarises key facts surrounding the prosecution and life-long imprisonment of Myra Hindley, one of a tiny number of women involved in multiple killings of children in recent British history. Part II reviews a range of commentaries on Hindley, noting in particular the repeated use of two narratives: the first of these insists that Hindley is an icon of female evil; the second, less popular one, seeks to position her as a victim. In Part III, the article broadens out and we explain why we think feminist legal scholars should look at the question of evil. In large part, the emphasis is on anticipating the range of possible objections to this argument, and on trying to answer these objections by showing how a focus on evil might benefit feminist legal thinking – specifically in relation to the categories of perpetrator and victim and, more generally, in relation to laws motivated by a desire to secure women’s human rights. | <urn:uuid:a9c806fd-0d28-4104-acf9-d41fe0fbd25a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10691-006-9012-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00246-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903657 | 272 | 1.609375 | 2 |
1 A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters, Mary and Martha.
2 This is the Mary who poured the expensive perfume on the Lord's feet and wiped them with her hair.* Her brother, Lazarus, was sick.1
3 So the two sisters sent a message to Jesus telling him, "Lord, the one you love is very sick."
4 But when Jesus heard about it he said, "Lazarus's sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God. I, the Son of God, will receive glory from this."
5 Although Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus,
6 he stayed where he was for the next two days and did not go to them.
7 Finally after two days, he said to his disciples, "Let's go to Judea again."
8 But his disciples objected. "Teacher," they said, "only a few days ago the Jewish leaders in Judea were trying to kill you. Are you going there again?"
9 Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours of daylight every day. As long as it is light, people can walk safely. They can see because they have the light of this world.
10 Only at night is there danger of stumbling because there is no light."
11 Then he said, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up."
12 The disciples said, "Lord, if he is sleeping, that means he is getting better!"
13 They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was having a good night's rest, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.
14 Then he told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.
15 And for your sake, I am glad I wasn't there, because this will give you another opportunity to believe in me. Come, let's go see him."
16 Thomas, nicknamed the Twin,* said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go, too--and die with Jesus."2
17 When Jesus arrived at Bethany, he was told that Lazarus had already been in his grave for four days.
18 Bethany was only a few miles* down the road from Jerusalem,3
19 and many of the people* had come to pay their respects and console Martha and Mary on their loss.4
20 When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed at home.
21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask."
23 Jesus told her, "Your brother will rise again."
24 "Yes," Martha said, "when everyone else rises, on resurrection day."
25 Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life.* Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again.5
26 They are given eternal life for believing in me and will never perish. Do you believe this, Martha?"
27 "Yes, Lord," she told him. "I have always believed you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who has come into the world from God."
28 Then she left him and returned to Mary. She called Mary aside from the mourners and told her, "The Teacher is here and wants to see you."
29 So Mary immediately went to him.
30 Now Jesus had stayed outside the village, at the place where Martha met him.
31 When the people who were at the house trying to console Mary saw her leave so hastily, they assumed she was going to Lazarus's grave to weep. So they followed her there.
32 When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell down at his feet and said, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
33 When Jesus saw her weeping and saw the other people wailing with her, he was moved with indignation and was deeply troubled.
34 "Where have you put him?" he asked them. They told him, "Lord, come and see."
35 Then Jesus wept.
36 The people who were standing nearby said, "See how much he loved him."
37 But some said, "This man healed a blind man. Why couldn't he keep Lazarus from dying?"
38 And again Jesus was deeply troubled. Then they came to the grave. It was a cave with a stone rolled across its entrance.
39 "Roll the stone aside," Jesus told them. But Martha, the dead man's sister, said, "Lord, by now the smell will be terrible because he has been dead for four days." | <urn:uuid:d549ed95-9bdf-4259-9e35-cf2f90a27a7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allaboutgod.com/truth/john-11.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.991653 | 969 | 2.25 | 2 |
A New York State
Bar Association (NYSBA) proposal that would remove mental health-related questions
from the state bar application has been approved by the New York State Unified
Janet DiFiore made the announcement today during her State
of the Judiciary address. New York becomes just the 11th state
to protect the well-being of law school students by removing questions about
mental health treatment from the state bar application.
marks a historic step forward in addressing the ongoing mental health crisis in
the legal profession,” said NYSBA President Henry M. Greenberg. “Future
generations of New York lawyers no longer need to live in fear that bravely and
smartly seeking treatment for mental health issues could one day derail their
“I applaud Chief Judge Janet DiFiore and her Committee on Admission to
the Bar for their rapid response to this critically important issue,” continued
Greenberg. “I’d also like to thank NYSBA’s Working Group on Attorney Mental
Health, as they worked with extraordinary speed and skill and their report was
a blueprint for change.”
has been a NYSBA priority since Greenberg announced the Working Group on
Attorney Mental Health last June. NYSBA’s House of Delegates approved the
working group’s report in November.
The chief judge credited NYSBA for raising the issue
and stated in her address that “the amended application will no longer ask
intrusive questions about a candidate’s mental health conditions or treatment
2019, the Conference of Chief Justices passed a resolution urging its members
and state and territorial bar admission authorities to eliminate from bar
admission applications any questions that ask about “mental health history,
diagnosis, or treatment” and to instead use questions that only focus on an
reviewed questions on the New York bar application’s character and fitness
questionnaire that address an applicant’s mental health issues to determine if
they comport with the nationally endorsed recommendations found in the
Conference of Chief Justices’ resolution. NYSBA’s report is entitled The
Impact, Legality, Use and Utility of Mental Disability Questions on the New
York State Bar Application.
group concluded that:
- Law students today experience more stress and
mental health issues than ever before due to student debt and an uncertain job
market, in addition to the demands of law school.
- The presence of mental health inquiries on the
application may lead to many students failing to seek help for these problems.
- The Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits the
screening of candidates based on mental disability.
- All questions related to mental disability,
including Question 34, the mental health-related question, are unnecessary and
should be eliminated from the bar application.
days after NYSBA approved the working group’s report, State Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Brad Hoylman introduced legislation that would have
prohibited the state bar application from asking prospective attorneys about
their mental health.
local bar associations and statewide mental health organizations submitted letters of
support for NYSBA’s
proposal. Additionally, deans from 14 of New York's 15 law schools submitted a letter to Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence K. Marks urging the removal of
question 34 from the state bar's application.
a change.org petition created by second-year Columbia Law School student
Samantha Braver began circulating on social media and it has now been signed by
more than 1,300 people.
Click here for more information, including the specific wording of both the new
and old Question 34.
About the New York State Bar Association
The New York State Bar
Association is the largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. Since
1876, NYSBA has helped shape the development of law, educated and informed the
legal profession and the public, and championed the rights of New Yorkers
through advocacy and guidance in our communities.
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Mohammed Alaa, Staff Reporter
The National Center of Meteorology (NCM) has expected that the weather on Tuesday will be fair to partly cloudy. Low clouds will appear over the Eastern coast by morning and some convective clouds may form over the mountains by afternoon. Humid by night and Wednesday morning with a probability of fog or mist formation northward. Light to moderate northeasterly to northwesterly winds, freshening at times causing blowing dust during daytime, with a speed of 18–30, reaching 40km/hour. The sea will be moderate in the Arabian Gulf and slight to moderate in Oman Sea.
The NCM also stated that the weather on Wednesday would be fair to partly cloudy at times, with a probability of some convective clouds formation eastward by afternoon. Humid by night and on Thursday morning over some internal areas.
The winds would be light to moderate southeasterly becoming northwesterly winds, freshening at times during daytime causing blowing dust, with a speed of 18–30, reaching 40km/hr. The sea will be slight to moderate in the Arabian Gulf and in Oman Sea.
On Thursday, the weather is expected to be fair to partly cloudy, with a chance of some convective clouds formation eastward associated with rainfall, according to the NCM.
“Temperatures tend to increase over the internal areas. Light to moderate southeasterly becoming northwesterly winds, freshening at times during daytime causing blowing dust, with a speed of 18–30, reaching 40km/hr. The sea will be slight to moderate in the Arabian Gulf and in Oman Sea,” NCM added.
PARROT SHOW: Ajman Tourism Development Department (ATDD) hosted a live parrot show at Al Zorah Natural Reserve in collaboration with the UAE Parrots Group to raise awareness for this hobby which is gaining an increasing interest among Emirati youth and contributes to attracting more visitors to Ajman. The number of participants in the 45 minutes live show reached 11 amateurs from the UAE Parrots Group with 18 Macaw parrots.
Parrot breeding is an interesting hobby that brings together many young people who meet to share experience and have a good time. Ibrahim Al-Marai established the group with a team of Emirati youth who have aspirations to raise awareness for this hobby by conducting various activities, events and performances that showcase the capabilities of the trained parrots at several tourist destinations in the UAE. The group includes now many new members in addition to the ladies team that supports achieving the group objectives.
The rain was experienced in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Fuiajrah, and some areas of Sharjah.
The NCM said Saturday would be cloudy with a chance of scattered rain starting in the morning over the islands, gradually approaching the coasts and the Northern regions in the afternoon.
Sharjah residents were seen collecting hailstones after the Emirate experienced a hailstorm. Streaks of lightning blazed across UAE skies, including the Sharjah’s Buhairah Corniche, where traffic was thin on Sunday.
The scene was no different in Sharjah. Dark, ominous clouds dotted the skies on Sunday morning, heralding the prospect of a rainfall which subsequently hit the emirate. There were sporadic streaks of lightning witnessed by some residents.
