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Foreign Policy Magazine’s cover story for its May/June 2012 issue, entitled “Why Do They Hate Us?“, is certainly stirring up controversy. The article, which provides a lens into the lives of women who reside in Arab countries, reinforces much of what we already know about the challenges they face in the region. But some women — particularly feminist Muslims who would typically be praising the fact that these tragic details are being exposed — are criticizing the article’s writer, Egyptian-American Mona Eltahawy.
The piece delves into the ugly side of fundamentalism and covers female genital mutilation, physical violence that has worked its way into the legal code and the overall denial of fundamental rights in the Arab world. Eltahawy’s words do anything but hide the problematic mindset she believes has taken hold in the Middle East.
“Name me an Arab country, and I’ll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend,” she writes. “When more than 90 percent of ever-married women in Egypt — including my mother and all but one of her six sisters — have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme.”
Eltahawy was also careful to state her view that many nations — including the United States — also mistreat women (or, at the least, do not treat them equally). But her claim, when it comes to the Middle East, is that Arab societies hate women. From economics to human rights abuses, the writer tackles many of her qualms with the region, while tying all of the elements back to an overall issue she sees embedded in the culture:
Not a single Arab country ranks in the top 100 in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, putting the region as a whole solidly at the planet’s rock bottom. Poor or rich, we all hate our women. Neighbors Saudi Arabia and Yemen, for instance, might be eons apart when it comes to GDP, but only four places separate them on the index, with the kingdom at 131 and Yemen coming in at 135 out of 135 countries. Morocco, often touted for its “progressive” family law (a 2005 report by Western “experts” called it “an example for Muslim countries aiming to integrate into modern society”), ranks 129; according to Morocco’s Ministry of Justice, 41,098 girls under age 18 were married there in 2010. […]
How much does Saudi Arabia hate women? So much so that 15 girls died in a school fire in Mecca in 2002, after “morality police” barred them from fleeing the burning building — and kept firefighters from rescuing them — because the girls were not wearing headscarves and cloaks required in public. And nothing happened. No one was put on trial. Parents were silenced. The only concession to the horror was that girls’ education was quietly taken away by then-Crown Prince Abdullah from the Salafi zealots, who have nonetheless managed to retain their vise-like grip on the kingdom’s education system writ large.
And the aforementioned information is only a sliver of the examples and facts she provides in the article. When it comes to her concluding thoughts, Eltahawy urges individuals to stand up against the widespread hate that has been thrown in females’ direction:
First we stop pretending. Call out the hate for what it is. Resist cultural relativism and know that even in countries undergoing revolutions and uprisings, women will remain the cheapest bargaining chips. You — the outside world — will be told that it’s our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, or Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman. The Arab uprisings may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women. […]
We are more than our headscarves and our hymens. Listen to those of us fighting. Amplify the voices of the region and poke the hatred in its eye. There was a time when being an Islamist was the most vulnerable political position in Egypt and Tunisia. Understand that now it very well might be Woman. As it always has been.
Although compelling, the author’s claim of this “toxic mix of culture and religion” in the Middle East is being met with resistance from those who see the article as an overall simplification of the issue at hand. Some even maintain that it reinforces negative stereotypes and provides a basis through which Western politicians can more readily rail against Arab society.
The three arguments that Business Insider (BI) recaps from critics are as follows: “It just reinforces negative stereotypes of Islam in the West,” “It reinforces a false monolithic view of the Arab world,” and “It perpetuates the notion that Arab society itself is anti-women.” For these reasons, among others, Eltahawy’s piece is being dismissed by some and lambasted by others. Here are some of the critiques, as presented by BI:
Books by “native voices” like Eltahawy have become increasingly popular post-9/11 in a Western world attempting to justify its wars and invasions against Islam and the Middle East, Monica Marks writes in The Huffington Post. “…these native ‘testimonials’ tell us what we in the West already know — that there’s something inherently misogynistic about Muslims and Arabs,” she explains, providing war-mongering politicians a justification no one would argue with: Islam and Arabs must be fought because they oppress women.
And instead of acknowledging the pre-Islamic socioeconomic roots of patriarchy, she instead blames only religion, pandering to Islamophobia, according to Al-Monitor’s Samia Errazzouki. […]
Critics say there are wide differences among the Arab countries that Eltahawy fails to take into account. They believe her premise of “all Arab men hating all Arab women” is too simplistic. “Why did Egypt’s hateful “they” elect only 2 percent women to its post-revolutionary legislature, while Tunisia’s hateful “they” elected 27 percent, far short of half but still significantly more than America’s 17 percent?” says Max Fisher in The Atlantic.
Regardless of what critics say, the article does, indeed, shed light on an important and timely issue. Additionally, it provides many Middle Eastern women who live under the thumb of authoritarian rule a shining light and reassurance that their stories and their plight are making their way into the headlines.
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First published in 1924 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolutsia No. 3 (26).
Published according to the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Volume 20, pages 74-81.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs and The Late Joe Fineberg
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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At your personal request I am writing the following brief report (bref rapport) in my own name, and apologise in advance for any gaps in this report (rapport), as I am hard pressed for time. The Central Committee of our Party will probably find occasion to send its own official report to the Executive Committee of the International Socialist Bureau, and to correct any possible errors in my own private report.
What are the differences (dissentiments) between the Central Committee of our Party and the Organizing Committee? That is the question. These differences may be reduced to the following six points:
The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party was formed in 1898 as an illegal Party, and has always remained such. Today too our Party can exist only as an illegal Party, since in Russia even the party of the moderate liberals has not been legalised.
Until the 1905 Revolution in Russia, however, the liberals published an illegal organ abroad. When the revolution was defeated, the liberals turned their backs upon it and indignantly rejected the idea of an illegal press. And so after the revolution the idea arose in the opportunist wing of our Party of renouncing the illegal Party, of liquidating it (hence the name “liquidators”) and of substituting for it a legal (“open”) party.
On two occasions, in 1908 and in 1910, our entire Party condemned liquidationism formally and unqualifiedly. On this point the differences are absolutely irreconcilable. It is impossible to restore and build up an illegal Party with people who do not believe in it and have no desire at all to build it up.
The Organising Committee and the Conference of August 1912 which elected it, recognise the illegal Party in word. In deed, however, after the decisions of the August Conference, the liquidators’ newspaper in Russia (Luch and Novaya Rabochaya Gazeta in 1912–13), continued to attack, in the legal press, the very existence of the illegal Party (numerous articles by L.S., F.D., Zasulich, and others).
Thus, we disagree with the Organising Committee because the latter is a fiction, which in word denies that it is liquidationist, but in fact screens and whitewashes the liquidators’ group in Russia.
We disagree with the Organising Committee because the latter is unwilling (and unable, for it is helpless against the liquidators’ group) to condemn liquidationism emphatically and irrevocably.
We cannot build up an illegal Party except by fighting those who attack it in the legal press. In Russia there are now (since 1912) two St. Petersburg workers’ dailies: one fulfils and carries out the decisions of the illegal Party (Pravda). The other (Luch and Novaya Rabochaya Gazeta) attacks the illegal Party, defies it, and tries to convince the workers that it is unnecessary. Unity between the illegal Party and the group that is fighting against the existence of the illegal Party is impossible until the paper run by the liquidators’ group radically changes its line, or until the Organising Committee emphatically condemns it and breaks with it.
Our differences with the liquidators are the same as those between reformists and revolutionaries everywhere. However, these differences are greatly aggravated and made irreconcilable by the fact that the liquidators, in the legal press, fight against revolutionary slogans. Unity is impossible with a group which, for example, declares in the legal press that the slogan of a republic, or of the confiscation of the big landed estates, is unsuitable for agitation among the masses. In the legal press we cannot refute such propaganda, which is objectively tantamount to betraying socialism and making concessions to liberalism and the monarchy.
And the Russian monarchy is such that a few more revolutions will be needed to teach the Russian tsars constitutionalism.
There can be no unity between our illegal Party, which secretly organises revolutionary strikes and demonstrations, and the group of publicists who in the legal press call the strike movement a “strike craze”.
We disagree on the national question. This question is a very acute one in Russia. The programme of our Party emphatically rejects so-called “extra-territorial and national autonomy”. Advocacy of the latter actually amounts to the preaching of refined bourgeois nationalism. Nevertheless, the August Conference of the liquidators (1912) recognised this “extra-territorial national autonomy” thereby deliberately violating the Party Programme. Comrade Plekhanov, who takes a neutral stand between the Central Committee and the Organising Committee, protested against this violation of the Programme, describing it as adaptation of socialism to nationalism.
We disagree with the Organising Committee because the latter refuses to rescind a decision which violates our Party Programme.
Furthermore, we disagree on the national question in respect of organisation. The Copenhagen Congress definitely condemned the division of trade unions according to nationality. Moreover, the experience of Austria has shown that in this respect it is impossible to draw a distinction between the trade unions and the political party of the proletariat.
Our Party has always stood for a united, international organisation of the Social-Democratic Party. In 1908, before the split, the Party repeated its demand for the amalgamation of all the national Social-Democratic organisations in the local areas.
We disagree with the Bund, the separate Jewish workers’ organisation, which supports the Organising Committee, because, despite Party decisions, the Bund flatly refuses to proclaim the principle at the unity of all national organisations in the local areas, and to bring about such an amalgamation.
It must be emphasised that the Bund refuses to amalgamate not only with organisations subordinated to our Central Committee, but also with the Lettish Social-Democratic Party, the Polish Social-Democratic Party and the Polish Socialist Party (the Left wing). Consequently, when the Bund poses as an amalgamator, we reject its claim, and declare that it is the Bund that is splitting the movement, since it refuses to bring about international unity among the Social-Democratic workers in the local organisations.
We disagree with the step taken by the Organising Committee in defending the alliance of the liquidators and the Bund with a non-Social-Democratic party, the P.S.P. (the Left wing), despite the protests of the two sections of the Polish Social-Democratic Party.
The Polish Social-Democratic Party has been affiliated to our Party ever since 1906–07.
The P.S.P. (the Left wing) was never affiliated with our Party.
By entering into an alliance with the P.S.P. in opposition to the two sections of the Polish Social-Democratic Party the Organising Committee is guilty of scandalous splitting action.
By accepting in the Social-Democratic group in the Duma the non-Social-Democrat Jagiello, a member of the P.S.P., despite formal protests by the two sections of the Polish Social-Democratic Party, the Organising Committee and its supporters among the deputies in the Duma are guilty of scandalous splitting action.
We disagree with the Organising Committee because the latter is unwilling to condemn and annul this splitting alliance with the P.S.P. (the Left wing).
Lastly, we disagree with the Organising Committee, and with many of the groups and fictitious organisations abroad, because our opponents are unwilling to admit openly, loyally and unequivocally that our Party enjoys the support of the overwhelming majority of the class-conscious workers of Russia.
We attach extremely great importance to this because, on the basis of bald statements unsupported by precise and verifiable facts, the most glaring falsehoods are often circulated abroad about the state of affairs in Russia.
The alternative is clear: either our opponents admit that there are irreconcilable differences between us (in which case their talk about unity is hypocrisy), or they see no irreconcilable differences (in which case, if they do not want to be regarded as splitters, they must loyally admit that we are the absolute majority).
By what public and verifiable facts can it be proved which side enjoys the support of the real majority of the class-conscious and organised Social-Democratic workers in Russia?
First, by the Duma elections.
Secondly, by the information published in both Social Democratic newspapers during the whole of 1912 and nearly the whole of 1913.
It can be readily understood that the only convincing material on the question at issue is provided by the daily newspapers of the two trends in St. Petersburg for two years.
Thirdly; by public statements made by workers in Russia (in the columns of both newspapers) in favour of one or the other of the two Social-Democratic groups in the Duma.
All these three sets of facts were given in our Central Committee’s official report to the International Socialist Bureau (session of December 14, 1913). I will briefly recapitulate these facts.
First: 47 per cent of the deputies elected by the worker curia in the elections to the Second Duma (1907), 50 per cent of such deputies in the elections to the Third Duma (1907–12), and 67 per cent in the elections to the Fourth Duma were Bolsheviks (i. e., our adherents).
Secondly, during 21 months between January 1, 1912 and October 1, 1913, the two workers’ newspapers in St. Petersburg published reports of the funds collected by workers’ groups: 556 groups collected funds for the liquidators and all their allies, while 2,181 groups collected funds for our Party.
Thirdly, up to November 20, 1913, 4,850 workers expressed support, over their signatures; for our group in the Duma, as against 2,539 workers who expressed support for the liquidators (and all their allies, the Bund, the Caucasians, and so on and so forth).
These precise and verifiable facts prove that during the two years, we united the overwhelming majority of Social-Democratic workers’ groups in Russia, despite the incredible difficulties the illegal Party in Russia has to contend with.
(In the matter of publishing illegal literature and organising illegal, strictly Party conferences, the odds in our favour are even greater.)
Since we have in two years united the overwhelming majority of Social-Democratic workers’ groups in Russia, we claim recognition for our method of organisation. We cannot depart from that method.
Those who recognise the illegal Party, but refuse to recognise our method of organisation, which has been endorsed by two years’ of experience and by the will of the majority of the class-conscious workers, are guilty of splitting tactics.
Such is my brief report.
With Social-Democratic greetings, N. Lenin
Brussels, January 31–February 1, 1914
See pp. 233–36 of this volume.—Ed.
Lenin is referring to Osvobozhdeniye (Emancipation), the fortnightly journal of the bourgeois liberals, published abroad from 1902 to 1905 and edited by P. B. Struve. In January 1904 it became the organ of the liberal-monarchist Osvobozhdeniye League. Later the Osvobozhdeniye people formed the core of the Cadet Party.
Lenin is referring to the decisions of the All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (the Fifth Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.) and the January Plenum of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. in 1910.
The Fifth All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. was held in Paris on December 21–27, 1908 (January 3–9, 1909). It was attend ed by 16 voting delegates: 5 Bolsheviks, 3 Mensheviks, 5 Polish Social-Democrats and 3 Bundists. The Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. was represented by Lenin, who made a report at the Conference on “The Present Moment and the Tasks of the Party”, as well as speeches on the Social-Democratic group in the Duma, on the organisational and other questions. At this Conference the Bolsheviks waged a struggle against the two types of opportunism within the Party—the liquidators and the otzovists. On a motion by Lenin the Conference denounced liquidationism and called upon all Party organisations to fight resolutely against any attempts to liquidate the Party.
For an appraisal of the Conference’s decisions see Lenin’s articles “On the Road” and “The Liquidation of Liquidationism”. (See present edition, Vol. 15, pp. 345–55, 452–60.)
The Plenum of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. was held on January 2--23 (January 15–February 5), 1910 in Paris. It was convened despite Lenin, with the help of Trotsky’s secret allies—Zinoviev, Kamenev and Rykov. Besides the Bolsheviks, it was attended by representatives of all sections and groups, as well as by representatives of the national Social-Democratic organisations. In opposition to Lenin’s plan of a rapprochement with the pro-Party Mensheviks (the Plekhanovites) for the purpose of fighting liquidationism, the conciliators, secret Trotskyists, demanded that all groups should be dissolved and that tile Bolsheviks should unite with the liquidators and Trotskyists. The conciliators preponderated at the meeting and were able to get a number of anti Leninist decisions adopted. Only after Lenin’s insistent demands did the Plenum adopt a resolution condemning liquidationism and otzovism.
See Note 34.
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The U.S. energy sector consists of three types of companies that include upstream (involved in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas), midstream (involved in the transportation, storage as well as processing), and downstream (involved in marketing and distribution of the products). The sector has been under the pump for a few years due to the energy crisis.
The COVID-19 situation has aggravated the condition and added to its woes. Crude oil prices plummeting to historic lows and the impact of the Climate Change Policy triggered massive sell-offs. The 10, 20, and 30-year plans outlining the transition to cleaner forms of energy are weighing on the fossil-fuel industry.
However, according to the latest research report, mentioned on energyworld.com, most of the global energy companies haven’t yet laid concrete plans for climate solution.
The oil & gas stocks saw a massive downtrend in 2020
Investors have been offloading energy stocks amid ongoing fears of an economic recession and slowdown in industrial activities around the world. Further, there is a possibility about a second wave of the dreaded virus impacting countries this winter, making markets jittery.
A broader market uptick in June spurred optimism but selling pressure in the energy sector continued. The widely considered energy sector benchmark, S&P 500 Energy Sector SPDR (AMEX: XLE) has lost over 22% in the past three months. On a year-to-date (YTD) basis, it has plunged nearly 50%. The upstream players have been bearing most of the brunt as compared to the downstream ones.
According to Oilprice.com, the Haynes and Boone Oil Patch Bankruptcy Monitor has revealed that 32 energy companies in the US have filed for bankruptcy protection in 2020 so far. Most of them are in heavy debts and conducting massive layoffs. Only the behemoths with a strong balance sheet like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) or a globally diversified oil-major like ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) have been able to weather this storm.
Even as the crude oil prices started to rebound by the end of April, companies in the energy sector are not out of the woods. Historically, an uptick in crude prices leads to a gain in energy stocks. However, we are living in a different phase altogether.
Investors have realized that it is not the energy sector, but the technology sector that is driving the economy. Hence, growth investors are turning to technology stocks to build long-term wealth. A classic example of this is what happened with ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM).
The Dow Jones Industrial Average which provides weightage according to the price movement of its components had to replace the former energy giant with a tech company, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) as Exxon lost more than 30% of its value over the past decade.
Investors must opt for a cautious approach
That said, the energy sector still remains crucial to the economy. Investing in the energy sector can be rewarding if done strategically, but it has its fair share of risks. It is a cyclical sector and the highly volatile commodity prices fundamentally impact stocks the most.
This implies that investors must not allocate a large portion of their portfolio to energy stocks, especially at this juncture. It is difficult to say whether the sector is on the verge of a correction or is going through a prolonged bear phase. Hence, it is advisable to have a fairly diversified portfolio.
Some of the factors that the investor must consider while choosing energy stocks are the low cost of production, stable revenues, and a cautious approach to dividend payout. Most importantly, the company’s balance sheet should be strong with adequate liquidity and minimal debt exposure.
These are some of the characteristics that will enable the companies to tide over the downturn.
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EU: Parliament takes conservative stance on CAP reform
European Parliament has made recommendations on CAP reform
The European Parliament has staked out a conservative political position in the oncoming debate over reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy.
In a detailed resolution, the Parliament has called for the CAP to spend more money on European food producers, rather than less, and argued for additional funding to help the industry reduce its carbon emissions.
The Parliament has also called for the EU to toughen its geographical indication intellectual property protection for traditional food products made in Europe, and for the CAP to help promote their sale.
A parliament communiqué said: "Food quality policy is…crucial to improving…competitiveness… Geographical indications of origin need to be strengthened and enforced…using protection and promotion instruments."
On budgets, the resolution said CAP financing must be "at least maintained during the next financial period" (from 2013).
The Parliament also opposed returning control of agriculture policy to member states, saying direct payments to producers should be fully funded from the EU budget. The European Commission will release its reform proposals in the autumn.
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Based on the blog at TheBeautyBrains.com, this informative book cuts through the confusing, misleading, and sometimes false information that beauty companies bombard consumers with and provides scientific answers to hundreds of questions about cosmetics.
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The Beauty Brains are a group of chemists who have more than 40 combined years of experience developing and testing beauty products at major cosmetic companies including Proctor & Gamble, Unilever and Alberto Culver. Perry Romanowski, the public face of the Brains, has spent the past 18 years researching and developing products to solve consumer problems in hair and skin care. He is also the coauthor of Beginning Cosmetic Chemistry, an introductory textbook of beauty science.
TEN TRUTHS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT YOUR COSMETICS:
1. Curling Shampoos Don’t Work!
2. Wearing the right fragrance can actually make people think you have lost weight.
3. While brushing your hair does temporarily help distribute natural oils, in the long run brushing “100 strokes every night” strips layers of cuticle and weakens hair.
4. There is no proof that tourmaline flat irons perform any better than the less expensive non-ceramic versions.
5. Sunscreen is one of the best cosmetics you can use to keep your skin looking young and wrinkle-free.
6. Spit on a zit may not be an old wives’ tale after all!
7. There is a difference between antiperspirant and deodorant. Antiperspirant actually stops you from sweating, while deodorant just masks the odor.
8. No cosmetic will make your nails grow longer and stronger, but you can do things to improve their condition.
9. Urea is found in cosmetics, but it does not come from urine!
10. Multiple types of parabens are used in formulas to ensure that your personal care and cosmetic products are as free as possible from disease-causing microbes.
To find out the details to all of the above truths (and dozens more!) pick up a copy of CAN YOU GET HOOKED ON LIP BALM? Top Cosmetic Scientists Answer Your Questions about the Lotions, Potions, and Other Beauty Products You Use Every Day.
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Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand sweep of human history, A History of the World in 100 Objects begins with one of the earliest surviving objects made by human hands, a chopping tool from the Olduvai gorge in Africa, and ends with objects which characterise the world we live in today. Seen through MacGregor's eyes, history is a kaleidoscope - shifting, interconnected, constantly surprising, and shaping our world today in ways that most of us have never imagined. A stone pillar tells us about a great Indian emperor preaching tolerance to his people; Spanish pieces of eight tell us about the beginning of a global currency; and an early Victorian tea-set speaks to us about the impact of empire. An intellectual and visual feast, this is one of the most engrossing and unusual history books published in years. Brilliant, engagingly written, deeply researched . (Mary Beard, Guardian ). A triumph: hugely popular, and rightly lauded as one of the most effective and intellectually ambitious initiatives in the making of 'public history' for many decades . ( Sunday Telegraph ). Highly intelligent, delightfully written and utterly absorbing . (Timothy Clifford, Spectator ). This is a story book, vivid and witty, shining with insights, connections, shocks and delights . (Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph ). Neil MacGregor has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002. His latest book, Shakespeare's Restless World is an enthralling exploration of Shakespeare's world, and of the minds of his audiences, based on Neil MacGregor's new 20-part BBC Radio 4 series. MacGregor was previously Director of the National Gallery in London from 1987 to 2002. | <urn:uuid:aacd3eec-7e5b-4f02-9ead-e12455b11515> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.tesco.com/direct/a-history-of-the-world-in-100-objects/F69-K6W2.prd?recommendationId=21e8efa1-7833-433d-b06f-71061a064d7c.0&skuId=F69-K6W2 | 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 | 0.925394 | 369 | 2.3125 | 2 |
For Immediate Release
Bush Administration Removed Detainees From Guantánamo to Avoid The Law
ACLU Calls For Broad Investigation Into Bush Torture Program
NEW YORK - The
Bush administration moved four detainees from Guantánamo to secret CIA
prisons overseas in 2003 to keep them from having access to lawyers,
according to the Associated Press today. The transfer came just before
the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners at Guantánamo could challenge
their detention in U.S. courts. The American Civil Liberties Union has
long called for a broad investigation into the torture program and
accountability for the government officials who knew about and
authorized abusive practices.
The following can be attributed to Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU:
"This revelation illustrates the
lengths to which the Bush administration went in order to shield its
conduct from the courts and keep prisoners outside the protection of the
law. Secret detention constitutes a grave breach of the Geneva
Conventions, and the officials who authorized the CIA's secret prisons
and torture program should be held accountable.
"The Bush administration's efforts to
defeat the courts' jurisdiction must be added to the list of abuses
that the current administration has thus far failed to prosecute or even
to investigate. The Justice Department has initiated a criminal
investigation into instances in which CIA interrogators exceeded their
authority, but that investigation is too narrow. The Justice
Department's investigation should examine not just the conduct of
interrogators, but the conduct of the officials who authorized torture.
The Obama administration's failure to hold senior officials accountable
undermines the rule of law."
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Big Development in Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring Devices: Study Shows Benefits of Monitoring Heart Arrhythmia Remotely
Several medications, including some for arrhythmias and cancer, necessitate continual monitoring of the patient's heart rhythms. Patients are sometimes forced to stay in the hospital for the first three days to receive two ECGs (Electrocardiography). Each day, the process goes on before the drug is judged safe to use at home. Remote monitoring might save healthcare systems a lot of money and provide patients more time because they wouldn't need to stay in the hospital for three days and miss work merely to have six ECGs.
Researchers have demonstrated through a study that participants can be monitored for potential arrhythmic effects of medicines safely and successfully at home. The findings could be highly beneficial to Cardiac Arrhythmia Monitoring Devices because they highlight the advantages of remote monitoring of the ailment, which would reduce the stress on healthcare systems while also saving patients money on treatment costs.
During COVID-19's first wave, the fully remote study was undertaken in the early spring of 2020.
Researchers sought to see if the cheap medications, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, may help patients—particularly those who had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and were self-treating at home recover faster. However, the researchers were concerned that the medications could cause a cardiac rhythm abnormality known as a prolonged QT interval. Long QT can lead to cardiac arrest if left untreated.
Before the experiment was halted due to a lack of therapeutic benefit, 218 participants were enrolled. The team started studying medication and sent ECG data into three randomized arms. All readings were transmitted within an hour. Participants whose QT interval was significantly higher than baseline were asked to get another ECG right away, and if that test confirmed the finding, the drug was stopped. Twenty-eight participants had prolonged QT, and two of them had to stop taking their medications as a result. There were no fatalities reported.
More crucially, 85 percent of participants followed the trial's procedure of submitting one ECG every day for the first 14 days, indicating that remote arrhythmia monitoring is possible.
The research undertaken to test two drugs failed to help patients with mild COVID-19. The clinical trial's goal was to prove a study model's viability. It included investigating medication's potential arrhythmic side effects and how they can be safely and effectively monitored without the participants ever setting foot in a hospital or clinic. Although the drugs failed, the research had a silver lining. It showed the possibility of remote monitoring of the arrhythmic cardiac condition.
Global Cardiac Medication Market Research Report - Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast Till 2027
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VietNamNet Bridge – With the total coastline length of more than 3000 kilometers, Vietnam is believed to have great potentials to develop wind power. However, it has been warned that running wind power projects at sea would be very costly.
Nguyen Ngoc Tan, a wind power expert from Germany, recommended at a recent workshop on recycled energy development that in the immediate time, Vietnam should focus on developing wind power projects on mainland.
Tan said that the investment costs for offshore wind energy projects are double the projects on mainland, Besides this, Vietnam would also have to face the risks during the construction and wind turbine operation at sea.
According to the expert, there are some 40 “wind fields” in the European countries like Germany, the UK, Denmark and Sweden. However, a recent survey in Germany showed that a lot of wind pillars on the sea have moved by one meter far from the original places after one year of operation, due to the seabed movement. Besides, the expenses for equipment maintenance would be very high to protect the equipments from the corrosion by sea salt.
It is clear that offshore wind power output will be double that on the mainland. However, as investors’ pockets are “limited”, in the immediate time, Vietnam should only think of implementing wind power projects on mainland, from which Vietnam would draw experiences for offshore projects.
In Europe and the US, a lot of wind power projects have been developed at sea, simply because offshore projects can bring higher production. Besides, the construction area is vast, and investors do not have to spend much money to compensate residents for site clearance.
According to the International Energy Agency IEA, the global wind power potential is about 1.3 million terawatt a year. In Vietnam, the figure is 500,000 MW a year.
To date, 20 wind power projects have been carried out in the sea cities and provinces, including Binh Thuan, Ninh Thuan, Bac Lieu and Lam Dong. The Cong Ly Construction and Trade Company is building a wind power project on the sea surface of Bac Lieu province.
Also according to Tan, the average investment rate is 1 million euro per MW, while it takes investors 6-7 years on average to take back the investment capital. However, the costs would be higher in Vietnam, while investors may need up to 12 years to recover the investment capital, due to the poor infrastructure items which serve the transport and the construction of wind power pillars.
Regarding the impacts on the environment, ecology and human health of wind power projects, scientists say that they cannot see any worrying impacts from wind power turbines. A research work conducted in Germany for two months (August and September 2005), showed that only 13 bats died because they hit the propellers.
The figures about the wind power potentials in Vietnam vary with different forecasts given by different institutions. The Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) believes that the figure could be 1785 MW. Meanwhile, scientific research institutes in Vietnam believe that the figures could be 10,000-20,000 MW. A research work by the World Bank released in 2000 showed the figure of 521 GW.
Vietnam needs a comprehensive evaluation about its wind potentials. Recently, the Renewable Energy of Vietnam (REVN) has completed the first phase of the wind power project with the capacity of 120 MW in Binh Thuan province. 20 wind turbines with a capacity of 1.5 MW per turbine was successfully installed which have connected to the national grid. It is expected that 42 other wind power projects with a total capacity of 3906 MW would be implemented at different stages of development.
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Found on RunnersWorld.com and written by Alex Hutchinson
Breakfast, we’re often told, is the most important meal of the day. It certainly seems that way to me – I can’t imagine making it to noon without eating. But the literature is much more mixed. Lots of studies have found that habitual breakfast eaters tend to be leaner, but that doesn’t mean that eating breakfast is whatcauses people to be lean. In fact, most studies do find that skipping it results in lower overall calorie consumption during the day (though it may also lead to being less active and burning fewer calories).
But what about the effects of breakfast consumption on athletic performance? It’s clear that if you don’t eat breakfast, your performance in the morning will suffer. While you sleep, your brain and other vital organs are burning up your carbohydrate supplies, so unless you restock them you’ll be operating at a deficit.
A new study by researchers at Loughborough University in the U.K., just published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, takes things a step further. They measured exercise performance (30 minutes of steady-state cycling followed by a 30-minute time-trial) at 5 p.m., with or without breakfast. The subjects had eaten as much as they wanted for lunch (and the subjects did indeed eat about 200 calories more after skipping breakfast compared to when they ate breakfast), but this wasn’t enough to make up the deficit. Time-trial performance was 4.5 percent worse after skipping breakfast.
One caveat is that all the subjects in the study were habitual breakfast eaters. It’s possible that the bodily rhythms of people who normally don’t eat breakfast would be different, such that the absence of breakfast wouldn’t affect them. Still, that’s a pretty big difference in performance, presumably because lunch alone wasn’t enough to fully replenish carb stores. For weight loss, the research still seems pretty mixed to me; but for athletic performance, breakfast certainly seems like, if not the most important, then definitely one of the three most important meals of the day. | <urn:uuid:27b66447-0320-4fbb-ba18-4db900db1456> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://racegrader.com/does-skipping-breakfast-affect-performance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.970487 | 449 | 2.6875 | 3 |
DEAR ABBY: I'm a mother of three beautiful little girls. I'm nervous about having to talk with my oldest about puberty and sex. She's turning 10, and I know I need to start explaining certain things to her, but I have no idea how. My mother never sat me down and talked to me about anything, really, so my mom would not be of much help. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. -- MINNESOTA MOM OF THREE
DEAR MOM: You can spare your daughter a frightening experience when her first period arrives if you start talking to her now, before it happens. Start the conversation by making the message positive -- that she will "become a woman" soon and tell her what to expect. Show her what to do in case you are not there and what supplies she will need to take care of herself. That's step one.
A short time later, ask her what she knows about reproduction. Because reproduction is taught in some schools, she may surprise you by how much she already knows. If she doesn't, start talking to her about how her body works and your family values. It is important that parents also talk to their children about drugs and alcohol well before they start to experiment. My booklet "What Every Teen Should Know" covers sexuality as well as other topics, including dating, peer pressure, sexually transmitted diseases, drugs and alcohol. It can be ordered by sending your name and address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to Dear Abby Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. Shipping and handling are included in the price. Order it for yourself and review it before starting your discussions with your daughter. My Teen booklet has been distributed in doctors' offices as well as by educators and religious leaders. The more information you can provide your daughters, the better prepared those girls will be to make informed choices in the future. | <urn:uuid:0ce44922-51db-46df-9813-41fcc9e9aa82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uexpress.com/life/dearabby/2017/07/12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.97692 | 405 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Bollinger, Lee C. JD
There is a need in all of higher education, including all the health professions, for racial, ethnic, and other kinds of diversity. In early December 2001 the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, sitting en banc, will hear oral arguments in Gratz v. The University of Michigan and Grutter v. The University of Michigan, the two cases challenging the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law school admission policies. It could just as easily have been a challenge to the affirmative action admission policy in the University of Michigan's medical school; the issues are the same—it was just the law school's lucky day.
