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In 1443, near the end of the Hundred Years War (actually, 106 years into it at that point), the chancellor of Beaune, under Philippe the Good, founded a hospital for unfortunates and started a religious order to tend to the sick. Since this hospital sat at the crossroads of a wine producing region, it wasn't long before the sisters healed a few local vintners who, in gratitude for their return to health, handed over hunks of their vineyards.
Soon the Hospice had sizable holdings checkering the hillsides of Burgundy and sales of the wine production on these deeded lands helped subsidize hospital operations. By 1859, the sales were formalized into an annual auction, mostly for wine traders, who bought by the barrel and sold by the bottle.
In 2005, a travel team from Christie's took over the auctioning chores, which coincided with the official opening the sale to the public. Sale prices have skyrocketed with the addition of connoisseurs to the bidding process. And even with that rise, the cost per bottle to the wine lover who wins one of the auction lots still tends to be far lower than the price at retail. | <urn:uuid:b08589a5-91f4-4dda-8d74-402f4af55f4b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/g441/hospices-de-beaune-burgundy-auction-christies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00261-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967924 | 243 | 2.125 | 2 |
We interrupt our afternoon siesta to bring you this breaking news story from 2 to 7 million years ago. Just over 24 hours ago, our Rhode Island Correspondent alerted us to the recent discovery of an ancient whale graveyard in Chile.
Apparently, workers widening Chile’s Pan American Highway (Route 5) have uncovered a mass marine animal graveyard.
Most of the fossils are from 8 meter-long baleen whales, but the graveyard includes other rare finds, including a dolphin with walrus-like tusks that had previously only been found in Peru and a probable three-member whale family group.
Chile’s Atacama Desert is a great place to hunt for the fossils of ancient marine animals. Previous expeditions in the region have uncovered an aquatic sloth and a seabird whose 5m wingspan easily outstrips a condor’s. And it’s not like they didn’t know there were whale bones in the area when they started work on the road (apparently you could see the bones jutting out of the rock). At the beginning of the project, the construction company asked Mario Suarez, director of the Paleontological Museum in the nearby town of Caldera, to monitor the work to make sure that no fossils were harmed.
Even so, this particular find apparently has paleontologists staggering around the desert in an emotionally turbulent blend of ecstasy and utter confusion.
Twenty of the seventy-five skeletons found so far are intact, with potentially hundreds more still to be found. There’s such a rich concentration of fossils that Suarez is seriously considering simply building a museum there to showcase the fossils where they lie, similar to the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado.
Still, the find raises questions. What could cause so many animals to die in a single spot? Was it an earthquake? A drought that dried up the lagoon? A huge tidal wave that caused a mass beaching? (Marine animals are notorious self-beachers.)
In her email on the subject, our correspondent writes: “I don’t know where Chile falls on The Four-Year-Old’s scale of vaccinations, but I thought you guys might find this interesting.”
Doesn’t she know us well?
Well, Rhode Island Correspondent, the Four-Year-Old really struggled with the Fossil ROI for this one.
On the one hand, lots and lots of extremely well-preserved, rare, and exceptionally complete fossils just lying there for the picking and some great questions, such as why would a dolphin need tusks?
On the other hand, exploring paleontological sites in Chile would require several extra shots. Not as many as neighboring Peru, but still too many shots, The Four-Year-Old finally and very reluctantly decided. Which is why we will have to wait for the National Geographic special. Fortunately, the National Geographic Society is at least partly funding the excavation, so hopefully we won’t have to wait too long. In the meantime, we’ll content ourselves with mounting an expedition to the Dinosaur Museum in Utah and Colorado.
For those of you who like to keep track of these things, here is The Four-Year-Old’s updated Fossil ROI calculation.
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- “Do you need a lot of shots to go to Botswana?” (caterpickles.com)
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These English language courses are tailored to prepare you for the TOEIC exam.
Comments: A combination of Business and TOEIC. Business English classes are in three parts: Business Communication, Business Theory and Meeting, and Business Practical to prepare you for all aspects of the business world, from presentations to PowerPoint, negotiating to socializing, and phone skills to letter-writing.
The TOEIC program prepares students for the TOEIC exam by presenting and practicing skills to help them improve listening, vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension skills related to the English-speaking business environment.
Comments: In TOEIC®, students will work to expand their vocabulary and improve their reading, listening, and grammar skills, with the ultimate goal of achieving a high score on the test. The Test Of English for International Communication (TOEIC®) is a standardized test used by various companies and organizations throughout the world as an effective measure of a job candidate’s ability to understand written and spoken English.
General facts about English for Speakers of Other Languages / ESOL by Pitman
The test English for Speakers of another Language / ESOL by Pitman is less recognized, but it can be taken at random dates at your school. We would like to advise you to have a look at the other english language exams which are accredited much more. The ESOL by Pitmann test is offered in the following variations:
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Your Assignment: Describe Sioux Falls In One Word, Here’s Mine
I first came to Sioux Falls as a kid.
Living an hour or so away, it seems like we would make a trip to Sioux Falls about twice a year. Maybe once for back-to-school shopping and maybe once for Christmas shopping. Now, this was back in the day when, if memory serves (and sometimes it's a bit off), there was a big KMART right down about 41st and Minnesota Ave. That store seemed to be just about the biggest in the world and a young farm boy could spend an hour or two or three just in the toy department alone.
And dad and mom would take us downtown for clothes shopping...I'm talking about the days when J.C. Penny was there and THE place to go. It's where I saw my first ever escalator. Technology would never get better than moving stairs!
And now these many decades later, the fact is I've lived here in Sioux Falls now for well over twenty years. Kmart is gone, Penny's isn't downtown and the escalator isn't quite as magical as it used to be. I suppose it's what is called progress.
From a population of a little over 70,000 in 1970, Sioux Falls is now in the 200,000 ballpark. So if I had to describe Sioux Falls in one word, that word would be...
Oh, there could be a whole bunch of other "one words" I could use. Vibrant. Beautiful. Progressive. Home.
With the "growing" of course comes growing pains. I've heard some of the older folks (in other words, people about my age) say..." Sioux Falls was better back when...". And I get it. Heck, I find myself saying things like "Music was better back when...", "TV was better back when...", "Cars were better back when...".
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was all better 'back when'. It comes with age. You younger folks will be saying the same thing, trust me.
And so back to the question: Describe Sioux Falls in one word.
Ready, set, go!
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If you pay attention to the people around you, you will notice that each person uses a certain style to choose and wear their clothes. The interesting thing is that you can learn about other people's personality by knowing the types of styles, because each person's dressing style shows their inner personality, but in order to understand this, it is necessary to first understand the types of styles. Continue with ziba couture so that we can get to know more styles together.
Minimal style usually refers to styles that are very simple and comfortable and in which fewer colors are used; In general, more neutral colors are used. This style is suitable for daily use and work appointments. Usually celebrities use this style for their everyday style. In this style, instead of using flashy accessories and jewelry, they use small, delicate and simple accessories.
Maximal style is the opposite of minimal style, which means that simplicity is the first word in minimal style, on the contrary, in maximal style, everything is exaggerated and has a busy composition, and it is suitable for people who are brave in choosing their style. One of the reasons for the popularity of maximal style among people is the ease of choice. Patterned and busy clothes, oversized clothes, big accessories and hot colors are the characteristics of maximum style. Make the best choice by buying Joseph Ribkoff clutches online.
In the whimsical style, which has become very popular among celebrities and famous people today, only happy colors and attractive designs are used, and dark colors have no place in this style. One of the main items of Whimsical style is the silk and guipure skirt with happy colors and busy designs and flowers. This style of dressing is very suitable for summer due to the use of happy colors and busy designs.
Classic style has always been one of the most popular styles because it is highly versatile; In other words, in classic style, you have no limit to mix with other styles, and in fact, this style of dressing can be the basis of other styles.
The way you dress in a classic style is clean and confident, and neutral colors are usually preferred in this style. Color plays a very important role in classic style, and in other words, the concept of classic is defined in its colors. In general, the classic style can be described with neutral colors and colors such as gray, beige, white, dark brown, black, cream, elephant, etc. It goes without saying that you are not necessarily limited to using neutral colors in the classic style, but you can use happy colors to choose accessories such as bags, shawls, and scarves.
The thing that should be paid attention to in the classic style is the fit of the dress size, meaning that the dress is neither too tight and annoying nor too loose to show the person's appearance untidy. In this style, the fabrics are often made of cotton, fiber silk and wool, and the design of clothes in this style is simple and minimal. Do not miss the end of season sale - ziba couture.
Jewelry and accessories are very simple and used in small numbers in this style. People who follow the classic style are often people with a simple and formal appearance who are not very interested in fashion and prefer to follow the fashion. Always have a simple and formal appearance and of course tidy. Woolen and silk jackets, raincoats and tall boots, small and simple handbags, clothes and t-shirts with regular lines, checkered and checkered shirts, simple and somewhat tight skirts are among the characteristics of classic style. Buy your cheap coats and jackets online safely from the Ziba couture store.
For men who want to have an attractive classic style, we advise you to leave sneakers and sports shoes, jeans and t-shirts and fancy and floral shirts and instead of formal men's shoes, linen or cloth pants, and single coats are relatively free to use. Also, when choosing socks, men should wear a color that is closer to the color of their pants and remove white socks from their choice. Do not forget that in the classic style, the hair should also be in a classic style.
The word casual means random and non-serious. When you hear this name, you may think that it is a sloppy style, while the casual style in fashion is anything but sloppy! In fact, casual style means strange style. Usually, people who are looking for comfort and prefer comfort to anything else, follow this style. These people are not only sloppy, but they have a modern and stylish look, but at the same time simple and comfortable. buy your cheap dresses online with up to 70% off sale.
This style originated from western colleges, which were reserved for rich and prosperous people. In the beginning, this style was for rich students who used stylish clothes and expensive brands to go to school. Over time, the college style gained a lot of followers and all affluent people, of different age groups, followed it; Although now all classes can use this style. Originality, neatness and stylishness are the main characteristics of college style.
Collared and long-sleeved clothes, college shoes, simple women's shoes with medium heels, fabrics with plaid, stripes, polka dots, and tiny flowers are some of the college style items; In addition, colors such as white, dark green, burgundy red, brown and cream are among the colors that are seen more often in college style, and other colors are rarely seen in this style. Don't miss the Sympli clothing sale.
Zibacouture online store is one of the largest fashion and clothing online stores that guarantees the authenticity of its products to its customers to ensure the purchase of excellent products at reasonable prices. One of the features of this store is to increase the variety of its products, which has been able to meet the needs of any taste in any age category. Zibacouture store is also one of the stores supplying the world's top brands such as Joseph Ribkoff, Frank Lyman, Gracia, and others. You can safely buy your clothes online from Zibacouture and get free shipping on all orders over $ 100. | <urn:uuid:58871fee-5dae-4696-a706-ccc1a0d6fa95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zibacouture.com/blogs/ziba-couture/get-to-know-more-styles-in-the-world-of-fashion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953168 | 1,287 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Headlined by Wineglass Bay but covering so much more, Freycinet is one of the state’s favourite coastal playgrounds.
Occupying most of Freycinet Peninsula on Tasmania’s east coast, the park has dramatic pink granite peaks, secluded bays, white sandy beaches and abundant wildlife. Walks lead to bays and beaches, while the waters beckon for swimming, snorkelling and kayaking.
The main body of the national park covers Freycinet Peninsula’s southern tip, but it also extends along the peninsula’s east coast, taking in the Friendly Beaches and stretching almost to the coastal town of Bicheno. With Mount Field, Freycinet is Tasmania’s oldest national park.
Tasmania’s most famous beach forms a perfect white curve beneath the Hazards mountains, and is far and away the park’s most popular – and photogenic - natural feature.
This low line of granite peaks forms a spectacular barrier across the national park. The Wineglass Bay Lookout sits in one of the passes through the peaks.
This long beach lining the peninsula’s east coast is a striking contrast of white sand and blue sea.
This lighthouse-topped cape ringed by a boardwalk gives easy glimpses into Wineglass Bay and a chance to spot marine life, including whales.
Wineglass Bay Lookout
A well-groomed trail climbs through the Hazards to this lookout platform poised above Wineglass Bay. Allow 60-90min for the 2.6km return walk, which is one of Tasmania’s 60 Great Short Walks.
Wineglass Bay and Hazards Beach
Continue past the lookout and down onto the sands of Wineglass Bay. Return by crossing the isthmus to Hazards Beach and rounding the coast beneath the Hazards. This circuit (4-5hr, 11km) is one of Tasmania’s 60 Great Short Walks.
Scale the heights of the Hazards for an extraordinary view down onto Wineglass Bay and across much of Freycinet Peninsula. It’s a challenging track (3hr return, 3.6km) on steep granite slabs, requiring some scrambling, and shouldn’t be attempted when the rock is wet.
Get the full perspective on the peninsula and national park with a two- to three-day loop, taking in Hazards Beach and Cooks Beach before crossing Mount Graham to Wineglass Bay. There are walkers’ campsites at Hazards Beach, Cooks Beach and Wineglass Bay.
Wineglass Bay Cruises
Sail out from Coles Bay on this catamaran trip, rounding the tip of the peninsula and cruising into Wineglass Bay for lunch with the ultimate coast view.
Paddle across the toes of the Hazards on this 3hr guided kayak tour, with the peaks rising above and a stop ashore at beautiful Honeymoon Bay.
Need to know
Beachfront camping is available in the park at Richardsons Beach, Honeymoon Bay, Ranger Creek and the Friendly Beaches. A ballot system operates for sites at Richardsons Beach, Honeymoon Bay and Ranger Creek during the summer school holidays and Easter. The ballot is drawn in August. There’s plenty of accommodation in Coles Bay, at the park’s edge.
At the entrance to the park, the Freycinet Visitor Centre issues park passes and information, and sells outdoor equipment, clothing and natural history books. A parks pass is required for entry to Tasmania’s national parks.
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Literacy in the 90's
The Role of SIL
This informative booklet, now published here on the Web, was originally printed in the 1990s. As a historical document, it reflects SIL's work in literacy during that decade.
Models: Mixing the New with the Old
Language and culture form the matrix by which we express ourselves and meet the world. If we lose these, we lose much of our identity.
UNESCO has recognized the importance of linking education with the environment and social structure of the learner [UNESCO 1976, 139]. To be effective, classes need not take place in a costly cement-block building. They can be held in churches, mosques, factories or even in the open air.
Similarly, materials should be specific to the local environment. Adults must recognize their surroundings in the pages of their primers and readers [Lestage 23]. Reading materials are most effective when focused on common local problems and when pictures and illustrations evoke images familiar to the learner.
To that end, SIL adapts its literacy instruction to the environment and social structure of the learner. Illustrations and stories reflect familiar settings. Artwork is often supplied by local artists. Easy readers contain stories reflecting local experiences, values, and legends.
It is important to make use of existing social structures. Among the Adivasi Oriya of India, gurus have been the traditional wise men and scholars. Now, "guru groups", each with no more than ten students, are used to teach literacy in Adivasi Oriya and Telugu, a state language [Gustafsson (in process; general reference)]. In another case, the Murle of Sudan, a semi-nomadic group, have adopted the each-one-teach-one method. Using SIL-developed literacy materials in Murle, a handicapped man learned to read in his own language. He taught the skill to a friend, and his friend taught someone else. Many Murle speakers have learned to read in this way even when SIL literacy workers have not been present.
In Papua New Guinea, story telling is a well-polished art and the best story tellers are highly respected. Literacy specialists have made use of this fact by inviting story tellers into the classroom. The stories told are recorded on paper or on a blackboard and then used to begin building new reading drills. Students are captivated and respond enthusiastically to classroom activities. | <urn:uuid:8aaaf322-9cda-4e15-828d-84510fb836b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www-01.sil.org/literacy/lit90/models.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00523-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941513 | 498 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Diet success may depend on your DNA, research from the Texas A&M College of Medicine shows
(BRYAN, Texas) — Research in animal models with different genetics shows that one diet really doesn’t fit all, and what works for some may not be best for others, according to a Texas A&M study recently published in the journal Genetics.
“Dietary advice, whether it comes from the United States government or some other organization, tends to be based on the theory that there is going to be one diet that will help everyone,” said David Threadgill, PhD, with the Texas A&M College of Medicine and College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, senior author of the study. “In the face of the obesity epidemic, it seems like guidelines haven’t been effective.”
Threadgill thinks he knows why. The researchers used four different groups of animal models to look at how five diets affect health over a six-month period. The genetic differences within each group were almost non-existent, while the genetics between any two of the groups would translate to roughly the same as those of two unrelated people. The researchers chose the test diets to mirror those eaten by humans—an American-style diet (higher in fat and refined carbs, especially corn) and three that have gotten publicity as being ‘healthier’: Mediterranean (with wheat and red wine extract), Japanese (with rice and green tea extract) and ketogenic, or Atkins-like (high in fat and protein with very few carbs). The fifth diet was the control group who ate standard commercial chow.
Although some so-called healthy diets did work well for most individuals, one of the four genetic types did very poorly when eating the Japanese-like diet, for example. “The fourth strain, which performed just fine on all of the other diets, did terrible on this diet, with increased fat in the liver and markings of liver damage,” said William Barrington, lead author on the study and a recently graduated PhD student from the Threadgill lab.
A similar thing happened with the Atkins-like diet: two genetic types did well, and two did very badly. “One became very obese, with fatty livers and high cholesterol,” Barrington said. Theother had a reduction in activity level and more body fat, but still remained lean. “This equates to what we call ‘skinny-fat’ in humans, in which someone looks to be a healthy weight but actually has a high percentage of body fat.”
“In humans, you see such a wide response to diets,” Barrington said. “We wanted to find out, in a controlled way, what was the effect of the genetics.” They measured physical signs, especially evidence of metabolic syndrome, which is a collection of signs of obesity-related problems, including high blood pressure and cholesterol, fatty liver and levels of blood sugar. They also studied any behavioral differences, from how much they moved around to how much they ate.
“I wanted to get the diets as close to popular human diets as possible,” Barrington said. “We matched fiber content and matched bioactive compounds thought to be important in disease.”
Perhaps as could be expected, both in earlier research and in anecdotal evidence in humans, the animal models tended not to do great on the American-style diet. A couple of the strains became very obese and had signs of metabolic syndrome. Other strains showed fewer negative effects, with one showing few changes except for having somewhat more fat in the liver. With the Mediterranean diet, there was a mix of effects. Some groups were healthy, while others experienced weight gain, although it was less severe than in the American diet. Interestingly, these effects held, even though the quantity of consumption was unlimited.
The results demonstrated that a diet that makes one individual lean and healthy might have the complete opposite effect on another. “My goal going into this study was to find the optimal diet,” Barrington said. “But really what we’re finding is that it depends very much on the genetics of the individual and there isn’t one diet that is best for everyone.”
The research team’s future work will focus on determining which genes are involved in the response to the diets. “One day, we’d love to develop a genetic test that could tell each person the best diet for their own genetic makeup,” Barrington said. “There might be a geographical difference based on what your ancestors ate, but we just don’t know enough to say for sure yet.”
About Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Texas A&M University Health Science Center is transforming health through innovative research, education and service in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health and medical sciences. As an independent state agency and academic unit of Texas A&M University, the health science center serves the state through campuses in Bryan-College Station, Dallas, Temple, Houston, Round Rock, Kingsville, Corpus Christi and McAllen. Learn more at vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu or follow @TAMHSC on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:b0a76941-d912-4849-9b9a-fbb2e146efd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trainitright.com/diet-success-may-depend-on-your-dna-research-from-the-texas-am-college-of-medicine-shows/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969636 | 1,088 | 3.046875 | 3 |
DailyOM - Cards of Destiny by Sharon Jeffers
Cards of Destiny
BY Sharon Jeffers
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
--Jean Paul Richter
The information on these pages is simply a glance into an exact and comprehensive body of ancient wisdom that was kept secret for many thousands of years. The mystic science of the cards, as I call it, is based on our regular deck of playing cards, astrology, and numerology. It appears that this deck of cards was originally an ancient book used for timekeeping and divination. Interestingly, the card deck aligns perfectly with our yearly calendar, so this theory is well supported, as youíll see later in this introduction.
This mathematically based system is believed to be thousands of years old. It was kept secret for many thousands of years to preserve the wisdom it holds, and it wasnít until sometime in the 1800s that a small group of people began speaking about the mystic science hidden in the standard deck of laying cards. A member of that group, mathematician and metaphysician Olny Richmond, published a book on the cards in 1893, titled The Mystic Test Book. In that book he unveiled the structure of timekeeping hidden in the playing card deck, how the cards relate to each day of the calendar year, and, most significantly, how they relate to us individually via out birthdays. The next book published on this topic, Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, by Edith Randall and Florence Campbell, didnít appear until 11947. Campbell and Randall were part of the Richard lineage. Other books appeared here and there with bits of information on this system, but not until the 1980ís did the next significant publication fully devoted to this system come forth. This was Arne Leinís book Whatís Your Card? Today there are a handful of book discussing the true significance of the cards, and this method of divination is rapidly gaining popularity as more people discover the accuracy of the it.
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Authenticating Debian & Samba to Active Directory
- This walkthrough is designed to give instructions for configuring Linux servers/clients to authenticate to Active Directory. The purpose is to join a Linux samba server and a Linux client to an existing AD structure. The samba connects seamlessly for Windows and Linux users alike. The walkthrough is broken into two sections and is available in via the links below.
Linux Samba Configuration:
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Definition of a Background Check: “A process of conducting an investigation into the existence or nonexistence of a past or present criminal event as applied to an individual’s personal history.”
In the same way as defining what a “criminal record” is, the task of explaining what goes into criminal background checks is multi-layered and complex. Regardless of that fact, this article aims to inform the reader of the most crucial and relevant aspects that relate to this topic. But there are a few things one needs to know about background checks when applied to criminal records:
FIRST: Background checks are not supposed to find every single event in a person’s history and report them as “public information.” Privacy laws exist in every state and they can be complex. Someone arrested but never charged with a crime should not be reported on in most circumstances. Also, cases that have been dismissed are also given privacy protection in many ways that people are not aware of. Nevertheless, background checks report these records many times when they shouldn’t be. This can be fixed however.
SECOND: There is no single “Type” of criminal background check. In the US, there are thousands of background check companies and literally millions of criminal records. Therefore, the type of search that should be conducted depends on the kind of record that is being searched. So the most important takeaway from that is that courthouses throughout the country have too many different recording procedures for there to be a unifying background check that fits all inquiries.
THIRD: If you are worried about your arrest, charges, or conviction from being discovered in a background check, there is no single way to find out for sure what will come up and what won’t. The best way to figure it out would be to analyze your criminal history by a professional to determine your chances and what you can proactively do to prevent your past from being reported.
Websites that claim they have the most comprehensive and instant criminal background check technology available cannot guarantee accuracy and most certainly are not “up-to-date”. For the reasons you will read below, the only way to conduct a full criminal background check investigation is to canvas every single arresting agency in a given jurisdiction and to do the same for every single criminal justice courthouse relevant to an individual. Anything outside of that, you will find errors or false results.
That does not mean that criminal database companies don’t have value. For validation purposes and to begin investigating potentially accurate information, this is usually a starting point. But it can also lead to false positives and obsolete criminal record reporting.
There are over 15,000 police agencies in the country. Almost 18,000 if you include college, tribal, and other federal departments. Every time someone is arrested, detained, or booked into that police agencies custody, an internal arrest record is created and stored. For the most part, there is no central repository that obtains and stores these arrests on a national level or state level. Therefore, to conduct a criminal background check that can find out if someone has been arrested and for what they were arrested for, the background check company would have to know where to start looking in the first place.
Many employment screening and investigation companies start with a person’s living history to determine which jurisdictions would have had police contact with them. But this can also lead to too small of a pool of information if an arrest occurred far outside of where someone was living. Because of this, some investigators will expand their search to a 50-mile radius just in case.
Background checks that find and report a prior arrest can only do so under limited circumstances. This is especially true for people who were only arrested but were never charged with a crime. For those individuals, this could be a serious violation of their privacy if a prior arrest were to end up on a background check. To read more, go to: Will an Arrest be on a Background Check as a Criminal Record?
As for arrests that do lead to criminal charges, background checks will either report both records or chose to report only the criminal charges. The reason for this is because criminal charges were filed through the local prosecutor’s office as official court records through the clerk’s office. While this now appears to be a public record subject to background check reporting, this is not case for everyone.
Criminal charges are filed daily on person’s who were never arrested. Many misdemeanors and low-level crimes don’t require formal booking. Sometimes called “cite and release” offenses, they are often filed by the local District Attorney or prosecution agency weeks after the offense was committed.
But when criminal charges are filed, the record exists within that court system. Every state has different rules on reporting criminal filings to a central repository that is compiled and reported back to national law enforcement agencies. However, criminal background checks that don’t involved government agencies will not have access to these systems.
For a background check to find and report a person’s past criminal charges, they have to know first where to look. Much like arrest records, a person’s living history is a good indicator of possible “hits” and will often yield results when searched. But without a central database to access, background check companies will often rely on commercial criminal database systems that compile massive filing records and sell the information as a subscription or one-time fee. The companies who offer these services are fiercely competitive and often claim all sorts of specialized information in their vast data stores. Many times, commercial database companies that offer criminal background check services simply purchase and resell the same information another competitor offers for a different price. The bottom line is that outdated and inaccurate criminal information can be reported with very little to validate the raw data.
The problem with some systems is that it is very difficult to update records where there has been significant events in the criminal case. For example:
Reporting criminal charges that were dismissed can be a serious problem. First, the person whose past has just been revealed could lose a job opportunity or jeopardize very important moment in their life. Second, the company that reported the background check could have violated serious privacy laws. These matters should not be taken lightly and must be thoroughly evaluated to see if someone’s criminal record was accurately reported on a background check.
Similarly, cases where someone plead guilty and was placed on diversion or (Deferred Entry of Judgment) “DEJ” are also given certain privacy protections when it comes to background checks. For these criminal charges to appear on a background check, there could have been a very serious mistake or violation of law and must be analyzed to prevent it from happening again.
In the age of identity theft, many people may find they have a criminal record when in reality their name or date of birth was used by someone else to commit a crime. For those individuals, a very specific set of actions must be taken to correct these errors from reoccurring. Contact us to learn more about this.
The main purpose of most, if not all, background check procedures is to find past criminal convictions. Despite the countless differences in the 8,300 courts in the United States, most state’s will agree that reporting criminal convictions in background checks are appropriate given the purpose for which the report was being made. That does not mean that it is without exception. In particular, some people have gone through the trouble of petitioning the court (sometimes referred to as an “expungement”) to set aside their conviction and obtain a dismissal of the charges. For these people, background checks may not report the case under many circumstances.
The definition of “expungement” is different for every state. Some treat an expungement as a dismissal while others treat the case as being sealed from public disclosure. Furthermore, some states protect the privacy of petitioners more than other states. One thing is certain, however, for every state that has laws for some kind of expungement procedure, special protections and privileges are given to those persons who went through the trouble to petition the court for relief. This invariably applies to criminal background checks.
If someone has petitioned and been granted an expungement in the court where their criminal case occurred, a criminal background check should not report the case unless under very specific exceptions. To be sure, it’s best to have your individual case examined.
One thing that separates the level of access a background check has to criminal records is whether or not someone has or will be applying for a professional license. Most licenses are issued through the state agency that regulates that industry. Because of their unique position and relation to government agencies, they will have access that commercial background check companies will not have.
Specifically, licensing agencies will often be able to access state repositories and similar law enforcement systems when doing their due diligence. The direct access they have, therefore, will not have a filter when it comes to privacy laws and they will be able to see arrest records, criminal charge filings, and any past records of conviction. Additionally, despite a successful petition to expunge a prior conviction, the entire record will be seen. That’s not to say that the efforts put into petitioning the court to set aside a guilty plea were without value. In many states and with many licensing agencies, the trouble of going through expungement will have a positive effect on the agency screening the potential applicant.
After California’s passage of AB2679, those who have an interest in manufacturing hash oil will be pleased to know that it will soon be legal come next year (2018). But without a formal license application in place, the Bureau of Marijuana Control has provided some extensive guidance to would-be extraction artists as well as future owners of cannabis related enterprises. But just like the ATF and ABC (Alcohol Beverage Control), regulatory oversight will require background checks on those wanting to be be involved in the industry. The proposed California code of regulations lends some insight into what the bureau will be looking for which means those with criminal records should be very aware of what they need to get done before applying for a license to cultivate, manufacture, or distribute marijuana.
Criminal background checks will be required of all applicants for commercial cannabis activity licenses. This will apply to owners of the premises as well as those with ownership interest in the business (including within it’s definition of “owners” as one who participates in the direction, control, or management, or having financial interest in the premises). The proposed regulations, at this time, don’t require background checks for individuals with non controlling ownership interest. Publicly traded companies require those with 5% aggregate ownership threshold for having to conduct a background check. Passive investors (silent investors) could be treated differently than active investors but each case can be different depending on the circumstances.
While conducting background checks on license applicants, the bureau proposes to gather all pertinent criminal history information in order to make a determination for denial or granting of the permit. Something that each office will be looking for is whether any of the applicant’s prior criminal offenses were substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of the business or profession for which the application is made. To make a thorough review however, the bureau will have had to consider evidence of rehabilitation from the criminal acts that are substantially related to the activities of commercial cannabis. Like most regulatory agencies, a case-by-case analysis will be the norm. Thus, it’s best to put your best foot forward to make sure your criminal record has been mitigated and/or modified prior to applying for license.
For those with prior criminal records (especially records related to marijuana sales), we advise seeking post-conviction relief that minimizes the scrutiny that may be put on your application once the record is disclosed to the bureau. To find out more about seeking dismissal, felony reduction, or a petition to expunge you record; Contact Us.
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- 1. Embracing Winter: On Two Wheels Adam Cezar Jenkins and any other year round cyclists in the audience who can chime in. A big thank you to Bike Winter for the Slide Show template!
2. What is Bike Winter?
- Mantra: Every day is a great day to ride a bike!
- Inspiration, education and events to help people stay in the saddle year round.
Courtesy of Liz Durham 3. Who and Why
- Started in Chicago in 1999
- Keeps people biking and encourages car-free living
- Spreading to other cities
- All volunteer
4. Weather Myths Courtesy of Michael Brosilow 5. Weather Reality Courtesy of Jerome Hughes Courtesy of Cigdem Tunar 6. Most Weather is Great! (especially when you define winter as six months. . . ) With thanks to Bob Matter and www.weather.com 7. Reasons to Ride 365
- Car-light living
8. Tips for Staying in the Saddle
Courtesy of Lorena Cupcake 9. Layers: No Sweat
- Core vs. Extremities
- No cotton base layers
- Wind/waterproof vs breathability
- Think about tolerance for changing clothes at destination
Courtesy of Ash Lottes 10. Lighting/Visibility
- Lightsand tape
- Visibility from all sides
- Search YouTube for Chicago Bike Program videos
Courtesy of Don Sorsa 11. Where and How to Ride
- Take your lane and follow the plows.
- Beware black ice, metal bridges and icy side streetsits OK to walk!
Courtesy of Chris Eves 12. Our Bikes Suffer More Than We Do!
- Fenders help year round
- Bounce off the gunk
- Wipe off your rims
- Be generous with lube
- Have more than one bike
Courtesy of Michael Young 13. Know Your Options
- Bike to transit. Lock with keyhole facing down.
- Bike to and on transit. De-gunk before boarding.Can I bring my bike on Metra right now? www.stevevance.net/metra/
- Mechanical probs? Ditch the bike and walk/transit/car.
Courtesy of metrarail.com and transitchicago.com 14. Disclaimer We at Bike Winter really, truly believe that bicycles are wonderful, reliable forms of year-round transportation. However, we would be lying if we didn't acknowledge that getting caught in a 34 degree downpour, or turning the corner into a 34 mph arctic wind can make you want to curse the skies, hail a cab and move to Arizona. You will get cold. You will get frustrated. You might have close calls or even fall. Just know that all-weather cycling does get easier with experience. Let the freedom, convenience and other benefits of two-wheeled living motivate you to roll up the learning curve. And when all else fails to lift your spirits after a particularly bruising commute, boil up some tea or grab a flask, pound your chest (might help the feeling come back to your fingers) and take pride in your sense of adventure. 15. Stay Warm and in Touch!
- www.bikewinter.org(including Bicycle Beginner blog by Holly Rhode)
- www.thechainlink.org(Bike Winter Group)
- Urban Bikers Tricks and Tipsby Dave Glowacz
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Job interview questions
To successfully overcome a job interview, you must prepare for the types of job interview questions you will be asked. If you are able to answer each question capably, employment will not be far away. There are generally 5 competency-based areas that a job interview will be split into; for each of these sections you may be asked one or two questions.
Types of Job Interview Questions
1: Communication Interview Questions.
The communication questions in a job interview will require you to recall times when you have effectively shared information. You want to present yourself as a confident public speaker who can operate as an integral cog when working with a team. Think of several examples when you have had to communicate through a presentation, in a debate, or something similar. Through this you will be prepared for the types of communication interview questions, such as the examples below.
Example Communication Job Interview Questions:
- Tell me about a time you delivered a presentation.
- Have you ever worked as part of a team?
- How would you communicate differently between your friends and work colleagues?
