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Using Literary Texts in L2 Reading Instruction
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Why bother teaching literature
Using Literary Texts in L2 Reading Instruction
1. literature is ubiquitous across many L2 instructional contexts.
2.Working with literature in L2 instruction results in a number of favorable outcomes.
3. Teaching with literary texts in L2 settings poses unique challenges that teachers need to consider & prepare for carefully.
Advantages of Literature Study for L2 Readers:
Challenges Using Literature
with L2 readers:
Settings, characters, & dialogue tend to be rooted in the time and culture shared or created by the author.
Ex. Jane Austen or Charlotte or Emily Brotë
-->social stratification in early 19th century England
2. Rich Lnaguage Exposure
Literary devices such as inference, metaphor,
simile, oxymoron, double entendre, unusual
or unorthodox constructions, and so forth
must be correctly interpreted to ensure comprehension.
Ex. Emily Dickinson: "My life closed twice
before its close......."
3. Input for Language Acquisition
Literary sources provide lg input & reading practice regardless of the approach to reading instruction emphasized in a course.
The study of literature leads itself well to class discussion, oral presentation, and writing tasks, it promotes lg acquisition by providing stimulating, authentic content.
4. Enjoyable & Motivating Material
Evocative of universal human experience & emotions, the lg and content of literature tends to
be more interesting than other L2 texts.
5. Improved Student Confidence in L2 Reading
Ss feel successful, having accomplished something
substantial if they read a complete work with understanging & enjoyment (e.g., a novel, play, proms or short stories).
6. Personal Growth
Reading literature engages readers on emotional
and intellectual levels.
Given the influential roles of motivation, engagement, and confidence in successful reading
experiences, it would be an error for teachers not to
avail themselves of these advantages offered by literary texts.
7. Stimulating Writing Topics
Literature allows us to create the level of emotional
involvement we have been seeking in more personal,
A writing task can no longer be seen as an empty exercise; it becomes a meaningful act of personal
exploration & discovery.
8. Critical Thinking Skills
Literature tends to be organized around central themes, conflicts, character development, or some combination thereof.
These themes are frequently timeless & universal, reflecting broad human experience that transcend cultural & historical boundaries.
EX. Frost's poem: bitter-sweet recollections of choices and whether they "traveled" the right "road"
1. Teacher Discomfort
Lack of teacher confidence in their ability to present texts successfully.
It is intimidating to consider teaching content with which one
is not familiar or expert.
Excellent resources to help develop relevant instructional skills, such as teacher-created websites, teacher resource books, and well-crafted textbooks for Ss.
Limited experience reading lengthy literary texts
The perceived difficulty of authentic literary texts
Do not see it as relevant to their goals
Build inexperienced L2 readers' confidence by working initially with shorter, easier texts & tasks.
Ensure assigned texts are carefully selected & thoughtfully presented.
Ensure the reading & analysis of literature will support the objectives
of the class.
3. Time Constraints
Because of the relative length & complexity of some literary works,
together with Ss' developing abilities to read challenging texts
It is not fair to ask them to negotiate a lengthy reading assignment without appropriate scaffolding , class discussion, and analysis.
There's no real way to overcome the time barrier, but we can view it in alternative ways:
1) Literature serves as a resource for lg teaching
2)consider overall course goals & assess to what extent literary texts help to accomplish those goals
4. Text Difficulty
The linguistic complexity &
cultural information embedded in literary texts.
The context of a novel (its sociohistorical setting, plot & theme) is embedded in the novel itself and must be discovered by the reader.
It should get progressively easier as Ss become familiar with the plot, setting, characters, and style, thus creating a "context" for reading.
Fiction can include full-length novels, short novels, and short stories.
Teachers often gravitate toward short stories because: 1) they can be read & discussed in less time 2) give Ss a sense of accomplishment more quickly 3) offer variety in the syllabus.
Because of the compact nature & concision, short stories can be harder for L2 reader
than longer texts.
Ss may have barely acclimated to one story and author before moving on to something
Effective reading can be facilitated by careful instructional planning. For example, break up a novel so that it neither goes too fast nor drags on too long.
Drama is perhaps the least-utilized genre among L2 reading instruction.
Plays are intended to be
performed on a stage.
Reading a play requires additional imagination & inferencing abilities
on the part of the reader.
Provide cultural & historical background about the author, the play, and its setting.
Include previewing the list of characters so that Ss can recognize
them & helping them interpret stage directions as they read them.
Once a play's plot & themes are understood, act out or rewrite scenes & analyze scenes for how lg reveals
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Academic Advisors Role
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Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 153/1952 28.12.1952
01. the Federal President at the turn of the year Heuss sits at the desk and reads o-ton new year's speech: "the Christmas dinner is over. There experienced with joy, where the Christmas reflected in children's eyes, there with melancholy, where the year saw a farewell or disappointed hopes. And yet there is a deep human need, which is not crushed by the need to wear a piece of confidence in the new year. It will be built. Who visited workshops, which senses the power and duty of the work. Major bridges have replaced the ruins of war. In the most complex inventions, the Germans are again on the way and the momentum of the sporting joy carries countless in the feeling of being the other lines and support can use the own. So may the individual families and groups, the temperaments, that dark and change the bright colours, yes fight. We also shrink not internal and external concerns, which has inherited the old year the new in the political sphere. "But when we follow the custom of the old gender call us the congratulations for the new year, it is not only you and me alone, but if he is real, the strengthening of our human Gemeingefühls, especially aimed at such an hour to the Germans in the middle and the East of the common fatherland."
02. oath buttocks / Hesse: birthday of the oldest German 107th birthday congratulate old veterans of the war of 1870/71 children. Old man with a beard and flowers in his hand. 107-jähriger stands in front of the House and hear Serenade.
03. Berlin: Shooting of West police zone border with Turnpike. Label: Warning: the border between the British and Russian sectors runs along the middle of the Neuhauser dam until the bull pit. Welcome to the border between Vopos and Russian soldiers. German family, who are kidnapped should be front of House in the French sector in Frohnau. Bullet holes in Windows and houses. Photo of the shot policeman, who came to the aid of the family. Family photo with his wife and children.
04. Cairo: Nagibs fight against corruption in the administration of General Nagib immediately, greeting. Naguib speaks to students and asks for help against the corruption in the Egyptian administration. Audience image filling.
05. Korea:, prison riot are supported and taken back to hospital on the island Pongam wounded North Korean prisoners. Prisoner behind barbed wire in stock (mass breakout of prisoners brought 84 deaths).
06. New York: Gromyko condemned American behavior in Korea before the United Nations Gromyko speaks at the lectern before the UN and calls condemnation of Americans because of the incidents in Korea. Large US delegate at the lectern rejects allegations.
07. Washington: Crash of a transport plane smoking plane wreckage after the crash of the US transport aircraft of type Globemaster shortly after takeoff. 86 U.S. soldiers were killed.
08 France: Floods on the Loire and Garonne flooded land. Houses stand in the water. People Wade through water. Wife carried on back. Man drags big load on his back in the mountains of his did. Dog sitting in a kennel in water. People loaded thing in Kahn. Chickens are put in bag. Cat jumps over water on pole and on walls of houses. White water.
09 Hamburg: Premiere of Baier ice Revue in the Ernst Merk Hall dance couple artistic dance. Music Chapel plays trombone. Appearance of the Canadian miracle runner of Frank Sawers. Ballet dancing Viennese Waltz. Geiger, great. Maxi and Ernst Baier dancing the Viennese Waltz.
10 Ludwigshafen: Football Germany - Yugoslavia 3-2 viewers close to half. 1-0 for Germany's Fritz Walter shoots in the 2nd minute. Spectators clap enthusiastically. Game on marshy ground. Water squirts up. Players will fall. Goalkeeper Toni Turek parade. Yugoslav goalkeeper fends off sharp shot of Rahn. Game before the German goal. Shot on goal 1:1 for Yugoslavia. Kohlmeyer Get up the goal line and hold the ball with your hand. Penalty - shot on goal 2:1 for Yugoslavia. Turek throws himself into the wrong corner. Serious viewers with Hat, great. MORLOCK shoots in return the 2:2.2. mid-term: Thermat in the opposing penalty area. Goalkeeper keeps his leg in defense. Close-up audience with Hat and glasses. Yugoslav header over the goal. An excited man's face. Rahn shoots the 3:2. spectators cheer.
11 Berlin: Middleweight boxing: Gustav Scholz defeated Jacques Royer Crecy / France, by k. o man beats Gong, large. O. E. Hasse as audience, great. Shock Exchange. Audience, great. In the third round, Crécy in the corner of the ring goes after heavy stroke to the ground. Referee counts. Viewers with cigarette, big. In the 4. Round boxes Scholz superior and drives here on CRECY. Crécy falls after strike above the belt line to the ground and wallows in pain. Referee counts. Radio announcer on the MIC. Spectator, large. Winner by k. o. Gustav Scholz. Audience clapping.
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Baier, Maxi ; Bauer, Herbert ; Gromyko, Andrej ; Gross, Walter ; Hasse, Otto Ernst ; Heuss, Theodor ; Nagib ; Crecy, Royer ; Kohlmeier ; Morlock, Max ; Rahn, Helmut ; Sawers, Frank ; Scholz, Gustav ; Termath ; Turek, Toni ; Walter, Fritz
Sachindex Wochenschauen ; Boxes ; DDR ; Ice skating ; Border DDR/BRD, borders ; Domestic events ; Disasters ; Football ; Musical events ; Police ; Sports details, fouls ; sports audience, sports spectator ; sports facilities ; Animals (except dogs) ; UN ; Korea war ; Aviation ; Water ; Foreign policy events ; Revues ; Anniversaries, Jubilees, birthdays ; Aviation ; 14 find book new German newsreel slow motion
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Neue Deutsche Wochenschau 153/1952
Die Zeit unter der Lupe (Other title)
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- Federal Republic of Germany
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- Initial brand Heuss speech camera: Stoll, 107-year-old German camera: strong Berlin up-to-date: West policeman shot camera: Obeng, Obeng Cairo: Naguib fights against corruption origin: Metro prison riot on Korea origin: Metro Gromyko before the UN origin: Metro air crash in United States origin: Metro Garonne flood origin: Gaumont ice Revue circus air/Baier Ballet camera: Luppa, Stoll football: Germany-Yugoslavia camera: strong reason, food boxes: Scholz Crécy camera: Obeng final brand
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Frequent Sex Protects Marital Happiness For Neurotic Newlyweds
People who are neurotic often have more difficulty with relationships and marriage. But if neurotic newlyweds have frequent sexual relations, their marital satisfaction is every bit as high as their less neurotic counterparts, according to a study in the current Social Psychological and Personality Science (published by SAGE).
Neuroticism is the tendency to experience negative emotion, and people who are high in it get upset and irritated easily, change their mood often, and worry frequently. People who score high in neuroticism are less satisfied in romance and relationships, and when they get married they are more likely to divorce. "High levels of neuroticism are more strongly associated with bad marital outcomes than any other personality factor," said Michelle Russell and James McNulty of the University of Tennessee, authors of the study.But sex in marriage seems to make people happy"”other research has shown that sexual interactions improved the next day's mood. Russell and McNulty wanted to know if frequent sexual activity would erase the negative effects of neuroticism. They followed 72 newlywed couples over the first four years of their marriage; both spouses reported"”separately and privately"”on their marital satisfaction and sexual frequency every six months.
On average, couples reported sexual intercourse about once a week during the first six months of marriage, and about 3 times a month by the fourth year of marriage. Couples were considered satisfied when they agreed that they "have a good marriage" and "My relationship with my partner makes me happy."
Marital satisfaction was not associated with sexual frequency"”not at the start of the marriage, or four years later. Highly satisfied marriages sometimes had high levels of sexual activity, and sometimes low levels"”sexual contact alone was not a good indicator of marital satisfaction.
But Russell and McNulty found one important exception. For spouses with high levels of neuroticism, frequent sexual intercourse improved their marital satisfaction. The effect of frequent sexual activity was enough to completely wipe away the "happiness deficit" that neurotic spouses usually have. "Frequent sex is one way that some neurotic people are able to maintain satisfy relationships," the authors write. The newlywed period is a time when sexual relations are particularly important, and for some"”but not all"”frequent sex improves their happiness with the marriage. This happiness-by"“sex effect occurred regardless of how strong or happy the marriage was at the beginning of the study"”frequent sex protects marital happiness for neurotic newlyweds.
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was returned to his prison Wednesday after he was transferred to a Cairo military hospital briefly for an X-ray of his head, a security official said.
For months, there have been conflicting reports about the health of the 84-year old Mubarak, who was sentenced in June to life in prison for failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising. He is the first Arab president to serve a prison sentence.
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In this article we’ll explain everything you need to know about Music Publishing, without getting complicated.
Music Publishing; what does it mean, how does it work, how can artists get paid from it, is it really all that complicated? If you’re confused about the definition of Music Publishing then you’ve come to the right place.
It can easily seem like a complicated topic but it’s really not and we’re here to explain it in the simplest way possible so that you can understand it and maybe even begin your own journey into the world of Music Publishing.
Click below to head to the topic you want to learn about:
- What is Music Publishing?
- What does a music publisher do?
- What are Sound Recording Royalties?
- What are Composition Royalties?
- What are Mechanical Royalties?
- What are Performance Royalties?
- What are Sync Royalties?
- What are Micro-Sync Royalties?
- Do music producers get Music Publishing royalties?
- Music Publishing Terms – A Glossary
What is Music Publishing?
Before diving into some of the more specific terms and processes, let’s start at the beginning.
To publish music is fairly self explanatory: it is making music publicly available. This can be as simple as playing it live but usually refers to when a piece of music has become commercially available, for example selling it on CD or uploading it to Spotify, Apple Music, and other digital platforms.
The word ‘publish’ literally means to produce something and sell it to the public. Once your music is out there and available, it has been published.
Music Publishing itself however is referencing the copyrights surrounding your song and/or release that has been published.
This is where a lot of the confusion can come from. Music Publishing as its own term is all about the business of how copyrights apply to music once they’ve been made available to the public and how the artists, labels, and rights-holders earn from their published/licensed works.
What does a music publisher do?
A music publisher is a company or organisation that manages the compositions on behalf of songwriters. They will be in charge of licensing the tracks published and performed by an artist, as well as often being involved in promoting the artist and their music, and sometimes also helping them make decisions for their career.
What are Sound Recording Royalties?
In the age of music streaming, Sound Recording Royalties make up many of the revenues that artists earn.
Sound Recording Royalties are one of the most common source of music revenues in the modern music industry but they are often misunderstood or completely unknown, even to the artists who are earning them.
With the proliferation of digital music streaming platforms – now being the primary source of music consumption for a large percentage of the population – Sound Recording Royalties have become a significant portion of artist’s royalties around the world.
A stream on a track pays out two different types of royalties: the Sound Recording Royalty for the ‘master’ of the track, and Composition Royalties for the song’s creator(s). The Sound Recording Royalty applies to the actual recording of the music that is being played when someone streams a song.
Sound Recording Royalties are what record labels and distributors (like RouteNote) receive from streaming services to compensate artists for plays of their music by listeners. This means that in the modern music industry where a large portion of an artist’s interaction comes from the streaming of their music, Sound Recording Royalties are a large portion of overall revenue flow for artists and the music industry.
Are other royalties collected by music services?
Technically other royalties should be collected on streams as well. Mechanical Royalties and Performance Royalties can both be collected by artists with their music on streaming services, however it’s not as straightforward as the direct cash flow from streaming platform to label/distributor to artist.
Mechanical Royalties are earned from the stream of a track, which technically counts as the reproduction of a piece of music (the basis for Mechanical Royalties in the realm of physical music). These are then collected by mechanical rights organisations like the MLC, Harry Fox Agency, and Music Reports.
What are Composition Royalties?
From the moment you’ve written a piece of music you have a legal basis over your ownership of the track you’ve conceived. The lyrics, music, and arrangement of the track come together into the composition and the composition copyright for that track is legally yours as the creator, or jointly owned with any co-creators.
How do composition revenues work?
Revenues are generated for the composition of a song when it is reproduced and played. The rightful recipient of the Composition Royalties is the original songwriter, although it could be the case that they’ve sold the rights to the original composition in which case they are owed to the rightsholder.
In the case where the recording artist of a track is not the original songwriter, for example an artist is covering someone else’s song, then the composition revenues are redirected to the owner of the composition copyright.
For example: Jeff Buckley covered Hallelujah, originally by Leonard Cohen. When he releases his cover of the song, Leonard Cohen is entitled to the earnings made from the composition copyright on the track.
How to ensure your composition copyright is protected
our composition copyright is yours when you’ve created your song in a palpable form. This means that the music or lyrics have been recorded, put onto paper/in a document, or any other form that can be produced as evidence of its creation. Dating your document or audio file will help to ensure it’s proven to be the original.
If you’re in the US, you will need to register the copyright of your composition with the Copyright Office to get full copyright protection on the piece.
What are Mechanical Royalties?
Mechanical Royalties in music are generated from the reproduction of a musical composition. Traditionally these royalties were generated every time a composition was reproduced in the form of a vinyl or CD pressing.
Nowadays Mechanical Royalties are also generated from on demand (interactive) digital streaming and downloads. Whenever a track is played on demand or downloaded in digital form the underlying composition is being reproduced, therefore generating a Mechanical Royalty. The same on demand stream would generate a Mechanical Royalty and a Performance Royalty, this is due to a public performance & reproduction of the composition.
A good example of both royalties being generated would be a stream of a track from Spotify, whereas a digital download would only generate a Mechanical Royalty.
Who collects Mechanical Royalties?
When Mechanical Royalties are generated it is the composition copyright owner who is rightfully owed them. How the composition owner gets paid depends on a number of factors, in particular how the composition has been reproduced & in what territory.
For example, in the US a physical copy or a digital download of a track generates a minimum Mechanical Royalty of 9.1 cents per track that is reproduced, whereas an interactive stream of a track is licensed and paid out by online stores using a formula based on their own parameters.
These Mechanical Royalties will be collected by your nations MRO’s (Mechanical rights organizations)
In the U.S this would be the MLC, Harry Fox agency & MusicReports, in the UK this would be MCPS (aka one half of PRS for Music – a joint venture between PRS & MCPS).
To collect your Mechanical Royalties from a collection agency you will need to sign up to a membership with them. The collection agencies available to you will depend on your location and will usually cost a fee to sign up with.
How to get a mechanical license for a cover song?
How to get a copyright license is a common question for artists. A mechanical license may be required if you want to release a cover song.
You can distribute cover songs using RouteNote to Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Nuuday, Anghami, and JioSaavn without a license. You can also distribute to our other partners if you exclude the USA, Canada, Mexico, India, and Pakistan from the territories you want to distribute your music to.
To distribute in all stores worldwide, you will need to get a mechanical license. There are a number of sources you can get a mechanical license from, such as:
What are Performance Royalties?
Performance Royalties are being generated all the time in shops, bars, theatres, on the radio, on TV and beyond. Yet they’re often overlooked by artists who might not fully understand how they work or may not understand how to collect them – or even that they could be collecting rightfully owed royalties in the first place!
Performance Royalties are somewhat self-explanatory in that they technically cover the music being performed to the public, but it’s not quite that simple. It’s more accurate to say that Performance Royalties are for any broadcast of a track, whether that’s a live rendition or the playing of a track out loud to a public audience.
Performance Royalties are generated when a track is played on the radio, broadcast on TV, performed on stage or anywhere else with an audience, played in shops and businesses open to the public, and in other similar contexts of broadcast.
The royalties for these are generated for the composition copyright, which is for the original composition (duh) and therefore not necessarily the track as it is being played. For example, if a band is playing a cover song to a crowd at a venue then the Performance Royalties for the track go to the original songwriter(s) of that track.
Performance Royalties, wherever they are generated, will always come back to the original songwriter.
Who collects Performance Royalties and how are they paid to artists?
For the most part, Performance Royalties will be collected by Performance Rights Organizations (PROs) like ASCAP AND BMI in the US, SOCAN in Canada, and PRS and PPL in the UK. These organisations will collect payments from venues and businesses who play music in public which is then collected into a pot to be distributed out to their members.
The way PROs collect payment for performance copyrights will depend on the context. With radio stations and TV broadcasters there will often be a direct agreement with a payment secured. In the cases of public spaces like venues and shops there will usually be a license or one-off payment arranged to cover the revenues for any music played in their business.
Artists can sign up join Performing Rights Organisations who will then work to track how much each artist is entitled based on a percentage of their pot. They will pay out the considered earnings to rightsholders and their publishers.
How do Performance Royalties work on streaming services?
Technically a stream is considered a public performance of a song. This means that it generates a Performance Royalty, as well as Mechanical Royalties and Sound Recording Royalties. However the rates for Performance Royalties generated through streaming services are varied and will differ between territories.
PROs will collect royalties from streaming services as well, making for easier tracking and collection than their broader rights management across public performances.
What are Sync Royalties?
Sync Royalties are the revenue that is earned from compositions that have been used with another piece of media. The most common use of sync licensing is when music is used in film and TV. The producers of that media will agree on a license with the rights-holders behind the composition and normally a payment will be made based on the distribution and viewership of that content.
What are Micro-Sync Royalties?
Micro-sync often refers to the sync royalties collected through internet platforms like YouTube where the sync royalties collected are technically micro-sync royalties. Micro-sync royalties are sync royalties but collected on a larger scale than their traditional sources like TV and film.
Depending on the source of the synchronization, micro-sync can also generate both performance and mechanical royalties. These will be tracked, collected, and paid through each country’s collection societies, like ASCAP and BMI in the US.
They are often not as high-paying as sync-royalties generated from blockbuster films but they have huge potential thanks to their open, worldwide audience with free access to the content online.
Does YouTube pay micro-sync royalties?
YouTube sync royalties can also be referred to as micro-sync royalties. As music added to YouTube is added alongside moving image, they are eligible for micro-sync royalty payouts and YouTube currently pay out micro-sync royalties for views in the US.
For plays on any use of your tracks on YouTube, we can also collect for the Composition Royalties if you’re the artist who owns those rights.
We believe artists should be earning more for their music when it’s streamed online through the licenses that apply to their music. We hope to have more news on how we can do that soon.
To check if your music is eligible to collect micro-sync royalties on YouTube through RouteNote, fill out this form and we’ll get back to you: https://forms.gle/GzqpP4hnAH8728b18
Do music producers get Music Publishing royalties?
Answer: Yes and No.
The music producer won’t normally receive any music publishing royalties unless it was agreed in the contract and/or the music producer added an element to your finished track.
Music Publishing Terms – A Glossary
Getting into the world of music publishing? Here are the definitions to the most common terms used in music publishing so that you’re never lost whether you’re looking at sync licenses, the many types of royalties, or beyond.
An advance is essentially a loan, it is a lump sum of money that can be paid across by a publisher in order to enable a songwriter to compose as much as possible. This money is often used on equipment, travel and self promotion. An advance is recoup-able by a publisher, and will be paid back by the songwriter through the royalties that are earned from the compositions. The songwriter may not earn from these royalties until the advance is paid back in full.
Royalties that are generated through use of a songs composition, including but not limited to; downloads, online streaming, duplication and synchronization.
UK based mechanical rights society who collect mechanical royalties for the duplication/reproduction of compositions.
Mechanical royalties are generated anytime a composition is reproduced in some form, this can be physically in the form of a CD/Vinyl/Tape etc or digitally in the form of streaming or digital downloads.
A music publisher manages compositions on behalf of songwriters, this includes the licensing of catalogues, promotion of the songwriter, their tracks and collection and payment of royalties etc.
This refers to music licensing and the collection of royalties that are associated with the use of a songs composition. These are different to the royalties that most distributors currently collect, which are associated with the use of the songs sound recording.
Performance royalties are generated every time a song is broadcast in public. This includes but is not limited to radio plays, a performance on TV, a live show or background music played in a cafe. (RouteNote aim to be able to collect these in the near future for our users)
PRS and PPL
Joint UK based neighbouring rights society and performing rights society, collecting royalties for the public performance of a sound recording and performance royalties for the performance of compositions.
PRS for Music
A joint venture by MCPS and PRS to create a royalty collection society that streamlines mechanical and performance royalties into one place for songwriters. Now joined with PPL.
An administrator will register, audit, claim and dispute your royalties for you.
YouTube generates different types of royalties for songwriters: Performance royalties for the public broadcast of your composition, Mechanical royalties for the interactive stream (reproduction) of your composition & Sync royalties for the use of your composition against a moving image (US only).
YouTube Sync royalties
Royalties that are generated on YouTube through the use of a composition and moving image put together. Standard YouTube Content ID collects royalties associated with the sound recording, not the composition. Whilst these work in a very similar way to normal Sync royalties, these are referred to as micro-sync royalties as they’re generated on a per-stream basis on publicly available content. Artists can apply to collect these with RouteNote. | <urn:uuid:5c152b6f-80cb-4577-8943-adb3f8b62f1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://routenote.com/blog/music-publishing-101-simple-guide-to-music-publishing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.949777 | 3,467 | 2.796875 | 3 |
RICHMOND, Va. – It’s probably not fair to call Dom Costanzo an adrenaline junkie, but he’s dabbled. From skydiving to snowboarding, the former VCU sprinter knows how to get his blood pumping. But speeding downhill at 80 miles per hour, on a sled slightly larger than a cafeteria tray? That’s new.
But that’s what lies ahead for the 22-year-old Costanzo, who recently won an invitation to USA Bobsled and Skeleton’s “Skeleton School” in November. Skeleton is an Olympic sliding sport similar to luge, but with competitors lying chest-down and face-first on their way down an icy track.
Costanzo, who graduated from VCU in 2013 with a degree in business management, earned his spot at Skeleton School through one of Team USA’s skeleton combines in Lake Placid, N.Y. Eleven of the combines, which are available to any person willing to try, were staged between May and September in seven North American cities.
Participants are graded on their abilities to perform eight different physical challenges that reflect the blend of speed and strength necessary for skeleton, including 15-, 30- and 45-meter dashes, the broad jump, squat and weigh toss. Each event is worth up to 100 points, which means the highest possible combined score is 800. Those with a score of 700 or better generally receive an invite to skeleton school, a feeder program to help the United States unearth and develop talent. Costanzo scored 749 points, which ranked fifth among the 34 combine attendees who took their shot this summer. Just 12 reached the 700-point threshold. | <urn:uuid:238f7595-59b3-4386-a6c9-df7d50cf9c90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://aroundthehorns.wordpress.com/tag/usa-skeleton/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963217 | 360 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Hello, I have a question for homework. The question reads: A body of mass m=4.8 kg is standing on a ramp inclined in an angle of α=12 degrees. The static friction coeficient between the ramp and the body is μ=0.24. The ramp, which is inclined to the left, is in a train, which accelerates to the right. What is the minimal acceleration of the train that will cause the body to slide up the ramp? I thought that for the box to slide up force greater than Ff+4.8*9.8*sin(12) should be applied by train (..by friction that is). From there acceleration of train with respect to the box can be calculated. However I unable to figure out how calculate the acceleration with respect to earth. Would appreciate any advice. | <urn:uuid:92e7d249-5583-4288-afac-5275f7ee090e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/inclined-ramp-inside-an-accelerating-train.174603/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950361 | 171 | 3.265625 | 3 |
SPUG: WolframAlpha - a great GUI and API for computing everyday knowledge
cxreg at pobox.com
Thu Mar 4 18:05:21 PST 2010
(reposting from the email that might actually be subscribed to the list)
I saw this article last year which puts to words nicely the issues you
and I seem to have with it:
"The apps are useful and fine and good. The natural-language UI is a
monstrous encumbrance, which needs to be taken out back and shot. It
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Kevin Fink wrote:
> I have a hard time with the UI. They never seem to be able to parse any
> useful query I come up with. For example, I would love to see a graph of the
> number of large earthquakes per year over the past 100 years or so. I tried
> "number of earthquakes > 6.0 per year", "number of earthquakes per year >
> 6.0", and various other permutations, but couldn't get it to tell me
> anything useful at all.
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRWolf at att.net>wrote:
>> Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica fame) has created www.WolframAlpha.com, an
>> effort to create a GUI and API "to make all systematic knowledge immediately
>> computable by everyone".
>> - Of course, simple stuff is simple: 2 * 3 ^ 4:
>> - Medium stuff is beautiful: plot sin x cos y:
>> It gets almost ridiculously fun, helpful, and useful...
>> - Generate a CAPTCHA:
>> - Compare screen resolutions:
>> - Compare GDP of 3 countries: gdp france, england, australia:
>> - Pick an afternoon snack:
>> There are *loads* of information sources stashed in there in realms that
>> folks like you would be interested in: linguistics, material science, units
>> & measures, computer systems, materials, chemistry, life science.
>> - http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/
>> It's rich. Very rich, in deed....
>> In fact, digging around in the siesmology data, I accidently found out
>> about the Chile earthquake (while looking for Haiti) before it hit print,
>> and when there was only 1 article in the Google cache.
>> - earthquakes 2010 with magnitude > 6.0:
>> Have fun. Report back with your favorite find.
>> P.S. I haven't even looked at the API, but imagine how cool that could be
>> mashed up....
>> P.P.S. There's also an iPhone app. Great for resolving "bar bets" of the
>> quantatative kind, like why is Tungsten (think W - Wolfram) is a better
>> incandescent filament than copper or iron
>> - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tungston%2C+copper%2C+iron
>> Michael R. Wolf
>> All mammals learn by playing!
>> MichaelRWolf at att.net
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For half a century, a river of milk and cream flowed into Manjimup from farms around the district. The destination - the Manjimup Butter Factory. Built in 1926, the factory brought industrialisation to the district, turning cream into butter and exporting it to the world.
As conditions changed, the factory closed down and our dairy farmers found new destinations for their milk and cream. The building was reinvented with the opening of Stan's Machinery, which went on to serve the farming community for 30 years. This icon stands proud as a reminder of the history of the site.
"One of the greatest factors....in the advancement of the district will be the erection in Manjimup of a butter factory....This will come as a great boon to settlers all of whom have one cow each and some of them more."
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Former students build library for school
The Fasito'o Primary School celebrated the opening of their new library last Friday which was gifted by the former students of the school.
The official opening of the new library was attended by the President of the Fasito'o Primary Old Pupils Association (Class of 1985 - 1992), Tau'auve'a Tauesi Toleafoa as well as the principal and staff, the Member of Parliament Aiono Tile, the former speaker of Parliament and current Chair of the Fasito'o Primary School Committee, Leaupepe Toleafoa Faafisi, and the students.
Fasito'o Primary Primary Principal, Fuimaono said she was elated at the commissioning of the new library for their students and also acknowledged other developments that directly benefited the school.
These included the computer lab which underwent a renovation as well as a printer donated by the Ministry of Education Sports and Culture and the gifting of a new library by the Old Pupils Association.
Asked for a comment regarding the project, Tau'auve'a acknowledged and thanked members of the Class of 1985-1992 in Samoa and overseas who supported and contributed to the project.
"Special acknowledgement and expression of gratitude goes out to all members of this class,” he said.
“All of us who were educated in this primary school from the year 1985 to the year 1992.
“Thank you to all members who live here in Samoa and abroad in New Zealand and Australia for the successful completion of this project for the sons and daughters of our village, and also especially for the contribution of the teachers.”
The total cost of the project was SAT$12,807.86 with the educational and learning material and books donated by New Zealand primary schools, namely the Glenview Primary School in Porirua and St John's Evangelists Primary School in Otara.
"The whole cost of this project is SAT$12,807.86 but books and learning materials were donated by Glenview Primary School in Porirua and St John's Primary School in Otara,” Tau'auve'a said.
Others who contributed to the project included U'utau Ioane from the village of Faleatiu.
Ms. Ioane is a retired librarian who helped with the sorting out of the books and learning material for the new library.
She was a senior librarian with the Nelson Memorial Public Library in Apia until she retired.
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American embassy officials in Beijing didn't exactly throw out the welcome mat when one of China's leading human rights activists showed up on their doorstep last week seeking refuge. But having allowed him inside and sheltered him for several days while they negotiated his fate with Chinese authorities, the U.S. made itself responsible for his safety, and it must honor that commitment even though he is no longer under the embassy's protection.
Chen Guangcheng, a blind, self-taught lawyer and fierce critic of China's forced-abortion policy, told officials he had traveled 400 miles to Beijing after escaping de facto house arrest in a provincial town. Advised that if he sought political asylum in the U.S. he might spend years cooped up inside the embassy before he could depart and be reunited with his family, he agreed to leave after diplomats assured him they had secretly worked out a deal with Chinese officials that would allow him and his family to remain safely in the country.
There is some dispute over whether Mr. Chen's decision to quit the embassy was entirely voluntary or whether he was pressured to go in order to avoid a messy diplomatic crisis on the eve of the arrival of a high-level U.S. delegation led by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Embassy officials strenuously deny Mr. Chen was coerced and insist it was his choice to stay in China.
What no one disputes is that the agreement between the U.S. and China over what would happen to Mr. Chen broke down almost immediately. Soon after embassy personnel dropped him off at hospital for treatment of an injury suffered during his escape, Mr. Chen telephoned friends that government security police had surrounded the building and that his wife, who met him there, told him she and other family members were being threatened and harassed. His lawyer says he now wants to come to the U.S. because he fears for his safety and that of his family. Meanwhile, China's foreign ministry has issued a strongly worded statement denouncing what it called U.S. interference in China's domestic affairs.
The case presents the administration with a delicate but potentially explosive diplomatic situation that will require the utmost finesse to resolve. It would be terrible for Mr. Chen's predicament to derail the mission of the American delegation that arrived in Beijing this week, or undermine an agenda that includes talks on China's monetary and trade policies, its oil purchases from Iran and its influence over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. All those issues could be pushed to the side if the dispute devolves into an angry public controversy over China's human rights record and its harsh treatment of political dissidents like Mr. Chen.
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Good citizens of technological America, this story is not for you.
Today we honor the louts, the Luddites, and the lazy. Everyone has a little techie vice--raise your hand if you have ever used “password” as a password--but with this outing we're digging a little deeper, calling out the really bad habits that can cause permanent damage to your high-tech psyche.
Without further ado, it’s time to get our hands dirty. We present to you our 25 worst high-tech habits.
1. Avoiding Security Software
So you thought you could get by without antimalware utilities, just by being mindful of what Web links you click and what e-mail you open. How's that working out for ya? Use something--anything--to protect your PC from the bad guys, who are happy to have you as a target. You can even start with free antivirus software.
2. Failing to Back Up Your Computer
The funny thing about people who admit that they don't back up is that they always preface it by saying, "I know it's bad, but..." Listen: All hard drives crash eventually. All of them. Yours will, too. For help, see our simple guide to getting started with backup.
3. Neglecting Offsite Backup
A thief breaks into your apartment and steals your laptop. No problem: You just backed it up last night. Oh, wait, he stole your backup drive too, because it was sitting right next to the laptop. Store your data in multiple locations, with automatic backups scheduled for hard drives kept away from your PC--and make a backup plan to prepare for worst-case scenarios.
Tempting as the offer may be, put spammers out of business by ignoring their e-mail.
4. Replying to Spam
Why do spammers do their dirty work? Because enough people respond to it to make sending junk worth their while. Yes, clicking the "remove me" link counts as a response--though on rare occasions, if a message is clearly from a legitimate brand-name company, using that link is worth a try. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. In addition to following this commonsense advice, you can take an extra step to harness the spam-fighting powers of your e-mail service.
5. Traveling With an Operating Computer
Taking your computer from the kitchen to the living room while it's running? No problem. Taking your running PC from the office, on the subway, for a mile-long walk, and up the stairs to your house? Terrible idea. Spinning hard drives can crash, and computers can easily overheat in cramped quarters. Shut the PC down. (Extra demerits if your hot, whirring laptop is sweating it out in a closed briefcase for the entire ride.) Windows offers custom settings for the power button and lets you tell a laptop to power off when you shut the lid.
6. Using a Laptop on a Bed
Use your laptop in bed all you want--it's when you leave the machine running on your goose-down comforter that the problems begin. Fluffy cushions and the like can block ventilation ports, overheating (and ruining) your PC. Use a lap desk or a coffee-table book to keep some airflow between the two. Plus, you can hurt your body if you're typing in an unnatural position, so pay attention to ergonomics.
7. Printing Everything
You already have a digital record--why do you need to print it out? Even forms that require signatures often can accept a "digital" signature that you create in Microsoft Paint. Save completed files as PDFs for even easier transportation and archiving.
8. Taking a Camera to the Beach
One grain of sand in the shutter or zoom mechanism, and it's toast. If you must shoot beachside, put the camera in a waterproof case or a plastic bag. Better yet, get a waterproof camera.
9. Leaving a Laptop in the Car
Thieves stake out hot parking spots and wait for fancy-pants business types to leave their laptop bags in the car, even just for a few minutes. All they have to is smash a window and grab it, and they're gone in 10 seconds flat. Or, maybe you thought you got smart, and you put your laptop in the trunk, out of sight--too bad you waited until you got to Sketchy Street to do it, where the bad guys watched you every step of the way. Trunks are even easier to pop open than windows. Stow your rig in the trunk before you embark on your trip. Better yet, take the laptop with you, or try a travel lock.
10. Keeping All of Your E-Mail
Every e-mail message you've ever received is sitting in your inbox in chronological order. Congratulations! You now have an unassailable historical record of your communications...and a guarantee that you will never find anything of any importance whatsoever. Use folders or tags to organize your inbox, and be liberal with the Delete key.
11. Failing to Learn Keyboard Shortcuts
Did you know that some people out there still aren't aware that Ctrl-C is copy and Ctrl-V is paste? I'm not saying you need to learn every Alt-Ctrl-Shift combo, but the more Alt-F4s you pick up, the sooner you can go home. Drop the mouse and try a few essential shortcuts for shutting down a PC and more, and several specific shortcuts for Windows 7.
12. Installing Too Much Junk
Why is Windows so slow? You installed three instant messaging clients and seven browser toolbars on your machine. Once some of this stuff is installed, the damage is already done, as many of these apps leave behind traces that are impossible to eliminate. You can try uninstalling as much as possible, but a clean Windows setup is often your best bet.
13. Discarding Receipts
Null's Law dictates that consumer products will always break immediately after the expiration of their warranty--but once in a while they break sooner. You might be able to get the thing fixed...if you saved your receipt. Keep a folder next to your medical records. Once you collect some receipts, you can scan and organize them with the Neat Receipts system.
14. Waiting in Line for Tech Stuff
Remember when you slept in a tent so that you could be the first guy in your ‘hood to own a PlayStation 3? Your parents are probably just as proud of that achievement as when you finally leveled your Druid up to 80. Trust us: The gadget works the same 24 hours later. You can probably even preorder it online and let it come to your door.
15. Hitting Your Computer
Be mad. Seriously, Windows aggravates everyone--get angry! Remember, though: We can offer a lot of aid, but throwing, kicking, or otherwise abusing a PC physically will not help. And shelling out a few hundred bucks for a new computer will actually make you feel even worse in the end. Meditate, and restrain yourself. If your laptop is sick from a latte that you tossed on it in a fit of rage, clean it carefully. Luckily, you can try a few emergency tech fixes that can restore hardware to health if your tantrum goes too far.
16. Saving Files Anywhere and Everywhere
When you get your electric bill, do you just throw it on the table, mixing it in with family photos, flyers, the Sunday paper, and your discs from Netflix, or do you take 20 seconds to file it away where it really ought to go? Wait, don't answer that. As with your inbox, folders are your friend.
17. Checking in With Location-Based Services
The only people who care that you're at Sizzler or TJ Maxx are people you really don't want to know. Exceptions: If you're someplace really cool--like Mt. Fuji, Versailles, or Chernobyl--check in all you want. We've looked at some practical uses for services like Foursquare; stick to those.
18. Citing Wikipedia
When you need a fact to make a point, the perfect place to go is a gargantuan Website that anyone can edit anonymously, and where hoaxes and gag entries can have a life span of years. If you must use Wikipedia, click the links in the footnotes on the page to get the real story, and to see how credible the information digested there really is.
19. Posting Hilarious Pictures Online
"Hey, coworker! Looks like you had a great time at your pal's bachelor party. Oh, is that you posing with a Heineken in your hand? How original! Yeah, you and that girl look pretty wasted in that one. At least, that's what our boss said when he e-mailed it to me. Good luck with that evaluation!" Save such moments for posterity in private--or else. Pay close attention to the privacy settings on Facebook (and untag yourself in those compromising pictures) and on photo-sharing sites. On Flickr, for example, click Edit your profile privacy from the 'Manage your profile' page to control who can see what.
20. Believing the Salesperson
Let's put it this way: If that guy really knew a lot about computers, would he be wandering the aisles in a blue shirt and slacks asking if you need help? No. No, he would not. Do your research by googling for consumer reviews and comments before you get to the store, and learn which stores offer the best services and deals.
21. Ignoring the Specs
The big idea in tech today is to offer three classes of product: A bare-bones version, a power-user version, and an "extreme" version, each with an escalating price tag. The problem is, the extreme edition may not really do anything that the bare-bones version can't do--or it has features you don't actually need--but you buy the expensive one anyway, because you didn't really read the specs. It can take a lot of Web research time to figure out the meaning of some of the arcana--and what's really important--but this is time well invested.
22. Using One Password for Everything
All it takes is a single data leak at your cell phone company for a crook to get into your e-mail, bank, investing, online shopping, and Match.com accounts. It's one-stop shopping for identity thieves! Having a unique password for every site is unrealistic, but use a series of several passwords and save your best for the most critical sites. Password managers can help.
23. Not Having a Disposable E-Mail Address
Don't give out your regular e-mail address to newsletters, iffy Web services, and girls or boys you meet after midnight. A disposable e-mail address that you check once a fortnight is a better solution. This is why Gmail was invented.
24. Failing to Lock Your Smartphone
When an unsavory type finds a lost phone, his first order of business is to call as many international and 900-type numbers that he humanly can. Then he harvests all the data on it for identity theft and spam purposes. Or you could, you know, prevent all of that by putting a simple PIN on the thing. You can find tools built to manage security for Android and other mobile operating systems.
25. Commenting Online
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The African continent is a complex landscape of peoples, cultures, languages, and history. For centuries various European colonial powers vied with one another on the continent to obtain slaves, wealth, and influence. This resulted in the imposition of political boundaries on African territory without regard for indigenous social polities.
Liberia is located along the northwest coast of Africa and is situated between Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast. The country of Liberia was founded in 1820, primarily as a home for repatriated African-American slaves. Lott Cary, a Christian missionary and early leader of Liberia, was a former slave from Charles City County, Virginia.
The Christian founders of Liberia modeled the new government's constitution on that of the United States and established their capital at Monrovia. For more than a century Liberia was the only republic in Africa. The Christian settlers clashed with the indigenous populations and actively sought to eradicate many of the traditional cultural and religious practices, including those associated with secret societies and sacred masks. The establishment of missions in the Liberian hinterland was encouraged by the Monrovia government as part of their pacification of the region.