During the meeting, they discussed friendship relations and various aspects of cooperation and coordination between the UAE and the United States of America, especially in the defence and military sectors.
The Philippine Overseas Labour Office in Dubai (POLO-Dubai) which has been upgrading its digital services and which has been on road tours with the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai (PCG-Dubai) to the Northern Emirates, is going for another outreach programme on September 18
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Our mission is to preserve and, through restoration, recreate a part of Iowa's vanishing natural heritage, providing a resource for the entire college, local schools, environmental groups, clubs, and the general public.
CERA will continue to provide high-caliber educational, research, practical, and aesthetic experiences for Grinnell College students and the broader public, while expanding key conservation and research programs and advancing management and educational outreach. With the goal of making CERA regionally respected as a learning laboratory, some specific objectives include:
(1) Amplify the use of CERA by students through integration of field work and interdisciplinary projects.
(2) Increase opportunities for Grinnell students and community members to work together on restoration and conservation activities.
(3) Improve the management and sharing of CERA's long-term data sets, in this way facilitating education, research, adaptive management, and cooperation with other field stations;
(4) Initiate restoration activities on CERA's aquatic habitats, as well as continuing work on terrestrial ones;
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Religious studies is an academic field that studies religious beliefs, behaviors and
institutions, and the impact these have on the individual, society and culture. Religious
Studies draws upon multiple disciplines and their methodologies such as anthropology,
sociology, psychology, philosophy, history, and literature. Therefore, it attempts
to describe, compare, interpret, and explain religious phenomena systematically in
relation to society as a whole. It emphasize a historical based, cross-cultural perspective,
recognizing the ways in which religion both shapes, and is shaped by, changing socio-cultural
forms. It involves critical reflection on the role and value of religious communities
with respect to both past and contemporary problems and issues.
If you would like more information about this area, or classes we offer please consult
the links on the left or contact Leon Lane.
An introductory study of religion with emphasis upon the varieties, differences, and
similarities of religious experience and expression. The course will examine, through
selected examples, the interaction between religious experience and expression and
their particular social and cultural contexts.
Introduces books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) using knowledge of literary forms
as well as historical and cultural backgrounds to aid in the interpretation of the
religious and philosophical meanings of the text.
Introduces New Testament using knowledge of literary forms as well as historical and
cultural backgrounds to aid in the interpretation of the religious and philosophical
meanings of the text.
Comparative study of major world and selected regional religions with emphasis on
analysis of belief, ritual, artistic expression and social organization. Eastern and
Western religions are considered. (Same as ANT 130.)
Surveys the historical and theological movements in Christianity from the 1st century
to the mid -16th century. Emphasis will be placed on the interaction of Christian
institutions and religious movements with other prevailing social, cultural, and political
institutions within this timeframe.
Examines central theological teachings, modes of ethical reasoning, key ethical virtues
and norms of major religious traditions from both Eastern and Western Religions. Considers
the lives, sacred stories, dogma and texts of central religious figures as part of
the context for moral thinking in a global setting.
Introduces students to issues in philosophy of religion including defining the concept
of God, arguments for and against the existence of God, the relation between faith
and reason, the nature of religious experience, the problem of evil, and immortality.
Investigates the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth through a critical analysis
of the ancient sources and modern scholarly reconstructions.
Presents the person and thought of the Apostle Paul in social, cultural, political,
philosophical, and theological context. Investigates Paul's ethics and his views as
preserved in the Christian New Testament.
Examines special topics in Religion. Includes but not limited to individual religious
figures, movements, sacred writings, religious traditions and selected eras.
Length of Program
You can earn an associate’s degree in two years if you maintain full-time status.
This information should not be considered a substitute for the KCTCS Catalog. You should always choose classes in cooperation with your faculty advisor to ensure
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Have you ever wondered why most sales techniques sound better than they work? It’s because fewer times that most of us would believe, your success isn’t based on your techniques, or scripts. There is typically an unidentified element that plays a more important part in our success, whether that success is in sales, management, or administration.
Let’s pursue this idea. Let’s say someone comes to you to ask for a favor. You don’t really know this person very well. They’re an acquaintance at best, but not really someone you would call a friend. They’re definitely haven’t earned the right to be a part of your “inner circle”. But, let’s say they come to you and ask you for a favor that only someone on your inner circle would have the right to ask, something like, “Can I stay at your house for the next two weeks while my house gets repainted?”
I’m not asking you whether or not you would agree to the request. That’s an entirely different conversation. I’m asking, if someone you barely knew made a request like this, candidly how would you feel. I can tell you what the general answers have been over the past 8 years that I’ve been asking this question. The most common answer is, “I’d feel put-upon!”. There, of course are other answers, such as, “Uncomfortable!” “Uneasy!”, “Suspicious”. In all fairness, occasionally someone WILL say, “I’d feel honored to be asked!”, but usually the answer is more like the others.
Now, let’s take another example. Let’s say you have someone in your life who you are really close to. They ARE part of your inner circle! The two of you have gone through both the ups and the downs of life and you’ve done it together. Let’s say that they need help. It’s help you not only could easily give them, but you’d want to be the person to help them out. But, let’s say they don’t come to you for help, they go somewhere else. Candidly, how would you feel?
I can also tell you the most common answers for this example. The most common answer is, “I’d feel hurt!” The rest of the most common choices are, “I’d wonder what’s wrong!” “I’d wonder if I did something to offend them!”, “I’d wonder why they didn’t come to me!” There occasionally is an answer like, “I’d be happy for them to be responsible for getting their own results”, but those are usually pretty scarce.
So with one example you feel uncomfortable if they DO ask for your help. With the other example you feel uncomfortable if they DON’T ask for your help.
The first “missing piece” is that each of these examples could be the same request.
Whether someone get’s their feelings hurt if you do not let them help you build your business, etc isn’t based so much on how the request is made…it’s more dependent on the quality and closeness of the relationship. I believe that the quality of your business and your life is actually based on the quality of your relationships. If the relationship works, the details don’t tend matter. If the relationship doesn’t work, then the details don’t tend to help.
The second missing piece is that you can only have the kind of relationship with someone else that you have with yourself. If you can’t trust yourself, you probably have difficulty trusting someone else. If you doubt your own credentials and credibility, you probably question the credentials and credibility of those around you.
The more open, authentic, grounded, and transparent you are with yourself, the more open, authentic, grounded, and transparent others will tend to be with you.
Many people want to move their business to another level. But, businesses don’t move to other levels…people do! The key to your ongoing success lies in your willingness to look within yourself and discover what needs to be done for you to be more confident, more certain, and more candid.
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Imagine bad guys able to fight without sleep. Or enemy soldiers with hardware implanted in their brains that makes them better able to target U.S. troops than U.S. troops are able to target them. How about future foes able to outfox GIs thanks to the "pharmaceutical intervention" that has improved their "brain plasticity"? Or American soldiers rendered flat-footed and lethargic because a crafty nemesis has been slipping lead into their food.
Just because the U.S. military now lacks what defense eggheads call a peer competitor a country capable of beating us in a head-to-head confrontation that doesn't mean it lacks for imagination in conjuring fearful foes. Sure, it was easier for John F. Kennedy to blow smoke about a non-existent "missile gap" with the Soviet Union, or for Ronald Reagan to convince us of the need for a "Star Wars" missile shield when Moscow was still our superpower rival (it may no longer be, but we're still spending $10 billion annually on missile defenses).
In the inaugural edition of the Pentagon's annual Soviet Military Power booklet, published in 1981, then Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger warned: "There is nothing hypothetical about the Soviet military machine. Its expansion, modernization and contribution to projection of power beyond Soviet boundaries are obvious." (He was referring to Moscow's invasion and occupation of Afghanistan that had occurred two years earlier and fell apart eight years later with the Russians' humiliating defeat, followed two years after that by the demise of the Soviet Union itself.)
But if the old Soviet soldier was portrayed as 10 feet tall, the Pentagon has a tougher task today, now that the Soviet juggernaut is gone. The new warning: our potential enemies may be only six feet tall today (okay, five-seven), but they could be 10 feet tall tomorrow.
Today's equivalent of Weinberger's Soviet Military Power booklet is titled simply Human Performance, and it was written by the JASONs, a band of top scientists that advises the Defense Department. Completed in March, it has surfaced thanks to Steven Aftergood, who issues a weekly compendium of interesting government documents for the nonprofit Federation of American Scientists. The report warns that potential foes none is named, although there is a backwards nod to "East German Olympic athletes" could put better troops on the battlefields of tomorrow through medication, surgery and mind training. While such changes are not imminent, the study says, the science behind them needs to be monitored carefully so the U.S. military can anticipate what it might face in a future war.
Soviet Military Power was illustrated with cartoonish drawings of Moscow's latest and greatest weaponry, but Human Performance, equal parts Dr. Strangelove and Dr. Frankenstein, is crammed with complex equations and charts that make it tougher to dismiss. "Little is known about the present activities of adversaries in using/developing human performance modifiers," the report says. "This possibility now should be considered with some seriousness, because of rapid advances in understanding brain function, in developing therapies for brain and spinal chord damage, and in psycho-pharmacology." (Try to ignore the misspelling of "spinal cord.")
Understanding "brain plasticity" could let adversaries basically rewire their troops' minds, "permanently establishing new neural pathways" that could "increase troop effectiveness or modify troop behavior and/or emotional responses." New "neuropharmaceuticals" (and you thought the Pentagon was interested only in anti-depressants) "may have the additional effect of weakening or overwriting existing memories," the JASONs warn. They could end up being used "in training programs or field operations." ("The market for these drugs in foreign cultures," the report adds darkly, "should also be monitored.)