- How do you normally contribute when working in a team?
2: Planning & Organizing Interview Questions.
Planning and organizing questions in a job interview tend to focus on how you have completed a specific goal. You must think of ways in which you have carried out a particular event – the planning and organizing structure behind completing the task. Interviewers will be looking out for a detailed routine that directly helped you achieve your goal. It does not have to be an intellectual achievement. One can discuss their training routine prior to a marathon, or their map route before travelling the globe. The last tip for planning & organizing interview questions is that it is best if you explain something that you successfully achieved as a clear result of your comprehensive planning!
Example Planning & Organizing Job Interview Questions:
- Have you ever achieved a significant goal as a direct result of personal planning?
- Outside of work and education, have you organised any specific event?
- Has planning ever helped you in your educational career?
- In what way will you use planning if you get a job with us?
3: Problem Solving Interview Questions.
Problem solving interview questions are about moments in which you have successfully resolved an issue. Think about times in which you have had to overcome a problematic situation. Interviewers want to see candidates that are able to step in, control, and successfully eradicate problems that arrive at school, work, or in your personal life.
Example Job Interview Questions:
- Tell me about an issue you have overcome at work in the past year.
- Have you ever had to resolve a problem between two friends?
- Have you had to deal with a time when a deadline has changed?
- What is the best way to deal with a problem in the workplace?
4: Achievement Interview Questions.
Achievement job interview questions focus on goals successfully completed. You are given license to really boast about previous achievements and you should not hold back. Examples of achievements include academic achievements, running marathons, writing for a student newspaper, or playing a musical instrument. Interviewers want to hear a diverse array of achievements.
Example Achievement Job Interview Questions:
- What do you view as your greatest achievement?
- Outside of work and education, what is your biggest achievement?
- What is your greatest academic achievement?
- Have you ever failed to achieve anything?
5: Weaknesses Interview Questions
Interviewers will ask about any weaknesses you have. The aim of this is to know the opinion you have of yourself and to find out more about your capacity for sincerity and self-criticism. It is one the most common points where people slip up in a job interview. Therefore it is best to be prepared. Read our section on job interview weaknesses to find out more.
6: Career Motivation Interview Questions.
Career Motivation Interview Questions show the interviewer why you want the job to which you are applying and what knowledge do you have of the overall company. It is the most important section of job interview questions. Intensively research the company background, and focus on anything that stands out as personal to you; interviewers will be interested to hear how their company appeals personally to each candidate, as opposed to hearing a recital of their wikipedia page!
Example Achievement Job Interview Questions:
- Why do you want to work for us?
- What do you know about this job sector?
- Why do you want to be a …….?
- What can you bring to our company?
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Coconut flower syrup, as the names says, is extracted from the flower of the coconut palm tree. It is produced from the sap of cut flower buds. The sap is collected and boiled down, leading to a great amount of water evaporation. The result of this heating process is concentrated syrup.
Coconut flower syrup is a sweetener that has a slight taste of caramel. Commonly it is used for refining desserts, waffles and pancakes, however because of its caramel taste it is also used in pastries and barbecue marinades. Coconut flower syrup contains valuable nutritious elements such as potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and copper.
Available as: conventional, organic, fairtrade, naturland, kosher, halal
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History • Interurban RailwayThe Joliet & Southern Traction Company (J&ST) line ran parallel to the Michigan Central Rail Road from Chicago Heights to Joliet. The trolley or interurban shared the right of way with the railroad for much of the length of the Old Plank Road Trail.The J&ST was a sister company to the Aurora, Plainfield & Joliet Railroad Company (AP&JRR). The AP&JRR entered Joliet from the west and connected to the J&ST in Joliet. J&ST tracks crossed the Michigan Central R.R. (now the OPRT) tracks in two locations. In downtown Matteson, the interurban built a bridge that crossed the Michigan Central and Illinois Central tracks at the same time.The map below shows the station stops along the lines of the two interurban lines.
Black and white photographs on this page are fromthe collection of the Matteson Historical Society
Here's another picture of the bridge in Matteson over the IC and MC railroad tracks.
The J&ST trolley tracks ran parallel to the Michigan Central R.R. (OPRT) tracks from Chicago Heights to Summit, west of Frankfort. At Summit the interurban used a "fly-over" bridge to go to the north side of the trail. The concrete abutments for that "fly-over" bridge are about the only thing left from the interurban era. These abutments probably supported a light weight steel truss bridge similar to the one in the picture above. | <urn:uuid:f919861e-6718-4a54-9379-394fb68e2ebe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://oprt.org/interurban.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890288 | 315 | 2.65625 | 3 |
It is hard to get the smoke out of here when there is really not much wind or rain to clear things out. It may not clear it out completely, but some good rainstorms certainly would not hurt. —Eric Schoening, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY — More than 30 large wildfires burning in seven western states have swamped the skies throughout the region with murky haze, giving new cause for the summertime blues and prompting some state public health agencies to issue alerts.
Although unappealing visually, much of the air over Utah on Monday had not reached an "unhealthy" status for pollutants, but voluntary advisories were issued for much of the Wasatch Front, asking residents to curtail driving and other smog-producing activities.
"It is pretty hazy outside," said Division of Air Quality spokeswoman Donna Kemp Spangler. "But the health issue is not as bad as it looks."
She added that the "yellow" classification for moderate air pollution levels is intended as a caution for residents — a reminder that pollution is building and people can take steps to limit their contributions to the problem.
"Consolidate your errands, that is going to help by driving smarter," Spangler said.
Smoke from western wildfires is helping to make the Wasatch Front's typical smog problem in the summer appear even worse.
"It just looks awful outside," she said.
Of course, the very young, the very old, and people with respiratory conditions should take proper precautions as well, she added. "They will feel the effects of it."
This summer has made it clear that smoke and air pollution aren't hemmed in by state boundaries, with Montana officials crediting Idaho as the main reason for their hazy skies and Colorado environmental health authorities pointing to states west, including Utah, as the primary haze contributor.
"When we have that west to east flow that we typically have, the smoke is transported from other states," said Eric Schoening, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City. "It is having a widespread impact on everybody in the West."
Such persistent hazy conditions can be accompanied by a down-in-the-dumps feeling, especially with summer starting to wind down and children getting ready to begin another school year.
"It would not technically qualify as depression, but the doldrums," said John Malouf, clinical psychologist with Valley Mental Health. "And not being able to see the mountains, when you feel closed in, your mood gets affected by that."
Both Malouf and Spangler said there are ways to counter that funk that may strike because of all the haze out there swallowing up the view.
Spangler said it always helps to engage in fun, home activities with children such as reading, and Malouf suggested changing up the day to include spontaneous outings such as dinner or the movies.
"Realize it is just a funk," he said, "and don't believe all the negative thoughts you may have."
It may help, too, that Tuesday's forecast calls for a chance of rain, and that change in the weather pattern with a little wind and a little precipitation may chase some of the haze away.2 comments on this story
Schoening said that storminess — which could hang around at least through Thursday — might be enough to shake up the stagnant air and provide some relief.
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Morticians, also known as funeral directors, have the important job of assisting families as they plan funerals and then overseeing the service. People with this job are personable and understand the importance of looking to history and preserving memories.
Professional morticians are also able to handle sensitive and difficult situations in a professional and understanding way. They can quickly assess someone’s needs, and then follow through with the necessary steps to help that person. Morticians are also strong communicators and don’t mind speaking in public.
For people that lose a loved one, it is extremely important that they get to work with someone who understands his or her loss and is able to help them through a sensitive time while still taking care of necessary tasks like planning a funeral and burial. This is why mortician jobs are so important and valued.
People who work as morticians usually work at funeral homes or crematories. This is a full-time career and sometimes requires work during holidays or over weekends.
If you work as a mortician, you can work at an existing funeral home or you can start your own funeral home as an entrepreneur. Both career paths are very rewarding and have their benefits.
Why Choose a Mortician Career?
Working as a mortician may not sound like a dream career, but it has many benefits. If you are the type of person that likes to honor other people, remember life accomplishments, make memories and preserve history, this job would be an excellent fit for you.
Morticians are fulfilled by their job each day as they help others remember and say goodbye to their loved ones. They get to feel accomplished, needed and helpful as they help families plan and carry out funeral and memorial services for some of the most important people in their lives.
Every single day on the job will be fulfilling, as you help people when they need help the most, and touch people’s lives forever.
If you work as a full-time mortician, you’ll also enjoy benefits like a solid salary and health, vision and dental insurance. Mortician careers are also stable, since this is a position communities will always have a need for.
Starting a Successful Career as a Mortician
To start a career as a mortician, or funeral director, you’ll need to earn your degree. Most morticians have an associate’s degree in mortuary science, and some go on to earn a bachelor’s degree in mortuary science.
Both of these degree programs will prepare you for the science portion as well as the business aspect of the job. It normally takes between two and four years to earn this degree, and when you graduate, you will be well prepared for your career.
Many colleges offer online degree programs so you can keep up with your current job or other responsibilities while you go to school. Online classes are an extremely convenient way of earning your degree, since you can do it on your own time and you can enroll in almost any school, regardless of where you live.
Online mortuary science programs are unique because they are a blend of science and business classes. When you enroll in an online program, you’ll be required to take classes in biology, anatomy, chemistry, pathology, physiology, art restoration and embalming. But, you’ll also be required to take business management courses to prepare you for the business aspect of running or working in a funeral home.
Some people who become morticians have also gained experience working in funeral homes or doing internships. Like most careers, gaining related experience and networking in the industry will help you start your career faster.
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Bank service quality perceptions of business customers: Priorities for banks in resource allocations in an e-banking context
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The onset of electronic commerce as a major tool of business has brought with it new methods of doing business and a redefinition of the relationship between an organisation and its customers. To deal with such a situation, organisations need to review the service quality expectations of their customers and how the performance of their services measure up to these expectations. This is particularly relevant in the banking sector, where the emergence of electronic banking brings with it a new avenue for banks to be more competitive through decreasing costs and broadening market reach. To realise these benefits, banks must be successful in providing high levels of service quality in order to be able to divert more of their customers to these low cost methods of banking. This research provides a review of how service quality perceptions have evolved in the banking sector amid the changes brought about by electronic banking. The SERVQUAL scale for measuring service quality that has been used for up to 20 years is employed in this research. Factor analysis of the results reconfirms the robustness and continued usefulness of this scale, and the results from this research are compared to past research. It was found that large discrepancies exist between customer expectations and their perceived performance of banking services. Quadrant analysis was used to analyse these discrepancies across the five dimensions of service quality and provided specific recommendations on how banks should prioritise the allocation of their resource to maintain high perceived service quality.
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Do longer lifespans mean better health?By Laura Mize • Published: October 24th, 2013
Category: Health in a Heartbeat
We’ve all heard that people are living longer today than in past generations. What’s not clear is what those extra years are like.
Are people living longer because they’re healthier than their predecessors? Or are they just being kept alive by medical advances, but spending their twilight years in worse shape than their ancestors did?
Research conducted in Denmark implies that longer lifespans don’t necessarily mean extra misery. Instead, a pair of studies of people born in 1905 and 1915 suggest mental and physical well-being are improving for the oldest among us.
Members of each group participated in mental and physical tests while they were in their nineties. Those born in 1915 outscored their predecessors on cognitive function and ability to perform activities of daily living.
In addition, the seniors born in 1915 were a third more likely to reach age 95. When it came to measures such as grip strength and walking speed, the two groups were about the same.
The researchers say the 1915 group’s overall better mental state was one key to their higher scores on day-to-day activities. But what led to that improved mental state? While there’s no way to know for sure, a few factors may have contributed. Advances in education, standards of living and disease prevention, along with healthier lifestyles, can help people reach old age in a better frame of mind than their parents did. And we’re not just talking about advances that occur late in life. Research has shown that developments that benefit a child can significantly improve late-life health, too.
Ever-improving products to help people age safely, such as safety bars and canes, can also make a difference for later generations.
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Lebanon Middle School Cookbook
Roasted Veggie and Black Bean Burrito
SalsaThis is a great recipe for your garden veggies - when we have a bumper crop of tomatoes! Just chop everything up, combine and add salt, pepper, vinegar to taste. This is best served cold but does a great job canned. If canning, do not cook the salsa down before processing. Fill jars and process for 30 minutes.
GUACAMOLEThere are a million ways to use put this guacamole recipe to delicious use as well. It’s perfect for spreading on toast and burgers, topping your tacos and nachos, loading up your baked potatoes and deviled eggs, filling your quesadillas and wraps, and serving alongside any number of Mexican dishes. But about 99% of the time, we just serve it up with a big bowl of tortilla chips (plus maybe some homemade salsa).
Roasted Veggie and Black Bean BurritoRoasted sweet potato and veggies combined with black beans make this one of the best vegetarian burrito recipes you can make at home!
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Gamma and neutron imaging offer possible improvements over existing techniques such as X-ray or CT, but their safety is not yet fully understood. Using computer simulations, imaging the liver and breast with gamma or neutron radiation was found to be safe, delivering levels of radiation on par with conventional medical imaging, according to researchers at Duke Medicine.
The findings, published in the June issue of the journal Medical Physics, will help researchers to move testing of gamma and neutron imaging into animals and later humans.
Conventional medical imaging tools including X-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI detect disease by finding the anatomy, or shape and size, of the abnormality. When using these tools to screen for cancer, a tumor must be large enough to be detected, and if found, a surgical biopsy is generally required to determine if it is benign or malignant.
Duke researchers are working to develop imaging technologies to detect disease in its earliest stages, much before the tumors grow large enough to be detected using conventional methods. Two imaging techniques they are researching are Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography and Gamma Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography.
Research has shown that many tumors have an out-of-balance concentration of trace-level elements naturally found in the body, such as aluminum and rubidium. These elements stray from their normal concentration levels at the earliest stages of tumor growth, potentially providing an early signal of disease.
The neutron and gamma imaging methods measure the concentrations of elements in the body, determining molecular properties without the need for a biopsy or injection of contrast media. The goal is for these tests to be able to distinguish between benign and malignant lesions, as well as healthy tissue.
"Gamma and neutron imaging may eventually be able to help us to detect cancer earlier without having to perform an invasive biopsy," said Anuj Kapadia, Ph.D., assistant professor of radiology at Duke University School of Medicine and the study's senior author.
Gamma and neutron imaging may also have applications for patients undergoing cancer treatment. Patients currently wait weeks or months to see if their cancer is responding to a particular treatment and shrinking in size, but gamma and neutron imaging may be able to tell if a treatment is working earlier by detecting molecular changes directly within the tumor.
While improved diagnostic tests would provide clinicians with useful tools, one ongoing question is the safety of gamma and particularly neutron radiation. Upon entering the body, neutrons scatter considerably, with the possibility of reaching several vital organs. Thus, researchers have been concerned about how much radiation is absorbed in the targeted organ versus surrounding tissue. For instance, in a breast scan, how much radiation is delivered unnecessarily to the heart or lungs?
Using detailed computer simulations, Kapadia and his colleagues estimated the radiation dose delivered to the liver and breast using neutron and gamma imaging. They found that the majority of radiation was delivered to organs directly within the radiation beam, and a much lower dose was absorbed by tissue outside of the radiation beam.
In simulated breast scans, the radiation was almost entirely limited to the area of the breast being scanned. The dose to the breast accounted for 96 percent of the radiation in neutron scans and 99 percent in gamma scans. The heart and lungs received less than 1 percent of the radiation dose.
When imaging the liver in simulation, the neutron scan imparted the highest radiation dose to the liver, while in the gamma scan, the stomach wall absorbed the greatest amount of radiation given its location in the direct path of the beam. Further work is needed to reduce and better target gamma radiation doses in liver scans.
"The results show that despite the use of a highly scattering particle such as a neutron, the dose from neutron imaging is on par with other clinical imaging techniques such as X-ray CT," Kapadia said. "Neutron and gamma radiation may become viable imaging alternatives if further testing proves them to be safe and effective."
The researchers will use this information to move their studies into animals, and later, humans.
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As part of the program you will write a masters thesis. Before you start this advanced project, however, you will prepare a written proposal of research. This will outline the specific goal(s) of the project and indicate how it will be attained. A typical research proposal will be 8 to 14 pages (typed, double-spaced) and should include the following elements:
- Title Page: The title page will provide a descriptive, informative title of your general research project and include name, date, and additional text that is found on the title page of theses and dissertations (see the UAB Format Manual for Theses and Dissertations).
- Specific Goals (Aims): This section is an abbreviated description (not more than one page) of the long- and short-term goals of your research. It should provide the reader a basis for understanding the primary purpose (specific objectives) of the research. Questions and hypotheses can be stated here (your mentor can provide examples).
- Background: This section should be highly developed and contain a history and description of the basic scientific problem or question you are addressing, citing relevant literature by author and date. It will provide the rationale for your specific goals. The final paragraph should restate the purpose of the proposed research. When appropriate, a null and alternative hypothesis should be presented.
- Approach or Materials and Methods: This section should include the experimental design and the methods used for evaluating your research question. You should outline your methods in reasonable detail, although complicated procedures previously addressed in other literature can be cited. Methods can vary significantly with discipline, so pertinent literature can often provide appropriate models. The appropriate statistical evaluation should be presented and include the statistical tests that will be used as well as any statistical applications (e.g. SAS).
- Significance: This section is generally a short paragraph and suggests the importance and relevance of the proposed research.
- Literature Cited: All literature referenced within the text should have full citations. You may choose a citation style that is found in one of the refereed journals within the discipline of study.
Mentors can provide examples and assist with development of your proposal; do not hesitate to go to them for help. Variations in style may be used when approved by a mentor. Your mentor will discuss the preparation of the proposal, including:
- frequent discussions of the appropriate content
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Ashington Woman Urges Mums-To-Be To Quit Smoking
5 December 2014, 05:00 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50
An Ashington woman's urging mums-to-be not to smoke while they're pregnant as she believes cigarettes played a part in her losing her unborn child.
Three years ago, 31 year old Sophie Jones, from Ashington, suffered every pregnant woman's nightmare when she lost her baby boy, Korey, to a still birth.
Now 20 weeks pregnant, Sophie has quit smoking once and for all to protect her unborn baby girl with the help of Northumberland Stop Smoking Service.
She told Capital:
"I've experienced the worst possible heartache that no parent should have to go through. Losing my baby boy is one of my biggest regrets and continues to haunt me to this day. Instead of tucking Korey up in bed, I go and visit his grave which is just so sad.
I never fully understood the risks of smoking while pregnant. I just thought it led to a smaller baby. How wrong I was. I would cut down when I fell pregnant, but obviously that wasn't enough to save my baby. I was told that I'd suffered a still birth because of the damage to my placenta, which I now believe is down to smoking.
Sophie had previously experienced tragedy eight years ago, when her son Frankie died four days after being born due to sudden infant death syndrome or cot death. Whilst she doesn't know that this was due to smoking, she wants to give her baby the best chance of being healthy and is quitting smoking.
"I've always dreamed of a big family, so when I fell pregnant again I was determined to quit for good. I visited Northumberland Stop Smoking Service where the advisors were just the best. They gave me so much knowledge and support that I can't thank them enough for what they've done.
When they sat me down to explain how smoking could be depriving my unborn baby of oxygen I felt sick. To learn smoking could be damaging me and my unborn baby in this way was gutting. I made my mind up about quitting there and then.
I've now been quit for four months and I've never felt better. I no longer suffer from breathlessness and the money I've saved from not buying cigarettes has bought a new cot for the baby.
All of my children are so proud of me for not smoking and tell me all the time how happy they are that I don't smell. I'd encourage any mums-to-be who smoke to think about the risks to your baby and get support to quit. Don't wait to suffer like I did."
Despite signs fewer women are smoking during pregnancy in the North East, hundreds of mums-to-be could be faced with unimaginable tragedy unless they quit.
That is the warning from Fresh, who are pleading with pregnant smokers to give their baby the best start in life by getting the support they need to go smoke-free.
Smoking is one of the biggest risks to the health of unborn babies, depriving them of vital oxygen and cutting off the supply of nutrients they need to grow properly.
It is estimated that 360 tiny lives are lost every year in the region due to smoking-related miscarriages, with between 3,000 and 5,000 lost nationally.
As well as being a major cause of stillbirth and premature birth, the poisons found in tobacco smoke can also increase the risk of cot death, birth defects and lead to a child developing behavioural problems in their early years.
However, while one in five women continue to smoke during pregnancy in the region, compared to one in eight nationally, early signs are emerging that a major North East-wide initiative is helping more mums-to-be quit.
Supported by all eight of the North East's hospital foundation trusts, Heads of Midwifery and NHS Stop Smoking Services, babyClear ensures every woman smoking during pregnancy is now given full, frank and factual information from a trained health professional about the harmful effects of carbon monoxide (CO) and given support to quit.
New figures (April to June 2014) show a small, but encouraging 10% reduction from 20% to 18% of North East women smoking at the time they give birth, compared to the same period last year. This is the largest fall the North East has had in recent years, and is higher than the national drop of 0.5%.
Lisa Surtees, Acting Director of Fresh, said:
"Every parent wants to give their child the best possible start in life. For smokers who become pregnant, quitting smoking early in your pregnancy will not only protect your unborn baby from all of the horrible chemicals found in a cigarette, but will also reduce the risk of the unthinkable loss of miscarriage and stillbirth.
The earlier that pregnant smokers can quit tobacco, the better it is for them and their baby, but it is never too late to stop.
Babyclear is a national first to embed best practice in every maternity unit across a whole region. We're really pleased to see that fewer unborn babies are being exposed to tobacco smoke and are encouraged that this more factual and honest approach is already making an impact.
Smoking is an addiction that usually starts in childhood. Women need the facts but also to know there is excellent free support to quit smoking where they will be supported and helped, not have the finger wagged at them.
"Midwives are the best placed health professionals to deliver really important health information to pregnant women across a whole range of topics. They can fully explain how smoking is one of the biggest risks to baby, and highlight the extra care and attention a prematurely born, underdeveloped baby needs."
Following babyClear's launch last year, around 450 midwifery staff and 150 Stop Smoking Service advisers have received skills training to discuss the issues with women in a factual, blame-free way, as well as being provided with equipment to deliver interventions. It works in two ways:
* Women now receive carbon monoxide (CO) screening as part of the routine tests they receive during their first appointment with midwifery staff. High CO readings can be down to tobacco smoke but also faulty exhausts or poorly ventilated heating appliance. All high CO readings are routinely referred to NHS Stop Smoking Services within 24 hours.
* Midwives in most North East trusts now talk women still smoking through a more detailed, hard-hitting discussion at the 12 week dating scan using new software to show the potential harm being done when a baby is exposed to carbon monoxide. All Trusts should have this intervention in place by the end of 2014.
Dr Stephen Sturgiss, Clinical Lead for the North East Maternity Network and Clinical Director at the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said:
"We are talking about grief of enormous proportions when we consider 360 women are suffering miscarriages a year due to smoking.
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The question is simple – “If you were marooned on a desert island with no hope of rescue, what five books would you take with you?”
Below are my current desert-island choices for anyone who is interested, in no particular order. And since time is more and more of the essence, hence the question – with the hope of finding other friends for life from your responses:
SHOGUN – James Clavell
A epic historical novel of adventure, intrigue and other machinations of the human mind based in 17th century Japan. It takes the outsider deep within the complex Japanese society and the Bushido: the way of the warrior. A masterpiece.
KANE AND ABEL – Jeffrey Archer
Pulp-fiction with soul. A soaring saga of ambition and power but ultimately human. Set in the depression era, it tells the tale of two business men and their quintessential quest of the American dream. Ruthless at times but endearing – the author takes us into the heart of what drives the protagonists. Read it if you haven’t already.
A PASSION FOR EXCELLENCE – Tom Peters & Nancy Austin
I have learned now that singular leadership is usually not enough to create a great organization but this is the single most exciting, inspiring, transforming book ever published for people who want to get ahead and lead. Hundreds of real-life anecdotes that have been corroborated time and again in my personal life and career.
THE ESSENTIAL NERUDA: SELECTED POEMS – Pablo Neruda
A poetry collection, yes, but with lines like –
“… a stroke of water with remnants of the sea, beats on the silences that wait for you.” and
“… Give me the struggle, the iron, the volcanoes.” and yet
“ … I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
- how can one not help but love it?
I-CHING: THE BOOK OF CHANGES
An ancient Chinese treatise, based on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites and acceptance of the inevitability of change. Contains the central idea that all (yes ALL!) of life’s situations can be encompassed in 64 representations with the progression from one to another defined by the choices we make. Regarded mostly as an oracle for divination, but is much more to those who are given to occasional contemplation:
“Mountains standing close together:
Thus the superior man
Does not permit his thoughts
To go beyond his situation.” | <urn:uuid:afdcffea-df8e-491d-ab8a-c20b60c0098d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.everestuncensored.org/desert-island-books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00487-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935117 | 546 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Energetics of Charged Pion Decay
Since the charged pions decay into two particles, a muon and a muon neutrino or antineutrino, then conservation of momentum and energy give the decay products definite energies. This contrasts with the three-particle decay of the neutral pion in which the emitted particles have a range of energies and momenta.
To conserve momentum, the muon must have the same value of pc in the opposite direction. For the muon, we can write the momentum relationship
Expanding in terms of Q and pc, we obtain
Seeing such definite energies identifies a decay as a two particle decay. The measurement of the kinetic energy of the muon at 4.13 MeV shows that most of the energy is carried by the neutrino, yet is consistent with zero mass for the neutrino since that value for the muon kinetic energy was calculated with the assumption of zero mass for the neutrino. | <urn:uuid:da71d546-9d53-41b5-b6b8-15c9a95ff2ab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/piondec.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00167-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897191 | 200 | 3.75 | 4 |
William Faulkner at the University of Virginia
His place as one of the great writers of the 20th century firmly established, William Faulkner accepted an invitation in 1957 from U.Va.’s English department to come to the University as writer-in-residence. Faulkner’s appointment was cause for excitement among students and faculty, though the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature initially caught Virginians off guard.
After Faulkner arrived on Grounds, his “observations on ‘Virginia snobs’ caused somewhat of a sensation,” wrote Virginius Dabney in Mr. Jefferson’s University. “He liked the state, he said, ‘because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs.'”
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Re: Article on Debian Women
Quoting cathy gramze (email@example.com):
> The third person is, unfortunately, the most common voice in which most manuals and documentation are written in English. The second voice is considered to be too informal for "professional" writing. This is very slowly changing as the functional illiteracy rate in the US skyrockets. The formal third person is becoming just too difficult for many Americans to read and comprehend.
Not only in English. We have the same difference between formal
and informal documentation writing in French. Moreover, my own
personal culture of scientific publications, both in English and
French, makes me often use a very neutral wording, and often indeed
the passive form.
This especially applies to a program official documentation while this
may be different for a book *about* a given program....
In documentation writing, there is no strict "forbidding" of using the
second person. The only one strict requirement is NEVER EVER use the
FIRST person (and, dammit, we still have a bunch of things in Debian
which DO NOT respect this and say "I will do this" or "We recommend
The problem of second person in English in also translation. We all
know that the use in each language is very different about that
(du/Sie in german, tu/usted in Spanish, tu/vous in French). Depending
on the country, the second singular person may sound as very
familiar...or just not too informal : I would for instance never use
"tu" in French documentation and man pages while it seems that this is
not a big problem for other languages.
So, avoiding second person in English is also a way to help
translators not having headaches...
> The use of "he" in English for a person of unknown gender was
> standard, and was commonly regarded as including women, until the
> feminist movement in the early 1970s. I find the use of "he/she" to
> be stilted, and to interrupt the flow of what I am reading.
I sometime use he/she, especially in situation where I want to make
very clear that I do have concerns about gender neutrality...so quite
often in my free software work..:-)...however, I often forget also so
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We all know the story about baby Jesus who was born in a manger. He was a child who had two loving parents to take care and nuture him. I started wondering if Jesus was a bad kid because he was a perfect man?
When children are born, they experience life from a totally selfish perspective. Kids have to learn from their parents, how to live and survive in a sinful society. Parents teach these things to become productive, loving, law-abiding citizens. They also learn how to cope with the word “no” and accept that things may not always go as planned. Parents should teach their kids good versus evil.
We’ve all experienced a child that has bad behaviors. They’ve been allowed to do and say things that are not acceptable to the average adult. Kids are not born bad, but taught this behavior through lack of discipline, chemical imbalances or life issues beyond their control. We’ve also heard the saying that “kids will be kids” but was Jesus ever a bad kid?
Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem. Mary was a virgin and had not yet married Joseph. The angel of the Lord spoke to Joseph in a dream and told him that they would have a baby conceived of the Holy Spirit.
Joseph wasn’t happy at first, because he was afraid of what people would think of him and Mary, but he did what the angel told him and married her anyway.
Matthew 1:20-21 says, “But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit. And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.”
As Jesus grew up he had to learn how to walk and talk just as we all do. And he went to school to learn his lessons as we do today.
Luke 2:40-52 tells us that when he became 12 years old, his family traveled to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. They left to go back home to Galilee when the Passover feast was over. A day went by and they discovered that Jesus was not with them. So they went back to Jerusalem to find him.
After approximately three days they found him in the temple, which is the church today. His parents were angry asking him why he stayed there. Jesus told his parents that they shouldn’t have worried, because they should have known where he was. He told them he was in his Father’s house, which was pretty strange to his parents, because Joseph was his father. But in Jesus’ case, he was referring to his spiritual Father as God.
He obeyed his earthly parents and went home with them because Jesus was still a boy. This scripture shows us that even at 12 years old, Jesus knew that he should be in the temple (or the church), studying and applying God’s word in his life.
As Jesus grew up he never did anything wrong. He became wiser and God’s grace increased in his life. Jesus never sinned or did bad things. He never stole anything, said bad words, lied or disobeyed his parents. Even though Jesus was human, he was also God. And because he was God, he was perfect and unable to do wrong.
Jesus became God’s Son so he could be a perfect sacrifice for our sins and take away the wrong that we have done. He couldn’t accomplish this great sacrifice if he wasn’t perfect! God also wants us to do as Jesus did, so we can become as close to perfect, in order to please him.
For 1 Peter 2:21-24 says, “This is God’s purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps: Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth: To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness: He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.”
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|Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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|Preceded by||Mary Ann Arty|
October 23, 1949 |
|Alma mater||Christian Brothers University|
William "Bill" Adolph, Jr. (born October 23, 1949) is an American accountant and politician. He is currently a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 165th Legislative District since 1988. He is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Adolph is a public accountant who has operated his own firm since 1971. In 1982, he was elected to the Springfield Board of Commissioners as a Republican. During his tenure, he also served as president of the Board of Commissioners.
Adolph currently serves as the Majority Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. He was first elected by his colleagues to serve in this role in January 2010 and was recently reelected to his second term as Majority Chairman.
Prior to joining House leadership, Rep. Adolph served as chairman of the House Professional Licensure Committee and a member of the House Consumer Affairs Committee. He previously chaired the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee.
In addition to his leadership roles in the legislature, Rep. Adolph currently serves as chairman of the board of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA). In his service as PHEAA chairman, he has worked tirelessly to fulfill PHEAA’s mission of developing innovative ways to ease the financial burden of higher education for students, families, schools, and taxpayers. During Rep. Adolph’s tenure as chairman, PHEAA has distributed approximately $4.8 billion in state grants for higher education to over 2 million Pennsylvania students.
His legislative agenda has focused on the environment, education, economic development and job creation issues. He has played a key role in improving the state’s business climate by cutting taxes and increasing competitiveness through regulatory reforms, such as revisions to the workers’ compensation law. In 1998, he was the prime sponsor of a law eliminating the personal income tax on the profit from the sale of a home. In 2002, his legislation assisting no-impact home-based businesses was signed into law, allowing businesses that operate in the home to do so without excessive interference of local ordinances, yet still preserving the look and feel of the neighborhoods in which they operate.
Adolph also was the prime sponsor of a telecommunications law, which addresses regulations for broadband availability for businesses and schools, as well as makes telephone service available to Pennsylvania’s lower income families at reduced rates. In addition, he authored the Guaranteed Energy Savings Act, which provides Pennsylvania’s school districts and local governments with energy conservation and energy savings through cost-containment contracts with third-party vendors.
He has been a leading advocate in medical malpractice liability reform, sponsoring a 1996 law and co-sponsoring the bill that culminated in the enactment of legislation that reformed the Medical CAT Fund, addressed patient safety concerns and made significant strides in lawsuit reform. He continued to push for further changes which culminated in the enactment of joint and several liability reforms and most recently supported the adoption of The Fair Share Act in 2011 which implemented reforms necessary to restore fairness and personal responsibility to our legal system.
Adolph was the prime sponsor of a law, which expanded the property tax/rent rebate program to include more senior citizens and permanently disabled persons by exempting half of all Social Security and railroad pension income from the definition of income. He advocated reform to unemployment compensation laws as prime sponsor of legislation to end the unfair penalties that prevent senior citizens who are collecting Social Security and other pension income from receiving full unemployment benefits.
Another highlight of Rep. Adolph’s legislative career came in 1996 when his Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights (Act 195 of 1996) legislation was signed into law. The law protects taxpayers and improves service by establishing uniform rules and regulations for the state Department of Revenue to follow which ensure fair and equitable administration of state tax laws.
