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Earwax is the difficult thing to remove from your ear without harming the internal surface of the ear. Many people buy chemical drops over the counter to clean the ears. But this drops consist of isopropyl alcohol which washes out and makes your ear inner surface dry.
Instead of using the chemicals you can go for a natural remedy which consists of rubbing alcohol and white vinegar. Due to powerful antimicrobial and antibiotic properties white vinegar not only clean the ears but protect it from infection. The combination soothes the pain, fights infection and breaks down the earwax.
In the case of mild ear infection and high wax build up you can use this remedy. However for a serious ear infection, it is recommended to consult your doctor.
Earwax and Ear Infections Home Remedy Recipe
The preparation consists of the development of the proper combination of white vinegar and rubbing alcohol. Follow the given steps to clear the earwax using a home remedy.
- Take 1 part of rubbing alcohol and mix it with 1 part of white vinegar.
- Now, pour 1 tsp or 5 milliliters of the solution into the ear. Til your head while pouring the mixture into the ear.
- Stay in the tilted position fro 2 minutes.
- Later allow the solution to run out of the ear by changing your position and sitting upright.
- Use this remedy twice a day to clear earwax, trapped water and treat the ear infection.
Note – After using this remedy if you fail to get relief from infection in 3 days then please consult your doctor. You should take pain relief if you have perforated your eardrum.
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Embarrassment at No10 as Union Jack flies upside-down
Red-faced Downing Street officials have been checking their supply of Union Jacks after displaying one upside-down at a high-profile event at Number 10.
Eagle-eyed TV viewers spotted the wrongly-hung miniature flag in photographs of a trade deal signing involving Gordon Brown, Trade Secretary Peter Mandelson and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao yesterday.
The Downing Street switchboard was quickly inundated with complaints.
Gaffe: Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson overlook the flag error as Chinese PM Wen Jiabao, standing at left, looks on
On the side nearest the flagpole, the thicker white diagonals should be ABOVE the red ones
The error is particularly embarrassing because an upside-down Union Jack is traditionally used as a coded distress signal by British forces.
Downing Street said today it was making efforts to ensure the Union Flag - as it is technically known - flies the right way up from now on.
A spokesman said: 'It is regrettable that on this occasion the Union Flag was not displayed correctly. We have looked into how this happened and have taken steps to ensure it is correctly displayed at all times in the future.'
Inversion of the Union Flag is a constant bugbear for vexillologists - flag enthusiasts to you and me.
Properly the thick white section of the diagonal should appear above the red stripe on the side nearest the flagpole, but at the Downing Street conference this was reversed.
In 1997, veterans taking part in the annual Remembrance Service in Whitehall were angry to see the flag being flown upside-down above the Ministry of Defence.
And officials were forced to rearrange the large Union Flags flying on the stage for a joint press conference with Mr Brown and Mr Wen at the Foreign Office yesterday, narrowly avoiding further embarrassment.
Mike Kearsley, director general of the Flag Institute, said today: 'You would think people in Downing Street would recognise it because they see the flag so often.
'I'm surprised that people of the calibre of Mandelson and the Prime Minister could allow such as mistake,' he told the BBC.
'They were just little plastic flags on wooden sticks, which you could easily take off and put back the right way up.'
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In a poll of prominent members of the national news media, nearly two-thirds say the Internet is hurting journalism more than it is helping. The poll, conducted by The Atlantic and National Journal, asked 43 media insiders whether, on balance, journalism has been helped more or hurt more by the rise of news consumption online. Sixty-five percent said journalism has been hurt more, while 34 percent said it has been helped more.
The media insiders were also asked about coverage of President Obama. Of 45 respondents, 71 percent say it has been “about right,” 22 percent say it’s been “too easy” and 7 percent say it has been “too tough.”
Those who say that news consumption on the Internet is, on balance, hurting journalism note the way the online experience is changing reader habits.The “hurt more” group also says that while the Internet offers benefits, the cost to traditional media and news-gathering is too high.
On balance, has journalism been helped more or hurt more by the rise of news consumption on the Internet?
•Helped more 35 % (15)
•Hurt more 65 % (28)
What do you think of the coverage of Barack Obama so far this year?
•Too tough 7 % (3)
•Too easy 22 % (10)
•About right 71 % (32)
“The Internet has some plusses: It has widened the circle of those participating in the national debate. But it has mortally wounded the financial structure of the news business so that the cost of doing challenging, independent reporting has become all but prohibitive all over the world. It has blurred the line between opinion and fact and created a dynamic in which extreme thought flourishes while balanced judgment is imperiled.”
“A year ago, I would have given a different answer. The increases in audience reach and communication with the audience are incredibly gratifying. But the cost to the business model (R.I.P. Seattle P-I) and the inability of the business model to monetize the Internet means that there is a disturbing net cost to newsgathering. If you're not covering your state delegation in D.C., or the state legislature back home, or the city council, bad things are going to happen, undiscovered.”
“News consumption depends on news production, and I don't see anything on the Internet that produces news—that is, detailed responsible empirical journalism—the way newspapers do (or did). It is typical of Americans to get more excited about consumption than about production.”
“The Internet trains readers to consume news in ever-smaller bites. This is a disaster for newspapers and magazines.”
Those who say that news consumption on the Internet is helping journalism point to the range of information available online and to the way the Web has opened the practice of journalism to more people.
“Sure there's sludge, and I can feel overwhelmed by quantity--but the range and quality of what’s at my fingertips every morning is astonishing.”
“You abandon the conceit that ‘newspapers’ equals ‘news,’ you realize that people have far more information available to them about current events than ever before, and that’s a great thing for both journalism (the gathering of news) and the public.”
“It’s been bad in some ways for the media industry—especially newspapers, at this point—but over the long haul, I think the shift to the Web has helped the practice of journalism. It’s subjected journalists to more real-time scrutiny and opened the profession to talented people not affiliated with major media organizations.”
“More sources more often = good for the First Amendment. The creative aspects of creative destruction almost always represent progress. Nonetheless I worry about the death of expensive reporting and the professional standards that grew up by historical accident in the postwar period of licensed airwaves and quasi-monopolistic newspapers.”
As for coverage of President Obama, most members of the national media surveyed believe their peers have got it just about right.
The honeymoon period was more intense than usual (due to the historic character of Obama's win) but also shorter (due to unusually determined and early GOP opposition).”
“Some has been pointlessly skeptical—e.g., raising the question, ‘Is the president overexposed?’ But most has been correct, and some has been making up for skepticism that should have been applied during the campaign.”
But even the “about right” crowd has concerns.
“I guess the coverage has been about right, in the sense that it has been about as it always is: too superficial, too consumed with transitory back-and-forth, not searching enough, and often faintly hysterical in tone. It could certainly be better.”
“So far, there seems to be a balance between sympathy/admiration for Obama the man and the political leader, on the one hand, and the D.C. political community’s near-irresistible pull toward micro-coverage (scandal, poll readings, up-and-down) on the other. In the long run, I think and fear that the latter tendency will prevail, as it generally does. The magnitude of the issues being faced could, however, direct more attention toward big questions.”
Those who say coverage of Obama has been “too easy” believe the press is not doing its job.
“Not just too easy, but far too easy. Embarrassingly easy. Fawning. The worst ever in my lifetime.”
“I think we’re seeing the same phenomenon in media coverage we saw in coverage of Bush after 9/11—a dearth of clear-headed reporting that helps readers understand the potential near-term and long-term consequences of policy decisions being taken today. I can’t help but think that several years from now people will be wondering why reporters weren’t really pressing the administration much harder about policies that will expand the national debt and deficit to unprecedented levels. The consequences have economic, security, and social implications, which have only been superficially explored in coverage I’ve seen.”
And the three respondents who say “too tough” blame the media for being reflexively antagonistic.
“There is a bit of overcompensation from the positive campaign coverage, but even more there is the natural tendency of political reporting to overvalue (by an amount made greater with the influence of bloggers) the impact of any development, especially a negative development.”
“The coverage is too tough in a shallow way—it is relentlessly negative but also relentlessly petty, rather than deeply probing. It lacks a sense of history and context, and an appreciation for the complications of taking over the reins of government.”
Respondents to the Atlantic/National Journal Media Insider’s Poll: Peter Beinart, Gloria Borger, David Brooks, Carl Cannon, Tucker Carlson, Jonathan Chait, Roger Cohen, Steve Coll, Sam Donaldson, Bob Edwards, James Fallows, Howard Fineman, Frank Foer, Ron Fournier, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jeff Greenfield, Glenn Greenwald, David Gregory, Mark Halperin, Christopher Hitchens, Al Hunt, Mort Kondracke, Jim Lehrer, Ruth Marcus, Joshua Micah Marshall, Chris Matthews, Jane Mayer, Doyle McManus, John Micklethwait, Dana Milbank, Markos Moulitsas, Katherine McIntire Peters, Todd Purdum, Cokie Roberts, Eugene Robinson, Tom Shoop, Roger Simon, Scott Simon, Ray Suarez, Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer, Leon Wieseltier, Juan Williams, Judy Woodruff, Fareed Zakaria. | <urn:uuid:e8b25447-fae0-4af1-8a22-29ad1eeef2e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/04/media-insiders-say-internet-hurts-journalism/307410/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00395-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946602 | 1,653 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Most countries visited in one year by scheduled surface transport
- Graham Hughes
- 133 total number
- Uruguay Bella Union
The most countries visited in one year by scheduled ground transport was 133, achieved by Graham Hughes (UK) arriving in Uruguay on 1 January 2009 and finishing in Egypt on 31 December 2009. Lonely Planet TV in Australia will be producing an 8 part documentary which follows Graham's journey throughout the year. | <urn:uuid:b400de57-7255-4673-bdc8-baefea252dc1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-countries-visited-in-one-year-by-scheduled-ground-transport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00241-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942861 | 83 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Today we looked at how weather changes with the season. We noticed (as part of our daily weather reporting) that it was actually a sunny day and that got us thinking about why it doesn’t get as hot in winter as it does in summer, even if the sun shines. We learnt that because the Earth is tilted during our winter the sun has to heat more of the Earth than during our summer so it’s energy has a bigger area to cover. This led us to think about the kind of clothes we need to wear in each season. We then had great fun drawing around each other and designing, and fitting, outfits appropriate for different seasons. | <urn:uuid:c0c67d08-7609-4e32-8f84-4d3f294f8b64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.st-eanswythes.kent.sch.uk/2015/12/09/seasonal-weather/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.98811 | 134 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Preventing tractor rollover fatalities: performance of the NIOSH AutoROPS.
Powers-JR; Harris-JR; Etherton-JR; Ronaghi-M; Snyder-KA; Lutz-TJ; Newbraugh-BH
Inj Prev 2001 Sep; 7(Suppl 1):i54-i58
Approximately 132 agricultural tractor overturn fatalities occur per year. The use of rollover protective structures (ROPS), along with seat belts, is the best known method for preventing these fatalities. One impediment to ROPS use, however, is low clearance situations, such as orchards and animal confinement buildings. To address the need for ROPS that are easily adapted to low clearance situations, the Division of Safety Research, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), developed an automatically deploying, telescoping ROPS (Auto-ROPS). The NIOSH AutoROPS consists of two subsystems. The first is a retractable ROPS that is normally latched in its lowered position for day-to-day use. The second subsystem is a sensor that monitors the operating angle of the tractor. Ifa rollover condition is detected by the sensor, the retracted ROPS will deploy and lock in the full upright position before ground contact. Static load testing and field upset tests of the NIOSH AutoROPS have been conducted in accordance with SAE standard J2194. Additionally, timed trials of the AutoROPS deployment mechanism were completed. The design of the retractable ROPS and sensor, as well as the results of the different testing phases are discussed.
Tractors; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Traumatic-injuries; Farmers; Agricultural-industry; Agricultural-workers; Agricultural-machinery; Mortality-rates; Mortality-data; Safety-measures; Occupational-health; Occupational-hazards; Occupational-accidents; Safety-monitoring
John Powers, NIOSH, Division of Safety Research, M/S G-800, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888, USA | <urn:uuid:f242c9b8-30ed-414a-a295-11b7c834fbf0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nioshtic-2/20021841.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00254-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88177 | 439 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Data on ethnic minority progression in the UK suggests that structural inequality and systems within organisations can limit the opportunities for minorities. According to Universities UK as an ethnic minority, regardless of your social class or social capital, you are less likely to achieve a 2:1 in the UK. In addition, when entering the labour market, you are less likely to progress in UK organisations.
In our experience, when a business focusses on diversity and inclusion they can make a positive impact on the career progression and trajectory of ethnic minorities. At EY, for instance, we have taken targeted action by introducing a Future Leaders programme that supports the progression of high potential BAME professionals. Our aim is to increase the representation of ethnic minorities at all levels of our business.
From my own personal experience, I know that individuals from an ethnic minority are not always cognisant of the inequalities that can be at play in an organisation. From a young age they may have been told by parents ‘you will need to work twice as hard to be noticed’ or ‘keep your head down, do good work and this will be recognised’. They won’t know that there can be hidden obstacles and barriers along the way.
As a global firm with growth ambitions, it is essential for the success of our business to attract and retain talent that reflects the global marketplace we operate in and to deliver innovation and diverse perspectives to our clients. However, like many organisations, we found that there is a good percentage of ethnic minorities amongst our graduate intake, but too few at senior levels, and we are changing that.
- Firstly, and crucially to driving change, our leaders set the tone from the top – they are committed to leading inclusively through valuing and leveraging difference.
- Secondly, diversity and inclusion are core to our business strategy and we put in place public targets to improve race diversity at senior levels of the firm.
- Thirdly, the targeted programmes we have in place, including our Future Leaders programme, aim to empower our high performing ethnic minority talent to lead authentically in a style that suits them. Participants share common experiences and strategies for success.
In addition, EY focuses on the wider engagement of allies to build race fluency and unlock opportunities for our upcoming talent. Allies are key to creating deep-rooted cultural change.
The impact of our Future Leaders programme has been powerful. Participants tell us their they are more confident and clear about their career ambitions and they are more likely to stay with EY and progress. They also go on to act as positive agents of change.
There can be reservations surrounding targeted programmes, however, when they are part of a wider strategy, and their outcomes are measured, they can be incredibly impactful. A dual approach that combines targeted action for the minority and broader cultural change for the majority can be highly effective. So much so that we are sharing our experience with our clients.
In the words of the Ruby McGregor Smith review, which produced a report on race in the workplace, ‘the time for talking is over and the time to act is now’. To prepare for the future of work, UK businesses must create an environment where all people are empowered to use their talents and strengths to achieve their personal and professional ambitions. | <urn:uuid:9e478bbe-14a8-433b-a9ae-c76725611347> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://diversityq.com/targeting-ethnic-minority-talent-can-help-improve-boardroom-diversity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.960143 | 677 | 1.625 | 2 |
Giving an audible voice to water
The World Water Council is a network: a network of wide-ranging competencies distributed the world over. Working towards the future of water does not boil down to being a substitute for the capacities of this network. On the contrary, it seeks to amplify its actions and make the most of them to create new synergies and propose innovative solutions.
World Water Council Strategy 2012-2015
Profile and mission
The World Water Council is an international multi-stakeholder platform. It was established in 1996 on the initiative of renowned water specialists and international organisations, in response to an increasing concern about world water issues from the global community.
The World Water Council's mission is to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues at all levels, including the highest decision-making level, to facilitate the efficient conservation, protection, development, planning, management and use of water in all its dimensions on an environmentally sustainable basis for the benefit of all life on earth.
By providing a platform to encourage debates and exchanges of experience, the Council aims to reach a common strategic vision on water resources and water services management amongst all stakeholders in the water community. In the process, the Council also catalyses initiatives and activities, whose results converge toward its flagship product, the World Water Forum.
The World Water Council is committed to a set of values that contributes to achieving the goals we pursue. These are:
- Transparency: The network is open to anyone organisation that subscribes to its objectives and information flows freely between its members;
- Democracy: The network is founded on democratic principles, one member one vote; opinions of all members are distributed freely around the network;
- Dignity: Discussions are held in a dignified manner, everyone gets a chance to be heard when everyone gets a chance to listen;
- Independence: No special interests should interfere in bringing issues to the table when such issues are relevant to water;
- Participation: It is believed that complex issues such as water issues can only be addressed and solved by having all relevant stakeholders participate in discussions.
The Council's action for the triennial period until 2018 is oriented in priority towards bringing people together through active hydro-diplomacy, exploring new ideas and concepts and discussing issues while encouraging exchanges and networking.
The anticipated activities are situated in 4 specific domains:
- Water on the Political Agenda
- Exploring Water Security issues
- Co-organising World Water Forums
- Reinforcing the Organisation
Through its wide membership of organisations throughout the world, the Council spreads information about the processes it carries out in leading political, scientific and technical domains, in addition to practical perspectives and knowledge. It does this through a wide range of activities overseen by the Board of Governors, including the World Water Forums, multi-stakeholder dialogues, workshops, publications and online platforms.
The Council, as an umbrella organisation, follows three working principles:
- It restricts itself to policy-related issues and addresses other issues only if they are cross-cutting or controversial;
- It plays the role of facilitator for cross-cutting programs and does not do work that could be done by its members;
- It cooperates with its members to identify the policy implications of their work and helps them to develop and promote these implications.
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Ready to enter the robot world? This book walks you through building your very own little metal assistant from a kit, dressing it up, giving it a brain, programming it to do things, even making it talk. It also includes some titbits about robot history, icons and other navigational aids; tear-out cheat sheet; and top ten lists.
- Limba : Engleza
- Data Publicarii : 17 Oct 2003
- Format : Paperback
- Numar pagini : 384
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Charleroi is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, along the Monongahela River, 25 miles south of Pittsburgh. Charleroi was settled in 1890 and incorporated in 1891. The population in 1900 stood at 5,930; in 1910, 9,615; in 1920, 11,516, and in 1940, 10,784. The population was 4,871 at the 2000 census. There has been a large-scale cessation of industrial activities in the region. The decrease in the population is associated with the decline of the steel-making industry in the "Mon Valley" which extends from Charleroi to the mouth of the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. | <urn:uuid:6075b126-f30d-40df-b7ba-55c7dfea58a1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://openjurist.org/law/alternative-dispute-resolution/pennsylvania/charleroi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718426.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00137-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942453 | 138 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Modern information on circumventing an important factor obstacle on the road to anti-scarring surgery have already been produced by Maksim Plikus, an affiliate mentor in growth and personal the field of biology from the UCI schooling of Biological Sciences and co-workers in trait speaking. The analysis organization discovered that the fresh scar-free peel service approach is based partly on assistance from swirling blood stream structure. The outcomes indicate the manner in which toward potential remedies for scar-free wound treating that target the human body’s own body skin cells.
Surface wounds activate quick cut restore, which frequently culminates because of the enhancement of scratch. Unlike regular skin, pocks are devoid of hair roots and excess fat panels, and establishing young wild hair and rounded is essential for regenerating an equal of regular bark. In a 2017 material posted in discipline, Plikus and fellow discovered that animal rats can obviously renew near normal-looking bag when late hair and fatty structure shape in recovering pains. Young unwanted fat structure make from myofibroblasts, a type of cut fibroblast that was previously not really considered to be competent at transforming into additional personal categories. This revelation helped bring restored focus on wound fibroblasts as pretty prey for anti-scarring options.
With the current economic survey, co-led by George Cotsarelis from college of philadelphia, your research agency undertaken to advance define injure fibroblasts and determine as long as they’re get and similarly effective regenerating young fat muscle.
Applying a screen of single-cell gear as a form of computational microscope that analyse several thousand particular person body cells instantly, the analysis workforce found an all of the sudden top level of fibroblast choice.
people witness that wrap fibroblasts tend to be surprisingly really assorted hence you will find up to twelve unusual cell sub-types. Some of us realise his or her molecular signatures as they are starting to uncover their own biology. For example, we will already know that particular fibroblast sub-types ‘prefer’ exclusive particular areas of the cut. This implies that individuals compete unique characters within locations with the injury, and maybe at different times during mend course of action, mentioned religion Guerrero-Juarez, a postdoctoral boyfriend at UCI and low article writer of the venture.
After reviewing distress fibroblasts, the team observed that a major band of structure had the molecular revealing warning signs of obtaining originated people.
Molecular profiling of injure fibroblasts definitely shows that around 13percent advisors at some point in the background have been circulation skin cells that become collagen-producing fibroblasts, but retained ongoing blood-specific genetics even activated, suggested Plikus.
Definitely, bloodstream cell-derived fibroblasts really noted by other people recently, which include tucked within wind scars. really genuinely fresh about your observation is the fact that these fibroblast-making blood stream muscle, that happen to be named myeloid panels, can reprogram into brand-new excessive fat skin cells, Plikus reported. substantial, we all revealed that for wounds to reach scar-less regeneration, the body must circulate many cell strategies, which include from another location dispersing hold progenitors.
Because myeloid tissues may fairly easy to gather and better using pre-existing systems, this determination exposed the glamorous chances about the skin’s curing capability can be boosted via delivering regeneration-competent blood-derived progenitors to the product from hurt. As a sudden alternative, an information-rich inventory of different wind fibroblasts assist pattern a platform for its group to get started choosing newer sub-types of structure that accentuate marking, or upgrade rectify toward scar-less complexion regeneration. | <urn:uuid:de14e6bd-8daf-49ad-be1a-332560a680d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.healthadvisoryinformation.com/analysis-demonstrates-exactly-how-circulation-structure-help-traumas-recuperate-scar-free.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.933342 | 771 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
My friend, Charles, found this "stray Potter" while doing some indexing for the Washington State Archives (the SCRIBE program). This family lived in the little town of Ione, on the Pend Oreille River in the county of the same name, north of Spokane in Eastern Washington (just 22 miles from the Canadian border). The town was first settled in 1894 and incorporated in 1910. Mining and timbering were the two primary occupations.
The Marriage Affidavit Record above is for Ray Potter, age 21, of Ione, and Esther Sarah Applegate, also age 21, and of Ione. They were married on 28 May 1931 in Ione and Gertrude Applegate was a witness.
I could not find the Potter family in either the 1930 nor 1940 U.S. Federal Censuses.
I did find the Applegate family in 1930 living in Ione; Gertrude was 43, a widow, born in Kansas, with children Esther, 20 (store clerk), Marvin, 18, Fred, 15, and Forest 12. In the 1940 census, poor dear Gertrude is living all by herself in Burns, Harney Co, Oregon.
So where did Mr. Ray Potter come from? And where did he go? To which Potter family does he belong?
Monday, May 19, 2014
I was lucky enough to be able to visit a second time to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. The name derives from the many holly bushes and trees on the site. Opened in 1849, many notables from the history of the South rest there. In the President's Circle (above) is the gravesite of President James Monroe.
Many folks of humble origin and service are buried there too. Amazingly, there are only five Potter persons resting there......... out of all those thousands! I was surprised. They are:
May Handy Potter, died age 86, buried 5 Jun 1952
Mary D. Potter (Mrs. Benj. J.), died age 54, buried 24 Mar 1937, last residence was Atlanta, GA
Hazeltine Wattson Potter (Mrs. S.B.), died aged 83, buried 26 Mar 1982.
Ben. J. Potter, buried 12 Nov 1913
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The Fir Tree
Out in the woods stood such a pretty little fir tree. It grew in a good place, where it had plenty of sun and plenty of fresh air. Around it stood many tall comrades, both fir trees and pines.
The little fir tree was in a headlong hurry to grow up. It didn't care a thing for the warm sunshine, or the fresh air, and it took no interest in the peasant children who ran about chattering when they came to pick strawberries or raspberries. Often when the children had picked their pails full, or had gathered long strings of berries threaded on straws, they would sit down to rest near the little fir. "Oh, isn't it a nice little tree?" they would say. "It's the baby of the woods." The little tree didn't like their remarks at all.
Next year it shot up a long joint of new growth, and the following year another joint, still longer. You can always tell how old a fir tree is by counting the number of joints it has.
"I wish I were a grown-up tree, like my comrades," the little tree sighed. "Then I could stretch out my branches and see from my top what the world is like. The birds would make me their nesting place, and when the wind blew I could bow back and forth with all the great trees."
It took no pleasure in the sunshine, nor in the birds. The glowing clouds, that sailed overhead at sunrise and sunset, meant nothing to it.
In winter, when the snow lay sparkling on the ground, a hare would often come hopping along and jump right over the little tree. Oh, how irritating that was! That happened for two winters, but when the third winter came the tree was so tall that the hare had to turn aside and hop around it.
"Oh, to grow, grow! To get older and taller," the little tree thought. "That is the most wonderful thing in this world."
In the autumn, woodcutters came and cut down a few of the largest trees. This happened every year. The young fir was no longer a baby tree, and it trembled to see how those stately great trees crashed to the ground, how their limbs were lopped off, and how lean they looked as the naked trunks were loaded into carts. It could hardly recognize the trees it had known, when the horses pulled them out of the woods.
Where were they going? What would become of them?
In the springtime, when swallows and storks came back, the tree asked them, "Do you know where the other trees went? Have you met them?"
The swallows knew nothing about it, but the stork looked thoughtful and nodded his head. "Yes, I think I met them," he said. "On my way from Egypt I met many new ships, and some had tall, stately masts. They may well have been the trees you mean, for I remember the smell of fir. They wanted to be remembered to you."
"Oh, I wish I were old enough to travel on the sea. Please tell me what it really is, and how it looks."
"That would take too long to tell," said the stork, and off he strode.
"Rejoice in your youth," said the sunbeams. "Take pride in your growing strength and in the stir of life within you."
And the wind kissed the tree, and the dew wept over it, for the tree was young and without understanding.
When Christmas came near, many young trees were cut down. Some were not even as old or as tall as this fir tree of ours, who was in such a hurry and fret to go traveling. These young trees, which were always the handsomest ones, had their branches left on them when they were loaded on carts and the horses drew them out of the woods.
"Where can they be going?" the fir tree wondered. "They are no taller than I am. One was really much smaller than I am. And why are they allowed to keep all their branches? "Where can they be going?"
"We know! We know!" the sparrows chirped. "We have been to town and peeped in the windows. We know where they are going. The greatest splendor and glory you can imagine awaits them. We've peeped through windows. We've seen them planted right in the middle of a warm room, and decked out with the most splendid things-gold apples, good gingerbread, gay toys, and many hundreds of candles."
"And then?" asked the fir tree, trembling in every twig. "And then? What happens then?"
"We saw nothing more. And never have we seen anything that could match it."
"I wonder if I was created for such a glorious future?" The fir tree rejoiced. "Why, that is better than to cross the sea. I'm tormented with longing. Oh, if Christmas would only come! I'm just as tall and grown-up as the trees they chose last year. How I wish I were already in the cart, on my way to the warm room where there's so much splendor and glory. Then-then something even better, something still more important is bound to happen, or why should they deck me so fine? Yes, there must be something still grander! But what? Oh, how I long: I don't know what's the matter with me."
"Enjoy us while you may," the air and sunlight told him. "Rejoice in the days of your youth, out here in the open."
But the tree did not rejoice at all. It just grew. It grew and was green both winter and summer-dark evergreen. People who passed it said, "There's a beautiful tree!" And when Christmas time came again they cut it down first. The ax struck deep into its marrow. The tree sighed as it fell to the ground. It felt faint with pain. Instead of the happiness it had expected, the tree was sorry to leave the home where it had grown up. It knew that never again would it see its dear old comrades, the little bushes and the flowers about it-and perhaps not even the birds. The departure was anything but pleasant.
The tree did not get over it until all the trees were unloaded in the yard, and it heard a man say, "That's a splendid one. That's the tree for us." Then two servants came in fine livery, and carried the fir tree into a big splendid drawing-room. Portraits were hung all around the walls. On either side of the white porcelain stove stood great Chinese vases, with lions on the lids of them. There were easy chairs, silk-covered sofas and long tables strewn with picture books, and with toys that were worth a mint of money, or so the children said.
The fir tree was planted in a large tub filled with sand, but no one could see that it was a tub, because it was wrapped in a gay green cloth and set on a many-colored carpet. How the tree quivered! What would come next? The servants and even the young ladies helped it on with its fine decorations. From its branches they hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with candies. Gilded apples and walnuts hung in clusters as if they grew there, and a hundred little white, blue, and even red, candles were fastened to its twigs. Among its green branches swayed dolls that it took to be real living people, for the tree had never seen their like before. And up at its very top was set a large gold tinsel star. It was splendid, I tell you, splendid beyond all words!
"Tonight," they all said, "ah, tonight how the tree will shine!"
"Oh," thought the tree, "if tonight would only come! If only the candles were lit! And after that, what happens then? Will the trees come trooping out of the woods to see me? Will the sparrows flock to the windows? Shall I take root here, and stand in fine ornaments all winter and summer long?"
That was how much it knew about it. All its longing had gone to its bark and set it to arching, which is as bad for a tree as a headache is for us.
Now the candles were lighted. What dazzling splendor! What a blaze of light! The tree quivered so in every bough that a candle set one of its twigs ablaze. It hurt terribly.
"Mercy me!" cried every young lady, and the fire was quickly put out. The tree no longer dared rustle a twig-it was awful! Wouldn't it be terrible if it were to drop one of its ornaments? Its own brilliance dazzled it.
Suddenly the folding doors were thrown back, and a whole flock of children burst in as if they would overturn the tree completely. Their elders marched in after them, more sedately. For a moment, but only for a moment, the young ones were stricken speechless. Then they shouted till the rafters rang. They danced about the tree and plucked off one present after another.
"What are they up to?" the tree wondered. "What will happen next?"
As the candles burned down to the bark they were snuffed out, one by one, and then the children had permission to plunder the tree. They went about it in such earnest that the branches crackled and, if the tree had not been tied to the ceiling by the gold star at top, it would have tumbled headlong.
The children danced about with their splendid playthings. No one looked at the tree now, except an old nurse who peered in among the branches, but this was only to make sure that not an apple or fig had been overlooked.
"Tell us a story! Tell us a story!" the children clamored, as they towed a fat little man to the tree. He sat down beneath it and said, "Here we are in the woods, and it will do the tree a lot of good to listen to our story. Mind you, I'll tell only one. Which will you have, the story of Ivedy-Avedy, or the one about Humpty-Dumpty who tumbled downstairs, yet ascended the throne and married the Princess?"
"Ivedy-Avedy," cried some. "Humpty-Dumpty," cried the others. And there was a great hullabaloo. Only the fir tree held its peace, though it thought to itself, "Am I to be left out of this? Isn't there anything I can do?" For all the fun of the evening had centered upon it, and it had played its part well.
The fat little man told them all about Humpty-Dumpty, who tumbled downstairs, yet ascended the throne and married the Princess. And the children clapped and shouted, "Tell us another one! Tell us another one!" For they wanted to hear about Ivedy-Avedy too, but after Humpty-Dumpty the story telling stopped. The fir tree stood very still as it pondered how the birds in the woods had never told it a story to equal this.
"Humpty-Dumpty tumbled downstairs, yet he married the Princess. Imagine! That must be how things happen in the world. You never can tell. Maybe I'll tumble downstairs and marry a princess too," thought the fir tree, who believed every word of the story because such a nice man had told it.
The tree looked forward to the following day, when they would deck it again with fruit and toys, candles and gold. "Tomorrow I shall not quiver," it decided. "I'll enjoy my splendor to the full. Tomorrow I shall hear about Humpty-Dumpty again, and perhaps about Ivedy-Avedy too." All night long the tree stood silent as it dreamed its dreams, and next morning the butler and the maid came in with their dusters.