If drugs aren't ready, implanting devices to send signals directly into enemy soldiers' brains might work. "Although the present technical capabilities are not impressive, one can consider the potential that an adversary might use invasive interfaces in military applications," the report says. "An extreme example would be remote guidance or control of a human being." (The Pentagon is limiting this kind of work to bugs. The neural tweaks detailed in Human Performance would be performed by "an adversary who may not be guided by the same cultural or ethical concerns that govern U.S. military operations," the report says.)
A big battlefield advantage will be gained by the side that wins the race on "the manipulation and understanding of human sleep," the study notes. "Suppose a human could be engineered who slept for the same amount of time as a giraffe (1.9 hours per night). This would lead to an approximately twofold decrease in the casualty rate. An adversary would need an approximately 40% increase in the troop level to compensate for this advantage."
The scientists also warn that U.S. troops could be weakened by taking diet supplementals obtained from local shops in faraway lands (a 2003 report found 90% of special forces troops and 76% of support troops take such nutrients, including energy boosters, vitamins and protein powders). "Such markets could serve as a method of intentionally poisoning U.S. personnel," the report warns, helpfully suggesting the use of lead salts mixed in with nutritional supplements. "Lead poisoning has a slow onset of symptoms that are easily misdiagnosed in the early stages," it adds. "These symptoms include fatigue, irritability, and difficulty in concentration." That sounds familiar. Based on reports from U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, nefarious enemies may already be at work. | <urn:uuid:638a7c54-70fd-43c3-b958-85fb0c4c3fa9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1814846,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00208-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961493 | 1,139 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Britain and Russia have agreed to create a joint working group against global terrorism. The issue came up in talks Friday between Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Prime Minister Blair announced at a news conference with Mr. Putin that the two leaders are expanding intelligence sharing in the aftermath of the September terrorist attacks against the United States.
"We have agreed to the formation of a new bilateral working group on terrorism. That will get underway as soon as possible, and allow our two countries to cooperate in defeating this attack on the civilized world," Mr. Blair said.
Afghanistan was a major topic of their talks at Mr. Blair's countryside retreat of Chequers, northwest of London.
Mr. Putin said Russia has national security interests in making sure Afghanistan nolonger sponsors international terrorism. He spoke through an interpreter.
"Russia's interest is to have in Afghanistan a neutral and a friendly country near our southern border which will never again allow on its territory bases for training terrorists and sending them to Russian Caucasian territories," he said.
Mr. Blair has said they also discussed the situation in the breakaway Russian Republic of Chechnya.
Mr. Blair said he wants to see a political solution to the conflict, and he condemned Chechen terrorism that has killed hundreds of Russian civilians.
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Just because certain maladies are “common” doesn’t mean you have to fall victim, too. Share these tips for how to prevent conditions that shorten our lives, cause us pain, or make us plain miserable, and you’ll take a big step toward fighting the diseases that are most likely to affect your loved ones.
A warm scarf is just as important as a winter hat. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that in mice cells, the cold virus reproduced more frequently in the cooler temperatures of the nasal cavity than in the lungs, where it's warmer. And when you breathe in cold air, the cells in your airway aren’t as effective in fighting off the virus. To keep cold symptoms at bay, wrap a thick scarf over your nose when you go outside in cold temperatures.
Eat your biggest meal earlier in the day to reduce your risk of breast cancer. Scientists at the University of California San Diego examined the daily food journals of more than 2,000 women. They found that the women who ate more between 5 p.m. and midnight had higher blood levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that is associated with increased breast cancer risk. (C-reactive protein is also linked to other killers such as colon cancer and lung cancer.) In fact, for every 10 percent more calories eaten in the evening, C-reactive protein increased 3 percent—numbers that should put any midnight snack craving to bed.
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Go to bed earlier. You might reduce your risk of high blood pressure. A study in the American Journal of Hypertension looked at the shut-eye habits of more than 70,000 men and women. Turns out that people who slept less than 7 hours a day were significantly more likely to have high blood pressure. But don't let yourself sleep the day away: Spending more than 10 hours a day asleep was also associated with a greater risk of hypertension.
Curb your drinking on sunny days. An Italian meta-analysis compared data from 16 skin cancer studies, including more than 6,000 cases of skin cancer. The researchers discovered that men and women who imbibed an average of more than one alcoholic drink per day increased their risk of skin cancer by 20 percent. Blame acetaldehyde, a byproduct created when your liver metabolizes alcohol. Scientists believe that acetaldehyde generates free radicals, damaging DNA on top of the damage caused by UV rays, and may even activate signalling pathways that lead to tumor formation.
Eat yogurt during allergy season. Researchers at Vanderbilt University found that people who consumed probiotics, which help the growth of healthy bacteria in your gut, reported improved seasonal allergy symptoms over people who took a placebo. Doctors aren’t sure why it works, but several types of gut bacteria are known to produce proteins that provide beneficial effects throughout your body. Not a fan of yogurt? Try other probiotic foods like sauerkraut, miso soup, kombucha beverages, or probiotic supplements. | <urn:uuid:c34fc471-6051-4758-a5c3-de21ba75c328> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a19918228/uncommon-knowledge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.95405 | 620 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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To determine the prevalence of antidepressant deaths in South Australia, the relative frequency of each antidepressant used and demographic data of those who died.
This was a retrospective, case note study of all cases where death was caused by lethal levels of antidepressants in South Australia for the period from 1986 to 1990.
The study occurred at the South Australian coroner's office.
Subjects were selected from toxicology data, where serum or liver levels of one or more antidepressant were in the lethal range.
Seventy-one cases were identified and information was obtained on 68 of these cases from the coroner's files.
Amitriptyline, Doxepin and Dothiepin accounted for the majority of antidepressant deaths.
Women were 2.5 times more likely to use antidepressants to suicide than men.
At least 63% had a known psychiatric illness and 45% had previously attempted suicide.
The older tricyclic antidepressants are a significant cause of suicide.
It is recommended that the newer antidepressants, which are as efficacious yet safer in overdose, be prescribed in preference to the older tricyclic antidepressants, as the first line of treatment in newly diagnosed depressed outpatients.
Mots-clés Pascal : Antidépresseur, Psychotrope, Toxicité, Mortalité, Prévalence, Epidémiologie, Australie, Océanie, Adulte, Homme, Overdose
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Antidepressant agent, Psychotropic, Toxicity, Mortality, Prevalence, Epidemiology, Australia, Oceania, Adult, Human
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The first Tournament of Roses was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club. These club members were former residents of the East and Midwest eager to showcase Pasadena as the place where the “flowers were blooming” on New Year’s Day. They wanted to tell the world about “their new paradise.” More than 2000 people came out on that day to view a parade of flower-covered carriages, foot races, polo matches and tugs-of-war. The abundance of flowers prompted the name “Tournament of Roses.”
During the next few years, the festival expanded to include marching bands and motorized floats, ostrich races and bronco busting. In 1895, the Tournament of Roses Association was formed to take charge of the festival, which had grown too large for the Hunt Club.
Today, most floats are built by professional float companies and take almost a year to design and construct. An estimated 350 million television viewers in more than 80 countries around the world join nearly one million curbside spectators for the Rose Parade. The Tournament is a festival of flowers, music and sports unequaled anywhere in the world. It is “America’s New Year Celebration,” a greeting to the world and a salute to the community spirit and love of pageantry that have thrived in Pasadena for more than a century.
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Marx could therefore react negatively towards idea that several economic electricity cannot be sent out in an definitely equal feeling. Communism entails the the same distribution not only of riches, but as well of economic power. Liberalism does consequently fit into this ideal to some extent, but not totally.
Machiavelli a new number of philosophy related to his economic paradigm. According ot this thinker, human beings, world and tradition can all be improved by means of education, and this central to such education stood macho virtues. This paradigm is more or fewer proved by means of the evolution of liberalism in the United States. A process that commenced as yet another form of coercion has developed to become an totally improved paradigm. Indeed, the variety of ideologies within just society at the same time greatly inspired the development of the liberalist ideology. This could be seen above, with all the historical movements from World War II, the Vietnam war, as well as the evolution of society to include minority groups in the “equal opportunity” paradigm.
In terms of Friedman’s statement after that, I believe Machiavelli would acknowledge that it is the merchandise of a procedure for evolution for top level possible technique. Rather than turning a sightless eye to possible imperfections in this program, Machiavelli I actually bleieve would consider most alternatives just before exchanging this for the modern.
While believing in the prospect of evolution then, Machiavelli non-etheless does not presume the perfectibility of individuals. Instead you will discover steps of improvement which could always be increased. Thus it is possible to learn through the past faults not onlyof oneself, but also more. In this way again the paradigm of American liberalism has evolved in respect to Machiavelli’s viewpoint.
Liberalism, and those believing in this paradigm, have changed and produced in a wide variety of ways in order to reach its current better state. Therefore, Machiavelli would then concur that liberalism has come to a state where it can be superior by examining the activities and function of various other leaders in the past.
Regarding political freedom, I believe that both Marx and Machiavelli would accept the 1st sentence. The absence of intimidation is indeed the fundamental principle not only of liberalism, but likewise of communism. Communism also requires and maintains freedom in terms of economic choice.