Representative Adolph’s legislative work has been recognized as he has received several noteworthy awards for his work on important legislative priorities of environmental conservation, education, economic development and job creation issues.
In recognition of his efforts to preserve crucial funding for the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund in 2012, Rep. Adolph was presented with the 2012 Conservation Leadership Award from the Pennsylvania Lands Trust Association and the 2012 Pennsylvania Recreation and Parks Society Governmental Award.
Representative Adolph was also acknowledged for his unwavering commitment to higher education in Pennsylvania by The Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania. In 2012 the association awarded Representative Adolph the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement on Behalf of Higher Education.
For his support of economic development and job creation, he is an eight-time recipient of both the Legislator of the Year award and the Spirit of Free Enterprise award presented by the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce. In 2012 Representative Adolph was also recognized for his support of local businesses and awarded the Legislator of the Year Award by the Delaware County Pharmacists’ Association.
Adolph is a former Springfield Athletic Association board member. He was a youth football coach for the Springfield Youth Club and head coach of St. Francis of Assisi CYO.
He is a graduate of Cardinal O’Hara High School and also a member of the school’s Hall of Fame. Adolph attended Christian Brothers University. Adolph resides in Springfield with his wife, Debbie. Together they have raised three sons, Bill, Sam and Ryne. They also have five grandchildren.
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When leading a nature walk for kids that young, it's pretty easy to dominate the conversation. I can point out the differences between a daddy long-legs (or harvestmen) and a true spider (daddy long-legs only have one body part; spiders have two). Or I can teach how to identify a maple leaf versus a tulip poplar (maple leaves look like hands, with five points, while tulip poplars have four points and look like tulips).
What I can't teach is how to make a child observe nature. I can't teach wonder.
Wonder is fostered by letting the child lead you. Observation is "taught" through un-teaching, so to speak, by stepping back and letting the children lead the way. When they pick up leaves, you can teach them about leaf identification. When they squat on the trail to study a daddy long-legs, you can talk about the differences between true spiders and other insects.
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Add This Event To YourThursday, February 14, 2013 - Saturday, February 16
at 7:30 PM
- Theater Building, Kelsey Theater
- Jeanne Tangren Hatle
Edgar Allen Poe, master of the macabre, fascinates and frustrates in equal measure. As literary critic Harold Bloom notes, his writing can be of a “badness not to be believed,” but his stories nonetheless lodge in our unconsciousness, disturbing us with unforgettable images of death, abandonment and horror.
Dead by the age of forty, Poe’s life as an American writer in the mid-nineteenth century proves to be as tumultuous and haunting as his tales.
During the first three weeks of J-term students will create an original piece based on, and incorporating material from, the writings and life of Edgar Allen Poe. Working with text, image, object and movement, students invite you to join them in this experiment of imagining and performing the uncanny and unnerving world of Poe. Complimentary tickets for the St. Olaf Community. Off campus patrons pay $8.00. Tickets can be reserved at 786-8987.
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Mehdi Name Meaning
Mehdi is a Muslim Boy Name. Mehdi name meaning is Guide, Spiritual Guide. It has multiple Islamic meaning. The name is originated from Arabic. The lucky number of Mehdi name is 5.
|Meaning||Guide, Spiritual Guide|
|Lucky Days||Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday|
|Lucky Colors||Golden, Orange, Red|
Mehdi Name Meaning and History
Mehdi is a Muslim Boy name which originates from the Arabic language.Acording to Numerology Predictions, lucky number for Mehdi is 5. Mehdi name meaning in english are Guide, Spiritual Guide.
People believes to have their Lucky Days according to their names, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday are Favourable and Lucky Days for name Mehdi and lucky metals are Copper for Mehdi name holders.
Lucky colors for Mehdi are Golden, Orange, Red and Mehdi name is famous in our names dictionary, and has been searched 53185 times, which is Fifty-three thousand one hundred eighty-five times.
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Q. What does Mehdi name mean?
Mehdi name meaning in Urdu is "راہ نما". In English, Mehdi name meaning is "Guide, Spiritual Guide".
Q. What is the Lucky Number of Mehdi?
The lucky number associated with the name Mehdi is "5".
Q. What is the religion of the name Mehdi?
The religion of the name Mehdi is Muslim.
Q. What is the origin of Mehdi name?
The origin of the name Mehdi is Arabic.
Q. What is the auspicious color of the name Mehdi?
For the name Mehdi, the lucky color is Golden, Orange, Red.
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If you are looking Are Border Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs, you are in the right place! Here I will try to answer some questions about Are Border Terriers Hypoallergenic Dogs.
Are Border Terriers good for allergy sufferers?
Border Terriers have a wiry, hypoallergenic coat that hardly sheds. They don’t drool or slobber much, and produce little dandruff, which makes them excellent candidates for families with dog allergies! Although they were originally bred for hunting purposes, they make wonderful pets and therapy dogs.
What breed of dog is best for someone with allergies?
Miniature Schnauzer. Peruvian Inca Orchid. Poodle. Portuguese Water Dog. Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Spanish Water Dog. Standard Schnauzer. Xoloitzcuintli.
What type of terrier is hypoallergenic?
American Hairless Terrier. As you may have guessed based on their name, American Hairless Terriers are typically hairless — although there is also a coated variety. Bedlington Terrier. Coton de Tulear. Maltese. Poodle. Spanish Water Dog. Wire Fox Terrier.
Do Border Terrier dogs shed?
The Border Terrier has a double coat: a hard, wiry outer coat over a soft, fluffy undercoat. Like most double-coated breeds, the Border sheds seasonally. Most of the time, a quick brushing every week or two is enough to keep the coat in good shape.
Are border terriers good pets?
In general, Border Terriers are energetic, even-tempered and eager to please, making them a good choice for a family pet. They get along well with children and other pets provided they are introduced properly.
Why do border terriers shake?
The most common explanation for shaking in Terriers, in general, is excitement. Terriers are exceptionally tightly wound little dogs. Energy is continually coursing through their veins, and this energy must find a place to go. Often, it is expended through what is known as excitement shaking.
What are the worst dogs for allergy sufferers?
The Labrador Retriever tops the American Kennel Club’s list of most popular breeds every year. These dogs are smart, loyal, wonderful family pets. Sadly, however, they are known for frequently triggering human allergies. Their double coat may be relatively short, but it’s dense and sheds profusely.
What is the cheapest hypoallergenic dog breed?
Fox Terrier Fox Terrier is the cheapest of all the hypoallergenic dog breeds present on the planet. It costs as low as $300.
What is the most hypoallergenic pet?
Exotics & Fish: The Most Allergy-Friendly Pets If you have allergies, you might consider an exotic pet, like a reptile, amphibian or fish. Because these animals lack both dander and fur, they’re essentially allergen-free, says Dr. Ochoa. “They’re great for people with allergies,” says Dr.
Are there any dogs that are 100% hypoallergenic?
There isn’t a breed of dog that is 100 percent hypoallergenic. There are breeds that have what the American Kennel Club (AKC) calls a “predictable, non-shedding coat.” These breeds tend to be more suitable for people with allergies because they don’t shed. As a result, they create less skin dander.
Why do Border Terriers smell?
It is in their genes. If your Border Terrier has been smelling funky even right after his bath, he could have microorganisms such as bacteria and yeast quietly having the time of their lives in his fur.
Can Border Terriers be left alone?
Border Terriers are known for developing separation anxiety if they are left alone because they form such strong bonds with their owners. It’s better if there is someone with your dog all day and they are not left on their own. A worried and lonely Border Terrier can be very destructive around the house.
Do Border Terriers like to cuddle?
They’re also incredibly versatile. If we want to chill out, they’re the perfect size to cuddle up with on the sofa, but if we want to go on long walks or play in the garden with the kids, they have the energy of 10 dogs. ‘
Can Border Terriers be aggressive?
One temperament trait that no one wants to have to deal with but that can come up with the Border Terrier is aggression. Before even dealing with an aggressive Border Terrier temperament, it is important to first learn what’s causing it.
Are Border Terriers difficult to train?
Their strong independence may make it more difficult for them to learn complex tricks but with the correct training methods and plenty of patience on the part of the owner, there’s no reason a Border Terrier can’t be trained just as well as any other breed.
Why do Terriers bark so much?
It’s because terriers are hunting dogs and barking is part of their natural hunting ability to capture its prey. Terrier dogs are tough, even the small ones, and aren’t afraid to battle a dog three or four times its size. Terriers make excellent watchdogs because they are always alert and active.
What age do border terriers live till?
Border terriers are generally a healthy breed with an average lifespan of 13-15 years.
Do Border terriers have tummy problems?
Border Terriers, like most small dogs, are known to be prone to dietary intolerances and sensitive stomachs.
Can you build up an immunity to dog allergies?
Some people report developing immunity to their dog. Others grow out of the allergy, but don’t depend on it if you’re getting a new dog. It is possible that an allergic reaction worsens with greater exposure.
How do you get rid of dog allergies?
Pet Allergy Management and Treatment Avoid being around dogs and cats; if you have a pet at home, take specific steps to limit exposure. Nasal sprays, antihistamines and bronchodilators can help relieve symptoms. Consider allergy shots ( immunotherapy ).
What is the most low maintenance small dog?
Dachshund. This small dog breed is known first for bravery, and second for stubbornness. Boston Terrier. French Bulldog. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Maltese. Short-coat chihuahua.
Which dog shed the least?
Komondors. Bichon Frise. Bolognese. Maltese. Yorkshire Terriers. Poodles (Miniature, Toy and Standard). Shih Tzus. Tibetan Terriers.
What is the best small hypoallergenic dog?
Miniature Schnauzer. The Miniature Schnauzer is a gruff-looking, bearded terrier that is notably friendly, intelligent, and highly trainable. Bichon Frise. Shih Tzu. Toy Poodle. West Highland Terrier. Scottish Terrier. Griffon Bruxellois. Bolognese.
How long should a Border Terrier be walked?
For most healthy adult Border Terriers this will be around 60 minutes per day.
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Anyone who saw a picture of Michael Jackson from the last 15 years knew there were unnatural things going on with his skin and bone structure.
Sadly, the pop icon's death, in addition to kickstarting a new era of appreciation for his music, has also provided a road map of sorts to more weird things we would have never known (or at least been able to confirm) otherwise.
Here are five things we learned from the very detailed, 51-page coroner's report (based on both Jackson's autopsy and the postmortem search of his home) released Monday:
1. Receding hairline? No problem. Jackson had "dark skin discoloration resembling a tattoo" on the front half of his scalp. The 50-year-old's hair "was sparse" and connected to a wig. His natural hair along the temporal regions was short and curly, while the wig's hair was long and straight.
2. Along with the drawn-on follicles, Jackson had his eyeliner, lips and eyebrows permanently tattooed. But his teeth were real, albeit worked on.
3. Jackson was just like your grandfather—he had a mildly enlarged prostate. One of the prescriptions found at his home was Flomax, as seen on TV.
4. There are a lot of autopsy photographs stashed away somewhere. The coroner's report states that 61 photos were taken of Jackson's body before and during the procedure. (So none of that CSI-style "point, click," turn him over, "point, click" and done.)
5. "The standard of care for administering propofol was not met...Recommended equipment for patient monitoring, precision dosing, and resuscitation was not present," the report states, referring to the anesthetic that ultimately killed the King of Pop. Dr. Conrad Murray, who pleaded not guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter, has admitted to giving Jackson propofol to help him sleep. A blood-pressure cuff and portable pulse oximeter (measures oxygen in the blood) were found in a closet in a room next to Jackson's, the investigator notes.
Now that Murray has been charged, we're sure to hear much more about No. 5 as things proceed.
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Net neutrality -- the notion that broadband-internet providers shouldn't be allowed to prioritize, deprioritize, throttle or otherwise affect the content flowing through their pipes -- is back in the news.
Verizon has been in court arguing against the FCC's Open Internet Order of 2010, which declared that "Fixed broadband providers may not unreasonably discriminate in transmitting lawful network traffic over a consumer's broadband internet access service." The FCC's rationale for imposing the rule, it said at the time, was to prevent "gatekeepers [from] limiting innovation and communication through the network."
Should the internet self-regulate? Or should the FCC have a say? Even within the content-creation and content-delivery industries, opinions vary widely -- often within the same company, or even within the same person.
Let's listen in on a spirited debated between ... well, I'll let you decide if it's two industry executives, or actually just one with a disturbingly split personality. I'll call them -- or him -- Walt and Heisenberg.
Walt: I don't know, I like the internet -- I like a lot of the stuff on the internet, and I like being able to access it without some sort of gatekeeper deciding how quickly or slowly it gets to me. What's wrong with the FCC having a nondiscrimination rule?
Heisenberg: Do you believe in capitalism?
Walt: Well, yes.
Heisenberg: Do you believe in the rule of law?
Walt: Of course.
Heisenberg: Then you shouldn't be in favor of a federal agency arbitrarily, by fiat, deciding it can tell me how to run my own business!
Walt: But isn't that what the FCC does? Make up rules that regulate communications?
Heisenberg: Yes, but Congress never declared broadband providers to be regulated utilities -- so-called "common carriers." This is my territory. Stay out of my territory.
Walt: But how is it good for consumers to have individual companies decide that they can throttle specific content?
Walt: But consumers hate that.
Heisenberg: And that's my problem how, exactly? We can't let a bunch of bandwidth hogs ruin things for everyone. The point is, consumers need to trust us to keep everything flowing by stopping some things from flowing.
Walt: But the idea that we're running out of bandwidth, that it needs to be rationed, is a myth. And what happens to streaming video if you get to decide what data packets get priority?
Heisenberg: Listen, every Tom, Dick and Harry with fat data packets can't just be allowed to clog my pipes. I've got my own fat packets to worry about.
Walt: But that's the point! Broadband providers are hopelessly conflicted these days! Think of Time Warner owning Time Warner Cable and a zillion content assets at the same time, from HBO to Warner Brothers. Or Comcast owning NBC Universal and everything under its umbrella. So you're saying that broadband providers should get to prioritize the flow of their own content if they want to, and screw, say, Netflix, if they feel like it?
Heisenberg: You want my honest opinion?
Heisenberg: Netflix must die! And YouTube and Hulu too! And --
Walt: But why?
Heisenberg: Because I don't own them. Because this is my territory. Because -- because I say so.
Walt: Look, I think you're putting yourself in danger -- you're putting us in danger -- over the long term if you throttle other companies' product. Because they're going to turn around and throttle your product because they have their own product to push.
Heisenberg: You think I'm in danger? I am the danger. I am the one who knocks!
Walt: Let me ask you something: Are you in the content business? Or the content-delivery business?
Heisenberg: Neither. I'm in the empire business.
Walt: Wow. Well, I -- I don't know what to say.
Heisenberg: Why don't you say nothing? You're always whining and complaining about how I make my money, dragging me down while I do everything. After I've told you and told you to keep your damn mouth shut? How dare you.
Walt: [after a long pause] Should we be abruptly fading to black and rolling the credits here or something?
Heisenberg: Yeah, let's do that. Oh, and one more thing: Your move, FCC.
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December 28th, 2008
I received this question in the comments section of one of my posts:
I have a question. For surface piercings, which kind of barbells are suitable?
My reply: On some types of tissue and on certain areas of the body, it won't matter WHAT style of jewelry you use--the body simply won't accept jewelry in all locations. Here is an excerpt from The Piercing Bible about surface piercings:
The following factors affect the success of surface piercings even more than they do in the traditional spots:
• Pliability of the skin
• Placing sufficient tissue between the entry and exit of the piercing
• Jewelry style, material, and size
• The consistency and appropriateness of aftercare
• Minimizing trauma during healing
Technical aspects aside, some people are predisposed to healing surface piercings. If you are not among the lucky few, then migration, rejection, and significant scarring are all probable consequences. If you can’t live without attempting a surface piercing, be prepared for a lengthy healing period (usually six to nine months or longer) and the possibility you will be wearing a scar instead of jewelry by the end of it all. Different piercers have different methods. I have favored using Tygon, which is a flexible, inert plastic. Some piercers like it and others do not. Some piercers use special "surface bars."
Here is an excerpt from The Piercing Bible about them:
This modified barbell is designed for piercings on flat areas of the body. It is shaped like an open staple, with a straight bar post between two short legs or uprights. Often the legs are at right angles to the bar, but for some areas, one or both may have a different angle. The bar post should rest at a uniform depth under the surface with the uprights at 90-degree angles to the tissue. This should reduce pressure, distortion, and irritation during healing. Bars used for Christina piercings have only one upright leg. Discs, gems, or other threaded pieces screw onto the ends of the bar. An accurate fit is crucial; the jewelry must be the perfect length to encompass the tissue between the entry and exit of the piercing, and the barbell ends must not sink into the skin, nor should the legs protrude more than a millimeter beyond the surface. | <urn:uuid:095696d3-34fd-4a81-8876-3facdff52343> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.piercingbible.com/blog/2008/12/surface-piercings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00033-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935849 | 492 | 1.515625 | 2 |
In May 2016, OER Africa held its most successful convening of partner institutions from East and South Africa. We were thrilled to have with us both partners in our current work and other renowned experts in the field of higher education, from Africa, the US and Israel.
Over two days, we discussed and argued the relative merits of participatory action research as a tool for pedagogical transformation. Partners shared with us valuable examples from their own practice, of how OER and ICT were infusing pedagogy with new life and enriching the learning experience of their students.
Candour was leitmotif of the proceedings and both practitioners and experts spoke openly of barriers they were facing and strategies they had adopted to make the best possible use of the technologies and skills at their disposal.
The final report of the Convening proceedings is now available as are all Key Notes and partner presentations.
OER Africa is extremely grateful to each individual and collective effort that made this occasion possible. We celebrate your commitment to consistently improving the quality of higher education in Africa through effective deployment of OER and ICT.
Convening Keynote Addresses
Convening Documents and Presentations
- Africa Nazarene University (2016). Mainstreaming OER at Africa Nazarene University: Pursuing a Participatory Action Research Journey – Report 4.
- Mays, Tony (2016). Africa Nazarene University: Revisiting the Business Model.
- Ngugi, Catherine (2016). OER Africa Participatory Action Research Grant: August 2014 to June 2017.
- OER Africa (2016). Emerging Lessons from the OER Africa Institutional Engagement Grant.
- OER Africa (2016). OER Africa Participatory Action Research Model.
- OER Africa (2016). Our Work at OER Africa: Background Document for 2016 Convening.
- Open University of Tanzania (2016). Role of OER in Supporting Pedagogical Transformation at the Open University of Tanzania.
- University of the Free State (2016). Curriculum Delivery & Innovation: Supporting Staff and Students in the Use of Technology at the UFS.
- Wiley, David (2016). Exploring “Open Pedagogy”.
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London, Dec 31 (IANS) Security is being heightened in major European cities ahead of the New Year celebrations, with officials wary of possible terror plots, the media reported on Thursday.
New Year fireworks and festivities have been cancelled in the Belgian capital Brussels because of an alert. Extra measures will also be in place in cities including Paris, London, Berlin and Moscow, BBC reported.
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said the Brussels decision has been taken “given the information we have received”.
Last year, 100,000 people turned out in Brussels to welcome in the New Year.
Earlier this week, police arrested two people suspected of planning attacks during the festive season and seized propaganda for so-called Islamic State (IS) as well as military clothing and computer equipment.
Belgium has been on high alert since the terror attacks of November 13 in Paris that killed 130 people. Several of the perpetrators are thought to have been based in Belgium.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Turkish police arrested two suspected IS members over an alleged plot to attack celebrations in Ankara.
They reportedly entered Turkey from Syria and were planning two separate attacks on crowded areas, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Suicide vests and explosives were found during police searches.
In Paris, a New Year fireworks display has been abandoned, but the traditional gathering on the Champs-Elysees will take place amid tight security.
Projections on the Arc de Triomphe will be shorter than normal, four giant screens will be placed at intervals to avoid creating tightly packed crowds and the fireworks display has been cancelled.
Authorities in Moscow will completely close off Red Square, where crowds normally count down to midnight.
In Berlin, backpacks and fireworks will be prohibited and bags searched on the “fan mile” in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which has reportedly been closed off since Christmas.
London’s Metropolitan Police will deploy 3,000 officers in the inner city, including extra armed officers.
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Program Evaluation of a Community Health Advisor ETS InterventionEPA Grant Number: U916088
Title: Program Evaluation of a Community Health Advisor ETS Intervention
Investigators: Lopez, Yuriko
Institution: San Diego State University
EPA Project Officer: Just, Theodore J.
Project Period: January 1, 2002 through January 1, 2004
Project Amount: $48,957
RFA: Minority Academic Institutions (MAI) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study (2002) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Economics and Decision Sciences , Academic Fellowships , Fellowship - Social Sciences
The objective of this research project is to evaluate the process of delivering an intervention designed to reduce ETS exposure among Latino children by trained community health advisors (CHAs).
Although the negative health consequences of tobacco use among smokers have long been established, research also has established smoking-exposure illnesses in nonsmokers. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), commonly known as passive smoking, consists of both sidestream smoke emitted from the burning tip of a cigarette and mainstream smoke, which is inhaled, filtered, and exhaled by the smoker. Recent studies suggest that younger children are more susceptible to the adverse effects of ETS exposure than adults or older children. In addition, less educated and lower income groups are at the greatest risk for smoking and ETS exposure. Various forms of evaluation will be used, including formative, process, and outcome methods (Beurden, 1998). Formative evaluation will include a review of the literature on the CHA model and its effectiveness in providing services to hard-to-reach communities. Process evaluation will include an assessment of how CHAs implemented behavioral contracts in a larger ETS intervention study. Outcomes measures will be used as a direct measure of CHA-delivered intervention success, and will include parent-reported ETS exposure to the child as well as the children’s hair nicotine and cotinine concentration, measured at baseline and immediately postintervention. The proposed evaluation will provide information about intervention implementation and the primary outcome changes in the area of ETS reduction in Latino homes. Findings can be used to plan, enhance, and develop future programs. Because the evaluation is limited to existing data, the main risk to participants is breach of confidentiality. To minimize the risk of disclosing private information, identification numbers will be used in lieu of participant names. | <urn:uuid:f15d1a7e-a413-4f81-a72c-29a2039da255> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/6629/report/0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00261-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917668 | 492 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Colorado saw its deadliest avalanche in 50 years on Saturday, April 20th, 2013. Five of the victims have recently been identified, members of our snowboard community who had gathered for an event promoting backcountry safety and awareness— The Rocky Mountain High Backcountry Gathering. Our thoughts are with the friends and families of those who passed and all involved.
From TransWorld Business:
“CAIC’s preliminary report said the slide was approximately 500 feet wide and four feet deep, and was most likely triggered by the riders who were touring on Loveland Pass a popular backcountry zone located about 55 miles west of Denver and just south of Loveland Ski Area, in the Sheep’s Creek area, just above Loveland Valley.
According to Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger, the victims of the slide included Timlin, 32; Christopher Peters, 32, of Lakewood; Ryan Novack, 33, of Boulder; Ian Lanphere, 36, of Crested Butte; and Rick Gaukel, 33, of Estes Park. Another snowboarder, Jerome Boulay, sales manager for Colorado-based Venture Snowboards was buried and survived. According to Never Summer Sales Manager Mike Gagliardi, who was not at the event but was close to many there, Boulay was buried for an extended period with just his head and arm above snow.”
From the Denver Post:
“The five are: Christopher Peters, 32, from Lakewood; Joseph Timlin, 32, from Gypsum; Ryan Novack, 33, from Boulder; Ian Lamphere, 36, from Crested Butte and Rick Gaukel, 33, from Estes Park.
Saturday’s avalanche struck about 1 p.m. on the north-northeast aspect of the Sheep Creek drainage of Loveland Pass along U.S. 6, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office said.
Saturday’s fatal slide measured about 200 meters (about 219 yards) wide and 350 meters (about 383 yards) long. The fracture line was about 8 feet deep, officials said.
The recent deluge of heavy, wet snow and high winds in the high country has spiked avalanche danger in the Central Rockies at a time when snowpacks are typically stabilizing and getting safer for backcountry travel.
‘I feel really bad for these guys. I think they were trying to do a lot of things right. These weren’t guys who were reckless and didn’t care. They all had gear, and I think they cared about making good decisions,’ said Tim Brown, a Summit County avalanche forecaster with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
‘That is an important message right now. You can do a lot of things right but still be caught in a dangerous situation.’
The avalanche triggered while all six riders were nearing the bottom of the bowl and the beginning of the narrow ravine only a couple hundred yards above the top of the Loveland Valley chairlift.”
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“Environmental justice” is often used to benchmark corporate social responsibility.
“People of color and low-income populations are disproportionately impacted by pollution,” argues Leslie Fields, Sierra Club director of environmental justice. Industrial facilities are a byproduct of consumption, and most people living near “hazardous waste facilities” are minorities, activists claim.
Mitt Romney “bought and sold companies, and sometimes people lost their jobs,” presidential candidate John McCain declares.
“Every time a child dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned,” for causing global warming, rants UK firebrand George Monbiot. Government leaders “should go to jail” for failing to act more quickly to prevent planetary climate cataclysm, Canadian eco-zealot David Suzuki declaims.
These assertions range from simplistic to outrageous to straight out of Lewis Carroll.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.”
“The questions is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” Humpty Dumpty replied, “who is to be master. That’s all.”
Indeed, those who define the debate often determine public policies – and dictate who is to be master: those who must live with the consequences of their personal choices – or those who must live with policies imposed by others. That reality underscores why terminology and debate terms must be founded on full and fair assessment of risks and benefits, especially to the poor and powerless, rather than on what advances political agendas.
A few years back, mostly black residents of Convent, Louisiana welcomed the construction of a modern plastics factory that would have brought 2,000 construction jobs and 165 permanent positions that paid double the wages of working in sugar cane fields, plus health benefits and a stronger tax base. The local NAACP also supported the facility.
But Sierra Club activists claimed Shintech, Inc’s factory might increase allegedly high cancer rates, in violation of environmental justice principles. The factory was built elsewhere, in a mostly white community, and Convent remained poor.
Allegations of high cancer rates turned out to be false. In fact, cancer rates might well have declined, because workers with medical benefits would have discovered the disease in time to get treatment. But activist notions of “environmental justice” had prevailed. They were the masters, and Convent’s residents never had a choice. By the time the truth came out, the activists were lambasting other facilities.
Losing a job is always a wrenching experience. Capitalism’s forces of “creative destruction” are as powerful today as when horse-and-buggy craftsmen were laid off by automobile makers – and mountains of manure were replaced by exhaust from internal combustion engines. Mergers and acquisitions fueled by innovation, competition and profit-seeking create jobs, while also destroying jobs.
Corporate decisions affect a limited number of workers. Government policies, by contrast, affect millions. The drive to eliminate fossil fuels, switch to a CO2-free economy and prevent computer-generated climate disasters could cost countless jobs and impact families all across America.
European industries are already reevaluating investment decisions and cancelling projects, largely because of an increasingly strict and unpredictable regulatory climate in the EU, according to World Energy Council vice chairman Johannes Teyssen. New power plants are being put on hold, threatening to hike electricity prices even further and exacerbate a growing energy shortfall – and companies are pondering relocation to China and India, as it becomes harder to get building and expansion permits.
Similar anxieties are increasing in the United States, as Congress considers tough climate change bills promoted by Senators McCain, Lieberman, Warner and others. None of them acknowledge the scientific uncertainty about climate models and predictions of catastrophic warming. None mention recent solar magnetic readings that some researchers fear could reflect a downturn in the sun's energy output, which could trigger a planetary cold spell, severe weather, massive snowfalls and widespread crop failures.
Will legislators and eco agitators be as outraged about widespread job losses caused by such legislation, as they have been about comparatively minor environmental injustices perpetrated by capitalists? Will they restore funding to the FutureGen coal project that was to evaluate the economic and technological viability of carbon sequestration initiatives on which so much climate change policy relies?
Will they reverse land use policies that have driven tens of thousands of blacks from San Francisco and other California cities – and reject climate-related proposals to limit how many miles workers can drive each year to get from affordable homes to jobs in those cities?
Drownings in impoverished Third World countries are tragic, as are the far more numerous deaths from malaria, dysentery, malnutrition and lung disease among children in those nations. But eco-alarmists like Monbiot and Suzuki are among the perpetrators of these unnecessary deaths.
They pressure countries and aid agencies not to use DDT, insecticides or larvacides, causing disease, death and eventual resistance by mosquitoes to pyrethrum in bednets and by parasites to ACT drugs. They oppose biotech crops and medicines, which could reduce blindness, malnutrition, intestinal disease and deaths – and enable Third World farmers to grow more nutritious crops, with less water and fewer pesticides, under widely varied climate conditions.
Environmental justice agitators tell impoverished Africans that global warming is the greatest threat they face – when Al Gore uses more electricity in a week than 100 million Africans together use in a year. Those people rarely or never have electricity and must burn wood and animal dung, resulting in lung disease and millions of deaths annually. Yet the agitators oppose fossil fuel power plants, as well as nuclear and hydroelectric projects – guaranteed that Africa’s poverty and death toll will continue.
Should we demand that eco-imperialists be jailed or drowned every time children die because of these policies? Absolutely not. But we should demand real environmental justice. We should demand an end to the censorship and intimidation practiced by the United Nations and many colleges, as documented by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Evan Maloney’s provocative film, “Indoctrinate U.”
We should insist that the US government begin developing our publicly owned energy resources, as Congress of Racial Equality chairman Roy Innis suggests in his new book, “Energy Keepers - Energy Killers: The new civil rights battle.”
We should define “environmental justice” to recognize economist Indur Goklany’s finding that “future generations will be better off in even the richest but warmest” IPCC scenarios, and under worst-case scenarios presented by the Stern Review. If communities have abundant, affordable energy to sustain economic growth, they will enjoy better health and be able to adapt to whatever climate changes nature (or humans) might bring.
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THOSE of you who remember the story of Samudra Manthan will recall that the Devtas led by Lord Indra had lost heaven to the Daityas and were very keen to recover it. However the curse pronounced by Rishi Durvasahad divested the Devtas of their powers and they were rendered ineffective in their struggle against them. They went to Lord Vishnu, who advised them to forge an alliance with the Daityas and try to partake of the amrit (the celestial elixir) so as to regain their strength. In this hazardous task Lord Vishnu promised to help them.
What are the analogies that one can draw between the situations prevailing then and now? Depending on your political affiliation you will either consider the UPA government as the Devtas who have been ejected from heaven and the NDA coalition of political parties as the Daityas who have usurped the throne. Or else it will be the reverse.
Now suppose Manmohan Singh and his chief advisers call on Pranab Mukherji seeking his advice. Unfortunately here the analogy fails. In our brand of democracy, presidents are constitutional authorities and can ill afford to take sides in political battles. So Pranab will keep his personal opinions to himself and not air them in public.
What is amrit? In the modern context, the strength of a political party does not depend on the quantity of the celestial elixir imbibed by its individual members. It is contingent on the election funds they have accumulated, the electoral alliances they have forged and such similar factors.
In today’s context, we have to look at a host of disparate factors like manifestoes, promises, statements made to the electronic and social media; personal interviews in live interactions, comments offered by party spokespersons, and so on. Some of these would contribute amrit and some halahalvish to the party’s image and electoral performance.
Many commentators throw up their hands in despair about the future of India as a country, a nation or a State. They would worry about any and every crackle in the opinion bush. The whole thesis of this article is that one need not be bowled over by small incidents, but should be able to take everything in our stride, notching up pluses and minuses in our popularity scale as each element comes into play.
The interesting fact about life is that there is nothing clear-cut about anything. Let us take a few illustrations. Let us start with food. What should a person eat or not eat? Even nutritional experts are not unanimous about what is desirable for the human body and what is not. When we travel to the plane of morality, the matters become even more difficult. An extreme view could be that man should eat only vegetarian food. If he eats animals, he causes pain to other living beings who have as much a right to survive and prosper on this planet.
The matter is far from over with the choice you make. If you permit non-vegetarian food, should it be blanket permission or should there be graded permissions? Some persons may wish milch cows to be exempted from this permission, as they yield milk. Others would cast the net wider by including the cow, the bull and even calves. On the other side, some might prohibit only the killing of milch Indian cows. In India, the cow has traditionally been revered and we have discovered great benefits from even her urine and her excreta. Should killing be prohibited or even eating banned? Should possession of beef be an offence? There are a trillion questions.
A fundamental question: should society or the State at all interfere in this vast area of choice and tie itself into knots or should it leave each individual to make his choice and let the market forces decide.
A similar conundrum awaits the ideologue when we take up the complicated issue of liquor. At what age should a person be considered adult enough to decide whether he will imbibe spirituous liquors? Should he be allowed to purchase liquor all the week through or should there be restrictions on where he can buy, the days or dates when such sale is permissible, the timings of sale, and so on. Can a liquor shop be located within 100 yards of a school? Can a person be allowed to drive if there is liquor on his breath? Or when a breath-analyser finds him exceeding the prescribed level?
Any solution that you find has consequences for your amrit-vish balance. It gets you votes or gets people to vote against you. It is as simple as that.
When you come to the more complicated aspects of life, the situation becomes murkier. Is marriage a sacred institution? Should everyone be hustled into marriage irrespective of his desire, need or preparedness? Should only heterosexual marriages be recognised? What is the moral quotient of relationships?