During World War II the extraction and production of rubber, under the direction of the Firestone Company, brought prosperity as well as capitalist hegemony to Liberia. By the late twentieth century tensions in local and global forces led to the eruption of a civil war, which succeeded in destroying much of the infrastructure and wealth of the country.
The Ganta Mission was founded by the Harleys early in 1926 in an area inhabited by the Mano people. The mission was located along one of the only roads connecting northeastern Liberia with adjacent French colonies. This road functioned as an important crossroads for West Africa, enabling the Harleys to interact with dominant peoples in the region. | <urn:uuid:da28707b-1ac8-4a2a-942b-3e78ccd12d64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wm.edu/as/anthropology/research/collections/harleycollection/context/index.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.967782 | 361 | 3.875 | 4 |
Simply put, this is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever had the chance to page through. And you will want to take the time to study each and every page of the newly revised and updated version of DK and Smithsonian’s “UNIVERSE: The Definitive Visual Guide.” UNIVERSE takes you on an incredible guided journey through the cosmos, providing thousands of stunning images (eye candy alert!), fact-filled infographics, and features like a 4-page timeline of the Universe. Not only does it cover astronomy and physics, but there is also information about matter, gravity, time, distance, radiation and relativity. The book is edited by noted British astronomer and cosmologist Martin Rees, and is the ultimate reference guide to everything in the Universe –from quasars to comets, supernovae to string theory. It also includes a comprehensive star atlas that covers all the constellations, with planetary charts showing their positions through 2019.
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Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles swinging and rattling about its strange body. Behind the main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fishermans basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out from the joints of the limbs as the monster swept by me. And in an instant it was gone.Book 1, Chap. 10, ¶15
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The deep oceans have yielded many mysteries that have puzzled people for centuries, from the giant squid to huge jellyfish that look like UFOs. To that list add a fish with totally transparent blood.
The Ocellated Ice Fish lives in the freezing waters of the Antarctic Ocean, where it manages to keep its body doing all the things that other fish do, but with blood that is absolutely clear, researchers told AFP on Friday.
The reason, say experts at Tokyo Sea Life Park, is that the Ocellated Ice Fish has no haemoglobin, making it unique among vertebrates the world over.
Haemoglobin is the protein found in every other animal with bones. It is what makes blood red and is the agent that carries oxygen around the body.
The fish, which has no scales, is a prize catch for the aquarium, the only place on the planet that has the curious specimen in captivity.
Satoshi Tada, an education specialist at the centre, said very little is known about the fish, which was brought back to Japan by krill fishermen.
"Luckily, we have a male and a female, and they spawned in January," he told AFP, adding that having more examples to study might help scientists unlock some of the fish's secrets.
Researchers believe the fish can live without haemoglobin because it has a large heart and uses blood plasma to circulate oxygen throughout its body.
Its skin is also thought to be able to absorb oxygen from the rich waters of the Antarctic, where it is found at depths of up to a kilometre (3,300 feet).
But the evolutionary mechanism that left this creature with clear blood running through its veins is a mystery.
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Firstly, what is a Poppadom, we checked and authentic poppadoms are thin crisp disks made from flour that is often made from lentils, chickpeas, rice, even potato or black gram flour.
I guess many of us know them and enjoy them with our Asian food. Poppadoms originate from India and Pakistan and they are great with food from the same areas. Asian food is rapidly becoming Britain’s best loved take away food out numbering all other ethnic restaurants, and here in Bolton we have a superb example.
Poppadoms are best fresh from the pan, warm and crisp – they only take seconds to cook so you can tell that they are fresh, if you break a bit off they will snap and shatter. Not only are they great with hot food, i.e. jalfrezi, bhiriani, and most other curry based meals, but they are fine with khorma and similar less ferocious meals. Because they are cooked in oil, not fat, they are suitable for vegetarians adding to the splendid meals that have no meat in them. Even with dips, yoghurt, lime pickle or mango chutney they are very tasty, and just by themselves they are a pleasant way of easing the hunger pangs whilst you wait to eat.
Poppadom are great, non-fattening – unless you eat a lot – and healthy, what more can you ask?
For an amazing Indian restaurant or takeaway in Bolton, why not pop in to Cinnamon Fusion Indian Cuisine
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According to the data mapped, there is no systematic pattern of judicial pendency. The lack of a uniform pattern suggests that pendency is location-specific and requires a decentralised solution.
JUDICIAL pendency, especially at the district level, is extremely concerning. As per the data available at the National Judicial Data Grid (‘NJDG’), 4,20,20,533 cases, both civil and criminal, are pending in various district courts across the country. Out of this, 1,06,577 cases are more than 30 years old. In fact, a recently settled property dispute in Bihar’s Bhojpur district was filed in 1914!
To understand more about judicial pendency, the available data needs to be mapped and analysed. The Leaflet interviewed Dr. Yugank Goyal and Smriti Jalihal, associate professor at FLAME University and the founding director at the University’s Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, and research associate at the Centre, respectively who have written an article for Livemint on judicial delay wherein, they geographically mapped district-level data, of cases pending for more than 10 years taken from the NJDG.
The mapping led to some very interesting findings. Contrary to the popular belief, there is no systematic pattern of judicial delay. The authors found out that some districts may have higher pendency rates but the adjoining districts may have low pendency rates.
We propose that pendency is a district or court-specific problem. If it is the latter, we think that it could be related to the culture of the court.
The delays, the authors have said, could be because of various informal practices at the district court level that have not been properly acknowledged yet. The findings are certainly important for us to understand how the problem of pendency at the local level consists of various decentralised issues and calls for district-specific solutions.
Edited excerpts from the interview:
Q: What prompted you both to write on this topic?
A: At the Centre for Knowledge Alternatives, we conduct district-level research on both cultures and demography (the latter including health, education, labour, agriculture, policy and judiciary, for instance). We did a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping of the district-level cases from the data available on the NJDG and found some interesting patterns. We already know the issues related to pendency and wanted to study that in-depth to understand the reasons behind judicial pendency.
Knowledge clusters are regional in nature for a reason. Cultures flow geographically. If indeed court delays are a result of court cultures, then the spill-over of such cultures will happen most in the adjoining districts. There is some clustering seen in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
In furtherance of this, we engaged with a number of lawyers and legal scholars to understand the reasons that cause pendency. The map we drew had interesting revelations that we realised must be exposed to a larger or legal audience. Hence, we decided to write a piece on it.
Q: But the empirical data on the NJDG is limited, right?
A: It has enough data at the district level to prompt one’s research on judicial pendency, and many other aspects indeed. The data is bifurcated into different categories. You can also find this data at the National Data & Analytics Platform on the NITI Aayog’s website. Of course, it is difficult to understand the data spatially, until it is mapped. But NJDG has, at least, made things easy for us. In fact, the NITI Aayog’s portal has the data in a much more simplified manner.
Q: You say pendency is a ‘district level’ problem. Could you elaborate on that?
A: Before mapping the data, if we were to anticipate where most of the judicial pendency exists, the common anticipation would be in populated states or those where we think the most litigious population would be present. However, when we mapped it, this was not the case. There is no common state-wide pattern here according to our observations. For instance, our map shows that districts in Uttar Pradesh or Bihar have a lot of judicial pendency. But this is not the case in all their districts. In addition, we also found many states have generally low pendency, but still have two-three districts with high pendency (for instance Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Odisha).
Thus, the absence of a predicted and uniform pattern led us to believe that the idea of pendency is not case-related as much as it is locality-driven. There may be a district with a higher rate of pendency, but the adjoining district with a similar population and culture might have a relatively low rate of pendency.
Based on that, we propose that pendency is a district or court-specific problem. If it is the latter, we think that it could be related to the culture of the court. Having engaged with lawyers, we also find that this may be a result of various informal practices that take place on the court premises. It may have developed because of a certain type of social norm or the kind of procedures the courts are engaged in, with lawyers.
Further, we claim two more things. First, pending case distribution is highly unequal. Almost 62 per cent of cases pending for 10+ years lie in 10 per cent of the districts. Issues are highly decentralised, therefore. Second, it is likely that the culture of delay may spread from one district to another (usually neighbouring). This is only possible to understand when you spatially map the data over time, rather than looking at the numbers in tables or graphs.
Q: What informal practice are you both referring to?
A: So many informal practices prevail in the courts routinely. For instance, sometimes the case demands a fee to be charged on a ‘per hearing’ basis. This can incentivize some lawyers to needlessly prolong the case because a higher number of hearings will result in higher incomes. Some lawyers are often overburdened with cases. If they have several hearings on the same day or time, they will need to prioritize which case to appear in based on the urgency of the matter in that case. As a result, the other cases are often adjourned, which further inflates pendency.
Oftentimes, discussions on speedy delivery of justice remain obsessed with speed. Let us recognize and accept that the goal of an efficient judiciary is – after all – justice and not efficiency.
Sometimes the law itself can be exploited. For instance, in a criminal case, the physical presence of all the parties is necessary for the hearings to take place. Now, if one of the parties is unable to attend it (for all kinds of reasons, say, they changed the address and did not receive the summons), the judge may need to adjourn it for another time. These flexibilities may also be exploited. (This may also explain why most pending cases are criminal and not civil cases since the hearing keeps getting delayed).
Q: As per your mapped data, you have found that the criminal and civil matters are co-related at the district level. Could you elaborate on this claim?
A: We did not mean that there is a correlation. What we are trying to imply is that districts which have higher pendency in criminal cases also have higher pendency in civil suits and vice-versa. That is why we claim that pendency is case-neutral. Examples of such districts are Pune, Thane, Ahmedabad, Nagpur, Deoria, Kushinagar and some others in central Uttar Pradesh. All these districts have over 5,000 pending civil cases and over 20,000 pending criminal cases.
Q: Is the similar pattern of civil and criminal cases spreading? You refer to it as “there is some spillover of district court cultures in terms of delays“. Could you explain that?
A: We cannot be sure if it is indeed spreading or not, but there is a chance it might. That is one of our hypotheses. Knowledge clusters are regional in nature for a reason. Cultures flow geographically. If indeed court delays are a result of court cultures, then the spill-over of such cultures will happen most in the adjoining districts. There is some clustering seen in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. But like we say, it is only a hypothesis at this stage, worth investigating. For this, we need to map this data over several years.
Q: Since the pattern is not systematic, how would you propose any district-level intervention/policy changes?
A: First, let us not just say that the pattern is only unsystematic. There are systematic issues too. Both need to be acknowledged. Second, we need empirical research on specific districts with higher rates of pendency; that is, those 10 districts having almost 2/3rd pendency. Along with data, we think it is important to engage with stakeholders of these districts to know more about the existing pendency. So, for instance, officers and judges of the district court know the number and type of cases that are pending. Third, a lot can be done through the initiatives of the judiciary. Perhaps, there could be a new position created at the district level for ensuring speedy delivery of justice. A judge or registrar could be assigned for this through an administrative set-up to focus only on judicial pendency. Fourth, specialised tribunals can also be constituted to address the issue of judicial pendency (the government is already doing that).
Apart from this, we think certain issues like pending judicial vacancies and limited working hours or days of the judiciary should be addressed. These are also major reasons for judicial pendency. Further, infrastructure has also been an issue at the district level. Courts without proper infrastructure become spaces of frustration that hampers efficient functioning.
We must also not forget the importance of technology and the use of Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) as a potential means to speed up justice delivery systems. These experiments have begun in many parts of the world, although they need to be refined further.
Q: Will creating specialised tribunals solve the problem?
A: We think it does. It helps in de-cluttering the judicial system. Look at the National Green Tribunal, which focuses specifically on environmental issues. But just setting a tribunal is not enough. It is important that the constitution of the tribunal must be done in a manner that it is only assigned specific tasks. The appointment of the members for the tribunal is also an important task. All of this will decide its efficient functioning.
The court culture plays a huge role in determining the number of pending cases; for instance, if judges give fewer judgments in a day, this might result in an increase in pendency as well as undertrials. Similarly, writing long judgments by the judges might also add to the delay in passing the judgment.
Let us also emphasize here, that in this frenzy of bringing efficiency to justice, one must not forget ‘justice.’ Oftentimes, discussions on speedy delivery of justice remain obsessed with speed. Let us recognize and accept that the goal of an efficient judiciary is – after all – justice and not efficiency.
Q: You talk about the involvement of judges in addressing judicial pendency. Should they be sensitised first about the possible solutions that they can adopt?
A: Sensitisation at the district level is indeed important. The judiciary needs to be made aware of the repercussions of the pendency. The court culture plays a huge role in determining the number of pending cases; for instance, if judges give fewer judgments in a day, this might result in an increase in pendency as well as undertrials. Similarly, writing long judgments by the judges might also add to the delay in passing the judgment.
Most pending cases are in the district and subordinate courts. The time taken to write these long judgments can instead be streamlined into giving other judgments to reduce pendency. Thus some sensitization, perhaps at the law school level, might help in overcoming some of these problems, while it might not be the only solution.
Q: What are your overall suggestions to unclog the court systems at the district level? Can live streaming help at the district level?
A: We do not think live streaming would work in the same way without adequate training of lawyers and judges. Pandemic-induced online hearing of cases did not lead to desired results in many places because of many reasons such as lack of the desired infrastructure. Technology is often said to be a panacea, but it is not so unless integrated with the human ecosystem of the relevant sector.
In fact, more than live streaming, the use of machine learning and AI may be better suitable for many cases that can be decided on a technicality, although it requires significant research in the Indian context. Importantly, again, we should go district by district. Perhaps we should first identify those 10 per cent districts where pendency is 2/3rd. Adopt some of those learnings, and then move to the remaining ones. | <urn:uuid:70fe711c-59dd-4cef-8f8e-f1f181e7bcfe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theleaflet.in/pendency-in-lower-judiciary-importance-of-mapping-data-over-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.959419 | 2,702 | 2.484375 | 2 |
I made some mounts out of MDF and these were bolted onto a 2 mm aluminium plate which had some folds in it for strengthening. I could not find a source of countersunk bolts long enough to go through the top mount. Instead I used some shorter ones and made captive nuts out of PolyMorph. I did this by first drilling clearance holes from the back of the mount to a depth just longer than the bolts. I then drilled 5 mm holes through the thickness of the MDF to meet them. I filled these with molten PolyMorph. When it had set I drilled it for tapping but I found I could just screw the bolts in and they cut their own thread. This technique seems to make a successful fastener system.
I asked a friend who works for a company that owns a professional PCB mill what they place under the PCB while it is being drilled. He was kind enough to send me a sample. It is 2 mm hardboard laminated with a thin layer of hard, melamine like, substance on each side. I have not found a source for this yet but my wife, ever keen to see "junk" turned into something useful, suggested I used some laminate flooring offcuts we have in the garage. I will give this a try, but for my initial test I used the hardboard sample. I just taped it to the top of my XY table with masking tape and taped a piece of PCB material on top. The arrangement is shown below :-
And here is a magnified view of the results :-
The diagonal on the far left is where I broke a drill due to a typo in the code: step_x instead of step_z. The drill made a valiant attempt at being a milling bit before it snapped. Not a good start, this could get expensive!
The holes on the left are 1 mm on a 50 thou grid. So far I have tried to keep all the units in this blog metric but PCB measurements are traditionally done in 1000 ths of an inch because most component leads are on a 0.1" grid. Again this was a bug but it turned out to be a good test to show drill run out. The gaps between the holes should be 0.27 mm or about 10 thou.
The holes in the middle are on a 0.1" grid which was my original intention. The holes don't actually go all the way through due to end play in the drill.
The bottom slot on the right was done with the conical tool shown in the picture below :-
This has quite a fine tip but an abrasive surface rather than cutting flutes. I estimate the channel is about 20 thou but the edges are a bit ragged, particularly the top edge. The tool rotation was clockwise and the travel left to right. This means the bottom edge was climb or down milled and the top edge conventional or up milled. Climb milling is recommended for a better finish so I need to organise my tool paths to go clockwise around the outside of tracks.
The three tracks were produced with a rose burr tool like the one on the far right but smaller. The remains of it are shown in the middle. I snapped it after the test with another accident. This tool created a smoother cut. Again, the bottom edge is cleaner. The bottom track is about 20 thou, the middle one 10 thou and the top one 15 thou. The gap between tracks is about 30 thou.
My target for through hole PCBs is 10 thou tracks and 15 thou gaps. This allows one to get a track between two 60 thou pads 0.1" apart, i.e. between the legs of a chip.
Things I learned from this experiment :-
- Not surprisingly, the cheap (£20) drill was not up to the job. It has about 1 mm end play and noticeable lateral play. It is also very noisy when mounted on the machine. I have ordered a 30000 RPM 600W laminate trimmer for £26.49. Again, I will not know the quality of the bearings until it arrives, could be another mistake.
If that does not work I might try a Dremel or perhaps one of these :-
This is an 800W router spindle motor for about £80.
There is a good article on how to make your own PCB router spindle here but I think my lathe is too small.
- The 2mm aluminium plate is not stiff enough, I got a 6mm slab from eBay to replace it.
- The milling bit, before I broke it, was too big. I got an eight piece "carbide circuit board maker" kit from Drill Bit City for $23. They were very helpful and efficient. Again the good stuff is on the wrong side of the pond so the shipping was another $12.
They also sell carbide end mills down to 5 thou. These are quite pricey and delicate but I might try some when the software is stable. I will need smaller clearances for fine pitch surface mount.
- I need dust extraction and it needs to be a fairly strong suction to lift the copper chips. I can buy a 1300W vacuum cleaner from ASDA for about £17. | <urn:uuid:8e8b999c-aaa7-48b3-a359-de34208967e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2007/04/trouble-at-mill.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00270-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968488 | 1,075 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Emperor Gao(256/247 BC – 1 June 195 BC), commonly known within China by his temple name, Gaozu (Chinese: pinyin: Gāozǔ), personal name Liu Bang (Wade-Giles: Liu Pang), was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty, ruling over China from 202 BC to 195 BC. Liu Bang was one of the few dynasty founders in Chinese history who emerged from the peasant class (another major example being Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty). In the early stage of his rise to prominence, Liu was addressed as "Duke of Pei", with the "Pei" referring to his hometown of Pei County. He was also granted the title of "King of Han" by Hegemon-King of Western Chu Xiang Yu, when Xiang split the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms, and he was known by this title before becoming Emperor of China. (SiMa, 1961)
Liu was born in a humble farming household somewhere in Pei County at Zhongyang, Fengyi ( Feng County, Jiangsu Province nowadays) . His extraordinary birth is depicted as a destined miracle, here is the story: before Liu Bang came to this world, his mother, whose name remained unknown in history and who is respectfully called Old Madam Liu by later generations, was sleeping one afternoon and dreamed of an immortal, just at that time the sky turned dark and lightning and thunder pervaded the small county. Shocked by the unusual weather, Liu Bang’s obscure father, reverently named Old Sir Liu later, hurried in to check his spouse and was stunned to find a dragon appear near her bed. Before long, Liu’s mother got pregnant and gave birth to him.( Wang Yao and Si Le,2008) Liu’s face, with a high nose as well as neat whiskers, looked very much like that of a dragon. He also got 72 dark specks on his left leg. When he was young, he developed several favorable personalities such as frankness, personal charm, and ability to bear pains and sufferings. Nevertheless, he preferred idling away time instead of reading or taking part into farming. Regardless of his father’s madness at him, Liu remained his idle lifestyle and lived in his brother’s family without doing anything. Several years later, he was assigned to be a patrol officer, it was then that he built up intimate connections with the officials in this county and thus earning a bit fame around. When his pals drank with him in the local pubs, they would see a shadow of a dragon round him as he got drunk. As a result, the pub holders all thought Liu as an extraordinary person and allowed him to order drinks on credit. One day, as a famous squire named Lord Lü had recently moved in town, a great many prestigious people came to visit him. Though having no money on him, Liu still went on the scene. He was caught by Lord Lü at the first sight. Thinking highly of Liu, Lord Lü even married off his own daughter, Lü Zhi to him. (Yi, 2007)
In September 209BC, which was the first year of Qin the second, Liu Bang was supported by Xiao He and Cao Shen. Then, he announced an uprising with 3000 people, and called himself Pei Gong. In April 208BC, Liu Bang joined Xiang Liang with his army, when he usually fought with Xiang Yu. After the death of Xiang Liang, Liu Bang was entitled Wuan Hou and the master of County Dang. In September, he followed the order and assembled some army from Chen Sheng and Xiang Liang. With only thousands of people, he started from County Dong. Half year later, he had more than ten thousand soldiers under his control. In July 206BC, Liu Bang conquered the city of Wan (now Nanyang), since when he performed both attack and defense, and arrived at Bashang (now the south of Annan) successfully. In October 206BC (the first year of Emperor Han), he entered Xianyang, and ended Qin Dynasty. He signed an agreement with people of Qin. Meanwhile, his army guarded garrisons and Liu Bang wanted to become King of the country. Considering that Xiang Yu governed 400 thousand soldiers attempting to enter Shanhai Guan, Liu Bang had to went to Hong Men (now the... | <urn:uuid:149ca1c1-dd2c-4798-ab49-368adf9d57f1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Liu-Bang-478544.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00364-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98944 | 901 | 3.3125 | 3 |
“The word ‘taste’ is disparaged by many in the art world as coarse or capricious; an obsolete word to be avoided because it does not convey the interpretation and analysis integral to considered value judgements about art.”
So says Thea Westreich Wagner, art advisor to some of the smartest collectors in the world today.
But the inescapable fact is that your taste in art - be it for an Artspace Edition, print, sculpture, photograph, or unique work - is as much a reflection of your sense of self as the people you pick as friends, or the car you drive or the outfit you choose for the office each morning.
“Taste is a characteristic to be embraced, not denied,” says Westreich in Collecting Art for Love, Money. and More. “It allows for the creation of something unique. We’re using the word ‘taste’ as a synonym for ‘like’: a simple, handy way for us to describe the collector’s responsive chord.”
So, navigating the vicissitudes and vagaries of the contemporary art world and art market, taking account of the trends, investment opportunities, emerging artists, and the art world critics whose opinions count, all remain well and good; but the key to building a great collection is to begin by defining and recognising the importance of what you actually like, and want to surround yourself with.
“Exercising one’s personal taste – buying what you like – is its own reward; it is an exhilarating and self-defining activity,” says Westreich. “Passionate collectors are provoked by what’s in their minds and hearts. Much of the personal excitement they derive comes from ‘seeing’ an object that strikes a response deep inside them. In a flash, desire takes hold, and the object must be theirs."
So how do you figure this out?
Every art advisor we've ever met has had the same advice. Look hard, and look long, before you leap. And then look hard, and look long, again. Such an approach may help prevent simple errors, but learning about, and refining one’s taste, is not a one-time achievement; it’s an ongoing process.
"Over the years I have worked with many clients who feel overwhelmed by the idea of investing in art, not sure what to prioritize or whether to trust their own eye,' says Artspace MD Amanda Knuppel. "I believe that the best way to approach collecting is to consider your goals but not overthink your instincts. Buying something you feel a genuine connection with is always a strong start.
"At its core, art doesn’t just invite conversation, it engages in it — so ask yourself what kind of conversation you want to find yourself in. Are you excited to find your own piece of art history and collect legends like Helen Frankenthaler? Or perhaps serenity is in order courtesy of a work on paper by Despa Hondros. Are you looking to get lost in another world? Look for creative and complex paintings like those by Peter Barrickman. Or are you excited by ideas that challenge you to question the status quo, like this arresting photograph by Edward Burtynsky?
"If you answer questions like these honestly, you are sure to find a work that you’ll love to live with. And if you're still feeling cautious or like your favorite works are out of reach, remember to look at prints and multiples. Limited editions often present a great opportunity to access artwork by your dream artists at a less intimidating price — like this stunning piece by Loie Hollowell."
The idea, as New York Times Art co-chief art critic Roberta Smith says, is to never stop looking. “My main activity is looking, looking, and more looking,” she says. “I learn from everything I look at, good, bad or indifferent. You train your eye, build up a mental image bank, and constantly try to pinpoint why some things are convincing and others aren’t. When I look at a new work, my image bank goes into action.”
And when you’ve looked long enough to trust in your own personal taste, the time has come to buy because, according to Duncan Phillips, founder of the Phillips Collection in Washington DC: “Buying provokes a more profound and considered engagement with art, and provides a deeper understanding of one’s taste and proclivities.”
But like those tastes and proclivities your taste in art is not something that has to remain static. So don't feel the need to stick to the same thing when buying for a second or third time. As your tastes change in fashion, music and food, so they can they change in the art you put on your walls.
"Remember that just like film, music, or fashion, your tastes may change over time and that is part of the journey: everything you learn along the way helps you to refine your unique point of view," says Amanda Knuppel.
“Missteps can occur at any time along the way," says Thea Westreich. "When they do, changes can be made; many collectors plausibly call this process ‘upgrading’ a collection. Taste is not something that should remain static, perpetually mired in whatever initial conception the collector may have of what she or he likes and finds beautiful. And it matters not whether that initial conception came about through gallery or museum visits or what a decorator brought in to place above the couch.
"The individuality that characterizes one’s choices and the conceptual thinking that coheres them, are among the qualities that can make collections especially admirable.”
And remember, even if you suspect that personal taste may appear less admirable to others take some reassurance in the words of Charles Baudelaire who asked us to remember that: “The beautiful is always strange. It always contains a touch of strangeness, of simple, unpremeditated and unconscious strangeness, and it is that touch of strangeness that gives it its particular quality of Beauty.”
Or maybe - more succinctly - when it comes to your own personal taste and asserting it on the walls of your home, they’re wrong and you’re right. It’s time to put your personal taste into purchasing practice. | <urn:uuid:4567a70b-fb58-4420-90d1-97eb0db2b071> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artspace.com/collections/limited-edition-by-loie-hollowell/collect-with-confidence-personal-taste | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952145 | 1,347 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Planning a Year-Round School Operation (A Case-Study of the Valley View School District 45-15 Plan). Final Report.
Rogge, William M.
The year-round school operation of the Valley View School District is described from its planning stages through the implementation of the plans. A "45-15 Plan" provides for each pupil forty-five days of instruction and fifteen equivalent days of vacation. With the cycle repeated four times each year, one-fourth of the pupils are on vacation at any one time. The experience has shown that there are three main problems to be solved in undertaking such a plan. These are: student scheduling, teacher scheduling, and winning community support. The most difficult of these is student scheduling, but this problem can be eased considerably by the use of individualized instruction and by having as large an enrollment as possible in each school. Attached are appendices including instruments used in the study and questionnaires used among concerned participants. (DAS)
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Bureau of Research.
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Conversation: Werner Herzog
In the early 1980s in the Peruvian jungle, Werner Herzog was making a film about an opera fanatic who would do anything to bring music to his remote city: Fitzcarraldo and his small crew face deadly river rapids, indigenous tribes with spears and the impossible task of hauling a steamship over a mountain.
The fantastic drama of the film was not far off from the reality of the film production itself — there was, perhaps, more drama on the set than on the screen. There were two plane crashes, a border war, the recasting of the title role, the violently volatile temper of leading man Klaus Kinski, script rewrites when Mick Jagger dropped out of his role, and getting the actual full-sized steamship over the actual mountain. Herzog kept a journal during that time, telling Art Beat, “my last resort in all this turmoil was language.”
Both stories have (qualified) happy endings: Fitzcarraldo lives to realize some version of his dream; Herzog’s film is actually completed and wins the Outstanding Director Prize at Cannes. But the traumatic experience left the director unable and unwilling to go back and re-read his own words for more than 20 years. He finally revisited them a few years ago at his wife’s urging, publishing them first in German in 2004. His account has now been translated into English and goes on sale today in the U.S. as ‘Conquest of the Useless.’
JEFFREY BROWN: Joining me now to discuss his new book, “Conquest of the Useless,” a collection of his journals written during the making of the 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo,” and to answer some of our viewers’ questions, is director Werner Herzog. Welcome to you.
WERNER HERZOG: Thank you to having me.
MR. BROWN: Now, you wrote in the preface to this book that for many years, you could not make yourself go back and read the journals that you kept during the filming of “Fitzcarraldo.” Why do you think that was? And what happened when you finally went back and took a look?
MR. HERZOG: Well, it was really terrifying for me to even think about what I had written down. And I knew that there was something very hard to absorb for myself. And second, there was a technical reason. At that time, I sub-miniaturized my handwriting to microscopic size. And I could only read it with the help of some sort of special glasses; the same type that dentists sometimes would use, or jewelers would use.
But I only could manage to read a few pages and then I dropped it. And about three years ago, my wife somehow persuaded me to go into it. And all of a sudden, it fell in place very easily.
MR. BROWN: Oh, really? Well, I want to focus on the first part of your answer, though, because you said it was horrifying to think about. Is that because of the experience that – you know, so many of us saw that movie and saw what you must have gone through.
MR. HERZOG: Yeah, so much turmoil. So much trials and tribulations. In a way it was painful to go back into it. And I thought, yes, in these diaries, I bury it. And maybe my grandchildren will eventually pick it up and have a look at it. But it’s actually, it is 28 years ago now, or 27 years ago now, that I wrote this.
MR. BROWN: When you went back and looked at it, does it all seem — 28 years later — does it all seem crazy?
MR. HERZOG: No, no. Completely no. It’s completely alive as if it were yesterday. Of course, what is quite evident for me is that my last resort in all this turmoil was language. So it’s — but the crux of the book, in a way, certain people try to read into it, you know, the making of the film. It hardly affects us in the text. It is prose, it’s poetry. And in a way, it’s language that was my last anchor.
MR. BROWN: But explain that to me. What were you – what was it anchoring you from? What did the journals allow you to do?
MR. HERZOG: Not easy to explain, but you have to see a situation where everything that could happen, happened. We had two plane crashes. I ran into a border war between a ruined Ecuador camp that I had built for 1,100 people, mostly extras – native Indian extras of the area – was attacked and burned to the ground.
And I shot half the film, and Jason Robards fell ill and had to return to the United States and his doctors wouldn’t allow him to return to the jungle.
And Mick Jagger, I had to release from his contract because he had to go on this world tour with the Rolling Stones, so I had to start all over again. And all sorts of catastrophes – personal, technical catastrophes – everything in the book you can imagine.
MR. BROWN: Mm-hmm. You know there’s an entry early in the book that really struck me – it’s when you’re describing meeting with the Hollywood studio people. And you say that, for them, as you put it, “the unquestioned assumption is that a plastic model ship will be pulled over a ridge in a studio.”
And so you explain to them, that again, this is a quote, “your unquestioned assumption had to be a real steamship being hauled over a real mountain, though not for the sake of realism, but for the stylization characteristic of grand opera.” That’s quite a remarkable – what does that last part mean – about the stylization as opposed to the realism?
MR. HERZOG: When you see the film – and I hate to revert to the film, but I have to right now – when you look at the ship moving over the mountain, and dozens of winches, primitive winches turned around by native Indians in the pulleys system and all this – when you see the ship going up the mountain, it does not look real anymore. It actually looks like a jungle fever dream – something completely stylized; something out of the fantasies of grand opera.
And the film, of course, has to do with the quest of grand opera in the jungle. So it’s not for the sake of realism. The film is the proof of it.
MR. BROWN: I want to move to some of the questions we got from our viewers, looking at this film and the book. This is from Tony Gronner in Evanston, Illinois, who says: “Please ask Mr. Herzog which he considers more dangerous and, perhaps, insane: The filming and actually moving the boat up the mountain or casting Klaus Kinski?”
MR. HERZOG: It’s a funny question. Klaus – both of them are kind of – well, first of all, I have to say, people always believe that I am kind of borderline insane. My answer to that is, no, I’m clinically sane. I actually make a lot of sense. I’m very organized. I’m very aware of risks and I made Klaus to fix the films. And never one single actor ever ever got hurt in any of my films. But, sure, to move a real ship over a real mountain is something which – at least it has no precedent in technical history.
Casting Klaus Kinski, well, he was a substitute for Jason Robards. And I think he is much more than a substitute when we look back at the film now. But he was so volatile and so crazed and so hysterical that every single day, working with him was horrifying. But I had the stamina and the perseverance to domesticate the beast.
MR. BROWN: (Chuckles.) You had worked with him in –
MR. HERZOG: Yeah, five films all in all.
MR. BROWN: Yes. I mean, a number of people wrote about him because he’s such a compelling figure. George V. says: “What attracted you to Klaus Kinski? His work has ranged from the ridiculous to the sublime. But the latter was the case with your films.”
MR. HERZOG: It is true, yes, he made – I think there are some counts that he made 205 films. Most of these films he has only in spaghetti Westerns, and so, he has one-and-a-half or two minutes appearances maximum, which meant one day of shooting – nobody could tolerate him any longer.
But I was the one who saw there was something extraordinary in Kinski – a presence, intensity onscreen that has no equal. There are very, very few of that intensity of presence. Among them, I would — one comes to mind would be the young Marlon Brando of “On the Waterfront,” for example. You don’t have people like him anymore.
And so I said to myself, so what? I can take everything that he’s tossing at me – I will deal with it and I will make a fine movie.
MR. BROWN: Mm-hmm. You know, there’s an interesting question here that goes to what you were talking about earlier about the vision of the boat moving over the mountain. “Where do you believe the vision and determination comes from that allows you to create your films? The scenes from ‘Nosferatu’ in the village square of such gorgeous desolation with the people doing the dance of death with the rats, has been perfectly connected to the musical score. Is this type of thing seen in layers of your mind as a fluid idea, as I suspect a lot of ‘Fitzcarraldo’ was, or a fully realized mental image?”
In other words, how do you see all this – envision it first – and then make it happen?
MR. HERZOG: Yes, and that’s why it’s so easy to me to write a screenplay. I see an entire film in front of my mind and it’s like copying. So I’ve never written longer than six, seven, eight days writing a screenplay.
MR. BROWN: Really?
MR. HERZOG: I see an entire film and, in a way, it’s not that I have ever invited myself nor have I planned a career – I have not had a career.
It was all like home invasion – like the burglar at night who comes into your home and they are there and how do you get them out? (Chuckles.) I see things very, very clearly before I even start to write or produce a film.
MR. BROWN: So you never thought in terms of career?
MR. HERZOG: No. I’ve never planned anything. I haven’t had any career at all.
MR. BROWN: (Chuckles.) It’s interesting because –
MR. HERZOG: I only have a life.
MR. BROWN: That’s a good answer. Here’s one from Christopher in Chicago: “In nearly all of your movies the landscape motivates and shapes the drama…” – and of course this does go to “Fitzcarraldo” certainly – “What techniques do you use to implicate the landscape?”
So when you’re thinking or visioning what you’re trying to do, what role does the particular landscape play? And of course we see that in many of your recent documentaries as well.
MR. HERZOG: In a way— it may sound presumptuous, but in a way I know how to direct landscapes.
MR. BROWN: What does that mean? (Chuckles.)
MR. HERZOG: Yeah. We would need much more time than we have here. But I stylize and I in a way I direct landscapes as if they were part of our human soul. In a way all these landscapes – like let’s say the jungle in “Fitzcarraldo” – is not just a depiction of a backdrop, of a scenic backdrop. It is always as if it were a human quality, a human essence. The jungle in “Fitzcarraldo” is like a fever dreams. It’s like fantasies, it’s like nightmares and fever dreams of a jungle instead of a jungle, of a realistic jungle.
MR. BROWN: You know, I just mentioned the documentaries. Here’s one from James Dowell. There are a number of people who wanted to talk about the documentaries. From James Dowell: “As a documentarian myself I admire your work in that vein as well as your fiction films. Is there any distinction between the truth presented by the two forms?”
MR. HERZOG: Again, a very deep question which would require a much longer answer.
MR. BROWN: See, we have deep viewers on this program.
MR. HERZOG: Yes, I believe— let me try to give you a stenogram on that. I do not make so much of a distinction between fiction films and films like a documentary. They have something in common and that is a quest for a deeper truth, some truth that is beyond the surface of the images. And I’ve labeled it an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth. And this quest, this search is common to all my films.
MR. BROWN: There’s another question about documentary from Anita Lichman: “When making a documentary such as ‘Grizzly Man,’ what kind of personal relationships do you develop with the subjects? I am specifically curious about your relationship with Timothy Treadwell.”
MR. HERZOG: (Chuckles.) Well, with Timothy Treadwell I couldn’t develop a personal relationship because—
MR. BROWN: Exactly.
MR. HERZOG: —when I got into his story he was already 10 months dead.
MR. BROWN: Right.
MR. HERZOG: He was attacked and eaten by a grizzly bear together with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard. So the only reference I had was the footage that he shot and that was about 100 hours of video and of course all the testimonies of his friends and relatives.
MR. BROWN: But what is it about him? I think this goes to the question of what attracts you to certain characters, whether it’s a Fitzcarraldo or a Timothy Treadwell. What is it that attracts you to a given person?
MR. HERZOG: That instantly struck me. I knew there was something very, very big about his story. And it had to do with his very complex character and it had to do with our relationship towards wild nature, which somehow we have lost because of all of the Walt Disney movies and all the romanticizing sentimentalities about wild nature.
In that respect I knew there was something very, very big and far beyond Timothy Treadwell in it. But it came to me, again, like a home invasion. I was at the office of a producer and he had been very, very friendly with me, helping me with another project. And when I left I was definitely not searching for a story. I was searching for my car keys that I had misplaced on the very messy table in front of us.
And, looking at the table, he thought that I was looking at something specifically and pushes an article across the table and says, read this. We are planning to do a very interesting sort of film. So I took it and normally I don’t read these things and somehow I read it and, 10 minutes later, I was back in the office and I somehow said, I will direct this film. (Chuckles.)
MR. BROWN: Really? That’s how, that fast?
MR. HERZOG: When I get back, I have to do this. So it – again, it was not planned, but the instant recognition there was something very, very significant, something really big.
MR. BROWN: You keep talking about these home invasions. I hope, I assume your wife is okay with the way you live your life?
MR. HERZOG: (Chuckles.) She is, yes, actually.
MR. BROWN: As a married man, I keep wondering about her.
MR. HERZOG: No, I have to maintain that I’m a fluffy husband.
MR. BROWN: What is it about these unwelcome natural landscapes? There is a question from Sid in Washington, D.C. “Your documentaries of late have considered man’s intrusion into often unwelcoming natural circumstances. Why does this theme fascinate you? What is the next stage of its evolution?”
MR. HERZOG: Next stage? I cannot really predict. But, of course, I have always been somehow alarmed by what we have done to nature, how we have intruded. And it’s not only nature; it has also to do with cultures, how we are invading cultures as tourists. And I believe – I can give you a dictum which sometimes I repeat – tourism is sin and travelling on foot is virtue. Somehow we are not encountering foreign cultures and dying-out cultures in the right manner.
MR. BROWN: Here is another one on documentaries from Leyton: “I’m interested in the extent to which your documentaries emerge from the source materials and the extent to which that process is controlled. It always seems to me that the stories and characters in your documentaries, and really a lot of documentaries I see, are so fully completed, much more so than in any of my real-life experiences.”
Kind of an interesting idea of how much control do you have, how do you kind of complete a story in real life when real life is often so messy?
MR. HERZOG: Well, I’m a filmmaker. You see, I’ve always been in opposition to so-called cinema verite who are postulating that the documentary filmmaker should be like a fly on the wall. I say, no, you shouldn’t be a fly on the wall; be the hornet that moves in and that stings. Just charge and take charge of a situation, stylize it, create something, fantasize about it. So my documentaries are part of what I do as a storyteller. And because of that, feature films are not that far away from my documentaries and vice versa.
MR. BROWN: Here’s another one just on that very subject because I think this really interests people a lot. This is from Sherpa Doug: “Where is Werner on the screen when you’re behind the camera? Obviously we see the images you select for us. How else do you impose yourself in the frame? How do you conjure yourself through directing to the extent that you do from the actors in front of the camera?”
MR. HERZOG: I think that’s something you find in filmmaking. When you look at a movie, let’s say made by Bunuel – I don’t want to compare myself now with a great master like him but his presence is always being felt. You sense him. And in some of my documentaries – many in recent years – I have done the voice-over myself. I write the commentary. I do my voice-over. You hear my voice. Sometimes I even show up in person, although I try to be very unobtrusive like in Timothy Treadwell, you see me once from behind when I listen to the tape, which was recorded while he was eaten by the bear. His girlfriend actually had switched on the camera and dropped it and hadn’t removed the lens cap yet so there’s an audio portion is still intact of six minutes.
MR. BROWN: I remember that very well because then you end up telling her that she shouldn’t listen to this and she should destroy it.
MR. HERZOG: Yes. And I have to say – in the shock of the first moment to listen to this incredible, incredibly violent and brutal tape, I had the feeling she should destroy it and not have it sitting around herself, right next to the-. She actually was much wiser than my advice. She didn’t destroy it, but put it away in a bank vault – in a safe deposit in a bank vault.
MR. BROWN: You know, I was wondering about that very thing. If you had the chance to play that for us, or if the video existed – because it almost did – would you have wanted to show it to us?
MR. HERZOG: Well, I had to address it because production company and distributor and the TV network all knew it existed and it was known in public that this tape existed. So they all said, you have to incorporate it in your film and I said, no, let me listen to it first and then I will take a decision. And the moment I had listened to it, I said, only over my dead body this tape will be played in this film.
MR. BROWN: Because ?
MR. HERZOG: Because there is such a thing like a right, a right of privacy of your own death. There’s such a thing as the dignity of your own individual death. And this is the reason why, for example, amateur videos during the attacks on the World Trade Center where, I think, almost 200 people jumped out of the burning building from the 106th floor and fell and crashed on the cement right in front of video cameras that were rolling. Nothing of that footage was ever shown in public, and I think it’s absolutely right. You just do not do this. There is an unspoken right that you have, and that’s the privacy and the dignity of your own death.
MR. BROWN: Well, I was just thinking, as a filmmaker, you – whether it is fiction or documentary – you have to make that kind of decision all the time, right, about how much of the story to tell and where are the lines of privacy?
MR. HERZOG: Yeah, in this case, it’s a very, very obvious choice that I had, and I would not have done the film if they had tried to force me to put it in the film. And they all understood.
MR. BROWN: All right. I just have a couple more questions here to share with you. A number of people asked about influences – some as other filmmakers, but here’s one from Robyn in Houston, Texas: “In looking at many of your very considered shots, I wonder how much, if at all, German Romanticism has meant to you, namely Caspar David Friedrich’s use of the contemplative stance in so many of his paintings?” So there’s questions like that and there’s obviously questions about your own influences from other filmmakers.
MR. HERZOG: Well, let me start with the simpler, easier part of it – other filmmakers. You know, I grew up in great isolation in the mountains of Bavaria and I had no idea that cinema even existed until I was 11 years old, when a traveling projectionist arrived at the schoolhouse and showed films. And later, I hardly saw any films – today, and during decades, I have not seen more than two or three films per year. So there are no real influences; I had to invent cinema for myself.
