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Do you for a drink all the time?
Do you find yourself hung-over more often than not?
Have you tried to stop drinking alcohol before but have not been successful?
Then this book is for you.
Heavy drinking is a common problem. In fact, drinking is a fairly normal activity for many people. On the other hand, if you find yourself unable to control yourself drinking after you feel any emotion, this is a problem. Fortunately, this is a problem that can be fixed. All it takes is a desire to stop drinking, learning about drinking and what causes it, understanding that you are the only one responsible for your drinking regardless of external influences, and an open mind to the ways to cease your drinking. This is the basis for QUIT, the four steps to stop drinking.
QUIT is a four step method to quit drinking. Like the acronym ROY G BIV you learned in elementary school to remember the colors of the rainbow, QUIT is an acronym to help you remember the four steps.
Q stands for “Question Yourself about Your Drinking.” It is important to question yourself about your drinking because this will give you an understanding about why you want to stop and why you drink the way you do.
U stands for “Understand What the Problem Is.” Equally important as questioning yourself about your drinking is making an effort to understand what the fundamental problem is. Many people will say they have a problem but have no idea what the problem is. There are many reasons why people drive and it is important to understand what drives you to drink.
I stands for “I Am the Sole Decision Maker in My Choice to Stop Emotionally Eating.” It is important that you stop because you want to stop not because someone else wants you to stop. You are the one who makes the decisions about you every moment of every day. You can't blame others for your decisions.
T stands for “Take control and Think Positive.” We cover different ways you can stop drinking and other information that will aid you in your journey to stop drinking.
And there you have it – QUIT, the four steps to stop your drinking.
Download it right now and start your "New Beginning" today!
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Researchers in economics recognize the limits of money as a gauge for happiness. Their studies demonstrate that appreciation of the social environment and satisfaction from giving comprise the “fuel” that will drive the economy of mutual guarantee.
Every scientific method begins with a premise. In that, economics is no exception to the rule. While hard sciences engage in minerals, plants, and the cosmos at large, economics engages in something far more volatile and unpredictable: human nature. One such premise in economics is John Stuart Mill’s “homo economicus” (the economic human). Roughly speaking, the goal of the economic human, namely each of us, is to obtain the maximum pleasure for the least effort. And what does the economic human enjoy? Consumption of goods. The more goods we consume, the more we enjoy. Additionally, we are not keen on hard work, so we weigh everything by the measure of exertion required to obtain it. The economic human wishes to maximize benefit by choosing the alternative that best serves one’s preferences under the budget limitations.
Behavioral Economics: Money Isn’t Everything
Until recently, economists asserted that utility could be measured by material possessions. That is, the more we consume, the more we enjoy. This approach has led to our current state, in which money is the ultimate gauge of success.
According to this approach, man is a rational being—a key concept in economics. A rational person will weigh all the options and finally choose the most rewarding in terms of material resources, money, or products that can be measured with money. Thus, we have developed a societal view that money provides a gauge with which to measure a person.
However, researchers in behavioral economics have shown that people take many other elements into account besides money when making decisions. An example of these elements can be found in a well-known experiment in behavioral economics, called the Ultimatum Game. In this experiment, two participants must share a sum of money between them, say 100 dollars. The first participant offers the second one part of the sum, and if the second participant agrees, they .divide the money accordingly. If not, neither gets a penny. If indeed money were the only element taken into account, the second participant would have agreed to receive whatever was offered, even one dollar, while the other party receives the rest, since the receiver would have had one dollar more than before. However, in many cases, the participants agree only on equal distribution, and are willing to relinquish much more than one dollar if they feel that the initial offer is unjust.
The Study of Happiness
Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Eyal Winter, explains that while it is clear that man should aspire for economic welfare, often defined as “well-being,” in classic economics the assumption is that a person strives to maximize the material gains because for most of human history, economic success was tantamount to survival. As a result, a mechanism evolved within us, which drives us to obtain the means that allows us welfare, expressed in money.
However, researchers of positive psychology, Prof. Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, PhD, summarized dozens of studies, and found that “There are mostly small correlations between income and subjective well-being (SWB) … although these correlations appear to be larger in poor nations.” Moreover, “People who prize material goals more than other values tend to be substantially less happy, unless they are rich. Thus, more money may enhance SWB when it means avoiding poverty and living in a developed nation, but income appears to increase SWB little over the long-term when more of it is gained by well-off individuals whose material desires rise with their incomes.”
Another interesting study, “Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?” compared the level of happiness among lottery winners and people who have been made handicapped by accidents. It found that approximately a year after the event, a person who has won the lottery was not happier than one who has been crippled by a tragic accident.
The Satisfaction in Giving, Cooperation, and Fairness
While material well-being has evolved as a basic need, many other needs have developed in us over thousands of years of living in social frameworks. One such primary need that has been formed due to leading a social life is the need for giving and for reciprocity. Human societies have always worked in cooperation because it enhanced their sustainability. Cavemen were far more successful in hunting and protecting themselves and their clans when they collaborated and lived a communal life. An individual who did not cooperate risked being excommunicated, which often meant certain death.
The tendency to cooperate in order to derive satisfaction still exists within us no less than the above-described mechanism that tends to our material well-being. An often-played game in behavioral economics is known as the Dictator Game. In it a player receives a sum of money and is supposed to decide how much of it to keep. Approximately 80% of players give some money to the other player, and about 20% of those split the sum evenly. This demonstrates how giving, cooperation, and fairness bring us more satisfaction than the satisfaction that comes with money.
Life in families, clans, communities, and various forms of groups have led humans to measure themselves in relation to their social environment, and make decisions based on emotions that arise through one’s relations with the social environment. In a research on participants in the above-mentioned Ultimatum Game, the participants’ brain activity was monitored when they had to decide whether to take the amount of money offered. It turned out that in the process of receiving the offer, two different areas were working in the brain—the area in charge of making rational decisions, and the area in charge of anger. The more the participant felt that the offer was unfair, the more the activity of the area in charge of anger prevailed over the rational consideration, and the participant tended to reject the offer and remain without the money.
One always compares oneself to the social environment, comparing one’s own situation to one’s reference group. Because our social nature causes this modus operandi, emotions of contentment and satisfaction—or indifference, frustration, or anger—join the rational considerations. These considerations result from our relations with our social environment. Such emotions may lead us to make choices that yield negative results toward us and toward society. This was demonstrated in many studies, such as that of Professors Sara Solnick and David Hemenway, “Are Positional Concerns Stronger in Some Domains than in Others?” In their study, they claim, “Given a constant purchasing power of money, almost half of respondents would prefer to live in a poorer world, earning $200,000 rather than $400,000, if most other people were earning $100,000 rather than $800,000.”
However, the combination of comparing and gauging, along with the influence of the environment, can lead us, as well as society, to very positive results. On April 8, 2011, Justina Wheale of The Epoch Times wrote, “In a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Dr. Karl Aquino and his team found that after witnessing exceptionally altruistic acts, people are more likely to perform charitably themselves.” Dr. Aquino and his team also wrote, “They have some sort of emotional reaction—they’re inspired, they feel somewhat awed by the behavior, they may get severe physiological reactions. A lot of these changes can then lead them to try to do good things for others.”
We affect each other in more ways than we realize. Our influence on one another is not only what we see and measure in others. Studies have shown that we “emotionally infect” one another, and are “infected” by them even without noticing it. Beyond the fact that we detect people’s expressions and deduce their emotional states, there are cells in our brain called “mirror neurons,” which react to seeing other people’s actions by activating the same areas in our own brains, as if we were performing that same action.
But are we influenced only by the people we meet? It turns out that we are influenced by people we don’t even know. In the book, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives—How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do, Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis and Prof. James Fowler introduce the concept that all humans are meshed in social interconnections and networks. According to Christakis and Fowler, important aspects in our lives are influenced by people up to three degrees of remoteness from us, even if we don’t know them personally.
“Our own research has shown that the spread of influence in social networks obeys what we call the Three Degrees of Influence Rule. Everything we do or say tends to ripple through our network, having an impact on our friends (one degree), our friends’ friends (two degrees), and even our friends’ friends’ friends (three degrees). …Likewise, we are influenced by friends within three degrees.” Our health, wealth, and indeed happiness are largely a function of what people three degrees of remoteness from us think and do.
The Crisis and the Influence of the Social Environment
These connections become more complicated and more prominent as the world becomes increasingly globalized. The tightening connections among the various parts of the world have turned the human society into a single global and integral system, causing every element to become dependent on every other element in the system.
Lecturers in Happiness Economics often ask the audience to see where their clothes and gadgets are made, thus demonstrating how dependent we are on the world. But the connection between all of us is far broader and deeper than our clothes or smart-phones. In his depiction of the modern world, economist Geoff Mulgan wrote, “The starting point for understanding the world today is not the size of its GDP or the destructive power of its weapons systems, but the fact that it is so much more joined together than before. It may look like it is made up of separate and sovereign individuals, firms, nations or cities, but the deeper reality is one of multiple connections.” Under such conditions, the traditional economy, which is based on individualism, isn’t working any longer, and today’s global crisis is proving it each day. It is impossible to pursue personal gain without including the myriad connections that affect each and every one of us.
In 1996, renowned sociologist, Manuel Castells, argued persuasively that “…a new economy emerged around the world.” We can use the changes that the economic system is undergoing to balance our material needs with our social needs. However, when we examine today’s society, we see that seeking material benefits and personal gain are disproportionally more dominant in society and in the media than ever before. This is a manifestation of consumption that has grown out of control.
An average person in the U.S. comes across approximately 600 commercials daily, all carefully crafted to convince us that the satisfaction and benefit from buying the advertised product will make us happy. In truth, the only satisfaction obtained is that of the advertisers. Also, rewards are often given for personal success, albeit that success often comes at the expense of others. It follows that a person will do the utmost to gain and feel superior to others.
We live in this world buffeted by two conflicting influences. We are fast becoming aware that we are unable to provide for all of our own needs, but need to depend on others, who in turn depend on us in the same way. The media, however, relentlessly pitches to us the idea that the more each of us has, the more successful and more superior to others we are. These messages surround us, although by now it is quite clear that we are not self-sufficient and that wealth is not the only means toward happiness.
On the one hand, we always compare ourselves to others, and when one person has more than others, it will arouse envy and make others wish that person to be unsuccessful. On the other hand, attempts at communism, where everyone has the same, have failed bitterly. In the twentieth century’s experiment with communism, the coercive leveling of people’s material assets, regardless of individual needs and without proper education and explanation—necessary components of voluntary change—resulted in the death of tens of millions, leading to the ultimate demise of the regime and an enduring aura of negativity around the entire idea of this philosophy. Forced solutions do not work, especially when they radically differ from their predecessor. We should carefully heed that lesson now that humanity has reached a tipping point in its evolution and is beginning to move from the failed, contemporary economy, into a new, balanced economy, based on a connection of mutual guarantee.
We cannot detach ourselves from society, as it provides us with all that we need for life. Accordingly, any paradigm or attempt at solving the global crisis with tools from the old economy is bound to fail, as it derives from a competitive, self-centered approach, which is quickly becoming obsolete. Instead of trying to “force” our existing models on reality, we should try to change the economic system and the human society to match the newly emerging reality. Essentially, it is a psychological transformation. Just as humans developed mechanisms that assist us in coping with the elements, today we can adapt our thinking into congruence with the conditions of the 21st century.
Social Justice and Equality
Sociologist, Ulrich Beck, wrote in his book Brave New World of Work, that in the new society, people will conduct “civil labor” for the benefit of society. Yet, how can such a society bring satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment to people?
The new society must recognize that if we measure ourselves in relation to others, we will never feel satisfied or that we have obtained social justice. A society that wishes to exist in peace and prosperity must see to each person having the practical possibility of leading a full and balanced life, liberated from the need to be concerned with providing for staples and bare necessities. As described above, material well-being can induce only a certain level of happiness, and society neither should nor can equalize everyone financially. Rather, there should be distribution based on a relative, idiosyncratic equality, in which each receives according to one’s unique needs for a reasonable, dignified existence. Such a “normative” standard of living will be determined as one that is guaranteed for every person—mutual guarantee. That is, the standard of living must be higher than the poverty line, and defined in a collaborative process through a “round table” form of deliberation. The equality among people will be expressed not so much in the amount of goods or funds allotted each person, but more in the fairness of the distribution and its transparency.
Moreover, the sense of equality among people will be expressed in everyone having the ability to obtain complete self-realization and personal fulfillment, and in the awareness that the mechanism of mutual guarantee is what creates the equality and the so-needed sense of fairness. This sensation will be in all levels of human relations: interpersonal, between person and state, and between the economic paradigm and the social one.
Looking Ahead—a Change We Can Do
This mechanism of mutual guarantee will diminish social gaps and will ultimately eliminate them. The guaranteeing of people’s basic needs for reasonable existence is the key difference between the economy of mutual guarantee and the current economics. We have already seen that individuals have many needs that cannot be met in an environment that does not encourage their expression and fulfillment. The more the social environment presents models of the joy that exists in social relations, in sharing, and in fairness, the more individuals will be able to enjoy life in a society where such relationships are the norm. This is the key to the change, As Dr. Aquino is quoted in the above-mentioned publication in The Epoch Times, “We suggest an alternative technique may be to highlight examples of extraordinary goodness. They’re rare by definition; they don’t happen every day. But if we could identify these and make them much more prominent, then it could get people to think differently about their lives and about others, which may influence them to do good.”
Indeed, there are ways to emphasize acts of altruism and to see how the change affects each of us. For example, if a list of the 100 people who contributed to society more than anyone were to constantly be advertised, we would see how the same abilities that led people to gain while exploiting others, now lead them to work for the good of society. The same competitive drive that causes us to want to succeed at others’ expense will lead us to realize our potential for the respect and esteem of society. In addition, the closer the personal interest and social benefit become, the more a person will be granted social and public support to realize him or herself.
The new “fuel” will change our nature from materialistic and egoistic into altruistic and prosocial. The appreciation of the environment and the satisfaction in giving are the keys to people’s choosing to live their lives within an economic and social system of mutual guarantee.
There is a twofold benefit in that change: activity to benefit society will yield a society that exists in peace and prosperity, providing a supportive environment to all its members. Additionally, individuals will be able to fully realize their personal potentials and goals, thus gaining personal satisfaction, as well as public appreciation.
In the current chaotic environment, such a vision may seem vague or unreal, but merely striving for mutual guarantee will make it clear to us that all it takes to achieve it is a psychological shift.
Nicholas A. Christakis and James Fowler, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives—How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do (NY: Back Bay Books, 2011), 26
Mulgan, Geoff, Connexity: Responsibility, Freedom, Business and Power in the New Century (revised edn.) (London: Viking, 1998), 3
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Have you ever wondered “What is cognitive processing therapy?” Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) is an effective treatment for trauma and PTSD. It helps change the way you think about traumatic events. It gives you skills to transform how past trauma impacts your life today. A cognitive processing therapy program for PTSD can be used in one-on-one therapy or group counseling.
Who Benefits From Cognitive Processing Therapy?
Now that we have answered, “What is cognitive processing therapy?” let’s answer “who benefits from cognitive processing therapy?”
The effectiveness of cognitive processing therapy for PTSD is backed by multiple studies. It’s often used to treat people who have:
- PTSD from military combat
- Trauma from experiencing or witnessing violence
- PTSD from sexual violation or physical assault
- PTSD that makes survivors fearful in present day life
What Is A Cognitive Processing Therapy Program Like?
The specific exercises in cognitive processing therapy (CPT) may vary by practitioner. The key elements of CPT usually include these aspects:
Learn About Trauma
Your therapist educates you about trauma. You’ll learn what causes trauma and the ways it can affect you for years if left untreated. Your therapist will explain why people get stuck in PTSD. They’ll also let you know what you can expect in your cognitive processing therapy program.
Tell Your Trauma Story
As part of cognitive processing therapy, you’ll share your trauma story and how it’s impacting you today. Your therapist may ask you to write about it or ask you questions to guide you through your story. They will also help you with stress management concerning your trauma.
Attend to PTSD Symptoms
The effects of trauma can cause physical and mental symptoms. Your therapist will help you learn ways to manage these symptoms. Examples of PTSD symptoms include:
- Intrusions – How past events are intruding on your current life through unwanted thoughts, images, sounds, and smells.
- Strong emotions – Regularly experiencing anger or fear or physical reactions such as tight chest and jaw or rapid heartbeat.
- Nightmares – Frequent bad dreams that interfere with sleep or make you fear it.
- Hyperarousal – Experiencing more anxiety than the average person. You may have stronger startle reactions, trouble sleeping, and difficulty concentrating.
- Negative mood – You think and feel emotions such as sadness, guilt, anger, and shame often. You may also have problems feeling positive emotions such as love and happiness.
- Distorted thinking – You may view people as untrustworthy and dangerous who aren’t in reality. You may place blame on people who didn’t directly cause or intend trauma. You may blame yourself for the traumatic event. Additionally, you may think you did something wrong to cause the trauma.
- Avoidance – You may avoid internal experiences such as thoughts and emotions about the event. You may also try to avoid things outside of yourself that remind you of the event or make you feel unsafe. These may include people, places, and situations.
Identify Your Stuck Points
Thoughts that keep you trapped in your trauma are known as stuck points in CPT. Often CPT stuck points revolve thinking in extremes. They’re usually not accurate and cause intense negative emotions. Your therapist will help you identify your CPT stuck points.
Strong negative emotions such as fear and anger are difficult. It’s natural to want to avoid them. The problem is that when you avoid feelings, they don’t go away. They may grow stronger and surface in unhealthy behaviors such as substance abuse. A cognitive processing therapy program for trauma encourages you to feel the natural emotions that come with experiencing trauma in a safe space. You’ll learn to validate these feelings, honor them, and release them. Feeling strong emotions instead of pushing them away helps you loosen their hold on you.
Change Unhealthy Thinking
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The church is located on a hill, but it is not easy to spot. Linden trees were planted around the churchyard wall in 1891, and these have meanwhile grown to an impressive size. The many paintings are particularly noteworthy, especially the ‘male pieta’ by artist Monika Brachmann. The organ was built in 1859 and restored in 1979.
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Education Provides Security in Life
People like to maintain college education provides a great deal of security. Even if you don't feel like you're particularly interested in studying anything for 4-5 years, it's still better to get a degree in something, just because it will provide more possibilities for you, open some more doors. Education is the key to securing career perspectives, achieving a salary plateau, getting access to the vast store of human knowledge and receiving the requisite skill set to study further.
Firstly, a good education is the way into a prosperous career. Many employers require people to fulfill certain educational requirements before they will consider hiring them. And in certain jobs, it’s a necessity to continue professional training and education in order to progress through your career. Many employers prefer hiring someone with a college degree of some sort, some employers even require than every candidate have at least an associate’s degree. For example, if an employer has a choice of two candidates with equal experience and skill but one has a degree and the other does not, the employer will most likely choose the person with a college degree. Putting it all together, education provides better job security.
Secondly, education can help increase the amount of money one earns during lifetime. By enabling it, one has the opportunity for a better job or starting the career at a higher level. On average, entry level jobs for employees with a diploma pay up to 100% more than ones for high school graduates. It’s not uncommon for someone with a university degree to land on a $4,000 per month salary, while a high school diploma can’t bring more than $2,500. Overall, education can help one make more money.
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A team of engineers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Cambridge, Mass., and the University of Texas, Austin, have created a truly portable device for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
NMR spectroscopy is a technique that perturbs protons within a molecule to glean important clues about its structure. It can identify unknown substances, detect very slight variations in chemical composition, and measure how molecules interact, making it an essential tool in organic chemistry, structural biology, and drug discovery, as well as for quality control in many industries.
Led by Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard SEAS, and his student Dongwan Ha, Ph.D. '14, the team has dramatically shrunk the electronic spectrometer components, fitting them on a silicon chip smaller than a sesame seed. Combined with a compact permanent magnet, this minuscule spectrometer represents the smallest device that can presently perform multidimensional NMR spectroscopy -- a process Ham calls "one of the most powerful analytical tools to determine molecular structures at atomic resolution."
Significantly reducing both the size and cost of the device -- while also preserving the broad functionality of much larger spectroscopy setups -- now enables the development of portable NMR spectrometers that could travel to remote sites for online, on-demand applications or simply to laboratories where massive, state-of-the-art systems would be prohibitively expensive. The chips can also operate accurately over a wide temperature range.
A paper demonstrating the use of this silicon-based chip with a compact permanent magnet will be published online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
"State-of-the-art NMR systems use very large superconducting magnets, and they are indeed necessary for probing the structure of complex molecules like proteins," says Ham. "But in many circumstances -- for example, many experiments in biochemistry or organic chemistry, quality control in production lines, or chemical reaction monitoring -- you're doing NMR on smaller molecules, and for those applications the big superconducting magnets may be avoided."
Permanent magnets, which have been made much smaller in recent years, are weaker than superconducting magnets but still adequate to resolve small-to-medium size hydrocarbons, drug compounds, and biomolecules such as metabolites and amino acids. The advent of these smaller magnets motivated Ham's team to try to miniaturize the electronic components of the spectrometer. Those components include the transmitter and receiver for radio-frequency signals that orchestrate complex proton motions and monitor the telltale responses that reveal the quantum-mechanical details of molecular structure.
In comparison to superconducting magnets, however, permanent magnets are far less stable. With slight changes in temperature, the magnetic field fluctuates and drifts -- a severe challenge that accompanies the system miniaturization. Ha, who is the main architect of the silicon spectrometer chip and lead author of the paper in PNAS, overcame the thermal problem with a distinctly modern tactic.
"Not only did Dongwan design the chip, but he also came up with a way to use statistical distance minimization and entropy minimization to estimate the magnetic field drift and calibrate out its effect," explains Ham. "This signal-processing method obviates the need for physical thermal regulation for the permanent magnet, which would have added hardware and increased the power consumption. That would have defeated our aim of achieving portability."
While Ham and Ha demonstrated the tiny spectrometer chips for portable applications with the permanent magnet, they also see potential for a completely different application in conjunction with a larger superconducting magnet. The chips, they say, could one day be assembled into a massively parallel array in a superconducting magnet bore to tremendously accelerate analysis of complex molecules by performing many NMR spectroscopy experiments at once.
"An individual NMR spectroscopy experiment is inherently slow, taking several minutes to hours," says Ham. "Using a hundred of these cheap and small spectrometer chips in parallel within a superconducting magnet bore could counter the intrinsic slowness of NMR spectroscopy, enabling a high-throughput paradigm for pharmaceutical screening and structural biology. One year of testing could be completed in a few days. We have already started investigating this angle."
The research team has filed for a provisional patent on the miniature NMR spectrometer, and they are exploring avenues for commercialization with Harvard's Office of Technology Development (OTD).
"We see a strong opportunity to commercialize the IP that's emerged from this work," says Sam Liss, Director of Business Development in OTD. "The feedback has been very positive from pharmaceutical companies involved in drug discovery, as well as from companies poised to deliver next-generation instrumentation for spectroscopy applications."
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One of the things I like about GitHub is the fact that it sports a
gh-pages branch. Anything you push to it, is automatically published on your GitHub subdomain
Inspired by this GitHub publishing flow, I’ve set up a likewise method on our web servers at work: a branch which gets published automatically onto our web server whenever we push code to it. This way we can eliminate the manual (and tedious) task of FTP’ing to the server (or opening up a network share) and copying the files onto the server in order to publish.
Somewhat related: Did you know, you can also (ab)use Dropbox as a web publishing tool? Not as robust as this method, yet it might be more fitting for some of you readers.
The web server at work is a Windows 2008 R2 machine running a WAMP stack to serve the (mostly static) sites. Each hosted subsite is configured a vhost and is stored in its own subfolder on disk. Apache is being run as a separate user which has limited access to the filesystem.
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName subdomain.ikdoeict.be UseCanonicalName On DocumentRoot "c:/apache2/htdocs/vhosts/subdomain.ikdoeict.be/wwwroot" php_admin_value open_basedir "c:/apache2/htdocs/vhosts/subdomain.ikdoeict.be;c:/php/temp" </VirtualHost>
Next to the web server we also have a private Git server running Linux to/from wich code is pushed/pulled. Repositories are accessible via HTTPS and authenticating to this server is done via an HTTP Username & Password (not via a SSH key).
Of course your mileage may vary:
- you might be running all-linux machines with shell access enabled (in which case you might be better off with Capistrano);
- or you might have one single server function as both the web and Git server;
- or you might have your code stored onto a public Git server (if you’re on GitHub, just set up a Post-Recieve URL and use this script as the update script);
- or you might skip out on the
gh-pagesbranch and want to deploy your
Either way: adjust/skip steps where necessary to reflect your setup/preferences 😉
Install Git on the Web Server
As it’s a Windows server I’ve installed Git for Windows, choosing to run Git and the Unix Tools from the Windows Command Prompt.
Once installed, I’ve restarted the server to get the
git command available anywhere on the server.
Create new repository on the Git server
Create a (bare) repository on the Git server and make sure that is externally accessible so that you can clone it on an other machine.
Gitting [sic] started
Clone, Branch & Develop on your local machine
Develop your site on your machine as you’d normally do (in my case: on the
git clone https://user@gitserver/project.git . [build site] git add . git commit -m 'the one true commit' git push origin master
Also create a
gh-pages branch which will be the version to be deployed to the web server.
Note: If the
gh-pages branch won’t differ from the
master, feel free to skip out on it and deploy the
master on the web server later on.
git branch gh-pages git checkout gh-pages [make changes, such as adding a Google Analytics Tracking Code] git add . git commit -m 'changes for online version' git push origin gh-pages
Clone on the Web Server
On the web server, clone the project into the vhost’s
DocumentRoot and activate the
gh-pages branch so that the web server will serve that version.
cd c:/apache2/htdocs/vhosts/subdomain.ikdoeict.be/wwwroot git clone https://user@gitserver/project.git -b gh-pages .
Note: If you already have a clone on the web server, or mistakingly have cloned the
master, run these commands instead
git branch -f gh-pages origin/gh-pages git checkout gh-pages git branch -d master
Be sure to verify with your favorite text editor that you’ve got the correct version. If it’s correct you’ve successfully deployed your site onto the web server. Break out the champagne, but don’t open it yet, we’ve got some more work to do.
You might not know this but whenever you clone a Git project onto disk, you’ll end up with a (hidden)
.git directory in the root of your project. In that directory, everything about the repository clone is stored: commits, branches, hooks, ignore files, remotes, etc.
Now that you’ve deployed the project onto the web server, that
.git directory will also be present in your vhost
DocumentRoot, meaning that it — and its files — are now publicly accessible via
To prevent this adjust your apache config to disallow the
.git folder from being accessed over HTTP.
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName student.ikdoeict.be UseCanonicalName On DocumentRoot "c:/apache/htdocs/vhosts/student.ikdoeict.be/wwwroot" php_admin_value open_basedir "c:/apache/htdocs/vhosts/student.ikdoeict.be;c:/php/temp" <Directory "c:/apache/htdocs/vhosts/student.ikdoeict.be/wwwroot/.git"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Directory> </VirtualHost>
Getting the server to fetch updates
Now, how to get changes onto the web server? Make changes on your local machine as you’d normally do, and push them upstream when commited. Be sure to merge your changes in the
gh-pages branch as that’s the version that’s served on the web server.
git checkout master [make changes] git add . git commit -m 'changes' git push origin master git checkout gh-pages git merge master git push origin gh-pages
On the web server, do a
git pull to get the latest version
git pull origin gh-pages
In order to automate deployment,
git pull should run fine without any user intervention such as requiring to enter a password.
As our setup requires HTTP username + password authentication it’ll ask for the password each time I
pull something. In order to bypass this edit
.git/config so that the remote url contains the password. If you’re doing a fresh clone, you can clone the repository as
Beware though: everything is stored plaintext! If other people have access to the machine, this isn’t a good idea! Also be sure to have implemented the security step above.
PHP, do your thing!
Up until now we can deploy changes onto the server, yet it still requires us to log in to the server and manually invoke a
git pull. What if we could just open up a webpage in our browser which does the updating for us?
Luckily for us, PHP has a built-in command
shell_exec, which allows you to execute a command via the shell and which returns the output. Given this, it’s fairly easy to knock up a PHP script that executes a
<php echo nl2br(shell_exec('git pull origin gh-pages 2>&1'));
2>&1 at the end of the commmand is to route encountered errors to the output.
Add this file on your local machine to your
gh-pages branch …
git checkout gh-pages [create update.php] git add . git commit -m 'update script' git push origin gh-pages
… and — for the final time — do a manual
git pull on the web server.
git pull origin gh-pages
Once the file is on the web server, you can from then on update the version on the server by visiting
http://subdomain.ikdoeict.be/update.php. The file will give output when done.
Note: Since Apache is running as a limited user, you must give that user R/W permissions on your
DocumentRoot so that it can perform the
git pull and do all basic CRUD file manipulations. You can test this by making a local change, pushing it, and visiting
update.php: if no error occurs, it’s all fine and dandy!
Putting the magic in automagic
Deploying new versions goes smooth by now, but it’s not fully automated … yet.
You might not know this but Git supports hooks. Hooks are executed after a certain action is performed and are stored in
.git/hooks/. For example: after a commit, you could let a hook send out a tweet with your commit message.