Should rape be equated to murder and be subject to similar punishment? Can a husband rape his wife? Can we justify a rape on the ground that there was grave and sudden provocation by the girl wearing too revealing an outfit? If a court of law orders a rape victim to marry the rapist, is it fair to the girl?
Why do some people in contemporary India have the feeling that India is becoming intolerant?
I think that by far the biggest reason for this feeling is that India is currently the most open, tolerant, democratic society in the world. Take conversions, for example. You cannot profess any religion other than Islam in Islamic countries. Leave aside propagating a religion; you cannot even keep a photograph of a deity, saint or incarnation in your purse. China does not permit mass conversions on its soil. And we had the Pope telling his Cardinals that India was the land they should concentrate on, if they wished to have more converts to Christianity.
We have such a laid-back attitude to Hinduism that even foreign commentators have worried about it. It is only in India that Maqbul Fida Hussain could draw pictures of Hindu goddesses in the nude. When Hindus protested, he went into a huff and ran away to foreign climes, and stayed there to bask in the reputation of being an iconoclast, while the fate of Salman Rushdie is too well known to need any comment.
A more recent example is that of Aamir Khan, who chased a person dressed as Shiva in P.K. much to the merriment of all. He also made a celebrated comment about his Hindu wife asking him whether they should continue to live in an intolerant India. Nothing has happened to Aamir Khan.
Why there is so much talk of intolerant India is due to the combined impact of a number of factors.
The first reason is that Indians like to talk. And we have almost no controls on what a person can say or not say. Look at the outrageous things leaders of different communities keep on throwing at one another. A Hindu fringe element will say, “Those who do not like India should migrate to Pakistan”. The Muslim fringe element shouts back, “Even if you cut me into pieces, I will not shout Bharat Mata ki Jai.” What have they achieved? A few more votes from the fence sitters on both sides, but also a few less votes from the saner elements in both communities. Someone has to calculate the shift in the amrit-vish ratio.
THE second reason is that everything in India gets politicised. Children have been shouting Vande Mataram or Bharat Mata ki Jai for decades in school and college functions, without looking at the religious messages that might be embedded in them. If one looks at the emblems of government. establishments, universities, etc., we find quotations from the Vedas all over. Even the national slogan “Satyameva Jayate” has deep religio-spiritual connotations which have not yet percolated down to the Owaisis. Of all things they have latched on to the exercise titled Surya Namaskar in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and refused to perform it on the grounds that the prophet has prohibited their bowing down to anyone other than Allah. So they cannot bow down to the Sun.
The interesting part is that the Government of India deleted Surya Namaskar from the exercises listed for World Yoga Day.
Contrast the stand taken by us with that of the Government of Australia. In an address to the nation on national television, the Prime Minister stated his position quite emphatically. All immigrants had come to Australia of their sweet will. No one had forced them to come. Now that they have settled down here, they have to obey Australian laws. In schools, their children will have to sing the national anthem and recite the prayers to God as laid down in the school curriculum. If they do not like these rules, they are at liberty to leave.
No doubt the Muslims did not enter India as immigrants. They came more as invaders and traders. They also ruled the country for centuries. But even they had a choice in 1947: either to join an Islamic State of Pakistan or to continue in the secular state of India. They made their choice and now they have to bow down to the national consensus as it emerges. They cannot sit on their high horses and be the tail that wags the dog.
But in India no one talks frankly on such core issues. We are afraid of the repercussions and hide the problems under the carpet. All issues relating to minorities, specially the Muslims, are lying under the carpet, be it the temple at Ayodhya, Article 370, common civil code or whatever. They stay there, smouldering like ticking time bombs, and detonate when we least expect them.
The third reason is that suddenly all the disparate elements which mostly held their tongue have come out into the open. This may partly be due to the euphoria generated by Modi’s landslide victory in the Lok Sabha polls. It brought out the RSS and its sister organisations under the supposition that the days of Hindutva had arrived. The gays have an international lobby. Modi lashed out at the international NGOs and they are a powerful lot. The gender lobby also found some rallying points like the Nirbhaya rape. There was a huge backlash of the Anna Hazare movement, the clean sweep of Delhi assembly by Arvind Kejriwal and his rickshaw drivers and so on.
Suddenly, anything seemed possible. The whole hullabaloo about India being intolerant should be seen as a modern day Samudra Manthan, albeit in a democratic setting. Today it cannot be on eMandrachaaaaaalParvat. The whole polity is our Mandrachal. Amrit has to be collected drop by drop from a million mutinies. It is somewhat like the Arab spring also. That is why the disorder, the seeming lack of direction. g
MK Kaw is a former Secretary, Government of India.
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The Solution to Reading Comprehension
Lessons & Units
Drawing Conclusions Kindergarten Unit
Lesson 1 Actions Draw a conclusion from a given action.
Lesson 2 Verbal Cues Draw a conclusion from verbal cues.
- As you read books aloud, ask students questions to help them draw conclusions about a story.
- Give clues to students about an object and have them guess the object based on your clues.
- Continue to play guessing games such as “charades” or “What’s in the Bag?” for students to practice drawing conclusions from visual or verbal clues. Students can play “What’s in the Bag?” with shape blocks or other interesting classroom objects. For example, put a block in the bag and have students formulate questions based on the characteristics of its shape.
- Have students write or draw a description of an object and have a partner guess the object.
- During shared writing, work to create riddles such as, “Which animal has 8 legs?” Later, have students write their own riddles about animals on the front of a folded piece of paper. Inside the fold, have students draw the animal. Students can take turns guessing the answer to the riddle based on the clues. (See Additional Activity A in Teacher and Student Materials below.) | <urn:uuid:ebeac693-1347-4130-9023-acb17ca46f0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.readworks.org/lessons/gradek/drawing-conclusions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00485-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91768 | 278 | 4.65625 | 5 |
Obesity May Lead To Greater COVID-19 Severity & Death, Say Italian Researchers
Rome: If you are obese, you need to be extra careful in ensuring that you don’t contract the deadly COVID-19 virus.
According to findings of a research carried out in an Italian university, chances of greater COVID-19 severity and death is higher in people who are grossly overweight with an obese body mass index (BMI).
The report, published in the European Journal of Endocrinology, says that BMI over 30 was associated with a significantly higher risk of respiratory failure, admission to intensive care and death in COVID-19 patients — regardless of age, gender and other associated diseases.
“Our study showed that any grade of obesity is associated with severe COVID-19 illness and suggests that people with mild obesity should also be identified as a population at risk,” said study researcher Matteo Rottoli from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna in Italy.
As per current guidelines, a BMI of 40 is classified as ‘high risk’ category in the UK and USA. But this latest study suggests that people with BMI over 30 should also be alerted.
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Morihiro Saito Sensei was born on March 31, 1928 in a small village near the Iwama dojo.
He began his Aikido training when he was eighteen years old. He had practiced Kendo as well as Shito-ryu Karate and Judo. Saito Sensei was accepted by Ueshiba O-Sensei as a student, and this was the beginning of a very long and close relationship. Due to his 24-hour on and 24-hour off working shift with the Japanese National Railroad, Saito Sensei had a lot of time for training at the Ueshiba dojo. Early morning classes were devoted to prayer at the Aiki Shrine followed by weapons practice. This was the period when The Founder was deeply engrossed in the study of Aiki-Ken and Aiki-Jo and their relationship to empty-handed techniques.
Not only was Saito Sensei a diligent student, but he also helped The Founder in his daily life and took part in caring for the rice fields and other farming tasks. The founder was clearly impressed with the dedication shown by Saito Sensei. O-Sensei gave Saito Sensei a plot of land on his property and this is where Saito Sensei then built his house and lived with his wife and children side by side with the founder.
By the late 1950s, Saito Sensei had become one of the top instructors in the Aikikai system. He taught at the Iwama dojo when The Founder was out travelling. Saito Sensei also instructed on a weekly basis at the Hombu Dojo (International Headquarters Dojo in Tokyo) in the 1960s, teaching Aiki-Ken and Aiki-Jo for the last fifteen minutes of each Sunday morning class. | <urn:uuid:6ff61b98-f84a-43c8-ab41-8e21d93a7d31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aiki-shuren-dojo.com/morihiro-saito-sensei-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.990061 | 364 | 2.15625 | 2 |
FOR a while now we have been hearing the terms “strains and variants” of SARSCOV2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Especially with variants there have been a lot of terms that are not just confusing to someone not so interested in medical jargon or anyone with little patience.
Other than being complicated names, there has been a danger of causing stigma and indeed stigma has been caused against people of the country bearing the name of the said variant because it has until most recently been acceptable to also name variants based on their country of origin.
The most common ones being the “UK variant,” for the variant that is believed to have started from the UK, the “South African variant” believed to have originated from South Africa, the “Brazilian variant” one from believed to be from Brazil and now most recently the “Indian variant” thought to be from India and very soon we will be hearing of the “Taiwanese variant’ from Taiwan. Not too long ago Mr Khankhara, a Zambian of Indian heritage, a businessman and the proprietor of “Flash Buses” arguably the majority minibuses commuting within Lusaka city, expressed his displeasure of how most Zambians had become discriminatory against our brothers and sisters from India or anyone of Indian origin because of the detection of the “Indian variant” in Zambia.
He said the shops especially in Kamwala were shunned and there has been name calling in some sectors. This is so sad and clearly the naming of the variants had much to do with fueling such stigma.
THE COUNTRY NAMED FOR THE VARIANT MAY NOT BE THE ORIGINAL SOURCE
In light of such and other reasons the World Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to rename these variants. This will not just make it easy to follow but also will help remove this dark stain of ethnic stigma associated with names depicting “countries of origin.”
Covid 19-is a pandemic, meaning the disease is everywhere in the world. So simply put, the variant can originate from any corner of the Earth at any moment. Actually, the so-called country of origin may not be the source of the variant in the truest sense of the word.
Sometimes it is just a matter of how soon some countries report on their findings that makes them seem to be the source of a said variant when in the actual sense they may not be. A good example is the famous so-called “Spanish flu” of 1918 to 1920 that is said to have killed close to 100 million people globally. The first observations of illness and mortality were documented in the United States (in Kansas) in March 1918, then in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.
To maintain morale, World War I censors minimised these early reports. Spain being neutral could report freely, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit. This gave rise to the name “Spanish” flu
WHAT IS A VARIANT?
All viruses, including SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 evolve over time. when a virus replicates or makes copies of itself, it sometimes changes a little bit, which is normal for a virus.
These changes are called “mutations.” A virus with one or more new mutations is referred to as a “variant” of the original virus. Please note the “first” virus, the wild type, the D614G, the one first reported in China is not a variant, it is the original one from which others are referred to.
Recently there have been debates which are still on going over the actual origin of the virus, the “Wuhan leak lab theory” is facing a lot of scrutiny.it is one theory that was earlier seen as a conspiracy but now most scientists are revisiting it. Of course, this is also causing friction amongst nnnnations, notably the United States and China.
RENAMED AFTER THE GREEK ALPHABET
The World Health Organisation (WHO) |has renamed the variants after the Greek alphabet according to their chronological order in relation to their detection.
The Greek alphabet has 24 letters from Alpha to Omega. Currently the variants of concern are Four: Alpha, Beta, Gamm , Delta but with one “blossoming“ in Taiwan.
The “UK variant” becomes the ALPHA being the first to mutate from the 8riginal one detected in China. the “South African” one becomes BETA, the “Brazilian” GAMMA and “the Indian one “ DELTA.
In Zambia we have both the BETA and the DELTA variants. I really wish we could end here but with Taiwan already talking of having detected a “hybrid mutant” of the Alpha and Delta variants, which the Health ministry permanent secretary says is very contagious and more deadly than variants before it.
We are surely going to have an addition to the list. Coupled with the country’s complaicency the new “ hybrid mutant” is thought to be behind the current surge in Taiwan, the country that was once praised to have had the situation under control.
WHAT CAUSES A VIRUS TO CHANGE TO A NEW VARIANT?
I have explained this time over and over again. When a virus is widely circulating in a population and causing many infections, the likelihood of the virus mutating increases. The more opportunities a virus has to spread, the more it replicates – and the more opportunities it has to undergo changes. Super spreader events like campaign rallies, bars, parties etc easily fuel the spread of the virus and risk causing new mutations. Most viral mutations have little to no impact on the virus’s ability to cause infections and disease.
But depending on where the changes are located in the virus’s genetic material, they may affect a virus’s properties, such as transmission (for example, it may spread more or less easily) or severity (for example, it may cause more or less severe disease). And all these significant changes have been happening on the spike protein of the virus.
HOW CAN WE PREVENT FUTURE NEW VARIANTS OF THE COVID-19 VIRUS?
WHO advises: Stopping the spread at the source remains key. current measures to reduce transmission – including frequent hand washing, wearing a mask, physical distancing, good ventilation and avoiding crowded places or closed settings – continue to work against new variants by reducing the amount of viral transmission and therefore also reducing opportunities for the virus to mutate.
WE COULD BE THE NEXT TAIWAN?
Just as a reminder and word of caution, Zambia has both the BETA and DELTA variants which we risk throwing them in the same pot making a new more infectious and deadlier concoction like in Taiwan if we don’t change course. The rates of admissions and severity of infections is really overwhelming but what surprises is outside the hospital and the Covid centres it is business as usual.
I wonder what will really make us change. I really hope we reach the OMEGA of these variants of concern before we reach ZETA though I think the Taiwan hybrid is likely to be EPSILON and the latest global threat. And we could be next.
UNTIL THEN, ALUTA CONTINUA, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES.
*PLEASE MASK UP PROPERLY; IF YOUR MASK IS NOT COVERING YOUR NOSE, PLEASE THROW IT AWAY. (DR. MASUWA 2021);
*OBSERVE HAND HYGIENE.
*OBSERVE REASONABLE PHYSICAL DISTANCE, PLEASE THIS IS NO TIME FOR CLUBS AND PARTIES.
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Detailed Job Description
The Director will manage the operations for the Children's Program, which serves as a model child development program while also serving as an instructional laboratory for UA students.
Additional Department Summary:
The Children's Program director will be responsible for leadership, managerial, teaching, and interdisciplinary research functions to carry out the program's mission. The director is the individual responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating the Children's Program. Leadership functions relate to the broad plan of helping the organization clarify and affirm values, set goals, articulate a vision, and chart a course of action to achieve that vision. Managerial functions relate to the actual orchestration of tasks and the setting up of systems to carry out the organization's mission. Teaching functions relate to implementing and supporting learning outcomes of university students. Interdisciplinary research functions relate to expanding and furthering the study of young children and their families. Functions of the director include the following: Pedagogy-Creating a learning community of university students, children, and adults that promotes optimal development of children and healthy families. Organizational development and systems-Establishing systems for smooth program functioning and managing staff to carry out the mission of the program; planning, budgeting the program's fiscal resources, managing organizational change and establishing systems to monitor and evaluate organizational performance. Human resources-Recruiting, selecting, and orienting personnel and university students; overseeing systems for the supervision, retention, and professional development of staff that affirm program values and promote a shared vision. Collaboration-Establishing partnerships with program staff, family members, board members, university members, community representatives, civic leaders, and other stakeholders to design and improve services for young children and their families. Advocacy-Taking action and encouraging others to work on behalf of high quality services that meet the needs of children and their families.
Required Minimum Qualifications
Master's degree in Early Childhood Development or Early Childhood Education and a minimum of 5 years experience in a child development program, to include leadership and supervisory experience.
Skills and Knowledge:
Demonstrated ability in program implementation. Strong, demonstrated working knowledge of child development, curriculum development and best practices. Strong ability to analyze and solve problems. Ability to develop and work with a team. Sound judgment and ability to use independent judgment. Proven successful fiscal management. High level of competency working collaboratively with external and internal partners. Strong oral and written communication skills. Community relations skills. Demonstrated ability to provide a supportive and caring environment for children.
Knowledge of NAEYC standards and accreditation. PhD preferred. 59 Monthly (exempt): - Minimum - $ 42993.60 Midpoint - $ 62337.60
Prior to hiring, the final candidate(s) must successfully pass a pre-employment background investigation. A prior conviction reported as a result of the background investigation DOES NOT automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration for this position. A candidate with a prior conviction will receive an individualized review of the prior conviction before a hiring decision is made. EOE/AA
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What to do if stopped for DUI?
DUI means driving under influence. As much as DUI is strictly forbidden, there are individuals who achieve this and move ahead. These individuals possibly accept the belief that guidelines were produced to broken. Nevertheless, the regulations and rules still need to be reproduced. When DUI offenders are caught, they will have to manage the total arm of the regulation. Just as much as people want to remove DUI, it is actually among the most frequent methods and offenses in several states over the USA. Every so often, individuals are billed with this offence. Being billed with a DUI offence can greatly spoil your reputation. Occasionally, you might actually not be employed because of this kind of offence. Therefore, you shouldn't drive under influence.
Actually with the above stated, there continue to be individuals who'll be captured with a DUI offence. Such individuals should not be frightened because there are DUI lawyers who could ensure they are not charged. Alcohol isn't great for motorists. It is best to have somebody else to drive you for your location instead of driving under the influence of alcohol. Actually, driving and drinking alcohol is forbidden by several nations.
However, you will find individuals who constantly split this law. Such individuals are generally charged with a DUI offence. Needs to choose a DUI lawyer once you have been billed may be frantic. Usually, when you are imprisoned, you are permitted to create a few telephone calls. One of the folks you may contact when billed with a DUI offence is your lawyer who offers with DUI cases.
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The following are the baseball events of the year 1987 throughout the world.
Major League BaseballEdit
|League Championship Series||World Series|
|NL||St. Louis Cardinals||3|
|East||St. Louis Cardinals||4|
|West||San Francisco Giants||3|
- All-Star Game, July 14 at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum: National League, 2-0 (13 innings); Tim Raines, MVP
- Caribbean World Series: Criollos de Caguas (Puerto Rico)
- College World Series: Stanford
- Japan Series: Seibu Lions over Yomiuri Giants (4-2)
- Little League World Series: Hua Lian, Taiwan
Awards and honorsEdit
- Most Valuable Player
- Cy Young Award
- Rookie of the Year
- Manager of the Year Award
MLB Statistical LeadersEdit
Major League Baseball final standings Edit
|2nd||Toronto Blue Jays||96||66||.593||2.0|
|3rd||New York Yankees||89||73||.549||9.0|
|5th||Boston Red Sox||78||84||.481||20.0|
|2nd||Kansas City Royals||83||79||.512||2.0|
|5th||Chicago White Sox||77||85||.475||8.0|
|1st||St. Louis Cardinals||95||67||.586||--|
|2nd||New York Mets||92||70||.568||3.0|
|1st||San Francisco Giants||90||72||.556||--|
|4th||Los Angeles Dodgers||73||89||.451||17.0|
|6th||San Diego Padres||65||97||.401||25.0|
- January 14 - Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
- March 3 - Ray Dandridge, a legendary third baseman from the Negro Leagues, is the only player elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.
- April 13 - At Jack Murphy Stadium, the San Diego Padres set a major league record when the first three batters in the bottom of the first inning hit home runs off San Francisco Giants starter Roger Mason in their home opener. The Padres, trailing 2–0, got homers from Marvell Wynne, Tony Gwynn and John Kruk.
- April 15 - Juan Nieves of the Milwaukee Brewers pitches a no-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles. He becomes the second-youngest pitcher in major league history to accomplish the feat, and the first Brewer.
- April 17 - Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hits the 500th home run of his career. It came in the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates' Don Robinson, giving the Phillies an 8-6 win.
- June 28 - Don Baylor of the visiting Boston Red Sox is hit by a pitch from Rick Rhoden in the sixth inning of a 6-2 win over the New York Yankees. The HBP gives Baylor 244 for his career, breaking Ron Hunt's modern-day record.
- July 14 - Tim Raines caps a 3-for-3 performance in the All-Star Game with a 2-run triple in the top of the 13th inning, giving the National League a 2–0 victory over the American League. Raines is selected the MVP.
- September 9 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 to pass 4,500 for his career as the Houston Astros beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2. Ryan strikes out 12 of the final 13 batters and fans Mike Aldrete to complete the seventh inning for his 4,500th strikeout.
- September 22 - Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox reaches the 200-hit mark for the fifth straight season in an 8-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers.
- October 25 - In Game Seven of the World Series, starter Frank Viola and reliever Jeff Reardon hold the St. Louis Cardinals to six hits, as the Minnesota Twins win 4–2 for their first World Championship. The franchise's last title came in 1924 as the Washington Senators. Viola is named the Series MVP.
- Long Gone (TV)
March 22 - Ike Davis
- January 5 - Dale Mitchell, 65, All-Star left fielder and career .312 hitter who spent almost his entire career with the Indians; made the last out in Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, but had only one more major league at bat
- February 9 - Larry French, 79, All-Star pitcher who won 197 games, primarily with the Pirates and Cubs, before beginning a 26-year Naval career in 1943
- May 14 - Luke Sewell, 86, All-Star catcher for four AL teams who managed the St. Louis Browns to their only pennant in 1944
- May 31 - Jerry Adair, 50, middle infielder for four AL teams, mainly the Orioles, who set various records for error-free play
- June 17 - Dick Howser, 51, manager, formerly an All-Star shortstop, who led the Kansas City Royals to their only World Series championship in 1985
- July 22 - Don McMahon, 57, All-Star relief pitcher for seven teams who led NL in saves in 1959, retired with the third most relief appearances in history
- July 27 - Travis Jackson, 83, Hall of Fame shortstop for the New York Giants who batted .300 six times, led NL shortstops in assists four times and double plays twice; later a minor league manager
- August 31 - Dick Young, 69, longtime New York sportswriter known for his hard-hitting style
- September 1 - Pinky Whitney, 82, All-Star third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves who had four 100-RBI seasons
- November 16 - Jim Brewer, 49, All-Star relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers who held the club record for career saves
- November 17 - Paul Derringer, 81, 6-time All-Star pitcher who had four 20-win seasons for the Cincinnati Reds; earned 2-1 victory in Game 7 of the 1940 World Series
- November 27 - Babe Herman, 84, right fielder who batted .324 lifetime, and whose popularity while with the Brooklyn Dodgers was undiminished through a variety of fielding and baserunning lapses; hit for the cycle three times | <urn:uuid:22fae9e8-108f-456f-9fc6-acd018a7d75b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://baseball.wikia.com/wiki/1987 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00048-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868861 | 1,345 | 1.554688 | 2 |
On your computer there are probably just a handful of folders that you access everyday, and wouldn’t it be nice to make them even easier to access? One way to do that is to assign your most used folders to drive letters on your Windows machine, which puts them just a click away from your mouse. The good news is that Windows comes with the functionality needed to do this, but it’s buried in the command line.
If you’re new to using the command line in Windows you don’t have anything to worry about… this task will be about as easy as it gets. Being able to have your downloads folder, music, pictures, and more all assigned to different drive letters will definitely make this a well-spent two minutes.
–Assigning a Drive Letter to a Folder–
Note: If you’re familiar with how the command line works in Windows you can probably jump to the Command Prompt screenshot below to get the gist of what this section covers.
Open up the Command Prompt utility in Windows, which can be found in the Start Menu’s Accessories folder. Once the Command Prompt is open you’ll be able to start entering in commands. The format of the command you want to use is:
subst x: "c:\Documents and Settings\Wagner"
In that the “x:” represents the drive letter that you want to assign to the folder. You’ll get an error message if you try to use a drive letter that has already been assigned to another folder or one that is used by the operating system. The “c:\Documents and Settings\Wagner” is the directory on the computer that you want the drive letter to point to. Make sure you place quotes around the path to the folder if it contains spaces, otherwise it will not work.
To see a list of drive letters you’ve already assigned to folders just enter in
subst without any other parameters.
To remove a drive letter that you’ve assigned to a folder there are a few different things that you can do. If you don’t feel like diving back into the command line you can just log off or restart your computer. Alternatively this command can be used to remove a drive letter:
subst x: /d
In that command “x:” represents the drive letter you wish to remove, and the “/d” is what tells the computer to remove that drive letter.
Here’s a screenshot of the various different commands being used, and after the screenshot I walk through what each line is doing:
Here’s what’s going on in the screenshot:
- Assigning the Program Files folder to the X drive letter
- Assigning the My Documents folder to the Y drive letter
- Trying to assign the Windows folder to the Y drive letter, but it fails since I have already used it
- Using the
substcommand to list out the folders I currently have a drive letter assigned to
- Remove the X drive letter
- Show that the X drive letter has been removed
–Assign Drive Letters at Startup–
The only problem with the above system is that Windows forgets the folders you’ve mapped to drive letters once you log off or restart the computer. Luckily we can easily get around that by placing a customized batch file in your computer’s Startup folder. Here’s what you need to do:
- Open up Notepad, and list out each folder you want mapped using the
substcommand that we explained above. There should be one command per line, and make sure you put quotes around the path to the directory if it contains spaces:
- Now save this as a batch file. This can be done by going to File -> Save As, and enter in the name of your file. Make sure your filename ends in .bat:
- [Optional] You can test to make sure your batch file works as expected simply by double-clicking on it. The folders should be assigned the drive letters you specified in the batch file.
- Move the batch file you just created in the Start Menu -> Startup folder so that it runs each time your computer starts up.
That’s all there is to assigning drive letters to your favorite folders. It might seem a little complicated, but I wanted to be sure that you understood how everything works. If you’re still a little overwhelmed you can use a free app called Visual Subst that does essentially the same thing. The down side to the app is that it needs to run whenever your computer starts in order to assign the driver letters to the folders. So for the sake of performance I use the batch file method that I walked you through above. | <urn:uuid:aabd5a3e-a995-4d4b-9240-96d0e4d4b36b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://cybernetnews.com/cybernotes-assign-driver-letters-to-folders-in-windows/ | 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 | 0.929125 | 988 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Dave Peters has a great article today about Sibley County and their conundrum about providing fiber. His article is definitely worth reading in its entirety but I’m going to borrow his succinct description of the issue…
Here are the questions: Should the county of 15,000 (18,000 if you add the neighboring town of Fairfax) create a project to serve eight small towns with Internet speed far greater than what is available now through phone and cable companies? Assume it would borrow about $34 million and have an expected breakeven in five years. Or should it build a project offering the same service to the same towns plus all the farms in the county, borrowing $61 million, finding another $2 million in equity and breaking even in seven years?
And — here’s the really interesting part for residents to tussle with — if they lay fiber to all the farms, should farmers pay more?
Chris Mitchell gave a heads up on this issue earlier this fall when he spoke about the Sibley community meetings to talk about broadband. And it is an issue that will be familiar to anyone who thinks a lot about broadband in rural areas – but just because we’ve been thinking about it doesn’t mean there’s a good answer.
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking with a number of providers at the Minnesota Broadband Advisory Task Force meeting. As Dave points out – the providers in Sibley County are part of the landscape as well. In his article, Dave alludes to the Sibley project needed 70 percent of the residents to use the service. Funny enough yesterday we were talking about take rates (not in Sibley County) and we noted that a 70 percent take rate was very desirable, but perhaps not realistic, especially when there’s competition.
An Open Access model might be worth considering – where the cost of building the network could be shared. I don’t know that all providers are interested in the open access model, but some are. I know that both the State Report and National Broadband Plan encourage public-private partnerships. A definite step in the right direction is the community meetings that Sibley County is hosting in the area. | <urn:uuid:1553a3c0-4e2c-4ce5-bb48-53ea342471a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blandinonbroadband.org/2010/11/18/sibley-county-broadband-for-farms-fair-or-foul/?replytocom=8012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.963519 | 454 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Imagine the ability to orchestrate the random noises of your intimate abode and have the ear to listen. When the wind blows and you hear the creaks and cracks that sound like audible blemishes or the hollow quake in the undertow of the hardwood floor when you walk in a common place. Imagine all of these things are at your control blending together to make musical expression.
Color coded cable connections sending controlled energy allowing you to play the treble clef scale within the pipes attached to the hot water furnace and other components. Something finally clicked and Scottish born musician David Bryne created his music to be discernible art. Since David constructed the method that brings breath to an environmental domain, it appears that he learned to “play by the house rules.” House music is always fun but even better when you can see what makes the sounds sound . | <urn:uuid:195fe6b7-1536-4339-be6a-25960606829e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sickoftheradio.com/2013/05/06/david-bryne-playing-the-building/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946012 | 174 | 2.421875 | 2 |
From Wikipedia: Gremlin Industries was an arcade game manufacturer active from the 1970s to early 1980s, and based San Diego, California, USA.
Gremlin was founded in 1973 as a manufacturer of coin-operated wall games. Gremlin's first wall game, Play Ball, was fairly successful. Gremlin joined the video game market in 1977 by releasing its first video arcade game entitled Blockade. Some of Gremlin's output, were titles originally created by Japanese companies. Among theses video games were Namco's Gee Bee and Konami's Frogger.
In 1979, Gremlin merged its operations with Sega and, from then on, all new video games by Gremlin were labelled either under the Gremlin/Sega or Sega/Gremlin brand names.
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The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop
- United States
More informationPuffin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop, written and read by Clare Balding.
Charlie Bass is a horse-mad nine-year-old who dreams of owning her own pony. So when her eccentric parents announce that they are going to buy a racehorse, Charlie is thrilled.
The horse they buy, Noble Warrior, looks the part: strong, fit and healthy. There's just one problem - he won't gallop. In fact, he won't even trot round the field without his best friend, Percy, a naughty palomino pony, at his side.
But Charlie is convinced that Noble Warrior has what it takes to be a champion - he just needs the right motivation...
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Pregnancy or conception is associated with an absolute absence of normal monthly menstrual cycle due to a relative increase in the progesterone levels. It is believed that hormonal changes can lead to the thickening of the cervical lining to restrict the passage of blood until the baby is delivered. Amenorrhea or absence of menstrual cycles is a sign of pregnancy which indicates that conception has taken place. For this reason, the most common question asked by most of women is either to continue their birth control pills or not?
Should I Keep Taking the Pill If I Think I'm Pregnant?
“I am not having my periods, I waited for two weeks but there is no sign of it. I think I may be pregnant but it is not confirmed. Is taking birth control pills until the pregnancy is confirmed will be harmful for me?”
Answer: Taking birth control pills while the pregnancy is not confirmed will not harm the fetus, but one should stop taking the pills once the pregnancy is confirmed. In case the female has accidentally taken her pills, then the baby will be fine but it is recommended to consult the physician for correct guidance.
The birth control pills are composed of the hormone progesterone, which is also classified under one of the pregnancy hormones, so taking pills whilst pregnant is just like giving the body extra amount of progesterone, but it must be stopped as soon as the pregnancy gets confirmed in order to avoid hormonal complications.
8 Other QAs About The Pill You Should Know
How Effective Is Birth Control Pills?
As mentioned above, these pills are made up of hormones primarily progesterone alone or combination of estrogen. These hormones not only prevent the ovaries from releasing eggs for the fertilization, but also inhibit the sperm to get fertilized in the fallopian tube.
The success rate of using birth control pills is very high. If used correctly (either combination pill or only progestin pills), the chance of getting pregnant is 1 in 100 while if not used correctly this ratio is as high 8 in 100. Following are some conditions in which these pills becomes less effective.
If the female is overweight
Concomitant use of other supplements with pills
Chronic vomiting and diarrhea
Will Birth Control Pills Cause Birth Defects If Taken in Early Pregnancy?
Taking birth control pills in early pregnancy doesn't seem to increase the chances of birth defects. Various studies have been performed to study the correlation between the use of birth pills and incidence of birth defects. Although some studies states that the incidence of urinary tract infections and preterm delivery increases when birth control pills are continued after conception, there is no clinical experiences to support that. But the risk of ectopic pregnancy (fertilization in fallopian tube or anywhere outside the uterus) may increase if minipills (progestin-only birth control pills) is taken after conception.
As a precautionary measure, the Mayo Clinic suggests that the birth control pills must be stopped if pregnancy is suspected, as many of the side effects of these pills such as breast tenderness, nausea etc. can confuse the diagnosis of pregnancy.
Is a Negative Pregnant Test Meaning I'm Not Pregnant?
Getting a negative pregnancy test result doesn't always mean that female is not pregnant; some attributes are:
The test may have been done too early. If the female think that she has taken the test too early, then wait for a while and do the test again; if results are still negative, then no pregnancy is confirmed.
Collection of urine sample that has been retained for longer period of time may alter the test results.
The levels of HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin hormone) hormone in urine become hard to be detected if a female drinks too much water before conducting the test.
Instead of going for home based test, an appointment with the gynecologist must be made for correct results.
How to Do Pregnant Test Correctly
Pregnancy test is done by detecting the presence of HCG which is found in the blood and urine. This hormone will appear in blood and urine after 13-15 days of fertilization. Before this time, it cannot be detected.
Blood samples are considered as more sensitive for testing HCG hormone as smaller quantities can be traced through blood, while tracing this HCG through urine is a little difficult. A test conducted at home utilizing pregnancy kit is recommended to be done before going for a general physician.
It should be noted that this hormone is utilized for treating fertility disorders so a false positive result can be obtained if a female is receiving any fertility treatment.
If I Missed One or More Pills, What Should I Do?
If a single pill is missed, then she can take two pills on the other day as soon as she remember this, this will not cause any harm to the female body.
