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Discussion paper Series 1 / Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum der Deutschen Bundesbank 2006,40
From a theoretical point of view, greater trade openness affects firm-level volatility by changing the exposure and the reaction of firms to macroeconomic shocks. The net effect is ambiguous, though. This paper provides firm-level evidence on the link between openness and volatility. Using two novel datasets on German firms, we analyze the evolution of firm-level output volatility and the link between volatility and trade openness. We find that firm-level output volatility displays patterns similar to those found in aggregated data for Germany. Also, smaller firms and firms that grow faster are more volatile. Increased trade openness tends to lower volatility. | <urn:uuid:60d6e35b-635a-467d-b4b3-cca75be970f5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/19669 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.886003 | 151 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Google Search Engine’s Goal is simple – to give visitors the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. With this in mind, Google asks over 200 questions of each page before delivering the results.
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Having worked with a large number of small business owners, one common mistake I see over and over again is the obscene amounts of money they throw away on advertising. Many of them believe the more money they spend, the more business it will bring. WRONG!!!
So what’s a new entrepreneur to do?
It’s simple!!! Write articles.
Writing articles is an excellent way for you to get free publicity. Getting an article published is free and some publications even pay for your contributions. The publicity you receive by having your article published in a newspaper, magazine or website can be worth thousands of dollars in equivalent advertising space. Well written articles yield better results than advertisements and earn you respect from customers, who see you as an expert in your field.
by Ivana Katz
The front page of your website, also known as the home, welcome or index page is THE MOST IMPORTANT part of your site, as the majority of visitors will enter your website through there. You have approximately 7 seconds to grab someone’s attention and entice them to read more or take particular action. Unfortunately, most website owners don’t realise this and forget to include key elements, which include:
1.Features and Benefits
Make your welcome page about what you can do for your visitors. Outline the benefits and features your business can offer them. Solve their problems.
Whether you are creating your first website or have one that is not working as well as you hoped it would, it’s time to ensure you have key elements in your website which will not only please your visitors, but search engines as well.
One of the biggest mistakes I see many website owners make is to create a site, which is about them rather than what their visitors may want to see. Whenever possible, try to put yourself in your potential customer’s shoes and provide them all the information they need to have in order to make a decision to buy your products or services.
Whether you are creating your first website or looking at improving an existing one, use this checklist to ensure the success of your business online.
1. Domain Name
Register a domain name that has keywords related to your business. Even if your business name is John Smith & Sons, registering a domain name with just the name is not going to help your business from a search engine point of view. Try including some keywords, eg. Johnsmithplumbing.com or yourcityplumbing.com. You can always register additional domain names with your business name or product names to protect your brand and identity, but for the main domain name, make sure you have some key words included. This will help with search engine optimisation later on.
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You Can Win Over Worry
- Jack Graham Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
- 2005 10 Mar
Fear, worry, stress, distress, and anxiety, are common words in our culture...and unfortunately all too common in our experience. We're living in an age that is filled with so much tension and so much pressure.
Have you ever noticed how every day we are force-fed a steady diet of anxiety-producing information? We can't escape it - whether it is on a global, national, or a personal scale.
All of us have lives filled with things which can cause distress...and it is something we must learn to deal with.
The good news is this: We can win over worry! As a matter of fact it is absolutely essential that we not become victims of worry, but victors over worry through Jesus Christ.
As believers in Jesus Christ, you and I have resources... we have strength that no one else has outside of Christ. In fact, our Lord knew how worry can dominate our lives, so He spoke specifically to those things that can produce panic instead of peace for us.
His challenge is found in Matthew 6 beginning in verse 25:
"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."
Do you see it? Jesus said it over and over again. "Do not worry... do not worry." And yet perhaps among the people of God this is the most common sin of all.
Most Christians would say, "Well, I don't participate in the sins of dissipation. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't chew. I don't go with girls who do." And yet you are a worrier and you are troubled and tense and nervous and anxious and wringing your hands and worrying about yesterday, today and tomorrow.
And yes, worry is one of the most devastating sins of all.
It's time to take this sin in our lives seriously. It's time to attack it in the authority that we have in God's Word and in the power of His Spirit. It is time to defeat this enemy of our souls. Let me help you by giving you a principle I believe can help you win this battle:
Worry is totally useless.
In Matthew 6:25, Jesus tells us, "Do not worry about your life; what you're going to eat, what you're going to drink, or about your body, what you're going to put on."
Why? Because worry is totally useless. It accomplishes nothing.
Now, the worry Jesus is talking about is the needless, useless kind of anxiety that just chokes the life out of you. Have you ever analyzed the things that you worry about...that we all worry about?
Well, for one we worry about those things that have happened... things that happened in the past. We worry about past failures and past decisions that we have made. Some people live every day chastised by what happened yesterday - and often many yesterdays ago.
What is done is done. Thank God for His forgiveness. Thank God for His grace. We don't have to live in guilt and fear and failure of the past. You and I need to stop worrying about yesterday.
Then we worry about those things that might happen... but never do happen. Our lives are lived by "What if...." We think catastrophically of all the things that might terrorize us and bring us to our knees.
I heard about a husband and his wife who were awakened in the middle of the night by something stirring downstairs in the kitchen. So the husband got up to find a man with a mask stealing things out of the kitchen. The husband asked, "Sir, are you a burglar?" He said, "Yes, I am." He said, "Well, just a minute. Will you come upstairs and meet my wife? She's been expecting you for 30 years!"
Obviously we can't control the future! Jesus said in verse 34, "Don't worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about it's own things."
Then there are those things that we worry about that do happen. Some people worry about death. Well, death is going to happen unless Jesus comes in our lifetime! But some people are so worried about dying that they never get on with living.
My friend, I want you to know you can count on the fact that Jesus makes all things beautiful in His time. And when you pass through the deep waters, He said, "I will be with you." But worrying about it only adds to the weight and only disrupts God's healing presence in our lives.
Worry is useless. I challenge you today to defeat the worry in your life and grasp hold of the truth Jesus promises:
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." Matthew 6:31-33
Dr. Jack Graham is pastor of the 24,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church. He is committed to helping Christians experience the Kingdom of God and it’s power in every area of their lives. He is also a noted author of numerous books, including A Hope and a Future, Diamonds in the Dark, Lessons from the Heart, and Life According to Jesus, which can be found at www.jackgraham.org | <urn:uuid:f9c06f25-3f20-4268-9b9f-fa42166ce1a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/you-can-win-over-worry-1317533.html?p=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00486-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971054 | 1,410 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Lexington, VA • Thursday, September 08, 2011
Terrorism was not born on 9/11 or in Oklahoma City. It is, in fact, an ancient concept. But what is new about terrorism, says Washington and Lee law professor Erik Luna, is the development of a distinctive legal regime and heightened enforcement efforts in the decade since the Sept. 11 attacks.
| |Prof. Erik Luna
It is this legal framework, including such well-known provisions as the Patriot Act, that Luna focuses on in his new course at W&L, the Law of Terrorism. Both rapidly evolving and controversial, few areas of law are so ripe for inquiry Luna argues.
"9/11 unsettled people's understanding of global terrorism and their expectations of government in responding to potential threats," says Luna. "The resulting policies and practices – from ethnic profiling and domestic spying to enhanced interrogation and indefinite detention of suspects – all challenge core American values and principles. For instance, how much deference can be accorded to the executive branch in the so-called 'war on terror' without undermining the constitutional system of checks and balances? And how much liberty and privacy are we willing to sacrifice in service of counter-terrorism efforts?"
During the course, students will explore government powers available to prevent terror attacks and the limits of those powers. They will also examine the full process of investigation, apprehension, prosecution and punishment of individuals believed to be terrorists and extraterritorial enforcement of American law when dealing with incidents of terrorism abroad.
To address these issues, says Luna, students have to grapple with important concepts.
"Colloquial understandings of 'terrorism' tend to overlook the underlying complexity and long-standing difficulty in reaching a meaningful, consensus definition," says Luna. "Other terms get tossed around in public discourse without a full appreciation of the legal consequences. The detention facility in Guantanamo Bay stands as a testament to the dispositive nature of the phrase 'unlawful combatant.'"
Of course, much of the discussion of responses to terrorism occurs in a global context, and Luna makes sure that his students understand how other nations deal with domestic and international terrorism.
"The U.S. is hardly alone in its anxiety over terrorism," says Luna. "Nations around the world have developed their own laws and processes for suspected terrorists, and some of these countries have been dealing with the phenomenon of terrorism for decades and in the face of greater threats to domestic security. There is much we can learn by comparing approaches."
And at the very least, Luna thinks the 10- year anniversary of 9/11 is a time to reflect on the efficacy of the laws and policies we have implemented to prevent another attack. For example, in an article titled "The Bin Laden Exception," Luna scrutinizes the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), part of a trillion dollar expansion of counter-terrorism spending over the last decade. Risk assessment experts have concluded that the likelihood of dying in an airplane hijacked by terrorists is far less than dying in a hunting accident or even drowning in a bathtub. Luna wonders then, if the fiscal cost, to say nothing of the loss of privacy and liberty, is worth it.
"Obviously, 9/11 is the single worst event of my generation, raising many of the concerns the greatest generation faced in the wake of Pearl Harbor," says Luna. "But some perspective is required here. Al Qaeda is a genuine, international menace, but the danger it presents is incomparable to the threat posed by the Axis powers in World War II. Today, we should be asking ourselves whether the costs of the past decade, both fiscal and constitutional, were actually justified by the risk of terrorism. Our form of government is not a suicide pact, for sure, but people who sacrifice liberty on promises of safety often end up with neither."
Luna acknowledges that the law of terrorism is a moving target, and often unwieldy as is touches on so many fields. But he believes that makes it a great vehicle to teach students because it will force them to draw together all of their knowledge in addressing an unprecedented development in the law.
"With this course as part of their legal training, our students can play an important role in the evolving law of terrorism, as attorneys, advisors, lawmakers, and even judges, as many of our alumni become." | <urn:uuid:ad364de6-8139-44fe-8c80-73c9593ed37e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.law.wlu.edu/news/storydetail.asp?id=987 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00394-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962674 | 877 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Many people around the world worship the e=mc[^]2 formula and worship Einstein for that formula which says that the energy produced by an amount of gold is the same energy produced by the same amount of lead: Al last, the lead become gold, the old dream of the Alchemists!. With 1 gram of sand one can produce the energy that produce 1 gram of Uranium!. Isn't that marvelous?
In his letter to President Roosevelt - August 1939, Einstein clearly shows that the above formula is just a fraud, he didn't encouraged Roosevelt to use water, sand, garbage or paper, but just the very specific element URANIUM:
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Published on December 7th, 2013 | by Geckos Tales Team
FACTY THINGS: 10 FACTS ABOUT FRANCE
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France is a country of many facts. Fact.
The city of Nantes is home to La Villa Hamster, a hotel where guests get to eat, sleep and exercise like a hamster. Rooms feature water tubes, sawdust, hay, tunnels and yes…a giant hamster wheel to run on.
The Sewer Museum of Paris takes visitors deep into the underbelly of Paris. BYO nose peg.
SIGN ME UP
The Left Bank is home to Café Signes, a café entirely run by deaf staff – ordering is done via sign language.
OUT OF DATE
Paris’ oldest continually operating restaurant, Le Grand Vefour opened in 1784.
Montmartre’s Le Refuge des Fondues serves wine in baby bottles to avoid paying wine tax.
France’s Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer is a museum dedicated solely to playing cards, and houses more than 9000 decks.
ON THE NOSE
France has banned the super stinky Epoisses cheese from all public transport because of its extreme odour.
Napoleon was 168cm tall.
France’s last guillotine execution was in 1977.
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Gregg Jocoy at Green Party Watch (posted December 13):
The Green Party of the United States issued a press release on December 5th, welcoming the Green Party’s newly accredited Youth Caucus into the party. The Youth Caucus now stands next to the Lavender Caucus, Black Caucus and Women’s Caucus as an official caucus with representation on the Green National Committee. The Latino and Labor Caucuses are still in formation.
Greens under the age of 35 are encouraged to join the Green Party Youth Caucus by visiting their official website. The full text of the press release is below the fold, or at the link above.
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States has recognized and accredited a Youth Caucus within the party.
“The Green Party Youth Caucus is here to amplify the voice of youth who are ready for a new politics,” said Ursula Rozum, Youth Caucus co-chair and recent Green Congressional candidate from Syracuse, New York.
“We’ve seen a surge of young Green candidates and movement-builders because the elite political leadership of the corporate parties has failed our generation and because the Green Party offers practical solutions to the serious crises we’re facing. When Green youth become candidates for public office, more than just spokespeople for our party, we articulate the aspirations of our generation for a just and sustainable future. We invite all youth who share the Green Party’s values to join the Youth Caucus,” Ms. Rozum added.
According to the proposal passed in the Green Party’s National Committee, the “Youth Caucus works to engage youth in Green issues and gives young Greens a voice within the GPUS [Green Party of the United States]. Membership is open to US youth age 14-35 who identify as Green, support the Green Party Ten Key Values, and generally agree with the platform of the GPUS and the mission of the Youth Caucus.” (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/youth/)
“We welcome the new Youth Caucus, which we believe will take the lead in building the party of the 21st century,” said Steve Welzer, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. “The accreditation follows an election season in which several outstanding young Greens competed for public office. 2012 Green presidential nominee Jill Stein made the concerns of young people central to her campaign, including the need to end crushing student debt burdens, stronger support for public education, repeal of Every Child Left Behind, and job creation.”
The Green Party has three other caucuses: the Lavender Green Caucus (for LGBT members), the National Women’s Caucus, and the Green Party Black Caucus (http://www.gp.org/caucuses/index.php). A Latino Caucus is in the process of organizing.
Youth Caucus Facebook http://www.facebook.com/GPUSyouth
Sign-up page http://signup.GPUSyouth.org
Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
Green candidate database and campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/2012/ballot-access.html
Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net/
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
GP-TV Twitter page http://www.gp.org/twitter
Facebook page http://www.gp.org/facebook
Discussion Forum https://secure.gpus.org/secure/GreenPartyForum/
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In S. v. Wilcox, 132 N.C. 1120, 44 S.E. 625, it is said: "A man's motive may be gathered from his acts and so his conduct may be gathered from the motive by which he was known to be influenced. Proof that the party accused was influenced by a strong motive of interest to commit the offense proved to have been committed although weak and inconclusive in itself, yet it is a circumstance to be used in conjunction with others which tend to implicate the accused."Summary of this case from State v. Church
(Filed 10 June, 1903.)
1. Experts — Findings of Court — Appeal.
The finding of a trial judge that a witness is an expert is final if there is any evidence to sustain the finding.
2. Expert Evidence — Opinion Evidence — Physicians and Surgeons — Witnesses — Wounds.
A physician may testify as an expert as to the kind of weapon that would produce a wound examined by him.
3. Expert Evidence — Opinion Evidence — Physicians and Surgeons — Wounds.
A physician may testify as an expert whether the absence of water from the stomach or lungs of a person, taken from water, indicated that such person was killed otherwise than by drowning.
4. Evidence — Drawings — Maps.
A person may use a map or drawing to demonstrate the relative positions of places involved in the evidence given by him.
5. Evidence — Flight.
Evidence that the prisoner did not escape jail, he having opportunity to do so, is not competent.
6. Instructions — Circumstantial Evidence — Reasonable Doubt — The Code, Sec. 413.
The trial court is not required to give instructions in the language of the prayers — here relative to circumstantial evidence and reasonable doubt — provided the instructions given are correct and cover the various phases of the testimony.
7. Evidence — Sufficiency of Evidence — Questions for Jury — Homicide.
There is sufficient evidence in this case to go to the jury connecting the defendant with the death of the deceased.
INDICTMENT against James Wilcox, heard by Councill, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1903, of PERQUIMANS. From a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and judgment thereon, the defendant appealed.
(1121) Robert D. Gilmer, Attorney-General, for the State.
E. F. Aydlett and W. M. Bond for defendant.
This was an indictment against the defendant for the murder of Nellie Cropsey. The State introduced testimony tending to show that W. H. Cropsey, the father of the deceased, had been living in Elizabeth City since April, 1898; that at the time of the disappearance of deceased and for two years prior thereto his residence was within a short distance of the Pasquotank River. That deceased was at the time of her death 19 years old; that the defendant met her in June, 1898, and began paying her attentions, he being a young unmarried man; that his attentions were marked by frequent visits, as often as three times a week; that he gave her a number of presents, carried her to ride and sailing and to places of amusement. "He gave her a silver dish at one Christmas, a pin at the next, and on her birthday in July a diamond ring. He also gave her small pictures of himself and a parasol." In September, 1901, defendant and deceased had a "kind of falling out." She was heard to say to him about the middle of September: "If you are going to act like this the rest of the season, you can stay at home." About 1 October, 1901, Miss Carrie Cropsey, a cousin of deceased, came from Brooklyn to make a visit to the family. About this time there was a series of religious meetings in Elizabeth City. Defendant frequently went with deceased and at other times went for and took her home. She joined the church 13 October. At the time of the Fair, 22 October, defendant and deceased were friendly. He gave her tickets for herself, sister, and cousin. They remained friendly until 7 November; prior to that day he visited her every night, sometimes in the afternoon. On the night of 7 November he was at the home of the deceased. Her sister and cousin were in the parlor with them. When he left, she said "Pull," which meant hurry. She went to the door with him and came back immediately. (1122) He did not take her remark in fun. He visited the house after that. Deceased never spoke to him after that night, nor did he speak to her. She never went to the door with him after that night. She was seen walking with her cousin and defendant once, her cousin being between them. Deceased was to make a visit to New York, intending to leave on Saturday, 23 November. This was known to the defendant. On Tuesday afternoon before her disappearance her cousin came home and said she was going to the skating rink with the defendant that night. When he came and rang the bell, deceased declined to let him in. The cousin, Carrie, let him in. When the defendant came in and took a seat, he said to deceased: "I guess your corn is getting better." She turned to her sister, Miss Ollie Cropsey, laughed and said: "A little," in a very low voice. Deceased and her sister were dancing just before defendant came in. Defendant turned to Miss Carrie and said: "I expect it is time you were getting your hat." She went upstairs, leaving Ollie and deceased in the parlor. No words were passed between defendant and deceased. Ollie talked with him. When the defendant and Carrie returned from the rink deceased was writing a letter. They brought some fruit with them, which they put in another room. Defendant did not speak to deceased. After sitting some time deceased said: "I certainly would enjoy a good apple tonight." Carrie turned to defendant and said: "How about the fruit?" He said: "It is yours." Carrie handed the fruit. Deceased said: "No, thanks." She wouldn't have any apple. Defendant stayed a little while, took his hat and left. When he was gone, deceased said: "This is a good joke on Jim." She took an apple and commenced eating it. Defendant left about half-past 10 or 11 o'clock. On Wednesday afternoon, 20 November, 1901, Carrie and one of the sisters of the deceased went to town and came back accompanied by defendant about half-past 5. Defendant indulged in some pleasantry with Ollie. He left in (1123) about half an hour. No words passed between him and deceased. He returned about 8 or half-past. Carrie let him in. Roy Crawford was at the Cropsey house visiting Ollie. He was not on good terms with the defendant. Deceased was sitting at table, sewing. She continued sewing until 9:30 o'clock, when she put her sewing up and got some musical instruments. They had some music. Defendant did not speak to her; "just sat there gazing at nothing"; had hardly spoken to any one. He finally said Miss Burnett was going to be married. The members of the family began to leave the parlor to retire, until deceased, defendant, Ollie, and Crawford were the only ones left. Defendant asked if there was any water in the pump. Ollie got up to get a glass. He said: "I don't want your glass; I might poison it." He took his watch out six or seven times. At 11 o'clock he looked at it and said: "Your clock is just like my watch." They all stood up. Roy stood by deceased and took hold of her chin, saying: "You are looking mighty sweet to-night." Ollie said: "As if she don't always look so!" Defendant rolled up a cigarette and took his hat, saying: "Mamma said I must be in at 11 o'clock to-night." Ollie said: "Jim, you are getting good." He made some slight remark, took his hat from the rocking chair and started out. When he got in the hall, the door was partly open. He walked out and said: "Nell, can I see you out here a minute?" She looked at her sister, said nothing, and went into the hall with the defendant. She was never seen alive again by her family. This was the first time she had gone to the door with the defendant since 7 November. He had been there every other night. He had taken Carrie and a sister of deceased sailing. Deceased left the door open. Ollie closed it. Roy Crawford remained in the parlor with Ollie some time and then went out. Ollie went in the front hall with (1124) him and found the two doors open and the screen door flapping in the wind. She said to Roy: "This is funny; Nell gone upstairs, leaving me to shut up alone." She went upstairs and retired. She felt in the bed for Nell, but she was not there. In a short time Mr. Cropsey, the father, came downstairs. Some time after Ollie notified her father of Nell's absence. Family got up and began to search for her. It was a very cold, clear, moonlight night. Father, mother, and sisters looked over premises for deceased and called for her. Could not find her. Before defendant left on the night of 20 November, "the subject of drowning was brought up either by Carrie or defendant." He said: "That is one thing I would like to do. It is such a pleasant sensation. I would not mind it." Deceased said: "That is one thing I would never want to do. I would not want my hair coming out straight." Her hair was in curl papers. She said: "If I die, I would want to freeze to death." The Cropsey residence fronts up the Pasquotank River, Riverside Avenue running between the front fence and the river. It is 66 feet from the bottom step to the front gate. The street is 33 feet wide. From the edge of the street to the river shore is 112 feet, making the entire distance from the steps to the river 211 feet. A little to the left of a line from the house to the street is a summer-house, about 150 feet from the gate, and about 40 or 50 feet to the bank of the river. A little to the left of the summer-house is a fish-house, 350 feet, and near by are some cypress trees in the water. Up the street 850 feet is the pier of the Hayman Ship Yards, to the end of the pier is about 500 feet, making 1,350 feet from gate to end of the pier. The water at the end of the pier is 10 or 12 feet deep. The Tolley house is 2,500 feet from the Cropsey gate. Witness walked it in ten minutes. Defendant (1125) lives up that street 4,300 feet from the Cropsey house, 1,800 feet from the Ives place. Several measurements of the water near the Cropsey house were taken, showing depth at 10 feet from shore, 2 1/2 feet; 35 feet from shore, 3 feet deep; running out to 75 feet, 4 feet deep.
C. T. Parker testified that on the night of 20 November he was at Fletcher's store at about 10 o'clock, and remained there about ten minutes. That he was driving a horse to a top buggy, traveling about five or six miles an hour, and passed the Cropsey house. That he met a man and woman near the gate of the Cropsey house, somewhere near there; might have been about the gate, did not know exactly. They were medium-size people. Their faces were turned toward each other. The man was taller than the woman. Witness was right close to them. Was in street and they were on the sidewalk. They were walking. Does not know the parties. Knows Wilcox; has known him a long time. It was a bright moonlight night. He took no notice of them. Witness met a man about 50 steps after meeting the man and woman. This man could see the two persons walking the road. There was no crook in the road. Man and woman were talking to each other, he thinks.
Leonard Owens testified that he has known defendant five years. He was on the street the night of 20 November; was within 15 feet of Ives' house, between Ives' and Tolley's house, about 11:30 o'clock; met defendant, who said: "Hello, old boy." Witness said: "Hello, Jim." He said: "Where have you been keeping yourself?" Witness said: "I have been coming and going," etc. Asked him to take a cigarette. Said he was making one. After talking a little they parted and witness went home. Witness went up Hunter Street about 200 yards, crossed and went over to Morgan Street, where he lives. He called his wife and went upstairs. As he was undressing the (1126) town clock struck 12. About 400 or 500 yards from where he met defendant to where he lives. Nothing unusual in defendant's appearance or conversation. He talked friendly. Witness passed Cropsey house. Did not know what time.
Captain Baily testified that Owens left the boat at 11:30 o'clock. He got witness a pint of whiskey and sent it by a negro, Sherman, who witness sent with him. Sherman was back in about ten minutes. Witness's watch was two minutes faster than the town clock.
W. H. Cropsey testified: Deceased was a good swimmer; had seen her plunge into the water. He retired on night of 20 November at 8.25 o'clock; got up at 11:45; blew his lamp out at 12 o'clock; went downstairs at 12:45, and heard dogs barking. Was notified by his daughter of absence of deceased. Searched for her. Went to Dawson, chief of police, and told him about missing deceased. That was about 1:15 o'clock. Dawson came to house with defendant at 4 a. m. Witness's wife was crying. Defendant looked cold and indifferent. His wife asked defendant something. He began to tremble and witness walked out of room. Daughter was well educated and a lively girl.
Dawson testified: Was called up by Mr. Cropsey between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. Went to home of father of defendant. Went upstairs with defendant's father. Defendant was lying in bed on left side. Mr. Meade was in same bed. Defendant was asleep. Witness called him, saying: "I want you to go over to Mr. Cropsey's with me." Defendant said: "All right, I will go." He got up and dressed and went downstairs. When they got in street witness said: "Jim, what do you think about this case?" Defendant said: "I don't know what to think." Witness said: "When was the last time you saw Miss Cropsey, and where was she?" He said: "I left her (1127) standing on the front porch." Witness said: "Did she seem to be in any trouble?" He said: "Well, yes. I left her crying." Witness said: "What was she crying about?" He said: "I gave her back her picture, and she said, `I know what that means,' and began to cry, and I turned off and left her." Defendant said he came home. Witness said: "Now, have you had any quarrels — had any lovers' quarrels, or anything like that?" He said: "Well, no. Nothing more than she laughed in my face and I told her the laugh would be on the other side." Defendant said that on the night before that, that is, Tuesday night, he went in the room and asked her how her corn was, and he said that was when she laughed in his face. He also said that some one brought up the subject of suicide that night. That deceased said that she would rather commit suicide by freezing than any other way. That about a year ago in a summer-house she said in a crowd that if she was going to commit suicide she would drown herself and tie a stone around her neck. When they got near the Ives house defendant said: "Right here last night I met Leonard Owens about half-past 11." When they reached the Cropsey house, the family was in the dining-room. Defendant passed through sitting-room. Curtain hanging in the door. He took hold of it. Mrs. Cropsey came up and put her arm on his shoulder and said: "Jim, tell me where Nell is, for your sake, for my sake, and for your mother's sake. Please tell us where Nell is." He said: "Mrs. Cropsey, I don't know. I can swear that I don't know." He said nothing else. Defendant was put under arrest, and was released about 12 o'clock on that day. He was arrested a second time and carried before Mr. Wilson and four other justices, and released on his own recognizance. He was, at his own request, sworn, and said: That he went to call on deceased, and left about ten minutes after 11 o'clock. That he rolled up a (1128) cigarette and asked Miss Nell to let him see her in the hall, and she went in the hall with him. That he left her on the porch crying, and that he had not seen her since. He did not go back after leaving the yard. The mayor required defendant to appear before him every day at 12 o'clock until further notice, which he did.
Charles Reid, deputy sheriff, testified: That the Sunday after deceased disappeared, at request of defendant's father and mother, he went with defendant to Mr. Cropsey's. On the way witness said: "Jim, it looks to me like you ought to explain this, as it is getting you into trouble — not for your sake, but for your mother's." After walking about twenty steps he said: "I have told all I can tell." Witness took defendant to Mr. Cropsey's at railroad. They had some conversation. They went to the house. Mrs. Cropsey put her arm over his neck and asked him if he knew where Nell was, and if so, to tell her. He said: "I don't know where she is." She then said: "You say you left her crying?" He said: "Yes." Mrs. Cropsey said: "Had you ever seen her crying before?" He said: "I don't know what she was crying about, unless I told her I was going to quit her." Mrs. Cropsey was crying. Defendant's manner was very indifferent. Defendant showed witness the position in which he left deceased. He walked to the right side of the porch and put his arm up on the porch and leaned his head against his arm. The left temple was exposed. He said that he was standing on the second or third step. He first said he was standing there five minutes, then said it might have been fifteen minutes. The people were engaged in searching for deceased, dragging the river, etc., thirty-seven days. Defendant took no part in the search. One day Mr. Cropsey said to defendant, standing on the street: "Jim, ain't you ever going to say anything or do anything towards finding Nell?" Defendant said: "I have said all I am going to say and done all I am going to do," or words to that effect. On the day the body was found defendant was arrested. Deputy sheriff said to him: "You are a pretty looking chap for a young lady (1129) to go off and drown herself about." He threw himself back in the buggy and laughed and said: "Ain't I, though?" Witness asked him if he couldn't have seen her from the hill to the house, and he said: "Yes, I could have seen her, and if I had known all this trouble was coming I would have called her sister out before I left." His general appearance and manner is that of indifference.
P. B. Hayman testified: That defendant worked with him from September until the preliminary trial in this case. Once during the time witness said: "I wish we could find her or hear something from her." Defendant said, "I wish to the Lord we could"; that he would go look for her, but if he found her, they would say right off that he had killed her. This was about the time they were dragging for her.
C. A. Long testified: That he was in boat with Mr. Stilman on the river, on 27 December. Went out in small boat from the shore near front of the Cropsey residence. Fifty yards from shore saw body of deceased; top of her head was out of the water, floating. Mr. Cropsey went out and identified the body. There were no weights on it; dress was muddy. Body was nearly in front of residence, between bathhouse and summer-house, looking from the shore. Some bricks near where body was found, some stubble, stumps, etc.
Dr. Fearing, coroner, thirty-three years old, graduate of College of Physicians and Surgeons, general practitioner, took charge of the body on 27 December, about 50 yards in river. Body was staked and tied, floating face down. Had body covered with quilts and carried to outhouse. Impaneled jury, and sent for Drs. Wood and McMullen. Fount no disarrangement of clothing. Took off clothing. Found no evidence of violence at that time. Top skin slipped off when (1130) touched; hair slipped off. Made incision in body. Deceased was chaste. She was a virgin. Cut open stomach. Found one or two tablespoonfuls of fluid — undigested food. Heart in perfect state of preservation, empty, normal in appearance. Lungs likewise. Cut through large section right lower lobe; found it contained no water. Upon pressure, it emitted a dark, mucous fluid, about half tablespoonful. Do not think there was any froth in it. Pleural cavity empty. Did not examine head at that time. Two of jurors thought it looked a little thicker, or enlarged on left side. Jury left and went to town. Went back after dinner. Made an incision all round head above left ear. Began on right side and went to left. No blood in right temple. As we cut through left temple discovered a contusion; a fluid, about a tablespoonful dark fluid blood, ran out. It was very blue down to the membrane of the bone. It indicated a wound or contusion. There was no fracture of bone. No evidence of violence to membrane of the brain. Brain was very soft; offensive odor. Of the organs the brain is the seventh in order to decompose. Witness gives opinion that wound on left temple was given with some round instrument, padded. Examination was made about an hour after body was taken out of the water. The condition of the stomach, heart, pleural cavity, and lungs indicate that the deceased came to her death by means other than drowning; that she received a blow which stunned her and rendered her unconscious. Body was not swollen. Body of person drowned usually swollen when taken out of the water. Wound had the appearance of having been stricken before death. Dr. Wood assisted in making the autopsy. He testified that he was fifty-eight years old, and had been practicing medicine since 1869.
There was some conflicting evidence in regard to the clothes which the defendant had on the night of 20 November. Mr. Meade testified that he slept in the same bed with the defendant. Did not hear him when he came home. Saw defendant's clothes the next morning (1131) when he got up that he had worn that night. They were hanging up behind the door. Thinks they were the same he had on at the time of the trial.
The defendant objected to the testimony of Dr. Wood and Dr. Fearing as experts. Dr. Wood stated that from his experience as a practitioner and learning as a physician he considered himself competent to give an opinion satisfactory to himself on medical matters, also as to the death of a person, whether it was caused by drowning or otherwise. That he had no experience before this in examining the body of a person alleged to have been drowned. This was the first autopsy he had made in such a case. That he derived his information from the authorities Reese and Taylor; that from an examination of these authors he was prepared to express an opinion. That they devoted from 8 to 14 pages to the subject of drowning. They are considered standard authorities. Dr. Fearing testified to substantially the same. The court found as a fact that the witnesses were experts. Defendant excepted to the finding of the court and objected to the witnesses testifying as experts in this case. Objection overruled; defendant excepted.
If there is any evidence to sustain his Honor's conclusion it is final, and not subject to review. Smith, C. J., in Flynt v. Bodenhamer, 80 N.C. 205, thus declares the law: "The court must decide whether the witness has had the necessary experience to enable him to testify as an expert. But the value of his opinion when admissible must be determined by a jury alone and depends upon the opportunities he has had for acquiring skill and knowledge and the use he has made of these opportunities. If a regular, continuous practice of his profession for thirty years does not entitle the witness to be regarded as an expert or experienced physician, it is difficult to conceive what would do so." The finding of the judge is conclusive. S. v. Cole, 94 N.C. 964, and cases cited. It is not necessary that a physician, learned and (1132) experienced in his science and profession, should have actually seen or made an autopsy in a case like the one on trial. In S. v. Clark, 34 N.C. 152 (155), Ruffin, C. J., says: "That circumstance does not touch the question of competency, though it may lessen the credit given to the testimony. . . . It is the point for the man of science to consider whether in a particular state of facts he can or cannot form a sound opinion which would satisfy his own judgment as to the matter of fact. In the next place, if it were the office of the court to determine whether the circumstances were or were not sufficient to enable the witness to form such an opinion, it could not be held they were insufficient here merely because exactly such a case as this had not before fallen under the observation of the witness or under his notice in the course of his reading. For the man of science is distinguished from an empiric in nothing more than in not relying on specific and also in not waiting for exact similitudes in things material and immaterial before forming a judgment, whether two patients are laboring under diseases of the same character and requiring the like treatment. It is the province of science to discover general principles from long and accurate observation and sound reasoning." We are of the opinion that his Honor's finding that Drs. Wood and Fearing were experts is sustained by ample testimony. The exception thereto cannot be sustained.
The doctors were asked the following questions: "Q. From the appearance of that bruise and dark blood and the contusion — was there any contusion?" "A. Yes, sir." "Q. "What, in your judgment, produced it?" Defendant objected to the witness testifying as to what caused the bruise or contusion on the left temple of the corpse of Nellie Cropsey. Objection overruled, and defendant excepted. "A. I think (1133) a direct blow produced it." "Q. What shaped instrument would probably have produced that bruise?" Defendant objected. "Q. Upon your examination of that wound are you in a position to give an opinion as to what produced it?" "A. No, sir. I could not give a positive opinion." "Q. Upon your examination of the wound, what kind of an instrument or weapon, if any, produced it?" "A. I think some covered instrument would have produced it — a blunt covered instrument." "Q. From the examination of the wound are you prepared to give an opinion satisfactory to yourself as to the character of the weapon or instrument used, if any?" "A. Positively, no; I am not." "Q. From your examination of the wound on the head are you prepared to give an opinion of what caused the bruise?" "A. I think I am, sir." "Q. Please give that opinion." "A. I think she was struck by some blunt instrument — something that would not break the skin — a direct blow on the left temple." "Q. From your examination and knowledge of the wound are you prepared to give an opinion as to whether this blow was produced before or after death?" "A. Yes, sir." "Q. Please give that opinion." "A. If the wound was inflicted just before death, or just after death, it is hard to tell which, because of the blood being diffused in the muscles of that wound. The blood was circulating from the blow given." To all of the foregoing questions and answers the defendant objected, and upon objection being overruled, excepted.
We think the questions and answers competent to be considered by the jury. "In reference to questions involved in controversies like the present, namely, as to the nature and effect of a wound described to a witness, it certainly is to a considerable extent a matter of science. Whether a wound was made by a shot or a sword or other sharp instrument can, beyond all doubt, be better judged of by one who has habitually examined and treated wounds of such kinds." S. v. Clark, 34 N.C. 154; Lawson on Expert and Opinion Ev., (1134) 125. "The opinions of medical men are constantly admitted as to the cause of disease or death or the consequences of wounds. . . . and as to other subjects of professional skill." 1 Greenleaf on Ev., sec. 440.
In Gardiner v. People, 5 Parker Crim., 202, it is held that "Medical witnesses are competent to testify as to the kind of an instrument or weapon that would produce a wound or fracture and whether a particular wound or fracture may have been made with an instrument mentioned to the witness." Williams v. State, 64 Md. 384; Kerr on Homicide, sec. 479; S. v. Harris, 63 N.C. 1. Taft, Circuit Judge, in Accident Co. v. Dargan, 58 Fed., 945, 22 L.R.A., 620, says: "The witness was an expert, and it is proper to ask his judgment of the conditions which he found in the body of the deceased and what they indicated as to the cause of his death. Several questions were submitted to the expert physicians based upon the assumption that the jury find certain conditions incorporated in the questions in respect to which there had been testimony before them, and the opinions of the physicians asked as to the probable cause of death based upon such finding of fact by the jury."
The physicians were asked the following questions: "Upon a postmortem examination of a person taken from the water, what does the absence of water in the stomach indicate?" A similar question was asked in respect to the absence of water in the lungs. To each of these questions witnesses answered that they "indicate that the deceased came to her death otherwise than by drowning." To all of these questions the defendant excepted. The questions were formulated in accordance with the rules prescribed by this Court in S. v. Bowman, 78 N.C. 509. In People v. Barker, 60 Mich. 277, 1 Am. St., 501, the question is asked the witness: "Doctor, from the nature of the examination (1135) that you made of the heart, lungs, eyes, mouth, neck, and general appearance, together with the mutilation you have testified to, do you come to any conclusion as to whether the death occurred by drowning or by other means?" To which he answered: "Yes; my opinion was that the man didn't come to his death by drowning — that he was dead before he was put into the water." The ruling of the Court is directly in point and sustained by numerous other authorities which sustain his Honor's ruling upon the several questions, in regard to the opinion evidence of the experts as to the manner in which the deceased came to her death as indicated by the physical condition found upon the autopsy. Maxwell Criminal Procedure (2 Ed.), 204. The weight to be attached to these opinions is peculiarly the province of the jury.
The defendant objected to the diagram made by the witness H. T. Greenleaf by which the witness proposed to demonstrate to the jury the location of the Cropsey residence and other points immediately around there. The objection was overruled, and defendant excepted. The defendant also objected to any examination of the witness with reference to the map. The exception cannot be sustained. The map was not admitted in evidence, but it was competent "for the purpose of enabling the witness to explain his testimony and enabling the jury to understand it." Diagrams, plats, and the like are of frequent use for this purpose in the trial of causes, and for such purpose the use of the map was admissible. Dobson v. Whisenhant, 101 N.C. 645; Riddle v. Germanton, 117 N.C. 387.
The defendant offered to prove by Mr. Reid, the deputy sheriff, that since his incarceration, and since the first trial also, he has had opportunities to escape from the jail where he was so incarcerated, and that he declined to avail himself of them. The testimony was, upon objection, excluded, and the defendant excepted. The exact question has been decided by this Court in S. v. Taylor, 61 (1136) N.C. 508, Battle, J., saying: "The argument in favor of the exception is that as the flight of an alleged criminal is admissible as evidence against him, his refusal to flee in the first instance and his declining to escape after having been admitted to jail ought to be admitted as evidence in his favor. The argument is plausible, but it would be permitting prisoners to make evidence for themselves by their subsequent acts." The writer of this opinion, speaking for himself, has been impressed with the argument, and, subject to well-defined limitation, as, for instance, that the defendant was without any agency on his part given an opportunity to escape and refused to accept, is inclined to the opinion that his conduct is competent to go to the jury to be given such weight as under the circumstances of the case it is entitled to. There is nothing, however, in this case to take the question out of the well-settled rule, and the exception cannot be sustained.