TWO KEY COURT CASES
Let me tell you a little about the two cases, and about just how much is at stake for private as well as for public higher education. The outcome of these cases will profoundly affect the quality of higher education, professional education, and graduate education that all students receive in this country—majority and minority. It will help determine the demographics of those classes. It will determine whether the graduates, majority and minority, will be leaders who have the education and the experience that will enable them to thrive in social and business contexts that are increasingly diverse and international. And it will affect the historic commitment of this nation to build an integrated society after over 200 years of slavery and exclusion for African Americans and others. This was—and is—the challenge of the greatest Supreme Court decision of the last century, Brown v. Board of Education.
Four years ago the University of Michigan was sued by two plaintiffs, both white, one who was not admitted to the law school, and one who was not admitted as an undergraduate. The plaintiffs claim that they were harmed because the applicable admission process was not “colorblind” and, therefore, they assert, was unconstitutional. Both plaintiffs are represented by the Center for Individual Rights, an advocacy group that has led a nationwide campaign to overturn the Supreme Court's 1978 decision in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.
The Constitution does not require public universities to use a “colorblind” admission process. Indeed, in Bakke, the Supreme Court reversed a decision of the California Supreme Court that had insisted on colorblindness in admissions. A five-justice majority of the Court joined to say that a properly devised admission program may lawfully consider race and ethnic origin. To be permissible, an admission process may not rely on racial quotas, may not use a two-track system with separate processes for majority and minority applicants, and may not place so much emphasis on race that minority applicants are admitted even though they are not deemed capable of doing good work in their courses. The University of Michigan employs admission policies that are entirely consistent with the Bakke requirements. Should the Sixth Circuit arrive at a different conclusion, however, the university is committed to taking the matter to the Supreme Court. And I remain committed to doing all I can, from my new position at Columbia University, to furthering these issues in every way that I can.
ACHIEVING THE BEST LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Like so many other public and private universities across the country, the University of Michigan uses a variety of factors to determine a student's admissibility. These include, among others:
▪ High school grade-point average
▪ Rigor of the high school courses taken
▪ Alumni relationships (parent, grandparent, or sibling)
▪ Quality of the essay
▪ Personal achievement
▪ Leadership and service
▪ Socioeconomically disadvantaged student or education
▪ Athletic ability
▪ Underrepresented racial or ethnic minority identity
▪ Resident of an underrepresented region
Any and all of these factors can influence a student's admissibility because they are all characteristics that contribute to the quality of the university and the diversity of the student body. No one factor is determinative. Obviously each year, the limited size of the entering class means that thousands of talented applicants cannot be admitted. The task of the admission office is, using good judgment and a fair and legal process, to assemble a student body it believes will provide collectively the best possible learning environment.
It is important to understand that admission offices are not making thousands of individual, unrelated decisions; they are trying to make the best judgment about individual applicants in order to form the strongest class that will study and live and interact together over an extended period of time—three or four years. The question for each applicant is what can he or she contribute to the whole, not where they stand in splendid, isolated comparison with everyone else.
Selecting a student body, then, is not simply a matter of drawing a line through some rank-ordering of individual applications. Admission officers are alert to the potential of those who may not have had full opportunity to manifest their talents (immigrants, for example), those who have served the country (including veterans), or who have unconventional talents (oboe players and talented sculptors and athletes). They must be responsible to the communities from which they derive (e.g., state residents) as well as to the nation itself (through geographic diversity). By employing admission policies aimed at a comprehensive diversity—of which racial and ethnic diversity is an important part—the university is able to achieve its mission of educating students to participate fully in our heterogeneous democracy and the global economy.
Admitting a racially diverse group of students enables a school to do a better job of preparing students to be effective doctors or lawyers or citizens. Students are exposed to classmates who have had different life experiences, and their prior assumptions are challenged. When an applicant's file reveals that he or she might add to the diversity of perspectives that are voiced in class, that helps the applicant's chances of admission.
Even 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, race is still a significant factor in American life. That should be clearer now than before. In the lawsuits, the University of Michigan makes its case about how much race matters through statistical analysis, demographics, and other expert testimony. Doctors know that race is still an issue—in the availability of medical care, in infant mortality, cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, immunizations, and health insurance, to name just a few areas. Wishing that race is no longer a factor in American life doesn't make it so.
But what is so key about race in higher education? If differences of opinion are what is important, why not accomplish that with an all-white student body? The answer is that race and ethnicity continue to be uniquely important factors in American life. When individuals meet on the street, when they decide where to live, when they decide whom to befriend, when they decide with whom to work, race matters. Well-educated undergraduates and well-trained physicians should have experience interacting with persons different from themselves. They should understand how the experience of race can influence people's perceptions of our nation's social, legal, political, and economic systems. There are many dimensions to this diversity. Encountering differences rather than one's mirror image is an essential part of a good education. But a first-class education is also one that creates the opportunity for students, expecting differences, to learn, instead, of similarities.
The Center for Individual Rights' challenge to “affirmative action” in higher education admissions is not a challenge to merely the mechanical or procedural particulars; the fact that race is considered at all is what makes the process unacceptable to them. Theirs is a challenge to our philosophy of education and to the historical purposes of our great public universities. That is a challenge I have welcomed—because I am confident that a diverse learning community is a better learning environment. And I am convinced that a diverse educational community furthers a historical mission of universities—the education of all students in order for them to be good and productive citizens. Applicants have a right to be treated fairly within the admission process, but there is no right to be admitted to a public university without regard to how the overall makeup of the student body will affect the educational process or without regard to the needs of society after they graduate.
The University of Michigan is supported in its argument by individuals such as President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of State Colin Powell, and by virtually every major institution in our society, including all of higher education—the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education, the Department of Justice, churches, labor unions, and elementary and secondary school educators, General Motors, and 20 other Fortune 500 corporations, including Steelcase, Inc, 3M, Abbott Laboratories, Bank One, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Eli Lilly, General Mills, Intel, Johnson and Johnson, Kellogg, Microsoft, Procter and Gamble, Sara Lee, Texaco, and TRW. The corporations argue in their brief that racial and ethnic diversity in higher education is vital to their efforts to hire and maintain an effective workforce prepared for the opportunities presented by a global economy. They state that managers and employees who graduated from institutions with diverse student bodies demonstrate creative problem solving by integrating differing perspectives; exhibit the skills required for good teamwork; are better prepared to understand, learn from, and collaborate with persons from other racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; and are more responsive to the needs of all customers.
WHY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS NECESSARY
It is worth emphasizing that admission policies such as the University of Michigan's do not meaningfully affect a white student's chances of admission. The numbers of minority applicants are extremely small compared with the numbers of white students who apply to the university—and to universities across the country. It is not mathematically possible that the small numbers of minority students who apply and are admitted are displacing a significant number of white students. In their book The Shape of the River, William Bowen, former president of Princeton, and Derek Bok, former president of Harvard, looked at the nationwide statistics concerning admissions to selective universities. They determined that even if all selective universities implemented a race-blind admission system, the probability of being admitted for a white student would only go from 25% to 26.2%.
The source of this problem is, in large part, the need for remediation of K–12 public education in under-resourced school systems. Addressing that issue, however, and seeing the educational benefits will take many years, during which we will lose several generations of students; in the meantime, colleges and universities will have had decisions to make—classes of students to admit.
The effects of unequal—and inadequate—funding of public schools on the quality of education for racial and ethnic minority students are hard to overstate. And those effects are, in large part, the source of the problem that the affirmative action “leg up” in admissions seeks to address—making sure, as we do so, that we don't take students who can't do the work. Renowned researcher Linda Darling-Hammond notes that the wealthiest 10% of school districts spend almost ten times more than the poorest 10%. And poor and minority students are disproportionately concentrated in the least well-funded schools. Predominantly minority schools have difficulty hiring the most qualified teachers, which, she has concluded, is a major contributor to the students' achievement gap. One study of 900 Texas school districts found that “holding socioeconomic status constant, the wide variability in teachers' qualifications accounted for almost all of the variation in black and white students' test scores.” In general, Darling-Hammond notes that “urban schools suffer from lower expenditures of state and local dollars per pupil, higher student–teacher ratios and student–staff ratios, larger class sizes, lower teacher experience, and poorer teacher qualifications.” Those factors are, I think, important to keep in mind as we consider the disappointed majority applicant.
I have heard some say that the gap is too big, that the leg up given underrepresented minorities in the admission process is too large. I would assert that the gap is too big or too small or just right depending upon your educational premises and depending upon our judgment as to who can do the work at the university. If your educational purposes are such, as I have argued, that a sense of empathy and a presence of different points of view and experiences are central to the educational process for all students, and if all the students admitted can do the work, then the leg up is not too big. Nothing is too big or too small except in relation to purposes and values.
One might quite reasonably ask whether the Michigan law school (or the medical school or undergraduate program) could obtain a racially diverse class with a “colorblind” process by placing greater emphasis on socioeconomic factors. The answer is No; racial diversity and socioeconomic diversity are not the same thing (because, in short, most of our poor people in this country are white). When a colorblind process emphasizing socioeconomic diversity was adopted at the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, African American enrollment in the entering class fell by approximately 60%.
In his opinion in Bakke, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote (and here he was joined by Justices Brennan, White, and Marshall),
I suspect that it would be impossible to arrange an affirmative-action program in a racially neutral way and have it [be] successful. To ask that this be so is to demand the impossible. In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. We cannot—we dare not—let the Equal Protection Clause perpetuate racial supremacy.
That was right in 1978, and it is still right today.
Some schools have tried a colorblind admission process in which they accept the students in the top 4% or perhaps top 10% or 20% of each high school in the state. There are several problems with this approach: first, it is completely ineffective for graduate schools and professional schools. Second, it would result in both admitting some top students from weak high schools who may not be academically prepared to do the work and also rejecting very able students who are below the cut-offs at very strong schools. Third, all opportunity for individual evaluation and assessment of the candidate is lost. And so the process is colorblind, but blind to the applicants themselves as well! And fourth, for such an approach to work, de facto segregation would have to continue in high schools, which, given the purposes of such an approach, would be ironic in the extreme. The conclusion is clear: the best way to admit a racially diverse class is, not surprisingly, to use an admission process that includes race as a factor—the approach followed by virtually every selective college and university for the past 30 years.
The word “diversity” is a much-used term now, and because it causes us to focus on the differences among people, its use can lead us away from our similarities. Across race, across ethnicity and religion, we often have more in common than we might have imagined. It is in part for that reason, and in part because of the profundity of what is at stake, that I would prefer to speak in terms of integration, and of education's role in helping us achieve an integrated society. What we learn from integration is as much or more about similarity as it is about difference. It is only through interacting with others that you discover what you have in common as well as where you differ. A great soul, one person has observed, can be deeply moved by abstract statistics; but for most of us it usually takes a human face—a specific personal experience—to move us to understanding and learning of the most profound kind. I would hope, therefore, that we not be beguiled by our current language about diversity into thinking that we are concerned with learning from diversity only about differences, important as that is. Nor should the use of the word “diversity” cause us to assume that diversity is in this context something of a discretionary add-on or enrichment, rather than something at the very core of the educational process.
Interacting with people of different backgrounds creates the environment in which learning and empathy are fostered. Far from being optional or merely enriching, it is the very essence of what we mean by a “liberal” or “humanistic” education. The analogy I use is Shakespeare: Why is it that Shakespeare is thought to be one of the greatest if not the greatest writers of all time? One of the explanations, espoused long ago by the critic William Hazlitt, is Shakespeare's uncanny genius for being able to cross into different characters' minds. Within a few lines, after just a few minutes of a play, one has the distinct impression of viewing a particular human being, a character who thinks and feels and reacts in unique ways. That, in large part, is what exposure in an educational context to cultural diversity involves—the opportunity to come to a greater understanding of another's point of view, and how their life's experiences might have caused them to be who they are and form the opinions that they hold. Grappling with race in America is, therefore, a powerful instance of, a powerful metaphor for, crossing sensibilities of all kinds, and crossing sensibilities is part of the core of Shakespeare's genius and of great education.
Some will be quick to note that not all people of the same race hold the same opinions. That is certainly true. Yet there are too many people, of all backgrounds and all political stripes, who think that is not true. And clearly the best way to effectively undercut that assumption is to have members of the majority come into contact with greater numbers of persons of color, and vice versa. Moreover, while not all African Americans, for example, hold the same views, the experience of being an African American in this country is typically different from that of being a Caucasian, and the classroom—and the campus generally—are enhanced by having an admixture of people with different human experiences. One more point: we all recognize that people's behavior in a meeting, say, is affected by the gender and racial make-up of the group.That is, the mere presence of a diverse group—women, minority, men, majority—affects for the better how we act and what we say, even without our knowing the personal viewpoints or opinions of the other people present.
If, in the future, college and universities are not permitted to consider race as a factor in their admission processes, it will have a devastating effect on their ability to assemble a diverse student body. It is likely that the number of minority students enrolled at universities would decline significantly. The experience at California's flagship public universities, Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), bears out this prediction. Admission levels of underrepresented minorities—African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans—remain well below where they were prior to Proposition 209, the voter initiative that banned the use of race in university admissions. At Berkeley, they are down 44% and at UCLA they are down 36% from pre-Proposition 209 levels. Moreover, the decision will not affect the University of Michigan alone: all public institutions across the country would be affected, and all private higher education institutions as well, given that, under Title VI, those schools are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race—and on other bases—in the admission process, and an adverse decision in these cases would change the definition of race discrimination in admissions.
Americans of different races lead surprisingly separate lives today. For example, metropolitan Detroit is now the most segregated metropolitan area in the entire country; and Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, is the whitest city of over 100,000 people in the United States. These two extremes reside right next to each other. Indeed, America as a whole is more segregated today than it was at the time of Brown v. Board of Education. Ninety-two percent of the University of Michigan's white students and 52% of its African-American students grow up in racially separate communities. The result of this separation is that the University of Michigan's incoming students have rarely had the opportunity to get to know and learn from peers of different races before coming to campus. The same circumstance exists across the country. Some estimate that by the year 2030 (by the 25th college reunion of the students who are applying to college this fall) 40% of Americans will be members of a racial minority group. Where will these different parts of society come into contact so that they can learn from one another—about their differences but also about their commonalities—if not in our system of public and private higher education?
Last year 11.5% of medical school students in this country were members of underrepresented minority groups. In the mid-1960s, that number was a meager 1% among all American medical schools, except at Howard University and Meharry Medical College, traditionally black schools. The major variable accounting for this profound change is the use of affirmative action in admission decisions, the practice now at stake. According to data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), 1996 medical school enrollments of underrepresented minorities would have fallen 80% without affirmative action. In more recent studies, the AAMC and the American Council on Education observed the concrete benefits of ethnic and racial diversity in medical education and practice. These studies complement findings at the University of Michigan that a more diverse student body leads to measurable changes in active thinking, intellectual engagement, and key skills of citizenship such as the ability to understand others' perspectives.
Because we know that minority physicians are more likely to practice in areas where there are high concentrations of minorities, diversity among practicing physicians and medical administrators increases the availability of health care within underrepresented minority communities, and a more diverse medical research community expands the search for advances in knowledge and treatment. And while the minority population in our country is growing, in absolute and percentage terms, the number of African Americans and Latinos admitted to medical schools has declined markedly in recent years. It is clear that the changes in admission policies in California and Texas have contributed significantly to this decline. And so the stakes are high for medical and health education—and for medical care and health care in this country—if an adverse decision in these cases in the end imposes a federal Constitutional bar to the consideration of race in admissions.
In an eloquent New York Times op-ed piece supporting the University of Michigan's admission policies, President Gerald R. Ford wrote,
Tolerance, breadth of mind and appreciation for the world beyond our neighborhoods: these can be learned on the football field and in the science lab as well as in the lecture hall. But only if students are exposed to America in all her variety …. I have often wondered how different the world might have been in the 1940s, '50s and '60s—how much more humane and just—if my generation had experienced a more representative sampling of the American family.
And so, far from being some sort of nice but nonessential add-on, racial, ethnic and other kinds of diversity in a university setting are at the educational core of what the university does and are absolutely central to the quality of students' educational experience. And the diversity of its graduates is, as its business leaders have forcefully argued, one of the most valuable contributions higher education makes to the nation's common weal. The medical field and the health care field generally cannot afford to take a giant step backward with an educational admission system that dramatically diminishes the number of minorities who will be available to serve our increasingly diverse nation.
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How To Create A Mobile Gaming App?
How to create your own video game application, this text will walk you through seven steps you want to take to get your video game app from idea to release. A successful game application is to study the market and create a simple but convincing game application.
Mobile gaming app
Make your plan
There is research, programming, graphic design, sound design, musical composition, marketing, and much more. Understanding what skills you have will help you come up with ideas based on your strengths.
- You can focus on the mechanics of the sport but rely on a minimalist art style. You can discover a sports engine that takes care of most of the coding for you while you concentrate on the art layout.
Choose your software
Advantage of the advancement in development tools that do the coding for you so, you can focus on the more innovative facet of your creation.
- Unreal Engine-based UDK: Comes with a basic default plan so you can have fun and practice prototyping to learn more about the tools.
- Giochilad: It does not require any knowledge of the code, but uses what they call a behavior-based logic system Think about it as a kind of drag & drop sports designer. It is extremely powerful and can easily transfer your games to iOS, android, and windows with one click.
Learn your programming language
A brilliant area to begin is C# this object-oriented programming language is simple and relatively clear to understand. This is the most used programming language of developers.
Do market research
The first factor to do is to get the feel of the market. Studying approximately the hit apps and playing them as they’ll inform you volumes approximately the market. The more time you could spend reading a hit app the better image you retrieve about their common traits and the desirability of users.
Come up with successful ideas
Brainstorm with your team or with other people to come up with ideas in order to keep players engaged. Use your market research to see what is trending and in call for. Think about how you could fill market calls at the same time as creating a sport this is specific and stands out.
- Be inclined to hold improvising and reworking your own ideas till they’re on the factor they are at their best.
- Some of the finest apps are a twist on an old idea, with a brand new direction.
- Stick to low-chance and high probability apps catering to large institutions of people, from teenagers to adults.
- Focus on coming up with apps on the basis of entertainment, intuitiveness, engagement, dependency, and graphics and sound. Cross out any app that has fewer than the above-cited traits.
- A good tale with characters, twists, goals, and rewards can enhance the game-play experience.
Create a design document
Create a design document that contains all of the thoughts which you need to enter the game. A design document consists of everything from proof of the game mechanics, goals and rewards, characters and bios, idea art, stage designs, and anything your team needs to know.
Publish your game
When it’s time to release your game, you’ll need to sign up as a developer with your chosen platform. Makes sure your app meets all the quality assurance standards which can be set forth by the platform marketplace. If your application is rejected, listen to the comments you get the appropriate changes.
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This fresh and crunchy blend of Clover, Alfalfa and Radish has just a little heat to add interest. Enjoy in sandwiches and wraps.
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This is a guest post by the guys over at NewGen Consultants.
There is a wealth of information available to help you run your own home business. You should not believe everything you find.This article has the information plus important tips for home business owners.
If you often entertain clients with dining out or other activities, be sure to deduct that cost as a business expense. These meetings are legitimate business expenses for your business. Make sure that the clients are going to remain clients, otherwise these expenses are not tax-deductible.
You should not put in your notice at your primary job until after you have started operations at your home based business. Having another source of income while waiting to build your new business much less stressful.
You can find some good business card offers online for free or very cheap. You want all vital information in your business cards, like your name, the name of your business and your phone number. Include your email address and the URL of your website on the card. This will make it easier for customers to reach you in a variety of ways.
You can find information and advice through online forums and communities specifically offering support for the home business forum with others who are doing what you do. You will learn that there are many home business owners.
Many local businesses like to work with independent designers rather than larger companies because they’re more flexible and can also personalize their services. This gives home businesses an advantage over large companies.
You should have a mailing list of your business. Make sure to keep your communications below the level of spam. Mailing lists allow you to advertise new sales and special events within your company. Others may just use it to send pertinent content to customers, along with ads and coupons. Add a place on your website for people to join your list.
Keep an accurate accounting of all financial records for your business. If the IRS or another authority ever audits your business, you’ll need to be able to show all of those records. Having great records can also aids in tracking the progress of your doing income-wise every month.
You must have the trust and support of your family on board before you consider starting a home-based business. It can be very hard to start a home business.Your family must be willing to give you alone time, but they must also allow you time alone for your work.
You must promote your home business as often as possible. You should bring up your home business to promote it.
You might want to be nice and a bit lenient when it comes to your customers while you begin to build relationships, but this can hurt your profits.
It is probably easier to start a business than you think. There are many options in business models you can pick from that don’t require an outlay for an office locations or store.
Register your company by setting up a DBA or “Doing Business As” license. This can commonly be done through a local bank in your area. It is not cost a lot of money to do this and will help you keep personal and business expenses separate.
People buy products that fulfill their everyday needs. If you develop a solution to a common problem you face, your product will succeed.
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Over on the right I have updated the ringing totals for Fylde Ringing Group up until the end of March. You will see that we have ringed 472 birds of 24 species and we are 350 ahead of where we were this time last year. Four species were added to the ringing list during March and these were Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, Jay and Linnet.
Below I have listed the top five ringed for the month and the top ten 'movers and shakers' for the year so far.
Top 5 Ringed in March
1. Lesser Redpoll - 32
2. Blue Tit - 27
3. Chaffinch - 25
4. Meadow Pipit - 24
Goldcrest - 24
Top 10 Movers and Shakers for the Year
1.Blue Tit - 119 (same position)
2. Great Tit - 57 (same position)
3. Chaffinch - 49 (up from 4th)
4. Goldfinch - 44 (same position)
5. Lesser Redpoll - 39 (up from 8th)
Long-tailed Tit - 39 (down from 3rd)
7. Goldcrest - 26 (straight in)
8. Meadow Pipit - 24 (straight in)
9. Blackbird - 15 (down from 6th)
10. Coal Tit - 13 (down from 7th)
It's unusual to cancel a planned ringing session because the weather is too good, but that's exactly what's happening tomorrow evening. There isn't going to be enough cloud and with a Waning Gibbous moon it will be too bright to operate mist nets in the dark on the wetland!
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It’s really hard when you want to write about something that you know is a good thing to do but you are not so good at actually doing it yourself. A someone commented yesterday when I delivered this sermon, ‘Physician, heal thyself’! Still, as I said, it acts as a good reminder to me as well as everyone else
Bible Reference: Luke 10:38-42
May I speak and may you hear through the Grace of our Lord; Father, Son and Holy Spirit
I had to think long and hard about what I wanted to say this morning, because I am sure that some people could so obviously accuse me of hypocrisy, quite possibly a case of ‘do as I say and not as I do!’ But I believe there is an important message that needs to be explored and undoubtedly, I need to hear it as much as others might.
But first let me ask a question for you to ponder… when was the last time that you actually spent time doing nothing? Not doing something that you wouldn’t consider work, nor doing something that involves you organising your leisure time, not even setting time aside for prayer or to read a book… but just simply doing nothing but resting.
I guess that this simple kind of resting could go one of two ways. You either fall asleep or you allow yourself to simply bring yourself for those few precious moments into God’s presence. I call them precious moments because so many people nowadays have lives that do not involve seeking any time of rest or relaxation. We are conditioned to wake up and immediately our brains are focussed on what we must achieve that day or over the coming week. We have to plan and organise every single minute of our time, whether that is doing work, or filling our leisure time with activities or for parents of young children making sure that they are involved in stimulating pursuits, because, heaven help us, that they should be bored or have nothing to do!
But what’s wrong with a bit of boredom every now and again? Yes, it can be a state of mind caused by a lack of stimulation that leaves us craving relief, but it’s also acknowledged that without boredom we couldn’t achieve our creative feats. It often gives us time to think, to explore and to rest awhile.
It’s the difference between being a Martha or a Mary… not that I’m suggesting that Mary was bored, having nothing to do… but the two women in our gospel are demonstrating the need to set aside time to simply be with God. It’s also not the case that we need to choose between being a Mary or a Martha, whether we should only be one or the other. Rather that it’s essential to be both. Like Martha we think that the important thing is doing, but Jesus teaches us through Mary’s example that we need to sit, to listen, to learn, to love.
For Mary and Martha, their friendship with Jesus meant that they would have been proud to have this popular man as a guest in their house, together with all of his entourage and followers, and Martha, as the principal hostess would have wanted to make sure that he was comfortable and that his needs were catered for. So she welcomed him into her home and went into the kitchen to prepare a meal for him.
However, her sister Mary did NOT go into the kitchen but instead ‘sat at Jesus feet’, and fair enough when you have guests you do not generally abandon them straight away and all disappear to do other things. But for Martha, it wasn’t okay that her presumably younger sister got to do nothing, while she had to organise and cater for so many.
Luke tells us that Martha ‘was distracted by her many tasks’ and I’m sure we all know how that feels, don’t we! The times when we’ve experience being ‘in over our heads’, when we’ve needed help, but didn’t know where to turn. The times perhaps when we’ve pitched up to help with something and end up doing everything, while others sit around chatting. So Martha’s anger at being abandoned in the kitchen was understandable, and the stress and anxiety spills over into calling out Mary in front of everyone. There was no subtle sidling up to Mary and saying, ‘Mary, I need some help’. instead she rebukes Jesus, her principle guest, whom she had acknowledged as ‘Lord’ and basically orders him to ‘Tell my lazy sister to get into the kitchen to give me a hand’ or words to that effect and meaning.
‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself?
Tell her then to help me.’
Now everyone is aware of the tension in the room, but we can still feel sympathy for Martha, and in some ways we want Jesus to appreciate and commend Martha for her hard work and suggest that they both go in there and give her a hand. However, Mary’s focus on her relationship with Jesus was also right and whereas Martha’s anger was disruptive, and Jesus acknowledges that she is ‘anxious and troubled about many things, he points out that Mary has chosen to the one thing that is needed
She had set aside time, in the busiest of situations to spend time with God. What we might call Sabbath rest, when we very deliberately take time to do nothing but make ourselves more aware of God with us. And don’t get confused, this is not just setting aside one day a week to abstain from work, because even that is no longer a day when we rest our minds and our bodies, instead filling it up with alternative tasks; but times, whether it’s a few hours or minutes that we switch off from the everyday normal.
This idea of taking time to step aside, is nothing new. From the very beginning we are given this example of Sabbath rest. After creating the heavens and earth, in whatever way or timescale you believe, God rested. It didn’t mean that God was tired and needed a rest, unlike most of us, because being omnipotent he never tires, but he simply stopped what he was doing, he ceased from his work. It was a message and example that he called the Israelites to follow when he handed down his commandments. They were to remember the Sabbath day and ‘keep it holy’. They were to lay down their work in order to spend time in worship and prayer.
For Jesus himself, there were times that he must have experienced the stress and anxiety caused by overwork. As more and more people came to seek him and listen to his teachings, so the time that he had to take that rest became more and more elusive. Still he recognised the importance of stepping aside if only for a short time. In Mark’s gospel we hear that ‘because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.’
Who hasn’t skipped a meal because of the workload we’re experiencing, but after resting, it’s so much easier to exit that secret place, go back into the world, and feel re-energized, focused, encouraged and strengthened to continue doing what we’re called to do.
So many mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression can be caused as the saying goes, by ‘too much work and not enough play. And not taking time out may make any existing mental health issues worse. And what’s even more alarming is that even primary school children are showing signs of mental health problems – including anxiety, panic attacks and depression –caused mainly by family problems, pressures of exams and social media, which lead to problems such as self-harming, eating disorders and OCD.
So, when we find ourselves in stressful situations such as a difficult phone call, a crowded train journey home or a looming deadline, we need to give ourselves time to pause and calm down. Imagine what Martha could have done. Instead of stomping into the living room and having a go at Jesus and Mary, she could have gone into her bedroom and closed the door. Martha could have prayed ‘God, I’m so angry. It would be so tempting to take out this anger on Jesus and Mary – but I know that would be wrong. Please drain this anger out of my heart. Help me to feel love for Jesus, my guest, and Mary, my sister.
Better still, Martha could have gone and joined her sister Mary at Jesus’ feet and listened to him speak and be in his presence for a while. Who would have worried that the meal was late when was it was Jesus that was with them
We are such busy people, and we live in such a busy world. It’s easy to miss the important things. The story of Martha and Mary tells us that there is value in sitting – in listening – in learning – in loving. Whether at home or work or school, take a moment to look around and find the blessings in your life. Take a moment to thank God for giving you another day to discover more. Sit at God’s feet for just a moment. Be quiet. Listen. Treasure the moment.
We all live in a Martha world, but take time to be Mary for just a bit. Jesus says that that’s the one thing that’s needed. He says that’s the good part that won’t be taken from us. Give it a try. You will find a blessing! You will find that Jesus was right.
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Amanda E. van Lamsweerde, Melissa R. Beck; Central attention is used to maintain feature bindings in visual working memory. Journal of Vision 2011;11(11):1288. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/11.11.1288.
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The importance of visuospatial attention in the formation of perceptual feature bindings has been well supported (Treisman & Gelade, 1980); however, the role of attention in the maintenance of feature bindings in visual working memory (VWM) has been the subject of more contention (Johnson, Hollingworth, & Luck, 2008; Wheeler & Treisman, 2002). Furthermore, there is some discrepancy between the role of visuospatial attention (Fougnie & Marois, 2009) and central attention (Allen, Baddeley, & Hitch, 2006) in feature binding maintenance. The current study examined whether central attention is required to maintain feature bindings in VWM by introducing an attentionally demanding verbal secondary task during the interstimulus interval of a change detection task. Shape and binding change detection performance were compared to each other when the attention load was high (verbal long-term memory retrieval), low (respond to a tone), or none (no secondary task). In Experiment 1, all attention conditions (high, low, and no load) were randomly intermixed, requiring participants to maintain complex task instructions during all trial types. Binding performance was lower than shape across all attention load conditions. Remembering the instructions may have resulted in a load sufficient to reduce binding performance in the no-attention load condition. Therefore, in Experiment 2, the no-attention load condition was blocked separately from the high- and low-attention load conditions. In this case, shape and binding performance were equal in the no-attention load condition, while binding performance was significantly lower than shape performance when there was a high attention load (retrieval). This suggests that the attentional requirements of both long-term verbal memory retrieval and remembering detailed instructions can disrupt feature bindings, and that central attention may be necessary to remember feature bindings under certain conditions.
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Learn more about Alice Water's Edible Schoolyard, an organic gardening and cooking after-school program in Berkeley, California.
Edible Schoolyard Organic Soup Recipe
Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School in Berkeley, California, is home to the Edible Schoolyard, a gardening and cooking program created by chef Alice Waters in 1995. In the one-acre organic garden and kitchen, inner city kids plant, tend, harvest, and cook—all the while becoming aware of their food and stewardship of the land.
School days: As part of their curriculum, sixth, seventh, and eighth graders alternate between working in the garden and kitchen so they experience the food cycle from seed to plate.
What’s growing: In the garden, kids witness the natural world’s wonders. They push wheelbarrows full of compost across the grounds. They weed rows of carrots. They cut, wash, and bundle chard. They gobble raspberries right off the bush.
What’s cooking: “I want children to know cooking is easy and rewarding, a pleasurable part of everyday life that brings them closer to people they care about,” says Esther Cook, Edible Schoolyard’s chef and kitchen teacher.
Student journal: Charlotte, a middle school student, writes: “In the last ten weeks, I’ve learned how the garden works. Now I wonder about everything: where it lives and why it’s here. I feel proud every time we cook a dish or plant a tree.”