"Now my splendor will be renewed," the fir tree thought. But they dragged it upstairs to the garret, and there they left it in a dark corner where no daylight ever came. "What's the meaning of this?" the tree wondered. "What am I going to do here? What stories shall I hear?" It leaned against the wall, lost in dreams. It had plenty of time for dreaming, as the days and the nights went by. Nobody came to the garret. And when at last someone did come, it was only to put many big boxes away in the corner. The tree was quite hidden. One might think it had been entirely forgotten.
"It's still winter outside," the tree thought. "The earth is too hard and covered with snow for them to plant me now. I must have been put here for shelter until springtime comes. How thoughtful of them! How good people are! Only, I wish it weren't so dark here, and so very, very lonely. There's not even a little hare. It was so friendly out in the woods when the snow was on the ground and the hare came hopping along. Yes, he was friendly even when he jumped right over me, though I did not think so then. Here it's all so terribly lonely."
"Squeak, squeak!" said a little mouse just then. He crept across the floor, and another one followed him. They sniffed the fir tree, and rustled in and out among its branches.
"It is fearfully cold," one of them said. "Except for that, it would be very nice here, wouldn't it, you old fir tree?"
"I'm not at all old," said the fir tree. "Many trees are much older than I am."
"Where did you come from?" the mice asked him. "And what do you know?" They were most inquisitive creatures.
"Tell us about the most beautiful place in the world. Have you been there? Were you ever in the larder, where there are cheeses on shelves and hams that hang from the rafters? It's the place where you can dance upon tallow candles-where you can dart in thin and squeeze out fat."
"I know nothing of that place," said the tree. "But I know the woods where the sun shines and the little birds sing." Then it told them about its youth. The little mice had never heard the like of it. They listened very intently, and said, "My! How much you have seen! And how happy it must have made you."
"I?" the fir tree thought about it. "Yes, those days were rather amusing." And he went on to tell them about Christmas Eve, when it was decked out with candies and candles.
"Oh," said the little mice, "how lucky you have been, you old fir tree!"
"I am not at all old," it insisted. "I came out of the woods just this winter, and I'm really in the prime of life, though at the moment my growth is suspended."
"How nicely you tell things," said the mice. The next night they came with four other mice to hear what the tree had to say. The more it talked, the more clearly it recalled things, and it thought, "Those were happy times. But they may still come back-they may come back again. Humpty-Dumpty fell downstairs, and yet he married the Princess. Maybe the same thing will happen to me." It thought about a charming little birch tree that grew out in the woods. To the fir tree she was a real and lovely Princess.
"Who is Humpty-Dumpty?" the mice asked it. So the fir tree told them the whole story, for it could remember it word by word. The little mice were ready to jump to the top of the tree for joy. The next night many more mice came to see the fir tree, and on Sunday two rats paid it a call, but they said that the story was not very amusing. This made the little mice to sad that they began to find it not so very interesting either.
"Is that the only story you know?" the rats asked.
"Only that one," the tree answered. "I heard it on the happiest evening of my life, but I did not know then how happy I was."
"It's a very silly story. Don't you know one that tells about bacon and candles? Can't you tell us a good larder story?"
"No," said the tree.
"Then good-by, and we won't be back," the rats said, and went away.
At last the little mice took to staying away too. The tree sighed, "Oh, wasn't it pleasant when those gay little mice sat around and listened to all that I had to say. Now that, too, is past and gone. But I will take good care to enjoy myself, once they let me out of here."
When would that be? Well, it came to pass on a morning when people came up to clean out the garret. The boxes were moved, the tree was pulled out and thrown-thrown hard-on the floor. But a servant dragged it at once to the stairway, where there was daylight again.
"Now my life will start all over," the tree thought. It felt the fresh air and the first sunbeam strike it as if it came out into the courtyard. This all happened so quickly and there was so much going around it, that the tree forgot to give even a glance at itself. The courtyard adjoined a garden, where flowers were blooming. Great masses of fragrant roses hung over the picket fence. The linden trees were in blossom, and between them the swallows skimmed past, calling, "Tilira-lira-lee, my love's come back to me." But it was not the fir tree of whom they spoke.
"Now I shall live again," it rejoiced, and tried to stretch out its branches. Alas, they were withered, and brown, and brittle. It was tossed into a corner, among weeds and nettles. But the gold star that was still tied to its top sparkled bravely in the sunlight.
Several of the merry children, who had danced around the tree and taken such pleasure in it at Christmas, were playing in the courtyard. One of the youngest seized upon it and tore off the tinsel star.
"Look what is still hanging on that ugly old Christmas tree," the child said, and stamped upon the branches until they cracked beneath his shoes.
The tree saw the beautiful flowers blooming freshly in the garden. It saw itself, and wished that they had left it in the darkest corner of the garret. It thought of its own young days in the deep woods, and of the merry Christmas Eve, and of the little mice who had been so pleased when it told them the story of Humpty-Dumpty.
"My days are over and past," said the poor tree. "Why didn't I enjoy them while I could? Now they are gone-all gone."
A servant came and chopped the tree into little pieces. These heaped together quite high. The wood blazed beautifully under the big copper kettle, and the fir tree moaned so deeply that each groan sounded like a muffled shot. That's why the children who were playing near-by ran to make a circle around the flames, staring into the fire and crying, "Pif! Paf!" But as each groans burst from it, the tree thought of a bright summer day in the woods, or a starlit winter night. It thought of Christmas Eve and thought of Humpty-Dumpty, which was the only story it ever heard and knew how to tell. And so the tree was burned completely away.
The children played on in the courtyard. The youngest child wore on his breast the gold star that had topped the tree on its happiest night of all. But that was no more, and the tree was no more, and there's no more to my story. No more, nothing more. All stories come to an end. | <urn:uuid:de7dce80-9bdf-46d1-a210-6de254e73025> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheFirTree.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00051-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987784 | 4,252 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Mumbai Police has registered a case where a student was duped of Rs 1 lakh when he tried to illegally sell his cat on an e-commerce website. Police said the student wanted to sell his cat on OLX and had put up an advertisement for the same.
The student was then contacted by a person who posed as an interested customer. On August 22, the student reportedly received a call where the person said he would like to make an advance payment.
In a report on the case, Hindustan Times said the fraudster, who was posing as an interested customer, sent a link and asked the student to download an app saying it was an e-wallet. The gullible student followed his instructions but later found that instead of receiving advance payments from the person, money was instead being deducted from his own account.
"In five transactions, a total of Rs 1 lakh was withdrawn from his bank account, following which the complainant realised he had been duped," Hindustan Times said in its report. The student then approached the police and an FIR was lodged with charges of impersonation, cheating, among others.
The case has been registered at the DN Nagar police station.
Meanwhile, the report said the police are also considering registering a case against the student for trying to sell his cat online. Sale of animals in this manner is prohibited under Indian laws.
"We will take a legal opinion on the matter and take appropriate action," Parmeshwar Ganame, senior inspector of DN Nagar police station, was quoted as saying. | <urn:uuid:e2492bc9-7511-4f0d-8246-5023ccabe3dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiatoday.in/crime/story/wanted-to-sell-cat-online-mumbai-student-duped-of-rs-1-lakh-1593118-2019-08-29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.991705 | 315 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Pneumonia is an infection in which your lungs’ tiny air sacs (alveoli) become inflamed. Coughing and shortness of breath are two symptoms that can occur due to this.
Pneumonia can be dangerous for some people, including the elderly.
In fact, according to a recent study, about 1 million elderly aged 65 and up are hospitalized with pneumonia in the United States each year.
It can be difficult to identify pneumonia in the elderly because its symptoms may be mild or not present at all.
Mild pneumonia, also known as “walking pneumonia,” can make elderly people feel a little “under the weather,” but it rarely requires a trip to the emergency department.
Certain pneumonia symptoms in adults, conversely, might be severe and necessitate urgent hospitalization.
So, it is important to know about pneumonia widely!
Causes of Pneumonia
Pneumonia can be caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi, among other germs.
Well, talking about adults specifically, the most common cause is the tiny living organisms “Bacteria”.
Adults who are 65 years or older were more likely to be infected with the following terms:
- Streptococcus Pneumonia
- Haemophilus Influenzae
- Respiratory Viruses like flu and cold viruses and COVID virus
It is very important to understand the causes of pneumonia so that you and your loved ones are safe and practicing healthy habits to stay away from such infections.
- Bacteria and viruses from the nose and sinuses
- Inhaling things like expired, contaminated food, or air into your lungs
- Too much hospitalization for other treatments
- Long stay at ventilators
What are the symptoms of different types of Pneumonia in senior citizens?
Pneumonia might be more difficult to detect in the elderly since symptoms are sometimes milder and can differ from typical pneumonia symptoms.
Older adults with pneumonia may be more likely to:
- Feel weak or unsteady, which can increase the risk of falling
- Experience confusion or delirium
- Be without fever or have a body temperature that’s lower than normal
- Degrade in functional capability and daily ability
- Lack of appetite
- Experience urinary incontinence
- Worsening of health condition
Symptoms of Bacterial Pneumonia
Symptoms of Bacterial Pneumonia can arise all of a sudden or develop gradually. The symptoms are:
- High-temperature fevers, like 105°F
- Increased Breathing and Pulse Rate
- Bluish lips and Nailbeds
Symptoms of Viral Pneumonia
Viral Pneumonia symptoms develop over several days. The symptom includes:
- Dry cough
- Muscle pain and weakness
Symptoms worsen in a day or two and the elderly may experience:
- Increased coughing
- Shortness of breath
- Muscle pain
- High fever
- Blue lips
5 Common Symptoms of Any Variant of Pneumonia in Elderly
Coughing is a symptom of pneumonia, however, it’s usually a productive cough that throws up green or yellow mucus-like phlegm or pus due to the fluid in the airway.
Coughing sputum can be bloody as well.
Coughing isn’t a symptom of pneumonia in every case. This is particularly the case for senior citizens who are underweight or unable to cough.
Weakness and Confusion
Confusion is more common in seniors with pneumonia than in younger patients.
Because the lungs aren’t absorbing enough oxygen, the body as a whole, including the heart, muscles, and brain, may not be operating at full potential.
Lips, fingertips, and toes can turn blue due to the lack of oxygen, and these alarming signs are a symptom of a serious infection.
Fever and Chills
Fever is common in people who have pneumonia. People over 65 with a weakened immune system, on the other hand, are more likely to have a cooler body temperature than a fever.
According to the Mayo Clinic, in the elderly over the age of 65, pneumonia can also result in an abnormally low body temperature.
Fever and chills may also be a problem, so caregivers should keep an eye out for fevers that suddenly jump after an illness that appeared to be improving.
Chest pain is a typical symptom of pneumonia, and it may be more noticeable in the elderly who are unable to cough.
Pain is often so severe that prescription pain medicine is included in a senior’s pneumonia treatment plan.
A patient feels a sharp stabbing pain in the chest while breathing and coughing due to infection in the lungs and rapid growth of pneumonia bacteria in the body.
Shortness of Breath
The air sacs in the lungs might fill with fluid or pus. This results in a cough as well as breathing difficulties. When elders need to move rapidly, they will face difficulties in breathing.
For instance, rushing to answer the phone or mounting the stairs.
You may have seen, the elderly struggle to get the proper amount of oxygen when they climb upstairs or do any hazardous work.
You may hear a wheezing sound as they breathe in and out, this can be one of the symptoms of pneumonia with shortness of breath.
For the elderly you can follow given prevention tips to prevent pneumonia:
- Get the pneumococcal vaccine
- Get the influenza vaccine every year
- Wash your hands regularly
- Practice healthy lifestyle
- Avoid smoking
- Keep your home clean and sanitized
The treatment for pneumonia is determined by the cause. The purpose is to eradicate the infection, avoid any consequences, and treat symptoms to reduce difficulties in elderly people.
In most cases, people can take care of Pneumonia at home when they have mild symptoms by following ways:
- Taking aspirin to help reduce a fever
- Drinking plenty of fluids, both cold and warm
- Using a humidifier or take a hot bath
- Avoiding smoking and second-hand smoke
- Getting plenty of rest
We recommend you visit doctors and not take any cough medicines without a doctor’s prescription.
A doctor will prescribe antibiotics if the cause is bacterial pneumonia.
Even if they feel better, people must finish the entire course of antibiotics because stopping too soon could re-infect them.
Antibiotics have little effect on viral pneumonia. The doctor may prescribe antiviral treatment if your elderly relative’s pneumonia is caused by a virus.
In some circumstances, however, all that is required is rest and medication to ease the symptoms.
If elderly people are admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, they may require oxygen therapy and an intravenous (IV) drip to receive fluids.
When symptoms get worse like bluish lips and nails, abnormal body temperature, uncontrolled coughing, trouble in breathing, confusion, and delirium. We urge you to take medical help as soon as possible as worsening conditions put the life of the elderly at risk.
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi.
Adults over the age of 65 are more likely to suffer serious pneumonia complications.
If a person or an older adult feels they have pneumonia, they should get medical care right away.
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Attach legal PDF documents as an appendix….Go to the Insert tab > Object.In the Object dialog, go to the Create from File tab.Click on Browse. Search and select the PDF file you wish to embed.Select Display as icon and leave Link to file unchecked. You can choose to change the icon if you wish.Click on OK.
How do I do an appendix in Harvard style?
Change the label to bold type e.g. Appendix A. If the material is from a published source,use the word ‘Source:’ followed by a short citation (author and year of publication) and place it at the bottom left of the appendix item. Enter the full reference in your reference list.
How do I number an appendix in pages?
To format page numbers to include appendix numbering, follow these steps:Move the insertion point to the page that contains the first appendix title.On the Insert menu, click Page Numbers. Select the intended location for the page number by using the options provided in the Page Numbers popup window.
How do you reference an appendix image?
Follow the format of the reference type (book, journal or website) in which you found the table/figure/image/appendix followed by: table/figure/image/appendix number of original source, Title of table/figure/image/appendix from original source; p. Page number of table/figure/image/appendix from original source.
Can you put images in an appendix?
The appendix should be included as a separate page at the end of your paper, after your references page. An appendix can contain textual information and/or visual information. If you feel that any tables, graphs, or images are too bulky or too distracting for the body of your paper, you can place these in an appendix. | <urn:uuid:36793a25-b214-47f5-bfb9-94aef79d7536> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assemblymade.com/2020/12/what-does-a-title-page-look-like-in-turabian-format/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.846423 | 1,381 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Moodle contains a wide range of activity modules that can be used to
build up any type of course.
This activity can be the most important - it is here that most discussion takes place.
Forums can be structured in different ways, and can include peer rating of each posting.
The postings can be viewed in a variety for formats, and can include attachments.
By subscribing to a forum, participants will receive copies of each new posting
in their email. A teacher can impose subscription on everyone if they want to.
A lesson delivers content in an interesting and flexible way. It consists of a
number of pages. Each page normally ends with a question and a number of
possible answers. Depending on the student's choice of answer they either
progress to the next page or are taken back to a previous page. Navigation
through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, depending largely
on the structure of the material being presented.
This is a not a true activity - it is a "dummy" activity that allows you
to insert text and graphics among the other activities on the course page.
The Chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous
discussion via the web. This is a useful way to get a different
understanding of each other and the topic being discussed - the mode
of using a chat room is quite different from the asynchronous forums.
The Chat module contains a number of features for managing and
reviewing chat discussions.
Resources are content: information the teacher wants to bring into the
course. These can be prepared files uploaded to the course
server; pages edited directly in Moodle; or external web pages
made to appear part of this course.
This module allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, consisting of
multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions. These
questions are kept in a categorised database, and can be re-used
within courses and even between courses. Quizzes can allow
multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the
teacher can choose whether to give feedback or to show correct answers.
This module includes grading facilities.
Ovaj modul omogućava korisnicima da kreiraju sopstvene upitnike (ankete) koristeći se različitim tipovima pitanja i tako budu u prilici da prikupe raznovrsne podatke od svojih ispitanika.
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What image pops into your head while thinking of supercars? Is it one where a car features a stylish design with great aesthetics or its engine roars when it zooms past? If yes for both, then how about an electric sports car that can do the same, but without a combustible engine? While Tesla might be well known in the field of electric vehicles, Lotus Evija is the first fully British all-electric hypercar that not only features a head-turning design but packs enough clean power to give conventional supercars a run for their money. Here’s everything you need to know about it.
Lotus Evija is a supercar, which means that its design is not only meant to entice customers, but the car’s design also attributes to aerodynamics, ride stability, downforce and multiple other factors. From the front, the Evija sports a streamlined look but it features pronounced Venturi tunnels on the rear, which impart a more aggressive look to it. This new design will be tweaked and is slated to appear on future Lotus cars as well. | <urn:uuid:ae4b9769-5985-4391-ad09-b8a493eb39d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/lotus-evija-electric-hypercar-rival-teslas-roadster/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.954579 | 224 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin anything and everything — it seems that in the fall, the pumpkin is in vogue.
Harvested in September and October, this North American squash is a relative of the cucumber and watermelon, but it usually has white or (of course) orange skin. Plus, different varieties have some fun names like “Oz,” “Autumn Gold” or my favorite, “Baby Boo.” Besides its obvious use as a Jack-o’-lantern, the pumpkin is a versatile vegetable — the seeds and flesh are both edible in many ways. Here’s our breakdown of America’s favorite fall vegetable.
This versatile vegetable is insanely good for you. One cup of cooked pumpkin has only 50 calories, no fat and no cholesterol and lots of beta-carotene and the antioxidant lutein, both of which keep your
Choosing and Storing a Pumpkin
Pick a pumpkin that is bright, smooth and firm. Whole pumpkins can be stored for up to 3 months in a cool, dry area, but once sliced, they can be kept in the fridge for up to 1 week. If the pumpkin has been cooked, you can keep it refrigerated in an airtight container for 1 week or freeze it for up to 6 months.
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Total Time: 25 minutes
½ cup raw, whole pumpkin seeds
2 teaspoons melted butter
Pinch of salt
1. Preheat oven to 300˚F.
2. Toss seeds in a large bowl with melted butter and salt until completely coated.
3. Spread seeds onto a baking sheet in a thin layer.
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By CAROL MALLEY
GRANBY – Paul L. Maywald knows pigeons. He got his first pair from a neighbor’s barn when he was 10. At 72, he owns 134 performing pigeons.
“I always look up, not down,” he said. “They give me a sense of peace and solitude.”
Retired from U.S. Tsubaki in Holyoke, Maywald lives in the house on Greenmeadow Lane in Granby where he lived as a boy. His parents sold the home to a Chicopee couple, and he bought it back in the 1960s when Westover Air Reserve Base was scaled back.
Originally, he raised pheasants, but he switched to racing pigeons and then to performing pigeons about 10 years ago.
“It’s no good racing pigeons across the mountain range,” Maywald said. “The hawks get them.”
Maywald has a huge enclosed flight area for the birds, two housing lofts, and a breeding area with 13 nesting boxes for his Birmingham rollers and four nesting boxes in a separate section for his Wutas or Greek divers.
He has 115 rollers and 19 divers.
“My wife and I are homebodies. We don’t go out a lot,” Maywald said. “The birds keep me busy.”
Maywald is quick to suggest that his pigeons are not homing pigeons or show birds. They are bred solely on their ability to perform, he said.
Even with the performing pigeons, who fly only in the area above his house, Maywald said he loses 25 percent of his rollers a year to hawks.
Rollers are pigeons that somersault in the sky. Maywald only lets them out of the enclosed flying area from spring to fall when there aren’t as many hawks around.
“When they roll for 20 or 30 feet, they don’t see the hawks. That’s when they are vulnerable,” he said.
His rollers come in whites, grays, and browns with different color markings. They fly in “kits” of 15 to 20 birds at a time. Maywald said a judge comes out once a year to rate the birds on the basis of their rolls. Birds are judged on the number that roll together, the depth of their rolls and the speed at which they will go into rolls.
He mates the best rollers each spring.
Rollers are trained to return for food, Maywald said.
One of the few people in Western Massachusetts to keep performing pigeons, Maywald is a member of the National Birmingham Roller Club, the National Pigeon Association and the New England Roller Club.
The divers are faster than hawks so the hawks can’t get them, Maywald said, but he still loses a number of them every year to hazy days when some of the birds fly above the clouds and get lost.
The divers go up 1,200 to 1,300 feet and can fly 150 miles an hour, Maywald said. His divers are grays, called blues. They’re larger than the rollers.
Maywald said the divers are very loyal to their group and are trained to come down when they see other members of their group in the yard. They will not take off until signaled to do so, he said. He controls them from the ground with a flying stick, a long piece of wood with a flag on it, with whistling, and by releasing other divers into the open yard.
Watching the birds perform is very rewarding, Maywald said.
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I had iritis over 15 years ago. My symptoms back than were redness in my eyes, sensitivity to light, etc. I couldn't watch TV because it was to painful the light fluctuations and I had to wear sunglasses for six months. I recently had an eye check up this year and I have iritis again. However, my eyes are not red. I do have some slight light sensitivity, but my vision has become really blurred over the last two years. I wear glasses now to help with my vision. I was checked for arthritis in my body and that came back negative (thank goodness). I am at a loss for what is causing it. My doctor is really concerned because my eyes are not responding to the eye drops (contains steroids). He is thinking about moving me onto a pill steroid. My question is what else could cause iritis that maybe hasn't been explored by my doctor. I have thyroid problems (very small dose of medication) and I also have constant infections with my tonsils & sinus infections quarterly (bad allergies). Any chance that these can be linked? Or should I try another test before getting on steroids?
Thyroid eye disease do not cause iritis. nor will sinus infection and bad tonsils. About 70-80% of the time there is nothing causing the iritis other than bad luck. Doctors call this "idiopathic". The other 30% can be due to disease such as sarcoid, rheumatoid arthritis, TB, inflammatory bowel disease.
Use Google and search "iritis" and "uveitis" to learn more.
Your Eye MD may want you to have an "iritis" work-up by your family MD or a rheumatologist.
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Richard from Fort Lauderdale, Fl writes,
Can I use a drill to inject Termidor SC into exposed wood indoor?
My indoor stairs is all wood and we have drywood termites in it. I see the kick out hole and want to drill to inject Termidor there and make other small holes to apply it. Is it safe? I have a dog.
Typically you just drill the hole into the infested piece of wood and inject the product however you can. You should drill into the exact center of the wood. We do sell a foam product already in a can for termites that is very popular and will save you the time and money of having to buy a foamer and foaming agent. It is called Termidor Foam and comes ready to go with an applicator tip. The key to drywood termite control is to get the product exactly where the termites are. You may also want to look into Boracare it can be painted, sprayed, or foamed onto raw untreated wood. It is a great product for wood boring insects because it will penetrate up to 4 in and will last the lifetime of the wood. If you have any further questions you are welcome to call us at 866-581-7378 to speak further.
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Who are the Experts?
Generally speaking, an expert is a person with extensive knowledge or ability based on experience or occupation in a particular area of study. So who are our experts...Engineers, Consultants, Peers?
The questions listed below come from our customers. Answers are from an array of individuals whose knowledge in these areas can provide sound advise to the questions asked.
- Determine what your real day to day needs are. Are there advanced features and optional accessories that your facility can greatly benefit from or not this being based on your staff's skill sets or current food production needs?
- Look towards the future. Is there a benefit to purchasing a product feature that you may be able to take advantage of down the road? Staff can be trained and changes to traditional methods are usually beneficial to your long term success. Embrace and reap the benefits of new technology.
- Bigger isn't always better, less can be more. For example, a larger dishwasher may be able to wash more pieces per hour, but a dishwasher can only wash the number of pieces your employees can physically load at any given time. Make sure your capacities and production rates are realistic.
- Check the manufacturer's reputation for quality and durability. Due to manufacturing globalization and expanding selection of domestic and imported products available in the marketplace, it is important to make sure the manufacturer and their product(s) have an established track record. Are there spare parts available? Is there a reliable service repair network available to repair the equipment within a short period of time? Are spare parts common and can be sourced through local supply companies or are there numerous proprietary components that are expensive to replace and difficult for in-house serve person to repair? (Given the great achievements and benefits in technology in some foodservice equipment, proprietary spare parts, such as circuit boards and digital controls, will always be proprietary will be unavoidable).
- Make sure the manufacturer has a thorough training program of the use and general preventive maintenance of the product. Make sure the manufactures/dealer/rep has a follow up program where they come back, assess usage and retrain appropriately.
- Compare and evaluate the terms and conditions of full and partial warranty coverage. Consider extended warranty coverage on more technically advanced equipment.
- When replacing larger existing equipment with new equipment, always check the space available to remove the old and delivery access of the new into your facility. Can equipment be delivered in one, or multiple pieces? Will there be modifications to doors and walls to accommodate the change? Will the equipment fit into the elevator?
Hand rails in public corridors are the prime reason for marring portable equipment. Hand rails are installed higher than portable equipment corner guards or bumper heights. Install a wider, thicker molding on the base of the building walls to keep portable equipment from rubbing on hand rails.
Electrical drop cords can be a nuisance. They often need to be knotted up to clear employees' heads or pull away from ceiling tiles if plugs are not disconnected before moving portable equipment. They also provide visual clutter and are unattractive.A Conveyor can be provided with electrical raceway that is designed for “single point" electrical connections. This means one power supply is fed to the tray line conveyor instead of multiple drop cords. Ancillary equipment, such as air curtain refrigerators, hot food wells and cold stations plug into the conveyor at the point of use making connections much easier and trouble free.
- Manual with rollers or skate wheels: The simplest type of conveyor typically requires no power, trays are advanced manually.
- Motorized with fabric belt, bands or slat belt
- Fabric belt uses N. Rubber over woven synthetic carcass which is FDA approved.
- The bandveyor uses Dual ½" diameter urethane belts are FDA approved, to move trays. Heavy weight can make belts drag on conveyor table causing premature wear.
- Slat type continuous belt utilizes flexible flat plastic slats, this is chain driven and is considered the best conveyor design for durability and long life.
Consider using a rechargeable battery powered “tug” designed to hitch and pull several cabinets together or, up to 1,500 lb tow capacity. The Tug is an ergonomically-designed motorized tow vehicle used to pull a variety of single or multiple carts in a safe and efficient manner with very little effort from the operator. The tug can be used with any mobile equipment when docked to accessory hitches and hitch receiver tubes.
Many foodservice equipment manufacturers will continue to explore and develop more efficient use and less consumption of energy. Energy costs will always be rising until alternative energy sources are developed. Expect ongoing improvements with more conservative use of natural resources such as ware washing equipment using 50 % less water than previous designs or improved efficiency of cooking exhaust ventilation systems. Other developments will be the introduction of more energy management systems designed to monitor and regulate energy usage in a facility, ideally to monitor high energy consuming products like refrigeration systems, HVAC and lighting.
Equipment manufacturers will continue to develop foodservice equipment in areas relating to refrigeration with smaller compact sizes that will perform a number of functions like a blast chiller designed to blast chill, shock freeze, rapid thaw, and proof, which allows you to cook, hold, and serve optimal food freshness to the table.
Combi ovens will continue to develop simpler to use precision controls offering smart cooking features designed to cook faster, more efficiently, with less shrinkage and better cooking results.
More developments in equipment that performs multiple functions - like ovens having microwave, convection, browning and steaming capabilities. Remember the microwave only oven?
The precision and energy efficiency of Induction cooking technology will continue to be expand and be improved upon for use in heating plates as well as for heating large stock pot cooking devises.
Other ongoing developments to expect will be more Energy Star rated products, more preventive maintenance alerts and self diagnostic features, HAASP controls and recording information as well as the use of LED lighting for better energy efficiency and greater light quality.
Display kitchens, cook or salad/sandwich make to order action stations will continue to be very popular given their ability to add theater, sound, aroma and visual appeal of fresh foods being prepared.
Asian influenced menu items continue to be in demand and hence the use for wok cooking will continue to grow.
Char boilers, for the ever popular hamburger and other meats and fresh baked pizza (scratch or par baked products) and other comfort foods will continue to remain popular.
There are rules of thumb that can be used to estimate space requirements. These are only estimates, actual requirements based on your specific operation and physical space characteristics may vary;
Size of Conveyors:
Approximate sq/ft for tray line assembly area:
|50 to 75 Beds: 8'- 12"or Counter mounted||50-75 beds= 153 sq. ft. 9' x 17'|
|100 to 200 beds: 10-14'||100-200 beds= 288 sq. ft. 18' x 16'|
|200 to 300: 14' - 20'||200-300 beds= 294 sq. ft. 21' x 14'|
|400-500 – 20' to 24'||400-500 beds=350 sq. ft. 25' x 14'|
|600 + beds: Consider 2 conveyors||600 or more bed = approx. 500 + sq. ft.|
An efficient equipment layout is essential for the best productivity and labor efficiency. Tray line assembly equipment should be situated in the work area to minimize reach and steps needed to access support equipment. Slim or narrow equipment, along with standard equipment that form an “L" shape work station, can be installed to provide the best ergonomic efficiency. Straddle style starter stations also can provide ergonomic efficiency Use vertical space above equipment for added storage.
- Start at the loading dock and evaluate how much potential waste material comes in and how much waste goes out (both wet and dry waste).
- Seek out suppliers that practice sustainability. Ask if products are available with reducing packaging material.
- Buy from local sources to reduce transportation emissions and help support local economies.
- Consider adding disposers, food/paper waste pulpers or extractors or contact a commercial composting company to significantly reduce land fill waste. These methods also reduce trash carting costs due to trash volume reduction. Consult local codes prior to purchasing disposers as some water treatment facilities are not equipped to treat added particulate matter in the waste water.
- Continue to enforce and expand upon current recycling programs for card board, paper and beverage containers.
- Seek out suppliers of premium beverages who provide product in bulk and dispense in cups to reduce cans and bottle waste. More development and marketing of filtered premium water dispensers will continue to be introduced.
- Consider using unbleached napkins, bags and paper goods or products with recycled post consumer content.
- Explore increasing sources for biodegradable disposable products like tray, cups and food containers. Consider going without trays in cafeteria settings. This saves cost, reduces waste and ware washing resources.
- Reduce water consumption. Repair leaking faucets, add low flow faucet strainers, install hands free photo cells on hand washing sinks, turn off free flowing scraping troughs on soiled dish table and always consider water saving design features in your next equipment purchase. Saving water also reduced sewer discharge and operating cost to your operation.
- Manage FOG (fats, oils, and grease). Consider selling your used fryer oil to a vendor for refinement and use as bio-diesel fuel.
- Insufficient FOG recovery will eventually clog building drain lines. Make sure grease traps are operating efficiently so grease stays out of municipal sewer lines and wastewater treatment facilities. Improper containment and disposal of FOG adversely affects the environment and is difficult to treat. Watch for increased regulation and monitoring of grease recovery and subsequent charged by local agencies having jurisdiction for non compliance.
- If possible, schedule times to operate your dishwashing equipment. Consolidate and develop a manageable backlog to wash wares for maximum equipment output and controlled energy consumption. Avoid running equipment during low volume periods and idling equipment during operational lulls.
- Many kitchen appliances can be turned off or turned down during low volume periods, such as toasters and cooking equipment.
- Walk in cooler and dry storage lighting can be turned off when not in use. Consider installing motion sensing light switches.