Thus both Machiavelli and to a point Marx believe the standpoint held by simply Friedman in the quoted affirmation.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. “Karl Marx. inches August 21, 2003
The Reader’s Companion to U. S. Background. “American Liberalism. ” 2004. http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_053200_liberalism.htm
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Dangerous E. Coli Outbreak Strikes The Porch at Schenley
Multiple Customers and Employees Sickened and in Hospital
The Porch at Schenley, usually a peaceful spot frequented by University of Pittsburgh professors and students, was alive with controversy this week after a dangerous foodborne illness sickened multiple customers and employees.
The popular Oakland eatery voluntarily closed after three employees and two customers recently contracted the 0157:H7 strain of E. coli. This particularly intense E. coli strain sent four out of the 5 sickened individuals to the hospital with potentially dangerous symptoms.
It can take up to 3 to 4 days for symptoms of E. coli to appear, which is why it is important to seek medical help as soon as possible. Symptoms of E. coli infection include:
- Watery or bloody diarrhea
- Abdominal pain and tenderness
- Nausea and vomiting
The health department is looking into whether this E. coli outbreak stems from contaminated meat, or from humans who developed the infection from someplace else and did not wash their hands effectively, thus contaminating the food product.
Eat'n Park Hospitality Group, the owners of The Porch at Schenley, used the restaurant's temporary closure to sanitize the cooking facilities as well as test all employees for E. coli. All potentially contaminated food products were replaced with new food product as the restaurant prepared to reopen its doors to the public.
Anyone who begins to develop symptoms should understand their legal rights. They may be entitled to compensation for medical bills and missed work time resulting from food poisoning.
If you or a loved one were affected by this outbreak, follow these immediate steps:
- Seek medical attention immediately.
- When you receive medical treatment, ask your physician to do the appropriate tests to identify the presence of E. coli in your body. If you want to get compensation for your illness, you need to have documented medical proof.
- If possible, save your receipt from your meal.
- Contact a lawyer immediately to discuss your legal rights. Edgar Snyder & Associates is providing free and confidential consultations to sickened individuals or family members.
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Community advisers in Ukraine: a history of development
The history of Сommunity advisers development in the world dates back more than 50 years. This long international experience includes various models and approaches to the introduction of paralegal practices and the institutionalization of networks of paralegals in many countries. However, common to all states is a positive result in expanding the legal opportunities of their citizens, because paralegals successfully work alongside professional lawyers, providing the primary link of access to justice at the local level.
In Ukraine, the network of paralegals – community advisers – began to develop relatively recently. The need to start such a movement was determined by several factors.
First, many Ukrainian communities do not have free access to lawyers and professional lawyers. This applies primarily to remote mountain villages, small settlements, “dying” rural areas, vulnerable and closed communities, and low-income citizens. Due to the lack of specialists capable of providing legal assistance, people are forced to look for the necessary information elsewhere, which creates significant difficulties and leads to legal isolation.
In cases where there is an appropriate specialist in the community, there is a high risk of other problems and communication barriers, as traditional legal aid providers do not always take into account the specifics of working with the poor and vulnerable social groups. So quite often, the inability or unwillingness to communicate with difficult or low-income clients, arrogance towards people, the search for financial gain, complex legal terms, etc. become insurmountable obstacles to access to justice.
Secondly, Ukrainians mostly do not trust the legal system, do not seek advice from specialists, but look for ways to solve legal problems by circumventing the laws. At first, they try to solve the legal problem on their own, and when the situation has reached a dead end, they involve specialists to deal with the consequences of unsuccessful attempts. This is confirmed by numerous polls. Thus, according to the sociological research of legal needs and problems in Ukrainian communities, conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology and the expert group for the International Renaissance Foundation in 2018, in solving legal problems, Ukrainians first of all turn to their relatives, friends and acquaintances (37%), and only then seek answers to their questions from professional lawyers.
“For the integral democratic development of Ukrainian communities, access to justice for the entire population is extremely important. The state has taken a big step forward by implementing Free Legal Aid throughout Ukraine, but there was not enough information on how to use it and what issues to contact. There was a need for the development of a movement that would become a reliable primary source of relevant information for community residents and expand their legal opportunities,” emphasized Anna Ilashchuk, Head of the Association of the Community Advisers of Ukraine.
With this in mind, non-governmental organizations have initiated the development of the Paralegalses movement – active citizens who are ready to provide first legal aid in Ukrainian communities.
The first discussions regarding the implementation of the idea began in 2016 among experts at the initiative of the International Renaissance Foundation.
This is how Olga Galchenko, coordinator of the “Human Rights and Justice” program of the International Renaissance Foundation, who was at the origin of the development of the Paralegalses movement in Ukraine, tells about it:
“We assembled a team of specialists from various fields – human rights protection, legal aid, security, financial literacy, management, communications, decentralization, etc. For six months we regularly met and discussed what Ukrainian paralegals could be, what they should know and how they had to interact with other institutions for access to justice. We knew about the experience of other countries, such as Canada, South Africa, and Moldova, but we understood that each country should develop its own system and start from its own realities. The expert team developed the relevant training program, and some of the experts became the first trainers for paralegals. We also conducted the so-called ToT – training of trainers to expand the training base and be ready for a large-scale launch of training.”
Next, a competitive selection of the first paraligals took place. The key criteria for joining the movement were an active civic position, concern for problems in one’s community, as well as a constant desire for self-improvement. There was a separate requirement for the candidate’s educational specialization and profession.
“The first contest and selection of paraligals was very interesting: we tried to imagine a “portrait” of a Ukrainian paralegal – where he or she lives and what is interested in, where he or she works. Finally, the main criteria were activity in one’s community, the desire to develop and acquire new knowledge, authority and concern. We were also looking for people from small or remote communities, people who were not “professional” activists and who did not have a legal education (after all, a paralegal does not have to be a lawyer),” Olga Galchenko recalls.
In this way, the first group of paralegals was recruited, who underwent special training and started their activities at the end of 2017 in 13 regions of Ukraine.
The following year, in November, the First Forum of paralegals took place, at which a Memorandum on cooperation between paralegals was concluded. And on November 28, the international conference “Сommunity advisers ” was held, which brought together national and international experts in the field of law, representatives of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and the first Ukrainian paralegals to discuss the development of the Movement.
When the number of paralegals approached 100 people, and the paralegals themselves were ready to organize the community on their own, there was a need to create a public organization that would provide organizational support and network development.
“The expert team of the Foundation, which conducted the training, handed over the necessary materials and the program to the advisers, the founding meetings were held and the legal entity was registered. The main idea behind the creation of Association of the Сommunity advisers of Ukraine was for advisers to acquire subjectivity in the field of access to justice: the community of paralegals had to take its place next to other institutions that provide legal assistance and legal information in Ukraine,” Olga notes.
During the summer camp for paralegals in August 2019, a founding meeting was held at which representatives of various regions of Ukraine were delegated to establish a public organization and approve its charter. After that, on September 30, the NGO “Association of the Community Advisers of Ukraine” was registered, and thus it was the official beginning of the history of the network, which unites real drivers of social change and leaders of Ukrainian communities, always ready to help others in finding ways to solve their problems and needs.
“The development of a joint mission of the Association of the Сommunity advisers of Ukraine gave a new push, and also clearly outlined the tasks we set before ourselves. Today, ACAU develops rule of law in Ukraine and implements democratic changes in communities through the development of a capable network of community advisers. Our core values are network, respect for human rights, independence, openness and transparency. We are open to cooperation, attract and train new community advisors, and access to the life processes of the organization is open to each of its participants,” Anna Ilashchuk emphasizes.
Today, 226 paralegals work in Ukraine. This is a dynamic and growing network community that has already managed to win the trust of various communities, villages and towns. After all, paralegals are those who stand closest to people – they communicate in an understandable language, understand difficulties and problems, are actively involved in the life of communities and perform their functions free of charge: they inform their neighbors about their rights, work on legal education, redirect people to qualified lawyers or relevant public organizations, accompany communities in solving issues related to the law, such as benefits, roads, education, construction, etc.
Paralegals are turned to for advice and help not only by individual citizens, but also by representatives of local authorities who need tips in the processes of reform, decentralization, communication, etc. In total, over the years, 5,609 appeals to advisers were recorded, who made more than 4,700 referrals to relevant specialists and bodies.
Paralegals can initiate and implement positive changes in their towns and villages and receive support from donors, the state and the community. And the NGO “Association of the Сommunity advisers of Ukraine” for its part contributes to these important social changes and initiatives, helps in the development of community advisors, and improves their qualifications.
“It is the support and development of the Paralegals ` competencies that has become the main vector of the organization’s strategic planning. As part of the network, paralegals continue to learn, strengthen their abilities and knowledge, they receive the necessary informational materials and technical support, direct access to leading experts and specialists,” Anna Ilashchuk says.
During the 3 years of its existence, the Association has become a powerful network, a national platform for the exchange of experience and sharing of algorithms for solving legal issues, as well as an authoritative organization in Ukraine, recognized in the world paralegal community.
“Paralegals exist in many countries, but perform different functions depending on the chosen system. In Moldova, paralegals are integrated into the work of the state system of free legal aid, in the USA they perform the role of assistant lawyers, in Canada they advise their communities and help vulnerable groups. For such a large country as Ukraine, where there is a diversity of communities, it was important to choose such a format that would ensure the independence and stability of community advisors. We were greatly helped by the decentralization reform, which returned budgets and decision-making to communities. Ideally, a paralegal is a person integrated into his community, who acts in the community and has the ability and desire to help others, inform and redirect to the appropriate authorities. For larger-scale projects, events, joint tasks and expanding the network of paralegals, there is the ACAU. I think that the Ukrainian format of work of paralegals will also be able to inspire other countries that are looking for ways to expand access to justice,” Olga Galchenko says.