Sourcebook: For Edible Schoolyard recipes or ideas for starting a school garden, visit EdibleSchoolyard.org.
Create Your Own School Garden
“The lunchroom is an extension of the classroom,” says Edible Schoolyard founder Alice Waters. By growing food, children appreciate the cycle of earth to table to waste, then back to earth. By cooking, they learn about healthy meals as an antidote to prepackaged junk food. And by sharing meals, they share their cultural backgrounds—even Grandma’s recipes. “The Edible Schoolyard opens kids’ minds to all kinds of new things to eat,” Waters says. “They can name every edible flower in the garden!”
Waters’s work has graduated to college level with the Sustainable Food Project. In a Yale University dining hall, students eat organic, unprocessed meals prepared with locally grown produce to help educate them about the importance of what they eat and its relationship to economics, agriculture, and the environment.
Waters offers the following tips to help start your own local school garden program:
• Create the program to fit your community. Your garden should reflect your school’s major ethnic groups, local foods, and the crops that flourish in the area.
• Involve professionals. Although you need lots of volunteers, both the kitchen and the garden should have a dedicated staff person such as a master gardener, beekeeper, or chef.
• Engage the senses. Plant peas and berries for tasty foraging, visually stunning flowers, scented roses, and species with different textured leaves. Buzzing bees will add sound.
• Designate a meeting place. The Edible Schoolyard uses a pile of hay bales for student gatherings, but a patio, cafeteria corner, or room near the garden will work. The space helps structure class time and provides a place for celebrations and sharing.
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National Hubs - Brazil
The Associação Brasileira de Organizações não Governamentais (ABONG) was the national lead agency for the Beyond 2015 National Hub in Brazil. Contact person: Alessandra Nilo.
Take a look here at ABONG's portal on Brazil's involvement in the final stretch of the post-2015 process.
Many activities were carried out by ABONG for Beyond 2015, both as lead agency and under the framework of Beyond 2015's Policy to Action Innovation Fund Project. Click here to read about ABONG's 'policy to action' activities.
- Civil society deliberations in São Paulo, Brasília, Salvador and Recife in 2013 with the participation of a broad group of various civil society organizations, networks, activists and social movements. More information available in the English and Portuguese reports of these deliberations.
- Meetings with government to discuss key policy issues arising from national CSO consultations - e.g. see here and here
Official request for the Government to establish a National Committee for the implementation of the post-2015 agenda
- Translation into Portuguese and dissemination of the outcome documents of the Open Working Group (OWG) on SDGs
- Publication of news and articles on Beyond 2015 on ABONG's website, and organisation of webinars on the post-2015 agenda with national CSOs. One of the meetings focused on the outcome document of the OWG, and in particular on goal 16 (peaceful and safe societies) and the threat of weak language on human rights. | <urn:uuid:a290b0e1-f0f4-409d-8cdc-292be1a374a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beyond2015.org/national-hubs-brazil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908384 | 317 | 1.664063 | 2 |
For me, running is therapy. Whenever I’m having an off day, I’m feeling down in the dumps, or I simply wish to clear my head, I break out the tennis shoes. Sometimes it takes a good hour on the treadmill, while at others a quick jog around the neighborhood does the trick. But there’s one routine that is always sure to relieve my ill feelings and catapult me into a better mood: surges of sprints.
Doing so makes me aware of my entire body, whilst giving me a break from the complicated vastness of my mind. I focus entirely on my breathing, my racing heart, and each rapid step forward. And then I welcome the many health benefits—both physical and mental—that follow.
Exercise in itself provides us with a multitude of welfares, from improving our mood, to reducing our risk of cancers and heart disease, to refining certain mental skills. But intense forms of exercise such as sprinting just might provide us with additional benefits that we’ve never considered before: a new study “High Intensity Exercise Boosts Memory” from McMaster University finds that high intensity interval training (HIIT) may improve our memory. More specifically, the researchers observed that six weeks of 20-minute HIIT workouts led to better high-interference memory.
According to the researchers, these findings, which are published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, are of significant importance because memory performance in the participants increased so quickly. Furthermore, this research comes at a time when mental and memory decline—characteristic of diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s—is so prevalent, and therefore, may assist us in dealing with this issue.
To reach these findings, 95 subjects were split into three different groups and then observed after six weeks: one group completed exercise training, another completed exercise and cognitive training, and the final completed no training (control group) over the course of these six weeks. The researchers found that both the exercise and combined training groups did, in fact, improve performance but the control group did not.
Additionally, the researchers measured aerobic fitness, memory, and neurotrophic factor, both before and after the study. This allowed them to make additional observations, such that the participants who saw greater fitness gains were rewarded with greater increases in a protein that sustains the growth and function of brain cells—brain-derived neurotrophic factor or BDNF. The team also received a deeper look into how exercise and cognitive training may change the brain to sustain and support cognition.
“Improvements in this type of memory from exercise might help to explain the previously established link between aerobic exercise and better academic performance,” said Jennifer Heisz, lead author of the study and an assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster. “At the other end of our lifespan, as we reach our senior years, we might expect to see even greater benefits in individuals with memory impairment brought on by conditions such as dementia,” she continued.
McMaster University (2017, November 22). High Intensity Exercise Boosts Memory. NeuroscienceNews. Retrieved November 22, 2017 from http://neurosciencenews.com/memory-high-intensity-exercise-8006/
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(readMedia) Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proclaimed September "Assisted Living Month" in recognition of the more than two million New Yorkers who will need some form of long-term care by 2015.
The National Census Bureau estimates by 2050 the number of Americans aged 65 and older will be 88.5 million - more than double the current population. In New York, the most rapid population growth in the last decade has occurred among the oldest and frailest population groups.
"Assisted Living Month presents a unique opportunity for all aging New Yorkers and their families to discuss their future long-term care needs and consider assisted living as a desirable option," said Lisa Newcomb, Empire State Association of Assisted Living executive director. "For those no longer able to live alone, licensed assisted living is a viable alternative, offering them not only assistance with daily living, but many occasions for socialization and activity. Furthermore, at less than one-half of the cost of a nursing home, assisted living is a safe, cost-effective community-based option."
New York has three types of licensed residences: adult homes, enriched housing programs and assisted living residences. While accommodations vary among residences, each offers a home-like atmosphere and is dedicated to preserving the dignity and independence of residents. Some residences are licensed to provide "age in place" programs, allowing seniors to remain in their current assisted living setting even as they begin to require more specialized care. One of these programs, the assisted living program, enables seniors to utilize Medicaid for assisted living expenses.
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MS 'benefits' from cancer pill30th April 2009
Research has shown that courses of a common cancer drug can dramatically reduce the risk of a patient with multiple sclerosis having a relapse or deterioration.
A UK study focusing on 1,300 patients found that taking cladribine a few times a year more than halved the chances of a relapse.
In addition, there were few side effects.
Manufacturer Merck Serono is hoping to seek licensing for the drug – currently licensed for treating leukaemia – for its extended use this year.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will consider including cladribine – which works by suppressing the immune system - in its next round of assessments.
Professor Giovannoni of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, said: "These results are really exciting. MS can be a very debilitating illness and at the moment treatment options remain limited.
"Having an effective oral therapy will have a major impact for people with MS.
"Our study shows that cladribine tablets prevent relapses and slow down the progression of the disease, making patients feel better."
He said the study will continue to follow the patients involved in the trial to monitor their longer term progress.
With 85,000 people in the UK currently having MS, with 2,500 new cases diagnosed each year, the MS Society said following such remarkable results it was now important to see "cladribine move smoothly through the regulatory process."
Dr Lee Dunster, head of research at the MS Society, said the price the manufacturer sets will play a crucial part in that.
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Pressure on Muslims in France, including Islamic organizations and civil society, has continued to mount in recent weeks since the government announced its fight against "Islamic separatism."
On Sept. 1, French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo republished blasphemous cartoons insulting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad ahead of the trial on the 2015 attacks on their offices.
Less than a month later, two people were injured in a knife attack near the former offices of Charlie Hebdo.
The attack on Sept. 25 was followed by French President Emmanuel Macron's controversial speech on Oct. 2, in which he announced plans to tackle "Islamic separatism" and restructure Islam in France.
The government in France immediately began operations against Islamic organizations and places of worship in the name of "fighting radicalism."
Pressure on Muslims in the country further increased after Samuel Patty, a French teacher who showed blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during class, was murdered on Oct. 16.
In their defense, Macron said France would "not give up our cartoons" after the brutal murder. His remarks sparked outrage in the Muslim world with many calling for a boycott of French products.
The provocative cartoons were also projected on some hotels and official buildings in the cities of Montpellier, Toulouse and Beziers.
Islamophobia in France
French police raided the homes of prominent Muslim figures after Samuel Paty's brutal murder.
Deportation orders were issued for 200 people and more than 50 Islamic associations and organizations are under investigation.
Some organizations, such as the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) and Barakacity were dissolved.
The government's steps appeared to have further stoked Islamophobia in French society.
On Oct. 18, two Muslim women of Algerian origin were stabbed near the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Two days later, in the city of Nimes, a woman allegedly suffering domestic violence from her husband called the police to report her Catholic husband as "a radical Islamist."
On Oct. 22, in the city of Angers, two Jordanian nationals were assaulted for speaking Arabic.
Students and mosques are targeted too
In the city of Blois, a 22-year-old Chechen national was detained for liking a photo of the French teacher's murder on social media.
Further south, a 14-year-old Afghan student was reported to Marseille police by his teacher for welcoming Paty's murder. Seven other similar complaints were reported in the same region.
Last week in Albertville, southeastern France, four elementary school children were "terrorized" and grilled during more than 11 hours in police detention over false allegations of "justifying terrorism."
A threatening message was sent to a mosque under the National Vision of the Islamic Society (CIMG) in Chateaudun, France, saying: "The war has begun, we will expel you from our country."
French politicians and Islamophobia
Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire accused some municipalities of "surrendering to the idea of 'political Islam'" for allowing private sessions for women in swimming pools.
Meanwhile, Interior Minister Geral Darmanin said that rejecting a doctor or teacher of the opposite sex would be fined under the new law against "Islamic separatism."
French feminist journalist Elisabeth Levy suggested Muslims wearing headscarves take off their hair coverings for a few days to honor the memory of the murdered teacher.
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Dogs, "man's best friend," do not have any of the kind of sinister superstitions that surround the cat, their domesticated companion and
To the Native American tribes, as well as to all aboriginal people throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas, the wolf was the great teacher, and the social structure of early humans was largely patterned after the examples set by their canine instructors. Although among the vast majority of mammals the care of the young is left solely to the mother, human tribes soon adopted the cooperative rearing strategy employed by the wolf, with both parents participating in the rearing process.
According to the legends of several Native American tribes, the first humans were created in the shape of wolves. At first these wolf people walked on all fours; then, slowly, began to develop more human characteristics until they became men and women.
Among the superstitions associated with the dog is the ancient belief that the howling of dogs portends death and calamities. This appears to be a relic of the time when humans made deities of animals, and as a deity, the dog was supposed to be able to foresee death and give warning of it by howling or barking. This superstition became perpetuated among the Egyptians, who depicted the god that presided over the embalming of the dead as Anubis, the jackal-headed deity. It was also Anubis's task to lead the spirits of the deceased to the hall of judgment.
Among many Native American tribes, it is the dog who awaits the spirit of the newly deceased on the Way of Departed Spirits and who accompanies the entity to the Land of the Grandparents. In addition to its role as a guide to the other side, a number of tribes associated the dog with the moon and the sun. Such an association with the moon may have stemmed from the dog's howling at the moon on shadowy nights. The connection with the sun may derive from the dog's habit of walking around in a small circle before it lies down. To early people, the making of such a circle was to create a symbol of the sun.
In ancient Persia, dogs were believed to be able to protect the dying soul from possession by evil spirits. When a person was dying, a dog was stationed by the bedside to keep away the negative spirits that hovered near newly released souls.
The Greeks believed that dogs had the ability to perceive the presence of Hecate, the goddess of darkness and terror. While this malign entity remained invisible to human eyes and was thus able to work her evil undetected, dogs were able to see her and warn their human companions by barking and growling at her unseen presence in darkened corners.
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This is more in the nature of a bleg than a post. I recently completed an abstract for a project I plan to work on this fall. I’d love to hear any comments from interested readers. My main idea is to try to build a law & economics more adequate to technology fields, but as you’ll see, I touch on a lot of topics on the way there. It builds on some ideas presented at this talk, so if you liked that idea, you’ll love this one (I hope!) More below the fold.
The Buying Power Externality:
Toward Legal Economic Acknowledgment of the
Diminishing Marginal Utility of Money
Economics is becoming increasingly relevant as it models competition and value-creation in specific realms of human experience. Just as the fields of chemistry, biology, and physics arose from “natural philosophy,” today the fields of information economics, labor economics, behavioral economics, and health economics are developing in response to shortcomings in conventional microeconomic theory. Two of the most important new challenges to conventional microeconomic theory are a) a growing recognition of the degree to which individual consumption decisions influence others’ capacity to consume and produce and b) the development of hermeneutical economics based less on quantification and measurement than on sophisticated interpretations of the meaning of economic exchanges for those affected by them.
Each of these developments in microeconomics should inform a law & economics that takes inequality seriously. Rapidly growing income and wealth inequality is the most important economic development of the past decade. Yet mainstream law & economics persists in ignoring how different economic reality appears to those on the top and bottom of the distributional ladder. Moreover, bland indifference to the distribution of wealth in a given society obscures the ways in which excess consumption can deplete resources generally. This is particularly true in the energy and housing sectors, where real scarcity often creates zero-sum games, and in the health and technology fields, where artificial scarcity (created by licensing restrictions and intellectual property laws) can generate similar auction dynamics.
In the field of natural resources, inelastic demand for gasoline among the wealthiest may exacerbate extant energy shortages. Compare the following situations:
A) Large luxury vehicles leave in their wake sticky particles that make all standard vehicles have to “work” much harder to travel (say the particles require as much effort to get past as, say, a 10% uphill grade in the road). The average driver of the cheaper vehicles has to buy twice as much gas in order to travel the same distance.
B) A luxury vehicle consumes five times as much gas as standard vehicles. The price of gas doubles due to the popularity of such vehicles.
Economists would have no problem identifying the particles in A) as an externality. But why not the extraordinary demand in B)? In both cases the drivers of standard vehicles are paying twice as much for gas because of the actions of the luxury car drivers (ceteris paribus). A classical response would be: the extra demand just shifts the demand curve out, and eventually suppliers will respond by bringing more fuel to market. But in the short and medium term, supply is relatively fixed: refineries are difficult to build, and oil exploration is a notoriously slow process. If their buying power is very high, the luxury car drivers will not be sensitive to the “signals to conserve” the market is sending via high prices, and may instead force those signals to become ever “louder” to those lacking their buying power. As food and fuel become increasingly interchangeable (alternative fuels like ethanol are often made of grains), Lester Brown’s worry about our “starving the people to feed the cars” becomes compelling.
The same “buying power” externality can occur wherever inelastic supply prevails. For example, in previous work on “boutique medicine,” I have examined how new patterns of health care financing can lead U.S. doctors to dump 50-75% of the patients at their practice, thereby focusing attention on the remaining clients (whose “retainers” more than make up for loss of revenue due to the culling). The Canadian Supreme Court’s recent Chaouilli decision took a major step toward enshrining such a business model as constitutional right in that country. In the intellectual property field, stronger legal protections and digital rights management systems can enable “high-margin, low-volume” business practices. In a world of relatively equal incomes, producers are more likely to aim at a price that maximizes the prevalence of their product. As incomes diverge, it makes more sense to aim one’s production at the “top.”
Having characterized “information overload” as an externality of copyrighted expression in prior work, I propose to model the negative effects of increasing income inequality as a “buying power externality” in this chapter. Awareness of such effects brings richness and complexity to a legal-economic discussion too frequently oblivious to the diminishing marginal utility of money. We cannot adequately account for the effects of excess fuel consumption by the relatively wealthy without understanding how a bidding up of prices affects the relatively poor. The costs and benefits of a developing class of “courtier-doctors” can’t be calculated absent an acknowledgment of the medical services effectively denied by this diversion of human resources.
Of course, mainstream economists may retort that any accounting of a “buying power externality” is chimerical, insisting that whatever cannot be measured cannot be counted. Both empirical and hermeneutic economic research programs provide responsive solutions. Empirically, we can measure the costs taken on by low-income consumers when they are displaced by richer ones. When a tycoon converts a 15-apartment building into his own personal residence, the ejected tenants’ moving costs, search costs, and additional transportation needs are easily quantified. Yet even in cases where such measurement is not so easily achieved, a hermeneutic law and economics may make a great contribution to our understanding of the ultimate effects of the legal system on human welfare. The cost of inequality cannot be assessed without a deeper understanding of the social meaning of increased buying power when its accruer uses it to outbid others for a fixed supply of resources.
As we better understand those costs, we can start to develop better law and policy for the “inelastic resources” mentioned above. Transportation, housing, health care, and intellectual property are pervasively regulated fields, and perhaps “inequality impact statements” should accompany rulemaking in them (just as “envirnomental impact statements” now govern projects with a major impact on the natural world). Compliance schemes based on “ability-to-pay” may also play a constructive role. The buying power externality should become an important feature of any legal economic effort to respond to growing inequality and the diminishing marginal utility of money that it accentuates. | <urn:uuid:310bad6b-2be6-41c2-b4a9-e49cabb62c5b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://madisonian.net/2007/01/22/a-buying-power-externality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00406-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944766 | 1,447 | 1.945313 | 2 |
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3.1 Descriptive Adjectives
Transcript of 3.1 Descriptive Adjectives
Adjectives are words that describe:
Adjectives that end in
have four different forms. The feminine singular is formed by changing the
. The plural is formed by adding
to the singular forms
Adjectives that end in
have the same masculine and feminine forms
In Spanish, descriptive adjectives are used with the verb
to point out characteristics such as:
Forms & Agreement
In English, the forms of descriptive adjectives do not change to reflect the gender and number of the noun they describe
In Spanish, the forms of descriptive adjectives agree in gender and/or number with the nouns or pronouns they describe.
. Elena es
. Ellos son
el chico inteligent
los chicos inteligent
la chica inteligent
las chicas inteligent
el examen difíci
los exámenes difíci
la clase difíci
las clases difíci
Adjectives that end in -
are variable in both gender and number
el hombre trabajad
los hombres trabajad
la mujer trabajad
las mujeres trabajad
Adjectives that end in -e, a consonant, & -or
Masculine plural form
Use the masculine plural form to refer to groups that include males and females
Dexter es pelirroj
Emma es pelirroj
Dexter y Emma son pelirroj
Adjectives of nationality
Unlike in English, Spanish adjectives of nationality are NOT capitalized. Proper names of countries ARE capitalized.
Adjectives of nationality are formed like other descriptive adjectives. Those that end in
when forming the feminine
The plural is formed by adding an
to the masculine of feminine form.
chino ----> chino
To form the feminine of adjectives of nationality that end in a consonant, add
Position of adjectives
Descriptive adjectives and adjectives of nationality generally follow the nouns they modify.
La mujer española.
El cantante rubio es de Australia.
Adjectives of Quantity
Unlike descriptive adjectives, adjectives of quantity precede the modified noun.
libros en la biblioteca.
There are many books in the library.
I am talking with two Cuban women.
Bueno, malo & grande
can appear before or after a noun. When placed before a masculine singular noun, the forms are shortened:
appears before a singular noun, it is shortened to
, and the meaning of the word changes:
gran = great grande = big, large
Jorge es un
Jorge es un amigo
Hoy es un
Hoy es un día
Enrique es un
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The delivery of high-speed broadband to Australia's business and consumers has turned into a race between the government-owned NBN Co and an upstart competitor, David Teoh's TPG.
The national broadband network (NBN) needs to corral the lucrative customers and keep them from being picked off by rivals, and the surest way to achieve this is to get to them first. But it's a complication the NBN doesn't need.
Since arriving at his desk two weeks ago, the new head of NBN Co, Bill Morrow, has been busy putting out dangerous spot fires and dousing the more dangerous execution and delivery bonfires that his predecessors had left unchecked.
The biggest issue to fix straight up is the fact that many of the homes or businesses that the NBN has passed cannot be connected or face long delays. This second group numbers more than 21,000 premises that have ''hold orders'' attached. Meanwhile about 94,000, or a third, of all the premises passed have not yet been able to get the service.
In previous years critics argued that consumers were not taking up the NBN service. It now seems they want it but many can't get it.
The issues the NBN has faced around contractors and construction have been well documented, and when Morrow fronts the public on Wednesday he will need to have a well articulated plan on how he can smooth the execution of this huge infrastructure project.
Morrow is a commercially savvy operator and there is no better way to put a construction project back on schedule than by using a commercial stick. In the first instance NBN Co plans to compensate its retail telecommunications customers though penalty payments if the service is not connected in the time agreed. Morrow's commercial instincts will also be to respond to competitive threats - such as the one from TPG.
Readers could be forgiven for wondering how the NBN wholesale monopoly could have a competitor. But TPG has found a regulatory loophole that allows it to offer its own fibre network directly to consumers. Indeed, there is nothing preventing other retail telcos from mimicking TPG's plans.
TPG's idea is to roll out its own fibre to a series of high-density/high-rise office and apartment blocks on the fringes of large CBDs.
It's called cherrypicking. An operator can run fibre to the basement of a building, thereby reaching all the commercial and residential tenants cost effectively. These are exactly the types of customers NBN Co cherishes as well. Its response is to race TPG down the street to get to these customers first.
At this point NBN Co has a couple of advantages: it's the first mover so has a head start; and it can offer each business or resident connection to the actual home or office, rather than just to the basement.
These connections provide the kind of revenue that NBN Co needs to make its business case and connecting these high-density buildings earlier will boost cash flows faster than concentrating on single dwellings or those with greater needs.
This won't divert resources from its existing schedule of rollouts, but it will amp up the pace of the overall project. Meanwhile it will be looking to Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to close the loophole or the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to regulate any cherrypickers' pricing.
NBN Co argues that a building that signs up to the TPG service runs the risk of being able to get its telco service only from TPG; while a building served by NBN Co can access any number of retail service providers.
Against the backdrop of these enormous issues, the NBN has to recut its commercial deal with Telstra.
Under the previous government the NBN fibre was to run all the way to the home. Under the Coalition's cheaper NBN the last leg of the service will be carried by Telstra's copper-wire network.
NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski is suggesting the NBN would prefer to own the copper. He told the ABC last week: ''I think those negotiations should lead to a situation where the copper network, the ownership, is transferred into NBN … and then we get to invest in it, provide infill where it's needed, upgrade progressively over time so those consumer needs for ever-higher bandwidth - which we know are going to grow spectacularly - can be met by those networks.'' | <urn:uuid:16bf650a-91cf-46c6-b164-3945eb0d7577> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theage.com.au/business/tpg-gives-nbn-co-some-good-reasons-to-pick-up-the-pace-20140415-36pss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00288-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966089 | 872 | 1.570313 | 2 |
So, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 has been announced. To much surprise of many (including the author), it was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” Well deserved Nobel Prize for a fantastic discovery.
What is this Nobel prize all about? Some years ago (circa 1997) there were a couple of “deficit” problems in physics. First, it appeared that the detected number of (electron) neutrinos coming form the Sun was measured to be less than expected. This could be explained in a number of ways. First, neutrino could oscillate — that is, neutrinos produced as electron neutrinos in nuclear reactions in the Sun could turn into muon or tau neutrinos and thus not be detected by existing experiments, which were sensitive to electron neutrinos. This was the most exciting possibility that ultimately turned out to be correct! But it was by far not the only one! For example, one could say that the Standard Solar Model (SSM) predicted the fluxes wrong — after all, the flux of solar neutrinos is proportional to core temperature to a very high power (~T25 for 8B neutrinos, for example). So it is reasonable to say that neutrino flux is not so well known because the temperature is not well measured (this might be disputed by solar physicists). Or something more exotic could happen — like the fact that neutrinos could have large magnetic moment and thus change its helicity while propagating in the Sun to turn into a right-handed neutrino that is sterile.
The solution to this is rather ingenious — measure neutrino flux in two ways — sensitive to neutrino flavor (using “charged current (CC) interactions”) and insensitive to neutrino flavor (using “neutral current (NC) interactions”)! Choosing heavy water — which contains deuterium — is then ideal for this detection. This is exactly what SNO collaboration, led by A. McDonald did
As it turned out, the NC flux was exactly what SSM predicted, while the CC flux was smaller. Hence the conclusion that electron neutrinos would oscillate into other types of neutrinos!
Another “deficit problem” was associated with the ratio of “atmospheric” muon and electron neutrinos. Cosmic rays hit Earth’s atmosphere and create pions that subsequently decay into muons and muon neutrinos. Muons would also eventually decay, mainly into an electron, muon (anti)neutrino and an electron neutrino, as
As can be seen from the above figure, one would expect to have 2 muon-flavored neutrinos per one electron-flavored one.
This is not what Super K experiment (T. Kajita) saw — the ratio really changed with angle — that is, the ratio of neutrino fluxes from above would differ substantially from the ratio from below (this would describe neutrinos that went through the Earth and then got into the detector). The solution was again neutrino oscillations – this time, muon neutrinos oscillated into the tau ones.
The presence of neutrino oscillations imply that they have (tiny) masses — something that is not predicted by minimal Standard Model. So one can say that this is the first indication of physics beyond the Standard Model. And this is very exciting.
I think it is interesting to note that this Nobel prize might help the situation with funding of US particle physics research (if anything can help…). It shows that physics has not ended with the discovery of the Higgs boson — and Fermilab might be on the right track to uncover other secrets of the Universe. | <urn:uuid:2d79448a-a191-4744-b38e-0cb65b238cbd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.quantumdiaries.org/2015/10/06/nobel-prize-in-physics-2015/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00157-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955987 | 805 | 2.84375 | 3 |
With Blessings of Haridas Ji
epublic Day honors the date on which the Constitution of India came into force on 26 January 1950 replacing the Government of India Act (1935) as the governing document of India. The Constitution was adopted by the Indian Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949, and came into effect on 26 January 1950 with a democratic … Continue reading Republic Day- Thursday on 26th January
Makar Sankranti is four days festivity period which is dedicated to Lord Sun. All rituals during Makar Sankranti are gestures of thanksgiving to natural resources which make life possible on the Earth. The Sun God is worshipped for bestowing good harvest and nurturing livestock. The cattle especially bulls and oxen are worshipped for their significance … Continue reading Makar Sankranti – Saturday, on 14th January
Lohri marks the culmination of winter,and is celebrated on the 13th day of January in the month of Paush or Magh, a day before Makar Sankranti. For Punjabis, this is more than just a festival, it is also an example of a way of life. Lohri celebrates fertility and the spark of life. People gather … Continue reading Lohri – friday, on 13 January. | <urn:uuid:2a38b3d3-b029-4eea-82b9-6268b783980f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.adhyatmtv.com/category/festival/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945847 | 261 | 2.15625 | 2 |
TIP! A lot of people don’t have a clue about plumbing, and will pay a plumber whatever he charges. If you own your own home, you should at least learn enough about plumbing to understand how plumbing problems should be handled by a professional.
It can be difficult to learn about plumbing, but like many other complex topics, it is something that is easy to teach, research, and learn. Now that you have found this list of tips, hopefully you will feel a little more informed when it comes to plumbing. Then you can refine your methods and become a great plumber.
TIP! Schedule your plumbing jobs all together. Do not call a plumber for minor issues.
If you want to go green try purchasing a water heater that is tankless. They work differently than conventional water heaters because they don’t store water and heat the water only as it is needed. This will save money as only water that is needed is being heated, not additional reserves that sit unused in a tank.
TIP! The clean out plug can sometimes be difficult to remove, and if you are having problems, there are two approaches to fixing this problem You can loosen the fitting around the plug using a hammer and chisel. The only other thing you can do is chisel through it.
Locate the main water shut-off for your property before you start any DIY plumbing projects. It is likely very close to your water meter. Many fixtures, such as sinks or toilets, will have their own valves to shut off the water to them. Show each family member the location of the valves, and mark them so people can turn them off in an emergency.
TIP! By installing shower heads that are more efficient, you will be able to save a lot of money. Most of our hot water is used in the shower.
Use enzyme based cleaners when cleaning clogged pipes. These cleaners use natural bacteria to turn the sludge into a liquid, and remove it from your pipes. The enzyme cleaners are the best on the market.
TIP! Use filters on all drains to prevent debris that might clog the pipes from getting through. Thoroughly clean the strainer on a regular basis.
Be sure that the overflow holes are free of debris. You may not even notice the overflow holes on your sink, but if you have a major water leak you will soon regret your apathy. When you do periodic checks for any other problems or repairs that are needed, take the time to clear the holes that are there to protect you from overflow.
TIP! Stop cleaning a persistent clog with harsh drain cleaners. Drain cleaners contain very corrosive chemicals that can damage pipes if used too frequently.
To keep your pipes from clogging, clean them on a regular basis using tools or chemicals. Toilet drains and pipes that flow outside are especially prone to getting blocked by roots, so it is critical to take the time to clean those out.
TIP! Choose drain cleaners wisely. Some of them contain strong chemical agents that will damage your pipes.
You should teach every member of your household how to turn off the water in an emergency. You need everybody to understand how to keep water from overflowing to your floor and causing damage. They can help you shut off the water, and stop the flow if they have already been taught how to do it.
TIP! The best time to tune your hot water heater is before winter comes. Making sure that there aren’t any problems with your water heater could end up saving you some big bucks and a whole lot of cleanup should something bad happen.
When the task you’re working on is outdoors, make sure to not overexpose yourself to the sun. If you get caught up in your activities, the sun’s rays and heat are easy to slip your mind, but that doesn’t mean they get less dangerous.
TIP! If you see water pooling under your water heater, turn the water off using the shut-off valves. If you don’t, a small leak can turn into a much larger leak, making it harder to shut off.
This isn’t as horrible as you expected, is it? Like most subjects, plumbing has a lot of information available to learn from. You might just need an idea about where you can start out on your path! With any luck, you got that from the tips above. | <urn:uuid:3544ba28-6e60-438b-bafa-8b247313c5d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aberia.us/simple-steps-on-how-to-do-plumbing-right-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.957606 | 915 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Were they just told in training what they were required to do or were they required to demonstrate proficiency at the task? Is this a task that they perform frequently or is there a significant amount of time between the times the either repeat the task or are trained on the task and then required to execute the task? If the task is performed frequently, how often is their on-the-job performance of the task evaluated, either formally or informally? If the task is performed infrequently, do employees have a written checklist to follow in the execution of the task?Of course the question of how well the investigation is done will be determined in large part by how political the investigation becomes. The more it becomes about finding and punishing the person responsible that correcting the problem the less likely it will be that the real root cause of the problem will be found.
Experts compete to find Ukraine grid hack 'smoking gun'
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I have been thinking about using blockchain for content ownership verification for some time. I came up with this idea that may be a useful service or a platform if implemented. Let’s visit a use case that this platform or service will be able to serve.
A user or author decides to create a useful diagram or an image to use in an article that he will be publish in his favorite social platform, in this case LinkedIn. If LinkedIn participates in the content ownership verification service, then when the author is uploading the diagram the first time, it will detect it as a content type that needs to be verified. Then LinkedIn will check with the decentralized content ownership blockchain. Because this diagram is being built from scratch by the author for the first time, the blockchain will respond that this is not a pre-existing content and hence will allow it to register the content permanently for future verifications with this user as the owner of this content. Then LinkedIn will ultimately publish the article along with the diagram.
