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Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
William Christopher Handy
William Christopher Handy was born on November 16, 1873, in this two-room log cabin, which was located approximately one-half mile north of this site. In 1954, the cabin was dismantled, placed in storage, and restored to its original condition at this location in 1970. Handy grew up in Florence where his father and grandfather were Methodist-Episcopal ministers. Early in life, he developed a deep understanding and appreciation for religious music as performed in black churches. Later, he composed and published more than 30 spirituals. As a young man, Handy traveled widely, performing as a band leader and musician playing the trumpet and cornet. From 1901 to 1903, he taught music at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College in Normal, Alabama. From 1903, to 1909, he directed the Knights of Pythias Band in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 1909, Handy moved to Memphis, Tennessee. There, he composed the "Memphis Blues." This popular work, along with the "Saint Louis Blues," the "Beale Street Blues," and 37 other blues tunes, made him an internationally prominent figure in the music world. Handy moved to New York in 1918 and established a very successful music publishing business. He spent the next several decades actively involved in the music business while composing and performing.
Erected 2013 by Florence Historical Board.
Location. Click for map. This marker is located next to the W.C. Handy Home/Musuem. Marker is at or near this postal address: 620 W College St, Florence AL 35630, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. W. C. Handy Birthplace (within shouting distance of this marker); Burrell Normal School (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church (about 700 feet away); The Greater Mount Moriah (approx. 0.4 miles away); Dred Scott (approx. half a mile away); Karsner-Kennedy House (approx. half a mile away); Wheeler Rifles (approx. 0.6 miles away); Trinity Episcopal Church 1894 (approx. 0.6 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Florence.
Also see . . .
1. W. C. Handy Birthplace, Museum & Library. (Submitted on November 6, 2015.)
2. W.C. Handy Music Festival. (Submitted on November 6, 2015.)
Categories. • African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment •
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The news that Amtrak will ramp up repairs to its century-old Hudson River rail tunnel while a project to build a new tunnel languishes likely will translate into more headaches for already beleaguered commuters.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao told a House subcommittee Thursday that federal officials are working with Amtrak on a plan to accelerate the work now on the 110-year-old tunnel.
The new tunnel, proposed nine years ago as part of the larger Gateway project to transform rail capacity in the New York region, is mired in a funding dispute between the federal government and New York and New Jersey and currently is ineligible for federal grants.
Amtrak already shuts down one of the existing tunnel’s two tubes during overnight and weekend hours to repair damage accelerated by flooding from 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. The Gateway plan called for shutting down the tunnel for a complete overhaul once a new tunnel is built, but Chao said Thursday that beginning the repair work now “is the right move.” She noted that building a new tunnel would take seven to 10 years and cost an estimated $11 billion, under the most favorable conditions.
The new plan calls for more extensive repairs that will require further service disruptions, said Stephen Gardner, Amtrak’s senior executive vice president and chief operating and commercial officer.
“We’re trying to balance what we can do now with the impacts of doing it now,” Gardner told The Associated Press at a transportation conference in New York on Thursday. “If we have to curtail rush hour for the next five years to do some interim work, there’s huge impacts to that. So we’re tying to find that right balance.”
The most disruptive repairs could “require a complete outage at some point,” he added.
The problems — including water leaking in, crumbling walls, an outdated track bed and overhead wire issues — are so extensive that they won’t all be repaired, even under the new plan, Gardner conceded.
Gardner also cast doubt on the idea that 12,000-volt electrical cables currently encased in concrete damaged by Sandy can be installed on racks on the tunnel walls. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo opted for that approach to avoid a lengthy planned shutdown last year of New York City’s L subway line connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan. The idea has gained traction for the Amtrak tunnel in recent months, and Chao referred to it Thursday.
“This is not the same situation as the Canarsie tube, which is low voltage, 600 DC volts,” Gardner said. “People get confused about applying a method to a completely different technological solution. With 12,000 volts, it explodes, it arcs. You have to protect it in a fireproof, very robust encasement of some sort.” | <urn:uuid:4f008c19-0081-4ea1-a9ff-14d4dc6bb79c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thejewishvoice.com/2020/03/new-york-rail-tunnel-repairs-could-mean-more-rider-headaches-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.941758 | 589 | 2.125 | 2 |
Why does the original pronunciation (OP) of Shakespeare's words matter? For one thing, two-thirds of Shakespeare's sonnets have rhymes that don't work in modern English.