We have disposed of the exceptions made by the defendant to the admission and rejection of testimony, and find no error in the rulings of the court. The defendant made a number of requests for instruction directed to the question of murder in the first degree, which by the verdict of the jury became immaterial and unnecessary to be considered.
The defendant requested his Honor to charge the jury that the prisoner is not called upon to introduce any testimony until the State has made out its case with evidence sufficient to satisfy their minds beyond a reasonable doubt. This instruction was given. The court was also requested to instruct the jury: "This is a case in which the State relies upon circumstantial evidence for the conviction of the prisoner. Before the State can ask you to convict upon this kind of evidence it must prove each material circumstance relied upon, beyond a reasonable doubt, and if it fails to prove any material circumstance relied upon it will be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty." Several other instructions were asked in which the same (1137) principle is expressed in different forms. It is well settled that the court is not required to give instructions in the language of the defendant's prayers, provided that the instructions are correct and cover the various phases of the testimony as prescribed by the act. The Code, sec. 413. His Honor charged the jury as follows: "What is meant by the term `reasonable doubt' is, fully satisfied, or satisfied to a moral certainty. The words `reasonable doubt' in themselves are about as near self-explanatory as any explanation that can be made of them." This language has the approval of this Court. Dick, J., in S. v. Matthews, 66 N.C. 106 (114), says: "The rule requiring proof beyond a reasonable doubt does not require the State, even in a case of circumstantial testimony, to prove such a coincidence of circumstances as precludes other hypotheses except the guilt of the prisoner. The rule is that the circumstances and evidence must be such as to produce a moral certainty of guilt and to exclude any other reasonable hypothesis. Where any reasonable hypothesis of innocence exists in the minds of the jury there must necessarily be a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the accused, and he is always entitled tot he benefit of that doubt." We think his Honor's charge is in accordance with this principle.
His Honor further charged the jury: "In the trial of this case the State relies upon what is known as circumstantial evidence for conviction; hence it becomes the duty of the court to instruct you upon the rules of law applicable to this class of evidence and how it should be considered by juries. Circumstantial evidence is a recognized instrumentality of the law in the ascertainment of truth, and, when properly understood and applied, highly satisfactory in matters of gravest moment. Where such evidence is relied upon to convict it should be clear, convincing, and conclusive in its connections and combinations, excluding all rational doubt as to the prisoner's guilt. . . . (1138) When such evidence is relied on for conviction, every material and necessary circumstance must be established beyond a reasonable doubt, and the entire circumstances so established must be so strong as to exclude every reasonable supposition but that of guilt." This language is fully sustained by numerous decisions of this Court. His Honor adopted the language used by Merrimon, C. J., speaking for the Court, in S. v. Brackville, 106 N.C. 701 (710), and sustained by the authorities cited. His Honor said to the jury: "Reference has been made during the argument of the case as to the sufficiency or insufficiency of the evidence to be submitted to you for your consideration. The court has submitted the evidence to you and you will consider it under the rules I have laid down for your government and render your verdict based upon it." The defendant excepted to this language and contended that it violates the statute prohibiting the judge from expressing an opinion as to the weight of the evidence. We are unable to see how such construction could be placed upon the language of the court. His Honor simply stated to the jury, in view of the argument made by the counsel for State and defendant, that as a matter of law there was evidence to be submitted to them, the weight and credibility of which and conclusions to be drawn therefrom were for their consideration under the rules laid down in his charge. We see no force in the objection. We have examined the several prayers for instruction and the exceptions of the defendant to the charges given. We find no error in his Honor's ruling in respect to them. The charge was clear and presented to the jury the testimony and the law bearing thereupon fairly to the State and the defendant.
The defendant requested the court to charge the jury that, upon the whole of the evidence, they should find a verdict of not guilty. It is upon the exception to the refusal to do so that the defendant's counsel strongly and earnestly urged upon us to grant a new trial. We have considered the case with that anxious care and solicitude (1139) to arrive at a correct conclusion which its importance to the State and the defendant demands. Either the deceased came to her untimely death by self-destruction, being driven thereto by what strongly impresses us in any aspect of the testimony as a trifling with her affections, or she was the victim of a cruel murder. If the first be true, the defendant is entitled to a new trial and to have the jury instructed that they should render a verdict of not guilty upon the testimony, leaving him to that remorse which would come to him for his treatment of her as detailed by himself. If the last theory be true, nothing but the natural hesitation of a jury to find a verdict for the highest grade of crime upon circumstantial evidence has saved the defendant from the extreme penalty of the law. It is difficult to read the testimony in this case without emotion. It is pathetic and painful. We have, however, considered it in the "dry light" of judicial investigation.
"If the evidence taken as a whole will not warrant a verdict of guilty, there is no evidence sufficient to be left to the jury, and the court should so declare." S. v. Powell, 94 N.C. 965. Again, it is said: "The facts, their relation, connection and combination, should be natural, reasonable, clear, and satisfactory. When such evidence is relied upon to convict, it should be clear, convincing, and conclusive in its connection and combination, excluding a rational doubt as to the prisoner's guilt, and it is not sufficient to be left to the jury unless in some aspect of it they might reasonably render a verdict of guilty." S. v. Brackville, 106 N.C. 710. Such is the standard laid down by this Court by which the testimony is to be measured by us in passing upon this exception to his Honor's ruling. By this we are to understand that it is in the province of the jury to pass upon the credibility of the witnesses and ascertain the truth of the (1140) testimony. The exception is based upon the assumption that it is all true; that the witnesses have testified truthfully. The defendant's contention is that in this view of the case the State has not presented such evidence as should have been submitted to the consideration of the jury.
The defendant earnestly insists that the evidence points to the fact that the deceased came to her death by suicide. It is argued that she had opportunity, motive, and time to drown herself. Adopting the well-considered language of the brief of defendant's counsel, they contend she had the motive — the defendant had for three years been her lover, the only one she ever had; he had been loyal to her and regular in his attentions. Her cousin's visit to the Cropsey home had attracted the attention of the defendant, his attentions were divided. She began to be jealous and treated him coolly; his continued visits to the cousin made the deceased independent and appear indifferent. She continued to love him, kept his presents, and remained in the room when he was there. She was lively and tried to throw off this feeling; he returned her pictures and parasol. On the evening of her disappearance just before she was to leave for New York she was overcome by the turn in her affairs, and feeling that it was an easy way to end her troubled life, she rushed without stopping to think to the river, and threw herself in. This line of thought has been strongly pressed upon us by the defendant's able and zealous counsel.
To the adoption of this view there are several serious difficulties. There can be no doubt that the deceased was deeply grieved and distressed by the conduct of the defendant, that her affections were trifled with. Her conduct showed her to be a young woman of deep and strong feeling. The last scene which we have from an eye-witness strongly impresses this fact upon us: "As he was leaving the room he said: `Nell, can I see you out here a minute?' Nell looked (1141) at me, never answered, and went into the hall with him. This was the last time she was seen alive by any of her family."
So far as it appears that she ever thought or spoke of suicide, she had expressed an abhorrence of being drowned. We attach, however, but little importance to the testimony in this respect. Assuming that she ever contemplated suicide by drowning, it is far from clear that she had the time or opportunity for doing so on the night of 20 November. She went on the porch with the defendant at about 11 o'clock. Defendant says that he left her on the porch at about 11:05 or 11:10. Roy Crawford left the house in a short time. Parker passed there evidently a short time after 11 o'clock. The testimony shows the condition of the river at and near to the front of the Cropsey residence, with its receding shores, is such as to make it necessary for her, if drowned there, to go out 75 feet from the shore before reaching water 4 feet deep. At points along the shore where the bank was steep there were bushes and briars. The testimony in respect to the river and shore all conflict with the theory that she could have thrown herself into the water. That which is most conclusive against the theory of suicide is what may be termed the natural evidence. If she walked out into the river upon the receding shore until she reached deep water, it is impossible to understand how she could have received the blow upon her left temple. That the wound upon the left temple was as described by the experts and three of the coroner's jury is established beyond controversy. It is impossible to account for it upon any other theory than that she was stricken with some instrument or that she threw herself into the river at deep water and came in contact with some hard substance. In Cluverius v. Commonwealth, 81 Va. 825, we find the Court discussing the theory of suicide of Lillian Madison. Lewis, J., says: "The mark of a straight blow over and back of her right eye which did not abrade the skin could not have been made by her throwing herself or falling face foremost (1142) or headlong and striking upon the brick of the incline to the water in the reservoir, because it is not probable, if indeed it is possible, that such an impingement would not have either staved in her skull or glazed and lacerated her skin." If this unfortunate girl had plunged into the water and struck, with sufficient violence to have made the contusion found upon the left temple, any hard substance, it would surely have glanced and lacerated her skin. The stumps, bricks, and roots spoken of by the witnesses were on the edge of the shore. If she had fallen and struck her head upon them before going into the water and became insensible she could not have gone further. The suggestion that she did so is improbable. The opinion of the physicians that she received the blow from some blunt instrument is fully sustained by the appearance of the wound. The condition of the lungs and stomach of the deceased in the opinion of the physicians is inconsistent with the theory of suicide by drowning. The appearance of the wound, the blood still under the skin, the color, all indicate that the blow was struck during her life. The absence of water from the stomach or lungs indicates either death or insensibility at the time of or prior to being placed in the water. The physicians testify with caution in regard to the conclusions to be drawn from the conditions found upon the body. An examination of Wharton and Stille, Medical Jurisprudence, confirms their testimony and their opinion. The concurrent opinion of two physicians who made the autopsy, that the deceased did not come to her death by drowning, together with the other testimony, is certainly sufficient to be submitted to the jury, and, if believed by them, to sustain their conclusion that the deceased did not commit suicide. If the deceased received the wound upon her head before being thrown into the water, this would contradict the theory of suicide, and, as we have seen, it (1143) is, to say the least, exceedingly improbable that she received the wound otherwise than in accordance with the opinions of the physicians. The work which we have examined upon medical jurisprudence states that the body of a person will remain in the water before rising or floating for a much longer period in cold weather than in warm. The testimony shows that the weather continued cold during the entire thirty-seven days. The body was in a perfect state of preservation.
Having reached the conclusion that the theory of suicide cannot be sustained, we proceed to inquire whether there is sufficient evidence to go to the jury connecting the defendant with the death of the deceased. It is urged that he had the motive, the opportunity, the time. In a criminal case where all the circumstances of time, place, motive, means, opportunity, and conduct concur in pointing out the accused as the perpetrator of an act of violence, the force of such circumstantial evidence is materially strengthened by the total absence of any trace or vestige of any other agent. Some motive, temptation, or evil impulse, we may assume, is the source of every crime. Not always can we discover what it is, so that the proof of a motive is indispensable to a conviction. 1 Bishop New Criminal Procedure (4 Ed.), sec. 1077. "We are all of us apt to act on very inadequate motives, and the history of crime shows that murders are generally committed from motives comparatively trivial. . . . If we should hold that no crime is to be punished except such as is rational, there would be no crime to be punished; for no crime can be found that is rational. The motive is never correlative to the crime; never accurately proportioned to it." 1 Wharton on Criminal Law (9 Ed.), sec. 121. It is, of course, difficult to the sane mind to understand how, from the conditions by which this defendant was surrounded and the relation which he bore to the deceased, it is possible for him to have taken her life. Yet it (1144) must be conceded that the relations between them were such as to arouse his evil impulse. What passed between them after she left her sister in the parlor will never be known.
"The various springs by which human motives are supplied are frequently difficult to trace, but perhaps none are more difficult than those having their fountain-head in envies and jealousies which agitate the human heart. . . . In the administration of the criminal law any fact shedding light upon the motives of the transaction will not be excluded from the consideration of the jury, whether it goes to the attestation of innocence or points to the perpetrator of the crime." Hunter v. State, 43 Ga. 483 (523). A man's motive may be gathered from his acts, and so his conduct may be gathered from the motive by which he was known to be influenced. Proof that the party accused was influenced by a strong motive of interest to commit the offense proved to have been committed, although weak and inconclusive in itself, yet it is a circumstance to be used in conjunction with others which tend to implicate the accused. The defendant had the opportunity and was the last person seen with the deceased. The time which elapsed between the moment that he went out of the door, she following him, and the time he was seen by Owens was sufficient for him to have taken her life. The blow on the head was but the matter of a moment. The defendant left the room in the Cropsey house five minutes after 11 o'clock and deceased immediately joined him in the hall, or, as he says, on the porch. He is next seen by Owens at the Ives house about 2,500 feet from the Cropsey house at about 11:30, probably, in view of the testimony, ten minutes later. It is in evidence and experience tells us that this distance can be walked by a young man in full health on a cold moonlight night in ten minutes. Defendant says that he was with the deceased on the porch five minutes, and afterwards said ten or fifteen minutes, and left her there crying. Ollie Cropsey says that Crawford left the house twenty or (1145) twenty-five minutes after defendant. She went upstairs and went to bed. In a short time she heard her father get up. He testifies that this was about 11:45. All of which tends to show that defendant had left the house a short time after 11 o'clock. Where was he and where was the deceased between this time and his meeting Owens? He says that he left her crying on the porch. Parker says that he passed the Cropsey house at about 11 o'clock and saw near the gate a man and woman walking on the sidewalk. It is not an unreasonable conclusion to draw that the man and woman seen by Parker were the defendant and the deceased. There is no suggestion to the contrary. If so, defendant is contradicted in saying that he left her on the porch. If they were on the street walking, where were they going, what became of her? No one saw her after she left her sister to go into the hall with defendant, unless Parker did, until, thirty-seven days thereafter, her lifeless body is found 50 yards in the river in front of her father's house with a contused wound upon her left temple. Who the man was seen by Parker, walking 50 steps away from the man and woman, is left to conjecture. It would have thrown much light upon this mysterious case if this man had been called as a witness. Parker says he could have seen the man and woman. The deceased met her fate within this half hour. The defendant is, of all persons in the world, most deeply interested in accounting for his every movement from the moment that he asked deceased to go with him into the hall and the moment he met Owens near the Ives place. There is not the slightest suggestion that any one, save the defendant, had either the opportunity or any motive to take her life or do her harm. There is not a suggestion that she had offended another human being. He says that he told her that he was going to quit her; that he gave her back her picture, that she said she knew what that meant; that he (1146) walked off and left her crying and did not look back. While the conduct of a man under the circumstances surrounding the defendant from the time that he was awakened by Dawson and told that Nellie Cropsey was missing and the time that her body was found, should not be viewed with an eye to detect guilt in every movement, words spoken and expression used, yet such conduct is competent to be considered by the jury to aid them in ascertaining the truth. The defendant's conduct is difficult to understand and interpret, viewed from any standpoint. His indifference to the fate of the woman towards whom he had occupied the relation of an accepted suitor for nearly two years and with whom he had been trifling for one month, finally giving to her affections and pride a deadly thrust, by telling her that he was going to quit her, is difficult to understand. His total indifference to the grief of her mother as she appealed to him by the most tender and sacred ties for the sake of his own and the mother of the missing girl, to tell her something to throw light upon the terrible mystery surrounding the fate of her daughter, when, as we may readily understand, her memory is surrounded by suggestions darker and more terrible than death itself, is incomprehensible. Not one word of sympathy or comfort or offer of assistance came from him. When the father makes the final appeal to him, with cold indifference he says: "I have said all that I am going to say and done all that I am going to do." And when he learned that her body had been found, and the suggestion is made to him that she had drowned herself because of him, he laughs and indulges in levity. But it is said that he did not flee; that although given every opportunity to do so, he remained at home; that he denied knowing her whereabouts, that he said he last saw her on the steps crying. These facts were submitted to the jury and given their proper weight. "It cannot be said that the verdict of the jury in this case, although founded on circumstantial evidence alone, was without evidence or plainly against the evidence. (1147) The circumstances proved pointed with fatal precision to the plaintiff in error, and there is not a circumstance which points to any other person or agent. The theory of suicide finds no substantial support from the proved facts. All the surroundings of the deceased on that dreary and dismal night, remote from human habitation, in that gloomy locality, led away from suicide, without the proved facts indicating violence to her person and plainly destroying the idea of suicide. The jury were the triers of the fact, and they have rendered their verdict of guilty, and the court below did not err in refusing to set it aside and grant a new trial." This language used by the Court in Cluverius v. Commonwealth, 81 Va. 825, in so far as it applies to the facts in this case, appropriately expresses the conclusion at which we have arrived. We think that, measured by the standard prescribed by law, the evidence was properly submitted to the jury, and we cannot say they have not reached a correct conclusion. Human tribunals can only deal with such cases in the light of such testimony as it is possible to obtain. No man can say with absolute certainty what the very truth of the matter is, but calling to our aid the experience and wisdom of the sages of the law and examining the testimony as it is certified to us, we are of the opinion that it is sufficient to bring the minds of an intelligent and fair-minded jury, under the instruction of a learned, just, and impartial judge, to the conclusion to a moral certainty that the defendant is guilty. That is the extent of our duty. In the discharge of it we must declare that we find in the record. | <urn:uuid:7651bad6-7cb7-4fd7-98c8-d8a02768c243> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://casetext.com/case/state-v-wilcox-48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.986885 | 12,141 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Psicologia & Sociedade
versão impressa ISSN 0102-7182
D'AVILA, Geruza Tavares; KRAWULSKI, Edite; VERIGUINE, Nadia Rocha e SOARES, Dulce Helena Penna. Access to higher education and the project in order to "become someone" to students'popular pre-entrance examination course. Psicol. Soc. [online]. 2011, vol.23, n.2, pp.350-358. ISSN 0102-7182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-71822011000200016.
This study aimed to identify the impact on the students' professional project from their entry into a popular pre-entrance examination course linked to a Federal University. Considering the qualitative approach that was chosen for the study, the semi-structured interview was the instrument used for data collection. The subjects were seven students from the popular pre-entrance examination course, four women and three men, from 18 to 22 years old. The research findings, based on the technique of content analysis, identified the project subject, as well as the analysis categories "Expectations related to the professional future" and "professional goals". The life project, according to the study's data, took the shape of a project of "becoming someone", "becoming part of the world", intimately connected to work and study, especially through access to higher education.
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Lisa Wingate Official Bio
Lisa Wingate is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels, including the instant NYT bestseller The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours, which remained on the NYT list for over two years and has sold over three million copies. She is a Goodreads Choice award winner for historical fiction and a Southern Book Prize winner. She lives with her husband in Texas.
Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which remained on the NYT Bestseller List Hardcover and softcover lists for 110 weeks and has sold more than three million copies. She has penned over thirty novels and coauthored a nonfiction book, Before and After with Judy Christie. Her April 2020 novel, The Book Of Lost Friends, became an instant New York Times Bestseller. The story follows an unlikely trio of girls coming of age as they embark on a perilous journey through reconstruction Louisiana and Texas… and a modern-day teacher in small-town Louisiana who rediscovers their story. The Book Of Lost Friends was inspired by the real-life “Lost Friends” ads, through which families separated during slavery sought to find their lost loved ones in the chaos following the Civil War. A reader and museum volunteer from the Historic New Orleans Collection connected Lisa with HNOC’s vast database of over 2500 Lost Friends ads, which chronicle the heart wrenching and hope-filled searches of separated families, and which inspired the story of eighteen-year-old Hannie Gossett in the novel.
Lisa lives with her husband in North Texas. More information about her novels can be found at www.lisawingate.com.
Lisa Wingate is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Before We Were Yours, which remained on the bestseller list for fifty-four weeks in hardcover and has sold over 2 million copies. She has penned over thirty novels and coauthored a nonfiction book, Before and After with Judy Christie. Her award-winning works have been selected for state and community One Book reads throughout the country, have been published in over forty languages, and have appeared on bestseller lists worldwide. The group Americans for More Civility, a kindness watchdog organization, selected Lisa and six others as recipients of the National Civies Award, which celebrates public figures who work to promote greater kindness and civility in American life. Booklist summed up her work by saying, “Lisa Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller.”
Her work has garnered or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, and the RT Booklovers Reviewer’s Choice Award. Her blockbuster hit, Before We Were Yours remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for over a year, was Publishers Weekly’s #3 longest running bestseller of 2017, and was voted by readers as the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award winner for historical fiction. Before We Were Yours has been a book club favorite worldwide and to date has sold over two million copies. Before and After was a finalist for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Award for Non-Fiction History and Biography.
Lisa was inspired to become a writer by a first-grade teacher who said she expected to see Lisa’s name in a magazine one day. Lisa also entertained childhood dreams of being an Olympic gymnast and winning the National Finals Rodeo but was stalled by a mental block against backflips on the balance beam and by parents who stubbornly refused to finance a rodeo career. She was lucky enough to marry into a big family of Southern tall tale enthusiasts who never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Lisa writes her novels at home in Texas where she is part of the Wingate clan of storytellers. Of all the things she treasures about being a writer, she enjoys connecting with people, both real and imaginary, the most.
More information about her novels can be found at www.lisawingate.com where you can sign up for her e-newsletter and find links to follow her on social media.
My inspirations for writing …
When not disguised as an author, I am the mother of two sons. I wanted girls. I got boys. I never dreamed that boys could be so wonderful. But that is another story.
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t write. I started writing books before I started school, and I never quit writing. I had a very special first-grade teacher in Peasley School in Northboro , Massachusetts , who recognized a little ability and a lot of desire in a shy transfer student. Mrs. Krackhardt wrote on my report card that she expected to see my name in the pages of a magazine one day, and I suddenly felt incredibly special. She started reading my stories to the class, and I was hooked. I quickly discovered the joy of having an audience, and set out on many, many writing projects.Even though I always dreamed of becoming a writer, I didn’t begin pursuing the goal in earnest until after college, marriage, a career as a journalist and technical writer, and then the birth of my oldest son (ordered girl, got boy, fell in love with boy).
My grandmother came to stay with me when the baby was small, and together we decided to plant flowerbeds in front of my house. One day, when the baby was fussy, we had to go inside rather than finishing the flowerbed. Grandma bundled the baby and sat down in the chair with him, and soon he was quietly drifting off to sleep. As the afternoon sun streamed through the window, Grandma leaned back, closed her eyes, and began telling me the story of her life, and her flowerbeds, and the lessons she learned there. That story, “Time for Tending Roses,” eventually became the inspiration for my first mainstream novel, Tending Roses, which was published by New American Library (Penguin Putnam) in June, 2001.
These days–several years, several books, multiple family relocations, one boy (ordered girl, got boy again, boy is wonderful again), and thousands of words after my grandmother told me the story of her rose garden, Tending Roses is one of several books inspired by life and written during stolen moments between homework, dirty laundry, farm animals, football games, family meals, and book-related talks and events of all kinds with readers, moms, grandmothers, sisters, and friends around the globe. Who knew all of that would come from one quiet afternoon with Grandma and an unfinished flowerbed?
Of all of the books, Tending Roses remains my sentimental favorite, because of the real-life connection with my grandmother, but I have loved and treasured the moments spent in the “world” of each book. Each story begins with an inspiration from life, and after that, the writing is a journey of discovery. I never know where the story will go, or how it will end, or who the characters will become, until the last words are written, though as a writer and as a person, my heart always goes to happy endings. So many of today’s sound bites are sensational, and awful, and when you take in all of those things, it is easy to lose faith in the world and in the goodness of people. I want to create books that are not only entertaining, but life affirming. I think we are all called to add something good to the world, to inspire and uplift, to add our colors to the canvas. I have met so many people who have wonderful ways of doing that. I admire them. I want to be like them. I love to write about them.
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They don’t call it Taxifornia for nothing. California is a national leader in overall tax burden on individuals and businesses. A 7.5% statewide sales tax, a 39-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax, some of the highest income taxes in the country, and a litany of other local, county, and state claims to California denizens’ money, apparently aren’t enough for several state legislators. A number of constitutional amendments have been proposed to reduce the current two-thirds-of-voters requirement necessary for local government to raise taxes and incur bond indebtedness to 55%. These bills represent just the latest effort by California legislators to undo the “taxpayer revolt” put in motion by Proposition 13.
In 1978 California voters approved Proposition 13, which requires a two-thirds vote threshold in each house of the legislature for a state tax increase, and requires the same threshold of voter approval for local special taxes. Most significantly, though, is Proposition 13’s limit on property taxes. Proposition 13 limited property taxes to 1% of the “full cash value” of the property. Local governments have subsequently generated parcel taxes; or taxes variously based not on the value of the property, but either on the size of the property or just a flat tax on property regardless of its size. Proposition 39 passed in 2000 reduced the two-thirds requirement to 55% for local school districts to pass bond measures to fund education projects (also known as taking on debt). Bonds represent yet another means of getting around the 1% property tax limit; “General Obligation” bonds allow for property tax rates above 1% in order to pay for the bonds. In other words, a reduced bond threshold also thereby reduces the threshold for raising property taxes.
California governments have generally had little problem increasing taxes and fees on Californians, while managing to get themselves hundreds of billions of dollars in debt (including “unfunded liabilities”). But apparently local governments need more money, and want to make it easier to do so. State Senators Carol Liu (D-La Canada Flintridge), Ellen Wolk (D-Davis), Ellen Corbett (D-East Bay), and Loni Hancock (D-Oakland) have proposed Senate Constitutional Amendments (SCA's), aimed at lowering the threshold necessary for tax increases and bond purchasing from the current 2/3 rate for special taxes to 55%. Special taxes are taxes that are meant to go to specific projects.
A summary of the Amendments:
- SCA 4 (Liu): allows local agencies to levy, extend, or increase special taxes at 55% vote for local transportation projects (passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance)
- SCA 7 (Wolk): Lowers the vote threshold from two-thirds to 55 percent for cities, counties, or library districts to issue bonds (e.g. take on debt) or to levy special taxes (passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance and Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments)
- SCA 8 (Corbett): reduces the voter threshold from two-thirds to 55 percent for passage of local sales taxes dedicated to transportation purposes. (A scheduled July 9th hearing was canceled by the author of the bill, for unspecified reasons; passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance)
- SCA 9 (Corbett): allows local agencies to levy, extend, or increase special taxes at 55% vote for community and economic development projects (passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance and Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments)
- SCA 11: allows local agencies to levy, extend, or increase special taxes at 55% for any purpose (passed Senate Committee on Governance and Finance and Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments)
Another, SCA 3 proposed by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), was amended to remove language that would allow local education agencies to levy parcel taxes at a 55% threshold. SCA 3 was subsequently morphed into a bill to guarantee a right of the public to obtain government documents; following a failed effort by the State Senate to make public records compliance for local governments “optional” in a budget trailer bill revised after media scrutiny.
Most notable of all, though, is Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, proposed by Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield (D-San Fernando Valley). ACA 8, if passed, would allow local government to reduce the voting threshold from two-thirds to 55% to pass bond measures for various infrastructure projects as General Obligation bonds. Given that General Obligation bonds result in higher property taxes, ACA 8 would make it easier for local governments to raise taxes. According to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, ACA 8 is a “direct assault on Prop 13” and would ultimately enable local government to incur significant debt at the expense of taxpayers, especially property owners.
What makes ACA 8 most notable though, is how it was passed. Without public hearings or debate, it was scheduled for a vote just before the California Assembly went on summer break. It passed 54-25. ACA 8 is now awaiting Senate action.
The Senate bills, referred to by the California Chamber of Commerce as “job killers,” still await public hearings. With state and local governments in California spending a combined $400 billion a year, and a political culture seemingly predicted on the notion that government can and should do more, it remains to be seen whether or not California voters will be able to defend themselves from higher tax burdens this time. | <urn:uuid:18b9bf17-3c54-4c1c-b5ce-92c993ad5fec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reason.org/news/printer/california-legislators-trying-reall | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00496-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942042 | 1,128 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Joseph R. has 5 years of experience teaching students elementary, middle school-aged children and adults on to how to play keyboard, guitar, flute and saxophone while sharing his learning experience with them as a self-taught saxophone and flute player and his more conventional education on piano and guitar.
Joe started developing his musical talent through piano lessons at the age of 7. After only a year of formal study, he began to experiment with other instruments such as the bamboo flute, the guitar and the drums. When he moved to the United States at the age of 13, he was introduced to the schoolâs band where he chose to hone his skills with the flute. Since then, he has been exposed to classical and symphonic repertoire. During high school, he joined the marching band and at the same time, found interest in jazz and alto saxophone. He decided to pursue a career in music by majoring in Jazz Studies and Performance at the University of California in Irvine where he has received his Bachelors degree in Music. He is currently performing at local jazz clubs, formal events and concerts. He would like to continue to inspire his students while nurturing his passion.
*** Lesson Details ***
Ear Training (!)
Music in the real world
*** Studio Equipment ***
Wurlitzer upright piano
Shure, MXL mic's
M-Audio Profire 610
*** Travel Equipment ***
I provide manuscript paper. Student provides instrument and have the option to purchase my music books.
*** Specialties ***
I train my students the classical approach for their beginning and intermediate stages, and specialize in Jazz and Pop music.
• Instructor for piano, guitar, saxophone, and flute to beginning to upper-intermediate
students of all ages, private and group classes
• Lesson Planning (Conceptualized, developed and implemented enrichment exercises
to increase student musicianship)
• Classroom Management (Implementing daily lesson plan, evaluating student progress
and grades, student-teacher conference)
• Student Assessment (Conducting parent-teacher conference, assessing student
• Recital Coordinator (Organizing recital schedules and activities)
Expertise in the anthropological study of music and musical expression. Training in anthropological and ethnographic analysis of instrumental music, dance, spoken word, and song.
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Chinese web users think Transparency International's latest rankings are far too lenient.
Last week, Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index. The index surveyed business people and country experts to measure perceived levels of government corruption in countries and territories around the world. China ranked 80 out of 176 countries, with #1 (Denmark) being least corrupt.
Chinese Web users were not buying it.
Online sentiment: Too good to be true
On Sina Weibo, China's Twitter, where thousands of Chinese microbloggers retweeted and commented on the news, the most common reaction was disbelief. One dialogue summed up the general sentiment:
@贾楠SFZH: I didn't think [China] would've ranked so far up on the list.
@男衫衣谁baby: Looks like you're not so happy about it.
@贾楠SFZH: [Our] government officials need to wake up, open their eyes, and clean up their act! They ought to be more conscientious with taxpayers' money!!
A number of netizens quipped that Transparency International must have been bribed. "The high ranking isn't true-how much [money] did Transparency International take?" asked @霸气超ER. Others such as @我是糕富帅 aired frustrations over recent corruption scandals: "Foreigners really don't understand China. How could a country where a village chief has 1 or 2 billion [RMB] in assets [from US$150 million to US$300 million] rank 80th?"
The corruption index also offered the opportunity for Web users to see how China measured up to peer nations. Microbloggers relished the opportunity to draw comparisons and put their standing in broader context. @往事如风云 pointed out Taiwan's ranking at 37: "I'd been surprised to hear others call Taiwan more corrupt than the Mainland. I haven't been there, and I'd rather believe this survey."
Some comments expressed a mixture of pride and nationalism. "How do I see China's ranking? At least we're ahead of a bunch of those 'democratic' countries like India, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, Greece, and we're better off than the post-Arab Spring countries Egypt and Libya," @超级小璁璁 wrote.
Putting the results in context
The buzz around the corruption perception index provides yet another example of how online information and social networking are providing channels for citizens to develop a more independent sense of how their government operates.
The chatter offered a snapshot of the public cynicism and the credibility gap that the new leadership is seeking to bridge. Foreign, Hong Kong, and domestic Chinese media are taking note of the new Xi administration's emerging policy platform, which appears to have anti-corruption and clean government at its core. Taking its cue from the administration, the official party media outlet People's Daily showcased eight city and provincial-level government officials that have come under internal investigation for improprieties and alleged illegal conduct since last month's 18th Party Congress. Official coverage has highlighted the fact that online networks of citizens exposed corruption in a number of these cases.
- The Meaning of the 'Chinese Dream'
- A Viral Critique of Chinese Property Reform
- Chinese Leaders Share a Human Moment
The Xi administration is, of course, not the first Reform Era leader to take up the banner of clean government. With limited success, prior administrations have dealt with government corruption through internal investigations and Communist Party disciplinary actions. In the past, Party leaders have also used charges of corruption as a pretext to purge political enemies, and one might be tempted to ascribe such a motive to a new administration seeking to consolidate its power.
A more optimistic view is that the Party has realized that it needs to deal more effectively with the lack of confidence many Chinese people have in their legal and political systems.
Significantly, official media coverage of the recent investigations emphasizes the importance of public participation. According to an op-ed in the government-run People's Daily, these online exposés of corruption prove that the Internet is an important platform for interaction between citizens and leaders even if there is a danger that social media spreads misinformation and rumors as well as unearthing the truth. The op-ed is short on policy prescriptions beyond a vague need to "systemize" and "standardize" online anti-corruption.
One thing is clear, however: Greater transparency alone is not a panacea that will by itself solve corruption, or climate change, or urban planning problems. It is critical for the Chinese government to construct mechanisms beyond the opaque Internet that allow citizens to communicate with policymakers.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Many unknowns remain: What kind of institutional change is the Party willing to accept? Will it belatedly conclude that it cannot control information as effectively as it has in the past and loosen the reins on online speech? China's Web users do not yet have answers to these hard questions, but least social media provides them a platform to ask and discuss them.
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Just you people tell me when we start injecting cyanide behind grandpa's ears and eating babies at breakfast!
Just you people tell me when we start injecting cyanide behind grandpa's ears and eating babies at breakfast!
Somewhere about 2003 people took attention on these gullies. To many then it became clear that water still FLOWS in Mars. Its origin is clearly linked to certain horizons where pockets or small underground lakes can survive. While it is not clear how they survive there, two things are pretty well known:
1. Regionally these pockets are frequently linked to a few horizons so they come mostly from one and the same levels above local ground.
2. Most of them have a clear feature of bursting, nearly "exploding". The way they formed also suggested that liquid water didn't stay for long. They form and dry up fast not even reaching the bottoms of valleys or ravines.
So there is no big discovery here. What is novel is that someone may have found in laboratory HOW these bursts happen and why they have the features we see. And probably he may be missing a few things. One is why landscape remains "wet" for quite long time. Second - why the dark streaks seem to become bright-grey in time. Third - why this happens seasonally.
Anyway these questions will probably be answered in a few years from now, with fireworks and claims of novelity. This is how Science works in Mars...
So, after nearly 20 years of trashing and bashing, Windows is finally and officially not ready for prime time...
SLS may be really The Crap. However, the original post is surely the proof Space is too sweet for the flies to leave the pie in peace...
Whoever thinks "private" soft is more effective than any government funded project is dumber the dumbest ass on the road. He does not know nothing about space travel, specially the fact that there are still lots of unknowns behind the "simplicity" of celestial mechanics. These problems are hard enough to turn a well-planned trajectory into the nightmare of a very fluid situation, specially if there are people inside the crap. Now tell me what commercial venture will risk its head on such things. Or has anyone took off the "Ltd." out of modern business?!
NASA glued stuff? Great! That's exactly what we all do today. We GLUE stuff! We "optimize expenses", cut budgets by the half, mix apples with carrots to sell them in Tetrapacks. Oh! And you don't need to be a government agency for that because EVERYONE does it! That's what we call "Business Processes" without even thinking that there is a first principle voiding everything we do - "No changes/improverment shall stop the work of the current business..." But we are above that! Let Hell freeze over, we make a revolution! We create "the stuff" able to work everywhere for everyone everytime.
The only ooops here is that even before NASA sent people to the Moon, even before USSR sent the Sputnik and the nazis lauched its V-2... There was such stuff! It worked everywhere for everyone everytime. Its name - "snake oil".
Kammler can be linked to every fantastic and most absurd idea on nazi secret projects. However there is a caveat - till now I have never seen his name in any document that can be surely sourced to any atomic project nazis may have had. None, zero, nada, nechego...
The most striking fact that Kammler had nothing to do with nukes is how real nazi nuked scientists tried to survive the last days of the Third Reich. Most interesting was how Heisenberg managed to find food and other essential things for his family - he got help from an old acquaintance working at one of Kammler's key labs! For that, he came to town on a bycicle and the acquaintance was shocked by his shabby looks. So Heisenberg was a lost soul at the end of the war.
Nukes and Kammler, until someone proves the contrary, don't cope. However, this does not mean someone may still find some mega-leftovers of Kammler's Underground Empire. For the sake of what? Well he surely was an early participant of "Amerika Bomber" project, still in a very classical form. He also was the V-2/A-4 boss and there are tons of questions on how deep was his knowledge and participation of such projects like the A-10. He once worked at Luftwaffe and seemed to have been in good relations with Goering, so he could know about such wonders as the Silbervogel. And, at the end he was the last boss of the nazi jet projects (which was the reason why von Braun suddenly stopped at Oberammergau, with this guy breathing at his back). While war demanded some humbleness, it was usual to see many nazi projects exploding into mega-machines. I wouldn't be shocked to see the last of the last of Kammler's projects, the Messerschmidt P.1101, having a megabrother nearby. Or maybe it was just for the P.1101 itself! Once tested, they had to be produced somewhere, in large numbers, in very, very large numbers.
So the huge, nearly empty bunkers. Maybe for one of these bloated conceptions of World Domination. And nukes were just speculation, still without any proof of concept. At the end of the War, nazis still thought that the key to victory was the Very Big, Surely Bad and Really Ugly.
It BOOMS since WWII but that's all it does... It just booms the air with lots of hype. This thing is like the Philosophical Rock of the good Middle Ages. The difference is that, from the early start, someone tries to tell you how hard, heavy and look-alike the rock is.
Which means all these quests are a total failure. For one simple reason - Speed vs. Maneuverability. You can't have both in one basket. Either you sacrifice one for the sake of the other or you get nothing (eeeee, not so straight. You may get something you believe it works but usually it becomes bloody expensive).
Hypersonics are very peculiar on this cost. It's mega-speed, so it means you have near-zero maneuverability. Worse, even miserable deviations to a planned trajectory may be deadly to your mega-cannonball. X-15 and the Shuttle have magnificent examples of such cases, down from the drawing board and up to, somehow, Columbia's tragedy. They all show that hypersonics is not a place to play with fire. Because it's fire all over. Everything burns, even the best alloys and composites we created for this task. And a small deviation of parameters/environment and you are dealling with Sun temperatures in a place you may have not taken into account. In such cases, the result can be nothing but catastrophic.
This does not mean there is nothing to do in hypersonics. Well, nuclear heads and space systems fly on it! So there is something to do there. Maybe even a hypersonic rocket could have a role, if we count all caveats of the field. However, most hypersonic research is linked to the idea of creating a "TOP GUN" system, with Buck Rogers at the helm and even less brainy politicians and generals feeding the whole thing with mega-budgets and napoleonic dreams on World Peace.