Now the author wants to use his other favorite participating platform Twitter to broadcast this article. When the author is int he process of generating the tweet, Twitter platform will again check the blockchain to see if the diagram or image in this article is pre-existing or not. This time the blockchain will reply its pre-existing along with the ownership details and permissions / authorization rules for the usage of this content. Now Twitter will verify if the author of this tweet and the author of the diagram points to the same author or someone who is licensed to use the content digitally. If yes, twitter will allow to publish the tweet, otherwise will reject it.
So the advantage is that any participating service or site or entity that registers with this content ownership platform / blockchain will be able to deliver only authorized and legal content without ever breaking copyright of any sort. I envision that in future this will be true not only for social platforms or web sites but be true for any kind of services we use everyday. Here are some examples –
- you won’t be able to upload a video in youtube with an image that you are not licensed to use in your video
- you won’t be able to run an MP3 audio song in your car’s player if the song has not been purchased from a participating service
- you won’t be able to use a video in your blog that you didn’t ask for permission from the original author
- you won’t be able to share an article or tag a photo of a friend in your own facebook wall without prior approval from the original author
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How large the US national debt actually is, using the well-known $100 bill.
One million dollars
100 million dollars
One billion dollars
One trillion dollars
Please note that this is composed of two floors of pallets, for $ 100 million each. Football field and 747-400 for comparison.
15 trillion dollars. This is almost the US debt now.
Near is The Statue of Liberty for comparison.
And here are 114.5 trillion dollars. This is US unfunded liabilities. The 114.5 Trillion dollar super-skyscraper is the amount of money the U.S. Government knows it does not have to fully fund the Medicare, Medicare Prescription Drug Program, Social Security, Military and civil servant pensions. | <urn:uuid:900a4e5a-088a-4790-b3ef-ca43f415fa79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barnorama.com/representation-of-us-debt-with-100-bills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.897588 | 161 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The usual technique for building GCC cross-compilers is to:
build a bootstrap compiler (--without-headers --enable-languages=c) that will only be used to build the C runtime library.
use the bootstrap compiler to build the C runtime library.
rebuild the final compiler, including internal libraries that need the target-specific C runtime library in order to be compiled properly.
Unfortunately, this technique cannot be applied building a cross-compiler for Cygwin, not least due to the use of C++ code in winsup/.
The simplest method of escaping from this chicken-and-egg situation is to make the Cygwin headers and libraries available at the time of building the cross-compiler, by installing them from the Cygwin binary packages containing those headers and libraries.
Headers and libraries from the following packages are required:
cygwin (needed for building libgcc)
win32api (needed for building libgcc)
iconv (needed for building libstdc++)
user@crosshost ~/cygwin/src $ wget $YOUR_MIRROR/release/cygwin/cygwin-1.7.7-1.tar.bz2 user@crosshost ~/cygwin/src $ wget $YOUR_MIRROR/release/w32api/w32api-3.15-1.tar.bz2 user@crosshost ~/cygwin/src $ wget $YOUR_MIRROR/release/libiconv/libiconv-1.13-10.tar.bz2 user@crosshost ~/cygwin/src $ cd ~/cygwin user@crosshost ~/cygwin $ tar xjf src/cygwin-1.7.7-1.tar.bz2 usr/include usr/lib user@crosshost ~/cygwin $ tar xjf src/w32api-3.15-1.tar.bz2 usr/include usr/lib user@crosshost ~/cygwin $ tar xjf src/libiconv-1.13-10.tar.bz2 usr/include usr/lib user@crosshost ~/cygwin $ ln -s ../usr/include/ i686-pc-cygwin/include user@crosshost ~/cygwin $ ln -s ../usr/lib/ i686-pc-cygwin/lib
Alternatively, these headers and libraries can be obtained by copying the contents of the /usr/lib directory and /usr/include directory of a Cygwin host, to the ~/cygwin/i686-pc-cygwin directory on your build host. Ensure the method you use to copy these files preserves symlinks. | <urn:uuid:762c3941-804f-4f97-a52f-508a784b7830> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/cross-obtaining-cygwin-headers-and-libs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721387.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00448-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.679959 | 602 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Breeds Sheep Livestock Agriculture and Forestry
Sites about specific breeds of sheep and for breeder sites.
Top: Business: Agriculture and Forestry: Livestock: Sheep: Breeds
- Sheep Breeders Online Directory - Welcome to our U.S. sheep breeders directory. Add livestock your free listing today.
- Canadian Co-operative Woolgrowers Online Catalogue - Sheep breeders in Canada, in an easy-to-find list.
- Breeds of Livestock - Sheep Breeds, Ovis aries - Excellent resource describing breeds of sheep ranging from common dairy, mutton, and fiber breeds to minor and very rare breeds. Presented by Oklahoma State University as one section of the "Breeds of Livestock" Project. This is an ongoing proje
- Nolana Network - Encouraging co-operation between breeders of non-wooled and hair livestock sheep.
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Last time, I disproved the notion of HaShem implementing kashrut because it's good for the body. This time, I look into whether kashurt was implemented for a "healthy soul." This is a notion that was described by Abarbanel (Sidrah Mishpatim, sec. 73). Describing the prohibition of eating insects, he says "[f]or this reason the Almighty used the phrase, 'Do not revolt your souls with all the vermin...' rather than terming them poisonous or harmful. They were rather unclean and abominating, indicating the spiritual rather than the physical source of their prohibition." This viewpoint was [and still is] predominantly taken on by Kabbalists, and more recently, the Chassidic movement.
From this standpoint, "the digestive system extracts the nutrients while the neshama, the soul, extracts the G-dly spark in nature...The Divine energy in every molecule of food is what actually gives us life. Kosher food has a powerful energy that imparts spiritual, intellectual, and emotional strength to the Jewish neshama. The 'sparks in non-kosher food, on the other hand, are rooted in an unholy spiritual source. That is why non-kosher food has such an insidious effect [own emphasis added]." These are the words of Tzivia Emmer, writing on behalf of the Lubavitch Women's Organization. This mindset is typical amongst Jewish mystics, most notably the Chassids.
I take two issues with this mindset. The first is the state of non-kosher food. The Zohar takes the position that some animals inherently come from the side of holiness and others from the side of contamination [of the soul], which would mean that kosher food is bad for everyone's soul, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. But that is not the conclusion of most Chassids. As a matter of fact, this only applies to Jewish souls (Tanya, Ch. 1). To put Jewish souls on a different plane than a non-Jewish soul is nothing short of spiritual elitism, which is patently un-Jewish. The Talmud (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5) states that the world began with Adam so nobody could say "my ancestor is better than yours." In addition, HaShem breathed life [i.e., a neshama] into the nostrils of Adam (Genesis 2:7), who, incidentally, was not Jewish. Plus, both the Jew and the non-Jew have a share in the World to Come (Tosefta Sanhedrin 13:2). Both the Torah and Talmud mention humanity's common ancestry to remind us of our commonalities. This is not to say that Jewishness or the particularities of Jewish nationality and identity are not important. I will actually discuss that in my next blog.
Even if, for whatever reason, they were right about non-kosher food contaminating the Jewish soul, is that really the case? Does eating kosher food make a "more kosher human being?" I know non-observant Jews who I would properly categorize as "mensch," and have come across observant Jews who are anything but compassionate or understanding. Saying that eating kosher food inherently makes you a better human being is patently false, and R. Samuel Hirsch confirms that notion: "The observance of the dietary laws does not make a man holy; however it makes him more receptive to the ennobling influences of the spirit. One has not achieved holiness simply by observing the dietary laws, but one can then achieve it more easily."
While following HaShem's precepts are of utmost importance in Traditional Judaism, eating kosher does not "guarantee a spot in Heaven." Keeping kosher is only but a portion of Judaism. Ritual is important in Judaism, but it ignores ethics, the very gift the Jewish people gave to the rest of the world. It's not coincidence that the first question that HaShem will ask upon arriving to the gates of Heaven is not "Did you keep kosher?" but rather "Were you fair in your business dealings?" (Shabbat 31a)
From a Jewish perspective, kashrut is indeed important, but we still have yet determined why. I would like to analyze kashrut from a moralistic (i.e., does kashrut refine human beings?) standpoint, but first, it is prudent to do some analytical work from a nationalistic perspective. | <urn:uuid:be40b670-af56-4269-be5b-1b18bc0c19b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://libertarianjew.blogspot.com/2009/12/is-kosher-food-soul-food.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00148-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955918 | 934 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Kuala Lumpur: There is a “high possibility” that aircraft debris reportedly found off the coast of Mozambique came from a Boeing 777, Malaysia’s transport minister said today, the same aircraft model as missing flight MH370.
“Based an early reports, high possibility debris found in Mozambique belongs to a B777,” Liow Tiong Lai said on his Twitter feed.
The US television network NBC reported shortly before Liow’s comments that a piece of debris had been found along the eastern African coast between Mozambique and Madagascar.
NBC cited US, Malaysian and Australian investigators who had seen photos of the object, which the network said could be a horizontal stabiliser from a Boeing 777.
Liow said Malaysia was working with Australia — which is coordinating an Indian Ocean search for the ill-fated jumbo jet — to retrieve the debris for closer study.
He stressed the origin of the item was “yet to be confirmed and verified”.
“I urge everyone to avoid undue speculation as we are not able to conclude that the debris belongs to MH370 at this time,” the transport minister said.
The find comes just days before the March 8 two-year anniversary of the plane’s mysterious 2014 disappearance.
The aircraft diverted for unknown reasons while on a routine overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard.
Investigators believe the plane rerouted to the southern Indian Ocean, where it crashed.
No crash site has been found.
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The green screen in the Media Studio can be used when you want to replace your background in post-production. This article will go over the best way to light the green screen and ensure your post-production background looks its best.
Basic Recommended Setup
- The overhead lights are a different color temperature than the studio lights, and you cannot adjust their placement or brightness. You should turn them off before recording to achieve the best possible lighting for your shot.
- The left and right front lights (LF and RF) light the green screen background. Turn on all three switches of the LF Light and RF Light.
- The left and right rear lights (LR and RR) light your subject. Turn on three switches on the RR Light and two switches on LR Light. The RR Light acts as the key light, or main source of light on your subject, while the LR Light acts as the fill light, which is a supplementary light used to lighten shadows.
- Position the subject at or in front of Subject Line, centered in the shot. This will reduce the amount of shadow created on the green screen. The more shadow, the harder it is to key out the background when editing.
- Record your subject.
You may adjust the lights' placement, height, and brightness as you see fit. This is just a recommended setup for those unfamiliar with video production.
Interactive Presentation on Green Screen Usage
Use this interactive presentation to test your knowledge.
To make the presentation full screen, click the dual arrow icon in the lower right-hand corner.
Keying Your Clip in Editing Software (Adding a Custom Background)
After you’ve imported your footage into your editing program of choice follow these directions to replace the green screen:
Virtual News Set for Green Screen Footage
This virtual news set is available for students taking courses on multimedia reporting. Access to the Media Server is required. Contact Jessica Weaver-Kenney for more information.
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In vitro import assays have shown that the thylakoid twin-arginine translocase (Tat) system transports folded proteins in a unidirectional manner. Here, we expressed a natural substrate, pre-23K, and a 23K presequence–green fluorescent protein (GFP) chimera in vivo in tobacco protoplasts. Both are imported into chloroplasts, targeted to the thylakoids, and processed to the mature size by the lumen-facing processing peptidase. However, the vast majority of mature GFP and about half of the 23K are then returned to the stroma. Mutations in the twin-arginine motif block thylakoid targeting and maturation, confirming an involvement of the Tat apparatus. Mutation of the processing site yields membrane-associated intermediate-size protein in vivo, indicating a delayed reversal of translocation to the stroma and suggesting a longer lived interaction with the Tat machinery. We conclude that, in vivo, the Tat system can reject substrates at a late stage in translocation and on a very large scale, indicating the influence of factors that are absent in reconstitution assays. | <urn:uuid:1c63d58b-d8fc-42bc-a66c-a1a3c60cff4b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/8bfcd77ed03bc52c44c91e1b2a092f30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00033-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890455 | 241 | 1.546875 | 2 |
MATH 3000 The Real World Seminar (1 Credit)
Lectures by alumni and others on surviving culture shock when leaving the University and entering the job world. Open to all students regardless of major. Cross listed with COMP 3000.
MATH 3010 History of Mathematics (4 Credits)
This course surveys major mathematical developments beginning with ancient Egyptians and Greeks and tracing the development through Hindu-Indian mathematics, Arabic mathematics, and European mathematics up to the 18th century. Prerequisite: MATH 1953 or MATH 1963.
MATH 3040 Lattices and Order (4 Credits)
Ordered sets, lattices as relational and as algebraic structures, ideals and filters, complete lattices, distributive and modular lattices, Boolean algebras, duality for finite distributive lattices. Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 3050 Set Theory (4 Credits)
Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms, axiom of choice, Zorn's Lemma, ordinals, cardinals, cardinal arithmetic. Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 3060 Mathematical Logic (4 Credits)
Classical propositional calculus (deductive systems and truth-table semantics), first-order logic (axiomatization and completeness), elements of recursion theory, introduction to nonclassical logics. Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 3090 Mathematical Probability (4 Credits)
MATH 3151 Advanced Linear Algebra (4 Credits)
MATH 3161 Introduction to Real Analysis (4 Credits)
A theoretical introduction to the structure of real numbers, to convergence of sequences and series, and to the topology of the real line, including limits and continuity. Prerequisites: MATH 2080 and MATH 2200.
MATH 3162 Introduction to Real Analysis II (4 Credits)
A rigorous introduction to the analysis of functions of a real variable, including differentiation, Riemann integration, and the notions of pointwise and uniform convergence for sequences of functions. Prerequisite: MATH 3161.
MATH 3166 Group Theory (4 Credits)
Groups and homomorphisms, isomorphism theorems, symmetric groups and G-sets, the Sylow theorems, normal series, fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups. Cross listed with MATH 4166. Prerequisite: MATH 3170.
MATH 3170 Introduction to Abstract Algebra (4 Credits)
Examples of groups, permutations, subgroups, cosets, Lagrange theorem, normal subgroups, factor groups, homomorphisms, isomorphisms, rings, integral domains, quaternions, rings of polynomials, Euclid algorithm, ideals, factor rings, maximal ideals, principal ideals, fields, construction of finite fields. Prerequisite: MATH 2060 and MATH 2200.
MATH 3260 Metric Spaces (4 Credits)
Metric spaces and continuous functions; completeness and compactness; examples including norm spaces; pointwise and uniform convergence; Baire Category Theorem. Cross listed with MATH 4260. Prerequisite: MATH 3161 or equivalent.
MATH 3311 Linear Programming (4 Credits)
Linear optimization models, simplex algorithm, sensitivity analysis and duality, network models, dynamic programming, applications to physical, social and management sciences. Prerequisite: MATH 2060.
MATH 3312 Markov Chains (4 Credits)
MATH 3400 Introduction to Geometry (4 Credits)
Specific geometrical systems including finite, Euclidean, non-Euclidean and projective geometries. Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 3451 Chaos, Dynamics & Fractals (4 Credits)
Introduction to one-dimensional dynamical systems, fractals; fixed and periodic points; sources and sinks; period doubling and tangent node bifurcations; chaotic dynamical systems; Sarkovskii's Theorem. Prerequisite: MATH 3161.
MATH 3550 Introduction to Theory of Numbers (4 Credits)
Concepts of nonanalytic number theory and its history; prime numbers, divisibility, continued fractions, modular arithmetic, Diophantine equations and unsolved conjectures. Prerequisites: MATH 2200.
MATH 3651 Ordinary Differential Equations (4 Credits)
Modeling of phenomena by ordinary differential equations; techniques of analysis and solution of such equations; oscillation theory and boundary value problems, power series methods, special functions, Laplace transforms and difference equations. Prerequisites: MATH 2060 and MATH 2070.
MATH 3661 Partial Differential Equations (4 Credits)
First and second order linear equations, Fourier series, the wave equation, the Cauchy problem, the heat equation, maximum principles, Laplace's equation, Green's functions. Prerequisites: MATH 2070 and MATH 2080.
MATH 3701 Combinatorics (4 Credits)
The principle of inclusion and exclusion, elementary counting techniques, systems of distinct representatives, partitions, recursion and generating functions, Latin squares, designs and projective planes. Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 3705 Topics in Mathematics (4 Credits)
Varying selected advanced topics in mathematics, depending on student demand and instructor interest.
MATH 3710 Graph Theory (4 Credits)
Paths, cycles, trees, Euler tours and Hamilton cycles, bipartite graphs, matchings, basic connectivity theorems, planar graphs, Kuratowski's theorem, chromatic number, n-color theorems, introduction to Ramsey theory. Prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 3720 Coding Theory (4 Credits)
Goals of coding theory and information theory, instantaneous and Huffman codes, Shannon theorems, block and linear codes, generating and parity-check matrices, Hamming codes, perfect codes, binary Golay code, Reed-Muller codes, cyclic codes, BCH codes, Reed-Solomon codes, ideas of convolutional and turbo codes. Prerequisite: MATH 3170.
MATH 3851 Functions Complex Variable (4 Credits)
MATH 3991 Independent Study (1-10 Credits)
Cannot be arranged for any course that appears in regular course schedule for that particular year.
MATH 3992 Directed Study (1-10 Credits)
MATH 4050 Combinatorial Set Theory (4 Credits)
Beginning with a quick review of ZFC, the standard axioms of set theory, the course covers advanced ordinal and cardinal arithmetic and infinitary combinatorics, including Ramsey theory. Additional axioms such as the Continuum Hypothesis, Martin's Axiom, and combinatorial principles such as Diamond and their consequences for mathematics are studied. Prerequisite: MATH 3050.
MATH 4060 Descriptive Set Theory (4 Credits)
Descriptive Set Theory is one of the main branches of modern set theory. Set theory provides techniques for the precise study of real analysis. This course covers trees as tools for analyzing sets of real numbers, Polish spaces, the Borel hierarchy, Baire-measurability, extensions of continuous functions, separation theorems, and more. Prerequisite: MATH 3050.
MATH 4070 Proof Theory (4 Credits)
Hilbert-style systems, Natural deduction, (simply typed) lambda calculus, combinatory logic, the Curry-Howard correspondence, normalization, cartesian cloased categories, Sequent calculi, cut elimination and applications, structural rules; logical systems: classical, intuitionistic, relevance, linear; algebraic semantics. Recommended prerequisite: MATH 2200.
MATH 4080 Algebraic Logic (4 Credits)
Elements of universal algebra, lattice theory and first-order logic; elements of abstract algebraic logic (deductive systems, algebraization, deduction filters, deduction theorems, matrix semantics); sequent calculi for substructural logics, residuated lattices, structure theory for congruences and deductive filters; subvariety lattices (atomic varieties, axiomatizations of joins, translations); algebraic cut elimination; (un)decidability and finite model property. Prerequisites: MATH 3170 and either MATH 3040 or MATH 3060.
MATH 4110 Topology (4 Credits)
Point set topology including topological spaces, connectedness, compactness and separate axioms; preparation for advanced courses in analysis. Cross listed with MATH 3110.
MATH 4120 Algebraic Topology (4 Credits)
MATH 4162 Rings and Modules (4 Credits)
Ideals, left and right R-modules, simple modules, totally decomposable modules, Wedderburn-Artin theorems, Artinian and Noetherian rings and modules, Hopkins theorem, Hilbert basis theorem, free modules, projective and injective modules, Kaplanski theorem. Prerequisites: MATH 3176 or MATH 4176.
MATH 4163 Universal Algebra (4 Credits)
Universal algebras, congruences, lattices, distributive lattices, modular lattices, Boolean algebras, subdirectly irreducible algebras, Mal'cev theorems, varieties, Birkhoff theorem. Prerequisites: MATH 3170 and either MATH 3040 or MATH 3060.
MATH 4164 Galois Theory (4 Credits)
The fundamental theorem of algebra, field extensions, ruler and compass constructions, normal and separable extensions, field automorphisms, Galois correspondence, solvability and simplicity, calculating Galois groups. Prerequisite: MATH 3176/MATH 4176 and MATH 3166/MATH 4166.
MATH 4165 Introduction to Real Analysis II (4 Credits)
A rigorous introduction to the analysis of functions of a real variable, including differentiation, Riemann integration, and the notions of pointwise and uniform convergence for sequences of functions. Prerequisites: MATH 3161.
MATH 4166 Group Theory (4 Credits)
Groups and homomorphisms, isomorphism theorems, symmetric groups and G-sets, the Sylow theorems, normal series, fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups. Cross listed with MATH 3166. Prerequisite: MATH 3170.
MATH 4168 Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (4 Credits)
Lie groups and Lie algebras, fundamental theorems of Lie, general structure theory; compact, nilpotent, solvable, semisimple Lie groups; classification of semisimple Lie algebras; representation theory of compact and semisimple Lie algebras and Lie groups. Additional topics as time permits: universal enveloping algebras, symmetric spaces. Prerequisites: MATH 3161 and MATH 3170.
MATH 4176 Rings and Fields (4 Credits)
Rings, domains, fields; ideals, quotient rings, polynomials; PIDs, UFDs, Euclidean domains; maximal and prime ideals, chain conditions; extensions of fields, splitting fields, algebraic and transcendental extensions; brief introduction to Galois theory. Cross listed with MATH 3176. Prerequisite: MATH 3170 or equivalent.
MATH 4181 Loop Theory (4 Credits)
Quasigroups, loops, latin squares, 3-nets, isotopy, multiplication groups, inner mapping groups, nuclei, commutant, center, associator subloop, inverse properties, power-associative loops, Bruck loops, Bol loops, Moufang loops, octonions. Prerequisites: MATH 3166 or MATH 4166.
MATH 4260 Metric Spaces (4 Credits)
Metric spaces and continuous functions; completeness and compactness; examples including norm spaces; pointwise and uniform convergence; Baire Category Theorem. Cross listed with MATH 3260. Prerequisite: MATH 3161 or equivalent.
MATH 4270 Hilbert Spaces (4 Credits)
Schwarz and triangle inequalities, Reisz lemma, subspaces and othogonal projections, orthonormal bases, spectrum of bounded linear operators, compact, self-adjoint, normal and unitary operators, spectral theorem and, if time permits, unbounded operators. Also, if time permits, applications to partial differential equations, physics and engineering. Prerequisites: MATH 3260 or MATH 4260 or MATH 3110 or MATH 4110.
MATH 4280 Measure Theory and Applications (4 Credits)
MATH 4290 Dynamical Systems (4 Credits)
MATH 4300 Graduate Seminar (1-4 Credits)
Students research a topic of their choosing with the aid of a faculty member, and then prepare and present a formal lecture on the subject. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of the instructor.
MATH 4400 Differential Geometry (4 Credits)
Planar and spatial curves, global properties of curves, surfaces in three dimensions, the first fundamental form, curvature of surfaces, Gaussian curvatures, geodesics, Theorema Egregium, hyperbolic geometry. Prerequisites: MATH 3170 and either MATH 3110/4110 or MATH 3260/4260.
MATH 4501 Functional Analysis (4 Credits)
Advanced topics in structure of linear spaces; Banach spaces; Hahn-Banach Theorem and Duality; Uniform Boundedness Theorem; Open Mapping and Closed Graph Theorems; Stone-Weierstrass Theorem; Topics in Hilbert Spaces. Prerequisite: MATH 4280.
MATH 4700 Special Topics in Mathematics (1-4 Credits)
MATH 4701 Combinatorial Algorithms (4 Credits)
MATH 4705 Special Topics Applied Math (1-5 Credits)
Varying selected advanced topics in mathematics, depending on student demand. Possible alternatives include of variations, partial differential equations, algebraic topology, differential manifolds, special functions.
MATH 4991 Independent Study (1-10 Credits)
Cannot be arranged for any course that appears in course schedule for that particular year.
MATH 4992 Directed Study (1-10 Credits)
MATH 4995 Independent Research (1-10 Credits)
Research projects undertaken in conjunction with a faculty member.
MATH 5000 Doctoral Seminar (3 Credits)
Techniques, methods used in mathematical, computing research. Includes proofs, bibliographic searching, writing styles, what constitutes an acceptable dissertation.
MATH 5991 Independent Study (1-10 Credits)
Cannot be arranged for any course that appears in the regular course schedule for that particular year.
MATH 5995 Independent Research (1-10 Credits)
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As baby boomers begin to die off, and Generation X ages, millennials are slowly becoming the majority of the industry’s target audience. They are a very valuable audience and needless to say that they are responsible for major technological disruptions. And when we say that we refer to live sports.
Millennials have certainly played a great role in the way we use technology nowadays with VoD, live streaming and social media, which by far are the most notable changes in the way humans see the world today.
They have grown up with smartphones in their hands, bought and ordered clothes online, so their behaviour shows us that they seem to always look for a value (quality vs. price). Most of them would even pay more to get a better quality of the things they want to have. Plus flexibility and the love for the online world have also played a great role in terms of embracing online video. Compared to other generations, millennials are more into online content than anyone else. In fact, according to Forrester, 7% of adults under 32 years of age are digital cord-nevers, never having paid for TV.
But, not let’s take into consideration live sports as part of the entertainment. Live sports have always been a big deal, especially because there is no one in this world who doesn’t like at least one sport, plus it’s an occasion that brings people together and, of course, it’s entertainment. Live sports offers have changed a lot to meet the needs of millennials as the way these events are consumed by today’s generation is different. It seems that now they seem to be almost addicted to watching live sports.
According to a recent analysis, provided by Eurodata:
- In the US, the Super Bowl is unsurprisingly the no.1 live sports event with 24.5M young viewers.
- The handball WC was the most popular sport event for French young viewers
- The Champions League was a big deal in Spain.
Looking at the numbers, we can say that live sports are becoming more popular than they’ve ever been among young adults and needless to say that the next generation is going to love sport events even more. Referring to the supply side, the mainstream sports are trying out more flexible ways to reach their audiences like pay per view and subscriptions. Even though the price to offer a high-quality sports package below the Pay TV price seems quite difficult, we can still expect that to change as the market evolves and OTT scores high in other entertainment segments.
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The City of Houston has selected planning, engineering and program management firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. (LAN) to develop...
Water community encourages “getting to know your H2O” during Drinking Water Week 2013
The American Water Works Assn. (AWWA) and the water community kicked off Drinking Water Week 2013 across North America on May 6, 2013 by asking the question, “What do you know about H2O”?
Throughout the week, AWWA and partners across the water community will celebrate water by recognizing the essential role drinking water plays in our daily lives, with special attention on the ways in which all water consumers can get to know their H2O.
“Drinking Water Week provides an excellent time to focus on the role we all play in understanding and caring for our water supplies and systems,” said AWWA Executive Director David LaFrance. “Let’s use this opportunity to help protect all of our communities’ health and vitality by learning more about how we maintain a safe and sustainable supply of drinking water.”
To commemorate the occasion, water utilities, environmental advocates and others will celebrate drinking water through school events, public presentations and community festivals. They will also provide their communities with important tips for protecting water quality within our own homes and learning more about how drinking water is regulated and delivered. | <urn:uuid:c3565314-008e-4d04-8a7d-e84245fec2cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wwdmag.com/drinking-water-week-promotes-water-education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949678 | 281 | 2.3125 | 2 |
I recently received a question as to which drug class or population/disease state, if ever, would I recommend a zero dollar member cost share. This is a great question, and there actually are some situations in which I would recommend use of a zero dollar copay.
First, let me briefly review why I do not recommend $0 copays as a standard part of the benefit design, even for classes such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
- The primary reason is that most patients do not stop taking medication because of cost, particularly in a commercially insured population (see figure for common reasons for non-adherence). Accordingly, copays are being waived without any possibility of benefit for the vast majority of patients. This known fact is evidenced in the small improvements that are seen in compliance after implementing a copay waiver program—averaging 2-4 percentage points and representing 1-2 weeks of additional therapy. Targeting copay waivers to patients at high risk for adverse events and who truly have cost as a financial barrier would be an ideal approach, but it raises HR and equity issues that are not easily resolved.
- The second consideration to keep in mind is the potential for fraud. I have heard from frustrated employers who implemented zero dollar copays for chronic conditions only to find that employees began sharing medications with family and friends with the same condition. Quantity limits can help control this potential problem partially but not entirely. I have not studied this phenomenon personally so I cannot speak to the magnitude of the problem.
I would however, recommend use of a zero dollar copay program under certain conditions. First, zero dollar generic copays are a great tool for promoting use of lower cost, therapeutic alternatives for patients currently using brand medications. I would consider them for therapy classes for which you have step therapy in place as the two programs are complementary. Step therapy will promote generic use for new users, and the $0 generic copay program is a carrot strategy for promoting generics with current brand users. The $0 generic copay helps to grab the member’s attention and provides an extra little incentive for making the switch. I would not make the copay waiver indefinite, however. Six months of free generics is sufficient. Based on my experience and rigorous evaluations, these programs have a solid ROI; and the patient saves money too of course.
Second, a population for which I MIGHT consider a $0 generic copay is hypertension and cholesterol, and other cardiovascular medications in seniors. The rate of adverse cardiovascular events (absent treatment) is much higher in the senior than in the commercial population; so IF price elasticity is at least as high as we see with commercial members, there is the potential to materially reduce the rate of adverse cardiovascular events and to achieve a net savings from reduced hospitalizations. The key to this decision is determining the actual price elasticity of demand within your senior population. As little contemporary public data is available on price elasticity within the senior population, individual vendors will have to assess the elasticity within their own data. Once identified, a simple analytic tool, like the VBID calculator, can be used to determine the potential reduction in hospitalizations and medical spend that can be achieved. Of course, implementing copay waivers in the Medicare Part D program is a greater administrative challenge than a commercial plan or retiree plan, which would be a relevant consideration.
A third population for which I would PILOT a $0 generic program is patients at HIGH risk for adverse cardiovascular events but who have NOT initiated pharmacotherapy. The classic example is the patient with a recent myocardial infarction who has not initiated a statin and/or beta-blocker. While cost is not likely to be the reason for non-initiation for most patients, it might be a useful short-term incentive, when combined with the right intervention, for encouraging use. I would say pilot first because it simply may not be effective and there is the risk that a zero price could actually deter use if it serves as a quality indicator for non-initiating patients. Another growing challenge is that many patients will appear as non-users because of the $4 generic programs which do not always result in a claim being submitted.
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Better air = better water
Officials to wage campaign to link air controls to water quality
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Clean air legislation intended to help people breathe easier may have an unintended benefit: It may help fish in the Chesapeake Bay, and other East Coast estuaries, breathe easier as well.
That's a message that a group of state and federal air pollution officials and water quality managers plan to drive home to the public and public officials in the coming months and years.
The decision was made at the second "Shared Resource" conference, one of an ongoing series of meetings in which officials dealing with East Coast bays and estuaries discuss issues of mutual concern. The two-day October conference, which focused on the impact of airborne nitrogen deposition on coastal waters, drew representatives from state and federal air pollution programs as well.
Linking air emissions to water quality would be a fundamental shift in 25 years of pollution control policy during which air and water issues have been strictly segregated. Air and water officials within state and federal agencies often do not even know each other.
Yet recent research, coupled with computer models, has pointed to air pollution as a major source of nitrogen, one of the two nutrients of concern in the Bay system.
"We need to get started thinking about the breadth of things," Bruce Hicks, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Research Laboratory, implored participants as the conference opened.
Generated by fossil fuel combustion, the nitrogen oxides emitted from tailpipes and smokestacks account for anywhere between 20 percent and 35 percent of all the nitrogen entering the Bay. Some of those emissions originate in places as far flung as Detroit, Toronto, Cincinnati and Knoxville, Tenn.
Their impact on the Bay is great enough that full implementation of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, something that may be unlikely, would significantly expand the amount of "breathing room" for fish beyond what would result from the Bay Program's 40 percent nutrient reduction goal, according to calculations by Lewis Linker, modeling coordinator with the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program Office.
Most aquatic species require oxygen to survive, only less of it than land dwellers. Much of the Bay's water quality woes in recent decades are linked to nutrient pollution that has reduced oxygen levels in the water.