The modern pronunciation of certain words also robs them of meaning. For instance, it matters how the word "loins" (from Romeo and Juliet) is pronounced in OP because the word is used as a pun on the word "lines," which was pronounced the same way. So the line ("From forth the fatal loins of these two foes") has two meanings: genealogical lines on the one hand and physical loins on the other.
Shakespeare, of course, was writing at a time when the English language was rapidly evolving. But it wasn't just the words that were evolving, it was the way the words sounded as well.
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If anyone needs the trend of life hacks, it’s new moms. Becoming a mother is an extremely challenging experience. It’s incredibly rewarding—don’t get me wrong—but it’s a tough transition that’s usually stressful and at times, scary.
The good news?
So many women have done it before and are thrilled to help out new moms with tips and tricks they picked up along the way. Here are 4 essential parenting hacks that can make being a first time mom a little bit easier.
1. Develop a Schedule to Stay Organized – You’ll Thank Me Later
You might be thinking “I barely have time to shower, let alone to make a schedule.”
While that might be true right now, taking a bit of time while the baby is napping to create a schedule will make things so much easier.
You’ll be able to schedule time for a shower, instead of just grabbing time for yourself whenever you can. Scheduling helps to ensure you don’t feel overwhelmed.
Let me be clear: your schedule shouldn’t be too ambitious. Your main priorities should revolve around caring for yourself and your baby: ensuring that you both get enough sleep, enough to eat, and are able to feel clean and relaxed.
Schedule in items like eating, sleeping, walking, and playing.
If you have a partner helping, bring them in on the schedule so that you can both contribute.
As your child gets older, the schedule will change with their growing independence, activities, etc. but having that foundation of a schedule will make those transitions easier.
2. Take Health Check-Ups Seriously
Setting your baby up for a lifetime of good health is key, and that starts with early health checkups. Make sure to schedule appointments well in advance and ask for advice when you need it.
Many moms struggle with breastfeeding issues or other health issues, and it’s important to reach out whenever necessary to get reliable answers and help.
There’s a lot of information available on the internet—but there’s also a lot of misinformation, particularly about vaccines.
“One of the problems with myths about vaccines is that they change and adapt so quickly as scientific evidence refutes them,” says Kacey C. Ernst, PhD, MPH, associate professor and program director of epidemiology at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. “This is pretty easy to do since they aren’t grounded in science.”
Sticking to a regular checkup schedule and turning to your pediatrician when you need answers will help ensure your baby grows up healthy.
Don’t avoid any aspects of the recommendations during development. Controversies, misinformation, and myths around issues like vaccines shouldn’t sway you in doing what’s best for your child and protecting them against potentially fatal diseases later on.
Take the risks seriously and do whatever you can to keep them healthy and safe by getting regular checkups and recommended vaccinations.
3. Monitor Tech Use
Children are fascinated by technology from a very early age, but there are some very real concerns associated with kids getting too much screen time.
It’s key to balance kids’ tech use with other activities, like reading together with physical books, spending time outside, and playing in person with other kids so that they can build social skills and learn to have fun without the internet.
When your kids are using tech, try to make most of it educational. It will help prepare them for school and their future lives, when they’ll need to be proficient in using different tech tools.
Many schools are shifting away from paper-based curriculums, with 75% of teachers predicting that by 2026, printed textbooks will not be in use in schools.
Realistically, it’s not possible to make sure all of your child’s exposure to technology will be educational, but it’s a good goal to have.
4. Don’t Forget Your Sleep
Ah, sleep. It’s the most elusive pastime of new parents, and we’re trained to believe that we can’t get adequate sleep as new parents.
Don’t believe it—although it’s more challenging to get enough sleep with a newborn in the house, there are ways to make sure you’re not yawning through the day.
The golden rule? Sleep when the baby is asleep.
Many moms feel guilty for neglecting household tasks, but unless it’s truly urgent, your sleep is more important than the dirty dishes in the sink. Napping with your baby will give you more opportunities to bond and build trust with your little one.