To end, let me note that this whole story has a historical scent of sinister. The first idea of an hypersonic mega-weapon was first studied in The Third Reich! Its name - Silbervogel. It was a madness like many things nazis did then but it is not just a crazy idea "floating in the air". In fact, the nazis tried some follow-ups and one of those was pushed by von Braun's boss - general Walter Dornberger. Later, after getting a solid feet in the US, Dornberger will lobby several times for hypersonic mega-weapons. In the end he became the father, forefather and grandfather of the BOMI, X-15, X-20 Dyna-Soar and Space Shuttle.
Really, what Senator Hatch should do first is to take care of its own pirates like McColo, InterCage and alikes, who cost billions of dollars for millions of people all around the world. American Pirates who specially care to attack hundreds of thousands of russian sites stealing resources AND traffic with specialized trojans, semi-automatic robots and unique viruses.
Maybe russian taxpayers don't have billions of dolars to show Senator Hatch the cost of what american pirates do here. But I am pretty sure that many american citizens still can endure tens of billions of dolars, which does not happen to many russian citizens. Because for many of them, the cost of a high-tech McColo attack runs frequently from 1/3 to 5 times their monthly salaries. There are small companies here that went burned from something that originated in USA. Yes, playing absolute numbers is SOOOOOO COOOL. Watch the effects first, before crying wolf.
So many thanks for Senator Hatch to refer Canada, China and Russia as being in the top of US's Piracy watch-list. For us, it is YOU who are in the top!
It seems the meteorite "theory" is picking up, even on Slashdot... And it is going even statistical:
IMHO, it is picking on the wrong way.
First, not all Earth's surface is equally probable on meteority strikes. Earth is moving on Space in a determined direction, and carries a specific positon in time. Now, space objects in the Solar System are not equally distributed all over it. Under this, as far as I can record, it seems that the Equator is one of the less probable zones for meteorite strike.
Under the weather conditions, we know were ocurring at the flight path, the flash being a "meteor stike" is even less plausible. Much more plausible is a massive bolt striking the plane. They also flash brightly and an example from a plane in Japan, seen on several sites, even shows the camera going blind.
Yes, this does not "explain" the "vertical fall" seen after the flash. Is it so? If the flash did blow up the fuel, then that would be the most probable thing to be seen.
Yes, many people claim that lightning cannot do such damage to airplanes. But no one denies, that a catasthrophic set of events could lead to something unexpected. Now such things do happen and when they happen, things go wrong in every possible way, specially, it occurs if models consider every catasthropic event as an individual parameter, but ignore their simultaneous ocurrence. In my life as an expert (nothing related to airplanes), I have seen some 4 such events. I even confess here that I was responsible for the consequences of one of them - I considered that events A and B would never occur together in any possible and plausible form. They ocurred. No matter that there were things that denied their simultaneous ocurrence, I never thought that one day I would have to deal with an hybrid environment were both basic events would be possible.
However, it is pretty sad that things keep being the same after all these years.
In your world of "opportunity for everyone" maybe. In the real world shit happens in such way that it may be practically impossible to get a solution. If the whole economy goes through the tubes, how can you guarantee yourself survival? If you didn't have had this chance, you are pretty lucky, I had to pass by the downfall of USSR. It was a TREMENDOUS experience. And not the first and last one. I just refer it because it was a situation where, chances to find work were pretty grim.
Now, guys like the one I described, don't have the experience of running through wars and major crisis. They are good guys, who hope to have a life without serious bumps. This bump going now is pretty bad for such people and don't tell me a anything about opportunities. You didn't even think on what market, country, region or field I or this guy are in. So, drop a bit your shell, be it "conservative" or "liberal", and think for a little that the world is not everywhere the same.
And one note: You claim sysadmins have no excuse for considerable savings. That's consumerism, pal. That's management going nuts, not knowing what they are spending on. Not personally nor at company level. If you don't know how to manage your OWN money, how will you manage the company's money?
I don't get just a salary, I manage budgets and personnel. If I would hear someone claiming such thing as you did here, I wouldn't even take the effort to see his CV. And don't tell me about that "IT ain't cheap". Yes I know it is not cheap. But it shall be rational. Specially, when you have companies burning millions of dollars of debt and you are one of the guys tasked to kick off these companies out of the hole they are in. So when I say - I will not look at such CV, I am pretty sure of what I am talking about.
Unfortunately, I know the reality. Yes, you are among the majority.
You know how many sysadmin CVs I refused to look at? It is not "opportunities". It's a very grim picture that makes me feel horrible.
Microsoft - Windows is the "gloat of the bloat and bloat of the gloat"
User - What is this moat of the goat or...
Microsoft - It is a complex of programs to feel a unique experience on digital information.
User - Can I put something into your?..
Microsoft - No way. Verbotten! It's pure proprietary, closed source, use it or drop it.
Now laws are being broken here. And it's not a question wether this works on PCs or not. It is clear black on white.
Microsoft - Windows is an Operating System!
User - Can I put my program?
Microsoft - Eh, uh... No. Use ours or drop dead.
That IS a violation of law. More it is an antitrust violation because in the OS market you have a privileged position and you are misleading everyone AND using that "mislead" to kick out the alternatives.
The antitrust law goes as far as you claim your rights in a specific market. Does DoJ drops the rope on Sony for the software they have on the playstations? And is MS breaking any laws for blocking every other system on their Xboxes? Is anyone going after them for that?
MS claims that Windows has a certain universality under a very specific thing - the Operating System. Read carefully what I wrote. I know I'm pretty freak in english but the text is quite understandable.
Yes, MS is a legal construct. But, while they have to follow the law, they have inherent rights - they are copyright holders. I am not saying that "today" they may scrap Windows or change the EULA. If they did this, probably they would have some pretty bad time with DoJ. However, they can change it "tomorrow". And they can change it ways that no antitrust will go after them. IMHO, if they stop claiming the OS definition for Windows, it will be pretty hard to get them.
But while they claim Windows is an OS or carries certain properties that they really don't make available, they will have to spend a lot of time in the courts. Because, that is where the law is being broken.
Impossible. How do you figure out the budget if people talk only abstractively?
I had a few bad episodes during my lifetime with such abstractions. It doesn't work, what it doesn't work? Eeeeee it doesn't work. Ok, now what do you think or how do you think it should work. Well the computer shall "give me"/"think about"/"show me"...
And you realize that they don't even know how to use a computer.
Now think. Abstractions+"No real tasks"+"Calculate the Budget".
Under this crisis, it will take an Eternity to calculate a budget...
I just remembered an episode that occurred not so long ago.
This comes from third persons but I know the guy who was trying to get the job. An average sysadmin but systematic and hardworking.
When he was about to be layed off, people tried to find him a job on a business partner. The partner was having some pretty bad time with its networks. They are highly critical and shall run non-stop (something related to medicine btw). Now, lately, for several times the servers went down. There was even a hangup that lasted nearly half a day, a catasthrophe in their way of working. Things were so bad that, for some time, it was the company where this guy was working that was supporting their servers.
They naturally "offered" to their partner this guy. The partner refused. The guy went to the street. The problems kept creeping on.
Now, on that company, they were keeping four jerks. They didn't create these servers, they didn't support them and they even didn't know what was running there. Their job? "System Administrator".
I ain't talking about a little company. And this case is not the craziest I have been told of. But that what is happening. Good and average specialists are being sent to the streets while companies burn down departments or keep God knows who doing administration.
So, during this crisis, high-tech geeky homeless and unemployed is pretty natural to occur. More, with management going nuts in some companies, there is a good chance that some of the top experts find themselves on the street.
Why? Because someone offers you a job with absolutely no sense?
I am a infosec expert. So threat shall be something that you can measure. Objectively or subjectively, it doesn't matter. You either consider than under the threat of a breakin - "someone may steal information" or "we can loose a value of 100 million dollars". There is nothing weird on this, right?
Tell me, if someone comes to you and speaks about "threats", just the word "threats". And he keeps on and on with "threats", adding "hackers" or "spies" for a bit of salt. Will you take that job he is offering you? More, if you, as a professional, try to figure out what kind of threats and risks may exist, and this guy can only answer something about the fears going on inside the company? Fears, not dollars, or data inside some server.
Oh, you may think that he didn't want to give some confidential info. The BAD part of the story is that I once worked for them. And every time I tried to push the talk into what I knew they had, the guy was going somewhere else.
Yes, it is schizo season. I had three such proposals. The other two less crazy but also demanded a diagnosis.
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While in Lisbon last month, MovingCities went on a drive to the nearby coastal town of Cascais. This with the purpose to visit the already much published Casa das Histórias Paula Rego [via ArchDaily, MIMOA, dezeen, wallpaper, Fernando Guerra, publico or blueprint] by the Pritzker-Prized Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego [Paula Rego Museum] is one of the most intruiging small museums we have seen over the last few years. We were particularly impressed by the solid formal composition, the diverse internal sequence of exhibition spaces and the keen eye for detail. The museum’s website has a good set of drawings by Eduardo Souto de Moura and more photographs of the building itself.
The aformentioned article in Blueprint has following background to Paula Rego and the museum:
In the 1930s Paula Rego grew up here and attended the English-speaking school St Julian’s. She spent her teenage years in Estoril, until, with the encouragement of her father, who wanted to keep her away from the dictatorship of Salazar, at the age of 17 she came to London to study at the Slade School of Art. In 2005 representatives of Cascais contacted her to ask if she would consider helping to establish a museum dedicated to her work. […] Rego is a heroic figure in Portugal. She is the country’s best-known artist, but she also has a public profile after speaking out about politics and in particular the role of women in Portuguese society. […] At the Casa das Historias (literally House of Stories), the galleries tell the story of Rego’s own life and work, beginning with her early collages, her ‘drawn’ paintings on large canvases, the Opera series, and the etchings of Portuguese and English fairy tales. […] Inside, the architecture is muted and restrained, or as Justino puts it, ‘the building ceases to exist’. The colour and materials remain the same throughout: chalky grey walls that seem to echo the chalkiness of Rego’s own pastel drawings; and a dark grey Bluestone marble, full of imperfectionsand fossils, which is quarried locally in Cascais. Rego was involved in decisions about all these materials: Souto deMoura Architects would present samples and colours for discussion.
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The often-mentioned fact that humans and chimpanzees are 99.9 percent identical in their DNA is hard to accept for some people, who can't comprehend how we could share so much of our basic genetic endowment even with the most humanlike ape. Yet this genetic similarity is very real, and it dramatically shows how parsimonious natural selection can be -- it reuses genes and structures that have worked well in the past.
It was also mind-boggling when, in 1987, British researchers demonstrated that a human gene could be inserted into the cells of a lowly yeast -- and it functioned perfectly well. In this landmark experiment, researchers Paul Nurse and Melanie G. Lee showed that the gene in question, one that controlled the division of cells, was extremely similar despite the fact that yeast and the distant ancestors of humans diverged about 1 billion years ago.
The Human Genome Project is revealing many dramatic examples of how genes have been "conserved" throughout evolution -- that is, genes that perform certain functions in lower animals have been maintained even in the human DNA script, though sometimes the genes have been modified for more complex functions.
This thread of genetic similarity connects us and the roughly 10 million other species in the modern world to the entire history of life, back to a single common ancestor more than 3.5 billion years ago. And the evolutionary view of a single (and very ancient) origin of life is supported at the deepest level imaginable: the very nature of the DNA code in which the instructions of genes and chromosomes are written. In all living organisms, the instructions for reproducing and operating the individual is encoded in a chemical language with four letters -- A, C, T, and G, the initials of four chemicals. Combinations of three of these letters specify each of the amino acids that the cell uses in building proteins.
Biologically and chemically, there is no reason why this particular genetic code, rather than any of millions or billions of others, should exist, scientists assert. Yet every species on Earth carries a genetic code that is, for all intents and purposes, identical and universal. The only scientific explanation for this situation is that the genetic code was the result of a single historic accident. That is, this code was the one carried by the single ancestor of life and all of its descendents, including us. | <urn:uuid:4a4362b2-33e3-44bb-8958-22aba698861e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/4/l_044_02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00462-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946546 | 473 | 3.6875 | 4 |
Pennsylvania recently enacted its first law regarding breastfeeding exempting breastfeeding from criminal laws, and giving women “permission,” but not the “right,” to breastfeed.
35 P.S. § 636.2 et seq. (2007)
35 P.S. § 636.2. Declaration of policy
The General Assembly finds that breastfeeding a baby is an important and basic act of nurturing that must be protected in the interests of maternal and child health and family values.
§ 636.3. General rule
A mother shall be permitted to breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be present, irrespective of whether or not the mother’s breast is covered during or incidental to the breastfeeding.
§ 636.4. Freedom to breastfeed
The act of breastfeeding shall not be considered:
(1) Indecent exposure as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. § 3127 (relating to indecent exposure).
(2) Open lewdness as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. § 5901 (relating to open lewdness).
(3) Obscenity or sexual conduct as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. § 5903 (relating to obscene and other sexual materials and performances
(4) A nuisance as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. § 6504 (relating to public nuisances).
Pennsylvania: City of Philadelphia City Ordinance 9-1105
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Ever since I started preparing for last week’s tea, tea has been much on my mind. I have more to say about it than can be reasonably contained in a single blog so I’ve decided to write a series on the subject. Tonight I’m writing about Tea Farm, here in the valley.
Tea Farm is an eleven acre organic farm that grows a variety of tea-centric crops including lavender, hops, and calendula. They blend their crops with fair trade and organic teas and offer their blends both in their own tea room and around Vancouver Island.
Although most tea is grown in tropical and sub-tropical climates, there are some hardier varieties. In 2010, Tea Farm planted a trial crop of 200 plants of one of these varieties, to see if tea is a viable crop in this area. The tea has made it through the winter and Tea Farm is now hopeful that they will be able to offer valley-grown tea within just a few years.
Margit Nellemann, one of Tea Farm’s owners says “We specialize in organic and fair-trade teas from around the world and we’ll continue to do that, honouring what people have been doing for centuries and what they do well,” but it’s exciting to think that the valley could soon be home to the northernmost trading tea farm in the western hemisphere.
I’m looking forward to Tea Farm’s first offering of their own tea crop. In the meantime, I’ll continue to enjoy their teas at home and to visit their tea room, where I can also admire Margit’s pottery. The rural setting is as calming and delightful as the teas themselves.
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By Christine Hamilton-Pennell
Growing Local Economies, Inc.
February 24, 2011
Dr. Paul Polak, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, innovator, and founder of International Development Enterprises (IDE), has a crazy notion. He believes that poor people are poor because they need to make more money. This simple but revolutionary concept has spurred his work among the world’s poorest people for 30 years. Polak asserts that traditional development approaches to ending poverty have been misguided, expensive, and mostly haven’t worked. There are around 800 million people who live on a dollar a day, mostly rural farmers with less than an acre of land. These subsistence-level farmers typically grow staple crops during the monsoon season, sometimes supplementing them with vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers. Most of the food is consumed by their families, and if they are lucky, they have enough to cover their basic needs and a little left over to sell in the marketplace. In bad years, they may go hungry for part of the year.
After talking to thousands of such farmers in Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, and other developing countries, Polak determined that if they could irrigate their plots during the dry season, they could grow and sell high-value, labor-intensive products, such as off-season fruits and vegetables, to customers who can afford them. The challenge, then, was to figure out how to develop and market low-cost drip-irrigation systems that would be affordable and accessible to dollar-a-day farmers and allow them to increase the revenue from their land.
So, in the spirit of Thomas Edison, Polak and his team at IDE set out to develop just such a technology. IDE used the principles of “design thinking,” long before it was a fashionable concept, to solve this problem. Tim Brown, CEO and President of IDEO, an innovation and design firm headquartered in Palo Alto, defines design thinking in a recent Harvard Business Review article as “a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.”
After much trial and error, IDE designed and developed a human-powered treadle pump that cost $25.00 and could irrigate a half acre of land.
Polak knew that this was not enough. Subsistence farmers also needed new markets capable of bringing them the inputs they needed to grow their crops, such as seeds and fertilizer, as well as new value chains capable of bringing their goods to market at reasonable prices. Polak and his colleagues took eight practical steps to make this happen. IDE:
1. Did not accept subsidies from government or development agencies for their products, choosing instead to sell them at fair market value to the farmers. Their experience showed that subsidizing the costs of products and services undercut the local market mechanisms.
2. Lowered the cost of their products by simplifying the design and finding less expensive materials, and by providing different quality standards at different price points for consumers.
3. Recruited small-scale manufacturers to build the pumps.
4. Recruited village dealers to sell the pumps.
5. Trained well-drillers to install the pumps.
6. Opened access to microcredit.
7. Implemented marketing and promotion initiatives.
8. Established strategically placed demonstration plots.
IDE energized 75 small-volume workshop entrepreneurs who each invested $500 to $2,000 (US) to get into the treadle-pump business. In addition, more than 2,000 village dealers and 3,000 well-drillers now earn their living by making, selling, and installing treadle pumps at an unsubsidized fair market price of $25.00.
The results? More than one-and-a-half million treadle pumps have been sold to subsistence farmers through these private sector supply chains, irrigating more than 750,000 acres at a fraction of the cost of conventional systems. More than 17 million people have been able to move out of poverty because of the additional income their land has been able to generate. IDE has gone on to develop many other devices and systems that allow subsistence farmers to efficiently store and deliver water to their fields and homes.
Polak hasn’t stopped there. He sees market opportunities among the millions of dollar-a-day slum dwellers as well. Instead of viewing slums as hellholes of misery and deprivation, he sees them as “a beehive of grassroots enterprises” where people who eke out a living making and selling simple products could leverage their low-cost labor and learn to produce higher-value goods to sell outside their local areas.
Polak doesn’t minimize the need for international aid to support education, healthcare, and infrastructure in poor communities. He has repeatedly found, however, that when farmers and slum dwellers begin to move out of poverty, they do make investments in education and healthcare for their families.
If design thinking and simple market mechanisms such as these can have such a profound impact on the world’s survival entrepreneurs, what lessons can be learned for our situation here in the U.S.? Research shows that the number of “necessity entrepreneurs” in this country—those who have launched a new business out of necessity after losing a job or not being able find employment—has risen dramatically in the past several years. How can we find simple and affordable solutions to support the business, technical, financial, and market needs of these start-up entrepreneurs, many of whom live in low-income communities with minimal business support systems, and help them move to the next stage of becoming “opportunity entrepreneurs?”
I welcome your thoughts.
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Its a familiar story by now. Dj vu even. Google releases a new socially enabled product and the web goes wild with conjecture and hype. And of course, +1 has fostered the very same reaction. Yet I cant help but feel more than a little skeptical. After all, weve been down this path before. First came Social Search. Then the infamous Google Wave. And last year we were treated to Buzz. And while Social Search still maintains some semblance of life, most of Googles social projects sit atop the stinking trash heap. And this time around, I cant help but think that +1 is headed for the exact same fate
Why Google launched +1
Theres little doubt that +1 is a direct response to Facebooks Like button. What started out as a seemingly innocuous feature gained such immense traction that it has effectively become an informal recommendation engine. Indeed, last year it was reported that Facebook users Liked over 65 million items every day!
The advent of the Like button has enabled Facebook to build a complex profile of its user interests. For instance, they know what books, bands, movies, brands & sporting teams I like via Facebook Pages. They also know the type of content/topics that interest me based on what I share within Facebook.
While Google may know what my interests are at any specific moment in time (via search), only Facebook understands who I am as a person. And that is incredibly powerful from a marketing perspective! Which is why Google wants in! Because this type of data has the potential to introduce a new layer of relevance to search results.
When search engines manipulate results based on my personal interests, along with the recommendations of my friends (in the form of likes), we have an incredibly powerful product on our hands. Which is precisely what Facebook and Bing are doing right now. Google simply has to act!
Googles new +1 product aims to replicate Facebooks Like functionality so that they too are able to build their own database of user interests and recommendations. But in my mind it has little chance of success
Why +1 is probably doomed
To understand why +1 may be doomed, it is first necessary to understand the psychology behind why people actually share content online in the first place. Liking content isnt a new phenomenon. Well before Facebook existed, people shared content via the web. It was called email, and it is still the most common channel for sharing content on the web. However, Facebook has provided a more contemporary outlet for content sharing.
So why is it that we actually share content? Typically it is because that content generates an emotion that we want to share with our friends/family. Most often, its because the content makes us laugh. However, there are a range of other emotions that motivate us to share content:
- Awe: Videos of the Japanese tsunami amaze us
- Sorrow: Videos of diseased kittens sadden us
- Disdain: Videos of untalented teens amuse us
- Amazement: Stories of miraculous survival astonish us
- Enlightened: Educational content informs us
Regardless of the nature of the content, we share it because we want others to feel that same emotion. To experience what we experienced. Which is precisely where Googles +1 tool misses the mark
Googles network of irrelevance
Google isnt a social network, hard as they might try. Unlike Facebook, they dont know who my real friends are. Instead, they attempt to cobble together a network via a mish-mash of contacts within Gmail, Twitter, Buzz & a range of other services (that arent Facebook).
But heres the thing, none of these services (aside from perhaps Gmail) have reached critical mass in adoption and usage. Subsequently, Googles network utterly misses the mark. Conversely, because everyone uses Facebook, their social graph is an incredibly accurate reflection of my real-life network. So if I want to share something, Im not going to Google! Im going straight to Facebook.
So if the purpose of +1 isnt to share content, what exactly is its purpose? And why should I use it? Sure, it may ultimately help improve the quality and relevance of search results, but the fact is that 99.9% of the population arent interested in helping Google improve their algorithm. Thus it serves no purpose.
+1 meet Ping
Ultimately, +1 seems like a reincarnation of Ping (Apples attempt at a social network). Ping could have been an awesome product. I really wanted it to work. The idea of being to easily browse the music my friends bought had so much potential (bearing in mind most dont use streaming services). But the product never reached its potential because Apple refused to collaborate with Facebook.
+1 is treading the same path. The harsh reality is that Google and Apple cant succeed with their social products without Facebook integration until a credible competitor emerges.
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- Status Report
- August 11, 2022
XA/EVA Project Office Weekly Activity Report July 26, 2001
Temporary Equipment Restraint Aid (TERA) Base TERA and CDR
The Temporary Equipment Restraint Aid (TERA) Base Critical Design Review (CDR) and Tool-Head Preliminary Design Review (PDR) were held jointly on July 17, 2001. No new issues were identified during the design review. TERA is currently undergoing structural and functional design changes required to accommodate the increased size of the Flight Releasable Attachment Mechanism (FRAM) and the Orbital Replacement Units (ORU’s) that will populate the FRAM’s. The tool head of the TERA, currently a ball-socket configuration, is being redesigned to a swing arm design. Due to the mid-September TERA delivery schedule for integration on the S0 segment, the change is being performed in two steps. The Ball-Socket joint will be cut off of the TERA Base and replaced with an EVA compatible socket. The TERA Base will be delivered in mid-September and launched on S0 as scheduled on STS-110/8A. On a future flight, the new swing arm tool-head design will be launched and installed into the EVA socket on the TERA Base to form the complete TERA. The tool-head redesign is currently scheduled to be complete by the end of February 2002.
STS-132/2J/A Cupola NBL Verification Test
The Cupola NBL verification test was conducted the week of July 16, 2001. EVA assembly, maintenance, and contingency operations were tested per the requirements documented in the Cupola Bilateral Integration and Verification Plan (BIVP). No major hardware issues were identified. The Crew Consensus Report will officially document all the issues. A review of the flight blankets is planned to ensure they meet EVA requirements.
EVA Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM)
Representatives from NASA and Energia met in Moscow at an EVA Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) to conduct a design review of the Russian-proposed fairlead hardware for use on the Russian Segment (RS) of the ISS. Installation and use of fairleads will mitigate Russian concerns about NASA’s safety tether entangling with or damaging RS sensors, arrays, antennas, targets, etc., during EVA’s. The agenda for the design review included topics related to optional hardware configurations, recommendations for design improvements to meet safety or utilization concerns, the approach to testing and certifying the hardware, integration of the proposed hardware on the Russian segment, proposed locations, various launch options, a proposed production schedule to meet launch options, and a forward action plan. The fairlead design is on schedule for deliveries the first quarter of fiscal year 2002.
STS-104/7A EVA Status
STS-104/7A crew successfully performed EVA 3 from the ISS Joint Airlock. This 4 hour 1 minute EVA installed the fourth high-pressure gas tank and demonstrated that the ISS airlock is a working base for ISS EVA operations. The new exercise Prebreathe Protocol was successfully performed prior to STS-104/7A EVA 3 on ISS. Support equipment from the ISS ECLSS and CheCS systems performed nominally.
Prior to EVA 1 of the mission, one of the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) Increased Capacity Batteries (ICB) had leaked Potassium Hydroxide. Four ICB’s, including the leaking ICB, were returned on STS-104/7A, two were left on ISS. The conditions believed to have caused the failure do not exist for the ICB’s being flown on STS-105/7A.1. EMU batteries of the previous design are available to support 7A.1 in the event the planned ground testing of the 7A ICB uncovers an unexpected problem.
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It may become more difficult for inexperienced sewage system installers to
work in Porter County.
On Tuesday, the Porter County Commissioners were approached by Health
Department Administrator Keith Letta and Health Board attorney David
Hollenbeck on the subject of an ordinance that would require individuals or
firms that install onsite sewage systems to be certified by the Indiana
Onsite Wastewater Professionals Associa-tion (IOWPA) and register with the
If approved, the ordinance will take effect on Jan. 1 of next year.
Letta said while such a measure is not mandated by the state, the State
Board of Health does recommend counties have some control over septic system
installation. A majority of counties already do.
The health board decided to go to the commissioners due to a “growing trend”
of collapsed septic systems in both newer and older homes. “We don’t know if
it is a sign of the economic times or just the times themselves. But we have
a problem here in Porter County,” Hollenbeck said.
Letta said that once defective septic systems are placed in the ground, they
have little to no chance of being fixed. “There is no way to replace it,” he
In order to receive certification from IOWPA, Letta said, the installer must
pass an examination. Not having the right certification is a “disservice to
the taxpayer,” Letta said, in that legal costs for the county are involved
whenever the department takes one of these developers to court.
“We want these guys to know what they are doing when they put these systems
in,” he said, adding that many installers favor the permit system.
Since it can create the ordinance, the county can set its own parameters on
what the lot size for these systems need to be, Letta said.
County Commissioner President John Evans, R-North, asked why regulation
isn’t handled at the state level, just as permits are for other professions
such as barbers and plumbers. He expressed concern that having the county
make inspections would add expense and said it would be more beneficial if
the state took responsibility.
Letta said the state has experienced staff cuts and does not have the
manpower to carry out the task.
Evans asked that the ordinance be drawn up by Hollenbeck and county attorney
Elizabeth Knight and presented to the commissioners for a vote.
In another matter, Evans said the commissioners are looking at the
possibility of privatizing security at the Porter County Jail and the County
Courthouse which may be a start toward solving the ongoing funding and
The announcement comes after last Thursday’s County Council budget hearing,
when Sheriff David Lain told officials the jail is in need of 16 new jail
officers for adequate staffing at a cost estimated at $1.5 million annually,
an amount that the Council said would not be easy to find at a time when the
entire county budget is in a crunch.
Evans said without the benefit packages paid to the jailers and medical
staff, the county could see large savings if it is turned over to private
firms. The commissioners wish to find out if private entities have a “more
efficient way” of managing jail staff than county government, Evans said.
Also on Tuesday, the commissioners were asked by Donna Criner, co-founder of
the non-profit Northwest Indiana Cancer Kids (NICK) foundation, to help
promote Childhood Cancer Awareness month.
Evans read a proclamation written by Criner into the minutes drawing
attention to the fact that cancer is the number one disease killer of
children and an estimated 13,500 children are diagnosed with cancer each
year in the United States.
The proclamation states that cancer appears in children more frequently than
in any group other than those over age 65.
The message: Childhood cancer research is “vastly and consistently
underfunded.” The National Cancer Institute only spends four percent of its
funding on childhood cancers, the proclamation said.
Criner thanked the commissioners and said more information can be found at
NICK’s website, www.nicancerkids.org
The commissioners also voted unanimously to hire Maris and Son Roofing of
Hobart to do roof repairs on the Porter County Courthouse.
The firm was recommended by DLZ Indiana architect Jason Vetne, with a bid
amount of $203,613, which will come out of county CCD money. “It will be
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Where Is the Quadratus femoris?
What are the Symptoms of a Quadratus femoris Tear?
Tight hip-flexors can be caused by many things. Sitting on a chair for long periods of time shortens them and trains them to become tight for example. Once the hip flexors become less functional they inhibit the muscles on the back of your hip around your butt. Gluteal muscles that play a major role in the hip also become dysfunctional either from being stretched in a seated position for a long perion of time of because of these tight hip flexors on the front.
What is The Function of the Quadratus femoris?
Laterally rotates the thigh
Origin and Insertion of Quadratus femoris
Origin: Lateral border of the ischial tuberosity
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20th anniversary: the euro as the cash currency of Europe
The euro is a tangible sign of peace in Europe. Introduced exactly 20 years ago on 1 January 2002, it is now the means of payment in a total of 19 countries in the eurozone.
Many countries in the European Union(EU) are interested in joining the common currency, but they can only be admitted on condition that they meet the EU requirements. The member states aim to move step by step towards a more far-reaching economic and monetary union. This shows that even after 20 years, the eurozone continues to evolve.
Popular support for the euro is at a higher level today than ever before: 80 percent of citizens believe the euro is good for the EU.
The road to the European single currency
Before the euro was finally introduced, a lengthy negotiation process was necessary that lasted several decades. This began back in 1951 with the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community, which is still regarded as the first step towards the creation of the EU and the monetary union. The ECSC was founded by six countries – Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. They agreed to create a supranationally regulated market for coal and steel.
The ECSC was so successful that the countries involved decided to integrate other economic sectors, too. This was how the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) came to be established in 1957.
A European Monetary System (EMS) was created in 1979: this successfully kept the exchange rate of the various currencies in Europe stable. Taking increasingly larger steps, Europe gradually moved towards introducing a common currency. Concrete ideas for realising the later euro were set out in the Delors Committee report as early as 1989, with an initial project being implemented one year later. All restrictions on the movement of capital between member states were lifted.
The euro becomes the common currency
The Maastricht Treaty finally established the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1993. Binding rules were laid down that the signatory states had to fulfil in order to be able to introduce the single currency. It was at a European Council meeting in Madrid in 1995 that the member states decided on the name of the new currency – it was to be called the “euro”.
On 1 January 1999, the euro was launched as the single currency in eleven EU member states. From that point onwards, only the euro was used as a currency on the financial markets and for electronic payments in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Three years later it entered circulation as the cash currency.
Due to the great success of the euro, more states joined the eurozone in subsequent years.
The following states have adopted the euro as their currency: Austria (1), Belgium (2), Cyprus (3), Estonia (4), Finland (5), France (6), Germany (7), Greece (8), Ireland (9), Italy (10), Latvia (11), Lithuania (12), Luxembourg (13), Malta (14), Netherlands (15), Portugal (16), Slovakia (17), Slovenia (18), Spain (19). These states are candidates for accession: Bulgaria (20), Croatia (21), Czech Republic (22), Hungary (23), Poland (24), Romania (25), Sweden (26)
The euro is the second strongest currency in the world
The success of the euro is reflected in its long-term stability. Its inflation rate averaged 1.7 percent up until 2020. By comparison: in Germany the inflation rate was 2.2 percent in the ten years prior to the introduction of the euro. No final figures are available for the pandemic year of 2021 yet, but an average inflation rate of 2.6 percent is expected due to the exceptional circumstances such as shortages of materials, equipment and labour as well as a sharp increase in energy prices. Once these crisis-related factors have been overcome, an inflation rate of 1.8 percent can be expected from 2023 onwards.
The euro is also the second strongest currency worldwide. Its share of global payment transactions is 39 percent – almost on a par with the US dollar (40 percent).
Germany benefits from the strength of the euro
Another advantage is the elimination of exchange rate fees and fluctuations between the euro countries. This has a positive impact for Germany in particular, as an export nation: 40 percent of all its exports go to the eurozone.
Businesses benefit from the common currency, too: it saves costs, thereby helping to maintain jobs and create new ones. It also means companies can expand more easily, which in turn translates into greater product choice and lower prices for consumers.
The single currency makes it easier for 340 million eurozone citizens to save and invest. It also facilitates travel, shopping and trade.
The euro is able to weather crises
The success of the euro is also reflected in its ability to withstand crisis situations. For example, the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain were particularly affected by the global economic and financial crisis of 2008. The EU institutions took measures to support these countries financially in order to further strengthen the EMU in the long term.
The swift response of the EU and its institutions – especially the European Central Bank (ECB) – enabled a return to an inflation level just below two percent throughout the euro area.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the heads of state and government of all EU countries, the European Parliament and the European Commission agreed on a recovery plan in December 2020 to cushion the damage incurred to the economy and society. A total of 2.018 trillion euros is being made available from the long-term EU budget and the temporary programme NextGenerationEU for a greener, more digital and more crisis-proof Europe.
This shows that even in difficult situations, the euro continues to underpin successful collaboration across Europe.
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Perspective in pharmacoeconomics refers to the economic vantage point that is being taken in a pharmacoeconomic analysis, such as a cost-effectiveness analysis or cost-utility analysis. This will affect the types of costs (resource expenditures) and benefits that will be considered relevant to the analysis.
Five general perspectives that are often cited in pharmacoeconomics include: institutional, third party, patient, governmental and societal. The author must state the perspective and then insure that costs and valuations remain consistent with it throughout the study.
If, for example, a pharmacoeconomic study is done from the institutional perspective, the medication cost would be relevant to the resource expenditures involved in the delivery of the therapy. Since the institution (e.g. hospital) incurs this expense, then it would be included. Other relevant costs might include: inventory carrying cost, pharmacy time to compound or dispense, nursing time to administer, disposables (e.g. medication cups or intraveous tubing) and even allocated hospital overhead costs.
The next component of perspective that needs to be addressed under perspective is valuation. Valuation defines the currency reference that will be used to represent the resource expenditure associated with a given cost. When it comes time to determine the actual "dollar amount" to be attributed to the medication, it needs to be consistent with the perspective as well. Average wholesaler price (AWP) might NOT be considered an appropriate valuation of medication cost from an institutional perspective, if it does not represent the true cost to the institution. Average acquisition cost would be more relevant as a medication cost valuation.
More complex perspectives may require broader stables of resource expenditures (costs) and more intricate valuations. For example, in the "societal" perspective, it is necessary for the author to consider additional costs that would not be relevant to a given institutional perspective. One such example includes "lost productivity". Lost wages from work due to illness would not be relevant to an insitutional perspective, since these do not represent expenditures an average institution (e.g. hospital) will incur. From a societal perspective, they would need to be included. Lost productivity due to illness has an impact on society at large and must therefore be included and properly valued.
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When you decide on a charity structure there are two big decisions to be made:
In a charity run entirely by its trustees, those trustees are the only members of the charity. They can make crucial decisions (such as who to appoint as a trustee; whether to make changes to the constitution) without reference to any wider group. This type of charity can be called a ‘charitable trust’ and may use the word ‘Trust’ or ‘Charitable Trust’ in its name.
A charity with a wider membership is more democratic because the trustees will be accountable to those members. There are some decisions that can ONLY be made by the wider membership such as electing trustees, approving the annual accounts, and approving any changes to the constitution. You will need to think carefully about how large that membership may be because the charity will have a duty to keep records of all members so that they can invite them to an Annual General Meeting, where they will elect trustees and approve the accounts and ask questions about how the trustees have been managing the charity (like shareholders in a company). This type of charity is often called an ‘Association’ or ‘Society’.
An incorporated charity is a legal form (like a company) that gives the charity its own legal personality. This means it can own property and sign contracts in the charity name. Incorporation gives trustees greater protection from being personally liable. A charity that employs people or promises to provide services (that is, most of them!) will normally choose to be incorporated.
But this added protection comes with tighter legal regulations and control, including:
These days, the most commonly used incorporated structure is called a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Some older charities use the old structure called a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee, but we don’t recommend this for small charities as it means that you must register twice – as a charity with the Charity Commission and as a company with Charities House. Keep in mind, this is quite a lot of bureaucracy!
An unincorporated charity doesn’t have its own legal personality, so it can’t sign any contracts in the charity name. That means that contracts must be signed by one of the trustees who can then be held personally liable for any debts.
The unincorporated structures are:
Best for charities which don’t expect to rent premises, own property, employ staff, etc.
The choices you make at this stage will affect the type of constitution, or governing document, that your charity will adopt.
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June 08, 2001
NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, PETITIONER-RESPONDENT,
BAYSHORE REGIONAL SEWERAGE AUTHORITY, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT.
On appeal from a final decision of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, WEN NJ0024708.
Before Judges A. A. Rodríguez, Collester and
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Rodriguez, A. A., J.A.D.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION WITHOUT THE APPROVAL OF THE APPELLATE DIVISION
Submitted: March 27, 2001
In this appeal we reject the contention by a local sewerage treatment authority that the Sewerage Authority Law (SAL), N.J.S.A. 40:14A-1 to -37, precludes regulation by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and that, therefore, the DEP Commissioner did not err by failing to recognize the authority's immunity from the Water Pollution Control Act (WPCA), N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 to -60, and DEP regulation.
Respondent, Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (Bayshore), appeals from the DEP Commissioner's final decision that affirmed the DEP's denial of Bayshore's request for a force majeure exemption*fn1 and the DEP's imposition of a $50,000 administrative penalty for Bayshore's effluent discharge violations of the WPCA, and an Administrative Consent Order. We affirm.
The salient facts can be summarized as follows. Bayshore operates a sewage treatment plant in Union Beach Borough. The DEP issued Bayshore a Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Discharge to Surface Water (NJDEPS) Permit. This permit allows Bayshore to discharge treated pollutants into the State's waters up to certain specified levels. Such permits are authorized by the WPCA and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1387 (1999).
Pursuant to these permits, Bayshore acts as a delegated authority and, as such, is required to issue Industrial User permits to any indirect users of its facility and to regulate their use. There are three facilities in Bayshore's service area which operate industrial pretreatment plants. These plants discharge pretreated wastewater to Bayshore. Bayshore has the authority to reject wastes and to terminate its services altogether if these facilities do not pretreat their wastewater properly.
In 1991, based on outstanding violations, the DEP and Bayshore entered into an Administrative Consent Order which provided, among other things, that: (1) Bayshore had a responsibility for regulating its users; (2) Bayshore was subject to stipulated penalties of $5,000 per effluent violation; and (3) a force majeure clause. The force majeure clause required Bayshore to notify the DEP in writing, within seven calendar days, of any delay or anticipated delay in the achievement of any provision in the Administrative Consent Order. Such notification would provide Bayshore with a defense to any effluent violations.
In 1994, the discharge monitoring reports submitted by Bayshore, for the period of August 19, 1994 to September 1994, revealed that Bayshore had exceeded the effluent limitations on ten occasions. As a result, the DEP issued a notice of violation to Bayshore.