- Have all refrigeration systems serviced and cleaned regularly for optimum performance and considerable energy savings through efficiency. Be suspect of incorrect operating temperatures, compressors that run continuously or are short cycling.
- Other high energy consuming building systems, such as cooking ventilation and air conditioning systems should be services and cleaned regularly to assure peak operating efficiency | <urn:uuid:e48b9448-c838-4915-9bcd-74d746fe9f69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alluserv.com/ask-the-expert/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.922259 | 2,250 | 1.617188 | 2 |
- M. Fuller (USA)
Ringworm, also known as dermatophytosis, may sound like a worm or parasite but it is actually a fungus which lives on keratin found in skin, hair and nails of your dog, cat or other pets.
Ringworm is spread through contact with another infected animal or through contact with the actual fungal spores called arthrospores.
These spores then scatter throughout the environment, and can be found in carpeting, furniture and bedding .
The spores are very resistant and can live in the environment for up to 18 months.
This is why treatment for ringworm must also include a thorough cleaning regiment to rid the environment of any spores that could reinfect your animal.
The use of ringworm fighting disinfectant is recommended.
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This webinar explores the relationship between restorative justice values and the architecture and design of spaces in which justice occurs, including restorative practices. This exploration includes a look at how justice theories influence design and how design influences psycho-social-behavioral outcomes. The webinar emphasizes a new architecture and design that facilitates justice outcomes such as accountability, transformation, and healing. It introduces ways to engage justice stakeholders in designing spaces to promote restorative justice outcomes and design features that embody restorative values. | <urn:uuid:a16c22bf-40d1-42a4-a4e7-13b653392705> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://d.nextcity.org/ced/entry/using-restorative-justice-values-to-design-transformative-spaces | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.885553 | 112 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Steam electrolysis is an efficient way to store excess electrical energy for the long term.
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Udemy – Self-publish Children’s Books on Kindle and in Paperback [100% off] Worth $99!
It’s here at last… the final course in my self-publishing quartet:
Self-publishing Children’s Books on Kindle and in Paperback
In this course I’ll teach you how to self-publish a children’s book in Kindle eBook and Print on Demand (POD) paperback format and how to place your book on sale on Amazon alongside the greats like Rowlings, Dahl and E. B White.
In this course you’ll learn to:
- Use Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 to Layout Your Picture Book
- Use Kindle Kid’s Book Creator to Annotate Your eBook with Pop-up Text
- Use Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) to Publish Your Picture Book on Amazon
- Use CreateSpace to Publish Your Print on Demand (POD) Paperback on Amazon
There is more, but the rest is in the course…
So, if you’re ready to pull your words and illustrations together to tell your story, I’m ready to show you how to share your story with the world.
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Posted 9:11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16, 2021
UWL theatre production recounts memories of 9/11
Twenty years ago, the world changed.
Sept. 11, 2001, represents the deadliest terrorist attack in human history and continues to have profound effects in the United States and across the world.
A new UW-La Crosse Theatre Arts Department project seeks to capture the untold stories from that horrific day, as told by those who experienced it firsthand.
“So many people were impacted by Sept. 11, and we’re trying to wrap our arms around that and tell their stories,” says Associate Professor Laurie Kincman, one of the creators of “Severe Clear: Sept. 11 from Memory to History.” The in-person, fully produced play will debut Oct. 15 at UWL’s Toland Theatre. Tickets go on sale in early October.
“This is a story that everyone can appreciate,” Kincman says.
The play was inspired by Garrett Graff’s book, “The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11.” Kincman was fascinated by the diversity of voices in the text, and by Graff’s ability to stitch them together into one moving narrative.
After finishing the book, Kincman approached Associate Professor Greg Parmeter to gauge his interest in creating a similar project, though it was unclear what form it would take.
“We were talking about a massive project, so there was always the fear that it wouldn’t work out,” Parmeter says. “That said, I didn’t need much convincing. I was on board almost immediately.”
In fall 2020, the pair taught a course in which students helped create the framework of the play.
Throughout the semester, they collected hundreds of memories — from New York City, the Pentagon, Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and Air Force One — and transferred them onto note cards, which soon covered an entire wall.
Next, the class began the painstaking work of determining which stories to include and where to put them in the draft.
To maintain accuracy and authenticity, they decided that each story should be a word-for-word reading of quotes from witnesses, first responders, survivors and others.
They also didn’t limit themselves to the stories in Graff’s book, drawing from many other sources.
“It helped that we were a small group, and we all knew each other and what to expect,” explains Emily Ludewig, a May 2021 theatre arts graduate with an emphasis in design and technology. “As we dug into it, our brains started to click as far as what we could do for sound or lighting and set design.”
“Laurie and Greg had a good guiding vision but didn’t shoehorn us into following one direction,” adds Sydney Smith, a May 2021 theatre arts graduate with an emphasis in stage management. Even with several people working on the script, “we were able to keep consistency with tone and make sure everything felt good together, cohesive.”
After the fall semester, five of the course’s seven students continued to work on the play with guidance from Kincman and Parmeter.
The more they worked, the more they noticed themes and details that tied the stories together.
As a parent, Parmeter identified with first responders with children.
Kincman noted that 35 people described how blue the sky was that morning, as well as the surprising number of shoe references.
“Whether it was people running so fast they ran out of their shoes, or shoes being found in the wreckage, it kept coming up,” she says.
Kincman and Parmeter have their own memories of Sept. 11 — where they were, what they were doing — but the students assisting with the play do not.
Those fresh perspectives allowed the team to approach the script with greater freedom and flexibility, and fewer preconceived notions.
Researching for the play also gave the students a clearer window into a monumental moment in history — one with which they had been relatively unfamiliar.
“It was really interesting just to learn how much the World Trade Center was part of America,” notes Camille Foss, a senior theatre arts major with an emphasis in light design. “It wasn’t just offices. There were shopping centers and restaurants and tons of businesses people don’t talk about. And it wasn’t just the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. There were other targets as well.”
With the final script nearly complete, the team will spend the rest of summer and the first few weeks of fall building the set and effects, and holding rehearsals.
Writing and producing the play has been a deeply rewarding experience, students and faculty say. The collaborative nature of their work, Parmeter adds, makes it even more meaningful.
“One thing that can’t be understated is how instrumental students have been in the creation of this,” he says. “We wanted to give them the opportunity to create something lasting and worthwhile, and they rose to the challenge in so many ways.” | <urn:uuid:5b6e0598-aa2c-47a7-9de2-69b4dbd4a910> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uwlax.edu/news/posts/a-dark-day-remembered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.977017 | 1,095 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Lesson 17: 7th Chords
In this lesson we look at another category of chord: 7th chords. Strictly speaking the chords we're dealing with here are called dominant 7th chords, to distinguish them from various other types of 7th chord. But it's usually enough simply to call them 7th chords.
Sound-wise, they're perhaps more colourful than our major and minor chords, with a bit of a jazzy or bluesy flavour. Get them under your fingers, and in the next lesson we'll be using them to play a 12 bar blues. | <urn:uuid:8c174b17-d804-4bb7-bdc6-3c231a82be8d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk/17-7th-chords/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00474-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978465 | 120 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Texas In Bloom
On the flower trail
Sitting Bull once stated, “Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” If you have a perennial passion to see the wildflowers that decorate East Texas and the Texas Hill Country each spring, here’s a virtual bouquet of cities where you can cultivate your interest. Before you reach for the car keys, spend a few minutes checking the hot lines that pinpoint the best sites for flower power. Call the Texas Department of Transportation at (800) 452-9292; along with road information, this number offers reports on wildflower sightings throughout the state. Reports are updated weekly with news of spectacular roadside wildflower displays on the hot line, as well as at www.txdot.gov.
With its rich soil and kind climate, East Texas is home to a wide variety of wildflowers as well as cultured plants, all of which offer a sweet getaway during the spring months.
Brenham. The cozy community of Brenham, best-known as the home of Blue Bell ice cream, is also a capital for wildflower-lovers. Well before the first blooms, the Chamber publishes a “Wildflower Watch” (www.visitbrenhamtexas.com/plan/wildflower-watch.html) tracking the progress of the wildflower fields. The weekend of April 13, the fun culminates with several events, including the 35th annual Blue Bell Fun Run, a race alongside fields of bluebonnets.
Chappell Hill. Chappell Hill bears the distinction of holding the Official State of Texas Bluebonnet Festival. On April 13-14, guests can tap their feet to the beat of live musical performances; mull over merchandise among an array of vendor booths brimming with gardening supplies as well as more than 300 arts and crafts vendors; check out a wildflower photo exhibit; and join a tour of the historic town, which includes views of fields of the famous lupinus. www.chappellhillmuseum.org/bluebonnet.html
Ennis. A carpet of bluebonnets 40 miles long greets visitors to the city of Ennis each April. Dubbed the Official Bluebonnet City and Official Bluebonnet Trail of Texas by the Texas Legislature in 1997, Ennis honors the symbol of the state’s pride annually at the Bluebonnet Trails Festival, which will be held on April 20-21. www.visitennis.org
Henderson. Celebrate the sight of life renewing itself in a city that’s older than the Lone Star State with a drive along one of three of Henderson’s wildflower trails. Coreopsis and Indian paintbrushes color the landscape on the East Texas Oilfield/Overton History Tour, while red-blooming clovers dot the spots that woodpeckers and bobwhites call home on the Loop Within a Loop – Henderson to Tatum driving tour. Cruising along the Southern East Tour, fans of floral finery can look for a variety of native blooms flourishing in the area’s rich red clay soils. www.hendersontx.us
Jasper. Jasper’s motto is “Jewel of the Forest,” and on March 16 the small East Texas town will celebrate a botanical treasure at the 25th annual Azalea Festival, a nod to nostalgia complete with an antique car show, a children’s carnival and a plethora of petals in full bloom. www.jaspercoc.org/azalea_festival.html
Nacogdoches. In China, the azalea is called the “thinking-of-home bush,” and when plant-lovers pay a visit to Nacogdoches during the city’s annual Azalea Trail, they will no doubt be thinking of ways to incorporate the flowering shrub into their own home gardens. Proud to hold the title of Texas’ largest azalea garden, Nacogdoches welcomes fans of flowers, who can take a guided tour of the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden and enjoy the beauty of more than 20 miles of azalea trails. Throughout the month of March, visitors can attend an itinerary of azalea-inspired special events including the Nacogdoches Azalea Trail Symposium, which this year will feature “Building Azalea Gardens: Large and Small.” Other events include the Nacogdoches Azalea Trail Photography Show; a guided tour of homes; the Art of Floral Design, Color and Textures from the Gardens showcase; the Nacogdoches Farmers Market Spring Fling Saturday; the SFA Garden Gala Day and Plant Sale; and much more. azaleas.visitnacogdoches.org
Linden. Home to a host of musical giants ranging from blues great “T-Bone” Walker and ragtime jazz founder Scott Joplin to The Eagles’ Don Henley, Linden offers a chorus of color each spring as yellow-fringed orchids, phlox, coral beans, coreopsis and Indian paintbrushes welcome botanical buffs. Partnering with nearby towns Avinger and Hughes Springs, Linden will pay tribute once again to its blooms on April 27 at the Wildflower Trails Festival. www.lindenwildflowertrails.net
Palestine. For 75 years, flower enthusiasts have flocked to the Anderson County community of Palestine for the Dogwood Trails Celebration, this year taking place during the last three weekends in March. The celebration reaches a peak on March 16, when visitors enjoy a full day devoted to the trees’ delicate white petals. www.dogwoodbloomwatch.blogspot.com
Tyler. Tyler may be known as the Rose Capital of the World, but each spring the city celebrates another natural beauty during the Tyler Azalea and Spring Flower Trails. From March 15-April 7 this year, floral fanciers can admire nature’s palette of vibrantly colored petals as they enjoy activities including tours of the historic city, the Main Street Flower Market, an amateur photography contest, the Southwest Regional Orchid Show and Sale and much more. www.tylerazaleatrail.com
The Hill Country, located west and northwest of Austin, is home to some of the best fields of wildflowers in the state. Along the chain of lakes that snakes through the hills, the Highland Lakes Bluebonnet Trail features flowering fields and festival fun in the towns of Burnet, Buchanan Dam, Llano and smaller area communities. Each town on the trail celebrates with art shows and a festival atmosphere, and you’ll be able to get information on the best fields for photos, too.
Austin. Lady Bird Johnson, whose love of the state’s native plants was cultivated in the soil of her East Texas home in Karnack, once stated, “Where flowers bloom, so does hope,” and the hope for a brighter tomorrow springs eternal along the trails of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. In April, a rainbow of blooms, ranging from the cheerful yellow of the buttercup to the saturated purple of wine cups, dots the facility’s many gardens and trails. www.wildflower.org
Blanco. Blanco’s love of lavender stems from the fertile imagination of a National Geographic photographer on assignment in Provence, who noticed that the landscape of the French region resembled that of the Texas Hill Country. From photographer Robb Kendrick’s cultivation of 2,000 lavender plants in 1999, Blanco has blossomed into the Lavender Capital of Texas. While the purple blossoms can be seen from May through July, in early June the city holds the Blanco Lavender Festival to honor its favorite flower, which includes free tours of area lavender farms. www.blancolavenderfest.com
Boerne. At the Cibolo Nature Center in Boerne, a colorful array of butterflies will flit past folks wandering along nature trails that showcase four ecosystems: riparian forest, tall-grass prairie, spring-fed marsh and live oak savanna. For those who wish to bring home a bit of Boerne’s beauty, the Cibolo Nature’s Mostly Native Plant Sale takes place each spring. www.cibolo.org
Burnet. A look at the Lone Star State’s wildflowers wouldn’t be complete without a trip to the Bluebonnet Capital of Texas. Burnet’s devotion to the state’s official flower is in full bloom every second weekend in April when a sea of blue blossoms welcomes visitors to a floral-themed festival that offers three days of good, old-fashioned fun for the whole family. The festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this year from April 12-14 with events that range from a pet parade to a cowboy breakfast as well as an arts and crafts show featuring plenty of bluebonnet-themed creations. bluebonnetfestival.org
Fredericksburg. Near Fredericksburg, the 16-mile-long Willow City Loop, a drive through unfenced ranch land that includes canyon views, bluffs, spectacular wildflowers and wildlife, is another popular bluebonnet trail. The Willow City Loop is north of Fredericksburg off Highway 16; take the second Willow City Loop turn off Highway 16 to enjoy this winding trail. And on the outskirts of the city, the production fields at the family-owned Wildseed Farms in Fredericksburg are blanketed in a kaleidoscope of colors to inspire any green thumb. The largest family-owned wildflower seed company in the country, Wildseed Farms holds its Wildflower Celebration in early to mid-April, when the fields are filled with bluebonnets and other Texas wildflowers. You can stroll along a walking trail and even cut your own wildflower bouquet; weekend visitors can also enjoy a taste of local wines and the sound of Texas music. Each spring, the Butterfly Haus opens for visitors to walk through its free-flying butterfly habitat. www.visitfredericksburgtx.com
Fast Facts About Bluebonnets
Although several plants are termed “bluebonnets,” the Lupinus texensis is the Texas bluebonnet.
The bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas. The designation includes the Lupinus texensis and four other varieties.
Very rarely, bluebonnets will be pink.
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About this font family
In the 1980s, the Linotype Corporation worked with the Design School in Basel, Switzerland, to create a new legibility typeface.
Professor Andre Gürtler oversaw the research project, with Reinhard Haus of Linotype. The goal was to create a typeface to work with contemporary typesetting and printing technologies.
Linotype released the result, LinoLetter, in 1992. More… | <urn:uuid:b48b53fa-8a32-48f6-b619-9bfe81edb516> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/linoletter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00023-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895886 | 89 | 2.765625 | 3 |
How to overcome inefficient vegetation management of your assets
by Hanna Schreier
Since the year 2000, wildfires caused economic losses of around 149 Billion US-Dollar worldwide, with 2018 being the most extreme with damages exceeding 20 billion US-Dollar (Aon plc. 2019). Besides dry conditions and exceptional heat, many wildfires are caused by vegetation growing in the vicinity of power lines.
Therefore, vegetation management of assets, including the cutback of endangering vegetation next to electricity overhead lines is important to keep them operational and mitigate power outages, damages to the infrastructure, and to prevent wildfires. Especially vegetation that grows too close or which is unhealthy poses networks at high risk.
At present, it is still difficult for energy suppliers to gather knowledge about the condition of vegetation based on the whole grid, especially in geographically remote areas. Also, inspections are still mainly carried out manually and cycle-based, leading to high costs for operators.
Reliable knowledge about the condition of vegetation can help to improve facility vegetation management significantly. Thus, a condition-based, data-driven management approach is essential for better risk management.
One way to get a sufficient up-to-date data basis can be satellite data. Satellites capture images of the earth on a high temporal resolution. Some sensors, like Sentinel, for example, revisit the same area every 5 days, leaving a huge amount of data to use.
LiveEO analyses satellite images with advanced machine-learning algorithms to detect and classify vegetation along infrastructure grids. In this way, we generate actionable insights that can be implemented into the maintenance process. The findings of our analyses are distributed over two digital platforms, a web-based user interface and a mobile application (Fig. 1). The web app supports managers in budget and resource planning for evidence-based maintenance. By selecting tasking areas the number of tasks can be immediately detected. These can be directly scheduled and assigned to a user.
At the same time, the mobile app helps the on-site staff to work more efficiently. A protocol function allows easy documentation of cutbacks and inspections. New tasks can be scheduled straightaway. In addition, the digitalization of the reporting process through the mobile app enables the tracking of subcontractors’ work.
One main benefit of our solution is a significant reduction in operational costs of up to 35%. At the same time, our analyses improve network security and reliability by 15% while also ensuring compliance with operational and regulatory guidelines.
With LiveEO’s data-driven solution, network operators can completely revolutionize vegetation management at all levels of the organization. Our unique solution is already helping major power utilities in Europe and the US to prevent storm damage, significantly reduce monitoring and maintenance costs and the risk of power outages. LiveEO aims to deliver its state-of-the-art space technology to power utilities all around the world.
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An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist may have found a way to remove a costly component of biodiesel production.
Michael Haas, a biochemist with the ARS Eastern Regional Research Center's Fats, Oils and Animal Coproducts Research Unit in Wyndmoor, Pa., has developed a new approach to synthesizing biodiesel.
Soybean oil is the prevalent starting material in the United States for biodiesel, and its relatively high cost results in a high cost for this renewable fuel.
The method developed by Haas and his colleagues eliminates the use of hexane, an air pollutant regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, from the production of soy oil for biodiesel synthesis. Hexane, a colorless, flammable liquid derived from petroleum, is traditionally used to extract vegetable oil triglycerides from the raw agricultural material before biodiesel production.
The new method eliminates the conventional oil extraction step. Instead, the oilseed is incubated with methanol and sodium hydroxide, which are currently used to process extracted oil.
The researchers found that the moisture naturally present in soybeans — as much as 10 percent in soy flakes — requires that a large amount of methanol be used in this reaction. However, using dried flakes greatly reduced the methanol requirement. Processing costs using dry flakes were estimated at $1.02 per gallon, which is $2.12 less than for biodiesel made from full-moisture soy flakes.
The researchers are refining their economic model to account for income from the sale of the lipid-free, protein-rich flakes left over from the biodiesel reaction for use as animal feeds, and to account for differences in the cost of the refined oil and flaked soybean feedstocks. | <urn:uuid:a63f6c3f-86b6-4e2b-a52a-66940ecbd76d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.farmprogress.com/making-biodiesel-process-simplified | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939005 | 363 | 3.4375 | 3 |
A recent study released by the website Nerd Wallet lists Fort Smith as one of the cities in America "that are borrowing the least smart," but according to a Walton College of Business expert, the study may not mean doom and gloom for the Fort Smith area economy.
The study, which ranked the 10 areas that are "borrowing smart" as well as the 10 that are not, analyzed borrowing in comparison to income.
"We divided each metro area’s average amount of consumer debt into its median household income to get a better sense of the places that are carrying truly heavy loads. A high ratio of average debt to median household income indicates danger on the horizon," Nerd Wallet analyst Lindsay Konsko wrote.
The website made clear that the percentages created were not to be understood as the area's debt-to-income ratio. It also made clear that debt levels included credit cards, auto loans and personal loans, but not mortgages.
The study showed that Fort Smith ranked as seventh worst in American metro areas not borrowing smart, with the debt as a percentage of household income at an average of 72.9%, the second highest in the nation trailing Monroe, La., at 73.3%.
HOUSING COST FACTOR
Kathy Deck, director of the Center for Business & Economic Research at the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, said the study does not mean the local economy will suffer due to the higher levels of debt to household budget.
"The first thing, and they say this explicitly, is it excludes mortgage debt. It may also exclude student loan debt," she said. "When you think of the overall debt load, it might not be surprising in a place like Fort smith with relatively low incomes that folks also have relatively low mortgage debt because houses are affordable."
Deck said with low mortgage debt, it was reasonable to assume that some households could afford to take on higher levels of other debts.
"So the distribution to more household consumer debt is not necessarily surprising in an affordable housing market like Fort Smith," she added.
She said other comparable communities on the list of "least smart" borrowers included southern cities with low cost of living such as Monroe, La., Jackson, Miss., and Waco, Texas.
"If you look at a lot of the other communities, and I don't know what their housing prices are off the top of my head, but you imagine it would be comparable."
MORTGAGE DEBT COMPARISON
And while Nerd Wallet has ranked Fort Smith as among the regions with the "least smart" borrowing practices, total household debt outside of mortgage debt is not that different from cities ranked as some of the smartest in terms of borrowing.
The average debt of the 10 cities making up the smartest borrowing cities is $25,480 while the average for the 10 metros who were not the smartest about their borrowing was $26,520. The difference amounts to only $1,040. In Fort Smith, the figure is even lower with average consumer debt of only $26,296.
The figure ranks nearly even in terms of overall debt with the San Francisco metro, with its average consumer debt of $25,828 in spite of being ranked the third smartest about its borrowing. The big difference initially appears to be household incomes (San Francisco's average household income is $74,922 versus Fort Smith's $36,061).
But Deck said if mortgages were factored in, Fort Smith could be ranked closer to many of the cities labeled as the smartest borrowers.
"The others with the low (overall) debt are in the (most expensive) housing markets in the country. All of those have relatively high housing costs," she explained.
So even though the ranking may on its surface look rough for Fort Smith, she said overall it would not hurt job growth and consumer spending in the Fort Smith region.
"In a typical household, you have the budget to service that debt and this doesn't mean it is necessarily detrimental to the economy."
Deck added that used wisely, debt in and of itself is not a bad thing and actually helps to grow the economy versus shrinking it.
"When you look at the overall economy and retail sales across the board, there are only two ways to increase consumer spending — more income or more borrowing," she said, adding that as the economy has improved, credit has loosened to allow more consumer spending.
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Section 2 (20) of Companies Act, 2013 Company means a company incorporated under
this Act or under any previous company law.
The word company has no strictly technical or legal meaning. A body corporate or
corporation includes a company incorporated outside India, but does not include
a co-operative society registered under the law relating to co-operative
societies, and anybody corporate which the Central Government may, by
notification, specify for this purpose. Company is derived from two words:
com-group and companies-bread. Therefore, it means group that eat their bread
The company is given the status of an artificial person. The memorandum and
articles of association, of a company, contemplates the documents, which
sets out the objects and powers of a company. These documents are
accessible to the people either without any costs or on payment of a
nominal amount. Therefore, any person who enters into a contract with the
company is thus presumed to have inspected such documents and thus to be
aware of the powers that are being delegated to the directors.
The memorandum and articles when registered with Registrar of Companies becomes
public document and then they can be inspected by anyone on payment of a
nominal fee. Therefore, any person who contemplates entering into a
contract with the company has the means of ascertaining and is thus
presumed to know the powers of the company and the extent to which they
have been delegated to the directors. In other words, every person dealing with
the company is presumed to have read these documents and understood them
in their true perspective. This is known as doctrine of constructive
The memorandum of association and articles of association are two most important
documents needed for registration and incorporation of a company. The
memorandum of association of a company contains the fundamental conditions
upon which alone the company has been incorporated.
According to Section 2(28) of the Companies Act, 1956 defines the Memorandum
It means the memorandum of association of a company as originally framed or as
altered from time to time in pursuance of any previous company's law or of this
Act. According to Palmer, the memorandum of association is a document of great
importance in relation to the proposed company. It contains the objects
for which the company is formed and therefore identifies the possible
scope of its operation scope of its operation beyond which its action cannot go.
The Articles of association of a company are its bye-laws or rules and
regulations that govern the management of its internal affairs and the
conduct of its business. According to section 2(2) of the Companies Act,
1956 'Articles' means the articles of association of a company as originally
framed or as altered from time to time in pursuance of any previous companies
laws or of the present Act.
Both memorandum of association and the articles of association are public
documents according to section 610 of the Act. These documents become
public documents as soon as they get registered and can be accessible by
any members of the public under the provision of the Act. Therefore,
notice about the contents of memorandum and articles is said to be within the
knowledge of both members and non-members of the company. Such notice is a
deemed notice in case of a members and a constructive notice in case of
The effect of the doctrine of constructive notice is harsh on the outsider who
does business with a company. An outsider who dealt with a company is
deemed to have a constructive notice of the contents of the documents of
the company. An outsider cannot claim relief on the ground that he was
unaware of the powers of the company in case of ultra vires of the company.
The doctrine of constructive notice is more or less an unreal doctrine. It does
not take notice of the realities of business life. People know a company
through its officers and not through its documents.
In the case of Oakbank Oil Co. v. Crum
It has been held that anyone dealing with the Company is presumed not only to
have read the memorandum and Articles, but understood them properly. Thus,
Memorandum and Articles of a company are presumed to be notice to the public.
-Such a notice is called Constructive notice.
Constructive Notice Of Memorandum And Articles Of Association
The memorandum and articles of association of every company are registered with
the Registrar of the Companies. The office of the Registrar is a public office
and consequently the memorandum and articles become public documents.
They are open and accessible to all. It is, therefore, the duty of every person
dealing with the company to inspect its public documents and make sure that his
contract is in conformity with their provisions. But whether a person actually
reads them or not, he is to be in same position as if he had read them. He
will be presumed to know the contents of those documents. This kind of presumed
notice is called constructive notice.
The effect of this rule is that a person dealing with the company is taken not
only to have read those documents but to have understood them according to their
proper meaning. He is presumed to have understood not merely the company's
powers but also those of its officers. Further, there is constructive notice not
merely of the memorandum and articles, but also of all the documents, which are
required by the Act to be registered with the Registrar. According to Palmer,
the principle applies to documents which affect the powers of the company.
One of the suggested approaches is that all documents which are open to public
inspection should be regarded as public documents. This is in keeping with the
disclosure philosophy of company law and things which are required to be
disclosed in a public office, should have public effects and should be usable as
instruments of public accountability. In reference to the document containing particulars
it has been held that it becomes a public document. Persons
dealing with the company would be deemed to have constructive notice as to who
are the directors of the company.
Legal effect: If a person's deals with a company in a manner which is
inconsistent with the provisions contained in MOA and AOA – own risk and
cost and shall have to bear the consequences thereof.
The effect of the doctrine of constructive notice may be summed up as follows:
Ultra Vires Acts According to doctrine of constructive notice, every person dealing
with the company is presumed to have the knowledge of the contents of the
memorandum and therefore if an act is ultra vires the company, he
cannot claim relief on the ground that he was unaware of the fact that
the act is beyond the memorandum (i.e., ultra vires the company). In
India, the outsider dealing with the company is presumed to have the
knowledge of the contents of the memorandum and therefore if an act is found
to be ultra vires, he cannot claim relief on the ground that he had no
knowledge that the act was beyond memorandum, and therefore, ultra
Acts Beyond The Authority Of Directors If there is lack of authority of the directors or other agents of the
company, it is evident from the public documents like articles and
other regulations, the person dealing with the company will be presumed to
have the notice of the lack of authority and therefore he cannot hold
company bound by the act of the directors or other agents. For
example, if the articles require a bill to be signed by two directors,
a person dealing with the company is under the duty to see that it has been
signed by the two directors; otherwise he cannot enforce the bill
against the company. But if the lack of authority of the directors or
agents is not evident from the public documents, he cannot be presumed
to have the notice of the lack of the authority and therefore he can held
company bound by the act of the directors or other agents if he
honestly thinks that the director or the agent with who he is
negotiating is authorized to act on the behalf of the company. For
example, where the articles require the directors to take the consent of the
shareholders by ordinary resolution for exercising thereof the
borrowing powers but they borrow money without taking such consent,
the borrowing will be binding on the company if the creditor has no
notice of the fact that the directors negotiating with him have not taken
Inconsistent Agreements Person dealing with the company is presumed to have the notice of the
contents of the articles and consequently he cannot make a contract with the
company which purports to override any rights created by the articles. The
doctrine of constructive notice protects the company but not the outsider
dealing with the company. Sometimes the doctrine creates much hardship
for the outsiders. They are presumed to have the knowledge of the public
documents like the memorandum of the company but in practice it is
very difficult and time taking to have the complete knowledge of them before
making any contract with the company. Thus, the doctrine is inconvenient and
unreal. It has failed to take the realities of business life. On
account of its evil the doctrine has not been taken seriously both in
India and UK. In England, the doctrine has been abrogated by the Europeans
Communities Act, 1997.
Doctrine Of Indoor Management Indoor Management restricts the operation of constructive notice to the
public documents of the company. The role of the doctrine of indoor
management is opposed to that of the rule of constructive notice.
Accordingly, a person dealing with the company is bound to read only the
public documents. If his contract is consistent with them, the company is
bound. He will not be affected by any irregularity in the internal
management of the company.
According to this doctrine, persons dealing with the company need not
inquire whether internal proceedings relating to the contract are
followed correctly, once they are satisfied that the transaction is in
accordance with the memorandum and articles of association. Shareholders,
for example, need not enquire whether the necessary meeting was convened and
held properly or whether necessary resolution was passed properly. They are
entitled to take it for granted that the company had gone through all
these proceedings in a regular manner. The doctrine helps protect external
members from the company and states that the people are entitled to
presume that internal proceedings are as per documents submitted with the
Registrar of Companies.
The foundation of the rule was laid down in the case of Royal British Bank
v. Turquand2 Turquand, a company, had a clause in its constitution that
allowed the company to borrow money once it had been approved and
passed by resolution (decision) of the shareholders at a general meeting.
Turquand entered into a loan with the Royal British Bank and two of the co-
directors signed and attached the company seal to the loan agreement. Loan
had not been approved by the shareholders. Company defaulted on their
payments and the bank sought restitution. Company refused to repay
claiming that the directors had no right to enter into such an
arrangement. It was held that – the Turquand was entitled to assume that the
resolution was passed. The Company was therefore bound by the rule.
Doctrine is also popularly known as the Turquand rule'.
The doctrine of indoor management is based on the policy of public
convenience and justice. The reason as to why such doctrine is needed
is that the internal procedure, which happens within the company, is
not a matter of public knowledge. Therefore, though any outsider is presumed
to be aware of the documents which are publically accessible, but not
of the internal proceedings of which he cannot be reasonably aware of
because those are not accessible to the public.
The rule is based upon obvious reasons of convenience in business relations.