And then, Caspar David Friedrich here is a very fascinating painter. And he is interesting because he never tried to depict the realism of a landscape; he always spoke of inner landscapes. And in a way, I’m doing similar things, although I’m completely remote from German Romanticism, per se. “Grizzly Man” is a very good example. I have nothing – really no affinity for Romanticism; I’m much closer to, let’s say, a thousand years back, the poetry of the Edda, Icelandic sagas – very stark sort of literature – and so influence – it’s very hard to speak about influences in that respect.
MR. BROWN: This is from Miguel in Austin, Texas. This goes back to where we were starting: “Werner Herzog has been shot at, eaten a shoe, traveled to the furthest corners of the world on difficult film shoots; is there anything he wouldn’t submit himself to?”
MR. HERZOG: Well, if it comes to wrestling a real good movie away, I’ve said that I would descend to hell and wrestle it from the claws of the devil himself.
MR. BROWN: (Chuckles.) Oh, only that, huh?
MR. HERZOG: Otherwise, I’d rather prefer to shoot under regular circumstances and work professionally. Sometimes the kind of stories have forced me to, indeed, move a ship over a mountain or go to Antarctica, being shot at when I crossed a border river into Nicaragua on a clandestine mission with a commando unit of insurgents. So I was seriously shot at – even during a BBC interview, I was shot – very, very slightly wounded, only. But it’s okay – that’s life. I don’t complain.
MR. BROWN: Well, I saved this one for last, because it sounds like it comes from a young man thinking about his own future. It’s from Owen Martell: “I would like to know what Mr. Herzog thinks he would do if he were once more in his early 20s with a camera, little money, a knack for walking and a hunger for film, dreams, landscapes – what he would do if he were that person now, and what the reasons would be for any differences between these hypothetical decisions and the choices he made in the early 1960s. I ask as someone currently making similar decisions for myself.”
MR. HERZOG: Yes, that’s an interesting question, but when I look at myself, I’ve never stopped from the kind of spirit of exploring and daring from the earliest days I made films. I’ve done exactly the same thing recently with my very last films. It’s exactly the same spirit. Nothing has really changed in my approach. Of course, subjects have changed and I have grown older and so, but in spirit, it’s always the same. And my answer to this young man Owen is, who seems to be in his early 20s, is just go out and do it. Just do it and don’t be afraid to go after your own vision. Don’t lose it – don’t ever lose it out of sight.
MR. BROWN: Well, that’s great advice to end on. Before I let you go, would you mind reading something for us from the new book?
MR. HERZOG: It’s funny, because I don’t even have it in a copy myself; I can only refer to excerpts that are printed in the Paris Review of Books. (Chuckles.) I can read from the prologue, because it’s here – just one second. And it gives a little bit an idea of how it happens – how films originate. I read from the prologue: “A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging at the downed game so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong. To be more precise: bird cries, for in this setting, left unfinished and abandoned by God in wrath, the birds do not sing; they shriek in pain, and confused trees tangle with one another like battling Titans, from horizon to horizon, in a steaming creation still being formed. Fog-panting and exhausted they stand in this unreal world, in unreal misery— and I, like a stanza in a poem written in an unknown foreign tongue, am shaken to the core.”
MR. BROWN: Werner Herzog’s new book is called, “Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo.” Mr. Herzog, it’s been a great pleasure to talk to you. Thank you very much.
MR. HERZOG: Thank you, too, and I salute all those unknowns who have sent in questions.
MR. BROWN: Well, thank you for doing that, and let me thank everybody who wrote in letters as well. Take care.
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Mauritshuis — A new identity for the home of Dutch Golden Age painting
Built in the 17th century and acquired by the Dutch State in 1820, the Mauritshuis is a fine example of Dutch Classicist architecture. Home of the Royal Picture Gallery since 1822, its opulent rooms are filled with Golden Age masterpieces including ‘The Goldfinch’ (1654) by Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt’s ‘The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp’ (1632) and ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ (c.1665) by Vermeer. Following a two-year refurbishment, the Mauritshuis reopened in June 2014 with a new visual identity designed by Studio Dumbar.
Inspired by artists’ monograms, the new logo overlaps reproductions of key paintings to communicate a clear link between the Mauritshuis and its collection. Supported by a contemporary wordmark, the logo hints at the museum’s heritage while placing it in the 21st century. Golden Age paintings are known for their details: look closer and you’ll see more. We expressed this idea in the logo and a new photographic style: paintings are shown in context, through doorways. The core colour evokes royalty, the Golden Age and the house’s baroque interiors, while a brighter secondary palette echoes its famous damask wall coverings.
We applied the identity to a range of collateral including entrance tickets, invitations, ground plans, trams and flyers, as well as a new and comprehensive collection catalogue. We also created a new identity for The Friends of the Mauritshuis – a foundation that supports the museum with funding for new acquisitions and exhibitions.
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Surface Force Apparatus and Atomic Force Microscopy;
Liquid under nano-confinement;
Optical imaging (super-resolution) and Raman spectroscopy;
Biomimic functional micro-/nano-scale devices.
Peng Zhang, and Enzo Di Fabrizio et.al., "A droplet reactor on a super-hydrophobic surface allows control and characterization of amyloid fibril growth" Communications Biology 3, 457 (2020).https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01187-7
Maria Laura Coluccio, Gerardo Perozziello, Natalia Malara, Elvira Parrotta, Peng Zhang, Francesco Gentile, Tania Limongi, Pushparani Michael Raj, Gianni Cuda, Patrizio Candeloro, Enzo Di Fabrizio. "Microfluidic platforms for cell cultures and investigations", Microelectronic Engineering 208 (2019), 14.
Peng Zhang et.al. "Ultra-Fast Separation of Infectious Disease-Related Small DNA Molecules by Single- and Multi-Channel Microchip Electrophoresis" Talanta 106, (2013): 388-393.
Peng Zhang et.al. "Super-Resolution of Fluorescence-Free Plasmonic Nanoparticles Using Enhanced Dark-Field Illumination based on Wavelength-Modulation" Scientific Reports 5, (2015): 11447.
Tao Chen, Bin Dong, Kuangcai Chen, Fei Zhao, Seungah Lee, Peng Zhang, Seong Ho Kang, Ji Won Ha, Weilin Xu, and Ning Fang. "Optical Super-Resolution Imaging of Surface Reactions" Chem. Rev. 117 (2017), 7510.
Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2017
B.E. in Polymer materials engineering, Qilu University of Science and Technology (Shandong Academy of Science), China；2011
2021 - Present: Research Scientist, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2017- 2021: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2017 Feb - May: Visiting Scientist, Dalian University of Technology, China
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Camera calibration using an algorithm proposed by Tsai. We use it to transform the image coordinates in world coordinates. More information about it can be found in his paper : "An Efficient and Accurate Camera Calibration Technique for 3D Machine Vision", Roger Y. Tsai, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Miami Beach, FL, 1986, pages 364-374." or on this website. The calibration code come from this website.
For a deformed image, TSAI is better than a purely linear second order calibration method. However, it is slower, and sometimes, when the camera axis is orthogonal the to setup plan, TSAI method can lead to error in computation and tremendous errors, and even crash of the method.
A good presentation of the parameters can be found here.
Path the XML file containing the calibration points. The file must have the following format:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <pointlist> <points> <point> <xworld>0.3</xworld> <yworld>0.9</yworld> <ximage>9.8</ximage> <yimage>10.3</yimage> </point> <point> <xworld>34.1</xworld> <yworld>7.9</yworld> <ximage>44.3</ximage> <yimage>25.9</yimage> </point> </points> </pointlist>
More points can be added in the same way as the two points in this example. A minimum of 5 non-collinear points is needed to compute the calibration.
[sel] Number of sensor elements in the camera's x direction.
[pix] Number of pixels in the frame grabber's x direction. If the calibration is crashing, put a value 5% smaller than the Ncx.
[sel] Number of sensor elements in the camera's y direction.
[pix] Number of pixels in the frame grabber's y direction. If the calibration is crashing, put a value 5% smaller than the Ncy.
[mm/sel] X dimension of camera's sensor element (in mm).
[mm/sel] Y dimension of camera's sensor element (in mm).
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It was an ordinary day in October, 2002. Julie Weil and her infant son were picking up Julie’s daughter, three-year-old Emily, from her Florida preschool at noon. As Julie buckled her daughter into her car seat, she felt a sudden blow to the head.
That day, Julie was raped four times in front of her children.
After the initial blow, Julie’s attacker hijacked her minivan and took the family to a hidden, far-away place near the Everglades. There, he ordered Julie to disrobe, threatened her three-year-old daughter and forced both of her kids to watch as their mother was savagely assaulted.
Julie wasn’t the first woman this man had raped, nor, perhaps, the last. To help police catch him, she endured a two hour, head-to-toe forensic exam immediately after the assault. Because the rapist had ejaculated in Julie’s mouth, the exam only turned up a speck of DNA on the T-shirt she had worn, which matched the DNA profile taken from another rape victim. Police knew they were looking for a serial rapist, but they didn’t yet have a suspect.
Months later, Julie got a call from police: They had a DNA match. Her rapist had been arrested after beating his pregnant girlfriend at a hotel, and the swab from his mouth matched the DNA collected from Julie’s T-shirt. That phone call marked the beginning of a long road to closure.
I spoke to Julie about about her experience for my piece in the new issue of Ms., “How to Stop a Serial Rapist.” Here, she opens up about what it’s like to undergo a forensic exam and a rape trial, and, at long last, to see a conviction.
Ms. Blog: Tell me about the forensic exam.
Julie Weil: Getting there is half the battle. First, there’s all the anxiety of getting into a car with a stranger–in my case a police officer. [When you get there], you’re forced to disrobe and they impound all your clothes; they took my shoes, my bra, underwear, top, pants. You put on a hospital gown and get in stirrups like you were going to the gynecologist, and for hours they comb your body looking for errant hairs. They take a blue light and shine it over all the surfaces of your body looking for DNA–semen, saliva. They do very thorough internal exams, and they photograph everything that they’re doing. It is people probing you, trying to help you in retrieving evidence, but in order to do that they have to go to the most intimate areas of your body, in essence your soul.
How long was the exam?
With the photographing, the scraping, the probing, you’re in stirrups or in the gown for about two hours, at least. I think that’s part of the reason that I’m fighting so hard to get this DNA backlog legislation [the SAFER Act] passed in Washington, because it’s such a personal experience to get those items in [the rape kit]–those samples, those tests–that you feel like a piece of you is sitting in that box on the shelf in the police station that nobody’s testing.
What do you know about the man who raped you?
He was a serial rapist, he had abducted three sets of women and children before me and before he moved on to stranger violence he was a date-rapist and spousal abuser. All along the way he had shown these patterns of behavior and he was never stopped. People who have the predilection to do these kinds of crimes aren’t going to stop until they’re caught. I just encourage people that, as horrible as rape-kit exams are, they’re so necessary. Without them we can’t get these guys off the street.
What did the nurses find during the exam?
It was horrible. On me, after that very long period of time, they found nothing. But it was kind of unique in that I was forced to swallow the ejaculate all four times, and he knew that going into it. He knew that he was getting rid of the evidence that way. Once the DNA gets into your stomach it’s long gone, there’s no way they can retrieve it, and so they didn’t find any DNA on my body. He had shaved himself so there was no hair or hair residue.
Can you tell me about the trial process?
It took four years, from the time he was arrested to the time we went to trial. It was a continuous frustration. He changed attorneys six times, and every time that was another delay. Witnesses move out of town, and it’s hard to get the person who ran the DNA because now they’ve moved to another lab, out of state. Every time there’s a delay that’s one day further away you are from closure. When you make it to then end of the process, no matter how long it is, and you secure a conviction, oh my gosh, I think that’s the biggest achievement of my life.
What role did the DNA play in the conviction?
It played a huge role. That’s the thing with DNA–even in a date-rape case when you know who the person was, you always have to have DNA, because that’s what everybody hangs their hat on now. Even though it seemed like this was a cut and dried case–because what woman would consent to being raped in front of her children in the middle of the day?–[the defense] still took that [consent] angle.
The only cross-examination they really did in the case was against the DNA expert, because I think that any jury who hears confirmed DNA evidence and [the experts] say it’s a 1 in 6 billion chance it could be anybody but this guy, that’s so compelling.
Where is the case now?
Everything is over. The appellate process is over. He has seven consecutive life sentences plus 15 years. And that’s just for what he did to my family. As a victim, it’s nice to have a judge who didn’t lump all four rapes [committed against me that day] into one life sentence, because each time he raped me was a [separate] torturous offense. And he got a separate life sentence for kidnapping my son, kidnapping my daughter and kidnapping me.
That kind of recognition from the legal system, even though it seems petty (because obviously he can only serve one life sentence), is recognition that what he did warrants life sentences seven times over. Just in some symbolic way it makes you feel like you can get some closure.
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A new system that will automatically detect what trains you've taken and charge you accordingly is being trialled by the Association of Train Operating Companies, and could at long last mean the end of paper ticketing.
Passenger Transport reports that the way the new system works is that the passenger carries around a small device (the "MultiPass"). When you pass through a station the pass will detect wireless beacons transmitting a signal, essentially identifying which station you're at. Then once a day, the pass will connect to your phone via bluetooth, upload all of the data and charge you the lowest possible fare for the journeys that you have made that day.
The MultiPass also has a signal a "Permission to Travel" pass built in - so that if there is a gateline at the station you can simply wave the pass over and the gates will swing open, just like with an Oyster card in London. If there isn't a gate, you won't even need to take the MultiPass out of your pocket.
If a ticket inspector approaches, you can simply show them your pass either on the phone app, or they scan your MultiPass.
Just like with Oyster ticketing, the system will work out the cheapest possible journey, and will even give you Off-Peak fares if need be, as it will know the time that you travelled. As the Multipass itself will have a bluetooth receiver, it will need charging "twice a year" - but this can be done simply with your phone charger.
Since March 2015 a small trial has been taking place with 40 customers on the route between Liverpool Street and Cambridge - though there are now plans to roll it out further by the end of the year. Apparently the company Global Travel Ventures, which owns MultiPass, is also planning a trial with Glasgow buses too.
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Anonymous Explorer writes "Fresh off of its fly-by with the Saturnian satellite Phoebe, the Cassini-Huygens craft is set for Saturn Orbit Insertion on June 30, 2004. Cassini-Huygens has a planned four year mission ahead for Saturn and its many moons. With 450 watts of power for the electronics, this mission has plenty enough horses to run the stretch with plenty-o-pep to spare. Thanks to all that power, and the plethora of electronics on Cassini and the Huygens probe, we can now hear sounds from Saturn. Pretty cool stuff! Festivities are scheduled to begin on June 29th with a broadcast of Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion Press Conference on Nasa TV. SOI [PDF link] will occur after Cassini fires its main engine for 96 minutes, in order to slow down and be grabbed by the pull of Saturn. As always we extend an invitation to everyone to join #cassini on irc.freenode.net and help us celebrate this historic mission." | <urn:uuid:4ca590fe-a251-4197-8523-bae5c5f83155> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://science.slashdot.org/story/04/06/29/1433216/cassini-huygens-saturn-orbit-insertion-imminent?sdsrc=prevbtmprev | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00230-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922242 | 216 | 2.46875 | 2 |
By: Alice Wong, TechSoup Canada Volunteer
Whether it be pen and paper, spreadsheets, databases or more sophisticated CRM software, it was clear that when it comes to managing relationships with your constituents, determining what is appropriate for your nonprofit or charity is not an easy task. Luckily, we had some insightful speakers and panellists for our May Toronto Net Tuesday event that shared their experiences - the good, bad and the ugly - with developing the CRMs within their organizations.
Intro to CRM: Jane Zhang - TechSoup Canada
First of all, Jane, the Program Director at TechSoup Canada, gave an incredible overview of CRMs and why they are essential to the existence of your organization. Nonprofits count on the time and resources of volunteers, donors and other constituents, and time spent tracking these assets (i.e. volunteer hours, finding out if someone on your list is a donor/volunteer/member or all of the above, etc.) means time away from engaging with your community of supporters. CRMs should really help to integrate and simplify your organization’s processes, but given certain restraints such as time, budget and IT resources, these factors will most definitely affect what CRM you choose (if any!). In your consideration process, even if an in-house solution is developed, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. So, it is essential to evaluate the present and future needs of your organization, as the costs associated with switching from one CRM to another are high.
CRM Case Study: Brian Cugelman - AlterSpark Consulting
The next speaker, Brian from AlterSpark Consulting, worked with a nonprofit called LEAF to tie in a new CRM with a new website. There was a heavy investment of time upfront before they came to the decision of choosing Salesforce as their CRM, and it involved many iterations of what he described as “spaghetti diagrams”. From afar they might have looked like spaghetti, but these diagrams mapped out LEAF’s staff, processes and relationships and that helped narrow down what they would eventually need from a CRM. From there they were able to tie in their CRM with their new website taxonomies and their use of social media.
CRM Nonprofit Panel
Lastly, there was a discussion with our panel, which included Jaime from Schools Without Borders (using Salesforce), Eugene from Free Geek Toronto (using SugarCRM) and Bradley from Dancemakers (using Sumac). Some of the challenges they faced that might be useful to keep in mind were:
- Dealing with information that might not fit into a CRM in the first place
- Fine tuning needs ahead of time as to not waste budget on customizing your CRM
- Learning your CRM and getting everyone in the organization to actively use it
- Keeping data relevant and correct
Since implementation, members of our panel have been able to use the CRM to:
- Create custom campaigns for the organization’s different supporters which increased donations
- Concentrate on a multi-year plan for donor stewardship
- Sync to other software programs to simplify other activities (i.e. letter sending)
- “Eliminate the things that suck” (e.g. counting volunteer hours)
To hear all of our panelist's advice, see the video of the discussion.
Hopefully this event was helpful in at least prompting a bit more dialog within your organizations about CRMs. If your organization is registered with TechSoup Canada, feel free to check out our suite of donated software applications, some of which include CRMs.
If you weren't able to attend, we are running a free webinar on CRM on May 19 - sign up here.
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South Africa (TD) – In a milestone moment, the first legal medical cannabis dispensary on the African continent is about to open.
The dispensary, which will open on June 1 in the South African city of Durban, will sell imported products containing cannabidiol (CBD), a compound from the cannabis plant which offers a host of therapeutic and medical uses. This is legal, as the country’s Medicines Control Council rescheduled CBD in October 2017, meaning it can be legally possessed and used if acquired by a patient with a prescription. The dispensary does not stock any product containing cannabis’ THC compound (which delivers the “high”), as this remains illegal.
The dispensary was founded by investor and businessman Krithi Thaver, and will be located within Durban’s Holistic Relief Wellness and Pain Management Centre. Thaver wants the dispensary to be more than just a provider of goods; he says the dispensary, as an institution, will advocate for cannabis law reform in South Africa, and teach patients how to produce their own cannabis-based medicines.
According to Thaver, the stigma around cannabis in South Africa means that people are often uninformed as to how to enjoy the greatest therapeutic benefits of the drug. Simultaneously, many who choose to use it are being criminalized by the state.
“We want to break the stigma around cannabis,” he told TalkingDrugs, “Many people in South Africa are using cannabis as a form of alternate medication, but they don’t understand that different compounds can be effective at treating different conditions. We want to train people who are producing their own to follow international standards, such as those in the US.”
Thaver is referring to the main product that his dispensary will stock, CBD oil, for which pharmaceutical researchers discover new and profound medical uses for on a regular basis. Thaver says that CBD oil can be used for alleviating symptoms or pain associated with cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, chronic pain, epilepsy, and muscle spasms.
He hopes that his dispensary model can proliferate around South Africa, and pressure the national government to concede the failure of cannabis prohibition and introduce legislation that can help patients.
“We want to start engaging with the government to start the process of decriminalizing cannabis in South Africa, and to lift all criminal charges against patients who have been criminalized for using cannabis. We want to educate those making the decisions on why cannabis is scientifically proven to treat people … and we want to get doctors who have clinical expertise involved so we can take the cause forward,” he told TalkingDrugs.
The past year has seen significant changes in the legal approach to cannabis in southern African countries. In April, Zimbabwe authorised the provision of licenses for people who seek to cultivate cannabis for medical or research purposes. This followed the legal regulation of medical cannabis production in Lesotho, which appears to permit production for certain foreign corporations, but continues to criminalize local farmers. | <urn:uuid:326a8fcf-7689-431f-8a04-c759291e5efe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bridgeagents.com/2018/05/25/africas-first-medical-cannabis-dispensary-opening-in-south-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.96134 | 616 | 1.507813 | 2 |
On Thursday, the federal government released Bill C-75, an omnibus bill aimed at reducing court delays. Unfortunately, good intentions stop at the preamble, especially for those of us who believed in the government’s pre-election promise to bring a principled approach to criminal justice reform.
Speeding up the system has been on the agenda since the Supreme Court’s Jordan decision, which strengthened the law surrounding breaches of the right to trial within a reasonable time. However, in my opinion, C-75 uses Jordan as a pretext to erode Charter rights and procedural safeguards.
Bill C-75 purports to speed up the system by eliminating preliminary inquiries for all but the most serious offences. On a superficial level, one might expect that removing a step in the pretrial process would unencumber judges enough for matters to proceed to trial more quickly.
However, C-75 reclassifies a myriad of offences, giving the Crown discretion to prosecute them summarily. To further incentivize this option, the bill increases the maximum penalty for summary offences from six months to two years. Summary offence trials, like preliminary inquiries, occur in provincial courts, which are already the most congested courts in our system. C-75 may very well take many preliminary inquiries off the provincial court docket, but it will replace them with many more trials.
Promptness is not the only meaningful metric for assessing justice reform. Preliminary inquiries are discretionary, and since they slow down the process, an accused will generally only opt for one where it will enable counsel to obtain essential disclosure, narrow issues, or arrive at a fair resolution. Narrowing issues means shorter trials; resolution results in fewer trials; and disclosure creates fairer trials.
C-75 would also repeal peremptory challenges, which recently upset the Boushie trial, where the defence notoriously used challenges to eliminate Indigenous jurors. However, most often, peremptory challenges are not used this way; they are used to achieve fair and representative juries.
During the peremptory challenge process, each potential juror is brought forward and asked to look upon the accused. You can learn a lot from that look. Some potential jurors appear with defiance, contempt, or fear on their faces. Others show compassion, interest, or equanimity. I prefer the latter on my juries. I don’t expect these jurors to give a preferential trial; but I hope that they will be more inclined to exercise fairness.
Bill C-75 also codifies the power of a judge to stand aside a juror — remove them from the jury pool — to maintain public confidence in the administration of justice. Judges arguably already have the power to stand aside jurors in the extremely rare circumstances where this factor is at play.
The federal government could have responded to the Boushie debate by providing counsel more freedom to vet jurors or by creating a mechanism to challenge discriminatory use of the veto. Instead, it proposes to repeal one of the few tools counsel have to eliminate jurors who may not believe in the presumption of innocence.
The most troubling aspect of C-75 is that it will allow the Crown to introduce written evidence from police officers about routine matters, and force the defence to apply for permission to cross-examine. The definition of routine matters is so broad it could cover the entire spectrum of police evidence. Applications to cross will be numerous and time consuming, and will undoubtedly clog up the system.
As society becomes increasingly aware of intolerable police practices, such as carding and induced confessions, the federal government is tabling legislation that seems to protect such behaviour, by eliminating the discovery-focused cross-examination that occurs at preliminary inquiries and by making it much more difficult to cross-examine police officers at trial.
Cross-examination has been called the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. Limits on cross examination interfere with a trial’s essential function: the search for truth. Cross-examination also provides a check and balance on police abuse and corruption. Without this form of transparency, abuses will have fertile ground in which to flourish.
My prediction if Bill C-75 passes into law: the Canadian justice system will be slower and less fair, and it will encourage police abuse and an increase in wrongful convictions. Bill C-75 is a massive step backwards for justice reform in Canada. | <urn:uuid:e6c0c0ee-9795-40e6-9287-526f9896aa08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2018/04/02/liberal-bill-a-step-backward-for-canadian-justice-reform.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.948373 | 895 | 1.671875 | 2 |
What is a leader, as somewhat defined by Mitt Romney? Just listen to Romney’s speech on foreign policy. I heard nothing but war drums beating.
This man participated in pro-war demonstrations for the Vietnam war and was in favor of the draft. Now, this is the man who wants to become president of the United States.
What did he do? Why, he took a deferment to go preach Mormonism in France. Not one member of the Romney family has ever served in the U.S. Armed Forces. He sure must be proud of his family’s military service.
A leader is a person who talks with you and agrees about a problem, such as an uprising in the Middle East. A leader says, “You know, we have to go out and do something about this. We have to help those people.” And then he keeps talking about it.
And then the other person, the follower, says, “You’ve got a point. I really believe you have a point. Let’s go out and do something about it.” Then the leader says, “What do you mean, ‘Let’s go out.’ You go out. I’ll stay here and keep recruiting more people like you.”
The definition of an idiot is a person who says, “You know, you’re right.” And the leader says, “Yes, I know.” In a quote from Romney, when asked about his sons’ military service, he said, “My boys have to drive the bus to get me re-elected. So they can’t go.” | <urn:uuid:3d1717a5-f5fc-4eac-b99e-ceb917c04c56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.saukvalley.com/2012/10/10/romney-failed-to-take-lead-in-military-service/aziewpu/?list-comments=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00243-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984868 | 355 | 2.34375 | 2 |
It isn’t just the profound afterglow of the Women’s March on Washington, though that has certainly rekindled my ardor. My love affair with demonstrations started long before that incredible Saturday in Washington. It began when I was so young I had to beg my parents to let me go to peace rallies, and I look back on their tolerance now with awe and gratefulness. Virtually none of my friends’ parents would let a young teenager board a bus alone at 4:00 a.m. to set off for the wilds of D.C.
But of course, when you’re in love, even at an extremely tender age, you can be extremely persuasive. Roughly the same age as Shakespeare’s Juliet, I made my arguments, if not with her eloquence, at least with equal ferocity. As much as other schoolgirls longed to date the slightly rough guy from the wrong side of town, I dreamed of being among thousands of upstarts, all of whom were much older than I, waving banners and chanting slogans.
I loved the feeling of solidarity I found at demonstrations, a sense of belonging stunningly absent from my days spent in a suburban high school. I was a lonely girl in Massapequa Park, nothing to keep me warm at night but my plastic transistor radio under the covers, turned to WBAI, which would report on the sit-ins and teach-ins occurring in New York City, seemingly a million miles away.
Sometimes I could indulge my obsession remotely. I begged my dad, who worked in the city, to bring me a copy of an album called something like Songs of the Selma Montgomery March, which he found at the Colony Records store in the famous Brill Building on Broadway. Like a letter from a faraway boyfriend, these songs, playing endlessly on the little record player I had in my room, made me feel as if I was part of something exciting, something new and real. | <urn:uuid:10ea6e93-4933-4ff3-bb8f-828fc934b631> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vogue.com/article/finding-love-during-protests-love-story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.975872 | 406 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Contractor Aron Frailey estimates he has installed as many as one thousand radiant snow-melt projects since entering the business right out of college nearly 20 years ago. The jobs have been many and varied — from high-end residential to large commercial. He even spent three weeks in Moscow in 2017 at the behest of the U.S. State Department, building a snow-melt system for the U.S. Embassy there — “Although I couldn’t speak a lick of Russian,” he notes.
But, Frailey’s most unusual job to date is one of his most recent: The UVU Pedestrian Bridge on the Orem campus of Utah Valley University, the largest public university in the state. “It’s the first bridge I have ever done,” says Frailey, who founded Thermal Engineering in Salt Lake City in 2008. After nearly two decades working on some of the largest snow-melt jobs in the world for his own firm and a previous employer, he does not hesitate to label the UVU Bridge “as definitely a learning experience.” By that, he doesn’t mean an easy one.
UVU is a “landlocked” campus, with all student housing located west of the super-busy U.S. Interstate 15. The school itself sits on the opposite side to the east. In the fall of 2019, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), the Utah Transit Authority (UTA), general contractor Kraemer North America (Plain, Wisconsin), and UVU broke ground on the pedestrian walkway that will provide safe egress from one side to the other.
Suspended 22 to 35 feet above ground, the 17-foot-wide bridge spans almost 305 feet across I-15, providing access for up to 6,000 students a day, according to Josh Sletten, project manager for the engineering firm WSP USA. The structure includes bicycle access and elevators to make it ADA-compliant, a covered roof with perforated sides for comfort, and a radiant-heated deck.
Obviously, the project will make transit from one side of the highway to the other far more appealing to university students, staff and visitors. (Not only does the new bridge overarch I-15, but also railroad tracks owned by Union Pacific and the UTA Frontrunner Commuter Rail.) The ability to snow melt the upper landings and the walkway is another critical ingredient to safety, to both walkers and the fast-moving vehicles below. Orem receives, on average, more than 40 inches of snow annually.
“There were concerns about how to incorporate snow melt in a project of this scale,” says Frailey. “But UVU and UDOT saw the liability issue as ample justification for the extra cost.” After all, the logistics of manual snow removal from such a large pathway that high in the air were beyond daunting.
As Frailey notes: “How would you get a piece of equipment up there to plow it? If you did, where would all the snow go?”
With snow melt, the bridge’s curving contours will efficiently direct runoff to both sides of the bridge, safely disposing whatever liquid remains from the melting process. As Frailey explains: “The system generates quite a bit of evaporation to help remove the snow.”
PP-RCT + PEX
Frailey’s “learning experience” goes beyond never having put snow melt on a bridge before. The UVU project also represents his largest use of a polymer plastic pipe known as PP-RCT — shorthand for “polypropylene, random copolymer, with modified crystallinity and temperature resistance.” Having used the pipe on two smaller commercial projects in Boston and Cleveland, the Thermal Engineering team was “not unfamiliar with it,” says Frailey. “But we had never used the material on a project this large and this different.”
The UVU Bridge also represents another major first: The first full-scale use of Uponor North America’s PP-RCT pipe and fittings offering, made exclusively for the company through a partnership with Pestan North America. The two companies announced their partnership in September 2019, with a phased rollout throughout 2020, beginning mainly in the Far West. Shipping diameters from 1/2-inch to 12 inches from stock (up to 24 inches for special orders), Uponor is targeting a wide array of commercial hydronic distribution applications in the U.S. and Canada.
The UVU Bridge is actually a “hybrid” snow-melt installation involving both PP-RCT and the type of polymer plastic pipe Uponor is best-known for: Crosslinked polyethylene, or PEX-a. Thirty-six thousand linear feet of 5/8-inch PEX has been installed in a snow-melt grid along the bridge’s pedestrian walkway and landings. In addition, 1,900 linear feet of PP-RCT, ranging in diameter from 2 1/2 inches to 4 inches, performs a supply-and-return function, transporting a warm glycol solution from a boiler in a mechanical room in a tower on the east side of the bridge to the PEX-a snow-melt grid.
Frailey recalls the day he first heard about the project. “My salesperson walked into my office — ‘How do you feel about quoting a snow-melt job for a thousand-foot bridge?’ Wow, I thought: A bridge? Can that even be done?”
Thermal Engineering began communicating with WSP and Kraemer, submitting load calculations based on the engineer’s initial design concepts. But it took some time for the project to gain traction. When it did, Frailey remained unsure.
“Looking at the project in its initial stages on paper, it was difficult to see how we would do it,” he says. “Even with 3D models, we struggled to understand how we would thread roughly 2,000 feet of pipe through all the girders of this bridge structure. There is a whole steel truss we had to work around and through, and I feared it could be a disaster from the standpoint of safety.”
Change the pipe spec
Part of the challenge was the structure’s height. Then there was the original specification, calling for the hydronic-distribution part of the project to be built with the conventional choice for this application type: Four-inch steel pipe. A standard length in that diameter weighs in at more than a ton. Numerous installers would need to be involved, and the work would involve welding. Frailey wanted no part of welding — “We don’t have those capabilities,” — and he wasn’t excited about grooved pipe, either.
So Thermal Engineering began investigating — and eventually recommended — PP-RCT as a worthy alternative. A non-corrosive plastic polymer would be better able to withstand the salt and magnesium chloride Utah uses for snow and ice melting on its highways. Even with the bridge 30 feet in the air, this was a major concern, because the hydronic piping would be installed in the structure’s underside, facing fast-moving traffic below.
Moreover, PP-RCT would be far easier to handle and therefore less labor-intensive than steel. Shipped in 19-foot lengths, a stick of 4-inch PP-RCT weighs a mere 63 pounds — a tiny fraction of its steel counterpart. Under normal circumstances, a single fitter can handle the pipe connections, using the special heat-fusion machinery and tools required by PP-RCT. (Of course, “circumstances” at the UVU Bridge were anything but normal, requiring a three-man installation crew: More on that in a bit.)
PP-RCT offered one other critical advantage over steel: The ability to move in unison with the bridge. “The structure is intended to move as much as 18 inches and in every direction all the time: Left to right, backwards and forwards, up and down,” says Frailey. “I was concerned about the joint integrity of a steel piping system with all that movement, and I really liked the flexibility of PP-RCT to handle it.”
For all these reasons, Thermal Engineering formally asked the engineer to change the specification to PP-RCT. After due consideration, the change was made.
“The engineer understandably had lots of questions,” says Frailey, who came to appreciate the “high level of trust” that flourished among his firm and Kraemer North America, WSP and the rest of the build team on this unusual and highly challenging project.
“We sent samples and demonstrated how to make a heat-fusion pipe connection. We also cut some joints apart, so the engineer could confirm how completely the materials bonded. When we began reviewing the flow and weight characteristics, as well as the integrity of the joints and the ability to flex with the bridge, PP-RCT won the day.”
So how did the Thermal Engineering crew finally master the art and science of running a hydronic distribution pipeline across a 970-foot-long bridge that spanned a busy interstate highway? By doing the work, says Frailey.
“I never really understood how we were going to do it until Kraemer North America began prefabricating sections of the bridge offsite before reassembling them over the freeway,” he says.
As it turned out, Frailey’s crew threaded the majority of the PP-RCT through the bridgeworks while it sat on the ground in the prefab steelyard, located roughly a mile and a half from the job site. Using a lift truck fitted with a winch for moving the pipe laterally, the team created a workstation for the McElroy Acrobat heat-fusion machine to connect the 19-foot lengths of PP-RCT.
Although the heat-fusion process normally requires only two fitters, according to Frailey, “We needed a three-man team for this job,” to reach the underside of the bridge. The first pipefitter’s task was to maneuver the 19-foot piece of PP-RCT off the ground and up into the bridge’s girder diaphragms. Project superintendent Scot Layland situated himself in the airborne workstation, hooking each length of pipe to the fusion machine and butt-fusing it to another length ahead of it in the line. Meanwhile, a third person manned the boom truck and the winch, pulling the steadily lengthening, fused-pipe assembly through the bridge.
Frailey estimates that each “lift-fuse-pull” cycle spanned 45 minutes, including the cooling time each connection required before it could be eased along and the process begun anew.
The entire UVU Bridge is constructed on two girders. Some sections could be picked up and trucked to the job site with the girders intact, including the butt-fused PP-RCT. But several were too heavy to be transported as pairs. They had to be disassembled, moved and reconnected on the bridge site, where Frailey’s PP-RCT team performed their “lift-fuse-pull” routine as well, sometimes working at night by the interstate highway.
“Our men ran a rope through the girders and attached it to the pipe, pulling it through the girders while working on opposite ends of the bridge, rather than right over the highway,” says Frailey. Because of the PP-RCT’s weight, “the crane pulled the pipe easily — no big deal.” | <urn:uuid:9620054a-453c-4ad5-8fa3-98771e251aa7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pmengineer.com/articles/95290-uvu-bridge-snow-melt-project-clears-safe-path-over-interstate-highway | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957718 | 2,485 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Water sachet Producers Association of Ghana has indicated its intention to increase the unit price of the product, from the current 20 pesewas to 30 pesewas.
According to the association, cost of production has shot up, following the recent increase in fuel, electricity and water tariffs. Indeed, following the quantum jump in the utility tariffs, industries are virtually on their knees, struggling to break even.
As indicated by the water producers, their production hinges on water, electricity and fuel, and if prices of these essential ingredients have gone up, naturally they have the right to also adjust their prices accordingly.
However, The Chronicle does not think the water producers can justify their intended increment, because they have, for some time now, forced their consumers to buy the product above the officially approved prices.
The last time the price was adjusted, consumers were asked to pay 15 pesewas as unit price for the commodity. However, because of the scarcity of the 5 pesewas coin, the price was rounded up to 20GP.
This means the poor consumers through no fault of theirs, have been compelled to buy the commodity above the officially approved prices. The big question begging for answer is - did the water producers take into consideration the windfall profit they made before arriving at the 30 pesewas they intend to charge the same consumers.
At a news conference held in Accra yesterday to sensitize the public about the imminent increment, journalists asked these water sachet producers whether they would slash down the price, should water and electricity tariffs be reduced, but they were not forthcoming with precise answers.
They could equally not tell the journalists whether they took into consideration the extra 5 pesewas consumers were paying for their products before arriving at the 30 pesewas, as the new price.
It is instructive to note that it is not only water sachet producers that are in this business of always making windfalls at the expense of consumers. The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) is also fond of pulling a fast one on passengers.
The last time fuel prices were increased last year, the union and other transport organizations were fast in adjusting lorry fares. Since then, prices of fuel have gone down more than 30%, but the fares remained the same. However when fuel prices were adjusted recently, they were the first to start agitating for an increase in transport fares.
It is increasingly becoming clear that because consumers do not have any strong association to champion their cause, they are always at the mercy of some of these well-organized unions.
The Chronicle is, therefore, calling on the government to intervene as it did in the case of the transport unions and prevent the new price of sachet water from being slapped on consumers. It is unfair for consumers to be called upon to pay more for sachet water when they are already paying beyond the stipulated price.
The Chronicle is also calling on Ghanaians to fully support Mr. Kofi Kapito's Consumer Protection Agency to ensure that it becomes the mouth piece of all consumers. This, coupled with inputs from the government, is the only way the rights of consumers can be properly protected in this country. The Chronicle insists that 30Gp for sachet water is not justifiable. | <urn:uuid:c8623c81-0028-43d3-ae9e-de72675ef3eb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://allafrica.com/stories/201601271739.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00003-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973591 | 662 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Strikes, Lockouts and Other "Economic Weapons": Pennsylvania
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Author: James S. Urban, Jones Day
- The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Act (PLRA) preserves the right of workers in the private sector to strike and to engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. See Employees' Rights to Strike.
- Under the Labor Anti-Injunction Act, a court may not prohibit picketing or other conduct related to a labor dispute, except in limited circumstances involving activity such as mass picketing, workplace seizure and violence. See The Pennsylvania Labor Anti-Injunction Act.
- Employers hiring replacement workers must notify applicants that the available work relates to an ongoing labor dispute. See Hiring of Replacement Workers.
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Just. Stop. Raining.
That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons' growing frustration with months of miserable weather.
“Let us make our position crystal clear: We are against this weather,” The venerable newspaper wrote in an unsigned opinion piece. “It must stop raining, and soon.”
The UK is slogging through some of the wettest conditions in recent history. Nearly every day seems to bring showers, sprinkles, drizzles, or downpours. On Saturday alone, England's Environment Agency registered some 75 flood alerts and warnings across the country, including the west England county of Shropshire, where fire and rescue officials received an anguished phone call from a woman who found herself waist-deep in water overnight.
Area manager Martin Timmis said he was seeing flash floods almost every week as storms dumped more water on the already-saturated ground of a country not unused to wet weather.
“What's unprecedented is that this is becoming a regular occurrence,” he said in a telephone interview. “The rain comes down and it's got nowhere to go.”
The soggy scenario has been repeated around the UK, with summer music festivals washed out, sporting events soaked, and spirits dampened by the non-stop precipitation. Earlier this month the MFEST music festival in the English city of Leeds - where The Human League, Texas, Bob Geldof and Cher Lloyd were all booked to perform - was canceled due to the foul weather.
This week the Hit Factory Live, scheduled to feature pop princess Kylie Minogue, was canceled after London's Hyde Park was turned into a mucky quagmire.
Last week torrential downpours forced organisers to turn fans away from qualifying rounds of the British Grand Prix in Silverstone. Rain also delayed play and forced the roof to close at Sunday's Wimbledon tennis final, which saw Andy Murray lose out to Roger Federer as disappointed fans camped out in the mud outside Centre Court.
Britain's Meteorological Office says the jet stream, the narrow band of fast-moving wind which flows west to east across the Atlantic, may be in part to blame for the run of foul weather. In a blog post the weather service explained that the jet stream generally resides north of Britain during the summer months, guiding unsettled weather systems away from the country. This year, however, the jet stream has been stubbornly stuck to the country's south, “guiding those systems straight to us” and leading to the wettest June on record.
In its editorial, The Times lamented that the country was full of discounted swimwear, unsold garden furniture, and unused barbecues. It even said that the country's potato harvest has been affected - pushing up the price of chips - or fries, to Americans.
“When the proverbial cheapness of chips comes under threat, The Times says enough is enough,” the editorial said.
“The British climate is supposed to be unpredictable,” it continued. “At the moment, it is anything but. If sustained sunshine is too much to ask for, most of us would settle for a little bit of fickle.”
Met Office spokeswoman Sarah Holland was apologetic, saying in an email that while the weather was disappointing, “unfortunately there is nothing we can do about it.”
Holland said that “some more pleasant conditions” were forecast over the next month, when the Olympic Games get underway, although there was little sign of that in London on Saturday, where the skies were a threatening whitish grey.
Holland added that Sunday “will be a much brighter and sunnier day than today,” but then she added, “with only light showers at times.” - Sapa-AP | <urn:uuid:3aec8a11-7faa-4143-8eff-79ca4490de1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/uk-paper-demands-it-simply-stop-raining-1341507 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968742 | 808 | 1.695313 | 2 |
European banks may need to raise more than €85bn to bolster their capital after stress tests, according to Barclays Capital.
“We view the upcoming release of the European banks stress tests as a potentially important inflexion point for the market.”
Portuguese lenders may require €5.9bn, the Irish Independent reports.
“We view the upcoming release of the European banks stress tests as a potentially important inflexion point for the market,” the analysts writes.
Adding: “They may ease concerns by ensuring that the sovereign crisis and a likely slowdown in European growth will not result in widespread bank failures.”
Investors are concerned that soured loans to real estate developers and holdings of bonds issued by governments of nations on Europe‘s periphery mean some lenders may have burned through their capital.
The European regulators are running stress tests on a total of 91 of the biggest banks, representing 65% of the European financial industry.
The results are due for partial publication on July 23.
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Using Social Networks
Should I use social networking sites for my job search?