In response, Bayshore submitted a force majeure request, conceding that it "had exceeded all parameters for total suspended solids due to a persistent foam which we feel is caused by an organic oil emulsion which has plagued our plant since the middle of July, and suddenly disappeared on the weekend of September 24 and 25." Bayshore detailed its efforts to eliminate the foam. The letter explained that one of its indirect users, a plant owned by International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), had reported having "problems" with its pretreatment of wastewater, namely high levels of chemical oxygen demands. When IFF turned off its carbon filters, Bayshore noticed that "the foam came back heavier than it had been." In an earlier letter to the DEP, Bayshore also stated that its problems with foam "coincide[d] with problems at IFF Manufacturing and their use of their carbon filters. When in use, foam subsided; when not, foam increased."
The DEP requested further information to support Bayshore's force majeure request, asking for a "detailed description as to the processes that Bayshore undertook to try to determine possible outside sources of the upset." Bayshore submitted additional information, including a chronological order of activities and plant upset.
The DEP denied Bayshore's request for force majeure relief for the period of August to September 1994 and issued a demand letter for stipulated penalties in the amount of $50,000. The DEP explained that Bayshore's delay in initiating an outside or "upstream" investigation of the excessive foaming disqualified it from relief. The DEP did, however, grant Bayshore force majeure relief for effluent violations dating from October 1994 through February 1995 because Bayshore had initiated timely in-plant and out-of-plant investigations for those violations.
Bayshore requested reconsideration of the denial. The DEP declined reconsideration repeating its initial reasons. Bayshore responded by refusing to pay the penalties. The DEP issued a notice of civil administrative penalty assessment to Bayshore. Pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:14-8.4(a), Bayshore requested an administrative hearing.
At a hearing before Administrative Law Judge Bruce R. Campbell, the DEP called two witnesses: Maureen Byrne, a Principal Environmental Specialist with the DEP; and Richard Paull, the DEP's Section Chief for Water Compliance and Enforcement. Bayshore called three witnesses: Gary Marshall, its Executive Director; Richard Jenkins, its Superintendent; and Christopher Livesey, its Assistant Superintendent of Operations.
Judge Campbell found that the DEP did not arbitrarily or capriciously deny Bayshore's request for force majeure relief for two reasons: (1) because Bayshore failed to timely apply for force majeure relief; and (2) because Bayshore did not adequately investigate the source of the foaming. In particular, Judge Campbell noted that testimony by Bayshore witnesses, namely Livesey and Jenkins, established that Bayshore "did not do all that it was reasonable to do," and that Bayshore had no explanation for its failure to order IFF to cease its discharges in July 1994. In addition, Judge Campbell found that Bayshore was not entitled to plead the affirmative defenses of upset (pursuant to N.J.S.A. 58:10A-10.2) or force majeure (pursuant to the Administrative Consent Order) because it had not complied with the time requirements of either defense. Lastly, Judge Campbell rejected Bayshore's claim that it was exempt from DEP regulation because the SAL provided Bayshore with plenary authority. As such, Judge Campbell upheld the DEP's denial of Bayshore's request for force majeure relief.
Bayshore filed exceptions to this decision arguing that Judge Campbell had erroneously rejected Bayshore's force majeure defense. The Commissioner upheld Judge Campbell's initial decision. The Commissioner adopted the ALJ's findings and concluded that Bayshore's exceptions had failed to raise any issues that were not "sufficiently addressed by the ALJ" and that the decision was supported by substantial, credible evidence in the record.
Bayshore now appeals to us contending that: (1) the Commissioner erred by affirming the ALJ's decision without regard for the arbitrary and capricious manner in which the original decision was made; (2) the decision adopted by the Commissioner was issued without an application of the proper standard of review of the DEP's interpretation of its statutory mandate; and (3) the decision adopted by the Commissioner was erroneous since it relied upon the DEP's own interpretation of the law.
We disagree with these contentions. The decision by the Commissioner and the ALJ are supported by sufficient credible evidence on the record as a whole. R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(D). Moreover, we reject Bayshore's argument that the SAL precludes DEP regulation of sewerage authorities, and that, therefore, the Commissioner did not err by failing to recognize that Bayshore is immune from the WPCA and DEP regulation. This argument is without merit.
Bayshore clearly falls within the purview of the WPCA because it is both a "municipal treatment works" and a "local agency." N.J.S.A. 58:10A-3. Moreover, as a NJDEPS permit holder, Bayshore is subject to the WPCA. The WPCA was specifically enacted to enable New Jersey to "implement the permit system required by the Federal Act." N.J.S.A. 58:10A-2. Further, the WPCA delegates authority to the DEP to "[e]xercise general supervision of the administration and enforcement of this act and all rules, regulations and orders promulgated hereunder" and to "[a]ssess compliance of a discharger with applicable requirements of State and Federal law pertaining to the control of pollutant discharges. . . ." N.J.S.A. 58:10A-5. Indeed, the legislative history to the statute explicitly explains that it seeks to:
strengthen the enforcement of the State's water pollution control and prevention program . . . by increasing other enforcement responsibilities of DEP [and] by requiring stricter accountability on the part of both public and private holders of water pollution control permits, by requiring publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) to improve their operations, particularly with respect to monitoring and treating hazardous pollutants discharged into POTWS by industries [.] . . . [Senate Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committee Statement to S. 2188, reprinted in N.J.S.A. 58:10A-3.]
Ignoring this plain statutory language, Bayshore focuses narrowly on a specific section of the SAL, N.J.S.A. 40:14A-35. That section reads:
This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and as complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every act and thing herein authorized, and a sewerage authority shall not be subject to regulation as to its service charges or as to any other matter whatsoever by any officer, board, agency, commission or other office of the State. [N.J.S.A. 40:14A-35 (emphasis added)].
This section, Bayshore argues, would provide it with "broad" authority and would preempt DEP oversight of any decisions made by Bayshore regarding the "manner of treatment and control of effluent." In short, Bayshore concludes that the statute provides it with plenary authority.
Bayshore's narrow focus on this lone provision in the SAL fails to recognize that both the WPCA and SAL seek to reduce pollution. In Shupack v. Manasquan River Reg'l Sewerage Auth., 194 N.J. Super. 199, 204 (App. Div. 1984), we recognized "that the purposes of the [SAL] and [WPCA] are similar." In the absence of any inconsistency between local and state laws, we rejected the argument that a sewerage authority, because it is governed by the SAL and WPCA, need not comply with local site plan and building permit requirements. Id. at 203. Given this common goal of both statutes, it would equally be erroneous to provide sewerage authorities with immunity from water pollution control requirements.
Here, Bayshore fails to provide any specific examples of inconsistencies between the WPCA and the SAL. It relies instead on the general language contained in N.J.S.A. 40:14A-35. As we have noted, this reliance is misplaced. Further, by signing the Administrative Consent Order, Bayshore specifically acknowledged and agreed that it was subject to the conditions of the WPCA. The order states that Bayshore agreed that it "shall discharge wastewater only in accordance with the New Jersey Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq. and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, N.J.S.A. 7:14A-1 et seq. and NJDEPS Permit No. NJ0024708." Thus, Bayshore is bound by its previous acknowledgment of DEP authority. It also bound itself contractually to the terms of the order. See E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Dep't of Envtl. Prot., 283 N.J. Super. 331 (App. Div. 1995) (affirming the DEP's authority to enter into enforceable administrative consent orders). Accordingly, the final decision of the DEP Commissioner is affirmed. | <urn:uuid:7b2d31b2-5044-42b9-b812-5819fa2118db> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nj.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20010608_0000289.NJ.htm/qx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00236-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938309 | 2,844 | 1.515625 | 2 |
|Created by L. Frank Baum|
First appearance The Road to Oz (1909)
Creator L. Frank Baum
|Title Daughter of the Rainbow|
Family Rainbow (father), unnamed sisters
Similar Shaggy Man, Button‑Bright, Betsy Bobbin, Trot, Eureka
Polychrome is a cloud fairy and the youngest daughter of the Rainbow, thus she is a "sky princess". She first appears in The Road to Oz (1909), which is the fifth book of the original fourteen Oz books by American author by L. Frank Baum. She also appears several times in later Oz stories of the classic series.
When Dorothy Gale, her pet dog Toto, the Shaggy Man, and Button-Bright first encounter Polychrome in the fifth chapter of The Road to Oz, she is seen dancing to keep herself warm, after accidentally sliding off her father's rainbow and landing on the surface of the Earth. (Her father withdrew his bow without realizing she had been left behind.) Polychrome is described as:
A little girl, radiant and beautiful, shapely as a fairy and exquisitely dressed.... She was clad in flowing, fluffy robes of soft material that reminded Dorothy of woven cobwebs, only it was colored in soft tintings of violet, rose, topaz, olive, azure, and white, mingled together most harmoniously in stripes which melted one into the other with soft blendings. Her hair was like spun gold and floated around her in a cloud, no strand being fastened or confined by either pin or ornament or ribbon.
In personality she is sweet and ethereal and generally the archetypal good fairy. Polychrome is more a decorative than an active presence in The Road to Oz, but she makes positive contributions in her subsequent appearances in Baum's fictions. She is very sensitive to cold and, while on Earth, often dances simply to keep warm. In Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) she summons the dragon Quox to rescue the captured Ozites from the Nome King. (The Nome King, it may be noted in passing, is dazzled by the beautiful fairy and begs her to remain in his underground realm, which she refuses.) In The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918), she rescues the rusted Captain Fyter the Tin Soldier by oiling his joints, just as Dorothy had done for the Tin Woodman in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), and she uses her magic to let the protagonists fit through a rabbit hole. In Sky Island (1912) she provides the solution to the central characters' main problem.
Polychrome was played by Dolly Castles in the 1913 stage play, The Tik-Tok Man of Oz by Baum, Louis F. Gottschalk, Victor Schertzinger, and Oliver Morosco. In the play, she sings a duet with Ruggedo titled "When in Trouble Come to Papa".
Polychrome appears briefly in the coronation sequence of Return to Oz. Though the role is an extra, Allen Eyles's The World of Oz features a production still crediting the role to Cherie Hawkins, who later served for a time on the staff of the theatre department at University of Alaska Anchorage. | <urn:uuid:edcb7e45-be8b-45bc-9b12-8b7f79900f01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alchetron.com/Polychrome-%28Oz%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.962048 | 696 | 1.828125 | 2 |
ERIC Number: ED108896
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1975
Reference Count: N/A
From Sticks and Stones, Personal Adventures in Mathematics.
Johnson, Paul B.
The title of this mathematics text for preservice elementary teachers is intended to suggest the book's theme of mathematics as an abstraction from human experience with sticks (lines, segments), stones (sets, counting) and other objects. An introductory chapter which describes the objectives of the author and discusses learning and attitudes toward mathematics is followed by discursive chapters devoted to the uses of numerals and computation. Elementary set theory is introduced and forms the basis for definitions of the counting numbers and operations on them. Chapters devoted to measurement, approximation, number theory and number patterns conclude the discussion of counting numbers. Fractions, integers, and real numbers are then presented in detail, and short chapters devoted to large numbers and infinity, congruences, complex numbers, statistics, algebra, and geometry are included. An appendix on problem solving completes the book. Many types of exercises and illustrations are used throughout; suggestions for activities using manipulative materials are frequent. The informal tone of the book is evidenced in the author's overall style, the frequent use of cartoons, and the periodic interjection of remarks directed toward typical students' concerns. (SD)
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Number Concepts, Number Systems, Problem Solving, Teacher Education, Textbooks
Science Research Associates, Inc., 259 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611
Publication Type: Books
Education Level: N/A
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(Reuters.com) - One of America's oldest cities, Boston is practically drenched in history. And much of that history took place in New England's taverns and bars, lubricated by venerable rum. To a more moderate degree, that tradition continues today.
"Boston has always been a rum town," says Corey Bunnewith, bartender at Boston's Citizen Public House (<www.citizenpub.com/>). "Since the mid 1700s the amount of rum imported and consumed was quite something." According to some estimates, by 1717 the state of Massachusetts was producing 200,000 gallons of rum each year and Boston was home to more than 25 distilleries.
Building on this history, Boston now is seeing a resurgence of local distillers such as Berkshire Mountain Distillers, Bully Boy and Privateer, all of which produce rum.
Where to drink rum (or other spirits) in Boston? Bunnewith's recommendations include the steeped-in-history Stoddard's (<stoddardsfoodandale.com/>). The building dates back to 1868, the bar to 1900, and inspiration from the drinks is taken from Jerry Thomas, who wrote the first cocktail book ever published. In addition to classic cocktails to pair with "classic American" food, look for the menu of American-style ales and lagers.
Other popular watering holes include The Woodward (<www.woodwardboston.com/>) at the Ames Hotel, a sleek "modern-day tavern" that serves traditional New England seafood and modern drinks like the "One Court" (Ron Zacapa 23-year-old rum, honey syrup and fresh lime); the speakeasy-style Storyville (90 Exeter Street) in the Back Bay area for dining, drinking, music and dancing; and No 9 Park (<www.no9park.com/>). The latter, located in an elegant townhouse in Boston's historic Beacon Hill, is part of Chef Barbara Lynch's growing Boston restaurant empire, which also includes the celebrated craft cocktail bar Drink (<drinkfortpoint.com/>).
Although rum punches abound throughout New England's cocktail history, here's a modern version to try. This fruity version is sourced from RumBa (<bit.ly/WAOSb>). The name is a play on "rum bar", said with a classic Bostonian accent - the last "r" is silent.
RECIPE: Rum Punch (Courtesy of RumBa, InterContinental Hotel)
½ oz. Plantation Grand Reserve Barbados Rum
½ oz. Flavoured Rum
½ oz. Orange juice
½ oz. Pineapple juice Splash of Grenadine
Stir together all ingredients with ice.
(Kara Newman is the author of "Spice & Ice: 60 tongue-tingling cocktails", available <here>. The opinions expressed are her own.) (Editing by Peter Myers) | <urn:uuid:a4ce7219-ac3a-4063-9296-d84283169b18> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-the-spirited-traveller-drinking-in-bo-idUKLNE78804A20110909 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00301-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919743 | 598 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The very successful preventive approach to aphid control on tobacco is based on the use of neonicotinoid class insecticides- clothianidin (Belay), imidacloprid (Admire), and thiamethoxam (Platinum). The mode of action of these insecticides is similar to that of nicotine, which acts on the central nervous system of insects to produce nerve excitation and the paralysis leading to death. Their solubility in water allows for uptake and movement in plants, giving them a significant systemic effect, especially on sap feeding insects such as aphids. Slow breakdown in the plant gives long term pest control. These products belong to the 4a group based on mode of action.
UK tobacco insecticide evaluations have shown Belay, Admire, and Platinum to provide excellent preventive aphid control by tray drench or transplant water application compared to untreated tobacco. No statistical differences have been seen between products or application methods more than 60 following transplant and no statistical differences have been seen in aphid control using low or high label rates.
|Clothianidin||Belay 16% WSG||10 oz per acre|
|Imidacloprid||Admire 2F - 2 lbs/gal||1 fl oz/1,000 plants - tray drench
1.4 fl oz/1,000 plants - transplant water
|Imidacloprid||Admire Pro - 4.6 lbs/gal||0.6 f l oz/1,000 plants - tray drench
0.8 fl oz/1,000 plants - transplant water
|Thiamethoxam||Platinum - 2 lbs/gal||0.8 to 1.3 fl oz/1,000 plants|
Belay 16 WSG (Arysta Lifescience) lists aphid and flea beetle control. Caution: Causes moderate eye irritation. Soil applications may sometimes cause yellowing of foliage present at the time of transplanting. This effect does not have any impact on growth and yields.
Admire 2F and Admire Pro (Bayer) lists mole crickets (no problem in Ky), whiteflies (no problem in Ky), and wireworms, plus suppression of cutworms and tomato spotted wilt virus at higher rates. Apply as a tray drench not more than 7 days prior to transplanting. Generic imidacloprid products are available, such as Alias 2FM and Couraze 2F.
Platinum (Syngenta) lists flea beetle, Japanese beetle, thrips, and wireworm control. Apply as a tray drench not more than 2 days prior to transplanting. During transplanting, workers handling plants must wear waterproof gloves.
General Considerations for these Insecticides
Plants in flats or trays should be watered from above immediately after the application to wash the product from the foliage into the potting media. Failure to wash the formulation into the root ball may result in reduced control.
These formulations are suspended in water after dilution they will settle if not mixed or agitated regularly. Settling can result in uneven distribution of the insecticide, especially in transplant water applications.
Test compatibility of tank mixes in small, proportionate amounts, watch for poor mixing and formation of precipitates, these are indications of incompatibility.
Insecticide resistance can develop if products with the same mode of action are used repeatedly. Since these three products are 4a insecticides, rotation among them is not an effective resistance management strategy.
For the latest blue mold status and other tobacco disease information, check the KY Blue Mold Warning System online.
For more information about tobacco pests, visit "Insect Management Recommendations".
Pythium species are fungal-like organisms commonly found in agricultural soils. These are the primary cause of seed rot and seedling damping off in corn in Kentucky, and they are typically most active in cool, wet soils.
The trend towards earlier planting dates increases disease pressure on seedlings, because earlier-planted corn is more likely to sit in cool, wet soil before successfully establishing itself. The increased use of conservation tillage also increases pressure from Pythium seed and seedling diseases, since residue-protected soil does not dry out as quickly as plowed soil. The importance of effective fungicidal treatment of corn seed has increased because of these two trends.
A recent study by plant pathologists at The Ohio State University closely examined the Pythium organisms associated with seed and seedling problems in corn and soybean in Ohio. This article focuses on their findings for corn, which are summarized as follows:
These results suggest that a diversity of Pythium organisms is responsible for seed and seedling disease in corn under current production practices. Significantly, these Pythiums are not all controlled by a single fungicide used for seed treatment. Because of this diversity, improving drainage and planting when soil temperatures exceed 50°F remain important cultural practices for minimizing seed and seedling diseases in corn. For fields and farms with a history of seed-establishment problems in cool, wet soils, consider using a mixture of seed-treatment fungicides to assure the best chance of success in stand establishment.
Broders, K. D., Lipps, P. E., Paul, P. A., and Dorrance, A. E. 2007. Characterization of Pythium spp. associated with corn and soybean seed and seedling disease in Ohio. Plant Dis. 91:727-735.
For information about corn pests, visit
"Insect Management Recommendations".
The fungi causing downy mildew and powdery mildew of grape are developing resistance to strobilurin fungicides according to a recent report in Plant Health Progress, one of the journals found in the on-line Plant Management Network (PMN). The research, reported by A. Baudoin, et. al., is entitled "QoI resistance of Plasmopara viticola and Erysiphe necator in the mid-Atlantic United States. As reported here before, U.K. Extension Agents and Specialists have access to the PMN.
Downy mildew (Plasmopara viticola) and powdery mildew [Erysiphe (Uncinula) necator] commonly occur in Kentucky grapes. In the Midwest Commercial Small Fruit and Grape Spray Guide (U.K. Cooperative Extension publication ID-94), several fungicides are listed for management of these two diseases. Strobilurins (also known as QoI compounds) are among those fungicides that are labeled for both diseases. Four strobilurin fungicides are registered for use on grapes in Kentucky and all four have good activity against grape powdery mildew. For downy mildew, azoxystrobin (Abound) and pyraclostrobin (in combination with boscalid in the package mix Pristine) are considered to have good activity, whereas kresoxim-methyl (Sovran) and trifloxystrobin (Flint) are apparently less active. Strobilurin fungicides have been used in Kentucky almost a decade. The 2008 spray guide contains important notes on powdery mildew and downy mildew fungicide resistance.
The researchers reported on 2005 and 2006 pathogen collections made in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina vineyards. In one year, 75% of downy mildew isolates sampled were resistant to strobilurin fungicides and over 90% of powdery mildew collections were also resistant. The resistant pathogen strains were obtained from vineyards where strobilurin fungicides had been used an average of 2 - 3.4 times per year over several years. The label suggests no more than 4 applications per year. Where these fungicides were not used, these grape pathogens were still strobilurin-sensitive.
These results document that resistance of downy and powdery mildews to strobilurin fungicides is widespread in the mid-Atlantic states and suggest that fungicide resistance could be occurring in Kentucky as well. In light of this, some mildew disease fungicide management suggestions for Kentucky growers are presented here.
Insecticide impregnated cattle ear tags release small amounts of an insecticide which are distributed over the animal during grooming or rubbing. In general, ear tags provide excellent, long term control of horn flies and some reduction in face fly numbers. Price breaks on early order opportunities often means considering fly control programs well before the season begins.
Here are some things to consider:
There are four main types based on the active ingredient(s) that they contain.
Are there any safety precautions associated with using insecticide ear tags?
Nonpermeable gloves should be worn when tagging animals. This is clearly shown in the application pictures on the containers of some tag brands. The hands shown applying the tags clearly have gloves. Comparable pictures with other brands do not obviously show gloves, although label statements indicate that they should be worn.
Insecticidal ear tags should not be handled barehanded. The concentration of insecticide in the tags varies from 8% to 36%. The tags are manufactured so that the insecticide is rubbed off the surface and onto the animal. Any handling of the tags leaves some insecticide on the hands. The insecticide then can be transferred easily to the mouth, eyes, face or other areas of the body. Some individuals may be very sensitive to the active ingredients in the tags.
Signal words on the label range from CAUTION to WARNING. Several products carry statements about the potential for allergic reaction following exposure. Many are easily absorbed through the skin or eyes, some have irritation vapors. Wear protective gloves and wash hands thoroughly with soap and water after tagging or when taking a break.
There are several other systems that can be put in place so that cattle can treat themselves with insecticides for horn fly and face fly control, generally in an effective and economical manner. Dust bags and backrubbers can be made or purchased. In addition, there are spray systems that can be incorporated into mineral stations or triggered as animals pass through gaps in fences between pastures. Self-applicators must be placed where all animals will use them daily. The devices must be sturdy enough to hold up to frequent use and situated so they are easy to re-charge. Dust bags need to be hung so that the animal must butt it with its head to pass by. This way, the face and backline are treated. Dust bags can provide excellent horn fly control and good face fly control if they are placed correctly. Backrubbers provide good coverage of the back and sides. This is fine for horn fly control but "fly-flips" must be added to provide coverage to the face for face fly control. Backrubbers are often set in loafing areas and use by some animals may be very irregular.
Several sprayer designs incorporate compressed air or a solar collector and electric pump to deliver a measured spray dose as the animal visits a mineral station. These can be set to deliver the product to the face and backline as the animal feeds.
Self-applicators need to be checked regularly to make sure that they are charged and functioning properly. Watch the animals use the devices to see if a change in placement will improve application or ensure that all animals get treated.
Eliminating or treating a pest's breeding site often is right at the top of the list of pest management options. It's best if the breeding site is very specific - like freshly deposited cow manure - the egg- laying site of choice for female horn flies and face flies. This allows the option of feed-thru larvicides (insecticides that control fly larvae or maggots) that pass through the digestive tract and are present at toxic levels in manure.
Active ingredients used as oral larvicides include the insect growth regulator methoprene (Altosid) and the organophosphate insecticide tetrachlorvinophos (Rabon). Insect growth regulators affect the development of larvae and prevent them from emerging as adults. In contrast, organophosphate insecticides kill by disrupting normal function of the nervous system. In either case, they must be present at or above levels in the manure that are toxic to the larvae. Either active ingredient can be formulated in several different ways and is available under several different brand names. Methoprene - Altosid 0.5% Premix Dose or Altosid 0.1% IGR Block to prevent the breeding of horn flies in the manure of treated cattle. Dose rate 0.8 to 1.5 milligrams per 100 lbs body wt/ cow/ per day. Tetrachlorvinophos - Rabon 7.76 Oral Larvicide Premix - to prevent development of horn flies and face flies in manure of treated beef and lactating dairy cattle. Dose rate 70 milligrams per 100 lbs body wt/ cow/ day.
General recommendations for oral larvicides
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To meme or not to meme? Using memes to teach media literacy
As a social studies teacher, I struggle with the current political climate and the power and limits of the internet and modern media. Students come to class eagerly showing me the latest political meme. I appreciate her enthusiasm for the subject, but I always ask her where the meme got the information from. Can you give me a source, please? The situation repeats itself in the next period. Sometimes I feel a little guilty about interrupting a student’s earnest attempt to communicate with me through a medium they understand, but teaching them the basic literacy of citing sources takes priority.
When it comes to basic literacy, I mean basic: citing sources (even in memes) is just one component of the broader literacy skills that I emphasize in my students Find and identify Information. With the text, we start with the information hierarchy: headings, sub-headings, captions and visual aids. You will learn to find information in textbooks and encyclopedias, as well as primary historical sources.
These skills translate to other forms of media such as maps: find the title, legend, compass rose and scale. Most of all, they learn to be confident. My next step is to bring these basic reading and writing skills to the internet. I treat websites, applications, and memes like any other text. We look at how the text or information is organized, look for clues that indicate whether some information is sponsored content or clickbait, and play “find the author”. Nobody is allowed to answer the question of where information comes from with the think-killer “Internet”.
I struggled with teaching students media literacy, especially during and after the 2016 election. Friends of mine on both sides of the spectrum spoke of topics of conversation I’d just seen on social media – often without checking their sources or to quote. The lesson I learned from these experiences was that we Everyone need to get back to basics. I felt stressed because I was bombarded with memes all day and I saw the same stress in my students, so I decided to fight fire with fire and use memes for educational purposes.
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Kevin's explanation of why oil prices are cause for severe concern is vintage Drum: informative, well-written, and containing a graph. Read it. But I think he gets something wrong in his evaluation of OPEC's incentives:
OPEC has the capacity to supply about 30 mbd. Question: what incentive do they have to continue pumping this amount? Economically, they have very little. If they cut production by 20% (6 mbp), that would reduce global supply to 78 mbd. Prices would immediately double to around $100/barrel, maybe even higher, since there would be no other source to make up the shortfall. As a result, OPEC's revenues would skyrocket — not all at once, since most oil is delivered under futures contracts, but soon enough. In addition, most Middle Eastern fields are being overproduced right now, so cutting production would have beneficial long-term effects as well.
Kevin goes on to argue that Saudi Arabia used to be a buffer against this because they could simply flood the market with cheap crude, but they don't have such powerful production capacity anymore and so aren't as able to regulate the industry*. In addition, Iran and Venezuela could care less about a recession in the West, so they might go for the short-term profits over our economic stability. The counter-argument is our capacity for a military response, but we can't really do that right now thanks to our deployment in Iraq, so what's to stop them?
Well, lots. Despite the skyrocketing costs of oil, the market hasn't priced oil commensurately with its finiteness. That'll change reasonably soon (as Kevin notes, the question is whether that happens gradually or suddenly), but it hasn't yet. That undervaluation of oil has allowed most economies to stroll along without really worrying about what comes after petrol or getting serious about reducing their reliance on it. An oil shock changes all that. Suddenly, life after cheap oil becomes a policy reality -- which is the worst possible scenario for OPEC, though probably one of the best for America.
There are a lot of ways to reduce our economy's reliance on oil. We can't yet end our dependance (at least, nobody but Amory Lovins seems to think we can), but we can reduce our usage in a hurry. There's precedent for that -- when OPEC tried to jack up prices in the 70's, they, not we, turned out the losers. Between 1977 and 1985, we cut our oil usage by 17% while growing our GDP by 27%. Not too shabby. During that period, oil imports fell by 50%, and imports from OPEC by 85%. It hurt, sure, but them more than us.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, today warned that the increasing competence of the European Union in the field of migration has not always been accompanied by a corresponding guarantee of rights for migrants themselves, and in particular irregular migrants.
"Within EU institutional and policy structures, migration and border control have been increasingly integrated into security frameworks that emphasize policing, defence and criminality over a rights-based approach," Mr. Crépeau said during the presentation of his special report* on EU border management to the UN Human Rights Council.
Since May 2012, the Special Rapporteur undertook a one-year comprehensive study to examine the rights of migrants in the Euro-Mediterranean region, focusing in particular on the management of the external borders of the European Union. Starting with a visit to the EU authorities in Brussels, Mr. Crépeau also carried out information-gathering missions to two key transit countries, Turkey and Tunisia, and two of the main entry points into the EU, Greece and Italy.
"I regret that within the EU policy context, irregular migration remains largely viewed as a security concern that must be stopped," the independent expert said. "This is fundamentally at odds with a human rights approach, concerning the conceptualization of migrants as individuals and equal holders of human rights.''
The Special Rapporteur stressed that, "within the discourse of securitization of migration and border control, the systematic detention of irregular migrants has come to be viewed as a legitimate tool in the context of EU migration management, despite the lack of any evidence that detention serves as a deterrent."
In his report, Mr. Crépeau also focused on the 'externalization' of border control, which involves shifting the responsibility of preventing irregular migration into Europe to countries of departure or transit, as well as the insufficient responsibility-sharing within the EU with its member States who find themselves the custodians of an external EU border.
The human rights expert called on the EU authorities to address the pull-factors, namely the demand in Europe for a seasonal, low-skilled, easily exploitable workforce.
"Opening up more regular migration channels, including for low-skilled workers, thus reflecting the real labour needs of the EU, would lead to fewer irregular border crossings and less smuggling of migrants," he underscored.
On 30-31 May, Mr. Crepeau will present his report to different EU institutions in Brussels, including a public launch at the European Parliament.
François Crépeau (Canada) was appointed Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants in June 2011 by the UN Human Rights Council, for an initial period of three years. As Special Rapporteur, he is independent from any government or organization and serves in his individual capacity. Mr. Crépeau is also Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, in Montréal, where he holds the Hans and Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law. Learn more...
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More people in Ontario are gaining access to fertility treatment and IVF since the Ontario government began funding IVF cycles this year. The way it is currently set up, people have one funded cycle available to them in a lottery system.
I think this is great!
I want everyone who goes through the IVF process to have the best chance of success. And success with IVF means a little preparation! (Check out this incredible study my colleague did!)
IVF is a very useful technology, allowing people who would otherwise not get pregnant to create their families. However, it is a technology that still relies on the good health of the bodies that are involved in order to be successful.
IVF is like a fallopian tube substitute, ensuring the eggs and sperm come together to form embryos, but the eggs and sperm still come from bodies where the egg and sperm cells are influenced by the overall health of the people trying to get pregnant. And the embryo is returned to a uterus, inside a body that is influenced by the overall health of the person who will carry the baby.
So if you plan to do IVF and want it to succeed, it is absolutely critical to do what you can to improve your fertility. And there is a lot you can do.
Having worked with people who are trying to get pregnant over the last 10 years, I have found a few things that make the most difference:
Take your time: With any supplement or treatment you are doing to improve your fertility, allow for a 3 month window for it to be effective. The egg and sperm have a 3 month maturation cycle, from the time they are recruited until they are fully mature. So the supplement or therapy needs to be present in the body for the full three months in order to have it’s full effect on the growing eggs and sperm.
Get some acupuncture: Research shows that acupuncture done in preparation for an IVF cycle (9-12 weeks) is more effective than only doing acupuncture on the day of embryo transfer. These treatments help to improve responsiveness to IVF medications and decrease the side effects of IVF.
Eat well: Foods that benefit fertility are generally foods that are nutrient dense, like seaweeds and organ meats, high in healthy fats like avocado and pastured ghee, and low to no processing from their origin to your plate. Eat a wide variety of fruits, veggies, meat and animal products and gluten-free grains as the mainstays of your diet.
Move: Movement does double duty, both helping to balance your hormones and getting your blood pumping to your reproductive organs. Sitting all day at a desk or doing repetitive movements in your job can lead to a deficiency of movement nutrition. Vary your movement (move out of just chair sitting, standing and walking positions) with stretching, squatting, floor sitting and dancing!
Rest: Regular great sleeps are essential. In addition, make time for stillness, in your mind and in your body. The ends of the day are a natural time for stillness practices such as meditation, in the morning before you get going with your day or in the evening as you prepare for bed. However, a period of stillness in the middle of the day, around the mid-afternoon energy slump, is a great way to decompress and refresh for the rest of your day. My favorite app for a quick de-stress session is the calm app.
Take some supplements: Some folks will be making some big lifestyle changes at the beginning of preparing for an IVF cycle and they need results quickly. Supplements can be a great way to get concentrated nutrients quickly. In “It Starts with the Egg”, Rebecca Fett recommends a multivitamin, CoQ10, myo-inositol and melatonin. Check out her book for the research to support her recommendations.
Have great sex: Sex is still important, even if it’s not going to be the way you get pregnant. It’s a way to connect emotionally with your partner through this stressful process. Sex with orgasm is also an amazing stress reducer, a way to both physically and emotionally relax.
You CAN improve your fertility!
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The late Aldo Rossi has achieved distinction as a theorist, an author, an artist, a teacher and as a architect, in his native Italy as well as internationally. Vincent Scully, in an introductory essay to a book on Rossi published by Rizzoli, compares him to LeCorbusier as a painter-architect. Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror has described Rossi as "a poet who happens to be an architect."
Rossi was born in Milan, Italy where his father was engaged in the manufacture of bicycles, bearing the family name, a business he says was founded by his grandfather. While growing up during the years of World War II, Rossi studied at the School of the Somaschi Fathers in Lake Como, and later at the Collegio Alessandro Votas in Lecco. Shortly after the war ended, he entered the Milan Polytechnic receiving his architecture degree in 1959.
Although early film aspirations were gradually transposed to architecture, he still retains strong interest in drama. In fact, he says, "In all of my architecture, I have always been fascinated by the theatre." For the Venice Biennale in 1979, he designed the Teatro del Mondo, a floating theatre, built under a joint commission from the theatre and architecture commissions of the Biennale. It seated 250 around a central stage. It was towed by sea to the Punta della Dogana where it remained through the Biennale. Rossi described the project in its site, as "a place where architecture ended and the world of the imagination began." More recently, he completed a major building for Genoa, the Carlo Felice Theatre which is the National Opera House.
In Canada, the first Rossi project in the Western Hemisphere was completed in 1987 when the Toronto Lighthouse Theatre was built on the banks of Lake Ontario.
In his book, A Scientific Autobiography, he describes an auto accident that occurred in 1971 as being a turning point in his life, ending his youth, and inspiring a project for the cemetery at Modena. It was while he was recuperating in a hospital that he began thinking of cities as great encampments of the living, and cemeteries as cities of the dead. Rossi's design for the cemetery at San Cataldo won first prize in a competition in 1971, and is being built in stages.
At almost the same time period, Rossi's first housing complex was being built on the outskirts of Milan. Called Gallaratese, the structure is actually two buildings separated by a narrow gap. Of Gallaratese, Rossi has said, "I believe it to be significant, above all, because of the simplicity of its construction, which allows it to be repeated." He has since built a number of solutions to housing, from individual homes to apartment buildings and hotels.
The Pocono Pines Houses in Pocono, Pennsylvania represent one of his first completed buildings in the United States. In Galveston, Texas,a monumental arch for the city has been completed. In Coral Gables, Florida, the University of Miami has commissioned Rossi to design the new School of Architecture.
Other housing projects include an apartment building in the Berlin-Tiergarten district of West Germany, and another called Sudliche Friedrichstadt. There have been numerous residence designs in Italy. His Il Palazzo Hotel and Restaurant Complex in Fukuoka, Japan is still another extension of his solutions for living quarters, completed in 1989.
Five important projects were completed in 1988: the Palazzo Regionale in Perugia (a civic center); a funerary chapel in Giussano built for the Molteni family; a town hall for Borgoricco; the Centro Torri Shopping Center in Parma; and in Turin, Casa Aurora, an office headquarters for GFT, parent company to the designer labels of Valentino, Emanuel Ungaro and Giorgio Armani.
These accomplishments in turn, gave clients in other countries the courage to call for Rossi's services as well, i.e., Canary Wharf Offices in London, an art gallery in Japan, a large residential quarters in The Hague, Netherlands, a restoration and addition to a monastery in Seville, Spain, and in his own country, a sports arena and many other projects. Also in 1989, Rossi won the competition in Germany over some 200 other entrants for the design of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in West Berlin.
When Rossi was introduced at Harvard to deliver the Walter Gropius Lecture, the chairman of the architecture department, Jose Rafael Moneo said, "When future historians look for an explanation as to why the destructive tendencies that threatened our cities changed, Rossi's name will appear as one of those who helped to establish a wiser and more respectful attitude."
In the essay titled The End of the Century Finds a Poet, and quoted earlier, Vincent Scully calls Rossi "the incomparable Italian builder, the shaper of the most beautiful, almost entirely man-made country in the world."
The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury has once again recognized qualities in an architect that may have seemed, if not hidden, certainly not broadly proclaimed.
Citation from the Pritzker Jury
Architecture is a profession in which talent matures slowly. It is a discipline which requires many years of thoughtful observation, of testing principles, of sensing space, and experiencing the many moods necessary for seasoning and nurturing. Wunderkind in architecture are extremely rare.
The array of abilities that permit an architect to work with a sure hand and achieve the intended result allows for no shortcuts. An architect who would be the best he can be must serve a lifetime apprenticeship, well beyond that required for official licensing. He must know human behavior, understand structures and materials, and how to shape forms and spaces to serve intended purposes in inspired and original ways.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury has found these qualities and more in Aldo Rossi, and have selected him as the 1990 Laureate.
Known for many years as a theorist, philosopher, artist and teacher, Rossi has spent time developing his architectural voice, and pen. Words as well as drawings and buildings have distinguished him as one of the great architects. As a master draftsman, steeped in the tradition of Italian art and architecture, Rossi's sketches and renderings of buildings have often achieved international recognition long before being built.
His book, Architecture and the City, published in 1966, is a text of significance in the study of urban design and thinking. Out of this theoretical base came designs that seem always to be a part of the city fabric, rather than an intrusion.
Each of Rossi's designs, whether an office complex, hotel, cemetery, a floating theatre, an exquisite coffee pot, or even toys, captures the essence of purpose.
Rossi has been able to follow the lessons of classical architecture without copying them; his buildings carry echoes from the past in their use of forms that have a universal, haunting quality. His work is at once bold and ordinary, original without being novel, refreshingly simple in appearance but extremely complex in content and meaning. In a period of diverse styles and influences, Aldo Rossi has eschewed the fashionable and popular to create an architecture singularly his own.
On a solid foundation of theory, he uses his talents and ability to solve design problems in memorable and imaginative ways. His influence is extensive and expands with every new commission. With this honor, Aldo Rossi joins a dozen architects already singled out for their contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
Aldo Rossi's Acceptance Speech
Today is a very special day, and it is with a great pride and joy that I accept this prize. However, in some way it is also difficult to receive this prize. In a way, I feel like a school boy who is about to take an exam. A moment to recollect. A moment of guilt. A moment of truth.
I also take this opportunity to meditate on my architecture. I will not bore you with a minute anylysis; just a few words.
I have always felt that my architecture is timeless. I hope that this prize bears witness to that thought. I have always stayed away from the gossip that surrounds groups, school, magazines, newspapers, architects, and so on. But above all, I have always rejected styles and fashions.
I am not obsessed with architecture, but I have always tried to make architecture in an honest way, like all those that honestly practice their profession. Like the stone masons or workmen who build the cathedrals, the factories, the big bridges, the big works of our time. Searching for truth in my profession, I have ended up loving architecture. Maybe it is a simple but strange satisfaction that makes one love his own profession. So let me call it "cara architettura," or in English, "dear architecture," or with your permission, "darling architecture."
I have never believed that any profession could be disjointed from culture, and, for this reason, during my youth I had the privilege of styudying the relationship between theory and architecture, and I was happy to find significance in those studies.