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Neanthe Bella Palm Plant Soil Requirements
Neanthe bella, or parlor palm (Chamaedorea elegans), is a diminutive palm, reaching only 2 to 6 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. Well-adapted to shade and partial shade, it only overwinters in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 through 12. In cooler regions, grow this plant indoors, where it thrives due to its low light requirements and small size. Given the right soil conditions, it can grow with little care.
Outdoors, neanthe bella grows in sand, loam and clay, and many of the variations in between, although it prefers rich, organic loam. It does not tolerate salty soils. Indoors, you can grow the palm in a peaty, soil-based potting mix.
Neanthe bella palm needs well-draining soil, meaning it does not tolerate soaking or flooding at any time. It is only moderately drought-tolerant. It responds best to evenly moist soil during the spring and summer growing seasons. Water it when the top 1 inch of the soil around the plant dries to the touch. When plant growth slows in winter, you can allow the soil to dry more, although still not completely.
This palm does best in acidic or neutral soils with a pH between 5.1 and 7.5. In alkaline soils, the neanthe bella palm may show signs of nutrient deficiency, such as yellowing of the foliage. In a high pH, the palm cannot easily use the iron and manganese in the soil and magnesium will leach more quickly. These elements are all important to the health of the palm. To prevent or cure, keep the pH under 7.0.
Neanthe palm flourishes in rich, organic soil. Incorporating 2 to 3 inches of organic compost or well-composted manure before planting will provide nutrients for the palm for a while. Beginning in the second growing season, neanthe bella will thrive on a slow-release fertilizer. Apply a couple tablespoons of a slow-release 8-2-12 palm fertilizer in early spring to give it the nutrients it needs. Water the fertilizer into the ground after scattering it under the plant. Do not let the fertilizer touch the foliage.
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SPICE Modeling of Variable Inductors and Its Application to Single Inductor LED Driver Design
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IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Vol. 64, Nº 7, pp. 5894 - 5903, July, 2017.
ISSN (print): 0278-0046
ISSN (online): 0278-0046
Scimago Journal Ranking: 2,19 (in 2017)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2638803
This paper presents a design, simulation, and evaluation procedure of a variable inductor (VI) for a recently proposed dc-grid LED driver. The design procedure is based on the use of SPICE behavioral modeling to implement the different elements of the equivalent reluctance model of the VI. Thus, the model merges both electrical and magnetic behavior of the VI, including magnetic and geometric features. The basic components of the model are presented in detail, making it possible their use in future designs of VI and other complex magnetic devices. Experimental results from both VI and LED driver prototypes are provided to compare with the simulation results. Obtained outcomes prove that the proposed design and modeling technique is an excellent way to verify theoretical designs and attain further insight about the operation of these complex magnetic devices. | <urn:uuid:71f11c78-e7da-4c71-a3c7-73dc4426639f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.it.pt/Publications/PaperJournal/21485 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.841435 | 300 | 1.71875 | 2 |
TORONTO — Zippers. Garbage bags. Paint rollers. Some items are so ingrained in our lives we don’t stop to consider life without them — how we would do up a jacket, take out the trash or give a wall a fresh coat of paint?
But without the Canadians behind these inventions, all these tasks — and many more — would prove a little more difficult.
Without Joseph Leopold Coyle’s “Eureka” moment more than 100 years ago, for example, carrying eggs home from the grocery store might be a whole lot messier.
“There were ways of shipping eggs before Mr. Coyle, but the modern, paper container begins with him,” says Lorne Hammond, the curator of human history at the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria.
Coyle is among Canada’s countless tinkerers, inventors, scientists and engineers whose creations have changed the modern world. But his tale is also a cautionary one at a time Canadian governments are trying to figure out how to foster innovation that will drive the 21st century economy. While his invention remains used to this day, it never earned him a big payout.
Many business leaders, academics and policy-makers say Canada must get better at converting the innovations and intellectual property that flow from its finest minds into successful global companies.
Canada has a proud history of innovation and has “truly punched above its weight,” says Greg Dick, director of educational research at the Perimeter Institute. The Waterloo, Ont., theoretical physics research hub is one of five organizations behind Innovation150, a year-long, cross-country tour designed to inspire youth to innovate.
Perimeter itself was launched in 2000 with funds from the founders of BlackBerry, the smartphone pioneer that grew into a global player, but later lost most of its market share to foreign competitors.
Dick rattles off a list of Canadian contributions to a wide variety of fields: time zones from Sir Sandford Fleming, dubbed the “Father of Standard Time;” basketball, courtesy of the imagination of Dr. James Naismith; more recently, a vaccine to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that began in 2013, designed by scientists at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
“The sunglasses for snow blindness? Invented by the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic,” he continues. “And, peanut butter? There’s a fun one. First patented by a Canadian. … We just really have done an incredible amount of contributing to society.”
That’s backed up by the number of patents the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has granted since 1869, when it (then known as Consumer and Corporate Affairs) awarded Canada’s first patent to William Hamilton for his eureka fluid meter.
In 1976, the federal agency granted the one millionth patent for “photodegradable polymer masterbatches” and, as of last year, surpassed 1.6 million approved patents with about 37,000 applications received annually over the past decade.
But in a sign of how much innovation is going on elsewhere, only about 13 per cent of those applications come from Canadians, according to Agnes Lajoie, assistant commissioner of patents at CIPO. The organization would like that number to move higher.
The office is working to raise awareness about the patent system among small- and medium-sized businesses in the country, focusing on high-growth sectors that are intellectual-property intensive, such as clean technology and aerospace, says Darlene Carreau, director general of CIPO’s business services branch.
“Canadians are very innovative,” she says.
One of those early, little-known inventions came from Coyle, who secured a grade-school education before working his way up from cleaner and newspaper delivery boy to founding The Interior News in 1910 (it continues to publish today).
Back then, the paper’s office stood in what was known as Aldemere in British Columbia’s Bulkley Valley, near a hotel that was the spot of frequent fighting between the hotelier and a farmer, Gabriel Lacroix. The owner hated that his regular order of eggs often arrived as a mess of runny yolks.
One day, Coyle overheard this argument and that — as legend has it — was his a-ha moment. He set out to create a container to keep the eggs intact from coop to customer. In a 1917 patent application to CIPO, he described a “simple, inexpensive and safe” way to carry a dozen eggs at once in an egg box that suspended and supported each one without letting it touch the others. Coyle later obtained patents for several other countries as demand for his egg box grew.
The “venture is going to beat the band and getting bigger and bigger every day,” Coyle wrote in a letter to his former newsroom colleagues in the winter of 1919, according to an article the paper published that year. A year later, however, he admitted in another article that an obstacle stood in the way of expansion: the cost of production.
Coyle holed himself away for several weeks to fashion a machine that could manufacture his product less expensively and by the end of March 1920, it was operational.
The newspaperman-turned-inventor also received patents for an automobile lock that prevented a steering wheel from moving until the device was removed, a match safe that dispensed one match at a time and could trim the end of a cigar, and a cash till that could separate coins by amount and dispense them individually.
“He was just, sort of, an inventive soul,” says Kira Westby, the curator at the Bulkley Valley Museum in Smithers.
Coyle worked with distributors and set up his own factories in Canada and America to make the cartons. But by the 1950s, Hammond says, Coyle faced major competition from others creating simpler egg cartons from plastic rather than moulded pulp.
Coyle simply couldn’t keep up with the change in the industry, his daughter Ellen Myton, who died just before the new millennium at the age of 87, said when she spoke about her father’s legacy with the British Columbia Historical News in 1982.
“Conversion of the plant to new machinery and methods would have involved huge expenditure,” she said.
“As is so often the case with inventors, he was no match for the sharp practices of big business and their sharper lawyers,” his daughter said. “The Coyle carton made several millionaires, but dad was not one of them.”
Her father died at the age of 100 on April 18, 1972. His death certificate identified him as the “inventor of paper boxes.”
“It’s quirky, and yet it’s everyday. Everyone’s familiar with it,” says Hammond. “We still buy eggs lined out in two rows in the same way that Coyle visualized it.”
Dick, at the Perimeter Institute, believes Canadians are creative, thoughtful and willing to take risks, but the Canadian psyche tends to not realize we can be world leaders.
“We’re exactly at that right time in history where we can sort of shift that mindset,” he says.
Among those pushing for change is former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie, who said in a recent essay that Canada has the most superficial discourse around innovation policy in any of the 140 countries in which he has done business. He said a successful intellectual-property sector relies on a tightly designed ecosystem of highly technical interlocking policies focused on scaling up companies.
The Canadian government also made innovation a focus of its March 22 budget, using the term more than 200 times. It said it would place “big bets” on sectors including clean technology, agri-food and advanced manufacturing.
One area where Canada is now leading is quantum space, Dick says, saying the country’s researchers in Waterloo, Ont., are believed to be about 15 months ahead of the rest of the world.
He compares the anticipated upcoming second quantum revolution with what happened in Silicon Valley during the digital revolution.
“Being ahead of the curve puts us in the ideal position to attract talent, to attract investors, to just be that hotbed of that innovation into a whole new way to see the world and to change the world.” | <urn:uuid:41ab30da-01d1-4ef4-be53-d687bc1dd10c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.timescolonist.com/life/our-inventors-changed-the-world-4648957 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.968943 | 1,775 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Ireland, et. al. DNA extraction
GLEN_SHEARER at BULL.CC.USM.EDU
Fri Sep 16 14:25:01 EST 1994
I heard someone mention at a recent talk a good method to
extract DNA from filamentous fungi. Unfortunately the
speaker could only recall that one of the authors was
Ireland and that it was probably in Fungal Genetics Newsletter.