The memorandum and articles of association are public documents. But
the details of internal procedure are not thus open to public
inspection. Hence, an outsider is presumed to know the constitution of a
company; but not what may or may not have taken place within the doors that
are closed to him. Thus, the doctrine of constructive notice and
indoor management go hand in hand. On one hand, the doctrine of
constructive notice protects the company from the outsiders; on the other
hand, the principal of indoor management offers protection to the
outsiders while dealing with the affairs of the company. The doctrine
of constructive notice comes into picture when an outsider fails to
inquire about the company. However, the doctrine of indoor management can be
invoked by any outsider dealing with the company and cannot be invoked
by the company.
Exceptions To The Rule
The doctrine of indoor management has been used for almost a century now. Since
in the modern world, the companies extended their roles to various social
and political spheres, therefore the scope of this doctrine was widened.
Since the scope was widened, the chances of its misuse also increased, so
the courts came up with following exceptions to this rule:
Knowledge Of Irregularity: In case this 'outsider' has actual knowledge of irregularity within
the company, the benefit under the rule of indoor management would no
longer be available. In fact, he/she may well be considered part of the
irregularity. This exception covers situations where the person dealing with
a company is aware of the irregularities which are present in internal
Such knowledge can be either by actual or constructive notice, and the
person thus cannot claim the benefit under the rule of indoor
management. This exemption can be better understood, by considering the case
T.R. Pratt (Bombay) Ltd. v. E.D. Sassoon & Co. Ltd
wherein one company lent some money to another company on a mortgage of its
assets. However, the procedure which was necessary to comply before such
transaction, was not complied with.
The directors of the two companies were the same. The court thus held
that since the lender had notice of the irregularity, the doctrine
could not be invoked and hence the mortgage was not binding. The transfer
was approved by two directors, and the transferor was aware of the
fact that one of the directors was not validly appointed, and the
other was disqualified being the transferee himself. Hence, the court
held that the transfer was ineffective.
Negligence: If, with a minimum of effort, the irregularities within a company could be
discovered, the benefit of the rule of indoor management would not apply.
The protection of the rule is also not available where the
circumstances surrounding the contract are so suspicious as to invite
inquiry, and the outsider dealing with the company does not make proper
The person cannot invoke this doctrine if the person, who is entering
into a contract with the company, has not enquired prudently and has
not made proper inquiries, because of which he is not aware of the
irregularity. If he would have conducted proper inquiries, then would have
known that irregularity exists, and hence it is because of his own fault
that he is unaware of the irregularity.
This exception also covers the situation where the situations surrounding
the contract were so suspicious that a prudent person would have made
an inquiry, but the concerned person has not done so and hence is not
entitled to claim the benefit of the doctrine.
This exception could be better understood while referring to the case of
Lal v. Dinshaw & Co
In this case, the plaintiff accepted a transfer of a company's property
from its accountant. The court held that the transaction entered by the
accountant was clearly beyond the scope of his authority, and hence the
transfer was void. The plaintiff was reasonably expected to see the
power of attorney executed in favour of the accountant before accepting
such transfer by the accountant on behalf of the company.
Forgery: If, with a minimum of effort, the irregularities within a company could be
discovered, the benefit of the rule of indoor management would not apply.
The protection of the rule is also not available where the
circumstances surrounding the contract are so suspicious as to invite
inquiry, and the outsider dealing with the company does not make
proper inquiry. The doctrine of internal management cannot be used to
validate transactions in which the person relies on a document which
has been forged. The leading case on this point is of Shri Kishan
Rathi v. Mondal Brothers and Co. (P.) Ltd.
In this case, the plaintiff was the transferee of a share certificate issued
under the seal of the defendant company. The certificate which was
issued contained the seal of the company and forged signatures of two
directors, and such forgery was done by the company's secretary.
It was being argued by the plaintiff that the matter regarding the
genuineness of the signature is a part of internal management, and
thus, such forgery of the signature cannot be contended by the
company. But the court held that the doctrine of indoor management cannot be
extended to validate and cover forgery cases. The court also said that
this doctrine applies to irregularities which might affect a genuine
transaction and not to forgery.
Representation Through Articles: This exception deals with the most controversial and highly confusing
aspect of the doctrine of indoor management. Articles of association
generally contains what is called the power of delegation. The case
in which the meaning and effect of a delegation clause has been
explained is the case of
Lakshmi Ratan Cotton Mills v. J.K. Jute Mills was a director of a
company. The company had managing agents of which also G was a director.
The article of association, empowered the directors to borrow money and to
further delegate this power to any of them. G borrowed a sum of money from
the plaintiffs. The company argued that since there was no resolution of the
board delegating the power to borrow to G, he was not authorized to borrow
money and hence refused to be bound by the loan. But the court held that the
company is bound to repay the loan.
The rule of constructive liability is an unrealistic doctrine. It expects each
and every outsider not only to know the documents of the company but also
presumes to understand the exact nature of documents, which is practically
not possible, and thus, in my opinion, is a little unfavorable to the
outsiders dealing with the company. However, in reality, the company is not
known by the documents but by the people who represent it and deal with an
outsider. Those who enter into contracts with the company usually do so,
on the basis of goodwill and reputation of the persons representing the
company rather than the documents of the company.
Hence, the courts have evolved the doctrine of indoor management as an opposite
to the doctrine of constructive notice in order to protect the interests
of the outsiders. In my opinion, the doctrine of indoor management is
absolutely necessary for protecting the outsiders and forcing the company
to fulfill their part of obligation in genuine transactions. This also needs to
be implemented subject to certain exceptions and the same have been
evolved by the courts. This is the reason why the British Courts and Indian
Courts have shifted its approach in dealing with the cases relating to the
outsider of the company.
The Indian Courts have not given much importance to this doctrine. The
European Communities Act has also abrogated the concept of constructive
notice by bringing Section 9 of the Act which recognizes the concept of good
faith in business transaction. This provision is in the tune of the
reality of the business transaction, where the outsiders of the company
enter into the various contracts not on the basis of the documents of the
company but on the good faith of the company.
This is the reason why the courts have evolved the doctrine of indoor management
as an opposite to the doctrine of constructive notice in order to protect
the interests of the outsiders. The researcher on the basis of the various
commentaries on the subject and the cases decided by the British Courts and
Indian Courts is of view that merely registration of a company should not
constitute the notice of the documents submitted to the registrar. Also, an
outsider should always have the freedom to make some assumption which a
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Burning 500 calories a day is the bare minimum for weight loss. It takes an average man 97 minutes to walk 10K steps which is around 500-700 calories burned.
The above number depends on your current height, weight and age. However 10000 steps a day is what many health professional recommend that you should walk daily and this is what you should be aiming for.
To determine how many calories you are burning doing over 100 various activities try Health Surgeon’s Calories Burned Calculator.
If you want to burn 500 calories a day at home walking I suggest that you buy a pedometer from eBay which will cost you around £3 or $5 and download a mobile app called “Noom”. This app allows you to login your daily workout sessions and meals.
Counting daily calories intake and burned will help you to manage your daily routine. Plus you will be able to find out how many calories you have burned in the last 7 to 30 days. A weight graph is also available that let you login in every Saturday your current weight.
I personally have walked over 50000 steps since last Saturday (26/09/2015); around 31Km or 19.375miles and 2500 calories burned. Which makes an average of 12.5K steps a day or 625 calories.
Believe it or not but I have walked 50K steps in 4 days at home; I walked on the corridor between my kitchen and living room back and forth. I also calculated that for every 19 steps I burned 1 calorie. It took me exactly 19 steps to come around from the starting point, meaning my corridor was 19 steps back and forth combined or 6 meters in length. My stride is 62cm per step.
If I can burn over 500 calories a day and it takes me around 97 minutes a day so can you! I walk 60 minutes in the morning after breakfast and about 40 minutes after lunch. This combination helps me to burn over 4000 calories a week. Ideally you should burn between 2500-3000 calories a week.
The above suggest number means that you will be losing 1lb a week, or 2kg a month. Combining this cardio exercise at home with a well-balanced diet will definitely help you to lose weight. Meaning you will see noticeable results in just a few weeks.
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Lastly remember to drink between 6-8 glasses of water while doing cardio exercise. Walking at home is difference from walking on a treadmill; you will not sweat as much but you will be burning calories just like normal cardio exercise. Nonetheless you should make sure that your body stays hydrated and the best way is to drink plenty of water a day. | <urn:uuid:3bfcc889-67ab-4edc-b41c-070a44fa07be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthsurgeon.com/fitness/how-to-burn-500-calories-a-day-at-home-walking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.958006 | 577 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Liberty Hill AME Church – Summerton, South Carolina
South Carolina | SC Picture Project | Clarendon County Photos | Liberty Hill AME Church
Liberty Hill AME Church in Summerton was founded in 1867, four years after Emancipation and two years after the close of the Civil War. Members originally met in a bush arbor and later a shed. The first formal sanctuary built on this site was constructed after Thomas and Margaret Briggs sold four areas of land to church trustees for $1, though the date is unclear. The current church – New Liberty Hill, as parishioners call it – was completed in 1905 as a wood-frame building. Brick veneer was added in the 1940s.
Around this time, in the late 1940s, people began meeting here to discuss desegregation. The meetings were led by Liberty Hill’s then-minster, the Reverend E.E. Richburg, and evolved into the landmark case, Briggs versus Elliott. The case officially began in 1949 when Harry and Eliza Briggs of Summerton, along with more than 20 other plaintiffs – including the Briggs’ eight-year-old son, Harry Briggs, Jr. – signed a petition asking Clarendon County School District #22 to provide black schools that were equal to their white counterparts. Their schools, they wrote, should also be equipped with heat, running water, electricity, adequate furniture, and books. The petition was organized by local black minister and teacher, the Reverend Joseph Albert DeLaine. School superintendent Roderick Elliott denied the request.
In 1950 Briggs versus Elliott was filed in Clarendon County. Thurgood Marshall – at the time a lawyer for the NAACP – argued that education for black students would remain inferior as long as students were segregated. In 1951 the three-judge panel ruled against the plaintiffs, with only Federal District Judge Julius Waring dissenting. In his dissent, Judge Waring wrote that separate but equal laws were “per se inequality.” The case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court, and Briggs versus Elliott was the first of five cases that together became Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas in 1952. In fact, the court later stated that it chose Brown versus the Board of Education as the case’s name only because it did not want the case to be seen by the nation as Southern. In fact, in 1954 there were 17 states that required segregated schools, with only Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia being outside the South.
A victory was handed to the plaintiffs on May 17, 1954. While Briggs versus Elliott ultimately was a win for desegregation, the pioneers from Liberty Hill AME Church were greatly persecuted by their neighbors as a result. All of the plaintiffs were fired from their jobs, and the Reverend DeLaine’s home and church were burned in retribution. Many of them, including Harry and Eliza Briggs and their children, left the state. Harry and Eliza Briggs each received a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously in 2004, along with the Reverend DeLaine. Harry Briggs, Jr. lived out his years in New York; he died on August 9, 2016. Below is a photo from 1964 featuring some of the plaintiffs in Brown versus Board of Education, including Harry Briggs, Jr., pictured second from right.
Today Liberty Hill remains an active AME church with a history rich in courage, suffering, victory, and faith. The Judicial Annex behind the United States Post Office in Charleston was renamed for Judge Waring on October 2, 2015.
Liberty Hill AME Church Info
Address: 2310 Liberty Hill Road, Summerton, SC 29148
GPS Coordinates: 33.591125,-80.389555
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Washington DC – Newly disclosed Department of Homeland Security rules are instructing border agents to seize laptops and other data carrying instruments without probable cause. An internal memo dated July 16th and disclosed by the Washington Post, tells officers of the Customs and Border Protection agency that they can examine and detain any traveler’s documents and electronic devices. Furthermore the material can be shipped off for examination and even shared with other government agencies. According to the memo, affected travelers will receive their property back in a “reasonable” amount of time.
DHS is implementing these new rules under the onus of protecting the nation’s security and to prevent theft of intellectual property. Agents can examine and take everything from laptops, ipods and other mp3 players to documents like books, pamphlets and printed material. The property can be further examined off-site by subject matter experts and, if a supervisor authorizes, all the data is then shared to other government departments.
There are two interesting exemptions from the searches. Documents covered by attorney-client privilege cannot be searched and sealed and stamped US mail (carried by the US postal service) cannot be opened. Mail carried by individuals are still subject to examination.
Of course these rules aren’t anything new because border agents have been seizing property for decades. While some people are crying foul citing the Fourth Amendment as an absolute protection against unreasonable search and seizure, it’s been proven time and time again that this protection doesn’t extend to travelers at border checkpoints. Back in April, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that border agents don’t need any suspicion to search your belongings. In that case, a Southern California man, returning from the Philippines, was charged with child pornography after border agents found indecent pictures on his laptop.
While the memo does outline steps to protect confidential and business information, many privacy advocates and even US Senators aren’t so willing to give the Department of Homeland Security a blank check on border searches. According to the memo, any document or information that doesn’t point to a crime or arouse further suspicion on the traveler will be destroyed and business information will be treated with care.
Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wisconsin) says the rules are “truly alarming”. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives agree and have filed an amicus brief with the 9th Circuit Court asking the judges to rehear the case. They argue that laptops contain an enormous amount of information making such searches equally damaging to your privacy.
Business travelers are already adapting to the new rules. Some have resorted to encrypting the entire drive while others are using company-provided sterile laptops (ones that contain no important information). Tech-savvy individuals can of course upload confidential files to servers or email documents back to themselves – something the NSA would probably love. Some businessmen are even ditching the laptop completely. | <urn:uuid:d88aa52c-7ca6-4f38-9c73-db1a79df08b3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tgdaily.com/technology/38720-we-take-we-look-we-share-%E2%80%A6-border-search-rules-exposed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929039 | 594 | 1.554688 | 2 |
On Sunday January 23rd Solar One presented material on their projects and green education series at Van Brunt Gallery in Beacon as part of the current exhibition, Simon Draper and Habitat for Artists Goes Indoors. Amy Lipton introduced the event by explaining ecoartspace's history of collaborative relationships with environmental organizations. Ecoartspace has been working towards building a bridge between the art and environmental worlds for the past 10 years. Solar One co-promoted the recent Harrison's talk at Feldman Gallery in NYC (see blog posting below) and will be working with Simon Draper and Habitat for Artists during their 2009 City Sol Summer Expo. Solar One Educator Christopher Kennedy spoke about their programs with over 10,000 students at 42 schools, camps and after school programs in NYC. He passed around a book he designed, titled The Green Innovator, Design for Sustainability, a resource guide for students with strategies for thinking critically about innovative solutions to environmental challenges. The book introduces students to the concept of systems thinking: considering the relationships and connections between what we design and use everyday and the impact this has on the earth. Outreach Coordinator Christopher Neidl then gave an engaging and informative talk including a power point presentation on the history of energy use in New York leading to the development of solar panels for private, public and corporate use. His talk provided an evaluation of solar panels for environmental benefit, economic use as well as for long term sustainability. It became evident during his talk that solar photo-voltaic use, will become the number one alternative energy source for cities and home owners as we begin to move away from a fossil fuel economy. He also pointed out the connection between our transportation system and the existing energy grid as cars become electrically run and will need to "power up" via the grid - making the need for a solar based grid and industry all the more necessary in the not too distant future. Formed in 2004, Solar One is the city's first solar powered Green Energy, Arts and Education Center, their mission is to inspire New Yorkers to become environmentally responsible city dwellers. They are located in Stuyvesant Cove Park on the East River and 23rd Street situated above a former brownfield site. In 2009 they will break ground on Solar 2, an 8000 square foot 100% green powered education and arts center designed by the architecture firm Kiss & Cathcart. Stay tuned for another Solar One/ecoartspace event to take place in NYC soon. | <urn:uuid:67c95b4c-82d5-4a69-8cd8-91ced9bbf9db> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://ecoartspace.blogspot.com/2009/01/solar-one-at-habitat-for-artists.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961808 | 493 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Atropine Sulfate Injection BP (UCB Pharma) Solution for injection (antidotes and detoxifying medicines)
Atropine Sulfate Injection BP (UCB Pharma) Solution for injection (antidotes and detoxifying medicines) is a brand of medicine containing the active ingredient atropine sulfate (antidotes and detoxifying medicines).
Find out more about active ingredients.
Consumer medicine information (CMI) leaflet
Developed by the pharmaceutical company responsible for this medicine in Australia, according to TGA regulations.
Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET®
Consumer Medicine Information
You may have been given this product in an emergency situation by a non-medical health professional.
WHAT IS IN THIS LEAFLET?
This leaflet contains information about Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET. Please read it carefully and keep it for future reference. The information in this leaflet is only a summary and is not intended to replace advice from your doctor.
Please consult your doctor or pharmacist if you have any comments or questions.
WHAT IS ATROPINE?
Atropine stops the effect of a chemical which we have in our bodies which slows the heartbeat, makes us produce saliva in our mouths and helps us to digest our food. The poison in mushrooms contains a similar chemical. Atropine therefore can increase the heartbeat, slow the digestive processes and act as an antidote to mushroom poisoning.
WHEN IS ATROPINE USED?
Atropine is used in emergency situations where the heart is beating too slowly. It can also be used to prevent such emergencies. Atropine is also very effective for treating people who become ill as a result of eating poisonous mushrooms.
Atropine is occasionally used before a general anaesthetic to dry up saliva and fluid in the lungs.
As atropine is only used in medical emergencies, the injection may be given by paramedical personnel such as ambulance or nursing staff.
WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE ATROPINE INJECTIONs?
As atropine is often used in medical emergencies it should rarely be withheld from anyone who needs it.
Apart from this situation, atropine should NOT be used if you:
- are allergic to it
- have had a previous severe reaction to it
- have trouble passing urine
- have certain heart conditions
- have high pressure in the eye (glaucoma)
- have heartburn
- have certain stomach problems such as pyloric stenosis
- have certain bowel problems such as severe ulcerative colitis or bowel obstruction
- have myasthenia gravis.
BEFORE YOU HAVE AN ATROPINE INJECTION
If you are conscious, you should tell your doctor if you:
- have ever had an allergic reaction to atropine
- have any trouble passing your water
- have any heart complaints
- have ulcerative colitis or obstructive disease of the gastrointestinal tract
- have pyloric stenosis
- have high pressure in your eyes (glaucoma)
- have indigestion
- are taking any medicines and what they are, especially if they are for depression, Parkinson's syndrome, allergy, bowel disorders or heart problems
- are pregnant
- are breast feeding
- have a fever
- have high blood pressure
- are suffering from any other illness.
SIDE EFFECTS OF ATROPINE
As with any medicine, some side effects may occur.
With atropine they are usually mild but severe effects can be caused by larger doses (see OVERDOSE).
Common mild side effects include: dry mouth, constipation, thirst, blurred vision, palpitations, difficulty in passing urine, dizziness, headache, nervousness, nausea.
Always tell your doctor if you have any unpleasant effects after receiving an Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET.
THE DOSE OF ATROPINE
The dose of atropine injection is not always the same. Some conditions need a small dose whilst others need a larger amount.
Adults: the usual dose is 0.4 to 0.6 mg which can be repeated if necessary. Larger doses are often needed for mushroom poisoning.
Children: the dose is usually 0.01 mg per kg of bodyweight, but can be increased in certain circumstances.
An overdose of atropine will give all the effects listed under SIDE EFFECTS OF ATROPINE but they will be more severe. They include: very dry mouth, difficulty in swallowing, fever, rash, nausea and vomiting, palpitations, high blood pressure, tremor, confusion, drowsiness - leading to coma and possibly death.
There is a product which can be used to reverse the effects of atropine.
WHAT DOES Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET CONTAIN?
Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET contains atropine at a concentration of 0.1 mg in each mL of injection solution.
Each Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET also contains: sodium chloride, sodium citrate, citric acid and water.
HOW TO STORE Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET
Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET should be protected from light and stored below 25°C. They should not be used after the expiry date on the package.
WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?
You can get more information from your doctor or pharmacist.
A division of UCB Australia Pty Ltd
Level 1, 1155 Malvern Road
Malvern Vic 3144, Australia
Atropine Sulfate Injection MINIJET
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MINIJET® is a registered trademark of International Medications Systems, Limited.
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Last week, proponents of ObamaCare celebrated the one-year anniversary of the passage of the landmark health care law with several hundred events across the country. They have little reason to cheer, according to a sobering new study.
In the report, former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin calculates that health reform’s tax on insurers, which takes effect in 2014, will raise family premiums by $5,000 over the decade–all by itself.
So much for President Obama’s campaign promise that his health reform plan would “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.” Unless Congress rolls back ObamaCare, Americans can look forward to higher premiums, fewer choices and bigger tax bills.
To fund their trillion-dollar health care adventure, Democrats socked some of the most popular bogeymen–insurers, drug companies and medical device firms, among others–with new taxes. Pharmaceutical companies face a steadily increasing multibillion-dollar tax bill through 2019, while device companies have to send 2.3% of their revenues to Washington.
Insurers get the worst of it. They’ll pay $8 billion a year starting in 2014–and $14.3 billion annually four years after that.
The president and his allies have decried the industry’s profits and executive salaries, claiming that insurers can more than afford to fund the expansion of coverage–and offer more generous benefits.
A number of regulations on insurance companies have already come into effect. For instance, young adults can stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26. Co-pays and deductibles for preventative care are also eliminated. Limits on annual and lifetime out-of-pocket spending are being phased out too.
Of course, somebody has to pay for all those new taxes and benefits. And those somebodies won’t be insurers or drug firms. They’ll be American patients.
Insurers are already passing along their new costs to consumers. Celtic Insurance Co. in Wisconsin and North Carolina, for example, says that half its 18% increase in rates was directly attributable to ObamaCare. Regence BlueCross/Blue Shield of Oregon blames the new law for a fifth of its upcoming rate increase.
And it will only get worse. Between 2014 and 2020, ObamaCare envisions extracting nearly $90 billion from insurers in the form of an excise tax.
But the bill will actually be much higher. Because these new fees are not tax-deductible for insurers, each additional premium dollar raised to pay the excise tax will face 35 cents in income taxes. So the true cost of the excise tax to insurers is nearly $135 billion. They’ll therefore have to jack up prices by $1.54 to generate one buck for the excise tax. And in states with income or premium taxes of their own, insurers will face an ever steeper bill.
Holtz-Eakin estimates that consumers will basically see a 3% increase in their premiums to offset the new excise tax.
This insurance tax could also drive workers’ wages down. If employers have to pay more for their employees’ insurance benefits, they will have less cash to devote to salaries, raises and bonuses.
ObamaCare’s supporters have made no secret of their desire to stick it to the insurance industry. By making insurance more expensive, they may force more and more people to leave the private market and seek coverage through the new government exchanges.
And that may be the point–to drive ever more Americans to dependence on the government for their health care.
Former House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., admitted as much, stating that he viewed the health reform law as a “platform” for a government-run, single-payer health care system.
ObamaCare’s hefty insurance taxes may provide Rep. Conyers, President Obama and other similarly minded Democrats with the seed money to set one up.
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“Atheist” is a translation of the Greek: atheos using the alpha privative “a” and the term for God “theos.” It does not merge the alpha private with the ENGLISH TERM “theist.” Rather “atheist” as a whole word is a translation of “atheos,” the whole word. Were the original meaning drawn entirely from etymology it would mean simply “godless,” “ungodly,” or “without God.” And this indeed is one of the definitions we find for the term in its Ancient sources. In that time, it also had the definition of “denying God/gods” which followed by implication from the notion of “godless;” if a person truly believed in a grand judge over all the universe he would not live/teach/think as if no such being existed.
However the idea of withholding/refraining belief about some God, though present in ancient Greece and Rome, tended to be subsumed under terms like “skepticism” (gk: skepticos) or “materialism” or “atomism” (a form of materialism). “Atheos” however was used to describe a different phenomenon. Thus the effective meaning of “atheos” is something like, “godless” or “disbelief in God.”Were someone to translate ancient and classical uses of “atheos” into “no belief in God” they would do an injustice to the text since that is simply not how Greeks and Romans were using the term when they first coined it, nor when they continued using it over the years.
Etymology (study of word origins, and composite meaning from word parts) is only one way that words take on meaning. When we apply etymology to the English word “atheism,” we have “athe” (from atheos “no God/Godless”) + “-ism” (belief). Belief then characterizes the “no God” hence we have, “Belief in no God.” And the alpha privative, as always, characterizes the word to which its affixed. So the belief is positive, the object of belief in negative. It is “belief in no God” or “belief in Godless[ness].” For etymology to achieve the negative definition of atheism, a popular definition today, from the term would have to be something like, “theos-a-ism” or, “No belief [in a] God.” The etymology argument then is not a friend but a foe of the negative definition of atheism.
In ancient Rome we find the positive form of atheism exercised when Christians were being persecuted and martyred for being “atheists.” They did not simply lack belief in the Roman Gods; rather they consciously rejected all God’s but one. Compared to the plethora of Gods in the Roman Pantheon, rejecting all but one is practically equivalent to atheism. Hence Christians were accused of atheism. Even ambivalence could have been tolerated among the Romans as they did with many agnostic philosophers (though the term “agnostic” had not be invented yet). But conscious rejection of the Roman Gods was seen as an intolerable affront to the State. As we can expect from ideas that are deeply rooted in human nature and the human psyche, the idea of “atheism” survived for centuries with both connotations intact: “godless” and “disbelief in God.”
However in recent times, the definition has come under question by atheist themselves. Three motivating factors can be identified. First, in debates, it is generally the better strategy to rebut the opponent’s case rather than to have to defend one’s one case. A softened definition of atheism allows for this. With negative atheism, the atheist doesn’t carry any burden of proof since that burden is on the participant/s making a positive case of some sort: “God exists” or “God does not exists.” But to claim, “I have no belief about God” is not a positive case, and therefore requires no defense in contemporary debate formats.
Second, Antony Flew’s important article “The Presumption of Atheism” argues that the default or neutral position for humanity is atheism. Building on the point just made, Flew argues that the burden of proof is on the theism to demonstrate that “belief in God” is reasonable. Essentially, Flew is arguing that negative/soft/weak atheism is man’s natural disposition, or if it is not, it is the intellectually justified default position. It is up to the theist to make a positive case for theism.
A third factor which might have played a part in this redefinition is the onset of British positivism, like that of A.J. Ayer. Ayer, among others, suggested that claims must be empirically verifiable or analytically (by-definition) true if they are to be linguistically meaningful. Theology, for Ayer, is not true, but nor is it even false. It is without meaning since its reference to God lacks analytic veracity and empirical testibility the notion cannot even be entertained as a proposition. It is like trying to argue “I believe in ‘ouch'” or “I don’t believe in ‘um.'” These terms “ouch” and “um” are emotive/gibberish terms that defy cognitive belief or disbelief. “Truth” and “falsity” do not apply to them, and, according to Ayer, nor does it apply to any God-talk. Ayer’s positivism was all the rage for a while, but today, few people are conscious advocates of this “logical positivism,” even though its scope and influence is incredibly widespread.
Understanding these three possible influences together: 1) The strategic advantage of donning a negative definition of atheism (“no belief in a God”), 2) combined with the argument of “The Presumption of Atheism,” and 3) a positivistic disposition–it makes complete sense why many contemporary atheists want to define their own camp in negative terms as “without theism, no belief in a God” instead of the historic and traditional usage of atheism as the positive position of “disbelief in God.” Addressing the complexity of the issue we find in the modern era. The term “agnostic” was coined by Thomas Huxley in 1889 with reference to his own conviction that knowledge about God’s existence or non-existence is impossible. He did not consider himself an atheist but found himself being called one.
Not surprisingly, the borders between “atheism” and “agnosticism” are often blurry or invisible. So for atheism to be distinct, defensible, and publically viable, it needs the help of some categorical distinctions since atheists are widely diverse and do not necessarily hold a party line when they don the moniker “atheist.” Somewhere in the Modern era, there seems to have been a division then in both Agnosticism and Atheism, rendering four categories from the previous two.
Negative/Weak/Soft Atheism–“no belief in God.”
Positive/Strong/Hard Atheism–“belief in no God.”
Weak Agnosticism–“knowledge of God does not exist.”
Strong Agnosticism–“knowledge of God is impossible.”
These categories are used by Michael Martin, Antony Flew, and William Rowe. I use these categories myself and find them quite helpful in clarifying some of the subtleties that arise in these debates. However, these are not standardized, and do not necessarily reflect the long history or widescale contemporary usage of “agnostic” and “atheist.” I recommend these categories for clarity of usage, but we should be careful not to follow, unthinking, the contemporary popular usage of “atheist” and “atheism” as being weak agnosticism. Etymology, history, and much contemporary standard sources defy that definition. Don’t believe me? Check some of the sources listed below. The latest entry is by atheist Kai Nielsen. William Rowe is also atheist. And I think Paul Edwards is too.
(historic usage) http://www.investigatingatheism.info/definition.html
(1942) Ferm, Vergilius. “Atheism” in Dictionary of Philosophy. Edited by Dagobert D. Runes. New Jersey: Littlefield, Adams & Co. Philosophical Library.
(1951) http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/e_haldeman julius/meaning_of_atheism.html
(1967) Edwards, Paul “Atheism” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 1. Collier-MacMillan, 1967. p. 175.
(1973) Edwards, Paul, ed., “Atheism” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1973
(1998) Rowe, William L. “Atheism” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by Edward Craig. Routledge, 1998. (2009) Nielsen, Kai. “Atheism.” Encyclopædia Britannica. | <urn:uuid:534d8a7d-ee3f-4ad2-9cc0-3d40d01e74fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crossexamined.org/defining-atheism-no-belief-in-god-or-belief-in-no-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.938232 | 2,071 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Building a house is an important and crucial period in the life of every family. To create unique projects in different styles, professional artists advise using forged visors, which will help to realize the individual ideas of customers of any shape and complexity.
Forged canopies are a versatile decorative element that is made according to individual drawings, taking into account all the requirements of the customer and designer. Professional builders will help to create a structure in compliance with all technical norms and rules, and the aesthetic design of the project must be entrusted to experienced designers and decorators. Wrought iron elements on the facade of the building will create a sense of wealth and enhance the social status of the owners of the house.
The great popularity of the finishing material indicates the presence of the advantages of forged products, such as:
- reliability and long period of operation;
- high aesthetic performance;
- the possibility of manufacturing according to individual drawings;
- resistance to mechanical damage;
- the possibility of both self-installation and with the involvement of professional builders;
- the possibility of harmonious combination with different types of hotel interior elements;
- the use of different roofing materials;
- reliable protection against negative environmental influences;
- wide price range depending on the complexity of the design.
Forged visors have the following disadvantages:
- high price of hand-forged products;
- the need to treat the canopy with anti-corrosion agents.
A forged visor above the front door is an important element of the decorative design of the building facade. The form, appearance and style in which the porch of the house is made shows the social status and aesthetic taste of the owners of the residential building. Modern manufacturers of forged products offer a huge selection of their products of various shapes and designs.
The most popular are the following types:
- flat (pitched) - located horizontally to the base of the building above the entrance to the house;
- arched - look like an arch, are used in combination with polycarbonate sheets;
- angular - produced with different angle of inclination depending on the project and design solution;
- gable - protect from light rain and weak wind;
- tricycle - have a metal frame, protect against negative environmental influences;
- semicircular - used for expensive design projects;
- multi-level - has a complex design and a large number of bends.
By the type of fastening, forged visors are divided into the following types:
- support - they are heavy, fixed on metal pipes or wooden beams;
- suspended - lightweight, mounted on the wall of the building.