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I receive a variety of health-related newsletters, as I am quite partial to them. It is this unquenchable thirst for knowledge, in a way. I was going through the newsletters as usual, when one particular news story scared me. I immediately felt like I had to share it right away. I am sure many women (and men) face this kind of situation and end up trying to get over it throughout their lives.
Dating abuse is common, but tips like these can help one be more cautious. I am reproducing the news article as I received it:
This past week I met a woman who told me a story that is so frightening and yet common enough that I had to write another warning to all women who are dating or thinking about dating. This woman explained to me that she was dating someone and had broken up with him. She later was asked out by his roommate who was handsome and very popular. She was in college at the time and this was pretty typical. The guy picked her up, took her to dinner, and then took her back to his place. She did not want to go up to his dorm room, but he dragged her. He dragged her across the parking lot, she was screaming and other people standing there did nothing. He proceeded to get her in to his room, hit her, and raped her. She cried, fought, and screamed…he laughed. After the rape he dressed, told her to dress, smiled and drove her home. I asked her if she talked to him on the way home and she told me she was bleeding and only remembers being humiliated. We spent a long time talking about how it has affected her adult life and what she should have seen as warning signs that this guy was bad. This woman’s story is devastating but the warning signs she afforded me may save your life. Please, think about the person you are dating now and if you see even one of these take note. Leaving a relationship is so much easier than being hurt in one and trying to heal your life.
- Does the guy make you feel belittled by saying disparaging things about you to others and talks like you aren’t there?
- They punch walls when they get mad. (This doesn’t mean he is masculine ladies, it means he cannot control his anger and he isn’t very smart to ruin a wall).
- He makes decisions about where the two of you will go and what you will do with no input from you.
- He curses at you or calls you names.
- He walls you off from your family and friends and tries to coerce you into spending time with him or his family/friends.
- No matter what you do at work or how important you are with your job, he will put you down and make you feel like it isn’t an accomplishment at all.
- When he is with you he tries to show you how other women admire him so he will flirt with them and then if you mention feeling uncomfortable he will tell you that you have an issue with jealousy. Does he look like he’s one to look for reviews on pheromone colognes and perfumes for men?
- Losing his temper is a common event and when he gets angry it is never his fault (usually yours) and he will punish you in a way that makes you feel humiliated.
- This is the most important tip. Many times these men come on strong in the beginning; they anticipate your needs and are ready. Beware: these guys want an exclusive relationship too soon.
The woman in this story saw a few of these signs, but felt like she didn’t know the guy enough to judge him. Women sometimes have a difficult time being judgmental and we may want to give the guy a second chance. Since there are so many wonderful men that you could date, giving a guy like this a second chance makes no sense. Before he has a chance to get into your head (or physically hurt you) and rob you of your confidence, run away.
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"Afghans died in a war that's not ours,' Karzai said in the interview published on Sunday, just a month before an election to pick his successor. (Agencies)
He was quoted as saying he was certain the 12-year-old war, America's longest and launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001, was "for the US security and for the Western interest."
Karzai's refusal to sign a security deal with Washington that would permit foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond this year has frustrated the White House, and President Barack Obama has told the Pentagon to prepare for the possibility that no US troops will be left in Afghanistan after 2014.
Obama told Karzai in a phone call on Tuesday he had given the order to the Pentagon. The phone call was the first substantive discussion between the two leaders since June.
But staking out a new position, the White House said in a statement it would leave open the possibility of concluding the bilateral security agreement later this year.
"It's good for them to sign it with my successor," Karzai told the Post. He has insisted the United States must jump-start peace talks with Taliban insurgents and end raids and strikes on Afghan homes before he signs the deal.
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has a current strength of more than 52,000 soldiers, including 33,600 US troops. More than 3,400 coalition forces have been killed in the fight against the Taliban, including more than 2,300 US troops.
While Afghanistan's police and army are seen as having made big strides in their ability to fight militants, doubts remain about whether they can keep a still-potent Taliban at bay, especially in remote areas.
In the interview, the Afghan leader said he was deeply troubled by the war's casualties, including those in US military operations, and felt betrayed by what he described as an insufficient US focus on going after Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan rather than in Afghan villages.
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan dissipated his country's "common cause" with the United States, Karzai told the newspaper.
Criticizing his US allies was the only way to secure a response by Washington to his concerns, he added.