Excessive amounts of the nutrients phosphorus and nitrogen spur large algae blooms in the Bay. When the algae dies, it sinks to the bottom and is decomposed by bacteria in a process that depletes the water of oxygen. When water becomes anoxic, depleted of oxygen, many species must abandon those areas. Species that can't move may die or suffer other ill-effects, such as poor reproduction or stunted growth.
The Bay states have commited to reducing nutrients 40 percent by the turn of the century through controls on sewage treatment plants and on nutrient-laden runoff from farms and urban areas. That would reduce the amount of anoxia in the Bay by about 20 percent in a typical year, according to Bay Program calculations.
But if reductions of airborne nitrogen oxides that could result from Clean Air Act implementation were factored in, anoxia in the Bay could be reduced by 25 percent, according to Linker.
More stringent air controls could result in even greater reductions. For example, stronger pollution controls being contemplated by the Ozone Transport Commission to control chronic smog problems in the Northeast would result in further reductions in deposition, and improvements in water quality. The commission, a panel created by the 1990 air act which includes the top environmental officials of a 12-state area stretching from Virginia to Maine, is charged with finding ways to reduce ozone in the region.
Nitrogen oxides are a major contributor to the ozone problem, so efforts to reduce ozone also have the potential to benefit the Bay and other coastal waters. As a result, conference participants targeted the commission's February meeting to begin making their case that air pollution controls will help water ways, too.
But reductions that the commission could make are just the beginning. Estimates made by the EPA's Regional Atmospheric Deposition Model indicate that 75 percent of all the airborne nitrogen falling on the Bay's 64,000-square mile watershed comes from outside the watershed: mostly from an "airshed" that is 5.5 times larger.
If pollution controls being contemplated for the Northeast were extended throughout the airshed, according to estimates from the model, nitrogen deposition on the Bay watershed would be cut three times more than what would be achieved just through Clean Air Act controls.
"These [reductions] help all coastal estuaries, not just the Chesapeake Bay, but from the Chesapeake Bay on north," said Robin Dennis, a scientist with NOAA's Atmospheric Modeling Division.
Much of those emissions are coming from the west areas that are not part of the 12-state region overseen by the Ozone Transport Commission.
Still, those western areas may not be out of reach. Tom Maslany, director of the Air, Radiation and Toxics Division of EPA Region III, which includes almost all of the Bay watershed, noted that state and federal officials had recently formed a new Ozone Transport Assessment Group. The group covers the entire eastern two-thirds of the nation and is charged with developing even broader control strategies to control ozone, a recognition that nitrogen oxides and other airborne pollutants contributing to the ozone problem can travel huge distances.
But conference participants also recognized that significant hurdles are ahead. First, it is unclear that the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments will be fully implemented. Many states have refused, or delayed, implementation of an advanced vehicle inspection and maintenance program to control automobile exhaust, opting for less-thorough programs which do not control emissions of nitrogen oxides. Regulations that would require burners on power plants to control nitrogen oxide emissions have also been delayed. In addition, more than 30 measures have been introduced in Congress to repeal parts, and in some cases all, of the 1990 amendments to the act.
And then there is the problem with the laws themselves. The Clean Air Act is designed to protect air quality, not water quality. The Clean Water Act is aimed at controlling discharges into waterways, not into the air.
"The two statutes were not designed to work together and on their face they do not work together," said Mary Nichols, EPA assistant administrator for air and radiation. But, she added, "I don't believe that the difficulties necessarily require a major rewrite of either the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act to solve the problem."
Robert Perciasepe, EPA assistant administrator for water, said it would be difficult under the present laws to regulate air pollution specifically to benefit water quality. But he said it was legitimate to make the case that certain air control actions would offer "more bang for the buck" by also helping water quality. "Clearly, providing more benefits for air pollution reductions is a good thing," he said.
Both Perciasepe and Nichols encouraged the group in their effort to present the issue to decision makers and the public. Nichols suggested that people interested in water quality should begin commenting on proposed air regulations, including a current EPA proposal to require additional controls on emissions from heavy diesel engines.
Conference participants also acknowledged that they will have to bolster their arguments with scientifically defensible data. While a series of studies have pointed to air as a major contributor of nitrogen to the Bay and other coastal areas, serious questions remain.
The largest question is how much of the nitrogen oxides dropping out of the sky makes it into the Bay. About 10 percent of the deposition is falling directly on the Bay and its tributaries. The rest falls on land throughout the watershed, and much of that nitrogen is retained by trees and other plants. As a result, estimates of the total airborne contribution of nitrogen reaching the Bay ranges from a low of 20 percent of the total to more than 30 percent.
"We're talking about a level of impact that, even if it is off by a significant factor, is still worth pursuing," said Bill Matuszeski, director of EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program Office. "Over time, we will get better numbers. But meanwhile, we know enough to move forward."
And other participants agreed that the time had come to begin making the case for taking a "multimedia" approach, a comprehensive air and water pollution control strategy, toward coastal environmental issues.
"Multimedia management, I think, is now possible for the first time, in a defensible way," Robert Thomann, a professor of environmental engineering at New York's Manhattan College, told conference participants.
Thomann is one of the leading water quality modelers in the world, and has worked as a consultant to the Bay Program in the development of models that helped the Bay Program establish its 40 percent nutrient reduction goal.
"Everything that we have done in the last 6-7 years or longer has been translated into policy, and I think that was a good idea, within the basin, Thomann said. "Extending it beyond the basin into the airshed, I think, is in the right direction from a policy point of view."
For more information about the impact of air pollution on the Bay, see "Detroit and Toronto meet the Bay," in the March 1995 Bay Journal, and "Air Act would boost Bay cleanup," in the October 1995 Bay Journal.
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Traditionally illegal tobacco products are foreign-labelled brands, sold under the counter at discounted rates.
The recent seizure in Oxford is the first time Oxfordshire County Council Trading Standards has recovered fully priced counterfeits from an otherwise legitimate tobacco gantry. The counterfeits were labelled in standardised plain packaging,
The enforcement swoop is part of the county council’s commitment to help residents live safe and healthy lives. Its Trading Standards team is now stepping up its war against fakes.
They recently inspected 1,400 storage lockers in a single day. This was part of a joint operation with six other local authorities, seizing nearly £250,000 worth of counterfeit tobacco products, class A drugs and cannabis across the South East.
Jody Kerman, Oxfordshire County Council’s Trading Standards Operations Manager, said: “We can all play a part in spotting and reporting counterfeit cigarettes.
“Major UK brands of cigarettes each contain a unique code at the bottom of the packet. So, for example, if you see two packets of Marlboro(s) with the same code, then that could be an indication the product is counterfeit.”
The code 5OE WW9 6AR JFC is known to be on a batch of counterfeit cigarettes packs that have been circulating in Oxfordshire.
Councillor Judith Heathcoat, the County Council’s cabinet member for Community Safety, said: “There’s no such thing as a safe cigarette, but these counterfeits are a public health menace, deviously disguised as legitimate products.
“The best thing you can do to protect your wellbeing is choose not to smoke. However, for anyone struggling to ‘kick the habit’, it’s appalling that you are being exploited by organised criminals; duping traders and the public alike by peddling these counterfeits.
“The packets we discovered in Oxford were being sold at £12.50 rather than at the discounted rates normally associated with counterfeits. This is extra money into criminals’ pockets; not going to help the NHS.”
Tobacco fraud is reported to cost the UK around £2.5 billion a year whilst treating smoking-related illnesses costs the NHS over £2 billion annually.
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Six days before Christmas is not when you want to be looking for a plumber to come to the house. And while it could be even worse if you needed to call a plumber on Christmas Day, finding a plumber on a Sunday, during a snow storm, less than a week before Christmas. Unfortunately, however, water line repair needs do not for a convenient time.
Whether you are looking for a commercial plumber for drain repair or you are looking for residential plumbing needs like garbage disposal work, it is important to find a reputable contractor. In fact, if you work with a plumber who is not skilled you can end up with bigger problems that you started with. Simply unclogging a toilet or clearing a garbage disposal line, for instance, is not going to solve the problem if the issue is actually with a bigger problem that requires a water line repair.
Nothing is more important than finding the best contractor for any home repair needs. In the area of plumbing, however, finding a knowledgable contractor is essential. Unfound problems can make a small leak into a major water damage issue that causes extensive damage to a home or business. As the cold weather and freezing temperatures arrive this weekend throughout much of the northern part of the U.S., the danger of freezing pipes and the resulting water leaks are a real threat. Finding someone who is good at both residential problems and major water line repair needs can mean that you will be able to find the real source of the problem.
In addition to finding the most qualified plumber, consider these other statistics about water use and some of the most common plumbing needs:
- 38% of the water usage of an average American home is for flushing toilets.
- A simple leaky faucet can fill an eight ounce glass in just 15 minutes. Left unfixed, it can waste 180 gallons of water a month, which is the same as 2,160 gallons a year.
- 1.6 million Americans still did not have indoor plumbing as of 2014.
- 18,000 gallons of water a year can be saved by installing a low-flush toilet.
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In the 48-hour time period between Monday and Wednesday three events will collide to put newly-inaugurated President Barack Obama in the crosshairs of those pushing the anti-"anti-illegal" immigration agenda in this country.
First, on Monday - in a stunning last-minute move - then-President George W. Bush granted clemency to the two border patrol agents who were serving eleven and twelve year sentences for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks back in 2005, then conspiring to cover it up.
The campaign to "Free Ramos and Compean" was taken up both by rabid anti-immigrant types as well as by the more moderate sorts who - though they certainly don't advocate shooting people in the back - didn't believe that officers Jose A. Compean and Ignacio Ramos deserved to be put in solitary confinement for over a decade for their crime.
Either way, the border patrolmen's plight was just one of the many points of contention that boiled over in the thick of the pro-vs.-anti-illegal-immigrant rhetoric that successfully drowned out July 2007's attempt at comprehensive immigration reform.
Next, of course, came Barack Obama's Tuesday inauguration when the world stopped to sigh happily that "a new day has dawned" not only in the United States, but also across the globe.
Fast forward 24-hours and the honeymoon is over: Wednesday at 11am in Washington, DC, the "National Capital Immigrant and Fair Immigration Reform Movement" held an immigration rights march to demand (all together now!) quote:
"[A] Moratorium on the Raids and Deportations -Just and Humane Immigration Reform -Health Care for All -
Worker Justice Obama's decisive victory signals a sea change in U.S. politics.
This is a historic moment not only because the U.S. will have its first African American president, but also because a decisive majority of Latino voters, and many white voters were central to Obama's victory. We are entering a new era, one where real social change can happen. Mass movements for social justice must play a crucial role."
Not to be left behind, Chicago's very own March Mastermind Jorge Mujica - now best known for successfully engineering the takeover of the Republic Window factory and getting those employees the severance they were owed - has his own gig here in Chicago.
The "Solidarity Rally" - to (altogether now!) "Demand an End to Raids and Deportations" - starts at 5:00pm Wednesday at Federal Plaza (corner of Dearborn and Adams, Downtown, Chicago, if you're interested in showing up).
Naturally, because I like to talk to the Devil's advocates - just a manner of speech, of course - the first person I called with this news was Rick Jones, the Deputy Director of the Illinois Minuteman Project.
Despite leading three years of protests in front of Illinois legislators' offices demanding Ramos and Compean be freed, he was none too impressed with Monday's surprise clemency.
"No, we really don't feel justice has been served," Jones told me over the phone just a few hours after Obama had been sworn in as the 44 president, "I'm so happy this finally culminated in a happy ending - we're all elated - but we felt they should have gotten a full pardon."
Despite his partial disappointment, though, Jones did take the time to weigh in on what this new wave of demand marches and the new Presidency means for the future of the United States.
"I dunno...I like Obama, I've met Obama, I've had him on my [radio] show, he's a popular guy," said Jones. "I don't know his philosophy on immigration but I do know his philosophies in general don't coincide with mine - I know he tends to run with the open-the-borders crowd but that doesn't mean anything. Still, I don't want to judge a book by its cover."
"If I could give him one piece of advice," Jones continued, "it would be this: if he obeys the letter of the Constitution and puts American workers first - and I don't mean Anglo-Saxon only - by that I mean Hispanics, blacks, Guatemalan, Nigerian, American citizens and legal residents...if he puts them first, then who knows? Maybe things will change."
I'm going to stop while I'm ahead on this historic Inauguration Day - and going to go to sleep happy.
I can't imagine I'll broker a warm embrace between Jorge Mujica and Rick Jones tomorrow - though I'm going to challenge myself to make that happen sometime this year. But I am witnessing a time where people will assemble peacefully and those who tend to be inflammatory are striking a moderate tone, so I hereby predict a better tomorrow.
And if that's not audacity of hope, I dunno what is!
Esther J. Cepeda writes about immigration - among many other things - on www.600words.com
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This article explores ideological and planning theories and planning models and identifies the potential for reinvigoration of Queensland's planning system via a neoliberal perspective.
The modernist perspective of planning has been concerned with making public and political decisions in respect of the planning of our places more rationally and consistent with an overarching public interest.
However, the modernist perspective of rational planning action has been challenged by a post-modernist perspective, and more recently by a neoliberal perspective, rooted in the political ideals of liberalism which holds that a liberal market supportive style of planning will produce more environmentally sustainable outcomes.
The paper considers how the modernist, postmodernist and neoliberal perspectives of planning have been applied in the context of the planning system particularly in relation to matters such as the following:
- the planning of master planned areas contrasting the top down approaches of some structure plans with the bottom up approaches of others;
- the role of development assessment managers contrasting planners as managing planning decisions and facilitating action to realise publicly agreed goals on the one hand or alternatively realising market sensitive individuals' goals on the other;
- the planning, funding/financing and delivery of infrastructure contrasting rationally planned methods based on cost/benefit analyses of efficiency and equity on the one hand with the politically market driven methods on the other;
- the planning system contrasting the top down state directed model of planning provided by the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 on the one hand with community based planning from the ground up geared to community empowerment on the other.
The paper considers the modernist, postmodernist and neoliberal perspectives of planning for the purpose of identifying how the recently elected Liberal National Party (LNP) government may seek to reinvigorate planning and the planning system in Queensland.
Queensland Government reform
In March 2012, Queensland elected a Liberal National Party government with an overwhelming mandate for change.
Central to that mandate is the promotion of a four pillar economy involving the resources, agriculture, construction and tourism sectors, as well as the empowerment of local government.
The LNP government intends to move quickly to implement its reform agenda, which because of the government's majority, is likely to have significant implications for the public, private and third sectors for decades to come.
Neoliberal reform agenda
The full scope of the LNP's planning reform agenda is as yet unclear. However what is apparent is that neoliberalism is the dominant ideological rationalisation for the LNP's reform agenda of the Queensland government.
Neoliberalism is an ideology that involves a commitment to the rolling out of market mechanisms and competitiveness and the rolling back of governmental intervention (See Peck, J and Tickell, A 2002, Neoliberalizing space, Antipode, vol. 34, no. 3, pp.380-404).
From a neoliberal perspective much of urban public planning is seen as a distortion of land markets which increases transaction costs through bureaucratisation of the urban economy. Neoliberalism holds that this should be rolled back by contracting the domain of planning (de-regulation) and then privatising segments of the residual sphere of regulation (outsourcing). As such, the raison d'etre of planning as a tool of correcting and avoiding market failure is dismissed and planning is subsumed as a minimalist form of spatial regulation whose chief purpose is to provide certainty to the market and to facilitate economic growth (See Gleeson, B and Low, N 2000a, "Revaluing planning rolling back neoliberalism in Australia", Progress in Planning, vol. 53, pp.83-164, and Gleeson, B and Low, N 2000b, "Unfinalised business: neoliberal planning reform in Australia", Urban Policy and Research, vol. 18, no. 1, pp.7-28.).
Ideology, theory, practice and policy
While it is unclear how ideology influences planning and in turn how planning theory affects planning practice, a consideration of ideology and planning theory does provide an opportunity to understand the evolving processes that planning practice may face as a result of the LNP's neoliberal planning reform agenda.
As Forester observes in his 1989 book, Planning in the Face of Power:
Themes of paper
This paper therefore has 5 themes:
- First, it establishes a model of urban change, that seeks to show the relationship of ideological and planning theories and models to the components of urban change and the institutions responsible for that change.
- Second, it seeks to flesh out the debate on premodernism, modernism, postmodernism and neoliberalism, to provide an ideological context to both the broad policy settings of a neoliberal government and the use of planning theory in a neoliberal state.
- Third, it seeks to flesh out the debate on planning theory to provide a theoretical context for the consideration of planning models, in particular the postmodernist collaborative planning model and the neoliberal strategic planning model.
- Fourth, it discusses the key characteristics of the neoliberal strategic planning model to provide context for the consideration of the potential planning practice implications of the use of this model.
- Finally, it seeks to identify the planning policy outcomes which are likely to be associated with a neoliberal government, to provide context to the potential scope of the LNP planning reform agenda in Queensland.
Urban change model
Components and institutions of urban change
Urban change occurs as a result of the interplay of three institutional components (Newman 2000:1):
- the market represented by the private sector;
- the government represented by the public sector; and
- the community comprising civil society or the so called third sector.
The characteristics of the institutional components and associated institutions of urban change are described in Table 1.
Table 1: Components and institutions of urban change
Planners influence all components of urban change: the market, government and civil society. They work through the private, public and third sectors using a collection of planning theories and practices to influence urban change, or on some occasions to prevent urban change.
Relationship of planning theory and practice for urban change
The interrelationship between the planning theories and practices used by planners and the components and institutions of urban change are shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Urban change model
It is clear that planning and the capacity to effect urban change are critically influenced by planning theory and practice.
An understanding of planning theory requires it to be placed within the context of broader cultural, socio-economic and political change; being the historic shift from premodernism to modernism, and then to postmodernism and more recently to neoliberalism.
Premodernism, modernism, postmodernism, neoliberalism
Neoliberalism in a historic context
The broad cultural, socioeconomic and political changes that have influenced western societies such as Australia have had a profound effect on planning theory and practice.
These changes exist in a historic century-long linear process of transition from premodernism to modernism to postmodernism and finally to neoliberalism.
The cultural, socioeconomic and political conditions of modern, postmodern and neoliberal societies are described in Table 2.
Table 2: Cultural socio-economic and political conditions of ideological theories
Neoliberal cultural socioeconomic and political conditions
In the context of the current LNP government it is important to understand the potential political, cultural and social conditions of a neoliberal society:
- Cultural conditions - Neoliberalism has little to say about the cultural conditions of society as it is a theory derived from economics.
- Social conditions - Neoliberalism is premised on the social conditions of a service based economy where the provision of services using information technologies to niche markets predominates over a declining industrial sector.
- Economic conditions - Neoliberalism is premised on the economic conditions of a market based economy involving the private sector, where the role of the public sector is limited to monetary policy by central banks. Neoliberalism rejects the use of fiscal policy by government to stabilise output over the business cycle.
- Political conditions - Neoliberalism is also premised on the political conditions of a liberal democracy that involves the following:
- individuals have the right to pursue a good life that does not harm others;
- services are delivered by the market;
- the role of the government is limited to providing information and guidelines as well as targeted welfare services for limited social exclusion areas.
These broad socioeconomic and political conditions provide the ideological context which will influence the broad policy settings of a neoliberal government.
Policy settings of a neoliberal government
The broad policy settings which are generally associated with modern, postmodern and neoliberal theory are described in Table 3.
Table 3: Institutional characteristics of ideological theories
In the context of neoliberal theory the following broad policy settings are likely to be adopted by a neoliberal government:
- Small government - witness the dramatic downsizing of the public service by some 14,000 jobs announced in the 2012 Queensland budget.
- The downloading of unfunded state government risks and responsibilities to local governments which are forced to compete against each other for economic growth - witness the state government's transition of financial liabilities for urban development areas under the Urban Land Development Authority Act 2007 to local governments, and the Brisbane City Council's 2031 Strategic Vision which envisions Brisbane as 'Australia's New World City' which is competing globally against other world cities.
- Individual self-reliance and entrepreneurship with little or no government help.
- The outsourcing of government functions and privatisation of government assets.
- Lower taxes - witness the cost of living reductions in electricity, water and public transport charges announced in the 2012 Queensland budget.
- Deregulation - witness green tape reduction, reforms to the Environmental Protection Act 1994, referral agency reforms under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 and local government reforms under the Local Government Act 2009.
These broad policy settings together with the broader socioeconomic and political conditions of neoliberal theory provide the context for the consideration of the use of planning theories by planners.
Planning theory in a neoliberal state
Neoliberal planning theory
Given the neoliberal socioeconomic and political conditions and broad policy settings which are expected to develop in Queensland under the LNP government, it is likely that the use of neoliberal planning theory will become more dominant amongst planners.
The approaches to planning theory that are embodied in premodern, modern, postmodern and neoliberal ideologies are described in Table 4.
Table 4: Ideological approaches to planning theory
Planning theory is based on two different premises. The first is that planning has a humanistic or social emancipation end. The second is that planning theory has an epistemological premise being the means by which planning delivers the end (namely social emancipation).
Humanistic premise of planning theory
In neoliberal planning theory the planning end is not an end state for society such as the collective public interest (for modern planning) or group public interest (in the case of postmodern planning theory).
Rather it is individual interest; the right of each individual to pursue a good life that does not harm others.
Epistemological premise of planning theory
Neoliberal planning theory postulates that the end of an individual good life is not pursued through the rational scientific method of value free scientific reason (in the case of modern planning theory) or a participative process to define group values (in the case of postmodern planning theory).
Rather, the neoliberal end of an individual good life is to be achieved through a management process of defining goals, objectives and strategies and by implementing them.
In neoliberal planning theory, the managerialist method, which is embodied in the planning model of strategic planning, is the predominant planning model.
Strategic planning model in a neoliberal state
Strategic planning is a planning process that is focused on the implementation of specific and attainable goals, objectives and strategies. It differs from comprehensive master planning which aspires to an abstract common public good or interest. It also differs from collaborative planning which focuses on the group good or interest as defined by groups within society.
It is anticipated that the strategic planning model will become the predominant planning model among planners in Queensland.
The characteristics of the strategic planning model are described in Table 5.
Table 5: Key characteristics of planning models
A strategic planning model operating in a neoliberal state is anticipated to have the following significant characteristics:
- Institutional arrangements - Planning is market led by private sector developers.
- Institutional decision making - Planning is a bottom up through the market rather than the top down/bottom up approach characteristic of the comprehensive master planning model (associated with modern planning theory) and the collaborative planning (associated with postmodern planning theory).
- Planning scales - Planning is focused on local and site level planning rather than the strategic and district level planning and local and site level planning associated with comprehensive master planning and collaborative planning.
- Planning horizon - Planning has a short term horizon reflecting the reality that planning is intended to be capable of continual revision in response to the market.
- Planning focus - Planning is focused on place marketing, rather than the spatial based planning and place based planning approaches associated with comprehensive master planning and collaborative planning.
- Concept of the city - Planning is focused on ensuring that the city is an economic growth object which can effectively compete against other cities for economic growth.
- Strategic and district level planning themes.
- Local and state level planning themes.
The increased use by planners of a strategic planning model in Queensland will have a significant influence on the state of planning practice in Queensland.
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Bull Roarers are simple to make and easy to use.
Suitable pieces of wood
materials for decorating
If you are starting out in the world of Bushcraft the Bullroarer is a great thing to make. It involves simple carving techniques and you will need to make good strong cordage too! When finished you will have something to show for all your hard work and something that is good fun. Ideal for a beginner!
The bullroarer has long been used by the Australian Aborigines in rituals and as a simple method of communication over long distances. When swung around above your head the Bullroarer creates a fantastic roaring vibrato sound that changes throughout its circuit.
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So let say you are about to begin your first year of college or simply moving to a nearby neighborhood to have easier access to your new job. Maybe been saving money for a while and you need a break from going to your house.
Moving can be hard and stressful. We all know that, that’s why we’ve managed to create a small list of tips that you can follow to be prepared for these big moments.
1. Don't Break The Bank
Moving isn’t free, as everyone knows. or affordable. Get ready to handle your own money management tasks, such as paying your own phone and internet bills and looking around for affordable auto insurance.
When it comes to stocking up on the necessities like furniture and kitchen supplies, try to get some from your family members and friends to save as much money as you can. Also, seek the help of your roommates while you look through secondhand shops and online marketplaces.
2. Make a reasonable budget and select a convenient location.
When looking for college housing, try to stay as close to the school as possible. Concentrate on apartments or houses near your new job. When looking for a new place, consider how far away the grocery store and gas station are.
These can save you a lot of time and money on transportation and last-minute emergencies.
3. Find A Proper Moving Company
Use STORsquare storage containers and STORsquare Storage Warhouses. You have the option of taking your time packing and loading, as well as unloading and unpacking.
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David Kirk, NVIDIA's chief scientist, told at the 17th Hot Chips conference on the Stanford University campus on Tuesday that a crisis looms in programming technology. He claims this could not only bling the future CPU market but also bring an end to improvements in graphics performance, despite GPU improvements.
"If we look at the situation of general-purpose CPUs," Kirk said, "we see architects moving rapidly to multithreading and multicore designs. But we don't see a lot more threads to run. What parallelism there may be in algorithms is often concealed or lost altogether in the programming process." | <urn:uuid:546dbda0-64e9-46aa-85a8-2333c8140c9b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.dvhardware.net/article6479.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00034-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943733 | 121 | 2.15625 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inserting a single new gene into the DNA of a type of algae allowed the microscopic plant to thrive in darkness, growing vigorously without the need for sunlight, scientists say.
In a study appearing Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Martek Biosciences Corp. in Columbia, Md., and the Carnegie Institution of Washington department of biology in Palo Alto, Calif., report that a microalgae was engineered to use glucose as its primary energy source instead of sunlight.
The algae, as do most plants, normally gets its energy through a photosynthesis process that requires sunlight.
Kirk E. Apt of Martek, a co-author of the study, said that converting the algae so that it thrived in darkness was accomplished by splicing into the plant a human gene that directs the movement in a cell of glucose.
Apt said the engineered algae, called Phaeodactylum tricornutum, was chosen for the experiment, but that a commercial application of the gene engineering will come in other types of algae.
Algae is used in foods, pigments, cosmetics and animal feed. It is commonly grown in sunlit ponds where it is difficult to control the quality and purity of the harvested plants.
Apt said that by genetically weaning algae of its need for sunlight, the plant could be grown in enclosed vats where the results could be carefully controlled.
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Don’t drop your guard on COVID-19 yet
We’re going to go out on a limb and say something that is probably not going to be very popular.
Despite Gov. Burgum reducing the COVID-19 threat levels and removing the regulations and making them guidelines we implore people to continue to social distance, and wear masks. Limit your large gatherings and wash your hands. Do not touch your eyes. Do all the things we know that limits the transmission of COVID-19.
Just because we’re on a down swing does not mean we’re out of the woods.
The numbers speak for themselves:
As of Friday, there were 1,675 active cases in the state and 1,373 deaths from the new coronavirus. Some 92,551 people in the state have had the virus at some point and have recovered. That amounts to about 1 in 600 North Dakotans who have died of the virus.
The reason we peaked in October and November is because of the relaxed guidelines in July and August.
Let’s not have another stretch where thousands of people are testing positive for COVID-19.
Mask-up until everyone has had a chance to get the vaccine – and yes, that might be months away.
This is not the time to relax. If not for your own health, for the sake of others’ do not let your guard down – not for a minute. | <urn:uuid:82288cb9-1a5b-44f6-9e6d-955547b3944c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.minotdailynews.com/opinion/editorials/2021/01/dont-drop-your-guard-on-covid-19-yet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.966914 | 300 | 1.601563 | 2 |
EGYPT inaugurated a new expanded Suez canal last week, a pompous affair that many saw as confetti on strongman Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s position as president, and lift the country’s flagging economy that has been sapped by years of civil unrest and extremist violence.
The $7.9 billion New Suez Canal project was completed in just one year instead of three on Sisi’s orders; the canal extension and other construction projects have boosted the economy that grew above 4% in the nine months to March for the first time since 2010.
State-run television broadcasting the event ran the distinctive theme song of HBO’s hugely successful show Game of Thrones as a soundtrack to footage of the celebrations.
This might be seen as a savvy government broadcaster tapping into the zeitgeist of the day – the show has an massive international fan base, and file-sharing news website TorrentFreak estimated Game of Thrones to be the most-pirated TV series every year since 2012; it was downloaded 7 million times in 2015, up 45% from 2014.
Egypt’s renewed confidence
But it also hints to a renewed self-confidence, as Egypt re-asserts itself on the broader geopolitical stage.
A week ago, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Cairo for the first US-Egypt “strategic dialogue” since 2009.
The forum has been held on and off since the Bill Clinton administration, and is intended to widen the relationship between the two countries beyond security into more robust trade, investment and educational ties – though during Hosni Mubarak’s presidency, the conversation was limited to cementing Egypt’s position as a counterterrorism bulwark in the region.
The mere fact that the US was willing to have a sit-down talk with Egypt at all has been seen as a major diplomatic achievement for Sisi’s government, especially after Washington capitulated on its partial weapons suspension against the country.
Sisi arrives for the opening on the new Suez canal on August 6, 2015. (Photo/Shawn Baldwin/ Bloomberg).
The suspension was imposed in October 2013 in response to mass killings of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators, but was then lifted this March – in spite of Egypt’s constricting civic space and worsening human rights situation.
According to a report from the US State Department, the political crackdown following the ouster of Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 “expanded in 2014 into a systematic policy to crush nearly all dissent and reestablish an authoritarian system.”
There has been violence against demonstrators; widespread arrests; abuse of detainees; and pervasive impunity for officials suspected of involvement in such violations.
It suggests that Cairo has rediscovered it leverage over the US, and Egypt’s position as an ally against extremism is particularly important when viewed in the context of its troubled neighbourhood.
The Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) has established a foothold in neighbouring Libya following the chaos that has engulfed the country after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, while Syria has been parcelled up among an array of rebels and armed groups.
Egypt itself has been battling an Islamic insurgency in northern Sinai for years, but attacks against the army and police increased after Morsi’s ouster; the Islamic State affiliate based in Sinai has claimed a series of large-scale assaults there.
Nile Basin business
Still, the Egyptian rebound is robust, if latest trade data is anything to go by. Egyptian exports to the Nile Basin countries – Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania – rose 27% in the past year, from $69.6 million in April 2014 to $88.6m in April 2015.
Egypt has long been opposed to any upstream damming or diversions of the Nile by the Nile Basin countries, as the country of 85 million – the most populous in the Arab world – depends on the Nile almost exclusively for all its water needs.
Agreements from the 1920s give Sudan and Egypt the right to veto any perceived threat to their Nile.
Ethiopia, on the other hand, determined to exploit its massive latent hydropower potential, began construction on the Grand Renaissance Dam in 2011. Expected to deliver 6000 megawatts, it will be Africa’s largest hydropower dam upon completion.
Relations between Egypt and Ethiopia reached a nadir in June 2013 when then-president Morsi said that “all options”, including military intervention, were on the table if Ethiopia continued to develop dams on the Nile River.
But recently, there has been a thawing in relations. In February, for the first time in five years, Egypt participated on a Nile Basin Summit in Khartoum, where Egyptian irrigation minister Hossam Moghazy said that Egypt was “willing to solve any old problems or differences in views” over the sharing of the Nile river water.
Data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) shows that the volume of Egyptian exports to Ethiopia doubled from $5.2 million in April 2014 to $10.9 million twelve months later, and Egyptian exports to Sudan increased significantly from $32.3m to $45.7m.
Egyptian imports from the Nile Basin countries rose to $32,600 in April 2015 compared with $28,900 in April 2014.