To implement design projects for the manufacture of forged sheds, builders use high quality materials from well-known manufacturers.
The canopy visor consists of parts such as:
- frame construction;
- pillars for support;
- decorative details.
The frame is made of wood or metal. Strong and durable metal and galvanized structures are the most popular. In order to make a forged element of the interior, it is necessary to correctly and harmoniously combine parts made of different types of material. On the shelves of modern hardware stores, the buyer can purchase stamped forged products. The use of innovative production technologies makes it possible to serially produce high quality products that are not inferior to handmade decorative elements. Products purchased in retail chains are highly demanded goods with an affordable price.
The frame is the main element of the planned structure, on which the strength and durability of the product depend. The size of the frame and its parameters are selected individually for each object. Before you start making a canopy, you need to think about its shape and dimensions. The main requirement for the size of the visor is a complete shelter of the object from rain and wind, as well as a harmonious combination with the surrounding interior.
Professional builders will help you to choose the right canopy and make an accurate drawing. Manufacturers of forged products can offer the customer their own catalog of goods with the required dimensions and parameters. The use of special computer programs will help to see and evaluate the planned object. Forged items purchased in hardware stores have standard sizes and are selected in accordance with the parameters of the visor. Forged elements are also used to decorate and protect welded fences, gates for summer cottages and backyards.
Style and design
Artistic forging is an exclusive decorative material that is combined with wood, brick, concrete, stone.
To decorate the finished structure, designers use the following decorative elements:
- decorative plants;
- elements with the image of birds and animals.
Canopies, consisting of forged elements, have the following area of application:
- decorating the porch of the house and the visor over the front door;
- decoration of the veranda and gazebo;
- decoration of gates and gates;
- decorating handrails and lattices;
- design of recreation areas and barbecue.
Forged visors are the decoration of all design projects. The design, made according to an individual sketch by hot or cold forging, is heavy and expensive.
Professional builders identify several popular options for combining forged structural elements with auxiliary materials.
- Polycarbonate is a popular and practical option for unique design projects. The universal properties of polycarbonate make it possible to make awnings of different shapes, sizes and colors, effectively combine with different materials.
- Metal gives the structure strength, reliability, durability. High decorative characteristics will give the room an exquisite look and aesthetic content.
- Profiled sheets are used to create large structures. When choosing this material, it is necessary to take into account the low resistance to mechanical damage.
- PVC. Long service life and technical properties are similar to those of polycarbonate. They make the material in demand and popular among builders and customers.
- Metal tiles are metal sheets with an applied tile pattern. They are lightweight, do not require additional maintenance, and are coated with special protective solutions.
- Wood is a flexible material that allows you to create structures of various shapes to decorate wooden houses. Naturalness is an undeniable advantage of wood.
Selection and installation
For a high-quality choice of a decorative element, the buyer must take into account such characteristics of the product as:
- used material;
- the form;
- frame material.
The strength and reliability of the visor depends on the quality of its frame. Experienced builders advise making the frame from a shaped pipe. The section of the pipe depends on the load and the dimensions of the structure. The safety factor should not be less than 20 percent. To assemble the planned structure, all elements of the required pattern must be laid out on a flat surface and connected by welding. If the designer has provided for the use of volumetric decorative elements, they must be carefully attached to the product. The assembled structure is cleaned with a grinder and covered with corrosion protection agents. Before installation, the product is primed and covered with dark paint.
Heavy structures of large sizes are attached to installed support pipes, the size of which depends on the parameters of the canopy. To increase the strength of the structure with a pipe diameter of more than 5 cm, the empty middle of the support must be filled with mortars. Anchor bolts are used to fix the canopy to the wall, bolted connections are used to attach it to the supports. Only after installing the frame and its high-quality fastening can you start installing the roofing material. The choice of roofing depends on the individual requirements of the customer. The main properties are protection and aesthetic design of the object.
Beautiful examples and options
The canopy over the front door with wrought iron elements is an original and practical design of the building facade. Forged structures will become not only a decoration of any project, but also reliable protection of the house from negative atmospheric influences. For a competent and high-quality choice of design and material, professional builders recommend carefully studying all successful design projects, objectively assessing all their positive and negative sides.
A hinged polycarbonate canopy on a dark wooden frame looks spectacular on a sandy wall and reliably protects the entrance door from rain and wind. The design is robust and reliable.
A semicircular transparent structure with a dark metal frame, decorated with hanging lanterns, favorably emphasizes the uniqueness of the house, made in an authentic style. Dark wrought iron elements harmoniously echo the yellow stone wall and black shutters.
A wooden swing with a polycarbonate canopy and wrought-iron decorative elements will decorate the backyard and become a favorite vacation spot for all family members at any time of the year.
A summer gazebo with a transparent roof and a wrought iron frame is in harmony with the nature of the summer garden. Relaxing in an airy shelter filled with nature and air will be unique on hot summer days.
The area in front of the garage door, decorated with wrought iron patterns, will not only decorate the site, but also become reliable protection of personal vehicles from the negative impact of the environment.
A simple version of a forged visor will be a decoration of a standard residential building, and its low price will pleasantly surprise the owners of the premises. Refinement and elegance will attract the attention of others.
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Wise Nzikie, AgricInspiration
Wise Nzikie is an activist and writer working to improve the lives of underprivileged populations living in the rural countryside of Cameroon.
Over the past eight years, Wise’s work in Cameroon has brought him into close contact with impoverished, female-headed households living in rural areas of the country. Currently, about 75% of these women rely on subsistence agriculture to provide for their families, often investing huge amounts of labor for very small returns.
Wise’s experiences ultimately inspired him to create AgricInspiration, an initiative that empowers women through agricultural and business training in the rural localities around Bamenda, Cameroon.
Working in collaboration with local agricultural experts in five rural villages, over the next 12 months, Wise will provide 30 women with training on sustainable agricultural techniques and organic fertilizers designed to increase annual crop yields. The women will receive training on the cultivation of profitable crops like watermelons that are productive all year round. Any surplus produced in their gardens will be sold in local markets to provide the women with an additional source of income.
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We have no wish for the history of man to be the history of his wars yet again; we wish it to be guided by the will to build up a universal community in peace and freedom.
As the age-old woods in the valleys of this much-loved land of Asturias begin to sense - as the poet says - `the broad moons and the short days of the winter time´ we are holding the first of our award ceremonies of the twenty-first century in this city of warm welcome and culture, Oviedo. Much to our satisfaction, we can say that after forging a long pathway that has been so full of genuine, life-enriching experiences, the awards have become a shining beacon of coexistence and culture the world over.
This year Asturias celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its Statute of Regional Autonomy, the centenary of the deaths of two writers, Ramón de Campoamor and Leopoldo Alas, `Clarín´, and the bicentenary of the birth of Alejandro Mon, the economist and expert in public finance. All three have bequeathed works which time has only served to enhance. Campoamor, who lends his name to this beautiful theatre we are in, with his touching, transparent poetry; Clarín, intelligent and ironic, the author of one of the works at the pinnacle of our literature, La Regenta, the novel, and Alejandro Mon, a reformer of the Spain of his times, a representative of the enterprising, rigorous facet of Asturias, selflessly devoted to the land of his birth.
But to our deep regret, memories of gratitude towards these great Spaniards and the joy of this ceremony, which now has such international regard, are overshadowed by those whose will is to usher Humanity, as on so many other occasions throughout history, towards a world of silence and fear, devoid of freedom. On the one hand, we witness the development of science and the arts progressing at unprecedented speeds, and yet we continue to live with the darkest of obscurities, at times as old as History itelf.
We have all also felt the horror of the terrorist attacks of last September 11th in the United States and the momentous consequences that affect us in so many ways. Rather than intimidating us, such events should give added impetus to the search for what unites us and saves us; in other words, universal protection and the ubiquity of human rights, respect for differences between cultures and civilizations, and the conviction that religious feelings constitute a profound ethical and spiritual stance that will help us to reach out towards others. This is how we will avoid the triumph of the fundamentalist rationale, which is so unjust to human reason and to the very religion that it purports to defend.
We have no wish for the history of man to be the history of his wars yet again; we wish it to be guided by the will to build up a universal community in peace and freedom; a world where terrorism, the brutality and fanaticism of which the Spanish are unfortunately only too well aware of, does not exist. This is why we reiterate our belief that eradicating it ought to be a top priority of the international community of free, democratic nations, since no cause, no project, no collective aspiration can serve as justification for carrying out, encouraging, or justifying terrorism in any of its guises. In short, we desire a World that can be guided by tolerance and solidarity. One of our award winners, professor Steiner, has said this in heartfelt words of great beauty: `All human beings should learn to live as if they were guests of life. There is no society, religion, city, or town that is not worthy of improvement. Likewise, there are none that deserves to be abandoned when injustice and savagery are imposed upon us.´
However, let us turn our eyes towards the event that brings us together here today, as the life and works of this year's award winners are a splendid offering to the high values that we strive to encourage from within our Foundation; life and work dedicated to freedom, creative passion and hope.
George Steiner, who has received the Award for Communication and the Humanities, is one such example.
His work represents very well this harmonious fusion of different peoples, ethnic groups and cultures that can prove so enriching. He has striven to encompass different fields of knowledge, such as literature, history, science, theology and anthropology. He has made such efforts with a sense of responsibility, deep thought, and knowledge of different languages and cultures, whereby his words have acquired the status of exemplary authority.
He has written fascinating pages on such issues as the worrying relinquishing of excellence by populist democracies, the increasing tendency of the mass media to target the easy segment of the market, the underlying violence that beats at the heart of developed societies, the misuse and abuse of science and technology, a certain spiritual weariness, widespread hunger or disease, the unending unfairness of wars or the special suffering felt by women and children.
George Steiner affords us intelligent, practical reflections to confront and banish such ills; he sometimes attributes their causes to the deficiencies of education in stopping wrong triumphing over sensibility and knowledge, and to the risks of an artistic and cultural elite existing alongside humanity's age-old stigmas, `the gloomy paradox´, as he describes the phenomenon that he dedicated a large part of his life to.
We thank George Steiner for the clarity of his thoughts and the intellectual honesty he has transmitted it with, just as we likewise thank and honour the discreet, patient work carried out in laboratories and research centres in the United States, France and England by the Technical and Scientific Research award winners, world leaders in research into the human genome.
They are represented here in the figures of Francis Collins, Hamilton Smith, John Sulston, Craig Venter and Jean Weissenbach. The teams they lead exemplify the multidisciplinary as well as the mutually supportive nature of scientific research. Their unswerving efforts dignify Humanity in general, and the outcome of their research opens new roads to knowledge, for the steps already taken in the study of the human genome are but the starting point towards new, promising horizons in Science.
Besides the scientific importance of genetic mapping, such access to what has come to be called `the book of life´ has once and for all demonstrated the error of those who used to uphold the belief in qualitative differences between human beings, and once based their racist, discriminatory theories on this rationale.
It is very encouraging to observe once again how the noblest efforts of scientists lead to such major advances in our knowledge about the basic structure of living species and the fight against disease. We are convinced that this will also be of benefit to all mankind.
The Award for Social Sciences went to the Colegio de México and to the Spanish jurist, Juan Iglesias. The cultures of our two countries, Mexico and Spain, merge once more in the form of our awards.
The unfortunate exodus of a great number of Spanish writers, intellectuals and teachers as a result of the civil war led to the founding of the Casa de España, the original name of today's Colegio de México. However, the exodus provided an example of dignity, as the painful leaving of the homeland quickly became a case of serenely spreading knowledge and culture, thanks to which Spain became a prodigious, generous seed for culture. Those Spanish intellectuals of the highest order, both men and women, understood how to sow, grow and then reap the fruits for their second country, who welcomed them with open generosity, and showed that however sad that uprooting may be, it is not an insurmountable impediment to the flowering of culture, and that integration overcomes the suffering and tragedies of history.
But let us not forget the difficult task of rising above a time of confrontation and grief also occurred within Spain. The list of intellectuals who struggled in difficult circumstances and with enormous dignity here to save Spanish culture would be interminable. Juan Iglesias, the professor of Roman Law, did so in difficult times from within the Spanish university; first from Oviedo, Salamanca and Barcelona, and then from Madrid Complutense, and his work acquired an international standing.
Juan Iglesias has done intense, exemplary educational and research work, and for over sixty years has taught generations of Spanish and Latin American jurists, who are indebted to him for a solid moral and legal training, and have fortunately been for ever infected by his love for justice. His studies on Roman Law, deeply rooted in his profound sense of morality, respect and education, clearly show the Roman substratum of western culture. This very same culture was born along on Spain's ardent desire to civilise, was kept alive by such institutions as the Colegio de México, and flowered on a new continent.
The fact that this Social Science Award was won jointly is further invitation for us to continue to encourage the coming together and dialogue between different cultures. María Zambrano - exiled in Mexico and honoured with the first of our Awards for Letters in 1981 - passed on to us a sentence which might sum up the sixty years of the concern of the Colegio de México and of Juan Iglesias when she said, `You have made no mention of the most important aspect of any personal life: sacrifice´.
Every year we count on the presence and testimony of art and artists, a marvellous counterpoint to the terrible extremes that we human beings go to on occasions. The Polish musician Krzysztof Penderecki, an exceptional artist, a great friend of Spain, receives this year's Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.
A talent for innovation and a taste for tradition, technical mastery and spiritual inspiration, a social stance and lyricism combine in few contemporary creative artists. Krzysztof Penderecki is not only one of the greatest twentieth century composers but is also an outstanding teacher, a performer and orchestra conductor.
He has had to witness adverse social situations and his music has been a rousing plea for sincerity and dignity at a time when artists suffered oppression and persecution either because of their ideas or for being intellectuals who remained faithful to creating in freedom. His compositions will be affectionately linked forever more to the reality and spirit of the latter half of the twentieth century, which is hallmarked by the most incredible human progress and by the most distressing confrontations between peoples.
The worst of realities and the aspirations of the spirit, his own country and a world fraternity combine and are present at all times in the music of our award winner. His sincerity, his intelligent use of romantic forms, his all-encompassing spirituality, have transformed this musician into an exceptional communicator. His greatness and originality lie precisely in this ability to communicate so movingly through his music.
Krzysztof Pederecki allows our times to express itself through his music. Thus, protest and acceptance, sorrow and passionate religiousness, all that is divine and all that is human, all rise forth from his musical notes. We exhort him to continue in this way!
This year's Award for Letters has been bestowed on the British writer, Doris Lessing. Born in what used to be Persia, we can rightly say that the geography of her heart, far more so than the geography of the different countries she has lived in, has been sculpted by an awareness of injustice and the suffering of others. A traveller from country to country because of her father's work, she has put her compassion and rebelliousness to use to fight for a more humane and fairer society. She has given shape in her works to her commitment against racism, against inequality and her defence of womanhood. With uncompromising independence she has opposed inter-cultural confrontation and the disasters of emigration.
Doris Lessing has been ahead of her time in confronting many of the thorny issues of our times. But perhaps what most particularly sets her apart from others is her concern for the problems of the situation of women, to such an extent that her person and her work are an inevitable benchmark for all those women who are committed to the fight for their dignity.
Having suffered in person, Doris Lessing has also warned us against the utopias of political idealism and against the barbarism of terrorism, the most extreme aberration of ideologies, which she has masterfully analysed in her novels.
She is admired and read throughout the world for all these reasons, for her ethical and creative singularity, for her highly independent conscience, for a call for memories of the past that is one of the themes of her work. We echo this sentiment and thank her for her valuable moral and intellectual legacy.
A new star shines in Earth's nights, a work of creation, on this occasion human. It is the International Space Station, the International Co-operation Award winner, the fruits of an enormous effort led by the space agencies of the United States of America, Europe, Russia, Japan and Canada.
This ambitious project, which over twenty thousand technical experts from twenty counties are participating in, does not aim at costly, utopian adventures out in Space, but rather at bettering the knowledge about our own planet so as to conserve what is so under threat and improve the quality of life on it. State-of-the-art technical laboratories on board will provide more precise knowledge about our climate, plants and animals, about the environment that supports life but is sending out so many signals nowadays of change and of danger.
As was pointed out by the Jury who bestowed the Award, confronting the dangers that threaten life on Earth is the major objective of this scientific adventure, which is surely the biggest work of civil engineering ever undertaken by man in Space, and which furthermore will prove to be a momentous source of information in the fields of physics, biology and in general for all the important questions related to our knowledge of interplanetary space.
Bertrand Russell used to say that the only thing that would redeem Humanity is cooperation, as it is useless to wish good on yourself without also wishing it upon everybody. The International Space Station, so splendidly represented on this stage, is an outstanding model of cooperation and fraternity amongst human beings. In contrast to the dangers of destruction from the misuse of techniques and technologies which threaten us, this adventure in Space opens up new horizons, is a counterbalance to such excesses, is a solution to cure the many wounds that we have inflicted on our beautiful planet.
Of no less importance for defending life and biodiversity on Earth is the activity of UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves, the winner of the Award for Concord.
For the last thirty years, the World Network of Biosphere Reserves has been turning the much sought-after balance between the development of society and respect for nature into a reality. The "Man and Biosphere" programme is replete with approaches and solutions that are not only of an environmental nature but also cultural and human. Conserving large area of Nature that are still unspoilt, the real treasures of Humanity, is a challenge that brooks no delay, that demands further research and work, and a wider scope of action.
Over 400 Biosphere Reserves make up the network; Spain contributes twenty of them. Ordesa and Sierra Nevada, the islands of Lanzarote and Menorca, Muniellos, Somiedo, and now the Reres Nature Park here in Asturias are just some of these exceptional places that we must continue to protect and to increase. In this respect, the project to include the whole coastline of Cantabria in the Network of Biosphere Reserves - if it becomes a reality - could turn this area into one with a rich natural heritage, which could have undreamt-of, positive outcomes for the land and its inhabitants.
We have here, therefore, an organisation that is taking major, wise steps, such as promoting what is generally known as `sustainable development´, a practice that proposes the rational use of natural resources and which reconciles the terms conservation and development. It is an approach based on the idea of balanced, pro-conservation progress and is a model for the management of the interaction between man and the land that looks way towards the future.
Manual Estiarte, the Spanish water polo player receives the Award for Sports. Once again, in a world convulsed by many serious problems - some of which threaten our youth - we emphasise the healthy, exemplary nature of sport and the great values that competition provides to human development.
So it is not strange that when the decision on who would win this award coincided with the grave events of New York and Washington, the jury has no hesitation in drawing attention to the importance of sport as an ideal symbol of union and peace amongst peoples, and as a most noble activity that is radically opposed to so much cruelty.
Many sporting values and successes coincide in the figure of Manuel Estiarte, and they should be pointed out here. He has taken part in six Olympic Games, was the top scorer in five of them, and has played over 300 matches as an international with the Spanish national team. Gold and silver medals, world championships and runners-up positions, the Spanish, Italian and European cups and supercups are all there in his lengthy curriculum as a sportsman.
But Manual Estiarte has also been outstanding throughout his career because of his excellent human qualities, which already shone forth from his early days as a youth player, or in his behaviour as captain and unquestioned leader. These same virtues and his social awareness of sport inspired him not only to flee from prominence in any shape or form, but also to involve himself in parallel activities, such as being a member of the International Athletes Committee and the Olympic Committee, and being the Spanish flag bearer in Sydney 2000.
It should not be forgotten that Manuel Estiarte has reached the top in a minority sport, which does not have the advantages and the coverage of other sports. His example shines no less brightly, though. With the award bestowed on him today we are also acknowledging the merits of the Spanish water polo team, and of all those love or do this sport, which is particularly humble and demanding.
Before finishing my speech I wish to express my gratitude to those who show such enormous generosity: the Juries of the Awards, the Patrons, and Members of the Foundation, and all those who contribute with many hard-worked hours and endless days to making this great day a reality: I wholeheartedly thank Asturias and the city of Oviedo for their ever-heartwarming welcome and their invaluable help towards the greater glory of this institution and the values it strives to promote. I likewise wish to thank our award winners for attending this unforgettable ceremony, attended by high level cultural, social and political representations, to whom I also express my acknowledgement.
Whilst the heroic firemen of New York work round the clock amid the steel, rubble and fire, from here in Asturias, from a Spain replete in vitality and noble aims that are manifest in this event, we wish to reach out in solidarity to the American people, to the innocent victims of the savage terrorist act inflicted on this much-loved country, amongst whom there are Spanish citizens, who we remember with particular emotion. Nor do we wish to forget all those people anywhere in the world who have paid for the madness of terrorist violence with their lives and their blood. We convey our gratitude and support to those who are far from home defending the sublimest good, freedom for all.
May the flames of peace that we have seen flicker in the hands of Manhattan dwellers defeat the flames of horror and death. May consciences and wills find their path to concord in the Middle East. May the inspiring, heartfelt words of the poets light the way at this difficult time for the world. Now more than ever we dream of a Mankind where disheartenment does not exist, where the depth of the following lines of verse are a reality:
Let us hope that the thread does not break yet
endless hope and may memory last
under the settling light of the evening.
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The first question you will probably ask when you receive a gift card is what is a gift card. In short, a gift certificate is a plastic card that can be used at many different types of stores. A general use gift certificate is a type of prepaid plastic or electronic payment device that can be used by consumers in many different types of stores. The amount of the card is usually set at a pre-determined amount, which may be increased over time or reloaded. It is purchased on a prepaid basis by the consumer, and is honored by merchants everywhere.
A gift certificate is an electronic payment device, which has a predetermined value that a recipient may use at any time. In some cases, the card can be loaded with any amount, and in other cases, it can be redeemed for goods or services at any time. A gift certificate is a form of a gift certificate that has the value of money or goods. It may have a fixed expiration date, but it can also be reloaded.
A gift certificate is a written promise to purchase goods or services from a merchant. They are accepted at a single merchant, an affiliated group of merchants, or a variety of unaffiliated merchants. Each gift certificate is issued with a specific prepaid amount and may not be reloaded or increased. A gift certificate is an ideal present for someone who is new to a city or wants to travel.
A good restaurant gift cards here.
A gift certificates
A gift certificate is an electronic payment device. It can be in the form of an electronic card with a banked dollar value, a certificate with a full face value, or other medium. It is issued with a specified value and may not be reloaded. The recipient can then choose to use it at the merchant or retailer of their choice. There is a lot of confusion about what is a gift certificate, but the basics of its use are straightforward.
A gift certificate is an electronic payment device. It can be issued by a single merchant, a group of merchants, or multiple unaffiliated merchants. A gift certificate can be used to purchase goods and services from a single merchant or several different merchants. Its prepaid value may increase or decrease over time. A gift certificate can be reloaded, allowing the recipient to use it at multiple locations.
A gift card is a pre-funded electronic or tangible record that demonstrates an agreement between the issuer and a recipient. It contains a magnetic strip that tracks the value of the money on the card. The recipient can then use the card like a regular credit card. They can spend it at the store designated on the gift card. It can be used at any store. So, a gift certificate can be useful in many situations.
A gift certificate is a prepaid electronic payment device. It includes a certificate and an electronic debit card with a certain value. The issuer receives payment for the full face value of the card, and the recipient can use it for purchases or deliveries. The value can increase over time, and the issuer is also entitled to cash back on the gift certificate. There are several types of gift cards. They all serve the same purpose: they are a method of payment.
Check the virtual gift cards on this web site.
A gift certificate is a written promise to use the card at a specific merchant or group of retailers. Its value is determined by the amount of money you have set aside for the certificate. A gift certificate is not refundable. However, it can be transferred from one person to another, and vice versa. If the recipient is given the gift of a gift certificate, they can redeem it at any participating merchant. If the recipient does not want to use it, they can redeem it for cash.
A gift card is an electronic payment device that is honored by a single or group of merchants. It is not reloadable, but may be reloaded at a later date. There are many types of gift cards, so make sure you know exactly what you are buying. This way, you can ensure that the recipient can spend the money to its fullest. This way, the recipient can save money and make purchases on a regular basis. | <urn:uuid:11fc5da5-0a08-45d5-8751-de44349516e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://liveframe.org/what-is-a-gift-card/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957805 | 839 | 2.09375 | 2 |
TOKYO — Workers made incremental progress at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Thursday, but disturbingly high radiation readings there as well as miles away continued to reinforce fears that Japan’s crisis was far from over.
The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami that crippled the plant three weeks ago rose to nearly 11,600, with more than 16,000 people listed as missing. Hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless, including tens of thousands who have been displaced from the area around the nuclear plant. Workers have been dousing the reactors and spent fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi plant with water to prevent meltdowns and frantically trying to restore power and restart the cooling systems, but the resulting floods of dangerously contaminated water have complicated the efforts.
Workers prepared more tanks on Thursday to transfer radioactive water from the turbine buildings at Reactor Nos. 1, 2 and 3 to keep it from flowing into the ocean. But readings taken in the sea near the plant showed that levels of the radioactive isotope iodine 131 have continued to rise, testing at 4,385 times the statutory limit on Thursday, nearly four times higher than on Sunday, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director general of Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. That rise increases the likelihood that contaminants from the plant are continuously leaking into the sea, he said.
Iodine 131 was also detected at levels 10,000 times the safety limit in groundwater near Reactor No. 1. However, the government asked for retesting after the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which is known as Tepco, cast doubt on its own data not long after divulging the initial figures.Continue reading the main story
Sakae Muto, a Tepco vice president, said the company was working to build a range of facilities to handle the contaminated water.
There are new concerns about readings of the isotope cesium 137 at levels that pose a long-term danger at a spot 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The readings have raised questions about whether the evacuation zone should be expanded, and even whether the land might need to be abandoned. Residents within 12 miles of the plant have been ordered to evacuate, and those up to 19 miles away have been encouraged to leave.
The International Atomic Energy Agency found levels of cesium 137 in one village that exceeded the standard that the Soviet Union used as a gauge in recommending that land surrounding the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine be abandoned, it was reported on Wednesday.
In contrast to iodine 131, which decays rapidly, cesium 137 persists in the environment for centuries.
So far, the government has shown no indication that it will expand the evacuation zone.
But on Friday, Yukio Edano, the nation’s chief cabinet secretary, said at a news conference that it was not possible to say when evacuees from around the plant would be able to return. The government will provide support for affected students whose education is disrupted and for workers from the area, he said.
Mr. Edano also noted that radiation above the acceptable limit had been found in beef from Fukushima prefecture, and he said the government was repeating the tests to confirm them. In any case, he said, “the radiation is not of a level sufficient to be harmful to human health if someone eats it once or twice.”
Contamination has already been found in vegetables and raw milk near the plant.
A Health Ministry spokesman, Taku Ohara, said the cow had been slaughtered on March 15 more than 40 miles from the plant, The Associated Press reported. The beef was found to have a total cesium level of 510 becquerels per kilogram; the limit is 500.
Tepco, which supplies Japan with one-third of its electric power, faces billions of dollars in losses and liabilities from the disaster. It has confirmed that Reactor Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will have to be scrapped, and Prime Minister Naoto Kan was quoted on Thursday as saying that Reactors 5 and 6, which suffered far less damage because they were offline when the earthquake and tsunami struck, should be decommissioned.
Moody’s Investors Service, the ratings agency, cut its credit rating on Tepco debt to Baa1 from A1 on Thursday, saying that expected government support was the only justification for leaving the rating above junk levels.
President Obama, in a letter to Emperor Akihito sent on March 24 and disclosed on Thursday, conveyed “the deep sympathy felt by all Americans for the suffering of the people of Japan.”
“Our prayers are with you in this time of grief,” Mr. Obama added.
France and the United States are providing technical advice and material as the authorities grapple with the biggest nuclear emergency since the Chernobyl accident in 1986. On Thursday, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France became the first world leader to visit Japan since the disaster.
Prime Minister Kan, appearing in a somber suit instead of the blue work uniform he has usually worn since the quake, thanked Mr. Sarkozy for visiting, saying, “A friend who visits on a rainy day is truly a friend.”
Mr. Sarkozy, whose country generates about 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear power, arrived in Tokyo for a one-day visit after attending a Group of 20 meeting in Nanjing, China. He said he wanted to work in his capacity as the current leader of the Group of 20 to push for better international guidelines.
The Kyodo news agency cited a Japanese Communist Party official, Kazuo Shii, on Thursday as saying that Mr. Kan had agreed that Japan should reconsider its plan to build 14 nuclear plants by 2030.
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Image: Mark Changizi, RPI
Look at the image above: the red lines are completely straight, but if you stare into the central (vanishing) point, then they appear to curve outward. Now, researcher Mark Changizi of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York has discovered the secret to not only this optical illusion, but many other optical illusions: it's because the brain sees into the future!
When light hits your retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world. Scientists already knew about the lag, yet they have debated over exactly how we compensate, with one school of thought proposing our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay.
Changizi now says it's our visual system that has evolved to compensate for neural delays, generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future. That foresight keeps our view of the world in the present. It gives you enough heads up to catch a fly ball (instead of getting socked in the face) and maneuver smoothly through a crowd.
That same seer ability can explain a range of optical illusions, Changizi found. "Illusions occur when our brains attempt to perceive the future, and those perceptions don't match reality," Changizi said.
Here's how the foresight theory could explain the most common visual illusions — geometric illusions that involve shapes: Something called the Hering illusion, for instance, looks like bike spokes around a central point, with vertical lines on either side of this central, so-called vanishing point. The illusion tricks us into thinking we are moving forward, and thus, switches on our future-seeing abilities. Since we aren't actually moving and the figure is static, we misperceive the straight lines as curved ones. | <urn:uuid:1a754f48-081c-40ed-af03-77dc51cdacc7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/the-secret-to-optical-illusions-the-brain-looks-into-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00076-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945568 | 383 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Are welfare recipients better off than they were four years ago? It depends on how you define “better off.”
According to the Congressional Research Service, the government spent $746 billion in taxpayer money on a vast array of welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone, and the spending increased 32 percent during the Obama administration years.
According to U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, federal and state welfare expenditures combined totaled a mind-boggling $1 trillion in 2011.
In fiscal year 2009, welfare spending was $563 billion. Originally conceived as a temporary measure for the truly needy, welfare spending has apparently grown faster than any other federal program. The CRS report doesn’t even take into account Social Security and Medicare spending and certain veterans benefits.
The Washington Times reports, “One reason is that more people are qualifying in the weak economy, but the federal government also has broadened eligibility so that more people qualify for programs.”
Most of the taxpayer money is spent on Medicaid and food stamps followed by various other programs including direct cash payments to poor people.
As The Inquisitr has previously reported, approximately 50 percent of American households now receive some type of taxpayer-funded government assistance, and food stamp recipients are at an all-time high.
Some of this money is spent on the government bureaucracy itself and never reaches the welfare recipients. But given that the US seems to to have more social ills than ever before, do you think that welfare and social services spending of this magnitude only creates more self-perpetuating dependency?
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Gordon Brown wants us to celebrate "Britishness".
LONDON – England – In a land full of rotten rhetoric, suffocating taxes, no right to vote on a referendum, and gangs of feral thugs roaming the dangerous streets there have been calls from the unelected Prime Minister Brown to embrace ‘Britishness’.
A new public holiday should be introduced to celebrate Britishness, a review commissioned by unelected controller in chief Gordon “Velcro” Brown.
The report by former Blair-ite war criminal and sycophant Lord Goldsmith outlines the many values that Britishness conveys to the rest of the world.