The Post said Karzai told his interviewers as he escorted them out of his office on Saturday night: "To the American people, give them my best wishes and my gratitude. To US government, give them my anger, my extreme anger."
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QuickBooks Error 1935 usually occurs when the system shuts down instantly during accessing any program. Additionally, this error occurs when the Windows operating system is corrupted and shows that the system requires the .NET framework.
Moreover, installing QuickBooks in a computer system should take only 15-17 minutes depending on the performance of your computer however you may encounter the following error:
QuickBooks Error 1935: This setup requires a .NET Framework that indicates the absence of .NET FRAMEWORK on your operating system.
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Potential Symptoms of QuickBooks Error 1935
- Your PC periodically freezes for a few seconds at a time
- A display on your computer screen “ERROR-1935″ QuickBooks has encountered a problem and needs to close. We apologize for the inconvenience.
- QuickBooks Error 1935 appears suddenly and crashes the active program.
- Your computer frequently crashes with the Error code 1935 while running the same program.
- Windows runs very slow and responds to inputs send via keyboard and mouse very sluggishly.
- A problem has been detected in your pc and windows has been shut down to prevent it from damages to your computer.
- Error 1935 QuickBooks is displayed on the computer screen.
Why does QuickBooks Error 1935 occur?
Given these points, are the causes of QuickBooks error 1935 because of which you face problems in QuickBooks Installation. Causes are as follows:
- The framework of .Net might be damaged in PC
- The framework of .Net has not been established in PC
- Existence of the outdated framework of.Net in PC
- The incomplete or incorrect download of QuickBooks
- Malware infections might have damaged your company files or QuickBooks related data
- Mistakenly formatted QuickBooks company files or added malicious details
- Destroyed Windows Registry from a new QuickBooks Update.
- Anti-virus or any other protector is preventing it from installing
Solutions to Fix QuickBooks Error 1935
Following these simple steps can resolve your problem very easily. If you have encountered QuickBooks Error 1935, then this signs that your system setup requires a solution regarding .NET Framework. Follow the below steps in like manner and try to resolve the issue by yourself:
Method-1 Check “.NET Framework”
Method-2 Update “.NET Framework”
Method-3 Use QB Install diagnostics Tool
Method-4 Switch off services of Antivirus
Method-5 Perform Malware Scan
Method-6 Perform function “Disk Cleanup”
Method-7 Update Drivers of the Workstation
Method-8 Use function “Windows System Restore”
Method-9 Install QB again
Method-10 Check Windows Files
Method-11 Update Windows
Method-12 Use Selective Start-up mode
Method-13 Check Registry Entries
In this article, we had discussed all the conditions by which QuickBooks error 1935 persists and its major symptoms, and most vital its solutions. Elimination of this error is just an easy task, you just need to select the best and easy method and follow its steps accordingly and properly. Terminating this error does not need extra technical knowledge but if you are facing any problem then call us instantly and without hesitation. | <urn:uuid:9adcb87a-9e4d-4cd7-a55e-ffa73d1fb3e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://quickfixbookserror.com/quickbooks-error-1935/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.889203 | 667 | 1.984375 | 2 |
More advice on New York’s SHIELD Act
On June 20, 2022, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) announcement a consent agreement (called Cancellation insurance) with Northeastern grocery chain Wegmans for, among other things, violations of SHIELD law requirements. Wegmans neither confirms nor denies the NYAG’s findings.
In short, on April 5, 2021, a security researcher contacted Wegmans about a serious breach that left some personal data of Wegmans customers publicly available. After receiving no response for a week, he tried again. This time Wegmans responded, and discovered he was right, that a cloud storage container was not secure and open to the public, potentially exposing sensitive information. The container contained a database backup file containing over three million records of customer email addresses and account passwords, the latter of which were hashed and salted. Wegmans concluded that the misconfiguration was introduced when the container was set up with the database, in January 2018. During his investigation, Wegmans found a second misconfigured container, which was also open to the public. This container contained names, email addresses, postal addresses, and checksum values derived from driver’s license numbers. Wegmans believes the misconfiguration was also introduced when setting up the container with the database, this time in November 2018. Wegmans updated the container configurations to disallow public access on May 12, 2021 and has informed consumers.