Middle East trade declines
On the other hand, Egypt’s exports to Arab countries declined from $789.8 million to $715.5million, while imports from Arab countries rose to $883.9m in April 2015, compared with $717.3m during the same month of the previous year.
The decline of trade with the Middle East is probably a blip caused by the insecurity in Syria and Iraq, but it also offers a faint hint of the future.
Egypt’s unique geographical position and diverse historical, cultural and ethnical background means that it is at the crossroads of two different identities: Arab and African.
The volume of trade between Egypt and sub-Sahara Africa is low, not exceeding 3% of Egypt’s total trade volume over the past ten years. But the future of Egypt may increasingly be African.
Given the prolonged crisis in the OECD countries, Egypt’s traditional trade partners, and new economic challenges following the revolution including growing fiscal deficits and stagnating domestic production, Cairo would be wise to broaden its economic and diplomatic scope, and take advantage of fast-growing African economies, as well as their abundant natural resources and human capital.
One of the perennial problems that Egypt faces is food security. Only 3.7% of its land is suitable for agriculture – the narrow strip on the banks of the Nile. Food security in Egypt is related to income rather than availability – the average household spends 40.6% of its income on food, and every one out of three Egyptians lives on a poor and undiversified diet.
It is the world’s largest importer of wheat, and so is vulnerable to food price fluctuations; indeed, the initial demands in Cairo’s Tahrir square as the Arab spring was unfolding in January 2011 were related to the price of bread.
Given the availability of arable land in Africa (up to 60% of the world’s unused arable land) and the import demand for food, there is an opportunity for Africa to meet Egypt’s food security needs.
And this June, African leaders signed a 26-nation free trade pact that creates a common market that would span half the continent from Cairo to Cape Town.
The Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) deal caps five years of talks to set up a framework for preferential tariffs to ease the movement of goods in $1 trillion market, home to 625 million people.
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UN special envoy to Iraq survives roadside bomb
Ad Melkert, UN special envoy to Iraq, has survived a bomb attack in Iraq, reports the United Nations. The former leader of the Dutch Labour Party is unharmed.
Mr Melkert was in a convoy which was leaving the city of Najaf on its way to the airport, around 160 kilometres south of the Iraqi capital Bagdad, when a roadside bomb exploded. The blast hit cars a few vehicles back in the convoy. A policeman was killed and three others injured. Earlier, Mr Melkert visited the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, an important Shiite cleric.
Speaking to the Dutch public broadcaster NOS, the Dutch politician said " It was a terrible experience." He refused to speculate about whether he was the main target, but he did say the bombing of the UN convoy was not a coincidence.
It is not the first time that UN representatives have been targeted in Iraq. In 2003, 22 UN employees including then Brazilian UN-envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, were killed when a lorry exploded near the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
In recent years, the situation in Iraq, which has been torn apart by war and sectarian violence since the US–led invasion in 2003, has been gradually improving. The political situation is still very tense. Seven months after the last elections, there is still no government in Iraq. Mr Melkert told journalists that as long as there is no government the situation would not become safer.
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This is the summary for day 30 of the #MyanmarCoup and night 17 of consecutive internet blackouts. So far 1213 people have been arrested, charged, or sentenced and at least 24 are dead. The junta and elected officials vie for legitimacy on the international stage and security forces continue a crackdown in which an estimated 1% of journalists have now been arrested.
Tatmadaw - Day 30 marked the 59th anniversary of the first military coup in Myanmar. The commander in chief, Min Aung Hlaing, announced that the junta is investigating financial abuse by the civilian government.
Security forces continued to crackdown on protests, using water cannon, tear gas, and live and rubber rounds. While there were reports of injuries around the country, no casualties were reported on this day. Security forces were also witnessed to have fired weapons directly into homes after protestors ran into them.
The military appointed election commission also asked for suggestions on switching to proportional representation for a new election, something many smaller parties in Myanmar have asked for in the past. The junta also made an announcement asking security forces not to use live ammunition, which shows that they are trying to frame individual officers as a “bad apples” who disobeyed orders (which they have done in the past) or they do not have control over their own forces (which is highly unlikely).
At least 30 journalists have been arrested, out of an estimated 3,000 in the country, meaning 1%of all journalists have been arrested since the coup began.
CDM - More police officers defect as nationwide crackdowns continue. More townships have formed township committees that are not answerable to the military. The committee of elected MPs have also appointed acting ministers to key ministries, continuing to build the dual power situation in Myanmar. 2,500 Karen villagers protested against Tatmadaw troops presence in Karen state, seeing the Bamar-ethnicity dominant army as a foreign occupation.
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How To Deal With Acne Hidden In The Skin?
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Acne or in the medical world known as acne vulgaris is inflammation that occurs in the skin due to a blockage in the pores of the face or hair follicles due to dirt, or excess oil. Acne itself is not a dangerous skin disease, but sometimes causes problems in appearance and reduce one's confidence.
Symptoms of blackheads themselves are diverse, there are many formations in acne itself, namely blackheads / white patches appear on the surface of the skin, pustules are small lumps at the end with pus, papules are reddish small bumps, large lump cysts where the pockets are filled with pus. Other complaints are usually in the form of pain, and redness on the face. Acne itself can be mild to severe depending on the amount.
Treatment can be done based on the cause itself. Some common causes are:
Excessive sebum production. Sebum is a substance produced by the oil glands to prevent dry skin. Blockage of hair follicles. Bacterial infection. Hormone. Excessive androgen hormone activity can cause acne, usually women tend to stress more often. The use of certain cosmetics. Repeated friction on the skin. Treatment that is commonly done is by giving antibiotic ointments, retinoids, hormone therapy. Non-medication treatment can be done with chemical peels, lasers, corticosteroid injections, and extraction of blackheads.
For that, if you feel disturbed by the presence of pimples on your face, you can consult directly the doctor for treatment problems that can be given, if acne continues to arise, you must undergo regular and periodic treatment.
Right now what you can do is:
Clean your face with facial cleansers that match your skin type. Avoid excessive use of cosmetics, and always clean cosmetics thoroughly. Avoid stress. Avoid squeezing pimples because they can cause new infections. Get enough rest. Avoid smoking, alcohol consumption because it can cause acne. That's all the answers I can give, thank you :) | <urn:uuid:4a66bdd5-163c-4926-9056-4e2fe0273fc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthreplies.com/question/how-to-deal-with-acne-hidden-in-the-skin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.928991 | 474 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Brought to you by the same team who developed Apple's Siri, the new app is still in its developmental phase
What if taking photos of your food could serve a real purpose besides helping you brag on Instagram and Facebook?
SRI International, the lab responsible for the technology behind Siri, is developing an app that would let you snap a picture of your food to get an approximate calorie count, Gigaom reports. It would use image recognition to scan the photo and analyze the different components of your meal.
One of the major challenges here is hidden fats like oil and butter, SRI Ventures executive director Dror Oren tells Gigaom. So while you probably can’t get an exact count, you can still get a fairly accurate range. The team is aware, for example, that some of the best (and most caloric) foods — like burritos — have hidden components, so they’re taking that into account as they continue to develop the app.
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Two creative approaches bring together the many aspects of conventional website development. First, by creating an ecosystem that blends front and backbone functionality, and secondly, by presenting programming capable of functioning effectively in any context. Below are some extensive points conducted to assess the famous software languages and paradigms? Java is a terminology developed by Sun Microsystems and is widely applied in the Functioning coordination.
What is Node.js?
What exactly is Java?
Java is known to be object-oriented programming built on classes and may be used for various purposes. It's the language focused on networks and has few implementation requirements, many of which are represented in the paradigm that is unique to the language: "Script once, runs everywhere" (WORA). This object-oriented programming is built on accessibility and adaptability, making it suitable for use on any computer or operating system. The original intention of Java's original announcement was to facilitate the creation of interactive television; nonetheless, the language quickly rose to prominence as one of the most widely used programming environments in the world. We will define the major characteristics of Node.js and Java to generate a holistic connection between the two of them and determine where use-cases one is superior to the next. These major components would include success, reliability, protection, recordkeeping, and the larger society, and skilled workforce, ease of learning, speed, and cost of implementation.
2. It is the scripting language that could be applied for a variety of purposes to guarantee that website pages are well-matched with a variety of devices as well as browsers.
Node.js versus Java: skill pool
Node.js have maintained its position as the quiet introduction additional for the best programmer language. Approximately 51 percent of respondents demanded to make frequent use of this outline. The Node.js development communal has placed the atmosphere in a respectable seventh position in the category of the most beloved Architecture, Languages, and Technologies. In addition to that, it is ranked first as a few of the quite wanted things. Java, while compared to various computer languages applied during the business, comes in at number 5 on the list of the quite utilized languages and number 10 on the list of the quite appreciated languages.
Why would you want to use Node.js?
1. Real-time applications
3. Android apps
4. Big data analytics projects
5. Internet-based markets and retail outlets
What are the advantages of making use of Java?
Since Java's frontend powers are restricted and need extra packages to check larger currents, the language is quite suited for usage in the backend expansion of apps. Java Outsourcing Company is most effectively employed when:
1. Applications for website
2. software and Applications for the methodical world
3. Android apps
4. Facilities of a monetary nature as well as an online business
5. Applications related to trading
6. Social networking
7. Big data initiatives
1. Developing applications with Node.js is a whole dissimilar mechanism from developing web applications that can be executed in a browser.
4. Because we are aware of how challenging it can be to fully and thoroughly learn a programming language, the fact that you can use the same learning to accomplish all of the ones work on the internet, mostly on the consumer as well as on the server, puts you in a position of distinct advantage.
Over the last several years, Node.js has seen rapid expansion. This is because it offers a plethora of features, including the following:
Nevertheless, if you want to build a web application that works well in the real world, using Node.js is the best option.
When it comes to web applications, it just runs more quickly and is more scalable than Java does. In addition to that, its performance is exceptional. The widespread adoption of Node.js by industry heavyweights demonstrates the flexibility of the platform. In addition to its usage in application frameworks, Node.js is also used in corporate data software, quick application modernization initiatives, and internet of things (IoT) solutions.
To put it in a nutshell, the main distinction between "pure" JS and anything else is that "pure" JS does not provide quite much value when used on its own. You can create code and cause things to occur; however, if there is not an environmental API to support it, the code is meaningless.
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To Major General Benedict Arnold
Head Quarters Middle Brook 7th June 1777
I imagine that since Genl Schuylers departure from Philada you command there. I therefore inclose you the Evidence of a person very lately from N. York, from which as well as from other information it appears that a Fleet is upon the point of sailing from New York1—If Philada should be the place of destination they will make their appearance in Delaware Bay soon after they leave the Hook. I therefore desire that you will as soon as you are certain that the Fleet is in the Bay, give me the earliest Notice by the Expresses that are posted on the Road between this and Philada. Before you send notice to me, be sure that you are not deceived by the signal Guns, which I am told have been fired several times without any Grounds for so doing. A move of this Army upon a false alarm might prove fatal.
Could not you and Genl Sullivan contrive to give each other notice by Signals. We can do it by making lights upon the heights near princetown and at this place, but I am afraid it will be difficult between princetown and philada because the Ground is low. I am &ca.
Copy, in Tench Tilghman’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.
1. This undated intelligence report reads: “Thomas Bowman came from [from] New York last thursday [5 June] about 11 oClock. He left Bristol the 15th March 1777 & came into new York with the last Fleet the 27 May.
“Said in England that about 5000 Troops were to come over. & that there were no more forraigners to be sent to America.
“That near fifty Light Horse arriv’d from England & landed last Tuesday [3 June]. And at the same time three ships loaded with soldiers came in taking about 2 Regiments but did not come ashore. That five Regiments embark’t last Thursday on board Transports. about 50 or 60 Light Horse embarkd likewise.
“That they were preparing a Vessell call’d the Empriss of Russia she is cut down to carry 24. 32 pounders made in the form of a Floating Battery & is near 13.00 Tons.
“30 sail of the line lay at Spit-head when he came away. but that they were not mann’d & that there was a very hot press for Sailors.
“They intend to put General Lee on board a Ship not daring to trust him in N. York—He was at Brunswick about a fortnight ago & saw no Boats but what were for the purpose of transporting provisions.
“That a great many Transports are getting in readiness to take the Troops on board at New York—& and upwards of 40. for the Light Horse—Waggons &c.—They expect to leave 2 Regiments in New York & expect the Shipping will defend the place.
“That 4 Deserters from us came into N.Y. this day week (Sunday.) & told a Colonel that Genl Washingtons Army was but 5000 strong. that the Colo. shook his head & sent them all to prison.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)—an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—has renewed a four-year $1.9 million grant to help FIU increase the number of social workers and counselors trained in providing culturally and linguistically appropriate integrated behavioral health care for medically underserved populations and communities in South Florida.
FIU’s Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program (BHWET-Pro) will annually mentor 26 fellows through coursework at FIU and clinical internships with community partners, and provide fellows with tuition waivers and stipends.
Eric Wagner, professor at Stempel College’s School of Social Work and FIU-BHWET-Pro’s principal investigator, shared that the quality of care provided by interprofessional teams is greatly enhanced when teams include social workers or counselors. These experts help address behaviors contributing to physical problems, like hypertension and diabetes, as well as treating mental health concerns, like depression, anxiety or substance use problems. Social workers and counselors trained in integrated behavioral health care for medically underserved populations will help eliminate health disparities experienced by ethnic, racial and sexual minority groups.
“Most of these primary care settings are not particularly well-prepared to treat the behavioral needs of underrepresented minority populations,” Wagner said. “This is a big component of what our program is about. How do we address these problems and move people toward health and wellness, who otherwise wouldn’t get this kind of care?”
Learning to work together as a team
Sarah Coleman, a master’s student of social work at Stempel College, graduated from BHWET-Pro this summer. As an undergrad, she worked as an intern at an inpatient rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol use and didn’t want it to end.
“I just absolutely loved doing that work. I felt connected to the clients there as some of my family members have struggled with addiction as well,” she said. “I wanted to be able to continue to do this work, and I knew getting my master’s degree was an important step in making that happen.”
At Stempel College, she was selected by the director of the School of Social Work to participate in BHWET-Pro. The program set her up with an internship at Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital, where she was able to apply learnings from her BHWET-Pro coursework to the work she was doing in the field.
“The program helped me understand the importance of having communication with your interdisciplinary team—working with doctors and nurses, and all these different people that are interacting with the same patient,” she said.
Building confidence as a health care worker
Accacia Russell, a master’s student of social work at Stempel College, was drawn to social work because of her passion for helping and connecting with people in need. One of her favorite components of BHWET-Pro was participating in a simulated clinical environment portraying patient scenarios she was likely to encounter in the field.
BHWET-Pro partners with the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine’s Albert and Debbie Tano Medical Simulation Center to provide simulated health care scenarios for BHWET-Pro fellows. The goal of these training sessions is to help build fellows’ confidence in speaking with patients experiencing different behavioral and emotional problems. Wagner and BHWET-Pro’s Clinical Training Director Staci Morris are present to give feedback and guide the students through the simulations.
“We would have an actor playing a patient who had diabetes that also had a smoking and substance abuse problem, had housing instability, possible grief or mental illness, and the possibility of oppression. That’s like five different problem focuses right off the bat,” Russell shared.
Russell says that the simulated clinical environment experience and the guidance she received from the program have helped her immensely with her current internship with the Veteran’s Affairs clinic in South Florida.
“I had a copy and paste experience of what we saw in class, but this time, I had to deal with it on my own,” she said. “The program helped me feel a lot less alone and helped me not feel as anxious while providing care to my clients.”
Wagner is proud of the fellows, like Russell and Coleman, who recently graduated from the BHWET-Pro program; he looks forward to the students that will be part of the fellowship in the near future.
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BMW owners and technicians today are facing the urgent need to read and reset BMW’s unique “factory” engine fault codes and lights. This requires a NON-OBDII tool, such as the low cost R5/FCX3 from Peake Research, which will read and reset factory “dealer” codes and reset BMW’s unique dash lights, like the Oilservice - Inspection and engine lights.
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There is a huge difference between OBDII codes and the highly specific “factory” codes. The R5/FCX3 accesses BMW’s vast array of “factory” diagnostic, analysis and repair codes enjoyed by BMW dealers, where OBDII tools and the misleadingly named “Manufacturer Specific OBDII” tools simply will not. Keep in mind, BMW did not go beyond the governments most narrow and basic legal requirement for OBDII code reading in their cars. Therefore OBDII code readers are of virtually no value outside the realm of smog testing.
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Affordable – Priced similar to a dealer’s diagnostic feed
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Resets "Check Engine" and "Service Engine Soon"
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Very easy to use – takes less than 30 seconds
Includes easy to read code chart and instruction manual
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Compatible Makes & Nations: BMW only / all nations
Diagnostic range: Reads BMW engine fault codes that trigger the Check Engine and Service Engine Soon warning lights.
Reset Functions: Resets the engine fault codes and Check Engine/Service Engine Soon Lights;
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Construction: High impact plastic, gold plated internal connections; 16 bit CPU
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Note 1: In cars with dual connectors (under-dash + under-hood) the car’s under-dash plug has no reset connections! So you MUST use the “under-hood” tool.
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Looking hot, sticky, sweaty, and having a makeup meltdown? Nothing is worse than having a makeup faux pas on a hot summer day; so make your makeup last all day even through the high heat, humidity, pool, summer sun, and ocean water by using a facial primer.
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Using a primer along with a setting spray will help ensure that your face stays looking like a work of art and not like a wet shark!
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Airports 'are more stressful than work or moving house'
Millions of travellers find airports so stressful that they have given up flying, a report reveals today.
While most refuse to give up their holidays, the study shows four in ten Britons who have flown find the airport experience stressful.
More than a third believe it is worse than work, and nearly a quarter think it as stressful as moving house.
Researchers found passengers thought Heathrow was Britain¿s most stressful airport, followed by Gatwick and Manchester
Of the 2,000 holidaymakers
questioned, 9 per cent – or almost four million in the wider travelling
population – now avoid flying because of airport stress including flight
delays, mislaid belongings and getting to the gate on time.
Almost half of travellers believe a holiday doesn’t start until they have left the airport.
The research, conducted for the credit-card insurer CPP, found passengers thought Heathrow was Britain’s most stressful airport, followed by Gatwick and Manchester.
Psychologist David Moxon said: ‘Humans are wired to experience stress in situations where many feel out of control.
‘Airports – where you have to follow instructions that are likely to change at the last minute, and procedures that are unpredictable – lead many to react with a stress response.’
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It’s a simple equation — more peanuts being grown this year means more peanut disease problems.
“Whenever you increase peanut acreage, you have less room to rotate,” says Bob Kemerait, University of Georgia Extension plant pathologist. “And less room to rotate means more problems with soil-borne diseases, nematodes and leafspot.”
For a variety of reasons, peanut acreage has increased in the Southeast this year, with Georgia growers planning about a 20-percent boost, from 550,000 acres to more than 700,000, says Kemerait.
Many growers who are planting peanuts in a field for the first time want to know if they can “get away” with planting peanuts back to back, he says. But numerous research trials have shown a definite advantage to rotating between peanut crops, he adds.
“As you continue to have that crop in the field, the severity of soil-borne and leafspot diseases increases. And if that was all that happened, it wouldn’t matter so much. But coupled with an increase in disease is a loss in yield. The value of your peanut crop continually goes down as peanuts are planted in the same field year after year. That’s why rotation is so important. It doesn’t take very long for the value of your crop to drop after that first year of peanuts,” says Kemerait.
The severity of limb rot, stem rot or white mold, rhizoctonia limb rot and leafspot all increased when peanuts are grown continuously, he says.
In a three-year rotation study testing the severity of white mold in peanuts, bahiagrass proved to be the best rotational crop, says Kemerait. However, corn and cotton also are very good at reducing the level of white mold, he says.
“You can grow whatever you want in your ground, but you have an optimum situation in new ground, so why spoil it? Why not get into a good rotation? You might get away without rotating for a year or two, but do you really want to get away with it? Why not have a top peanut production program?”
Weather, says Kemerait, has a large impact on disease severity in peanuts. This past year, Georgia peanut producers saw a lot of tropical storms and hurricanes, he says.
“We know that in dry weather, you probably won’t have as much trouble with fungal diseases. In fact, you probably could spray less, especially if you use something like the AU Pnut Doppler radar system,” he says.
Several weather factors work against peanut producers, says Kemerait. The first is that wet weather favors the spread of disease, disease infection, and fungal growth.
“Also, wet weather very likely will delay you from spraying. It may rain so much that you can’t get into a field for a period of time. And if it rains too quickly after you apply a fungicide, you could have problems. You might get maximum soil-borne disease control, but you won’t get what you need on leafspot.”
If you spray a fungicide for soil-borne disease control, such as Abound, Folicur, Headline, Artisan, or Moncut, and the rain washes it off quickly, you might actually improve your white mold control, says Kemerait.
“That fungicide is washed from the foliage to the crown of the plant, and that’s a good thing for white mold. It’s not a good thing for leafspot. You’re also putting out those fungicides to control leafspot as well as soilborne diseases.”
Research has looked at the timing of peanut fungicides, or how long a fungicide needs to be on a plant before it is effective. We’re trying to collect data on this, but I have few rules of thumb.”
Headline, says Kemerait, probably requires the least amount of drying time. If it has been on the plant for an hour, or maybe even less, it probably will give good leafspot control, he says.
Chlorothalonil and Abound probably need to dry for two to four hours, says Kemerait, and research shows it may take even longer.
“For Folicur, we used to say four hours and then turn on your irrigation. Now, we’re thinking if you’re putting out just Folicur, you probably need 12 hours to get good leafspot and white mold control. If all you want from Folicur or any soil-borne program is white mold control, you can turn on your irrigation right after spraying and wash it down. However, most growers are relying on a single application for control of white mold and leaf spot.”
Many growers want to know if they need to spray again if they make their fungicide application, and then it rains soon after they leave the field, says Kemerait.
“You have several options. If you spray a fungicide and the rain comes fairly quickly afterwards, your first option is to ignore it and hope that it’s effective. Or, you could spray again to protect those leaves. The risk is that you might have spent time, effort and fuel on an extra fungicide treatment that you didn’t need.
“The third option is what I usually tell growers. If you had any drying time at all, except for the product that requires 12 hours, but you’re not sure you got the efficacy you need, rather than spraying in 14 days, you might shorten that interval and spray in about seven to 10 days.
There has never been a better time to grow peanuts, says Kemerait, because there now are more disease-resistant varieties available to producers. Also, there’s a broad variety of effective fungicides on the market.
In looking at leafspot diseases, early leafspot has been the dominant one since 2000, he says. In 2004, however, late leafspot was much more common in many areas of the Southeast than in previous years. In some areas, it was even more prominent than early leafspot.
“We distinguish between the two because late leafspot could be a bit more explosive than early leaf spot. If you have late leafspot in a field, you need to know that it’s probably producing more spores than the early leafspot with which you’re more familiar. If you add more spores in the right kind of weather, you’ll see a rapid increase in disease.”
There are two types of fungicides — protectant and systemic, says Kemerait. Protectants such as chlorothalonil products need to be on the leaf surface before infection occurs or before the spores infect the leaf, he says.
“Chlorothalonil products can be very effective, and we don’t have to worry too much about fungicide resistance, but they do have limitations. They must be in place, and you must have good timing. A grower can control leafspot effectively by using only these older fungicides, but the newer systemic fungicides offer additional benefits.
“They not only protect the leaf, but they’re able to move into the leaf as well. They also have some curative activity. For example, when you’re delayed getting in your field, or when you’re looking at an extended spray interval, you should spray a fungicide with these added benefits.”
All of these fungicides are very effective, says Kemerait. Since Folicur was labeled in 1994, it has been the backbone — until recently — of soil-borne programs. It also had excellent activity against leafspot, he says.
“In the past, it had been as good as Bravo on leafspot. But in the last couple of years, we have found that the level of control has dropped in some, but certainly not all, fields where it was used. In some research trials conducted in Georgia in 2004, the efficacy of Folicur on leafspot wasn’t what it used to be. We’re not sure why. It could be the weather, application timing, resistance, or some change in the chemistry. Bayer Cropscience, maker of Folicur, is aware of this issue and is taking the right steps to insure that Folicur remains a dependable part of our peanut fungicide arsenal.”
Growers who want to use Folicur have options, says Kemerait. “Some growers have heard that they don’t need to use Folicur unless they tank-mix it with another product for leafspot control.
“But if you have a good rotation, and conditions aren’t favorable for disease, then I don’t think you necessarily need to do that. If you’re at moderate to high risk to leafspot, which would include planting a more leafspot-susceptible variety, having a poor rotation, or having weather patterns that favor leafspot development, then I would consider tank-mixing Folicur with a leafspot control material. Or, you could introduce a product like Headline into a Folicur program to bolster leafspot control.”
There have been several changes in recent years in the control of soil-borne diseases of peanuts, says Kemerait. The first thing is improved varieties, which now have more resistance to soil-borne diseases.
“We have several good, effective fungicides. If you’re staying on a standard program, they’re all very effective. I believe management of soilborne diseases should be the foundation of your fungicide program. When you come up with a fungicide program for 2005, the first thing you should ask yourself is, what can I do to control white mold and limb rot? Soil-borne diseases — more than any other diseases — increase as rotation slacks off.”
Abound, he says, is good on white mold and is considered the best fungicide on limb rot. It also is labeled for the suppression of CBR. Moncut and Artisan are very similar, with good control against white mold and limb rot but not against CBR.
“Despite the leafspot concern, Folicur is an extremely good fungicide for white mold and limb rot control. It also is labeled for the suppression of CBR. Headline offers the best leafspot protection we’ve ever had, but that sometimes overshadows its soilborne effectiveness against white mold and limb rot. Headline also is now labeled for suppression of CBR.”
Metam sodium, he says, is the best material against CBR, applied as a fumigant at 10 gallons per acre prior to planting. Lorsban 15G, says Kemerait, is an insecticide that also has efficacy against white mold. Growers might want to consider using it in a fungicide program for possible increased control in fields where white mold is of particular concern, he says. | <urn:uuid:a10346aa-ac92-4f13-93fc-1f3cd8cf47ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.southeastfarmpress.com/print/more-peanut-acreage-means-more-disease-problems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00230-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958593 | 2,325 | 2.9375 | 3 |
LIFE expectancy at birth has reached its highest level in Scotland, while the number of people living for a century or more has continued to grow.
In 2012, there were 800 people aged 100 or older living in Scotland, according to figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS).
Life expectancy is now 76.5 years for males and 80.7 years for females, based on statistics covering 2010-2012.
Registrar General for Scotland and NRS chief executive Tim Ellis said: "The number of people living in Scotland who are 100 years old or more has been steadily rising.
"In 2002 there were 520 centenarians, increasing to 800 in 2012. The majority of centenarians are females although the proportion who are male has increased from 10% in 2002 to 15% in 2012."
"More generally, while life expectancy at birth in Scotland is higher than it has ever been, life expectancy at birth inScotland is still the lowest within the UK."
Male life expectancy in Scotland is 2.2 years lower than the UK average and female life expectancy is 1.9 years lower.
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Federal Court Refuses to Oppose Wild Horse Roundup…Because It Already Happened
Thursday, August 18, 2011
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to help animal rights advocates stop a wild-horse roundup by using the argument that the capture had already taken place.
At issue was the 2010 round-up of more than 2,000 wild horses and 200 wild burros along the California-Nevada border by the Department of the Interior, which claimed the removal of the animals was necessary for the health of the herds involved.
In Defense of Animals and DreamCatcher Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary filed legal actions beginning in 2009 to stop the capture, arguing that it violated the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
A lower court denied the groups’ motion in August 2010, only days before the roundup took place. They then appealed to the Ninth Circuit, which denied an emergency move for injunctive relief. The latest ruling this month rejected a year-old motion for a restraining order and injunction to halt the round-up.
The appellate panel did state that the plaintiffs’ motion raised “serious legal questions concerning whether the large-scale removal of horses conflicts with the Wild Horses Act and whether an Environmental Impact Statement is required before any action can be implemented.” But the judges weren’t willing to do anything more, such as order the federal government to return the horses to the wild.
Writing in dissent, Judge Johnnie Rawlinson pointed out that, “The horses that were rounded up are currently being kept in various holding areas throughout the southwestern United States. As easily as the horses were transported out of their natural habitat, they can be returned.”
Can't Stop Horse Round- Up That's Already Over (by Tim Hull, Courthouse News Service)
In Defense of Animals v. Department of the Interior (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals) (pdf)
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The California Coastal Conservancy is set to allocate up to $1.5 million toward trail construction in the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park at a meeting scheduled to take place next Thursday, February 14, drastically increasing the total investment to date in developing a 22 mile trail system through the park for use by hikers, cyclists, and equestrians.
In 2003, the Conservancy authorized a $1 million grant to San Diego County to begin the process of developing the trails project, which included design costs and environmental studies throughout the 2,000 acre park. Last year, the county received $450,000 from the Conservancy to build trails on the eastern portion of the land adjacent to Dairy Mart Road. The county overall has received more than $1.2 million to date for additional trails projects from varying sources.
In addition to the $1.5 million in new Conservancy funding, the plan calls for $480,000 to be diverted from the county’s General Fund toward the project.
The new money would go to fund six miles of official trail, in large part improving three existing “unofficial” pathways through the park that range from two to eight feet wide. Improved trails would have a width of four to six feet and be graded to ensure an incline of no more than five degrees. Signage would be installed along the pathways to encourage visitors to stay on the maintained trails and to inform visitors about endangered and protected species that might be encountered.
When completed, the trails system would allow travel from various starting points all the way to the coast, and would connect with Border Fields State Park, the California Coastal Trail, and the Bayshore Bikeway.
Construction on the new additions is expected to begin in September, with a targeted completion date of February 2016.
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Book: One More Play by Dr. James M. Perduecategories: Book, Adversity, Perseverance, Persevere, Challenge, Persistance, Spinal Cord Injury, Tragedy, Triumph Over Tragedies, Motivational, Inspirational, Overcome Adversities
Dr. James M. Perdueabout this book: This is a memoir of my life about my desires of becoming a professional baseball player, after I became a quadriplegic and my overcoming adversities. The title One More Play came because I was through playing football for the day and I heard someone say, "We need someone to run the ball." I replied, "I'll come back for one more play." That incident is responsible for were my life is today.
The book cover demonstrates the significance areas of my life. The baseball bats and ball field represents how I loved to play baseball. The football symbolizes how I became a quadriplegic. The wheelchair – well that show be self explained. Finally, the black Lab Ricardo came to my rescue.
This book will motivate and inspire anyone that has been through adversities. With people returning from our wars with disabilities, this book will demonstrate to them that there is life after becoming disabled.
• "I cried, I laughed, I was deeply touched and inspired!" — Holly Heise
• "This book would be a great gift for someone you know who needs a kick in the pants to get motivated and stop living in their own pity-party." — Dwayne Smith
• "James is inspiring - a motivator of the highest order and his service dog "Ricardo" deserves honorable mention. Ricardo and James are a team - it's true a "love story" about a man and his dog while this wonderful book tells a true account of how James overcame obstacle after obstacle!" — Marshall and Judith Kay Dozier
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Toronto, Ontario — July 16, 2015 — A new property and casualty (P&C) insurer in Canada has just released a report warning that “tempers could flare this season as construction-related delays add to driver frustration.”
The Ingenie Road Rage Report finds summer to be the most infuriating driving season for Ontario motorists. According to the report, 58 percent of young drivers are frustrated by construction-related delays in the warmer months, while only 18 percent are bothered by bad weather in the winter.
“Nobody likes traffic delays and cranky drivers can lead to conflict on the road. But, as a driver your top priority needs to be safety,” says Lorie Phair, CEO of Ingenie Canada. “It’s important not to let emotions get the best of you,”
Many may not recognize the name Ingenie. The company is a very new player in the Canadian P&C market. It’s from the UK and has a fascinating new product.