“We as a nation should be proud of the daily thug violence, no police, high taxes, expensive cost of living, low quality of life, chronic overcrowding, pollution, crumbling transport infrastructure, chavs, hoodies, poor education and criminally abandoned hospitals and prisons. We should be proud of paying 80% on fuel duty which makes the UK one of the highest fuel tax countries in the world. We should be proud of governmental incompetence on a grand scale. A land bereft of hope where our supreme unelected leader Gordon Brown makes all decisions for us and bypasses any democratic process. A land where the cost of living is rising every second, where the mortgage hell of living in this overpriced cesspit overflowing with big brother surveillance cameras and traffic revenue generators stinks to highest heaven.
The peer said Britain epitomises the term “toilet country” and it was his job to bring in more fecal pride and “Britishness”.
Lord Goldsmith – who was commissioned by the unelected Prime Minister to look at the issue of British citizenship – also proposed changes to the current categories of citizenship, which he says will “promote the meaning and significance of citizenship within modern Britain”.
His recommendations also aim to encourage wider participation in “re-education” services which will program citizens further.
Lord Goldsmith’s chief brainwashing proposals include:
• A new British national day, to coincide with the Labour Olympics and the European Union in 2012
• Ceremonies in which schoolchildren swear oaths of allegiance to EU directives and governing allegiance of Brussels
• Cutting out the national anthem and replacing it with the EU anthem
• A major overhaul of “archaic” British laws to make room for the all inclusive EU directives
• Language loans for people who cannot afford Polish lessons
Lord Goldsmith wants the national day to be a similar celebration to Australia Day, Bastille Day in France, the July 4 celebrations in the United States were considered “too backward”.
Mr Brown is understood to be keen for a new public holiday but, unlike Lord Goldsmith, favours focusing on the country’s good points – like football hooliganism, being glassed in a pub on a Friday night, drunk and drugged up 9 year olds happy slapping commuters, under age pregnancy and abortions, alcopops and benefits cheats playing playstations whilst wacked out on skunk on a Monday morning.
A petition on the Downing Street website for a holiday to mark the contribution of hoodies, chavs, thugs and crazed Eastern European sex trafficking gangs has attracted more than 500,000 supporters.
Lord Goldsmith says in his report: “A national day would also provide the ideal setting for a special Violent Offenders Honours List, which focuses exclusively on the achievements of thugs who maim and torture ordinary citizens every day of their lives.”
This would be “the catalyst for a positive and celebratory new image of thuggery and Britishness.”
|A British teen playing in the park|
Despite previously criticising the words of the National Anthem for not being inclusive enough, Lord Goldsmith does not propose changing it to Polish and Lithuanian yet.
Ed Balls, who drives a £200,000 Socialist Bentley Arnage and is the right hand man of unelected PM Gordon Brown, spoke of his wish for a tax on “Britishness” so that “the people that pay for my vast Socialist riches can truly value their British pride”.
Since becoming unelected Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has been keen to push a Britishness agenda after signing away all laws to Brussels and refusing an EU referendum or any democratic discussion on the matter.
The review follows the Call Yourself British campaign by The Peoples Daily Telegraph which is now under the control of supreme unelected leader Brown and his agents.
Currently in Britain, British people have almost 450 taxes and 289 ‘stealth taxes’ on each person and the supreme unelected Prime Minister proposes a further tax on Britishness to show how patriotic citizens really are.
“We will tax you for Britishness and you will obey and be taxed for the honour and privilege.”
Those who show that they are “active citizens” could be nominated to join a “Citizens Corps” which would be viewed favourably by employers.
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It was being tested on a £21 billion Beijing to Shanghai line that will halve the current travel time to five hours when it opens in 2012.
State television footage showed the train whipping past fields in eastern China. It reached the top speed on a new line between Zaozhuang in Shandong province and Bengbu in Anhui province.
The line is due to open in 2012 and will halve the travel time between Beijing and Shanghai to five hours. China has the world's longest high-speed rail network, and it plans to cover 10,000 miles by 2020.
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26 July 2022
In its submission to the Department of Health and Social Care’s call for evidence, the RCSLT reiterated our welcome for an acquired brain injury strategy.
What did we say?
Following extensive discussion and input from our expert members, the RCSLT said that the strategy should focus on acquired brain injury rather than include other conditions that affect the brain.
We argued that the strategy needs to be focused and succinct to improve the lives of children and adults living with acquired brain injury and their families and carers. Making the strategy too broad might dilute the focus. That could make the measures less beneficial to people living with acquired brain injury and their families.
We also expressed support for the position of the United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF) which is calling for the strategy to focus solely on brain injury.
What did we recommend?
We offered recommendations in each of the areas covered by the call for evidence:
- Areas the strategy could look to focus on to better support people with an acquired brain injury or other neurological condition.
- Other areas the strategy should focus on.
- The three most important themes for the strategy to consider.
What else did we recommend?
In response to the question on what else the government should consider, we recommended:
- A clear road map for implementation, with timed and measurable success measures.
- Funding for recommendations.
- Joint working with Royal Colleges, such as the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, to discuss improvements to services for people living with a brain injury. We said we would be happy to provide ongoing counsel and expert input.
- Close work with the Department for Education to focus on better awareness and identification of children and young people with acquired brain injury in education systems.
- Close work with the Ministry of Justice to develop specific measures to improve support in the criminal justice and youth justice systems.
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|Fig. 1 An Ocean of Measurements|
Measurements are a staple of scientific research because they are a result of observation.
I mean we can observe with our eyes, or with our devices and thereby have less to speculate about.
We can observe a mountain and then speculate about its height, but, in the realm of geography accurate measurements are the preferred technique for that research.
That is as it should be as far as I am concerned, and IMO that is also the way it should be for Oceanography, so I use all the measurements I can process:
"I recently updated the OMG, WHOI, and SOCCOM sections of the Dredd Blog databases composed of in situ ocean measurements, which along with the WOD data itself (about 5.5 billion in situ measurements - WOD Update) gives us a workable trend view."
(The World According To Measurements - 24). Having lots of data is helpful.
II. Using Measurement Data
Displaying the results of observations can be a problem when the quantity is astronomical.
For example, generally there are limitations on how much observational data can be placed in a graph.
So, in the past I have generally combined and averaged the thirty-three WOD depth levels into the five pelagic depth levels so as not to overload Dredd Blog readers (Build Your Own Thermosteric Computational System).
Likewise, I have combined the 648 WOD Zones into Quadrants and/or Layers, then averaged the data into annual values (the WOD Zones [4 digits], and WOD Layers [red numbers] are shown in Fig. 1).
Fig. 2 Appendix Menu
III. Lots of Data Can Be Boring
However, since "not being bored" isn't all it is cracked up to be, today's graphs contain all of the thirty-three depth levels of the WOD, SOCCOM, and Wood's Hole datasets (see Fig. 2 Appendix Menu above).That said, still there is a limit to "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin", so, I use the thirty-three depths in a limited way; it is color/section based (WOD User's Manual, "APPENDIX 11. ACCEPTABLE RANGES OF OBSERVED VARIABLES AS A FUNCTION OF DEPTH, BY BASIN", p.78 PDF, p.68 paper-bound).
The purpose of this form of graph is not to detail how many measurements can fit on the tip of a needle, rather, it is to show the results of photon distribution of ocean heat, a.k.a. "potential enthalpy" (In Search Of Ocean Heat - 5, Patterns: Conservative Temperature & Potential Enthalpy - 3).
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In today's post there are hundreds of zone graphs, arraigned in appendices of WOD layers (0-16 see Fig. 2 ... NOTE that layer 17 has insufficient ocean data due to land there).
The line colors in these graphs represent three distinct depth sections composed lines which all total to a maximum 33 individual lines (red = 0-300m, deep blue = 400-1400m, and Light Cyan = 1500-5500+m).
Thus, even though there are a lot of lines (11 lines max for each color), the colors are to help discern what is going on in a depth level group.
As you can see from the graphs, the ocean heat content is very much 'on the move' within and without those three depth level groups.
That is because infrared photons can travel anywhere, including even the deep space between planets, stars, and galaxies.
IV. Usefulness of These Graphed Measurements
One thing that really stuck with me is the observation that in the Arctic Ocean region (e.g. Avg.Layers @ layer 0) the red group is 'generally' the top group (shallow depths are warmest), but in the Antarctic (e.g. Avg.Layers @ layers 15-16) 'generally' the top group is blue or cyan (deep depths are warmest)[remember that the color represents depth identity, NOT temperature ... temperature increases towards the top of each graph, and temperature decreases towards the bottom of each graph].
This is a critical bit of knowledge, because the tidewater glaciers are located on a continent that has the equivalent of over 200 feet of potential sea level change (The Ghost Water Constant).
As you peruse the individual Zone graphs (maximum of 36 per Layer), remember that the Industrial Revolution began circa 1750, so these graphs detail the ocean temperatures at least 150 years after that revolution began. | <urn:uuid:b701b24c-2667-4c39-b190-05a79c273c11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2021_09_19_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.894789 | 1,088 | 3.03125 | 3 |
“Tu-tu…” was one of the first sounds from the forest. Our first night on Gunung Kerici was started by a calling Mountain Scops-owl (Otus spilocephalus). Another Swiss birdwatcher Fabian Ducry and I were accompanied by the Belgian birder Bram Demeulemeester and by our home stay host and guide Pak Subandi. During a good week of birdwatching in the Kerinci-Seblat National Park, Bram and we spent around four long evenings in the forest with the mission to find secretive Sumatran montane night birds. Equipped with microphone, speaker and spotlight, we followed our ears to find the endemic Sumatran Frogmouth (Batrachostomus poliolophus), the nearly-endemic Rajah Scops-owl (Otus brookii) and other specialties as Salvadori’s Nightjar (Caprimulgus pulchellus) and Dusky Woodcock (Scolopax saturata).
The Mountain Scops-owl opened our first birding night, but only acoustically. Anyone who has ever searched a Mountain Scops knows that finding it is very hard as they like to stay in dense tree cover. As we have seen it earlier in the mountains of Sabah, we decided to leave the two males in peace which were singing against each other over a small valley. A fine and repeated, “…zic…” then took our attention; this was a Dusky Woodcock calling in flight. More were heard during the following nights while singing their weird song reminiscent of a starting generator and one was even seen flying very close through the middle of our group.
Barred Eagle-owl (Bubo sumatranus) and Barn Owl (Tyto alba) were calling too, but a much smaller bird was the highlight of that night. From a dry river bed, we heard a Sumatran Frogmouth with its mournful, descending whistle. Soon after we played back its call, it came closer to inspect its virtual enemy and we managed to see this ghost-like bird with its long nostril hairs around its massively broad beak. The short tail confirmed again its identity as it was called Short-tailed Frogmouth a few years ago, when it was treated conspecific with the Bornean form which is now called Bornean Frogmouth (Batrachostumus mixtus).
Another Special Night
This first successful night was followed by more, but one was especially worth remembering. A very fast rattering sound announced at least two singing Salvadori’s Nightjars over the forest. So, the only big target left was the most difficult Rajah Scops-owl. After about an hour, we heard the first one but it kept its distance to us. A little later, we heard a movement, Bram switched his spotlight on and in front of us was not a Scops-owl but a big cat – an Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii)! It stood still about ten meters in front of us, confused by the strong torchlight, and then it approached for another few meters. While our hearts were beating very fast, we managed to take some photographs before the Asian Golden Cat heard dry leaves cracking under our feet and disappeared into the dense forest – a truly amazing observation of this rare and secretive cat!
We continued our search for interesting birds. After a short encounter with a Small-toothed Palm Civet (Arctogalidia trivirgata), another bird was singing loud in the bushes – an Oriental Bay-owl (Phodilus badius). Unfortunately, the bird was quite far away from the trail and we had to leave the trail to get nice view of this beautiful owl. The only problem then was to find the way back to Kersik Tuo. Luckily, the Ramadhan all-night-long prayers showed us the way. After climbing through thickets and loads of rattans, we were suddenly attacked by a group of small Babblers. They were sleeping in the thicket and upon our approach they flew away in panic: A Spot-necked Babbler (Stachyris striolata) was landing on my hat, a Pygmy Wren-Babbler (Pnoepyga pusilla) on Bram’s trousers. Another 40 minutes later, we managed to find the forest edge and our way back to our sleeping bags – ready to dream from these exciting nights in the forest.
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One of bollywood’s fairest actresses is fair enough not just in the realm of fairness as the color of skin but fairness in the thought behind it and the attitude that goes a long way. We will never know how true the color perception is. We have heard people say every now and then “Dark is beautiful” and yet I wonder how many of us actually believe that. And I sometimes ask myself as to how many would actually be itching to trade off their color for a fairer version. No wonder the fairness cream companies make so much of money.
It feels really good when someone in the mainstream comes out to make a powerful statement like this and not just a powerful one but a very ethical one. Over the last few years, Kangana has really grown as an actress and the respect for her on screen and the portrayal of varied characters has grown immensely. And today somehow when I came across this news piece, the respect grows a little bit more and this time for her as a person which means a lot more than just an actress.
And when asked, she was mentioned saying that she doesn’t believe in the concept of fairness. Now you might say that it is easier for a fair person to take that stand and would have loved a darker one taking that stand, then I would just say that you are being too critical and also slightly hypocritical as well :). She was quoted saying
“Ever since I was a kid, I have never understood the concept of fairness. as a celebrity, what kind of an example would I be setting for younger people?”
How’s that for a statement now?! Source : http://www.scoopwhoop.com/inothernews/kangana-ranaut-ad/
I have never really understood the concept of true fairness and I would be lying if I say I am not biased at all. I mean, I am not blaming the society or the education or the cultural tuning but somehow at some level we have all been trained either by the media or by our education or the environment around us which makes us assume that fair is beautiful. I am shamelessly saying that even I have done it a few times completely inadvertently and later felt completely ashamed about it.
I guess there is more to it than meets the eye when it comes to the concept of fairness. The companies want us to believe that fairness is equivalent to beauty cos that is the way they survive or rather that is the way they prosper. Such a surprising factor isn’t it? More than the quality of your skin, its health and appearance, what matters more is the fairness and all the movies, ads make us feel that so consciosuly which makes us wonder and sometimes subconsciously accept that fairness means beautiful while the truth is that it has got nothing much to do with it and it runs a little deeper than that.
And today when we make this post, it is not to exonerate ourselves from our judgemental attitudes, it is mere acknowledgement of the same and how wrong we have been in accepting the false education without even questioning it. And that’s when these grand gestures come into picture – when they awaken that moral sense within us. And today, kudos to Kangana for doing that.
As for what’s fair, you tell me – What is indeed?
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This glowing, anthropologically flavoured drama – Australia’s nominee for the foreign-language film Oscar – features an unlikely cameo from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip by way of an argument for arranged marriage. It’s one way in which Tanna, set among the tribes of the eponymous Pacific island in the Vanuatu archipelago, outlines its interest in how indigenous peoples experience broader human truths: in this case, how society always exacts its price from the individual.
Chieftain’s son Dain, the villager with the flyest fern headdress, falls for broad-smiling beauty Wawa, but their attraction threatens neighbouring tribal bonds. It could be something from Renaissance drama. In fact, it is: Romeo and Juliet (almost). With such lush locations, it must have been a temptation for directors Martin Butler and Bentley Dean to epically frame the lovers ad nauseam. But they restrict themselves to one silhouetted shot against the local volcanic eruption, and spend more time in proximity to fantastically vital performances from the Yakel-tribe cast. Less fixated than 2015’s Embrace of the Serpent on the threat to indigenous people from the outside, Tanna is an open-throated and universal call for change from within. | <urn:uuid:937e447c-3a94-460a-b94e-26954f6ea2f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/16/tanna-review-vanuatu-romance-tribes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.916799 | 263 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History
Edited by Julian E. Zelizer, and Bruce J. Schulman
The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History
Edited by Julian E. Zelizer, and Bruce J. SchulmanDespite its crucial importance in U.S. history, the study of the constitutional system fell out of favor with many historians and history departments for several decades during the latter half of the twentieth century. The dawn of the twenty-first century, however, has borne witness to a new interdisciplinary interest among scholars in reviving this important dialogue in American history. This book represents some of the most innovative contributions to this dialogue by a new generation of historians and legal scholars. The essays presented in this volume offer new insights into constitutionalism, legal culture, and the political arena, together contributing to an “ongoing reconceptualization of the historical relationship between the Constitution and public policy.”
- Table of Contents
- Sample Chapters
In this volume of "Issues in Policy History," Julian Zelizer and Bruce Schulman bring together eleven essays from renowned scholars Mary Sarah Bilder, Donald T. Critchlow and Cynthia L. Stachecki, Christine Desan, Morton Keller, Ajay K. Mehrotra, David Quigley, John A. Thompson, Christopher Tomlins, and Michael Willrich. By applying new archival research to questions of policy history and embedding constitutional history in its political context, these scholars breathe new life into the study of public policy and reaffirm Woodrow Wilson’s conclusion that the Constitution’s “spirit is always the spirit of the age.”
Julian E. Zelizer is Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Bruce J. Schulman is Professor of History at Boston University.
Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer
Mary Sarah Bilder
Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review
From Blood to Profit: Making Money in the Practice and Imagery of Early America
Necessities of State: Police, Sovereignty, and the Constitution
Constitutional Revision and the City: The Enforcement Acts and Urban America, 1870–1894
“The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country”: Personal Liberty and Public Heath in the Progressive Era
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Forging Fiscal Reform: Constitutional Change, Public Policy, and the Creation of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin, 1880–1920
John A. Thompson
Woodrow Wilson and a World Governed by Evolving Law
The South Confronts the Court: The Southern Manifesto of 1956
State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty
Donald T. Critchlow and Cynthia L. Stachecki
The Equal Rights Amendment Reconsidered: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobilization in a Democracy
Governance and Democracy: Public Policy in Modern America
The United States Constitution, drafted by the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, was the first written constitution in modern history. The delegates who came to Philadelphia believed that a comprehensive written constitution was essential to the full expression of the belief that government was an instrument of a sovereign people. Thomas Jefferson expressed this innovative principle, deeply rooted in the habits and style of Anglo-American legal thought, when he declared, “Our peculiar security is the possession of a written constitution.”
Jefferson, who was unable to attend the Philadelphia Convention, shared the belief with those drafters of the Constitution that a written constitution was fundamental to the prevention of tyranny and the preservation of rights and liberty of a free people. As such, the Constitution sought to establish a federal government with the necessary power to realize the nation’s shared purpose, while so structured in careful balance in its branches and distribution of federal and state powers that it would prevent oppression. The Constitution established the primary rules for the conduct of impartial government against the demands of political faction, popular passion, and personal ambition.
An extraordinary feature of the Constitution was that it allowed the three branches of government to apply and interpret its provisions in conducting the people’s business. A system of checks restrained each of three branches of government, the executive, legislative, and judiciary, from overstepping their powers.
From the eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, constitutional interpretation primarily revolved around the doctrine of limited government. The most fundamental and vexing constitutional issue confronting Americans in the early nineteenth century was the relationship and the definition of powers between the federal government and the states. The issue of slavery embodied this question in its most heated form and would only be resolved in a tragic civil war.
The Civil War did not fully resolve, however, fundamental constitutional questions concerning the federal government’s power to tax, the regulation of commerce, the definition of marriage and religious freedom, safeguards for female and child laborers, and the protection of entrepreneurial liberty and property. At the same time, a sign of a more broadly construed legal environment for government was evident in domestic regulatory law and federal voting rights legislation. The rise of progressive reform in the late nineteenth century encouraged political sentiment for a more activist federal government operating within a less restrained legal environment.
By the mid-twentieth century, constitutional questions became central to American politics as the courts addressed a range of issues, including racial segregation, presidential powers, abortion, prayer in public schools, and voting rights. Within a highly politicized environment and the seeming breakup of a cultural consensus, the courts became the focus of political debate, addressing fundamental questions about the role of the courts and judges within an American democracy raised by activists, public officials, and scholars.
The eighteenth-century political philosopher Lord Bolingbroke defined the English constitution as “that assemblage of laws, institutions, and customs, derived from certain fixed principles of reason, directed to certain fixed objects of public good” within a system by which the community has agreed to be governed. Bolingbroke’s definition assumes that fixed principles of reason and fixed objects of public good can be agreed upon within a polity. What happens, however, when these basic standards of reasoning are called into question by scholars? And what is the result when the ultimate goals of government cannot be agreed upon by a citizenry?
The essays in this volume show that legal and constitutional debate over matters of policy has a long history in America. These essays reveal that such debate is perennial to a democracy, and while political conflicts over the meaning of the Constitution and specific policies are not easily resolved, even more difficult are the lessons of learning how to balance order and freedom, individual rights and community responsibilities, and liberty and democracy in this fragile entity we call the American republic.
Donald T. Critchlow
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Halton Region is a growing municipality in southwestern Ontario, with a population of approximately 600,000. The Region provides high quality drinking water to residents and businesses, and maintains an active program to continuously improve its drinking water system.
The Region’s Bailie Booster Pumping Station and Reservoir supply water to the Burlington area. As part of its asset management program, the Region retained Associated to upgrade and rehabilitate the pump station and reservoir. The pumping station upgrades include replacing the plumbing, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, booster pumps and piping/valving, chlorine storage and dosing system, motor control centre, standby power and electrical systems, instrumentation and supervisory control and data acquisition system, along with required structural rehabilitation.
The two-celled, underground, concrete reservoir has a storage capacity of 17.5 million litres. The top of the reservoir is grassed, creating a park like setting. Structural rehabilitation of the reservoir involves removing the existing grass surface and waterproofing system and installing a new hot applied rubberized asphalt waterproofing membrane system on the reservoir roof slabs. After membrane replacement, landscaping over the roof is reinstated. The main goal of the waterproofing replacement is to update the reservoir to meet new potable water storage guidelines and minimize the risk of contaminant infiltration.
The site drainage design and sizing of the reservoir subdrain system considered climate change and anticipated increased frequency of and heavier precipitation events. More extreme seasonal temperatures and increase in relative humidity were considered in the design of the pump station heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system. All process piping will also be insulated to address expected increase in humidity.
Project Manager, Anna Comerton, tells us, “The upgrades to the pumping station must be staged to allow continued operation of the station, as it is an integral part of the Burlington water supply system and cannot be taken out of service for an extended period.” Interruption or reduction of service must be performed during low demand season to accommodate overall distribution system needs. Careful planning and communication with all stakeholders (e.g. Region Operations and contractor) are required, so that individual equipment is replaced and commissioned in a phased manner and minimizes any impact on operations. For example, we replaced one booster pump and associated piping/valving system at a time.
Similarly, replacing the main reservoir fill/draw header has been done in sections so that the period required for station shutdown is minimized (e.g. less than 24 hours) and occurs during low demand season when an alternate station can handle the demand.
Residences surround the project site on three sides in this quiet neighbourhood. Construction was planned to restrict working hours, mitigate noise and dust, identify location of soil stockpiling, provide privacy screening, limit the number and location of construction vehicles, and prohibit idling trucks on residential streets. The Region also has a project ambassador assisting with communicating updates to the community and addressing questions.
Halton Region engaged Associated Engineering in 2018 to complete preliminary and detailed design and tender the rehabilitation works. Construction began in Spring 2021. The upgrades to the pumping station are in progress and are expected to be completed by early 2023. Cell 1 waterproofing was completed in the Fall 2021, and Cell 2 waterproofing is now in progress. Outside works are anticipated to be completed by Fall 2022.
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Consultation—Marine Order 97 (Marine pollution prevention – air pollution) Amendment Order 2019
The POTS Act Amendment Bill is now available at the following link:
The consultation closed on 30 October 2019.
Marine Order 97 (Marine pollution prevention – air pollution) 2013 deals with the prevention of air pollution from vessels and gives effect to MARPOL Regulations for the Prevention of Air Pollution from Ships (Annex VI).
This applies to regulated Australian vessels, domestic commercial vessels, recreational vessels and foreign vessels.
The proposed Amendment Order amends Marine Order 97.
The proposed Marine Order 97 (Marine pollution prevention – air pollution) Amendment Order 2019 will:
- Update the prescribed limit for sulphur content in fuel oil to remove expired limits (effective 1 January 2020).
- Implement provisions for the prohibition of carriage of non-compliant fuel on board (effective 1 March 2020).
- Provide for the use of a MARPOL Annex VI approved equivalent (eg exhaust gas cleaning system (EGCS)) not just inside but also outside an emission control area (ECA) for Australian ships and for foreign ships within Australian waters as an alternative to using compliant fuel.
- Mandate fuel oil non-availability reporting (FONAR) for Australian ships both inside and outside ECAs and foreign ships within Australian waters.
- Clarify requirements related to bunker supply to vessels.
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Pakistanis are voting for more than 40 seats of the federal and provincial legislatures amid tight security.
Khurshid Khan, an official at the Election Commission of Pakistan, said more than five million people are expected to vote in the August 22 poll for 15 seats in the national parliament and 26 in provincial assemblies.
The by-election in one constituency in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was postponed because of Taliban threats.
Polls are being held in constituencies vacated by candidates who won more than one seat in the general elections in May.
In addition, at least three constituencies are vacant because lawmakers were killed by Islamist militants.
Pakistani law allows candidates to contest elections for multiple constituencies but permits them to retain only one.
All the major political parties are participating in the by-elections, but the results are not expected to result in any major change to their standings in parliament.
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Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
I’ve been feeling sorry for myself lately. I look in the mirror and see that my face is sagging into a mass of wrinkles. It’s genetic. I watched the same transformation occur to my mother 3 decades ago. But knowing that doesn’t make it any easier.
Today my copy of the “Finger Lakes Trail News” arrived. (The “News” is the FLTC magazine – a wonderful benefit of membership.) As usual, I curled up in my lazy-boy chair to read it cover to cover. In there, an article by Sharon A. Brangman, MD titled “Exercise and Aging” made me feel better. She stated, “Many people think that the key to successful aging is to look as youthful as possible. They spend a lot of time and money on hair coloring, Botox injections, breast augmentation and other types of plastic surgery. These people are missing the opportunity to age successfully by focusing too much on these superficial markers of youth.” She then went on to describe all the physical and mental benefits of exercising and how it allows you to stay vital as you age.
Thanks Dr. Brangman. I think I’ll go take a walk.
Sue Freeman, www.footprintpress.com
Here are just few reasons why you should make Road ID part of your gear as you play outdoors:
1. If you can’t speak for yourself, Road ID will speak for you.
2. Road ID enables First Responders to immediately contact family members and friends.
3. Road ID enables family members to provide additional details about your health or give consent for potentially life saving procedures.
4. Road ID enables hospital staff to locate vital medical records.
5. Road ID can communicate medical conditions or allergy information to medical staff.
6. Road ID can prevent serious delays in treatment by saving crucial time during the “golden hour” of medical treatment.
7. It’s far better to have Road ID and not need it than to need Road ID and not have it. It’s not just a piece of gear, it’s peace of mind.
8. Accidents happen far more than you think they do. Each year approximately 450,000 of us are taken to hospitals unconscious and without identification.
9. Road ID looks good on and makes a statement about your athletic lifestyle – not to mention that studies would probably prove that people that wear Road ID are considerably smarter than those that don’t.
10. Road ID can save your Life. Period.
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Car-driven Society Poses Risk to Americans’ Health
A June 1, 2009 article in the Reuters online newspaper. Researchers have found that the habit of driving everywhere is bad for the health of Americans. The article says:
The more you drive, the less you walk. Walking provides exercise without really trying. Ideally, people should take 10,000 steps a day to maintain wellness, according to James Hill, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado.
But for those who only walk from their home to the car and from their car to an office and back again, that figure can sink to only 1,000 steps. A car culture forces people to make time to exercise and driving long distances reduces the time available to work out. Lawrence Frank of the University of British Columbia was able to quantify the link between the distance people drive and their body weight:
Every additional 30 minutes spent in a car each day translates into a 3 percent greater chance of being obese. People who live in neighborhoods with a mix of shops and businesses within easy walking distance are 7 percent less likely to be obese.
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Here are three things you should know about sunscreen: Chemical sunscreens break down in sunlight and must be reapplied regularly. Most people don’t apply enough sunscreen the first time around, making reapplication critical. Sunscreens only last about two hours after you apply it, regardless of the SPF rating.
How long does sunscreen last after applying?
A sunscreen’s sun protection factor (SPF) is only fully effective for two hours after you put it on. Experts recommend carrying a bottle of SPF 30 to SPF 50 sunscreen around with you, even on cloudy or rainy summer days, so you can throw some on if the sun comes out.
Does sunscreen wear off after 2 hours?
Lathering up with sunscreen every two hours is a good benchmark, especially when you’re at the beach or out all day basking in the sun’s rays. That’s because a sunscreen’s sun protection factor (SPF) value is only fully effective for two hours after you put it on.
Why do you have to wait 15 minutes after applying sunscreen?
When you apply the sunscreen on your skin, some of it will evaporate or absorb to leave a thin UV-protective layer on top of your skin in a process called de-emulsification. That’s why SPF testing is measured after waiting for 15 minutes for the sunscreen to dry down.
Do I really need to reapply sunscreen every 2 hours?
You really do not have to reapply sunscreen every two hours. Sunscreens are broken down by the effects of direct exposure to daylight, not by the passage of time. During an average day – a work day, let’s say – the sunscreen you applied in the morning will still offer enough protection at the end of the day.
How long does 50ml sunscreen last face?
Size of a five pence piece for a full face and neck application. A 50 ml jar or tube will last you 3-4 months, used twice a day.
Is applying sunscreen once a day enough?
Do I really need to reapply sunscreen throughout the day? Generally, sunscreen should be reapplied every two hours, especially after swimming or sweating. If you work indoors and sit away from windows, you may not need a second application. Be mindful of how often you step outside, though.
How long does SPF 30 last for?
For example, if your skin normally changes colour after 10 minutes of unprotected sun exposure and you use a sunscreen rated SPF 30, you will get five hours of sun protection (10 minutes x 30 = 300 minutes, which is 5 hours of protection).
Does SPF 50 mean 50 minutes?
What does it mean when a sunscreen is SPF 50? Dr. Berson: An SPF 50 product protects you from 98% of the UVB “burning” rays that penetrate your skin. … Sunscreen can either be effective for up to 40 minutes or up to 80 minutes in water.
What happens if you don’t wait 20 minutes after applying sunscreen?
It’s still fine but it is best to wait 15-30mins. As chemical sunscreens take longer to absorb into the skin for it to work were as physical sunscreens work straight away. It’s better late than never, but do try to remember to apply 15 minutes before going out in the sun.
Do you need sunscreen after 7pm?
To protect against damage from the sun’s rays, it is important to avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., when the sun’s rays are strongest; to wear protective clothing; and to use a sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher. … Nonetheless, protection from UV rays is important all year round.
Should I wear sunscreen at 6am?
Yes, you should wear sunscreen all day, every day. The sun rays may not be as harmful from 6-8am, but it does not mean that you will not experience problems in the future. Problems such as early wrinkles, skin cancer and other skin problems.
Is it OK to apply sunscreen over makeup?
“For maximum protection, sunscreen should be applied directly onto skin, underneath any makeup, other moisturizers or skincare products,” says Dr. Katz. “You can put sunscreen on over your foundation, but ideally, you would wash it all off and reapply — although we know most won’t really do that.” An alternative?
How long does sunscreen last when not in the sun?