One of the hooks that’s interesting for us is the
post-receive hook, a server-side hook which is executed after a client has performed a push. We can take this hook, and let it call the
update.php script for us. This way, we just have to push, and the web server will be updated automagically.
First, create the hook by renaming the sample provided
cd .git/hooks/ mv post-receive.sample post-receive chmod +x post-receive
Second — and most important — adjust the hook’s content so that it calls the
#!/bin/sh curl -s http://subdomain.ikdoeict.be/update.php
Tip: If you want some actual feedback to see if everything works fine, adjust
update.php so that it sends you an e-mail.
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This question is not strictly about ProPhoto, but it's relevant.
I'm just getting the hang of the basics of colour workflow. I have a Minolta MultiPro film scanner, which I scan Velvia trannies with, in 16 bit. The Minolta software can convert into AdobeRGB colour space.
I bring this into Photoshop CS, with working space set to Adobe RGB.
My monitor is a Hitachi glass screen, calibrated with a Spyder.
Now, I understand that the monitor's gamut probably doesn't cover much more than sRGB, so what does Photoshop do to display the image on the screen? Does it do a relative colorimetric conversion, thus clipping out-of-gamut colors, or does it do a perceptual one, thus compressing and desaturating everything? I'm guessing at the moment that it clips?
In which case, how do you tell how much has been clipped on the screen?
And, if this is the case, won't it be even more difficult to work with the out of (screen) gamut colors that exist in an even wider gamut source image? i.e, it's fine for both the image and the printer to have wide gamuts, but the screen is going to let the process down a bit?
Also, what's a good way to see how big a gamut your monitor is capable of? Is there a test image somewhere, say tagged in ProPhoto or RGB, which has the sRGB sub-range shown on it? How could I use such an image in PhotoPro to see how my monitor performs compared to sRGB space? | <urn:uuid:4b787045-7c32-459b-9cf1-e8c1bff3b152> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=5236.msg43745 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950806 | 339 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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The Reality of Death Panels
A couple of conservatives have asked why I wrote this passage:
Sarah Palin took a lot of chaff for her silly "Death panel" remark, but in the case of small diseases like this, that's what these sorts of cost-benefit decisions effectively become. There are only 270 patients in Britain with this CF variant; the NHS knows all the names of the patients who will be sentenced to death if they withhold this treatment.
If she was substantively right, then why criticize?
I'm no reflexive Palin-hater, but her Facebook post about "death panels" was simply wrong. This is the relevant passage:
And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
I think you can argue--in fact, I have argued--that the kind of rationing ObamaCare's designers envision will mean making uncomfortable decisions about who lives and who dies. And even that those decisions will tend to undervalue the lives of people with Down's syndrom and other disabling conditions. It's not all useless back surgery and unnecessary appendectomies and needlessly prolonging Grandma's death throes. What will we do about very expensive care that can extend life, or quality of life, at very high cost?
But it is simply not the case that any individual person is going to be paraded in front of any sort of regulatory agency in order to get the individual thumbs up or thumbs down, a la Nero. And that's what Palin was describing. I don't think that you can reasonably read that passage as metaphorical.
I don't think that her worries about rationing are wrong. I even think it's reasonable to believe that IPAB will be a "death panel"; if it works as designed, it probably will deny potentially lifesaving, but extremely expensive, treatments.
But Palin chose to dramatize the issue as a kind of regulatory human life review, where we have a government agency in charge of deciding which individuals are worth treating. That is not what is in the law now, and moreover, I find it vanishingly unlikely that it will ever be in the law. The very reason that Palin's warnings about "death panels" resonates is the reason that we will not have them: almost everyone finds the idea monstrous.
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How to Enable Mozilla Thunderbird to utilize Emery Telcom's anti-spam features
|STEP 1 - Start Mozilla Thunderbird|
|STEP 2 - Create a new mail folder|
|STEP 3 - Call the new folder "SPAM"|
|STEP 4 - Open the "Message Filters" window|
|STEP 5a - This window should be visible|
|STEP 5b - Click on the "New" button to create a new message filter|
|STEP 6 - Name the new message filter "SPAM"|
|STEP 7 - Select "Match any of the following" if it isn't already selected.|
|STEP 8 - Specify that the message subject should contain the word "SPAM" for this rule to be invoked|
|STEP 9 - Select the "SPAM" folder as the location for matching emails. Messages that match this rule will be moved to this folder.|
|STEP 10 - Click "OK" to save the rule and return to the "Message Filters" window.|
|STEP 11 - Click the "X" to close the Message Filters window.|
Email truly is an amazing technology. In mere seconds, a letter can be electronically transmitted to someone else on the other side of the globe. As amazing as that may sound, however, the massive amount of junk mail most Internet users receive makes the technology far less appealing. Luckily, most email providers are now helping their customers fight that battle. The catch is, customers must instruct their computers to take advantage of these efforts.
Today, more and more email providers are using intelligent anti-spam software to inspect new (incoming) mail as it enters their networks. Because spam detection techniques are far from perfect, and the very definition of spam varies from person to person, most providers will simply label potential spam rather delete it. Messages are then delivered to the intended recipient, who can decide for themselves what to do with the messages marked as potential spam.
There are a myriad of ways an email provider may choose to mark potential spam. Probably the most popular way is to simply add the word "SPAM" (in all caps) to the subject line of the email. Another way is to add a "X-Spam-Flag" header to the email (headers are simply elements within the email that include information about delivery and status of the email, like who the email is from, when the message was received, and so on).
Regardless of how the junk mail is marked, once your email program is trained to look for the right marks, it can begin to take advantage of your email provider's efforts.
Like many other Internet providers, Emery Telcom is providing anti-spam services are being provided to all Internet subscribers at no additional cost. If your email address contains etv.net, emerytelcom.net, afnetinc.com or castlenet.com, much of the junk mail being sent to your email address is already being marked.
If you are using Outlook Express to read your email, Emery Telcom has already put together a very easy to follow guide on how to start taking advantage of their anti-spam services. To view this guide, go to www.emerytelcom.net, hover over the "Internet" button, glide your mouse pointer over "Filtering" and then click on the "SPAM filtering" link. Or, you can simply click here.
If you are instead using the freely available Mozilla Thunderbird (which I personally recommend) to check your email, follow these steps to take advantage of Emery Telcom's anti-spam features:
1. Start Mozilla Thunderbird by double clicking the icon on your desktop, or by clicking on the icon in your start menu.
2. Look within the left pane for "Local Folders." Right-click "Local Folders" and click "New Folder."
3. A "New Folder" window should now be visible. Type "SPAM" in the "Name" box and hit OK.
4. Along the top of the program, you will see textual menus like, "File", "Edit", "View" and so on. Find "Tools" and click on it. The "Tools" sub-menu should appear just under your mouse pointer. Find "Message Filters" and click on it.
5. A new window titled "Message Filters" should have appeared. Along the right side of the screen are various buttons with text labels on them. Find the one that says "New" and click on it.
6. A brand new window titled "Filter Rules" should now be visible. Find the text box just to the right of "Filter Name" and delete anything that might be present in that box. Type SPAM.
7. Now, make sure that "Match any of the following" is marked. If marked properly, you'll see a black dot in the white circle immediately to the left of the word "Match."
8. Look just below the text "Match any of the following" and notice the row of boxes that say "Subject" and "contains." In the box to the right of contains, type SPAM.
9. Now, further below, look for the text "Perform these actions." Just under this text is another row of buttons. You should see "Move message to" and some other buttons immediately to the right. Click on the button immediately to the right of "Move messages to." The button should expand vertically to allow you to select the folder you want your SPAM in. Locate the SPAM folder (which is likely on the bottom of your list) and click on it. After completing this step, the row of buttons should read "Move message to" and "SPAM on Local Folders."
10. Find the "OK" button at the bottom of the window and click on it.
11. You should now see the "Message Filters" window. Click on the "X" to close the window. The next time any email messages are received, they will be scanned by your email program. If the word "SPAM" is found in the subject line, the message will be moved to your SPAM folder.
In later articles in this series we will discuss other common email providers, further ways to prevent spam, as well as ways to eliminate much of the spam you are already receiving.
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Basic Electrical Schematic Diagrams
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“I felt always like I was part of a larger thing, that would encompass a lot of people. And all of those energies of all of these individuals and all of their unique talents and unique contacts is what came together to make that thing happen.”
When Joe Ficalora (pictured left) brought me to the roof adjacent to Alicé Pasquini’s wall he said, “only family comes up here.” The deep personal connection I felt looking over a year’s worth of accomplishments with Joe and Alicé is the feeling that both individuals are trying to instill upon the community surrounding this intersection. A close Italian family who emigrated to Brooklyn only generations ago, the Ficaloras welcome any person to the neighborhood who shares their passion for beautification, like Joe’s grandmother who is always quick with coffee and snacks on cold days.
Although the nexus of this project was marked with personal tragedy, these losses became the impetus for change. Starting during Bushwick Open Studios last year, the area quickly became the Brooklyn hub for visiting muralists, which gave Yok and Sheryo some of their first walls as well as other notable visiting artists, such as Nychos and most recently Alicé Pasquini.
For her first visit and wall in the United States, the artist worked through the wind, which at one point toppled her ladder, to complete a deeply personal mural for the area. The wall that the Italian artist was given previously belonged to Jim Avignon, the yellows of which were incorporated into the space’s latest iteration. The figures in her piece, titled “As Much As You Can,” bustle around the streets of Alicé’s imagined vision of New York City. Having never previously visited the city, the artist imposed the dreams and ideologies of her imagined characters, who represent the beliefs of the many people who come to this city for a new life. Being aware the Ficalora’s roots in her native Italy, the artist painted this piece as a tribute to not only all immigrants, but specifically for his family.
From the sense of family I felt when standing on that roof to the kindness that the Ficaloras extend to any person who finds their way to the neighborhood from the Jefferson train stop, Alicé has distilled this sense of belonging into her mural. By reflecting the vibrancy and closeness that occurs in the small neighborhoods within New York City, one would think she had lived here her whole life, rather than a first visit.
Photos by Rhiannon Platt
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Presentation on theme: "Rare Pictures of GOA by John Menezes. PENINSULAR INDIA: OLD GOA If the Pacific Ocean was once a Spanish Lake, Then the Indian Ocean during the 16th Century."— Presentation transcript:
Rare Pictures of GOA by John Menezes
PENINSULAR INDIA: OLD GOA If the Pacific Ocean was once a Spanish Lake, Then the Indian Ocean during the 16th Century belonged to the Portuguese. The administrative center of this Portuguese Lake was Goa. What did it look like? Most of the city of that time has been obliterated, partly by time but largely by The Portuguese themselves using it as a stone quarry. Words come to the partial rescue, Here in a snippet of the account left by Francois Pyrard, writing shortly after "It is about a hundred and ten years since the Portuguese made themselves Masters of this island of Goa, and I have often wondered at the rapidity with Which the Portuguese have been able to rear stately edifices, so many churches, Convents, palaces, fortesses, and other buildings.... This city is the metropolis of the whole of the Portuguese dominions in India.... Every year more than a thousand ships touch there laden with cargo." Don't be misled by his use of the word "island." It's not; by a stretch the city stood on a peninsula. (Quoted in Jose Nicola DA Fonseca, Sketch of the City of Goa, 1878, p. 156)
The arch of the viceroys shown therein collapsed somewhere in 1955 and was immediately rebuilt. The laterite stone walls of the Basilica of Bom Jesu started to leak and were cleaned and coated on the outside somewhere in There were more members of the Portuguese nobility in Bassein than in Goa and the ruined Church of St. Anthony, Bassein Fort, has their family grave stones with the family coat of arms. Someone in my building has photographed them and I have to look up the book on Bassein by Teresa Albuquerque for a write up on them. I have lived few days in the Convent of S. Caetano, Old Goa, when my grand-uncle priest, Canon Bruno Menezes, was administrator and in 1955 both of us used to be hosted to dinner by the officers of an artillery unit stationed there. The Convent of S. Monica is today the all-India "Catholic" centre for the inculturation of nuns. There is the Indian rite "mass" there.
Well, here we are, a busy street 400 years ago. Jan van Linschoten, Assistant to the archbishop and in modern language also an industrial spy, Wrote that one street was crowded with cotton and silk dresses, China porcelain, and velvet from Portugal. Another was for woodworking-- Beds, chairs, joinery. Linschoten did more than describe the commercial geography of Old Goa: He copied the maps long held secret by the Portuguese, And when he brought them back to his Dutch countrymen, They began sailing the Portuguese Lake, with ruinous effect for the Portuguese. By 1774, Portugal's eminent Marquis of Pombal sent out a new governor with instructions To restore the city's glory. It was not to be, but Pombal's instructions to Jose Pedro DA Camara Describe Goa by then as "overtaken by such calamities that she is reduced to a heap of ruins; So that she is now a mere wreck of what she was in happier times." (Fonseca, p. 183)
A coconut grove on the site of former buildings. The heap of stones was made recently, when the landowner cleared the site before planting it. If you like lamentations, you'll love Tomas Ribeiro ( ), who wrote of Goa: "I have come to witness the collapse of glory, to have to show to foreign peoples only ruins, Deserts and skulls, as all the trophies of our history." (Quoted in Churches of Goa by Jose Pereira, 2002, p. 90)
It almost takes an archaeologist to sort it out: the relics of ancient Goa Are not the stone blocks in the upper half of this picture. They're the thin fragments of roof tile in the lower half.
Visitors today arrive by road, but in the old days they came up the Mandovi River, Here at low tide five miles from the sea. There's a lot of bulk-carrier traffic, As well as ferries on the river, but no oceanic passenger ships.
The 16th Century city was walled with a gate that was decorated for the arrival of new governors. Then in 1599, when the governor was Dom Francisco DA Gama, the great-grandson of Vasco DA Gama, This arch was built at the river's edge "by order of the Senate of the city of Goa, With the twofold object of saving the expense of decoration and of perpetuating the name Of the famous discoverer of the sea route to India." (Fonseca, p. 193) Sorry to disappoint, But the arch collapsed in 1948 and was entirely rebuilt in Old engravings show a slightly more elaborate structure, with an upper image Containing a statue of St. Catherine. (See, for example, the one in Antonio Lopes Mendes, A India Portuguesa, 1886, vol. 1, p. 51.)
Vasco in his Sunday best. Although Vasco came to India in 1498, Portuguese rule over Goa was established instead by Afonso Albuquerque, Who in 1510 defeated the forces of the Sultan of Bijapur. It happened on November 25th, the feast day of St. Catherine, Which is why her image originally appeared above Vasco's.
Rear of arch, with view through to ferry dock. Notice the statue at the top of the arch?
t shows a woman, sword in hand, standing over a man in native dress. Symbol of Portugal's rule?
Inside the arch is this tablet. The upper portion reads: "The legitimate and true king, Dom Joao IV, restorer of Portuguese liberty " The reference is to Portugal's regaining in 1640 its independence from Spain.
Perhaps a hundred yards up the road is this last vestige of the palace of Yusuf Adil Khan, the last Muslim ruler in Goa. For a long time his palace was used by the Portuguese viceroys, But they eventually moved their capital downstream to less cholera-prone Pangim (=Panjim =Panaji). In 1820 Adil Khan's palace was demolished and its stone reused in the new city. Only this gateway survived. The design is Indian except for the scroll on the lintel, which is a Portuguese "improvement."
Next to the relic gateway is the Church of Our Lady of Divine Providence, Completed in 1661; to its left is the S. Caetano (= Cajetan) Monastery, named for the founder of the Theatine Order. Caetano came from Thiene, west of Venice, And was a contemporary of the better known St. Francis Xavier. He arrived in Goa in 1639 and, failing to get permission to proselytize within the dominion of the Nizam of Hyderabad, settled here after swearing allegiance to the Portuguese king. The Theatines were unusual in accepting non-Europeans to their
The floor plan of the church is a Greek Cross. The base of the dome bears Matthew 6:33, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. " It was no random choice, because the order taught reliance on Providence for subsistence. The church was designed by two Italians, Ferrarini and Milazzo.
Often described as a smaller version of St. Peters, The church was modelled more directly on the church of the Madonna della Ghiara, which is in Reggio Emilia and which was based on Bramante's unexecuted design for St. Peters. The elaborately carved pulpit is characteristic of Goan churches.
Goan churches are generally made of blocks of laterite, Which when excavated from the earth hardens to ironstone. That rock is durable but cannot be carved, so the Goan churches are typically covered with plaster and periodically given a coat of white paint.
"Here lies Luis de Braga Giro. Died 11 March 1669 [?] and his heirs. " Unlike the case of Bassein (q.v.) there is apparently no book that translates the inscriptions of Old Goa.
Perhaps a mile away, there's a hill atop which stands the Church of Our Lady of the Mount. Like many churches in Goa, it's been inactive for a long, long time. Even in 1878 there was only one service here annually, building the church.
The church was described in 1992 as "deserted and decaying, " but since then it has been restored. See Maurice Hall, Window on Goa, 1991, p. 95 and, for conservation methods, a paper by Luis Marreiros Of the Portuguese Architectural Heritage Institute, online at 0/w10_marreiros.pdf 0/w10_marreiros.pdf
The church is closed, but that term is merely relative.
View from choir. The roof is a 9-meter wide cylinder or barrel vault and rests on laterite walls 2.7 meter thick.
The view west from the church. The church on the right is the one seen earlier; We'll look now at the others, beginning with the dark tower just breaking the skyline at the western edge of the cluster of buildings.
It's the only surviving bit of the superstructure of the Augustinian church of Our Lady of Grace, Which was completed in 1602 and abandoned when the Augustinians Were ordered to leave Goa in The massive roof collapsed a few years later, in Most of the facade fell in The remaining tower has been stabilized. The rubble in the foreground is the remnant of a great staircase that once led up a low hill to the church.
Floor of the church.
Here lies Captain Iacome de Moraes. Died 20 July 1624.
Across the street is the huge convent of Santa Monica, once a popular place of permanent seclusion but by 1876 down to a single nun.
The doorways bear elaborate ornamentation, Which is odd since the women inside were not allowed to leave, while visitors were far and few between. Still, it appears that the phrase Liber Vitae Agni was apt. It presumably comes from Revelations 21:27, "And there shall in no wise enter Into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."
Another entrance is less clear, although certainly the presence of the Portuguese in Goa was a story of the sea and its voyagers.
The most important surviving building in Old Goa is the Se or Cathedral, completed in 1652, When Portuguese power was already in decline. It's formally the Cathedral of St. Catherine, the patron saint of Goa because it was on her day that Afonso Albuquerque finally captured the city and ordered The slaughter of all Muslim residents--man, woman, child. Thousands died, punished it seems because the city's rulers--Muslims-- Had earlier welcomed Albuquerque, then turned on him, forcing him to fight to regain his hold on their city. Despite this slaughter, Albuquerque subsequently pursued a policy of toleration, at least with regard to Hindus.
Fonseca writes, "This cathedral, which was in course of construction For upwards of three-fourths of a century, and which witnessed the rise and fall Of the Portuguese power in the East, is a really majestic edifice. " The right tower fell in 1776 and was never rebuilt. A century later, Fonseca continues, the church remained the "only church [in Goa] where religious services were held every day on a somewhat grand scale." (Fonseca, p. 198ff.)
The inscription reads, "In the reign of the very catholic King Dom Sabastiao this cathedral was ordered to be erected... in the year of our Lord "
The cathedral was begun by an unknown architect who modeled his work On the cathedral at Leiria. Most of the work, however, was done under the direction of Julio Simao, Appointed chief architect of Portuguese Asia by Philip II. It's a reminder that the church Was built while Portugal was under Spanish rule. Simao finished the nave in 1622 and the crossing in 1628 but died before the portal was finished in He's buried in the church.
The high altar, shown here in genuine low focus, shows events from the life of St Catherine of Alexandria. The central image on the lower level shows Catherine holding a book and sword while standing on a cloud. The symbolism is obscure until you learn that the "cloud" was originally a picture of the prostrate Sultan of Bijapur.
Adjoining the cathedral is the Church of the Holy Spirit or, popularly, of St. Francis. It's late, completed in 1668.
The church is a single hall, a nave without aisles, and is entered through a wide arch.
Paintings illustrate scenes from the life of St. Francis.
The high altar has a surprisingly informal image of Christ on the cross but with one arm On the shoulder of St. Francis, who embraces Christ. Francis stands on steps labeled Poverty, Humility, and Obedience.
Not three minutes away is the Basilica of Bom Jesus, built quickly and finished in 1605, Before any of the other churches we've seen, except for the Augustinian church now in ruins. Once, Bom Jesus was plastered and painted.
The facade is partly of a dark granite from Bassein, north of Bombay. Why? Because granite can be carved, unlike the laterite blocks used elsewhere in the church. The church is attached to what was once a training academy for Jesuits.
Courtyard of that monastery, now the Pius X Pastoral Institute.
Top of the facade, with the Jesuit seal in granite.
The high altar has a larger- than-life image of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Francois Pyrard wrote soon after 1600 that he saw a procession Of 1,500 natives coming here to be baptized. The crowds today come mostly to see the tomb of Francis Xavier, which is in the right arm of the crossing.
Ignatius Loyola stands atop a small Christ child.
Most of the church appears to be very simple, almost austere in contrast with the altar, but Pyrard wrote that the walls were gilt.
The casket of Francis Xavier, a Basque Jesuit who was an associate of Ignatius of Loyola. The great missionary of the East, his body was brought here from China after his death there in Francis Xavier was canonized in 1622; this catafalque, of jasper and marble, was sent from Italy by the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1698.
The upper tablet reads: "This Church of Jesus was begun to be built on the 24th November 1594, And the most Reverend and Illustrious Lord Dom Fr. Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa and Primate of India, consecrated it in the year of our Lord 1605, on the 15th May. " The lower stone marks the elevation of the church to a Basilica Minor in 1946.
Off to one side of the complex of major churches we've been looking at Is this small Chapel of St. Catherine, Built by Albuquerque in 1510, though enlarged in As Portuguese power waned, Portuguese churches grew larger.
Rear of the church, showing the characteristic laterite blocks.
Another early church, Sao Pedro, from 1542 or Supposedly, there's nothing special about it.
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The MPAA has some interesting plans for the future: after over a decade of demand, Hollywood intends to deliver movies to customers in their homes at the same time they are released to theaters by limiting playback to DRM-infused digital outputs only through the HDCP protocol. The only problem? HDCP was just cracked.
You might already be familiar with HDCP, if you have a Blu-Ray player or a display with an HDMI input. Essentially, HDCP devices come with their own unique sets of keys that allow a device to encrypt or decrypt protected data, but with a twist: content providers can essentially revoke those encryption keys if they suspect you of foul play. HDCP’s capacity to essentially let a huge, faceless media company break functionality on your devices is obviously a big concern for DRM opponents, who identify the protocol as one of the most insidious and invasive DRM schemes yet devised.
Yet HDCP may already have been neutered, if Twitter scuttlebutt is to be believed. What this means is that perfect digital copies of any HDCP-protected content can be achieved as long as the HDMI standard does not evolve in response. This is a nightmare scenario for Hollywood, as it means that perfect digital copies of in-theater movies could start hitting torrent sites the second they are streamed online, which the industry, until now, has wanted to do simultaneously with theatrical release. If HDCP has truly been cracked, expect to see the MPAA pull back from its streaming day-one plans in fast order.
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Most of us assume that what we do, and teach, is evidence-based. The challenge is to insure that this is indeed the case. More to the point, how can we readily find the credible evidence we need to guide practice and teaching? And, can we differentiate high-quality evidence from less trustworthy reports? This paper presents a basic, three-step process for querying the literature, identifying levels of evidence, evaluating the evidence, and summarizes the early experiences of three dental schools in developing a curriculum that incorporates EBD and critical thinking.
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Mobileye Ended Tesla Partnership Over Envelope Pushing Autopilot, Safety Concerns
This week, Mobileye chief technology officer Amnon Shashua has shed additional light on why it decided to leave Tesla at the altar. Shashua accused Tesla of “pushing the envelope in terms of safety” and that Autopilot “is not designed to cover all possible crash situations in a safe manner.”
Shashua seems to be falling in line with publications like Consumer Reports that suggest Tesla has simply oversold the capabilities of the system, and calling it “Autopilot” gives drivers the wrong impression. “No matter how you spin it, [Autopilot] is not designed for that. It is a driver assistance system and not a driverless system,” added Shashua in an interview with Reuters.
Mobileye’s EyeQ system-on-a-chip is used in conjunction with the semi-autonomous Autopilot system found in Tesla’s Model S and Model X electric vehicles. Following its breakup with Tesla, Mobileye announced a new partnership with Delphi for a next generation self-driving system for cars.
For its part, Tesla says that it has been completely transparent about Autopilot’s capabilities, indicating in a statement:
Since the release of Autopilot, we’ve continuously educated customers on the use of the features, reminding them that they’re responsible to keep their hands on the wheel and remain alert and present when using Autopilot. Drivers must be prepared to take control at all times.
With that being said, Tesla is once again in the headlines for all the wrong reasons following another deadly crash involving a Tesla Model S. A driver in China was killed when his Model S struck a stopped truck on the highway at a high rate of speed.
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To say Britney Exline is smarter than average is like saying Barack Obama is just another president.
It simply isn’t true and here’s why: Exline recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011 at the age of 19, making her the youngest engineer to graduate from the school and the youngest African-American engineer in the country.
Now that’s smart.
At a time when young African Americans get too much publicity for violence or having children out of wedlock, Exline is proving to be an example of all the good that is possible.
“I really don’t think it’s been any different, except for in the beginning people are always a little shocked to learn that, but if they get to know me, then they know that it’s just a number,” Exline said at the time of her graduation.
After graduating, Exline decided to take a job as a software engineer outside of Boston. She eventually plans to head back to graduate school, though, to follow up on her Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
In addition to her collegiate success, Exline is one well-rounded young lady: She speaks five languages and graduated with minors in psychology, math, and classical studies. She also has a passion for volunteering to help others, having traveled to Cameroon with the One Laptop program.
And at the tender age of 16, Exline worked on Wall Street and was also a participant in several teen pageants, winning two in Colorado in 2004 and 2006.
Not to mention that Exline was building pyramids with blocks at 6 months old and walking at 8 months.
Exline owes part of her success to her parents, Chyrese and Christopher Exline.
In an interview with Ebony magazine, Chyrese said of her parenting,”I made sure they remained committed even when they wanted to quit. They learned you can’t quit an activity just because it’s hard. Sometimes you need to stick with something. That’s the only way to learn how to persevere and overcome true obstacles. Eventually, it becomes a part of you. I believe this.”
Just imagine the potential this young lady has. With her youth and advanced study, she has the chance to do something great.
But the best part about Exline might be her humility.
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Understanding Blade Properties
An article by Patrick Kelly
Here we will discuss the basic properties of a sword blade. These terms and definitions refer mainly to blades of the Viking age through the renaissance period. Blades of the earlier Bronze Age, as well as the post reformation/colonial period, exhibit unique attributes that may fall outside the scope of these terms. These terms and definitions are not offered as an absolute in sword design. Any experienced collector or historian will freely admit that there are always exceptions to every rule. In the virtual cornucopia that is sword design it is a dangerous thing to make absolute statements. These definitions are offered as a guideline for the beginning sword collector and martial artist. The old adage "The more I know the less I'm sure about" is a good thing to remember.
The common view of the medieval swordsmith is that of a single artisan working alone at a forge, making a sword from start to finish. While this may indeed have occurred, it was far from the norm. Medieval blades were made in a far more "modern" fashion than is commonly believed. They were often forged in blade-making centers then exported to different locales and hilted by local cutlers in the latest fashion. Antique blades that bare the mark "Ulfberht" are an excellent example. There are far too many blades that have this mark to have been made by a single man. Ulfberht was obviously the Smith & Wesson of its time.
Modern swords are made by two different methods: forging and stock removal.
Forging is recognized as the traditional method utilizing hammer and anvil. The hot blade is hammered to shape and then finished by grinding and polishing. While this is the traditional method it is more time consuming and, as a result, more expensive.
Stock removal is the process where a blade is manufactured by using a billet of steel that is ground to shape and then polished. While forging is undoubtedly the more traditional approach, it does not result in a superior blade simply because of this process. The method of heat-treating is far more important in determining the blades end quality.
The blade gains its hardness by heat-treating. It is then tempered by being heated a final time and allowed to air cool. This allows it to remain hard enough to hold an edge yet tough enough to absorb punishment. Heat-treating and tempering are often two aspects of blade making that are confused.
Blades may be made utilizing differential heat-treatinga process that results in a harder edge and a softer body. This allows for greater edge retention while maintaining proper shock absorbance. Most modern-made replicas will use a process know as through hardening in which the heat-treating process maintains the same hardness throughout the blade, resulting in a blade that is tough and serviceable yet is also more affordable for the customer.
Medieval illustrations also show the use of large millstones being used in the grinding process. The modern act of stock removal may not be as far from the historical norm as previously thought. Both processes can produce a blade that is fully functional and well made.
In terms of performance there is no difference between forging and stock removal. Still, there are many modern bladesmiths who make their wares using hammer and anvil in the time-honored tradition. While their swords may be more expensive, they are in high demand. There are many modern-day collectors and martial artists who insist upon a forged blade for the sake of art and historical connection.