The company provides what it calls “telematics-based” auto insurance to Ontario drivers aged 16 to 24. The company launched its product—in partnership with Aviva—this past March. The business model is built around a black box in the vehicle that transmits data on braking, acceleration and speed to the insurance company. The company reads the data with an algorithm, reviewing their driving actions every 90 days.
Ingenie builds a picture of a driver’s individual style, awareness and safety on the road. If the driver has been good, they are rewarded with up to 25 percent off their insurance. The product is part of what is becoming known today as User Based Insurance (UBI). The drivers are not rated against other drivers, but rather their own performance. The young drivers learn to improve their own driving by reacting to, or “working against,” their own data. The drivers can learn how to smooth their own driving and how to drive safer by reviewing their performance. The immediate rebates drive the interest in improving driving.
The company’s report findings cite that while the province’s motorists get mad at other rude drivers, they don’t deny adding to the bad behaviour by beeping their horns, flashing their lights and making offensive hand gestures. Ingenie says 5 percent of young drivers admit to using their vehicle to intimidate other motorists, with 37 percent rating their level of road rage to be “medium to high.”
“As a driver, you are responsible for controlling your own vehicle. It’s an important duty that requires your complete attention,” says Phair. “While you may become annoyed by other drivers’ bad habits, it’s not your responsibility to reprimand them. Don’t get emotional, just focus on the task at hand – arriving at your destination safely.”
Ingenie offers up the following six tips to help young motorists keep their cool on the roads this summer:
- Plan your route in advance
- Leave early
- Be considerate to other drivers
- Get a good night’s sleep
- Don’t drive if you’re in a bad mood
- Don’t drive hungry
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Stoneman Brewery is the first beer-selling Consumer Supported Agriculture operation in the country
There is no cell service. Don’t trust Google Maps since street signs were just placed this year. When you get to Colrain, be sure to turn from Adamsville Road to Stetson Brothers Road.
Continue past the cascading willow tree branches fluttering with verdantly green leaves until you find a long stretch of driveway beside the oldest house in Colrain, built in the 1780s. Be mindful of chickens and pigs roaming the grass on the 74-acre farm. Go past the house to the 360 square-foot ramshackle wooden shed leaning behind it, filled with brewing equipment.
There is where you’ll find Justin Korby, long brown beard hanging from his chin and oval wire frame glasses sitting atop his nose, running what he refers to as a lemonade stand on the side of the road. But instead of lemonade, he is selling homemade beer at a stand in his backyard for his business, Stoneman Brewery.
“There’s nobody out here. Western Mass is definitely like a different state,” he said. “It kind of adds to the allure.”
Korby said he first began his business in 2012 after home brewing in his backyard: “I basically never stopped.” As a solo operation, he managed everything from brewing 60 gallons at a time, to selectively choosing the best hops from the Colrain farming community.
“You’re basically ordering beer samples from me in this woodshed that I built,” he said.
Stoneman Brewery is the first beer CSA, or Consumer Supported Agriculture operation in the country. In their model, customers pay in November or December for a year’s worth of Korby’s homemade beer, and can pick it up the first weekend of every month, when his stand is open.
Ten years later, Korby still only uses locally sourced ingredients, and is running the business almost all by himself. The difference is that now he has some help from the devoted beer community Stoneman has created.
Larry Sampson, one of the brewery’s neighbors, began helping Korby with designing the bottle labels in the Adobe Creative Cloud originally in exchange for free beer. After moving west from Waltham about 10 years ago, Korby was one of the first friends that Sampson made in the area; they met through the beer CSA. Now both dads with businesses, they hang out at birthday parties and share homesteading successes and failures outside of talking about beer.
Sampson said Korby comes up with the name of his next brews based on anecdotes, and Sampson tries his best to make it come to life digitally. Sampson said he enjoys the freedoms Korby gives him to create his designs, especially compared to working with larger companies.
“There’s not a lot of steps between designing something and it actually happening,” he said. “With him I get to be very creative.”
The ZZZ IPA, for example, was imagined with a specific story attached to its name. Korby first thought of it when his daughter Maggie wasn’t sleeping through the night for a grueling three-and-a-half years.
“I was paying homage to sleep deprivation and being a new parent,” he said.
One of Sampson’s favorite bottles to design was the Ghost Hog Imperial Brown Ale. The label is a dark teal color with the silhouette of a groundhog holding a pitchfork emblazoned on the front. Korby named the brew after his struggle with getting rid of groundhogs on his farm, as a tribute to the “groundhogs who are no longer with us.”
Nancy Turkle lives directly next door to Stoneman Brewery, and has known Korby since he was an actual stoneman, building a stone wall on his property. She has supported Korby since the brewery’s inception. Turkle admires Korby’s devotion to the craft and his commitment to supporting local agriculture.
“He has so much integrity, and he really doesn’t cut the corners,” she said.
As far as Turkle is concerned, Korby isn’t just the owner of a neighboring brewery. They sometimes have potlucks together and spend time at one another’s homes.
Like countless small businesses, Korby said Stoneman Brewery suffered as a result of COVID-19. The pandemic abruptly put a halt on plans to expand the business, leaving him with around $100,000 in debt.
In the time since, Korby revitalized the brewery, while Turkle and others have donated money to help keep things running. Korby said he currently has around 50 CSA members and hopes to increase to around 100 to make the business more economically viable. As a part of his efforts, Korby is working with Kyra Kristof, a member of the CSA and a local artisan. Their collaboration project, Forest Kitchen, aims to represent different parts of their region through the specialized use of native plants.
“I have so much appreciation for Justin’s creativity,” she said. “In getting to collaborate with him, the thing that is so clear (is that) he has so much knowledge, deep knowledge and skill in his craft, and a lot of curiosity.”
Kristoff said no matter what region she turns to, Korby is able to create a delicious beer.
“When he forms a commitment to something, he just makes it possible, and that’s been really extraordinary,” she said.
Korby said he currently has no plans to expand his business as he recovers financially, but wants to keep brewing new beers and eventually broaden the brewery.
For now, customers will continue to drive down the tree-lined rural streets of Colrain and pass under the willow tree’s embrace to enter a hidden world of local beer.
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There is nothing more romantic than a train journey in a foreign country. The train takes you through one impressive landscape after another. The only thing you hear as an observer is the uninterrupted, rhythmic sound of the carriages. You enjoy delicious food and sleep comfortably. These are 7 great train journeys in Europe for your bucket list!
From Norwegian Bergen to the capital Oslo
Many consider the train journey from Bergen to Oslo and vice versa one of the most beautiful train journeys in Europe. The train climbs over 1200 metres from sea level. You pass charming villages, large forests, immense fjords, blue lakes, rivers and impressive waterfalls. You can do this train journey the whole year round.
The Mittenwaldbahn, popularly known as the Karwendelbahn, is a railway in the Austrian and German Alps. The north-south route starts in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany. The railway then winds through Mittenwald before making an impressive descent to Innsbruck along the steep Inn Valley.
Bernina Express through Switzerland
The Bernina Express runs from Switzerland’s oldest city Chur via St Moritz to Tirano in Italy. This highest train route in the Alps leads through breathtaking alpine landscapes. And over the “Rhätische Bahn”: an architectural masterpiece and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The “Hogwarts Express” through Scotland
Discover the beauty of Scotland on one of the world’s most famous train journeys: the Jacobite steam train, known from the Harry Potter films. The train journey through the Scottish Highlands takes you past some famous Harry Potter film locations. Like the extremely iconic Glenfinnan Viaduct.
The Cinque Terre Express in the Italian Riviera
The five particularly picturesque villages of the Cinque Terre are the crown jewels of Italy’s Ligurian coast. Because the villages are built against or on top of the steep cliffs, you cannot get there by car. But you can get there by train! Between the many tunnels, you have unparalleled views of the Mediterranean Sea.
Glacier Express in Switzerland
The Glacier Express train is the most famous train and “slowest express train” in the world. The train crosses the Swiss Alps and offers passengers one of the most beautiful landscapes imaginable. The journey leads through breathtaking mountain scenery, deep gorges, picturesque valleys, 91 tunnels and across 291 impressive bridges.
Transcantabrico from San Sebastian to Santiago de Compostela
Boarding the Spanish “Transcantábrico Gran Lujo” is like going back in time. That is, to the beginning of the last century when the luxury saloons of this train first rolled onto the tracks. The extremely comfortable train journey from San Sebastian to Santiago de Compostela takes more than a week. Yet you will want to do it again afterwards!
Fantastic train journeys outside Europe
Have you already gone on some wonderful train journeys through Europe and want something more? You can also go on the most beautiful trips on an iron horse outside of Europe. How about the Rocky Mountaineer through the beautiful, vast nature of Canada?
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As some of you will already have noticed, we have updated our interactive map with some new features. Our new map is now 3D and shows the diversity and richness of our global network in a new way. The map highlights the Jesuit Schools around the world and the countries which have Fe y Alegría schools and educational projects. Here is all you need to know on using the new map.
Updated school finder
The updated school finder allows you to quickly find your school on the map. Simply hover over the school finder box and enter the name of your school. You can also enter the name of a city of country.
Updated styles and layers
The map now resembles our printable map which is colored by Jesuit Regions; Africa & Madagascar, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, North America and South Asia.
School profile link
When you are looking at a school profile, look out for the ‘School Location’ link. This will take you directly to the school on the interactive map.
The new map is available in English, French And Spanish.
There are new controls on the top-right corner of the map.
- The map icon allows you to toggle the style of the map between the Educate Magis style and the Real world Style. This is useful when viewing a school close up, as you can get a real-world view of the location.
- The School icon appears if you are logged in and have linked a school to your profile. Clicking this will show you your school on the map.
- The compass icon will toggle the orientation of the map.
- The resize icon will reset the map to its original view
- The and icons allow you to zoom in and out
There are some extra controls which are hidden. Here are a few to try:
- Double click your mouse on a location to zoom in
- Double click your mouse while holding the shift key on a location to zoom out
- Hold down the Ctrl (Mac: Command) key and then hold down the left click on your mouse. Moving the mouse should now rotate the map
- Hold down the Shift key and then move the arrow keys. This will rotate the map
- Hold down the Shift key and then hold down the left click on your mouse. Moving the mouse should allow you to zoom in to a specific location
The technical stuff
The new map is supported in all modern browsers on desktop and mobile platforms. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge run a lighter version of WebGL and may not run as smoothly. The best user experience will be on the latest Chrome browser. For older browsers such as Internet Explorer 10 or lower, our legacy map will load.
Please let us know your experience of using the map. Contact Ciara and let us know how you found the new interactive map. If your school is not on the map, it may not have a location, so please contact us and let us know.
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In the behavioral sciences, there is some confusion about the meaning of the terms signal and cue (as with so many other terms) and some authors use it interchangeably. To make it even more difficult, communication theory also uses the same terms with slightly different meanings and in the theatre and movies world a ‘cue’ is actually a ‘signal.’
However, in behavioral sciences, the general consensus (see references below) is that signal and cue have the following meanings.
A signal is a perceivable behavior or feature that has evolved and has acquired the specific characteristic of conveying information about the signaler or the signaler’s environment. Information (communication) changes the behavior or the beliefs of the receiver.
This definition of signal implies that if a signal changes the behavior of an organism, this change of behavior must be profitable to both sender and receiver more often than not, or otherwise, signalers would cease to send the signal and receivers would cease to respond. This definition distinguishes, in principle, a signal from coercion, although some signals may be coercive, e.g. threats.
In general, signals must be honest and reliable, or otherwise they cease to have any effect (receivers don’t behave appropriately) and they undermine communication (honest senders will not benefit from sending the signals). However, some signals can tolerate a certain degree of dishonesty, all depending on the costs and benefits for all parties. H. W. Bates discovered in 1861 that some (palatable) butterflies had an advantage in mimicking (Batesian mimicry) poisonous butterflies, which is detrimental to the poisonous butterflies inasmuch as it turns their signals of unpalatability less reliable. On the other side, some species use the same signals to convey the same information and they all benefit from it (Mullerian mimicry).
A cue is any feature that an organism can use as a guide to display a particular behavior or series of behaviors. The classical example is the mosquito seeking a mammal to bite and flying up wind when it detects CO2. The CO2 is a cue for the mosquito, but it is surely not a signal sent by the mammal, which would prefer to remain undetected and not be bitten. Intentionality is the key element to distinguish signals from cues.
A cue is a regularity, a pattern that either is permanently ‘on,’ or is ‘on’ and ‘off” depending on specific conditions, e.g. a rock, a tree, or the position of the sun in the sky cues us of directions, and dark clouds cues us of impending rain. The rock, the tree, the sun and the clouds are not there to give us information, but they do if we interpret them correctly. A signal is more malleable, more intentional and we can turn it ‘on’ and ‘off’ in response to relevant cues in the environment, e.g. the warning cry that many species (signal) issue in response to the appearance (cue) of a feared predator.
Cues are traits or actions that benefit the receiver exclusively. The sun and the rock do not profit from us getting our bearings. When a mouse by accident makes a rustling sound in the leaves and attracts a predator increasing the risk of being killed, the sound is a cue for the predator about the location of its prey. When an alert animal deliberately gives a warning call to a stalking predator resulting in the predator giving up the hunt, this sound, the alert call, is a signal both for conspecifics and the predator. Different species can, thus, communicate by means of signals which both recognize and behave accordingly.
Secondary sexual traits are features that distinguish the two sexes of a species, but that are not directly part of the reproductive system. They are probably the product of sexual selection for traits, which give an individual an advantage over its rivals in courtship and competitive interactions. Secondary sexual traits are also cues for the opposite sex. They are not directly related to a better production of offspring, but are normally good indicators of better sperm quality or egg production, e,g, manes of male lions (Panthera leo) and long feathers of male peacocks (Pavo cristatus). In humans, visible secondary sexual traits include enlarged breasts of females and facial hair on males.
The study of signals and cues is more complex that it may appear at first sight. Cues can become signals. In 1952, Niko Tinbergen described ritualization as the evolutionary process whereby a cue may be converted into a signal, e.g. the canine behavior of baring teeth. In 1975, Zahavi described the handicap principle where the reliability of some signals is ensured because they advertise greater costs than absolutely necessary, e.g. the exaggerated plumage of the peacock.
We must understand correctly what the intentionality of signals means and not to confound the intentionality of the signal itself with its origin, development and evolution. Signals do not origin by design with a determined purpose. Some features or behaviors just happen at a certain time to be efficient for an organism in generating in another organisms the right behavior at the right time. If they convey an advantage to these organisms in their struggle for survival (and reproduction), they will spread in the population (provided these organisms reproduce). With time, they gain intentionality and become true signals, but their origin was accidental like everything else. This is the reason why I had to modify (some extensively) the definitions I use in this text and I had to create new ones—to make them compatible with the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Applying the principle of simplicity, as always, I suggest the following definitions:
A signal is everything that intentionally changes the behavior of the receiver. A cue is everything that unintentionally changes the behavior of the receiver.
These definitions open for the possibility to better distinguish between the intentional signals (proper signals) we send and the unintentional ones (which are cues). For example, many dog owners say “no” to their dogs meaning “stop what you are doing,” but their (unintentional) body language (cue) says “yes.”
In conclusion: signal is the most correct term to denominate what we use when we communicate with our animals; and signals may assume many forms, auditory (the words we use), visual (the hand movements and body language we use), olfactory (in canine detection work), tactile (a touch, very common in horse training) and probably also palatable.
So, enjoy the consequence of your (intentional) signals and be careful with any cues you may be (inadvertently) sending to your favorite animal. Enjoy as well your further studies of this fascinating topic: animal communication.
References and further readings
- Dawkins, M. S., and T. Guilford (1991). The corruption of honest signalling. Animal Behaviour 41:865–873.
- Donath, J. (2007). Signals, cues and meaning (February draft for Signals, Truth and Design. MIT Press)
- Hasson, Oren (1997). Towards a general theory of biological signaling. Journal of Theoretical Biology 185: 139-156.
- Hauser, Marc D. and Mark Konishi, eds. (1999). The design of animal communication. Cambridge: Bradford/MIT Press.
- Maynard Smith, John and David Harper (1995). Animal signals: Models and terminology. Journal of Theoretical Biology 177: 305-311.
- Maynard Smith, John and David Harper (2003). Animal signals. Oxford University Press, UK.
- McFarland, D. (1999). Animal Behaviour. Pearson Education Limited, UK.
- Otte, D. (1974). Effects and functions in the evolution of signaling systems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systemat- ics 5:385–417.
- Saleh, N et al. (2007) Distinguishing signals and cues: bumblebees use general footprints to generate adaptive behaviour at flowers and nest. Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2007, 1:119–127
- Schaefer, H. M. and Braun, J. (2009). Reliable cues and signals of fruit quality are contingent on the habitat in black elder (Sambucus nigra). Ecology, 90(6), 2009, pp. 1564–1573.
- Searcy, W. A., and S. Nowicki (2005). The evolution of animal communication. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
- Tinbergen, N. (1952). The curious behavior of the stickleback. Scientific American December 1952.
- Zahavi, A. (1975). Mate selection: a selection for a handicap. Journal of Theoretical Biology 53:204–214.
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Simply brilliant: the booze-o-meter, the nine-inch plate, and the sleeve song
December 27, 2009 -- Several press pieces this month highlight deceptively simple nursing innovations with great potential to improve health. Two focus on helping people avoid deadly overindulgence. Today, the Deadline Press & Picture Agency (Edinburgh, Scotland) ran an article by Rory Reynolds about "former nurse" John Sharp, now a local council member, who has invented a glass design that shows drinkers how many units they are drinking, in an effort to reduce what the piece calls Scotland's "binge-drinking culture." (Of course, Sharp is no more a "former" nurse than a physician who no longer practiced would be a "former" physician.) On December 15, the Miami Herald ran a substantial Q&A between Teresa Mears and Christine Bromley, who practiced for years as a home health nurse before starting One Helping Helps Many, a company that sells nine-inch dinner plates to help people maintain portion control and thus reduce overeating. And on December 9, the Cleveland Banner (Tennessee) published an item by Linda Womack about Misi Rollins Austin, a clinical nurse manager for a local school district who created the song and video "Aim for Your Sleeve," sung to the tune of the Addams Family theme, to help kids remember how to reduce the risk of infection when they cough or sneeze. Each of these ideas helps people think more clearly about basic daily decisions, and they may seem simple. Indeed, they would likely be mocked mercilessly on the most popular Hollywood shows like House and Grey's Anatomy, which glorify high-tech interventions and convey little sense of broader public health issues. But these nurses' innovations could make the difference between life and death for many. We thank those responsible for these press items.
The Deadline agency article "Former nurse patents booze-o-meter glass" explains that "former Scots nurse" Sharp has "successfully patented" a glass design that "can be printed on wine, beer and spirit glasses to provide a visual of how much booze is being consumed." Although Sharp is reportedly "now a councillor for Moray Council," that does not make him a "former" nurse; nursing is a profession, not a part-time temporary job. And although there is nothing here to relate Sharp's idea to the specifics of his nursing background, it is the kind of pragmatic intervention at which nurses excel, and one which, the piece notes, "could become a regular sight in bars across Scotland."
Most of the report consists of helpful quotes. Sharp explains that "alcohol is measured in units, but nobody really knows what a unit is. There are no glasses available that actually measure units so I began to investigate." Although the piece does not say how Sharp plans to distribute the glasses, it does say that he hopes that the government and "pressure groups" will help him promote the glasses, since, as he notes, "there could be fairly vested interests against such an idea by drinks producers and those who make and sell alcohol, because that's their business."
The piece also consults several health experts about the idea, though none appears to be a nurse, even though nurses are perhaps most likely to confront the effects of excessive alcohol consumption and they have been at the forefront of efforts to address it in the U.K. Professor Grant Cumming, who seems to be a public health expert, notes that Sharp's idea could have real effects:
The idea is brilliant, what you're doing is graphically seeing how much you're drinking... We've got to do something, because as taxpayers we can't afford it. The whole thing is about modifying behaviour, it's gently nudging our behaviour, it's just making you think a bit more -- it's as simple as that.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon adds: "Studies have shown that while many people know that the daily unit guidelines are three to four for men and two to three for women, they find it hard to relate that to their own drinking." And Jack Law, who directs Alcohol Focus Scotland, confirms:
[W]e know that there is a limited understanding of what a unit of alcohol actually means in terms of a drink. People think that a glass of wine is one unit of alcohol, but of course this depends on the strength of the wine and the size of the glass.
All of these quotes are helpful, because they aren't just general testimonials. They explain why Sharp has put his finger on a key but overlooked element of alcohol abuse, the ease with which people--who have been drinking, after all--can lose track of how much they've had.
The Miami Herald item "Changing diets on nine-inch plates" has a fairly in-depth Q&A with Christine Bromley, a Fort Lauderdale woman who "worked for many years as a nurse, teaching her recovering cardiac and diabetes patients how to eat right." This is better than "former nurse," though we like "practiced" better than "worked" as a nurse. The item's introduction notes that Bromley "didn't always take those lessons [about eating right] home, and she struggled with her weight for years." So Bromley created One Helping Helps Many, a company that sells nine-inch dinner plates as "part of what is called the Small Plate Movement, which advocates that both families and restaurants downsize their plate sizes[, citing] studies that show that people eat less when the food is served on smaller plates." Bromley donates 15 percent of the company's profits to charities that help children.
Bromley explains that her practice as a home health nurse "was mainly teaching patients."
I taught them how to change their lifestyles, and a big part of that was their diet. Though they were taught that they had to cut down their portions, they fought it all the way. They didn't know how to change a lifestyle. It all began with the plate. We had tools that showed where the vegetable goes, where the protein goes, and it was much smaller than the average 12- or 14-inch plate. ... I had battled the bulge my whole adult life. I had gone to every diet center and did great, and then when it came time for maintenance and returning back to normal food, I blew it because I was going back to the big plates.
Bromley goes on to discuss some of the roots of the difficulties with portion control, including the childhood injunction to clean your plate, and cultural practices that associate eating more with family bonding. She says that when she discovered the small plate movement, she was surprised to find that there were actually not any mainstream nine-inch dinner plates available. So she made some. Bromley also explains the difference small plates can make:
Our plates have increased in size since the '60s to 36 percent bigger. They said just by cutting down a plate two inches, from 12 inches to 10 inches, you cut calories 22 percent. If you eat like that for one year, you'll lose 15 to 20 pounds. I know from nursing that just a 15-pound weight loss in someone who's overweight improves their health dramatically.
And Bromley offers some advice that readers can use to maintain a healthy weight whether they buy her plates or not, noting that people can always eat on nine-inch salad plates, and that in any case, "eating three meals a day is the best defense against overeating." By allowing Bromley to explain what she is doing with the plates, the piece gives readers a good sense of the thinking behind the plates and shows that nurses are knowledgeable, articulate public health advocates.
The Cleveland Banner item "'Aim for your sleeve' song meant to help cut germ spread" reports that Misi Rollins Austin, who is clinical nurse manager for Bradley County Schools and a school nurse at Oak Grove Elementary, wrote "Aim for Your Sleeve" to "encourage students to practice frequent hand washing and basic hygiene to prevent spreading flu and other common seasonal illnesses." The chorus of the song, which is sung to the tune of the Addams Family theme: "When you cough, when you sneeze, aim for your sleeve." Austin also created a DVD with elementary kids singing the song and demonstrating the idea in it, to help people see what she means by "aim for your sleeve." (See the video.) She explains:
The song encourages the kids to cough and sneeze into their arm instead of their hands, because hand washing is not always available and germs can be spread so easily. It's very age appropriate and it's fun. After coming up with this song and teaching the kids, we saw results very fast.
Austin sent a copy of the DVD to the Tennessee Association of School Nurses. The Association asked her to present the video at a conference, and she was then "overwhelmed by requests for the DVD from school nurses all over the state." Austin "hopes the song can remind students to be more health conscious and help cut down the number of unhealthy students." The report might have given more detail about how the sleeve practice can prevent infections, and the effects of influenza and other illnesses on public health, as well as on the students' education. But the piece is still a good example of a striking public health innovation by a school nurse.
Nursing innovations like these can be easy to ignore or undervalue. They often build on ground-level insights about how the social environment and personal practices affect people's health, such as how people eat, drink, or respond to apparently minor irritations like the need to cough or sneeze. However, these ideas are based on nursing training and experience, they apply prior health research, and they often have the potential (as the ideas above do) to save many lives. But because these ideas may not inspire as much shock and awe as high-tech innovations like a new kind of transplant procedure or a new "miracle drug," the ideas are likely to receive far less attention, respect, and funding. The heroes on the most popular Hollywood shows, like Greg House, would doubtless have nothing but contempt for these ideas, although the nurse characters on NBC's Mercy have repeatedly come up with comparable innovations to help patients.
If nursing was funded according to its potential, the world would likely be a very different place. In the meantime, press articles like the three described above are an important way to help the public understand the value of nursing ideas, and we commend those responsible. | <urn:uuid:ef4af5e4-473a-46fa-8f2b-0f539a192cb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.truthaboutnursing.org/news/2009/dec/27_innovations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.975316 | 2,148 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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According to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), health care costs will increase 7.5% next year, compared to 9.6% in 2009, when the recession kicked in. PwC identifies as the main drivers behind this slowdown a reduction in medical equipment costs, the shift in doctor compensation from fee-for-service to one based on a patient’s outcome, the use of generics as more drugs lose their patents, and price transparency. “What surprised me most when we talked to health plans in particular, is that many were able to explain why health care costs increases came down, but few could say why they could see a resurgence next year; the trend for going back up is not very strong,” says Mike Thompson, the study’s primary author.
Economists are pondering whether the slowdown in health care costs ushers in a permanent shift in the way patients consume health care, but it is highly unlikely that the trend will reverse. The reason: consumers are increasingly paying out-of-pocket for health care in the form of higher deductibles and premiums. In PwC’s survey of 1,400 employers, more than half plan to increase their employees’ share of health care costs.
As consumers start bearing the brunt of costs, they are going to shop around and push for greater price transparency. Prices for medical procedures and tests are mostly based on negotiations between health care providers and health insurers, and are kept confidential. As a result, prices can vary widely. In San Francisco, for example, the price of a cholesterol test ranges from $11 to $150. Used to having their employer pick up most of the tab, patients are now shocked to discover those price discrepancies. As reported in the Los Angeles Times, a woman who paid $2,236 for a CT scan at a Long Beach Calif. hospital sued her health plan, when she found out that it cost $1,054 if she hadn’t used her insurance. More startling, the cash price for a CT scan at a nearby medical center was only $250.
Patients will be battling with health care providers and insurance companies--some more enlightened than others, for their right to know how much medical services cost, before they pay for them. It won’t be easy. As health care investment analyst Avik Roy pointed out in his Forbes blog, an Arizona state senator tried in vain to pass a bill which would have required health care providers to post direct pay prices for common procedures. She blamed “swarms of lobbyists” for the bill’s failure to pass.
In the meantime, start-ups have spotted an opportunity to help patients reduce their health care costs, either by providing more clarity on prices, or rewarding healthy behavior by reducing out-of-pocket expenses. Here are a few:
1- Castlight Health: Allows employees of self-insured companies to compare prices for medical procedures and tests. Customers include Honeywell, Life Technologies, and Willis North America.
2- GoodRx: The insured and uninsured can shop around for the cheapest drug price. In my neighborhood, thirty 10 mg tablets of the generic version of cholesterol drug Lipitor cost between $76.20 for a mail order from FamilyMeds (free shipping) and $102.27 at Rite-Aid.
3- SeeChange Health: Members lower out-of-pocket expenses by taking preventive steps, such as check-ups and basic blood tests. Health plans are available in California, and roll out in Colorado next month.
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July 18, 1984
Nelson Mandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
Just over a month after Nelson Mandela was jailed for life he was awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace by the World Peace Council (WPC). This is the highest award given out by the WPC.
July 19, 1984
Captain Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first woman captain a Boeing 747 aircraft
In 1984 Lynn Rippelmeyer became the first female captain of a 747 airplane. She was also a member of the first all-female crew and the first person to captain a 747 Trans-Atlantic flight. She was also the first flight attendant to retrain as a commercial airline pilot
July 20 1837
London Euston railway station opens
London Euston opened on July 20 1837. The original Euston railway Station was London’s first mainline station and connected London with Birmingham. It was redeveloped in the 1960s, and remains one of the busiest stations in the UK.
July 21 1853
New York’s Central Park voted to be created
In New York state legislature, it was decided that 750 acres would be set aside on Manhattan Island to create Central Park. It was completed in 1856.
July 23 1903
Ford sells first car
Ford sold their first automobile, the Ford Model A on July 23 1903. Ernest Pfennig, a dentist from Chicago, was the first owner. The car came in either a 2 or 4 seat model, with a maximum speed of 28 mph (45 km/h)
July 24 1967
First modern hospice is created by Dr Cicely Saunders
Dr Cicely Saunders created the first modern hospice. She set about to revolutionise palliative care after falling in love with a patient who would later die. She experienced grief from the death of her father and a friend at the same time, and after seeking finance created St Christopher’s Hospice. The hospital combined modern methods including teaching, clinical research and holistic methods to deliver the best care. Their aim was to serve the spiritual needs of patients and their family members. Their motto was “you matter because you are you, you matter to the last moment of your life”. | <urn:uuid:f9f72668-1a69-4eee-bfc6-c4519cfffe3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thegoodnewshub.com/history/nelson-mandela-awarded-first-woman-to-pilot-a-747-central-park-approved/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974553 | 463 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The suspected bank robber held the 40-year-old Deutsche Bank employee for several hours before surrendering to the police on Saturday morning. He had first demanded €100,000, then a half million euros than upped it to a million and asked for safe passage. He also threatened to blow up the bank if his demands were not met.
The man’s weapon was later revealed as fake as was the “bomb” he reportedly intended to use to destroy the bank. After the man surrendered to the police and they were able to inspect the “bomb” it turned out to be three kilos of flour.
The paper said the apparent motive was that the man was in debt, but police officials at a press conference on Saturday refused to elaborate on the motive.
Jochen Sindberg, head of the Berlin police’s criminal department, said the man first entered the bank in the wealthy neighbourhood of Zehlendorf on Thursday and wanted to open an account, which was not possible to due technical reasons at the time. He left, but returned on Friday and asked for credit.
The 40-year-old manager who became a hostage entered into talks with the man, who at some point expressed his “wish” and showed the bank employee his gun and bomb, which turned out to be fake. He then said he wanted €100,000 immediately, but soon raised the financial stakes.
The bank employee told the man that he needed to get an okay from the branch manager and had to call him, which he was allowed to do. The police told reporters at that point the man thought that he would get the money.
“The bank director acted very professionally,” said Sindberg. “He evacuated the branch, called the police and told the perpetrator that he wasn’t able to do business with him.”
Police officials said in their negotiations with the man it was clear that he was not a professional bank robber and did not want to harm his hostage, but was more interested in getting the money and a safe passage out.
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LEGO City Volcano Exploration Base (60124)
Take part in the big discoveries with the Volcano Exploration Base, featuring a volcano with eruption function, mobile operations center with detachable truck cab and side opening lab, large excavator with extendable hammer arm that moves up and down, drone with spinning rotors, wheeled dumper, ‘lava' boulders with crystal elements inside and various tools. Includes 6 minifigures.
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- Mobile operations center features a detachable truck cab with space in the back to carry a boulder, rolling wheels and a side that opens to reveal the operations center.
- Excavator features an extendable hammer arm.
- Wheeled dumper features rolling wheels and a handle.
- Drone features spinning rotors.
- Use the lever to trigger the volcano eruption.
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- Accessory elements include 4 boulders, 4 crystal elements, shovel, pickaxe, walkie-talkie, camera, crowbar, drill and a metal detector.
- Headgear accessory elements include 3 hard hats, baseball cap, adventurer's hat and a heatsuit helmet.