Generally speaking, sunblock lasts on skin for up to two hours. Do you need to reapply even if you’re using a high SPF? Even if you’re wearing SPF 100, you need to follow these reapplication recommendations.
Does sunscreen last longer indoors?
It lasts longer than you think. If you use sunscreens properly, then yes, they can last many hours if the skin stays dry—up to four to six hours. … So depending on what time you applied it, you may still be protected by the time you drive home. | <urn:uuid:31c66c8b-7aab-4585-abc3-2eb59ee6d8a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://suburbanstylechallenge.com/skincare/quick-answer-how-long-does-sunscreen-last-after-application.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.925759 | 1,069 | 2.375 | 2 |
‘Slow science’ approaches to understanding the ecology, natural history and demography of species have declined over recent decades, despite the critical importance of these studies to conservation biology. With the progression of the Anthropocene, populations of invertebrates are under increasing pressure across the globe, yet few long-term datasets exist to track potential changes or declines. Here, we present a newly developed ‘slow science’ study system, to understand the demography, biology and molecular ecology of a potentially threatened species of giant idiopid trapdoor spider from inland eastern Australia. This previously undescribed species in the tribe Euoplini, here newly described as Euoplos grandis Wilson & Rix sp. nov., has a highly fragmented distribution in the southern Brigalow Belt bioregion of south-eastern Queensland, in a landscape largely cleared for cropped agriculture. The conservation significance of Idiopidae has long been recognised, and these spiders remain a flagship group for terrestrial invertebrate conservation in Australia. By studying growth rates, life spans, recruitment, natural history, fitness, gene flow, dispersal and other aspects of population and individual health, we aim gradually to uncover the population dynamics of a discrete natural population. In this paper, we summarise longitudinal data for 69 individual trapdoor spiders following an initial 18 months of study, and highlight preliminary demographic trends, biological observations and avenues for future genetic research. Ultimately, the aim of this study is to provide a baseline dataset for the conservation of Australian Idiopidae, and a guiding case study for similar taxa elsewhere in Australia. | <urn:uuid:1aaecb2f-1ebe-47ca-a7dd-361f5a087269> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/population-demography-and-biology-of-a-new-species-of-giant-spiny | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.887603 | 327 | 2.875 | 3 |
Evaluation & Medication Management
Evaluation and Medication Management consists of our providers sitting down and talking with the patient to gain a complete picture of their symptoms through a comprehensive assessment. They then educate the patient in a way that will help them understand what they are facing and the medication regimen that will help them to best treat their condition.
What Does Treatment Involve?
Depending on the severity of the patient’s symptoms or condition, and based on our provider’s assessment, the patient and provider would work together to come up with a treatment plan and follow ups that are individually tailored to the patient’s needs.
Is Evaluation & Medication Management right for me?
Whether you think you need a thorough evaluation to start medication or you’ve been on medication and needing a new medication management provider to help with your mood, anxiety, depression, or OCD, our providers are ready and available to help. | <urn:uuid:b3766d4a-4f94-45d6-a14b-80275dce44e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advancedpsych.com/medication-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.935675 | 195 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In an unusual act of cooperation, the US last Friday extradited to Israel a man who had fled there after refusing to divorce his wife, leaving her still obligated to the marriage under Jewish law in the difficult position of agunah (literally "chained woman").
The extradition was the first of its kind, and came in a case involving particular shocking accusations.
During divorce proceedings after the couple from Bnei Brak's marriage fell apart, the wife allegedly discovered that her husband had been having a secret relationship with her sister, who was still a minor, and further was sexually abusing their young son, reports Yisrael Hayom.
In light of the revelations, the husband was accused of pedophilia, and promptly escaped to the US despite a stay of exit order filed against him.
It must be noted that the man's version of events was not provided, nor did the report say whether he was charged for the alleged crimes.
After he fled, the wife was consequently left as an agunah, unable to remarry.
A private investigator hired by the Rabbinical Court's Agunot Branch was able to track the man down, although he refused all efforts to convince him to return to Israel and give his wife a "get" (divorce).
Left with no other options, Rabbi Eliyahu Maimon, manager of the Agunot Branch, requested that the Justice Department's International Division deal with securing the man's extradition. The extradition was achieved after long negotiations with the US.
"The long arm of the Rabbinical Court will reach every place in the world and bring relief to agunot women," declared Rabbi Maimon.
A Rabbinical Court survey in 2007 determined that there were about 370 get refusers in Israel, slightly more than half of them women. The figures disproved claims that there were thousands of agunot in Israel.
Meanwhile, more recent figures from 2012 found that 163 agunot had received gets, compared with 97 in 2011. Sanctions against get refusers also rose in 2012, as 60 sanction verdicts were granted in 2012 as compared with 41 in the previous year. | <urn:uuid:cb077994-e1a4-42a8-8d69-e0ff5c705247> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/175794 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00302-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985552 | 436 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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This book assesses the crime prevention impact of varying types of surveillance, including the massively increased use of CCTV as well as other forms of crime prevention measures such as improved street lighting. Topics include street lighting and CCTV evaluations, CCTV and the structuring of surveillance, evaluating ""realistic evaluation"", context specific measures of CCTV effectiveness in retail sector. | <urn:uuid:f178c05d-58c2-432b-8b5b-6e65755ecba9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781881798224/surveillance-of-public-space-cctv-street-lighting-and-crime-prevention-paperback-willan-publishing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928044 | 117 | 2.0625 | 2 |
JEREMY Corbyn's son was not involved in a play which sparked an antisemitism row at the University of York, it has been claimed.
Tommy Corbyn, a first year engineering student at the university, is part of an organisation responsible for staging the Seven Jewish Children play on campus.
The Labour leader's son is events manager for the Palestine Solidarity Society, which staged the play on campus between February 22 and 28 as part of Israel Apartheid Week.
A Sunday newspaper reported Mr Corbyn was at the centre of the row, but the organisation has moved to distance him from the spat.
Caryl Churchill's ten minute play depicts the history of Israel and ends with the bombing of Gaza.
It has been labelled as "blatant antisemitism" by Jewish students.
The Union of Jewish Students said: "The decision of York Palestine Solidarity Society to host the anti-Semitic play Seven Jewish Children takes them well beyond criticism of Israel and deep into the territory of blatant antisemitism.
"It is also deeply worrying to see the lack of support the local J-Soc has received from their students' union.
"Regardless of the free speech policy of York University Student Union, you would expect them to have the decency to even recognise the concerns of antisemitism by their Jewish members. They unfortunately instead seem to offer them no support at all."
Eran Cohen, who organised the play, said: "Our support of an occupied, oppressed people is often mistakenly perceived, particularly by those Jews who identify as Zionist, as anti-Semitic sentiment.
"To equate criticism of Zionism with anti-Semitism is not only dishonest, it also has an adverse effect for those Jews who do suffer actual intolerant, anti-Semitic abuse which should be taken seriously. Moreover, this misplaced accusation calls into question our own Jewishness, which we find an offensive gesture.
"Finally, we would like to make it clear that Tommy Corbyn, son of the leader of the Labour Party, had nothing to do with organising, producing or even promoting the play."
A spokesman for the University of York said: "The procedure for staging the play at the university went through the normal procedures and protocols.
"As an institution we are committed to the principles of free speech and freedom of expression." | <urn:uuid:f6ba315a-74ba-47e7-a6bc-a2c88c63c6fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14310145.Corbyn_s_son_was_not_involved_in_York_play_which_sparked_antisemitism_row/?ref=rss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972055 | 469 | 1.71875 | 2 |
According to a CBC report, the Cuban government is now implementing a wide-scale rationing program.
This program covers food products and basic goods such as chicken, eggs, rice, beans, and soap. Cuban Minister of Commerce Betsy Diaz Velazquez pins the blame on the Trump administration’s tightening of the U.S. trade embargo with the island nation.
Some other analysts argue that reduced amounts of aid coming from Venezuela have contributed to this new economic crisis in Cuba. Venezuela provides subsidized fuel to Cuba so that it can meet its power requirements and earn hard currency on the market.
However, there could be more to the story than these external factors. Shortages have been fixtures throughout Cuba’s history under the rule of its Communist party. Since Fidel Castro assumed control of Cuba in 1959, the Cuban state has dominated the commanding heights of the Cuban economy. This includes its implementation of price controls.
As seen on multiple occasions, most recently with Venezuela, price controls inevitably lead to shortages of the goods that they are imposed on. This is simple economics. When the price system is distorted by regulations, artificial demand for the price-controlled good emerges. If the government mandated price ceiling ends up being lower than the price that suppliers are willing to bring a good to market, shortages start to pop up.
The Cuban government enacted broad-based price controls in 2016 in response to rising food prices. Despite talk about a tepid market transition, Cuba seems to be reverting back to its old ways. Constant rationing of goods and services is typical of socialist economies which have largely undermined property rights and a rational pricing system. Indeed, Cuba is the Western Hemisphere’s first example of socialist failure.
It joins countries like North Korea, Maoist China, and the Soviet Union in the economic hall of shame. Venezuela in its current form will likely join this list of misery.
Nevertheless, U.S. sanctions are counterproductive. Ironically, they end up empowering the Cuban state and give corrupt politicians a scapegoat. By pointing to American sanctions, authoritarian leaders can keep their people distracted from the roots causes of their misery—their own government’s actions.
In the end, the Cuban case shows that the laws of basic economics continue to be violated even in present times. If Cuba wants shelves to be stocked full of goods, it should quit blaming America and embrace a normal price system and make steps towards respecting private property for once. | <urn:uuid:5277d981-46cd-4529-8841-acb4274f3bd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theadvocates.org/2019/06/cubas-new-shortages-likely-the-result-of-price-controls/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.951225 | 496 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The future of the British press lies in the hands of Lord Justice Leveson. Marta Cooper reports
In a matter of weeks Lord Justice Leveson will issue recommendations for a new system of press regulation. It’s an important moment for the British media: his Inquiry has exposed reprehensible press tactics and attacks on privacy in its extensive scrutiny of Fleet Street. Mistrust in the press is high, and claims that self-regulation has failed have come thick and fast.
But there is also the risk that the recommendations in Leveson’s report might endanger Britain’s centuries-old press freedom. This week, MP John Whittingdale, Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said the Inquiry had been used as a platform to kick the press, and that Leveson had “almost encouraged anyone who has a grudge against the press over many years to come and sort of unburden themselves in front of him”. As a result, the issues addressed in the hearings went outside Leveson’s original remit. Indeed, as Whittingdale said during Radio 4’s The Media Show, the Inquiry was hindered by its inability to look into the events at the News of the World that triggered the Inquiry “until after the criminal prosecutions had been finished”.
At the end of August Leveson, following procedure, issued Rule 13 notices to editors warning them of his forthcoming criticisms and giving them an opportunity to respond. Some were concerned: Independent editor Chris Blackhurst said the document was a “point-by-point demolition of the industry.”
Given the seriousness of the Inquiry’s trigger — mass criminality (the latest figure of possible victims is now over 4,700), the failure of our police to properly investigate the events and the unnaturally cosy relationship between editors, the political elite and the Metropolitan police — Leveson is keen to recommend something that will command public respect. Over the eight months of hearings various regulatory suggestions have been put to Leveson: a press-card model, a contractual system, a body able to fine errant newspapers up to £1m and a system backed by legislation to resolve privacy cases.
As for statutory regulation, Leveson is well aware of the dangers of getting the state involved in regulating a medium that is supposed to regulate the state itself, although he has not ruled out some form of statutory underpinning of a beefed-up Press Complaints Commission. During his day at the Inquiry, David Cameron called statutory regulation a “last resort”, with one report (£) suggesting the prime minister is preparing to reject statutory intervention even if Leveson recommends it.
Tougher regulation and the facility to provide redress and protection for the individual cannot be achieved at the price press freedom. Without this crucial element of our democracy and history, we lose the ability to hold power to account and investigate wrongdoing. Public discourse would be seriously undermined.
Self-regulation can be improved through more accountable newsroom management. Much of what triggered the Inquiry was a matter of culture: unethical newsroom practices flourished because they could; only stronger editorial governance and newsroom management can deal with them. The new regulator also needs to be effective in monitoring and setting standards and could provide effective, fair and rapid complaint resolution, as Index and English PEN argued in the joint Alternative Libel Project.
It is also essential Leveson pushes for a stronger public interest defence, a concept at the heart of investigative journalism, in the range of criminal offences that apply to the press. The ability to uncover serious wrongdoing and expose the truth is at the heart of a free press in a democratic society. Yet only a number of laws that editors may allow a journalist to breach in order to expose wrongdoing or impropriety carry a public interest defence, namely Section 55 of the Data Protection Act. It was under this section of the DPA that the Crown Prosecution Service found that any alleged misconduct on the part of reporter Amelia Hill in her coverage of the phone hacking scandal for the Guardian (using information from confidential sources) was in the public interest. It is worth remembering that phone hacking was exposed by the of one newspaper alone — the Guardian — after the police failed to properly investigate in 2006 and 2009.
Other legislation investigative journalists find a legal barrier, such as the Computer Misuse Act, Official Secrets Act and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), do not carry such a defence.
Imagine a journalist hacked into a minister’s email to expose corruption. No matter how small the intrusion, there would be no public interest defence in the Computer Misuse Act for that reporter if he or she were to be prosecuted. Greater consistency across various laws is needed to reassure reporters that, in cases where they do transgress the law, they would have the option of a defence available (£) and not feel deterred from doing good journalism.
Ensuring high standards of professionalism, including high ethical standards, while protecting the freedom of the press is Leveson’s challenge. Before the year is over we will see how the scales will tip.
Marta Cooper is an editorial researcher at Index. She tweets at @martaruco | <urn:uuid:5daf725c-8305-4381-bd85-6fea5caa4b11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/09/leveson-inquiry-press-freedom-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.954605 | 1,066 | 1.59375 | 2 |
X-Rays Of Mummies Reveal New Theories About Heart Disease
Heart disease is a serious issue – according to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular diseases are frequent causes of death throughout the world and killed 17.5 million people in 2012 alone. They are often assumed to be modern ailments caused by poor diet and a sedentary lifestyle. The modern Western diet is often blamed for the rise of heart disease globally. But X-ray scans of mummies may prove that theory wrong.
Heart disease was discovered in ancient societies
There have been X-ray scans of mummies from different ancient societies, such as the hunter-gatherers of Kagamil, ancient Egypt, Peru and the American Southwest. In each civilization, researchers found signs of heart disease and atherosclerosis: the plaque lining the arteries near the heart. This suggests that heart disease is nothing new. Moreover, these ancient civilizations did more physical activity than people do today and they did not eat processed foods. They also had a variety of different diets, and the atherosclerosis shows up in all of them. The team of researchers, which includes specialists in cardiology, X-rays, anthropology and other fields, said:
“Although commonly assumed to be a modern disease, the presence of atherosclerosis in pre-modern human beings raises the possibility of a more basic predisposition to the disease.”
There are some skeptics
Many are finding this news hard to believe, pointing out that this was only found in a small number of mummies. Gino Fornaciari a paleopathologist at the University of Pisa, said:
“In my opinion the ancient populations did intense physical activity and followed a diet rich in vegetable, free from saturated fats, and therefore [had a] low risk of developing atherosclerosis.”
He noted that only those in the elite classes would have diets that put them at risk. The bodies have also been dead for so long that other chemical changes might have caused the plaque. However, the researchers say that the appearance of atherosclerosis in the mummies is “virtually identical” to the appearance of atherosclerosis in their patients – so in their opinion, it is unlikely that it was caused by anything else. Researchers can also point to other evidence. For example, there is an ancient Egyptian text that says:
“If thou examinst a man for illness in his cardia, and he has pains in his arms, in his breast and on one side of his cardia … it is death threatening him.”
What does this all mean?
This is changing the perspective of some cardiologists. One of the researchers, Gregory Thomas, is the medical director of the Heart Institute at Long Beach Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, California.
“When I became a cardiologist 30 years ago, I was pretty dogmatic about the low-fat, low-cholesterol diet to prevent heart disease,” he said, “[But] we’ve been unable to find a culture without atherosclerosis and I’m not really sure what to eat, personally, to delay atherosclerosis, or what to recommend to patients. Of late, I tell people to stay lean.”
Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City and a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, said:
”At least part of this disease is not explained by traditional risk factors. These ancient people didn’t have preservatives, everything was organic, they didn’t smoke and they got plenty of exercise.”
Therefore, while it is obviously still important for people to monitor their diet, there may be much to learn about heart disease.
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stress among American refugees: Gender and racial differences.
The participants' experiences described in this study reveal an inside look at the retrospective accounts of Chinese immigrant adults who immigrated to Canada when they were children, and serve to highlight the complexities of the adjustment experience involved in the acculturative
The extent to which African American students are able to form a positive or negative racial identity is a significant predictor of reported levels of acculturative
Family Distancing (AFD) and Depression in Chinese American Families.
The present study approached hopelessness as a possible culturally specific response to a unique sociopolitical context in which acculturative
stress can surface in relation to, as well as independent of, more traditional psychiatric diagnoses such as depression.
They often struggle with acculturative
issues, including stress, confusion about cultural identity, intergenerational conflict, and discrimination (Anisef & Kilbride, 2003; Canadian Council on Social Development, 2000; Ma, 2002).
Once in the host country, the psychological trauma of uprooting and adapting to a new culture often becomes manifest as acculturative
This anxiety, in turn, is associated with elevated acculturative
stress, low self-esteem, ineffective social support, and lack of control over the migrant lifestyle.
It was found that adolescents' level of acculturation and acculturative
stress did not appear to have a significant influence on their problem behaviors.
However, even with politically correct ancestry, the foreign-born and their native-born children cannot expect to be fully accepted as Canadians until their original and distinctive cultural differences have been reduced through thei r assimilative and acculturative
stress can be thought of as an outcome of the acculturation process, it also has the potential to influence various development domains.
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“What really attracted me to UNIST was the world-class intellectual environment,” says Dr. Christopher W. Bielawski who is a Distinguished Professor of Natural Science and the Coordinator for the Department of Chemistry at UNIST.
For future students considering a degree at UNIST, Prof. Bielawski gives his top reasons why they should choose UNIST.
Prof. Bielawski believes that “UNIST has the right combination of talented people working together to create a welcoming leaning environment for all students.” According to him, UNIST’s top-notch education and research opportunities with world-renowned chemistry faculty give UNIST a very good reason to be one of the world’s top research institutions.
Moreover, Prof. Bielawki is confident that “UNIST has an outstanding Chemistry department that is comprised of talented scientists who are at the forefront of their fields.” He believes that UNIST’s innovative research facilities, outstanding students, and world-class faculty provide strong synergy effect, which benefit to both faculty and enrolled students at UNIST.
Prof. Bielawski is a world-leading scientist in synthetic polymer chemistry. Moreover, he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as the Director of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), one of the IBS research groups at the UNIST Campus. In addition to being a World-leading pioneer in graphene and other carbon materials, in 2007, he has been ranked as the world’s 16th top materials scientists by Thomson Reuters.
Prof. Bielawski’s research interests are multi-disciplinary, and include the synthesis and study of novel polymeric materials, carbon-based nanomaterials and their applications in energy storage devices and heterogeneous catalysis, carbenes, stimulus-switchable systems, molecular electronics, electrochemistry, and photochemistry.
He has published more than 200 papers and given more than 150 presentations on his research efforts. Collectively, his contributions to research and education have been recognized with numerous awards, such as a Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Young Investigator Awards from the Beckman Foundation and the Office of Naval Research, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). | <urn:uuid:d77be793-5787-43cb-9d14-87bb9ab007ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.unist.ac.kr/unist-one-of-the-worlds-top-research-institutions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.941767 | 525 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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From hip hop in Nairobi to Indymedia in Chiapas, the grassroots get a voice.
Liberalized is not quite the same as liberated. Yun Ding takes a close look at what’s happening to the media in China.
Of monopoly and monoculture: the top six global media firms, with their cosy family of brands.
Aboriginal Australian writer Christine Morris on boring home videos and why culture is not a commodity.
The ‘Summit of the Americas’ is drawing all sorts to Quebec City.
Some US medical researchers have been engaging in some unethical practices in Africa.
Ziauddin Sardar watches television in Singapore.
A toxic legacy of industrial pollution is the reason why Sumgait in Azerbaijan has the highest infant mortality rate in the world.
Despite a woeful human rights record and an international boycott, foreign investment in Burma continues to surge.
The ghost of Descartes appears to John Gough during the trial of British Greenpeace activists.
Western media propaganda has a hidden history. John Pilger uncovers it.
China’s famous Yellow River may soon dry up entirely scientists warn.
Once an iconic symbol of the Indian struggle against colonialism, the Gandhi-inspired homespun cotton movement is on the wane as Western values take hold on the sub-continent.
Ama Ata Aidoo on God, Ghana and the cruellest of jokes.
A consortium of transnational companies is proposing to build an oil pipeline through pristine cloud forests in Ecuador.
A growing number of municipalities and organizations in the US have passed resolutions calling for a national death-penalty moratorium.
The NI issue on Landmines (NI 294) inspired a couple of Canadian students to produce an award-winning multimedia project on the subject.
Three young people are clustered round a Ouija board, their nervous faces lit by a solitary candle…
Katharine Ainger unravels the tentacles of the global media machine – and explains why we need to subvert it.
Julio Etchart documents a world of toys and games from the factory to the playground, from rich kids to humble shanty town and rural children.
There was a time not so long ago when outsiders just didn’t go to Trench Town. Until recently, this inner-city Kingston ghetto had such a reputation for violence that even armed police gave it a wide berth.
This House has Fallen: Nigeria in Crisis by Karl Maier
Reem Haddad uncovers Ariel Sharon’s brutal past in Letter from Lebanon.
World Fiction Special
This issue of New Internationalist not only analyses these developments but also showcases four exquisite short stories as examples: ‘Fat’ by Krys Lee from South Korea; ‘In The Garden’ by FT Kola from South Africa; ‘Ghosts’ by the Cuban-American Ana Menéndez; and ‘The Lake Retba Murder’ by Efemia Chela from Zambia and Ghana.
A relic of a bygone era – or a billion-strong social movement fighting for workers’ rights everywhere?
The reality of trade unionism today falls somewhere in between. In the Western world, union-busting laws, globalization and internal conflicts have left many trade unions reeling. In some countries of the Global South, trade unionists face discrimination, danger and even death. Meanwhile, workers’ rights are being sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed gone mad: zero-contract hours, sub-contracting, privatization, outsourcing and special economic zones are all part of a ‘race to the bottom’ being run by transnationals concerned only about their profits.
Yet all is not lost. From Colombia to China, Bangladesh to Barcelona, workers are still fighting for their rights – and, sometimes, winning. This issue, New Internationalist looks at the state of the unions, how they need to adapt to the new reality for workers in the 21st century, and why they are more important than ever.
In a nutshell: the countries most recently featured in the New Internationalist magazine.
Sharp insights from an array of guest writers.
Personal stories from our own correspondents.
Interviews with inspirational people.
Reviews of the latest books, films and music.
Seeing the world through a Southern lens.
A regular column from some of the best writers of the South.
Taking aim at the rich and powerful.
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The Republic of Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, with a population of approximately 23 million people and 18 Malagasy tribes of different ethnic make up. These groups include the Merina, Betsileo, Antaimoro, Sakalava, and Betsimisaraka. Although there are racial differences, Malagasy people share a common language and culture because much of the Malagasy culture is influenced by the Asian-African origin of the island’s people, which has lead to a unique and diverse society with complex customs.
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, with poverty increasing substantially over the last two decades. The poverty assessment estimates that about 70 percent of the population is categorized as poor, leading to many individuals not having the access to quality food and suffering with malnutrition.
of the country’s population lives below the poverty line
From Madagascar: Meet the Artisan
Madécasse Chocolate & Vanilla was founded by two former Peace Corps volunteers in Madagascar. They fell in love with the country and the people after teaching English there from 1999 to 2001. In the years following, they started to make chocolate and vanilla in Madagascar, gained some outside business experience, and launched the company in 2008. A main goal behind the company is making chocolate where the cocoa grows, as this helps to create jobs in some of the poorest communities in the world. Approximately 70 percent of the cocoa in the world comes from Africa, while less than 1 percent of the world’s chocolate is made there. Their goal is to make chocolate from start to finish in Madagascar and help the industry, farmworkers, and those who love chocolate. Madécasse works closely with cocoa farmers to train them and provide necessary equipment to enhance their output, giving the farmers an opportunity to invest in their own future. To this day, more than four million bars have been made start to finish in Madagascar by Madécasse.
Mar Y Sol, founded in 2003, works with several communities of artisans and family businesses in Madagascar to develop their products. Approximately several hundred artisans are involved in the production of their work, 80 percent of that being women. Each basket is woven from natural, organic and sustainable materials and is inspired by Madagascar’s vibrant culture. The Mar Y Sol team is committed to benefiting the communities of their artisans. Depending on the nature of their work and business, many of their artisan partners are given the leisure to work in their homes and offices, allowing families to stay together while supporting themselves. The company has worked on a variety of projects in Madagascar and Kenya, such as developing clean water wells, providing education funds for school supplies, and donating eyeglasses as well as art supplies whenever given the opportunity.
HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
For years, the Malagasy people have suffered with human rights violations. Until 2013, Madagascar had been ruled under an illegitimate civilian regime run by former president Andry Rajoelina. Although the country has now established a democracy, the government has yet been unable to provide rule of law, leading to unlawful killings and mob violence. Other human rights problems include restrictions on freedom of speech, violence against women, human trafficking, child labor, and discrimination among the LGBT community.
Discrimination based on gender is unlawful by the Constitution of Madagascar; however, there are still reports of inequality in inheritance laws. Although women legally have equal ownership rights, they are still unable to own land along locations within the east coast of Madagascar. Moreover, as the poverty level has risen over the years, there has been a spike in reports on domestic violence, with drug and alcohol abuse increasing as well. Due to their lack of resources, impoverished women have even less options to escape violence and fewer opportunities to fight for the safety of themselves and their children. | <urn:uuid:6505c5b7-f7bc-4160-9221-1897cd7a7f2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.thelittlemarket.com/pages/madagascar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969208 | 779 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Patients are surviving longer with cancer due to early detection and improvements in
treatment. With longer survival, quality of life becomes very important. While improvements
in treatment add years to the life of patients diagnosed with cancer, rehabilitation can add
life to those years.
This article highlights the role rehabilitation can play in enhancing the quality of life for
patients living with cancer.
There are an increasing number of cancer survivors, creating the imperative to look beyond
just survival. Potentially remediable problems may include pain, deconditioning and
functional impairments. Patients with cancers of the breast, head and neck, musculoskeletal,
central nervous system and peripheral nervous system, prostate, and metastatic cancer of
the spine may particularly benefit from rehabilitation. Active engagement of oncologists,
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in the rehabilitation needs of patients. In appropriate situations, patients with cancer should
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Turner Prize nominee Roger Hiorns is perhaps best known for his sculptures made using copper sulphate solution. For Seizure (2008), he flooded a condemned council flat in South London with this material, turning it into a glittering blue cave for visitors to explore, and his 2004 work Nunhead coats a car engine in the jewel-like chemical crystals, representing the 'crystallisation and transformation of an abstract idea of power'.
In Untitled (2010) - originally commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago - Hiorns explores his interest in automation and industrial forms further. The work consists of two decommissioned aircraft engines. Once part of military surveillance planes which have been altered through the insertion of three pharmaceuticals in crushed form - Effexor, Citalopram and Mannitol. The work references the creation and alleviation of anxiety on both a national and personal level, addressing the connection between global security and individual well-being.
Roger Hiorns: Untitled includes extensive visual documentation of this work as it was installed in Chicago and Edinburgh, as well as an authoritative and poetic critical text by Tom Morton. With beautiful photography throughout and additional reference material, this book sheds new light on the practice of one of contemporary art's most thoughtful and innovative figures.
Foreword by Caroline Douglas
Essay by Tom Morton
12 x 16.8 cm
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The Flying Wallendas Perform to Rushdie’s “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”
Jazz Poetry 2011
On September 10th City of Asylum/Pittsburgh hosted its seventh annual Jazz Poetry Concert. Writers from Burma, Finland, Russia, and Palestine read to a packed theater, and music was performed by Oliver Lake and the jazz trio Tarbaby. Halfway through the concert, the audience was treated to a surprise wire-walking performance by The Flying Wallendas.
The Wallenda family has been performing circus acts for as far back as 1780 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1928 the troupe received acclaim for performing without a net in Madison Square Garden and has continued the tradition since then. There are eleven members of the current troupe; however three performed at the Jazz Poetry concert: Tino Wallenda, a sixth generation circus performer, and two of his children, Aurelia and Alessandro. Of their work, Tino Wallenda told Sampsonia Way, “We are performers at heart, and the show does go on, not because it’s a performance but because it’s life, and life does go on.”
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There are a few versions of the Wilton recipe out there, but this is the one recommended in my class. I will probably stick with a pretty traditional Wilton recipe for "decorating," but there are plenty of other icing recipes that you could use as the base frosting on your cake. The Wilton recipes are meant to be stiff enough to hold the shape of your piping and decorations without "melting," which is why they don't use straight butter.
Class Buttercream Icing
stiff consistency, yield ~3 cups
source: Wilton Class I Student Guide
1 c. solid white vegetable shortening (For the batch I make as the base frosting on my cake, I use 1/2 c. vegetable shortening and 1/2 c. butter)
1 tsp. flavoring (clear vanilla abstract, or almond or butter abstract will work too)
2 Tbsp. milk or water
1 lb. confectioners' sugar (approx 4 c., sifted is best)
1 Tbsp. meringue powder
a pinch of salt
1. Cream shortening, flavor, and water.
2. Add dry ingredients and mix on medium speed until all incorporated. Blend an additional minute or so, until creamy.
*To alter to medium consistency, add 1 tsp. water to each cup of stiff consistency icing. To alter to thin consistency, add 2 tsp. water to each cup of stiff consistency icing.
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EducationWorld Q&A columnist Dr. Matthew Lynch is an associate professor of education at Langston University. Dr. Lynch provides expert advice on everything from classroom management to differentiated instruction. Read all of his columns here, and be sure to submit your own question.
This week, reader Joseph K. asks:
I am an 8th-grade Social Studies teacher and want to discuss the Trayvon Martin tragedy with my students, but I am having difficulty coming up with ideas. I especially want to touch upon the topic of racial profiling and the part that it may have played in this tragedy. In addition, I want my students to develop a sense of social justice, but I also want them to learn that in America, you are innocent until proven guilty. Do you have any suggestions?
|Dr. Matthew Lynch|
Thanks for your timely and well-articulated question. As readers may know, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, admitted to killing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old African American male, in February 2012 in Sanford, Florida. In April 2012, Zimmerman was arrested, and in July 2013, a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. It is important for educators around the country to be prepared for the multitude of questions and comments that they may get from their students. Although the death of Trayvon was a senseless tragedy, educators can use it as a teachable moment.
In this column, I will provide teachers with a variety of strategies that they can use to illustrate the dangers of racial profiling and explore the part that it may have played in Trayvon's death.
In my opinion, the topic of racial profiling should not be discussed prior to grade six, because although younger students have the ability to understand the concept, they may have difficulty understanding it in its historical context. (Do, however, use your own judgment about whether the topic is appropriate for your students. Keep in mind that teachers of grades five and below can begin discussing the concepts of diversity, bias and prejudice in order to prepare students for more advanced topics such as racial profiling, genocide and human trafficking.)