When we use the above term we are referring to the sword's basic statistics: cross-section, blade width, thickness, taper, etc. When measuring a sword's specifications it is best to use a set of calipers in order to get as accurate a measurement as possible. Fractions of an inch can drastically alter the dynamic properties of a sword blade. This is important to keep in mind especially when commissioning a smith to recreate an existing historical piece. A difference of an eighth or sixteenth of an inch here or there can result in a far different sword than the customer desires.
A blade's cross-section varied widely over the span of the sword's use as a primary weapon. Simply put, if you were to cut a blade in half crosswise and then look at its cut end you would see the blade's cross-sectional design.
Early Viking and medieval European blades tended to have a lenticular cross-section. This is primarily a lozenge or apple seed type of design that lacks a strong central ridge in the middle of the blade. When coupled with a wide shallow fuller this resulted in a blade that was both light and flexible. While blades of this period were capable of thrusting techniques their main focus was on the cut so flexibility was preferred over rigidity.
As armour improved over the span of the middle ages blades exhibiting a diamond cross-section became more common. This consists of four flat faces that are joined to form a diamond with the blade's central ridge forming the inner juncture and the edges forming the outer. The diamond cross-section could still be broad and flat when used in a cutting blade; however, this blade would exhibit more rigidity than the earlier lenticular design and as such would be more effective in thrusting techniques. Swords of dedicated thrusting designs could be of a more acute diamond cross-section and while lacking the mass of a cutting blade would be quite ridged and efficient in the thrust.
Blades of hexagonal cross-section were also found side by side with these other two designs. A hexagonal cross-section simply consists of a blade with six faces. Two broad (or narrow depending on type) faces that make up the flat of the blade and four smaller angled faces that form the edge. Blades of diamond cross-section can often be found with a hollow ground design. This results in a blade that is light and very ridged, making it very effective in the thrust. Blades of diamond and hexagonal design can also be seen with both broad and narrow fuller(s). These were used to lighten the blade while not sacrificing integrity and also simply to add visual detail to the blade.
A note on the term "fuller": The fuller is the channel, or groove, found on a sword blade. A fuller can be broad or narrow, shallow or deep, depending upon the sword's design and intended mission. It is often erroneously referred to as a "blood groove" or "blood channel". In fact, the fuller has nothing to do with any kind of bodily fluids but is intended to lighten the blade without weakening it.
A sword blade tapers in two different areas: distally and in profile. Distal taper refers to the thickness of the blade. It will usually be observed that thickness lessens from the base out towards the tip. This is done in order to maintain handling and mechanical characteristics. A cheap modern reproduction will usually have no distal taper and will seem overly heavy and "dead" when compared to a quality reproduction of the same design which does exhibit distal taper.
Distal taper will often be continuous from the blade's shoulder to the point, but not always. In order to maintain a good mix of mass and balance, a blade may taper in increments or may taper in only the later half of its length. When dealing with historical designs it is important to keep the sword's intended mission in mind and to realize how the maker fashioned the blade in order to meet that mission.
Profile taper is the degree of tapering along the flat of the sword, i.e. a measure of the blade's width along its length. An earlier medieval blade such as Oakeshott's Type X will have little profile taper as it was meant primarily to be a cutting instrument whereas a blade of Oakeshott's Type XII will exhibit increased profile taper since it was designed to be a cutting blade with improved thrusting capability. Profile taper may be continuous or may be more gradual, leaving the blade with a bit of a "belly". Once again, this depends upon the weapon's intended purpose.
Point of Balance
The PoB is simply the sword's center of gravity. This can easily be found by balancing the sword, lengthwise, upon your finger. The point of balance will vary widely from type to type. An early medieval cutting sword will not balance the same as an 18th century smallsword. Many beginning sword collectors will put excessive emphasis on the sword's point of balance. Statements to the effect of "my swords have to have a PoB four inches from the guard" will often be heard from a novice. If the aforementioned medieval cutting sword has a PoB two inches below the guard, it probably won't be an efficient performer regardless of how "alive" it may feel to the owner. Likewise, that smallsword shouldn't have a PoB eight inches from the guard.
A sword's point of balance is only one small piece of the complex puzzle that makes up a sword. Instead of asking ourselves if the sword feels "good" in terms of our personal wishes we should instead ask if the sword feels "proper" in accordance with its intended purpose.
Center of Percussion
The CoP is the area along a blade's length that produces the least amount of vibration upon hitting a target and is the area able to deliver the most efficient, powerful blow. (See next section for more information)
The subject of Harmonics is one that is hotly debated in many sword collecting and manufacturing circles. "Harmonics" refers to the positioning of the vibratory "nodes" along the blade length. When a sword strikes an object it will vibrate. These vibrations center in nodes along the length of the blade. Typically a sword will possess two areas: the primary and secondary nodes.
The primary node is located towards the tip of the blade. This can easily be located by holding the sword in front of you edge on. Lightly strike the pommel of the sword with the heel of your off hand causing the sword to vibrate. Observe the point near the blade tip where the blade does not vibrate (usually several inches from the point) this will be the sword's primary node. The primary node is also known as the Center of Percussion (CoP). The CoP is nothing more than the sword's "sweet spot" or the area where the sword will deliver its maximum impact to a target without energy dissipating through vibration.
The secondary node will be found, usually, below the guard within the grip where the index finger of the hand will be located. This node can be found be holding the sword, point down, with the index finger and thumb. Lightly strike the blade with the palm of your hand thereby causing the sword to vibrate. The area below the guard where no vibration is felt will be the location of the secondary node. The locating of this node is important as it will prevent undue fatigue of the sword's components and will prevent vibration from being transferred to the user's hand.
Harmonics are determined by the mechanical attributes of sword design. Blade length, thickness and width as well as pommel weight and grip length are all factors that determine a sword's harmonic balancing.
Many of us have had experience with low quality replicas that loosen and fall apart through use. This is due to a combination of substandard hilt design and improper harmonics. The subject of harmonics is also one that is, at times, overemphasized. Yes, a sword should have proper harmonics to be functional and durable. It is, however, only one part of the larger picture. Some historical designs may have only so-so harmonics yet were considered perfectly acceptable in their day due to the fact that a compromise had to be reached in terms of form and function.
The above is only a brief and very basic overview of the sword, its manufacture and its attributes. As can be seen, there are many factors to be taken into consideration when choosing a modern-made sword. Things such as point of balance, harmonics, distal taper, etc. are all individual aspects of a sword that cannot stand on their own in terms of priority, yet should be taken as a whole when determining a purchase for the modern day would-be swordsman.
About the Author
Patrick is a State Trooper serving with the Kansas Highway Patrol. He has been fascinated with edged weapons, particularly the medieval sword, since early childhood. Not only is Patrick thankful for any opportunity to indulge in his favorite hobby, he is also blessed with a wife who tolerates a house full of sharp pointy things. | <urn:uuid:8d50c99a-a9a9-4b30-9459-6e0630af66a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://myarmoury.com/feature_properties.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00531-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958739 | 2,594 | 3.21875 | 3 |
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has filed a formal allegation of scientific misconduct by a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, charging that he manipulated and falsified scientific communication to policymakers and the public so as to substantially underestimate the flow rate from the disastrous BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout in 2010. PEER also released an email from Dr. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, citing pressure from the White House toward communicating an underestimate of the blowout flow rate. These allegations suggest a disturbing parallel with practices we saw in the White House and NOAA under the Bush Administration.
[UPDATE: Please note the comment posted below by Bill Lehr responding to PEER’s charge.]
Why did this happen on NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco’s watch? Will NOAA’s new Scientific Integrity Policy prevent something like this from happening again, or are the political pressures and agency science infighting just too great?
And what is to be done if the scientific integrity problem is with the President’s people in the White House? Why did this happen on Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren’s watch? Was he in the loop when White House officials were allegedly undermining accurate communication?
Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones covered this story on January 23 (“Report: White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size”).
From the January 23 news release by PEER:
HIGH-LEVEL LOWBALL IN GULF DEEPWATER CRISIS —
Scientific Integrity Complaint Details Official Underestimation of BP Spill Rate
Washington, DC — Top Obama officials manipulated scientific analyses of independent experts to seriously lowball the amount of oil leaking from the BP Deepwater Horizon, according to a scientific integrity complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
Documents obtained by PEER through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit indicate White House pressure to present low-range estimates as best estimates. In fact, numbers presented to the public were less than half the true flow rate.
On May 19, 2010, one month after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, the White House announced creation of a group of experts from academia, industry and government to generate an accurate and independent estimate of the oil leak rate. This group was called the Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG).
Using new scientific integrity rules, PEER today filed a complaint charging that the leader of one of the FRTG Teams, Dr. William Lehr of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), manipulated the scientific results of the FRTG experts throughout the entire crisis to significantly understate the spill rate. Lehr is also the author of the now infamous “Oil Budget Calculator” and a report concluding 75% of the oil was gone from the Gulf by August 2010.
Lehr was leader of one of the most important FRTG teams, the “Plume Team” which analyzed videos of the oil leaks to produce the first estimates. Three of the 13 Plume Team experts used a technique called Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to estimate a leak rate in the range of 25,000 bpd. But three other experts on the Plume Team reported that PIV was underestimating the size of the leak by more than 50%. Those three experts used a different technology to correctly peg the leak rate at 50,000 to 60,000 bpd.
Yet Lehr did not tell the public or key decision makers that there was a deep split on the Plume Team. In the Plume Team’s Final Report, the body of which Lehr wrote, he reported that “most of the Plume Team used PIV” which produced “consistent and accurate” estimates. These underestimates were repeated to the public and media. When experts on the FRTG complained to Dr. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geologic Survey, she cited pressure from the White House, saying in a May 29 email that:
“I cannot tell you what a nightmare the past two days have been dealing with the communications people at the White House, DOI, and the NIC who seem incapable of understanding the concept of a lower bound. The press release that went out on our results was misleading and was not reviewed by a scientist for accuracy.”
Throughout the Plume Team’s work it was widely thought that physical measurement of the leak was not possible and therefore it was assumed that Plume Team estimates of the leak rate would be used to assess damages in future litigation. Thus, manipulating spill rate estimates down to 25,000 bpd instead of 60,000 bpd could have reduced damages paid by BP and/or other responsible parties by tens of billions of dollars. Even more significantly, the President’s National Commission concluded that underestimates of the size of the spill hampered clean-up efforts and caused numerous attempts to cap the well to fail.
In fact, the leak rate was physically measured by an Energy Department team as the well was capped. This final official estimate set the leak rate at 62,000 bpd (decreasing to 53,000 bpd when finally closed), proving correct the suppressed estimates from dissenting Plume Team members.
“This complaint serves as a litmus test as to whether the Obama administration will apply its scientific integrity rules to its own actions,” stated PEER executive Director Jeff Ruch, noting that his organization has waged an 18-month court battle to obtain approximately 100 highly redacted emails while several hundred more emails are still being withheld. “Hopefully, the investigation of this complaint will force the immediate release of the full deliberations so that the scientific record can be set straight.”
Sheppard writes at Mother Jones:
It’s not entirely clear from PEER’s release, though, what was real reason for the inaccurate figures—a single scientist giving inaccurate information, the White House pressuring him to do so, or the White House screwing up the reporting of the figures. Whatever it was, it resulted in the public getting a dramatically inaccurate impression about the size of the spill.
Some earlier posts on Obama and scientific integrity:
Some earlier posts on NOAA scientific integrity issues:
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Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are Wahhabi Muslims, the most radical branch of Islam, some say, and similar to the Taliban though not identical. They want to turn back the clock to the days of the 8th century and live according to strict Islamic law in the Koran. The direct cause of his attacks on the US stem from our involvement in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
The presence of more than a half million non-Muslims ("infidels") on the holiest Muslim soil, the birthplace of Mohammed and the religion, was a direct affront to Wahhabi Muslims. The fact that the King of Saudi Arabia invited our troops meant they would declare war on the monarchy of Saudi Arabia too.
The strategy was sound - hit America at the heart of its financial district, the center of the military at the Pentagon, and the White House. This will force America to invade Afghanistan, will damage its economy and confidence, and restrict civil liberties, all of which happened. For an investment of about $150,000, they forced us to spend nearly $1 trillion.
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Does your smoker leak smoke? If so, you might be worried that it will affect the flavor, tenderness and overall quality of your food. This is a common concern shared by countless pitmasters. In this post, we’re going to explain whether it’s normal for a smoker to leak smoke.
The Basics of Smokers and How They Work
Before we reveal whether it’s normal for smokers to leak smoke, let’s first go over the basics of this common outdoor cooking device. Smokers are designed to cook food at a low temperature over a prolonged period of time by exposing the food to smoke. They typically contain one or two fuel compartments in which you can place charcoal and/or wood chunks for smoking. Experienced pitmasters usually add both charcoal and smoking chunks to their smoker. As the charcoal burns, it produces heat that releases flavorful smoke compounds from the adjacent pile of smoking chunks.
While all smokers rely on flavorful smoke to cook food, the way in which they operate varies depending on the type. Some of the most common types of smokers include the following:
- Offset Smoker: The most common type, an offset smoker, is a type of smoker with a firebox attached to the side. The firebox in offset smokers is the main compartment in which charcoal and smoking chunks are added. Since the firebox is located away from the cooking grate, food is exposed to less heat.
- Drum Smoker: Also known as a barrel smoker, a drum smoker is an alternative type of smoker that’s characterized by a drum-like design. In fact, many drum smokers are made of real drum barrels. Drum smokers are available in a variety of sizes, ranging from just 30-gallon drums all the way to 85-gallon drums.
- Bullet Smoker: As the name suggests, a bullet smoker is a type of smoker that’s shaped like a bullet. It’s essentially a variation of the drum smoker, with the only difference being that bullet smokers have a water pan or bowl below the cooking grate.
Yes, Some Smoke Leakage Is Normal
Although it sounds alarming, it’s normal for smokers to leak some smoke. Whether you have an offset smoker, drum smoker or bullet smoker, it will probably leak some smoke. If the lid, for example, doesn’t create an airtight seal, smoke will inevitably escape. This is particularly true when speaking about new smokers.
Contrary to popular belief, new smokers are more likely to leak smoke than old smokers. When a smoker is still new and hasn’t been used many times, it will have a smooth and clean finish. If you frequently use your smoker, on the other hand, it will develop a layer of carbon on the surface. This layer of carbon acts as a seal to prevent smoke from leaking. As a result, smoke can escape new smokers more easily than old smokers.
All Smokers Must Release Smoke
It’s important to note that all smokers must release smoke. You can’t smoke or grill food in a completely closed and airtight environment. If there’s no air flowing through the fuel compartment, the charcoal or smoking chunks won’t burn. And if the smoking chunks don’t burn, they won’t produce the flavorful smoke that’s responsible for cooking your food.
To allow airflow through your smoker’s fuel compartment, you must adjust the dampers. Dampers are the adjustable air vents that you can open or close. Most smokers have two dampers: one on the top and another on the bottom. Normally, you should keep the top damper open and the bottom damper closed. With the top damper open, your smoker will release smoke out the top. At the same time, it also allows air to flow in and out your smoker, ensuring that your smoking chunks continue to smolder at a low temperature.
You can use the bottom damper to adjust the temperature of your smoker. Keeping the bottom damper creates a cooler environment by minimizing airflow. Assuming the top damper is open, your smoker will still have enough air to keep your smoking chunks smoldering. With the bottom damper closed, though, only a small amount of air will flow into and through the fuel compartment, thereby keeping the temperature of your smoker — and your food as a result — in check.
Excessive Smoke Leakage Is Not Normal
You can expect your smoker to leak some smoke, but it shouldn’t be leaking an excessive amount of smoke. If you see large amounts of smoke pillowing from seals or between the lid, you may struggle to cook delicious food. The lack of smoke means your food won’t have the same smokey flavor as it normally would. You can still cook delicious food using a leaky smoker, but it comes at the cost of less flavor.
Furthermore, smoke does more than just enhance the flavor of food; it makes food more tender. The smoke compounds break down the otherwise tough tissue of meat to create a superior level of tenderness. But if your smoker leaks too much smoke, you won’t be able to cook tender meat. For the best flavor and tenderness, you need to expose your food to lots of smoke from high-quality wood, such as smoking chunks.
Again, it’s normal to a small amount of smoke to leak. What’s not normal, however, is for thick plumes of smoke to roll out the sides and seals.
How to Prevent Your Smoker From Leaking Too Much Smoke
If your smoker is leaking an excessive amount of smoke, there are a few things you should do. First and foremost, try using your smoker more frequently. As previously mentioned, the inside surface of a smoker will develop a layer of carbon over time. Each time you use your smoker, some of the carbon-based particulate matter from the smoke will stick to its interior walls.
When using your smoker, make sure the lid — the top piece — is properly positioned over the bottom piece. If the lid is tilted just slightly to the left or right of the bottom piece, it won’t create an airtight seal. The lid must be aligned with the bottom piece. Otherwise, smoke will escape through the gap between the two pieces.
You can also minimize the amount of smoke that escapes your smoker by adjusting the dampers. For most smoking activities, only the top damper should be open. If you open the top and bottom dampers, smoke will escape out both these air vents. Keeping the bottom damper closed ensures that smoke only escapes out the top, which is necessary to keep fresh air flowing into the fuel compartment.
When all else fails, you may want to upgrade to a different smoker. Cheap, low-quality smokers are more likely to leak than their higher-quality counterparts because they are poorly constructed. By upgrading to a high-quality smoker, such as a Primo Oval, you shouldn’t have a problem with smoke leakage. With their ceramic construction and premium craftsmanship, Primo smokers are universally recognized as being some of the best smokers on the market.
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Envision develop young people’s employability by empowering them to tackle real-life social problems.
Working with children from less priveledged background in our home town of Bristol, alongside Birminigham and London, Envision bring together local businesses, schools, charities and volunteers to provide a practical learning experience which enables young people to develop the skills they need to succeed in work and life. In return, young people invest their time in developing projects which give back to the community.
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Sands is the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK. Sands exists to reduce the number of babies dying and to ensure that anyone affected by the death of a baby receives the best possible care and support for as long as they need it.
Sands provides bereavement support services both nationally through its Freephone helpline, mobile app, online community and resources, and locally through a UK-wide network of around 100 regional support groups.
in 2021 Gunner & Co’s senior broker Josh Lee ran Manchester marathon, raising more than £6000 for Sands.
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SPANA has been the charity for the working animals of the world since 1923, providing free veterinary care to horses, donkeys, mules and camels in some of the world’s poorest countries. The charity improves the welfare of working animals in three ways: free veterinary treatment, education and training, and emergency and outreach projects..
SPANA also carries out a community training programme, working with animal owners in developing countries to address the root causes of welfare problems. The programme is changing attitudes and behaviours, promoting humane treatment of animals and reducing preventable problems and the need for veterinary services.
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The British Heart Foundation fund around £100 million of research each year into all heart and circulatory diseases such as heart diseases, stroke, vascular dementia, diabetes and the things that cause them.
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Stadtarchiv Frankfurt (Oder) (Frankfurt (Oder) Municipal Archive)
Research into Nazi-confiscated cultural property in the archive's collection
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The archive holds a 1935 list compiled by the then magistrate in order to encourage a boycott of Jewish businesses of Frankfurt (Oder). Many of the people listed were robbed of their possessions; many lost their lives. Except for the fate of one Jewish family, no detailed research has been undertaken. It is known that theft was undertaken by both private citizens and the National Socialist authorities. A copy of the list of individuals and businesses can be obtained from the Central Registry.
Research into cultural property missing from the archive
The archive suffered losses during the Second World War. Part of the archive's collection was placed in storage in 1944, some records were placed in the town hall's strong room, others were outside the city. In April/May 1945, those records still stored in the city centre were destroyed by fire, those in the town hall's strong room were looted.
OA Targiel, Stadtarchivar (Municipal Archivist)
Stadtarchiv Frankfurt (Oder)
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Tel: +49 (0) 335 6803004 or 6659610
Fax: + 49 (0 )335 6802773
Central Registry Archives, Correspondence, 21 November 2002.
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Kripalu Yoga was developed in the 1970s by Amrit Desai. This type of yoga combines Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga. The word Kripalu means ‘compassion’ in Hindu. It is a relaxing approach based on meditation, healing and spiritual transformation.
The Kripalu three steps or stages are:
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In December 2016, the Regional Transportation Council (RTC) approved the first 10-Year Plan of Projects for the Dallas-Fort Worth region funded by allocations of Category 2, 4, and 12 funds from the Texas Transportation Commission (TTC). The plan funded approximately $6.9 billion worth of projects, with the Eastern subregion receiving approximately $4.6 billion and the Western subregion receiving the remaining $2.3 billion.
A10-Year Plan is required by House Bill (HB) 20, passed by the Texas Legislature in 2015. This legislation mandates that the state and metropolitan planning organizations utilize performance-based planning and project selection, along with developing criteria to consider congestion, safety, economic development, available funding, air quality, and socioeconomic effects.
The 10-year Plan is updated annually in conjunction with the Texas Department of Transportation's Unified Transportation Program (UTP). These updates include changes to existing project limits, scopes, and funding as well as the addition of new projects.
2021 10-Year Plan Update
2020 10-Year Plan Update
2019 10-Year Plan Update
2018 10-Year Plan Update
2017 Action on 10-Year Plan
2016-2026 10-Year Plan
NCTCOG Planning Prior to 2016
While performance-based 10-Year Plans are now legislatively mandated, NCTCOG has been conducting 10-year planning efforts for more than two decades. Materials about the projects funded through those efforts can be found below.
For a complete listing of the projects selected and other information on the 10-Year Plan, please follow the links provided above.
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Those who doubt the genius of the founding fathers are destroying the county. Flaunting an unconscionable hubris, the activist left believe they are the answer to all the worlds problems.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE STATES:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
THESE RIGHT APPLIES TO CHILDREN AND THIS RIGHT MUST NOT BE ABRIDGED.
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|Oprah puts together two day show:
Full Episode: 200 Adult Men Who Were Molested Come Forward
This is a superb documentary that exposes the heartbreak of childhood sexual abuse. What it fails to expose is the undeniable fact that most of these crimes were committed by homosexuals that were never prosecuted. This sets up a vicious cycle as the abused often become abusers. See 200 cases of unreported child abuse committed by homosexuals. The abused often become the abuser.
It may be hard to believe, but Disney now has a "gay" agenda working to indoctrinate your children.
|Watch a video displaying the three facts about homosexuality - sexual abuse - substance abuse - and parents are the last to know.
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Tucson mom raising boy as a girl.
Boston doctors playing God .
Cross dressing boys - smart idea ?
Homosexuality and Murder
Penn State Sexual Abuse
Abuse of boys in Afghanistan .
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Known for being the world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah is a large feline that can run up to 75 miles per hour in short bursts to cover distances up to 1,600 feet and accelerate to over 60 miles per hour within just three seconds!
Easily recognizable from the other popular big cats for their spotted coat, characteristic “tear stripes” from the corner of the eyes, and smaller size, the cheetah possesses a lean, long-legged build manufactured for speed. Read on to learn more fun facts about cheetahs and find out why this fast cat is a true marvel of evolution.
Where Do Cheetahs Live?
Historically, cheetahs were once found throughout all of the African and Asian continents from the far reaches of South Africa all the way to India. However, the species is now confined to parts of eastern, central, and southwestern Africa with small isolated populations found in southwestern Asia. Still retaining a rather wide distribution through most of sub-Saharan Africa, including Zambia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe, the largest populations of cheetahs today are found on African natural reserves or parks.
Found mostly in grassy savannah plains, scrub forests, grasslands, and semi-arid deserts, cheetahs need to inhabit areas that are infinitely open with plenty of area to roam or run after their prey. Since cheetahs rely on being able to camouflage themselves in the grass while stalking after their dinner, the animals are mostly seen in areas that have thick vegetation and where their favorite foods are located.
What Do Cheetahs Eat?
As a truly carnivorous animal that depends on meat for survival, the cheetah utilizing its speed to hunt various prey that inhabit the open or partially open savannah. In general, the diet of the cheetah consists of gazelles, wildebeest calves, impalas, and smaller hoofed animals in its habitat. Furthermore, cheetahs may eat rabbits, birds, hares, antelopes, and warthogs. Since water can be very scarce in its native land, cheetahs have the ability to survive with just one drink every three or four days.
Camouflaged against the tall grasses, cheetahs quietly sneak up on their prey until they are confident about the attack, burst out using their tail as a rudder, trip the animal with their paw, and then suffocate it with a bite to the neck. After making the kill, cheetahs must eat quickly or drag the food to a hiding spot before any lions, leopards, or hyenas steal it. While they may be the speediest animal, only half of the 20-60 second hunts are actually successful.
Since the animals can reach top speeds in no time, cheetahs have a slender body frame that is both lightweight and aerodynamic. Averaging a shoulder height of 30 inches, most cheetahs are between 110 to 140 pounds on their small stature. With long legs, loose hip joints, and a flexible spine, cheetahs have the ability to cover up to 25 feet in one stride. Their muscular legs mainly consists of fast twitch fibers to contract much faster than normal, while their wide nostrils and lungs provide more oxygen for sprints.
As one of the species’ trademark features, cheetahs have coarse short fur that is tan with round black spots and black “tear stripes” running from the corner of the eyes down the side of the nose for keeping sunlight out of their eyes. While it is generally shorter-bodied, cheetahs are taller and have a longer tail ending in a bushy white tuft for a more streamlined appearance. Designed to grip the grass floor, the cheetah has blunt non-retractable claws for traction.
Unlike lions or hyenas, cheetahs are diurnal animals with poor night vision that prefer to hunt their prey through the daytime hours, especially in the late morning and early evening. While they are typically solitary animals and females generally raise their cubs in solitude, they are thought to be the most sociable big cat because siblings stay together for six months after leaving the mother and male cheetahs sometimes live with a small group of brothers from the same litter for life. Males are often aggressive towards other males when battling to mate with a female, but cheetahs will give up their catch to another larger animal to avoid a fight.
Maturing rather rapidly, males are ready to mate when they are one year old and females will be ready to do so when they are two years old. As animals that engage in a behavior called polygyny, male and female cheetahs will mate with many different members of the opposite sex during their lifetime. After a female gives birth, she will feed the young milk from her body, protect them from predators, begin teaching them to hunt, and eventually leave them alone at one year of age.
Unlike most other big wild cats, cheetahs breed throughout the year without a regular established mating season. However, the seasons where there is a better food supply is when most of the breeding will occur.
Once fertilization has occurred, the pregnancy period will last for approximately three months and the male cheetah will not remain with the female after mating.
Typical Litter Size
After gestation, female cheetahs can give birth to a litter of up to eight cubs. Since the young cheetahs are at particular danger of attack from predators, the cubs have a distinctive smoky coat color with wooly hair down their backs to camouflage them in the tall grass.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, it is estimated that there are between 9,000 and 12,000 cheetahs remaining in the wild in Africa with a small pocket of around 200 cheetahs living in isolation in Iran. Once a wide-ranging species with over 100,000 the range a century ago, the dramatic decrease in cheetah population is alarming.
Threats to Cheetahs
While they may be the fastest land animal, wildlife biologists have begun to question whether they can outrun extinction. Currently classified as an endangered species, cheetahs have a long history of being placed in danger of over-hunting for their prized coats in the fur trade. However, the real threats to the cheetah today are loss of habitat on an increasingly crowded continent, competition from other large predators or ranchers, and a loss of genetic variation.
- As the only big cat in the feline family that cannot roar, cheetahs vocalize through a loud purr similar to a household domesticated cat. In addition, they make a unique bird-like sound called a “chirrup” when they are excited or calling their young cubs.
- Females can mate with several males in the span of a few days and have different fathers for the offspring in the same litter.
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Greetings in that Divine and Most Precious Name of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
Culture should be embraced, ethnicity should be celebrated, but chauvinism is wrong in any instance. There are also shades of grey. For example, the Ethiopian Church gets accused of phyletism but many times it is precisely the opposite, the emphasis on cultural and linguistic aspects of the Ethiopian jurisdiction were not intended to elevate one ethnic group in Ethiopia above another, rather like Latin in Europe was to serve as common denominator and bridge.
Amharic and Ge'ez as languages and other cultural aspects of the Ethiopian Church are organized and centralized to encourage a more Universal approach to the Church, which can embrace more peoples under single banner. Amharic or Ge'ez is not the language of all Ethiopians, but they are the languages of the Ethiopian Church. The cultural aspects of the Church (which are not exclusive Amharic, rather a syncretic blend of Tigreyan, Amhara, Agew, and Shewan-Oromo cultural) are intended to offer a universal platform and commonality to the Chuch, rather then to encourage an increasingly splintering of ethnic Christianity. Today the Ethiopian government has been experimenting with the concept of Ethnic federalism, which has proved largely a disaster. Thankfully in practice the Ethiopian Church has essentially been the opposite. Yes, many folks have accused the Church of chauvinism or even Phyletism, but these are just hating. The Church has done her best to alleviate these matters in a way which is mutually beneficial to ALL parties involved. | <urn:uuid:69d3f18e-de26-4bcd-9f34-d97207c32469> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=46807.msg801929 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951318 | 326 | 1.976563 | 2 |
September 9, 2005
Seminar: Irish Studies, 535
Meeting Date: September 9, 2005
Chair: Mary McGlynn
Speaker: Prof. Sunil Agnani
Assistant Professor of English, University of
Title of Talk: “Edmund Burke on Ireland and India: ‘The Protestant
Ascendancy’ and ‘Indianism’ as Global Phenomena.”