But today I prefer to design and build, and I am fascinated by the possibility of building in different places and countries. It is as if all the cultures of these diverse countries make up my architecure and come together to form a whole. A unity that has the capacity to recompose the fragments of those things that were originally lost. Like many architects today, I am working in many places around the world—in Italy, Germany, England, America, and Japan. This is a sign of a new architecture that supersedes style and personal character, a universal architecture.
I'd like to speak about something like a contamination between different cultures. We live in a time similar to the period of Palladio, when the architecture of this city, of this country, made a special contamination in Russia, in England, and in America. Every building is the same, but at the same time, it is very different. For this reason, I believe in a great civic architecture that has the capacity to recompose our cities, making our lives more free, more visible, more beautiful.
During the development of my work I have been helped by many friends. As friends, I would like to thank Mr. and Mrs. Pritzker who have honored me with their prize, and the members of the jury, who represent a part of our modern culture. And I'd like to say a special thank you to America—the first country to recognize my work—and all the young students who filled the American universities during my lectures, and the American press, like the New York Times and Time, which published a lot of beautiful articles.
Ringrazio particolarmente (special thanks) to Signore Agnelli for the opportunity to enjoy the ceremony here at the Palazzo Grassi, in this nice building with the beautiful restoration done by my friend Gae Aulenti, and in this city of Venezia, where I have worked as assistant professor, professor, director of the Biennale, and architect. The city where I built the happy and unhappy Teatro del Mondo. The city where I have lived a great part of my life.
In conclusion, I thank all of you and I hope to be able to continue in my work with the same dedication and persistence. And honor it, this prize, which I have received today.
Grazie, thank you.
Aldo Rossi's Architecture of Recollection:
The Silence of Things Repeated or Stated for Eternity
by Kurt W. Forster
One can wear a Rossi wristwatch, sit in a Rossi chair sipping espresso from a Rossi coffee pot, don clothes from a Rossi armoire, promenade through a Rossi mega-shopping center near Parma, see an opera in his Genoese theatre, and even reserve a plot in the giant Rossi cemetery at Modena. Soon sports fans in Milan and architecture students at the University of Miami will use new quarters designed by an architect whose hotel in Japan, schools and town halls in Italy, and housing estates in Milan and Berlin have begun to rise, like the proverbial tip of the iceberg, from the immense reservoir of his imagination. Rossi has also laid down his ideas—many among them first expounded in the line of his editorial and teaching duties—in books, and over the years he has created an impressive body of drawings, paintings, exhibitions, and product design. Only knowing this can we begin to grasp how completely he manifests his profession, a profession that is nothing without mastery of the crafts but never masterly without the arts.
It is startling that an architect of such capacity should have embarked on his practice with a villa of strictly Loosian design, giving an early hint of the lasting importance the Viennese architect and the sources of northern classicism and poetry would command in his thinking. Even more startling is the fact that he should advance ideas on the colossal scale of some of his most recent projects while retaining a deep affinity for a world of toylike size and silence. Rossi, whose early writings identified the city as the true theatre of architecture, took the long road home and, along its lonely path, remained identified for years with a single enigmatic monument at Segrate. Cast in rough cement and composed of the parts of an ancient coffin, its roof-shaped lid having slid off and come to rest on a stump of a column, this monument to the resistance inscribes death into the time of passing shadows and the flow of water into the solitude of its square. Rossi articulated with precocious assuredness both the monument's pristine volumes—cube, cylinder, and prism—and a public arena for their elemental identities as tower, column, and fountain. If Cezanne's dictum on the pictorial reduction of nature to the sphere, the cube, and the cylinder was intended to distill synthetic and lasting images, Rossi's affirmation of basic stereometry springs from a resistant, even an archaic will. Against the ravages of history and the corrosive consequences of functionalism, Rossi poses his pure and simple shapes in an aura of wholeness which, exposed to the razzle-dazzle of the contemporary city, tinges the surroundings with their surreal presence, casting a spell of silence over them.
Rossi's buildings affirm themselves in the power of forgotten events. Time has escaped, but the objects remain like childhood memories, at once tiny and gigantic, or rather measured by an unchanging scale of their own. Like toys and childhood memories, they survive traumatic experiences wholly intact and resist change or resolution in adult thoughts. Instead of being shattered or dissolved, they bob like corks on the water, tossed about but impervious to disaster. No other work of Rossi's revealed the power of his imagination so much as the Teatro del mondo of 1980, whose wood clad tubular scaffold forming a tower had to be towed into Venice on a barge for the Biennale. The fate of Rossi's objects may be fulfilled in their future role as cenotaphs of our time, but in the present, they stand as beacons for the city. Rossi's coffee pots shaped like domed towers, and his Teatro del mondo tugged through the Venetian lagoon are only two of the phantom vessels he has launched on the ocean of architectural imagination. They make their appearance again and again, like mountebanks turning up at every fair, but for the architect they are "the silence of things repeated or stated for eternity."
In his search for norms, Rossi confronts the typological schemes of modern architecture with their ancient and vernacular counterparts; in his formulation of an architecture for present conditions, he plumbs the first truly normative concepts that undergird neoclassicism. He has no use for period ornament, no interest in cut-rate imitation; what he intimates, instead, is the possibility of an order of things that allows us to experience the present as a suspended moment in the passage from the past into the future.
It is no accident that school building have been the testing ground for some of Rossi's ideas about architecture's capacity to address the question of time and the passage of generations with peculiar poignancy. For it is here that the architect can allow his personal memory to mingle with collective traditions, "under the huge clock, which indicates both a particular time and also the time of childhood, the time of group portraits, with all the merriment that such photographs usually cause. The building thus seems pure theatre, but is the theatre of life." Photography and theatre constitute the global media for Rossi's stage, upon which he captures the literary and pictorial reflections of his native Lombardy in the figurations of a Pavese or a Sironi. This rarest of architectural capacities, the power to be radically of a place and to impart a meaning to objects far beyond their origin, makes of Rossi an architect whose reflections, lectures, and buildings capture our attention. He has escaped the sacrifice typically exacted for such ubiquity—uncritical servitude to economic interests and schematic reduction of ideas to mere patterns and fads—and continues to expand the sheer magnitude and depth of his projects across countries and continents.
Rossi's international recognition is in no small way connected to the interest with which he was first received by American architects and schools. Foremost among them was Peter Eisenman's Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, which, by means of exhibitions and the publication of Rossi's writings, laid the groundwork for a steadily widening audience and helped position Rossi's thought in the area of architectural controversy during the 1970s. When Eisenman contrasted Rossi's use of history "with the plunder of history prevalent in America today," he propelled the Italian architect's work headlong into a debate from which few have emerged with the confidence of Pritzker Prize winners Richard Meier and Frank Gehry, who are now joined by Aldo Rossi. "While American has always expressed a nostalgia for a history that never was," Eisenman continued, "Rossi's merging of analogue and history in Segrate guarantees a history that will never be... Rossi's modernism denies the possibility of choice from history, the idea that styles may be selected... His drawings offer 'nothing new' precisely because anything new which can be offered is, in the present condition, nothing."
Rossi's apartment and studio, located in nineteenth-century enclaves of the city of Milan, appear, at first sight, unlikely laboratories for his far-flung projects; but their somewhat haunted familiarity, studded as they are with neatly framed drawings, models and objects of the architects invention, evokes a visit to the residence of a latter-day John Soane. The latest projects somehow assume the appearance of relics from another time, while early work seems to place Rossi's buildings outside of the familiar cadence of periods and styles. As his uncanny shifts of scale suddenly magnify a corner column or a schoolhouse clock, so the unexpected appearance of his urban insertions falls into a historic zone that belongs as much to recollection as it does to reality. He contemplates the monuments of industry with the awed eyes of a child, but treats the traditions of his art with the weary wisdom of a master. When you descend the granite stairs from his apartment and return to the din and hurry of modern Milan, the realm of Rossi's imagination yields to the memory of a truant afternoon spent in the attic among the objects whose magic is as complete as their power and origin are incomprehensible. | <urn:uuid:045e8443-c54d-4ccf-9166-d6cc6492693c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://carturarul-all.ucoz.com/publ/referate_engleza/biography_aldo_rossi/11-1-0-142 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970349 | 4,049 | 2.28125 | 2 |
What a Traumatic Situation is Like for an Adolescent
With the help of their friends, adolescents begin a shift toward more actively judging and addressing dangers on their own. This is a developing skill, and lots of things can go wrong along the way. With independence, adolescents can be in more situations that can turn from danger to trauma. They can be drivers or passengers in horrible car accidents, be victims of rape, dating violence and criminal assault, be present during school or community violence, and experience the loss of friends under traumatic circumstances. During traumatic situations, adolescents make decisions about whether and how to intervene, and about using violence to counter violence. They can feel guilty, sometimes thinking their actions made matters worse. Adolescents are learning to handle intense physical and emotional reactions in order to take action in the face of danger. They are also learning more about human motivation and intent and struggle over issues of irresponsibility, malevolence, and human accountability.
Posttraumatic Stress Responses
For reasons that are basic to survival, traumatic experiences, long after they are over, continue to take priority in the thoughts, emotions, and behavior of children, adolescents and adults. Fears and other strong emotions, intense physical reactions, and the new way of looking at dangers in the world may recede into the background, but events and reminders may bring them to mind again.
There are three core groups of posttraumatic stress reactions.
First, there are the different ways these types of experiences stay on our minds. We continue to have upsetting images of what happened. We may keep having upsetting thoughts about our experience or the harm that resulted. We can also have nightmares. We have strong physical and emotional reactions to reminders that are often part of our daily life. We may have a hard time distinguishing new, safer situations from the
traumatic situation we already went through. We may overreact to other things that happen, as if the danger were about to happen again.
Second, we may try our best to avoid any situation, person, or place that reminds us of what happened, fighting hard to keep the thoughts, feelings, and images from coming back. We may even “forget” some of the worst parts of the experience, while continuing to react to reminders of those moments.
Third, our bodies may continue to stay “on alert.” We may have trouble sleeping, become irritable or easily angered, startle or jump at noises more than before, have trouble concentrating or paying attention, and have recurring physical symptoms, like headaches or stomachaches.
How Development Influences Posttraumatic Stress Responses
Age, developmental maturity, and experience can influence posttraumatic stress reactions. More than twenty years of studies have confirmed that school-age children and adolescents can experience the full range of posttraumatic stress reactions that are seen in adults. We might wish to believe that children under five years of age are too young to know what was happening and whatever impression was left would be forgotten soon. However, recent studies show that traumatic experiences affect the brains, minds, and behavior of even very young children, causing similar types of reactions as seen in older children and adults.
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Electricity theft detection
Electricity Theft Detection
In this project we will use wireless technology to monitor theft in Electricity meter. An electric meter is a device used for measuring the amount of electrical energy supplied to a residential or commercial building. Due to the increasing cost of electricity, tampering and security in electric meters has become a major concern for government agencies across the globe. Especially in populous countries like India and China tampering in electric meter and energy theft have become quite common.
Electric meters can be manipulated, thus causing them to stop, under-register or even bypassing the meter. Consumers, who are tamper with electric meter, effectively use power without paying for it. This theft or fraud can be dangerous as well as dishonest. Electric meter security is looked upon as major issue in many countries today.
Today, many power companies are installing remote-reporting meters which are capable of detect any tampering in electric meters, and discover energy theft. These smart power meters are particularly helpful in preventing energy theft and encouraging security in electric meters.
A large portion of a country’s revenue is lost due to the high density of tampering and security in electric meters. Hence it becomes very important to detect tampering in electric meters to ensue proper billing. Electric meter readers are trained to spot signs of tampering. The consumers who tamper with electric meter may be charged each billing period with the maximum rate until the tamper is removed, or in some cases the service may also be disconnected.
A common method of tampering with electric meters is by attaching magnets to the outside of the meter. These magnets prevent the alternating current from forming eddy currents in the rotor, by saturating the coils or current transformers.
Rectified DC loads causes mechanical but not electronic meters to under-register. As the DC currents do not cause the coils to make eddy currents in the disk, thus causing reduced rotation and a lower bill. Other ways of tampering in electric meters and playing with the electric meter security is to use some combinations of capacitive and inductive load, which also result in reduced or reverse motion.
Today, many modern meters can easily detect all of these effects. The owner of the meter normally secures the meter against tampering. Newer computerized meters usually have counter-measures against tampering. In order to find and fix power distribution problems, power companies today normally investigate discrepancies between the total billed and the total generated These investigations are an effective method of discovering tampering and security in electric meters.
Electricity distribution losses totalled Rs 70,000 crore in India.
In this project we will use remote monitoring method to prevent electricity theft. We will also try to present our method to electricity department.
We will use Radio technology to monitor wirelessly meter reading . if there will be difference in wirless reading and installed meter reading , then we can easily detect theft. In digital data user cant change value.
In this project we use one lcd screen. LCD screen display the balance amount every time, LCD screen not only show the balance amount but at the same time lcd display the unit consumption. When the balance is zero then output is off.
Now for continue the voltage we must need to recharge the unit from the mobile phone.
Our project is to be divided into 6 parts.
- 5 VOLT REGULATED POER SUPPLY
- MOBILE SIGNAL DECODER
- BCD TO DECIMAL DECODER.
- MICROCONTROLLER INTERFACE.
- LCD INTERFACE .
- RELAY INTERFACE CIRCUIT
Componets used in this project.
LCD FOR DISPLAY PURPOSE DISPLAY THE BALANCE AMOUNT AND UNIT CONSUME ( 2 LINE AND 16 CHARACTER)
MICROCONTROLLER. 89C51, 40 PIN CONTROLLER, 128 BYTE RAM, 4 K BYTE RAM. USED HERE FOR LCD DISPLAY AND START STOP FUNCTION. CHECK THE BALANCE AND CONTROL THE LOAD AS PER THE BALANCE.
IC 8870 , DTMF DECODER IC.
IC 8870 PROVIDE A GSM INTERFACE WITH THIS CIRCUIT. DUE TO THIS IC WE DECODE THE CALL THE PROVIDE A BALANCE IN THE ENERGY METER AUTOMATICALLY.
IC 74154 IS A BCD TO DECIMAL DECODER ATTACH WITH THE MICROCONTROLLER TO INTERFACE WITH THE DTMF DECODER
5 VOLT REGULATED POWER SUPPLY TO PROVIDE A REGULATED VOLTAGE TO THE MICROCONTROLLER UNIT.
5 VOLT REGULATED POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT.
In this project firstly we use one step down transformer. Step down transformer step down the voltage from 220 volt Ac to 12 volt Ac. This Ac voltage is further converted into DC with the help of rectifier circuit. In rectifier circuit we use four diode. All the diodes are arranges as a bridge rectifier circuit. Output of this rectifier is pulsating Dc. To convert this pulsating DC into smooth dc we use one capacitor as a filter components. Capacitor converts the pulsating Dc into smooth DC with the help of its charging and discharging effect.
Output of the rectifier is now regulated with the help of IC regulator circuit. In this project we use positive voltage regulator circuit. Here we use three pin regulator. Output of this regulator is regulated voltage. If we use 7805 regulator then its means its is 5 volt regulator and if we use 7808 regulator then its means that it is 8 volt regulator circuit. In this project we use 5 volt dc regulated power supply for the complete circuit. Separate 9 volt dc power supply is used for the relay coil
In the DTMF decoder circuit we use one DTMF decoder circuit to interface the mobile unit with this project. We dial the number of the phone connected to the energy meter then phone is automatic on and no we press a button 1 or button 2 to enter a value of 50 to 100 Rs in the meter. For this purpose we must need a mobile interface circuit with out project. . In this interface circuit we use one main ic 8870. This ic 8870 decode the dtmf pulses into bcd pulse . This bcd pulses is further converted into decimal unit with the help of bcd to decimal decoder circuit.. For the bcd to decimal decoder circuit we use ic 74154 to decode the bcd signal to decimal signal.
18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
IC 8870 is a DTMF (dual tone multiple frequency) decoder .It converts dtmf pulse into the equivalent BCD signal. Pin no. 18 and 10 of this IC are connected to the positive supply. This positive supply is from the 5 volt regulator circuit. Pin no. 9,5,6 are connected to the negative supply. Signal from the telephone line is in the form of dtmf pulse is applied to pin no. 2 of this IC through 2.2k ohm resistor and .1mfd capacitor. This signal is also connected to pin no. 3 through 100k ohm resistor. Pin no. 7 and 8 are connected to a crystal of frequency 3.7945 mh. Pin no. 16 and 17 of this IC is reset pin. Pin no. 11,12,13,14 are the BCD output of this IC.
Substitute ICs: 9170, 3170
Block Diagram Installed System:
Block Diagram Remote System:
Advantages of Using Remote Method-
- One time investment
- It will save money of employees those are taking door to door reading.
- Its not possible to interrupt wireless data
- Easy to implement
- Flexible system
STEP DWON TRANSFORMER. 220 TO 9 VOLT AC 1 PC
DIODE IN 4007 2 PC
CAPACITOR 1000mfd 1PC
10 MFD, 1 PC
22 PF 2 PC
.1 ( 104) MFD 2PC
- DTMF DECODER.
74154 BCD TO DECIMAL DECODER.
LCD 2 BY 16
BC 548 NPN
BC 558 PNP
12 VOLT DC SINGLE POLE SINGLE THROW
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The announcement by Telkom recently that it plans to replace almost 300 of its unprofitable copper-based exchanges with wireless 3G and LTE services is good news for the telecommunications industry.
If anything, it’s an attractive offering that will not only improve connectivity speeds for businesses and consumers, reduce lag and high latency of copper-based ADSL, but will also see Telkom rolling out its MSAN network technology to offer 20Mbps and 40Mbps FTTH and VDSL services in major metropolitan areas. Telkom’s remaining exchanges will be maintained in their current state.
The move to 3G and LTE will offer the market a competitively priced product that will provide a better broadband Internet service, with LTE as the prefered last-mile access service specifically for voice.
Testing already conducted by Connection Telecom on Telkom’s LTE has been incredibly promising, with increasingly lower latency being experienced. The other major benefit of taking the LTE service route is that it can be deployed in a matter of days rather than the traditional six to eight week promise from the incumbent.
Another important point to consider is the fact that coverage by Telkom for LTE has improved dramatically in recent months, with the greater Gauteng and Cape Town city centres already covered. First prize, of course, would be a wider rollout of fibre and LTE for backhaul capability.
Fibre has inherently greater capacity than LTE, which means that when a Gigabit fibre connection is installed at a high-density business park, for example, it can be easily distributed within that environment and provide greater connection speeds than anything seen before. If the same exercise is attempted with LTE, one would reach capacity fairly quickly when compared with fibre. However, where access to a remote site is required, then LTE makes better sense.
The mobile operators are currently making the most noise in the market about LTE, and for good reason. While coverage last year was woefully inadequate, the rate with which businesses and individuals can connect to LTE today has improved dramatically from a coverage perspective.
This is only the start to what can be expected to change the telecoms landscape forever. Let’s hope pricing of these services doesn’t erode what is an already promising landscape for local business expansion.
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Lately, Rogers customers have been complaining about the quality of Rogers internet services. The issue may be something you can’t influence, such as overcrowding the network. But, in most cases, this problem can easily be fixed in just a few simple steps. So, today, we’re presenting you with the possible reasons why your Rogers internet is bad and how to properly address the situation.
Is There an Outage in Your Area?
Internet providers frequently face various kinds of malfunction, especially when there are too many users in one area. Thus, you could check whether that’s the case with you. To do that, you could find the Outages section on the official Rogers website to get info on what is happening around you. Alternatively, you can contact Rogers customer support and check with them.
You could also ask around your neighborhood to see if your neighbors are experiencing the same issue. If they do, you can file a collective complaint. That way, they’ll take the problem more seriously.
Should You Address Possible Issues with the Modem?
Rogers may not be at fault for your poor internet connection. As a matter of fact, in most cases, your modem (or router) will be to blame for the bad signal and unreliable internet. Luckily, you should be able to fix those issues in just a few simple steps.
1. Restart Your Device
A simple restart of your modem should solve most of the internet problems you have. It’s an easy and quick fix, which is why we recommend that you do it first. To restart your modem, you can simply unplug it from the electricity source.
Then, give the device a couple of minutes to rest, and plug it back in. If your modem has a Power button, you can use that instead of unplugging it from the power source.
Alternatively, users who have the Ignite Wi-Fi Hub app can go through the restart process via the application. You should open the app and find the Overview section.
In that section, you’ll see the Restart option at the bottom right corner. Once you tap it, the app will ask you whether you want to restart your device. You can click on Restart once again and the process will begin.
What If You Have an Older Modem/Gateway
For older gateways, you’ll probably need to go to the gateway’s admin page to restart them. In most cases, the default IP address for Rogers gateways is 10.0.0.1. If not, you can Google your model and see what page you’ll need to visit to access its configuration settings.
Once you do, you should find Advanced settings. Your browser may warn you about the safety of the website. You’ll need to click on Proceed or Continue to access it.
Next, you’ll need to log in to your account using your credentials. When you do, you should go to Troubleshooting and then choose Reset/Restore Gateway. You will see a couple of options you can choose from. The Restart one restarts the modem. The Reset Wi-Fi Module only restarts the module while the Restart Wi-Fi Router option restarts both the router and Wi-Fi modules.
The Restore Wi-Fi Settings option removes all of the previous Wi-Fi settings, while the Restore Factory Settings one will revert your modem back to its original configuration. You can proceed to the option that you want and wait for your device to restart properly.
2. Move Your Modem Around
The location of your modem is essential for a strong connection. Therefore, it’s smart to make a few adjustments to your device’s location and ensure the best signal possible.
First of all, your modem should always be at the center of the house. That way, it will be able to emit a strong signal to almost every room. So, if you have a two-story house, the router can be near the ceiling of the first floor or close to the floor of the second. In addition, you should remove any bigger furniture and appliances away from the modem.
The space between you and your internet source needs to be as clear as possible so the signals don’t bounce off. While on the topic of signals bouncing off, it’s also good to avoid corners when placing your modem for the same reason.
The device should always be on some kind of a stand, as it’s not smart to keep it on the floor. If you’re open to making these adjustments, your signal will be so much better!
3. Secure All of the Cables
Another common culprit of a poor connection is loose or damaged cords. As your cables get older, they’ll experience the usual wear-and-tear. Therefore, you’ll need to examine them from time to time to check their state. In case you suspect that a cord is too old and not working as effectively, you can replace it. You’ll be surprised at how much of a difference one new Ethernet cable or coaxial cable can make!
Is Your Internet Plan to Blame?
Your internet package may be too weak for the needs of your household or the size of your home. You should think about upgrading your plan to the one that’s better suited for your needs. The easiest way to check whether the size of your household is the issue is to try various data-heavy activities when nobody is at home. If your connection is better, you will probably need to upgrade your plan.
In case you suspect that your home is too big for your modem to handle, you should consider purchasing a wireless signal extender. You can look for them on the Rogers website or do some research online to find a good deal for a high-quality device.
There you have it – all of the possible culprits for your bad Rogers internet. We hope you were able to fix your problem and that you now have a strong connection in your home. If not, you should contact Rogers customer support and explain your situation to them.
Hey, I’m Jeremy. I hold a bachelor’s degree in information systems, and I’m a certified network specialist. I worked for several internet providers in LA, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Seattle over the past 21 years.
I worked as a customer service operator, field technician, network engineer, and network specialist. During my career in networking, I’ve come across numerous modems, gateways, routers, and other networking hardware. I’ve installed network equipment, fixed it, designed and administrated networks, etc.
Networking is my passion, and I’m eager to share everything I know with you. On this website, you can read my modem and router reviews, as well as various how-to guides designed to help you solve your network problems. I want to liberate you from the fear that most users feel when they have to deal with modem and router settings.
My favorite free-time activities are gaming, movie-watching, and cooking. I also enjoy fishing, although I’m not good at it. What I’m good at is annoying David when we are fishing together. Apparently, you’re not supposed to talk or laugh while fishing – it scares the fishes. | <urn:uuid:d25382e1-e044-4eca-b736-9e6c97a78a50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://routerctrl.com/rogers-internet-so-bad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936821 | 1,530 | 1.515625 | 2 |
M.S. in Adolescence Education (Grades 7-12)
The Master of Science degree in Adolescence Education at LIU Post prepares professional teachers and leaders to address the intellectual, social and emotional needs of teenagers in grades 7 through 12.
The program is designed for individuals who have earned a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and college and who wish to begin a new career as a certified school teacher. Upon graduation, you will be eligible for Initial Teaching Certification from New York state. In addition, current teachers who have bachelor’s degrees in education and Initial Teaching Certification may use this program to expand their expertise to the fifth through ninth grade levels. This program meets the New York state master’s degree requirements for Professional Teaching Certification.
The program’s central goal is the preparation of outstanding teachers who are experienced in thinking critically, solving problems and working collaboratively with teen learners ages 13 to 18 as well as parents and educators in public and private schools. This Master of Science program encompasses teacher education courses, which prepare you for classroom management and curriculum development, and a concentration in one of six disciplines: Biology, Earth Science, English, Mathematics, Social Studies or Spanish. Depending on the concentration you choose, the Master of Science in Adolescence Education requires 45 to 49 credits. | <urn:uuid:3a37ac9a-8b81-4a33-b7b9-64305604d5b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://liu.edu/Home/CWPost/Academics/Schools/CEIS/Dept/Curriculum/Graduate-Programs/AE/MS-AdolEd.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944374 | 268 | 1.75 | 2 |
This is the most complete of the Homo habilis skulls discovered at Olduvai Gorge. (It is not as complete as it may look above; the lighter portion of the side of the head is filler.) When discovered, it had been crushed absolutely flat, hence the nickname "Twiggy", after an English model of the 1960's. A heroic reconstruction job by R.J. Clarke restored it, but some distortion undoubtedly remains.
This page is part of the Fossil Hominids FAQ at the talk.origins Archive.
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If you are eligible for Social Security disability and are between the ages of 62 and 66, you have a choice to make: Should you take the early retirement benefit?
Regardless of your age, when you qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Social Security sets your benefit as though you had reached full retirement age. Full retirement age is when you qualify for 100 percent of the benefit Social Security calculates from your lifetime earnings. Currently that age is 66 years old (but over the next few years that will gradually rise to 67).
If you are at least 62 years old, you can get early retirement benefits while you await a decision on your disability case. If you are successful in your disability case, you will be paid the higher disability benefit amount. In effect, you will get a monthly pay increase from Social Security. However, there can be a downside. If you are unsuccessful in your disability case, you may not be able to reverse your decision to take the lower benefit. There is a 12-month deadline for withdrawing the application for retirement once it is filed, and you need to pay back any benefits that you or your family have received. Whatever may be technically possible, in our experience, we do not ever recall a client actually making such a payback. What is more common instead is the overarching need for the reduced retirement monies pending the disability claim finalization and the hoped for approval. We most certainly always try to give very honest feedback regarding the prospects and what is important for success. It’s all part of what we do.
The advantage of filing for disability while receiving early retirement is a higher monthly Social Security check. The early retirement age benefit can be as much as 30% less than the full retirement age benefit while your monthly disability benefit is 100% of your full retirement age benefit. Your disability payments will end when you reach your full retirement age and Social Security will begin paying you your retirement benefits.
A less common scenario can affect those who qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) (which is for individuals with little or no income) and also qualify for retirement benefits. This can occur when you have worked enough years in the past to qualify for a retirement benefit, but didn’t work recently enough in relation to when you filed for disability to be eligible for SSDI. If this is your situation, you will only be paid SSI benefits until you are 62 years old, at which time you become eligible for Social Security retirement. When you reach 62, you will have to apply for early retirement benefits, because Social Security requires that—as a condition of receiving SSI benefits— you must apply for any benefits that are available, including Social Security early retirement benefits. | <urn:uuid:fda88ee7-aba8-406e-a0e4-dcb3c093f5b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nashdisabilitylaw.com/question-of-the-month-can-i-take-early-retirement-while-my-social-security-disability-claim-is-pending/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965478 | 547 | 1.789063 | 2 |
“That was never our target number. That was a target that came from the Congressional Budget Office, and it has become an accepted number. There’s no magic to the 7 million. What there is magic to is that in the month of December a million Americans signed up for insurance.”
— White House aide Phil Schiliro, interview on MSNBC, Dec. 31, 2013
This column has been updated.
The White House this week crowed about the fact that, as of the end of the year, 2.1 million Americans have signed up for insurance either through the federal health-care exchange or state-run exchanges. The message was that the Affordable Care Act Web site, which had a troubled launch, was turning a corner.
At the same time, the administration has backed away from the idea that it suggested it had a “target” of 7 million enrollees when the enrollment period for 2014 ends in March. As Schiliro put it, “that was never our target number.”
Let’s explore this figure and the administration’s enrollment claims.
The 7 million figure did originate as an estimate (not a target) by the CBO. Before HealthCare.gov launched, senior administration officials certainly embraced the number.
Here’s Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaking to reporters last June: “We’re hopeful that 7 million is a realistic target.”
And here she is on Sept. 30, in an interview with NBC News: “I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014.”
Moreover, on Sept. 5, 2013, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, sent Sebelius a memo titled, “Projected Monthly Enrollment Targets for Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2014.”
The memo offered an estimate of 7,066,000, drawing both on CBO’s estimate and the experience of the universal health plan in Massachusetts, Medicare Part D “and conversations with employers, issuers and states.” It projected that enrollment would be 3.3 million by the end of December.
The 7 million figure, apparently, became less relevant as “a target” or a measure of success when it became clear that the Web site’s problems were making it difficult for people to sign up.
Instead, officials have argued that a more relevant figure is the mix of young and old people. That’s because younger people tend to be healthier and thus have lower medical expenses; if only older people sign up, premiums would soar.
(To be fair, when Sebelius spoke of 7 million being “a realistic target,” she also made this point: “It’s both about numbers and hopefully getting a balanced risk pool. So a lot of our efforts will be using creative ways to outreach to sort of the young healthy population who is eligible but who may not get up every morning thinking about health insurance.” But the media have tended to emphasize the 7 million figure.)
In one possible good sign, the state of Kentucky announced this week that 40 percent of the 116,000 enrollees in Medicaid or qualified health plans in the state are under 35 years old. Officials are looking for at least 30 percent of enrollees to be under 35.
It’s important to remember that the health-care marketplace is not a single entity, but at least 51 different marketplaces, each with its own risk pool, so it is quite possible some states will do very well while others might end up with an unbalanced mix.
But there is one funny thing about the administration’s enrollment figures: The White House counts “an enrollee” as anyone who has selected a qualified health plan.
“Once someone clicks ‘enroll’ and selects a plan, we consider them enrolled,” a senior White House official said. “We don’t know if they have paid or when they pay the company because it’s a private transaction between the company and the consumer.”
[Update: Administration officials now concede that originally enrollment information was supposed to have been received, but that part of the system has not been completed yet.
“We do not have information on who has paid their premiums now,” one official said. “We will in the future. This is part of the back-end financial management systems that are left to be built. Issuers will be reporting to us on completed enrollments in connection with payments of premium tax and cost-sharing subsidies, but that we don’t yet have that data.”
Under a work-around, insurers were expected to provide numbers by Dec. 27, but since premiums are not due until Jan. 10, any information that has been received is not yet complete.]
Thus it is possible that thousands, or even tens of thousands, of “enrollees,” under the administration’s definition, have not purchased a plan.
Insurance industry officials report that they are still receiving duplicate ID numbers for enrollees, as well as experiencing a continuing problem with so-called “orphans.” These are people who are recorded by HealthCare.gov as having picked an insurer, but the companies have no record of these persons, meaning they cannot be sent a bill or receive an insurance card.
Moreover, CBO’s original estimate of 7 million assumed that people had paid for their plans. Under CBO’s definition, if a person bought coverage that began Jan. 1 and then never got around to paying, then CBO would not count that person as having been covered at all.
So it’s quite likely the administration is even further behind the targets outlined in Tavenner’s memo than is currently apparent. That memo assumed consumers paid their first month’s premium prior to receiving coverage.
The Pinocchio Test
Whether or not the administration originally came up with the 7 million figure, officials certainly embraced it as a target in the months leading up to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. We agree that the mix of young and old enrollees is perhaps the more relevant number, but it’s a bit odd at this point for the administration to minimize the 7 million figure. Everyone knows enrollment got off to a slow start — and one can safely assume the administration would be bragging if in December it had exceeded the targets in Tavenner’s memo.
Moreover, the administration’s definition of “signing up” is more expansive than what most people would consider as enrolling in a plan. Officials should be more frank in explaining that one reason for selecting this measure is because the system is not yet fully functioning.
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JAKARTA: The sound of tambourines has returned to the narrow alleys of southern Jakarta after a long pandemic hiatus, marking the month of Ramadan with distinctive Islamic devotional music native to the Indonesian capital.
Locally known as rebana biang, tambourines have been used by the Betawi community of Jakarta for the past two centuries. Bigger than those used elsewhere in Southeast Asia and with no metal jingles, the handheld drums are also played during other religious celebrations, but it is especially Ramadan that has traditionally been associated with their sound.
Today, the tradition is being kept alive by the last remaining rebana biang ensemble, Sanggar Lestari Budaya.
For decades, the group consisted only of family members, with the techniques of playing and producing the rebana handed down from generation to generation. It was only in the 2000s that the great-grandson of its founder, Mohamad Natsir, started to teach the music to those who were not his kin.
“He was the one who opened space for those who aren’t family to learn rebana and form their own groups,” said David Rahman, 30, who is not a family member but took over the ensemble this year, after Natsir’s death.
The group now has seven members, all between the ages of 25 and 30.
While they have been experimenting by adding other instruments to their performances, rebana remains the core of their art and to perform with them, a musician needs to master it the way their great-grandfathers did and learn 12 traditional rebana strokes.
“Collaborations are meant to attract people to join us,” Rahman said.
“I will keep the original strokes unchanged.”
To keep the original form, however, the young musicians will find it increasingly difficult to maintain their instruments.
There is only one master artisan left in Jakarta who can make the rebana: Abdul Rahman, a member of the extended family of Sanggar Lestari Budaya.
Already 80 years old, he admits that his eyesight is not good anymore.
It takes Rahman two weeks to produce the three different sized drums that form part of the rebana. Sometimes it takes longer, as materials are sourced from other parts of Indonesia and can be expensive. It costs about $350 to make one instrument.
“The raw materials, such as wood and sheepskin, I take from Loning village in Kebumen, Central Java,” he told Arab News.
Rahman says his son has learnt some of the craft, but his skills still require polishing.
For now, the musicians are not trying to borrow tomorrow’s sorrow and are all focused on practice during the fasting month.
“Practicing during Ramadan is a joyful experience,” the group’s leader said.
“We’ll surely gain a (spiritual) reward as it is a good and blessed month.”
They have already earned a warm welcome from members of the Betawi community, after their performances were suspended for two years by coronavirus lockdowns.
Catur Widarsono, a watchman who lives next to the group’s practice room in Ciganjur, said the neighborhood felt desolate without the sound of rebana biang during the pandemic and everyone was happy to hear it again.
“(For us) residents, when there are activities such as rebana during Ramadan, it becomes serene, the atmosphere in the neighborhood becomes serene,” he added.
Mohammad Alwi, whose family also lives nearby, told Arab News he was glad the sound of music was back.
“Because of the pandemic, their routine was less,” he said.
“I’m glad to hear them (again), especially during the month of Ramadan. It reduces the anxiety the pandemic had brought.” | <urn:uuid:b911cb2e-eeb7-4200-948b-f99e26841413> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arabnews.com/node/2060046/world | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.980078 | 826 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The Front Project
Two major pieces of work have recently been released by The Front Project as part of a renewed focus on supporting the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector through COVID-19.
The Front Project launched a survey of early childhood teachers (ECTs) and educators to make sure their voices are at the forefront of work to achieve a better system for ECEC after COVID-19. The survey asks what ECTs and educators see as the strengths of the sector, as well as where they would like to have more support or see improvement.
In its first week the survey has already received over 1400 responses from ECTs and educators from all across Australia, working in many different types of ECEC settings. It is critically important we continue to collect insights from the people who directly deliver education and care to children in ECEC while we explore how to achieve improvements for the sector.
Survey results will be published in coming weeks, so there is still time to contribute if you have not yet already.
The Front Project has prepared an independent analysis of funding for ECEC in their latest paper, Realising the benefits of early childhood education and care: Funding after COVID-19. The paper assesses how to best accelerate economic recovery, while ensuring children’s wellbeing and education, as we begin to move out of COVID-19 and into the future.
The analysis balances aspiration with pragmatism, to recommend a way forward that is feasible within budget pressures and sector limitations:
Immediate term – until October 2020 (or until the Federal Budget)
Maintain free or low-cost access to ECEC for all children to provide a stable environment and enable services to respond to increases in demand as parents return to work.
From October 2020
Amend the Child Care Subsidy (CCS) to be more responsive and flexible to changing demand patterns, improve access and affordability and prioritise support for vulnerable children. The Federal and State Governments should also work towards universal, teacher-led preschool in the two years before school.
Continue improvements to affordability and include two years of universal preschool. Integrate with community support services for families.
This recommendation was reached by keeping outcomes for children at the core of the analysis. The evidence has shown that was is needed is a sector that is prepared with enough high quality teachers and educators, resources and infrastructure to deliver the outcomes we want to see for children. It is important to ensure that we make the most of opportunities that ECEC provides to children, families and employers as we move out of COVID-19, while building the foundations for a stronger future that will deliver a double dividend to children and Australia.
The recommendation is grounded in the evidence on what makes a difference for children, and is informed by rigorous and frequent consultation with people who connect with the many different parts of the ECEC system; including representatives from government, business, philanthropy, peak bodies, academia and the ECEC sector.
The paper has been shared with the National Cabinet, Treasurer, Finance Minister and Federal, State and Territory ministers to help inform their decisions about future funding arrangements for ECEC. | <urn:uuid:0811e1e8-835a-4f3a-b133-0f033d10d895> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ieu.asn.au/news-publications/news/2019/01/front-project | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.963771 | 647 | 1.890625 | 2 |
It is well-known that Microsoft Word/Excel compatible documents or PDF files can contain malicious content. LaTeX files are unfortunately no exception either. LaTeX users often include third-party codes through sources or packages (.sty or .cls files). But those packages can execute malicious commands on the users' system, in order to capture sensitive information or to perform denial of service attacks. Checkoway et al. were the first to warn LaTeX users of these threats. Collaborative cloud-based LaTeX editors and services compiling LaTeX sources are particularly concerned. In this paper, we have created a LaTeX package that collects system data and hides them inside the PDF file produced by the target. Then, we have measured what can be recovered by hackers using malicious LaTeX file on online services, and which measures those services have enforced to thwart the threats. Services defend themselves using sandbox or commands restrictions. Commands restrictions are more difficult to setup and we found one service (PMLatex) which is too permissive. | <urn:uuid:9ef13e15-0f37-4d05-9bb7-4127f8c597e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210200856L/abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.93267 | 210 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The Strike by the Numbers
400,000,000 - daily cost to the city during the strike
7,000,000 - daily riders on New York's subways and busses
22,000,000 - amount the city is suing the TWU (per day) if a strike happens
62,000 - average salary of a subway and bus operator
32,000 - average salary for a person living in Brooklyn
36,050 - average salary for a person living in Queens
40,000 - average salary for a person living in Nassau County
38,000 - average salary for a person living in Suffolk County
25,100 - starting salary for a NYPD police officer
25,000 - daily fine for a striking worker
1980 - Last transit strike, which lasted for 11 days
50 - degrees on the first day of the 1980 strike (it will be 25 tomorrow)
5 - Shopping days left before Christmas
Mayor Mike has announced that if the TWU members walk off the job, the city will enforce the Taylor Laws which bar public employees from striking. Bloomberg has also went to a judge and asked for fines of $25,000 a day for each worker and $1,000,000 for the Union. The leadership of the Union could face jail time and the city might sue for damages. Enforcement could bankrupt the union.