If two pills are missed, an emergency contraception such as condom must be used to avoid pregnancy. Then take two pills that day and two the second day and then continues with the normal schedule. Heavy bleeding is expected in such case.
If three consecutive pills are missed, bleeding will happen so a female should consider herself in a period phase in this case. A new pack of pills is then suggested with the use of other contraception back up such as condom (recommended to be used for 7 days). Only relying on the pill to stop pregnancy will not help in this case. An emergency contraception is required if the female had intercourse in that seven-day duration.
Do I Have to Take the Pill from My Inactive Weeks?
Researchers suggested that skipping the pills in inactive period will not cause any problem. They are only added in the regimen to maintain one's habit of taking pills every day. It is recommended that a female should consult to her general physician if her pills contain an extra folate or iron in it.
Must I Take the Pill on the Same Time Every Day?
In case of progestin only pill, the duration must be maintained is 24 hours. Try to take the pill with 24 hour difference, while you are on pill which is made up of estrogen combination, but small time difference does not matter and will not compromise the effectiveness of the pill. Heavy bleeding may be observed if a low dose pill is taken a few hours late.
Why Do I Bleed When I'm on the Period?
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Trampoline Safety Instructions For You & Your Family
Responsibilities For Safe Trampolining
Tips To Reduce The Risk of Accidents
The Users Role In Accident Prevention
The Trampoline user needs to learn how to stay in control of their jumps and manoeuvres.
DO NOT move on to more complicated and difficult manoeuvres until you have mastered the basic fundamental bounces. Education is a very important key to safety. Read, understand and practice all safety precautions and warnings prior to using the Trampoline. For additional safety tips and advanced skill instructions, contact a certified Trampoline instructor. So;
- Always have a supervisor watching you when you are on the Trampoline.
- Never have more than 1 person on the Trampoline at any one time. Multiple users increase the occurrence of injury as they can cause you to lose control, collide, or land on the frame or springs. Generally the lightest person will be the one to get injured.
- When on the Trampoline stay in the middle of the centre of the mat. This will reduce your risk of landing on the frame or springs. Always keep the frame padding covering the frame and springs. Do not jump or step on the frame pad directly since it isn’t intended to support the weight of a person.
- Keep your eyes on the mat or mat edge to prevent losing balance and to maintain control. Do not jump or bounce for excessive periods of time or too high for a number of jumps because fatigue can increase chances of injury.
- Do not bounce recklessly, this increases risk of serious injury.
- Always be in control when you are bouncing on the Trampoline. A controlled jump is when you land on the same spot that you took off from. If at any time you feel out of control, try to stop your bouncing.
- To stop your bounce; flex your knees when you land on the mat with your feet.
- Always learn the basic bounce and master each type of bounce before trying more difficult types of bounces. Review the basic skills section to learn how to do the basics.
- Do not use the Trampoline if you have consumed alcohol or any drug as foreign substances impairs your judgement, reaction time and overall physical coordination.
- You should climb on and off the Trampoline in a controlled and careful manner. Never jump in or off the Trampoline and never use the Trampoline as a device to bounce onto or into another object.
- To get on the Trampoline go up the ladder and to come off sit at the edge of the Trampoline door frame and slide your feet to land on the ladder rungs and step down with care, use both hands at all times.
- Small children should be assisted when mounting and dismounting the Trampoline.
- Remove all hard sharp, objects from person before using the Trampoline.
How to Ensure Safe Use of a Trampoline
- After buying a safe trampoline for your family that will not only have the kids outdoors away from the television but ultimately keep them fit and healthy; To make sure everyone does stay safe, you’ll need to know the basic trampoline safety rules, and be sure to tell your children and especially your teenagers, preferably before anyone gets on the trampoline.
- A primary reason for why people get injured on trampolines is because multiple users are on it at the same time. If you allow a number of children on the trampoline, they are sure to jump and bump one another, ending with someone getting hurt. It’s better if you limit the usage to one person at a time.
- You also need to have adult supervision at all times when younger children are using the trampoline to help prevent falls and to help the kids on and off of the trampoline safely. To help a user to keep balanced tell them to keep their eyes focused on the edge of the trampoline. There are kids who will try more difficult tricks, like somersaults and flips, on a home trampoline. These are tricks which should be done only in a gym or club under the observation of a gymnastics instructor. In addition, keep your trampoline away from the water unless you have one specifically made for water use. Never place your trampoline near enough to your pool that someone will want to try using it as a diving board. The result of this could well be a serious head or neck injury.
- Regular inspections of your trampoline are important. Even when the trampoline is new, you need to check to make sure everything is as it should be before letting anyone use it. After that, you should plan for routine trampoline preventive maintenance every month or two. Make a note of the warranty that comes with your trampoline so that you’ll know what you can do if you find any defective parts or need to return the trampoline.
- A trampoline can be a lot of fun for everyone if you just adhere to a few simple safety practices. It is advisable to people with Cardio problems and pregnant women to not use a trampoline for obvious reasons.
- Users should wear comfortable clothing – i.e. shorts and t-shirt or tracksuits, only wear soft gymnastic shoes, heavy socks or bare feet. Do not wear hard soled shoes or shoes with buckles or metallic finishes as this will cause excessive wear on the mat. If you are a beginner then you may want to wear a long sleeved top and pants to protect yourself from scrapes and abrasions until you master control of bouncing and landing.
- Users should not wear anything that can become caught on any part of the Trampoline, e.g. hooded clothing, clothing with drawstrings, buckles etc or any loose clothing that can restrict the users view, e.g. flapping shirt or skirt.
- It is advisable to not to use the Trampoline immediately after a meal.
- No pets or animals are to go on the Trampoline.
The Supervisors Role in Accident Prevention
Supervisors need to understand and enforce all safety rules and guidelines. Be educated in the basic bounces and Trampoline maneuvers. It is the responsibility of the supervisor to provide knowledgeable advice and guidance to all users of the Trampoline.
- A supervisor will ensure that all new users learn the basic bounces before trying more difficult and advanced jumps.
- If supervision is unavailable or inadequate, the Trampoline could be stored in a secure place, disassembled to prevent unauthorised use, or covered with a heavy tarpaulin that can be locked or secured with locks or chains.
- The supervisor is responsible to ensure that the safety placard is placed on the Trampoline and that all users are informed of these warnings and instructions prior to getting on the Trampoline.
- All users need to be supervised regardless of skill level or age.
- Never use the Trampoline when it is wet, damaged, dirty or worn out. The Trampoline should be inspected before any users start bouncing on it.
- Keep all objects that could interfere with the users away from the Trampoline. Be aware of what is overhead, underneath and around the Trampoline.
- To prevent any unsupervised and unauthorised use, the Trampoline should be secured when not in use.
Information on the Use of the Trampoline
Initially you should become accustomed to the feel and bounce of the Trampoline. The focus must be on the fundamentals of your body position and you should practice each of the basic bounces until you can do each with ease and control.
TO STOP BOUNCING
To break a bounce all you need to do is flex your knees sharply before they come in contact with the mat of the Trampoline. This technique should be practiced while you are learning each of the basic bounces. The skill of braking should be used whenever you lose balance or control of a maneuver, or if you are just learning how to jump on a Trampoline. If you don’t; you will increase your risk of being injured by landing on the frame or springs. A controlled jump is considered landing on the same spot that you took off from. If you do lose control when you are jumping on the Trampoline, bend your knees sharply when you land and this will allow you to regain control and stop your jump.
DO NOT PERFORM somersaults of any type (backwards or forwards) on this Trampoline. If you make a mistake when trying to perform a somersault, you could land on your head or neck. This will increase your chances of getting a neck or back injury which may result in paralysis or death.
DO NOT use the Trampoline if there are any pets, other people, or any objects on or under the Trampoline otherwise there will be an increase in the chances of an injury occurring. DO NOT hold any foreign objects in your hand and DO NOT place any objects on the Trampoline while anyone is playing on it. Please be aware of what is overhead when you are playing on the Trampoline. Tree limbs, wires or other objects located over the Trampoline will increase your chances of injury.
Please be aware of the weather conditions when using the Trampoline. If the mat of the Trampoline is wet, the user could lose control, slip, and injure themselves. If it is too windy, users could lose control. See Notes on securing Trampoline for high winds.
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In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times best-selling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the 20th century - The God Delusion.
Called "one of the best nonfiction writers alive today" (Stephen Pinker) and a "prize-fighter" (Nature), Richard Dawkins cheerfully, mischievously, looks back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement. Exploring the halls of intellectual inquiry and stardom he encountered after the publication of his seminal work, The Selfish Gene; affectionately lampooning the world of academia, publishing, and television; and studding the pages with funny stories about the great men and women he's known, Dawkins offers a candid look at the events and ideas that encouraged him to shift his attention to the intersection of culture, religion, and science. He also invites the reader to look more closely at the brilliant succession of ten influential books that grew naturally out of his busy life, highlighting the ideas that connect them and excavating their origins.
On the publication of his tenth book, the smash hit, The God Delusion, a "resounding trumpet blast for truth" (Matt Ridley), Richard Dawkins was catapulted from mere intellectual stardom into a circle of celebrity thinkers dubbed, "The New Atheists" - including Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.
Throughout A Brief Candle in the Dark, Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life's brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture.
The complete list of narrators includes: Mitch Albom, Roger McGuinn, Ingrid Michaelson, John Pizzarelli, Paul Stanley, George Guidall, Mike Hodge, Robin Miles, Christian Baskous, Tony Chiroldes, Kevin O'Neil, and Adriana Sananes, Ken Brown, and Sarab Kamoo.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
©2015 Richard Dawkins (P)2015 HarperCollins Publishers
... I had to hang in there before this memoir caught me up.
I am a huge fan of Richard Dawkins - just to be up front about that. But it took a bit of persistence to stay with this second half of his memoir. Rather than lay the book out chronologically, he laid it out in "topics." Unfortunately, his first topic was all about the various conferences and talks and other such events in which he had taken part. Except for his discussion of the Royal Society Christmas Lectures, this was fairly dry and uninteresting to me. I was about to give up on this book but then...
...the DH and I went to an appearance of his in Kansas City and were privileged to both attend a small reception for him beforehand (a fund-raiser for his Foundation for Reason and Science for which we paid a tidy sum - full disclosure) followed by his public appearance. where he discussed his book and told stories from it...
...so I decided to stick with the book and am now glad that I did. I of course most loved his discussions of science, but I did end up enjoying the opportunity to learn a bit more about his life on a more personal level.
I enjoyed his narration to such an extent that I don't think the audio version could have been nearly as good without it. He has a lovely sense of humor, for all his very British reserve, and is clearly passionate about his science and the privilege he enjoys to share his knowledge and experience.
I love listening to books when cycling, paddleboarding, etc but I press pause when I need to concentrate. Its safer & I don't lose the plot!
I’ve never been much of a one for reading memoirs. I read Churchill’s memoirs from his World War II period, but that felt more like a history than a memoir. The reason I chose to listen to Dawkins' autobiography was that he, like Churchill I suppose, is one of my heroes. The Selfish Gene and the God Delusion changed my life twice over a 25 year period, and I’ve always enjoyed anything he’s ever written (although I confess I didn’t finish the Ancestor’s Tale).
What I like about Dawkins is his ability to explain concepts with superb clarity and rapier-sharp logic, using brilliant examples to illustrate his ideas. In a memoir you don’t really get much of this (except during occasional digressions, which were my favourite parts of the book). You do get some insights into what it is like to be Richard Dawkins (during the second half of his life at least, this being part 2 of his memoirs) and this is amusing and entertaining, but not riveting, fascinating or life-changing.
There is a structure to the book in that it is in chronological order, but aside from this it feels very casual and unstructured, just a series of anecdotes about the things that he got up to. There’s a lot of name-dropping, but not because he wants to impress us with the famous people he’s met, just that he has been increasingly surrounded by famous people and it would be silly to deliberately omit them from his story.
So, if you like Dawkins and you can tolerate the relatively mundane milieu of a memoir, then I’d say this book is definitely worth a listen. I never got at all bored or wanted to switch off, I just didn’t learn anything that altered my World View. It’s probably unreasonable to expect anything so transformative from a memoir.
Narrated by the author who's voice gives the story of Dawkins life the flare with which it was meant to be told. I can only hope to be alive to narrate my own.
Love a good science fiction book!
Great book! Great story! Great sotoryteller! Fantastic for the fans of nature and for the fans of Dawkins!
I absolutely love Prof. Dawkin's work and knowing that he has recently suffered a stroke brought a tear to my eye at the end. This is my favorite out of all of his works, due to it being so completely personal. It was less of an autobiography or memoir and more of the interesting life stories told to you by a Grandparent or a dearest old friend. The exclusion of Lala's narration (although I adore her readings) added to this feeling. If this were to be his last book, then it would be a perfect finally. Though I do sincerely hope it is not.
I enjoyed the first half of the biography more. We really do not expect Mr Dawkins the associated with dummies. Although I did enjoy learning about Oxford's method of teaching, very interesting.
Academic stories told well, but I won't be passing any along in conversation. I'd like to have heard a background of some of the memes he's generated.
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Integrated soil management for the savanna zone of W. Africa: legume rotation and fertilizer N
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Integrated soil management with leguminous cover crops was studied at two sites in the northern Guinea savanna zone of northern Nigeria, Kaduna (190 day growing season) and Bauchi (150 days). One-year planted fallows of mucuna, lablab, and crotalaria were compared with natural grass fallow and cowpea controls. All treatments were followed by a maize test crop in the second year with 0, 30, or 60 kg N/ha as urea. Above ground legume residues were not incorporated into the soil and most residues were burned early in the dry season at the Kaduna site. Legume rotation increased soil total N, maize growth in greenhouse pots, and dry matter and N accumulation of maize. Response of maize grain yield to 30 kg N ha1 as urea was highly significant at both sites and much greater than the response to legume rotation. The mean N fertilizer replacement value from legume rotation was 14 kg N/ha at Kaduna and 6 kg N/ha at Bauchi. W ith no N applied to the maize test crop, maize grain yield following legume fallow was 365 kg/ha higher than natural fallow at Bauchi and 235 kg/ha higher at Kaduna. The benefit of specific legume fallows to subsequent maize was mostly related to above ground N of the previous legume at Bauchi, where residues were protected from fire and grazing. At Kaduna, where fallow vegetation was burned, maize yield was related to estimated below ground N. The results show that legume rotation alone results in small maize yield increases in the dry savanna zone. | <urn:uuid:2d7816d1-f857-42fc-9f65-c18fd72631de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/65383 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00479-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963167 | 362 | 2.3125 | 2 |
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GIS-supported Evaluation System for Road Traffic-related Air Pollution
Pior, Myoung-Young ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 13~25
Road traffic-related environment problems has become now serious problem common in the urban life throughout the world. In this study, a GIS-supported evaluation system has been developed for dealing with the road traffic-related environment problems, especially focusing on air Pollution in the urban areas. The developed system consists lof three essential parts: GIS; traffic-related air pollution simulation model; and the database for potential strategies. In establishing the simulation model, a GIS-supported environment can provide a useful tool for handling a wide range of data characterizing study areas and for preparing more accurate estimation on real locations. Such roles of the GIS-supported system can be helpful to more efficient analysis and more reasonable decision-makings. As a preliminary stage in developing the system, the metropolitan area of Cairo in Egypt was applying into being as a Pilot study to test the Potentiality of the prototype system.
GIS-Supported System for Measuring the Effect of Social Infrastructure Improvements
Pior, Myoung-Young ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 27~42
In this study, a GIS-supported system is used to measure the effect of social infrastructure improvements. Benefit evaluation approach is based on two types of approaches -the simple hedonic approach and Rosen's two step approach. The land attribute data for both approaches are efficiently collected and generated in a GIS-supported environment. Moreover, it conveys more objective and correct data. The benefits are estimated on real locations by using GIS. The potentiality of the developed system for practical application has been verified by its application to Joban New Line in Tokyo metropolitan area. By incorporating benefit evaluation routines into GIS, the proposed system will be a useful tool for decision making on the improvements of social infrastructure.
IGIS: An Internet Geographic Information System in WWW
Moon, Jin-Yong ; Koo, Yong-Wan ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 43~49
In this paper, we designed and implemented an Internet Geographic Information System called IGIS, that supports the client/server architecture connected via the Internet. IGIS is consists of the Map Server and the Map Viewer which can be located at a server site and client sites, respectively. In addition, we used the Common Gateway Interface(CGI) to service the geographic information on the Internet and used a DXF(Data exchange Format) file as a geographic data in IGIS.
Dynamic Traffic Assignment Using Genetic Algorithm
Park, Kyung-Chul ; Park, Chang-Ho ; Chon, Kyung-Soo ; Rhee, Sung-Mo ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 51~63
Dynamic traffic assignment(DTA) has been a topic of substantial research during the past decade. While DTA is gradually maturing, many aspects of DTA still need improvement, especially regarding its formulation and solution algerian Recently, with its promise for In(Intelligent Transportation System) and GIS(Geographic Information System) applications, DTA have received increasing attention. This potential also implies higher requirement for DTA modeling, especially regarding its solution efficiency for real-time implementation. But DTA have many mathematical difficulties in searching process due to the complexity of spatial and temporal variables. Although many solution algorithms have been studied, conventional methods cannot iud the solution in case that objective function or constraints is not convex. In this paper, the genetic algorithm to find the solution of DTA is applied and the Merchant-Nemhauser model is used as DTA model because it has a nonconvex constraint set. To handle the nonconvex constraint set the GENOCOP III system which is a kind of the genetic algorithm is used in this study. Results for the sample network have been compared with the results of conventional method.
A Study on the Trip Assignment Model for GIS Transportation Component Development
Lee, Kyung-So ; Rhee, Sung-Mo ; Kim, Chang-Ho ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 65~72
Travel demand forecasting is the important process of transportation policy and planning, especially trip assignment is also important because it finds deficiency of network GIS can be applied to transportation due to its various merits. Recently Program development environment is changed to component-based and transportation-component is necessary. This study evolves in implementing trip assignment model with GIS and tries to apply the system to the Cheongju City.
Classification of Map-matching Techniques and A Development
Chung, Youn-Shik ; Yoon, Hang-Mook ; Choi, Kee-Choo ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 73~84
Map matching technique is an essential part of the car navigation and other related positioning fields such as dead reckoning and GPS data logging upon the GIS database. This paper is to break down map matching techniques, to categorize them, and to propose a simple technique for GPS based map matching technique. For categorization of techniques, two approaches have been adopted. One is to only use geometric information, and the other is to use both geometric and topological information. Some pros and cons of each method have been described. In addition, a simple map matching technique, set forth in this paper, has been introduced for properly utilizing the advantage of GPS points after the absence of the chronic problem of selective availability, which had been prevailed recently. Some research opportunities and problems of the technique have also been discussed.
Update/Revision of Digital Map by Using the Drawing of Work Completion Surveying
Kim, Won-Dae ; Lee, Kang-Won ; Park, Hong-Gi ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 85~95
There is a recent emphasis on the need for updating and revision of existing digital maps as more digital maps are used and produced. Various type of data sources, such as photographs, ground surveyed data and satellite images, are used in the revision and the updating process. The process is very time consuming and costly, especially for small regional areas. This study, attempts to present an effective update/revision method using the as-built surveying drawings and the accuracy of the digital map which has been updated and revised using this method was also investigated. This study showed that by using as-built surveying drawings of scale 1/1,200 to update a digital map of scale 1/1,000, the resulting accuracy satisfied the requirements of the national digital map accuracy specification for the corresponding scale. The necessity of the existence of the necessary drawings and maps is a requirement of this process and it is also suggested that densification of local control points especially in the urban areas is necessary for producing accurate as-built surveying drawings. This would require the establishment of rules and regulations which would require constructions to perform as-built surveying, immediately after the construction has been completed.
GIS Application for 1-1-9 Caller Location Information System
Hahm, Chang-Hahk ; Jeong, Jae-Hu ; Ryu, Joong-Hi ; Kim, Eung-Nam ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 97~103
The main purpose of 1-1-9 Caller Location Information System is to identify and display the precise location of emergency incidents such as natural or man - made fires, medical emergencies and accidents. The state - of- the - art technologies such as Am (Automatic Number Identification), GIS(Geographical Information System) and GPS (Global Positioning System) were applied and integrated in the system for efficient and effective location identification. It displays a radius of 25M, 50M and 100M on the map after location identification. The system can also provide the shortest path to an incident location from a fire station or a fire engine. In case of a fire breakout in or near a building, the attribute information of the building, called a building attribute card, is displayed along with the map location. The system then matches the information with the fire situation and sends an alert to a responsible fire station by phone or fax in order to help promptly react to the problem. An attribute card includes the critical information of a premise such as building's location, number of stories, floor plans, capacity, construction history, indoor fire detection and Prevention facilities, etc.
A Study of Evaluation of the Feature from Cooccurrence Matrix and Appropriate Applicable Resolution
Kwon, Oh-Hyoung ; Kim, Yong-Il ; Eo, Yang-Dam ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 105~110
Since the advent of high resolution satellite image, possibilities of applying various human interpretation mechanism to these images have increased. Also many studies about these possibilities in many fields such as computer vision, pattern recognition, artificial intellegence and remote sensing have been done. In this field of these studies, texture is defined as a kind of quantity related to spatial distribution of brightness and tone and also plays an important role for interpretation of images. Especially, methods of obtaining texture by statistical model have been studied intensively. Among these methods, texture measurement method based on cooccurrence matrix is highly estimated because it is easy to calculate texture features compared with other methods. In addition, these results in high classification accuracy when this is applied to satellite images and aerial photos. But in the existing studies using cooccurrence matrix, features have been chosen arbitrarily without considering feature variation. And not enough studies have been implemented for appropriate resolution selection in which cooccurrence matrix can extract texture. Therefore, this study reviews the concept of cooccurrence matrix as a texture measurement method, evaluates usefulness of several features obtained from cooccurrence matrix, and proposes appropriate resolution by investigating variance trend of several features.
A study on the transformation of cadastral map using Geo-Spatial Information System
Kim, Jung-Sik ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 111~120
A cadastral map that is base map on Land Information System is divided by two categories, graphical and digital cadastre. And digital cadastre can be displayed with location coordinates of nodes that depict parcel boundary on digital cadastral records. The transformation of digital cadastral records means that imported text data of node coordinate would be transformed into system data. This study was implemented to search reasons of errors resulted from transformation of graphic data and then to analyze the accuracy in terms of Position and area. For this, checking of software used in Geo-Spatial Information System was implemented at first and it was found that the accuracy is up by using double precision in coordinate transformation. On the position accuracy the errors at nodes was erased during making topology and the errors did not effect other nodes. On the area may the area errors because of being in error limit of allowable area had no problems in using of system
Extraction of SAR Imagery Informations for the Classification Accuracy Enhancement - Using SPOT XS and RADARSAT SAR Imagery
Seo, Byoung-Jun ; Park, Min-Ho ; Kim, Yong-Il ;
Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information System, volume 8, issue 1, 2000, Pages 121~130
For the land-cover classification we have usually used imagery of the optical sensors only. But currently a number of the satellite with various sensors are operating and the availability of using the data acquired from them are increasing. SAR sensors, in particular, can produce additional informations on the land-cover which has not been available from optical sensors. On this study, I have applied the SAR Image to the SPOT XS image in the classification procedures, and analysed the classified results. In this procedure I have extracted texture informations from SAR intensity images, then applied both intensity and texture informations. From the accuracy analysis, overall accuracy are increased slightly when the SAR texture was applied. In case of the Built-up class the results showed higher accuracy than those of when only the SPOT XS image was used. From this result I can show that overall accuracy was increased slightly but the spatial distribution of classes was visibly improved. | <urn:uuid:73d09b5d-3040-44dd-919b-ace63ce3755b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.koreascience.or.kr/journal/JournalIssueList.jsp?kojic=JHGGBL&volno=8&issno=1&cnov_no=&year_GB=2000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00216-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905177 | 2,712 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Twenty-one Iowa senators have signed a resolution that if approved would make abortion illegal in the state, but even a key supporter says it likely won't get a vote.
Republican Sen. Dennis Guth of Klemme says Friday the resolution he sponsored would make abortion illegal by amending the state constitution to define life as beginning at conception.
Although one Democrat joined with 20 Republicans in signing the resolution submitted Thursday, Guth says it likely won't come up for a vote in the Senate, where Democrats hold a majority.
To become law, two Legislatures elected in separate, consecutive elections would need to approve the measure, which then would go to voters.
Guth says the Iowa resolution is modeled after North Dakota legislation that will go to a public vote next year. | <urn:uuid:286e2a3c-6d0c-4d16-b87e-b9138f823514> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.news8000.com/news/politics/21-iowa-senators-back-putting-abortion-ban-to-vote/19908862 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00199-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973255 | 155 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Indian researchers are developing a notebook for educational purposes that will be sold for only $100:
A low-cost laptop being developed by the Indian government in tandem with two leading Indian education and research institutions will cost US$100 when available, and not $10 as was earlier stated by the government.
A spokesman for Minister of State for Higher Education, D. Purandeswari, said on Wednesday that the price of the laptop would in fact be US$100 rather than $10.
In a transcript of the speech delivered by Purandeswari at a conference in Delhi on Tuesday, which was provided by the government's press bureau to reporters, the Minister was quoted as saying that the government aims to provide $10 laptops to students. >/blockquote>
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Management of the undescended testis in children: An American Pediatric Surgical Association Outcomes and Evidence Based Practice Committee Systematic Review.
PURPOSE: Management of undescended testes (UDT) has evolved over the last decade. While urologic societies in the United States and Europe have established some guidelines for care, management by North American pediatric surgeons remains variable. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the published evidence regarding the treatment of (UDT) in children.
METHODS: A comprehensive search strategy and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines were utilized to identify, review, and report salient articles. Five principal questions were asked regarding imaging standards, medical treatment, surgical technique, timing of operation, and outcomes. A literature search was performed from 2005 to 2020.
RESULTS: A total of 825 articles were identified in the initial search, and 260 were included in the final review.
CONCLUSIONS: Pre-operative imaging and hormonal therapy are generally not recommended except in specific circumstances. Testicular growth and potential for fertility improves when orchiopexy is performed before one year of age. For a palpable testis, a single incision approach is preferred over a two-incision orchiopexy. Laparoscopic orchiopexy is associated with a slightly lower testicular atrophy rate but a higher rate of long-term testicular retraction. One and two-stage Fowler-Stephens orchiopexy have similar rates of testicular atrophy and retraction. There is a higher relative risk of testicular cancer in UDT which may be lessened by pre-pubertal orchiopexy.
Journal of pediatric surgery
Atrophy; Child; Cryptorchidism; Evidence-Based Practice; Humans; Infant; Male; Orchiopexy; Testicular Neoplasms; Testis; United States
Cryptorchidism; Orchiopexy; Testicular cancer; Undescended testis/testes
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The United States prolonged and illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands is a direct violation of Hawai‘i’s neutrality. Article 1 of the 1907 Hague Convention, V, provides “The territory of neutral Powers is inviolable,” and Article 2 provides “Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power.” The United States’ violation of these Articles have placed the residents of the Hawaiian Islands into harms way when Japan attacked U.S. military installations on O‘ahu on December 7, 1941, and continue to place Hawai‘i’s residents in harms way in the event of a nuclear attack.
According to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Base Structure Report for 2012, the U.S. military has 118 military sites that span 230,929 acres of the Hawaiian Islands, which is 20% of the total acreage of Hawaiian territory. As the headquarters for the U.S. Pacific Command, being the largest unified command in the world, the Hawaiian Islands is targeted for nuclear strikes by Russia and China. At present the concern is North Korea, as well as any adversary of the United States.
In 1990, the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published Risks and Hazards: A State by State Guide. One of the subjects included nuclear targets and identified 6 nuclear targets on the island of O‘ahu that coincided with the locations of military posts of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Also included as a target is the Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith that lies in the back of a residential area in Halawa. According to FEMA, the entire Island of O‘ahu would be obliterated if a nuclear attack were to take place.
Americanization has desensitized Hawai‘i’s population and has made the presence of the U.S. military in the islands normal. Americanization has also erased the memory of the U.S. invasion in 1893 and portrayed the military presence as protecting the islands from an aggressor country intent on invasion, when in fact the Hawaiian Islands were seized in 1898 to serve as a defense to protect the United States west coast from invasion.
After the defeat of the Spanish Pacific Squadron in the Philippines, U.S. Congressman Francis Newlands (D-Nevada), submitted House Resolution 259 annexing the Hawaiian Islands (also known as the Newlands Resolution), to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on May 4, 1898.
Six days later, hearings were held on the Newlands Resolution, and U.S. Naval Captain Alfred Mahan’s testimony explained the military significance of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States:
“It is obvious that if we do not hold the islands ourselves we cannot expect the neutrals in the war to prevent the other belligerent from occupying them; nor can the inhabitants themselves prevent such occupation. The commercial value is not great enough to provoke neutral interposition. In short, in war we should need a larger Navy to defend the Pacific coast, because we should have not only to defend our own coast, but to prevent, by naval force, an enemy from occupying the islands; whereas, if we preoccupied them, fortifications could preserve them to us. In my opinion it is not practicable for any trans-Pacific country to invade our Pacific coast without occupying Hawai‘i as a base.”
The Hawaiian Islands was and continues to be the outpost to protect the United States and their presence in the Hawaiian Islands is in violation of international law and the laws of occupation. | <urn:uuid:c1bfdf36-be23-46ee-a4b5-ecc013ab1db3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/island-of-oahu-targeted-for-nuclear-strikes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.95226 | 754 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Poet, journalist, critic, historian, editor, anthologist, and permanent “exile from respectable behavior,” Salvador Novo (1904-1974) is one of Mexico’s most distinctive and original literary figures. With his dear friend Xavier Vilaurrutia, he founded two seminal literary journals, Ulises (1927) and Contémporaneos (1928). Other members of the influential Contemporáneos group included Jaime Torres Bodet, Jorge Cuesta, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, Gilberto Owen, José Gorostiza, Enrique González Rojo—all of whom maintained a kind of double life, working in official government, administrative, or cultural ministries even as they wrote provocatively about their society.
No one was more provocative than Salvador Novo, whose lifelong war against hypocrisy outraged “proper” Mexicans and could upset even his closest friends. Famously effeminate, Novo spoke in a high voice, tweezed his eyebrows, wore elaborate makeup, dressed with an extreme elegance all his own, and brooked no conflict. “Wearing the toupee is the toupee,” is one of his legendary quips. His humor was sharp like a sword, and aimed for the jugular. At a time when jotos were arrested in violent round-ups and made to sweep the streets on the way to the train that would take them to forced labor camps in the Yucatán, Novo’s bearing was courageous.
As Carlos Monsiváis notes, Novo wrote “to be read one day, and by himself at the moment of composition.” Time catches up to Novo, who wrote at a time when Mexico had no non-derogatory word for homosexuality (if it wasn’t in the dictionary, it didn’t exist). Luckily, there is a large body of work, much of it as-yet untranslated or out of print. In addition to Pillar of Salt, the University of Texas Press will also be re-issuing War of the Fatties. But there is more, much more to be (re)discovered.—Marguerite Feitlowitz
In the third year of Preparatoria, the doors to the patio were opened for us, and we were given classes with very interesting names: psychology, ethics, logic, literature, physics, chemistry, and trigonometry. Owing to a policy that I did not then understand, the teachers were of varied background and competence. Next to one or the other survivor of Porfirismo, like the raging positivist Don Samuel García—pear-shaped, gray-haired, yet always elegant—; or the picturesque Papá Rivas, or Don Ezequiel A. Chávez, who taught psychology with his own translation of Titchener’s text—and who with equal facility leapt to offer a history course—the majority of the teachers were graduates of the Normal School, like the Director Moisés Sáenz, of whom it was whispered that he was a Sunday pastor at a Protestant church, and that he was a northerner and brother of an important revolutionary who also had a Biblical name, Aaron.
Recently arrived was a small third group of very brilliant teachers: young men who had just received their law degrees, or who were still students in that discipline: Trinidad García, Narciso Bassols, Manuel Gómez Morín, Vicente Lombardo Toledano. Their classes—full of vivacious teaching—were a strong contrast to the tedious ones taught by old Don Ezequiel or Don Samuel, the dull ones taught by Nica Rangel, the neurotic ones taught by Don Erasmo Castellano Quinto—not to omit the stultifying ones taught by the ignorant normalistas.
Don Erasmo was a real character. Suffering from paranoia, paternal to the point of tears, he greeted right and left, lifting his bowler like the top of a sugar bowl while from under the region of his hat he extended his timid turtle-head, showing a stubble going gray. Then he would retract his head, like a turtle withdrawing into its shell, and in a vertical movement pull down his hat, which never got brushed. Don Erasmo had a special affection for me. He read my poems and recited to me his own. I soon stopped attending his classes (he taught Spanish and world literature) because I already knew the texts from my solitary reading in Torreón, and Don Erasmo readily excused me. I was simply to take the trimester and final examinations, and he gave me a 10.
One afternoon, gathered on the patio, the boys were agitated, making a racket. On similar occasions, I managed to flee before anything more happened; but this time, they closed the doors, there were speeches, shouts; a certain Heriberto Barrón, notably older than the rest of us, led the fiery multitude toward the room where Moisés Sáenz was giving his chemistry class, to demand his resignation. He came out of the door pale, ashen. I never saw him again. The next day we learned that some mysterious person had conceded to the students the power to propose the new director.