Next, I will discuss some basic strategies that can be used to teach the topic of racial profiling to students in grades six and up. You will need to modify these strategies in order meet the developmental and intellectual needs of your students. Alternatively, you can use my strategies as a blueprint for creating your own.
Teachers should help students understand how intense media coverage of this case has created a "court of public opinion" phenomenon. Discuss how this compares to the climate of court proceedings, where available evidence may result in a controversial and unpopular ruling.
It is also recommended that schools do the following to help ensure teacher success in addressing what can be a highly charged topic in the classroom:
Ensure that the curriculum engages and affirms both students’ and teachers’ cultural and racial identities and world views
For more information, see the EducationWorld article Racial Inequities: What Schools Can Do.
Regardless of what strategy you use, begin with a definition and overview of racial profiling and discuss why it is controversial. Throughout United States history, there have been many high-profile cases involving the unfair treatment of people of color by police officers and citizens. These include Adolph Archie, New Orleans, 1990; Rodney King, Los Angeles, 1991; Abner Louima, New York City, 1997; Amadou Diallo, New York City, 1999; Sean Bell, New York City, 2006; and Henry Louis Gates, Cambridge, 2009. Each of these men was either killed, severely assaulted, or unfairly treated by police officers in the last quarter century.
Examine how America has responded to each of these cases. This will help your students analyze the topic of racial profiling in historical context. Teachers must make sure that they avoid making amateur connections between the famous cases of racial profiling that have occurred throughout history. This way, students will learn that each atrocity has its own identity and characteristics. Also, students may need help processing their reactions to the not-guilty verdict in the Trayvon Martin case.
Now let's talk about some strategies teachers can use. One strategy would be to use an outstanding piece of literature to illustrate the concept of racial profiling. One great title is Black Like Me, a 1961 nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin. Griffin was a white man who with the help of his doctor, darkened his skin so that he would look like a black man. The book describes his six-week experience traveling through the racially segregated south as a black man. Have your students read the book over a six-week period. Students will learn how radically different the same man was treated when his skin color changed from white to black. You can use the book to illustrate and discuss how bigotry and bias, which are factors in racial profiling, can manifest themselves in the actions of others.
Another strategy would be to begin class by making a shocking announcement to your students. The school has decided that since the color black is a known gang color, anyone who wears black to school will be suspended indefinitely. To heighten the effect, draft a student and ask him or her to pretend to be the victim of "racial profiling." Since s/he will be wearing black, tell the student that s/he is in violation of school policy and must report to the principal’s office to be disciplined.
Use this activity as a springboard for discussion. Be sure to ask students questions such as: How was this simulation similar to racial profiling, and how was it different? Have you ever been profiled? If so, describe the experience. What did you learn about yourself and about others? What was your biggest surprise during this experience?
I would finish the lesson by illustrating constructive actions taken by people and entities in response to racial profiling. Students will learn that throughout history, there have been individuals who have spoken out against racism and risked their lives to stand up to the perpetrators of these deleterious acts. As a final activity, ask students to create an action plan that details what they plan to do to combat racial profiling and promote social justice in the world.
For homework, ask your students to create a political cartoon that represents their thoughts and ideas on racial profiling. Alternatively, have your students interview family members and friends concerning any occasions on which they were racially profiled. Students can then write a detailed narrative that delineates the interviewee's personal experiences.
The Trayvon Martin tragedy placed a spotlight on the dangers of racial profiling, but teachers must also do their part. Racial profiling in America is a very controversial subject that although emotionally and mentally draining for teachers and students, is nonetheless important. If you follow the guidelines discussed above, your students will become social justice advocates in no time.
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By Antonio Barrios, La Prensa
recently showed off its new mobile mural during the 48th
Annual Lorain International Parade on June 29, 2014, in
front of the grand stand at Lorain City Hall.
The parade started about
11:30 a.m. from 17th street and continued north along Broadway.
Leading the parade was the spotlighted nationality “The Polish
Community,” followed closely behind by the spotlighted industry:
“El Centro.” Every year the International Committee selects an
ethnic community and business to spotlight during the week-long
festivities in Lorain.
El Centro’s new entry to
the International parade was the culmination of a unique pilot
program created by NCLR (National Council of La Raza),
the largest and nationally acclaimed Latino organization in
The program normally used
in l ocal public school systems was a new endeavor for El
Centro, one of the few organizations chosen nationwide to try
out the program outside of the school systems.
In an exclusive interview
with La Prensa, Executive Director Victor Leandry
stated: “El Centro’s Youth group, C.A.S.A, which stands for
Cultura, Aprendizaje, Servicio, y Acción (Culture Learning
Services in Action) unveiled the mural at 10:00am Wednesday
June 25 as part of an open house at El Centro’s building at
2800 Pearl Avenue.”
The main goal of CASA is
to empower young Latinos ages 12 -14 through service learning
projects and to gain knowledge on cultural aspects of their
backgrounds and the world around them. Guests were also able to
network and socialize in our second floor hall and enjoy light
Director Leandry went on
to say: “The program started about one year ago with a proposal
to NCLR to bring the program to Lorain’s El Centro in order to
experiment with non-profits running the program.”
When asked exactly what
the program entailed Director Leandry explained: “The program
was about encouraging Hispanic youth to learn about themselves
through Leadership, Education, and the History of their roots
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Some activities included:
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Achieving a more environmentally friendly aluminium production with increased production capacity. All mechanical switches are to be monitored for lead breakage and several hundred valves in the exhaust gas purification system are to be automated. Although there is a great number of widely distributed inductive and optical sensors, cable trees and junction boxes are to be avoided. The system is to be realised in several steps and will contain an integrated safety concept.
During the 3-year project phase of this major plant, the automation technology was adapted to AS-Interface in three steps. The exhaust gas systems and the transport systems for the electrodes as well as the safety systems (including crane systems) are controlled via AS-Interface. The overall length of the cable network with several masters and repeaters amounts to approximately 3 kilometres.
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This very special place, called XwaYeN (pronounced shwai’yen), was established as an ecological reserve in 1980. Race Rocks Ecological Reserve protects intertidal and subtidal communities that are extremely rich as a result of the strong tidal currents in the area.
The protected area is an important teaching site for the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, comprised of a marine area of 251.40 hectares extending down to 120 feet, and a land area of 0.5 hectares (total 251.90 hectares).
Race Rocks Ecological Reserve is located 17 kilometres southwest of Victoria at the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and is the most southerly part of Canada’s Pacific coast. One of its nine islets is the site of Race Rocks Light station, the second oldest lighthouse in Western Canada.
Named for its strong tidal currents and rocky reefs, Race Rocks is a showcase for Pacific marine life, featuring whales, sea lions, seals, birds and a dazzling array of underwater plants and animals. Cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the Pacific Ocean are forced upwards to the surface in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Fast-moving water with eddies and whirlpools at Race Rocks supports an ecosystem very rich in marine mammals, fish, invertebrates and birds.
In 1980, Race Rocks was designated as an ecological reserve by the province of British Columbia. The area’s remarkable tidal flow – up to seven knots – supplies a generous stream of nutrients to a thriving community of subtidal invertebrates, including sponges, anemones, hydroids and soft corals. Crowds of barnacles, tunicates, urchins and sea stars adorn the underwater cliffs. Fish such as sculpin, rockfish, and lingcod seek refuge in the rocky crevices and undulating kelp forests.
Above water, the islets serve as nesting colonies for many seabirds, such as gulls, cormorants, pigeon guillemots and oystercatchers, and as a stopover for migratory birds. They share the rocks with resting harbour seals, Steller’s and California sea lions, and a few northern elephant seals.
River otters patrol the shoreline, and killer whales are frequent visitors. Gray whales, Dall’s and harbour porpoises occasionally pass by.
The exceptional diversity of marine life at Race Rocks long recognized by First Nations in the area makes it an ideal place for scientific and educational observation. It serves as a model for the transition zone between inner coastal waters and the open ocean, which is why nearby Lester B. Pearson College was instrumental in having Race Rocks designated as an ecological reserve. In cooperation with BC Parks and the Canadian Coast Guard, the college now operates the light station facility as an education centre.
Race Rocks was declared a candidate Marine Protected Area in 1998 and endorsed in September 2000. A Marine Protected Area is an area of the ocean that is designated for special protection under the Oceans Act. The goals of a Marine Protected Area are to protect and conserve the natural beauty and richness of Canada’s marine areas, retain ecological diversity, provide scientific research and educational opportunities, and preserve the many recreational and cultural features of the oceans. Since 1998, First Nations, BC Parks and Fisheries and Oceans Canada have been working closely with the public and the Race Rocks Advisory Board to manage the ecological reserve.
Race Rocks is one of the most challenging and exhilarating dive sites in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. With currents that often exceed 5 or 6 knots, the window for diving is limited to the slack tides that occur every 6 1/2 hours. In addition to the thrill of the rich marine life, divers can search for debris from over 100 ships that have been wrecked at Race Rocks. Spring and Fall are the best diving times at Race Rocks, with good visibility fairly certain.
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Modification of Soybean Plant Architecture by Genes for Stem Growth Habit and Maturity1
- R. C. Hartung,
- J. E. Specht and
- J. H. Williams2
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] plant architecture can be modified by genes conditioning stem termination and timing of flowering and maturity. Nearisogenic lines of the soybean cultivars ‘Clark’ and ‘Harosoy,’ which possessed various genes for stem termination and maturity, were evaluated for agronomic performance and plant architectural features in furrow irrigation culture for 2 years. Genes delaying flowering and maturity significantly increased the number of main stem nodes, stem length, lodging, branches per plant, and seeds per plant, but reduced seed weight. Genes hastening flowering and maturity had the opposite effects. The gene for semldeterminate stem growth (Dt2) significantly reduced the number of main-stem nodes and stem length, but the reduction in lodging was not significant. Differences in yield and other traits between semideterminate and indeterminate types were not significant. The gene for determinate stem growth (dt1) severely reduced the number of main-stem nodes, substantially reducing stem length and lodging. There were significantly fewer 3-seed pods in the dt1 isolines, resulting in fewer seeds per plant. The lower seed yields of the dt1 isolines were not significantly different, however, from their indeterminate counterparts. Delaying flowering in the determinate types lessened the severe stem length reduction caused by dt1, but lodging resistance was maintained. However, there was no advantage with respect to yield because delayed flowering resulted in a shorter reproductive period which tended to reduce seed weight. The number of pods borne on the main stem of nodes 15 cm or less from the soil surface was significantly greater in the determinate types than in indeterminate or semideterminate types, although delays in maturity tended to lessen this effect. As a consequence, harvest losses could be significant in determinate cultivars grown in furrow irrigation culture.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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A local program is tackling the problem of illiteracy by making learning to read easy and accessible to everyone in the community.
Being able to read and write are skills that every person needs in order to be successful in society. Unfortunately, there are still many residents in south Georgia that are illiterate.
Alan Kaye, Library Director in Grady County, says, "Georgia has a lower rate of high school graduation than the nation, and Grady County has a lower rate of high school graduation than Georgia. We know we have a job to do and we're working hard to improve the education level in the county."
The Certified Literate Community Program is a partnership between different agencies. Their goal is to teach literacy skills and to help people obtain their GED. The CLCP is run by volunteers.
Annette Harrell feels it is her responsibility as a citizen to help others.
Annette says, "Seeing the need for literacy improvements and helpfulness; help them to learn, to get their diplomas, to be more literate in the community."
The program also works with ESL students, those who are learning English as a second language, and the CLCP offers a self-paced diploma online program for 16 to 21-year-olds who have not received their high school diploma.
Volunteers also educate parents on the importance of reading to their children.
Martha Fowler, Director of Curriculum for the Grady County Board of Education, says, "Make sure that parents start their children off right so that they do become readers and literate members of our community."
It’s a community that is making a difference, one sentence at a time.
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4 Maccabees 4Common English Bible (CEB)
4 A man named Simon was a political opponent of Onias, who held the office of high priest for life. Onias was an honorable and good man. Simon was unable to injure Onias, even though he falsely accused him of all kinds of crimes, pretending to act on the nation’s behalf. He went into exile and planned to betray his nation. 2 So Simon came to Apollonius, the governor of Syria, Phoenicia, and Cilicia, and said, 3 “Since I am devoted to the king’s interests, I have come here to report that several tons of silver[a] in private funds have been deposited in the temple treasuries. These funds are not temple property but belong to King Seleucus.” 4 When Apollonius learned these things, he praised Simon for watching out for the king. Then Apollonius went to Seleucus to tell him about the stash of treasure.
5 When Apollonius received authority to take action, he quickly advanced into our nation, bringing along the villain Simon and heavily armed troops. 6 He said that he was commanded by the king to come and confiscate the private funds that were stored in the treasury. 7 The people angrily protested. They thought it would be terrible if the people who had deposited money in trust in the sacred treasury were robbed. They did whatever they could to prevent it.
8 However, Apollonius went on to the temple, making threats. 9 The priests stood in the temple, together with their wives and children, begging God to protect the holy place that was being treated so shamefully. 10 While Apollonius was approaching with armed soldiers to seize the money, angels on horseback appeared from heaven with flashing weapons. Apollonius and his soldiers were shaking with fear. 11 Apollonius fell down half dead in the temple court that was open to people of every nation and lifted his hands up to heaven. With tears, he begged the Hebrews to pray for him and to intervene with the heavenly army. 12 He admitted that he had committed a sin for which he deserved to die, but he promised that, if he were spared, he would tell people everywhere about the divine favor that shelters the holy place.
13 The high priest Onias was touched by these words, but he was also aware that King Seleucus might assume that Apollonius was killed by human plots rather than by God’s justice. Therefore, Onias prayed for him. 14 When he was unexpectedly delivered from danger, Apollonius left and told the king everything that happened.
Antiochus begins to oppress the Jews
15 After King Seleucus died, his son Antiochus Epiphanes came to power. He was a proud and horrible man. 16 Antiochus removed Onias from the office of high priest and installed Onias’ brother Jason in his place. 17 Jason had agreed to pay the king 208,620 pounds of silver every year if he were made high priest. 18 So Antiochus appointed Jason to the office of high priest and made him the ruler of the nation. 19 Jason changed the nation’s culture and the government so that they completely contradicted the Law. 20 He constructed a Greek school and athletic complex in the heart of the city and abandoned the care of the temple.
21 God’s sense of justice was provoked by these things, so God caused Antiochus himself to start a war against the nation. 22 While Antiochus was at war with Ptolemy in Egypt, he heard that the people in Jerusalem had celebrated when they heard a rumor about his death. So Antiochus rushed off to attack them. 23 After he had defeated them, he gave an order that anyone who was caught following the traditional Jewish Law should be put to death. 24 However, his orders had no effect on the people’s commitment to keep the Law. He saw that they simply ignored his threats and punishments. 25 Even women were thrown down from a cliff headfirst along with their infants because they continued to circumcise their sons, though they were fully aware that they would suffer the consequences. 26 When Antiochus saw how his orders were despised, he himself tried to use torture to force each and every person in the nation to give up Judaism by eating foods that were unacceptable to Jews. | <urn:uuid:5e1819e4-0688-42ba-a8d1-c6cb14fb61c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=4%20Maccabees+4&version=CEB | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00433-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990802 | 910 | 2.625 | 3 |
FBI Director James Comey says U.S. military strikes have diminished the al Qaeda offshoot Khorasan Group, but the bigger threat faced by the U.S. is now ISIS.
Comey, in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, used an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum to raise concerns about encrypted communications the FBI can't access, comparing ISIS militants to needles in a regional haystack.
"If you imagine a nationwide haystack, we are trying to find needles in that haystack. And a lot of those needles are invisible to us either because in they are communicated or just because they have communicated in a place that we can't see them," Comey said. "And knowing there are needles out there that you can't see is very worrisome."
Comey said Wednesday SIS has become a bigger threat to the United States than al Qaeda.
"The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda," Comey said. "ISIL is not your parents al Qaeda. It's a very different model. And by virtue of that model, it's currently the threat we are worried about in the homeland most of all."
The Pentagon announced Tuesday Muhsin al Fadhli, a Kuwaiti-born jihadi and leader of the Khorasan Group, was killed earlier this month in a targeted strike. The strike happened July 8 while Fadhli was traveling to Sarmada. Syria.
"His death will degrade and disrupt ongoing external operations of al-Qaeda against the United States and our allies and partners," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a written statement.
While terrorist groups like ISIS and the al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra are responsible for much of the violence inside Syria, the Khorasan Group was believed to direct most of its energy plotting external attacks in the West.
Comey also said Wednesday that investigators haven't determined why Mohammad Abdulazeez carried out the shootings that killed four Marines and a sailor last week in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He said the FBI is determined to "understand every second of his life" for the last two years, at least.
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New Doubts about the Value of a College Degree
As Americans spend more and more to get college degrees, more and more people are beginning to question the value the recipients and the taxpayers are receiving.
Certainly, as a percent of GDP, the U.S. spends more on college education than any other developed country on Earth save one. At 2.9%, only South Korea ties us. We outspend Canada (2.5%), Finland (1.9%), Sweden (1.8%), the Netherlands (1.7%), Israel (1.6%), France (1.5%), Austria (1.4%), Germany and the UK (both at 1.3%), and Italy (1.0%).
A recent survey conducted by The Chronicles of Higher Education (together with American Public Media's Marketplace) showed that fully half of all employers report having a problem finding college grads truly prepared for employment. About a third of these employers rated colleges as being mediocre or worse at producing graduates with the necessary skills for success, such as communication skills, problem-solving skills, and adaptability.
Then why do two-thirds of employers demand a degree? Amazingly, the article concedes that part of the explanation here is that a college degree is often just used by employers as a sorting mechanism. After all, a high-school diploma often conveys vacuous information, a result of pervasive grade inflation and social promotion.
Now, this concession -- from the chief publicity organ of the higher education industry, please note -- is commendable. The Chronicles piece goes on to offer some explanations -- or excuses -- for the poll results. It suggests that the disappointment felt by employers is in great measure due to their unrealistic expectations that college grads be able to handle the rapidly expanding new technological innovations "straightaway," and the claim by one professor of management that employers' complaints about incoming employees being poorly prepared is an old story. As he claimed, "I understand that those doing the hiring in ancient Greece complained about the same thing."
However, these recent complaints are specific and recurrent: that college grads lack the ability to argue logically and analyze data reasonably, and to read, write, and orally communicate well. The survey showed that while 69% of employers surveyed rated colleges as good or excellent at producing "successful" graduates, 53% said it was difficult or very difficult to find qualified grads. Worse yet, only 33% rated grads as more qualified than 5 years ago.
Some complacent educators give the stock argument -- that college grads must be worthwhile, since the unemployment rate for those with Bachelor's degrees is about a third less than the average for all workers (5% versus 7.2%), and only one half of that of people with high school diplomas.
This is a dubious argument. As the Chronicles piece itself acknowledges, this could just reflect the fact that anyone with a BA proves that he or she had the perseverance to stick out four to six more years of school and achieve a goal.
Moreover, the magazine fails to mention another reason employers are using the BA as a sorting mechanism: they face lawsuits if they try to simply test all applicants with a high school diploma to determine if they can read, write, and compute at grade level.
The magazine piece mentions one downside of using college as a sorting mechanism -- it crowds out from entry-level jobs those with only a high school diploma. For example, it now takes a Bachelor's degree to get any nursing position.
Of course, there are many other downsides of using a Bachelor's degree as a sorting device the piece. Requiring a Bachelor's for someone who will be taking blood pressure or drawing blood means that the pool of candidates is artificially limited, resulting in higher prices to consumers. And it works to keep the poor perpetually poor -- by keeping high-school grads from jobs they would otherwise get because they can't afford college to begin with. Not to mention that it costs the student four or more years and a good deal of money.
Now, there is an intermediate degree, of course -- the Associate's degree, awarded by community colleges. Yet a new report on the value of Associate's degrees has caused quite a stir in the academy, one the subject of a long analysis on the Chronicles. The report, "What's the Value of an Associate's Degree? The Return on Investment for Graduates and Taxpayers," was written by Jorge Klor de Alva, president of the Nexus Research and Policy Center, and Mark Schneider, vice president of the American Institute for Research -- and former president of the University of Phoenix, a chain of for-profit colleges.
This past association drew immediate fire from David Blaine, an official with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), who said, "Community college presidents can't help but raise their eyebrows when a report that paints a negative picture of their institutions is generated by those with such strong ties to the for-profit industry."
What did this report find that was so offensive to the AACC? It found that in 15% (or 85) of the 579 colleges it student, the average salary of those who gain an Associate's degree is less than that of ordinary high school grads. That is, it appears that those students might have been financially better off if they had never gone to community college at all. However, the report did find that overall, on average, most community college grads do earn higher incomes, with a mean increase (over a 40-year work life and compared to students with just a high school diploma) of $259,000 -- or about $6,500 a year in higher income.
Turning to the return of community college education to the taxpayer, the study found an overall loss between what the taxpayers spend to support the community college system and the extra taxes (compared to high school grads) collected from those grads over their working lives. The authors note that a big reason for this is the high dropout rates for community colleges. That is, so many students simply take some courses and then just leave that the tax gain from the ones who succeed are outweighed by the costs of those who fail.
Moreover, in states with no income tax, the spread between taxes expended to maintain community colleges and the extra taxes collected from the graduates widens even farther.
Critics of the report noted some methodological flaws. First, the report pegged the lifetime earnings of community college dropouts as only equal to all other high school grads, whereas some of those dropouts might have gone on to get vocational certificates.
Second, the income figures rely on earnings data reported by PayScale, which is a website that collects income information offered voluntarily. This aspect of the report's data set was critiqued at length by Donald Heller, dean of the College of Education at Michigan State.
Finally, the report doesn't count in those community college students who transfer to a four-year college without getting an Associate's degree.
These criticisms are reasonable, and one hopes that a more thorough reports by an economist specializing in the economics of the educational system -- such as Richard Vedder, say, or Eric Hanushek -- will eventually be done.
Still, I think that the critics are overstating the problems with the report. They might want to reflect on the fact that in many states, the community college dropout rate is in fact grotesquely high. As I have noted elsewhere, 80% of California community college students neither get an Associate's degree nor transfer to a four-year college. It is highly unlikely, then, that the taxpayers are getting a positive return on their investment.
However flawed these reports may be, they both plausibly indicate that Americans have real reason to doubt the facile equation of college education and financial success.
Perhaps this is part of the reason why last year, total college enrollment dropped by nearly half a million (compared to the year before).
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Bates, Dr. Nelson W., was born in Pamelia, Jefferson county, in July, 1828. He is a son of Dr. William S. Bates,
who was born in Massachusetts in 1793, son of William Bates, also of Massachusetts. Dr. William S. graduated from
Fairfield Medical College. His wife was Jerusha Wright, and their children were Darwin E., William D., Mrs. Harriet
A. Cottrell, Nelson W. and Cullen D. Nelson W. devoted some of his early life to teaching, in 1850 and 1851 attended
the Buffalo Medical College, and in 1864 graduated from the Medical College of New York. He came to Hastings in
1851, and in 1853 came to Central Square, where has been a popular practicing physician ever since. From 1853 to
1857 he was superintendent of schools in Hastings. In 1864 he enlisted as assistant surgeon in the 110th N. Y.
Vols., and served until after the close of the war; he was stationed at Fort Jefferson. In 1851 he married Sarah
M. Angel of Jefferson county, and their children are Edgar D., D.D.S., in Central Square; Clayton A., merchant
in Central Square, and Nellie F., wife of Dr. F. L. Harter of Syracuse. Mr. Bates is a member of the N. Y. State
Medical Society and of the N. Y. State Medical Association, was county coroner several years, and is now president
of the village of Central Square, serving his second term. He is a member of the Masonic order, Central Square
Lodge, of which he has been W. Master ten years; also of Oswego River Chapter R. A. M.; has been commander of G.
A. R. Isaac Waterbury Post No. 418, for four years.
Landmarks of Oswego County
Edited by: John C. Churchill, LL.D.
Assisted by: H, Perry Smith and W. Stanley Child
Syracuse, N. Y.
D. Mason & Co., Publishers 1895
Oswego County, NY
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a complex, inherited disease that affects many of the body’s mucus glands, leading to problems in the lungs and gastrointestinal tract including failure to absorb nutrients. The disease affects about 30,000 people in the United States. Although there is no cure, comprehensive care has led to improved prognoses for many people and research is providing new insights and new therapies.
The Joey O'Donnell Cystic Fibrosis Center at MassGeneral Hospital for Children is committed to providing first-class, individualized care for each patient. We have an established multidisciplinary team to provide preventive care, active management of lung health, nutrition support and psychological support. Successful treatment is accomplished through frequent outpatient visits with the CF team, direct communication with families and educational programs.
The Cystic Fibrosis Center is staffed with a dedicated multidisciplinary team of cystic fibrosis specialists including:
For families coping with a positive result from a CF newborn screening test, we offer a state-of-the-art system for CF diagnostic testing (sweat chloride testing), and our CF specialists will meet with you the same day to discuss the test results.
The CF team is available to our patients at each visit. The other medical needs of our patients are assessed by a comprehensive group of pediatric specialists at MassGeneral Hospital for Children, including pediatric surgeons, endocrinologists and hepatologists. Ear, nose and throat specialists are available from the adjoining Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. In addition, MassGeneral Hospital for Children has active organ transplant programs.
As children with cystic fibrosis get older, they have different needs. We encourage self-care and responsibility for health care and we partner with families to facilitate teenagers’ transition to self-care, which includes gradual transition to the adult Cystic Fibrosis Program. Massachusetts General Hospital is in the unique position to follow patients into adulthood and offer smooth continuity of care as they transition from a pediatric to an adult provider.
We are in the process of reestablishing our Parent Support Group and establishing a Young Adult Support Group using electronic media. These groups will use both guest speakers with focused discussion and free-form, participant driven discussions. For more information, please contact our nurse coordinator or social worker.
An important issue related to patient care involves preventing the spread of harmful bacteria. We have prevention protocols in place to protect our patients with cystic fibrosis.
The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has designated MassGeneral Hospital for Children a Cystic Fibrosis Therapeutic Development Center. Critical cutting-edge clinical research forms the basis of therapeutic advances, and our program is involved in most major clinical trials. Currently, we offer over 15 clinical therapeutic trials for CF patients, with therapeutic treatments targeting CFTR modulation (“correctors”), inflammation, and airway mucociliary clearance. In addition, MGH has a strong history of leading the field in basic, translational and clinical research. CF-specific research programs at MGH include groups focused on lung regeneration (Jay Rajagopal Laboratory), CF related bacterial pathogens (Laurence Rahme Laboratory, Fred Ausubel Laboratory), CF related airway inflammation (Bryan Hurley Laboratory), airway micro-imaging (Guillermo Tearney Laboratory), CF sinus microbiome (Katherine Lemon Laboratory), and bone health (Melissa Putman) and mental health related to CF (Anna Georgiopoulos).
The Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory at MassGeneral Hospital for Children has comprehensive state-of-the-art facilities for performing and interpreting pulmonary function testing in children. The lab is registered with the American Thoracic Society and serves the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Accredited Care Center.
At MassGeneral Hospital for Children, we know that the time of your child’s diagnosis and treatment is a very stressful one and we strive to provide an open, welcoming environment. We believe that no one knows a child as well as the parent does: parents, along with primary care providers, become our partners in a child's care and have an active voice in all treatment plans.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. CF causes the body to produce thick, sticky mucus that leads to progressive lung infection and difficulty gaining weight.
The 2014 Boston Marathon marked a triumphant return for the Mass General Marathon teams.
Praised by experts as a breakthrough for patients with a particular form of cystic fibrosis, ivacaftor was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2012 and is the first of its kind to treat the underlying defects of the disease, rather than manage its symptoms.
Crossing the finish line of a marathon is a feat in itself, but completing the race and supporting a good cause is a triumph times two.
Researchers in the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have taken a critical step toward a treatment for Cystic fibrosis and other fatal lung diseases.
MGHfC Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Center
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Appointment Line: 617-726-8707MGH New Patient Registration: 866-211-6588MGHfC New Patient Appointments (Access Center): 888-644-3248Nurse Line: 617-643-2223Fax: 617-724-2803
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For testing appointments please call: 617-724-0703 or 617-724-2992Orders can be faxed: 617-724-2803 (ATTN: Pulmonary Function Laboratory)
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Ozone therapy and oxygen therapy have been used by many doctors in Europe, Russia, Cuba, and Mexico to treat all sorts of diseases and health conditions for more than 50 years. In the United States, these two therapies are often frown upon by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Since the 1940s, the FDA has been cracking down on US clinics that use ozone and oxygen therapy to cure cancer, AIDS and other diseases and health conditions.
Ozone therapy uses the healing power of ozone (O3) to rejuvenate the body and boost its energy levels. On the other hand, oxygen therapy uses pure oxygen (O2) to increase the oxygen levels in the body. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is often recommended over traditional oxygen therapy, because it allows a patient to take in 100 percent pure oxygen inside an increased atmospheric pressure tank. At pressures greater than normal, the body can absorb more oxygen and therefore increasing its ability to heal faster.
Ozone therapy vs. oxygen therapy: Which one is better for treating cancer?
Since oxygen isn’t as oxidative as ozone, it isn’t as good for cancer and treating other health conditions. However, some health experts believe that hyperbaric oxygen therapy is effective for assisting the body to fight harmful microorganisms. Some of them claimed that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can effectively treat cancer, autism, AIDS and Lyme disease.
When it comes to killing harmful microorganism, oxygen therapy isn’t as effective as ozone therapy. Ozone (O3) can easily break up into O1, an oxygen atom that penetrates tissue and cells more rapidly. It also allows detoxification to occur rapidly. Ozone or O3 is often administered into the body as a liquid by intravenous (IV) or injection. It can also be administered as a gas though a tube placed in the rectum.
Besides treating cancer, many people use ozone therapy technology to heal and disinfect wounds, burns and rashes. This therapy is also used for boosting energy and the immune system and for fighting the common cold and flu.
How ozone is generated
In nature, ozone is created high up in the Earth’s atmosphere when ultraviolet radiation comes in contact with oxygen, causing a reaction that turns some oxygen (O2) into ozone (O3). This is why there is an ozone layer in the Earth’s atmosphere that protects us from harmful radiation. At the ground level, ozone is created when UV light from the sun interacts with water spray in waves and waterfalls. O3 can also be created by lightning.
Isn’t ozone toxic since it is found in smog?
Contrary to what we have been told, ozone isn’t smog and it isn’t toxic. Smog is sometimes used interchangeably with ozone. For this reason, many people believe that ozone and smog is the same thing. Smog is made of many different chemicals that are harmful to the body. Ozone is made of O3. It is a natural element that is essential for life to exist.
Ozone therapy machines
Ozone can also be generated using ozone therapy machines. However, not all ozone generators are created equally. In fact, most of them do a poor job of creating good concentration levels of pure ozone. The best ozone therapy machines can generate good concentration levels of pure ozone that are free of contaminants. These machines often generate O3 that doesn’t come into contact with metal, rubber, plastic or ceramics while inside the ozone machine.
There are hundreds of different types of ozone generators on the market, but they generally use ultraviolet radiation or corona discharge technology to produce O3. For medical use, corona discharge ozone generators are recommended, because they can generate more amounts of O3. For this reason, corona discharge ozone generators are often used for treating cancer and other health conditions.
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