Taylor Law - §210 1. No public employee or employee organization shall engage in a strike, and no public employee or employee organization shall cause, instigate, encourage, or condone a strike.Bloomberg stated that a strike will cost the city an estimated $400,000,000 a day. The strike has already caused sales at local merchants to drop off 30-40% on Friday because of the looming strike.
The TWU has set procedures on the shutdown tonight on their website:
-Chain and lock each STATION TURNSTILE at 12:01 a.m. STAIRWAY GATES and HIGH GATES shall remain open to allow passengers to leave the system.Other Links
-REMAIN ON DUTY UNTIL PROPERLY RELIEVED BY A SUPERVISOR
-Members will not perform emergency services.
-NO BUS IS TO BE ABANDONED ON THE STREET AFTER THE STRIKE BEGINS.
TWU Local 100 Site
NYC.gov Strike Info
Strike Blogging: Countdown to a Strike
It's a Strike
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This course will focus on the evolution and development of child protection in the United States. The goal of the course is to provide students with an understanding of how state governments think about the adequacy/appropriateness of parenting, the safety of children, when and how child protection agencies get involved with families and what the evidence says about such involvement. We will discuss the origins and implementation of major child welfare policies and we will review practice innovations and some of the most pressing challenges facing child welfare systems today. A common theme throughout the course will be the intersection of child welfare and poverty, race, gender, identity and trauma. The course will cover policies and practices from both micro and macro perspectives and students will learn how child welfare systems collaborate (or at times fail to collaborate) with other allied systems of care (e.g. community mental health, juvenile justice, substance abuse).
|Instructor:||Monica D. Sampson|
|U-M Class #:||36758|
|Time:||Wed 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM|
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|Credits:||3 Credit Hours|
|Mgmt & Leadership|
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|Children & Families||Elective (Host)|
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
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I attended the 2018 conference on Human-Robot Interaction. The primary reason was to present work done by VGIS students I had supervised during the autumn semester of 2017. Secondly, to gather inspiration for the new Grand Solutions - Augmented Cellular Meat Production (ACMP) project I was part of. Not that I would spend much more time on the HRI aspects but AAU had just acquired a new PhD that would work on this aspect of the ACMP project and I would like to be somewhat up-to-date on the topic.
- Test on the actual end users - use user study experts for this
- Precise knowledge of objects and actors locations is needed - how do we get that?
- Collaborating with real industrial robots - No one at HRI was looking specifically at this
- Possible collaborator in how robots are received in the workplace - Institut for Uddannelse og Pædagogik(http://edu.au.dk/)
- VR is seen as mature, AR not yet but will be soon and is therefore also more interesting from research point of view
- Nice explanations of mixed reality - "Making the hidden visible" or "exposing the hidden"
- Nothing is completely autonomous - the degree of interaction just varies
- Infrastructure is essential for efficient collaboration e.g. lane lines and signals
- Adapt the systems to the expertise level of the user to improve efficiency and avoid frustration - measure expertise based on tracks (shows clear difference)
Steve Cousins' Keynote - Building a Service Robotic Business, Challenges from the Field
- Use case is key, is it an aspirin or a vitamin
- Robots help avoid monday models
- Reduce impact of turnover
- Other things than savings on workers hit the bottomline
- Relay for transport between cells?
David Mindell's Keynote - Autonomy in human environments
- What is autonomy? Never complete autonomy
- Use of infrastructure to facilitate safe and efficient collaboration e.g. TLs People <-> robots <-> infrastructure <-> people
- Detect expertise from precise tracks
- Knowledge of precise location is essential
Titles and short summaries of presented works that would be worth looking further into.
- Teaching users to remote control robot using scaffolding. dynamic curves controls the amount of scaffolding. Used to train a human operator, could it be used the other way?
- "Its all in your head". Priming the expectations of the user. Large impact on the perception of the product.
- Projecting robot intentions into the physical world. Highlighting the robots next move. Gamification.
- Human-robot handover - Vary based on user experience level. Safety concerns solve by augmenting to show robot capabilities.
- "A framework for robot generated mixed reality deixis" - New classes are possible in MR, annotations with e.g. arrows
- "Transfer learning for robot navigation" - RNN learns to control robot through forrest. Sim-to-real.
- "Training robots to acquire new skills" - RL PyBullet
- Task planning in VR
- Exposing the hidden
- "Learning grasp from kinaesthetic demonstrations and mental simulations" - map between object and contact point, model hand/tool, evaluate grasp before execution
- "Designing gripper by looking at what/how humans grasp" - record video of grasps, categorise, rank
- "Teaching users to remote control robot using scaffolding" - dynamic curves controls the amount of scaffolding. Used to train a human operator, could it be used the other way?
its all in your head
Priming the expectations of the user Main poster session
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Already Feeding Raw?
How Do I Know If I’m Feeding My Pet a Nutritionally Balanced Meal?
It’s absolutely necessary to have nutritional balance when it comes to your pet’s diet. If the diet is unbalanced it can create health problems for your pet.1 Even if you’ve taken the time to thoroughly research the specific nutritional requirements your pet needs or have followed meal recipes written by pet nutrition experts, it’s still possible to miss something.
Many homemade or prey model diets are deficient in antioxidants, lack the correct amounts of minerals and vitamins, or lack the right fatty acid balance. This runs the risk of unbalanced skeletal growth, poor organ or immune health and other potentially critical health issues in pets.
All Darwin’s Meals Are:
Carefully Formulated, Consistent, and Reliable
All Darwin’s meals are formulated with the guidance of holistic veterinarians and pet nutritionists to be high protein, moderate in fat and low in carbohydrates. They also contain balanced Omega 6 and 3 fatty acids as well as essential vitamins and minerals from natural and organic compounds. Our meals meet or exceed AAFCO nutritional standards for pet food for all life stages and the National Research Council’s guidelines for pet nutrition.
Made Fresh and Immediately Frozen to Lock in Nutrients
As nutrients degrade over time, you can visually see the difference. The meat in other frozen pet foods is often brown or gray in color, signaling that the fats have oxidized and possibly gone rancid from long-term storage and/or improper handling.
Our meals are mixed and packed, then immediately vacuum sealed and frozen so they retain their fresh smell and taste when they reach your home! | <urn:uuid:565d39bc-05a0-4606-ace3-cabc6e1a645b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.darwinspet.com/why-darwins/already-feeding-raw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00378-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902077 | 355 | 1.953125 | 2 |
POTTSTOWN — As 2012 wound down to a close, the Pottstown School Board got a glimpse of what 2013 may look like — at least in terms of the plans being made by the Foundation for Pottstown Education.
Executive Director Myra Forrest outlined for the board the eight major goals the foundation has set for itself in the coming year.
Here is a brief look at those goals.
• PEAK: The foundation wants to ensure continued funding for PEAK, which stands for Pottstown Early Action for Kindergarten readiness is Pottstown’s signature early education program. It partners with pre-schools and childcare providers to get youngsters read for school. | <urn:uuid:7b0dc0a2-31d4-4f94-a41c-3b5a48286060> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://roysrants.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/foundation-for-pottstown-education-outlines-2013-goals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00096-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953951 | 140 | 1.53125 | 2 |
December 12, 2013
Planning and plotting your next bicycle travel trip? Might you want to use a mixture of the Adventure Cycling route network maps to get you from point A to point B on this journey? I can honestly say with the new interactive route map our IT deparment put together, it has never been easier than it is today to make this happen.
When you click on Overview Map you are taken to a map that displays our entire network, showing how it intersections with itself. But that's not the exciting new, whiz-bang part. When you click on the individual route lines, a pop-up box appears with the route name, route section number, mileage and endpoints, a link to the route description, and a link to Cyclosource, our online store, where you can add the map to your shopping cart.
The default view of this map includes every route in the network, but you also have the power to highlight the different routes to meet your needs or toggle them off and on via the tick boxes below the map. (see list below)
For those of you who prefer to have a paper map to doodle and take notes on, there is still a PDF version of the Route Network map available to download and print. (see red arrow below)
Once you are out on the road, this map has an additional feature that allows different pieces of information such as weather and wildfire reports to be displayed so you can gauge how these things might impact your tour. Simply click on the link at the bottom of the page to have the map reload with those supplemental route condition layer options. (see purple arrow above)
So load up the map and click around to create your next bicycle tour!
GEOPOINTS BULLETIN is written by Jennifer 'Jenn' Milyko, an Adventure Cycling cartographer, and appears weekly, highlighting curious facts, figures, and persons from the Adventure Cycling Route Network with tips and hints for personal route creation thrown in for good measure. She also wants to remind you that map corrections and comments are always welcome via the online Map Correction Form. | <urn:uuid:1461c340-bbed-4155-a4b8-01c998e9a89d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/blog/interactive-route-network-map/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00025-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926119 | 433 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Hope someone can help. I am researching my ancestors William Shields and Jacob Johnson in Mason County, KY. In the 1813 tax records it shows them both being assigned to "SHIELDS" Company, 15th Regiment. I cannot find such a company in the KY Adjutant General's report in Ancestry or Family Search. William Shields, however, shows up in NARA's index of 1812 enlistees as a private in Gabriel Slaughter's 15th Regiment. His son, William Jr., and brother Jonathan, are listed in the tax records like William, under "Shield's company, 15th regiment," but are both found in Jeremiah Martin's Company,Poage's 3rd Regiment. No sign of Johnson Jacob being in the 15th, however, other than the relationship indicated by the tax records. Is there someone who can explain the relationship of the tax records to actual enlistment? Why can't I find William Shields in the lists of Gabriel Slaughter's 15th that are published? | <urn:uuid:41b5ed1a-0f3e-4bd5-8ad3-4fe314ea982f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.Military.war1812.general/1505/mb.ashx?pnt=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00187-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973011 | 203 | 2 | 2 |
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How to lose weight when you take prednisone
Prednisone mimics the function of endogenous steroids and you must closely follow the directives of your physician in order to prevent a steroid imbalance 2, 3 . To understand the role of glucagon-like peptide, we must understand its effects on the adrenal glands and pituitary gland, as well as the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis. Adrenal glands and the adrenal medulla are very important because each plays a major role in the regulation and maintenance of the adrenal neuroendocrine system, diet to follow while on prednisone. The endocrine glands are involved in the control of the pituitary gland and the secretion of corticotropin–releasing hormone (CRH). The effects of glucagon-like peptide on the hypothalamus are thought to be mediated by a mechanism involving the G-protein coupled receptor GPR55, how long does it take for water retention to go away after stopping prednisone. This receptor is located on the cell surface of the hypothalamus and is activated through activation of the G-protein kinase CRY1 or the transcription factor Bmp/Bmp1. The Bmp/Bmp1/CRY1 pathway is activated via the G-protein receptor GPR55. The signal-activated kinase cascade is activated by hormone action at Bmp/Bmp1 or by the activation of the receptor by glucagon–like peptide, follow to while prednisone diet on. The activation of glucagon occurs via the activation of phosphodiesterase cGMP, how to reduce weight gain while on prednisone. The activation of enzyme tyrosine phosphatase, phosphatase, and phosphoglucomutase 3 leads to the formation of an inactive form of BMP in the cytosol, thereby blocking the action of GPR56. Glucagon is one of the most highly conserved hormones. More than 80% of the peptide species in the human genome belong to the family of glucagon–like peptides identified in the ERC database; glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2), and glucagon-like peptide glucagon (GLCG) are all members of this class. GLP-1 and its analogues have also been identified in the ERC databases as members of the family of glucagon–like peptides, how long does it take for water retention to go away after stopping prednisone. This article reviews the recent advances of recent discoveries in the field of glucagon-like peptide. This review is divided into different parts: (i) some basic principles, (ii) the role of glucagon in the endocrine and other systems, followed by an overview of the most recent discoveries and some of the clinical studies in this field, prednisone weight gain 5 days.
Prednisone weight gain stories
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But with Clen Anabolic Research, athletes and bodybuilders can benefit from the weight loss and appetite control qualities of Clenbuterol without testing positive for it. Clenbuterol is safe when used as directed. For example, the Clenbuterol supplement may be used only under advice of a doctor. Clenbuterol may not be used if you're pregnant, nursing, taking high doses of insulin or have any physical condition or substance abuse issue. Clenbuterol may only be used as directed by your doctor and cannot be used in high doses or with alcohol or drugs. Clenbuterol should not be used for the treatment of depression or anxiety disorder. Clenbuterol can cause a serious seizure within 30 to 60 minutes of swallowing. If you experience a bad seizure while using Clenbuterol, call your doctor or call 911 immediately. Do not use Clenbuterol if you've ever had to have a seizure. Clenbuterol and Prozac Anabolic Agents and Prozac Anabolic steroids and Prozac differ only in method of administration. Prozac (fluoxetine) is usually used by oral agents. Anabolic steroids are usually injected. Both Anabolic Agents and Prozac are controlled by the FDA. Anabolic Agents are regulated in the U.S. under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Prozac is regulated in the U.S. under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the U.S. Pharmacopeia Act. Clenbuterol can be considered a safe Prozac alternative. Clenbuterol is not approved for use for the treatment of depression or severe anxiety disorder. Clenbuterol can, however, be used with Prozac. Clenbuterol should not be given to people with other psychiatric illnesses. Clenbuterol can be used in conjunction with Prozac. However, do not apply to patients with severe psychotic disorder. In addition, do not use Clenbuterol or any of its ingredients with antipsychotic medications (such as Zyprexa or Seroquel). These drugs can cause confusion, anxiety or panic attacks. Cranberry juice If you can tolerate the sweet taste of crushed cranberries, try using it as a cranberry-containing preworkout powder. This can help you lose weight quicker. Cranberries contain magnesium which can be taken with Clenbuterol. If you're sensitive or allergic to cranberries, avoid using Clenbuterol when consuming cranberries. If you Losing weight may be simple,. High-fiber carbs such as whole grains, legumes, and beans. Learn how to lose weight in your 50s and beyond with tips from a doctor who specializes in weight loss for older adults — prednisone causes weight gain, the #1 side effect, but how? discover what causes it by listening to dr. Megan, the prednisone pharmacist explain. — when taken orally, powerful anti-inflammatory agents such as prednisone, methylprednisolone and hydrocortisone can cause insulin resistance,. — due to my autoimmune disease, i was given corticosteroids (prednisone) for months. What i learned: although it's hard not to gain weight,. Still, preventing excess weight gain during steroid treatment is Similar articles: | <urn:uuid:92ce4732-c172-4468-9970-64ec34eda077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.girifoundation.org/profile/stephenbethley181324/profile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.931156 | 1,897 | 1.578125 | 2 |
From: Nicole Friedman (233.sub-66-174-79.myvzw.com -188.8.131.52)
Subject: Re: veganism & world hunger...Question
Date: August 2, 2006 at 4:02 pm PST
In Reply to: veganism & world hunger...Question posted by rawknfrank on May 30, 2006 at 8:59 am:
If true that would be a very nice thought (if Americans were willing to give up their meat). However, it is a preposterous when thinking about the reality we live in today.
1. MILLIONS of Americans are living below the poverty line. They simply do not have the option to give up meat. To live a vegetarian lifestyle and be healthy is more expensive than living a carniverous one (yes you can live on french fries and pizza for cheap but you will not be healthy). It's easy to forget living in NY (and by the way I abhor guns) but many people in Middle America still use hunting and fishing to supplement their diets. Also, most of these people do not have the same access to fresh markets as people in more affluent neighborhoods- try counting the # of Whole Foods in Jamaica, Queens versus the # in Midtown Manhattan if you don't believe me.
2. American farmers are being subsidized by our government. This is one of the big reasons why we are so fat- the corn farmers produce too much corn- thus corn syrup is found in so many products making us fat. The point is that we already have too much food- so much that we don't even know what to do with it.
3. I know vegetarians may not be sympathetic to this reason but meat (especially the "nastier" bits) are very central to many ethnicities and cultures. Look at the history of BBQ- it began when slaves were given the worst scraps and cuts of meat and they had to figure out how to make it taste good. Obviously there is more to African American culture than ribs but to ignore the importance of food to anyone's culture is impossible.
What we should be focusing on when it comes to solving world hunger is to focus on the larger picture:
1. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund have left countless 3rd World Countries dependent and in a worse state than when they started. Do you realize that when these countries receive things like rice for cheap that their own farmers can barely make a living? This has led to the high levels of hunger and poverty in places like Haiti and many African nations.
2. In the United States we need to raise the minimum wage.
3. The UN (or better yet NATO) needs to work on ways to end corruption/warfare in Africa. There is certainly enough food in this world for our entire population- it's just not getting to the people who need it because of these problems.
FINAL THOUGHT- I truly think it is admirable that you and many others on this site are giving thought to things that most people would rather ignore. I know I am somewhat biased as I am a history teacher, but I truly believe that in order to make a difference we cannot stand behind single issues but focus on the larger picture- getting someone in the white house who will focus on raising min wage and intervening in Africa would be a start. Please contact ACTNOW.org- they have many volunteer opportunities.
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Principle 6 - Training and support.
Penn must put sufficient effort into ongoing support of its information technology
assets. Skills and experiences from across the University must be leveraged and
communication channels opened.
Full and proper used of information technology increases productivity and provides
the best return on investment
- Training and support should be provided at the organizational levels that
are most productive and cost-effective. In general "central" training and
support is most valuable when coordination is required or when economies
of scale are possible while "local" training and support is most valuable
when local knowledge or insight is required or when cost-savings can be realized.
- Information technology programs and projects must plan for ongoing training,
support, and communication channels.
- Greater reliance on standards for information technology will allow training
to be more transferable from job to job and assignment to assignment.
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We Jews are good at remembering. We are commanded to remember, lizkor, in myriad ways throughout the year: We say Yizkor for a deceased relative; we mark the horrors of the Holocaust with Yom Hashoah and pay tribute to Israel's fallen soldiers with Yom Hazikaron.
But how do we best remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the deadliest ever perpetrated on American soil?
Memorial gatherings abound — locally and nationally. The searing images of the burning Twin Towers consume us once again, raising the specter of fear and destruction that changed our country and our lives in so many ways.
Yet, 10 years later, how do we do justice in honoring the victims and their families as well as the heroic rescue workers who perished in their efforts to save those trapped in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the downed plane in Shanksville, Pa.?
One way to honor their memory is to stay vigilant against the forces that led to their demise even as we ensure that such vigilance doesn't compromise our commitment to civil liberties.
Osama bin Laden is dead but the forces that shaped him and that he, in turn, inspired continue to threaten our world. From Pakistan to Gaza, Islamic fundamentalists continue to choose terror over political discourse, destruction over life.
The recent terrorist attacks in Israel — with seven killed in Eilat and nine wounded at a Tel Aviv nightclub — illustrate all too clearly the persistence of such forces.
Closer to home, we have witnessed a host of attacks and thwarted attacks, some of them targeted at Jewish institutions. Remember the fatal shootings at the Seattle Federation five years ago, which left one dead and five others wounded, and the storming of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum two years ago by a virulently anti-Semitic white supremacist.
Now that Homeland Security has become a necessary — and welcome — addition to our national psyche, our resolve must continue. But vigilance and stepped-up security must not come at the expense of civil liberties that we hold dear. Yes, we can live with the burden of taking off our shoes before we step onto an airplane. But torture and illegal wiretappings are a different matter.
We must balance our resolve to pursue security policies that will keep us safe with our determination to safeguard the liberties of all Americans.
It is not an easy balance to strike, especially knowing that there are those in our midst who seek to wreak havoc and destruction. But it's incumbent upon us to strive for that balance in our national and local policies.
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The Moleskine Pocket Plain Notebook is perfect for every day notes and writings. It has acid-free, thread-bound pages within a cardboard cover with rounded corners and has a bookmark and an elastic closure. An expandable inner pocket made of cardboard and cloth contains the Moleskine history.
- Size: Pocket - 3½" x 5½"
- Pages: 192 Plain Pages
- Cover: Black Hard Cover
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|Object NGC 1013 is located exactly in the center of the picture.
|NGC 1013 - galaxy in the constellation Ceti|
Type: S0-a - lenticular galaxy
The angular dimensions: 0.80'x0.6'
magnitude: V=14.0m; B=14.9m
The surface brightness: 13.1 mag/arcmin2
Coordinates for epoch J2000: Ra= 2h37m50.4s; Dec= -11°30'24"
redshift (z): 0.027566
The distance from the Sun to NGC 1013: based on the amount of redshift (z) - 116.4 Mpc;
Other names of the object NGC 1013 : PGC 9966, MCG -2-7-46, NPM1G -11.0097
Nearby objects: NGC 1011
, NGC 1012
, NGC 1014
, NGC 1015
The full catalog NGC / IC
In this version of the NGC catalog used by NASA imagery, ngcicproject.org and other sources.
The pictures in the places of their original placement referred to as free of licensing restrictions.
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Clean Your Oven NaturallyNov 20, 2018
by Angela Cummings
Are you looking for a natural way to clean the caked on food and grease from your oven?
You’re not alone! Especially during baking season, when there is frequent oven use.
This article covers the frequency to clean your oven, materials, and ingredients to use, and steps to follow.
Why Is a Clean Oven Important? How Often Should I Clean It?
Caked on crusted food that drops to the bottom of stoves can burn and start to smoke or smolder.
Grease and grime on doors can cause a distinct smell.
That stinky or burnt smell can get into food and affect the taste.
When food or grease builds up in the oven, it’s time for a cleaning.
The frequency will depend on how often you use the oven, the types of foods cooked, and cooking methods (covered with glass lids or cooked uncovered).
Generally, it’s helpful to clean ovens ever one to three months. For lighter use, cleaning the oven every six months may be sufficient.
It’s quicker to clean the oven more often instead of waiting until a thick coating of food or splatter is baked on.
What Materials Do I Need to Clean the Oven?
- Cleaner. Gather your nontoxic cleaning ingredients (baking soda and vinegar) and have them ready to go
- Small bowl. Have a small bowl handy for mixing natural cleaning ingredients right before cleaning
- Rubber gloves. Heavy duty rubber gloves protect your hands and withstand scrubbing of food and grease drips
- Protective safety glasses. Avoid getting stray food pieces getting into your eyes when scrubbing
- Newspaper or paper towels. Line the floor under the oven and oven door with old newspaper or paper towels to catch any drips from cleaning
- Cotton cloth or rag. A damp cotton cloth or rag will be needed to wipe down the oven after cleaning is finished
- Non-scratch sponge. For tough stuck-on foods, use a sponge that won’t scratch the inside of the oven
- Garbage bag. Throw away soaking wet paper towels used during cleaning in a plastic garbage bag. Reuse an old plastic grocery bag and simply tie it up and toss in the trash when finished.
Why Should We be Mindful of Using Store-bought Cleaners?
Store-bought cleaners often contain chemicals such as chlorine and solvents.
Chlorine can react with other compounds, and create unintentional toxins such as trihalomethanes. Trihalomethanes have strong links to bladder cancer and are suspected of contributing to colon and rectal cancer.
Solvents are a large class of chemicals, commonly found in store-bought oven cleaners. They come in liquid, solid or gas form. Solvent chemicals may contribute to respiratory distress, nervous system toxicity, reproductive damage, liver and kidney damage, damage to developing fetuses, and cancer.
Solvent chemicals also commonly contain benzene and formaldehyde.
These chemicals are in the volatile organic chemical (VOC) family and may cause eye irritation, respiratory irritation, headaches, dizziness, nausea, visual disorders, loss of coordination and memory impairment.
What Is a Natural Way to Clean the Oven?
Cleaning the oven using baking soda, vinegar, and water is a nontoxic way to get rid of caked on foods and greasy drips and splatters.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Remove all accessories from oven. This includes oven racks, thermometers, baking pans, and cookie sheets so all that’s left is the oven structure itself.
2. Line floor. Lay old newspaper or paper towel on the floor under the oven and under the oven door. Since the oven door will be fully opened during cleaning, be sure to line the floor while the door is fully opened.
3. Mix ingredients. In a small bowl, mix ½ cup baking soda with 2 to 3 drops of water to create a paste that is spreadable. If the paste is too thick, add additional water one drop at a time until the right consistency is reached.
4. Spread paste. Put on your gloves and spread the paste with your hands, or use a paper towel to help evenly spread onto the front, back and sides of the oven interior. Do not spread paste on electrical heating components (for electric ovens) or where gas comes into the oven (for gas ovens).
5. Let sit. Let the paste sit for 10 to 12 hours, or overnight. Baking soda lifts away grease and grime naturally.
6. Clean racks. If racks have caked on food, set them in the kitchen sink or bathtub. Sprinkle baking soda on racks and rinse with vinegar. This creates a foaming action to lift stuck on foods. Then soak rack in plain water for 10 to 12 hours, or overnight.
7. Wipe oven clean. Use a cotton cloth or rag to wipe off baking soda paste inside the oven. If baking soda is stuck to the oven surface, spray with white vinegar to create a foaming action. Then wipe clean with the cotton cloth. Use non-abrasive sponge to scrub any stubborn spots
8. Wipe racks clean. Remove racks from water and wipe clean with a cotton cloth. Use a non-abrasive sponge to scrub any stubborn spots.
9. Dry accessories and put together. Dry oven racks and put them back into the oven.
10. All finished! You have a clean stove without using harmful cleaners!
Cleaning your stove can be accomplished using natural cleaners and cleaning methods.
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Little-noticed data in a new Senate report cast doubt on the Reagan administration's charge that the Soviet Union cheats on a treaty that limits the size of underground nuclear tests. The report, produced by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quotes the head of the Lawrence Livermore government laboratory as saying, ``The Soviets appear to have obeyed a testing limit.''
In the report, however, Livermore director Roger Batzel says he cannot rule out the possibility that a few Soviet tests could have exceeded the yield ceiling. (Soviets hold second test, Page 2.)
The pact in question is the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTB). Signed in Moscow in 1974, it caps allowable nuclear tests at 150 kilotons (kt) of force. The treaty was never ratified by the United States Senate, but both superpowers have pledged to observe it during the last 10 years.
For US scientists, verifying this treaty is a difficult proposition. Because they have no means of measuring the tests at their sites in the Soviet Union, they must make do with seismic listening posts in Norway and other allied countries that record the tremors in the earth produced by nuclear explosions.
Reagan administration officials have long interpreted the information gleaned this way as revealing that many Soviet tests are unacceptably large.
The President's annual report on Soviet noncompliance with arms treaties, released March 10, repeats the assertion that ``Soviet nuclear testing activities for a number of tests constitute a likely violation of legal obligations.''
Indeed, an unclassified Pentagon chart reproduced in the Senate report shows 24 Soviet tests larger than 150 kt since 1978.
The seismic data on which this chart is based are far from exact, however, and scientists at the Livermore lab interpret them differently.
The range of uncertainty for measuring tests is so large, they say, that the Soviet tests that appear to be too large could have been 150 kt or smaller.
Dr. Batzel backs up this less stringent view by pointing to the pattern of measurements of American nuclear tests.
According to exact readings taken on site, US underground explosions have never exceeded the allowable limit.
But measurements taken with the less reliable seismic method give the misleading impression that the US is cheating on the TTB. A chart of seismic information in the Senate report shows 12 US tests since 1976 that appear to have broken the treaty cap.
Chart patterns of US and Soviet test yields measured via seismic listening posts are ``very similar,'' according to Batzel. Since the US is not cheating, Livermore scientists say they do not feel the seismic data show the Soviets are breaking TTB limits, either.
On-site measurements would greatly reduce the uncertainties involved in the estimate process and give both nations more confidence in their estimation of what the other superpower is doing, concludes Batzel in the report, which is a summary of testimony on the testing issue before the Foreign Relations Committee.
Reagan officials agree with the assertion that on-site testing would help. Early this year President Reagan resubmitted the treaty to the Senate for its approval.
But the administration had one reservation: namely, that final ratification not take place until better verification procedures had been negotiated with the Soviets.
The Foreign Relations Committee agreed to this limit. Accordingly, it has recommended that the Senate approve the TTB, with the proviso that the President will reopen negotiations with the Soviets for better verification.
Once a better verification regime, presumably on-site measurement, is settled, the Senate would have to vote yet again on the final treaty before it took full legal effect.
A few members of the committee object to this somewhat peculiar recommendation. ``Under this procedure, the first Senate advice and consent would be a hollow exercise,'' says a report appendix subscribed to by Republican Sens. Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, Daniel Evans of Washington, and Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
Senator Helms, in another appendix, outlines vociferous opposition to the treaty as a whole. Soviet nuclear tests, he says, often vent radioactive debris in violation of the treaty.
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On free will, once again
Well, if you haven't had enough of it yet, may I suggest a handy-dandy summary of the contributions that science is beginning to make to the free will debate? I published such an essay in the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer, which is actually a commentary on a fascinating New York Times article by Dennis Overbye.
As you'll find out in the SI essay, I think Daniel Dennett is the philosopher who's got the most interesting things to say on the topic, especially in his Elbow Room. But science has begun to butt in, starting with the classic experiments by Libet in the 1970s, demonstrating that our subconscious makes decisions significantly ahead of our conscious awareness of them, a pretty scary thought in and of itself (I mean, who, exactly, is in charge here?).
You will also find out why I think that any talk of quantum mechanics in relation to the source of free will is nonsense on stilts, and should be avoided at all costs. On the other hand, I suggest in the essay that there is a legitimate role for so-called emergent properties to play a role in consciousness and, therefore (?) in free will, once we agree on a non-mystical conceptualization of emergence. | <urn:uuid:9bdd5295-23a2-4781-ad01-645a6f4fe720> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2007/05/on-free-will-once-again.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00219-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951094 | 397 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Rich Salz wrote:
> I think it is important to distinguish between "the Web works because it
> is a RESTful architecture" and "the web works; its architecture is
> thus..." The latter formulation admits the possibility that, for
> example, an awful lot of effort made something mediocre work.
There is no doubt that in many senses the Web is mediocre. But
nevertheless, there are certain properties that were it lacking, it
COULD NOT have become "the Web" no matter how much money or effort was
thrown at it. Lotus Notes could not have become "the Web" even if
Microsoft and IBM had agreed on it and thrown a billion dollars at it.
Gopher could not have become "the Web" under the same circumstances.
SMTP had twenty years to evolve into "the Web" protocol and didn't.
It's my assertion that SOAP/WSDL cannot be the basis for mutually
interoperable "Web-Scale Services" until they learn the lessons of the
Web. Individual (but non-interoperable) "Web-Scale Services" could
probably be at least be as successful as SMTP or FTP (if not HTTP) if
they would learn the lessons of SMTP or FTP but only a minority of the
web services community seem to be in that mental place yet.
Rather than elaborate here, I'll refer anyone who contacts me to a new
(not-yet-public) paper on this issue.
Come discuss XML and REST web services at:
Open Source Conference: July 22-26, 2002, conferences.oreillynet.com
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Surgeries and Procedures: Blood Transfusion
A blood transfusion is a fairly simple medical procedure during which a patient receives whole blood or one of its parts through an intravenous line, or IV. This is a tiny tube that is inserted into a vein using a small needle.
While patients are likely to notice a brief pinch of the needle, a blood transfusion is considered to be relatively painless. Still, any procedure that involves a needle is likely to cause some anxiety for a child, so it helps to understand how a transfusion is done. That way you can feel confident about what is happening and help put your child at ease.
About Blood Transfusions
Blood is like the body's transportation system. As blood circulates, it delivers oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. It also collects waste products and carries them to the organs responsible for making sure the wastes leave the body.
Whole blood is a mixture of cells and liquid, and each part has a specific job:
- Red blood cells carry oxygen to the body's tissues and remove carbon dioxide.
- White blood cells help defend the body against infection. They do this by producing antibodies, which help destroy foreign germs in the body.
- Platelets, the smallest blood cells, help to clot the blood and control bleeding.
- Plasma is the liquid part of whole blood and contains a mixture of water, proteins, electrolytes, carbohydrates, cholesterol, hormones, and vitamins.
A blood transfusion can make up for a loss of blood or any part of the blood. Although whole blood can be transfused, it is rarely used. Instead, more specific parts of blood are transfused as needed. Red blood cells are the most commonly transfused part, to increase the blood's ability to carry oxygen and prevent fatigue and other complications.
Transfusions take 1 to 4 hours, depending on how much blood and what type is given, and no special recovery time is needed.
Most transfusions are done in a hospital, but they can be done elsewhere when necessary. In most cases, the blood comes from volunteer donors. The blood of the donor, which is carefully screened to ensure its safety, must match the blood of the person receiving it.
Why Blood Transfusions Are Performed
The three main reasons why a child may need a blood transfusion are:
- Loss of blood. A child may need a transfusion because of blood loss during surgery or from an injury or an illness.
- An inability to make enough blood. Blood cells are made in the bone marrow, a spongy substance within the bones in the body. Some illnesses and treatments can interfere with the marrow's ability to make blood. For example, people with cancer often need blood transfusions because chemotherapy decreases the bone marrow's production of new blood cells.
- To prevent complications from an existing blood disorder. Children with sickle cell disease, thalassemia, or anemia caused by kidney disease may benefit from regular transfusions to boost their blood's ability to carry oxygen. And those who have bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia or von Willebrand disease, may need to be transfused with a specific type of plasma to help prevent serious bleeding.
Where the Blood Comes From
Since there's no manmade substitute for blood, the blood supply used for transfusion must be donated. The three types of blood donation are:
- Autologous blood donation. Sometimes, when people know in advance that they are going to need a transfusion (for a planned surgery, for example), they may donate their own blood beforehand. In general, kids don't donate their own blood until they are over age 12.
- Directed donation. This is when a family member or friend with a compatible blood type donates blood specifically to be used by a designated patient.
- Volunteer donation. Since there's no medical evidence that blood from directed donors is any safer than blood from volunteer donors, most patients receive blood donated through blood drives, which are often run by independent collection agencies like the American Red Cross.
Some people worry about getting diseases from infected blood, but the United States has one of the safest blood supplies in the world. Many organizations, including community blood banks and the federal government, work hard to ensure that the blood supply is safe.
The risk of contracting a disease like HIV or hepatitis is extremely low in the United States today because of very strict blood screening. Also, the needles and other equipment used are sterile and they're used only on one person and then thrown away.
Preparing for a Blood Transfusion
Once it's determined that your child needs a blood transfusion, the doctor will speak with you about the procedure. Even if the doctor already has your child's medical history, he or she may review parts of it with you, double-checking items like allergies. The doctor will also ask if your child has ever received blood in the past, and if so, if there were any reactions.
You'll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the procedure. When you feel comfortable with the information and your questions have been fully answered, you'll be asked to sign an informed consent form, stating that you understand the procedure and its risks, and give your permission for your child to have the blood transfusion.
If the situation is not a life-threatening emergency, two tests will be performed:
- Blood typing. To confirm your child's blood type, a nurse or technician will draw a sample from a vein in your child's arm using a sterile needle. (Except for the brief needle stick, this isn't painful and only takes a few minutes.) This blood is immediately labeled with your child's name, birth date, and medical record number, and an armband with matching information is made for your child to wear. The blood is then sent to the hospital's blood bank lab, where technicians test it for blood type.
- Cross-matching. Once typing is complete, a compatible donor blood is chosen. As a final check, a blood bank technologist will mix a small sample of your child's blood with a small sample of the donor blood to confirm they are compatible. If they clump together, the blood is not compatible. If the blood mixes smoothly, they are. Blood that is considered compatible is then labeled with your child's name, birth date, and medical record number and delivered to where your child will be receiving the transfusion.
During the Procedure
A transfusion can take place anywhere it is necessary. Most transfusions occur in a hospital setting, often at a patient's bedside, in the operating room, in the emergency room, or in the chemotherapy unit. They can also be performed in an outpatient care clinic or even at home, if necessary.
As long as the transfusion is not being done during surgery, you'll be able to stay with your child, who will be awake. Your child can sit comfortably in a reclining chair or lie down on a bed, watch a movie, listen to music, or play quietly, and may also be able to eat and drink, walk around a bit, and use the bathroom.
Starting an IV Line
A nurse will begin an intravenous line (IV). After the needle is inserted into an arm or hand, a tiny plastic tube is left in the vein and attaches to the IV tubing, which is then used to connect to the bag containing the blood.
Since puncturing the skin involves a small needle, starting an IV can cause a little bit of pain (kind of like a small pinch). To reduce discomfort, a nurse might put some numbing cream on your child's skin a half hour before inserting the needle.
Though the vein is typically in the arm or hand, it can be done in many other places, if necessary, especially if conditions like severe dehydration or blood loss have made the veins harder to find. For example, babies often receive transfusions through veins in their foot or scalp.
Children who need many transfusions may require a central line (a tube inserted into a larger vein in the chest) or a PICC line (a longer tube inserted through a vein near the bend of the elbow). These lines allow easy access, and they also spare the smaller veins the damage that can come from repeated punctures.
Most kids don't require any special medications before or during a blood transfusion. However, if your child has had a mild reaction during a transfusion before — the doctor may give your child some medication just before the procedure. These may be given by mouth or through the IV.
Cross-Checking the Blood
Just before the transfusion, two nurses will read to each other the names and identification numbers on your child's armband and on the blood that came from the blood bank. The transfusion won't begin unless there is a match.
Transfusing the Blood
The blood bag is hung upside down from an IV pump that controls the speed of the flow. The blood flows out of the bag, into the tubing, through the tiny tube in the skin, and into the bloodstream. The whole process takes about 1 to 4 hours, depending on how much blood is given.
The nurse will take your child's blood pressure, body temperature, and pulse several times throughout the procedure. Your child will also be watched closely for any signs of an allergic or other type of reaction, including rash, fever, headache, or swelling.
After the Procedure
After a transfusion, the tiny plastic tube is removed from the vein and a bandage is placed over the area. The site may be slightly sore or tingly for a little while. Medication may be given for any mild side effects, such as fever or headache.
If the transfusion was not done as part of a surgery or because of an injury or illness causing blood loss, there is no special recovery time needed and your child may leave the hospital shortly after the procedure.
In children with anemia or those undergoing chemotherapy, the biggest benefits of transfusions are increased blood flow to nourish the organs and improved oxygen levels in the body. This can keep them from feeling extreme fatigue and help give them enough energy for the activities of daily life. Benefits like this are often felt fairly quickly.
For patients with bleeding problems, transfusions with platelets or plasma can help to control or prevent bleeding complications.
Risks and Complications
Serious reactions to transfusions are rare, but, as for any medical procedure, there are a few potential risks. These may include:
- Fever. Patients may get a fever, sometimes along with chills, a headache, or nausea. These can be caused by a reaction between the recipient's immune system and specific types of proteins in the donor blood. When this happens, doctors will stop the transfusion to make sure there is not a serious problem and give the patient fever-reducing medication. In most cases the transfusion is restarted soon after.