We all loved Don Ezequiel—so cerulean, always carrying books under the arm whose hand, except for his large white thumb, was plunged in the right pocket of his baggy jacket, with his immaculate child-like complexion, his long, yellowish eyetooth, his smooth manners, his affectionate, repetitive dedications such as the one he wrote in my Titchener: “You are called Salvador; may you always justify your name; may you have thoughts that rescue and never injure, never have thoughts that could kill. Affectionately and cordially, with sincere wishes for your true well-being, your teacher Ezequiel A. Chávez.
Don Ezequiel was named director, to the pleasure and applause of everyone. Arriving at his sunny office through a small interior patio was his secretary, a fair, elegant, young man with wavy hair, whose name was Jaime Torres Bodet.
A few months before, I had begun a casual friendship with a boy in the class ahead of me: the third and fourth years were sharing classrooms off the large patio. I don’t remember how we began seeing each other. Given his inquisitive spirit, it must have been he who approached me, having learned that I had poems published in the school magazine, Policromías, where his first verses had also appeared.
We did not have classes together, but found times to chat; upon learning that he lived at 95 calle Mina, and I on calle Guerrero, I started calling for him at his house whence we would to walk to Preparatoria, which wasn’t far and took us along quiet, little-used streets.
Xavier [Villaurrutia] had a large family: brothers and sisters. They lived on the lower floors of a stone house shaped like a “7,” with patio and corridor bordered by iron railings, a living room with two balconies giving onto the street, a parallel dining room, and then the numerous bedrooms. Once he invited me home to eat, so I met his mother, Doña Julia González, and a few of his brothers and sisters. They all played tennis, and the girls were champions. Their brothers had a sort of small bank or financial firm on Avenida Cinco de Mayo, and a few times I accompanied Xavier when he went there to receive his monthly allowance. Little by little I learned that the family also included writers, artists, and relatives who were very wealthy.. They possessed original Ruelas, which Xavier showed me with pride. I also learned—for he confided, reticently and swearing me to secrecy—that the family had also had conjugal tragedies and pathetic nervous illnesses.
The predilection that Don Ezequiel showed toward me must have induced him to introduce the “distinguished student” to the young secretary of the Preparatoria, a poet, Xavier informed me, who taught literature classes in another school—Advanced Studies—near our own. Between classes, I began visiting Jaime Torres Bodet. In his office he introduced me to another young poet and friend of his, who seemed always to be there: Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano. By then my family had moved to San Rafael, to a very large house on the corner of Icazbalceta and Altamirano. Jaime lived at 116 Altamirano. After his work at Preparatoria, we used to ride the same passenger truck toward San Rafael. He would say he was going to prepare his class for the following day: Greek literature at the School of Advanced Studies. Other afternoons, when he would not have to prepare his class, Bernardo would call for him and once they invited me to accompany them to take tea with orange scones at the Selecty—a small café across from the Hotel Iturbide.
One morning I brought Xavier to meet Jaime in his office. Their mutual love of French literature didn’t take long to surface. Jaime and Bernardo had already published books of verse—Jaime, Fervor, in 1918; Bernardo, Avidez, not long after. But the first book that Jaime gifted me was his annotated volume of texts by Gide, adorned with a prologue sparkling with learned quotes, published by the imprint de Cultura. “Because of this prologue”—he commented, with concealed satisfaction—“they say my brain is a house of citations.”
Gide and Huysmans were two authors Xavier had introduced me to. Against the Grain (A Rebours) and The Immoralist—which today seem to us so ingenuous—shook us up with their revelations. Of course we had also read, with fruitful, admiring guilt, The Picture of Dorian Gray. The conversation about Wilde was bringing us closer to sharing confidences. I did not dissimulate my inclinations: Xavier seemed not to have discovered his, or he was resisting acknowledging them. Its recognition, or definition, occurred as befit a life reined in by the strictest literary structures: in the letters we exchanged during the last visit I made with my mother to Torreón. I had spoken in mine about the shock of re-encountering the vestiges of my childhood; the young men I now saw with different eyes; Ángel Gallardo about whom Pedro Alvarado had spoken: and whom I searched out and brought to my bed, as though—in neurotic vengeance—I sought to change places with my rapist, and thereby see myself anew. Xavier finally confided in his letters the jubilation of discovering himself—and of the hopeless love he felt for Paco Argüelles, the history teacher’s handsome son. His letters were very beautiful, and I will never sufficiently regret committing the stupidity of losing them in lending them to the Collie Bitch before our definitive rupture.
For my part, I could also feel the flowering of loving desire for a classmate: happy, athletic, and carefree, an excellent dancer with lots of girlfriends and romantic adventures: Fernando Robert, who fled from my friendship, which inflamed me even more.
Having discovered the sidelong world of those who understood one another with a look, I was finding those looks just by walking down the street: the Avenida Moreno, where, in the evenings, people went for a leisurely stroll. There, always guarding the door to El Globo, with his cane, his gaiters, his silk jacket, his gaze behind his pince-nez lazy but alert, his groomed, gray mustache, was Señor Aristi, who was called Tight Ass; next door to El Globo was the studio of licenciado Solórzano—who according to Ricardo sang opera arias (Ninon, Ninon qu’as-tu fait de la vie), and who was called Tamales because he made his conquests by inviting young men to a late afternoon snack of “a few little tamales and a beer.” Along this strip would come Mother Meza, on the hunt for human goods and clients, who never slept with the merchandise he procured for his buyers, the refined survivors of Porfirismo. He would approach young men, induce them to learn the guitar, which he offered to teach them free of charge—and once in his room, took the measure of their cocks with a tape measure, opening the doors to a peremptory, but immediately lucrative trade with his rich clients.
Mother Meza occupied one of the two much larger rooms inhabited in that building by others of his kind: Father Tortolero’s, full of chasubles and church ornaments; Salvador Acosto's, with only a wide bed that was always occupied. There were others, whom I didn’t know, who visited him; it wasn’t so that I would sleep with them, but so I could pass on to them my own conquests later. However in that room I met practically the entire fauna of the epoch: Father Vallejo Macouzet, who was called Demon Sister, bore the scar from a knife wound on his lip, and was famous for the clientele of young boys who visited him in his Santo Domingo church; Father Garbuno, from Guadalajara, who always went around with Demon Sister; the Devil on the Corner—a Mr. Martell, famous because it was said he had paid 1,000 gold pesos to a bullfighter for a private sword thrust—and the licenciado Marmolejo, ugly as an idol, who used to keep a special box in the curtained desk of his law office containing the pillow he would throw on the floor where he slept with young men and belch all over them; and Water Goddess, an antiques dealer, married, with grown children and numerous grandchildren, but convinced that his conquests were all madly in love with him.
At the suggestion of the Virgin of Istanbul, we decided to set up our own studio shared by the three most assiduous accomplices: he and Xavier, already steady lovers, and I, free and on my own. The three of us shared the rent—thirty pesos a month, light included—in a large room in an office building, on the corner of Donceles—or Maiden Street—and Argentina, very close to the Preparatoria, where we were all in our final year.
It was the year of the Centenary of Independence—1921—and the celebrations were marked by the strident resurrection of ornamental nationalism: buildings resurfaced with rose-colored tezontle, the publication of Dr. Atl’s two-volume Traditional Arts of Mexico, which sought to exalt tepalcate earthenware, and which was published by the powerful Minister of Industry, Miguel Alessio Robles—Clara’s brother. We were entranced by the exhibition of traditional art installed in the Regis. One painter, by the name of Montenegro, recently returned from Europe, had decorated a pavilion with stylizations of nopal cactus and cactus fruits on green and red flannel trimmed to make a frieze. Hanging calabash functioned as lights, making the Porfirian candles unnecessary and ridiculous, and the serapes from Oaxaca, Saltillo, Tlaxcala, were as splendid and coveted as Gobelin tapestries and Persian rugs had been in times past.
I enthusiastically latched on to this style, decorating our “studio” with weavings, needlework, and other handicrafts. From the headboard of the couch we hung a small idol with large buttocks, which we called Saint Bollocks; from this “sacrificial perch,” he presided over our scenes. And in a touch of extreme nationalism, I employed a small calabash as the most appropriate vessel for the Vaseline required for our rites.
We purchased an earthen tea set, and took tea in the afternoons with thick cookies, fruit of the oven’s womb, which I bought from the bakeries nearby, happy to have a home to call our own. We invited our friends to “at homes,” and were soon known by our set as “the girls on Maiden Street.”
We didn’t always have the money to pay our rent when it came due. Of the three partners, Xavier was the only one with an adequate monthly allowance; but the Virgin knew how to handle himself with his modest friends. He brought to the studio a lover—Don Tito Gasco Rojo: a dark, squat old man who owned a pharmacy and a record shop on Avenida Madero. We left them alone. That month, the Virgin paid the whole rent. The next, it was my penitential turn to receive the voluminous, belching visit of the licenciado Marmolejo.
The balcony of our fourth-floor studio gave onto calle de Donceles across from the upper offices of the Ministry of Industry. I sat on this balcony, and looked toward the street. It must have been five in the afternoon. Weeks before, as we were leaving Preparatoria, Jaime Torres Bodet had introduced me to a Central American poet favored by Vasconcelos. With a wave of his white, carefully groomed hand, he had said, “The poet Rafael Heliodoro Valle”—and then, with a slightly mischievous smile—“and the poet Salvador Novo.”
His ugliness was to me as immediately repulsive as his incongruous brazen nerve. I asked him if he liked I no longer remember which poet; and he said, “What I like is to be penetrated hard,” sticking out his fat, dark lower lip. Then he took out his special cigarettes, gave us each one; we lit up, I sucked in—three times, holding my breath, as he taught us.
He started to recite his poems. I looked out on the street. Time was suspended. The light was white, an absolute white, deafening silence.
When I came to, I found myself stretched out on the couch. I was surrounded by the anguished faces of Xavier, the Virgin, and Dr. Mendoza, who had resuscitated me with injections. It was already ten at night. Frightened by their exploit, Heliodor and the marijuana poet had left.
The marijuana had had no bad effects, however, on the Virgin or on Xavier. Maybe they hadn’t inhaled as strongly as I had, drawn as I was to any unfamiliar or exciting form of excess. The Virgin recounted that in other studios, as in the novels of Jean Lorrain, he had taken ether, and it was true that lulled by the sound of bells, he had reached nirvana.
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Sand and cement on plasterboard
Hi paul hope you well recieved your dvd and very pleased,will tackle skimming spare room soon! Quick question does sand and cement stick to plasterboard?
Sand & Cement will not stick to plasterboard - however if the plasterboard is properly prepared it will do.
This may not be officially guaranteed but this is what I have done in the past:
Apply a 50:50 solution of PVA to plasterboard
Mix some sand in with neat PVA to form a slurry mix and roller this onto the plasterboard.
This dries to form a very rough surface to which sand & cement will stick to.
However it should be noted that plasterboard is designed to have the finish coat applied directly to it. If it needs levelling then boding coat will stick to plasterboard no problem.
But if it is to practice or for any other reason then one or two coats of the slurry mix will help you apply sand & cement.
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During this period estrada – which includes comedy, literary readings, and circus arts as well as popular song – saw the birth of tangos, foxtrots, waltzes, and big bands. MacFadyen shows how a nomadic art form survived the pressures of business before the 1917 Revolution and those of politics afterwards. The author traces the careers of early singers such as Izabella Iur’eva, Tamara Tsereteli, and others who struggled to continue to perform as they fled the dangers of a Soviet society that had little patience for cafe-culture. MacFadyen follows their trail through Eastern Europe to Paris and London, then across to New York and San Francisco, and back into Russia through the smoky, emigre bars of colourful Chinese towns. He pays particular attention to the notion of “mass” songs inside the Soviet Union and explores the relationship of official and public approval. By looking at how these performers used success at home and abroad to become recording stars, film stars, and eventually television personalities, MacFadyen avoids the conventional dichotomies about the East Block to show the complexity of Soviet culture.
The Department of Comparative Literature
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As of Monday, March 30, 2020, at 5 p.m. Gallatin County has a total of 69 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those cases, zero patients in the county are hospitalized.
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All Gallatin County cases consist of community transmission, close contact, and travel related history.
We know during this trying time, folks may be in need of services ranging from medical resources, housing or food assistance, or child and family related services.
If you need to get connected to services in our community, the Great Gallatin United Way can help. The organization maintains a contact list of a wide range of social service and mental health resources in Gallatin County, available at https://www.greatergallatinunitedway.org/gallatin-county-mental-health-resource-guide.
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By Alyson Kenward
Los Angeles Times
Over the summer and on into the fall, images of flames, smoke plumes, firefighting teams and ruined homes have been on replay, and with good reason: As of Aug. 31, this year tied the record for total acreage burned by wildfires, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. More than 8.4 million acres have burned to date — an area larger than the state of Maryland up in flames.
But as intense as the wildfires have been this year, they provide just a glimpse of the future of the American West.
In a new study, my colleagues and I analyzed more than four decades of fire data from the U.S. Forest Service. We found a clear long-term trend toward more and larger fires in 11 Western states.
On average, there are now more than 100 “large” fires (fires that consume at least 1,000 acres) each year on Forest Service land. In the 1970s there were fewer than 50. Compared with an average year in the 1970s, each year during the last decade saw seven times more fires that burned more than 10,000 acres, and five times more fires larger than 25,000 acres.
Many factors help drive wildfires, including land-use practices such as logging and fire suppression, day-to-day weather variability and insect and pest infestations. And humans remain the No. 1 reason fires ignite in the first place. But as temperatures have dramatically increased in the Western U.S., wildfires have gotten more frequent and more intense.
And temperatures in the West have climbed faster than in the rest of the country. In the Southwest and Rocky Mountain states, for example, average summer temperatures have risen by 1.6 degrees since 1970, according to our analysis. Scientists aren’t yet able to say how much climate change has influenced temperature change in the West, but the warming is consistent with changes across North America that have been linked to higher levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Climate models also show that in the coming decades, temperatures in the Western U.S. will probably keep rising.
The National Research Council recently reported that for every degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature rise, the size of the area burned in the Western U.S. could quadruple. Consistent with the council’s findings and previous studies, our research shows that the years with more large fires typically had higher-than-average spring and summer temperatures.
In recent decades, spring has become longer and warmer, and the snowpack has melted one to four weeks earlier than it did 50 years ago across the West, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Higher temperatures and earlier snowmelt in turn can increase the volume of dry trees and brush available to ignite and burn, particularly at higher elevations. Not surprisingly, our analysis reveals a clear trend over the last 40 years where wildfires start earlier and burn later in the year, effectively stretching the “burn season” by 75 days, an additional 21/2 months of wildfires each year.
These trends are particularly startling for certain states. Since the 1970s, the average number of fires larger than 1,000 acres in a year has nearly quadrupled in Arizona and Idaho and has doubled in every other Western state, from the Rockies to the West Coast, except Washington.
This year, New Mexico endured the largest recorded wildfire in that state’s history. Colorado sustained more than half a billion dollars in 2012 wildfire-related damages . Eight firefighters have lost their lives this year trying to protect homes and the public lands that provide jobs and recreation for millions of Americans in the West.
Limiting wildfires must be a top priority for those of us who call the West home. Developing effective plans and tools to do that, however, means recognizing how climate change is working against us, and that it will probably make the record-breaking fires of 2012 a normal Western summer in the not-too-distant future.
Alyson Kenward is a scientist and analyst at Climate Central, which sponsored the study on Forest Service fire data in the West. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times. Distributed by MCT Information Services
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Throughout much of last year, Scott Shenker delivered a presentation that is considered a seminal touchstone in software-defined networking. The presentation is called “The Future of Networking, and the Past of Protocols,” and an early version of it can be viewed here, though later iterations also are available online.
Shenker is a co-founder and chief scientist at Nicira Networks. He also is holds the title of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Nick McKeown and Martin Casado — the other co-founders of Nicira — he is widely regarded as a thought leader in the SDN community. (There are SDN intellectual luminaries beyond Nicira’s walls, but it’s notable that these three have combined their talents under one corporate roof.)
Technology is Easy, People Are Hard
In this post, I want to summarize a few salient thoughts featured in Shenker’s presentation. I will refer to these ideas in subsequent posts (well, at least one, anyway) that explore the commercial potential and the cultural challenges SDN might face in an enterprise world, where — pardon the paraphrasing of the legendary showbiz quote attributed to Donald Wolfit — technology is easy, but people are hard. (Nicira probably knows as much, which is why it is targeting cloud service providers rather than enterprises, at least for now.)
In his presentation, Shenker starts with an academic paradox based on his experiences as a professor at UC Berkeley. He says his colleagues who teach operating systems or databases provide instruction on fundamental principles, such as synchronization and mutual exclusion. Conversely, when he teaches introductory networking, he teaches his students about a “bag of protocols.” There are no real principles in networking, he argues.
Beyond academia, in the realm of the practical and quotidian, Shenker notes that computation and storage have been virtualized and have become flexible and easy to manage, but “not so much with networks,” where protocol complexity reigns.
Masters of Complexity
He then asks why the intellectual foundations of networking are so weak, and wonders how those foundations can be made stronger. Shenker explains that networks were simple and easy to mange initially, starting off with straightforward Ethernet and IP designs. New control requirements resulted in complexity. He says ACLs, VLANs, traffic engineering, middleboxes, and deep packet inspection have complicated what was an elegant architectural design.
Network infrastructure still works, Shenker says, because the networking industry and its professionals are masters of complexity. Unfortunately, the ability to master complexity is a mixed blessing. Complex systems typically are built on weak foundations. The systems are complex because the foundations are weak, and the networking industry has become adept at treating the symptoms rather than curing the disease.
He points out that good user interfaces are not produced by masters of complexity, noting that the ability to master complexity is very different from the ability to extract simplicity. (He tells an amusing anecdote on this theme hearkening back to his time at Xerox PARC.) Moreover, when one masters complexity, one has to do it for every single problem. When you extract simplicity, the benefits last longer and can be applied more broadly.
Shenker examines how computer programming was simplified over time. He looks at how useful abstractions were defined and evolved to extract simplicity and make programming tasks easier. Abstractions shield users from low-level details.
While abstraction has been at the center of much work in computer science, Shenker explains that has not been true in networking. He says abstractions have been addressed in layers that provide data-plane service abstractions, as exemplified by IP’s best-effort delivery and TCP’s reliable byte stream. These abstractions convey ideas about what the network can do for us, but Shenker says they’re terrible interfaces because they violate the principle of modularity. It works, he says, but it’s based on bad system-design decisions.
At the control-plane, where useful abstractions do not exist, Shenker says SDN’s goal is to break the bad habit of adding to network complexity. Networking addresses control issues today by defining new protocols, such as for routing, or by designing a new ad-hoc mechanism, such as for traffic engineering; or it leaves the problem to be addressed by manual operator configuration, as is done with access control and middleboxes.
He then looks at how such modular abstractions can be applied to network controls. It’s all about applying abstractions to simplify control tasks relating to forwarding models, distributed state, and detailed configuration.
In SDN, the forwarding model shields the above layers from the particular low-level forwarding design, which could involve possibilities such as a general x86 program, MPLS, or OpenFlow.
OpenFlow: Good Enough for Now
On OpenFlow, Shenker later in his presentation offers the following:
“OpenFlow is one possible solution (as a configuration mechanism); it’s clearly not the right solution. I mean, it’s a very good solution for now, but there’s nothing that says this is fundamentally the right answer. Think of Open Flow as x86 instruction set. Is the x86 instruction set correct? Is it the right answer? No, It’s good enough for what we use it for. So why bother changing it? That’s what Open Flow is. It’s the instruction set we happen to use, but let’s not get hung up on it.”
As for state distribution, Shenker said the control program should not have to deal with the vagaries of distributed state. An abstraction should shield the control program from sate dissemination/collection. A network operating system can provide that abstraction, delivering a global view of the underlying network.
The control program will operate on this network view, which is essentially a graph, providing input on required device configuration across the network.
Three Basic Interfaces
In Shenker’s view, there are three basic network interfaces tied to SDN abstractions. There’s the forwarding interface, which provides a flexible, abstract forwarding model; there’s the global network view, which shields higher layers from state dissemination/collection; and there is the abstract network view, which shields the control program from details of the physical network.
He points out that these abstractions “are not just academic playthings.” They change where we focus our attention and thus enable much greater functionality from less effort. As a result, there will be no more need to design distributed control protocols. Instead, you would define control programs (applications) over an abstract model. Writing control programs becomes about what you want to have happen, not how to make it happen.
Bringing the presentation full circle, and reconciling it neatly with its title, Shenker contends that the future of networking lies in cleaner abstractions, not in the ongoing definition of complicated distributed protocols. As Shenker puts it, “the era of ‘a new protocol per problem’ is over.”
Networking definitely seems to be heading in the direction Shenker envisages, but I’m not sure the old networking establishment is prepared to bury its “bag of protocols” just yet. As Shenker himself has said, it takes years to internalize and evaluate abstractions. It might take longer for networking professionals — vendors and customers alike — to adjust to software-oriented network programmability. | <urn:uuid:46c9e8d0-8fcb-4f3c-a34c-e48a0d7e34c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://nerdtwilight.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/sdn-aims-to-ditch-bag-of-protocols/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00295-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952472 | 1,566 | 1.757813 | 2 |
|Surviving Human Nature|
Living on the Edge
Persisting dangers posed by the human tendency to injure and kill other humans can be overwhelmed by nature’s tendency to destroy and kill. Humans die from planetary events over which they have little or no control. Earthquakes are a constant expression of tectonic plates in motion. There are regular events such as volcanic eruptions, fires and storms and irregular events such as tornados and hurricanes. Humans insist on living in areas that have frequent earthquakes or extreme weather events and more less accept the risk. You could argue that a prudent person would not live in a high risk zone or would build a home that could withstand any adversity that might arrive one day. Preparations can be made to warn against or to mitigate the consequences of some events, but overall, risk taking is a fatalistic resignation to the greater forces of nature.
Humans are used to living on the edge and have a tendency to deny their own involvement in causing calamities. Despite much information to the contrary, too many humans pretend that unusual weather events are "Acts of God" and that things will return to normal next year. But will they? And what is normal?
The planet's thermostat had been set at a pleasant average temperature of 59 degrees (F) for the last 10 thousand years or so and is now undergoing a rapid change. Global warming means that the earth retains more of the sun's heat over time. The warming effect of greenhouse gases is reduced by particle pollution and clouds that block incoming infrared radiation. Without particle pollution, ice crystals and water vapor in the atmosphere, global warming would be more rapid.
Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values over the past 650,000 years. Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is likely due to the observed increase in human greenhouse gas concentrations. Anthropogenic warming and sea level rise would continue for centuries due to the timescales associated with climate processes and feedbacks, even if greenhouse gas concentrations were to be stabilized soon, although the likely amount of temperature and sea level rise varies greatly depending on the fossil intensity of human activity during the next century .The probability that this is caused by natural climatic processes alone is less than 5%.
World temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 °C (2.0 and 11.5 °F) during the 21st century:
Sea levels will probably rise by 18 to 59 cm (7.08 to 23.22 in)
There is a confidence level >90% that there will be more frequent warm spells, heat waves and heavy rainfall.
There is a confidence level >66% that there will be an increase in droughts, tropical cyclones and extreme high tides.
The adverse effect of climate change depends on where you live. Low lying coastal areas, already vulnerable to ocean storms, tsunamis and floods will become uninhabitable with increasing sea levels. The vulnerable zone includes large coastal cities. In the US, New Orleans was the first to go. New York, Miami, Boston and San Francisco are vulnerable cities. More expansive high risk zones exist around flood prone rivers that overflow when rain storms dump excess water on land that has been stripped of protective vegetation. Increased rates of rainfall that overwhelm river capacities are observed in warming climate zones.
Much attention has been paid to estimating and predicting the average temperature increase of the atmosphere as a whole. Long-term predictions are best guesses and may be misleading. Local heating effects are observable as wind and rain -- more heat produces more extreme weather events. Heat drives weather and increased heat means increased turbulence in the atmosphere. The consequences vary with the distribution of this extra heat and its effect on ocean and air circulation patterns. We can accept paradoxical weather results as the extra heat makes weather systems more turbulent and changes air and water circulation patterns. The main concern should be the effect of heat retention on local climates right now.
It is possible to imagine increasingly anomalous weather and increasing loss of life and property from greenhouse gas accumulation with little or no change in the average temperature of the planet, although, we do expect slow progressive increase in average temperatures. You can increase the temperature in some areas and decrease in others and you can alternate - the differential effect will drive storms and precipitation in unusual ways. By the end of 1998, we knew that weather extremes were becoming commonplace and loss of life and property from adverse weather increased.
These more destructive weather events promise to continue. Insurance companies are increasing rates, limiting coverage or going out of business. Hurricane Andrew was the first of the worst weather disasters in US history that caused 16.5 billion dollars in insured loses, bankrupting smaller insurance companies. The UN panel on climate change estimated that windstorm damage increased from $500 million in the 60's to over $11 billion in the 90's and the annual bill in the 21st century may be hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Before 1987, storms had never caused insured loses exceeding $1 billion; there have been a succession of $100 billion-plus disasters since. Hurricane Katrina that destroyed New Orleans in 2005 killed 1300 people, left one million homeless with direct costs estimated at $125 billion. The costly destruction continues worldwide.
The release of the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a milestone that confirms a scientific consensus that we have a problem of catastrophic proportions and mandates the necessity of achieving a political consensus that that will lead to real and effective action in all the countries on planet earth. The climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009 involved 200 nations who failed to achieve enforceable agreements to reduce carbon emissions. If you were an optimist you might value the Accord that was achieved, a five-page document that represented another tentative step toward global action to reduce atmospheric pollution and climate change. A realist would restate our understanding of human nature – that local interests always trump global concerns and local interests are divergent and divisive. US President Obama stated: “I think that people are justified in being disappointed about the outcome in Copenhagen. The science says that we’ve got to significantly reduce emissions over the next 40 years. There’s nothing in the Copenhagen agreement that ensures that will happen.”
There is no need to wait until 2050 to find out what is going to happen. Political action should swift and definitive, but of course, it is not. The task of leading fellow humans from a self-destructive path requires intelligent and compassionate superheroes. In Dec. 2007, Al Gore shared a Nobel Prize with the IPCC, a United Nations agency. In his acceptance speech, Gore, made another passionate plea of recognition of the climate crisis and the need for cooperative action across the planet. Gore warned that “we, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency — a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential: we have the ability to solve this crisis and avoid the worst of its consequences, if we act boldly, decisively and quickly.”
One correction is that humans and other animals are in peril, not the planet. Planet Earth is a work in progress that changes continuously. No environment has been stable over the stretch of millions of years and climates change without human help. The problem today is that human activities have changed the environment quickly and that current arrangements to supply clean air, good food and clean water are not sustainable.
Disruptions in ecosystems, economic systems, political systems are inevitable. Changes in human behavior must come from all people who sense danger, seek to understand their options and change spontaneously. The same issues come up in personal and public health concerns - constructive change is required.
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The world is watching a geostrategic earthquake from which will emerge an America more alone than ever.
The Donald Trump presidency has entered a critical point. After breaking the Iran nuclear treaty this week, on Monday, he gave the green light for opening the embassy in Jerusalem. Afterward, he is to decide the fate of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, then the fate of the tariff war with Europe, and on June 12, the nuclear future of North Korea. In just a month, the world will watch a geostrategic earthquake from which will emerge the new order dreamed of by Trump. One in which America is more alone than ever before.
Europe currently finds itself very far from the United States. While German Chancellor Angela Merkel judges that now she can no longer trust in the United States, Trump passes pleasant hours at home. Unemployment is at its lowest level since 2000. Internal scandals are dampened by external winds and his ratings are trending up. “His support returned to levels he had the day of his election. If the elections of 2016 were held today, we would have a similar result: Hillary Clinton would gain the popular vote, but Trump would triumph in the Electoral College,” said analyst Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.*
This recovery of the president’s poll numbers, as with everything about him, paints a paradoxical picture. There is one predictable part, rooted in his fiscal reforms and the booming economy, and another, unexpected, which corresponds to his international agenda. The television “showman” who does not have diplomatic experience, the isolationist who has never had to deal with heads of state, is, at this moment, fighting his great political battle beyond the borders.
The decision to bomb Syria, break up the nuclear treaty with Iran, distance himself from his Atlantic allies, transfer the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and meet face to face with the leader of North Korea, gives him, among other things, that which he has never had: an air of statesmanship. Not that it has diminished Democratic criticism of him. On the contrary, the anti-Trumpist furor does not stop growing, and Barack Obama himself broke his silence. But, in the permanent agitation in which Trump transformed his presidency, polarization gives him the electoral fuel he needs. His “base,” similar to what happened when he was a candidate, identifies itself now with a powerful and effective president. A man capable of changing not only Washington, but also the world.
“We have arrived at a crucial moment in the foreign policy of the U.S. It is a month when everything comes together and the risks are many. The conversations with North Korea, the sanctions again Iran and the opening of the embassy could detonate great crises,” noted Jonathan Schanzer, an analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.*
Trump did not make this trip alone. He adopted the Israeli agenda in the Middle East, imposed an isolationist creed in the White House and radicalized himself. A man of abrasive instincts, during the first 12 months of his term, the moderate wing restrained his desire for rupture. The strategist Gary Cohn, national security counselor to H.R. McMaster, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acted as counterweights. They were the last line of resistance facing the presidential explosions.
This is the year of midterm legislative elections, crucial to maintaining control of the Congress and avoiding eventual impeachment. Trump has protested against the moderate wing vehemently. In its place, he has chosen a team of falcons led by new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Free from his moorings and encouraged by his supporters, he initiated a grand external offensive. The rule is clear: Impose outside, gain points inside.
“Obama understood that the United States, for its power, had a global responsibility. For Trump these responsibilities don’t exist, just rights. While other nations must meet their demands, the U.S. has no commitments to anyone,” writes analyst Peter Beinart.**
Under this exceptionalism, Trump now heads toward his greatest challenge: the face-to-face meeting with the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. On June 12, the Republican president will meet with Kim in Singapore.*** The objective will extend much beyond nuclear dismantling. The goal is to reaffirm, upon the ruins of multilateralism, the American world hegemony.
On this premise, Trump prepares his game. Counting on the support of China, he will lead an army, infinitely superior to that of North Korea, and after a year of threats and testosterone-fueled arguments, the two contenders have arrived at seemingly calm waters. Kim released the last three American hostages in his possession. And Trump even humanized him, who, just a short time ago, he called short and fat. “Kim is honorable and wants to bring Korea into the real world,” Trump said.*
These measures are being taken before the meeting, a meeting on a razor’s edge, of which few dare to predict the result, although it has been presented in terms of all or nothing. If he triumphs, Trump will have succeeded in doing something that no one expected of him. “The world would be a safer place,” Schanzer said.* However, if it fails, then there would be no more diplomatic cartridges to spend. What would remain at the forefront would be just the use of force and threats of a nuclear conflict. It would be the debut of Trump’s new world order.
Iran and North Korea: The Strategy of All or Nothing
Trump kicked at the Middle East playing board with an eye on North Korea. On Tuesday, the president of the United States claimed that he had decided to abandon the treaty signed in 2015 with Iran because it had neither served to reduce “the malign behavior” of Tehran in the region nor frozen its ballistic missile program and its capacity to resume following the nuclear path. Using this argument, although Iran had scrupulously complied with the Vienna stipulations, Washington re-established sanctions, including against its principal European allies, and shot instability into a land soaked with blood. “At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction: that a murderous regime only desired a peaceful nuclear energy program … In just a short period of time, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons,” Trump justified.
The reaction against this was extensive. In the United States, it was led by Obama. “The consistent flouting of agreements that our country is a party to risks eroding America’s credibility, and puts us at odds with the world’s major powers,” the ex-president warned.
The White House thinks differently. Far from embracing the argument that the U.S. loses credibility by breaking the accord which they sponsored and signed, the president’s falcons consider that not only was the treaty weak, but also that unilaterally pulling out of it strengthens Washington in its negotiation with Pyongyang. For them, this attitude makes it clear that the U.S. will only accept a complete treaty in Singapore. This is the doctrine of all or nothing. Negotiating with a pistol in hand. Or as Trump said, “They have to know that now the USA does not make empty threats.”*
*Editor’s note: Although accurately translated, these quoted remarks could not be independently verified.
**Translator’s note: Although accurately translated, the exact wording of Peter Beinart’s quote could not be independently verified, however, the sentiment contained in the remark mirrors his views as expressed in his article in the May 2018 issue of The Atlantic.
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Sir Elton John says he's worried about the difficult childhood facing his son as he battles against homophobia and the impact of his father's fame.
The singer says he is preparing himself for what would be a rough time growing up for his son Zachary, who is now 19 months old.
Speaking to the Radio Times he said the toddler was still unaware of his father's celebrity status.
Sir Elton John said he wanted to prepare his son for the comments he would face at school as other children point out he has two dads.
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Why is using native plants important?