The NYAG blamed Wegmans for five areas of security: access controls, password management, asset management, logging and monitoring, and data collection and retention. With respect to password management and data collection and retention, the consent agreement states:
Password management: At the time of the incident, the backup of the database containing customer email addresses and passwords contained more than 1.8 million passwords hashed using the hashing algorithm SHA-I. Given the shortcomings of SHA-I hashing, Wegmans began switching users to the PBKDF2 hashing algorithm to secure passwords in 2016, but nonetheless continued to store passwords with SHA-I until in January 2020. Users who logged in from 2016 would automatically have their password. updated hash to use PBKDF2 algorithm. However, if a user had not logged in between 2016 and the date the database backup file was created, their credentials would still have been stored in SHA-I format.
Data collection and storage: The information involved included checksums derived from customers’ driver’s license numbers. However, Wegmans did not have a reasonable business purpose to retain any form of driver’s license information indefinitely. Checksums are not immune to attack and therefore cannot justify the retention of unnecessary personal information.
As part of the settlement, Wegmans agreed to pay $400,000 and to take various steps commonly seen in security-related consent agreements, such as: a written information security program, asset management (including cloud assets), log retention (“Logs for Cloud Asset activity should be readily accessible for a period of at least 90 days and stored for at least one year from the date the activity was registered.”), annual penetration testing, annual third-party assessment for the next 3 years, password policies, and customer account management and authentication. Some of the more unusual requirements are:
- Asset Management: Wegmans will use manual processes and, where possible, automated tools to regularly inventory and classify, and publish internal reports on, all Cloud assets contained in its network, including, but not limited to, all software, applications, network components, databases, data stores, tools, technology and systems. The asset inventory and applicable configuration and change management systems shall, at a minimum, collectively identify: (a) the name of the asset; (b) the version of the asset; (c) the owner of the asset; (d) the location of the asset within the Network; (e) Asset criticality rating; (f) whether the asset collects, processes or stores personal information; and (g) each security update and security patch applied or installed during the prior period.
- Data gathering: Wegmans will not collect a customer’s personal information without a reasonable business purpose for such collection.
- Data deletion: Wegmans will establish and maintain appropriate policies and procedures to ensure that personal information is deleted when there is no reasonable business purpose for retaining such personal information. For personal information collected prior to the effective date of this insurance, Wegmans will permanently delete private information for which no reasonable business purpose exists within ninety (90) days of the effective date of this insurance. effect and will permanently delete all other personal information for which no reasonable business purpose exists. exists within two hundred and forty (240) days of the Effective Date.
(In New York, the State Breach Notification Act defines “private information” in General Business Law § 899-aa, and the Consent Agreement uses the same definition. Personal Information, the Consent Agreement defines the term “personal information” as “information that can be used to identify a customer, including name, home or other physical address, email address, number phone number, account password, social security number, government identification number, including driver’s license number, bank account number, credit or debit card number, or any private information.”)
As we highlighted in our previous article on a SHIELD Act regulation, this regulation demonstrates regulators’ continuing and growing emphasis on reasonable record retention and data destruction. Record retention often plays a secondary role in data security and privacy programs, but the theft of old and unused personal information is something regulators can quickly identify. A simple retention policy and schedule that employees do not meaningfully follow is unlikely to protect an organization from regulatory scrutiny.
Even hashing and salting apparently won’t help a SHIELD Act claim if a company had no business justification for having the data in the first place. Your records retention policy is only part of a “minimum necessary” policy that minimizes the amount of personal data collected, which would also help reduce the cost of protecting that personal data and minimize fines regulations in the event of a data breach.
Additionally, note that New York required the company to make a vulnerability disclosure program “visibly available” on its website. Security researchers and companies that have their own threat intelligence programs received clarification in May from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the federal anti-piracy law known as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ( CFAA). The DOJ has announced revisions to its pricing Politics on violations of the CFAA. The policy for the first time directs Justice Department attorneys not to press charges against the CFAA for “good faith security research.” The policy also clarifies that the DOJ will not prosecute cases of “excess authorized access,” although prosecution for “unauthorized access” has not changed. | <urn:uuid:5124f5af-c9bc-4ff8-9d1f-5cab38933b05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://it-talk.org/more-advice-on-new-yorks-shield-act/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.9253 | 1,492 | 1.625 | 2 |
How to Survive the First Semester of College
The time to modify people for the first year students majorly is quite tough. According to 6 years of data, there is only 40% of the first generation students who have eventually earned a degree or a certificate. Although, it is quite an excitement of the new experience and the same time real load of course and exams also handling the homesickness too. It is considered to be quite important in order to take the step back to further recognize and at the same time utilize the importance of different tools and techniques and also different skills or habits in order to make the transition to the college quite successful. Despite you being the class leader in high school or you might be a member of your honourable society. There are chances of you being graduated with the highest percentage of the graduating class or you might be a valedictorian at the same time. Although it really doesn’t matter from where or what you did in your high school because high school success isn’t really applied on the college.