- Allergic reaction. Allergic reactions (like hives or itching) occur when the recipient's immune system reacts with proteins in the donor blood. In rare cases, an allergic reaction can be severe (a condition called anaphylaxis). Stopping the transfusion and giving the patient medications such as antihistamines and steroids can treat a reaction. If the reaction is mild and responds to medication, the transfusion can start again. If it is more serious, the focus will be on treating the reaction.
- Hemolytic reaction. If a patient's blood type and the donor blood type do not match, the result can be a life-threatening condition called a hemolytic reaction. This means the recipient's immune system attacks the red blood cells in the donated blood and destroys them. If a hemolytic reaction appears to be occurring, doctors stop the transfusion right away and treat the symptoms. Reactions like this are very rare because health care professionals take many precautions to confirm that the patient's and donor's blood type are compatible before giving a transfusion.
During surgery, doctors try to reduce the need for transfusions by minimizing blood loss. In some cases, they may even be able to collect blood lost during surgery and return it to the patient. But until science develops a manmade blood source, there is no acceptable alternative to a blood transfusion in many situations.
Certain medications called growth factors are sometimes used to increase the body's ability to make blood. These include erythropoietin and thrombopoetin, which stimulate red blood cell and platelet production. In some patients, particularly newborns with anemia or a child experiencing anemia due to kidney disease, medications like these may have some benefits. But in most cases they don't entirely replace the need for a transfusion.
When your child is having any kind of procedure, it's understandable to be a little uneasy. But it helps to know that in most cases, blood transfusions are common procedures and complications are rare. If you have any questions about transfusions, talk with your doctor.
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In a tiny business, the company leader may manage a small amount of people, all whom they directly manage. However, like a business becomes effective and expands, with increased staff joining the ranks, the company leader may need to employ managers or team leaders to consider proper care of its employees, developing a hierarchy or pyramid structure that contains numerous branches or channels. This can inevitably imply that the company leader will be responsible for handling the management team, who’re consequently accountable for handling the other employees.
While you will find apparent advantages to this method, having a business leader focusing priorities in other locations while managers organise the job and staff, it is crucial that some control, trust and responsibility are worked out by individuals managers to delegate tasks effectively. While managing staff may be one factor, managing managers is really a different game entirely.
So what exactly is a great way to consider when supervising an administration team? This is a listing of methods detailing how you can manage managers most effectively:
Set obvious short and lengthy-term goals: It might seem apparent, but it’s imperative that managers know what they’re working towards. Make sure to set obvious short-term (monthly) in addition to lengthy-term (yearly) goals, that are realistic and achievable. Should they have unsuccessful to satisfy their targets when expectations were clearly organized and decided, then they may be attributed however, if no obvious path continues to be formerly organized, it’s fair to state their leader would be to blame.
Don’t make plans without talking to them: A supervisor inside a department might have been employed for the reason, for instance their set of skills or understanding on the certain subject, so imagine their frustration if your decision is created by somebody greater in the chain of command – particularly if it’s the wrong decision – without checking together first or requesting their opinion. When focusing on a company-wide plan that will affect certain managers, make sure to include them. Contrary, it ought to help to improve the program, but the manager will feel involved.
Don’t micromanage: A crime from the small business operator that has needed to expand. Managers towards the top of the chain shouldn’t micromanage every nitty-gritty detail of the management team. Managing their staff directly – without studying the manager – ought to be prevented, as it may confuse workloads and wreck havoc on a manager’s plans. It might be challenging for somebody that accustomed to control everything, but business proprietors should realize that managers ought to be given space to create their very own decisions, with influence and guidance, rather to be told just how they ought to manage.
Pay attention to your managers: Managers won’t need guidance and assistance but might also develop ideas inside their own department which might influence other locations on the business-wide scale. Pay attention to their concerns, pay attention to their suggestions. An innovator who not pay attention to their managers should never be in a position to manage effectively, especially if they’re too nervous to talk up.
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There are many ways to help your baby who is teething. You can help relieve discomfort by offering your baby safe objects to chew or
A wide variety of teethers and toys are made of nontoxic materials
and are specially designed for teething babies. Teething rings come in many
different sizes and shapes. Some are made of firm rubber (with or without
bumps). Others are filled with water and made to be chilled in the
refrigerator. Don't freeze these types of rings or teethers, because they become
too hard and may harm your baby's gums.
Clean teething rings, teethers, and toys after each use. Check the
package label to see if the object is dishwasher-safe. Don't boil water-filled
teethers, because they may break open.
Never tie an object such as a teething ring or pacifier around your
baby's neck. The cord could tighten and choke the baby or, at the very least,
irritate his or her skin.
Babies often resist feedings when they are teething. Sucking brings
more blood to the gums, which increases sensitivity and swelling in the area.
If your child is eating solids, try offering cold foods and fluids to help
reduce the swelling and discomfort. For example, try feeding your
You can also dip a clean washcloth in water, freeze it, and let
your baby chew on it.
Do not use teething gels for children younger than 2. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns against using teething gels that contain the medicine benzocaine because it can harm your child.
Do not use teething powder or aspirin on your baby's gums.
Inhaling small particles of teething powder or aspirin can cause lung problems.
Also, aspirin should not be given to anyone younger than 20, because it has
been linked with
not give your baby any alcohol. Check medicine labels carefully. Avoid buying those that list alcohol as one of the first few ingredients. Alcoholic
beverages, including fruit-flavored brandy or wine, can be harmful to your baby
in any amount.
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Economic impact study released: Race track generates $99.5 million a year for other local businesses.
- Published on Thursday, 28 February 2013 23:03
NORWALK, Ohio -- For fifty years they came to play at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.
And as the quarter-mile dragstrip at 1300 Ohio 18 evolved into a national award-winning facility entertaining half a million guests a year, the impact jolted the local economy proportionately.
Members of the business community recognized the trends and benefits.
“I think, as a health care facility working with (Summit Motorsports Park), it’s good, clean family entertainment,” said Patrick Martin, president and chief executive officer of Fisher-Titus Medical Center in Norwalk, Ohio. “It’s progressive. I don’t think people know the economic impact it has on this region.”
Summit Motorsports Park commissioned an economic impact study in 2010 by Hedges & Company, Hudson, Ohio, a leading market research and strategic planning firm in the automotive aftermarket industry.
Hedges & Company estimated that more than $99.5 million in economic impact happens each year -- outside of the gates of the dragstrip -- in Huron and Erie counties.
The cost of tickets and food, souvenirs, camping and racing fees inside the park were not included in the $99.5 million. Neither were taxes, employee wages and benefits at the race track.
Hedges & Company based the estimates on several thousand survey responses, solicited immediately after guests attended an event. Hedges collected similar batches of surveys every year for four years.
The major drawing area for Summit Motorsports Park includes Ohio and the surrounding states, according to the study. Surveys reported strong spending in localities near the race track.
Guests who attended Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in July indicated 42 percent stayed at local hotels or camped for one to four nights. After the Auto Plus Night Under Fire in August, 33 percent stayed one or two nights.
After those two features, guests spent more than $7.3 million on hotels or camping.
Other purchases after the two major features included:
* Food, more than $6.1 million.
* Drinks, more than $4.6 million.
* Gas, more than $6.4 million.
* Miscellaneous supplies, more than $5.1 million.
* Tips, more than $4 million.
* Other expenses such as airline, repairs, souvenirs and medical, more than $5.4 million.
These purchases subtotal more than $39 million directly spent
after those two features.
Hedges & Company used a conservative figure of 50 percent as a multiplier, meaning the amount of these purchases reinvested into the economy through other purchases by the hotels, restaurants, stores, and employees of those businesses, for a total impact of more than $58.8 million.
Of that $58.8 million, guests spent more than 48.7 million in Huron and Erie Counties alone, Hedges estimated.
Adding all of the events for a season, the economic impact to Huron and Erie counties totals more than $99.5 million a year.
Considering sales tax, Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals guests alone spent more than $13.9 million on items subject to sales tax.
Based on a blended tax rate of 6.75 percent for Erie and Huron counties, sales tax totals $939,262 a year on purchases after the NHRA Nationals, according to the study.
Local businesses noticed the trends, and positioned themselves for name recognition by the 500,000 race track guests.
For example, Patrick Martin, president and chief executive officer of Fisher-Titus Medical Center, places signs and other items at Summit Motorsports Park.
“I look at Cedar Point, Kalahari and Summit Motorsports Park as magnets to our area,” Martin said. “Probably 95 percent of people who go to Summit are from Ohio and the contiguous states.
“We at Fisher-Titus Medical Center support what they’re doing, and that’s why we’re a sponsor,” Martin said. “They’re a good event presenter. They’re good, wholesome family entertainment.
“Through our Community Outreach program, we also support Summit Motorsports Park with health-related projects like providing hand sanitizer stations for guests. We partner with many local organizations, such as the Norwalk Park and Recreation Department, and the Huron County Health Department to provide wellness and health-related education and activities in our community.”
Also, through new business tracking at Fisher-Titus, Martin discovered an ever-widening footprint of care, expanding to the east, north and south.
In the third quarter of 2012, Fisher-Titus logged more than 600 first-time patients, for lab tests, surgery, X-ray, or visits to the emergency room.
Part of the growth Martin attributes to exposure to Fisher-Titus through guests at Summit Motorsports Park, who spread word of services available in Norwalk.
As a result, patients are choosing Fisher-Titus for medical care such as obstetrics, orthopedic surgery, or plastic surgery, Martin said. For more information about Fisher-Titus Medical Center, click on simply smarter care.
Also not included in the study are the negative costs to a community from accidents caused by street racing.
A dragstrip provides an inexpensive place for young people to settle their differences and vie for bragging rights, Martin said.
“Clearly it is a much safer environment than racing on the street,” Martin said.
“Imagine drag racing on Gallup Road. It happened because I was there in the late ‘60s,” Martin said, adding at the time Gallup Road was undeveloped.
Then, the Norwalk Airport was in the area of K-Mart and the industrial park on the north side of Norwalk, Martin said.
Ellen Heinz has been director for four years at the Norwalk Economic Development Corp., 10 West Main St., Norwalk, on the Web at norwalkohio.biz. Heinz said gas stations, grocery stores, hotels and restaurants enjoy the influence of Summit Motorsports Park on their bottom line.
“An extremely large amount of their business comes from Summit Motorsports Park and the events that they have,” Ellen Heinz said. “We couldn’t dream up a better opportunity for Norwalk. There’s no better advertising or promotion we could do as a community that would even come close to bringing the number of people into Huron and Erie counties that Summit Motorsports Park does.
“They’re an amazing asset to our region that certainly couldn’t be duplicated,” said Ellen Heinz. “I think the economic impact study clearly illustrates the enormous impact Summit Motorsports Park has on Norwalk, the region and the state. The multipliers appear to be conservative.”
Many guests at Summit Motorsports Park can afford to stay and play in the area.
Tom Olak is vice president of Parts Distributors, Inc., 10 Williams St., Norwalk, Ohio, on the Web at pdiparts.com.
“I’ve seen it first hand as well as I’ve seen it throughout the community, Olak said.”
Parts Distributors is a family-owned, independent wholesale warehouse and retail automotive parts business affiliated with Auto Plus, the official parts store of Summit Motorsports Park, on the Web at autoplus.biz.
Parts Distributors enjoys increased foot traffic, especially during multi-day events at Summit Motorsports Park, Olak said.
A facet of Parts Distributors is supplying racing parts to sportsman racers, Olak said. Also the racers and their families visit the Main Street area to eat and shop.
“I’ve seen that business increase because of a race event in town,” Olak said. “Hotels take it off Main Street. Those businesses in that area north of town benefit.”
Regionally traffic from the race track increases business in Sandusky, Lorain and Mansfield, Olak said.
“There certainly isn’t enough hotel space in Norwalk to accommodate all those racers,” Olak said, adding he saw the $99.5 million impact study. “I firmly believe that study is conservative. In reality the impact may be bigger than that.”
For example, visitors to the track often double up the fun by spending a day or two at the Cedar Point Amusement Park and other area attractions, Olak said.
“All of that has an impact on the area,” Tom Olak said. “As that study is released, it’s important to remember two things. The growth of the race track itself in comparison to the size of the community.
“Bill Bader Jr. is an extraordinary entrepreneur,” Tom Olak said. “Summit Motorsports Park put Norwalk on the map.”
Similar Norwalk name fame spread through Norwalk Truck Lines and Norwalk Furniture, Olak said. For 57 years Parts Distributors worked through automotive repairs and improvements with its customers.
“The caliber of racers and race events (Bill Bader Jr.) brings to Norwalk has a monumental impact on our local economy and our regional economy,” Tom Olak said. “Without that economic impact, when you look at a community our size, we would be hurting more than we are. What he brings is unprecedented growth from a tourism aspect that no other business could bring.
“The airport exists in Huron County,” Tom Olak said. “You have to look at what kind of economic impact that can bring. And I can tell you that is extremely limited.
“What Bill is doing is an unprecedented opportunity,” Tom Olak said. “I think it’s important to really illustrate what a gem we have in our back yard. I don’t think most people realize what a great facility it is, and also what a great neighbor we have in the track.” | <urn:uuid:0320e97b-97c3-4e61-ac10-8d4ae431c546> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://summitmotorsportspark.com/index.php/news/81-news/217-economic-impact-study-released | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00318-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94933 | 2,166 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Governments & Regulators
By partnering for mutual benefit, IATA works with governments, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and other relevant authorities to help define the correct regulatory framework for the industry. Air transport generates incredible social and economic benefits for a lot of different people, governments, national economies, large and small businesses, and travelers who simply want to visit family or enrich their lives being seeing new places and experiencing new cultures.
That is why we believe that by partnering with governments we can work together to regulate our industry in a harmonized way facilitating the global aviation systems that is so important to modern life. Therefore our smarter regulation campaign is aimed at working with governments to drive this agenda forward.
IATA Policy on Key Aviation Issues
IATA Economics produce regular analysis on publicy policy issues affecting air transport: public policy analysis
Setting the standards
In cooperation with industry stakeholders we build standards through expertise, and we strive to continuously improve aviation standards. These initiatives in particular have or will have a major impact on air transport:
- Global standards are at the core of a safe industry and safety is our number one priority.
- The IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) is a condition for IATA membership. It is used much more broadly—by
over 400 airlines worldwide. Airlines on the IOSA registry overall outperform those that have not met the IOSA standard on safety.
- IATA Standard Safety Assessment (ISSA) even smaller (non-IATA) airlines can benefit from the experience of our global standards.
- Global standards underpin global connectivity, and because of the IATA distribution system, anybody can buy a ticket in a single currency that will be valid on many carriers for travel anywhere in the world and be confident that it will be accepted!
- Smart Security, for more effective and sustainable passenger screening. For governments, it will offer improved ability to counter threats, ability to focus resources where risk is greatest, and leverage investment made on existing technologies. Strong support has been expressed by major international regulators.
- Cargo Security, governments are an essential partner in strengthening further the security of air cargo, while ensuring the vital flow of commerce | <urn:uuid:28cdbd8e-411a-4561-a10c-9134c5778658> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iata.org/pages/governments-policy-makers.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00096-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914561 | 444 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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SUGAR LAND, TX — 07/16/09 — Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Before utilities, oil and coal producers, industrial process companies and energy agencies commit any more money to studying the underground burial of carbon-dioxide emissions, they ought to talk to Viva Cundliffe. The British Columbia-based environmental engineer has spent five years investigating and demonstrating how carbon dioxide could be recycled.
“We recycle plastic, why shouldn’t we recycle carbon?” she asks rhetorically in an interview. “I am demonstrating a more sustainable and carbon-negative solution that has lower costs, treats carbon as an asset, and could extend the life of coal resources by up to 10 times.”
Around the world, utilities, oil companies, energy agencies and industrial companies are collectively spending billions of dollars to investigate and prove various types of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies.
“I am trying to signal to the industry that it’s cheaper to recycle carbon than to store it,” Cundliffe says. “Companies should beware of the potential liabilities of long-term contracts to bury carbon dioxide, including loss of access and control.”
Cundliffe, President of Strategic Visionary Alternatives Limited (Kamloops, British Columbia), has held one pre-commercial demonstration of her technology at a commercial property located in south-central British Columbia. The company, which has received funding from private sources, governments and non-governmental organizations, filed a global patent application on the technology this past April.
Strategic Visionary Alternatives technology, called “Green Carbon,” is a post-combustion technology that uses heat and special catalysts to split carbon dioxide into its constituent parts — carbon and oxygen. The carbon, captured as a fine powder not unlike pulverized coal, could either be re-injected into the combustion chamber for burning or captured in pelletized form for use elsewhere.
The pure carbon would have a British thermal unit (BTU) value that is 15% higher than Western coal, she says: “It is basically the same BTU value as metallurgical-grade coal with no impurities.”
For more information about Green Carbon technology, Click Here to listen to Ms. Cundliffe on this week’s “Industry Today” podcast or contact Viva Cundliffe at 250-828-1702, or email email@example.com
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Doi Tung Royal Villa
Royal Villa © Ronan Crowley
High in the mountains of central Thailand, the Doi Tung Royal village was the residence of the late Princess Srinagarindra, also known as the Princess Mother. The Princess Mother built herself a summer residence in the area as part of her development project to discourage local farmers from growing opium and employing harmful 'slash and burn' practises. After her death, the residence was converted into a museum, and the rest of the property, including the Mae Fah Luang Garden and Mae Fah Luang Arboretum, is also open to the public. The complex has a hotel, restaurant, coffee shop and gift shop, and hosts an open-air market with food and locally-made handicrafts. | <urn:uuid:c90667cb-1c3c-4396-bab4-dc8cca05f509> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wordtravels.com/Attractions/3672 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00480-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96045 | 159 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Being a tofu-brained kinda guy myself, I may not have the advice you want, but I'll give you my 2¢ for you to spend as you see fit. It matters not what sort of school you're in, nor what your political affiliation is. It doesn't really matter what your teacher's philosophical bent is, either...or, perhaps more to the point, what you think it is, since I'm not at all sure you have him pegged correctly. What is at issue here, I think, is the degree to which you are "bull-headed and opinionated." At your age, it is not uncommon to hold passionately to certain beliefs. However, you are not at a level of experience where you could possibly know all the answers, nor even all the questions. Moreover, the point of being in school is to learn, which requires an open mind. In particular, a philosophy class requires that you be open to examining your entire system of beliefs and the foundation on which it's built. If your beliefs and reasoning are sound, then they will stand up to any contrary ideas you entertain in the course of study. If you defend your beliefs by refusing to seriously entertain such notions, then perhaps your confidence in your own beliefs is not as great as you suggest. I implore you to take this invaluable opportunity to test your own philosophy against the philosophies of the acknowledged heavyweights in the field. The worst that can happen is that you will learn something. Now, I'm not intimately familiar with the philosophies of Clifford and James. However, I'm going to make a wild guess that you are studying Clifford's "The Ethics of Belief" and James' "The Will to Believe." If so, then I have an inkling of why your professor is so frustrated with you. To boil Clifford's essay down to, "we should not act unless we are completely positive on the outcome," is, as you might say, "a steamin-pile." What Clifford is saying is that it is unethical to base our beliefs"”and our subsequent actions"”upon insufficient evidence. Not only does Clifford not say that our actions should hinge upon the certainty of the outcome, but what he does say is that the outcome is immaterial; the rightness or wrongness of our actions is based solely upon the proper derivation of our beliefs, no matter what happens as a result of what we do. Whether or not you agree with Clifford, the key thing here is that you have interpreted him to mean nearly the opposite of what he actually says. That is almost certainly why you are the only one in the class who thinks as you do about Clifford, not because you're a Conservative in a nest of Liberals. Likewise, to dismiss James by saying, "He sounds like all the others, you have to make decisions for yourself," would make the eyes of anyone who comprehends James roll nearly out of their sockets. For starters, James does not "sound like" Clifford: in fact, James is arguing against Clifford. He takes issue with Clifford's arguments about acceptable methods of forming beliefs, and proposes that, when intellectual methods fail us, we need to inject passion into our moral judgment (specifically in cases he would classify as "momentous options"). For another thing, neither James nor Clifford are making the point that you should, or shouldn't, make decisions for yourself. What they are debating is the best foundation upon which to form beliefs. The real argument underlying this debate is one over religious faith. Clifford is an agnostic, who implies that faith in God is not only unsound, but even unethical, because there is insufficent proof of God's existence. James is a Christian, who believes that"”just as belief in other people is critical in fostering relationships with them"”if you reach out in trust, then you can have a real relationship with the Divine. James' key argument against Clifford is, "a rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those kinds of truth were really there would be an irrational rule." To put it another way: if a thing that cannot be proven can still be true, then believing only in what can be proven can rule out belief in the truth. (While my own way of thinking is more aligned with Clifford than James, I have to agree that James has an excellent point here.) Now, it may be that the reason you are so far from understanding the subject matter is that your professor isn't a very good teacher. However, you've strongly implied that you're the only one who doesn't "get it," so I'm thinking that's not it. Your description of the half-hour grilling session as a "dick measuring contest" that you "won" is, I suspect, more indicative of what's happening. (I also suspect your classmates would only say you "won" in the sense of proving that you were, indeed, a bigger dick.) You seem very intent on being right. The irony is, philosophy is all about determining what is right or true, and how to make the most solid and persuasive argument for your case. However, you're too busy arguing to learn how to argue better. You dismiss ideas before making the required effort to understand them. If you continue with this approach to your class, you'll never get your A, and not because you don't share the same philosophies as your teacher, but simply because you won't have come close to earning the grade. What I would recommend is that you take a deep breath, then come to grips with the real purpose of your class: studying philosophy. As Clifford would no doubt say, it doesn't matter whether you come out of that class believing that Corporate America is The Great Satan, or "the most kick-ass place in the world." What matters is how you come to believe it, and then how successfully you can argue that belief. When you can debate your professor's points with reason rather than belligerence, you'll pass the class with flying colors. | <urn:uuid:30396f0a-63d6-4f97-91db-7ec8d082d300> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.styleforum.net/t/3172/koleg-help | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974901 | 1,229 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Ancient Chinese Secret Clay Steaming Cups…
haha! actually, they’re only a few years old. I purchased them in Chinatown in Vancouver and they merely look rustic.
My maternal grandmother had a set of these and my mother has her own set. They are a distinctly southern tradition and can be found in Asian bakeries around town in Metro Vancouver. BTW, check out my paternal grandfather’s heritage village area (our particular village in Kaiping (Hoiping) is called Xicun( “Shrimp Village”)…it made the UNESCO list of heritage sites! cool eh?
These clay molds, or “buut jai” are similar to muffin tins and are specifically designed for a Chinese sweet made of rice flour and sugar. When I was young and living with my maternal grandmother, Poh Poh, during the summers after my grandfather passed away, I ate many a confection made entirely of sugar and rice flour. This particular sweet is close to my heart as it is comforting.
As with all homey desserts, this one lacks in pizzazz and beauty. However, it is a favourite among children. The rice pudding cakes are slightly chewy if made properly and a little sweet but not cloyingly so. The little cakes must have a belly button in my opinion—signifying that is has been made properly. Otherwise, it’s a fake. A farce. haha. Some people put red beans in theirs (uck!) or use brown sugar (meh!) but in our household, the clean lines, the empty belly button and the pure white Buut Jai Goh is da BOMB!
My daughters have a sore throat and dry cough right now and there’s not much I can give them other than Manuka honey for the throat, green tea and some cough drops with even more manuka honey. I recall when I was young, how eating Baak Tong Goh ("White Sugar Cake", a fermented kind of super sweet rice pudding cake) or a Buut Jai Goh would alleviate my sore throat. The sticky rice pudding would coat the throat temporarily and it would make me feel all better for a little while.
My maternal grandmother is no longer with us, and my mother was never one to make something from scratch if it could be purchased easily at a local bakery; but I sure have a passion for reliving the good ol’ days! In a matter of an hour, I had these on a plate ready for my daughter to eat. Bebe loved it and ate 2 right away. Bib didn’t think much of it and declined them. Her loss.
click on for the recipe...
BUUT JAI GOH (Clay Bowl Steamed Sweet Rice Cakes)
- 1 1/4 cup rice flour
- 2 cups water
- 2/3 cup sugar (or lightly packed brown sugar)
- 1/2 cup cold water
- Prepare steamer: preheat empty clay bowls (or small rice bowls) on high heat. This recipe makes 15 cakes. You may have to adjust for the size of your bowls. [tip: I like to spray my bowls with Pam to allow for easier removal if the cakes later]
- In a large saucepan, combine the 2 cups water with the 2/3 cups sugar and heat until sugar is dissolved. Allow to cool.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk the rice flour while slowly incorporating the 1/2 cup cold water. The batter will be thick.
- Slowly pour the sugar mixture into the rice mixture, whisking to thoroughly combine.
- Carefully pour the mixture into the preheated clay bowls.
- Cover and steam for 20 minutes. If you’ve done this right, you’ll get an indent in the centre; what I like to call a “belly-button” in the middle of your little cake.
- Important: remove the clay bowls from the steamer and allow to cool on the counter for at least an hour or until set. Use a wooden skewer to remove the cakes from the clay molds. When cooled, store covered with plastic wrap at room temperature. You can briefly resteam the cakes if you like to eat them a little warm. I like mine at room temperature. | <urn:uuid:ddc977e4-0d61-4b1f-8c4d-5031bc602f64> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://cakeonthebrain.blogspot.com/2010/04/feed-cold-ancient-chinese-cure-for-sore.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00487-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949895 | 895 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Title: Ippaktuq Tasseok and his wife "Patty" demonstrating a shamanistic ritual, Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, April 13, 1905 |
Accession Number: 1966.339.82
Category: PHOTOGRAPHS - LANTERN SLIDES
Type: lantern slide
Maker: Comer, George (Capt.)
Place: Canada, Hudson Bay
Description: Lantern slide prepared by F.C. Lockwood of Brooklyn, NY, from an original photograph (1963.1767.52) by Capt. George Comer. Used by Comer to illustrate lectures about his Arctic and seafaring experiences. Depicts "Harry" [Ippaktuq Tasseok] and his wife "Patty" demonstrating a shamanistic ritual. Comer describes this as "an older method of anticooting" [sic]. Photo taken at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, on April 13, 1905.
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Judith Pilla of Radnor Monthly Meeting has published a letter to the editor in the December 23 Philadelphia Inquirer following a trip to Washington, DC, to lobby lawmakers on the importance of preserving the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits. The lobby visit was part of Friends Committee on National Legislation’s recent Annual Meeting and Lobby Day a few weeks ago. The Farm Bill, which included language preserving a more comprehensive set of SNAP benefits, passed both the Senate and the House of Representatives following lobby efforts by Friends and other like-minded folks. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting had one of the very largest delegations to FCNL’s lobby day and Annual Meeting. For more information on FCNL, please visit fcnl.org. The text of Judith’s letter to the editor is below:
“One of the most effective U.S. anti-poverty programs is now on its way to the president’s desk for signature, partly due to efforts of more than 400 Quakers, many from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Through the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Washington’s oldest faith-based lobby, Quakers recently traveled to Capitol Hill to convince Congress that SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) must remain intact, without harsh provisions in the House version that would have cut out people struggling to find or keep work.
SNAP feeds 2,750,000 residents of the three states; 38 percent are children. SNAP improves work and school performance, helps prevent childhood developmental delays, and keeps many out of poverty. SNAP enabled one Philadelphia mother to replace the pictures of food she showed her children to quell their hunger with real food. Protecting SNAP is a national victory and a gift long after the holidays for all who live in our region.” | <urn:uuid:6ff91ce1-bdaa-45f2-80d8-1c06bb8b1a4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pym.org/food-stamps-end-poverty-letter-to-the-editor-published/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.944849 | 368 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Many laws unique to Walthourville affect local businesses. A business entity operating within Walthourville must ensure that it complies with all applicable local laws. Legal transactions in the local area may require businesses to obtain leases or permits. In Walthourville, a business must also consider local law in determine how to structure itself.
Business Transactions in Walthourville
Knowledge of the local business laws is essential in Walthourville in contracting with individuals and local companies. A contract can help you to avoid business disputes in the future, as well as provide predictability for future operations, but it must be drafted according to Walthourville and Georgia law. A valid contract in Walthourville must meet certain requirements, otherwise a court may find it invalid. Contract law has a language all its own, and it can be difficult to interpret. Another concern is that a party to a contract sometimes fails to live up to its end of the bargain. The disputes that result are often settled in local Walthourville courts.
Business Structure in Walthourville
If you are starting a business in Walthourville, you will want to know about the business structures that are available under local law. You may want to organize as a Sole Proprietorship, a Partnership, a Corporation or an LLC. Each business structure has its own benefits in Walthourville, so finding the right one for your business is something to consider with care. If you should need to dissolve a business, local law must also be followed. Business law Attorneys practicing in Walthourville can help you. | <urn:uuid:69fe7804-3f64-4501-8ffd-1a91aa76a5da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessattorneys.legalmatch.com/GA/Walthourville/business-law.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.949611 | 328 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Last week U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford visited Hama, Syria’s fourth-largest city. Demonstrations in Hama against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime have been growing for weeks amid larger protests that have gripped the country since March of this year.
Hama has a significant place in the modern history of the Middle East. It was there in February 1982 that the regime of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar’s father, crushed an antigovernment insurgency with artillery, tanks, and mass executions. As many as 30,000 civilians are believed to have been killed.
Ford’s visit to Hama, along with the French Ambassador Eric Chevallier, was clearly meant to signal solidarity with demonstrators exercising political speech, and to warn the regime against a repeat of the 1982 crackdown. A video showed that “protesters holding olive branches tossed roses onto the American ambassador’s car in Hama’s central Aasi Square.”
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that Ambassador Ford left Hama before the day’s protests got underway in order “not to become the story himself.”
Some in Syria, however, saw Ford’s visit as an unacceptable gesture in support of protesters. Yesterday, angry crowds attacked the U.S. embassy in Damascus, apparently in response to the ambassador’s trip to Hama.
“The Syrian attackers managed to penetrate several layers of embassy security by climbing a high fence that guards the fortress-like compound,” reported The Huffington Post. “Some managed to get onto the roof of a few of the embassy buildings and rip down embassy signs, replacing the American flag with a Syrian one.”
In response to the attack on the embassy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the first time voiced support for Assad’s removal. “President Assad is not indispensable and we have absolutely nothing invested in him remaining in power,” Clinton said following a meeting with her European Union counterpart, Catherine Ashton, in Washington. “Our goal is to see that the will of the Syrian people for a democratic transformation occurs.”
Many conservatives criticized President Obama’s December 2010 decision to recess-appoint Ford as envoy to Damascus in the face of Republican opposition. Five years ago, the George W. Bush administration recalled its ambassador in protest of the Syrians’ suspected involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Some have continued to criticize President Obama’s decision to keep Ford in Syria rather than recall him, once again, in protest. “The Obama administration erred badly by sending an envoy,” former Bush administration Middle East advisor Elliott Abrams wrote when the Syrian uprising began in March. “We should pull our ambassador … and unveil a hard-hitting political and human rights campaign against a bloody regime whose people want it gone.”
Interestingly, Abrams himself recently recognized Ford’s visit to Hama as a “significant public move” against the Assad regime. But it was only possible because the Obama administration rightly ignored earlier calls to bring the ambassador home.
The time may very well come to recall Ambassador Ford. But his visit to Hama sent a subtle but clear message of solidarity to the protesters, and a warning to the Assad regime. It was an appropriate use of an important diplomatic tool. In tandem with other measures adopted by the United States and its partners, such as sanctions against Assad and other regime figures for human rights abuses, and Secretary Clinton’s recent comments, the pressure is steadily being increased on Assad.
The Syrian situation is a complicated one. The United States has limited leverage, and there are serious questions as to what would come after the end of the Assad dynasty. The administration has therefore been wise to resist the impulse to declare goals it cannot achieve, and to work with regional partners such as Turkey to determine what goals it can accomplish. The Assad government would love nothing more than to transform its current crisis of legitimacy from a Syria issue into a U.S.-Syria issue, and to present itself as protecting Syrian national interests from U.S. interference. The Obama administration should continue to deny him the ability to do that.
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In 1988 Upper Hutt Posse released the kaupapa-driven single 'E Tu', a single that has the distinction of being Aotearoa's first rap record. Sam Wicks celebrates 'E Tu' by speaking to Te Kupu, the voice behind the Posse, and key members of Aotearoa's hip hop community about the impact and influence of the politically-charged track.
Thirty years ago, Upper Hutt Posse released the single ‘E Tū’. It was Aotearoa's first rap record. Next month, at the NZ Music Awards, they'll be inducted to the NZ Music Hall Of Fame.
In 2009, Sam Wicks spoke to Te Kupu, the voice behind the Posse, and other key members of Aotearoa's hip-hop community about the impact and influence of the politically-charged track.
“There’s a lot of people who think they’re tough today / But chiefs like Te Rauparaha would have blown them away.”
In October 1988 Upper Hutt Posse released the kaupapa-driven single 'E Tū'.
Bridging the gap between hip hop and pātere (chant), ‘E Tū’ saw Upper Hutt Posse’s D Word, aka Te Kupu (Dean Hapeta) and B-Ware (Bennett Pomana) chant down Babylon over a sparse beat, punctuated by stab scratches from DLT (Darryl Thomson).
At a time when American hip hop groups like Public Enemy were drawing on the influence of African-American leaders including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Upper Hutt Posse delivered a Māoritanga take on rebel music, using ‘E Tū’ to pay homage to unswerving Māori leaders like Te Rauparaha, Hōne Heke and Te Kooti.
This is the history behind Aotearoa’s first real hip hop song.
Dean Hapeta AKA D Word/Te Kupu: We formed as a reggae group but the rebel music wasn’t just reggae music. It was like, ‘Living for the City’, Stevie Wonder, tunes like that. That’s a reference that all rebel music has is the struggle, the fight against the state.
I had heard stuff like ‘Maranga Ake Ai’ by Aotearoa. That was a struggle song and I seen a video for that too, man, and that was great. So I knew there was stuff there in the reggae scene.
There wasn’t a hip hop music scene [in New Zealand]. Everything revolved around records and tapes that we could get from overseas, back in ’83, ’84, ’85. See, we formed in 1985 and we’d come from breakdancing in ’83, ’84. Breakdancing died a kind of a sad death in this country in ’85 – too many people that were in it only for the fame fell by the wayside and didn’t want to breakdance in ’85 anymore because it became wack.
I was saying, I’m staying in hip hop. Although people around me ain’t going to breakdance anymore, I’m not going to say I’m not going to breakdance, I keep doing it. But I’m going to do this music thing, I’m going to start rapping.
The story which I wanted to bring was something to inspire Māori people to snap out of this, and the song that came to mind was James Brown, ‘Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud’. I was like, man, that’s the same sentiment, the same message that Māori people need is like, say it loud – we’re Māori and we’re proud. Going around with that in my head, it just came – ‘E tū, stand proud/ Kia kaha, say it loud’.
Philip Bell AKA DJ Sir-Vere (DJ, Mai FM Content Director):
"First time I heard Upper Hutt Posse and saw them I felt quite threatened by them actually ’cause I was part of the Auckland hip hop community that was pretty lame and they were part of the Wellington hip hop community that was pretty incredible.
"They were extremely active, they were realising their dreams. They had videos, they had records out. So, as an Auckland hip hopper, we were quite threatened by them actually, felt quite inferior.
"The inherent difference between Auckland and Wellington at that point in time was Wellington was extremely political and Auckland was extremely party-orientated. So Upper Hutt Posse were the yin to our yang. They were extremely political, and in the grander scheme of things in my head I would listen to their records and Chuck D in the same breath and realised they were saying exactly the same thing."
Kerry Buchanan (music writer): "I was heavily into hip hop and working in retail in the late ’80s and I knew a gentleman [ex-Upper Hutt Posse producer and manager] George Hubbard who informed me of an act coming out of Wellington called the Upper Hutt Posse. That was the first time I had seen any indigenous hip hop of any sort and what made it even more attractive to both of us was the Māori-ness of it and what Upper Hutt Posse were trying to do and what they were saying and the way that they were saying it.
"So, yeah, I’m working in Sounds [record store] and George comes in one day with Dean and Darryl and a few other people that he had just brought up from Wellington and that was the Upper Hutt Posse, and then I sought of got to know them.
"And they came around to my place. I remember lending Dean a copy of Bobby Seale’s Seize the Time, so they were right into the whole Black Panther thing, which I was always intrigued about. So, I liked their whole angle. Apart from the hip hop stuff I just liked their intent."
Dean Hapeta: "When I wrote [‘E Tū’] in ’87, man, there was still so many people who just believed that Māori gave away the land willingly for blankets or whatnot, some trinkets, some tokens, and that’s just ridiculous. Everyone knows about the Māori Wars, people were killed and there’s the Aukati Line, everything. But still they’d say, ‘No, no, you Māori, you are doing alright now. Never mind about all those wars and that.’
"The lyrics are focusing on Māori leaders of old, those that really didn’t choose to acquiesce to the white man’s ways and those that fought violently. I really wanted to make a point in the song. That’s why in ‘E Tū’ I don’t mention like Te Whiti. I mention Hōne Heke but I’ve got nothing against Te Whiti, but I’m just talking about more the violent approach and I’m saying non-violence is a choice, it ain’t a rule.
"We were listening to Malcolm X tapes and then got on to some [Nation of Islam leader Louis] Farrakhan tapes. I got The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I read that and I guess I passed that on to everyone – that and Seize the Time [The Story of The Black Panther Party]. I was into getting the books and passing them around – well those books that interested me, and they ended up interesting everybody else.
"I find comfort in listening to Malcolm X, listening to Louis Farrakhan, the same way I feel comfort in the haka of Te Rauparaha and I hear the stories about the battles that Māori had against settlers coming to take their land, our lands. So, it’s all linked tightly like that for me.
"Really, the song ‘E Tū’ is like talking about our Malcolm X heroes, who are Hōne Heke, Te Rauparaha, those who fought against the white man.
"Definitely I knew it’d be a hard sell. For a start the title is in Māori and it’s a rap song when we’re not meant to be able to rap or else if you rap you think you’re black and we’ve got nothing in common with Black America. Everyone would always say [that] back then. It was like, ah bullsh**. I’m already loving Malcolm X, what do you know?"
Philip Bell: "I think [‘E Tū’] was pretty threatening. I think it was just as bad as any other Māori on TV sticking his tongue out on the screen. They were like, I can’t handle this.
"I know there was quite a lot of controversy around Upper Hutt Posse as a group. There was always something going on with Dean. Like Dean was always getting confronted by the press or by some right-wing politician or something … obviously he was a threat ’cause he had a big mouth and he had heaps to say and I always thought that it was awesome."
Dean Hapeta: "In terms of what the New Zealand music industry had to say didn’t matter at all. We were going to do this record and it’s going to come out and I reckon that student radio will play it and Iwi stations will play it and that’ll do me fine. It’s like, we don’t do music for any specific demographic or anything. There’s no target audience, never has been. The song is for everybody who’s got ears to listen to it.