These days it seems like everyone is Tweeting, getting LinkedIn, and making friends on Facebook. While these networking tools are great ways to socialize - they're also valuable ways to establish business connections. In fact, the best way to fit into an organization is through people you know.
Here are some important ways you can get them to work for you:
- Post job listings or vacancies
- Network with others in your industry
- Write and post blog articles that showcase your expertise
- View job openings at your contacts' companies
- Make it easy for employers to find your profile
While social networking websites are important business tools, they also have the potential for privacy issues. Therefore, if you're utilizing a social network to post things about your personal life, make sure your security settings are made private.
Also, some companies have policies against using these websites during work hours, so make sure you're not violating those rules. | <urn:uuid:c560a1dd-3986-4bc1-9ccf-f45d1411457d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.selectgroup.com/career-resources/using-social-networks.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00565-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962241 | 205 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The most dangerous word in project management?
Unique is the most dangerous word in project management. It stunts our growth as a profession and starves us of learning lessons and applying continuous improvement techniques to project delivery.
If you are involved in Project Management, you will almost certainly have come across the word ‘unique’ being used to describe projects or their deliverables.
PMI describes a project as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result” (https://www.pmi.org/about/learn-about-pmi/what-is-project-management)
APM goes further, describing not just the deliverables, but the project itself as something unique. They define a project as “a unique, transient endeavor, undertaken to achieve planned objectives, which could be defined in terms of outputs, outcomes or benefits”. (https://www.apm.org.uk/body-of-knowledge/context/governance/project-management/)
Unique is an anti-pattern
An anti-pattern is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive. In the case of project management, the deep-seated obsession with the uniqueness of projects is in itself an anti-pattern that condemns countless projects to repeat the same mistakes as their precursors.
The pattern looks a little bit like this. Organizations believe that a solution to a problem or opportunity cannot be effectively be achieved within their operational delivery structure. Therefore they commission a project. At this stage, the solution is not ‘unique’, merely slightly out of alignment with the way the business works. It is a round peg in a square hole. Project Managers take over and begin to apply strategies designed for handling genuinely unique challenges. Uniqueness is something that is assumed from the start, and unlike other assumptions, this one is rarely validated adequately. Lessons from the past are frequently overlooked because no one can believe that they would be relevant to this particular project. Soon the project is making the same mistakes as other projects that have been run by the same project manager or by the same organization or within the same sector, or by using the same technology.
In order to be successful, we need to spend less time focusing on what makes our projects unique, and more time understanding what makes them ordinary.
Runners, Repeaters, and Strangers
Runners, Repeaters, and Strangers, is an approach used in Lean Manufacturing. It can also be applied to categorizing projects in a portfolio. As you would expect, the technique sorts projects into one of three categories: Runners, repeaters, and strangers.
The runners are the types of projects that you see all most frequently. In large offices, these may include department moves or user technology upgrades. In event management companies, running regular meetups or breakfast seminars may be considered runners.
The repeaters are the projects you see regularly, but not all the time. Maybe significant CRM upgrades would qualify, or the introduction of new product lines.
The strangers are the infrequent projects that we rarely see. Perhaps your company has been bought by a competitor, or perhaps you are developing a truly unique product that has no frame of reference or comparison.
In most project organizations, the number or ‘runner’ projects are likely to be high, whilst we would expect to see few, if any, strangers. Rather than treating runners and repeaters as unique, effort should be made to codify them as much as possible and build competence in delivering them. For the true ‘strangers’ we should consider whether they are strange everywhere, or just in our organization. If the latter is true, then efforts should be focused on learning from other organizations and suppliers.
Analyzing the distribution of all three categories of project will help the organization develop process-oriented methodologies to deliver effectively with constant feedback loops ensuring sustainable processes are continuously refined as lessons are learned.
MORE ABOUT RUNNERS, REPEATERS, AND STRANGERS
Check out this three-minute video to learn more about runners, repeaters, and strangers:
If projects are unique, then there is little to be learned from them – or to learn from previous projects. But if we side-step the anti-pattern of uniqueness, we see rich seams of data and insight opening up all around us. In Toyota manufacturing plants, lines have something called The Andon Cord. Pulling the cord stops the production line and lets everyone know that a critical issue has occurred, requiring an immediate response. Pulling the cord is not something restricted to managers: everyone has the authority to pull the cord. Once it has been pulled, the team works to resolve the issue and, crucially, prevent it from happening again. There would be little need for this approach on truly unique projects, but with our runners and repeaters, this approach makes sense. A slight delay on one project to resolve an issue and prevent it from happening on future projects would save the organization time and money in the long run.
Even if stopping the manufacturing line feels too extreme, lessons learned can be powerful and can save huge amounts of waste. Techniques such as Call3 can be deployed within organizations to bring lessons learned processes to life rather than simply filing lessons away to gather dust and be forgotten.
As more organizations experiment with agile approaches, we see more of them adopting a Continuous Delivery approach. In these kinds of environments, the traditional approach of forming a team to deliver a project is reversed, and project work is instead drip-fed into highly flexible, permanent teams who deliver whatever is prioritized by the business. Such approaches are common in software development environments but are also gaining traction in other areas such as Marketing.
Embarking on a Continuous Delivery journey allows even more opportunities to improve and optimize. Not only do we get to challenge the uniqueness anti-pattern, but we also remove the concept of projects being temporary structures. Pulling together a project team is usually a hugely inefficient process. Time and energy are invested in helping a team move through the phases of forming and storming to get to a position where they are performing at a level that may be considered ‘normal’. Rarely do project teams stay together long enough to reach the ‘performing’ stage. But with Continous Delivery, we can keep teams together and bring the work to them. This approach opens up more possibilities for standardization and applying lessons more than ever before, and is well worth considering if you have a high number of projects that require common skills and capabilities.
The role of the PMO
The PMO has a crucial role to play in breaking this anti-pattern that continues to hold delivery back. Here’s my checklist for PMOs who are keen to break with uniqueness and massively improve project delivery in their organizations:
- Classify the projects in your portfolio as runners, repeaters, and strangers.
- Work with Project Managers to codify runners (and then the repeaters), so they have standardized project plans, checklists, pre-populated risk logs, pre-populated stakeholder maps etc.
- Provide training in delivering your runner projects, building your capability and skillset to deliver rapidly and consistently.
- Act as a hub for lessons learned, deploying Call3 to ensure no project starts without learning the lessons of the past.
- Consider whether a Continous Delivery approach could work for your organization and what steps you could take to turn it into a reality.
- Measure success. In order to improve something, you must measure it. Ensure you have the right metrics to track delivery improvements across projects to see how your changed approach improves delivery. If you are working in a Continous Delivery environment, start tracking cycle time and use it to demonstrate process improvements.
- Look outside the organization. Projects that are strangers in one organization are not likely to be strangers in all organizations. Use your peer and supplier networks to benefit from the lessons of others.
- Educate. Spread the word that if project delivery is going to improve, we need to stop thinking of our projects as unique. By dropping this anti-pattern you will pave the way for more project delivery improvements than you could possibly imagine. | <urn:uuid:557b4035-07f0-4bf5-83c7-7fa34578f9a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hotpmo.com/blog/most-dangerous-word-in-project-management-unique/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.945183 | 1,706 | 2.234375 | 2 |
If you’re a patient suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) wondering whether or not an endoscopy is in your future to screen for esophageal cancer, the answer may actually be no.
According to new guidelines published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal of the American College of Physicians, only GERD patients who have failed to respond to treatment and who display severe symptoms associated with esophageal cancer may need to undergo an upper endoscopy.
Furthermore, as Susan Perry of MinnPost points out, there isn’t sufficient evidence that routine use of an upper endoscopy can lower the risk of GERD patients dying from esophageal cancer. But there is evidence that overuse of the procedure may be contributing to rising health care costs.
According to Perry:
“The authors of ACP’s guidelines quite bluntly cite financial incentives, along with malpractice concerns and patient expectations, as a key factor in the overuse of upper endoscopies. Given how much money is involved, there’s likely to be some considerable physician backlash to the new guidelines.”
But in an accompanying editorial, University of Minnesota adjunct professor of John I. Allen, M.D., takes the opposite approach, stressing that, for the good of their patients, physicians should already be choosing wisely on when to order an upper endoscopy. He cites a patient diagnosed with GERD who underwent an endoscopy that turned out normal, but who was told she had “impending Barrett’s esophagus” and was recommended for another endoscopy two years later, and again two years after that. Later, she arrived to Allen who, after reviewing her records, told her she was not at increased risk for esophageal cancer and didn’t need another endoscopy.
“Closer examination of my patient highlights the difficulties we face as we try to alter our current health care delivery system, where volume drives payment, reimbursements occur in independent silos, decisions are often made without informed patient input and health outcomes are dissociated economically from specific services rendered.”
For patients battling GERD, the new guidelines recommend that endoscopy be reserved for patients with symptom-defined heartburn plus either alarm symptoms, persistent symptoms despite a trial of maximum acid-reducing medical therapy, severe erosive esophagitis after 2 months of medical treatment, or a history of symptomatic esophageal stricture. The committee also concludes that endoscopy may be considered as a screen for Barrett or esophageal cancer in men with GERD aged 50 years or older and for Barrett surveillance at more appropriate intervals. | <urn:uuid:9cb4ec2e-6345-4329-a3e9-f7465655d2c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthtalk.umn.edu/2012/12/05/in-the-news-do-most-gerd-sufferers-really-need-an-endoscopy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941527 | 562 | 2.140625 | 2 |
"I love Syfo, and have been drinking it for years--at least two bottles a day. It is so much better and healthier than diet soda. I especially appreciate that the brand has been around since 1949. I recently discovered the delicious new Peach-Pear flavor at Milam's Market. Hopefully my neighborhood Pubix will start stocking it as well."
— Chris H., Miami Beach, FL
In California, a complaint filed in a California federal court charges that The Coca-Cola Company, with the help of the American Beverage…
Syfo Beverages are Certified Kosher
In addition to being one of the healthiest beverages on the market, the entire Syfo product line is certified Kosher by the largest and most widely respected Kashruth agency — the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. When you see the Kosher trademark, you can be sure the greatest care has gone into the production of every bottle of Syfo. You can view our Kosher certification from the Orthodox Union here.
Jewish families have come to depend on Syfo kosher products for a natural and refreshing beverage to serve everyday at their table and at holidays such as Passover. We’re proud to work with the Orthodox Union and to deliver a product that meets their standards for ingredients, process and quality.
What makes a beverage Kosher?
Syfo Beverages are kosher because they comply with the Kashrut–the body of Jewish law dealing with what foods can and cannot be eaten and how those foods must be prepared and consumed. “Kashrut” comes from the Hebrew root Kaf-Shin-Reish, meaning fit, proper or correct. It’s the same root as the more commonly known word “kosher,” which describes food that meets these standards.
Syfo Beverages are kosher beverages because our ingredients and our production methods adhere to the standards outlined in the Kashrut. Not all beverages are certified kosher, so it’s important to look for the OU symbol on the product label or in an advertisement. Kosher for Passover has a specific set of dietary rules, so for Passover look for the OUP symbol to prepare for that most important holiday. Click here for our Passover certification approval letter from the Orthodox Union. | <urn:uuid:cc302e6c-559b-4d64-a8fc-27afd8cdbd79> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://syfobeverages.com/products/kosher/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00040-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943404 | 468 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The earliest recorded diabetic diet is in the Papyrus Ebers, which was written in about 1500 B.C. Those ancient physicians advocated wheat grains, fruit, and sweet beer-in other words, a high-carbohydrate diet - "to drive away the passing of too much urine." Most recorded diets over the next millennium were rich in carbohydrates. Then in the late 1700's, Dr. John Rollo, a British physician, came up with a radically different plan: a low-carbohydrate diet high in fat and animal protein. The diet, built on "blood pudding and old rancid meats," probably was low in calories, too, because of its extreme unpalatability.
Variations of low-carbohydrate, low-calorie diets were advocated for the next 150 years or so, with a few notable exceptions, such as one that was mostly oatmeal. In the 1850's, a Paris physician suggested a diet of 125 grams of sugar candy and two portions of meat. Several of these early doctors noted that periodic fasting or calorie restriction seemed to help. In 1912, Dr. Fredrick M. Allen of New York's Rockefeller Institute devised a near-starvation diet of 1,000 calories a day. Such low-calorie regimens, even though they did not allow for proper growth and resulted in extreme emaciation, may have prolonged life for a few Type I diabetics. Still, without insulin, the diabetes would grow progressively worse and the person would die.
All of this changed dramatically after two Canadian researchers, doctors. Frederick Banting and Charles Best, discovered insulin in 1921. A 13-year-old boy, Leonard Thompson, was the first patient to receive the hormone injections. He was treated with regular insulin injections for five months, and with normal blood-sugar levels, the boy was released from the hospital as cured. He was back a few months later, weighing only 60 pounds and again near death. This time, it was recognized that the injections would not provide a cure but that he could manage quite well so long as he received them daily. His diet was high in fats, moderate in protein, and relatively low in carbohydrates. Under this regimen, the boy began to grow and, until his death from pneumonia in 1935, he led a relatively normal life.
Since then, a great deal has been learned about insulin dosages and diabetes control, and over the last 50 years dietary recommendations have been revised several times. Even though insulin injections are not as precise as the body's own system of secreting the hormone in response to need, we have learned a good deal about the fine tuning of insulin dosages and matching the hormone to food intake, exercise, and other variable factors. Today's diabetes specialists and patient educators also recognize that "there is no single, specific food plan suitable for all individuals with diabetes." Recently, the American Diabetes Association has modified its nutritional recommendations. This includes the role of selected vitamins and minerals and guidelines for food labeling.
Source: Total Nutrition, Victor Herbert, M.D., F.A.C.P and Genell J. Suback-Sharpe, M.S. | <urn:uuid:176dae8f-90a5-4fce-a3c0-6a675e8bd662> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://diabeticgourmet.com/articles/139.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00220-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972854 | 642 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Sales of US existing homes slipped in September, but interestingly, lack of supply, not lack of demand, seems to be to blame. The number of months of supply at the current sales pace is down to levels not seen since March 2006, Bloomberg reports. In short, despite the decline there’s little to derail the “housing is healing” narrative in this report, issued by the National Association of Realtors. “This tightness of demand is perhaps best seen in the change of reported average prices … high end homes in particular have experienced significant price appreciation over the last 12 months,” wrote Michael Shaoul, chief executive of Marketfield Asset Management, a money manager. As we’ve pointed out several times, housing is one of the main ways that the Federal Reserve is hoping that its policy of keeping interest rates super low can get US the economy moving again. And it appears to be working. | <urn:uuid:b58261fa-a0af-4c5f-b93f-386c80d93da8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://qz.com/17626/us-housing-rebound-story-intact-though-existing-home-sales-down-slightly-in-september/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00452-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966302 | 188 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Researchers reverse effects of sleep deprivation
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have shown that the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance can be reversed when the naturally occurring brain peptide, orexin-A, is administered in monkeys.
Their results are published in this week’s Journal of Neuroscience.
“These findings are significant because of their potential applicability,” said Samuel A. Deadwyler, Ph.D., professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest. “This could benefit patients suffering from narcolepsy and other serious sleep disorders. But it also has applicability to shift workers, the military and many other occupations where sleep is often limited, yet cognitive demand remains high.”
Orexin-A, also known as hypocretin-1, is a naturally occurring peptide produced in the brain that regulates sleep. It’s secreted by a small number of neurons but affects many brain regions during the day and people who have normal amounts of orexin-A are able to maintain wakefulness. When people or animals are sleep-deprived, the brain attempts to produce more orexin-A, but often without enough success to achieve alertness past the normal day-night cycle.
The research team, consisting of Linda Porrino, Ph.D., and Robert Hampson, Ph.D, also of Wake Forest, and Jerome Siegel, Ph.D., of the University of California at Los Angeles, studied the effects of orexin-A on monkeys that were kept awake overnight for 30 to 36 hours with videos, music, treats and interaction with technicians, until their normal testing time the next day. They were then allowed to perform their trained tasks with several cognitive problems that varied in difficulty, and their performance was significantly impaired.
However, if the sleep deprived monkeys were administered orexin-A either intravenously or via a nasal spray immediately prior to testing, their cognitive skills improved to the normal, non-sleep-deprived, level. The researchers also noted that when the monkeys received the orexin-A via the intranasal spray they tested higher than when it was administered intravenously.
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Over the past 25 years the United States has played a leading role in one of the world’s most remarkable success stories: stopping the deaths of millions of children from preventable disease and helping them thrive. 5th Birthday and Beyond is supported by a broad and diverse coalition of over 100 organizations that have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to the world’s children. The Coalition is led by a COMMITTEE whose members have agreed to make or reaffirm a commitment that significantly contributes to children surviving to their fifth birthday and thriving beyond.
Many of the commitments included here are part of or in addition to commitments made under the UN Secretary General’s 2010 Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. A full inventory of those commitments is available here.
On the occasion of the 5th Birthday and Beyond celebration, InterAction’s member NGOs have reaffirmed their commitment to working to end preventable child and maternal deaths. In 2015, InterAction members will spend over $450 million in private resources on child health and survival programs, a substantial increase over 2014 spending. These private resources, raised directly from the American people, reinforce U.S. government investments in these critical areas.
Read organizational commitments to support healthy children.
- 1,000 Days
- Abt Associates
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American Refugee Committee
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)
- Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB)
- Church World Service
- Concern Worldwide U.S. (Concern)
- Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
- CORE Group
- Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- FHI 360
- Franciscan Action Network
- Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Futures Group
- GAVI Alliance
- Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an initiative of Seattle Children’s
- The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Global Health Council
- Global Poverty Project
- Habitat for Humanity International
- International Medical Corps
- IntraHealth International
- Johnson & Johnson
- Jubilee USA Network
- Laerdal Global Health and Laerdal Foundation
- NCBA CLUSA
- The ONE Campaign
- Pathfinder International
- Population Services International
- Rotary International
- Save the Children USA
- United Nations Foundation
- U.S. Fund for UNICEF
- University Research Co., LLC (URC)
- WASH Advocates
- WaterAid America
- World Relief
FHI 360 contributes to child survival and health in the following ways. FHI 360’s work in more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories, is grounded in research and science, strengthened by partnerships and focused on building the capacity of individuals, communities and countries to succeed. At FHI 360, our approach addresses the full range of maternal and child health needs and challenges, from preconception through postpartum; from birth through childhood. We understand and work with the complex, interrelated factors that can enable a robust continuum of care for this population. Our multidisciplinary research continues to seek and apply new knowledge that can save lives and improve the health of mothers and children at risk of illness or death. FHI 360’s research and programs demonstrate how interventions can be introduced or adapted to improve program effectiveness, accountability, adherence to guidelines, quality of care and health outcomes.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes the program Alive & Thrive. Alive & Thrive estimates that the program reached 12 million children under two years of age in its first five years and plans to extend that coverage from now through 2017. FHI 360 also implements the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, providing global technical support in maternal and child health, community-based nutrition, food security and livelihood strengthening.
Through 2015, FHI 360 has committed to work for child survival and health by working through our Alive & Thrive initiative to improve infant and young child feeding and maternal nutrition through large scale programs in Asia and Africa. Specifically, this work will include strategic technical assistance to realize high coverage nutrition programs, the creation and adoption of tools to facilitate scale up and strengthened capacity to deliver comprehensive programs of impact in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Additionally, this program will test the feasibility of multiple community-based maternal nutrition interventions in Bangladesh. The program’s estimated value is $53 million and is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with additional funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD), and Irish Aid.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: For 25 years, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has led the way in the fight to prevent pediatric HIV infection, eliminate pediatric AIDS, and create a generation free of HIV. EGPAF supports the early identification of and initiation of ART in all HIV-positive pregnant women. EGPAF also advocates for expanded access to appropriate HIV care and treatment for HIV-exposed infants, as well as infant and young child feeding strategies that promote the long-term HIV-free survival of infants born to HIV-positive mothers. EGPAF works in the countries hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in order to meet the unique needs of the women and children impacted by this disease and to ensure they have access to the services they need to survive and thrive.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: EGPAF is the only organization specifically dedicated to the elimination of pediatric AIDS. There are nearly 3.3 million children living with HIV around the world and 91% of those children are in sub-Saharan Africa. EGPAF works in partnership with national ministries of health and a range of other partners to provide localized responses to the spread of HIV in more than 7,000 sites around the world. EGPAF’s program implementation, research and advocacy activities are helping to eliminate HIV infection in infants and children and increase access to comprehensive, high-quality, and well-integrated services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission and to provide care and treatment for HIV positive pregnant women, children and families. We can lay the foundation of an AIDS-free generation by ending AIDS in children.
Through 2015, EGPAF has committed to work for child survival and health by: The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation will leverage its programmatic expertise to advocate for the elimination of pediatric AIDS around the world. This includes advocacy for adoption and implementation of national policies that promote the use of more-effective ARV regimens for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the countries we work; support of the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive; support of US efforts to create an AIDS free generation; and renewed efforts to improve pediatric HIV diagnosis, treatment, support and research, including greater uptake of services.
Save the Children contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
Save the Children USA focuses on saving maternal, newborn, and children’s lives by implementing its health and nutrition programs and by urging both governments and private organizations to prioritize maternal, newborn and child survival with our global advocacy campaigns. Through its global EVERY ONE campaign, Save the Children USA has advocated for frontline health workers, stunting reduction goals, and increased funding, U.S. government leadership and commitment in the fight to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths. Its health and nutrition programs, SC/USA focuses on improving the delivery of high-impact, low-cost interventions that address the major causes of maternal, newborn, and child deaths, including neonatal causes (e.g., prematurity, birth asphyxia, and sepsis) , pneumonia, measles, diarrhea, malaria, and HIV/AIDS. Save the Children USA supports efforts to train and equip frontline health workers to deliver this care and respond rapidly in addressing the health needs of children during emergencies. SC/USA plans to spend more than $182 million this year globally on the health and nutrition of children, with a particular focus on priority countries such Pakistan, Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Save the Children gives a special focus to needs of poor or marginalized populations in development and humanitarian contexts. Our thematic areas are supported by cross-cutting areas of work including community systems strengthening and community mobilization, social and behavior change, communications, mHealth and health systems strengthening. SC/USA is especially known for its experience and expertise in newborn health, child health (especially community base management of pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria), and infant and young nutrition.
Through 2015, Save the Children has committed to work for child survival and health by:
Through 2015, Save the Children USA has committed to applying its theory of change to increase effective coverage of high impact maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition interventions in 13 countries. We plan to investing in innovative approaches to improving routine immunization coverage,, improving essential newborn care in humanitarian settings, models for reaching the urban poor, and improving access to information and services for adolescents and young mothers. We are also advocating for a U.S. legacy on maternal, newborn and child health issues by calling for a U.S.-Africa Partnership Initiative to be announced at the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in August.
World Relief contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: In a dozen countries between Central America, Africa, and Asia, World Relief engages community members to not only protect young lives, but establish an environment in which they can thrive. We engage parents in marriage-strengthening to build healthy, stable families and affect sustained behavior change; empower volunteers to share life-saving health messages to groups of mothers on a regular basis; train church members to care for people living with HIV/AIDS and help affected families prepare for the future; and mobilize volunteers to identify orphans and vulnerable children who will be brought under the holistic care of local church members. These are but a sampling of the programs in which we are seeing decreased rates of malnutrition, increased financial self-sufficiency among families, and an increased sense of ownership among church members over the vulnerable and marginalized in their communities.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: World Relief has been increasingly recognized for its Care Group Model, being implemented with great results in Mozambique, Burundi, and Rwanda. The method maximizes impact, with volunteers trained to regularly instruct a group of local mothers, who can then pass along those health promotion and risk prevention messages. Between 2009 and 2012 and in Mozambique alone, over 30,000 volunteers have been mobilized to reach over 235,000 households with impactful health messages.
Through 2015, World Relief has committed to work for child survival and health by: working to improve the nutritional and overall health of children under five through community case management of disease and malnutrition, implementation of village savings and loan groups, and promotion of small gardens for mothers. In order to ensure a holistic and sustainable approach, World Relief works in collaboration with Community Health Workers, volunteer mothers in the communities, churches, community leaders, and Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Health officials as well as 18. Through church-run Community Based Child Care centers we will provide care and support to children through children clubs, early childhood development and sustainable feeding.
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: The Foundation works to directly impact the lives of young children affected by HIV and AIDS in high-prevalence regions by ensuring that they are better able to realize their full potential for cognitive, social, and physical development. Our strategy focuses on building the capacity of caregivers and parents to meet their children’s developmental needs; strengthening community-based organizations; and achieving more effective practice and policy. Within the five targeted countries, Foundation partners include government representatives, UNICEF, international and national NGOs, community-based organizations (CBOs), and academic institutions.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Worldwide, more than 18 million children under age 18 have lost one or both parents due to AIDS and millions more are indirectly affected because their families and communities are strained by other consequences of the epidemic. Although most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have national strategies in place to support children affected by HIV and AIDS, few programs are designed specifically to meet the special needs of children under five. What happens during the early years has long-term impacts – by investing in essential services for young children affected by HIV and AIDS, there is opportunity to mitigate harm and to prevent irreversible damage before it occurs.
Through 2015, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has committed to work for child survival and health by: Continuing to work toward our 5 year targets:
- 500,000 children benefit from early childhood services resulting in better birth to five development outcomes
- 300,000 caregivers receive knowledge and resources to help them enhance their children’s development.
- 100,000 community workers are trained to help parents and caregivers develop and practice support skills
- 1,000 community-based organizations and faith-based organizations receive resources to improve technical and organizational capacity to deliver early childhood development services
- 150,000 families affected by HIV/AIDS have measurably increased access to government, civil society, or private sector services (precise measure to be determined through evaluation planning)
- Knowledge transfer has taken place to inform practice and policy in and beyond target countries.
Ultimate Result: Young children living in high-prevalence HIV/AIDS areas are better able to
realize their cognitive, social, and physical development.
International Medical Corps contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: Our holistic approach prioritizes women and children, who are disproportionately affected by conflict and disease, including mental health and the provision of clean water, sanitation and hygiene. International Medical Corps places maternal, newborn and child health at the center of its emergency responses, as well as its development programs. Our nutrition programs focus on the prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition; prevention of chronic malnutrition in children under 2; prevention of malnutrition in pregnant and lactating women (PLW).
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Our focus on women and children – who account for four of every five refugees in the world. As first-responders, International Medical Corps is one of the first organizations to provide care for children and women in disaster settings – and we remain in the communities where we work to build resilience and training for promoting health. During an emergency, the Minimum Initial Service Package for reproductive health (MISP) informs our approach to preventing excess maternal and newborn deaths. Post-crisis, we support national health systems from individual to community to health facilities. Our goal is to help communities reach new levels of health and well-being. Our nutrition program in emergency and development focus on children under five and pregnant and lactating women. We are also focusing on adolescent girls’ nutrition status to improve adolescent health and improve pregnancy outcomes later in life.
Through 2015, International Medical Corps has committed to work for child survival and health by:
- Ensuring that our nutrition, food security and livelihood (NFSL) programs contribute to improved nutrition outcomes in development and emergency settings;
- Increasing multi-sectorial integrated programming to improve child survival and health;
- Adopting a community-based approach that engages local populations and involves them as active partners giving them a stake in developing positive health outcomes;
- Anticipating and reducing barriers to access Sexual and Reproductive Health services;
- Building capacities of health care workers so they can provide quality family planning, delivery, and emergency obstetric and newborn care services;
- Training community outreach workers, including traditional birth attendants, to increase awareness and support referrals;
- Strengthening health systems through the provision of equipment and medical supplies, supporting supply chain management systems, improving service delivery, empowering health workforce, and fostering leadership; and
- Partnering with civil society, government ministries, private sector and other international organizations.
American Refugee Committee contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: The American Refugee Committee works with communities to help them take back control of their lives in the wake of conflict or disaster. We work to protect children through a variety of programs, such as child survival and health, safe delivery, nutrition, and protection programs. This year, ARC is piloting Asili, an integrated social enterprise platform to scale services to increase child survival in Eastern Congo.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: The ARC builds programs with a deep empathy for the experiences that children face in times of crisis. ARC programs help children survive and achieve wellbeing based on their lived experiences.
Through 2015, American Refugee Committee has committed to work for child survival and health by: Piloting the Asili program which focuses on increasing child survival in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which has the worst indicators for child and maternal health in DRC. Leading causes of mortality and morbidity among children under five are pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and malnutrition—all preventable and treatable diseases. A diverse group of partners has joined Asili, and together the group has made a commitment to innovate and develop a targeted, integrated, and scalable delivery solution to dramatically improve child survival and maternal health. The Asili team—which consists of ARC, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), IDEO.org, and several social enterprise partners—will bring best-of-class resources from the fields of humanitarian relief and development, social enterprise, and human-centered design to reduce child mortality.
With mothers in Eastern Congo, the team used a rigorous Human-Centered Design (HCD) process to co-design the Asili program, which is centered on a unique market-based approach where mothers play a leading role in improving conditions for their families and communities. That process allowed local customers, primarily mothers in the community, to identify their greatest needs, as well as how they would like to see those needs met. Out of the HCD process, a model of multiple businesses to meet multiple needs, all linked by a membership system and centralized data, was born. The program is designed as a plug-and-play business platform that allows the expansion of additional services over time—increasing viability and expanding both profitability and the value of the enterprise.
Over the next year, three Asili social enterprise zones will be established in South Kivu to provide residents with access to targeted interventions known to have a dramatic effect on protecting the lives of mothers and their young children. The Asili model is designed to be both scalable and replicable and could be used in other settings to improve child and maternal health.
As a global advocacy and campaigning organization, The Global Poverty Project (GPP) contributes to child survival and health by catalyzing a movement that raises public consciousness and calls on governments, multilaterals, and companies to alleviate the causes of extreme poverty. In accordance with our mission to end extreme poverty by 2030, GPP activates campaigns and events to address maternal and child health. We leverage our extensive network of Global Citizens, who take action on issues that ask corporations and key public officials to commit funds to accelerate progress on ending extreme poverty. We also host a series of strategically programmed festivals, including the Global Citizen Festival, which coincide with international summits.
Through 2015, GPP has committed to make maternal and child health a cornerstone of our campaigns and events. On June 26, we will host the Thank You Festival, a concert celebrating progress on child survival and calling on leaders for renewed commitments in this area. Global Citizens have an opportunity to win tickets to this event by taking specific actions related to MDGs 4 and 5. This campaign focus will continue through 2015, with the Global Citizen Festival in September, Global Citizen Nights events throughout the fall and a Global Citizen event again next spring. The stages of each event will offer a platform for leaders to make large commitments in the areas of maternal and child health, and the events themselves will raise public awareness on these issues through large-scale broadcast, advertising and public relations campaigns. This year, we anticipate that our campaign for children will:
- Secure leaders who will champion the prioritization of child survival and child protection as part of the post-2015 agenda.
- Generate 1 million actions taken by 200,000 global citizens in support of child survival and protection.
- Zero in on the GAVI replenishment (raising $7.5 billion to immunize 300 million children between 2015 and 2020 to save between 5 and 6 million lives) as well as maintaining government commitments to polio eradication as core campaign priorities. As diarrhea-related deaths are responsible for the most deaths of children under 5, water and sanitation has additionally been made a core focus of campaigning efforts over the next 18 months.
- Reach 500 million citizens through campaign media, social media, influencers to highlight progress already made on child survival and protection.
By committing to champion maternal and child heath within the broader Global Citizen movement, we believe we will create tangible changes that improve and empower the lives of children throughout the world.
WASH Advocates contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
Children under five years of age benefit the most when safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are provided to their families, schools, and communities. Since 2005, WASH Advocates has raised awareness of the global WASH challenge, and has converted that heightened awareness into political will and increased financial and technical resources for the sector. To help celebrate America’s investment in global health programs and the six million additional children who will celebrate their fifth birthday this year as a result, WASH Advocates commits to funding and launching a second round of its WASH Advocacy Challenge. These grants and training programs will create and strengthen political will for safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene in developing countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
A distinctive characteristic of WASH Advocates’ work for children includes:
WASH Advocates focuses its efforts entirely on the global WASH challenge, and entirely on advocacy. We strengthen enabling environments for WASH in the United States and in developing countries rather than directly provide water and sanitation services. Children bear the brunt of the global WASH crisis, and are also an important piece of the solution. Children throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America are some of the strongest WASH advocates, educating each other, their teachers and families on water, sanitation, and hygiene behavior change.
Through 2015, WASH Advocates has committed to work for child survival and health by: investing an additional $50,000 – $100,000 in our small grants program known as the WASH Advocacy Challenge. These grants, and complementary training, will strengthen the efforts of national and subnational WASH advocacy efforts in at least five developing countries. The work funded by these grants will strengthen the social contract in program countries, reinforce the linkages between rule of law and development assistance, and provide more safe drinking water and sanitation, more sustainably, to more communities.
PSI contributes to child survival and maternal health by implementing integrated programs that prevent and treat malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and HIV/AIDS, and improve nutrition, increase access to family planning and reproductive health, sanitation and hygiene. PSI has programs in 69 countries worldwide. PSI’s child survival strategy focuses on piloting innovative approaches to improving child and maternal health by applying proven private sector mechanisms sector and market-based interventions at scale.
PSI implements integrated community case management through community health workers in 5 African countries and improves fever case management in the private health sector by piloting the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) in 3 African countries. In Myanmar and Cambodia, PSI increases access to affordable, quality-assured ACTs and RDTs to help curb the spread of resistant malaria parasites. PSI also monitors malaria diagnosis and treatment markets in 10 countries, producing data for decision-makers worldwide. PSI distributes 200 million long lasting insecticidal (LLINs) nets in 39 countries. PSI leverages its behavior change communications expertise to promote exclusive breast-feeding and appropriate complementary feeding, and promotes home fortification through micronutrient powders and fortified food for children over six months to alleviate under-nutrition among children and women during pregnancy and prevent chronic under-nutrition. PSI’s mission in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) is to improve the health of low-income households through increased access to and use of WASH products and services, such as household water treatment, latrines and soap. PSI applies its expertise in social marketing and social franchising to change behaviors, strengthen supply chains, and improve the capacity of providers to deliver affordable, equitable and quality services. PSI has market-based sanitation projects in 8 countries; promotes the use of household water treatment in 30 countries; and has evidence-based handwashing programs in 4 countries.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Our belief in the value of measurement, pragmatism; acting with integrity, collaboration; trusting in our staff; and building local capacity and programs that last. This means that PSI can support national health plans to improve child survival by going to scale quickly with proven interventions and leveraging the health delivery opportunities presented by the private, public and civil sectors.
Through 2015, PSI has committed to work for child survival and health by:
1. Maximizing malaria prevention by remaining a global leader in LLIN delivery.
2. Launching and scaling up treatment for malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
3. Piloting and scaling up high-impact interventions to control pneumonia and improve nutrition, sanitation and neonatal health.
1,000 Days contributes to child survival and health in the following ways
1,000 Days promotes action and investment to improve nutrition for women and children during the critical 1,000 days from a woman’s pregnancy to her child’s second birthday, when better nutrition can have a life-changing impact on a child’s future and help break the cycle of poverty.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Founded as a result of the powerful evidence showing the critical importance of nutrition in the first 1,000 days, the 1,000 Days Partnership was launched by the U.S. and Irish Governments in 2010 to promote greater action and investment in maternal and young child nutrition. Since then, 1,000 Days has mobilized advocates, thought-leaders, policymakers and its network of over 80 partners in order to improve nutrition for women and children globally.
Through 2015, 1,000 Days has committed to work for child survival and health by:
1,000 Days will continue to serve as a platform to align and mobilize actors across sectors for greater investments and global action on maternal and child nutrition, including specifically, a new effort to inform and activate a U.S. constituency of supporters to build and sustain both public and political will for maternal and child nutrition.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: AAP, a US-based not-for-profit membership organization of 62,000 pediatricians, and pediatric medical and surgical specialists, is dedicated to the health of all children. The AAP supports the Every Newborn Action Plan and previously committed to saving newborn lives through our Helping Babies Breathe 2011 Every Woman, Every Child Commitment. Our new commitment through the Survive and Thrive GDA is to save at least 100,000 newborn lives each year – and to facilitate future in-country ability to continue saving newborn lives – by scaling up the Helping Babies Survive training and quality improvement initiative in partnership with health professional associations in India, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
In 2011, the AAP committed to reducing newborn mortality and morbidity through training, technical assistance, and scale-up of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB), designed to ensure child survival and prevent birth asphyxia and implemented in 63 countries. At the 2012 Call to Action, AAP partnered in the Survive and Thrive (S&T) GDA to address additional causes of neonatal mortality. With S&T partners, AAP developed the Helping Babies Survive (HBS) suite of additional modules to combat neonatal mortality including Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB) launched in June, 2014 which provides guidance on breastfeeding, thermal protection, infection prevention, immunization, and other elements; and Essential Care for Small Babies (ECSB) that guides the provider in the care of the well, small baby who needs more than what is taught in ECEB.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
The AAP advocates for access to health care for all children, adolescents and young adults. The AAP believes that each child should have a “medical home”—a model of health care where care is accessible, family-centered, continuous, comprehensive, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective. The AAP works with government, communities and other national organizations to improve child adolescents, and family health.
Through 2015, AAP has committed to work for child survival and health by:
In 20014, we will launch our new commitment to helping 100,000 babies survive and thrive with scale up of Helping Babies Survive with GDA and other resource partners, and with health professional associations from India, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
AAP is committed to advocacy for a trained attendant at the birth of every child through its HBS suite, public-private GDA partnerships, and volunteer membership involvement in these efforts to reduce infant mortality, and contribute to the achievement of MDG 4 and 5.
Abt Associates contributes to child survival and healthy children in the following ways:
Abt implements sustainable health programs across the continuum of care. Examples include: doubling ANC attendance in Nigeria using community outreach: improving MNCH hospital services in Azerbaijan, Dominican Republic, and Jordan; enhancing providers’ and volunteers’ knowledge of infant and child feeding practices in Zambia; increasing HIV testing rates of exposed children to 100% in parts of Mozambique; referring under-vaccinated children in Mali for routine immunizations, contributing to reductions in child mortality by half; helping develop the first nationwide mobile health information service in Bangladesh for mothers; and reducing the impact of malaria on four million children through indoor residual spraying in Africa.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Abt’s leadership in private sector engagement and health systems strengthening distinguishes our work. The Abt-led Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector project set the standard in improving access to and demand for ORS and zinc combined therapy. Through innovative engagement of local manufacturers and other private sector players we have treated more than 2 million diarrheal episodes in Ghana and 700,000 in Nigeria. We leverage health financing tools (like insurance, vouchers, and performance-based incentives) to stimulate demand for child health services, and enhance their provision and quality. We also identify task shifting opportunities and work to improve supply chains.
Through 2015 and beyond, Abt Associates has committed to work for child survival and health by:
Abt is committed to fulfilling our mission to improve the lives of people worldwide. We will continue to strengthen the systems which are critical to deliver high-impact child health services; use cutting-edge technology to prevent and control infectious diseases; engage the private sector to increase reach and improve self-sufficiency of families; and collect and use evidence to inform policies that enhance child health services. We will work to increase coverage of key interventions that address the primary causes of newborn and child mortality (like ORS and zinc, immunization, malaria prevention and treatment) and increase uptake of voluntary family planning.
ASTMH contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: We are a worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians and program professionals whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including malaria, diarrhea and others that disproportionately afflict the global poor. Research, health care and education are the central activities of ASTMH members, whose work bridges basic laboratory research to international field work and clinics to global programs.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: As a Society with Hygiene in its name, our members have a unique understanding of the role WASH plays in the promotion of health – especially in the case of children. Deaths from diseases like cholera and diarrhea – some of the most aggressive killers worldwide – can be significantly curbed through improved sanitation and better access to clean water.
Through 2015, ASTMH has committed to work for child survival and health by: Highlighting and publicizing new research. Through the ongoing publication of information in the Society’s journal, at the Annual Meeting and through social media, ASTMH members advance our understanding of diseases affecting children and inform our approach to reducing child mortality worldwide.
CMMB contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
As part of our new global strategic platform, CMMB will focus on women and children’s health as a means to identify and respond to gaps in health care at the community level. CMMB is launching a movement of partners called “CHAMPS” (CHildren And Mothers PartnershipS), which will offer an integrated model (of high-quality health programs, medicines, and volunteers) that will deliver impact-driven, sustainable health services at the community level.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Each CHAMPS site will feature community-led, multi-year efforts to address the leading causes of death among women and children, such as diarrhea, pneumonia, and malaria. It will link and strengthen both community-based and facility-based health services. In addition, CHAMPS will address additional influencers of good health, including water and sanitation, agriculture/nutrition, and economic development. CHAMPS will serve as our primary model for improving health and building strong communities for the future.
By 2020, with the help of our partners, CMMB has committed to work for child survival and health by:
Working to establish 16 CHAMPS sites in some of the most challenging parts of the world. The unique nature of the CHAMPS program will be its ability to accommodate the individual needs of each country location, taking into consideration existing cultural and environmental challenges. The CHAMPS goal is always the same, but the local response will be customized. This integrated model allows for flexibility to implement the most effective approach to serve women, children and their communities.
CORE Group contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
CORE Group improves and expands community health practices for underserved populations, especially women and children, through collaborative action and learning. CORE Group is committed to ending preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths through community health approaches. Through our Community Health Network, CORE Group brings together its 70+ Member and Associate organizations and global health experts to increase the equity, impact, and sustainability of maternal and child health programming around the world. CORE Group also supports eight, volunteer-led Working Groups to share knowledge and experiences, identify gaps and promising innovations, and collaborate to create and disseminate the next generation of evidence-based tools and guidance for community health programming.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
CORE Group convenes its expansive network for knowledge-sharing and learning through in-person Global Health Practitioner Conferences and meetings, and online webinars and discussion forum. CORE Group serves as a neutral space to foster strategic partnerships for global and in-country collaboration and for accelerating the ease and pace of implementing community-level efforts worldwide. Our vision is of a world where everyone can attain health and well-being. Our tools reflect a community health approach used by our member organizations: includes underserved people, notably women and children; enables communities to collect and use data to solve health problems; trains and supports community health workers to prevent and treat health problems and address health-related issues; fosters partnerships between civil society, the formal health care system and other stakeholders; and advocates for policies and resources that support healthy communities.
Through 2015, CORE Group has committed to work for child survival and health by:
- Strengthening the collaboration of our Community Health Network to share learning and create tools to improve child survival.
- Fostering partnership programs to improve newborn care and survival at the community and household level in 2-3 MCH priority countries.