Rapporteur: Prof. Terry Byrne
Attendees: Terry Byrne (The College of New Jersey); Robert St-Cyr;
Thomas Ihde (Lehman College, CUNY); Martin J. Burke (Lehman College and
CUNY Grad Center); Abby Bender (Princeton Univeristy); Rita Loughlin
(American Irish Teachers Association), Peter M. Leahy, Joseph Lennon
(Manhattan College); Anna Brady; Michael O. Shannon (Lehman College,
CUNY); Seamus Blake (WFUV Radio, Fordham University); Joseph V.
Hamilton, Esq.; Gertrude Hamilton (Marymount College of Fordham
University); Clare Carroll (Queens College, CUNY).
“Edmund Burke on Ireland and India: ‘The Protestant Ascendancy’ and
‘Indianism’ as Global Phenomena.”
The following is a synopsis of Prof. Agnani’s paper.
Prof. Agnani opened his talk with observations on
the many links between India and Ireland from the eighteenth to the
twentieth centuries. He then moved on to explain his interest in
Burke, as a figure whose resistance to the French Revolution was a
puzzle and a disappointment to Prof. Agnani at first. In part,
Burke’s issue with the French Revolution was that its Jacobinism
assumed an abstract man, one who was free from a network of cultural
practices, which he calls “prejudices.” The second great evil of
his time, he thought, was what he called “Indianism,” while the third
evil that that he took up was “the malignity of the principles of
Protestant ascendancy” in Ireland.
Indianism is a term that not only describes the
worst excesses of British rule in India, but their consequences in
Britain: the creation of a dynamic class of men who gained vast
fortunes, detached from traditional impediments and filiations.
This is also what Burke sees Jacobinism in France leading to.
Both Jacobinism and Indianism are for Burke generalisable terms—they
emerge in one specific context but are used to name and describe events
in another. According to circumstance and the audience, one is a
worse evil than the other. Writing to Sir Hercules Langrisshe,
Jacobinism is concern, because it is more pertinent to the Irish
context; writing to Loughborough, Indianism and the Hastings
impeachment trial are to the fore.
The delegitimisation of force is a concern that ties
his discussions of France, India, and Ireland together. The use
by the state of excessive force lays bare the institutions of force
underlying the state, and reveals the constitution to be little more
than a militarised entity. Indianism means for Burke the
expedient, but not moral, use of law and force. Both France and
India are ruled by “men of talent,” free from impediments and
responsibilities, who represent the worst excesses of government free
Joseph Hamilton: As Burke was against Jacobinism, he is incorrectly
identified as a conservative. (He was for the American Revolution
but against the French Revolution.) He had revolutionary
ideas but his approach was realistic rather than idealistic.
Sunil Agnani: Modern day conservative appropriation of Burke is
dubious. In my opinion, Burke would be a liberal in the
present-day context. His late writings are the most strident—he
opposed complete revolution in favor of reform. Burke’s notion of
“custom” is the anthropologist’s notion of “culture.”
Martin Burke: Is Gibbons’ use of Burke vis-à-vis property
in Ireland correct?
Mary McGlynn: Would the Protestant Ascendancy qualify as an “end
run” around the proper order of accession to power in Burke’s thinking
(re: Burke’s use of “Indianism”).
Agnani: Burke would probably oppose changes in property laws (in
Irish context). He was influenced by Jesuit writings, notably
Clare Carroll: Suarez had an influence on Irish thinking,
particulary vis-à-vis the idea of “natural law”. He was
translated into Irish and also influenced English republican
thinking. He even advocated regicide in certain circumstances.
Seamus Blake: Cruise O’Brien wrote about Catholics converting to
Protestantism to retain property rights.
Agnani: Burke wrote extensively about the legitimacy of forced
J. Hamilton: Burke was cartooned in the English press as a
Jesuit. There may be a connection between the Irish and the
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Tensions over Europe's financial problems resulted in another rush of money into Treasury securities, sending yields lower.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.73 percent in afternoon trading Wednesday from 1.77 percent late Tuesday. Its price rose 34 cents per $100 invested.
European leaders were meeting in Brussels to hash out ways to promote economic growth and to keep their currency union intact. Spain's prime minister warned that his country can't keep up with its high borrowing costs.
The yield on the 30-year bond fell to 2.82 percent from 2.87 percent. Its price rose 91 cents per $100. The yield on the two-year note fell to 0.26 percent from 0.30 percent.
The yield on the three-month T-bill was 0.09 percent.
The Treasury Department sold $35 billion worth of 5-year notes at a yield of 0.75 percent. Demand was in line with recent auctions. | <urn:uuid:6973d0c6-4307-4d99-a7dd-26a36428c2da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://townhall.com/news/business/2012/05/23/treasurys_march_higher_as_stocks_swoon_on_europe/print | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00096-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961796 | 199 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Here you’ll find a wide range of over 100 factsheets on topics from medication to the Mental Health Act, which have been created by experts at Rethink Mental Illness’ Advice and Information Service. All of them have achieved the Information Standard for their clarity and simplicity.
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An innovative imaging system that uses muons – a type of cosmic ray – to reveal the interior of a volcano has been developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.
Muons are high-energy elemental particles that result from collisions between cosmic rays and molecules in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Hold out your hand and a muon would pass through it about once every second. Chief Scientist Dr. Kanetada Nagamine of the Muon Science Laboratory at RIKEN (Japan’s national science research institute) is big on muons, to say the least.
Opines Nagamine, “If the 20th century was the electron age, the 21st century could be the muon age.” One might think that’s going a bit far, but the professor knows a thing or two about muons – among other things, he uses them to look inside volcanoes.
“The muons’ ability to penetrate matter depends on their energy,” explains Dr. Nagamine. “Muons with energies of 100 giga electron volts can pass through 100 meters of rock, and muons with energies of 1 tera electron volts can penetrate 1000 meters into the Earth.”
Based on the wide range of energies, Nagamine’s team designed an imaging system that records hits from muons which pass through a volcano to reach the detector. A radiograph-style image illustrating the density of the volcano is then gradually created using colors to denote muons of different energies.
Although it takes up to 2 months to create a suitably detailed image, that’s more than enough time for scientists to see magma moving up the throat of the volcano and, if necessary, alert governmental authorities that an eruption may be imminent. On the lighter side, any concerned homeowners looking to buy volcano insurance may want to chat up Dr. Nagamine first. | <urn:uuid:c2c25cc6-4a74-46f7-835e-d89c6b8b2a93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.impactlab.com/2008/11/15/imaging-system-that-takes-x-rays-of-the-inside-of-volcano/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.907845 | 400 | 3.96875 | 4 |
Meet Your Mentor
A good mentor is as valuable for a startup as a good coach is for a rookie. They want you to succeed, are quick with advice, honest in their critiques and generous with their networks.
"A mentor that's very experienced can direct the mentee in terms of things they need to think about, who they need to connect with and give them a heads up about questions they wouldn't even think to ask," says Steven Mednick, an assistant professor and graduate coordinator at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where he teaches MBA and EMBA programs and mentors more than 50 startups.
Here's how to link up with a mentor who's a match for you:
Look far and wide
When looking for a mentor, first go to someone you know and trust, such as a professor, local entrepreneur, industry expert or former employer. Then expand your network. Mine for contacts on LinkedIn, through alumni associations, at trade association meetings and small-business development centers and through the Entrepreneur Mentor Society. These are all great ways to connect to potential mentors.
An hour with a good mentor can be more valuable--and much less expensive--than an entire business course. Mentors have real-world experience, understand your needs and want to help you avoid the pitfalls they've already encountered. They also have access to people and resources you don't have.
Maximize the relationship
To make the most of the mentor experience, clearly outline your expectations and schedule regular meetings with your mentor. Don't be afraid to ask questions. And be open-minded, because a good mentor will be critical.
Protect your interests
If you don't feel comfortable with your mentor, find a new one. Otherwise, you'll be hesitant to share information. Regardless of your comfort level, make sure to protect any trade secrets before discussing plans with your mentor.
When you feel you've achieved a level of experience that will allow you to mentor someone else, connect with trade groups, small-business development centers and universities. These groups may not have mentorship programs, but they will know entrepreneurs looking for mentors. The experience will help you, too.
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You can attempt out two or three classes before you determine to join. What is the difference between Beginners and also Mixed courses? The newbies class on Mondays is after that a great possibility for everybody to exercise these improvements using a great deal of repeating. During “mixed courses”, we will certainly frequently concentrate a great deal of time on improving a particular technique (as an example backstances) or boosting a certain element of karate (for instance, improving securing and proper breathing, or improving muscle mass link as well as positions, or enhancing changing and also rhythm).
2. Then we exercise KIHON (standard strategies): stances, blocks, strikes, kicks, stepping, shifting, and also mixes of these techniques, concentrating on breathing (IBUKI), body dynamics (going down power, turning power, reverse rotation, energy, raising power, body resonance) as well as securing at the end of a technique.
I went to my excellent and also after class as I went out of the dojo, I was drunk by exactly how poorly my body was conditioned. If you determine to sign up with the club, we can organize the acquisition of a Karate attire (GI) with the Sugiyama dojo, or we can recommend you on how to acquire one online if you favor.
The Dojo kun is usually uploaded on a wall in the dojo, as well as some shotokan clubs state the Dojo kun at the start and/or end of each class to give inspiration and also a context for further training. That is why it is essential that you be on time for training: we do twenty to thirty minutes of stretching/warm-up at the beginning of training. Why Shotokan Martial arts is the most effective?
A modern-day example of an exciting Kumite competitors would certainly be Bas Rutten’s Karate Combat. Kumite techniques mirror these stances and also motions at a fundamental level, yet are less structured, with an emphasis instead on speed as well as effectiveness. These are the standard principles composed by the master.
Are the courses available to the public? It is very important that you subscribe to the Martial arts mailing listing for club news (e.g. if a course obtains canceled, or if an event is turning up, when classes start/end in the quarter, etc). The reason for this is that the College of Chicago intends to see enough commitment from club members before it moneys a sporting activities club. This is a charitable nominal charge, and also many sporting activities clubs of the college call for such a fee from their club members.
After that you need to pay the quarter’s dues to become a participant of the club. Just how do I pay my $55/quarter charges? This financing additionally spends for our association because of JKA Chicago, which allows all of our charter member to practice at the Sugiyama dojo free of cost (so each people saves the main fee of $210/quarter). Most of our financing comes from the College, and also it pays for clinics (special trainings at the Sugiyama dojo), traveling expenses when we most likely to events, and also the costs of a periodic purchase of sporting activities tools.
They direct their power right into exterior tools similarly they transport power to their clenched fist or foot. It has to be that colleges in the very same design might have really various focuses. Also remember that a black belt in one martial art is not comparable to the very same color belt in another design – see Sugiyama’s comments. As a result beginners should certainly come to these trainings as well, but they need to bear in mind that some strategies will be novel as well as a lot more challenging and there will be much less repeating.
It is an extremely technical design of karate, as well as there is a percentage of science behind every step. However to advance via the higher levels of martial arts, it is vital that a karateka grow spiritual power, whatever their religions. For this reason, there is a dojo decorum of common behaviors which share our politeness for the Sensei as well as for our other karateka.
4. If you need to leave the course for any type of factor, please request for the teacher’s approval (refer to the instructor by “Sensei”) and bow out. Our Sensei ensures that the risk of injury is minimized, specifically by progressively showing the capability to manage your methods without ever before reaching your training partner. 2. Acquiesce your training companion before you start a series of workouts and when changing partners.
The Monday evening course is especially recommended for novices, despite the fact that you will certainly discover that the class is simply as blended as on other training days. The Monday early morning course is dedicated totally to KATA (see training as well as look into our kata section). Have a look at the images of katas here, and videos of katas here. Please make checks payable to “The College of Chicago”, as well as write “Shotokan Karate Club” in the notes/memo space of your check.
There is a form that every Sports Club of the College is required to make you authorize prior to you try training. The club officers (see get in touches with) will certainly be collecting the club dues: $55. They are carried out on one’s very own, for that reason the pupil doing the particular kata will certainly exercise each move as a team, however independent of each other. No. Yet if you do, you will improve your martial arts.
In the karate circles, Gichin is credited with the formula as well as popularization of the supposed 20 concepts of karate. Shotokan-ryu owner Gichin Funakoshi.Gichin Funakoshi had trained in both of the prominent styles of Okinawan martial arts of the time: Shurei-ryu and also Shorin-ryu. Kyokushin came a little bit behind the original Okinawan designs, however it’s one of today’s most popular designs.
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arthrogryposis, distal, type 2B(redirected from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, distal, type II, with craniofacial)
arthrogryposis, distal, type 2BAn inherited condition (OMIM:601680) characterised by multiple congenital contractures, vertical talus, ulnar deviation of hands, severe camptodactyly and distinctive facies: triangular shape, prominent nasolabial folds, small mouth and prominent chin.
Caused by defects of:
• MYH3, which encodes a heavy-chain myosin involved in cytokinesis, cell shape and specialised functions;
• TNNI2, which encodes troponin I type 2, a protein expressed in muscle and cartilage;
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I think that I'm figuring out what I've done wrong BUT I've not yet figured out how to makes things right. :roll:
In my area the major honey flow comes from Purple Loosetrife and goldenrod late in the season so I hadn't been checking my two hives that often.
We've had a great great Summer for flowers and I think that gave me an unanticipated honey flow. The two hives were two deeps high in June (usually enough) and I found them to be chock full O' honey, little room for brood. So I put another deep on each hive to give the queen more room to lay.
I didn't want to put on honey supers thinking that if I
a) used a queen excluder she would still feel cramped and would encourage swarming.
b) not use a queen excluder and she would scamper all the way up and start laying brood in the open, drawn cells that I had just provided.
Now what I have is two hives filled with 3 deeps each brood AND honey, but interstpersed in a very odd pattern (frames with one side capped honey, other side brood/pollen/honey, next fram all honey, next frame both sides brood/pollen/honey).
Both hives seem othewise healthy, but I don't want to go into Fall/Winter with three deeps each. I tried that last year with a very healthy hive and it didn't do too well over Winter. I'm assuming it had just too much to try to keep warm in those three deeps.
:?: Where should I go from here? Is there a proper way to get rid of that third deep as the end of the season draws near? If I put on honey supers would the girls start moving honey or nectar from the deeps to up top?
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Why is there an orange combine on the front lawn of Alexander Library?
The Rutgers University Libraries are pleased to announce the spring 2008 exhibition in the Special Collections galleries in Alexander Library, "Garden State Harvest: New Jersey's Agricultural Heritage." We're so proud of the exhibition that we've placed one of the display items, an orange combine from the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, on the front lawn!
The exhibition is built upon a wealth of printed materials held in our Special Collections and University Archives, such as NJ state fair posters, farm equipment manufacturers' catalogs, and product brochures for horses, cows, oysters, and fruit and vegetables in the Sinclair New Jersey Collection; items from the Manuscripts Collection including diaries from farm women, account books by farmers, and the personal papers of George H. Cook; rare maps and drawings from the Map collection including turn of the century county farm maps; and historic materials from the University Archives including photographs of farms across the state throughout the past 100 years and the records of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station from 1889-1962.
The exhibit is also immeasurably enriched by the input and insights we've received from our co-sponsors - the Office of the Executive Dean of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. In addition, we are pleased to note the many valuable contributions to the exhibition from the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture and the New Jersey State Archives.
To highlight the exhibition the Libraries offer two programs, free and open to the public:
Thursday March 13th, at 5:00 pm
Robert M. Goodman
Executive Dean, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Executive Director, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
will speak on the topic:
"How New Jersey Agriculture Leads the Nation: Looking Back to Look Ahead"
Scholarly Communication Center, Teleconference Lecture Hall
Thursday April 10th, at 5:00 pm
A panel discussion: "The Transformation of New Jersey Farms: Perspectives from the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station"
Professor Emeritus William Roberts of Agricultural Engineering
Professor Emeritus Morris Fabian of Agricultural Economics
Professor Emeritus Charles Holmes, Mercer County Senior Agricultural Agent
Professor Emeritus Warner Thurlow, Middlesex County Senior Agent
Moderator: Mark Robson, Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
To RSVP for either event, call 732/932-7505 or email: email@example.com
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Brockport voters have again said that they want to keep their village government, but with a slightly smaller margin than in 2010.
The village clerk's office reports that 817 voters opted against dissolving the village, compared to 632 in favor. In 2010, voters rejected the proposal 959 to 662, and state law protected the village from another voter-initiated dissolution measure for four years. Village resident Rhett King filed a petition earlier this year to hold the vote, and it'll be another four years before a voter can petition for another dissolution election.
The village is located in the Town of Sweden, which would have been responsible for providing services to Brockport residents if the village government dissolved. Dissolution opponents said that the village government provides necessary services for residents, particularly code enforcement and police, and that the town and the Monroe County Sheriff's Office just couldn't provide services at the same level.
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Ever wonder how fabrics get those wonderful colors and patterns? Most fabric is dyed during the processing at the textile mills. Some patterns take special techniques to produce the end result. Three particular patterns are unique in their design. These three patterns are the ombré, the tie dye, and the batik patterns.
What is Batik
Perhaps the most interesting of the three patterns is the batik. The word batik is thought by many historians to have come from the Javanese word “tik” which means “to dot.” Batik dyed fabric originated in Indonesia where even today the fabric is dyed by hand in some areas. In Java, Indonesia, dyeing cloth using this technique is considered an ancient art form. There are several thousand patterns recorded and many are considered ancient designs.
To make the pattern, the design is drawn with liquid wax. Sometimes the design is pre-drawn on the cloth and theCredit: photo by Anggoron traced with the wax; other artists create the pattern freestyle. In the beginning, the waxing was accomplished by using a device called a canting (also called tjanting) tool, which is similar to a wooden pen with a reservoir for the wax. The most common wax is a combination of bees and paraffin wax. After the wax is applied to the design areas of the cloth, fabric dyes are introduced. The wax resists the dye and maintains the original dye or color underneath. The process can be repeated to produce different colors in the pattern. After the final dye is applied, the fabric is hung to dry and then the wax is removed. To remove the wax, the fabric is dipped into a solvent or ironed between newspaper type paper.
As technology advanced and countries became more industrialized, automated techniques were used to produce the batik fabric. In the 19th century the wax began to be applied with large copper stamps or caps. This method allowed the batik designs to be mass produced. To delineate the technique used, the mass-produced fabric designs are labeled as batik cap or batik print. Fabric with designs using the hand waxing and dyeing with the canting tool is called batik tulis.
Dyeing Fabric with Ombré Pattern
Ombré is a more recent pattern. The name means “to shade” or “shaded or shadowed” in French and refers to a pattern of color graduation. It is often called dip-dyeing due to the actualCredit: photo by user Eugenfung technique to produce the ombré pattern. Most often only one color is used, progressing from light to dark or dark to light. However, it is possible to have a combination of complimentary colors so long as the colors graduate in shade.
Garments being dyed with graduated coloring requires it to be either slowly pulled from the dye, or portions rolled onto a rod until ready for dipping. The portions of fabric staying in the dye the longest will have the deepest color. Though this may seem like a simple dye method, if done at home it does takes some timing and patience to get the desired results.
Tie Dye Fabric
Many Americans believe this method of dyeing fabric was invented in the 1960s. However, tie dyeing cloth was Credit: photo by Simon Lyallintroduced in the United States in the early 1900s and quite popular in the 1920s. It came back into style in the 60s as a way of expressing individuality. The actual process dates back to ancient times in China, Indonesia, Southeast Asia and Japan.
This method of dyeing fabric is one of the easiest to master for home dyers. The cloth or garment to be dyed is folded into a pattern and then bound by rubber bands or strings. The cloth can also be tied in knots to create a tie dye pattern. Dye is then applied to parts of the cloth or garment. Tee shirts are popular for tie dyeing and the dyes are better absorbed when the tees are wet.
Dyeing fabric creates many color possibilities. The different patterns and designs allow for further expression. The batik tulis is the most expensive of the three patterns, but apparel as well as other textile goods in these beautiful dye designs can be easily purchased. If attempting to create these patterns at home, ensure success by using the correct fabric dyes and following the instructions on the packaging.
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COUNCILLORS will decide the fate of the Griffith Pound at tomorrow night’s meeting after significant community lobbying to upgrade facilities.
Rescue charity Needy Paws notoriously withdrew its support from the pound last year, refusing to take on any more dogs until a number of issues were addressed.
Following a report from council manager of executive services, Shireen Donaldson, councillors will decide whether or not to include the estimated cost of a new pound into the draft 10-year long-term financial plan.
The estimated cost will be $42,000 in the draft 2014/15 budget for structural design and engineering fees and a further $508,000 in the draft 2015/16 budget for the construction of a new pound.
In the report, Mrs Donaldson acknowledged there has been minimal maintenance or improvement funding allocated to the pound since it was built.
Due to a range of issues, parvo virus – which can be lethal for dogs – runs rampant through the facility and many animals dumped there contract the virus.
Each year, the pound handles more than 1000 dogs and cats.
However, the report identified that with the current state of the pound there are two breaches of the NSW Animal Welfare Code, being the porous concrete flooring and brick walls, which trap parvo, and the holding pends which are exposed to extremes of heat and cold.
While it will be up to councillors to support the proposed overhaul, Ken Rebetzke from Needy Paws said he was pleased council had come this far.
“We’re very happy, we would have liked this to happen a lot sooner but being local government, council has to follow their own procedures,” Mr Rebetzke said.
“I understand council has put a lot of work in.
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From Earth Science On-Site
Apes Tor, Staffordshire
SITE LOCATION AND ACCESS
© GeoconservationUK ESO-S Project, 2017
It is anticipated that the ideas and materials presented here will be adapted by schools, and others, to be more appropriate for their own purposes and programmes of study.
In such circumstances please acknowledge the source as the Earth Science On-Site project.
Figure 1: Location Map for the site
|SITE NAME:||APES TOR - ECTON HILL, STAFFORDSHIRE.|
|STATUS:||Designated a RIGS site (Regionally Important Geological & Geomorphological Site).|
|GRID REFERENCE:||SK 098587|
|OS MAP(s):||The White Peak. 1:25,000|
|BGS MAP(s):|| |
|BRIEF DESCRIPTION||The northern side of Ecton Hill is the site of a series of small quarries extending for about 200m along the roadside. The quarries exhibit a series of folds, and some faults, in Carboniferous Limestone rock faces up to 20m high. There are few fossils in these rocks, which are mainly impure, muddy limestones. The western side of the hill is the site of the ore dressing floors, the signs of the copper mining which ended in the late 19 th century. The top of the hill is pitted with old mine workings and could be dangerous to the unwary, although several footpaths do cross the hill. The site is now owned by the National Trust.
No material should be hammered or collected from any of these protected sites|
|DIRECTIONS:||See Figure 1. The easiest access to the site is from HULME END [GR: 106593] on the B5054. The minor roads to Apes Tor are easily passable by minibus and car, but not coaches.
Coaches of any size should not attempt to approach the site, but instead park at the Manifold Valley Visitors’ Centre, 250m west of Hulme End, on the B5054. This is a Pay & Display car park.
Then the safest approach to Apes Tor from the Visitors’ Centre is by the footpath along the disused railway which runs adjacent to the centre. (See Figure 2) It was never a mineral line – passengers, milk and general goods were the main travellers between 1904 and 1934.
The Visitors’ Centre has limited toilet facilities.
There are no such facilities at Apes Tor, or on Ecton Hill.
FROM THE WEST take the A523, the LEEK to ASHBOURNE road. Turn onto the B5053 and continue through WARSLOW, and fork right onto on the B5054 road towards HARTINGTON. At HULME END turn right at the hotel by the bridge. After half a kilometre turn right. Go through Westside Mill and on for about 300metres, to Apes Tor. Limited parking is available at the east end of Apes Tor. To reach the main car park, continue westwards around the base of Ecton Hill, past the Warslow turnoff, where there is a larger roadside car park on the left, suitable for several cars and minibuses, at GR: 097582.
FROM THE EAST take the A515, the BUXTON to ASHBOURNE road. Turn onto the B5054 and continue through HARTINGTON and on to HULME END. At HULME END turn left at the hotel by the bridge. After half a kilometre turn right. Go through Westside Mill and on for about 300metres, to Apes Tor. Limited parking is available at the east end of Apes Tor. To reach the main car park, continue westwards around the base of Ecton Hill , past the Warslow turnoff, where there is a larger roadside car park on the left, suitable for several cars and minibuses, at GR: 097582.
Figure 2: Map of Manifold Valley and Ecton Hill Sites
|ACCESS:||No restrictions to access.|
|WHEELCHAIR ACCESS:||From the Manifold Valley, along the track and at the roadside outcrops, there is wheelchair access. However, approaching the faces, even slightly away from the road, will be extremely difficult.|
Initial Risk Assessment
All group leaders should meet with their parties prior to the On-Site visit and impress upon participants the educational nature of the event, and the need for extra consideration for the safety of themselves and others.
Each group should have a member of staff proficient in First Aid, and carry a mobile telephone for emergencies.
There is no substitute for group leaders viewing the site before the field visit and making their own risk assessment, according to the requirements of their own organisation. The following assessment is only a guide.
- Note that there is no mobile phone reception in the valleys, and very poor reception on the hills around. There is a public phone box at the junction of the road to Hulme End with the lane to Back of Ecton.
|The exposures are next to a minor road which does carry traffic, particularly in the summer.
||Warn pupils, and keep a look out. With young pupils perhaps consider a “safety ribbon” held by two members of staff at the rear of the party viewing the roadside exposures.
|There is a small risk of blocks falling from the low quarry faces, which haven’t been worked for many years.
||Wear hard hats.
|Pupils could fall from the low rock exposures.
||Instruct pupils they should not climb on the rock exposures.
|Along the valley there are various disused mine workings.
||Instruct pupils to keep away from all mine workings / adits / shafts. Most are gated.
|The hilltop is the site of several old mine shafts.
||If pupils are taken on to the hill, then stay on the footpaths.
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but it does seem that anything in the sky orange and floaty is automatically assumed to be a lantern
Originally posted by MrMasterMinder
reply to post by Andromerius
Fisrt you said there have been 150.000 official sightings in all and then give the figure 2 million as an example, you then take this fictional number of 2 million and say if there have been this many sightings what are the chnaces of them all being fake? This is truely twisted logic.
Do people see things they cant explain from time to time? Yes of course they do, anything to far away to identiy is a UFO. Does this validate the idea of visiting aliens? No!
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
Not sure yet, but i imagine it wouldnt be hard to rig up 2 lanterns with a string connecting them so they remain the same distance away? | <urn:uuid:935fcd7c-f3cb-40bb-9543-44df3ae3e5cd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread914221/pg2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00389-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947443 | 235 | 1.875 | 2 |
Wednesday, 11th November 2015
In Japan Travel News,
Mitsubishi takes Japan's first ever passenger jet to the skies
History has been made in Japan today (November 11th), as the first ever domestic passenger jet made a successful test flight.
The event is the culmination of more than ten years of development in a programme that is hoped to rival the likes of Brazil and Canada for the smaller aircraft market.
Nagoya Airport in Aichi Prefecture was the scene of take-off for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), which has been created by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
The sky was clear over central Japan as the two-engine aircraft, measuring just 35 metres in length, made its inaugural flight.
After the second world war, the US banned Japanese firms from developing aircraft while the country was occupied by the foreign power.
Japan hasn’t brought a new commercial airliner into service since 1962 when it debuted the YS-11 turboprop, which was used for just a decade.
Around 80 passengers can be accommodated on board the new MRJ and it is likely to be a popular choice when it is fully rolled out.
It is ANA Holdings, the biggest carrier in Japan, that will take receipt of the first MRJ, with delivery scheduled for 2017.
Japan Airlines has also placed an order for 223 of the aircraft, but to fulfil the 2,000 MRJs Mitsubishi wants to sell it will have to look outside of its home country.
This is already starting to happen, with the biggest request so far coming from US regional airline operator Trans State Holdings.
The fuel-efficient next generation aircraft is expected to fill a niche in the regional jet sector, which is performing well at present.
It will offer customers enhanced comfort on board and the lower operating costs also make it appealing.
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The University of British Columbia (UBC) and Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.A, TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE] have made significant progress on programs being financed through Teck’s Copper and Health program, including the installation of over 400 anti-microbial patches on high-touch surfaces at the UBC Faculty of Applied Science and research that will further the development of advanced copper coating technology to reduce the spread of infection.
Don Lindsay, President and CEO, Teck, stated, “Teck is proud to partner with UBC Applied Science on this installation of anti-microbial copper in high-traffic spaces to create a safer environment for students and staff. Thank you to the UBC Applied Science and materials engineering department for their leadership in conducting research to advance technology for anti-microbial copper surfaces which will support making our communities safer.â€
James Olson, Dean, UBC Faculty of Applied Science, said, “It’s important that we work with industry leaders like Teck, who display a commitment to innovation and sustainability. When we work together, we’re able to quicken our research and see its impact in the real world.â€
Health Canada-registered copper patches have been installed in public areas on surfaces, including door handles and railings in nine UBC Applied Science buildings. Manufactured by the Canadian company Coptek Copper Covers, the patches are self-sanitizing adhesive copper covers that are registered with Health Canada and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, proven to continuously kill 99.9% of bacteria on surfaces within two hours of contact. Anti-microbial copper patches will create a safer work and learning environment for students, faculty and staff due to copper’s natural anti-microbial properties.