"Hey, actually, I was speaking kind of generally just then because ‘E Tū’ was more directed at Māori people. Elder people loved it. It’s like the generation older than me and older than that generation, those are the ones that freak out a bit. But the kaumātua, when ‘E Tū’ came out, man, they loved it. Yeah, it’s a pātere!"
Philip Bell: "We all took up arms, for sure – if you were Māori. If you were Samoan or Tongan or Pacific Islander in general, [you] probably didn’t get Upper Hutt Posse and neither you should. I mean, maybe you might understand the cause but a call to action from someone who’s not your own people doesn’t make too much sense.
"But, certainly from a Māori’s perspective, there was me and a group of people that absolutely took the message that Dean and B-Ware were saying and moved on it. It was really cool, actually. It was necessary.
"‘E Tū’ should be noted as the point in time where everyone in Aotearoa hip hop became active and it was fuelled by jealousy and it turned into a motivator. It was kind of like everyone was trying but ‘E Tū’ showed us the way. It’s pure, ‘E Tū’ is historic, ‘E Tū’ is sonically challenging. It’s just a great song and deserves to be called Aotearoa’s first real hip hop song. That is where our journey began."
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The story behind the Commodore VIC20 names, history and why it's "The Friendly Computer"
"We Will Become The Japanese!" -- Jack Tramiel, April 1980
In London, April 1980, at an international Commodore manager's meeting Jack Tramiel surprised everyone by announcing his intention to develop and market a "$300 personal computer". A debate ensued, with several groups breaking down into pro's and con's of a low cost computer. After a while, Tramiel stood up, pounding his fist once on the table and with his deep booming voice he explained: "The Japanese are coming, so we will become the Japanese! Japanese companies had already captured the TV, radio and small car markets, and personal computers were next on their list. We have to compete with ourselves by making computers that do more and cost less, and that means breaking the $300 price barrier."
But it is possible, economically and technologically, to build such a low cost machine? Or is it too limited? Using the MOS VIC chip allowed only 22 columns, although the 8/16 colors and the sound capabilities are a benefit for the whole system. But is this enough to compete on the forthcoming fight?
"Let's build a computer for the masses, not the classes" -- Jack Tramiel
At this time Michael Tomczyk was an assistant to Jack Tramiel, and it was Jack to leave most of the key decisions to Michael – for example the name of the computer, the type of the keyboard, the keys colors and the case, the decision to add function keys and a built-in RS-232 interface beside some other ergonomics.
Jack Tramiel (left) and Michael Tomczyk (right)
And it was one of the hardest challenges to give this new friendly computer its name.
For example, my original name for the VIC-20 was “Commodore Spirit” which I thought had a nice cache – however, at the last minute, my Japanese colleagues informed me that the word “spirit” in Japan does not mean “wonderful energy” or “Casper the friendly ghost” – but rather would be associated with horrid, ghastly, ghoulish things. So I went to my second choice, which was VIC, and since VIC sounded to me like a truck driver, I arbitrarily added the number 20, because 20 is a friendly number.
Most of the engineers liked the name Vixen. But that name had undesirable connotations in German, but the word VIC in the German pronunciation makes it even worse. What to do?
Well, in the end the German models (and only the German models) were called VC20. And this was very smart: The VC was used in advertisings as "VolksComputer"(the People's Computer), just like VW i.e. Volkswagen.
The Friendly Computer
And how does it come that it was announced as "The Friendly Computer"? Well, once again it was a brilliant idea of Michael Tomczyk. Reading a computer magazine he stumbled upon an advertising of Atari with the markable slogan:
Atari - Computer For People
He asked his lawyers whether such a general wording could be protected. When they told him that this was possible, he immediately had the phrase "The Friendly Computer" protected.
Please forgive me, but I couldn't resist to make a logo for the first of all names, the Commodore Spirit, which never came to life:
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The Village of McGuffey had a population of 482 as of July 1, 2016. McGuffey ranks in the lower quartile for Diversity Index when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in Ohio. See peer rankings below.
The primary coordinate point for McGuffey is located at latitude 40.6926 and longitude -83.786 in Hardin County. The formal boundaries for the Village of McGuffey (see map below) encompass a land area of 0.36 sq. miles and a water area of 0 sq. miles. Hardin County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). The elevation is 971 feet.
The Village of McGuffey (GNIS ID: 2399295) has a C1 Census Class Code which indicates an active incorporated place that does not serve as a county subdivision equivalent. It also has a Functional Status Code of "A" which identifies an active government providing primary general-purpose functions.
Beneath the boundary map are tables with McGuffey population, income and housing data, five-year growth projections and peer comparisons for key demographic data. The estimates are for July 1, 2016.
Alternate Unofficial Names for McGuffey: McGuffy, Scioto, Scioto Station.
|Population in Households||482|
|Population in Familes||402|
|Population in Group Qrtrs||0|
|Average Household Size||2.62|
|Average Family Size||3|
|Total Housing Units||229 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||135 (59.0%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||50 (21.8%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||45 (19.7%)|
|Median Home Value||$93,000|
|Average Home Value||$181,343|
|Median Household Income||$37,829|
|Average Household Income||$50,180|
|Per Capita Income||$19,259|
|(Compound Annual Growth Rates)|
|Median Household Income||3.04%|
|Per Capita Income||1.94%|
The table below compares McGuffey to the other 1,215 incorporated cities, towns and CDPs in Ohio by rank and percentile using July 1, 2016 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Total Population||# 861||29th|
|Population Density1||# 562||54th|
|Diversity Index2||# 1005||18th|
|Median Household Income||# 1006||17th|
|Per Capita Income||# 1040||14th|
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We are going to be calling on you, our members for your cooperation in forming a bank of articles and pictures of interest and suggestions for future use." Read the first complete MAAC Arms Journal Vol. 1 No.1 dated Summer 1983.
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The complete article from Military Trader Vehicles: "A Report From The Second Oldest “Gun Show” in America"
The Forgotten Soldiers of World War I: Eyewitness the Native Amerian and African Amerian Experiences
November 11, 2018, marks the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I. The Friends of Michigan History, Inc. will present their Annual Veterans Day Salute on November 4, 2018 to commemorate Armistice Day. The event will start at 2:00 PM at the Michigan Library and Historical Center which is located at 702 West Kalamazoo Street in downtown Lansing. The opening volley for the event is a Massing of Colors complete with a bagpiper.
The featured presenters are Mr. Byron Christopher Williams and Dr. Roger Rosentreter. Mr. Williams is Secretary for the Friends of Michigan History, Inc. He holds a Master's in Military History from Norwich University. Mr. Williams is a veteran and he is part of a rich military tradition, which his two sons have chosen to carry on one is an officer in the United States Marine Corps and the other is an officer in the United States Army. He has done extensive research on the African American Experience in the United States military.
Dr. Roger Rosentreter, author, historian, former longtime editor of Michigan History Magazine for the State of Michigan is a professor of History at Michigan State University. Dr. Rosentreter will present the little known, but important role that Native Americans played in helping, "Make the World Safe for Democracy". One of the great ironies of this statement is that neither group shared in Democracy at home as both groups were second class citizens, denied the rights and opportunities of other American citizens.
Other highlights of the event will be patriotic music, provided by Vocal Dimensions, a choir from Jackson Northwest high School under the brilliant direction of Mr. Matthew Snell. This group has stimulated the musical palates of audiences for years.
Come join us as we offer a salute to our brave women and men who served and are serving and also learn some truths about the role minorities have played and continue to play in the United States Armed Services.
The event is free and open to the public. Visitors can also tour the Museum wihc is free on Sundays where you can also examine Michigan's rich history.
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1. “He was caught in the machinery,” said the visitor at length in a low voice.
“Caught in the machinery,” repeated Mr. White, in a dazed fashion, “yes.”
Herbert White’s death has a literal meaning and two metaphorical meanings. Literally, Herbert died because he became entangled in the machinery, his body so mangled that Mr. White was able to identify his son only by examining his clothes. Metaphorically, however, Herbert died because after being caught in the machinery of fate, which went awry after Mr. White tampered with fate by making his wish for more money. A subtler metaphorical meaning has to do with Herbert’s employer. An undercurrent of class consciousness runs through “The Monkey’s Paw,” a story that concerns the fate of three lower-middle-class people. It is possible to read the Whites’ dire fate not as something they brought upon themselves through greediness, but instead as the unfair effect of a modest wish made by a family struggling with debts and a small income. Jacobs suggests that anyone, even the most moral reader, would behave exactly as the Whites did, making a small, practical wish just to see what might happen.
Jacobs uses Herbert’s death to suggest that society is unfair to the good, hardworking people in the lower classes. Evidence of this worldview comes in the form of the Maw and Meggins representative, who shamefacedly announces that his company will decline to take any responsibility for the accident, but will effectively offer Mr. and Mrs. White a bribe to keep quiet. The first word of the company name, maw, means voracious, gaping mouth. The suggestion is that Herbert has been swallowed whole by a cruel world, and all because of one understandable wish made by a man who simply wants to own his own house.
2. [H]e found the monkey’s paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish. The knocking ceased suddenly . . . a long loud wail of disappointment and misery from his wife gave him courage to run down to her side, and then to the gate beyond. The street lamp flickering opposite shone on a quiet and deserted road.
The ambiguity of these final lines makes it possible to read “The Monkey’s Paw” as something other than a horror story or cautionary tale. We never see Herbert’s walking corpse with our own eyes, and neither do Mr. White, who is cowering upstairs, or Mrs. White, who cannot manage to open the door in time. One could therefore argue that the monkey’s paw holds no power at all and that Herbert would have died had Mr. White never even made the wish. The frantic knocking at the door is perhaps someone else entirely who goes away just as Mr. White makes his third wish. The plausibility of this interpretation adds a new dimension to “The Monkey’s Paw,” making it more than just another horror story. | <urn:uuid:c555e5ab-84c8-4220-875b-b936cc63101f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sparknotes.com/short-stories/the-monkeys-paw/quotes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979092 | 634 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Sunday the government would eliminate tariffs on dozens more products used by Canadian manufacturers, aiming to lower their costs and encourage more hiring.AEI's Mark Perry has some great commentary on this news, and I highly recommend that you check out the whole thing. His bottom line: "Even though we usually think of increasing exports as the route to increased domestic manufacturing output and employment, Canada's trade policy of reducing tariffs for its manufacturing sector highlights the important contribution of imports to domestic manufacturing."
The initiative would scrap custom duties on 70 items used by businesses in sectors such as food processing, furniture and transportation equipment.
Flaherty, who estimated the tariff cuts would save Canadian businesses C$32 million ($30.5 million) a year, said the cuts were part of the Conservative government's overall free trade policy.
"We believe in free trade in Canada," Flaherty said on CTV's "Question Period" program. "Some of these old-fashioned tariffs get in the way. So we're getting rid of them."
As part of its Economic Action Plan to pull Canada through the global slowdown of 2008-09, the government has eliminated more than 1,800 tariff items, providing about C$435 million a year in tariff relief. Its stated goal is to make Canada a tariff-free zone for manufacturers by 2015.
Meanwhile, the United States continues to impose high tariffs on many of these same products, thus putting US companies at a distinct disadvantage vis-a-vis their Canadian counterparts. Further exacerbating this disadvantage is our horrendous corporate tax burden, as made distressingly clear by the latest World Bank report Paying Taxes. The WSJ comments:
A report released this month exposes some unpleasant truths about America's uncompetitive system for taxing businesses.One of the countries cutting business taxes over the last few years is - you guessed it - Canada. As I noted in this 2010 FoxNews op-ed:
The Paying Taxes 2012 study, produced by the World Bank, International Finance Corp. and PricewaterhouseCoopers, ranks countries based on the ease or difficulty of paying business taxes. The Maldives came in first, followed by Qatar and Hong Kong. America clocks in at 69 out of 183 countries, down one spot from last year and 23 places shy of its finish in 2009...
The authors note that many countries have cut tax rates for businesses in recent years—an average of 8.5 percentage points since 2006. Three of the top five economies in the table—Hong Kong, Singapore and Ireland—offer businesses generally flat profit taxes. America is behind the curve. Its total tax rate of 46.7% (factoring in Social Security and other taxes on top of the 35% rate on corporate income) places the U.S. at an abysmal 131 in the tax-rate ranking, behind the likes of the U.K., Finland, Norway, Switzerland and Ghana.
The biggest changes in the rankings come from steps to streamline taxation. South Korea climbed five places in one year, to 44, after combining several labor-related taxes onto one form and one payment. In all, 123 out of 183 economies in the survey have made at least some tax improvements since 2006.
America's decline in the rankings is attributable to tax-policy stagnation as other countries reform their own revenue codes. Already a notably complex system with the second-highest corporate tax rate in the world after Japan, the U.S. tax code appears ever more cumbersome compared to countries that grow simpler and cheaper by the year. The Netherlands has improved only two spots since the 2008 survey, to 34, even with important reforms that cut the hours needed for compliance to 127 from 250 and the total tax rate to 40.5% from above 45%. Hong Kong won high marks in part for its flat, low-rate corporate taxes and partly for an easy-to-use electronic filing system.
Canada didn’t stop with tariffs. It also slashed the corporate tax rate to 18 percent. And the rate will fall farther -- to 16.5 percent next year and to 15 percent a year later. The Harper government reasoned that such tax cuts would help make Canada one of the world’s most attractive destinations for international business investment. And they certainly have a point: Canada’s 2010 marginal effective tax rate is more than 16 percentage points lower than the United States’ 34.2 percent rate and two points below the OECD average.The aforementioned World Bank report rewards Canada for these and other corporate improvements by raising its ranking from 28th in 2009 to an impressive 11th this year, noting that "Canada made paying taxes easier and less costly for companies by reducing profit tax rates, eliminating the Ontario capital tax and harmonising sales taxes." As the WSJ editorial notes above, the United States dropped from an already-bad 46th to an abysmal 69th over the same period.
So, good for Canada. Really, really bad for American businesses and workers.
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In 1954, when Congress enacted the Atomic Energy Act, it imposed a 40-year limit on the license term for any nuclear power plant, with provision for renewal. However, at that early stage in the life of the nuclear power industry, Congress made no provision for the manner in which renewal of those licenses should be considered. The fire protection rule is an example of important safety requirements that look strong on the books, but which are substantially weakened in their application—largely due to generous grandfathering and exemptions. As an additional limitation on the scope of license renewal proceedings, the rule requires that citizen intervenors who seek hearings on age-related degradation issues must demonstrate that the degradation is "unique" to license renewal. The license renewal rule also forbids consideration of whether an applicant for license renewal complies with its current licensing basis unless the non-compliance relates to aging of the plant. | <urn:uuid:51310f23-4cd3-437a-9ce2-d3a39e9c0139> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429042447-7/re-licensing-nuclear-power-plants-diane-curran | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.934194 | 180 | 2.125 | 2 |
When I worked in management consulting, one of my responsibilities was to help my company figure out ways to make money while we slept. As a consulting business, our revenue stream came from selling the hours of the people who worked at our company. But to grow our margins, we knew we had to scale our time. This is where I first learned about passive income — the Holy Grail of the business world.
Now that I’m in my 30s, I think a lot about how to direct my active streams of income into passive income opportunities. Here are some things I’ve learned about active and passive income in my wealth-building journey.
What Is Active Income?
Active income is earned by trading your time for money. Most people at the beginning of their careers are focused solely on earning active income in order to make a living.
What Is Passive Income?
Passive income is earned from income-producing assets. Someone who has passive income is not trading their time for money. Instead, the assets they own produce income without much involvement from the owner of the asset.
With the rise of financial influencers and the FIRE movement, finding ways to earn passive income has become a popular topic in the personal finance community.
Wait — Is Any Income Truly ‘Passive’?
The idea of earning truly passive income sounds amazing, right? But what’s often not discussed about passive income is that unless you inherit passive income-producing assets, creating and sustaining passive income streams actually requires a substantial amount of active work.
Famous American entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk has gone as far as to say that truly passive income doesn’t exist outside of passive public market investing and rental income.
I tend to agree with Gary that the term ‘passive’ income is something of a misnomer. Creating passive income is never truly passive; there is no free lunch when it comes to financial mobility!
But thinking of income in active and passive terms might nonetheless have some benefits for those who are assessing their current financial status and crafting their wealth-building strategy. For that reason I’ll break down the broad differences between active and passive income streams, as well as the most prominent ways to generate active or passive income.
Pros & Cons of Active Income
- Allows you to develop a specific skill or expertise consistently.
- May provide social interaction and camaraderie associated with a traditional work site.
- Trades time for money.
- Takes time away from doing other things.
- Cannot scale income potential beyond time constraints.
- Income is taxable.
Pros & Cons of Passive Income
- Generates money while sleeping, vacationing, etc.
- Frees up more time for recreational activities.
- Subject to potential tax deductions.
- Scales income potential beyond time constraints.
- Does not require physical presence at a work site.
- Often requires you to create active income first.
- Usually harder to create than active income.
Types of Active Income
Salary and Wages
The most basic and obvious form of active income is the salary or wages that you earn from a typical job. A salary is a fixed amount received for working a regular schedule like 9-5, Monday to Friday. To earn a salary, you typically need to work for a company or someone else (e.g a boss). While a salary is a consistent form of active income, it can be taken away at a moment’s notice due to layoffs or downsizing. Most people earn their living from this type of income.
Bonuses and Commissions
Bonuses and commissions are another form of active income. This type of income is not fixed and can vary dramatically based on the type of work performed. Many jobs can have a bonus or commission element added on to a base salary, while other jobs can be 100% commission based.
Real estate agents, commercial real estate sales professionals, and other types of salespeople tend to fall into this income category. 100% commission-based jobs tend to have higher earning potential compared to salaried positions. However, they are also highly competitive, and their profitability is subject to ups and downs based on the economy, seasonality, and other factors.
Read more: Should You Become a Real Estate Agent?
Consulting and Freelancing
Freelancing and consulting fees are other types of active income that can either make up 100% of one’s income or serve as a side hustle. Those with valuable skills that are in high demand are often able to build their own side businesses, selling their time for specific short-term projects or long-term contracts. As of August 2021, there were 57 million freelancers working in the U.S., with 10 million more considering freelancing.
Looking ahead, more and more businesses are noting they’re willing to hire freelancers to support their mission, growth, and revenue.
Being a freelancer or consultant requires an entrepreneurial spirit, as this type of work can be very inconsistent and requires building a strong brand/reputation. Some of the most popular types of freelance work include graphic design, software development, copywriting, and photography.
Read more: 35+ Side Hustle Ideas
Equity compensation is a type of bonus that is given out at public or private companies to senior individuals or particularly valuable employees. Different types of equity compensation include straight shares, stock options, and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
It’s not uncommon for equity compensation to make up most of an individual’s income. For example, in 2020, 85% of an average CEO’s income was stock-related compensation.
Buying and selling certain types of assets, like stocks and real estate, can generate capital gains if the asset’s sale price was higher than its original purchase price. For example, you might buy shares in a company while its stock price is low and then sell those shares later after the stock’s price has increased. The difference between the price you paid and the price you sold at are capital gains.
Generating capital gains as a means of consistent income requires a significant amount of work, expertise, and risk taking. Capital gains also have different tax treatment depending on how and when they are generated.
Read more: Claiming Capital Gains and Losses
Renting Out Property
Listing your property on sites like Airbnb can help you earn active income. While listing your property for rent may not require a significant investment of time and energy upfront, it’s not a set-it-and-forget-it income source.
Actively managing your listings, communicating with renters, and maintaining your property certainly requires active effort (unless you have a property manager).
Old Goods and Furniture Flipping
I’ve seen lots of people recently on TikTok and Instagram building side businesses by taking old or broken furniture, refurbishing it, and selling it for a profit. If you are handy and have an eye for design, this can be a great way of making active income given the low startup costs.
In addition to making money from selling the furniture, after you’ve built an audience you can sign brand partners and feature their products on your social media pages to generate even more income. Lastly, this type of business is a great way to help recycle old products that would have otherwise been thrown out.
Types of Passive Income
Interest and Dividends
Earning interest on your savings or earning dividends from stocks is one of the most popular forms of passive income. Interest from your savings can be generated from high-yield savings accounts or by investing in CDs or bonds.
Dividends are paid to the shareholders of public companies. Not all companies pay dividends and the amount of dividends paid vary significantly. While earning dividends is passive income, choosing the right investments that generate dividends is a very active and time-consuming process.
In my experience, those looking to earn dividends can typically expect returns of 1-5%.
You can earn passive income from real estate by investing in rental properties, commercial real estate, public real estate investment trusts, or real estate crowdfunding platforms.
Income-generating real estate can also provide landlords with tax benefits by deducting depreciation costs, property management expenses, insurance, and other expenses.
No matter what type of real estate you invest in though, there’s still an active element. This includes property management, dealing with tenants, managing relationships with lenders or investors, ensuring upkeep, or picking the right real estate projects to invest in. Some forms of real estate investing can become so time consuming that many personal finance experts question if real estate investing can be considered passive at all.
Read more: How to Invest in Real Estate
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending
Peer-to-peer lending has attracted investors looking for an alternative to persistently low interest rates on savings accounts and bond yields. With P2P loans, investors make unsecured personal loans to others and can earn high returns.
While P2P lending has exploded in popularity (check out Lending Club and Prosper), these investments are very risky. The loans are often not secured against collateral, are not FDIC insured, and money invested in P2P lending can be difficult to access in times of economic stress.
Digital Product, Online Course, or Community Development
Creating digital products, courses, or online communities can be one of the best ways to earn passive income if you can package your skills and knowledge and sell it to a group of customers. In today’s digital age, the costs of creating a course, digital product, or community have never been lower and all you really need is a computer and some creativity.
While there are lots of instances of everyday people earning millions on their digital products, don’t forget that getting to that point likely required a lot of work. Keeping these types of products relevant and up to date after launch also requires time, effort and attention, not to mention having to market your product and keep up community engagement.
If you are interested in starting something like this up, platforms like Thinkific, Teachable, and Patreon are all options to explore.
YouTube/TikTok Ad Revenue
I became fascinated by the prospect of earning money on YouTube after coming across financial influencer Graham Stephan. Earning money on YouTube or Tik Tok generally comes down to building your channel’s audience and monetizing content through ads or affiliate marketing links. Once your presence meets a critical mass, every video you create has the potential to become an income-generating asset.
On the surface, making money on YouTube seems amazing, but again, it takes a lot of work and dedication to get there. For example, Graham has mentioned having to post videos at least three times a week for several years to get traction. And it often takes audiences of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of followers to earn any money.
But if you can build an audience there’s lots of potential to earn sizable passive income from YouTube. The average YouTuber can make $3 to $5 per 1,000 video views and the top YouTubers can make millions annually.
Passive income can be a great way to earn more while working a regular 9-5, or it could potentially fully replace your current stream(s) of active income.
When it comes to building real wealth, however, the discussion around active vs. passive income is more nuanced.
According to a five-year study of 233 wealthy individuals, a common thread between them was that self-made millionaires generated income from multiple sources. In fact, 65% of them had three streams of income, 45% had four streams of income, and 29% had five or more streams of income.
These figures suggest that when it comes to building wealth, it’s not just a question of prioritizing passive vs. active income. Rather, it’s about generating multiple streams of income and scaling your time.
Personally, I have four streams of income:
- The income I make from my 9-5
- Investment capital gains
- Freelancing work
You can leave it to your own creativity and aspirations to find what constellation of passive and active income streams works best for you. But remember, whether you are looking to create passive or active income, there is no free lunch, and any source of income that ultimately becomes passive will likely start off as a highly active pursuit. | <urn:uuid:e9b0f40b-178c-426b-b67f-75a9210a0ce0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businesspro.today/2022/07/29/passive-income-vs-active-income/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.95144 | 2,610 | 1.78125 | 2 |
20 years on and the love continues
In an exclusive interview with SAJR Online last year, senior ANC politician BEN TUROK said that in preparation for said interview, he had done the research and came to the realisation that 60 percent of white treason trialists were Jewish. “Of the 23 white treason trialists in 1956, fourteen of us were of Jewish origin,” Turok said.
After the late Prof Phillip Tobias became the fourth Jew among the 16 named to date in lensman and filmmaker Adrian Stern’s “21 Icons SA project” last year which saw each of the 21 having a poster published in the Sunday Times and a short film shown on TV, SAJR Online did a story on the fact that 25% OF SA ICONS to date had been Jewish.
HOWARD SACKSTEIN, a struggle supporter who sat the years to 1991 out at Harvard among other places, wrote a delightful story about how he engineered a dinner for Euro-Jewry with Madiba in Brussels – en route home from addressing the UN. Howard went on to draft much of the IEC Act and headed the 1999 SA Election.
RIGHT: It made riveting TV-viewing for
his mother, says Howard. He is pictured
here with Madiba at the results board
Two of the MANY BOOKS dedicated to the relationship between Nelson Mandela and SA Jewry were both still available in small quantities at the time of his death in December 2013. SAJR Online said “both are hugely worthwhile and iconic tombs which every Jewish household in SA should have on their bookshelves.” Users can also find reviews of other books of the relationship between the community and democracy on the Board’s website. Click here: SAJBD BOOKS
We also related how Madiba had been awarded a DOCTORATE BY AN ISRAELI UNIVERSITY. “In BGU we have a centre of excellence which represents the best in the traditions of the Jewish people: a sense of mission; internationalism; inventiveness. It is an institution that gives inspiration through its chosen mission. We admire the efforts that are being made by Palestinian and Israeli citizens to transcend the historical divide and thereby lessen the tensions endangering the process.” Read the story…
LEFT: Pieces of the queues waiting to vote in this iconic photograph of the 1994 elections, were used by SAJR Online to create the Star of David that appears above and below for our branding of the celebratory event
Many well-to-do Jewish alumni of SA institutions remain major funders of their alma maters (although some of them have started withdrawing funding to those where Jewish students do not feel welcome).
The love continues…
The relationship between SA Jewry and the country as a whole, the spirit of Ubuntu and of Tikkun Olam – delivering assistance – to all South Africans in need in modern times are all around us.
Organisations such as MaAfrika Tikkun, ORT SA, Bet David’s support for homeless and childcare in neighbouring Alex, Jewish Women’s Groups, the incredible activities of the JNF… it goes on and on.
Businessmen, and so many more stand out as a proud lesson of our continuing involvement in building SA.
Images of SAJBD national director Wendy Kahn mopping hospital floors during a public service strike, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein drafting a Bill of Responsibilities to go along with our Bill of Rights (now distributed and taught at all schools), the stories of the ongoing work would fill volumes.
Addressing the first Board Conference after being appointed President, Jacob Zuma said the Jewish community could teach the broader SA community a lot. One such issue Zuma highlighted was the way the community took charge of its own security needs.
Speaking at a later Board conference was former President and then-deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe who appealed to Jewish businessmen to assist in creating jobs. He spoke of the millions of unemployed and under-educated youth who could rise up like the Arab Spring and coalesce around a strong leader. Little could he have known that he was predicting the rise of the EFF under Julias Malema.
Mothlante was quite correct. Since immigrant Jews went from workers to employers 100-odd years ago in SA, the community has always been a major provider of work. And SA Jewish bosses have always been known to be fair employers too, wanting to share their success with their staff. The efforts of the old guard, the captains of industry, have been replicated by the amazing emerging young lions among SA Jewry.
Footnote from the writer: As the then Publisher of several weekly community newspapers in the Eastern Cape, I became involved in the struggle from 1984 after being approached by a cadre, the husband of an employee who knew me to be a leftist. He felt my ability to move in and out of anywhere, from townships to police cells, could be most useful in situations where passing on information or couriering notes were concerned.
I subsequently had the honour of meeting Madiba twice. On the one occasion he said he had heard I was Jewish – and he proceeded to have a lengthy private discussion with me in which he waxed lyrically about his belief that had the Jewish community not provided the struggle with many of its greatest leaders from SA, and much of its funding from foreign shores, he was not sure the fight for freedom would have been victorious.
ABOVE: Pieces of the queues waiting to vote in the 1994 elections, were used by
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The cost of fire damage now stands at a record level according to research published today by the ABI. In the first half of 2009, insurers paid out £639 million – £3.6 million every day – for damage caused by fires. This is the highest half yearly figure ever, and follows on from last year’s record high level of fire claim costs.
Nick Starling, the ABI’s Director of General Insurance and Health, said : “The challenging economic climate is having a significant impact on the fire danger. While the numbers of fires may have been falling, the increase in large-scale fires is increasingly putting lives at risk, and puts more pressure on businesses in these already difficult trading times.”
This disturbing picture emerges from the ABI’s analysis of fire trends launched today (10 December) at a reception at the House of Commons. ‘Tackling Fire: A call for Action’ highlights that:
- Fire damage claims in the first half of 2009 cost £639 million – £3.6 million each day. This follows on from the £1.3 billion fire losses in 2008, a 16% rise on 2007 and the most expensive year ever.
- Between 2002 and 2008 the cost of the average fire claim for both commercial and domestic fires doubled, to £21,000 and £8,000 respectively.
- Arson, which tends to increase during a recession, accounts for half of all commercial fires. Socially deprived areas and schools are especially vulnerable: arson rates are 30 times higher in poorer areas.Twenty schools a week suffer an arson attack, disrupting the education of 90,000 schoolchildren, causing damage costing £65 million.
- More open plan buildings, which allow more rapid spread of fire, and the increase in out of town developments, where fires can go for longer unnoticed, are among factors contributing to the doubling of fire costs since 2002.
The ABI identifies two key steps needed to tackle spiralling fire costs which, if unchecked, will increasingly put lives at risk, and damage the economy:
- A review of the case for making sprinklers mandatory in all new buildings, and
- A zero tolerance approach to arson, through better co ordination and liaison between the Government, the fire services and other agencies, to improve the detection and prosecution of arsonists. The arson detection rate is only 8%, compared to 24% for other offences.
Nick Starling added: “Our analysis shows grounds for concern over fire trends. The continued recession is likely to have a significant impact on the number and cost of fires, and potentially on the number of fire-related deaths and injuries. That is why we urge the Government, working with other stakeholders including the fire service the police and insurers, to adopt our proposals to reduce the impact of fire.” | <urn:uuid:74027201-9939-42af-9d67-ac3c194234c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.newsinsurances.co.uk/record-rise-in-the-costs-of-fire-damage/016910981 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.945142 | 582 | 2.25 | 2 |
The type of herbal tea that is right for you depends on what health benefits and flavor you want to have and get more information about herbal teas at https://healtheries.co.nz/products/tea. If you just want a delicious hot drink without worrying about caffeine, herbal fruit tea is ideal. They come in many flavors and can be a calming, caffeine-free food.
Chamomile tea is ideal for stomach cramps, dizziness, and nausea before going to sleep. This is a relaxing herb that can help relieve stress and encourage deep sleep.
Echinacea tea is said to have strong immune-enhancing properties. Many people drink it to prevent colds or shorten the duration of colds or flu symptoms.
Ginseng is a highly valued herb. For the love of tea, it is used to increase energy and a healthy appetite, relieve stress, and treat digestive ailments.
All types of mint are popular for herbal teas. Mint and peppermint are used to relieve nausea and digestive disorders. Parents often give warm mint tea to children who suffer from stomach cramps.
Sage has been used for all types of treatments for centuries. From fever to strep throat to delirium, it has a rich history of many uses. To learn more about different flavors of herbal tea, you can search online. | <urn:uuid:4e075f4f-50fc-4772-bde0-9c431fec3166> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://1985fm.com/tag/herbal-teas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.93383 | 298 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Young Ag Journalists Needed To Help Feed 9 Billion by 2050
[BUENOS AIRES] – Nine young leaders in agricultural journalism took a GLIMPSETM at how agribusiness can feed an additional three billion people by 2050 and their role in helping to save the planet at this year’s International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) boot camp, sponsored by Alltech.
Held prior to the IFAJ congress in Argentina, the intensive journalistic boot camp-style workshop focused on the theme of climate change with recipients of the Alltech-IFAJ Young Leaders Award discussing agribusiness issues from around the world and further developing their skills through agricultural journalism trends discussion and analysis, social media applications and a news conference.
This year’s news conference was hosted by Gabriel Gualdoni, sales manager for Alltech Latin America and president of CAENA, Argentine Chamber of Animal Nutrition Companies.
He presented the paper “Can Agribusiness Feed 3 Billion New People… and Save the Planet? A GLIMPSETM into the Future” written by Aidan J. Connolly, vice president of Alltech, and his wife, Kate Phillips-Connolly. The article, recently featured in the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, interviews 25 key industry experts and then further identifies seven key barriers that are impeding the ability of agribusiness to feed nine billion people by 2050.
“We in agriculture must think differently from how we have in the past, by adopting new technology at a faster pace and communicating in a way we never have before,” said Gualdoni.
Winners of this year’s Alltech-IFAJ Young Leaders Award from North America are Jennifer Latzke, USA, and Kim Waalderbos, Canada.
Latzke is an associate editor for High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal, a weekly farm and ranch publication based in Dodge City, Kan. She covers a range of topics such as wheat, canola, cotton, and livestock in a region from the southern counties of Kansas to the west Texas plains. A fifth generation farmer, raising wheat and black Angus cattle on her family’s farm in central Kansas, Latzke holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications with a minor in animal science. She started work at HPJ/MAJ later that same year. In 2001, she started writing her bi-monthly column, “Common Ground,” which has earned her several awards.
Waalderbos is a freelance writer and dairy farmer living in New Brunswick, Canada. She was raised on a farm in the Maritimes, studied agriculture at the University of Guelph and now owns a dairy farm with her partner, David. Waalderbos has been writing about agricultural stories and working with farm organizations for more than 10 years.
Other 2013 Alltech-IFAJ Young Leaders are Frida Johnson, ATL (Sweden); Carla Wiese-Smith, The Land (Australia); Darren Carty, Irish Farmers Journal (Ireland); Annette Weber, (Austria); Tienke Wouda, Niuewe Oogst (Netherlands); Denene Erasmus, Farmers Weekly (South Africa); Alona Novichkova, broadcast (Ukraine) and Rouven Zietz (Germany). Jyotika Sood, Down to Earth (India), was also chosen for the award, but was unable to attend the congress.
Candidates were nominated by their respective agricultural journalism guilds. The selection process consisted of points for a written submission, judges’ impression of the candidates’ leadership potential, their proven leadership abilities and a narrative explaining their interest in the young leaders’ program. Almost 70 young journalists have strengthened their skills and expanded their global network through this program, now in its eighth year.
"IFAJ is grateful for Alltech's commitment to leadership, education and global communications in our federation," says Owen Roberts, IFAJ vice-president. "Young leaders are vital for the longevity of agricultural journalism guilds throughout IFAJ, and support from Alltech is making a difference in the future of the profession." | <urn:uuid:92d7128d-c35b-4546-b23d-58472e02c2dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.alltech.com/news/news-articles/2013/09/17/young-ag-journalists-needed-help-feed-9-billion-2050 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00044-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944349 | 868 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Born June 29th, 1958 in New South Wales, Australia, Graeme Stevenson began painting and studying animals and even at a young age had a tremendous fascination with the world around him.
He began breeding Australian Parrots, and in his teen years took up the ancient sport of falconry. As his interest in art began to grow, he used the birds that surrounded him -his pets- as subjects for his paintings.
After obtaining his pilots license, he began to explore the vast areas of Australia, photographing, sketching, and eventually painting the exotic animals of this land.
His reputation as an artist began to grow and his one-man and two-man exhibitions were greatly successful. Graeme then began traveling to other parts of the world to study his subjects and to display his work.
Africa, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Europe, U.K., U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Alaska and the Middle East were some of the places to which he ventured, receiving offers from publishers who produced his works in limited edition.
In 1988 he was commissioned to produce all of the paintings for the book The Atlas of Parrots, one of the largest editions of its size in the world.
Graeme eventually decided to turn his imagination and his art ability in a new direction.
Now living permanently in the United States, he is able to study the many varied animals of America and to produce a series of paintings that enable him to explore different ideas and to present work that also has the ability to tell a story of the subjects that he paints.
He also paints fantasy and romantic scenes of mother and child. Graeme has had many one and two man shows in galleries throughout the world and his work has been sought after by many companies. | | <urn:uuid:b709c52d-3969-495c-8f1a-4fdf60eb8832> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hobbywonder.com/product_page.php?u=heads-up-birds&cat=animals2d&priceid=0&lev=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991777 | 363 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Inspired Giving: The Marianne McDonald Story
Marianne McDonald, PhD, partnered with Sharp HealthCare to create the Sharp McDonald Center to enhance drug and alcohol treatment programs for the San Diego community.
A quote from Plato, the classical Greek philosopher, reads: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“I love that message,” sighed Marianne McDonald, PhD, a professor of classics and theatre at the University of California, San Diego, when she read Sharp HealthCare’s announcement about the new Sharp McDonald Center in which the Plato quote was prominently featured.
“It is so important to be compassionate to others,” said the woman who has dedicated much of her life to helping others fight chemical dependency and substance abuse. The cause is close to her heart as some of her family members have suffered from addiction.
In March 2011, Professor McDonald partnered with Sharp to enhance access to drug and alcohol treatment programs by making a $3 million pledge — the largest gift to benefit behavioral health services in Sharp’s history. Her donation led to the creation of the McDonald Center at Sharp HealthCare. Additionally, to recognize her generosity, Sharp Vista Pacifica Hospital was renamed Sharp McDonald Center.
“This partnership allows us to further our mission of providing a full continuum of care, so that when people come to us, whatever their needs, we can provide support by being a source of hope and healing,” said Kathi Lencioni, CEO of Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital and Sharp McDonald Center.
For more than 20 years, Sharp McDonald Center, formerly Sharp Vista Pacifica, has provided treatment for substance abuse in a supportive, structured, homelike setting. The 16-bed chemical dependency hospital offers a range of personalized programs, including medically supervised detoxification and rehabilitation, evening outpatient sessions and aftercare programs. Since opening in 1989, more than 7,000 people have benefited from its programs and support systems.
“Sharp truly cares about recovery beyond the hospital walls, and is at the forefront of helping to provide a healthier future for our community,” Professor McDonald said, as she gently pet one of her dogs, which she rescued from an animal shelter. “The immortality that we all seek is what lives on in the hearts of other people. I can’t think of anything more important than loving people back to health. Giving of yourself is the greatest gift you can give, and I could not be happier about my collaboration with Sharp.”
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LED Diffusion Acrylic
This can help protect the LEDs as well as enhance the look of the sign both indoors and out by reducing glare and specular highlights of the plastic matrix grid.
Measure and Cut the Plastic
You can use the sign to measure and mark cut lines on the paper backing of the acrylic sheet.
Then, use a tablesaw or bandsaw with a fine toothed blade and a guide or sled to make the cuts.
Note: it is possible to score and snap acrylic, but it can be very tricky to get an even snap without proper clamping.
The best method we've found for adhering acrylic to the matrix display is to use Uglu Dashes clear adhesive rectangles from Pro Tapes. They are incredibly strong (although can be removed if necessary), easy to apply, and are invisible once attached.
Use one at each corner and one each at the halfway point of the long edges, then press the acrylic and matrix panel together for about 20 seconds.
Here you can see the impact of using the diffusion acrylic. (Pictured here with the ON AIR sign project)
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