Church World Service contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
CWS contributes to child survival and health by eradicating hunger and poverty, and promoting peace and justice. CWS provides children with sustainable sources of food, clean water, education and protection that focus on children on more than a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
Our food programs touch children’s lives in Kenya, Tanzania, Indonesia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia and Paraguay. Children face reduced risk thanks to our protection work in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Brazil and Uruguay.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Our asset-based community development approach is highly contextualized to make sure we afford children the best possible chances to overcome their circumstances and not just survive, but thrive. CWS recognizes the unique vulnerabilities faced by ethnic minorities, women and girls, and those displaced. We work with these communities to find appropriate solutions that foster empowerment and resilience.
Through 2015, Church World Service has committed to work for child survival and health by:
We will continue to address the needs of children through programming that addresses chronic hunger, the need for clean water, safe education and protection, and hone our vision for a better world as we strategically plan for the future.
The Franciscan Action Network contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
The Franciscan Action Network is raising awareness of the need to provide children with healthy environments and protect the dignity of life across the entire lifespan. FAN seeks to protect the safety of children by advocating for peace, human rights and the protection of family unity, as well as stricter gun enforcement policies. In addition, FAN seeks to transform environments so that they include cleaner air and water, and promote childhood nutrition programs that increase access to more healthful, fresh food for all. Through its climate webinar series, FAN educates the public and provides policy strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that damage the health of children, particularly in low-income and marginalized communities. For example, recent webinars have provided information on how eating a diet with less red meat and more farm-fresh produce is good for both our health and the health of the environment. FAN members are working to connect children to the source of their food – incorporating an awareness about nutrition and gardening into youth education – while also actively working to increase access to fresh food for children in schools and communities.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Seeking to model their lives off of St. Francis and St. Clare, members of the Franciscan Action Network strive to protect the dignity of all persons across the entire lifespan through working towards justice, peace, and integrity of creation. The unique Franciscan approach recognizes the interconnectedness of all things and our call to care for the health of children and the environments surrounding us, because of our universal kinship with the rest of God’s creation. The Franciscan Action Network recognizes that the early years of life are a critical time to develop and foster holistic lifestyle practices and a sense of well-being that can stay with children throughout their entire lives.
Through 2015, the Franciscan Action Network has committed to work for child survival and health by:
Educating members, young adults, and the general public about the need for safer, healthier communities to protect the health of children, and connecting people with resources and tools for inspiring community change.
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the leading source of accurate, objective and timely information about the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Maria in the U.S. Specifically targeting policy leaders and decision-makers in Washington, D.C., Friends shares information on the approach the Global Fund takes and the results it achieves. In addition, it fosters collaboration between the Global Fund and the U.S. government’s bilateral organizations. In this capacity, Friends supports the Global Fund’s efforts to improve the health of millions of children through support for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria interventions.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Friends leverages hundreds of millions of dollars for the Global Fund annually in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria – resources that greatly impact women and children worldwide. Friends has been instrumental in increasing U.S. funding for the Global Fund from $435 million in 2005, the year after Friends was founded, to more than a billion dollars today.
Global Fund-supported programs have provided 2.4 million HIV-positive pregnant women with antiretroviral treatments for prevention of mother-to-child transmission and delivered 6.9 million basic care and support services to orphans and other vulnerable children. Global Fund-related programs have distributed 360 million insecticide-treated nets and treated 330 million cases of malaria, a disease to which children under 5 are especially susceptible.
Through 2015, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has committed to work for child survival and health by: In the last 10 years, the Global Fund has directed approximately $6.6 billion toward improvements in maternal and child health, with an additional $3.3 billion scheduled to be disbursed for these efforts in the next few years. In the coming years, Friends will work to ensure the robust funding levels required for the Global Fund to continue this work, helping to prevent the deaths of millions of children under the age of five.
Futures Group contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
Futures Group works at national and local levels to improve the health and well-being of women and children in developing countries. Our maternal and child health efforts encompass a wide range of services, including building the evidence base through implementation science, strengthening the policy environment; building the capacity of civil society to encourage advocacy and community mobilization, social marketing and public-private partnership development; and using economic analysis, forecasting and modeling for policy development and resource allocation. Futures Group also works to strengthen and monitor the progress of national responses to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Governments, the private sector, communities and NGOs require knowledge and solutions to establish priorities and diagnose the root causes of problems and gaps. They need insight to creatively and efficiently manage and deploy their resources to tackle these problems in the here and now—and for the long-term. Futures Group utilizes a data-driven approach to identify effective and efficient interventions to protect and improve the health of children, and to forge lasting partnerships to meet the needs of children. We help to improve efficiency and effectiveness of country owned and run programs.
Through 2015, Futures Group has committed to work for child survival and health by:
With support from the US and UK governments, Futures Group and our partners are supporting programs worldwide to improve maternal and child health. For example, with support from the UK government, Futures Group and our partners are working to sustainably build the capacity of the public health sector in Nigeria to deliver quality assured and enhanced maternal, newborn and child health and immunisation interactions. By 2018, these services will save the lives of more than 100,000 women and children in six Northern Nigeria states – Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Yobe, Jigawa and Katsina.
GAPPS contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: GAPPS leads a collaborative, global effort to increase awareness and accelerate innovative research and interventions that will improve maternal, newborn and child health outcomes around the world by focusing on improving understanding of the causes and mechanisms of premature birth and stillbirth.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Collaboration drives GAPPS’ work. We bring people from different fields together to generate innovative approaches to understanding pregnancy, preterm birth and stillbirth. We advocate for evidence-driven treatment for mothers and infants, but know that ultimately, prevention of preterm birth and stillbirth is key to reducing maternal and infant mortality and morbidity.
Through 2015, GAPPS has committed to work for child survival and health through:
- The Preventing Preterm Birth initiative, part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health, seeks to discover biological mechanisms that lead to preterm birth and develop innovative strategies for prevention, with particular focus on solutions relevant to LMICs where 99% of the world’s infant deaths occur. The initiative has funded seven research projects and two international pregnancy research sites so scientists can investigate the high burden of preterm birth and stillbirth in LMICs.
- The GAPPS Repository is the first standardized, widely-accessible collection of high-quality specimens linked to data from diverse populations of pregnant women and supports research on normal and abnormal pregnancies, including how pregnancy affects maternal and child health after delivery, and fetal origins of diseases. The collection includes contributions from women representing a range of racial, ethnic, regional and socioeconomic backgrounds. It also offers technical assistance to increase harmonization across research sites to advance basic and translational research. The repository model is being expanded to LMICs to improve research and development for upstream discovery and downstream implementation/operations research.
- GAPPS, in conjunction with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, March of Dimes and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been developing a coalition of global funders of preterm birth research to be known as the Global Coalition to Advance Preterm birth Research (G-CAPR) to identify and advance priority research through expanded networks, communications, and collaborations among organizations to fund the research needed to reduce preterm birth.
The GAVI Alliance contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: The GAVI Alliance, an innovative public-private partnership, was launched in 2000 to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunization in developing countries, where more than 85 percent of the world’s unvaccinated children live. From 2000 to 2013, with support from the United States; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the private sector, including the vaccine industry; developing country governments; the World Health Organization; UNICEF; the World Bank and civil society, the GAVI Alliance has helped immunize an additional 440 million children, saving six million lives.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: By bringing all of the key stakeholders in global immunization together around one mission, the GAVI Alliance combines the technical expertise of the development community with the business know-how of the private sector into a common mission: to increase access to life-saving vaccines in the countries that need them the most.
Rather than duplicate the services of the many players in the field of health and vaccines, the GAVI Alliance leverages the unique capabilities of its partners to become greater than the sum of their parts. It is country led, while working with partners with widespread field presence to deliver programs. The GAVI Alliance’s unique model has not only created market-based solutions to significantly reduce the cost of vaccines, but also requires all GAVI-eligible countries to contribute financially toward the cost of the vaccines. These innovations strengthen the long-term sustainability of the GAVI Alliance’s immunization programs in the developing world.
Through 2015, the GAVI Alliance has committed to work for child survival and health by: The GAVI Alliance has committed to work through 2015 and beyond for child survival and health by delivering vaccines to children in the poorest countries. With generous support from donors and strong commitment from countries, the Alliance has reached an additional 440 million children with vaccines, bringing global immunization rates to an all-time high and giving a new generation the chance of a healthy, productive future. This generation of immunized children and adults represents real, living proof that investments in global health are paying off. The Alliance has greatly accelerated rollout of new vaccines for severe diarrhoea and pneumonia; delivered vaccines even in the poorest, most remote areas; transformed the market for vaccines, making them more affordable and supply more reliable, and encouraging vaccines’ research and development; and applied funds in a highly efficient and effective way, providing more money for health, and more health for the money.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: As the largest public health financier, the Global Fund is deeply committed to child survival efforts. Since its inception in 2002, Global Fund financing has contributed to improving the health of millions of people through support for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria interventions that heavily impact women and children worldwide.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Global Fund-supported programs have provided 2.4 million HIV-positive pregnant women with antiretroviral treatments for prevention of mother-to-child transmission and delivered 6.9 million basic care and support services to orphans and other vulnerable children. Global Fund-related programs have distributed 360 million insecticide-treated nets and treated 330 million cases of malaria, a disease to which children under 5 are especially susceptible. Also, Global Fund investments in health system strengthening activities has develop the capacity of national health systems and addresses system-wide weaknesses. The benefits of this investment is seen across several disease outcomes and beyond, specifically reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) outcomes.
Through 2015, the Global Fund has committed to work for child survival and health by: It is estimated that between 2003 and 2010, the Global Fund contributed US$ 3.12 billion to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) overall. In 2010, the Global Fund’s contribution as a share of the total official development assistance (ODA) to MNCH for 74 priority countries was estimated at approximately 12 percent.
The new funding model (NFM) presents a key opportunity to maximize synergies of Global Fund investments and further impact the health of women and children. Global Fund flexibility has enabled very ambitious integration strategies to date and the NFM further enables the organization to proactively pursue opportunities for leveraging synergies among its disease-specific and health system strengthening funding and broader RMNCH needs.
The Global Fund has a longstanding partnership with UNICEF; a partnership that was reinforced through an April 2014 agreement to integrate investments in lifesaving commodities. The two organizations agreed to jointly identify countries where investments in commodities to prevent and treat HIV, tuberculosis and malaria could be better coordinated with those designed to improve overall maternal, newborn and child health. To start, such commodities could include iron and folic acid, tetanus vaccinations, syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant women, and antibiotics to treat pneumonia and oral rehydration salts and zinc to treat diarrheal disease in children.
Habitat for Humanity contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
By working with low-income families around the world to upgrade or build a home with access to clean water and sanitation, Habitat for Humanity provides a healthier environment for children to thrive. Access to basic services is critical to every Habitat home. We also have specific programs that target water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). We provide training to promote health with an emphasis on prevention of malaria with insecticide-treated mosquito nets and prevention of the spread of HIV through methods as seemingly simple as secure locks to prevent entry of potential rapists. Improved housing reduced the odds of respiratory infection, gastrointestinal illness, or malaria by 44% in children under 5 years old.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes our recognition that a stable place to live not only improves children’s physical health but also their emotional well-being, giving them the chance to make the most of educational opportunities and thus excel into adulthood. Our Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programs help children like teenager Chief Chimaliro, who had watched in despair as his father died of cholera, his younger sister died of malaria, and his younger brother suffered stomach problems that eventually led to his death. All were preventable diseases. Four years ago, Chief and his only remaining family — mother Annie and sister Susan — qualified for a house through our OVC program in Malawi. Since moving into that simple, durable house with adequate water and sanitation facilities, the Chimaliro family has not suffered any illness. Further, Chief has been able to focus on farming, so he doesn’t have to leave his family for long stretches to find menial work elsewhere. He now dreams of going to vocational school and becoming an auto mechanic. Launched in 2010, the OVC program focuses not only on providing decent housing but also on encouraging new livelihoods for families most at risk.
Through 2015, Habitat for Humanity has committed to work for child survival and health by building safe, decent affordable houses around the world, upgrading homes with low-income families through programs such as our microfinance initiative, and advocating for systems and policies that promote access to all factors that housing requires, as well as sustainable cities and human settlements. In the 38 years since Habitat was founded, thousands more children around the world have grown up in safe, affordable homes and changed the predictable trajectory of life in poverty. We will continue to provide such homes through a growing number of global programs and local initiatives in the decades ahead.
IntraHealth International contributes to child survival and healthy children in the following ways: IntraHealth improves the health and well-being of all people, especially the youngest and most vulnerable, living in the countries and communities where we work. We empower health workers throughout the world to better serve their communities by improving their performance and strengthening the systems in which they work. For more than 35 years, we have been a leader in innovative, effective strategies to improve the health and wellbeing of women and children, partnering with governments, civil society, and the private sector to ensure the equitable delivery of high-quality maternal, newborn, and child health services.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Health workers—especially those on the front lines of care—are essential to delivering lifesaving medicines and health care to children in need. At IntraHealth, we believe that a well-distributed, skilled, and productive health workforce is critical to addressing global health challenges and saving children’s lives. Health workers educate parents on keeping children healthy and provide facility-based and home care to children in need. Through innovations such as mobile phone applications for frontline health workers in India, community-based distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets in Senegal, and creative partnerships to actively engage local communities in addressing their own needs, IntraHealth ensures that health workers are equipped to save lives.
Through 2015 and beyond, IntraHealth International has committed to work for child survival and health by:
IntraHealth is committed to empowering health workers and ensuring that they have the skills and tools they need to care for the specific needs of children. Over the past year, more than 178,000 health workers benefitted from our programs around the world. In turn, those health workers provided high-quality care to 356 million people globally. To expand our impact and save even more lives—including those of mothers, newborns, and children—we are committed to increasing the number of health workers we reach each year, and will reach more than 400,000 annually by 2020.
Jubilee USA contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: Jubilee USA works to end the structural causes of global poverty. We are particularly focused on the impact of the debt crisis on vulnerable populations; currently, the poorest countries in the world spend five times as much money paying off debt as they receive in official aid. Our efforts have helped to win more than $130 billion in debt relief for those countries, rallying the support of both Republicans and Democrats and important institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. That money has helped reduce child mortality rates and improved the socio-economic conditions of vulnerable communities in countries receiving relief. In Burundi, for example, debt relief funds were earmarked for providing free health care to children under five and building rural health clinics.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Jubilee USA is proud of its ability to move people of all faiths and political backgrounds to work together to end the root causes of global poverty. Congressional Quarterly has noted the importance of Jubilee’s bipartisan efforts to end global poverty, a particularly important distinction in the context of current partisanship gridlock in Washington. We are also proud of the focus of our work on structural change and empowerment. We are working to reform the financial system in ways that decrease poverty and child mortality while simultaneously giving economic decision-making power to vulnerable communities that have long been shut out by corruption and a lack of transparency in the financial system. We believe this represents the best avenue for improving the lives of children in the long term.
Through 2015, Jubilee USA has committed to work for child survival and health by: introducing the bipartisan Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Borrowing, which would expand debt relief to additional countries and put into place rules to ensure that international lending and borrowing are done responsibly. Irresponsible lending and borrowing hurts children living in poverty by diverting resources needed to build health clinics, pay for medicine, combat HIV/AIDS and pay the salaries of doctors and nurses. Jubilee USA is committed to building a global financial system that is transparent and accountable to the needs of the world’s most vulnerable, and nobody is more vulnerable than young children living in poverty. We are honored to participate in the 5th Birthday and Beyond coalition.
Laerdal contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
Laerdal has committed financial support of $35 million by 2015 and $55 million by 2017. Half of this commitment will be used to fund the not-for-profit company Laerdal Global Health to help the American Academy of Pediatrics and other alliance partners develop, field-test and implement training modules for Helping Babies Survive training programs, and to develop innovative training and therapeutic products to support these programs. The other half of the commitment is channeled through the Laerdal Foundation for awards to practically oriented research projects to reduce maternal and newborn mortality.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Laerdal Global Health is a founding partner in two global development alliances, Helping Babies Breathe and Survive & Thrive. Our goal is tohelp make lifesaving easier to learn and remember, and to make lifesaving tools for birth attendants in low resource settings both more efficient and affordable. This has so far led to the launch of several education modules under the Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programs, training simulators like NeoNatalie and MamaNatalie, the Penguin Suction Device and the Upright Newborn Resuscitator.
At the launch of the Every Newborn Action Plan Laerdal is pleased to announce support of $ 1 million to each of two new initiatives:
10,000 Happy Birthdays: The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and Laerdal have joined hands to ensure that 10,000 midwives in Zambia and Malawi will be trained, equipped and supported in the Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive programs.
Helping 100,000 Babies Survive and Thrive: This program under the Survive & Thrive private-public partnership will target newborn mortality in India, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The focus is to save 100,000 babies through implementing the Helping Babies Survive programs.
Through 2015, Laerdal Global Health has committed to work for child survival and health by pursuing our goal:
To help save 250,000 more lives per year by 2015 (base line 2010).
ONE contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: ONE contributes to child survival and health through our global advocacy and campaigns work. More than 5 million ONE members around the world write letters, sign petitions, and organize events to campaign for government policies supporting development-related programs, including increased funding for child health and broader foreign assistance programs. ONE staff also works directly with key decision-makers around the world to advocate for child survival funding and to generate support for multilateral institutions such as the GAVI Alliance and the Global Fund. In addition, (RED), a division of ONE, engages businesses and consumers to raise money and awareness for the fight against AIDS, with a particular focus on reducing the transmission of HIV from mother to child.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: ONE’s distinctive brand of advocacy is both global (across the US, Europe, and Africa) and membership-driven. We advocate for cost-effective, sustainable programs that will improve child health in both the short and long-term, while also promoting investments in other sectors crucial for health and economic development. We have a large social media presence that helps drive awareness of these issues and provides channels through which our members can use their voice and reach out to their elected officials. We work to bridge the pop culture and policy worlds by developing advocacy products that are both substantive and creative, such as a new report linking the World Cup to global vaccine programs. And finally, we leverage the voices of our high-profile champions to ensure global attention on the work of reducing preventable child deaths.
Through 2015, ONE has committed to work for child survival and health by: Through 2015, ONE will work for child survival through a variety of campaigns. We are currently launching a full-scale, global campaign to advocate for increased funding to the GAVI Alliance to help fund child vaccination programs. In addition, we will continue our annual advocacy for increased funding for child health programs. (RED) will continue partnering with the private sector to increase funding for AIDS programs, and particularly for PMTCT programs. Finally, we will continue our advocacy around the post-2015 agenda and push for a strong health goal that includes a target focused on ending preventable child mortality.
Rotary contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
Through leveraging the efforts of our global network of volunteers, Rotary aims to eradicate polio via fundraising, advocacy, and awareness-raising activities. Our work enables the detection and interruption of wild poliovirus transmission, increases routine immunizations, helps contain and certify the eradication of polio strains, and creates a sophisticated global surveillance and response network that can be used to combat other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Rotary grants provided to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative buy vaccine and cold chain equipment and offer additional support to ensure every child is reached. Our funds also help train health workers and support the laboratories that monitor polio transmission and test suspected cases of polio. Thousands of Rotary volunteers have been mobilized to work with national ministries of health, UNICEF, World Health Organization and, significantly, with local, grassroots health providers.
Rotary members in the United States and across the globe will continue to raise funds and awareness until the world is certified polio free. While Rotary’s highest priority is polio eradication, clubs also undertake a wide range of projects in our six areas of focus that address child survival and health or help foster community support for it. These include maternal and child health, disease prevention and treatment, peace and conflict prevention/resolution, water and sanitation, basic education and literacy, and economic and community development.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
Rotary, as a community-based, network of civically active business and professional leaders in over 200 countries, is uniquely positioned to serve as volunteers and advocates for child survival and health at the local community level and beyond.
Through 2015, Rotary will work for child survival and health by:
- Raising funds among our membership and the general public and expending up to a minimum of US$35 million, with emphasis on activities in the polio endemic and high risk countries.
- Reaching out to donor and polio affected country governments as well as corporations to secure funding and political support for polio eradication.
Focusing public attention on the opportunity and benefits of eradicating polio through securing celebrity ambassadors, utilizing social media, and leveraging traditional and new media to raise the visibility of the polio endgame.
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF supports UNICEF’s work in more than 190 countries and territories to save and to improve children’s lives, providing health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief, and more.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
UNICEF has helped to save more children’s lives than any other humanitarian organization since 1946. Guided by the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF has a global mandate to save children’s lives and build their futures.
Through 2015, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF has committed to work for child survival and health by:
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF is stepping up its efforts to raise funds to support UNICEF’s child survival and health programs. It also will continue to mobilize a constituency of concerned Americans who will press the decision-makers in Washington to create the political will and the resources needed to achieve the objective of A Promised Renewed to eliminate preventable deaths of children under five by 2035.
BD contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
- Ensuring the safety of childhood vaccinations through manufacturing and supply of low cost ‘auto-disable’ immunization syringes.
- Supporting the global initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). BD co-founded this initiative with UNICEF (through the US Fund for UNICEF) in 1998. Since then, 34 of the 59 target countries have eliminated MNT. UNICEF’s partners include the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), USAID, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Immunisation Basics, Government of Japan and JICA, Save the Children, GAVI, BD, P&G (Pampers), PATH, RMHC, the Gates Foundation, Kiwanis International and UNICEF National committees and governments throughout the world.
- Strengthening health and laboratory systems in collaboration with public sector partners, such as the ‘Labs for Life’ initiative with PEPFAR (U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) and CDC.
- Supporting organizations that care for vulnerable children, such as the Nyumbani Children’s Home for HIV+ children in Kenya.
- Working to eliminate violence against children by supporting the Together for Girls partnership, founded in 2009 by a BD executive.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children is the highly collaborative, cross-sector approach we pursue to address the fundamental unmet health needs of children. BD is engaged in collaborative initiatives with many of the world’s foremost agencies and nonprofit organizations devoted to improving the health and well-being of children. BD leaders serve in official leadership capacities in public sector agencies such as the UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children, and on the boards of the US Fund for UNICEF and the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB and Malaria.
Through 2015, BD has committed to work in collaboration with key stakeholder organizations and agencies and utilize the company’s core competencies to bring to scale new innovations to address leading causes of maternal and newborn mortality, beginning with the BD Odon Device™ for assisted childbirth. Following completion of clinical trials demonstrating safety and efficacy, BD plans to manufacture and distribute the BD Odon Device at scale, in a manner that creates broad access in countries that have a high burden of maternal and newborn mortality. To accomplish this, the company is engaging with the Saving Lives at Birth partners including USAID and Grand Challenges Canada, and with the WHO.
Concern contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: by strengthening the quality of care at health facilities; increasing knowledge and practice at the household; building the capacity of communities to take ownership over health; and advocating for improved policies at the district and national levels. Concern works in 25 of the poorest countries across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean and commits $76 million through 2015 to health programs (MNCH, nutrition, and WASH).
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: a focus on the extreme poor in hard to reach areas in fragile contexts, particularly those with the highest maternal, neonatal and child mortality rates. Concern aims to address three dimensions of poverty; assets and a return on assets, inequalities and risk and vulnerabilities.
Through 2015, Concern has committed to work for child survival and health by:
- Strengthening systems at community/district/national level to ensure equitable and sustainable coverage of quality MNCH services and behaviors, and to ensure equitable and sustainable access to quality water, sanitation and a healthy environment in at least six Concern country contexts
- Strengthening systems at community, district and national level to prevent undernutrition in at least four Concern country contexts by 2015
- Understanding and addressing drivers of poor health and nutrition among the extreme poor via well-designed, integrated programs and responsive advocacy (using the assets, inequality, risk & vulnerability lens) in at least ten Concern country contexts by 2015
- Preventing excess mortality and morbidity among emergency-affected populations through effective emergency response in MNCH, nutrition and WASH
- Actively disseminating learning from programs and staying abreast of global best practice in MNCH, WASH and nutrition
- Providing high quality technical support to develop the capacity of Concern staff to achieve the above objectives
- Implementing the specific commitments made to the Every Newborn Action Plan under the Every Woman Every Child movement.
- Identifying, developing and testing innovative solutions to overcome barriers to accessing essential MNCH services through Concern’s Innovations for MNCH initiative, and scale up successful innovations.
- Complementing health activities through integration with other sectors where Concern is active such as livelihoods, education and emergency programs.
Promoting development education and active citizenship, for example, through our Global Concern Classrooms program.
EDC contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
EDC believes that health paves the way for learning and success and we address health issues as part of our core mission worldwide. We partner with government, international NGOs, and foundations to advocate for and advance health initiatives globally. Specifically:
- we work with adolescents to reduce gender-based violence. Whether in life skills curriculum or sexual and reproductive health education activities, EDC engages young people in developing an understanding of positive gender relations, healthy interpersonal interactions, and methods for violence prevention.
- we provide youth with comprehensive sexuality education and life skills to mitigate the impact of HIV-AIDS in their lives and communities. EDC supports local governments, including ministries of education and health, to improve HIV prevention curriculum, train teachers, engage young people, and strengthen communities to prevent new HIV infections among adolescents, as well as reduce stigma around HIV and AIDS.
- EDC works with youth, leaders, and clinicians to improve the delivery of youth-friendly services. Where this is often a major barrier to adolescents’ accessing health services, EDC engages young people to identify problems and develop solutions to improve service delivery, outreach and quality. These activities increase care seeking among young people and improves long-term treatment adherence for chronic health issues.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
EDC is a catalyst for workable and sustainable solutions in communities around the world. We are known for working collaboratively, asking the right questions, and creating effective and lasting change. EDC is also practical, and we meet young people where they are – in or out of school – and offer them information and activities that are tailored to their learning needs, preferences, and cultural nuances. We also focus on young people as active learners, we link them with opportunities, and help them network with other youth to share ideas and take action together.
Through 2015, EDC has committed to work for child survival and health by:
We are committed to integrating health promotion into broader programs serving in-school, out-of-school, and at-risk youth in the settings where youth are most likely to be found and served, such as schools, youth centers, or vocational training programs. We will continue to create health education programs and interventions based on our long track record of reaching girls, hard-to-reach youth, and young people who are not in school.
GHC contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
Global Health Council (GHC) is the leading membership organization supporting and connecting advocates, implementers and stakeholders around global health priorities worldwide. GHC envisions a world where health for all is ensured through equitable, inclusive, and sustainable investment, policies and services. GHC advocates for continued investment in and visibility of critical global health issues prioritizing ending preventable maternal, newborn and child death. We provide critical support to the global health community to improve coordination, information sharing and partnership for policy and programming around maternal, newborn, and child health.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes:
GHC organizational membership is open to the non-profit and for-profit sectors including NGOs, faith-based organizations, corporations and academic institutions; government, foundations and other donors and agencies. As a result our members represent all aspects of the multi-sectoral partnerships that have been so important in realizing the significant reduction in child death over the past decade. In order to increase member impact, GHC provides platforms and opportunities for partner networking, partnership and critical thought around the future of global health, including maternal and newborn health and child survival. GHC also facilitates civil society participation at important global health venues such as the World Health Assembly, ensuring that the voice of those working to improve the lives of children is heard in complement to government donors and delegations.
Through 2015, GHC has committed to work for child survival and health by:
GHC has committed to actively advocating for the investment, leadership and political will necessary to completing the Millennium Development Goals, in particular goals 4, 5 and 6. GHC has also committed to ensuring the priority placement of health within the post-2015 agenda and will continue to advocate for increased investment by the United States government in global health with a continued focus on maternal, newborn and child health.
Johnson & Johnson contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: Our primary focus is on making life-changing, long-term differences in human health by targeting the world’s major health-related issues. We fulfill this, and other philanthropic efforts, through community-based partnerships.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: Johnson & Johnson’s commitment to the global strategy includes working with partners in 46 countries. We invest in programs and groundbreaking models to increase access to well-trained health professionals in communities with the most. With our partners, we have trained more than 140,000 front line health care workers to date.
Through 2015, Johnson & Johnson has committed to work for child survival and health by: In 2010, Johnson & Johnson answered the U.N. Secretary General’s Call to Action by committing $200 million over five years in a package of commitments called ‘Every Mother, Every Child.’ This includes support for programs to:
- Provide more than 15 million expectant and new mothers in Bangladesh, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria and South Africa with free mobile phone messages providing prenatal health counsel and related information.
- Donate 200 million doses of VERMOX®, a treatment for intestinal worms in children, during each year of the Commitment.
- Increase research and development for a drug addressing tuberculosis with the first new mechanism of action in 40 years, antiretrovirals to treat HIV and potentially prevent HIV transmission from pregnant women to their infants and new technologies that could prevent the transmission of HIV between adults in the future.
- Extend current commitments to successful and proven peer education programs.
On June 25, 2014 Johnson & Johnson will reaffirm our continued commitment through the launch of an additional 5-year $30 million (USD) commitment through 2020 to save more newborn lives. Through long-standing partnerships, we will work in more than 20 countries including India, Nigeria, China and Ethiopia to provide training to skilled birth attendants. Working together with partners, we will build on the progress we have made to ensure newborns remain central to the post-2015 development agenda. Collaboration is the only way that we can achieve the goals to save newborn lives and help children to fulfill their potential.
NCBA CLUSA contributes to child survival and health by: focusing on women and children under 5 years of age in several of our programs. Our REGIS-ER resiliency program will increase access to potable water and health services, and improve nutrition and WASH knowledge and practices in chronically vulnerable populations in agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture zones of Niger and Burkina Faso. Our USAIDǀYaajeende program will also increase the nutritional levels of women and children and improve nutrition and health knowledge and practices in four regions of Senegal: Bakel, Kedougou, Kolda, and Matam.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: our nutrition-led agriculture approach that targets the most vulnerable populations of the communities we work in, specifically women and children under 5 years of age. By integrating nutrition and agriculture, our approach creates demand for, access to, and utilization of healthy foods that address nutritional deficiencies, thus decreasing malnutrition and the prevalence of stunted and underweight women and children.
Through the Mangez Orange (Eat Orange) social marketing campaign in Senegal, we are spreading awareness about the importance of vitamin A and how it can be obtained by eating fruits and vegetables such as sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, oranges, papayas, and mangos. Bio-fortified foods like high protein maize are also being integrated into the target communities’ diets.
Through 2015, NCBA CLUSA has committed to work for child survival and health by: improving the nutritional status of women and children in many of our programs. USAIDǀYaajeende aims to reduce stunting in children under 5 by 20% and reduce the number of underweight children under 5 by 25% in target zones in Senegal. 50% fewer households will consume less than two meals per day, and 50,000 children under 5 will be reached by USG-supported nutrition programs.
Through REGIS-ER, NCBA CLUSA aims to reach 900,000 children under 5 in Niger and 600,000 children under 5 in Burkina Faso through USG-supported nutrition programs over the life of the project. 3,550 people in Niger and 3,550 people in Burkina Faso will be trained on child health and nutrition through USG-supported health programs.
PATH contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: We drive transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—with a focus on child survival, maternal and reproductive health, and infectious diseases. In 2013, PATH and our partners touched the lives of nearly 219 million people with innovations that include:
- Vaccines to prevent diarrheal disease, meningitis A, and Japanese encephalitis.
- A new source of the gold-standard malaria treatment.
- A low-cost antiseptic to prevent newborn infections.
- New barrier contraceptives that expand family planning options for women.
- Strategies to strengthen health systems and encourage healthier behaviors.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: accelerating innovations that address the leading causes of illness and death for women and children. PATH has designed, developed, and adapted more than 100 technologies, from vaccine vial monitors that alert health workers when a vaccine has been damaged by heat to an antishock garment to control excessive bleeding after childbirth. One of our unique strengths is breaking down barriers that keep health solutions from achieving impact at scale. We develop targeted solutions, test and refine them, gain regulatory approval, foster supportive policies, develop markets, commercialize products, and introduce them where they are needed.
Through 2015, PATH has committed to work for child survival and health by:
- Tackling two of the leading killers of children by simultaneously fighting pneumonia and diarrheal disease. Our integrated approach emphasizes overlapping protection, the scale-up of proven methods, and the development of new tools to fill deadly gaps.
- Working toward malaria elimination by driving development of a new malaria vaccine candidate; scaling up strategies to create malaria-free communities; advancing diagnostic technologies; and creating a new supply of the top malaria treatment.
- Improving care for newborns through community-based strategies, policy approaches, and innovative technologies.
- Preventing maternal deaths by increasing the use of innovations along the continuum of care during a mother’s pregnancy to prevent or manage the three leading causes of death—postpartum hemorrhage, preeclampsia/eclampsia, and infection.
- Identifying transformative health innovations that will accelerate progress toward the goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths.
- Accelerating our work on the nearly 200 vaccines, tools, and technologies in our development pipeline to bring health within reach for every mother and child.
Pathfinder International contributes to child survival and health in the following ways:
For five decades, Pathfinder International, in collaboration with governments and local partners, has promoted the right of women and girls to contraceptive information and services—a key pillar for improving maternal and child survival and quality of life. Pathfinder’s innovative Clinical and Community Action for Maternal and Newborn Health (CCA-MNH) model, presently being implemented in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, promotes critical collaboration between communities and health facilities to save women’s and newborns’ lives. Recognizing that a child’s health depends on the health of its mother, this continuum of care approach supports their treatment as a dyad.
A distinctive characteristic of Pathfinder’s work for children includes:
Neonatal mortality now accounts for 44 percent of all under-five deaths worldwide, and more than 75 percent of these deaths occur in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Pathfinder’s programs focus on pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum care for mother and child, as well as improving access to contraceptives. We succeed in addressing the needs of marginalized populations at the grassroots level by building the capacity and knowledge of community members and training healthcare providers and community health workers. Pathfinder works to prevent the transmission of HIV to newborns and develops locally appropriate postpartum interventions to encourage breastfeeding and healthy nutrition. We also support the right to safe pregnancy and delivery, recognizing that the health of the newborn is inextricably dependent on the health of the mother. Working with governments and local partners, we offer all people—especially the most vulnerable and disenfranchised women and adolescent girls—information and services to help them exercise their rights and achieve their fertility intentions. At the same time, we strive to eliminate harmful traditional practices such as female genital cutting.
Finally, Pathfinder builds the capacity of communities and health systems to integrate reproductive, maternal, and newborn health programs into other health services and other development sectors, including education, environmental conservation, and sustainable livelihoods.
Through 2015, Pathfinder International has committed to work for child survival and health by:
Pathfinder’s local offices in 24 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean will continue to develop and test innovative approaches that increase people’s access to essential health services, while educating, engaging, and mobilizing communities to seek their own solutions. Through our efforts to increase contraceptive use in these countries, thereby reducing unintended pregnancies and abortions, Pathfinder commits to averting 8,000 maternal deaths by the end of 2015. We will continue to advocate globally for increased attention to and government investments in women’s and children’s health.
The United Nations Foundation contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: In 2010, the UN Foundation committed (with our partners) $400 million over five years in support of Every Woman Every Child. This commitment helps the UN address key global health priorities including childhood immunizations, malaria prevention, holistic health for adolescent girls, access to reproductive health supplies and services, clean cookstoves and fuels, and improving health outcomes through mobile technologies.
Distinctive characteristics of our work for children include our focus on dynamic, multi-stakeholder partnerships to bring new voices and resources to children’s health and our deep commitment to leveraging the UN’s reach and vision to address critical development issues.
Through 2015, the UN Foundation has committed to work for child survival and health by continuing to fulfill and build on our commitment to Every Woman Every Child, including by:
- Delivering vital health information via mobile phones to new and expectant mothers throughout the developing world. Through the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA), between now and the end of 2015 we will double our reach to 2.5 million women and their families globally; start programs in two new countries, including Nigeria where 10% of the maternal deaths globally occur; and communicate the results of our seminal research to determine health behavior change in Bangladesh and the impact of MAMA’s messages on HIV+ mothers and their babies.
- Contributing to the Measles & Rubella Initiative’s efforts to reach an additional 60 million children in approximately 25 countries with measles and rubella vaccines by the end of 2015, as part of our 15-year commitment to measles.
- Providing life-saving vaccines – including more than two million polio vaccines between now and the end of 2015 – to children around the world through our Shot@Life campaign.
- Providing 500,000 anti-malaria bed nets between now and the end of 2015 to protect families in Africa from malaria through our Nothing But Nets campaign.
- Enabling approximately 7.5 million households access to cookstoves and fuels that are clean and efficient, reducing their exposure to deadly household air pollution, through the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
URC contributes to child survival and health every day.
University Research Co., LLC (URC) and its non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS), partner with policy makers, community leaders and local organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to foster the sustainable, wide-scale application of evidence-based maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) interventions. We work to improve the quality of services and increase private-sector and NGO participation across the continuum of MNCH care in resource-limited regions. Our methods include research and evaluation, health systems strengthening, quality improvement and social and behavior change communication.
URC’s strength lies in our ability to apply science and use data to improve health systems and empower communities.
We are committed to fostering strategic, collaborative and holistic approaches to improve antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care for mothers and newborns; reduce neonatal mortality; increase support for child survival services and scale-up of preventive and curative child health services; and improve nutrition, especially for mothers and children age five and under.
In our MNCH work, we have set our sights on 2015 and beyond.
URC is an implementing partner of Helping Babies Breathe, a global initiative to reduce asphyxia-related newborn death by scaling up newborn resuscitation capacity in resource-limited countries. In addition, our commitment to our 1,000 Days partnership is clearly evident in our work in programs like Nutri-Salud, which is reducing malnutrition in mothers and children in Guatemala’s Western Highlands. In the USAID ASSIST project, we are working to integrate improvement methods in the Every Mother, Every Child protocol. As a member of the White Ribbon Alliance, our MNCH work supports a woman’s universal right to a safe birth through projects like the Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership (MaNHEP); USAID HealthPRO Phillipines; USAID Primary Health Care Project in Iraq (PHCPI); and the USAID|Translating Research into Action (TRAction) Project in Kenya, Tanzania and Guatemala. Our work in Central and South America supports our commitment to the Newborn Health Alliance through such low-cost, high-impact interventions as Kangaroo Mother Care.
WaterAid America contributes to child survival and health in the following ways: WaterAid America, as a Member of WaterAid International, contributes to child survival and health by working toward universal access to safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene by 2030. We do so through direct service delivery, capacity building and technical support on WASH in our 26 program countries, and advocacy at the national, regional and global levels for improved WASH policies and funding that accelerate access for the poorest, and enhance integration of WASH with health, nutrition, gender equality and child survival efforts.
A distinctive characteristic of our work for children includes: As the world’s largest NGO focused exclusively on safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), WaterAid has more than thirty years’ experience to bring to coordinated and integrated child health initiatives, such as A Promise Renewed. Our expertise lies in building partnerships and capacity, beginning with the communities where we work. WaterAid is uniquely placed to bridge policy and practice, providing research and technical support to governments, NGOs, and private sector partners worldwide to ensure holistic programs meet the needs of children everywhere. Our focus on WASH is geared toward improvements across the lifecycle, from birth to older age, and includes strong emphasis on women’s empowerment, which is core to child survival and well-being.
Through 2015, WaterAid America has committed to work for child survival and health by:
- Increasing our focus on sanitation and hygiene promotion in our global advocacy and, increasingly, through our global organization, in our 26 country programs
- Aiming to have provided safe drinking water to a further 25 million people by end 2015
- Working with relevant education, nutrition, and health stakeholders, and helping to bring relevant ministries together with those leading on safe drinking water and sanitation, to ensure our plans and strategies contribute to the elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), especially soil-transmitted helminthes; to support and reinforce community and health extension services to create an enabling environment for sanitation and hygiene transformation; and to strengthen health systems for an integrated approach to WASH and NTDs
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In May, 90,000 people were at Wembley Stadium, in London, for the FA Cup final between Arsenal and Aston Villa. A special guest was Yvonne Johanneson whose father played, against the tide, in the final half a century before.
“My [younger] sister Alicia and I were too young to see him playing, but we certainly remember him training at home and really enjoying the physical fitness that his career afforded him. He also loved to play football with the boys in the neighborhood whenever he had a chance,” Yvonne says.
On May 1, 1965, at Wembley, Albert Johanneson made history, but the African winger was sick as hell. The rain belted down. To the intimidating chants of 100,000 supporters, 22 footballers limbered up in the tunnel. This was the FA Cup final between Leeds United and Liverpool. This was also a small piece of history as Johanneson became the first African in an FA Cup final.
Minutes before the game, Johanneson had been throwing up in the toilet and struggling with diarrhoea. Because of his condition, he asked Don Revie, his manager, to drop him. Revie refused; he thought Johanneson was being too soft and never forgave him.
In the tunnel, an opponent turned to Johanneson.
“You have got no chance looking like that. Our fans will murder you,” he said.
The final was goalless until three minutes into extra time. Roger Hunt broke the deadlock to give Liverpool the lead. Captain Billy Bremner equalized for Leeds. Liverpool scrambled the winning goal on 111 minutes, with a diving header from Ian St John. This ended Liverpool’s 75-year wait for a trophy. Johanneson had a poor game but it was remarkable that he was even there.
Before his English career, Johanneson grew up with racism and violence in South Africa. He remembered an incident when he was six years old playing football with friends in the street in Germiston. According to the history of Leeds United, a car stopped and a white boy of his age jumped out and spat in his face. Johanneson didn’t move while his tormentor laughed. The boy spat again. Then the driver, his father, also jumped out with a cane and whipped Johanneson across his neck. Johanneson’s friends ran away, leaving him bleeding on the ground.
These same mean streets also brought Johanneson luck. Barney Gaffney, a Germiston school teacher scouting for Leeds United, spotted the young Johanneson. The 20-year-old went to England for a three-month trial in late 1960. This changed his life. He was signed and made his debut in April the following year.
This was England in the 1960s – the days when boarding houses displayed signs in the window that read: ‘No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’. There were virtually no black players in the English Premier League. Gerry Francis, also from Johannesburg and a Leeds player, was one of the few. It is believed Francis was one of the reasons Johanneson chose to go into the tough world for outsiders.
“My dad was even reluctant for my mother to attend the matches, which she initially found odd; but now we have a better understanding of why that could have been. It appears obvious that he wanted to protect her from hearing racial slurs being hurled at him. As you know, he left apartheid South Africa, only to be greeted with the same level of racism and discrimination when he arrived in England,” says Yvonne.
Yvonne says her father bottled everything up. She says one of the things she admired him for was not speaking badly about anyone; he made friends easily.
Johanneson also made a remarkable debut, on the wing, in a home 2-2 draw with Swansea on April 8, 1961. He created one of Jack Charlton’s two goals with a pinpoint cross. As his teammates ran towards him to celebrate, Johanneson froze. Back home, in South Africa, it meant trouble if a black man saw white men running towards him.
It was his deft and silky skills, plus devastating speed, that earned his nickname: The Black Flash. In the 1963/64 season, Johanneson was the top scorer for Leeds United with 15 goals, as the club won the second division title.
“He showed all the flair and loose-limbed speed for the game… High of action, he moved with supple grace, his feet scarcely touching the ground as if it were hot coal,” says Jack Charlton, a World Cup-winning center half and recipient of many of Johanneson’s crosses, in the club’s archive.