The installations were completed in two phases with 80 patches installed during the first phase in November, 2021, followed by 365 in February, 2022.
In addition, Teck’s Copper and Health program also provided funding to Dr. Amanda Clifford, an Assistant Professor from UBC’s Department of Materials Engineering for research to develop advanced copper coating technology. The new coating is expected to outperform pure copper in terms of reducing the spread of aggressive infections contracted through contaminated surfaces in hospitals and other health care settings. The research results will go through a peer review process and are expected to be released this year.
As Canada’s top copper producer, Teck is committed to raising awareness and advocating for the use of copper as an innovative solution to healthcare-acquired infections, as well as infections resulting from bacteria spread in busy public spaces through its Copper and Health program.
In addition to the installation in UBC Applied Science buildings, Teck has installed anti-microbial copper covers in B.C. hospitals including Vancouver General Hospital, Lions Gate Hospital and Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital and on transit vehicles for Translink and the Toronto Transit Commission. Teck is also committed to installing copper surfaces in the Teck Emergency Department at the new St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver as well as Team Canada training facilities in Toronto and Calgary. | <urn:uuid:0b104b13-ba1f-4183-89d0-1c3e165fa912> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resourceworld.com/teck-installs-anti-microbial-copper-patches-at-ubc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.949566 | 654 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Water softening is the reduction of the concentration of calcium, magnesium, and other ions in hard water. These “hardness ions” can cause a variety of undesired effects including interfering with the action of soaps, the build up of limescale, which can foul plumbing, and galvanic corrosion. Conventional water-softening appliances intended for household use depend on an ion-exchange resin in which hardness ions are exchanged for sodium ions. Water softening may be desirable where the source of water is hard. However, hard water also conveys some benefits to health by providing dietary calcium and magnesium and reducing the solubility of potentially toxic metal ions such as lead and copper.
Water softening methods mainly rely on the removal of Ca2+ and Mg2+ from a solution or the sequestration of these ions, i.e. binding them to a molecule that removes their ability to form scale or interfere with detergents. Removal is achieved by ion exchange and by precipitation methods. Sequestration entails the addition of chemical compounds called sequestration (or chelating) agents.
Ion-exchange materials contain sodium ions (Na+) that are electrostatically bound and that readily are replaced by hardness ions such as Ca2+ and Mg2+. Ion exchange resins are organic polymers containing anionic functional groups to which the Na+ is bound. Minerals called zeolites also exhibit ion-exchange properties; these minerals are widely used in laundry detergents.
The water to be treated passes through a bed of the resin. Negatively-charged resins absorb and bind metal ions, which are positively charged (2RNa(s)+M2+(aq)=R2M(s)+2Na+(aq)(M=Mg/Ca)). The resins initially contain univalent (1+) ions, most commonly sodium, but sometimes also hydrogen (H+) or potassium (K+). Divalent calcium and magnesium ions in the water replace these univalent ions, which are released into the water. The “harder” the water, the more hydrogen, sodium or potassium ions are released from the resin and into the water.
Resins are also available to remove carbonate, bi-carbonate and sulphate ions which are absorbed and hydroxyl ions released from the resin. Both types of resin may be provided in a single water softener.
The resin’s capacity is gradually exhausted and eventually it contains only divalent ions, Mg2+ and Ca2+ for cation exchange resins, and SO42- for anion exchange resins. At this stage, the resin must be regenerated. If a cationic resin is used (to remove calcium and magnesium ions) then regeneration is usually effected by passing a concentrated brine, usually of sodium chloride or potassium chloride, or hydrochloric acid solution through them. For anionic resins, regeneration typically uses a solution of sodium hydroxide (lye) or potassium hydroxide. The salts used for regeneration are released into the soil or sewer. | <urn:uuid:6759c46a-5a97-4bc5-8c21-71e6b26b57a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hytekintl.com/en/water-softening-how-does-it-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.928812 | 633 | 3.6875 | 4 |
1814 – Joseph Finegan, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, is born in Clones, Co Monaghan.
1852 – Sligo-born Brigadier Michael Corcoran’s Irish Legion is mustered into the Federal service; it is involved in the defense of Washington D.C.
1869 – For nearly 150 years, the Suez Canal has played a vital role in world trade and in giving the nations of the Middle East something else to fight over. It opened today, in 1869, after a ten-year construction project overseen by Frenchmen Ferdinand de Lesseps. But that effort wouldn’t have been possible without Francis Chesney from Annalong, Co Down. It was Chesney who, in 1830, compiled and submitted the report that showed the feasibility of the project and when Lesseps greeted him in Paris in 1869, he was gracious enough to recognise his debt, calling Chesney the ‘Father of the Suez Canal’.
1893 – Death of George A. Osborne. He was an Irish composer and pianist. He was born in Limerick and left Ireland at the age of nineteen, thereafter dividing his time between England and France. While in Paris, he studied under Johann Peter Pixis, François-Joseph Fétis and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. In 1843, Osborne settled permanently in London, where he held directorships of the Philharmonic Society and the Royal Academy of Music.
1907 – Death of Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock or Francis Leopold Mcclintock KCB. He was an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy who is known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
1920 – RIC sergeant James O’Donoghue was assassinated by IRA volunteers in White Street in Cork city.
1922 – The Irish Free State begins the executions of seventy-seven anti-Treaty republican prisoners.
1922 – Four Anti-Treaty IRA men from Dublin, who were captured with weapons in Co Wicklow, are shot by firing squad.
1922 – An IRA fighter, Phillip Kilgam is killed in an exchange of fire in Manorhamilton, Leitrim.
1930 – The first Irish Hospital Sweepstakes draw takes place; three Belfast men share a prize of £208,792. The Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake was a lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 as the Irish Free State Hospitals’ Sweepstake to finance hospitals. The Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1930 was the act that established the lottery; as this act expired in 1934, in accordance with its terms, the Public Hospitals Acts were the legislative basis for the scheme thereafter.
1940 – Birth of singer and folk musician, Luke Kelly in Dublin. Kelly was a founding member of the band The Dubliners.
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Co Kerry were evacuated to the mainland. Many of the descendants currently live in Springfield, Massachusetts and some former residents still live on the Dingle peninsula, within sight of their former home.
1968 – A policy of civil disobedience was adopted by the Nationalist Party at its annual conference.
1974 – Erskine Childers, fourth President of Ireland, dies. In a lengthy and distinguished career as a TD, Childers role in cabinet included Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Minister for Transport and Power and Minister for Health. His father Robert Erskine Childers was executed by Irish Government forces in the Civil War.
1981 – The RUC announced that it was cancelling all holiday leave for its officers.
1986 – Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), defied a ban and marched in Portadown with other members of Ulster Resistance in paramilitary style uniforms.
1994 – Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and his Fianna Fáil ministers were forced to resign ending the coalition Government of Fianna Fáil and the Labour Party. On 19 November 1994, Fianna Fáil elected Bertie Ahern as the new party leader. A new government was formed on 15 December 1994.
1995 – Following the change in the law regarding remission of sentence for paramilitary prisoners, 83 people were released from jails in Northern Ireland. The law was changed on 7 November 1995.
1996 – A report in the Sunday Tribune claimed that the IRA were effectively observing a ceasefire while they engaged in contacts with the British government. Unionist parties maintained their stated position that decommissioning of IRA weapons would have to take place before Sinn Féin could be involved in any talks.
1997 – Lee Clegg, a member of the Parachute Regiment, began his third appeal at the High Court in Belfast against his sentence for the murder of Karen Reilly (16) on 30 September 1990. Clegg had been released from prison in 1995 having served two years of a life sentence for the murder and had been accepted back into the British Army.
1998 – The government accepted that the Loyalist Volunteer Force ceasefire was genuine thus making it possible for LVF prisoners to be considered for early release.
1999 – Christian churches reject idea of elections on the sabbath day as a means of trying to increase voter turnout.
1999 – The IRA issued a short statement saying it was committed to peace and acknowledged that the Good Friday Agreement would contribute to a lasting peace. It endorsed the leadership of Sinn Féin in the negotiations and agreed to nominate a representative to enter discussions with the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD).
1999 – The owners of the first cars to be called for inspection under the new National Car Test receive notification in the post.
2001 – An £8.5 million annual pay deal for local politicians is to be finalised before Christmas, giving them a salary for the first time.
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It is a pet peeve of mine that most people think the Civil War ended at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General U. S. Grant.
|Brigadier General Stand Waite|
But here’s another little-known fact related to the end of the war that seems to me should be as widely known as the events at Appomattox: The last Confederate general in the field to surrender was Brigadier General Stand Watie, who did not lay down his weapons until June 23, 1865.
Why is this significant? Because Stand Watie was a member of the Cherokee Nation. He commanded the First Indian Brigade of the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi.
It’s a stretch to say that Indians were at the heart of the American Civil War, but it’s not at all a stretch to say that the West was. Eastern Americans from the North and the South fought to control the economic system the nation would impose on the West. Easterners had lived with slavery in their midst since the very beginnings of European settlement on the Atlantic coast; it was only when the slave system threatened to spread across the lands of the old Louisiana Purchase that the inhabitants of the two eastern regions came to blows.
|Indian Frontier to 1890 (from Bedford St. Martin's). Click to enlarge.|
When Stand Watie took for himself the status of being the last Confederate general to surrender, he claimed the historical significance of the West and of Indians in the American Civil War.
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Energy independence, not climate change, becomes priority under Trump order
WASHINGTON — President Trump's executive order on American energy independence is a sweeping repudiation of Obama-era environmental initiatives, substituting a strategy of combating climate change through international cooperation for an America-first energy policy.
Trump proclaimed the order as "start of a new era in American energy and production and job creation" that would "restore economic freedom and allow our companies and our workers to thrive, compete, and succeed on a level playing field for the first time in a long time."
Trump spoke at a signing ceremony at the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday on a stage with a dozen coal miners. "My administration is putting an end to the war on coal," he said. "I made them this promise. We will put our miners back to work."
Trump's order attempts to roll back Obama-era policies on power plant emissions limits, coal mining on federal lands, and regulations on fracking and methane. Because most of those rules were finalized under Obama, the Trump would have to start from the beginning on a rulemaking process to dismantle those regulations.
The most significant of those regulations is the Clean Power Plan, which put emissions limits on new and existing coal power plants. "Perhaps no single regulation threatens our miners, energy workers, and companies more than this crushing attack on American industry," Trump said.
Even further, the order also takes aim at the entire framework of climate change action under the previous administration. Under Obama, federal agencies were required to plan for and mitigate the future effects of climate change, treat it as a national security issue, and attempt to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions by 40%. With one executive order, Trump revoked four separate executive orders and presidential memoranda Obama signed over the last four years.
Trump's action also takes away the Obama "secret weapon" in energy regulations, known as the "social cost of carbon." By changing the way that future side effects of carbon emissions are accounted for, the Obama administration was able to use a cost-benefit analysis to justify many of its environmental regulations. Trump's order restores the previous policy, which discounts those future costs in relation to the present-day benefits of energy.
Environmental activists deplored the order. Annie Leonard of Greenpeace USA said it showed Trump is "just a fossil fuel industry stooge with a presidential pen."
But she also cast the executive order as a temporary setback. "Thankfully, for all his bluster, the best Trump can do is delay America’s inevitable transition to clean energy, but he can’t stop it," she said.
White House officials said Trump's action "will look back and it will look forward," providing the framework for a new Trump-era energy framework that will emphasize more production and more jobs.
And despite relaxing environmental standards, the White House argues that its energy policies can be good for the environment in the long term. "The president strongly believes that protecting the environment and promoting our economy are not mutually exclusive goals," press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday. "This executive order will help to ensure that we have clean air and clean water without sacrificing economic growth and job creation."
The order will ask all federal agencies to identify obstacles to domestic energy production, with a report back to the White House for future action. By reducing the federal role in regulation, Trump said the order is "returning power to the states, where that power belongs."
Former vice president Al Gore called the order "a misguided step away from a sustainable, carbon-free future for ourselves and generations to come."
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Introduction to Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood, New Jersey is 4 miles NE of Paterson, New Jersey and 17 miles N of Newark, New Jersey. It is in Bergen county. The town is part of the Bergen - Passaic metro area. The population of Ridgewood is 24,936.
Johannes Van Emburgh is said to have been the first modern settler who built a home in Ridgewood. At that time the area was called Hochaos. It was named Paramus in 1725. The Paterson and Ramapo Railroad was established in this area in 1848, which lead to rapid development. Ridgewood was established as a town in November of 1894.
Ridgewood and nearby Attractions
- Ridgewood Public Libary
- Ridgewood Historical & Preservation Society
- Wild Duck Pond
- Veterans Memorial Field
- Graydon Park
- Van Neste Square
Things To Do In Ridgewood
The Wilsey Square provides great opportunities for shopping and dining. The Bergen County Public Park has heavily wooded paths, a pond and a dog park, all of which make it a very popular destination.
The Newark Liberty International Airport is the nearest major airport.
Ridgewood Higher Education
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Andrew Wommack daily Devotional July 21 2022 :
Luke 13:23-24 ‘Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.’
LUKE 13: 22-27
Jesus said that many will seek to enter salvation and will not be able to. There are many reasons for this, but it is not because God refused salvation to anyone. ‘The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men . . .’ (Ti. 2:11) and God ‘is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance’ (2 Pet. 3:9).
There is effort involved in obtaining salvation. The effort is not for the purpose of earning salvation. That is a free gift (Rom. 5:15); but we do have to fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim. 6:12). Faith in Jesus’ goodness is what saves us – not our own goodness – and Satan is constantly trying to destroy our faith. We have to earnestly contend for the faith. True salvation is not just mental assent, but a real heart-felt commitment.
Many people today think that going to church and associating with Christians will provide them with salvation. Some people think that they are Christians because their parents were. But salvation is having a personal relationship with the Lord. You cannot inherit salvation through the natural birth process. ‘You must be born again.’
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Developing bones are differentially affected by compromised skeletal muscle formation
Item Type:Journal Article
Citation:Niamh C. Nowlan, Celine Bourdon, Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Gerard Dumas, Patrick J. Prendergast and Paula Murphy, Developing bones are differentially affected by compromised skeletal muscle formation, Bone, 46, 2010, 1275 1285
Developing Bones are Differentially Affected by Compromised Skeletal Muscle.pdf (published (author copy) peer-reviewed) 2.850Mb
Mechanical forces are essential for normal adult bone function and repair, but the impact of prenatal muscle contractions on bone development remains to be explored in depth in mammalian model systems. In this study, we analyse skeletogenesis in two `muscleless? mouse mutant models in which the formation of skeletal muscle development is disrupted; Myf5nlacZ/nlacZ:MyoD-/- and Pax3Sp/Sp (Splotch). Ossification centres were found to be differentially affected in the muscleless limbs, with significant decreases in bone formation in the scapula, humerus, ulna and femur, but not in the tibia. In the scapula and humerus, the morphologies of ossification centres were abnormal in muscleless limbs. Histology of the humerus revealed a decreased extent of the hypertrophic zone in mutant limbs but no change in shape of this region. The elbow joint was also found to be clearly affected with a dramatic reduction in the joint line, while no abnormalities were evident in the knee. The humeral deltoid tuberosity was significantly reduced in size in the Myf5nlacZ/nlacZ:MyoD-/- mutants while a change in shape but not in size was found in the humeral tuberosities of the Pax3Sp/Sp mutants. We also examined skeletal development in a `reduced muscle? model, the Myf5nlacZ/+:MyoD-/- mutant, in which skeletal muscle forms but with reduced muscle mass. The reduced muscle phenotype appeared to have an intermediate effect on skeletal development, with reduced bone formation in the scapula and humerus compared to controls, but not in other rudiments. In summary, we have demonstrated that skeletal development is differentially affected by the lack of skeletal muscle, with certain rudiments and joints being more severely affected than others. These findings indicate that the response of skeletal progenitor cells to biophysical stimuli may depend upon their location in the embryonic limb, implying a complex interaction between mechanical forces and location-specific regulatory factors affecting bone and joint development.
Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology
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Something for the weekend. Rushing Bastille Day a bit, we have Edith Piaf, as a child in a film about her life, singing the French National Anthem.
Without a doubt the greatest French songstress of the last century, Piaf led a life of tortured immorality, and yet she, by her own account, was the beneficiary of a miracle. From three to seven she was blind as a result of keratitis. She was cured when the prostitutes of her grandmother, who ran a brothel, contributed money to send her on a pilgrimage honoring Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. On her deathbed, dying an agonizing death of liver cancer at age 47, she had a last moment of moral clarity when her final words were uttered: “Every damn fool thing you do in this life, you pay for.” May she now be enjoying in the next world the peace that eluded her in this.
My favorite Piaf song is “Non, je ne regrette rien” (No, I regret nothing) which she dedicated to the French Foreign Legion. When the First Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment surrendered after their involvement in the failed coup attempt against the government of Charles de Gaulle in 1961, they marched out of their barracks singing this song:
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Erik Stanley of the Alliance Defending Freedom offers advice to churches on how to respond to the Supreme Court’s decision to redefine marriage to remove the gender requirement.
[…][T]he greatest threat for churches lies in the application of the Court’s decision to believers who live in jurisdictions covered by so-called “non-discrimination” laws and ordinances. Everywhere that marriage has been redefined in the last several years has seen an awakening of non-discrimination laws that prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, or places of public accommodation on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. These laws are peppered throughout the states and local governments and are a linchpin of the sexual revolution’s broader legal and political strategy: to establish non-discrimination laws at all levels throughout the country and to to “ensure that religion is not used as an excuse to discriminate.”
In coming days, the threat from these non-discrimination laws will materialize in numerous ways as same-sex couples marry. But there are proactive steps your church can take to protect itself.
I put the map from the ACLU above. I think that’s what he is talking about when he says non-discrimination states. Keep in mind that the ACLU supported redefining marriage, and opposes religious liberty.
Erik’s article covers 3 areas:
- Church’s statement of faith
- Pastors officiating same-sex marriage ceremonies
- Church’s facility usage policy
Part 3) was the most interesting to me:
3. Churches should ensure their facilities usage policies are revised to allow only uses consistent with the church’s religious beliefs.
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, some churches may be approached by same-sex couples seeking to be married in the church facility. Churches should not feel as if they have to close their doors to the community just to prevent wedding ceremonies with which they disagree. Churches must continue to be a welcoming presence in the community and can do so through updating or revising their facility usage policy. The key point is to tie usage of the church’s facility to the statement of faith and religious beliefs of the church. And then to make clear that uses inconsistent with those religious beliefs will not be allowed. Alliance Defending Freedom has a sample facilities usage policy available in our Protecting Your Ministry manual.
So you update your statement of faith, and then tie usage of the the facility to that statement of faith. Simple.
I took a quick look at the booklet, and it also talked about tying employment within the church and church membership to the statement of faith.
Denny Burk summarizes those:
2. Religious Employment Criteria
Your church can best avail itself of the First Amendment’s protection in employee disputes if you create and faithfully enforce religious employment criteria for every employee. That requires churches to do at least two things: (1) require all employees and volunteers to sign a statement affirming the church’s statement of faith and standards of conduct, and (2) create written job descriptions for every employee and volunteer position.
4. Formal Membership Policy
If your church does not have a membership policy, you need to change that. Biblically, this should already be a priority for your church. You need to specify what the requirements for membership are, how one joins, how one resigns, and the procedures for church discipline. If all of this isn’t spelled out up front, your church could be exposed (see ADF guide pp. 17-18).
So what to make of this? Well, the ADF is an organization that I admire and trust. I cannot abide Christians who do not want to understand the details of what is happening with religious liberty in their country. The ADF has first class lawyers from the top law schools, and they defend religious liberty at every level of our justice system, up to and including the Supreme Court. If you want to help your church protect itself from prosecution, then you must point them to the ADF booklet linked above.
And this is especially true if you are in one of those states in the map above. In looking over the map, I noticed that much of the trouble we have been having with Christian businesses getting sued are in states that have these laws… Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, New York, and so on. Pay attention to that map and make decisions about where to live accordingly. | <urn:uuid:5fc13d77-f2e0-47af-861f-8a655de93428> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://winteryknight.com/2016/06/13/adf-offers-advice-on-scotus-marriage-redefinition-ruling-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951307 | 913 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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International dinosaur news and stuff
From: Ben Creisler
It's been fun to see how foreign-language news sources have tried to
translate "thunder thighs" after Brontomerus made the headlines.
Here some other recent international items pertaining to dinosaurs that I
don't recall seeing mentioned on the DML. They are in their original
languages in most cases, though.
Patriotic Allosaurus Italian Style
Allosaurus gets painted the colors of the Italian flag to celebrate 150
years of Italian national unity and to promote the exhibit "Dinosaurs in
flesh and bone" at the natural history museum in Piacenza, Italy.
French paleontologist Ronan Allain answers questions online
Mentions a new genus of theropod from Laos. Only the pelvis has been
recovered so far, but Allain is trying to raise funds to go back and
recover the rest of skeleton, which is still at the site. The giant 2.4 m
long sauropod femur recently found in the Charente region of France also is
German TV show about the dinosaurs of Germany this week
The German television program Planetwissen devoted an episode to the
dinosaurs of Germany earlier this week: Giganten der Urzeit - Dinosaurier
in Deutschland. A video snippet can be viewed online. Dr. Annette Richter
discusses tracks found in Germany, and in particular the distinctive
two-toed tracks of a sickle-clawed "raptor" theropod-- the first such
tracks found in Europe. I don't know if the full program mentioned the
giant Triassic coelophysid that was asked about on the DML recently.
Mexican dinosaur find
Some rather fragmentary dinosaur bones have been discovered in Coahuila,
but the site may have better material.
Chinese 4-D movie about Jehol Biota
A computer-animated 3-D movie about the Jehol Biota has been out in China
for a few months. The film is shown in "4-D" at some venues with seats that
tilt and vibrate. The English-language title is "Cretaceous Park."
The reconstruction of Microraptor with sprawling hind-limbs may not fit
with many recent analyses, but stills from the film and pictures of the
poster can be seen on a number of Chinese websites.
Portugal claimed to be country with "most dinosaurs per square kilometer"
in the world
An article about Octavio Mateus:
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thrust sth behind/into/through, etc
› to push something somewhere suddenly and with force
> to become healthy or happy again after an illness, injury, or period of sadness
>If a system or situation recovers, it returns to the way it was before something bad happened.
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That plant can be attached by scale insects which would need treatment with a systemic insecticide labeled for houseplants. But it is difficult to say without seeing the "brown spots". Your best bet is to take a leaf showing the spots to your County Extension Office and see if they can identify the cause of the damage. They would then be able to recommend an appropriate, labeled insecticide product for you to use.
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Water Analysis Services
The Freshwater Research Lab (FRL) at FLBS is an ecosystem science facility providing both grant/contract and fee-based analytical services. The FRL offers analyses on water, soil, air, biological, and radiochemical samples. We strictly adhere to approved methodology and quality control procedures and participate in federal and international auditing programs to ensure high quality data.
We use the newest lab equipment available, thanks to a full upgrade of our analytical equipment and management tools made possible by a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.
How We Can Help
We offer contract-fee based services, as well as support services for research- and education-based activities.
As a research support facility, FRL primarily works closely with scientists and graduate students to develop novel experimental and analytical methods in support of progressive and competitive research initiatives. We encourage students to take an active role in learning the analytical techniques used to generate scientific data.
For more information about services, methods, or pricing, contact us below.
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Creative Arts students were given a unique insight into life behind the scenes as a professional dancer by Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Students from Level 3 Extended Diploma Dance, Level 3 Extended Diploma Musical Theatre, HND Performance Dance, and Foundation Degree Dance took part in a full day of intensive workshops with Birmingham Royal Ballet, to create a 3-minute piece inspired by the ballet Coppélia.
The workshop culminated in a performance at the ‘Ballet-what’s that?’ event in The Galleries Shopping Centre on Saturday 10 March, with the students dancing alongside professional Birmingham Royal Ballet Dancers.
Lauren Robinson, Dance Lecturer at Sunderland College, said:
“Our students represented the college and creative arts department in the most professional manner during the workshop and final performance. It was a pleasure to observe the hard work from their current training being put into practice.
They were absolutely delighted to be given the chance to work with one of the world’s best classical ballet companies, who are respected for their excellence, artistic innovation and social responsibility. It was an excellent networking opportunity for our students wanting to pursue a career in the professional industry.”
Coppélia tells the tale of an eccentric toymaker, who causes quite a stir when he tries to bring his greatest creation, a doll, to life.
Olivia Ferry, BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Dance student, said:
“I feel so privileged to have had the chance to work with Birmingham Royal Ballet. It was a truly amazing experience for any young learner to receive and I am so grateful to Sunderland College for giving me the opportunity.”
Birmingham Royal Ballet are set to return to Sunderland Empire next month to perform the full length ballet Coppélia.
Sheree Rymer, Curriculum Manager for Creative Arts at Sunderland College, said:
“We were delighted to have the opportunity to work with Birmingham Royal Ballet. This exposure to ballet reinforces the quality of teaching they get at college within their dance training. It allows our students to have access to professionals working in the industry, which raises their aspirations. Our students study Ballet as part of their curriculum at Sunderland College, and therefore, this chance to develop their skills and learn from those working in the industry is a life-changing experience.”
Sunderland College has appointed a new Faculty Director to lead its Digital and Creative provision into an exciting and ambitious future.
August 23, 2021
Sunderland College students are hoping to steal the show once again at the Light's Out - Halloween in Sunderland event.
October 15, 2020
Performance students were given a special look behind the scenes of a multi award-winning West End production Cabaret.
Our achievement rates are well above the national average.
We are the College of the Year.
(*Top college nationally for BTECs, Pearson 2019)
100% of our HND and HNC students progressed to employment or further study.
(*Destination data, academic year 2016/17, HNC 19+)
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When Independence public school students returned to the classroom last week, Mercy Clinic’s medical team came along, too...in a virtual, high-tech sort of way, that is.
With the start of the school year, Mercy and the Independence School District launched a partnership to provide telehealth services in each of the community’s four public schools. Telehealth, or telemedicine, involves the use of advanced medical technology with a secure Internet connection to link the school clinics with Mercy Clinic, allowing medical professionals to conduct an “office visit” from several blocks away.
“Imagine not having to leave work to pick up a sick child at school and take him to the doctor,” said Rita Taylor, Mercy Clinic director. “Telehealth allows us to take care of school kids right on site while they are still in the school clinic and, in many cases, they can return to class.”
A high-resolution camera, video monitor and microphone allow the Mercy Clinic provider to interact “face to face” with the student in real-time. Specially designed attachments, such as a high-tech stethoscope and otoscope (an instrument for looking inside the ear) are maneuvered by the school nurse and send information immediately to the Mercy provider via the secure Internet connection.
Telehealth becomes an option once the school clinic aide has exhausted the usual course of action in caring for a sick child and if the child’s parents have signed pre-registration forms authorizing the services. Common ailments for school kids that could be handled via telemedicine include earaches, headaches, sore throats, rashes or bug bites, dizziness or management of chronic conditions, such as asthma or diabetes.
For Independence High School freshman Kason Carroll, it was a red and painful eye that sent him to the clinic on the second day of school and won him the honor of being the first telehealth patient. After following routine protocol to determine what help Kason needed, the school nurse aide decided to call Mercy Clinic.
An appointment was scheduled that day and once connected, Kason met Mercy’s Carlos Venegas, nurse practitioner, “face-to-screen.” With the nurse aide’s help maneuvering the exam camera, Venegas examined Kason and asked him a series of questions about his recent activity, medical history and medications. While Venegas concluded that an in-person examination was necessary for more complete diagnosis and encouraged Kason to visit Mercy Convenient Care later that day, he was able to determine Kason’s condition was not contagious, and he could return to class to finish the day.
“There will, of course, be instances when a telemedicine visit will not be sufficient to make a diagnosis, and the child will need to come into the clinic for an in-person exam,” Taylor said. “But even in those cases, the telemedicine visit will give the patient a jump-start and alert the provider how to prepare.”
Taylor noted that telehealth visits are billed just like a routine office visit, and in the case of an initial virtual visit that must be continued at the physician office, patients will not be charged double for co-pays or appointment fees.
Kason’s parents both happen to be employees of the school system – his father the principal of an elementary school and his mother a middle school teacher. For them, the convenience of the telemedicine service was much appreciated and a no-brainer decision when they got the call from the school saying Kason needed medical attention.
“We both have responsibilities at our jobs and can’t always leave at the drop of a hat,” said Brad Carroll, Kason’s father. “As a principal, I was both excited and curious to see how telemedicine would work in our schools this year. As a parent, I was relieved it was available for my kid when I needed it.” | <urn:uuid:58ca708a-0a8f-44b0-aad8-cd17bb91d6d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mercy.net/newsroom/2013-08-28/heading-back-to-school-with-telehealth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00396-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963399 | 834 | 2.296875 | 2 |
This municipal museum is located in the Albaicín district of Granada. It used to be the home of the Belgian artist Max León Moreau, who left all of his property to the city.
Inside, the artist’s works are exhibited. These include portraits, still life and landscape paintings.