Anyone know if this sounds like a recent FGN article?
If so, how well does it work in your hands?
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How do I check for errors when I program my oscilloscope?
When done retrieving the data, check for errors. This will let you know if the acquisition actually worked.
Typical error handling involves testing the status registers. To do this, have your program send the scope an “*esr?” query. If the program returns a non-zero value, this indicates that an event of some sort occurred. Now you decide how your program should handle the event. A simple to implement way is to simply display a message that says an error occurred. Perhaps, it can also refer the user to an appropriate GPIB Programmer manual for more information on how to decode the error code. A more involved, but more helpful, message would tell the user exactly what message occurred. To do this, you can mask the error code through register templates to decode the specific event that occurred. You could then display the name of this specific event in a message to the user.
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Reflections on the future of democracy in Europe (Council of Europe, September 2005) – Click here to buy the book
This book contains the major contributions to the Conference “the future of democracy in Europe” (Barcelona, November 2004), organised in the framework of the Council of Europe Project “Making Democratic Institutions Work” (2002-2004).
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In 2004, experts from civil society, governments and academia came together in Barcelona at the Council of Europe’s conference on “The future of democracy in Europe” to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing contemporary democratic governments. In spite of the unprecedented and favourable context of democracy in Europe today, states are having increasing difficulty in meeting these challenges through their traditional institutions and arrangements. The objective of the conference, which marked the end of the three-year integrated project “Making democratic institutions work, was to debate proposals for democratic reform.
Reflections on the future of democracy in Europe contains major contributions to this conference. A broad range of topics was covered, including: more inclusive elections; the financing of political parties; deliberation mechanisms; popular initiatives and referendums; and, in particular, how modern communication technologies can affect the democratic process. The debate identified the types of changes needed to make governments more accountable, to offset political disengagement and to enhance incentives for citizens to participate in decision-making processes.
The conference concluded that democratic practice needs to be continually evaluated and renewed to adapt to new contexts. The participants also agreed that the Council of Europe should set up a forum for the future of democracy to promote reforms across Europe. The forum would act as a type of clearing house for exchanging new ideas and practices, and propose potential models that individual member states can adapt for their own use. Reforms should adhere to the core values of the Council of Europe’s acquis in this field, but be flexible enough to allow for the considerable institutional variety in the Organisation’s member states. | <urn:uuid:69efaf0d-9e29-4a1f-83ad-83cce328b119> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.coe.int/t/dgap/forum-democracy/activities/publications/background%20publications/4ecouv_reflections_en.asp?toPrint=yes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937411 | 406 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Global outlook, local impactFriday, July 03, 2015 l Source: Shine Jobs
The Indian biotechnology sector is at a crossroads. “On one hand it is forced to meet the internal and more public-centered healthcare objectives (of securing the right medication or treatment to the needy), on the other hand it is forced to remain competitive in the international markets,” says Bhavishya Sharma, director, Athena Executive Search and Consulting, a leading recruitment firm and manpower consultancy.
The government recognises the twin imperatives of this sector and hence its policies have been largely favourable. “The government policies in this sector, in fact, have revolutionised the prospects of the industry. Initiatives such as ‘Make in India’ are encouraging many potential players to invest in this industry. There has been a massive drive from the government to encourage entrepreneurship in biotechnology. Recent initiatives include technology centres by SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) to propel innovation and entrepreneurship,” says Jivan Pant, director and principal consultant at Career Shapers HR Consulting Ltd.
The biotechnology sector in India has taken significant strides after the phenomenal success of the information technology industry. India is fast emerging as an important player in the global biotechnology sector. “We are the 12th largest market for biotechnology in the world, sharing 2% of the global industry and within a period of just five years (from 2008 to 2013) this industry has grown threefold,” says Sharma.
Giving an overview on the sector, Satya D Sinha, CEO at Mancer Consulting, says, “The biotechnology sector in India is divided into bio-pharma, bio-services, bioagri, bio-industrial and bio-informatics. The bio-pharmaceutical division has been the largest earning division, commanding a share of 64% in total revenues (in 2013), followed by bio-services (18%), bio-agri (14%), bio-industrial (3%) and bio-informatics (1%).”
The bio-economy of the country was estimated at US$4.3 billion by the end of 2013. “The biotech industry earned revenue worth US$4.3 billion in the same year. By 2017, the market size of this sector is expected to grow to US$11.6 billion. Further, the industry is poised to grow at the rate of around 30% per year, thereby reaching the threshold of US $100 billion by 2025. The country has immense potential to emerge as a global player. Opportunities are huge in segments such as industrial enzymes, biomarkers, diagnostics, and drugs. With a growing GDP, the Indian market will offer lucrative business avenues in biotech sector, as it is related to improving health and living,” elaborates Sinha.
Biotechnology is an organised sector in India. The industry requires intensive infrastructure to support any manufacturing, processing or extraction. “Operations in this sector cannot be carried out without large investments as they involve expensive machinery. Hence, any venture into this domain cannot be left aside the radar of government or authorities. Department of Biotechnology, India, has established a number of regulatory bodies and agencies that monitor as well as authorise new entrants in the market. The policies and programmes pertaining to this sector are strong and methodical that emphases on accurate data and measure of the market. Apart from the Central government, states such as Karnataka are coming up with potential initiatives that will further regulate as well as develop the sector,” explains Sinha.
Biotechnology will bring about unprecedented changes in the technological and industrial life of the 21st century. Its impact will almost certainly be greater than that of the information technology revolution. With these expectations and corresponding efforts of rest of the world, India has to think more seriously about the development of the sector.
Entrepreneurship avenues in biotechnology are massive. “It is a multidisciplinary sector that encompasses microbiology, chemistry, molecular biology, immunology, tissue culture, genetics etc. Hence, there is scope for innovation in multiple areas,” says Jivan Pant, director and principal consultant at Career Shapers HR Consulting Ltd. Simply put, entrepreneurial ventures in biotechnology are possible within the ambit of both products and services. A variety of products can be manufactured in this domain such as vaccines, vitamins, antibiotics, bio-fertilisers and bio-pesticides, among others.
“Services such as developing resistance for diseases, nutritional improvements and protein storage are massive areas for business and enterprise. Other potential domains are management of oil spills, sewage treatment, immunisation programmes and producing biodegradable plastics,” shares Bhavishya Sharma, director, Athena Executive Search & Consulting, a Delhi- based recruitment and manpower consultancy firm.
The government has rolled out a series of policies to proffer entrepreneurial growth in the biotechnology sector. “SIDBI has initiated a network of technology centres to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector. The MSME (micro small and medium) ministry recently announced a fund of US$31.99 million to promote entrepreneurship in the agro industry. Moreover the Department of Biotechnology, and government-funded organisations such as National Biotechnology Board and other autonomous bodies are working together to promote the industry,” shares Satya D Sinha, CEO at Mancer Consulting. According to industry experts the concept of “bio-entrepreneurship” is fairly new in India. | <urn:uuid:03528639-a88f-4f31-9010-08bc9eaa4c99> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://info.shine.com/article/global-outlook-local-impact/8882.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00067-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945047 | 1,130 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The good news is that despite the rumors that there would be no next version of DirectX, and despite Microsoft not being quick to reassure people of the future of DirectX, it seems that version 12 will be outlined at GDC later in the month.
You can put it down to scaremongering but the fact of the matter is that Microsoft have been so quiet on the future of DirectX that even top people at AMD were willing to say that the would be no DirectX 12. As graphics card manufacturers, they should be the first to know about new versions.
Suddenly and from nowhere, the DirectX blog is now advertising the presentation of a DirectX 12 session at GDC on March 20th. A tweet from a new DirectX12 account also acknowledges that there might be some unresolved rumors:
What isn't clear is the direction that DirectX will take in its new version. The GDC schedule gives very little away:
"For nearly 20 years, DirectX has been the platform used by game developers to create the fastest, most visually impressive games on the planet.
However, you asked us to do more. You asked us to bring you even closer to the metal and to do so on an unparalleled assortment of hardware. You also asked us for better tools so that you can squeeze every last drop of performance out of your PC, tablet, phone and console."
Two scraps of information provided here are noteworthy.
The first is "closer to the metal" which suggests that there might be more direct access to the GPU hardware. This makes sense as AMD launched a low-level API called Mantle thought to be partly a response to the uncertainties surrounding the next version of DirectX. Presumably what Microsoft has in mind is something similar to, or even something that subsumes, Mantle.
The second is the mention of its use on tablets and phones. This is more difficult to guess at but the "closer to the metal" API should make it possible to create something more lightweight.
A really interesting question is why the DirectX team have woken up at this point?
DirectX is the term used for the bundle of multimedia APIs that started out in Windows 95. Over time the different components have been improved, retired or replaced. The big problem is that Microsoft has never been very clear on the future of any of it and it still isn't being clear.
In addition, over time the term DirectX has become interchangeable with Direct3D the component responsible for 3D graphics. My guess is that in this case Microsoft is probably using DirectX to mean Direct3D or something related, and not the entire bundle of APIs - but I could be wrong.