The shy and unconfident Johanneson was even daunted by the team bath. He was not sure whether he could bathe with his white teammates. The Leeds players saw this and stripped him naked and hurled him into the bath, good naturedly, to show him he was one of them. Johanneson was also puzzled when a white apprentice cleaned his boots. It would have never happened in South Africa.
The Times described him, rather patronizingly, as the colorful, popular, Johanneson from Johannesburg, whose gazelle-like speed down the wing draws the crowds to the terraces; an exciting player in the mould of the dusky Brazilians.
It helped make Johanneson a target for rough defenders. In an FA Cup semifinal, against Manchester United, he limped off before half time, thanks to a crunching tackle from midfield hard man Nobby Stiles. He lost his first team place and was never the same player again.
“Albert had no confidence. He could play, he was bloody quick… But it was as if Albert couldn’t believe it was happening to him, as if he thought a black man wasn’t entitled to be famous,” Bremner, the late Scottish international, says in the Leeds United archives.
“On his day he could skin any fullback, but he lacked the consistency and it was unfortunate that Albert was around at the same time as Eddie Gray. He was one of Don Revie’s most promising signings but when Eddie got a grip of his place on the wing, something had to give and Albert found himself in the reserves.”
“Albert was a jovial character around the dressing room, you know, and obviously he had a lot of talent. When I first came to the football club I played as a midfielder and Albert played as a winger. Eventually I took over from Albert because the manager at the time, Don Revie, felt we had a lot of good midfield players and he wanted me to try and play outside left. Albert had terrific pace and could dribble by people, could score a goal. I think Don was a little concerned that he couldn’t take it in the Premier League, the bigger league, because when Albert started playing we were in the second division,” says Gray.
“I never played with an African player and funnily enough it was very rare for a black South African player to come and play in England then… Albert was a pioneer. I feel he was the first black player from South Africa to make a name for himself and he did very well for Leeds United, he was a colorful lad and he was joyous and loved to play football.”
In his nine years at Leeds, Johanneson scored 76 goals in 200 appearances, with a couple of hat-tricks. In 1970, he was on the transfer list, as well as in the reserves, and was snapped up by a fourth division York City. At his new team, Johanneson managed 26 league games, with three goals, as York clinched promotion. He set up many of the 26 goals for leading goal-scorer Paul Aimson. In the 1971/72 season, Johanneson was offered a free transfer, but there were no takers. He retired as his injury problems grew.
Brendon Batson, the FA consultant and Arsenal’s first black player, says Johanneson helped pave the way for the scores of successful black players in the English game today.
“For a young black aspiring player seeing him playing in Wembley was fantastic. So his impact in terms of history became significant; more black players started coming to the fore. I think clubs started to see black players could make a contribution even though the stereotypical views would be expressed at that particular time,”
Sadly, Johanneson’s later life saw steep decline.
“It is not a secret that my dad suffered from alcoholism which affected his marriage. When the situation became too difficult for my mother, we returned with her to Jamaica in 1975. My mother and her sister subsequently moved to the United States in the 1980s and I joined her with my family in the late 1990s,” says Yvonne.
Johanneson remained in England with scant contact with his family. But Yvonne was to see her father again when she was a postgraduate student in France in 1984. Johanneson died alone on September 24, 1995, in Leeds. American poet Maya Angelou agreed to a family request to have her poem ‘Still I Rise’ inscribed on his headstone.
“Despite the humble beginnings from which he came, he engendered hope in others as a pioneer and brought pride to his race. Today, in spite of the fact that many have tried to disregard his contribution to the sport, his legacy can never die, as the poem says, ‘Still I Rise’,” says Yvonne.
It is arguable Johanneson has not received the recognition he deserves.
“My sister and I would very much like my father to be remembered for the joy he brought to the people watching him play. We firmly believe Albert should be recognized for the contribution he made in [British] football as a pioneer, who like Arthur Wharton, Andrew Watson and Walter Tull, paved the way for the black footballers. Although his influence was most prominent in [Britain], we would also like his legacy to be known in the land of his birth, South Africa. Lucas Radebe and Philemon Masinga are names synonymous with British Premier League football in South Africa, we feel that Albert should be equally recognized by his countrymen as a trailblazer who paved the way,” she says.
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Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders and Brain and Body Donation Program
The Brain and Body Donation Program (BBDP) at Banner Sun Health Research Institute (http://www.brainandbodydonationprogram.org) started in 1987 with brain-only donations and currently has banked more than 1600 brains. More than 430 whole-body donations have been received since this service was commenced in 2005. The collective academic output of the BBDP is now described as the Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders (AZSAND). Most BBDP subjects are enrolled as cognitively normal volunteers residing in the retirement communities of metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Specific recruitment efforts are also directed at subjects with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and cancer. The median age at death is 82. Subjects receive standardized general medical, neurological, neuropsychological and movement disorders assessments during life and more than 90% receive full pathological examinations by medically licensed pathologists after death. The Program has been funded through a combination of internal, federal and state of Arizona grants as well as user fees and pharmaceutical industry collaborations. Subsets of the Program are utilized by the US National Institute on Aging Arizona Alzheimer's Disease Core Center and the US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Brain and Tissue Resource for Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders. Substantial funding has also been received from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. The Program has made rapid autopsy a priority, with a 3.0-hour median post-mortem interval for the entire collection. The median RNA Integrity Number (RIN) for frozen brain and body tissue is 8.9 and 7.4, respectively. More than 2500 tissue requests have been served and currently about 200 are served annually. These requests have been made by more than 400 investigators located in 32 US states and 15 countries. Tissue from the BBDP has contributed to more than 350 publications and more than 200 grant-funded projects.
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Beach, Thomas G.; Adler, Charles H.; Sue, Lucia I.; Serrano, Geidy; Shill, Holly A.; Walker, Douglas G.; Lue, Lihfen; Roher, Alex E.; Dugger, Brittany N.; Maarouf, Chera; Birdsill, Alex C.; Intorcia, Anthony; Saxon-Labelle, Megan; Pullen, Joel; Scroggins, Alexander; Filon, Jessica; Scott, Sarah; Hoffman, Brittany; Garcia, Angelica; Caviness, John N.; Hentz, Joseph G.; Driver-Dunckley, Erika; Jacobson, Sandra A.; Davis, Kathryn J.; Belden, Christine M.; Long, Kathy E.; Malek-Ahmadi, Michael; Powell, Jessica J.; Gale, Lisa D.; Nicholson, Lisa R.; Caselli, Richard J.; and Woodruff, Bryan K., "Arizona Study of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disorders and Brain and Body Donation Program" (2015). Neurology. 770. | <urn:uuid:0c90a107-f7c4-460b-8810-2399b8fbd763> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholar.barrowneuro.org/neurology/770/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.88754 | 724 | 2.125 | 2 |
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
The ebook format is available for PC or Mac, iPad, iPod Touch, smartphone, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Nook, or any other ereader.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards:
- introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer taxonomies, performativities and cusps
- considers Sedgwick’s poetry and textile art alongside her theoretical texts
- encourages a personal as well as an academic response to Sedgwick’s work, suggesting how life-changing it can be
- offers detailed suggestions for further reading
Written in an accessible and direct style, Edwards indicates the impact that Sedgwick’s work continues to have on writers, readers, and literary and cultural theory today.
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- Language: English
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True stories of how yoga transforms ageing
Author: Kathy Arthurson
ISBN: 978-0-6486802 - 4 - 6
No. of pages: 210
YOGA YEARS is a must-read for anyone interested in living a happy, healthy and contented life.
The nine delightful yoga teachers featured in this collection will enliven your knowledge about the life changing benefits of yoga. The youngest is 66, the oldest 95, and they all still practise yoga – collectively they have over four hundred years’ worth of wisdom to share.
If you were a child in the 1970s you may recall one of the contributors, Bette Calman (now 93) demonstrating yoga on Australian day-time television. Bette was awe-inspiring then, and still is today, practising poses with glamour and ease.
This book is not a yoga instruction manual, but the women here do share much-loved practices for optimising health and ‘making you feel just amazing’.
They will take you on their own humorous, heartfelt, intimate life journeys with yoga and offer answers to the many questions you might have about the yogic lifestyle.
What people are saying about this book:
‘A real-life over fear approach to ageing in the 21st century. A must-read for all, especially women looking to age with grace, natural beauty, and the belief in their limitless potential regardless of age.’ Brynne Caleda, M.Ed., eRYT, CEO Yoga Ed.
‘Telling stories is a powerful way of letting the world know about our experiences. This book by Kathy Arthurson tells stories about people and their journey through yoga. It is encouraging, uplifting and inspiring. I dare anyone to read it and not feel compelled to try yoga!’ Professor John Coveney, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University of SA. | <urn:uuid:13dd6aaf-6b82-486d-ba27-830a938ec5a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.kathyarthursonyoga.com/publication.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93217 | 413 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Pasture biomass is an important quantity globally in livestock industries, carbon balances, and bushfire management. Quantitative estimates of pasture biomass or total standing dry matter (TSDM) at the field scale are much desired by land managers for land-resource management, forage budgeting, and conservation purposes. Estimates from optical satellite imagery alone tend to saturate in the cover-to-mass relationship and fail to differentiate standing dry matter from litter. X-band radar imagery was added to complement optical imagery with a structural component to improve TSDM estimates in rangelands. High quality paddock-scale field data from a northeastern Australian cattle grazing trial were used to establish a statistical TSDM model by integrating optical satellite image data from the Landsat sensor with observations from the TerraSAR-X (TSX) radar satellite. Data from the dry season of 2014 and the wet season of 2015 resulted in models with adjusted r2
of 0.81 in the dry season and 0.74 in the wet season. The respective models had a mean standard error of 332 kg/ha and 240 kg/ha. The wet and dry season conditions were different, largely due to changed overstorey vegetation conditions, but not greatly in a pasture ‘growth’ sense. A more robust combined-season model was established with an adjusted r2
of 0.76 and a mean standard error of 358 kg/ha. A clear improvement in the model performance could be demonstrated when integrating HH polarised TSX imagery with optical satellite image products.
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It can cover even just some concepts that originated from somebody else.This is why a license is extremely valuable to anyone that remains in the business of developing or constructing developments.The innovator will certainly after that have the ability to construct a much better version of his creation and then produce the need for the innovation that will certainly make it an immediate success.This is among the largest advantages of patenting, particularly with what we have today.
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A license lawyer is the best selection for a developer to get new ideas for developments. A great suggestion regarding just how to enter call with license attorneys will assist you get that creation concept help you are seeking.You will certainly have a certified license lawyer who will help you understand the patenting procedure and also assist you to get in call with the appropriate inventhelp office locations lawyer.Although they focus on license regulation, patent attorneys have knowledge concerning various other aspects of a company too. | <urn:uuid:2c704e36-5dc4-4b19-9c36-f5732fd79ec2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hsjskpil.recmydream.com/patent-my-idea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.969516 | 345 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Health bosses have said any COVID-19 vaccine would be “rigorously tested” before release as a tenth of people in a local poll say they would not take it.
A poll of 234 people on The Lincolnite‘s Facebook page saw 25 people vote no to taking any potential future vaccine – around 11% of respondents.
However, 190 people (84% said they would take the vaccine if offered. 14 people were unsure.
Health experts say they need a 95% uptake of vaccines – but county bosses have previously struggled to get more than 70% to take vaccinations like the flu-jab.
One commenter on the poll said: “I wouldn’t want the vaccine, I’m not against them bit it’s being rushed through.”
“Has it been tested yet? They take a couple of years research at least. Imagine people actually accepting a vaccine be put into their bodies, without knowing its safe! Madness,” said another.
Director of Public Health at Lincolnshire County Council Derek Ward said the process of getting a vaccine was “long and complicated”.
He echoed national experts in saying that one would not be available until the end of this year, beginning of next at least.
“There are a huge amount of checks on vaccine safety before anything is rolled out in the general population,” he said.
He said the aim was not only to protect the individual but the population and that a 95% take-up would be needed to create “herd immunity” – which is the stage at which a virus cannot get a foothold in a population.
“Those people who said they wouldn’t have it, or weren’t sure, if we can get half of them to change their minds, then, based on the poll we’d get to that sort of figure.
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Discussion and questions related to the course Practical Engine Building
hey i got a question about how freely should a crankshaft be able to spin when piston are installed?
this video show about how much effort it takes to turn my crankshaft
thats not me in the video so dont take offense im just using the video since its about how mine feel like
Well, that guy is just taking the piss!
Assuming you've done the basic pre-assembly checks on tunnel straightness and crank straightness, it should get progressively more difficult to turn the crank over as more piston/rod assemblies are added. It isn't the bearings that provide most of the resistance, but the piston rings being dragged along the bores.
How difficult should it be - going to depend on the engine, the bigger it is the more drag there will be, the rings used, the lubrication used, etc. As I said, should get more difficult by about the same amount as each is added. Some builders will even check the torque required at each step with a dial torque wrench. Crank on it's own should rotate very freely. You'd be surprised just how much drag there is before the initial running in is done.
would i be able to turn it by hand if i grab end of the crankshaft and turn it? or would i need a ratchet?
i can turn my rotating assembly the way the guy in the video is doing it and it is able to turn 360 degree with the same pressure all around
im asking because i seen another video of someone turning their rotating assembly with minimum effort
yeah the guy in the video is umm... yeah
I would never be afraid to turn a crank by hand or using a ratchet; as you assemble the engine it will get harder to turn by hand as the friction of the rotating assembly increases.
once the pistons have been installed it’s always a good idea to put a torque wrench on the crank and record what torque it takes to rotate the assembly. What the figure will be changes per engine and build and even what fluid you have used on the bearings; ie if it’s the engine oil or an assembly lube. I have found in the past thick assembly lubes give you a much higher turning torque than with an engine oil.
If you record this number you can use this as a check on future builds. Turning the engine over also gives you the feel of the engine; this should flag up if there is anything wrong before you go further with the build.
ok i guess its because im using assembly lube thats making it tougher to turn
Is there any videos you could take of yourself... when I say tougher, not by a considerable amount but it is noticeable; there’s a drag if the assembly lube is particularly sticky.
my camera is messed up so i cant but i put a torque wrench on it to turn it and it took approximately 6.5 lbs to turn
With the torque wrench on; was it a smooth rotation?
8.8Nm (6.5lbft)? Isn’t that much tbh and I would say your happy to proceed; when I’m turning an engine over in looking for it to be smooth without any tight spots; sound uniform and I’m inspecting everything during the rotation for anything glaringly obvious.
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Importing an Animate project into After Effects
Adobe built Animate and After Effects so they could easily be combined. As we’ve seen over the course of the semester the two software have a lot of similarities but also distinct strengths/weaknesses. Importing our Animate character animation into After Effects will allow us to create more complex camera movements, title sequences and effects.
While there is a camera feature in Animate, it isn’t as sophisticated as the one in After Effects, as it is limited to simple zooms, pans and tilts. This might be more than enough for certain situations (and even your walk cycle assignment), but familiarizing yourself with After Effects’ Camera tool early on will help you with more complex projects down the line.
Importing the Animate file in After Effects
For Adobe Animate Adobe Animate version 19.0 and beyond and After Effects version 16.0 and beyond (current version offered with Adobe license).
- Make sure all your Animate layers are well organized and labeled. Get rid of any layer you don’t want to include in this version (create a copy of the file before deleting anything). Also be mindful that anything outside of the Stage will not be taken into account in After Effects.
- Launch Adobe After Effects.
- Create a new project and save it.
- Go to File > Import > File and select your .fla file. Notice that a new composition as well as a folder containing individuals .swf files (one for each of your .fla layers) has been added to your library.
- Also add any other file you might be using in the project (i.e: a the background layer you created in Illustrator. Please be aware that raster files (i.e: Photoshop, Procreate, JPG, PNG etc.) will get pixelated if zoomed in… thus the preferred vector format in this case).
- In the Project panel, you will notice a new composition with the name of your fla file as well as a a folder containing the individuals swf files (one for each of your .fla layers). Double click on the composition to open it (and add any layer you’d like)
- In order to use the camera on your layers, you must convert them to 3D: Select all of them, right-click and select 3D Layer.
- If you intend to use the camera to zoom onto certain part of your swf files, you will want After Effects to scale up the vector image without pixelization. In order to do so, you need to turn on the Continuously Rasterize option checkbox (the little sun-like icon) for all the .swf files you will be zooming into.
Looping a sequence in After Effects
Sometimes, you will want to loop one of the layers/animation you imported into After Effects (our 8 – frame walk cycle, for example could be looped to last for an entire minute).
First, we will have to set the Composition settings to match the total length we wish our animation to be:
- Go to Composition > Composition Settings…
- Set the duration to your desired length
You’ll notice that the Timeline has changed, but the length of the files you previously imported hasn’t. To lengthen and loop them:
- For a static layer (.png, .jpg, .psd etc.), place your cursor over the very end of the layer bar in the timeline. It should be a horizontal double ended arrow cursor. Drag to the right to extend the layer to the end of the composition.
- For an animated layer (importing an fla you made in Animate):
- Right-click on the layer and select Time > Enable Time Remapping
- Place your cursor over the very end of the layer bar in the timeline.Drag to the right to extend the layer to the end of the composition.
- Click on the Property pick whip icon (the little swirl on the right)
- Toggle the Time Remap arrow
- Click the Expression language menu (the little circle with the arrow in the center) and select Property > LoopOut.
The screen shots below may help you follow the steps, or look at the video tutorial on Blackboard and YouTube.
Moving the background
In order to give the impression that your character is moving in space, we have to move the background (this is why you creates one that is much wider than the composition:
- Place your time cursor at the beginning of the animation (0:00:00:00)
- Toggle the background layer’s Transform menu and click on the Position stopwatch
- Change the X value of the background so that its left edge aligns with the left edge of the composition.
- Go to the end of the animation
- Change the X value of the background so that its right edge aligns with the right edge of the composition.
Camera in After Effects
Adobe After Effects allows you to add a Camera layer to your Compositions. This can add dynamism to your scene by using a variety of shots, zooming, panning etc.
By default, Solid, Text and Shape layers in After Effects are 2-dimensional. This means they have an X(width) and Y(height) axis. This is also true of .swf, .png, .jpg and any other raster files you may be importing into your project. However, the camera needs 3-dimensional information in order to move properly – this means it needs an added Z (depth) axis.
Before adding a camera to your composition, you must transform all the layers you want to include into your camera-enhanced scene into 3D layers: This can be done by right-clicking on the layer and selecting 3D Layer or by toggling the box in the 3D column. While these layers aren’t exactly 3-dimensional (your characters, props, backgrounds etc. are still 2-dimensional drawings), the layers are placed into a 3-dimensional space and can be moved on the Z axis. This effect is often referred to as 2.5D (in-between 2D and 3D).
Adding a Camera layer
A Camera is a layer (just like Solids, Text and Shapes). It will be added to your Timeline. In order to add one:
- Go to Layer > New… > Camera
- You can change the type of camera and lens, but we’ll keep the default setting:
- Type: One-Node Camera
- Preset: 50mm
- Units: Millimeters
- Measure Film Size: Horizontally
- Deselect Enable Depth of Field (or you might get a blurred image when zooming very close to your swf file).
- Once you hit OK, you’ll notice that a Camera layer has been added to the Timeline.
Previewing and controlling the camera
A second/bird’s eye view of the composition is useful when positioning elements in 3-dimensional space. Let’s change the view of our Composition window:
- Set the view layout dropdown to 2 Views – Horizontal
- Click on the new view (on the left) and make sure 3D view dropdown is set to Top
The Camera layer has its own Animation properties. Toggle the Transform tab to see them. For now, we will focus on the first two properties:
- Position: There is a number for each of the 3 axis, X(width), Y (height) and Z (depth). You can type in numbers, hover click and drag on them or control the position visually in the Top view.
- Orientation: This refers to the angle of the camera. The first value can be used to tilt the camera (up – down), the second to pan it (left – right) and the third to rotate around the scene
Just like any property, you must set a first keyframe (by clicking on the stopwatch icon) in order to change them over time. For a zoom or pan, you can use regular keyframes. If you wish to “cut” from one camera position to another, use a Hold keyframe (right-click on the keyframe and select Toggle Hold Keyframe).
I am keeping these steps fairly simple for the sake of time, but this article from School of Motion is a great resource if you want to learn more about cameras in After Effects.
Saving, moving and submitting your After Effects project
When you import assets into your After Effects library, you must include all the files you used when moving or sharing your project. If you only save/submit your .aep file it won’t be able to load the .swf and .png files and will send an error message saying it can not locate them.
In order to avoid this issue, keep your work organized into a single folder, and include the entire folder in your submissions/when moving your file form one computer to another. You will have to zip it.
- Importing an fla file (Animate) into After Effects and looping it
- Importing a background layer into After Effects and panning it
- Adding a camera layer in After Effects
Week 10 Assignment: Import your Animate file into After Effects
By the time of our next meeting, make sure you have:
- Created a folder that contains your Animate file, your After Effects project file, your background and any other files you will be using for your project.
- Imported the Animate file into After Effects and looped it, following instructions.
- Imported the background file and panned it in After Effects
- Added a camera layer to the After Effects project
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Musical life at Fitzwilliam is active, varied and stimulating, and we aspire to the highest standards in both academic and practical music - in 2012 we were ranked at the top of the University for Music Tripos results. Each year we normally admit two or three students to read for the Music Tripos; an Organ Scholar (who may or may not read Music) is elected every other year.
Director of Studies
Francis Knights, Fellow and Tutor, Fitzwilliam College
Research interests: Renaissance manuscripts, Baroque performance practice, organology, composition, discography, editing skills.
Teaching interests: harmony and counterpoint, historical subjects in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, keyboard techniques.
Performing interests: conducting, cathedral music, early keyboard instruments.
Other music staff include Dr Chloe Valenti (Supervisor of Studies in Music) and Katharine Parton (Director of Music).
Students reading Music will be taught for certain courses by the resident Director of Studies in Music. Supervisions are held either on a one-to-one basis for subjects requiring individual attention (such as Harmony and Counterpoint), or in groups of two or three where broader discussion is beneficial (History, Analysis, and so forth). These weekly sessions are designed to support and complement the instruction offered by the Music Faculty, which provides a wide range of lectures together with practical classes in Aural and other skills.
The weekly sessions are organised and taught by a team of supervisors appointed by the Director of Studies in Music which may include a mixture of senior faculty members, external supervisors and postgraduates whose area of specialist research is related to the topic or paper being supervised. Appointments are made on the basis of expertise in the particular field requiring tuition. The new College Library contains one of the two largest music collections in Cambridge.
For first-year examinations (Part IA of the Music Tripos), students are entered for papers in Harmony and Counterpoint, History, Analysis, and Practical Musicianship. Harmony and Counterpoint exercises comprise harmonisation of a ground bass, continuation of a string quartet, three-part sixteenth-century counterpoint, and a fugal exposition. At present, Harmony and Counterpoint is assessed both by a three-hour examination that requires the student to write stylistically sophisticated exercises without the benefit of a keyboard and another paper in which the student has twenty-four hours to complete and submit the exercises; this enables the use of a keyboard.
First-year Historical topics concentrate on nineteenth-century music history, encompassing both instrumental and vocal repertoire and Renaissance music. Analytical work focuses on Baroque- and Classical-era music. Keyboard tests include score-reading and harmonisation, and the aural examination consists of both dictation exercises and an aural analysis.
In the second year (Part IB), students begin to specialise by choosing a selection of historical topics from the wide range offered. All candidates sit a compulsory paper in music analysis covering music of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and must submit a Portfolio of Tonal compositions containing a fugue in either three or four parts and two contrasting pieces in tonal styles using traditional forms selected from a prescribed list.
For their final examination (Part II), students are allowed considerable latitude in choice of papers. They may opt to pursue an individual research project in the form of a dissertation, submit a Portfolio of free Compositions or advanced tonal compositions, study the notation of mediaeval and renaissance music in more detail, sit papers in subjects like Acoustics, offer a recital, or undertake various specialised history papers.
The typical A Level offer for Music is A*AA, including Music. The typical IB offer is 40-41 points with 776 at Higher Level. In exceptional circumstances, ABRSM Grade 8 Theory may be accepted instead of A Level (or equivalent) Music.
Applicants are required to submit two pieces of recent written work as part of their application.
Successful applicants with a strong interest in traditional chamber music and a high standard of performing ability on an eligible instrument are also eligible to apply for a Chamber Music Instrumental Award tenable at the College, which is awarded on the basis of a university-wide competition held at the beginning of the academic year.
Musical life at Fitzwilliam
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The College Music Society organises frequent concerts, which take place in the new 240-seat Auditorium (which has a Steinway grand piano and a two-manual Goble harpsichord), or in the Chapel, where there is a fine two-manual Peter Collins organ and a Bechstein grand piano. The Music Society also hosts the annual instrumental scholarships competitions and all music Scholars, including Choral and Organ Scholars, are members of the Music Society Committee.
Prominent in the College's musical life is the Chapel Choir, which performs both in Chapel services and at other functions. Other Fitzwilliam ensembles include the New Music ensemble CB3, the renowned Fitz Barbershop and Sirens vocal ensembles (men's & women's), the Cambridge University 'Fitz' Swing Band and a number of rock bands. There is also a strong tradition of music theatre in the College. 2007 saw the foundation of Fitzwilliam Chamber Opera, Cambridge's only permanent college-based opera company, whose debut production of Handel's Xerxes performed to full houses in the Auditorium. Excellent practice facilities are provided, including a band room and four dedicated music practice rooms.
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The goal of this study was to develop a small-animal model to study human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) pathogenesis in blood and primary and secondary lymphoid organs. can be used for infection with low doses of CCR5-tropic HIV-1, which is most commonly transmitted during primary infections. HIS-Rag2?/?c?/? mice can serve as a small-animal model for investigating HIV-1 pathogenesis and testing potential HIV-1 therapies, and studies with this model may replace some long and costly studies with nonhuman primates. Presently, the best animal models for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection are arguably the nonhuman primate models for simian immunodeficiency virus and chimeric simian-human immunodeficiency virus infections (7, 8, 17). Simian immunodeficiency virus infection in rhesus macaques (= 0.042). Although the patterns of change in CD4+-T-cell levels were not so consistent among the mice, the decline in CD4+-T-cell/CD8+-T-cell ratios was likely due to CD4+-T-cell depletion. FIG. 2. Kinetics of ratios of CD4+ T cells to CD8+ T cells in uninfected and HIV-1-infected mice. Mice buy 478-08-0 were mock injected or injected with heat-inactivated (HI) or 500 or 5,000 TCID50 of HIV-1NFN-SX(SL9). At various time points pre- or postinjection, … TABLE 2. Kinetics of CD4+-T-cell/CD8+-T-cell ratios in uninfected and R5 HIV-1-infected micea Immune responses in HIS-Rag2?/?c?/? mice. Immune responses to foreign antigens in this mouse model have been reported previously (27). We examined mice from experiments 2 and 3 for antigen-specific immune responses (mice from experiments 1 and 4 were not tested for antibody responses). We did not observe antibody responses specific to HIV-1, as assayed by Western blotting, either to viral proteins prepared from virions or to recombinant pr55 Gag. However, in four out of four HIV-1-inoculated animals that were not productively infected (mice 4, 5, 8, and 9), we observed an antibody response (IgM and IgG) directed to an unidentified 51-kDa antigen of buy 478-08-0 fetal bovine serum present in virus preparations (representative data from mouse 5 are shown in Fig. ?Fig.3).3). The antibody response was detectable starting at week 6 postinfection and continued until week 11 postinfection, when the mice were sacrificed. Antibody responses to the fetal bovine serum antigen were not detected in two out of two mice that were productively infected (mice 6 and 10) or in uninfected mice (mice 1, 3, and buy 478-08-0 7). It is noteworthy that antibody responses to the fetal bovine serum antigen were detected only in those inoculated animals in which T-cell depletion and productive viral infection were not observed, suggesting that active viral replication leading to the depletion of the lymphoid system inhibits the formation of functional immune responses. FIG. 3. Western blot analysis using serum from an HIV-1-inoculated HIS-Rag2?/?c?/? mouse (mouse 5 in Tables ?Tables11 and ?and2)2) for the assessment of reactive proteins present in media from mock-transfected … Cellular T-cell responses were measured using gamma interferon ELISPOT assays. No cellular T-cell responses to HIV-1 Gag and Nef peptides were detected by gamma interferon ELISPOT assays (data not shown). DISCUSSION The reconstitution of immune systems in several immunodeficient-mouse models (16), including the Rag2?/?c?/? (9, 27) and NOD/SCID/IL-2r-null (14, 29) mouse models with human CD34+ cells from fetal liver tissue or cord blood has been reported previously by us and other investigators. After the injection of human CD34+ fetal liver cells into neonatal Rag2?/?c?/? mice, we detected human lymphocytes, including T and B cells, in murine thymuses, spleens, bone marrow, and peripheral blood, as we and others buy 478-08-0 have described previously (9, 27). In addition, in our present experiments, we detected human IgM as well as IgG in the peripheral blood of the mice with reconstituted systems (IgM, 5 Lymphotoxin alpha antibody to 116 g/ml; IgG, 10 to 980 g/ml) at levels comparable to those reported by Traggiai et al. (27). As R5 HIV-1 isolates are the most commonly replicating viruses during primary infection, we infected HIS- Rag2?/?c?/? mice intraperitoneally with low doses of R5 HIV-1NFN-SX(SL9) (500 or 5,000 TCID50). Despite the presence of very low percentages of CCR5+ cells in the human thymus, we have previously shown that molecularly cloned R5 HIV-1 (HIV-1JR-CSF and HIV-1NFN-SX), as well as pediatric R5 isolates, is able to productively infect human thymocytes in vitro and in vivo (11, 12, 22, 23)..
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The study of educational leadership makes little sense unless it is in relation to who the leaders are, how they are leading, what is being led, and with what effect. Based on the premise that learning is at the heart of leadership and that leaders themselves should be learners, the Leadership for Learning series explores the connections between educational leadership, policy, curriculum, human resources and accountability. Each book in the series approaches its subject matter through a three-fold structure of process, themes and impact.Series Editors - Clive Dimmock, Mark Brundrett and Les BellThe effects of globalization are evident in education policy around the world. Governments from the United States to China are driving their education systems to produce more skilled, more flexible, more adaptable employees. The pressure to perform is all-pervasive, meaning present-day leaders have to go beyond the principles of humane and equitable management practice and look for a competitive advantage through strategies that enhance motivation, build capacity for organizational improvement, and produce better value-added performance.Human Resource Management in Education debates the fundamental question of how far effective human resource management policies can enable schools and colleges to transcend the paradoxes of the global reform agenda. It analyses the relationship between leadership, the classroom and results, and uses case studies to explore the extent to which performance is enhanced by distributed leadership and constrained by social, political and economic contexts.The book is divided into three parts:examining the current context of human resource management, by critically analysing globalization, human capital theory, and worldwide trends in government legislation, societal values, and teacher culture(s);exploring two pairs of contemporary themes in human resource management, by comparing the roles of leaders and followers, on the one hand, and contrasting learning and greedy organizations, on the other;looking at how the context and the themes impact on particular contemporary practices in human resource management, by analysing the selection and development of professionals, the remodelling of school teams and the management of performance.The authors carefully blend advocacy with evidence to ensure relevance for both practitioner and academic audiences across the globe. The book would be of particular use to students on masters courses in educational leadership. | <urn:uuid:fdf60f09-7ac1-4b8f-b88b-ccb47610a324> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.saraiva.com.br/human-resource-management-in-education-8069657.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00299-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940225 | 432 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Anzac Day Posters 2009
A commemorative poster was produced for the 10th anniversary of Australia’s involvement as part of INTERFET in East Timor. The image shows Lance Corporal Ross Peters of Hobart, Tasmania, and Private Paul Everett of WA providing outer perimeter protection for members of A Company, 3 RAR, 1 Platoon conducting a building clearance in Dili during "Operation Stabalise", 2 October 1999.
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In 1975 Indonesia invaded the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. After almost twenty five years of bloodshed in the territory, a new Indonesian Government under President Habibie agreed to allow the East Timorese to vote on their future. UNAMET (UN Assistance Mission to East Timor) was established by Security Council Resolution 1246 on 11 June 1999 to organise and conduct the ballot in order to ascertain whether the East Timorese people accepted or rejected the proposed constitutional framework providing for a special autonomy for East Timor within the unitary Republic of Indonesia. Fifty members of the Australian Federal Police served with UNAMET from June 1999. The role of civilian police in UNAMET was to advise members of the Indonesian police in the course of their duties and to escort ballot boxes after the vote. The ballot was conducted on 30 August 1999 and the East Timorese people voted strongly against autonomy under Indonesia and to begin a process of transition towards independence. In the wake of the ballot, much violence occurred, many East Timorese were killed and as many as 500,000 were displaced from their homes. About half left the territory, some by force.
In September 1999, the Security Council authorised INTERFET, headed by Australia, to restore peace and security in East Timor, protect and support UNAMET in carrying out its tasks and facilitate humanitarian assistance operations. INTERFET went to East Timor with the agreement of the Indonesian Government. About 5,500 Australian troops were sent to East Timor as part of Australia's contribution to the multinational force. Major General Peter Cosgrove commanded the force for five months until February 2000. Civilian police, including the Australian Federal Police, carried out monitoring and advisory duties under INTERFET. At the beginning of its operations, INTERFET airdropped supplies of food and medicine and protected convoys carrying aid workers, making sure supplies got to the East Timorese people. By November 1999, 22 nations had contributed to INTERFET including the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, New Zealand, Britain, United States and Canada.
- Peter Londey, Other People's Wars: A history of Australian Peacekeeping, Allen and Unwin, Sydney,2004.
- Bob Breen, Mission Accomplished, East Timor: The Australian Defence Force participation in the International Forces East Timor (INTERFET), Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2000.
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2 edition of John M. Browning armory. found in the catalog.
John M. Browning armory.
Utah National Guard.
Written in English
|LC Classifications||UF6 .U8|
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|Number of Pages||60|
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By. Ray - Novem 1. SHARE. Facebook. Twitter. The Browning Automatic Rifle is one of the most iconic rifles from WWII. It was developed by John M. Browning in and was first used in WWI up until the Vietnam War. Ohio Ordnance Works still manufactures a reproduction of The U.S. Model Of Browning Automatic Rifle. John M. Browning Firearms Museum, Ogden, UT guns, on display (plus 43 on loan) (50%). Established in The John Browning Firearms Museum is part of the Union Station Museum in Ogden, Utah.
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Browning Armory of the Utah National Guard, Ogden, Utah. Inside front cover, remarks by Governor George Dewey Clyde, and Major General Maxwell E.
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John M. Browning Armory - Soft Cover Book - 1st Printing with Factory Letter This is the firist printing of the book available at the John M. Browning Armory in Ogden, Utah. This version was printed in and was sent out by Browning and includes the original factory letter. As a docent at the Browning Firearms Museum in Ogden, UT I research everything I can find to increase my ability to educate people who are interested in the history of John M.
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Browning inventions. If you read no other book about the history of the great John Moses Browning it must be this. John Moses Browning (Janu – Novem ) was an American firearms designer who developed many varieties of military and civilian firearms, cartridges, and gun mechanisms – many of which are still in use around the world.
He made his first firearm at age 13 in his father's gun shop, and was awarded the first of his firearm patents on October 7. A photo of the prototype, credited to the John M. Browning Armory, is included in the book “John M.
Browning, American Gunmaker” by John Browning (JMB’s son) and Curt Gentry. This biography asserts that JMB tended to build his guns from scratch, either first constructing wooden models, or skipping that step to construct direct-from-metal.
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Quick facts. City/Town Ogden State Utah Country. Sitting on a display case in the Varnum Memorial Armory Museum’s “World Wars Room” is a Model MA2 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR).Introduced late in World War I and now known by infantrymen around the globe, the “BAR” was the product of the fertile mind of John Moses is considered to be one of the world’s foremost firearms designers.
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Patent Description. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN M. BROWNING, of Ogden, in the county of Weber and State of Utah, have invented a new Improvement in Firearms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be full, clear, and exact description of the.
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Browning American Gunmaker is a tremendous asset and gives us more than a glimpse at the Browning Brothers’ biographies, but it has also propelled an inaccurate perception. From. John M. Browning didn’t get the design of his automatic pistol right on the first few attempts but when he did perfect it he created the automatic pistol that would be the model for a plethora of handguns that would use very similar designs.
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The crackdown on free speech continued in Russia this week with the sentencing of a leading critic of Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Filmmaker Oleg Sentsov was given 20 years for conspiracy to commit terror attacks. Critics have denounced the case as a sham prosecution of a critic and compared the move (like so many under Vladimir Putin) as a return to Soviet-style trials for critics.
The Russians accused Sentsov of creating a terror cell in the Crimean Peninsula and was plotting attacks. Britain and other nations do not buy it and have criticized the case.
Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko (who was given 10 years) have been detained since May 2014. Sentsov was snatched off the street in the Crimea capital in May 2014 and then surfaced in Moscow to face charges. He has challenged the jurisdiction of the court to try him.
Sentsov, 39, was the victim of torture according to his supporters who pointed out bruises on this body. Russian police insisted that those bruises were the result of his love for sadomasochistic sex. At the trial, the main prosecution witness recanted said his evidence had been extorted under torture.
Sentsov remained defiant in court: “When they put a bag on your head, beat you up a bit, half an hour later you’re ready to go back on all your beliefs, implicate yourself in whatever they ask, implicate others, just to stop them beating you. I don’t know what your beliefs can possibly be worth if you are not ready to suffer or die for them. . . . I am not going to beg for leniency. Everything is already clear. A court of occupiers cannot be just by definition.” | <urn:uuid:ecc07410-836f-4105-9b93-e71d0f1e0bc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jonathanturley.org/2015/08/26/russians-sentence-ukrainian-filmmaker-to-20-years-despite-recantation-by-main-witness-and-allegations-of-torture/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.972825 | 353 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to survive. We can do it ourselves, right now, by harnessing technology and pharmacology to boost our intelligence. Is Google actually making us smarter? | <urn:uuid:34521141-700e-4026-ac26-362f7b206e59> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lisnews.org/google_actually_making_us_smarter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898367 | 94 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Emotional Behavioural Therapy
Emotional and Behavioural Assessment and Therapy is for children experiencing complex emotional and behavioural problems. This programme idetifies the root cause of the child’s difficulties and targets therapy for the child and support for the parents/carers to manage the problem.
There are two packages of support; the ‘complex programme’ and the ‘brief programme’.
The Complex Emotional & Behavioural Programme is for children who are displaying multiple emotional and behavioural challenges. For example, children with high-level attachment difficulties, ADHD or ASD. The programme uses an assessment process which provides an analysis of a child’s behaviour and emotional wellbeing. The results of the analysis inform the development and implementation of individualised support and therapeutic plans. The process has been designed for use with children who engage in problematic behaviours or are experiencing emotional challenges from 2 years up to 17 years of age and has been highly effective in supporting children with complex behaviour problems.
The Brief Emotional & Behavioural Programme is suitable for children who are experiencing challenges such as sleep problems, anxiety, tantrums, overfamiliarity, inappropriate behaviours, attachment challenges, or aggression, hurting others, self-harm. The brief programme is suitable for children displaying one or two challenges but not the multiple challenges addressed in the complex programme.
By working with the parent/carer and providing targeted therapy for the child we can ensure that the best outcomes are achieved and that outcomes are transferable to the home environment. Sessions can take place at our clinic, in the child’s home, or in school depending on the child’s needs.
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December 26, 2016
The past month was quite eventful in terms of mobile security. The month began with an Android Trojan that infected system libraries, injected itself into application processes, and then covertly downloaded and installed various software. Later, Doctor Web’s security researchers detected malware programs which were preinstalled into dozens models of Android devices and covertly installed unwanted applications.
At the beginning of December, Doctor Web detected Android.Loki.16.origin that covertly downloaded and installed software on mobile devices. This Trojan tried to get root privileges by using exploits and then copied several additional modules into system catalogs. The modules allowed the Trojan to infect system libraries and to launch itself together with the modules, obtaning the root privileges. As a result, Android.Loki.16.origin could download, install, and remove applications without user knowledge. For more details about this incident, refer to the news article.
In mid-December, Doctor Web’s specialists found several Trojans incorporated into the firmware of dozens of Android mobile devices models. One of them, dubbed Android.DownLoader.473.origin, covertly downloaded and installed software—for example, the unwanted application Adware.AdBox.1.origin that displayed advertisements. Another Trojan, added to the virus database as Android.Sprovider.7, also downloaded applications and tried to install them. In addition, it opened various web pages in a browser, made phone calls, and showed advertisements. For more information about these Trojans, refer to the corresponding news article.
Cybercriminals actively continue contriving various methods to infect mobile devices—they even began to inject Trojans into devices’ firmware. Thus, consumers are under the risk to buy an infected device. To detect preinstalled malware programs, Android users should install Dr.Web for Android. If the Trojan is detected in the system catalogs, it is recommended that you contact the technical support service and ask for the system update to neutralize the threat. | <urn:uuid:f4bfd076-ca1a-443e-ad87-6155ed765cfa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.drweb.com/show/review/?lng=en&i=11091 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00553-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929467 | 412 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Lipinski Royal Fidelity Credo
Lipinski Royal Fidelity ' comprehensive responsibility is to understand the composer's idea and to recreate it for the audience with hand-crafted recordings, inspired and achieved through a systemic collaboration with the performing musicians.
We begin by listening to our artists live. This sets a blueprint for the ideal sound. Then we turn to the acoustics of a recording hall, which we optimize for our specific needs. We then determine the most desirable placement of musicians, for incremental changes often make a staggering difference.
The selection of an appropriate set of microphones and their proper placement is a unique art. In the practice of this art we follow the principle of "less is more" - fewer microphones, shorter cables, fewer electronics, no signal processing, and as little editing as possible. We do occasionally discover that "more is more". The art of recording centers on judgment.
To the extent that phonography can be like photography, we "photograph" the acoustical events with the accuracy of solid state electronics. Where phonography should be more like painting, we "paint" with vacuum tube electronics. There are times when the best solution is to paint over a photograph.
To assist in this art, we use cutting-edge technology and equipment that has been crafted to our specifications, "cost no object". From microphone to disk, we use no component that has not gone through exhaustive listening tests.
We move from the big picture to the smallest details. However, the quest for the ultimate in sound reproduction requires us to return again and again to the recording as a whole. So we listen. We listen to live music in ideal settings. We listen to what are considered the best recordings ever made. We listen to our own Lipinski-crafted recordings, and return again to the live performance.
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English at Barr View Primary
"English is well taught in all years. Phonics teaching is particularly effective in key stage 1, and this helps pupils become confident readers. Pupils make good progress in both reading and writing in the early years, in key stage 1 and in key stage 2."
Great importance is placed on the teaching of English within day-to-day learning at Barr View Primary.