In the central section of the building you can visit the artist’s studio, presented exactly as he left it. In the next room there are display panels explaining the biographical journey of Moreau. | <urn:uuid:68845835-bf3c-4e7c-905f-26883f93dd9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.turgranada.es/en/fichas/carmen-museo-max-moreau-16509/?wpfpaction=add&postid=16509 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.947563 | 106 | 1.742188 | 2 |
26.5.4 Performing operations on system members
A variety of operations can be performed on any number of nodes selected in the Graph area. If no system nodes are selected, or if you are in another view, the commands are performed on the current system, whose name is printed in the System area.
menu gives you access to the standard actions described in Performing operations on selected objects.
Systems > Parent
to browse the parent system. This takes you up one level in the hierarchy.
Systems > Compile and Load
Systems > Compile
Systems > Load
to compile or load the selected systems.
Systems > Concatenate
to produce a single fasl file from a system. You will need to supply the name of the fasl file, when prompted.
Systems > Search Files
to search any of the selected members (and any subsystems) for a given string. The matches are displayed in the editor.
Systems > Replace
to search all the files in the selected members (and any subsystems) for a given string and replace it with another string. You are prompted for both strings in the echo area.
You need to save the buffers to actually save the changes on disk, this is easily done using the Editor tool - see Buffers area for details.
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Tucson Unified School District is continuing the annual trend of drastic enrollment declines, a survey shows.
The high student loss is nothing new in TUSD. Enrollment has been dropping by about 1,500 students each year for several years.
But TUSD projected that this year that the rate of student losses would level off. However, its closing of 11 schools and the expansion of two local charter schools helped lure students away.
The district has attributed the exodus of students to a decrease in the number of school-age children living within its boundaries, charter schools, the downturn in the economy and a change in immigration policies.
“Parents make decisions for their families based on what is going on in their own lives,” said David Scott, TUSD accountability and research director. “Rarely does it have anything to do with us.”
The district’s new leader, H.T. Sanchez, is not alarmed by the numbers. Rather, he sees it as an opportunity to get a better understanding of what is going on.
Sanchez has ordered a comprehensive demographics study to understand where people are moving and why, the job opportunities available, and other factors.
“No one is in panic mode,” he said.
Sanchez is encouraged by the fact that enrollment at the middle- and high-school levels has increased.
“It shows that our longtime students are happy here and they are staying here,” Sanchez said.
He said he hopes that the decrease at the elementary level can be addressed by making young families aware of what TUSD has to offer and the achievement gains TUSD has made.
Enrollment stable elsewhere
Neighboring school districts have not seen the same drastic enrollment decreases over the years. Most of them have remained relatively stable and some, like Sunnyside and Vail, have gotten bigger.
The only other district in the state larger than TUSD — Mesa — has, however, experienced a similar downward trend.
After TUSD closed 11 schools at the end of last school year, 523 students are not returning to the district. In 2010 when TUSD closed nine schools, 315 students did not return.
While the number of students who left TUSD this year because of the school closures appears to be high, district officials noted that on average more than 400 students left each year in the three years prior.
Charter school growing
Charter schools in both Pima and Maricopa counties are seeing the opposite trend with enrollment continuously increasing each year for the last decade.
There are 54 charter schools within TUSD boundaries serving 11,065 students. That’s about 61 percent of all of the charter school students in Pima County.
So far this year, 959 TUSD students have opted to go to charter schools — a number that is expected to increase to about 2,000 by the time the school year ends, Scott said.
Of those students, some 250 enrolled at either Basis Tucson, which this year added grades K-4, or Academy Del Sol, which opened up a third location hoping to attract some of the students affected by TUSD’s closures.
While the two charter school expansions did take a significant number of students, Scott is convinced that it is a one-time deal. He says that once the schools reach capacity they will only be able to admit kindergartners.
He also does not believe that students were driven to the nationally-recognized Basis by the school closures.
“The Basis expansion impacted high-performing TUSD schools with waiting lists of their own,” Scott said. “These were involved parents who are taking advantage of a new opportunity.
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Rheintalgas | Food Waste | Small-scale Biogas Plant
The local association Rheintalgas is currently crowd-sourcing donations for Liechtenstein's very own biogas plant. The first small-scale biogas plant in the Rhine Valley will run on food waste and produce district heating on one hand and sustainable fertilizer on the other.
According to the association's founder, the biogas process is the best way to recycle food waste. With this project, he wants to emphasize that there are a lot of ways we can look at food waste and one of the ways is to utilize food waste in generating biogas.
With this project, his team also wants to showcase that biogas plants are efficient even on a small scale and are simultaneously even more sustainable than larger ones due to the shorter transport routes for waste collection. Once the plant is up and running, the Rheintalgas association plans on hosting regular tours and workshops on environmental protection and sustainability.
The association's vision and project align with our vision of circular economy and self-sufficiency. When donating to the initiative on Startnext.com you have the chance to choose the package "Energy consulting" from Integrity.Earth as a thank-you gift for the crowdfunding campaign.
There are six days left to support this initiative, so follow the link below to learn more about the project. By donating to this project, you will also become part of Triesen's way from "Energiestadt" (first in Liechtenstein) to the "Energiestadt Gold" label. | <urn:uuid:8447126e-cd49-4bb5-8c07-860430f4f08c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.integrity.earth/post/rheintalgas-food-waste-small-scale-biogas-plant | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.925276 | 332 | 2.46875 | 2 |
On Sunday night, CNN’s Howard Kurtz seconded CJR’s call for more coverage of the series of inquiries and investigations rebutting recent controversies stemming from minor errors in an international climate report and e-mails leaked from a British climate research center. (Kurtz did not mention CJR.)Several interesting links at the CJR article.
Last Wednesday, we pleaded for reporters to pay more attention to five recent reviews reaffirming the integrity of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the scientists involved in the so-called “Climategate” affair.
Then, on Sunday, the Times’s editorial board expressed its hope that the British report, as well as a Dutch report debunking Climategate, would “receive as much circulation as the original, diversionary controversies.” Three cheers for the editorial—but given the paper’s own low-profile coverage of the story, it seemed ironically shallow.
Update: Deech56 in a comment points to this revealing brief interview with journalist Sharon Waxman linked by the CJR article (note: scroll down if you follow the link). Emphasis added.
KURTZ: A British panel this week cleared a group of scientists of the controversy known as "Climategate." This group had charges of hacked e-mails that they had manipulated their research to support their view on global warming. The British panel didn't completely let them off the hook, but basically said they didn't cook the books.In other words, journalism is about what's easy, not what's important. From the horse's mouth.
So, why has that received such scant coverage this week?
WAXMAN: I think that's just extremely complicated, A, for readers. And B, for journalists to comprehend.
First of all, this kind of thing gives scientists a bad name and it gives journalists a bad name, because for years now there's been this really politicized battle, as we all know, over global warming. And these Climategate e-mails have given those who are skeptics a reason to say, you see, it was a plot from the beginning and the liberal media has bought into it, and they're selling us a bill of goods, and et cetera, when there had been, or there has been -- and I believe there still is -- wide agreement on the science.
So when you find out that the scientists are not giving access to the other side, to the research, or that maybe the data that involves the temperature rises might not be so solid, I think it puts journalists who are trying to report on this in a weird position because they don't really know what to believe exactly. It becomes very complicated.
KURTZ: And yet, "The New York Times," to its credit put this British report on the front page. Most of the major papers I looked at stuck it inside. CNN's "SITUATION ROOM" did a full story on it, but there was not many mentions on cable news, nothing on the broadcast networks.
And here's my favorite. Glenn Beck didn't report on this at all. Last fall, when the e-mails were leaked, he called global warming a big hoax and he said, "Why has no network covered this global warming fix?"
Why has Glenn Beck and others not revisited it? And you're saying it's the complexity.
WAXMAN: I do. And what would be the headline for you? It says "Climate Scientists Cleared of Cooking the Books," but.
You know, it's a very mitigated kind of situation. And when there's complexity like that, I think that, you know, journalists, or editors, anyway, put stuff on the front page, are inclined to say you know what? We'll punt, which isn't necessarily the right thing to do.
KURTZ: Yes. Well, if I was one of those climate scientists, and I felt my reputation had been unfairly damaged, I certainly would not like anyone to punt.
We've got about a minute left. And I want to hold up a couple of New York tabloids here.
As you can see, Lindsay Lohan. There was a lot of coverage on cable when she had her court hearing this week and got a 90-day sentence, essentially for blowing off alcohol treatment classes. Why is this worthy of a lot of attention? Is this a significant story?
WAXMAN: Oh, I see. It's a juxtaposition between the entire planet melting down versus Lindsay Lohan going to jail for 90 days.
KURTZ: That's a very shrewd observation.
WAXMAN: Are you asking why we care about this?
KURTZ: Why do the media care?
WAXMAN: It's exactly for the reason why -- because it's easy, for the exact reason that the Climategate decision got almost no coverage, as you pointed out.
Also, I think, there is the question of what makes the audience feel superior rather than what makes the audience feel challenged.
Anyway, obviously, melting planet, no! Melting irresponsible young celebrity, si! The future generations of mankind (if any) thank you sincerely for the entertainment. | <urn:uuid:487f7b21-4431-4882-8f17-cc1aa19a8f84> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2010/07/columbia-journalism-review-gets-it.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969892 | 1,093 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Under Fire Comparing Being Gay To Bestiality
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been called to task over comments he made about homos-xuality as it relates to the law. The 76-year-old was participating in a panel discussion at Princeton Law School Monday (Dec. 10), in promotion of his new book Reading Law, when a gay student asked him about a case in which he likened laws banning sodomy to those banning bestiality and murder.
Noting that he doesn’t equate a gay lifestyle with murder, Scalia explained the comparison. “It’s a form of argument that I thought you would have known, which is called the ‘reduction to the absurd,’” he explained to freshman student Duncan Hosie. “If we cannot have moral feelings against homos-xuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?”
After the short verbal showdown, audience members reportedly clapped louder for Hosie than for Scalia.
This is’nt the first time Scalia has been called out. In 2005, another student, Eric Berndt, prodded Scalia to explain his views over whether or not keeping tabs on what goes on in a person’s bedroom is un-constitutional. “Do you sodomize you wife?” Berndt asked.
Scalia did not respond.
The timing of his words are noteworthy, being that the Supreme Court recently announced that it would review two cases that challenge the Constitutional ban on gay marriage. | <urn:uuid:90620b69-424a-45b8-8a31-d3fad865fbcb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://hiphopwired.com/2012/12/12/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-under-fire-comparing-being-gay-to-bestiality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00292-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970027 | 331 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has become very popular over the last decade or so. What exactly is CBT and why is it becoming so popular?
CBT is a type of psychotherapy that helps people change their thoughts and behaviors. The aim of CBT for substance abuse is to identify negative thinking patterns and replace them with positive ones. CBT is often used to treat a range of mental illnesses, such as anxiety disorders, OCD, phobias, panic attacks, and depression.
CBT was developed in the 1950s by Dr. Aaron Beck who believed that our thoughts influence our emotions and behavior. The basic principle of CBT for addictionis that if we can understand how our thoughts affect our feelings and actions then we will be able to control our thoughts and therefore improve our emotional well-being.
To learn more about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for substance use disorders, including its main principles, how it works in practice, its range of applications, and its side effects, take a look at the information below.
What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), sometimes called acceptance and commitment therapy, is based on two ideas:
- Thoughts influence behavior. So if you think badly about yourself, you’ll act badly towards yourself.
- If you’re unhappy, you tend to focus on what you don’t like rather than what you do like.
To help you overcome your problems, cognitive-behavioral therapists use two main techniques: cognitive restructuring and exposure.
Cognitive restructuring involves identifying your negative thoughts and replacing them with more balanced thoughts. For example, you may have an intrusive thought about harming yourself.
This could lead to feeling anxious and worried. You might try to think about something else instead, like what you would say to a friend if they were having similar thoughts.
Exposure involves deliberately exposing yourself to situations that are likely to trigger your fear. For example, you might start walking down a street where there are lots of cars. If you find this difficult, you could take a bus or train instead.
In addition to utilizing the two main concepts of cognitive restructuring and exposure, a CBT and addiction therapist will likely use a myriad of other techniques and methods to reach the desired outcome. These include:
- Talking therapies such as counseling and psychotherapy.
- Relaxation exercises.
- Mindfulness training.
- Dieting and exercise programs.
- Coping skills training.
How Does Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Substance Abuse Work?
CBT may look different for different people. This is because practitioners of CBT for drug addiction often use it in combination with other types of therapy. However, most cognitive-behavioral therapies begin by helping you identify negative thoughts.
For example, if you notice that you’re constantly worrying about how fat you are, you might ask yourself questions like these:
“Am I really worried about my weight?” “Is it normal to worry so much about my body?”
Then you’d write down all the answers. Next, you’d look at your answers. And you’d decide whether they were true or false. This helps you see that some of your worries are irrational. It also teaches you to challenge negative beliefs.
Next, you would learn to replace them with positive and more factual ones. For example, you might say:
Or perhaps you’d tell yourself that you have lots of energy.
Finally, you’d be taught to make decisions based on facts rather than emotions. For example, rather than deciding to avoid a certain social situation because of your negative body image, you will attend because you know you are healthy.
Who Can CBT Help?
CBT can help anyone who suffers from a mental health problem. It is most commonly used for those suffering from anxiety disorders, OCD, and depression, but it is also used as a treatment for eating disorders, phobias, panic attacks, PTSD, substance abuse, and many others.
In fact, CBT is not only useful for treating mental illnesses; it can also be helpful for problems such as stress, anger management, and weight loss. It is often used in conjunction with other activities such as exercise or mindfulness.
What Are The Benefits Of CBT?
CBT has been shown to be effective for treating a wide range of psychological conditions. Here’s why:
- CBT for substance use works by teaching you new ways of thinking and behaving.
- CBT encourages you to become aware of your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
- CBT helps you understand what causes your symptoms.
- CBT helps you change the way you think, feel, and behave.
- CBT techniques for addiction allow you to gain control over your life.
- CBT can help you overcome any obstacles that stand between you and achieving your goals.
- CBT gives you tools that allow you to cope better with difficult situations.
- CBT enables you to live a happier and healthier life.
How Is CBT Different From Other Types Of Psychotherapy?
CBT differs from other forms of psychotherapy in several important ways. First, CBT focuses on changing your behavior, whereas other types of psychotherapy focus primarily on changing your thoughts.
Second, CBT involves learning to recognize and correct maladaptive patterns of thinking and behaving. Third, CBT is goal-oriented. Fourth, CBT emphasizes self-monitoring and self-evaluation. Finally, CBT uses behavioral experiments to test out its theories.
Why Does CBT Work So Well?
There are two main reasons why CBT is an especially powerful form of therapy.
First, CBT is based on sound scientific research. CBT was developed using cognitive psychology, which studies how we process information. Cognitive psychologists found that people tend to fall into certain thought patterns when faced with stressful events.
These patterns can cause us to experience strong emotional responses. By helping you identify these patterns and then replacing them with more accurate ones, CBT can help you get rid of unwanted emotions.
Second, CBT is highly structured. Unlike some other therapies, CBT doesn’t rely on free association. Instead, it teaches you specific techniques for identifying and correcting negative thoughts. This makes CBT easier to learn, teach, and use in everyday situations.
It is also interesting to note that CBT can be effective even if you don’t fully believe that your thoughts are causing your symptoms. In fact, research shows that CBT is just as effective at treating people who are skeptical about its effectiveness as those who are completely convinced.
Does CBT Cause Any Side Effects?
The good news is that there’s no evidence that CBT causes long-term damage. However, there are risks involved. For example, if you try to change your thinking without changing your actions then you’ll probably fail.
If you do succeed, you may find that you start to think differently about yourself and others. You might start to blame yourself or others for things that weren’t actually your fault. You could end up feeling depressed and anxious.
There’s also a risk that you’ll become obsessed with trying to control everything in your life. This can lead to feelings of frustration and anger. As such, even though CBT isn’t particularly dangerous, it isn’t without risk or difficulty either.
As such, if you are interested in getting CBT, it is of the utmost importance that you receive therapy from a trained practitioner. A trained CBT therapist will be able to give appropriate advice and remain vigilant for any negative consequences of the therapy.
There are many different types of therapies and varieties of CBT. The one you require will depend on which problem you want to solve. For example, you might choose between:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy.
- Cognitive Analytic Therapy.
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapies.
- Rational Recovery Techniques.
- Functional Family Therapy.
- Mindful Awareness Practices.
- Mindfulness Meditation.
- Relational Frame Theory.
- Narrative Exposure Treatment.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
Don’t worry – we know that this list is overwhelming! If you’re in need of CBT for alcoholism, drug abuse, or another kind of therapy, you do not need to choose what type is appropriate for your needs by yourself. Your first port of call will be your doctor. Your doctor will be able to advise on the type of therapy you require given your problem.
Following that, if you begin a certain type of therapy but don’t feel as if it is the right one for you – that is absolutely fine and quite normal! You simply need to voice your concerns with your qualified therapist, and they can advise you on how to move forward.
How To Get CBT
To receive CBT for substance abuse, you first need to get an appointment with your doctor. Once you have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, OCD, or other mental health conditions, your doctor will refer you to a psychiatrist or psychologist who specializes in CBT for addiction.
Once you’ve done this, your therapist will work with you to develop a plan for managing your condition. This plan will not only give you a tangible route to better health but should also be completely tailored to your lifestyle and personal needs.
We know that taking these steps can be scary. However, they are necessary steps on the road to better mental health. If you are feeling worried about asking for help, you can always take a close friend or family member with you. If this isn’t a viable option, you can reach out to mental health charities for support.
How To Prepare For CBT
Before you attend CBT sessions, there are a few things you should consider. First, you might be required to find your own therapist. If this is the case, you can find a therapist through a local or state psychological association or by searching online.
We recommend setting up a few introductory sessions with multiple different therapists. The relationship between yourself and your therapist is a very important one.
If you don’t feel comfortable with your therapist’s methods or feel able to share things with them, your treatment will be impacted.
As such, it is necessary to prepare yourself for the possibility that your chosen therapist doesn’t work out. This is normal and ok – there is a huge range of therapists out there to choose from. It can sometimes be a bit of a journey to find the right one, but it is definitely a journey worth making.
Additionally, it is necessary that you are well-prepared for the cost of therapy. If you have health insurance, you will need to figure out what coverage it offers for your treatment. You can also discuss payment options and fees with your chosen therapist.
Finally, it is always useful to have some concerns and issues in mind before your first session. We recommend making a list of the problems you would like to tackle with your therapist so that you can discuss them in detail in your first session.
Depression, Anxiety, OCD, and other mental health problems can affect anyone at any time. They can cause serious distress and damage to your physical and emotional well-being.
Fortunately, there are effective treatments available that can help you overcome them. We hope that this guide has helped you understand more about cognitive behavioral therapy for addiction and its benefits.
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MIS Treatment of Herniated Discs
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About Herniated Discs
A herniated disc (intervertebral disc) is a common cause of neck and back pain. Intervertebral discs are the spine's shock absorbers and are located in between the bones of the vertebral bodies. Each disc is made up of a tire-like outer band (annulus fibrosus) that surrounds and protects the gel-like cushion (nucleus pulposus).
When a disc herniates through the annular wall, the gel-like nucleus and disc fragments can compress fragile nerves or the spinal cord, as illustrated below. In addition, the broken intervertebral disc releases a chemical irritant causing nerve inflammation, pain and other symptoms.
Where symptoms develop depends on where the disc ruptures.
- Cervical (neck) herniation: Dull or sharp pain in the neck or between the shoulder blades. Movement may intensify pain. Pain, numbness, and tingling spreads (radiates) down the arm, hand, and into the fingers (radiculopathy).
- Lumbar (low back) herniation: Low back and leg pain (sciatica) is common. Bending, coughing, sneezing, or other movement may intensify symptoms. Muscle spasm or cramping may develop, as well as leg weakness or loss of leg function.
Important to a proper diagnosis is the patient's medical history, physical and neurological examination, and diagnostic test results (i.e. MRI). The examination and diagnostic tests may differ depending on the location of the herniation (i.e. cervical, lumbar)
- Medical history includes symptoms, their severity, and treatments already tried.
- Physical and neurological examination includes evaluating movement limitations, balance problems, pain, extremity reflexes, muscle weakness, and sensation. The exam may include a series of movements such as turning the head from side to side and forward and backward, bending sideways, forward and backward at the waist, and walking.
- Diagnostic tests may include x-rays, CT scan, or MRI. Discography, myelography or electrodiagnostic studies (i.e. nerve conduction test) may be necessary.
When MIS is Recommended
Although the indications for surgery vary, MIS may be recommended if:
- Pain and other symptoms worsen
- Pain and symptoms are unresponsive to nonoperative treatment
- Neurologic problems develop, such as weakness, poor coordination, severe pain, or bowel or bladder dysfunction
- Imaging tests demonstrate spinal instability
Surgical goals include:
- Decompress the spinal cord and / or nerves (relieve pressure)
- Stabilize the spine
MIS may include procedures to decompress and stabilize the spine.
- Decompression procedures relieve pressure on spinal nerves. Discectomy (disc removal), laminotomy, laminectomy, and foraminotomy are common procedures. Laminotomy (partial removal) and laminectomy (complete removal) involve removing the vertebral body?s lamina to increase the size of the spinal canal. The lamina is a section of bone near each facet joint covering access to the spinal canal. Foraminotomy expands the foramen or spinal nerve passageways.
- Most MIS surgery avoids spinal fusion, but if there is deformity or spinal mal-alignment, a fusion may be the best option. Specialized MIS fusion instruments are available if fusion is needed.
Minimally spine surgery procedures approach the spine from the front (anterior), back (posterior), side (lateral), or back and side (posterolateral). In the treatment of disc herniation, your MIS surgeon may perform the following:
- Muscle-sparing Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion (ACDF)
Muscle-sparing tubular retractors gently dilate and separate muscle and soft tissue. As the soft tissues are expanded, the operative field is revealed (i.e. spine). A microdiscectomy is performed using microscopic visualization and small specialized instruments passed through the retractor. The cervical disc is removed (microdiscectomy); the disc space is packed with bone graft or an interbody device (i.e. cage) is implanted, and / or the spinal level is stabilized using a cervical plate and screws.
- Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Uncovertebrectomy
Similar to the muscle-sparing cervical discectomy and fusion, this procedure includes removal of one or more uncovertebral joints (or Luschka's joints). The uncovertebral joints are found at C3 through C7 and are susceptible to degenerative changes. These fibrous joints are formed by the bony processes at the sides of the cervical vertebrae previously mentioned. Although technically more difficult, this procedure can avoid a fusion.
- Cervical Posterior MIS Tubular Microdiscectomy
This cervical procedure is similar to the muscle-sparing cervical discectomy,except surgery is performed from behind (posterior) and fusion is not usually necessary.
- Cervical Disc Replacement
Similar to muscle-sparing cervical discectomy and fusion, cervical disc replacement involves removal of the diseased disc and herniation. Instead of inserting a spacer (i.e. interbody device, cage) to obtain a fusion, a motion device, similar to a total knee replacement device, is implanted. The benefit of cervical disc replacement is it maintains motion of the cervical spine at that segment. However, a cervical disc replacement procedure cannot correct deformities and is not appropriate for use in severely diseased spines. Disc replacement is a relatively new technology and was approved by the FDA for single-level surgery in 2008.
- Lumbar Endoscopic Discectomy
An endoscope is a thin telescope-like instrument with a lighted tube and camera attachment. Through a small incision, the endoscope is passed between muscle and soft tissue to the spine. Surgery is performed by passing instruments through the endoscope to the operative field. The light illuminates the field and the camera transmits images to a monitor in the operating room. Through the endoscope, the discectomy is performed using lasers, bipolar probes, and other specialized instruments.
- Lumbar Tubular Microdiscectomy
This procedure is similar to the muscle-sparing cervical discectomy and fusion, except it is performed in the lumbar spine. It uses the microscope to relieve pressure on the nerves and remove herniated disc fragments and bone spurs. Fusion is usually not necessary.
- Use of Lasers During MIS
Lasers are one of many specialized tools needed during minimally invasive spine surgery. A laser is used during endoscopic spinal surgery to remove hard disc herniations and bone spurs. During endoscopic spine surgery, additional tools, such as flexible bipolar electrocautery, graspers, rongeurs, and currettes are needed to perform the procedure. Lasers are not used during minimally invasive fusion surgery to treat disorders such as spondylolisthesis or degenerative scoliosis, since larger areas of diseased disc and bone must be treated.
Risks and Complications
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A biotech company called Cerulean says its nanoparticle-delivered cancer drugs are better at attacking tumors.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
One result of the side effects of cancer treatments is that patients often can’t tolerate or survive a combination of different drugs at the same time—which can limit a doctor’s ability to knock out the disease. The head of a Boston-area biotech called Cerulean Pharma thinks the solution is nanoparticle-delivered drugs, which have fewer and less severe side effects. They could make it easier for doctors to mount a multipronged attack on tumors and kill the cells before they can develop a resistance to any one compound.
Cancer cells can develop resistance to individual drugs very quickly, says Oliver Fetzer, CEO of Cerulean. And he points to recent studies showing that different cells within the same tumor can have different genetic mutations. In some cases, that means that a drug that kills cancer cells in one part of a tumor may not work in other parts. This tumor diversity suggests that it would be best to hit cancer cells with multiple drugs at once to make it extremely difficult for the tumor to develop resistance to all therapies.
Nanoparticles could help achieve this goal. The nanoparticles developed by Cerulean are too big to get out of blood vessels and into healthy tissue, but they are the right size to get into tumors because the blood vessels that grow around cancer tissue have pores or gaps that aren’t found in healthy tissue. “These nanoparticles find their way into the tumor through the leaky [blood vessels], so they can’t really escape out of your normal bloodstream in the healthy tissue,” says Fetzer. Once inside the tumor tissue, cancer cells take them in.
Data from early clinical trials of Cerulean’s lead compound—a nanoparticle containing a drug called Camptothecin that is too toxic to be administered on its own—suggests it is well-tolerated. Patients in the trial experienced fewer and milder side effects than do patients given available drugs.
Another player in the nanoparticle-delivery space, BIND Biosciences, adds a layer of specificity to its delivery by affixing targeting molecules to the outside of its nanoparticles (see “Fine-tuning Nanotech to Target Cancer“). The targeting molecules recognize proteins on the outside of cancer cells and so help bring the nanopharmaceutical to its desired location.
Fetzer says that while there may be applications where the targeting is helpful, his company does not think it is necessary. “When we look at the data we’ve generated with untargeted particles, we haven’t seen the need to add another layer of complexity.”
The company expects to have results from its human trials of its lead compound in treating lung cancers by the end of the 2012. It recently began testing the effectiveness of the same compound in ovarian cancer patients. To begin to explore the possibility of combining nanoparticle-based cancer drugs with other therapies, Cerulean is also enrolling patients with kidney cancer in a phase I trial that will combine the company’s lead compound with bevacizumab, a commercially available cancer drug used in a variety of cancers. | <urn:uuid:bef9fdfd-796f-4531-8297-fe9e9eb12e75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.elevationdg.com/2012/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.952106 | 678 | 2.703125 | 3 |
What started out as a novelty on the sidewalks of Sarasota, Florida, may end up helping a homeless man get off the streets.
It all began when the city installed “public pianos” around town — and a homeless man sat down and started playing amazing music.
“I was thinking I could just put my hat on the piano and make a couple dollars and get tips,” Donald “Boone” Gould told WWSB. Instead, he may wind up with a paying gig, because a local piano bar has offered Gould an audition.
Aroar Natasha was walking by as Gould played his cover of Styx’s “Come Sail Away.” She recorded it, posted it to her Facebook page and made Gould an overnight sensation — her video of his performance has been viewed more than three million times in four days.
Sarasota installed 'public pianos' throughout downtown. This homeless man now has the opportunity to be something other than 'just a nuisance' to all the people downtown. Just took my breath away. Wow.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCguq3hTC2MPosted by Aroar Natasha on Monday, June 29, 2015
In the meantime, Jacqueline Bevan is helping make his dreams come true. She has set up a fundraising page that has already collected donations of $8,700 in one day.
“All funds will go to Donald (Boone) Gould to secure a home, a car and to possibly return to school for his last 3 classes for his music theory degree,” she says on the GoFundMe page.
Gould had played clarinet as a U.S. Marine and wanted to be a music teacher, but his life didn’t turn out as planned and he wound up on the street in 1998. He lost most of what he had, but he never lost his talent.
It could be the veritable ticket to his second act.
(WATCH the WWSB News video) — Photo: WWSB Video
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MOSCOW – President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia would not yield to Western pressure or be pushed into isolation over the war in Georgia.
Medvedev's comments appeared to be a response to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who warned Russia on Thursday that its policies have put it on a path to isolation and irrelevance.
Medvedev dismissed a claim that Russia was sliding back to authoritarianism.
"They are, in fact, pushing us onto the development track that is based not on normal and civilized cooperation with other countries, but on autonomous development behind thick walls and an 'iron curtain,"' Medvedev said at a meeting with non-governmental organizations. "This is not our track, and it makes no sense to return to the past."
In addition, he vowed that Russia would set its own course.
"No new outside factors, let alone outside pressure on Russia, will change our strategic course," Medvedev said.
"We will continuously strengthen our national security, modernize the military and increase our defense capability to a sufficient level," he said. "And we will determine what level is sufficient proceeding from the current situation; it can't be measured once and for all."