The reason that they might be using the term DirectX is that in the past new versions of DirectX were issued along with new versions of Windows. DirectX 11.2 is only available under Windows 8.1, for example. Could it be that DirectX 12 is going to be part of Windows 9 in an attempt to make it look extra desirable? | <urn:uuid:e7b41efa-6229-4472-9765-5eeb76522da0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/7030-directx-not-dead-version-12-at-gdc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966479 | 603 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Comfort cooling and Precision cooling are evolving in commercial segments in India. Keeping this in mind, it is particularly important to analyze the demand for chillers and how this segment is going to unfold in the Indian environment.
Among the various types of available air-conditioning products, chillers have proved to be the most effective way of cooling and efficient in saving electric power, compared to other air-conditioning products. Chillers are meant for wider application areas and have larger cooling capacity, typically ranging from 15-1,000 tons of refrigeration (TR). Though they vary in terms of technology, scalability of operation, and energy efficiency, all of them have eco-friendly characteristics.
Apart from traditional functions, chillers have multiple applications, which include process cooling (for industries using absorption technologies), special/critical area cooling (for data centers), marine cooling (for ships and submarines) district cooling, and turbine inlet cooling (especially for gas turbines)
Potential Growth Opportunities
A major thrust for the chillers market is expected to come from the commercial sector covering offices, hospitals, hotels, etc. The Indian real estate construction market touched $100 billion in 2010. Going by the growth rate of 10 percent, as was observed during the pre-recession days of 2008, it is likely to touch $265 billion by 2020.
Data centers require massive cooling facilities and this is a major market for the chillers segment. In India, increasing IT business process outsourcing from across the globe has resulted in phenomenal growth of data center facilities. According to Frost & Sullivan, the total third party data center capacity in India was 3.15 million square feet in 2012 and is expected to touch 9.14 million square feet by 2018. Total number of third party data centers in India was estimated to be 98 units in 2012, with majority being located in Mumbai and the National Capital Region (NCR), followed by Chennai and Bangalore.
Turbine Inlet Air Cooling
India is yet to realize the full potential for turbine-inlet cooling in gas-based thermal power plants. Considering the limitations on use of coal for power generation due to its environmental impact, quality, and supply constraints; gas will play an increasingly important role in India's power sector. Gas-based power generation capacity, along with other renewable sources of energy generation is expected to see more thrust in the 12th Five Year Plan as a part of the low-carbon pathway articulated under the aegis of National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC).
Turbine inlet air cooling (TIAC) is an important element in gas-based power plants. Here, instead of adding more gas-turbine generators, the efficiency or output capacity of existing generators can be enhanced by using chillers. The investment (US$/kilowatt) on chillers for TIAC is much less than the cost of adding additional turbines. Gas-based power plants in the US, Europe, and countries in the GCC are witnessing more and more installations of TIAC using modular chiller plants (MCP) to produce rated or higher-than-rated capacity of power (MW).
Shipbuilding is another niche sector where chillers have a potential market in India. A Frost & Sullivan study on the Indian shipbuilding and repair market indicates that the aging fleet of shipping companies in India is a factor that is energizing prospects for the shipbuilding and repair market in the country. The study also suggests that Indian shipbuilders are poised to capture a decent share of global projects, as the order books of Japanese, South Korean, and Chinese shipyards are already full till 2015 with container vessels, super tankers, and Panamax vessels.
Building sustainable cities through eco-efficiency and green planning, district cooling a concept that is prevalent in the Middle East and other developed nations in Europe may soon find takers in India as well. One of the seven proposed smart cities to be developed along the 1,500 kilometer-long Delhi-Mumbai Corridor could be a start to test the concept of district cooling. If it succeeds in the Indian context, it can be expanded to include other cities or special investment regions. The chillers market presents lucrative business opportunities and has attracted many international companies to India, which may pose a serious threat to growth of domestic companies. International companies are investing heavily in India to set up manufacturing units or opting for technological alliances with domestic manufacturers to utilize their distribution network.
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M: +91 98200 50519 / P: +91 22 6607 2004 - E: E: niyer[.]frost.com. | <urn:uuid:f702686f-2c0d-4a4f-a0da-77ffd15a7181> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.przoom.com/news/125531/Chillers-Market-in-India-Primed-for-Growth-Reveals-Frost-and-Sullivan-Market-Insight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00076-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924569 | 1,295 | 2.421875 | 2 |
(Last Updated on : 18/06/2013)
All India Radio is the mother of all radio stations. The birth of Radio broadcasting in India has started on an experimental basis in the year 1921 when Times of India in collaboration with Post and Telegraph Department broadcasts a musical programme. Sir George Lloyd put forward this request to those concerned companies. In 1927 private radio clubs proliferated. In the year 1930 radio broadcasting started operating under the Indian Broadcasting Company. However, the company went into liquidation after a span of three years and the Government took the charge of broadcasting at their own expense. On March 1935 a separate office of the Controller of Broadcasting was created .The landmark in the history of broadcasting is the change of the name of the Indian Broadcasting to All India Radio (AIR) in the year 1936. In the same year Delhi station was formed.
From 1936 onwards the development of radio broadcasting was sluggish but steadfast. Nine AIR stations opened up in different places like Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Lucknow and Tiruchi. From 1957 onwards AIR was popularly known as Akashvani. Eminent personalities had lent their voices for radio broadcasting. On 12th November, 1947, the voice of Gandhiji was broadcasted in AIR.
Keeping in view the motto, "Bahujan Hitaya; Bahujan Sukhaya" i.e. the benefit and happiness of large sections of the people, AIR aims to provide information, education and entertainment. It has defined its objectives in the following:
. Preserve the country's unity and the democratic values as shrined in the Constitution;
. Present a reasonable and equilibrated flow of data of national, regional, local and international concern including contrastive views. Citation of any opinion or ideology of its own should be avoided. Integrity of the whole nation should be respected. Variety in broadcasting should be incorporated.
. Develop programmes which can arouse, communicate, elucidate, train, entertain and improve to satisfy all the audiences through out the nation.
. Formulate different programmes for broadcasting, keeping in mind all sections of people of the nation.
. Prepare developmental and reference programmes on various fields like Agriculture, Education, Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology.
. Prepare programmes for rustic, illiterate and poor population including the youths, social and cultural minorities, and the tribes and of those occupying the borders, backward or distant areas.
. Encourage consolidation and harmony of the nation.
AIR today has a network of 223 broadcasting centres with 143 medium frequency (MW), 54 high frequency (SW) and 161 FM transmitters. It encompasses an area of 91.42% serving 99.13% of the people in India. AIR covers 24 Languages and 146 dialects in home services.
Over the years the radio broadcasting has expanded its service both in terms of reach and content suitable to the requirements of the nation. A three- tire system has been introduced. The national Channel was formed on 18th May, 1988. It is located in New Delhi and it suffices national broadcasting. Hourly news bulletins, alternatively in Hindi and English are broadcasted from the national Channel. Major stations look after the regional broadcasts. Local radio stations are formed in different areas and they are now more than eighty in number.
AIR's services and programmes too have expanded in leaps and bounds. Till date these include News Services, Cultural Programmes, Extension education services, External services for foreign countries.
NSD produces news and comments both for Indian and foreign audiences' .It produces 112 bulletins in 17 languages emanating from Delhi and is transmitted to other stations.45 Regional News Units brings forth as many as 187 regional and 65 external news bulletins. The External News bulletins are being brought out in 25 languages. Spotlight' in English and 'Samayiki' in Hindi are the daily broadcasts covering current and local news. Programme on current affairs is disseminated every Sunday. It incorporates comments of experts, teachers politicians on national and international matters .Besides it broadcasts "Charcha ka Vishai Hai", programme in Hind, on every Wednesday;There are composite news programmes called "Samachar Prabhat" and "Morning News" in Hindi and English respectively. They are of duration of 15 minutes each incorporating a news bulletin, a commentary, and reviewing of daily press. A mid day news of one hour is broadcasted from 2 p.m. News is also available on the Internet. The News Services Division has its own website for updating News round the clock.
In External services, it covers 27 languages; 17 national and 10 foreign languages. Moreover programmes for rural folks, army personnel, sports, musical programmes are broadcasted to meet the thirst of its target audiences.
Although there are ample scope to transmit radio programmes of varied content and presentations, radio is considered solely to be a medium for developmental broadcasting. | <urn:uuid:04c1bff7-034d-47f1-b57a-86ddb5849e25> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.indianetzone.com/4/all_india_radio.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00481-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94652 | 991 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Day after amazing day, all the fun-filled things they do and discover are the very things that help children learn. And all the things you do for them? Part of giving your child the best possible start.
Mastering physical skills is such an important part of childhood —and it paves the way to all kinds of learning.
The best way to learn? Though play. You’ll be astounded at how much brain power they build in the early years. | <urn:uuid:088369de-21ea-441a-bcfb-18fb01b93a79> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.fisher-price.com/en_US/playtime-guide/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00365-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936058 | 97 | 1.96875 | 2 |
SUNFLOWER, Miss. -- Joaquin Burse wants to go to Harvard and be a laser tech.
You might think that's a lofty goal. Truth is, you have no idea how lofty it is.
Because Joaquin, 13, is black and lives here, in the heart of Mississippi's Delta, where median family income is $25,000, the teen pregnancy rate is said to be about 25 percent, and half of all young people grow up in poverty. To get here from Memphis, you drive past two prisons, dozens of cotton fields and innumerable junk cars. This is not, in sum, a place where most people have even heard of the career Joaquin dreams.
But he has an advantage: It is the Freedom Project.