- Volcano measures over 5” (13cm) high, 6” (17cm) wide and 6” (17cm) deep.
- Boulder rack measures over 2” (6cm) wide, 2” (6cm) deep and under 1” (2cm) high.
- Mobile operations center with truck measures over 4” (12cm) high, 12” (31cm) long and 2” (7cm) wide.
- Excavator measures over 5” (14cm) high, 6” (17cm) long and 3” (10cm) wide.
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Mount Kilimanjaro National Park
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Below the breathless rhetoric
of anti-choice extremists, there has been a quiet – yet swelling – murmuring
this week. These are the voices of women who seek later abortions,
the voices of Dr. George Tiller’s patients. These are
the voices that matter.
The stories emerging are of
women and men and couples and families, some of whom would never have
considered themselves supporters of abortion access. Some are
stories of extreme poverty that prevented women from reaching abortion
providers within the first trimester -a s low-income women, rural women,
and young women are far likelier to seek later abortions due to the
significant obstacles they face in obtaining care.
Others are stories of severe
health risks, medical necessity, fetal abnormality. But whatever
a woman’s (or couple’s or family’s) reason was for entering the
Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, she encountered only kindness.
Understanding. Respect. Professionalism.
One person standing in front
of another, asking for help, and finding compassion. One person saying,
"I need this," and the other person saying, "I will provide you
with what you need."
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The high-pitched keening of
"baby killer" is utterly irrelevant here. Irrelevant, too,
are our own biases about which abortions are necessary, justifiable,
or merciful. When faced with real families and real stories and the
dazzling complexity of women’s lives, the one-dimensional slogans
and false righteousness of the extreme anti-choice movement are revealed
again as flimsy and hollow distractions that disregard women’s realities
Women’s reasons for obtaining
abortion care are as varied as the spectrum of human experience.
And while Dr. Tiller was a compassionate caregiver for thousands of
women in crisis situations, he believed strongly that abortion was a
right belonging to all women. In a rare 2001 public statement,
Dr. Tiller said, "This battle is about self-determination by women
of the direction and course of their lives and their family’s lives.
Abortion is about women’s hopes and dreams.
"Abortion is a matter of
survival for all women."
A climate in which any woman’s
sovereignty over her own body is questioned is a climate hostile to
the rights and futures of all women. Access to competent
and compassionate abortion care-financial access, medical access,
legal access, and cultural access-is an issue of dignity and human
rights. Dr. Tiller understood this.
There is a certain hubris to
claiming that we can anticipate our reactions to every future situation.
And true humility comes from respecting that women’s lives are their
own-only they truly know what they can handle. Dr. Tiller was
a champion to those who needed him, and a symbol of integrity and nobility
and grace to many others. May we all be so fortunate as to find
a compassionate champion like Dr. Tiller in our times of need.
At the request of Dr. Tiller’s
clinic and our friends and supporters, the National Network of Abortion
Funds created the George Tiller Memorial Abortion Fund on late Sunday
evening after Dr. Tiller’s murder. Information about the Fund
can be found at www.nnaf.or/tiller.html.
The National Network of
Abortion Funds is an affiliation of 104 abortion Funds in 41 states,
the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, and the UK, including an international
web-based Fund. The Network and our member Funds worked closely
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ATLANTA | A federal grant is expected to help the Georgia Bureau of Investigation organize evidence that could help solve cold cases and exonerate those who may have been wrongfully convicted.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the GBI is using a $424,000 federal grant to begin organizing DNA samples taken during sexual assault cases from decades ago.
The Georgia Innocence Project and district attorneys will be able to review evidence to identify potential cold case suspects, and use DNA evidence to possibly exonerate those who may have been wrongfully convicted.
George Herrin, director of the GBI Crime Lab, says he expects the database to streamline the evidence gathering process.
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To this end, the East Russia-Japan Expert Education Consortium (RJE3 Consortium) was formed based on the achievements and networks regarding joint field studies developed between Hokkaido University and Russian universities (among them are two UArctic members: North-Eastern Federal University and Far Eastern Federal University) in terms of the environment, natural disasters, ethnic groups, languages, culture and other areas. The membership includes a core of five universities in the Russian Far East, several graduate schools of Hokkaido University, and representatives from local governments and industries in Hokkaido and the Russian Far East.
This program was selected for the 2014 Re-Inventing Japan Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
On 19th December 2014, the first RJE3 symposium was held and 90 people attended this event.
The participants discussed ideal programs integrating humanities and sciences that provide students with expertise while developing comprehensive knowledge in the fields of environmental assessment, cultural diversity, soil and productivity, regional resource development and disaster prevention management.
In addition to this event, the RJE3 Program held “Basic Subjects” from 16th to 20th March 2015 and 55 Russian and Japanese students participated in this program.
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Places of Interest
Rani ki Vav
Rani ki Vav or ‘Queen’s Stepwell’ is a unique step well located in the small town of Gujarat called Patan. Located on the banks of River Saraswati, it is not only a distinctive form of water resource and storage system but also represents a unique craftsmanship.Rani ki vav is an intricately constructed stepwell situated in the town of Patan in Gujarat, India. It is located on the banks of Saraswati River. Rani ki vav was built as a memorial to an 11th-century AD king Bhimdev I . It was added to the list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites on 22 June 2014. Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the third millennium BC. Rani ki vav was built in the complex Maru-Gurjara architectural style with an inverted temple and seven levels of stairs and holds more than 500 principal sculptures.
Rani ki Vav bagged the title of “Cleanest Iconic Place” in India at the Indian Sanitation Conference (INDOSAN) 2016 in New Delhi in October 2016. The monument was felicitated at the conference, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
There are as many as 100 and more temples in Patan dedicated to various gods including a number of Jain temples. The most famous of these are Mahavir Swami Derasar in Dhnadherwad and Panchasara Derasar.There are other five jinalayas in this complex Moreover, there are dharamshalas and Bhojanshalas with all facilities for the last many Years a three day festival is celebrated on The account of anniversary of the jinalaya.
One of the largest temples is the Panchasara Parshvanath Jain Derasar, with refined stone carvings and white marble floors, a depiction of the vast Jain architecture. All Jain temples were previously carved in wood, but the builder Uda Mehta declared that all temples be built in stone, for one small mishap might destroy the entire temple. The Gyan Mandir contains around twenty-five thousand ancient manuscripts of Sanskrit and Prakrit, due to which, Patan became a seat for Sanskrit and Prakrit learning. It is the richest collection of its kind in India, and bears testimony to the fact that Patan was once a place where genuine scholarship flourished. Hemchandracharya Gyan Mandir is located near Panchasara Jain Temple.
Sahasralinga Tank or Sahasralinga Talav is a medieval artificial water tank in Patan, Gujarat, India. It was commissioned during Chaulukya(Solanki) rule. It is a Monument of National Importance protected by Archaeological Survey of India
The Sahastraling Talao was originally known as Durlabh Saravor and was constructed by King Durlabh Raja and was repaired and renovated by King Siddharaj during 1093 – 1143 A.D. This is one of the biggest tank of the Solanki Period. The chronicles and inscriptions of the period mentioned the construction of lakes, wells, reservoirs etc. by the royal personages as well as citizens. Of the lakes and tanks, specimens are in the lake at Viramgam, called Mansarovar or Mansar Lake, Tank at Modhera and the famous Sahastralinga Talao at Patan. The tank at Viramgam is almost circular and having flight of steps, which leads down to water. Many small shrines are constructed on the surface platform. In Sahastraling Talao the water was taken from river Saraswati in the deep RudraKupa and it was allowed to run through the channels in the stone inlet and then in the circular tank. Small temples, nearly 1000, were constructed in between inlet and RudraKupa. These temples are approached through the bridge, as the water was flowing all around the temples.
The beautiful hand-woven Patola Sarees are famous worldwide and Patan is said to be the home of Patola artists. It is one of the most sought after possession for women.Patola is a double ikat woven sari, usually made from silk, made in Patan, Gujarat, India. The word patola is the plural form; the singular is patolu. They are very expensive, once worn only by those belonging to royal and aristocratic families. These saris are popular among those who can afford the high prices. Velvet patola styles are also made in Surat. Patola-weaving is a closely guarded family tradition. There are three families in Patan that weave these highly prized double ikat saris. It is said that this technique is taught to no one in the family, but only to the sons. It can take six months to one year to make one sari due to the long process of dying each strand separately before weaving them together.Patola was woven in Surat, Ahmedabad and Patan.Highly valued in Indonesia, became part of the local weaving tradition there. | <urn:uuid:7c7b9665-6207-4228-84f1-1d43f0509813> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://patan.nic.in/places-of-interest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.969527 | 1,111 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Times dedicated their editorial columns to National Farmers Day which is being marked today.
The Graphic, while acknowledging the farmers says though the value of the awards may not commensurate with efforts the winners put in, at least it is to show appreciation for good work done. The paper commends corporate bodies for continuing to sustain the celebration and also contributing to meet SDG Two which is eliminating hunger. It acknowledges the fact that the committee rotates the venue for the celebration but suggests that instead of organizing the events in only the regional capitals, it will be good if they are held in typical farming communities to get the farmers to feel part of the event.
The Ghanaian Times applauds farmers and fishermen for putting in much work and providing food during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the paper, had it not been for the hard work of these people, citizens would not have had much food during the pandemic hence, they deserve to be honored at the National Farmers Day which is being held to acknowledge their efforts. The paper also commends successive governments for their programmes like the ongoing planting for food and jobs that have helped to up-scale the enormous benefits in the agriculture sector. In future, the paper advises government to adjust these programs and institute new ones that will inspire more people to go into farming to make the sector more profitable. | <urn:uuid:bc73e1d7-1c08-4e96-b828-04d507390a85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gbcghanaonline.com/editorials/6th-november-2020/2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.974717 | 277 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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In November 2001, this man and another man savagely beat Youssef in the street because of what other members of Youssef's religion committed on 9/11. While beating Youssef, this man tells him about his cousin, who died on 9/11 saving lives on the 40th floor of the north tower. Farah Nazan runs towards the assailants, turns invisible, and incapacitates them with ease. The police soon arrive and arrest Youssef's assailants. | <urn:uuid:ee405206-0329-4160-a164-ac7c54e49933> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heroeswiki.ddns.net/index.php?title=Youssef%27s_assailant_(I)&diff=170204&oldid=276119 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.904279 | 218 | 1.59375 | 2 |
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that investigation materials pertaining to the 1959 “In Cold Blood” murders that a Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent kept at home may not be auctioned off or publicly revealed until he’s had a chance to review them.
Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks said the state could face “irreparable harm” if the materials found in Harold Nye’s home became public. The materials include Nye’s personal journals, copies of records and other materials about the investigation that inspired the Truman Capote classic. Crime scene photos in his possession were returned to the state last year by his son, according to lawyers.
Ronald Nye, of Oklahoma City, kept the materials after his father’s 2003 death and gave them to Seattle memorabilia dealer Gary McAvoy to auction off. But the Kansas attorney general’s office contends the materials belong to the state, and it is suing to get them back. The case is scheduled to go to trial in November.
Hendricks said his order will remain in place until the case is settled, but he left open the possibility that he could rescind it after reviewing the documents to determine how much private material they contain.
“Folks, I think I need to see them,” he said from the bench. “I need to look at them.”
McAvoy and Ronald Nye now say they don’t plan to auction off the materials, and that instead they plan to write their own book about the killing of Herb and Bonnie Clutter and two of their children at their remote farmhouse in Holcomb. Hendricks’ order bars them from even speaking about the files’ contents publicly.
The hunt for the killers mesmerized the nation and drew journalists from across the U.S. to the small western Kansas town. The state executed two parolees, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, for the killings in 1965. Four years later, Harold Nye began a two-year stint as the KBI’s director.
Capote’s book about the murders, Hickock and Smith’s trial and their executions is celebrated because it reads like a novel. However, scholars have debated its accuracy since it was published. | <urn:uuid:67207259-b28c-4833-b276-6f7924a80048> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20130423/NEWS04/130429845&template=printart | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00421-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971024 | 479 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Definitions of hilly
a. - Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.
a. - Lofty; as, hilly empire.
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The Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 1892
William Bell was born at Leith on the 21st of September, 1818. He was educated at the High School, Leith, and afterwards at Edinburgh University, where, in 1839, he gained the gold medal and prize for Natural Philosophy, and was second in Mathematics.
On leaving the University in the following year, he became a pupil of the late John Hammond, then Resident Engineer on the Great Western Railway at Reading, where William Bell had many opportunities of making practical experiments on the working of locomotive engines, and on other subjects connected with mechanical engineering.
In 1842 he was placed by Mr. Hammond with the late John Thornhill Harrison on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, and was subsequently Resident Engineer on the Cheltenham extension and on the Dawlish contract, which he measured up.
Mr. Bell was next engaged on the waterworks at Clifton. In 1846 he went to Bristol as Resident Engineer, under the late I. K. Brunel, on the Cumberland Basin Docks, a work of no ordinary importance, as the tide rises to a great height.
On the completion of the Bristol Docks he had charge, in 1848, of the Portbury Pier and Railway, and was then employed, in 1850-51, by Mr. Brunel on other engineering works, and on experimental and practical investigations connected with the raising of the large bridge over the Wye at Chepstow, and with the structure of the bridge itself.
In 1852 he was engaged on the Yeovil Branch Railway, from 1853 to 1856 on the widening of the South Devon Railway, and from 1858 to 1861 was Resident Engineer on the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway.
In 1857 he was awarded a Council Premium of the Institution for his Paper ‘On the Laws of the Strength of Wrought and Cast Iron.’ During his residence in Devonshire the sea-wall at Torquay was washed away by a high tide and storm; a new wall was erected under Mr. Bell’s direction, and is at present as sound as when first built.
He obtained at this time the first premium for a competitive plan for the improvement and sewerage of the town of Dartmouth, which plan was subsequently carried out. He also superintended the erection of the gasworks at Paignton.
In 1858 Mr. Bell was employed by Mr. Brunel on various experiments in connection with the Great Eastern steamship before she was launched. In this work he was intimately connected with the late William Froude, F.R.S., and the experiments were in many cases jointly conducted. These investigations are detailed in Mr. Froude’s Paper on the ‘Rolling of Ships,’ read before the Institution of Naval Architects. In this Paper he mentions Mr. Bell as a personal friend, an able mathematician, and an accurate calculator, who not only relieved him of the laborious part of the numerical calculations relating to the ship, but also joined most effectually in the theoretical part of the investigation.
Up to 1864 Mr. Froude was frequently in correspondence with Mr. Bell with reference to rolling investigations, and referred to him for criticism nearly all the MSS. or proofs of the Papers which appeared during that period in the Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects. Mr. Bell had previously made similar calculations for the caisson gates at Bristol.
When the Atlantic cable was put on board the ‘Great Eastern’ in 1866, he investigated for the late Sir Daniel Gooch the question of the alteration of her periodic time and stability by the addition of cable and tanks; and the cable was stowed in the vessel in accordance with the calculations made by Mr. Bell.
In 1862 Mr. Bell removed to London, where he was engaged on various work for engineers and contractors, and was for some time employed as Secretary by Waring Brothers.
He was afterwards, for a short time, in partnership with the late R. J. Ward.
In 1870, when the Life of Mr. I. K. Brunel was in preparation, Mr. Bell was asked to write some portion of the work. In the Preface to the Life, Mr. Isambard Brunel says: ‘Chapters VII. (on the Bridges) and XIV. (on the Docks) have been written by Mr. William Bell, for many years a member of my father’s engineering staff.’
The results of Mr. Bell’s mathematical and experimental investigations on the strength and strains of bridges are incorporated in his Paper, ‘On the Stresses of Rigid Arches, Continuous Beams, and Curved Structures,’ read before the Institution in 1871, for which he was awarded a Telford Medal and Premium.
Throughout his life Mr. Bell was constantly engaged in experiments and calculations connected with engineering works. For Mr. Brunel he made experiments on the flow of water, on the bursting of water-pipes, on large beams of timber crushed endways by hydraulic pressure, on the strength of iron plates riveted together, on the comparative merits of different kinds of ropes, chains, and wire-ropes, on the consumption of coke, and on the yield and evaporative value of coke produced in different kinds of coke-ovens. He made calculations in connection with the atmospheric system recommended by Mr. Brunel for adoption on the South Devon Railway, and also made a mathematical investigation for Mr. Brunel with reference to a projected iron dome for the Exhibition of 1861.
In 1868 and subsequent years, he was consulted with respect to the bridge across the Hooghly at Calcutta, the Calcutta Docks, and the roof of the market in that city.
In the library of the Institution is a report he made in 1872 to Mr. (now Sir) Bradford Leslie on the Strength of the Cylinders of the Bridges on the Oudh and Rohilkund Railway.
He also made, in 1872, calculations for a gripper, an instrument to be used in raising sunken ships or other bodies.
The last undertaking upon which Mr. Bell was engaged was the Neath Harbour New Works, on which he was Resident Engineer, from 1877 to 1880, for R. P. Brereton. He prepared detailed surveys, set out the works, and superintended their construction, which unfortunately was suspended from financial reasons.
Mr. Bell had been in failing health for some years when he was attacked by bronchitis, from which he never rallied. He died at Streatham Hill on the 20th of January, 1892. He was for many years an Associate of the Institution of Naval Architects, and on the 1st of December, 1863, was elected a Member of this Institution. | <urn:uuid:0787fcf1-69dc-400b-bda1-b8dae404d139> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ironandsteam.com/2020/09/obituary-of-william-bell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.9803 | 1,426 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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In the Age of Gods: The giants and the monsters were still in the country when the people built their homes near Elk Mountain. Because of this they were not contented; they planned to travel to the place where they had emerged from the underworld and build their dwellings there. Now, as before, some of the people remained; but the chief and the main body moved on. They built Kin ty eli, Aztec, a great dwelling. But after some time they heard of a land of little snow and plenty of seeds that could be used as food, so the main body of the people moved again and built Kin dotl'ish, Blue House, so called because of its bluish color. It is above Farmington on the San Juan. They built again under a cliff which is opposite the town of Farmington. Then the main body of people moved to the Chaco Canyon and built Tse be'an y i, the Place Where There Are Poles that Hold Up the Rock, Pueblo Bonito, and many other dwellings.
They built Tse be'an y i for their chief who never stepped out into the sunlight. They had plenty of seeds and they grew good crops there. All the beads and the turquoise and the beautiful goods that they got below, where the Two Rivers Cross, they held sacred with their chief.
The Sun seeing this became jealous of this chief whom he had never seen. He wanted to own the beads that belonged to this person, even though he had the perfect turquoise; for, he was the Turquoise Boy.
At this time there was a very poor woman living near Tse be' na y i called As san' no ho tlo dei, She Goes Around Gathering Seeds. Another name for her was the Rock Woman. She belonged to the clan Hada'ho ni gee, Banded Rock or Rock with Rings. After her there were no more descendants of the clan. Now the Sun secretly visited this woman; and when the people noticed that she was with child, the men joked among themselves. They said: "That is going to be my baby." "No, it will be mine. I visited her first." Or: "She is related to me. I want a gift. What will you give me?" "After the gift is made to me, the child can be yours." And when she brought forth a baby boy the men continued to tease each other; they did not know that the child's father was the Sun.
As the boy grew his mother taught him to run a great distance each morning. When he reached young manhood he was beautiful and tall; but his mother being poor, he was poor also; and when he went about the people laughed at him, and the men still said: "No, he is not your son, I was there first."
There was a holy flylike insect called Dotso, whose face was white, and body hairy. One day this fly asked the boy: "Why don't you go to the home of your father?" Now this fly was all-wise and knew everything. And one day the Sun lowered the rainbow to where this young man stood. The youth stepped on the rainbow and was raised to the home of his father.
Now the Sun, who was the young man's father, had a great plan. He wanted to get hold of all the beads belonging to the people, together with their chief, whom he had never seen. First he gave his son two big, perfect turquoises, the shape and the size of a dollar, for his earrings. Then the Sun began to teach this young man all the gambling songs and chants, and also the chant with which to draw people to himself.
Another game was played with a stick the shape of the rainbow. When it fell one way, one side won; and the opposite. It was like matching coins.
The fourth game was that of kicking the stick. There were to be two tracks made, like the tracks on Chapin Mesa (Mesa Verde). One of these was to be for the Gambler; and the other was to be for the people.
The fifth game was that of hitting a ball against a pole, a good-sized pole.
The sixth game was the guessing game.
The seventh game was that of the two planted sticks. Where one stick was planted solidly the other was loose. Two runners run to the sticks and grab the one they think is loose.
The eighth game was the foot race.
When the young man had learned all these games the Sun sent him back to Tse be'na y i. At once he started to gamble. For a time the people tried to buy his turquoise earrings, they were so pretty. But he would always say: "If you can win them you can have them." When he chanted the people came to him. Soon he was called the Great Gambler, for he won all their corn and goods. He even won the children and the women and the men for his slaves. They worked for him and they built a great house for him. He had a great many wives and the men built homes for them also. Everyone worked for him. He, won the Male Rain, the Female Rain, the Rainbow, the rivers, the mountains, and all the earth. The rest of the land went dry for it only rained where he lived. He had good corn and beautiful flowers. He even won the wife of the chief and the chief himself, together with his prayer sticks and his beads. There was also a big, round turquoise that stood as high as a man, and it had 12 feathers standing around it. The Sun told his son that when he should win the great turquoise it should be his. It was the most precious of all. It was the last thing that the Gambler won from the people.
Then the Sun came down, and he said: "My son, this is what I want. This is the only thing that I want. Now give it to me." But the Gambler had grown to be a very strong man, and instead of turning the great turquoise over to his father, he said: "You will be the next I will gamble with. Come on."
The Sun was very angry. He said no word, but returned to his home. After he arrived at his home he was still very angry with Nilth wilth dine, the winner of Men, because he had not succeeded in getting the great, perfect turquoise.
Now over on a mesa near Farmington there lived another people called Hada hun estqin, the Mirage People. There was a woman there, one of the Mirage People, whom the Sun visited. Nine days after he visited her she gave birth to a baby boy. (Later the days became months, and women gave birth to children at the end of 9 months.) This boy grew to be a young man at the end of 15 days. (Later the days became years, and boys begin their manhood at 15 years.)
Now this boy was born because the Sun had another plan. He wished this son to win back all that the Great Gambler had won. After this boy grew to young manhood he was told that his father wished him to come to his home. So the young man went to the home of his father, the Sun. He found his sister there. She shaped him to the perfect form of a man, in fact the perfect image, or twin, of the Great Gambler. (Even today there is a saying: "I come. Will my sister shape me with her bread?" And the answer is: "Have you some pack rat's meat?" (In other words, Do you bring a small gift?)
The Sun made his young son six sticks. They had instead of a white face like the first set, a black face. The seventh stick was red and black. The Sun said: "Now my son, you shall use these against the Gambler. But first, before you begin to gamble, you must make me an offering which shall be a white shell basket with mixed chips of stone inside it. Place it where the bunch grass grows. Place it in the center of a bunch of this grass, and then say a prayer." The Sun taught him the prayer. After that the Sun told him to whom to offer gifts.
The young man was to take the skin of a baby buffalo to the bat as his gift. That is why the bat still wears a furry coat. The young man was to use the bat in the first game to be played with the Gambler.
Next he was to give a present to the Big Snake. His gift was to be a precious red stone. That is why the snake wears the red stone on his forehead, and the female snake, on the ears. The snake which the boy was to use in the ring game, was to take the place of the willow ring generally used. He had buckskin wrapped around him, with two little openings for his eyes. They were to throw the rings and to race after them, stick in hand, so that when the rings were about to stop rolling, they could cast their sticks at them. The snake was to roll over the boy's stick. But the boy must be quick to grab the ring or the Gambler, in anger, would throw it onto the rocks in the canyon. The boy must follow these instructions carefully so that no harm would come to the snake. When the Gambler casts his stick, the boy must cast his stick farther on and say: "Bit ade, bit ade. I will win, I will win." Since that time all gamblers say that when they cast their sticks.
The shape of the stick used in the third game is shown in figure 4. It is called wo nal'gili. The Gambler had weighted one side of his stick so that he would always win. The next step was for the young man to take black jet and present it to the measuring worm, wo'shiyishi. He was to go into the young man's stick and fall opposite the Gambler's side. It is because of the gift of the jet that the measuring worm's head is black.
The stick used in the Third Game.
Next the young man was to take white shell to na'at e'e, the brown rat. This rat was to enter the youth's ball used in the fourth game, so that the ball would roll into the hole. The youth was told not to hit the ball, but just behind it; then the ball would roll into the hole, and he would win.
The sign the Gambler used in the guessing game is shown in figure 5. It was a picture of one of the chief sacred beings that the Gambler had won. Ash'ke chili was his name.21 He had a bill like a crow, and in his hands he held pretty flowers, four in each. The first four circles are the water jars--the black, the blue, the yellow, and the white. They contain the Male Rain. The next four contain the vapors--black, blue, yellow, and white. They were the Female Rain. The ninth jar contained all the bad medicine that the Gambler used, his black magic.
The sign the great Gambler used In the Guessing Game.
The next game was that of the planted sticks (fig. 6). The youth was to present the woodpecker, tsil kal'i, a precious red stone, which he still carries with him. He was to be used in this game. Now the cutworm, nada'bich osh, was to dig down and cut loose the roots of the young man's stick, the planted part of the solid stick; and the Black Wind, nich i dilqil, was to enter the Gambler's stick, the loosened one, and blow and blow until the roots fastened firmly into the ground. A piece of jet was given to the cutworm for his trouble; and to this day he carries a black spot on his head.
The game of the Planted Sticks.
Now all was ready, all that was to be used by the young man.
By this time the people of the whole country were the slave's of the Gambler; they lived in a great community. They got together all the sacred beings, the Sun as the chief, and they planned to move against the Gambler.
The young man was to have two beautiful maidens to use to bet against the Gambler. They were the daughters of Hasjelti and Hasjohon. These two Yei gave their daughters in the Sun's plan; but they would not consent to do so for a long time. After they agreed they sent the Black Wind to the home of the Gambler to see how he was dressed. They dressed the young man like the Gambler. The young man had already been shaped like the Gambler in the house of the Sun so that he could win the world. Now the Yei dressed the young man like the Gambler from feet to headdress.
The people thought of the rolling ring game. They went to Hasjelti, and they asked him for his ring; but he refused to let them have it. "No," he said, "the Gambler would not look at mine; he has his own rings." But he told them to go to Hasjelbai, also called Tqo'neinili, the Water Sprinkler, who is the Delight Maker or Sacred Clown. He has these two names. He could be found at the end of the trail; and he would have his rings with him. When the messengers found him he was humming: "Han'y ogana, han'y ogana" (All alone, all alone). Away he went after his ring; he cast his stick, and then sat down. He crossed his leg over his knee and put his hand over his mouth. Now he had his rings well soaked, and they were quite wet. He gathered up his rings and gave them to the messengers. When they returned to Hasjelti he said: "The Gambler will not look at these rings; he has his own."
Now everything was ready and they set out for the Gambler's home.
They sent the bat ahead. He was to hide in the home of the Gambler. In the first game he was to catch the Gambler's sticks with one wing and drop the young man's sticks from the other wing. So to be ready for his part, the bat flew out in the night to hide in the Gambler's home.
They were all ready to be on their way when someone came. He was the mountain rat. He said: "I am still here. Why have you kept this secret from me?" They gave him white beads so that he would not feel badly for having been neglected. They were about to start off again when an owl hooted just ahead. He was offended because he had not been included in their plan. They gave him also white beads. All gamblers do this today. They place white beads in rats' nests and in owls' nests. This is to assure them luck when they want to gamble.
They started out again; but one said: "Wait a minute, the Gambler has many spies working for him." They took mixed chips of stone and presented them to the Black Wind. He was to blow dust into the eyes of the spies so that the people could go on their way without being seen.
Now it was the turn of the young man who was shaped and dressed like the Gambler to act. Each morning at dawn the Gambler's head wife came to the spring with her water jar. When the spies, eyes were full of dust the young man passed them, and hid in the spring and waited for the woman. She came to the spring and went down to the water. He followed her. He said: "Give me some water."
She reached down and gave him a gourd full of water, for she took him to be her husband. He sipped some of the water, and then threw the rest over her, over her clothing. She shook the water from her clothing and said: "This is one of your wicked deeds." She took him to be her own husband, and she went and lay down with him. The young man did this to "split the mind" of the Gambler.
When the woman carried the water home she found her husband asleep in their house. She said: "You naughty thing! You made fast time in returning." He jumped up and said: "Someone has been with my wife. Who is he?" She answered: "Someone like you came. I saw him, that is all." "No," he said, "someone has visited you." Now each day that the Gambler gambled he won many men; so he said: "Well, I may find him today. Then I will have him in my power."
When the young man returned to the people the little breeze, which is our life breath today, sat behind his ear, for the Sun had told his son that he would be with him in everything that happened.
They watched until they saw a big dust storm coming. The spies' eyes were filled with dust and they could see nothing. And there was a great crowd at the entrance of the Gambler's dwelling before he knew it.
The young man stepped inside the home of the Gambler. When he entered, the wife of the Gambler, whom he had been with that morning, was grinding corn. Just then she looked up and smiled. The breeze said: "She smiles because she knows that you are the man she met in the early morning." The breeze continued: "The Gambler saw this smile and he is getting up. He is jealous. He thinks that you are the man who was with his wife at the spring." The young man stepped up to the Gambler and said: "My Brother, I came for that big piece of turquoise called ha da thee." Now this was the most precious and the last thing that the Gambler had won, the turquoise that the Sun wanted. The Sun had told the young man that, when he won it, it was to be his.
When the Gambler got to his feet he saw the crowd of people. He said: "Where are those ugly things, the spies, that I placed around this dwelling?" He called them; and when they came to him they said that the dust storm was dreadful. They had seen no one pass.
The Gambler then turned to the young man and said: "Very well. It shall be as you wish; you are the one I will gamble with." With that he brought forth his basket and shook his sticks in it.
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ASTM International - ASTM F2250-03(2008)
Standard Practice for Evaluation of Chemical Resistance of Printed Inks and Coatings on Flexible Packaging Materials
|Publication Date:||1 April 2008|
|ICS Code (Inks. Printing inks):||87.080|
significance And Use:
Packaging materials may be exposed to chemicals such as water, alcohol, acid, etc. during their life cycle. If it is anticipated that the packaging material will be exposed to a chemical, it is... View More
Packaging materials may be exposed to chemicals such as water, alcohol, acid, etc. during their life cycle. If it is anticipated that the packaging material will be exposed to a chemical, it is important that the ink or coating, or both, not degrade, soften, or dissolve as a result of that contact.
The testing included in this practice is applicable to surface printed and coated materials designed to be resistant to a specific chemical.
The chemicals to be tested should be compatible with (that is, not damage or degrade) the substrate being printed or coated, or both.
There are four separate methods detailed in this practice. The methods represent increasing degrees of severity from Method A to Method D. Selection of method should be based on the type of exposure anticipated. For example, the pouring method (Method A) is typically used where incidental exposure is anticipated, such as a spill or splash of chemical on the material surface. Method B or C is typically used when chemical resistance is desired depending on the level of exposure (B) and abrasion (C) anticipated. Method D would represent continual contact between the chemical and material and would need to be chemical-proof, (for example, if the package were to be submerged in the chemical and exposed to abrasion over a period of time.)
This practice does not address acceptability criteria. These need to be jointly determined by the user and producer of the product, based on the type of exposure that is anticipated.View Less
1.1 This practice describes the procedure for evaluating the ability of an ink, overprint varnish or coating to withstand chemical exposure. Typical chemicals, which may come in contact with the package, include water, alcohol, acid, etc. The specific chemical and method of choice as well as determination of measurement outcome are left to users to agree upon in joint discussion. Suggestions for ways to measure and collect information are offered in the various methods listed in this practice.
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
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