Medvedev reaffirmed his push for a new pan-European security pact, saying NATO alone can't ensure security on the continent.
"It only has provoked the conflict," he said, in a reference to the war in Georgia.
Medvedev and other Russian officials have previously claimed that the United States and some other NATO nations, by helping modernize the Georgian military, encouraged Georgia to launch military action to regain control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
Russia responded by sending in troops who quickly repelled the Aug. 7 Georgian attack on South Ossetia and pushed deep into Georgian territory.
As Medvedev spoke, the Russian Parliament gave tentative approval to next year's budget, including a 25-percent increase in defense spending.
Without mentioning Rice, Medvedev derided her pledge Thursday to continue sponsoring Russian students, teachers, judges, journalists and others who want to visit America.
"I opened the Web this morning and saw our American friends saying they will keep providing assistance to Russian teachers, doctors, scientists, labor leaders and judges," he said. "The last point was really outstanding. What does it mean? Are they going to feed our judges? Will they support corruption? If it goes on like that, they will start selecting presidents here."
Medvedev's remarks reflected a growing strain in Russia's relations with the United States which dipped to the lowest point since the Cold War after the war in Georgia.
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Once one of the most eagerly awaited events on the French calendar, the Salon d’Auto was held for 60 consecutive years under the great dome of the Grand Palais. The automobile industry was flourishing and new inventions were being unveiled every year; the automatic carburettor in 1904, the plate clutch in 1905, dampers in 1906.
People queued for hours for an opportunity to see the latest technologies and trends in car design. By 1961, the automobile industry had outgrown the capacity of the palace but never since has the world seen such a glamorous car show.
Images thanks for Yale Joel from the LIFE magazine archives.
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Show Us the Local Subsidies: Cities and Counties Disclosing Economic Development Subsidies
by Leigh McIlvaine and Philip Mattera with Greg LeRoy
Two-thirds of the economic development subsidy programs run by the nation’s largest cities and counties do not use the web to report which companies are receiving the tax breaks and other forms of financial assistance. Among the third of programs that do practice online transparency, most do so poorly, failing to disclose the dollar value of the subsidies. An even smaller number reveal key outcomes such as how many jobs were created. On the other hand, a few localities such as Memphis/Shelby County, Tennessee; New York City; Austin, Texas; and Chicago do a good job at disclosure. | <urn:uuid:8197384e-68f2-4011-a7f0-7d7782bba04c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/localsubsidies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00236-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946865 | 155 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Continuing his testimony as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge tribunal on Friday, historian David Chandler said forced biographies during the Pol Pot years ushered in a “new era of Cambodian literature.”
The writing of one’s biography was expected of new party members, and was a core part of the regime, forcing members to expose aspects of their past.
“They were used extensively in the regime,” Mr. Chandler told the court. “It was a new era of Cambodian literature, and people prepared biographies for use in study sessions. Biographies were key.”
Mr. Chandler said such accounts helped the regime separate the wheat from the chaff.
“The Democratic Kampuchea figures determined that elements of your past life would be indicative of how you’d operate. If you were a rich peasant, you’d be less likely to be a good comrade, and having relatives who had supported Lon Nol made you less pure.
“Biographies were a very important weapon…or tool for the regime,” he said.
Mr. Chandler, 79, took the stand on Wednesday as the first expert witness in Case 002.
Since then, his testimony has covered several crucial chapters of the regime, from Pol Pot’s Office 870 headquarters to the military tactic of emptying Phnom Penh in 1975.
On Friday, he told the court that intellectuals, who were widely known to have been purged while the Khmer Rouge who in power, had been muzzled.
“Intellectuals were reduced to silence, and I want to make it clear that the category of intellectuals in Cambodia were not primarily the graduates of Cambodia’s single university, but had been through teachers’ training, completed high school,” he said. “They knew who they were.”
However, Mr. Chandler said, “they were reduced to silence by the policies of the regime. They were reduced to saying and doing only things the regime wanted them too.”
As a result, this section of society was unable to contribute ideas “that could have helped the regime.”
“Many of the memories of people who remember the April 17, 1975, obliteration of Phnom Penh say they wanted to help the victors, but they didn’t know anything about the Communist Party of Kampuchea. They thought, ‘War is over, I have a high school education—I can help,’” Mr. Chandler said.
He also opined that a letter written by Khmer Rouge Minister of Information Hu Nim, one of the highest-ranking regime officials to be tortured and killed at S-21 prison, and addressed to Pol Pot, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan, was never delivered.
“A key point of documents like the many pleading documents that came out of S-21, is that they never left the building,” Mr. Chandler said.
“They were kept on file by [Kaing Guek Eav] Duch, who was a fastidious archivist…. Once the person was in S-21, they
had no recourse to a higher authority.”
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Career and Education Opportunities for Agricultural Engineers in Athens, Georgia
For those living in the Athens, Georgia area, there are many career and education opportunities for agricultural engineers. The national trend for agricultural engineers sees this job pool growing by about 12.1% over the next eight years. Agricultural engineers generally apply knowledge of engineering technology and biological science to agricultural problems concerned with power and machinery, electrification, structures, soil and water conservation, and processing of agricultural products.
Income for agricultural engineers is about $35 per hour or $73,320 yearly on average in Georgia. Nationally, their income is about $33 per hour or $68,730 per year. Compared with people working in the overall category of Engineering, people working as agricultural engineers in Georgia earn more. They earn less than people working in the overall category of Engineering nationally. Agricultural engineers work in a variety of jobs, including: test engineer, conservation engineer, and agricultural research engineer.
There are five schools of higher education in the Athens area, including one within twenty-five miles of Athens where you can get a degree to start your career as an agricultural engineer. Given that the most common education level for agricultural engineers is a Bachelor's degree, it will take about four years to learn to be an agricultural engineer if you already have a high school diploma.
CAREER DESCRIPTION: Agricultural Engineer
In general, agricultural engineers apply knowledge of engineering technology and biological science to agricultural problems concerned with power and machinery, electrification, structures, soil and water conservation, and processing of agricultural products.
Agricultural engineers meet with clients such as district or regional councils, farmers, and developers, to consider their needs. They also furnish advice on water quality and issues pertaining to pollution management and ground and surface water resources. Equally important, agricultural engineers have to conduct educational programs that furnish farmers or farm cooperative members with data that can help them improve agricultural productivity. They are often called upon to ready reports and budgets for proposed sites or systems. They are expected to layout sensing and recording devices, and other instrumentation used to study plant or animal life. Finally, agricultural engineers layout and supervise environmental and land reclamation projects in agriculture and related industries.
Every day, agricultural engineers are expected to be able to think through problems and come up with general rules. They need to listen to and understand others in meetings. It is also important that they piece together evidence to, in some sense, diagnose what is going on in a situation.
Agricultural engineers sometimes are asked to layout agricultural machinery components and equipment using computer-aided layout (CAD) technology. They also have to be able to layout structures for crop storage, animal shelter and loading, and animal and crop processing, and supervise their construction and visit sites to monitor environmental problems, to confer with contractors, or to track construction efforts. And finally, they sometimes have to test agricultural machinery and apparatus to insure adequate performance.
Like many other jobs, agricultural engineers must have exceptional integrity and be thorough and dependable.
Similar jobs with educational opportunities in Athens include:
- Landscape Architect. Plan and design land areas for such projects as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: Agricultural Engineer Training
University of Georgia - Athens, GA
University of Georgia, , Athens, GA 30602. University of Georgia is a large university located in Athens, Georgia. It is a public school with primarily 4-year or above programs. It has 34,116 students and an admission rate of 55%. University of Georgia has bachelor's degree, master's degree, and doctor's degree programs in Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering which graduated twenty-seven, four, and two students respectively in 2008.
Accredited Agricultural Consultant: The Accredited Agricultural Consultant (AAC) designation was developed and first offered by the ASFMRA in 1997.
For more information, see the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers website.
Licensing agency: Ga State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
Address: 237 Coliseum Drive, Room 240, Macon, GA 31217-3858
Phone: (478) 207-1450
Website: Ga State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors
LOCATION INFORMATION: Athens, Georgia
Athens is situated in Brantley County, Georgia. It has a population of over 113,398, which has grown by 13.1% in the past ten years. The cost of living index in Athens, 87, is well below the national average. New single-family homes in Athens cost $146,800 on average, which is above the state average. In 2008, two hundred four new homes were constructed in Athens, down from four hundred seventy-two the previous year.
The top three industries for women in Athens are educational services, accommodation and food services, and health care. For men, it is educational services, accommodation and food services, and construction. The average travel time to work is about 19 minutes. More than 40.0% of Athens residents have a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 19.0%, is higher than the state average.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience.
Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and non-violently to tear down apartheid — South Africa’s brutal, decades-long regime of oppression against its Black majority that only ended in 1994.
The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanize public opinion against racial inequity, both at home and globally.
Nicknamed “the Arch,” Tutu was diminutive, with an impish sense of humor, but became a towering figure in his nation’s history, comparable to fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, a prisoner during white rule who became South Africa’s first Black president. Tutu and Mandela shared a commitment to building a better, more equal South Africa.
Upon becoming president in 1994, Mandela appointed Tutu to be chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which uncovered the abuses of the apartheid system.
Tutu’s death on Sunday “is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
“From the pavements of resistance in South Africa to the pulpits of the world’s great cathedrals and places of worship, and the prestigious setting of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the Arch distinguished himself as a non-sectarian, inclusive champion of universal human rights.”
Tutu died peacefully at the Oasis Frail Care Center in Cape Town, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Trust said Sunday. He had been hospitalized several times since 2015 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997.
“Typically he turned his own misfortune into a teaching opportunity to raise awareness and reduce the suffering of others,” said the Tutu trust. “He wanted the world to know that he had prostate cancer, and that the sooner it is detected the better the chance of managing it.”
In recent years he and his wife, Leah, lived in a retirement community outside Cape Town.
“His legacy is moral strength, moral courage and clarity,” Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba said in a video statement. “He felt with the people. In public and alone, he cried because he felt people’s pain. And he laughed — no, not just laughed, he cackled with delight — when he shared their joy.”
A seven-day mourning period is planned in Cape Town before Tutu’s burial, including a two-day lying in state, an ecumenical service and an Anglican requiem mass at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, according to church officials. Cape Town’s landmark Table Mountain will be lit in purple, the color of the robes Tutu wore as archbishop.
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Susquehanna Animal Shelter Seeks Matching Funds for Pet Oxygen Masks
The Susquehanna Animal Shelter (SAS) was recently offered $2,500 from an anonymous donor who lost their pet to smoke inhalation during a house fire. If the SAS can raise a matching $2,500 by March 25, the goal is to provide each of the 29 volunteer Fire Departments and one Paid Fire Department in Otsego County with two oxygen masks made specifically for household pets.
When emergency personnel respond to a fire, the human victims are provided with oxygen through a “re-breather” mask. These masks, made for humans do not fit pets. To save the life of a dog or cat, a smaller mask is required.
In preparation of this fundraising effort, the SAS has been working closely with the Otsego County Emergency Services Department to ensure all Departments are covered and the right equipment will be purchased. According to Otsego County Emergency Services staff, they respond to an average of 50 home fires each year and many include pets.
SAS Executive Director, Stacie Haynes notes, “the SAS is proud to care for homeless and abandoned animals in Otsego County and with this project, bringing pet oxygen masks to fire departments, we are thrilled to extend our mission to helping our community members and their best friends, some of which are SAS alumni, in a time of need.”
Contributions toward this matching fund of $2,500 can be dropped off at the SAS, located at 4841 State Highway 28 in Cooperstown. They can also be mailed or processed online at www.thesas.org.
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At 9 a.m. on a Tuesday last fall, Catharine Schneider had eaten breakfast, charged her phone, looked at her notes and joined her classmates for a 1.5-hour marathon breakout session on Zoom to discuss Philadelphia’s social structures. At 3 p.m. and nearly 4,000 miles away, Imme Dros, a public administration student at Hogeschool van Amsterdam, also dialogued on the same Zoom call with students about the various agents of justice the Netherlands capital employs to support a healthy community ecosystem. The two were enrolled in Just Cities, a classroom partnership between Drexel and the Hogeschool designed to incorporate a global dimension to a course on social justice policies in Philadelphia and Amsterdam.
Three Drexel professors have been selected to participate in a two-week academic exchange in Israel this May and June, fully funded by the Jewish National Fund – USA (JNF-USA). Jennifer Adams, EdD, associate professor in the School of Education (SoE), Tamara Galoyan, PhD, assistant research professor in SoE, and Caroline Schauer, PhD, Margaret C. Burns Chair in Engineering and associate dean for research and faculty affairs in the College of Engineering, were among 33 faculty members from 26 institutions to be named JNF Faculty Fellows. | <urn:uuid:b64c62d7-d719-47d7-90a0-134e9a701bd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drexel.edu/global/news-events/news/2022/May/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950364 | 284 | 1.5 | 2 |
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They are neighbors, partners in trade and nuclear powers united in opposition to the United States. But Russia's invasion of Ukraine could become a problem for Beijing.
China's parliamentary body, the National People's Congress, was in session in Beijing last week. When the country's Premier Li Keqiang eventually met with media last Friday after the session, journalists asked how Chinese officials were feeling about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
"On Ukraine, indeed the current situation there is grave, and China is deeply concerned and grieved," the senior politician said. "The pressing task now is preventing tensions from escalating or even getting out of control."
However he did not criticize the actual Russian invasion and also said that China's relations with Russia were "rock solid." Li also complained about the international sanctions against Russia, saying they could hurt the world economy.
China and Russia share a border more than 4,000 kilometers (circa 2,485 miles) long. Their economies complement one another, with energy and raw materials going into China, and industrial products moving from China to Russia. Both are ruled by authoritarian regimes that take pride in their tales of historical greatness. And both countries are united in their rivalry with the US.
"For China, geopolitics is crucial when it comes to its relations with Russia," explained Maximilian Mayer, a junior professor of international relations at the University of Bonn in western Germany.
In fact, that is what is at the heart of the two countries' partnership, Mayer told DW. It is "a form of strategic cooperation that seeks to push against what Moscow and Beijing see as American hegemony, and to push for the formation of another, oppositional pole in a multi-polar world order," Mayer said.
This "strategic cooperation" was outlined in a joint statement from both nations, issued on February 4 of this year. It spoke of a friendship with "no limits."
The statement was published three weeks before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping used the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics in China to demonstrate unity. In the statement, China supported Russian demands that Ukraine should not be admitted to the military NATO alliance.
The two countries were also critical of the "AUKUS" alliance — between Australia, the United Kingdom and the US — saying it was counterproductive to security policy. They also called upon NATO to abandon its "Cold War" approach. The two countries said they sought a different world order.
The Chinese-Russian joint statement also talked about universal values, human rights, peace, equality and justice.
Beijing is engaged in a tricky balancing act. On one hand, China is emphasizing the territorial integrity of all states, as it usually does. On the other, it says that Russia's legitimate security concerns about NATO expanding eastwards are "legitimate."
And if that weren't clear enough, then China's abstention from a vote in the United Nations General Assembly on a resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine demonstrated what was happening: Beijing is on Russia's side.
This decision reflects how China's political elites see themselves. Mayer explains that, to them, China is also a "normative power" with its own values. These values may be different from those of the West, but they form the basis of Chinese global coordination and diplomacy.
"In contrast, we are now seeing politics based purely on hard power from the Russians," Mayer continued. "Despite that, President Xi has clearly decided to sit in the same boat as Russia."
Andrew Small, an expert on China at the German Marshall Fund, told DW that this has consequences for how China is seen by the rest of the world. "They know they're being seen as culpable for this. They know that they're starting to be treated essentially as part of a continuum of threat with Russia."
That could cause problems in the future because politicians are re-evaluating foreign policy overall, Small said. It could mean that Western nations "have to start addressing economic dependencies with China, preparing for scenarios that involve Chinese invasions, particularly the [Taiwan] scenario."
Other Chinese interests could also be negatively impacted by the Russian friendship. There could be economic fallout and there is geo-political strategy to think of, Mayer said.
"NATO is likely to emerge from this conflict stronger," he argued. "The US' focus will remain on Asia Pacific. And the Europeans might even play a greater role in the Asia Pacific region in the future."
The new fast friendship between Russia and China doesn't have much of a history. At the end of the 1960s, soldiers from the two Communist nuclear powers were still fighting one another along the Ussuri River, which forms a rough border between the then-Soviet Union and China.
As part of its colonial expansion in the 19th century, Russia had taken over much territory to the east, including Chinese-dominated areas. In 1969, China was still complaining it had been forced to give up 1.5 million square kilometers of its own terrain thanks to unjust treaties. That's an area three times the size of France.
Right now, China's relationship with Russia is too important to broach that kind of subject, Small said.
"On the military side, that is evidenced by the fact that the Russians pulled so many troops away from the districts bordering on Mongolia and China, because they're so comfortable with the situation there, and they're not really worried about Chinese encroachments on the Far East anymore," Small told DW.
In the end, Chinese-Russian relations are like all relations between nation states: They are based on expediency and self-interest, not sympathy or affection.
China's National People's Congress, the world's largest parliamentary body, meets in full once a year
Putin has been turning East for a while now because of economic sanctions that began to be imposed in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea in eastern Ukraine, Mayer said.
"The question now is whether this ongoing process will affect all economic and strategic sectors so profoundly at some point that Russia will have no other option but to align itself with China," he pointed out.
Russia could become increasingly bound to China — but potentially as the more dependent, junior partner in the relationship.
"Although that idea of [Russia being] the junior partner is a little misleading," Mayer continued. "Because even as a junior partner, Russia's status as a nuclear power will help maintain its autonomy and will also make it unpredictable for Beijing."
China is becoming ever more indispensable to Russia. And for China, its neighbor to the north might be occasionally inconvenient but is also proving useful in many ways. At least for now.
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Forager is a 2D open world game inspired by exploration, farming and crafting games such as Stardew Valley, Terraria & Zelda.
- Gather, collect and manage resources.
- Craft useful items & structures.
- Build and grow a base out of nothing. Buy land to expand and explore.
- Level up and learn new skills, abilities, and blueprints.
- Solve puzzles, find secrets and raid dungeons!
- Achieve anything you want! The choice is yours, you set your own goals to work towards!
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- Do you want to do this adventure indoors, outdoors or at camp?
- Where will you build your habitat and shelter?
- What do you need to consider when you are building your habitat? What will you need access to in your home?
- What materials will you use?
- How big will your shelter be?
- Design and build a habitat and shelter for your whole team!
- Use different materials like blankets, tarps, chairs and poles to build a sturdy structure that could keep you warm and dry.
- What do you know now that you did not know before?
- How well does your shelter protect you from the elements? Will it keep you dry? Warm? Out of the wind?
- How strong is your shelter? How can you make sure it will hold up under strong winds or heavy rain and snow?
- What other animals could live in your habitat?
- How can you use what you learned at camp?
- If you built a model habitat and shelter, how could you scale it up to make it life-size?
- What did you like about this adventure? What did you not like? How would you do this adventure differently?
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- Cardboard boxes
- Tent poles
- Other materials to build your shelter and habitat
Keep it Simple
- Start small by building a mini habitat out of sticks, cloths and other small materials. What will your mini habitat look like? What supplies will you need to build it?
Take it Further
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WhatsApp, the number one messaging app used worldwide, has played a crucial role in making messaging more accessible to the users who struggled issues with the cliched texting apps otherwise. The application allows its users to send and receive messages, pictures, videos, make calls, etc.
In January 2015, WhatsApp launched its browser-based version, working for desktops called WhatsApp web (1). The WhatsApp Web is WhatsApp’s browser-based web client that allows a user to operate his phone’s WhatsApp account on the desktop.
Who Uses WhatsApp Web?
The web WhatsApp is one of the most excellent applications introduced by the messaging giant that allows its users to operate WhatsApp from their laptop or PC, allowing them to transfer images, documents, and all the necessary information via the browser.
Note: According to the reports published by Statista, WhatsApp is the most famous mobile messaging app worldwide, with more than 1.5 billion monthly active users. (2)
Two Types of WhatsApp Web
There are two types of web WhatsApp application available that allows its users to access his WhatsApp account from his/her computer in a few clicks.
1. WhatsApp Web Application
The WhatsApp Web application is available across platforms like Microsoft and app store for MacBook. Once you download the Whats App Web application on your PC, you can easily access your WhatsApp account easily.
2. Whats App Web Online
A user can access Whats App Web by going to WhatsApp’s web website available online. Just Open your browser and click here to reach web WhatsApp.
How to Install WhatsApp Web Application on Your Computer
Follow the steps that have been given below to download the WhatsApp Web application on your computer:
- Head over to your computer’s application store or click here
- Click on the Download button
- Go to the Downloads folder
- An APK file would have been downloaded on your system. Double-click on the WhatsApp icon to begin the installation
- Follow the steps that show up during the installation process
- Click Finish
- The Whats App Web application has been installed on your computer
Another way of using the WhatsApp Web is substantially the easiest way to operate the application on the desktop. However, due to personal preferences, there are many that choose to use the 1st method only.
- Open your web browser
- Head over to web.whatsapp.com or just click here
Note: Whats App Web is only compatible with Windows 8 OS or newer versions and with Mac OSX 10.9 or newer versions.
How to Use WhatsApp Web on Your Computer
Once you get your hand on the app, its time to link it with your phone’s WhatsApp account. You can connect web WhatsApp with your phone by,
Connect Web WhatsApp with Android Phone
You can connect your Android phone with web WhatsApp application on the desktop by following the steps given below:
- Open the WhatsApp Web application on your desktop or go to the WhatsApp Web website by clicking here
- A QR code (Quick Response) will be displayed on the screen
- Unlock your phone
- Go to WhatsApp
- Tap Menu or the three dots displayed on the app
- Select WhatsApp web
- On the desktop screen, check or uncheck the ‘Keep me Signed in’ box
- Use the QR scanner to scan the code on the screen
- Your Android phone will be connected to WhatsApp Web
Note: Ensure the QR code displayed on the screen has not expired. Additionally, point the phone straight while scanning the QR code.
Connect Whats App Web with iPhone
You can connect your iPhone or iOS phone with Whats App Web application or browser app by following the steps given below:
- Head to your WhatsApp Web application or click here
- A QR code (Quick Response) will be displayed on the screen
- Tick or Untick the checkbox saying ‘Keep me Signed in’
- Unlock your iPhone
- Go to WhatsApp
- Tap the Settings option
- Click on WhatsApp Web/Desktop
- Scan the QR code with the iPhone’s scanner
- The iPhone will be linked to the WhatsApp web on your desktop
Note: It is recommended to make prompt log-ins on your WhatsApp web application to avoid the invasion of privacy via desktop usage. However, that depends on whether or not you allow someone else to use your PC.
Next, use WhatsApp as usual for communicating with your friends and colleagues on your WhatsApp Web desktop app.
How to Enable Dark Mode on WhatsApp Web
WhatsApp has finally rolled down its Dark Mode (3), aka Dark Theme, for all its Android users across the world. However, you can also use Dark Mode for WhatsApp Web through the steps given below:
- Ensure you’re using the latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
- Add the Stylus Extension to your browser. Click here if using Chrome
- A pop-up will be displayed asking confirmation
- Click on Add extension
- Several themes, including the Dark Theme, will be displayed on the screen
- Select Dark Theme option & click on Install Style
- The Dark Theme will be added to your browser
By adding Dark Mode using this method, you will not only be able to use WhatsApp Web on the browser in Dark Mode but will also be able to browse through several other sites the same way. You can also delete or add another theme anytime you want.
Is Godmode possible in WhatsApp web?
GodMode is a blog based on the latest technological developments. GodMode focuses on bringing tech news from all around the world and present it to its users. GodMode has various articles written about Whatsapp web. The reports about Whatsapp web show the different techniques and know-how of using the Whatsapp web.
How to use Whatsapp web-like GodMode?
GodMode features blog posts about Whatsapp web. GodMode tells us the steps to be followed for operating Whatsapp web. GodMode has informative topics about how to use Whatsapp web. The GodMode breaks the topics of how to use Whatsapp web, which makes it easier for the audience to understand the usage of Whatsapp web.
Benefits of using GodMode in Whatsapp web
GodMode tells us the following features of using Whatsapp web:
- Whatsapp web is time-saving
- Whatsapp web helps in multitasking
- GodMode Whatsapp web enables a user to work on two different smart devices at the same time.
- Whatsapp web in GodMode makes communication for a user more effective and efficient.
Is Indiatoday using Whatsapp web?
Whatsapp is one application that has replaced the traditional text messaging method. Whatsapp Web has further made it more feasible for the users to use this application. Indiatoday is using Whatsapp web to inform people about the different benefits and aspects of using Whatsapp web.
Why Indiatoday for Whatsapp web?
- Summarised information
- Concise and short paragraphs on the whats app web
- Informative details on the whats app web
- Stepwise explanation of how to use whats app web
- Indiatoday makes the usage of whats app web very easy
Superuser for Whatsapp web QR code
The Whatsapp web requires a QR code to be processed further for its working. The QR code acts like a password for the whats app web. QR code makes sure that the users using Whatsapp web do not get misguided. Also, Whatsapp web makes sure that the data of a user does not get leaked; that’s why the whats app web is encrypted using a QR code. Superuser shows how to use whats app web making it more straightforward for the user to operate whats app web.
Steps for using QR code with Superuser:
- Open Whatsapp on your phone
- Open settings in WhatsApp
- Open web.whatsapp.com, and a scanner will appear
- Open whats app web on your PC or laptop
- Then, scan the QR code available on the Whatsapp web page
- Whatsapp web will open
Benefits of using QR code Superuser in Whatsapp web?
- Secure connection through whats app web
- Protection of chats and data
- Secure connection through phone for accessing Whatsapp web
- QR code makes the whole process of enabling WhatsApp on PC or Laptop.
How to explore Androidcentral for using Whatsapp web?
Androidcentral is a website that has been made by a community of technology enthusiasts who strive every day to provide information about Whatsapp web. Androidcentral includes information about how to use whats app web and also the related aspects of Whatsapp web.
Points to be noted about Whatsapp web on Androidcentral:
- Activation process explained of Whatsapp web
- Step by step procedure of whats app web.
- Presentation through pictures showing images of whats app web on Androidcentral
- Salient features of Whatsapp web explained in Androidcentral.
Connect with Whatsapp web over Facebook
Now, people can connect over Facebook with Whatsapp web. People using Whatsapp follow and like the whats app web through Facebook. Whatsapp web page on Facebook keeps on updating posts with the new updates of Whatsapp web.
Who follows Whatsapp web on Facebook?
Currently, The whats app web page is followed by 33,036,599 people. These people often see the activities of the Whatsapp web page on Facebook in their news feed. 31,151,118 people like the Whatsapp web Facebook page.
How active is Whatsapp web on Facebook?
- The whats app web page keeps on posting regularly on their Facebook page.
- The page of Whatsapp web shows its supports to different communities through its posts and stories.
- Whatsapp web informs its users through Facebook about their new updates.
- Keeps on sharing pictures and videos
Whatsapp web and Twitter
Almost 3 million people follow the Whatsapp web on Twitter. It looks like so many people are interested in being informed about the updates and activities of whats app web. The Whatsapp web page joined Twitter in May 2009, and since then, The whats app web page has received a lot of appreciation of people on Twitter through its followers.
Activity status of Whatsapp web on Twitter
Whatsapp web is highly active on Twitter. Whatsapp keeps on informing its followers about their whats app web updates through tweets. Whatsapp web tweets regularly and is well known for its tweets on Twitter.
Posts of Whatsapp web on Twitter
- Whatsapp web keeps on tweeting regularly about whats app web on Twitter.
- Sensitive social issues are taken up by Whatsapp web and explained through Twitter.
- Whatsapp web focuses on informing their followers through videos and pictures by tweeting on Twitter.
Whatsapp web on Google Playstore
Whatsapp web is a free messaging app that is available for downloading in smartphones. Whatsapp web allows you to message and call or video calls your friends and family free of cost. Switch from SMS to Whatsapp web to send and receive messages.
The popularity of Whatsapp web on Google play store
- 108,999,014 people have downloaded Whatsapp web from the Google play store, making it one of the highest ranks on Google play store.
- The current rating of the Whatsapp web on Google play store is 4.2 stars.
- The whats app web application has also been entered as the Editor’s choice.
Benefits of Whatsapp on Google play store
- Easy download of Whatsapp web.
- Free of cost
- It only requires an internet connection for downloading Whatsapp web.
- Connecting people through the calling and messaging features of whats app web.
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Maine Follows New Hampshire’s Fuel-Switching Lead
The energy-related actions decisions made by Maine’s recently adjourned state legislature perhaps reflect similar discussions in other states.
Prior to commencement of the legislative session, experienced lobbyists predicted a veto-driven standoff between Republican Gov. Paul LePage and the sizable Democrat majority in both houses. They predicted the exceptions would be the budget, where stalemate means a state shutdown, and perhaps a major environmental bill, for which suburban and coastal Republicans might join with Democrats to override a gubernatorial veto.
The observers were right about the budget, where a careful and difficult compromise between appropriations committee members was vetoed by an angry governor, but overridden. The other major veto override, however, came on what became known as the Omnibus Energy Bill. More than anything else, Maine’s legislators felt that energy was the most important subject on which they needed to work out differences and show progress.