The development of English skills is seen as a key part of the curriculum and so these skills are taught through every subject. The skills focused on can be split into key areas, these are: phonics (in Early years and Key Stage One); reading for meaning and pleasure; writing for a range of purposes and audiences; spelling punctuation and grammar; speaking and listening.
Barr View aims for children to become lifelong learners; informed, articulate citizens, who are able to communicate clearly using a rich vocabulary; and who read widely for pleasure and information.
Our English curriculum is progressive. We value a cross curricular approach as this allows English skills and knowledge to be developed, embedded and applied across the curriculum. Learning, tasks and resources are differentiated to promote the understanding of all learners. Teaching and learning is linked to quality, relevant, cross-curriculum books and novels. Focused, purposeful talk is used to develop children's vocabulary, understanding and ideas. Children are encouraged to be reflective learners, using self and peer assessment.
Children are articulate and informed; they read widely for pleasure and information; and they write fluently and cohesively using a rich vocabulary.
At Barr View Primary School, we really value reading and we want all of our pupils to do so as well. We encourage the children to read regularly at home as well as at school in order for them to become confident readers. Children begin by learning to read and then read to learn. We understand that children develop at different rates and we adapt learning and tasks for the different learning needs of pupils in order for all of them to progress. Through daily English lessons and the wider creative curriculum, we provide opportunities for children to develop the full range of reading skills and to become enthusiastic readers.
Barr View has a well-structured reading scheme based on a number of published reading schemes and a welcoming and well-resourced library. Children in early years and year one have well-structured phonics lessons. Central to all our teaching of reading is the importance of reading for meaning and children are encouraged to develop higher order reading skills, such as inference and developing a wider reading vocabulary through reading widely and discussions with adults and with each other.
Children are given opportunities to write for a wide range of purposes, not only within English lessons, but across the curriculum. Children develop their understanding of a range of text types and how to write in a variety of forms. They are encouraged to develop their skills in spelling and handwriting and to redraft and improve their writing. They complete fortnightly Big Writes to publish their final piece as well as completing extended writing in science and our Creative Curriculum.
Speaking and Listening
"Spoken language underpins the development of reading and writing. The quality and variety of language that pupils hear and speak are vital for developing their vocabulary and grammar and their understanding for reading and writing." National Curriculum 2013
We therefore provide our children with a range of opportunities to expand their spoken vocabulary across the whole curriculum through: class discussions; to explain their understanding of texts they have read; to prepare their writing; role play and artistic drama. Additionally, we ensure that pupils are able to participate in and gain knowledge through listening.
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" The stress echo is still a dynamic test akin to driving the car round the track, whereas the CT scan is like opening up the car cylinders to have a look when the car is static and switched off. The CT scan is more of a structural study as opposed to a dynamic study. Both have their merits, but with the worries created by Fukushima, some patients may wish to avoid the medical radiation involved in a CT scan."
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Online workshops are an effective tool used by educational institutions, professional workplaces, creative professionals, and content creators to impart specific lessons or skills. They also bring people together to share new ideas, knowledge, or art. In this article, we will talk about types of educational workshops for students and learners in general.
Conducting a successful workshop requires meticulous planning and preparation along with efficient execution. Several steps are involved in bringing together an engaging workshop. If this is the first time you are conducting an educational workshop for your students, or if you need some help organising the tasks into steps, keep reading.
Here are 5 steps that will help you break down and organise your tasks for conducting a successful workshop:
1. Planning is key to conducting an effective workshop. Like with most other tasks, planning helps you carry out the event smoothly, helping with a plan of action for any unforeseen situations that might cause any setbacks to your workshop.
These are some pointers that can help you with planning:
- Ascertain the aims and objectives of your workshop before you start planning for the actual event. Once your agenda is clear, it will be easy to determine the means to achieve it. As they say, “well begun is half done”.
- Plan the sequence of events and come up with an approximate timeline of the whole event. You can specify how long each exercise or group discussion will last. It is best to keep a buffer for the timeline if it extends beyond your estimates.
- Create groups according to subjects, topics or subtopics. To ensure that your workshop is successful, you need to be selective about your audience. It will be in your favour to segregate students into groups according to their preferences of topics. An uninterested audience can really kill the vibe of a workshop.
- List down the rules of engagement for your students to follow during the workshop. Brief instructions will help maintain order and ensure fairness during the workshop. Rules might seem restrictive but actually allow everyone equal freedom while preserving their rights.
There are two stages of preparation that you will need to go through to ensure nothing goes sideways during your workshop:
- Advance preparations: You need to start these a few days or a week before the date of the workshop. Advance preparation will include planning and finalising your communication platform, the venue, refreshments and general logistics.
- Just-in-time preparations: These include last-minute set-ups like the camera, sound checks, and connectivity checks that need to be ensured a few minutes before commencement.
3. Games, exercises, and activities
There are several group activities, games and discussions that make a workshop fun and enjoyable for the audience. It breaks the ice and enables comfortable communication between you, the participants, and the group as a whole. For instance, you can start a new idea with a short poll on something related to the topic. Taking everyone’s vote into consideration will make each student feel included and valued.
4. Encourage genuine interaction
The success of your workshop will largely depend upon the quality of interaction that takes place during the session. Each of the students should be given individual attention and foster a feeling of belonging. Some students may be naturally outspoken, and others may be more reserved. It is your responsibility as the conductor to ensure each of the students gets a chance to genuinely interact within the group.
5. Deliberation and conclusion
Closing the workshop at the end can be a bit tricky. You should keep in mind a few things while concluding the session:
- Provide a chance for each participant to share their views and feedback at the end of the session.
- You can summarise the learnings of the workshop briefly and give your audience a chance to reflect upon what they understood from the workshop.
- Conclude with a keynote address to provide closure to all the topics that were started during the workshop.
Accessibility to the venue is one of the crucial aspects of planning a workshop. Many educators are increasingly choosing to conduct their workshops online as virtual events in these post-pandemic times. Along with all the above points, remember that a workshop should deliver the promised takeaways while being a fun and engaging activity. Follow these steps to make your workshop a hit! | <urn:uuid:9f0950d4-67bc-4cac-a6c1-5859bd9619aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kohbee.com/step-by-step-guide-for-a-successful-online-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.943409 | 870 | 3.453125 | 3 |
I am a member of the graduate faculty at Bank Street College of Education. As a faculty member I have overseen the work of fieldwork advisees in hundreds of schools across New York City; taught courses in curriculum development; consulted in NYC public and independent schools; and done presentations for teachers, administrators, and families. I have co-planned and led "long" trips to areas in the country world for educators to experiences social issues and social change first hand. Before joining the Bank Street faculty he was principal of the New Lincoln elementary school. As a teacher in public and independent schools he taught children ages three through eleven. He earned a doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Author of Out of the Classroom and into the World. (See: www.classroom2world.com.) In an educational environment that continues to support the nineteenth-century mission of mass producing workers for a factory economy, teaching becomes less about the pursuit of knowledge and more about squeezing "productivity" out of learners within the shortest amount of time. The book demonstrates that the wider world around students and teachers offers a deeper, more vital education that sparks their imagination, fuels their thinking, and compels them to have an impact on their environment--now and in the future.
Combining practical and theoretical guidance, along with informative photos and illustrations, Out of the Classroom and Into the World visits a rich variety of classrooms transformed by innovative field trip curricula--showing how student's hearts and minds are opened as they discover how a suspension bridge works, see what connects them to the people and places of their neighborhood, and come to understand the ecosystem of a river by following it to its source. The book also shows that what teachers can offer children is fueled by their own engagement with the world, and offers stunning examples from the present and past of teachers awakened by their direct experiences with the social issues plaguing American society, from the flood-torn neighborhoods on New Orleans to the mining areas of West Virginia. | <urn:uuid:422e363d-a354-416b-8fcb-4dd58bef6ee8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.edutopia.org/user/77073 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00262-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969253 | 402 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The concept of a referendum – a direct vote by the qualified voters of a state – is customary in some countries, as part of a nation’s right to determine its future. It is only in Israel that we see the perplexing notion of asking citizens of the occupying power – rather than the occupied population – to determine the political fate of the occupied people
The new legislation enacted by the Knesset, requiring a referendum to be held in Israel to approve any relinquishment of any territory to which Israeli law has been applied, is highly problematic. More than anything else, the new law makes evident the extent to which Israel has become accustomed to the denial of the rights of the Arab population living under the Israeli occupation.
Despite the fact that the law is (at this point, at least) limited to territories where Israeli law has been applied (which means that it is only relevant to East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights and not to the rest of the Occupied Territories), the determination that the citizens of Israel are the appropriate persons to vote on the future of these territories – rather than the residents of the territories themselves – undermines the claim to democracy, which underlies the idea of a referendum.
When the question of Quebec’s future was being discussed in Canada, the residents of Quebec (and not all Canadian citizens) were the ones who, in 1995, cast their votes on whether to continue to be part of Canada or to secede and become an independent state.
Similarly, the residents of East Timor (and not of Indonesia, which had occupied it) were the ones who voted in the popular consultation on the future of the territory in 1999. And in Northern Ireland, it was Northern Irish voters who endorsed the Belfast Agreement that defined their future, and put in place the complex relationship between them and the United Kingdom. In this last case, the residents of Ireland itself also voted in a referendum but only on the question of amending their own Constitution to bring it into line with the terms of the Belfast Agreement. There was no referendum for the citizens of the United Kingdom, which controls Northern Ireland, as a whole.
The use of referenda in the context of self-determination claims and in deciding the future of disputed, occupied and non-self- governing territories is not unusual. However, it is only in Israel that we find the perplexing prospect of a referendum in which it will not be the residents of the territories in question who will determine their future – but rather, the citizens of the State of Israel who will determine the future of the occupied population for them.
The essential concepts of democracy and self-determination demand that the residents of the Occupied Territories be the ones to decide their own future. The future of the Golan Heights should be decided by its residents who found themselves under Israeli rule after 1967: the same principle should apply to East Jerusalem and to the Occupied Territories in general.
However, in Israel an odd idea has taken root: that the decision whether the residents of territories occupied by Israel, and who live under Israeli rule against their will, should continue to live under Israeli occupation should be made by the residents of the occupying State – rather than by the residents of the territories themselves – and that this is to be done in the name of democracy.
Considering the general Israeli denial of the rights of the Arab population and specifically the Palestinians, this may not be a very big surprise.
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What are the side effects of a scorpion sting
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Strategic Management Concepts
Although the term "strategic management" is bantered around a lot in the business world, it is not understood very well by most people. Essentially strategic management answers the questions of "Where do you want your business to go?" (goals), "How is your business going to get there?" (strategy), and "How will you know when you get there?" (evaluation).
A strategic management analogy is taking a trip during your vacation time. First you decide where you want to go - the natural beauty of Yellowstone or the bright lights of Las Vegas. Then you develop a strategy of how to get there - take an airplane (which flights), drive your car (which highways), etc. This will be influenced by the amount of money, time and other resources you have available. Then you monitor your trip to see if your strategy takes you to your destination and how your strategy worked (missed flights, poor road conditions, etc.).
Below are concepts to help expand your understanding of strategic management for a business. These will help sharpen your focus for using Strategic Management for Farm Businesses.
- Strategic management involves deciding what is important for the long-range success of your business and focusing on it.
- Strategic management asks, "How should I position my business to meet management and business goals?"
- A business strategy is a series of business decisions that lead to achieving a business goal.
- Strategic management involves the "big picture" of your business.
- Strategic management involves planning, analyzing and implementing a business strategy.
- Strategic management is most effective if you can step back far enough and say "all things are possible."
- The essence of strategic management is matching business resources to market opportunities.
- Strategic management involves seeking and identifying opportunities and threats in the market and industry as well as the outside world in general.
- Strategic management is based on the premise that "all businesses are not the same."
- Strategic management involves assessing the strengths and weaknesses of your business.
- When assessing strengths and weaknesses, personal skills and abilities are likely to be more important than business assets.
- Strategic management involves looking into the future rather than dwelling on the past.
- Strategic management is proactive rather than reactive.
- Strategic management involves anticipating change and taking advantage of it.
- Strategic thinking involves assessing how decisions made today will affect my business in the future.
- Strategic management is more of a state-of-mind than a rigid process.
- A military connotation of strategic management is "it hasn’t won every war, but it has avoided a lot of ambushes."
- Strategic management is most useful for businesses with unique or differentiated products for niche, specialty or differentiated product markets.
- Strategic planning comes before business planning. Strategic planning is used to identify and assess alternative business strategies. Business planning is used to implement a business strategy.
- Strategic planning is more words and less numbers than business planning.
- A strategic plan is a "living" document that changes as your goals and resources evolve.
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English merchant, volunteer officer, and alderman; born at Chatham 1832; died at Buxton Oct. 22, 1899. From the first he took a keen interest in the Volunteer movement; he was a member of the Honorable Artillery Company: and in 1863 joined the Third London Rifles with three companies raised from his own workmen. He became lieutenant-colonel in this regiment, retiring in 1880 with the queen's permission to retain his rank. In 1883 he was elected sheriff of London and Middlesex during the first mayoralty of Sir R. N. Fowler, and in 1885 was elected alderman of the ward of Cordwainer, which office he resigned in 1892 owing to the claims of business.
Cowan served on the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and was closely associated with the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum. He was a Conservative in politics, and in 1885 unsuccessfullycontested the newly formed constituency of Whitechapel with Sir Samuel Montagu, Bart.
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I have always enjoyed reading letters and other forms of correspondence. Reading another person’s letter is like eavesdropping on one of their personal conversations. I think it is this which attracts me to letters over narrative. Narrative tells the reader something, letters speak the same something in the writer’s voice. It is the difference between reading:
“The view from her window framed a few tree branches wearing their autumn colours, gently bouncing in the breeze, distorting the view of the hotel’s swimming pool on the other side of the road.”
“Dear Mom, from my living room window I can see the prettiest leaves hanging seemingly in midair, although I know they are attached to the overgrown tree at the front of the apartments. The leaves have turned the colours of autumn, although some of their summer green is desperately trying to hang on. As they wave up and down in the breeze I get a distorted view of the swimming pool across the road, with its empty table and chairs indicating winter has indeed begun.”
Both pieces describe the scene outside of my window but, if I were the reader instead of the writer, I would always prefer the second.
Some of my favourite books have been based on letters. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, for example, which was based on a twenty-year correspondence between the author in New York and one of the buyers of a bookshop in London. The letters are quaint, full of life and interspersed with both comical and human touches, giving us an insight into the lives of the correspondents and the time they lived in.
In my research for my own manuscript, I came across a book written by Kerstin Lieff, entitled “Letters from Berlin”. In it she writes about her mother’s experience of World War II and includes letters her mother wrote during the final days of the war. This is a truly poignant book and one of the few I have found which is written from the German perspective.
Another book I discovered in my quest to know more about Germany and the lead up to WWII, was “Address Unknown” written by Kathrine Taylor in 1938. In letters written from 1932 to 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his business partner who returned to Germany in 1932, the author has attempted to expose the dangers of Nazism.
While cleaning up my father’s house after his death I found many letters written to him by various family members, friends and other people I do not know, as well as copies of letters he wrote to others. Most of them are in German so I envisage spending numerous hours in translation. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is the content of the letters and what they can tell me about a man who I only knew in the present tense. I look forward to uncovering his past and finding out more about him and his life before me. | <urn:uuid:aba15257-c3cd-4012-9ef4-f63cd7587d3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alexdefircks.com/letters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.982187 | 611 | 1.773438 | 2 |
What is a server maintenance plan and why is it important?
Server maintenance, as its name suggests, is the process of keeping your computer server working at its optimal level. A server maintenance plan is a plan that is initiated by a company to ensure the hardware and software that are essential to the company’s sustenance run the way they are expected to. Here are some great reasons why implementing a server maintenance plan is a good idea.
Why is server maintenance important?
Server maintenance is important because the server allows all of the computers in the company to work without issues. If the server fails, the computers fail, and the company suffers. Server maintenance can be compared to a human going to the doctor for a check-up, it is the best way to make sure everything is healthy and running smoothly.
How often do servers need to be maintained?
Unlike humans, who get physicals annually, servers need much more frequent attention. Servers need to be monitored, updated, and fixed on a constant basis. Since maintaining a server is such a time-consuming job, companies often hire outside service providers to maintain them.
Server Maintenance is Crucial to Your Business
The server is the lifeblood of the computers in your company. Think about what would happen to production if the computers were all down for even a few hours. There is the potential to lose an extreme amount of money. Regardless of the size of your company, if you have computers, you need a server that is always working.
Server Maintenance Prolongs the Life of Your Computers
Servers that work properly last longer and need to be replaced less frequently. So, taking good care of your servers will save you both time and money.
Server Maintenance Increases Productivity
Since the health of the server has a direct effect on the health of the computers in the building, having a healthy server means having healthy computers. That is vital for any business. When computers work well, it means your employees can keep working without any downtime due to computer issues. When your employees are more productive, your overall company is also more productive.
It is Easier to Recover Lost Data
Unfortunately, even the best-maintained servers have the chance of potential failure. If your server does have an issue and breaks down, you will have a much better chance of recovering your data from a server that is regularly maintained than from one that has been neglected.
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food grade high temp alpha amylase
High-temperature Alpha-amylase is obtained by liquid submerged fermentation and extraction of Bacillus licheniformis.
It has excellent thermostability, which is widely used in the industry of alcohol, beer, vinegar,
soy sauce, textile, printing, dyeing, papermaking and other fermentation fields.
Definition of Activity
One unit of enzyme activity is marked as U/g or U/mL, and defined as one gram solid enzyme powder
or one milliliter liquid enzyme liquefies one gram soluble starch in one hour at 70℃ and pH6.0.
- Optimum operation temperature: 55℃-95℃;
- Optimum operation pH: 4.5-8;
Graph1 High-temperature Alpha-amylase Temperature Curve
Graph2 High-temperature Alpha-amylase pH Curve
- Good stability and adapted to different reaction environment;
Graph3 High-temperature Alpha-amylase Stability Curve
- No need too much Ca2 +, 50-70 ppm Ca2 + is enough.
Table1. The Effect of Metal Ion on the activity of High-temperature Alpha-amylase
|Metal Ion||Concentration C/mol.L-1||Relative activity/%||Evaluation|
Note: + refers to activation; – refers to inhibition; 0 refers to no obvious impact (the effect on enzyme activity is within 10%)
1.In the process of brewing, mix the accessories in mash copper (corn starch, rice, barley, etc.)
with water as the mixing ratio 1:3-5, then add enzyme (0.3 liter 20,000 U/g enzyme per ton auxiliary materials),
rise temperature up to 92-92 ℃ for 20 to 30 minutes, rise temperature up to 100 ℃ for heat preservation
when the color of iodine test changes to reddish-brown;
- In the alcohol production, add enzyme (0.3 liter 20,000 U/g enzyme to per ton raw material,
pH 6.0-6.5, stir then send into the digester pump or continuous cooking heater,
control temperature to 100 ±5 ℃for 100 minutes, then saccharification after cooling;
- In the applications in monosodium glutamate, starch sugar industry, adjusting the pH to 6.0-6.5,
add enzyme (0.6 liter 40,000 U/g enzyme to per ton raw material. If using interval liquefaction,
can rapidly heat up to 100±5 ℃in LNG tank, keep in 95-100 ℃for heat preservation more than 30 minutes;
If using spray liquefaction, spray with temperature about 105 ℃,
keep in 95 ℃for heat preservation more than 60-120 minutes.
4.In enzymatic desizing process, the dosage of enzyme is related with equipment, process,
fabric structure and amount of sizing ect., small sample test can find optimal amount of enzyme,
Recommended optimal amount of enzyme (20000 U/g) is as follow as the test starting point :
Impregnation method of usage: 2.0 to 6.0 g/L(ml/L), under the condition of processing of pH6.0-7.0,
temperature 85-95 ℃ for 20 to 40 min;Continuous steam usage: 4.0 to 10.0 g/L (ml/L),
under the condition of processing of pH6.0-7.0, temperature 95-105 ℃for 10-15 min.
Specification and Usage
|Usage||The actual dosage and using method should be according to the actual using condition of the trial.|
Package and Storage
Packaging: Solid products: 25kg/Kraft-bag or 20kg/Barrel; Liquid products: 30kg/Plastic barrel or
Store in original package under sealed, room temperature condition for 12 months to solid form,
and 6 months to liquid form (less than 25 ℃).
Avoid to be exposed to the sun, rain, high temperature and high humidity.
Offer high-temperature alpha-amylase usage formula, enzyme activity test and related product technical service to ensure the result.
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Incretins are a group of metabolic hormones that stimulate on the decrease in blood glucose levels. Incretin-based drugs include dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors and Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, which are a relatively new group of drugs used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. These drugs are associated with a low risk of hypoglycemia and have the favorable effect on body weight. Oral anti-diabetic drugs fail to maintain the desired normal levels of glucose, particularly during postprandial conditions, this has resulted in a strong need for better therapeutics like incretin-based drugs. Incretin-based drugs increase the secretion of insulin by acting on pancreatic beta cells and also inhibits the release of glucagon by acting on the pancreatic alpha cells. Incretin-based drugs namely Incretin mimetics (GLP-1 agonist) and DPP-4 inhibitors work on the antidiabetic principle of incretin hormone.
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By drug type, the incretin-based drugs market can be segmented into: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1) agonists, Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors; By formulation, the incretin-based drugs market can be segmented into: Oral Drugs, Injectable Drugs; By distribution channel, the incretin-based drugs market can be segmented into: Hospital Pharmacies, Retail Pharmacies, Online Pharmacies, Others
Several large cohorts of patients with diabetes, the use of incretin-based drugs as compared with combinations of oral antidiabetic drugs were not associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for heart failure.
Approximately 26 million diabetic patients in the United States and 35 million in the European Union alone is growing prevalence of diabetes worldwide posing a major public health challenge. Both the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are committed to ensuring the safety of drug products marketed for the treatment of diabetes and post marketing reports of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer in patients taking certain antidiabetic medications like incretin-based drugs. Working in parallel, these agencies have reviewed epidemiologic data, clinical trial data and nonclinical toxicology studies related to blood glucose lowering drug products like exenatide and sitagliptin which are incretin-based drugs that stimulate postprandial insulin release by potentiating the incretin hormone pathways. The results highlighted that these incretin-based drugs reduce body weight and have better cardiovascular outcomes.
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An increased risk of bladder cancer is linked to the use of pioglitazone, a medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
People with type 2 diabetes are at risk of several types of cancer, including a 40% increased risk of bladder cancer, compared to people without diabetes. Previous studies have shown a higher incidence of bladder cancer in people taking pioglitazone, a type of thiazolidinedione.
To determine whether there is a link between pioglitazone use and bladder cancer, researchers conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and observational studies involving over 2.6 million patients.
"We observed an increased risk of bladder cancer associated with the use of thiazolidinediones," writes Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, with coauthors. "In particular, use of pioglitazone was associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer based on a pooled estimate from three cohort studies involving more than 1.7 million individuals."
The researchers also looked at a possible association with rosiglitazone, another type of thiazolidinedione, but did not see an effect.
"Although the absolute risk of bladder cancer associated with pioglitazone was small, other evidence-based treatments for type 2 diabetes may be equally effective and do not carry a risk of cancer," conclude the authors. "This study quantifies the association between pioglitazone use and bladder cancer and may help inform decisions around safer use of pioglitazone in individuals with type 2 diabetes."
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[time-nuts] Question on crystal jumps
jim77742 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 01:12:24 UTC 2008
Just letting you know I've written the code without interrupts.
Basically I set the internal 16 bit timer to count up and watch it in an
infinite loop. After it gets to a certain number then I reset the timer to
zero and count a "tick". I count these ticks and get my time and 1 PPS from
I recognise there are some possible flaws in my method. I'd expect the flaws
to represent themselves as a slow drift in accuracy of the 1 PPS and/or some
sawtooth of the order of 100ns (1/10 MHz) about the true 1 PPS.
What I wasn't expecting was these jumps of the order of tens of
I suppose a solution is to take the 10MHz from my Thunderbolt and use that
to drive the AVR and see if the problem remains and the fault is in the
2008/10/24 Brooke Clarke <brooke at pacific.net>
> Hi Jim:
> I've made similar clocks using PIC micro controllers where the input is the
> MHz from the frequency standard.
> There's a subtle problem that has to do with if an interrupt occurs during
> a 3
> cycle long instruction or a 2 cycle long instruction. This can cause
> behavior if not properly accounted for.
> The 1 PPS from your clock should be spot on all the time, not off by a few
> hundred nano seconds.
> Have Fun,
> Brooke Clarke
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> Jim Palfreyman wrote:
> > This discussion has come at an interesting time.
> > I've hooked up an LPRO-101 from ebay to an AVR micro-controller -
> > using it to clock the processor directly.
> > I've written code so the AVR is a clock and I've been comparing my
> clock's 1
> > PPS to the GPS.
> > Over a few minutes it hops back and forward a few hundred nsec. All quite
> > acceptable given the clock speed.
> > When I come back after a few hours it will suddenly be 10-20 usec slow. I
> > did see it jump over a few seconds from 200nsec to 17 usec.
> > At first I put this down to interference because it coincide with me
> > switching off a light. So I put the whole lot into a metal box, shorter
> > wires and tried again.
> > It still has jumps but this time it is *gaining*.
> > Until this post started I'd assumed it was maybe my code and was about to
> > dive in and check it.
> > Could these crystal "jumps" account for my issues?
> > Regards,
> > Jim
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I try to be open-minded when I visit my favorite local fish market. Although I might walk in with a plan of buying Manila clams to make a pasta sauce or of picking up a piece of black cod to marinate in miso, I remind myself to take a careful look at what else is in the case and to be flexible. That’s why a couple of weeks ago I set out for the Monterey Fish Market in Berkeley to buy some scallops, but came home with a beautiful piece of swordfish.
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960’s, it seemed to me that every grocery store and seafood restaurant sold swordfish. Then the fish disappeared. I remember hearing about high mercury levels in local catches. Or was it overfished? Whatever the reason(s) swordfish vanished, you can buy it now, but with this caveat: the EPA cautions “women who might become pregnant; women who are pregnant; nursing mothers; (and) young children” against eating swordfish, shark, king mackerel or tilefish, because they contain high levels of mercury. The EPA writes that “nearly all fish and shellfish contain traces of methylmercury. However, larger fish that have lived longer have the highest levels...because they’ve had more time to accumulate it.”
Noting the EPA’s warning (but more than reasonably satisfied that I do not fall in any high-risk group), I arrived home with my swordfish steak.
When I think swordfish, I think Sicily. I pulled an armful of Sicilian cookbooks off my library shelf. I wanted a dish with with tomatoes, olives and capers. After looking at all of the variations on this theme, I decided to go with a recipe entitled Pesce spada alla ghiotta (translated as Tasty swordfish) from an Italian/English language cookbook called Sicilia in cucina – The flavours of Sicily (2013) from SIME Books. I like this recipe’s absolute simplicity. It takes very little time to make—maybe 30 minutes, tops—and tastes absolutely fantastic: bold yet fresh. Here’s the English version of Pesce spada alla ghiotta, which serves 4.
300 g (10½ oz) swordfish, sliced
200 g (7 oz) potatoes
200 g (7 oz) canned peeled tomatoes
green olives, pitted
1 tablespoon desalinated capers
chilli (sic) pepper
extra virgin olive oil
Sauté the chopped onion in plenty of oil and add the olives, desalinated capers, peeled tomatoes, chilli (sic) pepper, salt and pepper.
Cook for 20 minutes.
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"Hara-kiri," by Raviv Drucker, Yedioth Ahronoth, 416 pages, NIS 88
The most important typographical element in this book is the asterisk. Ravid Drucker uses asterisks to punctuate and divide his pages into innumerable sections. The technique enables him to avoid any form of structure or order. It's as if Drucker is declaring: Reader, beware! The following is a collection of associations that are not necessarily connected to each other.
Indeed, if the author thought he wrote a book, he's wrong. He served up a thick sheaf of notes, which have the potential to be translated into a real book, but he doesn't even pretend to do so. He makes do with dumping the raw material from his notes into typeset text, and presumably, he's happy with the result. The product is so negligent that it's infuriating that it has turned into a best-seller.
These are not the comments of a supra-punctilious critic. This is a protest against contempt for the concept of a book, even when it is a journalistic one. Drucker is a journalist and has no pretensions as an author, but it should not be considered an exaggeration to expect a journalist (and the publishing house that allowed this slam-bam manuscript to see the light of day) to write proper Hebrew, and it's not beyond reason to expect that a journalist provide more than scribbled notes spilled out of a computer, rather to organize them, give them meaning, put them into some context or thesis.
Drucker got away with not doing that with his asterisks. They allow him to write in the annoying manner of the local papers, using headlines like "Quality time," "Mythological ambassador," "Mercilessly slicing at Barak and Bundi," to start sentences in the past tense and finish them in the present, not providing any chronological sequence of events, breaking up the text into random chapters, to avoid making a decision: Are his chronicles of Ehud Barak's term in office chronological, thematic, or personal?
This is regrettable, because Drucker had first-rate journalistic materials with which to work. Documents, information from primary sources, and most importantly, a huge pile of public opinion polls that Barak asked for during his term, and by which he shaped his policies. That is the author's great achievement, the reason the book has been so praised and commercially successful. It gives the reader a peek into the Barak kitchen. It's not a pleasant smell, but it is appealing to read about the plotting, pettiness, caprices, and mafia-like methods. Drucker's great failure (other than the terrible Hebrew) is avoiding any attempt to make the effort to explain Barak's monumental failure as prime minister.
Failure in the kitchen
Ehud Barak belongs to the generation of sabras after Yitzhak Rabin, and like his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, was revealed to be an utter failure at managing the affairs of state. That should be a riddle worthy of solution for any curious journalist writing a book about Barak's term: How could such a talented man, with such extraordinary personal accomplishments, burn everything he cooked - and so quickly? Was it accidental, or is there some sociological explanation? Barak's generation has not managed to produce a single outstanding politician, while in other areas, it has produced impressive achievers. Was it a unique fault in Barak's personality?
How can one explain the fact that Netanyahu, too, brought the country - and himself - to the edge of an abyss? Maybe the explanation is to be found in the electoral system, or maybe because the great expectations were so great.
Indeed, it's hard to find leaders anywhere in the world, who stand head and shoulders above the rest. But Drucker absolves himself of these issues. He doesn't even try to characterize Barak's behavior, other than using the battered cliches from the newspapers: pretentious, indifferent, alienated and suspicious.
Barak chose grand issues. He was going to end the conflict between Israel and Syria and the Palestinians. He appeared to go a long way toward reaching that goal. In reality, he hesitated at the last minute. Because of an argument over a narrow stretch of beach northeast of Lake Kinneret, he gave up on the possibility of reaching peace with Syria; because of a dispute over the definition of the sovereignty on the Temple Mount, he withdrew his readiness to reach peace with the Palestinians.
What does this kind of behavior show? That there are no partners on the other side? That Barak is skilled at foreplay, but holds back at the climax? That he was only interested in his own powers of persuasion, his ability to engineer the state and the world's leaders according to his own timetable, his own course of action, while much less interested in actually testing the result? Nowhere in the book is there any sign the author tried to deal with these questions.
There is piquant information, in and of itself important, that sheds light on what took place behind the scenes at the Prime Minister's Office during Barak's term in office. We learn about his obsessive dependence on polls; his divide-and-rule management of aides; his tendency to set people in motion on parallel tracks without them knowing about each other; his extremely suspicious nature; his ruthlessness. He did not hesitate to set groundless police investigations into motion, or to use private investigators to find incriminating information about a friend (Dan Meridor, for example) to improve his own position in an investigation the police were conducting against the nonprofit organizations that raised money for the Barak campaign.
We learn about his instrumentalist approach to people, the chaos in his office, his zigzagging, the amateurish preparations for the Camp David summit, his readiness to buy silence from an aide who quit, by arranging a tempting fellowship in the U.S., about his ability to say the same thing and its opposite, without blinking. But by the end of the book, one reaches the conclusion that the title is misleading. This isn't a book about Ehud Barak. This is a book about the people around him. They fed Drucker with juicy information that makes the text readable and sellable. They believed they were giving the reader the real Barak, without the thick makeup and respect that keeps the prime minister at arm's length - with the help of his energetic aides.
They were wrong. The book is about them. This wasn't hara-kiri, it was collective suicide. Their egos are no smaller than Barak's. They are exposed as a bunch of noisy, infantile yuppies, believing that the ruckus they create will rescue the state from its troubles. When they served Barak, they flooded him with rivers of memos, simulation games, flow charts (those are the terms they use for their self-declared masterpieces, which were intended to improve his functioning and enhance his prestige). Going through those texts, which Drucker provides in abundance, one finds simplistic thinking and a superficial view of the country's problems and its political reality.
While prime minister, Barak became known for lacking good judge of character. One of the results of that flaw is the composition of the gang he chose to work with him - another result is the distorted distribution of the portfolios in his cabinet. This book, which, from Barak's point of view, reads like an informant's briefing, is proof of how great that failure was.
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Can America Survive?
by Dr. Tom Malone, Sr. (1915-2007)
(Faithful Pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan)
The Pitiful Threatened Demise of a Powerful Democracy (Preached in 1971)
“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” —Proverb 14:34
Thinking about Proverbs 14:34, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” should cause one to do some real heart searching. “Reproach” here means shame and misery. In other words, God is saying, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin brings shame and misery to any nation.”. Since the Bible is true, our country is headed for shame and misery. If the Lord tarries a few more years, it could be in the lifetime of most of us sitting here.
I have a question: Can America survive her awful diseases? Can America live as America lives today and last until the turn of the century?
I have often tried to imagine what it would be like. Suppose the Lord tarries
another few years: What will America be like? If one can discern the symptoms
and trends of today, God pity the people if 2000 ever comes on God’s calendar.
Can America survive? “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to
any people.” - Proverb 14:34. I would like for you to notice four facts dealt
with in my introduction.
1. GOD REQUIRES RIGHTEOUSNESS IN A NATION
Here is something few people think of.
Righteousness is required of God in nations. You say, “I thought it was of
individuals”. It is true God deals with individuals. If you are saved, you are
not going to be saved as a company, or as a family, or as a nation but as an
individual. You alone must deal with Christ in the matter of His righteousness,
which you need in order to go to Heaven. But the Bible plainly teaches that God
requires righteousness of nations. When God gave the Ten Commandments in Exodus,
six of them dealt with man’s relationship to God. But when God gave the Ten
Commandments, He did not give them to individuals but to the nation Israel.
God’s Decalogue, God’s great system of laws, His Word by which man is to live,
was not given to individuals. I know that God passed it on through Moses, but
God gave it to a nation. To that nation, He said, “Righteousness exalteth a
nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”. So keep in mind that God does not
just require righteousness of individuals; God requires righteousness in
nations. We do not have that righteousness in America today.
2. THERE ARE SUCH THINGS AS NATIONAL SINS
We speak much about the sins of
individuals, but the Bible speaks much also about the sins of nations. There is
such a thing as a national sin.
For instance, just imagine the various besetting sins of certain sections of the world, and go around this encircled globe - you find great besetting sins in different parts of the world. In fact, the most prominent sin of the English-speaking world is probably that of drunkenness. England, with her pubs; America, with her bars. The English-speaking people are the drunken nations of the world. God pronounces woe upon those who look upon the wine when it is red. The English-speaking world has the sin of drunkenness and, of course, as a result of that, a multiplicity of sins follow.
In the Eastern world, there is the awful sin of idolatry. In the Western nations of the world, men have made with their hands gods of wood and stone and silver, to replace the one true God.
A great part of the world is
characterized by another great besetting sin, that of infidelity, which is in
the communistic world today. The nations in communism say that the Bible is not
true, that Jesus is not divine, that there is no efficacy in the cross, that
there is nothing to Christianity. So, the Bible plainly teaches that there is such a thing as national sin.
3. THERE IS SUCH A THING AS NATIONAL DECAY
We do not interpret the Bible in the
light of history; we interpret history in the light of the Bible. If one studies
the Word of God and meditates in it, he sees history written before it ever
happens. And the Bible plainly teaches the reality of national decay.
There was a time when Babylon ruled the world. From the city of Babylon, there was a world power. There was powerful Nebuchadnezzar. There was wicked but powerful Belshazzar. It is said that no foe could ever storm and take this city. Babylon, it was said, would stand forever. But one day God pronounced judgment on her.
Those walls were so thick that they were called the impregnable walls. So thick were they that three chariots of horses could race around them side by side at one time. Outside the walls were great watchtowers, one every 250 feet. Around that vast city were the Hanging Gardens and the banquet rooms of infamy. Babylon said, “We will never perish. We will rule the world. We will live forever. We don’t need God.”. But one day God from Heaven spoke. “And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah” (Isaiah 13:19). God said, “You are a mighty nation, but I will bring you into the dust as I brought Sodom and Gomorrah into the dust.”.
Walk among those ruins of Babylon today: every mute stone cries out “Amen” to the Word of God. It says, “...neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there”. No man shall dwell in that city. There are only remains today. The judgment of God has come upon the nation of Babylon and it exists no more, as the Bible predicted.
I wish I had time to deal with many other such nations. As you travel throughout many parts of the world, you see what are called the Roman columns. These columns were erected all over the known world, because Rome ruled the world. They called Rome the Imperial City, built on seven hills and surrounding the Tiber River. Rome had a vast empire. A great stone in one of the buildings of Rome - it is there today - is called, “the marking stone” or “the milestone”, and every road had distances on it, meaning it is so many miles to the heart of the Imperial City.
Today these columns are broken and the buildings have come to ruin. Fifty-five million people live in Italy today as a common power and as a small nation that has no great significance in the world. Listen! God brings nations to ruin and decay. If this Bible be true, it says that “righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
God has brought that proud nation into the dust. Let us think of our forefathers. I do not mean on this continent, but rather our forefathers who came mostly from Great Britain. Great Britain was a world power, the greatest colonial power the world had ever known. Out from England went missionaries to all the world. God blessed England. She brought civilization to many countries.
But England today is a common power. Her great colonial system is nothing now but a dream. It has all been washed away under the judgment of God. Oh, yes, “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”. We have reached an hour that no Christian one hundred years ago would have believed. We have reached an hour when we are sending missionaries to Great Britain.
The land of the Wesleys, Whitefield and
Spurgeon is a land of infidelity. They say that only two percent of the people
there ever darken the doors of the house of God.
Much that is destroying America came from England. In your time and mine, from England have come the hippies, the long hair, the loose morals in high politics. God has brought that nation to its knees. “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” God has done it in the past. If this is a divine principle of the Word of God, can America survive? What will America be like if Jesus tarries until the year 2000? I am talking to you today about the absolute destruction of a democracy and I will be able, with the Word of God, to prove that today.
4. THERE IS SUCH A THING AS NATIONAL JUDGMENT
Individuals are going to meet God in
judgment. Revelation 20:12 and 15 describes that judgment that is spoken of
throughout the Bible.
“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works...And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” But the Bible teaches that God will bring nations to judgment. In Matthew 25:32 we read: “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats...” Now keep these four things in mind:
1. God requires righteousness.
2. There is such a thing as national sin.
3. There is the reality of national decay and ruin.
4. There is such a thing as national judgment that God will bring upon nations themselves.
The psalmist one time asked: “If the
foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3). We are seeing
right before our very eyes the foundations, the things that make nations great,
being destroyed. I will deal with several of them. I think of them as monstrous
termites that are eating the very heart out of America and bringing more rapidly
than any of us can possibly imagine, the sudden demise and destruction of the
greatest democracy the world has ever known. There are several of these awful
and powerful and destructive sins.
I. LIBERALISM IN PROFESSED CHRISTIANITY
The first one that I would like to deal
with needs not one part of a sermon but many sermons to fully deal with it -
liberalism in professed Christianity. Departure from the revealed truth of the
Word of God always has and always will bring about the destruction and ruin of
any nation. Liberalism in professed Christianity.
Something has happened in Christianity that the Lord Jesus said would happen. The Lord told seven parables about the kingdom of Heaven. The church is not the kingdom of Heaven. There is a distinct difference. We will not be technical about that. But the Lord established some principles so we could know what it is always going to be like in professed Christianity.
For one thing, Jesus told this parable saying, “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.” (Matthew 13:25). America is a religious nation, but America is a lost nation. Most of the profession is tares. Little of it is wheat. That is the condition we find even in the professed churches today. Blind Leaders of the Blind
We find in America today blind leaders
of the blind, that is, men who profess to be called of God, men who profess to
be prophets, teachers, leaders in the truth. But Jesus spoke of them in Matthew
15:14: “Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind
lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”. We have these two things: many
millions of unsaved amidst professed Christianity, and many leaders who are
blind. My guess would be that there are more unsaved religious leaders than
there are saved. If you doubt that, go to some of the pastors of your city and
ask them point blank, ”Have you been born again? Are you sure today that you are
on your way to Heaven?” I am talking about liberalism in Christianity. A
Compromise of Truth
A poll was taken. According to a magazine called Christianity Today for October 13, 1967, we read:
“Western Reserve sociologist, Jeffrey Hadden, contacted 10,000 Protestant clergymen in the United States, asking them what they believed. Of the tabulated results of this poll of 10,000, there were 7,441 replies. This Protestant minister’s survey is the most alarming I have read in many years. Read on:
“These ministers were asked the question: “Do you believe in Jesus’ physical resurrection from the grave in the same sense that you believe that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated? In other words, do you believe that Jesus’ resurrection is a historical fact?” “Fifty-one percent of the Methodist ministers in the United States said they could not accept Jesus’ resurrection from the grave as historical fact. Thirty percent of the Episcopal priests of America could not accept it, nor could 35 percent of the United Presbyterian preachers, 33 percent of the American Baptist preachers and 13 percent of the American Lutheran preachers...” I would remind you that the Bible says that if Jesus be not risen from the grave, then we are of all men most miserable. So we have a compromise of truth.
Perhaps many of you saw this article in The Detroit News, dated Monday, August 9, 1971. The headline read,
“A LEGEND SAYS - JESUS DIED IN JAPAN AT 112.” The only redeeming thing about it, though still inexcusable, was the word “legend”. That is all it is - and it is not even a good legend. Nevertheless, hundred of thousands of people saw blazoned across a leading newspaper of America a great question about the historical fact of Jesus Christ, a legend which says that Jesus died in Japan at 112. This legend says He made two visits to Japan, learned much of His so-called trickery there, and it intimates that that is what His miracles were. When He found out He was to die, He had a brother who said, “I will die in Your place.”. Supposedly, after two days in the grave, He and another stole the body.
Thus, here was an attack on the
redeeming death of Jesus and His bodily resurrection from the grave. Here it was
blazoned across the front of a leading newspaper of our country. The church sits
idly by and takes the things of God very lightly, while America is literally
having its heart eaten out. Oh, may God bring us once again a mighty sweeping
revival which is the only hope of our country!