If the name resonates, you're remembering Freedom Summer, 1964, when college kids descended on Mississippi to teach black children in ''freedom schools'' and register their parents to vote. The Freedom Project, created in the idealistic spirit of that era, was founded in 1998 by Chris Myers Asch and Shawn Raymond, alumni of Teach For America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in urban and rural schools, and Charles McLaurin, an organizer of the original Freedom Summer.
The result? A nonprofit program, tucked into an obscure corner of an obscure place, offering academic enrichment, martial arts, media production classes, mentoring, exposure to writers like Rudyard Kipling, Alice Walker, Albert Camus and field trips to such far-flung places as Mexico, Washington, D.C., and Orlando. In short, something that works, as in my series of columns spotlighting that which has proven successful at steering African-American kids away from the well-worn catalogue of dysfunction to which too many of them are too often lost.
Here are the numbers: 42 kids currently enrolled (families are asked to pay $300 annually, no small amount here). An annual budget of $200,000, much of it from donors like the Kellogg Foundation. The program accepts students from middle school up. Executive Director Greg McCoy says kids usually see their reading scores improve by a grade level a year and overall grades rise by 15 percent. ``Students who stick with the program and make it to that sixth year thus far have had 100 percent college enrollment and high school graduation rates.''
But, as is often the case, one gets a better idea of this program's success by talking to the kids who are enrolled in it. They are, bluntly stated, not like the average child who has not gone though this, or a similar program. They are, in a word, focused. They dream things so many African-American children do not.
Like Amberly, who plans to attend USC to be a vet, like Alesha, who wants to study law, like Joaquin, who's going to Harvard. ''I think it's somewhere I've got to get,'' he says, ``because most of the people in my family didn't get a chance to go to college.''
This, says McCoy, is a place where ``the images you see on a daily basis are not people actively doing things to benefit the community, but a lot of people standing around. It's a relatively small town and when the Great Migration happened and the trains stopped coming through, a lot of business went out.''
In such a place it is easy to believe lofty dreams are for other people. So the key to success, says McLaurin, lies in offering young people lessons and experiences that broaden their understanding of the world and their potential in it. That's what worked for him.
''When I first saw Martin Luther King,'' he recalls, ``right away I wanted to be like him. The young man who mentioned that he wanted to go to Harvard, I bet you there are not 20 people in this community that's even thought about Harvard. Maybe something was already in him, but through this project, he has seen the possibility.'' | <urn:uuid:6ac030ee-1587-46cb-bc96-53e9adf21c00> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article1929173.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972199 | 812 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Although what I propose may not be the "classic" sieve algorithm, in truth you only need to test up to the primes which are less than the square root of the target number. In other words, you need not divide by any primes greater than 4 when testing 16. Based on the associative property of multiplication, if you can show that no numbers <= sqrt(n) evenly divide n, then you have also shown that there are no numbers => sqrt(n) which evenly divide n.
While this may add a few chars to your code, it reduces the compute time enormously when you get to large n's.
Update: Actually, it doesn't look like ANY of us are implenting the true Sieve algorithm. The algorithm can be found here: http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Eratosthenes.html
. It does in fact use the sqrt(n) modification, but doesn't do divide-testing ... instead it does "weeding out" of multiples. Same result, different technique.
Update 2: my mistake ... Ase is indeed doing the correct Sieve algorithm by using his bit vector technique. | <urn:uuid:3979519e-1caf-4ccb-b76d-1a7ca250025d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=21128 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00402-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914897 | 248 | 2.765625 | 3 |
When oil prices recently fell to below $80.00, I said don’t sell.
The U.S. Energy Department increased its projections for crude oil prices for this year, adding that global oil consumption will rise to a record high in 2013. (Source: “U.S. Energy Department Raises 2013 Oil Forecast,” Bloomberg, January 8, 2012.)
Take a look at the price chart for the December West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures contract. After trading at $115.00 in May 2011, we have seen oil prices slide, despite multiple attempts at rallying back to the $100.00 level. The spot WTI is trying to hold at its 50-day moving average (MA), currently above its 200-day MA of $85.08.
Yet the chart is displaying what looks like a bullish flag formation setting up, which means that higher oil prices could be coming, rising above $100.00 in the best-case scenario, based on my technical analysis. You need to be watchful of the $80.00 support level, which was breached on several occasions, but in each case, there was a rally after.
Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com
I believe oil will continue to hold above at least $80.00 a barrel going forward and will rally as the global economy strengthens. If you extend the oil futures contract to 2021, the current prices range from $83.00 to $96.00, so I’m not that worried and don’t have the urge to go and sell.
Helping to add support will be the continued erosion in the major economies in the eurozone, along with its impact on the U.S. and China.
Also add in the geopolitical issues in the Middle East. Iran and North Korea are real threats that could easily drive up oil prices.
I also expect oil prices to be supported by the oil cartel Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OPEC estimates oil prices in nominal terms could hold in a range of $85.00–$95.00 a barrel for the rest of this decade, according to its internally produced World Oil Outlook report. The report blames the spikes in oil prices as driven by speculators, which I fully agree with, but it is part of the business. An interesting note in the report is the assumption that oil will reach $133.00 per barrel by 2035.
It’s interesting to understand how those behind the oil cartel think. The report says the current level in oil prices is due to the state of the global economy, “marked by below average trend growth, in combination with high unemployment rate in developed economies and continuing global growth imbalances.”
And while oil prices are estimated to trade below $100.00 a barrel for the next eight years, you know that there will be volatility that could drive prices to well above $100.00.
In my view, I would be looking at accumulating—NOT selling—oil stocks on weakness.
By: George Leong
Posted: January 14, 2013, 7:50 am
We believe the stock market and the economy have been propped up since 2009 by artificially low interest rates, never-ending government borrowing and an unprecedented expansion of our money supply.... | <urn:uuid:5bed0690-ae0d-48b7-b3a8-2e750664e716> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.centillien.com/news/view/171435/why-you-shouldn%E2%80%99t-sell-oil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00264-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960895 | 679 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Computer numerical control, or CNC, is frequently viewed as an extremely complex topic - a fact not aided by the high cost of CNC-based manufacturing equipment, putting it out of reach of most hobbyists. A couple of years ago, London-based design house Diatom partnered with members of the CoDe Lab to create a solution: the Piccalo, a CNC robot based on low-cost servos powered by an Arduino microcontroller. The project has now borne fruit, creating a permissively licensed design suitable for construction using low-cost off-the-shelf hardware, laser-cut body parts and an Arduino-compatible controller. The designs and software are available on GitHub for makers interested in building their own, and if you don't have a laser cutter try asking at your nearest hackspace.
The Piccolo project includes Arduino and Processing libraries, to use Piccolo in a variety of ways such as moving autonomously or responding to sensors and data, whilst providing an accessible educational tool and a new output for Processing sketches. | <urn:uuid:a4b81bca-8730-4f70-bbaa-d6c41a83421b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://oomlout.co.uk/blogs/news/15570605-diatoms-piccalo-arduino-based-cnc-robot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00559-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927441 | 213 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Newswise — DURHAM, N.H. – Almost two-thirds of Granite State residents trust scientists as a source of information on environmental issues, but tea party Republicans are much less likely and New Hampshire Public Radio listeners much more likely to trust scientists, according to new survey research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
The new research is presented in the Carsey Institute policy brief “Do You Trust Scientists about the Environment?” It was conducted by Lawrence Hamilton, professor of sociology and a senior fellow at the Carsey Institute.
The research found:
• Almost two-thirds of New Hampshire residents surveyed in January-early February 2014 say that they trust scientists to provide accurate information about environmental issues. Only 12 percent do not trust scientists to provide this information.
• Large majorities within most political groups trust scientists, but only a small minority of tea party Republicans trust them.
• Wide disparities occur along party lines regarding many questions about science. The 53 percentage point gap between Democrats and Republicans on climate change is one of the largest for any issue.
• Trust in scientists shows a somewhat narrower Democrat-Republican gap (37 percent), which is larger than those for historically divisive social issues such as abortion or the death penalty.
• People who often listen to New Hampshire Public Radio are more likely to trust scientists and respond differently from other New Hampshire residents on science-related questions.
• People who often watch local television news or read newspapers, on the other hand, respond differently only on gun- or crime-related questions.
“Hearing from scientists directly heightens public awareness of what scientists do, what they know, and how they know it,” said Hamilton. “Other news media sources could potentially do that job as well, but our analysis suggests that NHPR has been most effective. Conversely, if scientists play only a background role in some media, with crime stories prominent in the foreground, their audiences will have less exposure to science perspectives and think more about crime.”
According to Hamilton, Americans have historically placed a high level of trust in information provided by scientists, and while that trust has declined somewhat during the past two decades it remains strong compared with other institutions such as political leadership or the news media.
The data used in this research was provided by the Granite State Poll, conducted by the UNH Survey Center. The work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, as well as the Carsey Institute and the Sustainability Institute at UNH.
The Carsey Institute conducts policy research on vulnerable children, youth, and families and on sustainable community development. The institute provides policy makers and practitioners timely, independent resources to effect
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Figure 2: Do you trust scientists as a source of information about environmental issues? Responses are categorized by respondent’s identification with a political party. Republicans are subdivided into those who do or do not support the tea party movement.
Figure 5: Responses to nine questions, grouped by political party.
Figure 6: Percentage point difference between Democrat and Republican responses. | <urn:uuid:5e1c0945-c306-4c35-88ff-241445abc496> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/618209/?sc=rsla | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947877 | 632 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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