It all comes down to this: every little bit helps. If you can add native plantings or convert plantings on a balcony, a small bed in your townhouse garden or an acre of grass to a native plant palette, you will actively make a difference in our Chesapeake landscape. You will provide high quality seeds and nectar that local birds and pollinators need. For an excellent and more detailed, yet short, answer, please read this post from Gardenista!
…lists places you can buy native plants.
…offers alternatives to popular non-native plants. For most of your favorite non-native plants, there will be a native plant you can use.
…gives you oodles of information about gardening with native plants. All of this will lead you to a unique garden landscape that, no matter the size, creates more habitat to support the Chesapeake Bay watershed. | <urn:uuid:b390480d-8099-410d-bc52-991a902713bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nutsfornatives.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.889938 | 190 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Post 2266 described the essentials of masculine love as it begins at birth before sexual interest and sexual ability develop. I described it wrapped in simplicity this way. a) He finds her likeable and wants to be with her. b) For insurance against competitors, he makes himself loyal to her. She sees that as his being in love, but it’s not quite. c) He convinces himself that she finds him extremely likeable. d) He confirms to himself that she’s loyal to him exclusively. e) He gently slips into the role of being devoted to her, which is the version of his love that she needs before accepting his proposal.
However, I also wrote, “I bypass the consequences of conquest as it may or may not affect the following.” Then, I was diverted and promptly forgot to finish the job. I offer this more complete series as recovery.
I choose to start over and summarize both the characteristics and essentials for successful sexual involvement in masculine love. I cover it in six phases: birth, boyhood, puberty, before conquest, after conquest, and after marriage.
BIRTH brings forth the ‘four-leg’ foundation required for a man’s love to be sufficiently rewarding that he bonds with someone. That foundation—mutual likeability and mutual loyalty—is required throughout life for manly bonding with others.
Of course the definition of likeability spreads and impacts every interpersonal factor between two people. More later about how both sexes benefit.
BOYHOOD brings forth the ‘four-leg’ foundation but in reverse. Parents through both actions and words convince sons that they are very likeable and that parents are loyal to boyhood interests. Sons respond by finding parents equally likeable and aim their loyalty toward parents more than someone else. Thus, a boy’s ability to love and the intensity of it develops to the extent that parental actions primarily and words secondarily confirm son’s likeability. (Girls seem to regard words as more affirming but they are sensitive to actions contrary to words.)
PUBERTY brings forth the reversal of a boy’s bonding sequence. In a months-long conversion of intentions, boys swing away from bonding as done in childhood. Developing rapidly and changing hormonally, they become far more independent and somewhat skilled at interpreting and shaping human relations to match their taste and intention. Claiming greater independence, they shift to bonding with whomever they find likeable and to whom they can be loyal. When ‘whomever’ reciprocates likeability and loyalty, newly bonded friends spread their wings and share feedback with whatever arrangement they can develop through ever riskier adventures that bring both success and failure. They self-teach by taking advantage of girls without letting the girls know they are learning from the girls. (As girls go, so goes teen life and so goes society when they become adults.)
Simultaneously, the hunter-conqueror role develops and gains ever more importance throughout the teen years. The maturing boy becomes fascinated with sex and mission oriented toward conquests. He spreads his wings and interests to discover how to conquer girls. Through success and failure he develops a skill level that impacts his self-respect for later life.
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Source Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels reflect intrahepatic hepatitis B virus (HBV) covalently closed circular DNA and may be a valuable addition to HBV DNA in the management of patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). Among HBeAg-negative CHB patients with low HBV DNA levels, HBsAg quantification may help distinguish those with active CHB from true inactive carriers with a very favourable prognosis, thus limiting the need for long-term intensive monitoring of ALT and HBV DNA levels. In patients treated with peginterferon (PEG-IFN), achievement of a decline in HBsAg during therapy appears to be an important marker for treatment outcome, and several groups have proposed stopping rules based on HBsAg thresholds.
A recently described stopping rule incorporating a combination of HBsAg and HBV DNA levels can accurately identify HBeAg-negative patients, especially those with HBV genotype D, not responding to PEG-IFN. Current applications of HBsAg levels in the monitoring of patients treated with nucleo(s)tide analogues are still being evaluated. First data from these studies show that HBsAg decline, and thus subsequent clearance, is confined to those with an active immune response to HBV, such as HBeAg-positive patients with elevated ALT, or those who achieve HBeAg clearance. | <urn:uuid:63e36d9c-02ef-4052-815b-3ba55f7fd1df> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.chronicliverdisease.org/disease_focus/articles/article.cfm?article=CLD_HBV_Sonneveld07062011-113621&dstate=hbv | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00420-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918606 | 319 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Monday in Asia, the yen rose to its highest level in almost 4-weeks against the dollar after Lawrence Summers said the U.S. economy will keep shrinking and as the spread of swine flu boosted demand for Japan's currency as a refuge from the recession. The yen also jumped to multi-day highs against the currencies of Europe, U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, in Fox News Sunday stated that he suspects that the U.S. economy will continue to decline for some time to come. Summers also said that it was clear that there were going to be sharp declines in employment for quite some time this year.
The International Monetary Fund, which held meeting last week in Washington, cut its forecast for each of the Group of Seven economies for this year and next year. The IMF, established in 1944 to aid countries in financial crisis, said the U.S. economy would shrink 2.8 percent this year and have no growth in 2010, with unemployment rising to 10.1 percent.
The yen and the dollar rose today and the Mexican peso fell on concern about the spread of swine flu, which has killed 103 people in Mexico and infected people in the United States and Canada.
The World Health Organisation declared the flu a public health emergency of international concern that could become a global outbreak of serious disease.
The Mexican peso fell 2 percent against the dollar in Asian trade, although Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens tried to reassure markets, saying the impact on economy would be transitory.
High-yielding currencies such as Australian and New Zealand dollars weakened as the worldwide number of cases of swine flu increased, leading to concern tourism will slump.
Today, the Cabinet Office of Japan lowered the economic forecast for the fiscal year 2009, as the country's exports continued to shrink much more than expectations. The government now expects the economy to contract 3.3% in 2009, after the initial estimate of a zero growth made in December. The decline is also far worse than the 1.5% contraction recorded in the economy during the fiscal year of 1998.
The International Monetary Fund said last week that Japan's economy will shrink 6.2 percent in 2009, the worst among advanced economies, compared with its January projection of a 2.6 percent contraction.
The yen rose to a 4-week high of 96.54 against the dollar during Asian deals on Monday. The next upside target level for the yen is seen at 93.6. At last week's close, the dollar-yen pair was quoted at 97.20.
The yen surged up to a 13-year high of 87.13 on January 21. However, the yen pared its gains thereafter and lost 14% to hit a 5-1/2 -month low of 101.46 on April 06.
The Bank of Japan's decision to broaden the range of eligible collateral for loans on deeds to the government and those with government guarantees helped the yen to bounce back from a 5 1/2 -month low.
On April 07, the Policy Board of the central bank unanimously voted to hold the uncollateralized overnight call rate at 0.1%. The decision came in line with economists' expectations. The previous change in interest rates was a 20 basis point cut implemented in December 2008.
While announcing the rate decision, the central bank said it will accept loans on deeds to municipal governments as eligible collateral and also broadened the range of eligible collateral for loans on deeds to the government and those with government guarantees.
Despite improvements in issuing conditions for CP and corporate bonds, the BoJ noted that financial conditions remained tight. The BoJ's decision to expand the range of eligible collateral was made with an intention to ensure financial market stability.
The central bank resumed its purchase of stocks held by banks and is examining the specifics of providing subordinated loans to banks. Last month, the central bank raised its monthly government bond purchases.
Thus far, the yen has appreciated 5% against the U.S. currency. Much of the yen's gain came as the deteriorating global economy caused investors to flee stocks and emerging market bonds and reinvest their money in Treasuries.
In Asian deals on Monday, the yen strengthened to a 4-day high of 127.06 against the euro. This may be compared to Friday's close of 128.66. On the upside, 126.2 is seen as the next target level for the Japanese currency.
The euro fell on concern the European Central Bank will lower its policy interest rate at its next policy meeting on May 7.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet may signal he will lower rates further when he speaks today at a conference on trends in global finance at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Vitor Constancio, a member of the ECB governing council, speaks at a conference on corporate governance and consumer interests in Lisbon.
The euro jumped to a 4-day high of 129.30 against the yen on Friday as a better-than-expected German data provided further evidence that the pace of economic downturn will slow in Europe's largest economy.
The Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research said its business climate index rose to 83.7 in April from 82.2 in March. Meanwhile, economists had expected a slight increase to 82.3.
Against the pound, the yen climbed to a 5-day high of 140.81 in Asian trading on Monday. If the Japanese currency advances further, it may find resistance near the 135.8 level. The pound-yen pair was worth 142.53 at Friday's close.
The pound remained under heavy selling pressure after a report showed on Friday that the UK economy contracted more than expected in the first quarter of this year.
Data released by the Office for National Statistics or ONS on Friday showed that the gross domestic product declined 1.9% in the first quarter, while economists were looking for a milder figure of 1.5%. The deterioration worsened from the final quarter of 2008, when the economy had shrunk 1.6%.
The latest contraction is the biggest since the early days of the Margaret Thatcher government in 1979. The GDP number has been in the red since the third quarter of 2008. Further, it is reportedly the worst six-month decline in GDP since the start of official records.
Adding to pound's slide, a report by property consultants Hometrack said today that the house prices in the UK fell 0.3% month-on-month in April, by the slowest pace in a year. The report said the slower pace of decline in prices reflected a rise in optimism from estate agents due to increased levels of market activity. Year-on-year, house prices were down 10.1% in April.
During the month, sales volume grew 15%, while the number of potential buyers registering with estate agents rose 6%. Homestrack, at the same time, indicated that the recent pick up in sales was largely seasonal and was unlikely to be sustained over the rest of the year.
During Asian deals on Monday, the yen advanced to 84.42 against the Swiss franc. The near term resistance level for the Japanese currency is seen at 83.6. The franc-yen pair closed last week's trading at 85.27.
During Asian deals on Monday, the yen spiked to a 4-day high of 54.40 against the NZ dollar and a 5-day high of 68.63 against the Australian dollar. If the yen gains further, it may likely target 53.7 against the kiwi and 68.1 against the aussie. The aussie-yen and the kiwi-yen pairs were worth 70.32 and 55.71, respectively at last week's close.
The Australian and New Zealand dollars dropped amid speculation the spread of swine flu from Mexico will hurt tourism and deepen the global recession, spurring investors to sell riskier assets.
Benchmark interest rates are 3 percent in Australia and New Zealand, compared with 0.1 percent in Japan and as low as zero percent in the U.S. attracting investors to the South Pacific nations' higher-yielding assets. The risk in such trades is that currency market moves will erase profits.
The New Zealand dollar weakened as economists estimate the nation's benchmark rate will be lowered on April 30 to 2.5 percent from 3 percent.
In Asian trading on Monday, the yen edged higher to 79.33 against the Canadian dollar. The next upside target level for the yen is seen at 78.7. At last week's close, the loonie-yen pair was quoted at 80.34.
The Canadian dollar slipped as the crude oil prices fell over 2 percent toward $50 a barrel in Asian deals on fears of a global flu. The impending release of U.S. bank stress test results, a Federal Reserve meeting and a flood of earnings due later this week also heightened investor caution.
U.S. crude oil futures for June delivery fell $1.08 to $50.47 a barrel, erasing some of Friday's gains of $1.93 that brought the contract to settle at $51.55. London Brent crude fell 77 cents to $50.90.
The Italian consumer confidence report for April is due in the upcoming hours.
There are no significant economic reports scheduled for release from U.S. today.
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Caulk keeps water out of joints between objects. In bathrooms this is especially important because water is always ever-present. When caulk around a bathtub begins to crumble, water can get into joints, and mold and mildew can develop. This is when it is time to start over with fresh caulk to provide a stronger seal. This is how to recaulk a bathtub.
1Clean the tub or shower area with a bathroom surface cleaner that also removes soap scum. It is important that all surfaces you may be dealing with be clean and free of any substance that would come between the surface and the new caulk.
2Strip the existing caulk from the tub or shower area.
- Using a sharp knife, decide what kind of caulk is already in your tub or shower area. When you cut into the caulk, if it is soft and rubbery it is most likely silicone based; however, if the caulk is hard and crumbly then it is most likely water based, latex or PVA.
- Determine the best manner of removal based on caulk type. Silicone based caulk may be removed using a razor blade scraper with a plastic handle, and the other types are removed best when warmed using an ever-moving hair dryer on a low heat temperature and then scraped using the tool.
3Scrub the joints where the caulk had previously been with rubbing alcohol. This will help to get rid of any remaining bits and pieces of caulk left after the scraping.
4Vacuum out any pieces of caulk that may have gotten stuck between the tile and the tub or shower pan.
5Spray on a 10% bleach to 90% water solution that will kill mold and mildew that may have grown when water got into the loose caulk joints. Let this sit and take effect against the mold and mildew for at least 5 minutes before scrubbing down with fresh, clean water.
6Allow the tub or shower area to dry at least overnight. You do not want the dampness that crept into the joints when the previous caulk was loose, or the dampness that resulted from the cleaning you have just done, to impact the ability of your new caulk to adhere and stay in place.
7Choose a type of caulk to use for recaulking. PVA and acrylic latex are best with ceramic fixtures that meet tile because the caulk is hard and easily removed in the long run. Silicone based caulk is best with fiberglass fixtures meeting tile or other fiberglass surrounds because the caulk is relatively soft when it dries.
8Cut the tip off of the tube of caulk. Make sure not to make the hole in the tip too large because that will control how much caulk comes out at once, and a smaller tip will help your caulking to be a success.
- Some people say to half fill the tub with water before caulking, and keep drain plugged so water remains until caulk is completely dry, in 24 hours. This allows for the flexing that happens when the tub is used after the caulk is dry.
- Others argue that this may just add potential moisture in the area that can effect the caulking and so the tub should be empty. A properly installed tub moves very little so which ever method you are comfortable with will work.
9Squeeze a bead of caulk no more than 1/4 inch (0.6 cm) evenly down the vertical joints first.
10Smooth your finger over the fresh bead of caulk to press it evenly into the joint. Your finger should capture any excess caulk which you can wipe off on a damp sponge.
11Squeeze a bead of caulk no more than 1/4 inch (0.6 cm) evenly into the horizontal joints around the tub or shower.
12Smooth your finger over the fresh bead of caulk to press it evenly into the joint. Your finger should capture any excess caulk which you can wipe off on a damp sponge.
13Apply an additional small amount of caulk to any places that seem a little thin and seem to need a little extra caulk.
14Allow the caulk to set and dry for 24 hours, then drain water when completely dry. Rinse/clean before using the tub or shower area.
- Do all recaulking at one time, or the joints may not come together. If the end of 1 joint dries, the next joint may not adhere to it properly.
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- Bathtub or Shower Area
- Bathroom Surface Cleaner
- Razor Blade Scraper
- Hair Dryer
- Rubbing Alcohol
- Spray Bottle
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A cloud-native mindset is indispensable for digital transformation. The year 2020 drastically revolutionized the entire tech world. A series of unprecedented events compelled industry leaders to embark on a transformational journey to succeed in the digital-first world. Moreover, the rapid pace of digital disruption has pushed organizations to consider business models, and cloud-native is making them consider delivery models to realize goals in the modern world.
“Cloud-native is structuring teams, culture, and technology to utilize automation and architectures to manage complexity and unlock velocity.” – Joe Beda, Co-Founder, Kubernetes and Principal Engineer, VMware
Cloud-native application development has emerged as the latest wave of digital disruption. Cloud-native facilitates organizations to bring ideas to the market at lightning speed as markets have become incredibly dynamic and customers have become highly demanding. Some of the famous cloud-native app characteristics include elasticity, secure multi-tenancy, resiliency, and mobility. Companies reorganize people, processes, and workflows to adopt cloud-native approaches. Cloud-native apps are meant to capitalize on the benefits of cloud computing. Let’s explore.
Setting The Building Blocks For Cloud-Native
- Microservices – Microservices are pivotal to cloud-native app architecture as they highlight business functionalities. Corporate giants are using a cloud-native approach along with Agile processes, microservices architecture, and DevOps tools. Serverless enables microservices that inject strength to continuous delivery and deployment. Microservices improve modularity and facilitate the teams to develop, deploy, and scale services independently.
- Containers – The worldwide container management revenue will grow strongly from a small base of $465.8 million in 2020 to reach $944 million in 2024, says Gartner. Public cloud container orchestration and serverless container offerings will witness phenomenal growth in the coming years. Every app and process is packaged in its container, which fast-tracks robustness and transparency. Containerization is transforming software development and deployment.
- DevOps – DevOps injects automation into the production process and aims to shift the programs from design to production. Its adoption helps organizations put development methodologies in place, execute cloud-native development practices and develop the apps. Microservices, containers, and DevOps reinforce a cloud-native strategy that ensures business agility.
- CI/CD – CI/CD acts as a best practice that Agile DevOps teams leverage to manage business requirements, code quality, and security needs. Developing a CI/CD pipeline is crucial in cloud infrastructure. Cloud-native apps get more robust and swift with time as and when their development integrates with CI/CD-based pipelines. Implementing CI/CD to deploy cloud-native apps can effectively streamline development and deployment phases.
Enable Digital Transformation With The Cloud-Native Mindset
Cloud-native computing brings a digital disruption that enables the cloud to create business value. Most of the time, organizations often get confused between going cloud-native or being a cloud migrant. The journey to the cloud needs thoughtful navigation and smart strategies.
Businesses capitalize on the distinctive features of the cloud platforms, such as bi-directional innovation, robust product ideations, resilience, and elasticity with cloud-native. It is the future of app development with a massive potential for business impact. Let’s understand the benefits of cloud-native apps.
- Innovation – Cloud-native apps facilitate businesses to introduce new products or services at a tremendous pace. The automated elements integrated during development inject agility quickly making the updates to realize the business goals. These apps assimilate data across every business vertical. As a result, advanced analytics can help enterprises to make more informed decisions.
- Scalability – Cloud-native apps can scale services independently and automatically through Microservices. The microservice architecture enables the independent development of apps. These apps can be modified, deployed, and managed individually as there is a lack of dependency on one another. These apps have the agility and flexibility required to pace up with business growth.
- Speed – Cloud-native improves the speed of service assembly to help businesses quickly respond to market changes. Organizations speed up the team’s productivity and enhance output through cloud-native capabilities. These strategies allow IT professionals to inject robustness into the app development processes. Speed acts as a competitive advantage that helps companies win big in the digital landscape.
- Cost – The pay-as-you-go model allows organizations to develop and run apps in a cost-effective manner as they only have to pay as per the resources consumed. These apps follow an operating expenditure model that lowers the total expenses against the on-premise apps with the capital expenditure model, which requires substantial upfront expenses.
- Resilience – Modern cloud-native approaches like microservices and kubernetes can help organizations build apps with resilience. Cloud-native leads to better uptime, lowered downtime, and improved experience. These apps are resilient to downtime and outages as during a failure, and the app processing moves from one data center to another without any interruption in the service.
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Develop Smarter And Deliver Faster With Cloud-Native
Digital transformation entails rearrangements in people, processes, technology and culture which stands true for cloud-native apps as well. Organizations are gearing up to embrace change management strategies and prepare a well-sketched roadmap to embark on this new journey.
Cross-functional teams help organizations connect technology and industry experts to develop technically sound. To thrive in the modern dynamic world, cloud-native app development is indispensable for businesses to achieve goals, ensure survival, and overcome the technological challenges that future beholds.
How Can Zymr Ease Your Cloud-Native Journey?
With open standards for interoperability, develop apps that capitalize on the potential of the cloud environment. Experience the development services comprising Microservices, Containers, Dynamic Orchestration, and Continuous Delivery. Build highly scalable apps that can be seamlessly deployed, adapted, or upgraded with us as we have,
- Automation-first mindset
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Build an innovative organization with the help of an intelligent business suite of cloud-based apps from the base to further achieve superior robustness, better security, seamless growth, and future-proof your business to combat disruptive market challenges with us.
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A person in Florida has caught a locally transmitted case of dengue fever. The case is the first in which a person caught dengue from a mosquito bite within Miami-Dade County in 2016.
This is unusual, since most cases in US travelers are acquired in the Caribbean and elsewhere overseas.
The case is also Florida's second local dengue case of 2016, according to CBS Miami. In 2015, the state reported one locally transmitted case of dengue, and in 2014 it had six known locally acquired cases of the disease, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Dengue is spread when infected, daytime-biting mosquitoes bite humans. There is no vaccine against dengue fever. You must apply a DEET or Picaridin repellent to your skin and wear protective clothing. Permethrin-treated clothing is also effective.
The virus cannot be spread directly from person to person; it must be carried by a mosquito, according to the CDC.
Dengue is often referred to as “breakbone fever.” It is a serious illness. Symptoms of the infection include high fever, severe headache, severe pain behind the eyes, joint pain, muscle and bone pain, and rash.
Symptoms usually begin within 7-10 days after exposure and can last several weeks.
Treatment is supportive with Tylenol and fluids. If the person develops severe symptoms, such as vomiting or severe abdominal pain, he or she might have dengue hemorrhagic fever, a potentially fatal disease.
You can prevent dengue fever only by preventing mosquito bites. I recommend our Zika Virus and Malaria Prevention Kit.
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The failure to recognize that logic is man’s method of cognition, has produced
a brood of artificial splits and dichotomies which represent restatements of
the analytic-synthetic dichotomy from various aspects. Three in particular are
prevalent today: logical truth vs. factual truth; the logically possible vs.
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Any theory that propounds an opposition between the logical and the empirical,
represents a failure to grasp the nature of logic and its role in human
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Processing Skid with CIP
Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) Processing Skid with Clean-In-Place (CIP) and SIP (Sterilize in Place) Capabilities is specifically designed for the dairy industry. Capable of reaching 135°C for optimal product quality the highly efficient Ultra High Temperature Processing Skid may be used as a stand-alone system or integrated into an existing line.
For an Ultra High Temperature Unit to properly function, it requires both a sterilizer and a sanitary unit to destroy micro-organisms while reducing any chemical changes in the product.
PLC programming is done by experienced Budzar Industries Systems Engineers. PLC programming can be integrated into existing PLC’s or delivered as a part of a complete PLC solution.
The fully automated Ultra High Temperature (UHT) Processing Skid with Clean-in-Place (CIP) and Sterilize in Place (SIP) is divided in to four separate steps:
- Intermediate Cleaning (IC)
Features of the Ultra High Temperature (UHT) Processing Skid with Clean-In-Place (CIP) and SIP (Sterilize in Place) include:
- PLC Control
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- Process controller with graphical user interface and data logging
- Multiple Designs available
- Each Budzar Industries System is constructed with non-proprietary parts
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Moonalice poster by Alexandra Fischer
According to Moonalice legend, there is no business like show business … and no salt like the salt in the Great Salt Lake. We know this because our tribe had real problems with salt until a tribal matriarch came to the rescue. Her name was LDS Moonalice and nobody knew her as Nancy. Instead, she was known as Deseret. As depicted in tonight’s poster by Alexandra Fischer, Deseret was the Moonalice tribal elder who solved The Great Cannabis Conundrum. The men of the tribe spent years trying to grow weed with salt water. You can imagine how well that worked. The guys couldn’t figure it out, so eventually they turned to a woman … and the next day Deseret brought in a supply from Colorado.
The first time we tried to play a gig in Utah — in Arches National Park — the show got cancelled because of a sand storm. We kid you not. On the morning of the show, we were at our motel, just outside the park, when someone noticed something very unusual in the distance. It turned out to be a giant wall of sand, just like in the movie, The Mummy. The festival organizers shut everything down and got all the gear out before the sand got there and blew the place away. Pure Spinal Tap.
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|City, State:||Salt Lake City, Utah|
|Date:||April 2, 2015|
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By Solomon Muleyi
The Holi festival was just another of those reminders about how big the Indian community is in Uganda as thousands of Indians thronged the Arya Samaj grounds last Sunday to be a part of the Holi celebrations.
The origin of the holi festival, like many other holidays celebrated around the world is shrouded in mystery as there are many theories attached to why the day is celebrated as a holiday in India.
A father smears his son with colour. Photo by Solomon Muleyi
But all the theories amount to a moral aspect where good will always triumph over evil, which, in a way, explains why it teems of notoriety and impishness in the way they have fun.
At 11:00pm, the revellers, most of them Indians and a few gate crushers like Denzel Mwinyeretsi (You know that chap? No? Stop stressing and get real already) had started trickling in.
The day’s main activity which was soaking any unsuspecting reveller in a horde of colours had started.
Indian girls performing . Photo by Solomon Muleyi
A colour shower was set up in one of the corners and it became the main point of attraction.
The adults threw their maturity garbs off their bodies and drenched the nearest person in the colour liquids they trapped with disposable tins from the ooze of the colour shower.
Some ran around like Kindergarten children, chasing each other in bid to splash a mound of colour on their counterpart’s faces or clothes.
Children playing with colour. Photo by Solomon Muleyi
The children acted equally insane as they short colour liquids at revellers. Suspecting or not, these Indian children aimed and shot at the next person with colour smidgens from the toy guns they were using, excessively drenching whoever got victimized in colour.
Meanwhile, there were on going performances on the stage at the opposite side of the grounds as dance groups were formed among the Indian fraternities around to entertain the crowd which by the way, unlike Ugandans applauded everything that came onto stage.
Even the children that came onto stage to mimic one of the earlier performers were applauded.
The fun went on till 8:00pm at night when most of them were weary beyond walking so they announced the points of meet with their families and bundled up to drive home after a long day of colourful excitement.
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In this article I am going to show you how to properly load the CSS style sheets of the master page for your ASP project.
CSS files contain style rules that are applied to elements in a Web project. Usually, you can define how elements are displayed and where they are positioned on the page with CSS. If your ASP application is not looking like it is suppose to be, it must be that the CSS files are not loading properly.
1. Open your ASP project with Visual Studio:
2. Specify your stylesheet links with runat=server and prefix them with the virtual web root path (~).
It has to look something like this:
<link href= "~/css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" runat="server" type="text/css" />
3. The image URL’s in the CSS file must be updated as well. If you are going to put it in the same css folder, it has to be changed to a path traversal:
4. It is also a good practice to put the image folder inside the css folder. That way the path won’t have to be changed to a traversal one:
5. Finally, please keep in mind that all head elements (JS files, Fonts, etc.) need to have the runat=”Server” element tag.
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a mechanism consisting of a metal honeycomb through which hot fluids circulate; heat is transferred from the fluid through the honeycomb to the airstream that is created either by the motion of the vehicle or by a fan
heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings
the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin
examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light
able to be seen; "be sure of it; give me the ocular proof"- Shakespeare; "a visual presentation"; "a visual image"
relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation"
of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light"
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a signal for attracting attention
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By Aaron Humes: Former Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology and Public Utilities which was also responsible for petroleum, Dr. Colin Young, has told the Reporter Press that oil extraction is projected to continue downward until at least 2024 if no more oil is found.
Recently the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) presented statistics showing that both extraction amounts and revenue from petroleum sales are at their lowest in some time.
From a high of $292 million in 2012, revenues have slowed to as low as $102 million in 2014, just above the starting point for the industry years ago. Extraction for the recent third quarter is at its lowest since 2008.
The Reporter writes that with extraction amounts decreasing every month and the world market price of oil remaining low, it is estimated that within three years the industry will be making less than it was at start up.
Dr. Young explained that the decline in the oil industry was well within the projections of Belize Natural Energy Limited, the only company to find oil in Belize – and their projections say just 1,000 barrels per day will be extracted in 2024.
“It is estimated that the decrease will continue and by 2024 it will be down to 1000 barrels per day,” Young said.
It’s not clear if any of the six companies licensed to operate in Belize still are, but only U.S. Capital Energy, working in the Toledo District, has shown any sign of promise in their area. The industry is likely headed toward unprofitability if the current trends of low world prices and falling extraction with no replacements lined up continue.
The Government this week banned offshore petroleum exploration in any part of the Belize Barrier Reef System and will set up regulations for the remaining sea area.
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Hydrozoa | Leptothecata
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Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Central Pacific: Papua New Guinea.
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Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 0.7 cm WD male/unsexed; (Ref. 7460)
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the order Leptothecata include L-form hydroids. Life cycle: The zygote develops into planula and later into polyp then into free-swimming medusa.
Migotto, A.E. and L.P. De Andrade. 2000. (Ref. 7460)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 124695)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
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This is a pleasant enough way to spend a day, but not a trip I highly recommend. It's a three hour trip each way for an hour or so in the canyon, the trip is mostly through woods, the scenic vistas are few and brief, and the trains are typically so full that it's impossible to move from side to side to get pictures of views on the other side. Also, the train goes in one way and then backs out, so passengers are on the same side for the entire trip. In fairness to Algoma Central, they make the trip pleasant, and a friend who took the trip a year after these photos were taken tells me that passengers now switch sides on the return trip.
Canadian planimetric map data 1999. Government of Canada with permission from Natural Resources Canada. US planimetric data: USGS.
Most of the most interesting scenery is in the 50 kilometers or so south of Agawa Canyon.
|Below: The gorge of the Montreal River|
|Just before entering Agawa Canyon, the route swings close to Lake Superior and offers glimpses of the lake.|
|Beginning the descent into Agawa Canyon.|
|The rock above the train holds a lookout giving a view of the canyon.|
|At the south end of the canyon, a short walk leads to several picturesque waterfalls.|
|The rocks in the canyon are Archean granites.|
|Distant view of Lake Superior|
|Below: reservoir on the Montreal River|
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Today, students across Diverse Academies joined staff in celebrating a huge milestone in their lives, as they collected GCSE results across the Trust – which has seen an overall increase in the pass rate of students achieving five GCSEs at grade 4 or above.
Many students hoping to achieve the coveted highest grade 9 (the equivalent of an A**) were not disappointed either, as a total of 216 were awarded, with over 15% of all grades at the highest levels 9-7, and almost half of all grades a strong pass of grade 5 or above.
Chris Pickering, CEO said: “Following on from last week’s fantastic A Level results, it’s with great pleasure that I also have the opportunity to join in congratulating our year 11s on their GCSE success. Following the roll out of the examination reforms, which has seen the bar for attainment raised considerably, there continues to be much focus on how schools across the country have responded. Both our students and staff have met this challenge head on, and they should rightly be very proud of the achievements we see today.
“I am equally very proud of all that our students have accomplished during their time with us, beyond that which is recorded in their examination results. As a Trust, we work hard to ensure each of our students has access not only to a wide and varied curriculum, which includes the arts and sports, but also experience a wealth of enrichment beyond the classroom. It is this vitally important combination that is necessary to prepare our young people for their next steps in life, whether onto further education or an apprenticeship.
“I’d also like to thank all our staff for their commitment and passion in ensuring our students are at the heart of what we do. Each of my colleagues, whether in teaching, learning support or a business function, make a very valuable contribution to the overall success of our students.
“I hope that many of our students will return to us this September as members of our post 16 community, taking the next steps into further education on a firm footing, and I wish them the very best for the future.”
Amongst the many individual student success stories of the day were students at Queen Elizabeth’s Academy. Abby Stafford achieved four grade 9s in English language, English literature, history and maths, and three grade 8s in biology, chemistry and physics. She will be going on to study English language, English literature, film studies and maths at Hucknall Sixth Form Centre. Abby said of her achievements: “I feel very, very relieved and have done better than I thought I would. I can’t wait to celebrate with my mum later!” Another student celebrating was Shauna Hazard, following a strong set of results including grade 9s in biology, maths and physics, and grade 8s in art, chemistry, English language and history, meaning she will go on to study maths, further maths, physics and engineering design at NUAST.
Walton celebrated another very successful year, following Progress 8 scores which placed the academy within the top 5% of schools nationally. Overall, 73% of students achieved five GCSEs at grades 9-4. One of Walton’s top performers was Jessica Ambrose who achieved eight grade 9s and one grade 8. She said: “I am ecstatic to receive such good results – I was shaking with excitement!” Zoe Mowlem celebrated achieving three grade 9s, four grade 8s and two grade 7s. On collecting such great results, she said: “I was not expecting these results, I am over the moon with what I have achieved.” The outgoing head girl, Layla Stephenson, also achieved a strong set of results with three grade 9s, three grade 8s, two grade 7s and a Distinction in her BTEC performing arts course.
National Church of England Academy students also celebrated their results, with 13% of all grades at the highest levels of 9-7 and, overall, 65% of all grades between 9-4 – of which 33 grade 9s were awarded throughout the year group. Amongst the notable successes were Angela Boakye, who achieved an incredible seven grade 9s and three grade 8s; Isobel Davis with six grade 9s and four grade 8s; and Megan Marsden scored a fabulous four grade 9s, two grade 8s, three 7s and a grade 6. Angela said of her achievement: “Wow – just wow! I can’t put it into words but I’m so pleased.” Thomas Palin was the most-improved student at the academy, achieving two grade 8 qualifications, three grade 7s and four grade 6s, after improving by a huge 11 grades across the year.