Equally significant was the high priority within the energy bill—to lower heating costs for Maine citizens. Maine’s governor set a tough tone by pronouncing that Maine’s energy agency should “be more concerned about Mainers heating bills than about curlicue light bulbs.” To the dismay of the energy audit and insulating industrial complex, the governor and his energy director made a convincing political case for lowering heating costs by fuel-switching, particularly by providing more homeowners access to natural gas and pellet heat.
The successful energy bill compromise involved finding more funds for both efficiency measures and fuel switching. The increased efficiency funding will come primarily from a settlement surrounding the closing of Maine’s nuclear plant years ago. The fuel-switching financing will be derived from revisions in Maine’s participation in the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
So, which sectors of the heating industry will benefit from the new emphasis at the state energy agency? At its first meeting after the new energy bill went into law, the agency put solar, natural gas, electric heat pumps, and biomass (pellet stoves as well as boilers) on the table. In contrast to all of the other heating systems costing between $3,000 and $5,000, pellet boilers retail at a much higher price, therefore requiring a much higher consumer incentive if sales are to be effectively boosted. It’s up to the pellet boiler industry to make their case.
Part of this case will certainly be New Hampshire’s example, where the state public utilities commission has an ongoing pellet boiler incentive program providing rebates of 30 percent or $6,000, whichever is lower, to homeowners. Another good example is the Berlin, N.H., Model Neighborhood Project, assisted by the Northern Forest Center, in which incentives have enabled nearly 50 homeowners to generate huge cost and carbon emission savings by switching to pellet boilers. If political support counts, the 2 to 1 majority, by which both houses of the Maine legislature passed a measure supporting the pellet boiler industry, may be that industry’s best card.
While showing clear support for fuel switching, the Maine legislature took a rain check on the chance to make controversial choices between renewable energy systems. Programs relating to hydropower, onshore and offshore wind power, tidal and solar power, and biomass energy are all to be “studied” between now and December by a special legislative commission, particularly with regard to Maine’s renewable energy credit portfolio. Again following New Hampshire’s example, where thermal biomass last year was added to the renewable energy credit program, thermal energy credits will be part of this “summer study.”
This stuff is getting complicated.
Author: Bill Bell
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In this Article,we had describe Whats the easiest way to give yourself a bruise?There are a number of ways you can bruise yourself. For example, if your arm bumps against something hard enough it may cause some bruising and swelling as well as pain which is why we recommend using protection when taking part in activities where there could be contact with surfaces like desks or furniture (for instance). You have two options here: either make sure everything stays inside the boundaries so no one sees what happened before washing away any excess blood later on; alternatively take advantage by turning this incident into an opportunity for creative expression such say painting over all those red marks left behind!).
Well, it’s no secret that people are always looking to get attention. It doesn’t matter if you ask a question in the anonymity of your internet chat or among friends at dinner; someone will sooner or later respond with something like “I didn’t know what this was about but here is my answer.” The truth behind these words? They’re just trying find their way into conversation so everyone pays them some amount for saying whatever popped into mind first off hand! Not only does seeking after auditory response reflect poorly upon.
The easiest way to get a black eye is by hitting yourself against the door. It takes quite some force, but it will happen if you keep doing that enough times- each time harder than before.
I’ve found myself at home with bruises after drinking too much alcohol recently – how does one avoid these situations? My dear reader: never drink until your are fully sober because anything can lead into anothereven worse situation where all bets might as well be off…
The most common way I have found to get a bruise is by grabbing an object with my hands and then hitting it. The second-most cause of bruising is running into something or somebody kicking us while we are walking, which can result in both legs getting bruises from time spent falling down as well.”
Stumbling and hitting your leg (or other body part) on the stairs is pretty effective. It usually leaves me bruised.
It’s not just your skin that can bruise. You might have heard of people who get bruises from hitting themselves with oranges or other objects, but it doesn’t always require physical contact—even talking sharply to someone could do the trick.
Bruising oneself is often seen as something funny; what didn’t hurt one day might be hurting on another and then again maybe you’ll only suffer minor irritation after an encounter due mainly because some tears were shed during anger management class – either way don.
Maybe it has something to do with how we are raised. In some parts of the world, people scratch themselves and even beat each other up for fun (or because they think it’s entertaining). We don’t do this very often here but when someone gets a good hit in sports or an accident happens during playtime – well you can see what I mean. | <urn:uuid:452423fe-5534-42eb-89ee-36f18794b868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apkwitch.com/whats-the-easiest-way-to-give-yourself-a-bruise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.963598 | 623 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Robert Parris Moses, a United States civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in mathematics, has died at age 86.
Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement and was central to the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in which hundreds of students went to the South to register voters.
Moses started his “second chapter in civil rights work” by founding in 1982 the Algebra Project, which included a curriculum Moses developed to help poor students succeed in maths.
Ben Moynihan, the director of operations for the Algebra Project, said he had talked with Moses’ wife, Dr Janet Moses, and she said her husband had passed away on Sunday morning in Hollywood, Florida. Information was not given as to the cause of death.
This is a tremendous, tremendous loss. Bob Moses was one of the bravest Americans this nation produced, a man who helped architect Freedom Summer and the effort to democratize this country. Losing these icons of democracy as our democracy is under assault should push us to act. https://t.co/CsB77gDLX4
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 25, 2021
Moses was born in Harlem, New York, on January 23, 1935, two months after a race riot left three dead and injured 60 in the neighbourhood. His grandfather, William Henry Moses, has been a prominent Southern Baptist preacher and a supporter of Marcus Garvey, a Black nationalist leader at the turn of the century.
But like many Black families, the Moses family moved north from the South during the Great Migration. Once in Harlem, his family sold milk from a Black-owned cooperative to help supplement the household income, according to the book Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots, by Laura Visser-Maessen.
While attending Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, he became a Rhodes Scholar and was deeply influenced by the work of French philosopher Albert Camus and his ideas of rationality and moral purity for social change.
Moses then took part in a Quaker-sponsored trip to Europe and solidified his beliefs that change came from the bottom up before earning a master’s in philosophy at Harvard University.
Bob Moses is my model for organizing. Principled, intellectual, humble, deliberate, willing to work with all who come, never berating but consistently challenging. Fun loving, kind, reflective, tender.
— Imani Perry (@imaniperry) July 25, 2021
Moses did not spend much time in the Deep South until he went on a recruiting trip in 1960 to “see the movement for myself”. He sought out the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta but found little activity in the office and soon turned his attention to SNCC.
“I was taught about the denial of the right to vote behind the Iron Curtain in Europe,” Moses later said. “I never knew that there was (the) denial of the right to vote behind a Cotton Curtain here in the United States.”
The young civil rights advocate tried to register Black people to vote in Mississippi’s rural Amite County where he was beaten and arrested. When he tried to file charges against a white assailant, an all-white jury acquitted the man and a judge provided protection to Moses to the county line so he could leave.
He later helped organise the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which sought to challenge the all-white Democratic delegation from Mississippi.
But President Lyndon Johnson prevented the group of rebel Democrats from voting in the convention and instead let Jim Crow southerners remain, drawing national attention. Jim Crow laws refer to a system of racial segregation in the South.
#BobMoses has died. What a brilliant, conscious, compassionately active human being. Educator. Organizer. Leader. Rest well, sir.
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center (@TheKingCenter) July 25, 2021
Disillusioned with white liberal reaction to the civil rights movement, Moses soon began taking part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War then cut off all relationships with white people, even former SNCC members.
Moses worked as a teacher in Tanzania, Africa, returned to Harvard to earn a doctorate in philosophy and taught high school maths in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Later in life, the press-shy Moses founded the Algebra Project.
Historian Taylor Branch, whose book Parting the Waters won the Pulitzer Prize, said Moses’ leadership embodied a paradox.
“Aside from having attracted the same sort of adoration among young people in the movement that Martin Luther King did in adults,” Branch said, “Moses represented a separate conception of leadership” as arising from and being carried on by “ordinary people”.
The SNCC Legacy Project offers its condolences and love to Janet Moses, and his children Maisha, Omo, Taba, and Malika Moses at the passing of Bob Moses who was husband, father and an emotional center for the family. pic.twitter.com/W1boiPW0kP
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- Psychological abuse is sometimes called psychological violence, emotional abuse, or mental abuse
- It involves someone saying or doing things to make you feel bad
- Psychological abuse can be a type of domestic and family violence
- If you or someone you know is experiencing psychological abuse, you can contact 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or through the online chat.
What is psychological abuse?
Psychological abuse is behaviour that aims to cause emotional or mental harm. It may not hurt your body, but can be just as painful and distressing in other ways.
No one behaves perfectly in their relationships all the time. However, when someone deliberately hurts you over and over again it becomes abusive. Behaviour from others that aims to make you feel scared or bad about yourself is not OK.
Psychological abuse can include someone regularly:
- Embarrassing you in public or in front of family, friends, support workers or people you work with
- Calling you names
- Threatening to harm you, your pets, children, or other people who are important to you
- Treating you badly because of things you can’t change — for example, your religion, race, past, disability, gender, sexuality, or family
- Ignoring you or pretending you aren’t there
- Doing and saying things that make you feel confused. This might include someone moving or changing things and then denying they have done this.
- Always correcting what you say with the aim of making you look or feel foolish.
There may be a pattern to the behaviour that happens again and again. Sometimes other types of abuse are going on at the same time. If this kind of abuse is being used to scare and control you it may be domestic or family violence.
No one behaves perfectly in their relationships all the time. However, when someone deliberately hurts you over and over again it becomes abusive.
Who is responsible for psychological abuse?
Psychological abuse can happen in any relationship, including with:
- Boyfriends, girlfriends, partners, husbands or wives
- Ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, ex-partners, ex-husbands or ex-wives
- Carers or paid support workers
- Parents, guardians or other family members
- Adult children
- Other people you live with or see often, whether inside or outside the home.
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How the Government Printing Office Can Increase Profitability
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Press release from the issuing company(October 13, 2008) In an economy that squeezes every aspect of a printer's business with higher costs and fewer opportunities, how does a printer catch a break? One avenue that should not go overlooked is working with the U. S. Government Printing Office (GPO).
Founded in 1813, the U.S. Government Printing Office's core mission is Keeping America Informed as it supports the work of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government. The GPO is the federal government's primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, authenticating and preserving published information. That's just about everything printed for the federal government. Further, as required by Title 44 of the U.S. Code, all federal agencies are required to use GPO to procure their printing.
Unlike most federal agencies, GPO operates much like a business, as it is not only reimbursed by its federal agency customers for the cost of work performed, but the GPO also receives from its federal agency customers a service fee which is based on a percentage of the work procured. Additionally, the GPO sells printing to its customers and this is done at the huge GPO printing facility in Washington for work that is not outsourced to the private sector, such as the Congressional Record, Federal Register, and U.S. passports.
For all outsourced work, the GPO awards its procured contracts through a bidding process. With more than 10,000 printers registered to bid on GPO work, it would seem that competition is fierce for the more than $400 million in jobs the GPO awards each year. The good news is only about 400 or so printers are active bidders, allowing room for additional competition.
This is especially true for printers who want to maximize capacity on their own printing equipment. Printing for the government can fill an important gap for a printer and can generate income that otherwise would not be there. It is a win-win for the GPO and the printer.
But first, a printer must become a "qualified" GPO vendor in order to be awarded work. A printer must properly register with GPO, provide equipment lists and other detailed information, and submit stellar samples that can pass the muster of a rigorous GPO quality review. All of this is not easy and entails the assistance of a professional that knows the GPO business inside and out.
Once approved the printer still needs to grapple with the rules, regulations, paperwork, and red tape. Dealing with the Federal Government and its GPO is not easy for a novice want-to-be GPO printer. A printer must be able to read and understand the subtleties of the solicitation, specifications, contract terms, quality assurance guidelines, paper specifications, terms and conditions, and other requirements. This is no small undertaking.
Doing work with the GPO is much different than working with corporate accounts. When a mistake is made, the printer cannot take the GPO to lunch and sweet talk its way out of the problem. The printer must know the rules and follow them exactly.
Often printers will say that GPO work is so competitive that the jobs go for paper cost or below. Obviously, this is a nice excuse to explain why some printers are not competitive while others win huge amounts of work. The truth, of course, is that jobs do not sell at paper cost or below. Printers in the know are in general the profit leaders in the industry. Take Gateway Press in Kentucky, P.A. Hutchison in Pennsylvania or Corporate Express with its national footprint – all are profit leaders, all rely on the GPO for a portion of revenues, and none do work at paper cost or below.
What do these profitable printers have in common when it comes to GPO success? Here are the three most important things that they know:
• Open capacity is a unique opportunity to build profitability. Once a printer is at breakeven, every value added dollar brought in thereafter goes directly to the bottom line. (Value added is defined as all of the dollars left after a printer pays for out of pocket costs for paper, ink, plates and outsourced services.) For example, if a printer is charging $400 per hour for a 4-color web press that runs 70 percent of the time, and the printer is at breakeven, then 100 percent of all value added dollars brought in during the 30 percent open capacity will yield profit… even if the same 4-color web press is sold for $100 per hour instead of the normal $400 per hour. The alternative is to bring in no revenue and consequently no profit by allowing the 30 percent downtime and the equipment and operators to sit idle.
• Knowing the customer is as important in successfully accomplishing GPO work as it is in accomplishing work for any major commercial customer. Each has its own method of operation, rules and regulations, idiosyncrasies, even labeling and packaging requirements. In the case of GPO these requirements fill volumes. Therefore, successful printers understand the importance of working with a GPO expert in order to maximize profitability.
• Obtaining GPO bid opportunities that are highly competitive is relatively easy. These are readily available for a fee from a "GPO bid service" or for free directly from GPO on its Web site. Having those more profitable GPO bid opportunities available with sufficient time to bid is a different matter. Just like in the commercial marketplace, GPO bid opportunities are more profitable when fewer potential bidders see them; these opportunities offer fast turn-around in the bid process, the manufacturing process, or both. Also, there are the matters of amendments to which a response must be made before bid opening, how to assure 21-day pay so a printer does not have to wait for extended periods of time on its money, having access to past histories of prior jobs, reports on competition, and promptly obtaining accurate results of bids. Only an expert in GPO can fill these voids.
Having current information on GPO, building a precise GPO sales plan, and knowing and following the rules are all critical components to success and profitability. Being on the short end of the GPO stick is not pleasant and can be quite expensive.
The majority of the 400 active GPO vendors use a government print management firm that provides full representational services, accurate information, market intelligence, past price histories, and access to all available GPO solicitations. With a government print management firm at your side, you receive assistance with paper work handling, specification interpretation, proposal preparation, bidding process management, assistance through the production process, change order negotiation, invoice preparation and collection, and cutting through the government red tape.
The bottom line is this. If a profitable printer averages 4 percent profitability before GPO, partners with a professional government print management firm to avoid the long and expensive curve of learning to do work with GPO, and then adds the appropriate work, that printer can increase its profitability by 10 percent or more by utilizing what would otherwise remain idle downtime.
Submitted by Deborah Snider, Senior Vice President of Government Print Management. She can be reached at 888-876-5432, through the web site at www.GovernmentPrintManagement.com or at Deborah.Snider@GovernmentPrintManagement.com.
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|Shingkhar Ranbey 2008|
Firstly, even though the significance of Rabney extends far beyond, for locals, it is considered as an annual event honoring our local deities for all the blessings and protections they have rendered in the past year. Besides, it is also an event where folks celebrate their past success and embark on the new beginning.
Secondly, Rabney is a unique local event, observed in the loving memory of our ancestors. They are remembered for all the hardships and pains they have endured to preserve this beautiful culture and tradition. It is with each passing Rabney, that the architects of Shingkhar are immortalized in the hearts of Shingkharpas.
Thirdly, Rabney is an important social event that unites the family and long lost relatives. It is often on Rabney that parents see their children who have moved to a far off place. It is also time for all the folks to call off the days form mundanely chores and sing and soak, heart and soul in local brew -ara and cingchang. | <urn:uuid:a0f1d42f-d7dd-4c09-8044-5a685dda8667> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://shingkhar.blogspot.com/2012/02/shingkhar-rabney.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00433-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962203 | 217 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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The MikroTik RouterOS can be accessed remotely, using http and WinBox Console, for example, using the web browser of your workstation.
The Winbox console is used for accessing the MikroTik Router configuration and management features using graphical user interface.
All Winbox interface functions are as close as possible to Console functions: all Winbox functions are exactly in the same hierarchy in Terminal Console and vice versa (except functions that are not implemented in Winbox). That is why there are no Winbox sections in the manual.
The Winbox Console plugin loader, the winbox.exe program, can be retrieved from the MikroTik router, the URL is http://router_address/winbox/winbox.exe Use any web browser on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP to retrieve the router's web page with the mentioned link. If your router is not specifically configured, you can also type in the web-browser just http://router_address
Note that if you change the default port www service on the router, you will have to specify it just after the IP address separated by column (e.g. 10.0.0.1:8080)
The Winbox plugins are cached on the local disk for each MikroTik RouterOS??? version. The plugins are not downloaded, if they are in the cache, and the router has not been upgraded since the last time it has been accessed.Starting the Winbox Console
When connecting to the MikroTik router via http (TCP port 80 by default), the router's Welcome Page is displayed in the web browser, for example:
By clicking on the Winbox Console link you can start the winbox.exe download. Choose Open to start the Winbox loader program (you can also save this program to your local disk, and run it from there):
The winbox.exe program opens the Winbox login window. Login to the router by specifying the IP address (and the port number if you have changed it from the default value of 80), user name, and password, for example:
You can also save some sessions to the list (to run them, just double-click on an item).
The Winbox Console of the router:
The Winbox Console uses TCP port 3986 (not secure) or 3987 (secure; requires security package to be installed). After logging onto the router you can work with the MikroTik router's configuration through the Winbox console and perform the same tasks as using the regular console.Overview of Common Functions
You can use the menu bar to navigate through the router's configuration menus, open configuration windows. By double clicking on some list items in the windows you can open configuration windows for the specific items, and so on.
There are some hints for using the Winbox Console:
- To open the required window, simply click on the corresponding menu item
Add a new entry
Remove an existing entry
Enable an item
Disable an item
Make or edit a comment
Refresh a window
Undo an action
Redo an action
Logout from the Winbox Console
- I cannot open the Winbox Console
- Check the port and address for www service in /ip service print list. Make sure the address you are connecting from matches the network you've specified in address field and that you've specified the correct port in the Winbox loader. The command /ip service set www port=80 address=0.0.0.0/0 will change these values to the default ones so you will be able to connect specifying just the correct address of the router in the address field of Winbox loader
- The Winbox Console uses TCP port 3986 (not secure) or 3987 (secure; requires security package to be installed). Make sure you have access to it through the firewall. | <urn:uuid:eb95ea7f-ec2b-45e5-9596-dfa6d2d9440d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.8/guide/winbox_content.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00096-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.819066 | 823 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Indian Pacing Electrophysiol. J.
Indian Pacing Electrophysiol. J. 2006;
Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes - What Can be Done?
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA.
Address for correspondence: Joydeep Ghosh, MD, FACC., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 Tenth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
Sudden death in athletes is a rare event but brings with it an impact that goes beyond sport. There are many causes of sudden death during exercise. While the responsibility of preventing or treating them lays with us physicians, preparticipation screening is largely ineffective and impractical. Definitive, large scale prospective research is required in order to design the most cost-effective system for screening of athletes. In the meanwhile rapid access to defibrillators by trained personnel remains the best possible approach to abort sudden death.
Key Words: sudden cardiac death; exercise; athletes
With the World Cup in soccer - arguably the most passionate sporting event of our times - only a few days away, it is appropriate to look at the lessons we have learned over the past few years about sudden death in competitive sport.
In 490 BC Phidippides ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens, delivering the news of the Greek victory over the Persians (the first 'marathon' in recorded history), but then immediately collapsed and died. This is probably the first recorded incident of sudden death of an athlete. More recently the death of some high-profile athletes have focused public interest on this infrequent event and current data reveal that in the United Sates alone, about 100 athletes - ranging from schoolchildren to professionals - die every year while engaged in sporting activity1. In India accurate data are not available but recently media attention was focused on a Brazilian soccer player who died while playing for his adopted club. Across societies around the world athletes are considered to be the pinnacle of health and given high status; death of a young, well-trained athlete on the field represents a particularly tragic event that leads to utter dismay within the family and the community and often a barrage of negative media attention.
The paradox of exercise is that while in the long-term it generally attenuates the risk of sudden cardiac death, the relative risk is actually increased during the time of exercise and up to 30 minutes following it2. This is especially so in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, congenital anomalous coronary artery abnormalities, and inherited ion channelopathies like long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, or Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, and it is no surprise that patients with these conditions have a risk of sudden death with sport that is well above normal. Other conditions implicated in sudden death in athletes include accessory pathways with antegrade conduction properties, bicuspid aortic valve, myocarditis, ruptured aortic aneurysm, Marfan syndrome, mitral and tricuspid valve prolapse and ingestion of stimulants like cocaine and anabolic steroids. In addition, sudden death on the field can also be caused by certain activities like trauma to the chest (commotio cordis) or to the neck (causing asystole from carotid sinus reactivity)3.
Given the myriad causes listed above, the question we have to answer is whether pre-participation screening works. Since the early eighties, Italy has been in the forefront of efforts to identify athletes perceived to be at risk and withdraw them from competitive sports, with a preparticipation screening program based on 12-lead ECG, a family and personal history and physical examination.4 Data presented recently5 reveal a striking decline in mortality in the population studied (12-35 year olds, in the Veneto region) with the incidence of sudden death declining to one-tenth of what it was at the beginning of the study. Most of this was attributed to fewer cases of athletes dying from cardiomyopathies that were detectable on ECG. To the best of my knowledge, there are no other prospective studies (of any magnitude) that look at the effect of preparticipation screening in athletes.
Whether the result of this study is applicable to other countries is of course, questionable. Northern Italy has an unusually high incidence of ARVD in its homogenous population, and unless one is dealing with similar circumstances the results may not be reproducible. In the United States currently there is no advocacy for routine ECG's, and the diagnostic tool used most frequently is a detailed history and physical examination, with particular attention paid to syncope, palpitations, chest pain or sudden death in the family. ECG, stress testing and echocardiograms are used only if there is a suspicion of high risk from the history elicited. Interpretations of 'quick-screen' echocardiograms, while being effective in diagnosing HCM or ARVC in a short period of time, may be particularly challenging given the similarities between "athletes heart" and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
With regard to India and other developing countries, such preparticipation screening will need an enormous increase in the Government's commitment to public health given the huge population of people that needs to be screened and the low incidence of disease that cause sudden death (a notable exception may be hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which has been reported to have an incidence of 1 in 500 in the Western population). Unfortunately I doubt that this 'high investment, low return' policy will find many takers in a country like India, though saving even one young adult or child's life ought to be seen as making an investment in the future. The other significant problem with screening is identifying false positives, with the unnecessary psychological burden it places on athletes and their families6. If any kind of screening policy is indeed adopted, we need physicians who are well-trained to identify the diseases they are seeking, and who know how to proceed with borderline cases without causing unnecessary alarm.
If preparticipation screening is far away in a country like India, the least we can do is provide external defibrillators in as many athletic events as possible, and train paramedics to use them properly. In particular they must be able to recognize cardiac arrest quickly, and deliver defibrillation promptly. A successful outcome depends primarily on time to defibrillation, with about a 10% per-minute decrease in survival5.
In the meanwhile, enjoy the World Cup. Strict compliance to FIFA guidelines at all venues in Germany regarding availability of rapid access defibrillation will hopefully ensure that no gifted athlete dies suddenly on the field.
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On May 15, Beacon Press will release a new book that tells the stories—both personal and professional—of selected lesbian and gay couples who contributed in significant ways to the American culture. Outlaw Marriages ~ The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples was written by Rodger Streitmatter, a professor at American University who contributes an article to LGBT-Today each month.
Below is a series of questions posed by LGBT-Today and the answers provided by the author.
LGBT-Today: Why did you write this book?
Rodger Streitmatter: For the last dozen years or so, marriage equality has been in the national spotlight. Numerous books have been written about same-sex marriage as a political issue, and there also have been books about the religious aspect of the issue, as well as the legal questions involved. But there hasn’t been much at all written about what I would call the “personal” dimension of the issue.
I’ve been in a same-sex relationship for the last 29 years, and so I know how important that personal piece of the story is. I know that my partner—now my husband—has played a crucial role in my life, and I know he’s done the same for me. So I wanted that human dimension to be part of the conversation. I wanted to document that the partners in a same-sex relationship can contribute enormously to each other’s well being—as well as to the culture writ large.
LGBT-Today: What will people learn from reading your book?
Rodger Streitmatter: This is the first book that documents two realities. First, gay and lesbian couples have existed in this country for well over a century, and, second, some of these couples have enriched this nation in remarkable ways.
As one very specific example, many of us are familiar with the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was written by Tennessee Williams—or perhaps the film based on the play starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. In one chapter of Outlaw Marriages, I tell the story of how, if it hadn’t been for Williams’s partner—a man named Frank Merlo—Williams very well may never have written Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Williams became addicted to alcohol and other drugs in the late 1940s, to the point that he said, in his personal journal, that he would never be able to write another play. But then he began his relationship with Frank Merlo. Merlo single handedly weaned Williams off those substances so he could return to his writing.
Also, once Williams tried to write, he no longer had confidence in his abilities. He would become frustrated during the writing process. But with Merlo there with him every day—encouraging him and reassuring him—Williams was able to create Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The play was an important one not only because it won the Pulitzer Prize but also because it was one of the first important American dramas that contained a homosexuality theme.
LGBT-Today: How are these outlaw marriages different from traditional marriages?
Rodger Streitmatter: Frankly, they’re not very different at all, except that they we’re sanctioned by the church or the state. But, other than that, they’re very much like straight marriages. The couples generally went through the same stages as a wife and husband would go through—getting to know each other and then gradually blending their lives together until they sort of “morphed” into a couple. They loved each other and supported each other just as much as any husband and wife could have. Of course there were instances, as with straight marriages, where an issue threatened to destroy a marriage—and sometimes the marriage ended.
If I had to identify one factor that made these outlaw marriages different, in substance, from straight marriages, I’d say they were consistently threatened by the stigma of homosexuality. One example that comes to mind involves the actress Greta Garbo and her partner Mercedes de Acosta, who became a couple in 1931. Garbo was a very private person, and she was adamant that she didn’t want the public to know about her relationship with de Acosta—Garbo refused to allow any photos to be taken of the two women together. De Acosta, on the other hand, was very open about her sexuality. This difference of opinion was a recurring point of friction throughout their three-decade outlaw marriage, and it eventually caused their breakup.
LGBT-Today: The subtitle for your book is “The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples.” How did you find information about these couples? What sources did you use?
Rodger Streitmatter: I mostly depended on biographies that other scholars have written. But what I did differently from what previous biographers did is that I focused specifically on the relationship between the two people—and the impact that relationship had.
With Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo, for example, several biographies have been written about Williams. And Williams also wrote a memoir. Plus much of his correspondence has been published, and so have his personal journals.
But no one has ever looked specifically at the relationship between the two men. So what I did was read every biography and Williams’s memoir and his correspondence and personal journals, looking specifically for references to Frank Merlo. Then I stitched all these individual pieces of information together to create what I guess you might call a “biography of the relationship.”
LGBT-Today: The cover of the book features a gay male couple. Who are they?
Rodger Streitmatter: The man on the left is Ned Warren, and the man on the right is John Marshall. Ned was born into a wealthy Boston family. After he graduated from Harvard, he moved to England to attend Oxford. It was there that he met John Marshall, who was from Liverpool, England.
After they became a couple—in 1884, at the age of 24—they began their life’s work of establishing the antiquities collections at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. They remained a couple for the next four decades, until Marshall died in 1927.
One of the pieces of their history that I particularly like is how their individual strengths complemented each other. Ned had a very good eye for which specific antiquities would look good in a museum. John, by contrast, was a very good researcher—if Ned saw a piece that he liked, John would then study it closely to make sure it was the real deal and not a fake. Ned also tended to be arrogant and not willing to negotiate with people, while John was much more down-to-earth and willing to work with people at all levels of society—including the tradesmen the men sometimes had to deal with in acquiring antiquities.
Here’s the list of couples—in fields ranging from education to theater and from music to Hollywood filmmaking—whose lives and loves are illuminated in Outlaw Marriages ~
♥ Walt Whitman & Peter Doyle ~ 1865-1892
♥ Martha Carey Thomas & Mamie Gwinn ~ 1878-1904
♥ John Marshall & Ned Warren ~ 1884-1927
♥ Jane Addams & Mary Rozet Smith ~ 1891-1934
♥ Elsie de Wolfe & Bessie Marbury ~ 1892-1933
♥ J. C. Leyendecker & Charles Beach ~ 1901-1951
♥ Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas ~ 1907-1946
♥ Janet Flanner & Solita Solano ~ 1919-1975
♥ Greta Garbo & Mercedes de Acosta ~ 1931-1960
♥ Aaron Copland & Victor Kraft ~ 1932-1976
♥ Tennessee Williams & Frank Merlo ~ 1948-1963
♥ James Baldwin & Lucien Happersberger ~ 1949-1987
♥ Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns ~ 1954-1962
♥ Ismail Merchant & James Ivory ~ 1961-2005
♥ Audre Lorde & Frances Clayton ~ 1968-1988
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