There is a principle by which you can know whether people are saved and by which you can know whether a denomination or church or religious organization is real or not. In the second epistle of John we read,
“Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth
not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of
Christ, he had both the Father and the Son.” Now this doctrine is that Jesus was
God’s Son. This doctrine is that Jesus was totally divine, as much as the Father
and the Holy Spirit were. Read on: “If there come any unto you, and bring not
this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For
he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds” (2nd John 9-11).
Not many people in America today will take that stand.
The Capitulation of Christian Schools and Colleges
We have seen in our lifetime the capitulation of Christian schools and colleges. I know of a preacher, now in Heaven, whole son came home from a religious school and said, “Now Dad, if Jesus was the Son of God, why so-and-so?”. The preacher took his son, got into his automobile and drove out a ways. It was in the days of the old-fashioned running boards. They got down on their knees out in the woods and placed the old Bible on the running board of the car and made out of it a mourner’s bench. It is said that that preacher lifted his hands toward God and, with tears streaming down his face, cried, “O God, I would rather be dead than to have an ‘if’ in the belief of my boy! O God, take all the doubts out of the mind of my son as to who Jesus is.” And God did it that day.
We need to make every chair, every couch, every seat, every square foot of our environment an old-fashioned mourner’s bench and come back to God before it is too late. I am talking to you today about liberalism in professed Christianity, which is definitely a ruination of any country. How can you have righteousness without the truth? How can you have righteousness without a firm belief in the inspiration of the Bible?
“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”II. THE COLDNESS AND WORLDLINESS EVEN IN THE TRUE CHURCH
There is a coldness and an indifference to old-fashioned Bible preaching. God said, speaking to Isaiah, “Lift up thy voice, cry aloud, spare not, make my people know they have sinned.” You think of God’s admonition in 2nd Corinthians 6:14, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers...”. You think of Christians being joined in lodges and associations with unbelievers. You think of Christians in business with unbelievers. You may not be able to find a grocery store run by Christians. The mechanic who works on your car may not be a Christian. The man who cuts your hair may not be a Christian. I am not talking about a Utopia but about a communion. God said there is never to be a communion between a saved and an unsaved person. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers...” Here is what God says we are to do about it: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate...” (vs. 17). You say, “What is the answer to it?” That is the answer. I am preaching to people who belong to modernistic churches. I have people tell me, ”I don’t hear the truth where I go.”. But you keep going! You send in your money. You help support it. You pay a man of the cloth to speak who denies the Bible. So you are as guilty as he is. “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate...” is the answer.
Folks, worldliness and coldness have come even into the true churches. You see it in the imitation of the world. First, I mention immodest dress. God knows the women of America are helping to send this country to Hell. Women, God bless you! We love you and we want to respect you, but for God’s sake, dress like a Christian. Paul wrote in 1st Timothy 2:9 and 10: “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” Why wouldn’t a Christian woman want to dress modestly? Some of you don’t like it, and you will whisper back and forth at the dinner table. But some of you want to be like the world. The people around you are going to Hell because you are no different from the world There are coldness and worldliness even in the church.
Let me tell you something else and I say it in love. You may say, “You don’t love men with long hair.”. Oh yes I do! But the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 11:14, “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”. And the word “nature” there is “instinct”. What the verse is saying is, “Does not even instinct itself teach us it is a shame for a man to have long hair?”. That chapter is dealing with the fact that a lady ought to have long hair and that her covering before God is her hair. The same chapter says that instinct teaches us that it is a shame for a man to have hair like a woman. This long hair on men and short skirts on women are not pleasing to God.
We need to clean up. Don’t give me this old line, “Jesus had long hair”. All you have seen are pictures not more than two or three hundred years old, some artist’s conception of what Jesus looked like. Don’t give me that line. We don’t know whether Jesus had long hair, or sideburns, or what! but the Bible says it is a shame for a man to have long hair. While talking to someone the other day about the discipline and dress code in our school, this one said, “You mean people will put up with that?”. I said, “Put up with what?” “Put up with what you put them through.” I said, “We are not going to put them through anything but a happiness mill. They are happy that way.”. The most miserable people in the world are these folks who go around crabbing about the establishment because they want to be different. If you want to be different, get saved, get an old-fashioned revival in your heart, get a Bible under your arm and some tracts in your pocket and start soul winning and going to church. Folks will say, “Well boy, that fellow sure is different, isn’t he? In fact, I believe he is a little nutty!” Then you will really be enjoying it, right up to the hilt!
Another thing is the fear of emotionalism. I am still talking about coldness and worldliness even in true churches. Some folks are so scared that someone is going to get stirred up, while I am so scared that they are not. I pray all the time, “O God, stir people up.”. Listen, if a man says “Amen,” then he ought to live an “Amen”. But there is coldness and deadness in the church. Some folks are scared they are going to weep. You know, preachers see some things that you folks never see. I have seen someone about to get blessed; then all of a sudden he realizes what is happening and he doesn’t want it to happen. I have seen them nearly choke to death to get those tears out of the way. “Oh, no! This happen to me? Get blessed and shed some tears? Oh, no!” The Bible says, “They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.”. It says, “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him” (Psalm 126:5, 6). Someone has said, “If the church were on fire, the world would come to see it burn.” O God, help us to get it on fire! Help us to see the fire of God come upon the church of the Lord Jesus. God, stir our hearts. As I look at my daughter and my sweet grandchildren, I can hardly keep from weeping. After I am gone, they are still going to be here. What will it be like?
If any thinking person will study the
trends that are in America today and think a few years beyond this present
moment, he is bound to admit that we are headed for chaos and trouble. God’s
Word is true: “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any
people.” There is absolutely no national righteousness in America today - from
the White House to the poorhouse. We as a nation are void of national
righteousness. This country does not deserve to be called a Christian nation in
any sense of the word. It does not have any of the characteristics of a
Christian nation. “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any
III. INFIDELITY OR ATHEISM IN HIGH PLACES
A few decades ago a few people called themselves atheists, saying, “There is no such person as God.” They were a distinct class of people. They would stand on the street corners. They were the soapbox speakers. They would gather crowds in the parks and talk about atheism. These were led by such men as Bob Ingersoll and others. You don’t find that so much today. A more sophisticated type of atheism is abroad in the world. It finds its hotbed and its seeds of propagation in the schools and colleges of America. The psalmist has said, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” (Psalm 14:1). I used to hear a great man of God say, “Only a fool would be capable of making such a statement.”
Now there are many fools (using God’s definition and terminology). Instead of a few people on soapboxes and street corners, literally thousands of educated, intellectual people in the colleges of America would tell you flat out, “There is no God”. Atheism runs rampant is America. “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Now I am not an authority on Hebrew nor Greek, but in the verse where it says, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” two words are in italics - “There is.” The literal rendering is, “The fool hath said in his heart, No God.” Notice what he said: “No God for me.” The fool said in his heart, “I don’t need any God. I don’t want any God. I don’t believe there is any God.” Notice where he says it: In his depraved heart. He does not come to an intellectual conclusion that there is no God. No one ever has. No one ever could. It is not an intellectual conclusion. It is a condition of a wicked, sinful, dirty heart that says, “I do not want any God. As far as my mind is concerned, there is no God.” Why does he say it? Because he knows if there is a God, he is headed for Hell and for trouble.
Today we have a sophisticated type of atheism across this land. Some sixty years ago atheism began to reach its prominence in a most subtle way in America. It started out with a great battle over whether evolution is a fact or a theory. Evolution has been taught in the schools of this country for the last sixty years - from the wee grades of elementary school right on through college.
You cannot be an evolutionist and a
believer of the Word of God at the same time. Evolution is not just a theory; it
is a wicked attack against the Bible. More than that, it is a wicked, personal
attack against the very person of God Himself.
For example, the Bible says, “Let us make man in our own image.”. The Bible says that God made him out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul. Now evolution says that man came from a lower form of animal. God says, “I made him, and I made him like I am, a trinity - soul, body, spirit.” The spirit never dies, the soul is God-consciousness, and the body is physical. God made him that way. When a person teaches evolution and claims that evolution is a fact, he is making a personal attack on God Himself and against the Bible. That in the past brought ruination to nations.
IV. THE PERIL OF HUMAN DEPRAVITY
You rarely hear from the pulpit some of
the things that I am going to mention next - the peril in this country of human
depravity. The bible speaks of the depraved nature of all of us. Each is a child of Adam.
Five verses of Scripture show that all human nature is depraved.
Romans 3:10 says, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” Then verse 19 says, “...that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God”. God said, “Do like the leper did. Put your hand over your mouth and offer no excuse. Just admit that you are a sinner. Admit that you are lost.”. That is what this verse means. Verse 22 says, “...for there is no difference...”- not a bit of difference in the world. I am talking about human depravity. When you see the drunk man stagger down yonder into the gutter, you say, “How pitiful.”. But the fashionable lady with her silks and satins and perfume and her riches and luxury who has never been born again is as lost as the drunkard in the gutter or the harlot in the red-light district. “There is no difference,” God said. We are all depraved.
Then in verse 23 God culminates this teaching by saying: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God...” So the Bible teaches that all humanity is depraved.
There is a deep and mysterious depravity today which defies description. In the
history of nations which now lie in the dust of the forgotten past, the same
type of depravity that destroyed them is rampant now in America. The same type
of mysterious, deep depravity that has brought other nations to the dust, is now
in this country.
First, there is an abnormal sexuality in America. Call it what you will. You would not believe how many homosexuals there are in America. Some are in high places. Some are in politics. Some are millionaires. The whole human structure of society is shot through with an abnormal, godless, wicked sexuality that God abominates. Recently I was in California to bring a commencement address for a theological institution at the close of the school year. A preacher, rather laughingly, yet seriously, said to me, ”Now this is a nice little hotel, and it is conveniently located. But you are in San Francisco, and surrounded by people who are abnormal.”. I have never seen such a seething mass of depravity in my life!
The next morning when I was getting ready to come back to catch a plane to Detroit, there was a fine-looking man in the lobby of the hotel. A taxi had come up. Across the street was a bus station and one of the busses went to the airport, but a taxi had been called.
I said to this man, “Sir, are you going to the airport? I would like to share the taxi with you.” He immediately turned and walked away without answering. As he went out the door to get in his taxi, I went out the door to go across the street to catch a bus to the airport. He watched me all the way across the street.
Some Christian friends of mine were out at the airport and I was telling them of this experience. I said, “That was an unfriendly sort of fellow. He wouldn’t even answer me.” My friend said, ”Dr. Malone, it was the neighborhood you were in. He didn’t know you. This whole section of the city is known for men who approach men.” That is true all over this country. This whole society is rotten and godless. The wrath of God is upon America. Mark my word: if God’s Word be true, this nation is headed for the dust. Listen to Romans, chapter 1. Three times in that chapter it says, “God gave them up.”. Think of it! God said, “There is no hope for them, I am through with them. I can’t reach them.” Three times we read that “God gave them up”. Listen to it: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.” - Vss. 26,27.
This verse mentions the abnormal sexuality of women with women and men with men. Go ask any law officer, go ask someone who works in a jail or prison what goes on there.
Some years ago I kept reading of prisoners committing suicide. There is no telling how many in our Wayne County jail in twelve months’ time are found hanging by a belt or rope or with their throats slashed or wrists cut. Why? Even though they are criminals in the jails and prisons of America they cannot stand to live in the awful depravity. Murders are committed in the prisons.
When I preached a week at the prison in Jackson, Michigan, I talked to people by the scores. Some 135 men in five nights publicly confessed Christ as their personal Saviour. Some told me, “Dr. Malone, there are people murdered in this prison because they will not submit to godless sexual acts with other men.” That is the kind of society we have. You are saying, “Preacher, that is the abnormal thing. That is the rare occasion.” No, that is the kind of society we have in America. It is widespread. It is everywhere. It is going on in high society, with well-to-do people, people with college degrees.
Even some churches sanction this. Some are known as churches for the homosexuals of that area - on the West Coast and elsewhere. How do you think God feels about that? We don’t have just an ordinary depravity; we have a deep and mysterious depravity that is bound to bring us to ruination, just as sure as God is on His throne. Amorality
A few years ago people began to talk about the “new morality”. There is nothing new about it. The “new morality” is the old immorality! In fact, I think a better description of it is amorality - that is, no morals at all. One morning this week I pointed out to Mrs. Malone that there had just been a beauty contest for the nudist people, and a married woman from the state of Michigan had won second place. You say, “Well, preacher, that is a bunch of queer people. I have never known one of them and I have never seen one of them.” But this is not rare. It is going on all the time.
This past week my phone rang and a lady I didn’t know said, “Preacher, I want to ask you a question. My husband tells me that he does not object to nudity and he tells me that I am old-fashioned. He even tries to quote the Bible to me. He says Adam and Eve were unclothed. I want to talk to someone who believes the Bible. Do you think he is right?” I said, “There is not only something wrong with nudity; there is something wrong with your husband! He has a depraved mind. Anyone who can endorse that sort of thing is as godless as the people who participate in it.” Here is an item from the Pontiac Press, August 9, 1971. Mr. Harold Fitzgerald has several editorials. Here is one. Now this is plain. I quote Mr. Fitzgerald:
“It seems to me pornography and dirty pictures are setting an all-time record. The writer just received a pamphlet urging the purchase of an illustrated book and the blatant excerpts were shown. Use your own imagination and the very lowest things you can think of between men and women were there in startling and disgusting frankness. You can’t conjure anything lower or more despicable than these pictures. Once the individuals marketing these would have been slapped in prison. Now it isn’t true.”
This newspaper man says we’ve gone the
limit. From time immemorial, certain characters have peddled pictures of girls
scantily dressed. But that day is gone. Now they wear nothing at all. And they
engage in the lowest connections that man and woman can have. Then there are
other things here that I would not read to a mixed audience. It is in our paper
and it is all true. It all needs to be pointed out. Just as sure as you sit in this room, there is a deep and mysterious rottenness,
the like of which has never been in this country.
DrugsThink of the drug traffic in America. Who would have thought fifteen years ago that we would have come to the place in the use of drugs - from elementary school children on up - that we have come to.
I have a number of things to say about this. I wish I had time to deal with all of them. Here is an editorial I clipped out this week: “Unless concerned citizens act soon, this nation is going to reach the end of the road!” It goes on to say, “America has an immense social problem of immeasurable magnitude, although relatively unknown a few years back, which is rapidly pushing her to the brink of disaster.” Listen to this:
“Laconia is a typically staid New
England community of about 15,000 inhabitants in the southeastern central
section of New Hampshire, a few miles north of the state capital, Concord.
Probably it would not normally be thought of as a den of iniquity! Yet in a
front-page article in the New Hampshire Sunday News just prior to graduation,
Earl O. Anderson, a highly respected newspaper veteran, reported the results of
a poll which showed that of the city’s 204 high school seniors, almost half were
on illicit drugs! Although 4 percent more girls used marijuana than boys, 19
percent of the latter were already on the so-called hard drugs, compared with 10
percent of the girls (REMEMBER - THESE ARE 1971 FIGURES! THE
INCREASE IN THE YEARS SINCE IS STAGGERING).
There are many comments about it that follow. It goes on to say, “Can you imagine what this nation will be like in just a few years if nearly half of today’s high school seniors (tomorrow’s leaders) are on illicit drugs? And if the situation is such in a conservative country town like Laconia, what must it be like in cities such as Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, St. Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami and Houston - to mention a few?” Every day’s newspaper is filled with it. Here is an article taken from the Detroit Free Press, August 11, 1971.
“Rich Beauty Dies an Addict.” This is one of the saddest stories I have ever read. A young woman, multi-millionaire, mother of a beautiful little boy, died as a result of drugs in her life. The papers are filled with it.
I say the truth - God knows it’s true: I have mothers and dads call me from other churches and say, “Dr. Malone, I am embarrassed to talk to my pastor. I have a young person on drugs in my family. In God’s name what can I do?”. A young man came to me, glassy-eyed and said, “Could I talk to you, Mr. Malone?”. I went up into my office with him and he told me his name. His people are one of the finest families in Pontiac.
He said, “Preacher, don’t betray my confidence.”. (I never would.) “I am twenty-years of age and on drugs.” There he was, his arms and hands bony. He turned them over and said, “Look here.”. There were marks all over both arms. Then he looked at me with those eyes that seemed to look far away and said, “Preacher what does God think about a young man like me? Preacher is there any hope for a young man like me?”. I could not help but weep. Someone’s son!
I said, “Yes, there is hope for you.”.
And we got down on our knees and I put my hand on him and I prayed, “O God,
deliver this young man.”. I begged him to let me come to his home and help him
further. But I have never laid eyes on him since. Oh, let me tell you, just as
sure as there is a God on His throne, this country is headed for trouble.
Do you know that twenty-thousand American soldier boys every year are being mustered out of the service because they are drug addicts! Then you say to me, “What is going to happen to this country?”. The judgment of God is going to come upon it. I don’t care how many airplanes we have, nor how many missiles we can put in the air - “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.”
Live-in Marriages Our country is filled
today with what is called common law or live-in marriages, when a boy and girl
start living together without a marriage ceremony. I know some people who have
raised a family and have grandchildren who have never been married. Such people
have called me who have heard me on the radio and said, “Preacher, can you marry
us? We want to get our lives straightened out. We have never been married.”.
When people have no respect for the institution of marriage, it is only a matter
of time until that nation disintegrates.
V. WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
You say to me, “Preacher, is there an answer?” Yes, thank God, there is.
A Biblical Home Life
First of all, we need a Biblical home
life. God knows that perhaps all of us parents have failed in some measure.
There are four things about the American home today that are ruining it.
1. The lack of male leadership. God ordained that the man be the head of the home. A man who is a man ought to be the head of his home.
2. Women working outside the home. Now some of you, God bless you, are as good women as ever walked in a pair of shoes. But the Bible says, “Let the women be keepers at home.”
3. Discipline. Our children today run wild. They have no rules, no discipline.
4. We need in the homes of America some influence. We need influence toward Christ! We need godliness on the part of mother and father. We need family altars.
I read a little poem the other day.
“PLEASE, DADDY LET’S GO”
A little girl with shining eyes,
Her little face aglow,
Said: Daddy, it is almost time
For Sunday school. Let’s go!
They teach us there of Jesus’ love, Of how he died for all
Those who on Him call.” “
Oh, no!” said Daddy, “not today. I’ve worked hard all week; I’m going to the creek, For there I can relax and rest,
And fishing’s fine they say.
So run along; don’t bother me. We’ll go to church someday.” Months and years have passed away
But Daddy hears that plea no more -
“Let’s go to Sunday school.” Those childish days are o’re.
And now that Daddy’s growing old, When life is almost through,
He finds some time to go to church -
But what does Daughter do?
She says: O Daddy, not today -
I stayed up almost all night;
I’ve just got to get some sleep. Besides, I look a fright.” T
hen Daddy lifts a trembling hand
To brush away the tears,
As again he hears the pleading voice
Distinctly through the years.
He sees a small girl’s shining face Upturned, with eyes aglow,
As she says, “It’s time for Sunday school - Please, Daddy, won’t you go?”
A lot of members of this church seldom darken its doors. So don’t be surprised when your children become drug addicts and criminals. That is what it leads to. So, first, the answer to the problem is a Biblical home.
A Revival in Our Churches
Secondly, the answer is an old-fashioned revival from Heaven. II Chronicles 7:14 says:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
God knows we need a revival. I am not
talking about a meeting with some high-powered personality who operates in the
energy of the flesh. I am talking about a revival that comes from God, causing
people to quake in His presence and search their hearts and confess their sins
and set out to evangelize the world. We need THAT kind of revival.
A Personal Devotion
We need a personal devotion on the part of all who honor His name, that makes us good Christians.
I was so thrilled to go into a hospital room this week to see one of the members of our church. He and another man were in that room. I spoke to the man I did not know and asked him if he were a Christian. He said, “Yes, I am.” I said, “Have you gotten acquainted with Mr. So-and-so?”. And I called this man’s name who is a faithful member of our church. He said, “I sure have. He is God’s man. He is really some Christian. Preacher, you ought to be proud of him.”
I said, “I can’t tell you how proud I am of that kind of testimony.” We need Christians with a personal devotion for Jesus Christ. We need to win the man, woman, boy or girl who is in this awful, deep, mysterious depravity.
I would like, in closing, to tell you a true story about a sixteen-year-old boy. Everybody called him “Jimmy the Rat”. When he was only a sixteen-year-old farm boy in Indiana, someone introduced him to opium. Before he was out of his teens, he had sunk to the depths of addiction’s depravity, earning the title “the Rat” because of the long cupboard shelf he used for a bedchamber. Eventually he ended up in a Clark Street dope den in Chicago. To a passerby, the establishment was merely a Chinese laundry operated by a John Lee. But down in the cellar, housed in wooden bunk beds which lined both sides of the room in double tiers, the addicts were confined.
Jimmy the Rat, along with other human
derelicts, lived only for the oblivion produced by the shots of morphine,
heroin, opium and cocaine. He was a white-faced, shrunken skeleton wrapped in
skin, unloved and unwanted by society.
One Sunday afternoon he heard from the Pacific Garden Mission singing outside:
Though I forgot Him and wander away,
Still He doth love me wherever I stray;
Back to His dear loving arms would I flee,
When I remember that Jesus loves me.
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me,
I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me
Quietly, trying to slip out without being detected, Jimmy unlocked the door and made his way to the open air. Standing on the Mission’s Gospel Wagon was a burly giant who was testifying: “This here Pacific Garden Mission crowd prayed me back to a decent life and...” At that moment a hand reached out from inside the establishment and dragged the hungry-hearted Jimmy back in.
Fearing Jimmy might get religion and inform on their illicit traffic in dope, a huge man started beating on him to a pulp before he croaked and the police started investigating.
Thinking the task had been accomplished, they carried him from the opium den and dumped him behind a stack of lumber on a side street. Somehow Jimmy got to his feet and staggered to the mission. Arriving just as the congregation was concluding a song, he started up the aisle crying, “I want somebody to pray for me!”
Christ saved him! Later he returned to Indiana, married and became a successful farmer and father, while he continued giving a glorious testimony regarding the saving grace of God in Christ. He eventually dropped his nickname because of his children. They grew to maturity praising God in prayer, “Thank You for the Pacific Garden Mission where Daddy learned to know Jesus.”
My robes were once all stained with sin,
I knew not how to make them clean
Until a voice said, sweet and low,
“Go wash, I will make them white as snow.”
That promise, “whosoever will”, Included me, includes me still.
I came, and ever since I know
His blood has made me white as snow.
I have washed my robes in Jesus’ blood and He has made them white as snow.
Jimmy, the Rat, became Jimmy, the saint of God. That is what can happen to any lost sinner who believes in Him as Saviour!
“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” — Proverb 14:34
Pollster Finds Only 7 Percent of U.S. Adults are Bible Believers
Infidels in the Pulpit
by Cecil Willis | Marion, Indiana
The most of the pulpits in America are filled with infidels. All infidel is "one that does not believe; an unbeliever in respect to a particular religion." I am completely aware of the fact that most people will think my assertion to be extreme and unwarranted. Yet most of the people who fill the pews in church in this land do not know what the men who fill the pulpits really believe. In tact, they would be shocked to know what the men who fill the pulpits actually believe, and more importantly, disbelieve.
Sometime ago I participated in a discussion with a Methodist preacher who taught at Marion College. Early in the discussion he attempted to defend the evolutionary theory, which was not too startling, since most sectarian preachers believe in evolution. But it was not long until the course of the discussion had caused him to assert that he did not believe in verbal inspiration. He said the Bible was only inspired like the great literary pieces written by man are inspiring. He believed the Bible had many errors in it.
Before the evening was over, he had said he did not believe in the virgin birth. He said he believed that Jesus had an earthly father as well as an earthly mother, though he ventured no guess as to who his earthly father was. Furthermore, he said he did not believe the miracles recorded in the Bible actually occurred. He also stated that he did not believe that the body of Jesus actually was raised from the tomb. He said he believed it could have been, but that he did not believe it was.
One wonders why such a man spends his time in preaching. Furthermore, one wonders how such a man could teach in a Wesleyan Methodist College. The Wesleyan Creed book says, "These Scriptures we do hold to be the inspired and infallibly written Word of God, fully inerrant in their original manuscript and superior to all human authority." (p. 11).
But this one teacher in one sectarian college is no exception to the general condition prevailing among sectarian preachers. In 1967 the Hadden survey of denominational preachers revealed that most of them are infidels. On a series of specific propositions, the Hadden survey revealed the percentage of preachers who believed the proposition.
On the proposition, "Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God not only in matters of faith but also in historical, geographical and other secular matters", affirmative answers were given by 33 percent of the preachers in the American Baptist church, Episcopalian 5 percent, Methodist 13 percent and Presbyterian 12 percent.
In a recent speech given before the Southern Baptist Convention, "Dr. Pinnock, theology professor from New Orleans," said "while many Baptist pastors hold to the idea of Biblical infallibility, 'the percentage of our professors who do is very small. "
On the statement, "I believe that the virgin birth of Jesus was a biological miracle", the percentages were: American Baptist--56 percent; Episcopalian--56 percent; Methodist--40 percent; Presbyterian--51 percent. On the resurrection this proposition was worded: "I accept Jesus' physical resurrection as an objective historical fact in the same sense that Lincoln's physical death was a historical fact." The percentages who answered affirmatively were: American Baptist--67 percent; Episcopalian--70 percent; Methodist--49 percent; and Presbyterian--65 percent.
Another proposition surveyed was "I believe in a divine judgment after death where some shall be rewarded and others punished." The affirmative answers were in these percentages: American Baptist--71 percent; Episcopalian--55 percent; Methodist--52 percent; and Presbyterian--57 percent. On another statement, "Adam and Eve were individual historical persons", the percentages were: American Baptist--45 percent; Episcopalian--3 percent; Methodist--18 percent; and Presbyterian--16 percent. (These figures were published in the July-August, 1967 issue of Trans-Action.
These figures indicate that two out of every three Baptist preachers do not believe that the "Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God." But nearly nine out of every ten Methodist and Presbyterian preachers deny that the "Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God." And only one out of every twenty Episcopalian preachers believe the "Scriptures are the inspired and inerrant Word of God." Now do you see why I asserted in the beginning of this article that most of the pulpits in this land are filled by infidels? If Jesus was not born of a virgin, he was just an ordinary man. If he was not raised from the dead, our hope rests on a myth, and we have hoped in vain (1 Cor. 15:1-10).
It probably would be a great help in converting sectarian people if their preachers would directly state what they believe. Instead, they continue to deceive the people as "Wolves" in "sheep's clothing" (Matt. 7: 15L These preachers only reveal their infidelity when they can do so through the anonymity of a religious poll. But the polls show that the majority of the pulpits in America are filled by infidels.
SOURCE: TRUTH MAGAZINE XIV; 29, pp. 3-4; May 28, 1970
How To Be Saved
“I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.” —Billy Sunday
Printed Sermons and Books
MP3 Sermons by Dr. Tom Malone
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Blunder #1: Using the wrong room as your office. What seems right and what feels right can create an internal battle and affect your productivity. For example, if it seems right to use a spare bedroom as an office but you feel better working at your kitchen table, stop to consider why. Is your kitchen bright and roomy while your spare bedroom is too dreary and cramped? Make the necessary changes to the room you choose, keeping in mind you'll be spending a lot of time there.
Blunder #2: Not planning for long-range wiring needs. When you first open your home office, you may need nothing more than a business line and a fax/modem line. As your business grows, however, you'll need additional lines for incoming calls and dedicated lines for your fax, modem and electronic equipment. Getting direct Internet access via your cable company alleviates the need for a modem line, but you'll still need the capacity to accommodate additional lines and outlets.
Blunder #3: Lack of storage space. "Starter files" and office supplies occupy little space, but as your client list grows and you get more projects, your storage needs will increase dramatically. Determine how much information or how many supplies you need to store now, and estimate how much storage space you'll need down the road. Ideally, you should store all this information within your home office rather than scattered throughout your home.
Blunder #4: No schedule. When you work at home, it's easy to sleep late, work late and get distracted. Distraction is fine to a point. But if you're spending more time sidetracked than on track, it's time to reevaluate what you're doing (or, in this case, not doing). Set a flexible schedule with two main elements: a starting time and a quitting time. Make it easy to quit at the end of the day by shutting your home-office door, if possible, and leaving it closed until the next day. Walking by an office with an open door can be an invitation to work all night long.
Blunder #5: Lack of a planning system. At first, running your business by the seat of your pants may seem feasible, but you'll quickly find the flaws in this approach. Although you shouldn't want to wait for the world to come crashing down before establishing a system, don't feel pressured to invest in a traditional paper-based planner, electronic organizer or computerized system. Instead, find a method that works for you--even if it's keeping notes in a spiral notebook and monthly calendar. The key: Whatever system you choose, use it regularly. | <urn:uuid:5a507204-4c2f-43c4-a393-a47eac22b0f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/49196 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00314-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953407 | 540 | 1.523438 | 2 |
156. Duties of superintendent. In addition to the duties of the superintendent of buildings prescribed herein, or otherwise by law, the common council shall by ordinance prescribe his duties, and he shall have such power and authority in regard to the supervision and inspection of the erection, construction or alteration of buildings and other structures as shall be conferred by ordinance, not inconsistent with the other laws of the state. The common council shall also have power to establish by ordinance, and from time to time amend, a "building code, " providing for all matters concerning, affecting or relating to the construction, alteration, repair or removal of buildings and structures heretofore or hereafter erected; but no ordinance amending, repealing or modifying such building code or any provision thereof shall be passed by the common council until notice shall have been published for at least ten days in the official paper or papers of the city that on a day stated in such notice, the common council will consider the adoption of a proposed ordinance amending, repealing or modifying the building code, or a part thereof, generally or in respect of a specified subject, and that a copy of such proposed ordinance is on file in the office of the city clerk.
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The US Special Forces are located in Syria. Russia has knowledge of their precise location in order to avoid any confrontation.
The disclosure was made beyond the scope of the existing memorandum of understanding (MOU) which was signed between the US and Russia in October 2015 in order to regulate safety protocols for their respective warplanes in the region.
“We provided a geographical area that we asked them to stay out of it because of the risk to US forces,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told journalists, according to Military Times.
“This was a step we took to try to maintain their safety in a dangerous situation and this was a request that we made to the Russians outside the scope of the memorandum of understanding… Up to this point, [the Russians] have honored this request,” he added.
The MOU was signed between Moscow and Washington in October following the beginning of the Russian air campaign in Syria. However, the document remains fairly limited in scope due to disagreements between the two powers, as the US continues to accuse Russia of bombing ‘moderate’ rebel forces fighting the Syrian government instead of Daesh forces – allegations that Moscow has continuously refuted.
However, despite being at odds regarding certain aspects of the Syrian conflict, the US and Russia did cooperate on several issues, most notably the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons and the approval of the Geneva peace talks.
Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, with the country’s government fighting multiple opposition factions and extremist groups, including Daesh (also known as ISIL or the Islamic State).
The Syrian Army’s anti-terror effort is backed by Russia’s ongoing air campaign in Syria which was launched on September 30, when more than fifty Russian warplanes, including Su-24M, Su-25 and Su-34 jets, commenced precision airstrikes on Daesh and Jabhat an-Nusra targets in Syria at the behest of Syrian President Bashar Assad. | <urn:uuid:f97298c4-0c36-4a7b-9c0c-bcdf6314f236> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mirrorspectrum.com/info/us-special-forces-entered-syria | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978659 | 393 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The Case for Change
There are three groups of people within this nation of ours, generally speaking. You may not like it, but you are bound to fall into one of these broad categories.
The first group are those who think that things are generally okay, we just need to tune and adjust to improve where we’re headed. Most people who describe themselves as Republicans and a significant percentage of Democrats fall into this category. You are the folks who “just want Congress to do X”. X might be some sort of national health care or it might be tougher rules on drug crimes, or what have you. Think Hugh Hewitt or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Harry Reid.
The second group of folks are those who want dramatic change that involves the government in some fashion. You are convinced that if only we would empower our government to do something for us, we could have a wonderful life. For the most part, these folks are socialists (I know that’s not in fashion, they say “progressive” now, but I call a spade a spade) and want to empower a government that runs our lives for us. Think Jeffords or Kerry or Boxer. A smaller piece of this group thinks the government should be empowered to “make us moral”, the Jim Dobson’s of our political landscape.
The third group of folks, the smallest by far, also wants dramatic change that involves the government. They want to make government a much smaller part of our life, take power from government and return it to individuals. Think Milton Friedman.
I’m not speaking now to the second or third group in our political landscape. They both have a case for change in mind. In the latter case, I agree in some fashion. In the former case, you are tyrants whose approach has been tried in the past, it has been found wanting, and we have rejected it. Move to Cuba if you think that government control of individual choice is such a good thing.
That first group, probably 80% of the citizens in this country, is the group I’m addressing. So, the question is, why is change a good idea? You look around you and life is pretty good. You make a good income, have friends, are safe from crime and war. You’ve got it good, don’t you? So, why should you want dramatic change? Why remove the government from your life, when it’s doing such a fine job of making things work well?
I could make the moral argument. Humans have inherent rights and when government makes choices for you, those rights are usurped. Of course, except for a few folks, this argument carries no weight. You are happy with the government making those choices so long as they don’t intrude too deeply into your affairs. So long as you aren’t affected in your daily life (or think you aren’t), you don’t mind the government fighting a Drug War, intervening around the world with the military, deciding who you can and cannot see for your health care, regulating our economy and so on. So, although I could, I won’t make the moral argument.
Instead, let’s make the practical case for change, for this call to action.
So, what is that, when life is going so well for you? After all, your income is increasing, your taxes are low and stable, you have health care, nice electronics, safety, everything you want, right?
Let’s start with this. There is a minority of people in this country that don’t have what you have. Nor, with our current situation, is it likely they will ever have it except by herculean effort that only rewards a very small percentage of the disadvantaged. In order to protect you middle class from the lower class, the politicians have walled them off from you. They have prosecuted a War on Drugs to keep drugs in the inner city, knowing that they can never eradicate illegal drug use. They have confined violent crime there as well. Your jobs and income are safe and the sacrifice is the 10% of the population that will never have a stable job and income. You have health care while they languish on Medicaid (which pushes your healthcare costs ever higher).
Well, so what? Here’s so what. Radical change will be brought about by pressure from the folks on the edge of society, not by the comfortable middle class. Do you really think you can just shut those folks in their ghettos and all will be well? Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Barack Obama, they are riding that wave of anger right now. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are trying to continue to institutionalize the urban plantation, believing that will stave off the inevitable. George Bush and Trent Lott want to shoot ’em all and let god sort ’em out, believing that will solve the problem once and for all. The last two choices, as we’ve seen over the last 40 years, are not going to work.
The Drug War has brought more crime and violence to our neighborhoods. It has created cheaper, stronger, more addictive drugs. Crack, for example, would not have been invented if the black market price of cocaine had not been so high and the availability so limited. Kathryn Johnson would not have been killed by a fusillade of over 100 bullets, fired by thuggish cops, if not for the Drug War.
The War on Poverty has created permanent poverty. If you look at the statistics, we now have more folks living in poverty than we did in the 1960’s when LBJ started the Great Society. Pharmaceutical costs have risen steadily for everyone since the day that Congress declared that drug manufacturers must sell their products to the government (i.e. medicaid and medicare) at the lowest price they offer anyone (in other words, price fixing). The number of folks on medicaid, medicare or no health care has steadily increased. The number of people likely to get social security pensions has steadily declined while our social security contributions have steadily gone up.
The government has declared that it may take your home to benefit city tax coffers and private developers, whether you wish to sell at their price, or not. They have decided which person you can see to provide health care for you and your family. You must wear a seatbelt or face arrest (a traffic ticket is an arrest where you are released on your own recognizance) and fines. If you decide that you don’t want a muslim to pray on your property (US Airways), you are not going to be allowed to tell them no, even though it is your private property. You cannot choose how, when and where your children will be educated, or what curriculum they will be taught.
But, these things are not onerous, you say. They don’t change my daily life that much. Why should I care?
First, change is inevitable. Human change is driven by the urge for things to be better, for more wealth, more safety. Those have nots, both in this country, and elsewhere, want what you have. You have two choices in front of you. Pay the Dane his geld, the solution of the socialists. Or give the Dane his chance to create his own geld. There is no third option. Stasis is not possible. The answer of the conservative middle, that we can keep things as they are with, at worst, minor change is a chimera. History tells us that change is inevitable and that it will be those without, who wish more, who will bring about that change.
The great thing is that we have a way to bring about that change, to increase everyone’s wealth and safety without resorting to bloody revolution or bloody tyranny. Liberalism gives us just such a tool. The marketplace and the individual, together, without the interference of technocrats, do gooders and Mrs. Grundy, not only can bring about incredible, positive changes, but has done so already. The history of the human race is one long and unbroken line of misery, poverty and early death for 99.9% of all humans throughout time.
Until 300 years ago. There is a sudden, massive upward movement in the condition of all humans, worldwide. That change dates to the advent of Liberalism and the Industrial Revolution. This is not coincidence. Those two things gave individual humans, not privileged by lucky birth, the tools to create wealth and safety and comfort for themselves, without dependency on government or politically elite class. We have, for a variety of reasons, rejected most of those tools. We are now reaping what we have sowed. Look to Europe, the Middle East and Africa if you wish to see the gathering storm.
This, then, is the case for a change to embrace Liberalism. One that the political middle of America should heed. We know that we are not happy with the path the NeoConservatives laid down for us. But, we are no more happy with the path the NeoSocialists would have us follow. We didn’t elect Socialists this past election, whether Kos thinks it was a great triumph, or not. We elected more middle of the roaders who would keep to a conservative course. We were never presented the third choice, Liberalism. Now it’s time for us to throw off the blinders and shackles and embrace that third choice. We, in this country, have done so in the past. Are we not the same people? Are we not descended from men like Paine and Franklin and Washington and Madison? Shall we continue to meekly follow our “masters” or shall we demand our birthright, the choice to make our own decisions, be responsible for our own self, live life as free men and women, standing on our two feet?
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In order to see and browse the windows partition you need to mount it.
First create the directory where you want to mount your Windows file system e.g. /mnt/win_c
then issue the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdaX /mnt/win_c
where hdaX is your first HD (b for the second, etc.) and X th number of the partition (1,2,3 ...)
If all goes well you may want to add a line to your fstab to mount automatically at startup. Using the info from the previous command write a new line like this:
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Flow is the most addictive, non-chemically induced state that you can create
naturally. Of course, it is chemically induced but you create the chemicals yourself in your brain. Flow is that state that athletes talk about when they’re in the zone that you get when you're playing a game. Flow is when you get in that state when you have a challenge that exactly it matches your ability that it absorbs your entire being but doesn't demand more. If the challenge is too easy then used drop into a state called boredom and if the challenge is too hard, you move into its state called stress. Your goal is to do something that takes your entire being.
Booke Allen N2BA
Here is a quote from Eddie Leighton the originator of the Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio concept.
RaDAR is a challenge when compared to any other contest. Moving stations are required to move the specified distance after every 5 contacts (The first 5 contacts could be made from the starting point). This will test rapid deployment and re-deployment. Each operator will use his own initiative to achieve his / her goals.
Eddie Leighton ZS6BNE
I discovered the flow state during my first RaDAR Contest (now called RaDAR Challenge) in April of 2013. In my blog post, I stated, "I had the most fun I ever had in Ham Radio." When you put a time constraint on RaDAR it will challenge you, particularly on foot. Within the four hours, you must walk briskly to conserve as much time for operating the radio. You may be on the sandy beach or you may be on a road. You are impacted by the weight of gear is you are carrying. It has to be everything you need at the next location. When you set up you must select an antenna if you have more than one. If you are using trees for the antenna you better spot that limb you need quickly. You will choose a band and mode you believe will net five contacts. You will assess what you hear on the band. If you have no luck you better choose the next band quickly. You leverage on what activity there is on the air. You look for other RaDAR operators for RaDAR to RaDAR contacts. You may decide to make a digital contact or a satellite contact for bonus points. Your outcome will depend on your preparation and practice between challenges from a gear and operating perspective. In any case, you may achieve the Flow State when the challenge exactly matches your abilities and you are completely consumed. I consider I am really there when I can make four deployments within the four hours.
It works for me! I look forward to every RaDAR Challenge. They are the first Saturday in April and November and the third Saturday of July. If you are interested please visit the home of RaDAR at http://radarops.co.za/ and the RaDAR Google Plus community. Also, listen to Eddie ZS6BNE's QSO Today Episode here and to Brooke Allen N2BA's QSO Today Episode here. My thanks to Eric Guth 4Z1UG for making these and the other 178 and counting QSO Today Podcasts. | <urn:uuid:526cd271-a4e5-40a8-9fea-3fb15eef441b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.n4kgl.info/2018/02/the-flow-state-via-rapid-deployment.html?m=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964067 | 658 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Blood pressure and the heart related ailments, have been significantly on the rise chiefly due to the complexities of the mordern life. Now the tendency, in general, is to squeeze a lot of activities within a short span of time and all expect favourable results, forgetting totally that man is not God and he has only control over his action and not on the results achieved. This condition exposes them to those situations for which their body-organs, particularly the heart is not designed. Hence they suffer all kinds of ailments related to blood circulation and heart. It is to guard the people against these rampant situations that this book has been written. Our attempt has been not only guiding the people against indulging in such conditions but also telling, in detail, the consequences of their not heeding to our advice. | <urn:uuid:21279e07-5c56-4028-a9ca-ee85cfd9b45e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.readwhere.com/book/diamond-books/Causes-and-Cure-of-Blood-Pressure/13105 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.976477 | 160 | 1.695313 | 2 |
A permittivity measurement system for high frequency laboratories
Thesis (MScEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
The open-ended coaxial probe is revisited as a broadband measurement system for general high frequency permittivity measurements. Three coaxial probes were developed that are suited for the measurement of both liquids and solids. The components of a permittivity measurement system were investigated and improvements were made to the coaxial probe where needed. This includes the development of a full wave code with great calculation time improvements without sacrificing accuracy. This code allows measurements to be performed in a high frequency laboratory and the permittivity extracted without any mentionable delay. A capacitance model that better describes the impedance of an open-ended coaxial line is also suggested that can be used for real-time permittivity extraction over a limited frequency range. Calibration formed a vital part of the project and great time was spent developing a TRL and a SOLT calibration set for the coaxial probe geometry. The combination of the TRL and SOLT standards also allows measurement of the residual errors after calibration and is used in an uncertainty analysis of the extracted permittivity. Well known materials such as PTFE, PVC, methanol and water were measured to test the probes. The measured dielectric constants are all within 3% of values quoted in literature. The loss term of the samples are also in good agreement with the expected values. | <urn:uuid:1c434a0d-e4e2-40db-b201-f983b55a35de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/1524 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00211-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963847 | 302 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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