At Retford Oaks Academy, half of students at the academy achieved five or more GCSEs at a grade 4 or above, with 68% achieving a grade 4 or above in English and 63% in maths. Lauren Emery achieved a set of outstanding results, including six grade 9s in English language, history, religious education, biology, chemistry and physics, two Distinction* grades in hospitality and media, grade 8s in German and maths, and a grade 7 in English literature. She said: “I’m really pleased with my results and I’m looking forward to coming back to the academy to join the sixth form”. Another high achiever was Bebe Bierton who gained three grade 9s in English language, English literature and religious education, a grade 8 in history, a Distinction in media, a grade 7 in biology, grade 6s in art, maths and computing, and grade 5s in chemistry and physics.
Students at Tuxford Academy today celebrated a record 67 grade 9s, with over 70% achieving five or more GCSEs at a grade 4 or above, including English and maths – of which 75% achieved a grade 4 or above in in English and maths. Tuxford’s Sam Barnett achieved a fantastic set of results including eight grade 9s in biology, engineering, English language, English literature, geography, maths, physics and religious studies, a grade 8 in chemistry and a grade 7 in Spanish. He said: “I’m very pleased with my results. It’s been hard work but it’s worth it now. I will be staying on at Tuxford Academy Post 16 Centre to study physics, maths and either further maths or chemistry.” Another high achiever was Jacob Macpherson, who gained five grade 9s in biology, chemistry, English language, history and physics, two grade 8s in computer science and maths, and three grade 7s in English literature, French and psychology. Jacob plans to study A Levels in politics, history and economics and said: “I’m speechless. I am happy with my grades and thankful for all my teachers’ efforts to push me further and not give in.”
At East Leake Academy, 80% of students achieved a grade 4 or above in maths and over 84% in English. 21% of the academy’s grades were at the highest levels of 9-7, with 66% of students achieving five or more GCSEs including English and maths. Some of the outstanding individual results included Isaac Baguley who was the academy’s top performing student with grade 9s in all eight of his subjects, plus the top mark of Distinction* in music. Isaac said: “I don’t know what to say, I thought my eyes were not working properly at first! I am so thrilled with my results and looking forward to staying on in the sixth form.” Another high performer, Erin Doherty, achieved five grade 9s in triple science, geography and maths, plus two grade 8s in English literature and French. Year 11 student Jack Osborne also achieved superb results, with six grade 9s in physics, chemistry, history, maths and English, plus a grade 8 in biology and a 7 in French. Jack came away with the top grade of Distinction* for music. He commented: “I’m over the moon with my results and thankful to all my teachers for their support.”
And finally, overall attainment at The Holgate Academy has risen steadily from 2018’s results, with 164 grades awarded at the highest levels of 9-7. Christy Morgan gained superb results of two grade 9s, three grade 8s, a Distinction*, two grade 7s, one A, and two grade 6s. She said she was both “thrilled and overwhelmed” on receiving her results and will be continuing onto Hucknall Sixth Form Centre to study French, maths, physics and art. Tiffany Shelton also performed particularly well and achieved top marks of three grade 9s, two grade 8s, three grade 7s, one grade 6, one Distinction* and one A grade. Another high achiever was Fraser Street with one grade 9, one Distinction*, one grade 8, three 7s and three 6s. Fraser will also be heading to Hucknall Sixth Form Centre to take his A Levels. Fraser said: “I am so pleased with my results and really looking forward to starting sixth form in September.” | <urn:uuid:d0b19558-84e6-488f-8523-e8e5cc4ef694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diverseacademies.org.uk/gcse-results-celebrations-across-diverse-academies-as-pass-rate-rises-following-exam-reforms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.971655 | 1,929 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Some good exercises for bulging discs include the knee chest exercise, knee rolls, back extensions, and the therapy ball exercise. Participating in activities such as Pilates and yoga or using the trampoline, the elliptical machine, the stationary bike, and the stability ball may also be helpful.Continue Reading
You begin the knee chest exercise by lying down on your back with your legs and arms straight. Slowly bend one knee, and pull it into your chest, holding it there for at least five to six seconds. Then, release it slowly to the starting position. Repeat this with the other knee.
The knee roll exercise also begins by lying on your back but bending your knees. Start swaying both knees from right to left at the same time, taking them as close to the floor as possible.
The back extension requires you to lie down on your stomach and place your hands at your sides in a push-up position. Slowly lift your upper body as far as you can while leaving your legs extended straight on the floor. Hold this position for three to four seconds before returning to the starting position.
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More than 15,000 petition signatures from a wide cross section of U.S. agriculture were filed with USDA in support of the Dow AgroSciences Enlist corn and soybean trait, and the comment period for the USDA Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the trait is now closed.
Pending regulatory approvals, Dow AgroSciences expects to launch Enlist corn and soybeans in 2015, with cotton to follow in 2016.
The comment period for the Enlist DEIS drew very high support numbers from farmers, weed scientists, specialty crop growers, members of Congress, state legislators and the public – among the highest response in recent history for a new biotechnology product. Growers, representatives from state agribusiness councils and a university scientist also testified in support of the technology during a USDA virtual public meeting in late January.
The Enlist technology will allow growers to battle glyphosate-resistant weeds with a complementary mode of action using new 2,4-D-based chemistry for broader spectrum control.
USDA produced an extensive DEIS document with a well-supported environmental evaluation of the Enlist traits that also considered existing farming practices and potential alternatives. USDA noted in the DEIS that its Preferred Alternative is to approve Enlist corn and soybean crops.
A preliminary review of comments posted to the USDA docket indicate no new questions have been raised that haven’t been addressed in the DEIS or the environmental assessments of the Enlist traits. USDA is expected to review the comments it has received in the coming weeks, then will issue a Final Environmental Impact Statement.
“We appreciate the significant effort from USDA to produce this comprehensive review of the Enlist corn and soybean traits,” says Antonio Galindez, president and CEO, Dow AgroSciences. “The conclusion of this comment period marks an important milestone for Enlist. We’re one step closer to helping American farmers solve the tremendous challenge they’re facing to control weeds.”
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Participate in Research
If you are diagnosed with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis, participating in research is one of the best ways to actively participate in the search for a cure for inflammatory bowel diseases. New research helps both doctors and patients develop greater understanding of inflammatory bowel diseases, and design and trial new treatment options to ensure their safety and effectiveness.
For patients, the benefits of participating in research trials and studies include access to new treatments, including diet, medication, and surgical procedures, that may help improve your health.
Types of Research Opportunities
Research comes in all shapes and sizes. Different types of studies are conducted at different types of facilities, with different sized patient pools, with or without the use of medication, surgery, or other treatments, under professional supervision or through self-reporting of participants.
Before choosing a research opportunity to participate in, you should familiarize yourself with the different types of research being conducted.
- Research initiatives generally involve the collaboration of multiple research centers working together to create new resources that can be used in future research.
- Epidemiological studies focus on individual or group cases of disease to answer questions about causes and risk factors, how symptoms present and progress, and what genetic traits or environmental conditions might be shared by a population afflicted with the same disease.
- Clinical trials investigate the effects of a drug or other medical therapy on a group of people. These trials will likely require your participation in a treatment regimen, as well as frequent observation periods or reporting sessions with doctors and researchers.
Learn more about the many Current Research Studies to find opportunities to participate in research studies and trials.
Safety of Studies and Clinical Trials
While research supported by CCFA is conducted under thorough oversight to ensure the safety of participants, all research carries with it inherent risks.
All research opportunities listed by CCFA are required to provide official documentation that the trial has been approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the participating research facility, and each listing is reviewed by the Patient Education Committee of CCFA's National Scientific Advisory Committee.
However, except for studies funded by CCFA, we do not endorse or ensure the scientific merit of the trials we list. If you are considering participating in a study, you should discuss the opportunity with your personal physician.
Interested in Posting a Clinical Trial
If you are interested in posting a trial to the CCFA Website, please review the Study Guidelines. If the trial meets the criteria listed on the guidelines, then please contact us for more information.
Find Studies and Clinical Trials
Interested in joining a study? Find a Clinical Trial in your area that matches your disease.
Outside Research Resources
Track upcoming and ongoing IBD studies and trials, find answers to many common research participant questions, and learn more about the world of medical research with these links.
- ClinicalTrials.gov from the U.S. National Institutes of Health
- CenterWatch, Inc. lists ongoing trials for Crohn’s and colitis
- FDA Office of Orphan Products promotes studies of less common diseases
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents more than 100 pharmaceutical companies engaged in research
- Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center lists research studies led by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
- Clinical Trials 101
- Patients in Clinical Trials: Peggy Shares Her Experience
- Clinical Trials Glossary
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Floating-Gate Device may revolutionize computer memory
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University claim to have created a memory device that could give computer users the speed advantages of DRAM system memory and the data retention capabilities of flash memory, in one unit. The new device could lead to genuine instant-on computing and machines with improved resiliency. The development may even lead to power-hungry server farms making considerable energy savings by allowing parts of the system to be shut down during periods of inactivity without fear of data loss.
The new scalable, dual-metal device is called a double floating-gate field effect transistor (FET) and is said to combine the advantages offered by two forms of computer memory currently in common usage. Nonvolatile memory, like that used in USB flash drives, allows data to be retained after the power is turned off while the volatile variety, like the memory modules slotted into a mainboard, offers faster read and write access but needs constant power for the retention of stored data.
Currently in the testing phase of development, the new FET device stores data as electric charge and uses a special control gate to quickly get to the stored data. Whereas modern nonvolatile flash memory uses a single floating gate to store the charge for long term data retention, the new device utilizes a second gate which is said to give the device transfer speeds comparable to current volatile DRAM memory. The researchers also believe that the new technology could "have a very long lifetime, when it comes to storing data in the volatile mode."
Unifying volatile and nonvolatile memory
The device's state is determined by its threshold voltage, and can be switched between the volatile and nonvolatile states quickly on a row-by-row basis. In bulk form, the device is said to be scalable to at least the 16nm node and can be three-dimensionally stacked using deposited layers of indium-gallium-zinc-oxide amorphous semiconductors, which have the potential to achieve better performance than amorphous silicon transistors. A stack of four devices could have similar densities to an 8nm node.
The research team believes that the new double floating gate FET device could potentially offer instant-on functionality, as the computer would not need to retrieve startup information from a hard drive. It should also lead to improvements in a computer's ability to withstand and recover from faults and could solve energy-proportional computing problems.
For instance, when a computer or server is just performing background tasks, the double gate allows portions of the memory to be powered down and reactivated as necessary without losing data. This could lead to enormous power savings at server farms, which currently need to maintain constant power throughout the whole system, even at times of low usage. | <urn:uuid:70dacb7a-194e-424e-9227-c4b7bb344656> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://newatlas.com/unified-memory-device-offers-speed-and-storage-advantages/17685/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938 | 567 | 2.921875 | 3 |
LETTER XIII.--ON MR. LOCKE
Perhaps no man ever had a more judicious or more methodical genius, or was a more acute logician than Mr. Locke, and yet he was not deeply skilled in the mathematics. This great man could never subject himself to the tedious fatigue of calculations, nor to the dry pursuit of mathematical truths, which do not at first present any sensible objects to the mind; and no one has given better proofs than he, that it is possible for a man to have a geometrical head without the assistance of geometry. Before his time, several great philosophers had declared, in the most positive terms, what the soul of man is; but as these absolutely knew nothing about it, they might very well be allowed to differ entirely in opinion from one another.
In Greece, the infant seat of arts and of errors, and where the grandeur as well as folly of the human mind went such prodigious lengths, the people used to reason about the soul in the very same manner as we do.
The divine Anaxagoras, in whose honour an altar was erected for his having taught mankind that the sun was greater than Peloponnesus, that snow was black, and that the heavens were of stone, affirmed that the soul was an aerial spirit, but at the same time immortal. Diogenes (not he who was a cynical philosopher after having coined base money) declared that the soul was a portion of the substance of God: an idea which we must confess was very sublime. Epicurus maintained that it was composed of parts in the same manner as the body.
Aristotle, who has been explained a thousand ways, because he is unintelligible, was of opinion, according to some of his disciples, that the understanding in all men is one and the same substance.
The divine Plato, master of the divine Aristotle,--and the divine Socrates, master of the divine Plato--used to say that the soul was corporeal and eternal. No doubt but the demon of Socrates had instructed him in the nature of it. Some people, indeed, pretend that a man who boasted his being attended by a familiar genius must infallibly be either a knave or a madman, but this kind of people are seldom satisfied with anything but reason.
With regard to the Fathers of the Church, several in the primitive ages believed that the soul was human, and the angels and God corporeal. Men naturally improve upon every system. St. Bernard, as Father Mabillon confesses, taught that the soul after death does not see God in the celestial regions, but converses with Christ's human nature only. However, he was not believed this time on his bare word; the adventure of the crusade having a little sunk the credit of his oracles. Afterwards a thousand schoolmen arose, such as the Irrefragable Doctor, the Subtile Doctor, the Angelic Doctor, the Seraphic Doctor, and the Cherubic Doctor, who were all sure that they had a very clear and distinct idea of the soul, and yet wrote in such a manner, that one would conclude they were resolved no one should understand a word in their writings. Our Descartes, born to discover the errors of antiquity, and at the same time to substitute his own, and hurried away by that systematic spirit which throws a cloud over the minds of the greatest men, thought he had demonstrated that the soul is the same thing as thought, in the same manner as matter, in his opinion, is the same as extension. He asserted, that man thinks eternally, and that the soul, at its coming into the body, is informed with the whole series of metaphysical notions: knowing God, infinite space, possessing all abstract ideas--in a word, completely endued with the most sublime lights, which it unhappily forgets at its issuing from the womb.
Father Malebranche, in his sublime illusions, not only admitted innate ideas, but did not doubt of our living wholly in God, and that God is, as it were, our soul.
Such a multitude of reasoners having written the romance of the soul, a sage at last arose, who gave, with an air of the greatest modesty, the history of it. Mr. Locke has displayed the human soul in the same manner as an excellent anatomist explains the springs of the human body. He everywhere takes the light of physics for his guide. He sometimes presumes to speak affirmatively, but then he presumes also to doubt. Instead of concluding at once what we know not, he examines gradually what we would know. He takes an infant at the instant of his birth; he traces, step by step, the progress of his understanding; examines what things he has in common with beasts, and what he possesses above them. Above all, he consults himself: the being conscious that he himself thinks.
"I shall leave," says he, "to those who know more of this matter than myself, the examining whether the soul exists before or after the organisation of our bodies. But I confess that it is my lot to be animated with one of those heavy souls which do not think always; and I am even so unhappy as not to conceive that it is more necessary the soul should think perpetually than that bodies should be for ever in motion."
With regard to myself, I shall boast that I have the honour to be as stupid in this particular as Mr. Locke. No one shall ever make me believe that I think always: and I am as little inclined as he could be to fancy that some weeks after I was conceived I was a very learned soul; knowing at that time a thousand things which I forgot at my birth; and possessing when in the womb (though to no manner of purpose) knowledge which I lost the instant I had occasion for it; and which I have never since been able to recover perfectly.
Mr. Locke, after having destroyed innate ideas; after having fully renounced the vanity of believing that we think always; after having laid down, from the most solid principles, that ideas enter the mind through the senses; having examined our simple and complex ideas; having traced the human mind through its several operations; having shown that all the languages in the world are imperfect, and the great abuse that is made of words every moment, he at last comes to consider the extent or rather the narrow limits of human knowledge. It was in this chapter he presumed to advance, but very modestly, the following words: "We shall, perhaps, never be capable of knowing whether a being, purely material, thinks or not." This sage assertion was, by more divines than one, looked upon as a scandalous declaration that the soul is material and mortal. Some Englishmen, devout after their way, sounded an alarm. The superstitious are the same in society as cowards in an army; they themselves are seized with a panic fear, and communicate it to others. It was loudly exclaimed that Mr. Locke intended to destroy religion; nevertheless, religion had nothing to do in the affair, it being a question purely philosophical, altogether independent of faith and revelation. Mr. Locke's opponents needed but to examine, calmly and impartially, whether the declaring that matter can think, implies a contradiction; and whether God is able to communicate thought to matter. But divines are too apt to begin their declarations with saying that God is offended when people differ from them in opinion; in which they too much resemble the bad poets, who used to declare publicly that Boileau spake irreverently of Louis XIV., because he ridiculed their stupid productions. Bishop Stillingfleet got the reputation of a calm and unprejudiced divine because he did not expressly make use of injurious terms in his dispute with Mr. Locke. That divine entered the lists against him, but was defeated; for he argued as a schoolman, and Locke as a philosopher, who was perfectly acquainted with the strong as well as the weak side of the human mind, and who fought with weapons whose temper he knew. If I might presume to give my opinion on so delicate a subject after Mr. Locke, I would say, that men have long disputed on the nature and the immortality of the soul. With regard to its immortality, it is impossible to give a demonstration of it, since its nature is still the subject of controversy; which, however, must be thoroughly understood before a person can be able to determine whether it be immortal or not. Human reason is so little able, merely by its own strength, to demonstrate the immortality of the soul, that it was absolutely necessary religion should reveal it to us. It is of advantage to society in general, that mankind should believe the soul to be immortal; faith commands us to do this; nothing more is required, and the matter is cleared up at once. But it is otherwise with respect to its nature; it is of little importance to religion, which only requires the soul to be virtuous, whatever substance it may be made of. It is a clock which is given us to regulate, but the artist has not told us of what materials the spring of this chock is composed.
I am a body, and, I think, that's all I know of the matter. Shall I ascribe to an unknown cause, what I can so easily impute to the only second cause I am acquainted with? Here all the school philosophers interrupt me with their arguments, and declare that there is only extension and solidity in bodies, and that there they can have nothing but motion and figure. Now motion, figure, extension and solidity cannot form a thought, and consequently the soul cannot be matter. All this so often repeated mighty series of reasoning, amounts to no more than this: I am absolutely ignorant what matter is; I guess, but imperfectly, some properties of it; now I absolutely cannot tell whether these properties may be joined to thought. As I therefore know nothing, I maintain positively that matter cannot think. In this manner do the schools reason.
Mr. Locke addressed these gentlemen in the candid, sincere manner following: At least confess yourselves to be as ignorant as I. Neither your imaginations nor mine are able to comprehend in what manner a body is susceptible of ideas; and do you conceive better in what manner a substance, of what kind soever, is susceptible of them? As you cannot comprehend either matter or spirit, why will you presume to assert anything?
The superstitious man comes afterwards and declares, that all those must be burnt for the good of their souls, who so much as suspect that it is possible for the body to think without any foreign assistance. But what would these people say should they themselves be proved irreligious? And indeed, what man can presume to assert, without being guilty at the same time of the greatest impiety, that it is impossible for the Creator to form matter with thought and sensation? Consider only, I beg you, what a dilemma you bring yourselves into, you who confine in this manner the power of the Creator. Beasts have the same organs, the same sensations, the same perceptions as we; they have memory, and combine certain ideas. In case it was not in the power of God to animate matter, and inform it with sensation, the consequence would be, either that beasts are mere machines, or that they have a spiritual soul.
Methinks it is clearly evident that beasts cannot be mere machines, which I prove thus. God has given to them the very same organs of sensation as to us: if therefore they have no sensation, God has created a useless thing; now according to your own confession God does nothing in vain; He therefore did not create so many organs of sensation, merely for them to be uninformed with this faculty; consequently beasts are not mere machines. Beasts, according to your assertion, cannot be animated with a spiritual soul; you will, therefore, in spite of yourself, be reduced to this only assertion, viz., that God has endued the organs of beasts, who are mere matter, with the faculties of sensation and perception, which you call instinct in them. But why may not God, if He pleases, communicate to our more delicate organs, that faculty of feeling, perceiving, and thinking, which we call human reason? To whatever side you turn, you are forced to acknowledge your own ignorance, and the boundless power of the Creator. Exclaim therefore no more against the sage, the modest philosophy of Mr. Locke, which so far from interfering with religion, would be of use to demonstrate the truth of it, in case religion wanted any such support. For what philosophy can be of a more religious nature than that, which affirming nothing but what it conceives clearly, and conscious of its own weakness, declares that we must always have recourse to God in our examining of the first principles?
Besides, we must not be apprehensive that any philosophical opinion will ever prejudice the religion of a country. Though our demonstrations clash directly with our mysteries, that is nothing to the purpose, for the latter are not less revered upon that account by our Christian philosophers, who know very well that the objects of reason and those of faith are of a very different nature. Philosophers will never form a religious sect, the reason of which is, their writings are not calculated for the vulgar, and they themselves are free from enthusiasm. If we divide mankind into twenty parts, it will be found that nineteen of these consist of persons employed in manual labour, who will never know that such a man as Mr. Locke existed. In the remaining twentieth part how few are readers? And among such as are so, twenty amuse themselves with romances to one who studies philosophy. The thinking part of mankind is confined to a very small number, and these will never disturb the peace and tranquillity of the world.
Neither Montaigne, Locke, Bayle, Spinoza, Hobbes, the Lord Shaftesbury, Collins, nor Toland lighted up the firebrand of discord in their countries; this has generally been the work of divines, who being at first puffed up with the ambition of becoming chiefs of a sect, soon grew very desirous of being at the head of a party. But what do I say? All the works of the modern philosophers put together will never make so much noise as even the dispute which arose among the Franciscans, merely about the fashion of their sleeves and of their cowls.
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Brooklyn artist Ricardo Cortés’s self-published 2005 book It’s Just a Plant sought to explain parental marijuana use to kids. Its success (at least in the media) got him interested in making another mind-expanding children’s title, this time in response to the post-9/11 fear of people with terrorist-associated names. I Don’t Want to Blow You Up! is a didactic coloring book that presents thirteen people with names like Sarah Takesh and Omar Ahmad and explains that, despite their names, they have no intention of detonating an explosive near the reader. Characters include hip-hop star Nas, born Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (“When he made his first hip-hop record out of Queensbridge, New York, people said he ‘blew up’! That means he became popular very quickly. But he doesn’t want to blow you up.”), Swiss theology professor and Time 100 listee Tariq Ramadan (who’s banned from entering the U.S.), and Anousheh Ansari (“She was born in Iran and grew up in the United States of America. She is planet Earth’s first woman ‘space tourist’ … She doesn’t want to blow you up!”).
“We’re just trying to promote the idea that you can give the benefit of the doubt that when you meet someone, they’re a loving person,” Cortés says. “It’s addressing otherness and xenophobic tendencies.” He and co-author F. Bowman Hastie III initially planned to get consent from the public figures depicted, he says. But after a polite rejection from Representative Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat who’s the only Muslim in Congress—he cited House rules on commercial projects, and is not in the book—the two consulted a lawyer and decided the sign-offs were unnecessary. Of the eleven real people in the book, only four were asked. “We believe we have the right to have a book that has different public figures in it,” Cortés says. “All the information in the book is basically from any standard biography. There’s nothing new there.” But lawyers representing Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the celebs in the book, don’t agree with that assessment and sent the authors a cease-and-desist letter. Which isn’t to say that Abdul-Jabbar does, in fact, want to blow you up. “The use of his image is unauthorized,” explains Deborah Morales, his manager. “We did not consent to be a part of [the book].” Cortés and Hastie are conferring with their lawyer to see if changes will be necessary. They still plan to release the book as scheduled, on November 9 (it’s 11/9, you see), according to Cortés.
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Thinktank urges ministers to repeat gender pay-gap legislation for BAME workers
By Gwyn Topham
First Published – Thu 27 Dec 2018
BAME staff are being paid up to 37% less on average, with particularly stark differences in the police force.
An audit in London found BAME staff being paid up to 37% less on average, with particularly stark differences in the police force.
Black, Asian and ethnic minority employees are losing out on £3.2bn a year in wages compared to white colleagues doing the same work, according to a study that adds to pressure on the government to introduce mandatory reporting of race pay gaps.
Ministers have been urged to press ahead with proposals to force large firms to report their ethnicity pay gap, after the research showed the extent of the salary disparity for Britain’s 1.9 million black, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other minority workers.
After taking account of differences in average qualifications and job types, the analysis by the Resolution Foundation found the gap rose to as much as 17%, or £3.90 an hour, for black male graduates’ pay.
The thinktank called on the government to repeat the legislation requiring companies to publish gender pay gaps – but this time for ethnic minorities. Laws that came into force in April exposed the different treatment of male and female employees, finding that eight in 10 firms paid men more than women.
Theresa May launched a consultation in October seeking views on whether there should be mandatory reporting of ethnicity pay gaps at work.
The Resolution Foundation said its research showed that the ethnicity pay gap represented “a huge blow to the living standards of those affected”. It found Pakistani and Bangladeshi male graduates earned an average £2.67 an hour (12%) less, while among female graduates, black women faced the biggest pay penalty, of £1.62 an hour (9%).
In general the differentials were lower among non-graduates, although Pakistani and Bangladeshi men earned 14% less than their white peers. Female non-graduates earned 44p-61p per hour less on average.
The thinktank noted that while ethnic minority workers have long earned less overall, on average, than white male workers, its pay penalty calculation was controlled for factors such as occupation, contract type, industry and qualifications.
Kathleen Henehan, research and policy analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: “Black, Asian and minority ethnic workers have made important gains in the labour market in recent years. A record number of young BAME workers have degrees, and a record number are in work.
“However, despite this welcome progress, many of Britain’s 1.6 million black, Asian and ethnic minority workers face significant disadvantages in the workplace.
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It’s just an extra couple bucks. Employers will barely notice the added cost. For those businesses that offer entry-level positions, nothing could be further from the truth.
According to analysis from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), provincial employers are facing a $10,739 increase annually per entry-level, minimum wage job compared to 2015. This is due to added wage costs and the higher payroll taxes (i.e. CPP, EI, WCB) that go along with it. That means a small business with 10 minimum wage employees will see their annual costs skyrocket by more than $107,000 as a result of the government’s policy.
Across the province, the rapid rise in the minimum wage to $15 an hour is costing private sector employers an additional $284 million each year.
For decades, Alberta’ job market experienced a massive net influx of young people who were ready to work hard for the opportunity to get their foot in the door. Alberta was a place where a young person could make a start, learn a trade or a skill, and feel secure about their first steps into the working world. Young people didn’t come for the minimum wage – they came for the opportunity to begin a career.
Since the move to $15 began, the minimum wage has increased 47 per cent in just a few short years. Ultimately, the rapid increase in Alberta’s minimum wage has unintended consequences. Who is hurt by higher minimum wages? It’s young workers with limited skills. It’s small business owners who have to trim back plans for growth. It’s employees who face a reduction in hours or losing their jobs altogether.
When business owners were asked, “what are the barriers to hiring more youth in your business?,” 65 per cent of Alberta businesses responded that minimum wage increases have been the biggest obstacle, ahead of general motivation and attitude of youth in the workforce (57 per cent) and the cost of training (56 per cent).
However, it’s not too late for the Alberta government to modify minimum wage policy to help jobseekers and small business owners. For example, a training wage could be introduced for new employees as a way to facilitate job creation for low-skilled youth and recognize the big investment small businesses make in entry-level jobs. Alberta could also freeze the minimum wage for the next term of the government to grant some predictability and reprieve to business owners who have been scrambling to keep up with such a big jump in the minimum wage during a recessionary economy that is struggling to turn the corner.
If the Alberta government decides to remain firm in this punitive approach, they should immediately act to help employers in other ways. For example, the province could increase education and training opportunities to help employees upgrade their skills to obtain better-paying positions, or offer additional tax relief to low-income earners so they may keep more of their hard-earned dollars.
No matter what the minimum wage is, small business owners won’t create jobs if they can’t afford the employees. At a time when small business optimism levels in Alberta remain subdued, the last thing the provincial government should be pursuing are policies that add big new costs for job creators.
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The National Lottery has announced one of the largest funding rounds for heritage projects since the Heritage Fund’s grant programmes reopened after the coronavirus pandemic.
Six projects will receive a total of £13.7m to back projects including threatened species in Scotland and a hard-hit community in Northumberland.
The projects backed are:
£4.2m: NatureScot’s Species on the Edge project
A partnership of eight Scottish nature conservation organisations will see the project support 37 of Scotland’s most vulnerable species by creating new opportunities for conservation and community action in a wide range of project areas around Scotland’s coasts and islands. Working through communities, the project is hoped to inspire interest in the natural heritage and establish legacy action to help tackle the biodiversity crisis.
£636,600: Blyth Tall Ship’s Community Response project
Blyth Tall Ship, a charity which uses maritime heritage and traditional vessels to provide skills training, has launched a new project in direct response to the impacts of the pandemic.
Hundreds of participants will be able to take part in entry level group activities designed to develop skills and improve wellbeing and employability.
Focusing on those who are vulnerable due to lower levels of mental or physical health, those who are unemployed and those who are directed to the project via social prescribing initiative, the project aims to make a positive difference for people of all ages in Blyth.
£2.7m: Redruth Revival CIC’s Redruth Buttermarket: Rediscovering the Market Town
Set in the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, Redruth has had a long history as a market town and saw its fortunes rise and fall with the opening and then closing of the mines. Coupled with the decline of high streets across the country, Redruth now has a cluster of underused and deteriorating Grade II Listed buildings, collectively known as Redruth Buttermarket.
This project aims to conserve, repair and unlock the potential of the cluster of historic buildings to create an economically thriving, cultural and community hub at the heart of the town, reflective of its heyday.
It is hoped to create a new space for local businesses, affordable entry level work spaces, space for local food providers and an all-year festival and events space.
£2.1m: Leeds Culture Trust’s Leeds 2023 project
For its creative programme, the Leeds 2023 event aims to boost the social and economic fortunes of Leeds and the wider region, as well as boosting the resilience of the heritage and cultural sector. National Lottery funding will be used to help people experience Leeds in new ways, by uncovering hidden community stories, celebrating art, music, dance and industrial history.
£2.9m: Tweed Forum’s Destination Tweed: Source to Sea Restoration and Revitalisation project
National Lottery funding will support an ambitious five year project to create a new ‘source to sea’ Tweed trail on The River Tweed with the aim of creating a destination and reinvigorating the local landscape and economy.
The project will include restoring natural heritage, creating new (and developing existing) walking and cycling trails and hosting a varied programme of archaeology, heritage and cultural activities.
£1m: Derbyshire Dales District Council’s Hurst Farm Heritage Trail project
Set in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and once a mixed arable farm with meadows and pastures, Hurst Farm Estate was bought for social housing in the 1950s and is today the largest housing estate in the Derbyshire Dales.
This project will restore woodland surrounding the estate, enhance biodiversity and improve access to nature and green space. Community involvement will be a key aspect throughout the project.
It aims to improve the wellbeing and involvement of disadvantaged communities as well as protecting the area’s natural heritage which has been impacted by increased demand on greenspaces, particularly exacerbated by the recent pandemic lockdowns.
Eilish McGuinness, Chief Executive of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: “I am delighted that we were able to support these exciting projects, which put heritage at the heart of people and places. It is so uplifting to see the continued ambition in the light of the impact of the pandemic and ongoing challenges, protecting our precious heritage and supporting communities to recover and thrive.” | <urn:uuid:d5f79bfe-13b8-4a6c-990f-192cdbf23d08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/news/national-lottery-funding-puts-heritage-heart-six-projects-13-7m-funding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.926327 | 909 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Key Winter Health Tips by Dr. 911, Robert Glatter, MD
Robert Glatter is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York. He also has a medical house call and wellness practice in the city called Dr. 911, which operate 24/7. Dr. Glatter does medical exams for Manhattan filmed movies, is a doctor on Gossip Girl and other television shows on the CW network. Dr. Glatter is on the editorial board of Medscape Emergency Medicine (WebMD), a contributor of NBC and CBS networks, and an active member of children’s foundations like Stop Caid Now and the Worldwide Children Foundation. Here are some of his key tips for maintaining your health during the chilly winter months.
1. Avoid holiday weight gain. Before you start filling your plate at a party, scan the selections to make healthy choices. Even though it is a holiday, the rules should still apply when selecting your meal. Try to choose low fat turkey (white meat), lightly dressed green salads, and plenty of whole grains. Your attention to portion control will help minimize weight gain during the holidays. Always remember to drink plenty of water prior to eating, which limits the amount of calories you consume. It’s unreasonable to completely avoid all sweets, alcoholic beverages, and fatty foods, but it certainly helps to have a sensible plan for eating in a smart, portion controlled, and responsible fashion.
2. Take a vitamin D supplement. Up to 80% of people do not get enough vitamin D, especially due to reduced sunlight during winter days. Studies have demonstrated that if patients increase their intake of vitamin D, they can reduce their risk of cancer and heart disease by up to 25%. Vitamin D specifically helps to reduce risk of breast and colon cancer. When you can’t enough sun, you can also eat foods which are known to be rich in vitamin D. This includes oily fish such as salmon and sardines, or vitamin D fortified foods such as milk, oranges and cereal. The main issue is that it’s difficult to obtain enough vitamin D from these foods to fulfill daily requirements so a supplement of 1,000 units per day would be highly recommended. If you are already taking a multivitamin, you may want to reduce your dose accordingly.
3. Make sure you exercise- even indoors during winter. Walking, using an elliptical trainer or treadmill for at least 30 minutes a day will help to promote blood flow and boost your metabolism during the winter days. Other alternatives can be to practice yoga, utilize resistance bands or routine stretching, to elevate your heart rate and break a sweat. | <urn:uuid:65c5dbcd-e151-41ce-85ef-5ffbe7254dea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pagedaily.com/key-winter-health-tips-by-dr-911-robert-glatter-md/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00016-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954658 | 539 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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