At the beginning of your college, you just start your day with the clean academic state along with the variety of the independence and freedom of certain critical decisions and you eventually begin this transition into adulthood. This is because the decisions that you eventually make and also the actions that you usually take in the 1st year of your college might eventually have the major impact over your finals and your college experience too at the same time. As you’ve finished doing or preparing all of the work and then you get great grades too in high school usually scored well in the entire world in order to standardized testing and at the same time have been accepted into your own college you really want to attend. So, you need to enjoy your hard work in order to lie at the ground for the successful college career in future. You don’t need to be a statistic in order to be examined and at the same time make it through your freshman year or beyond. Further, in order to take the proper advantage of the network you get your new friends or teacher also you have proper fun while you learn and at the same time get the most out of it in your college life itself.
Although the very first semester of the college can be considered to be quite frustrating or overwhelming at the same time for the freshmen and also transfers too. Usually, college consists of the new environment with a variety of people and vibes. And it usually takes a good amount of time for most of the people to adopt at the same time out there also when you usually contemplate about the chaotic semester you might face. So, here are some of the tips that might help you in order to survive and at the same time enjoy this new semester.
1. You need not learn to pass you need to understand first –
It is considered to be important in order to remember whenever you first step into the college or you go to the school or learn it is not that you just socialize but you need to understand that your courses won’t be that painful as it seems to be. In order to take advantage of this opportunity, you can tailor your courses for whatever you are interested in and to further explore the same. However, passing this will eventually follow if you continue doing this. So, if you further learn simple to pass then you won’t be creating the most out of it that it has to basically offer. All you can do is enjoy all of your courses and at the same time enjoy and aim to understand what you can.
2. You can start to network early –
Networking usually doesn’t begin during your very first co-op because it usually starts as your very first day of college starts or your course starts when you are standing in the class introducing yourself to your teacher and rest of the students. Each and everyone you eventually meet is considered to be quite significant networking opportunity nobody would miss out. However, you genuinely build a proper connection if you talk to someone and you eventually gain and come out to be rude instead of being focused on what is asked for the advice or information. It eventually makes the conversation for all of the people quite fun and enjoyable too. Therefore, the connections you’ll surely create will consider being quite helpful in order to start looking up for the jobs and all you need to do is prioritizing and maintain these relationships.
3. You need to wake up early for the lecture –
Although, if you bunk or not go to the class it will become more difficult in order to understand what is being taught to you and it will be difficult for you to ace your finals and your life will become miserable and exhausting at the same time. So, it is considered to be quite important in order to set alarms and tell your roommate to wake you up if you don’t wake up on time and vice versa.
4. You need not to wait until late for the laundry. Instead, buy new garments and socks each month –
However, usually, the laundry room is initially located in the residence itself and there is a reason behind this too and the reason is it becomes a convenient factor that cannot be taken for granted. The first year for the fresher is considered to be quite convenient for a long time too. You need not to mistake the detergent for the fabric softener and always remember that not everything usually washes the best at once.
5. You can join a student group –
In order to get involved in the campus activities, it is considered to be quite important if you have student groups because firstly it will help you find new friends and you will have something productive to do as well. It usually involves all kind of different student groups one can join in order to commute the service groups and also there is something for each and every one. It will hence become one of the greatest ways in order to meet new people who usually care about the same things you do and are stuck up with the organization over the years and at the same time are growing into the most basic leadership position will eventually look good on your resume.
6. You are required to check your bank account regularly –
It is considered to be quite easy or usually in order to forget to keep a check on how much money you have and at the same time never want to find out or even bothered about your bank account. These situations are miserable and also require putting up a lot of the unnecessary explaining as well. All your parents might usually won’t approve the overdraft fee as well and will also get into the habit of managing the money on the early basis as well because it will soon make your life quite easier also busier too.
7. You need to figure out the early where the dining halls are and when they will close –
you will eventually learn that food is considered to be quite important in a day and night and this has become one of the major norms of the college life and the buffet style will eventually be saving that grace too. You need to prepare yourself in order to figure out the lay of the land and at the same time don’t forget that husky card or the trump card.
8. You need to create your weekly schedule-
Usually, everybody tells you to manage your time because it is considered to be quite important and also is the key to success in college life because they are usually right. So, if you usually structure your time outside the classes well then not only you but others will get to know your work as well and at the same time allow you more time to further relax and enjoy the social parts as well for the college. So, for all of this you need to make the weekly schedule and also find the place where one can work well and if you want to be silent you can or if you want people to watch you then you can visit the canteen as well. Thus, you need to make sure whatever you pick up it should be appropriate with the time.
9. You need to take out some time-
However, each and every college usually involves different resources in order to help all of their students from the teachers within the office hours to the extensive online database and each and every student has the basic access to the different advisors. You need to be aware of all of the assets and further seek help. You can explore the college and get to know more about it by visiting their website. Other than this there are some other resources too that usually aim in order to help all of the students with the major concerns that might not be considered to be academic and it involves different issues that usually sorted in short span of time too and all you need to do is make sure you use all of these resources in a short period of time and that too protectively.
10. You need to make good friends and good memories –
One of the most important facts is that making friends. All the college years wouldn’t be that life-changing like it is in the first year for each and every student. You just need to figure out what makes you happy and then you need to push yourself in order to try different things and at the same time reach out to different people in order to make them happy and make them laugh too. Thus, helping them whenever and wherever you can because what goes around comes around.
Therefore, it usually takes a little time in order to find out the best place where you can eventually start in order to build up strong connections in order to check out the clubs and intramural sports at the same time for the elective courses and over there you usually meet different people from whom you share different interests and ideals as well. However, the very first semester of the college is considered to be quite wonderful and is full of new and different experiences as well but you can feel that change quite quickly if you aren’t prepared for it. All you can do is that go easy and go with the flow; you just need to follow all of the tips that are mentioned above or other if any. Also, by the second semester, you will eventually feel that you’ve been a part of this campus. Thus, it is the ultimate time to go to college and all your bags are eventually packed too. All of us have been there too facing new difficulties and at the same time experience new things in life. So, whether you’re a fresher or entering the college you are basically making the transition to the college life and it can be considered to be the most challenging program ever. It is actually the whole new and different world and you need to learn a lot and also experience the difficulties and new strange yet fun things once you enter college. You with this eventually will be able to build up new and numerous connections but you need to make sure that you balance all of them specifically that it doesn’t affect your studies too. | <urn:uuid:04b72654-de69-493d-9e45-d7bb7ead59b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assignmenthelp.net/blog/how-to-survive-the-first-semester-of-college/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973633 | 2,204 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The late Bert Sugar was a Runyonesque character known nationwide for his piquant observations of the fight game—at a time when boxing really mattered in American culture. It was nearly impossible to watch a bout of any merit and not see Sugar ringside with his trademark fedora and ever-present stogie, or to hear his raspy wit and stunningly accurate analyses. He was known nationwide for his piquant observations of the fight game and when he died in March 2012, tributes poured in from every major media—including the New York Times, ESPN, and all the television networks. In its obituary, The Times called him “boxing’s human encyclopedia, a prolific writer and editor and a flamboyant and ubiquitous presence in the world of the ring. He wrote about the sport with swagger and panache, a prose style that carried the weight of expertise and that simply assumed the authority to bellow and bleat.”
And no wonder. Bert Sugar was a classic. Now under one cover, here are some of the best quips and observations Sugar has to offer, a collection of his lifelong art of covering some of the most colorful and often controversial figures in the world of boxing, from Muhammad Ali, and Sonny Liston to Mike Tyson and Sugar Ray Leonard, among many others. | <urn:uuid:6acecaa7-0f8b-4aff-9b80-dcff2eafb768> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ecampus.com/bert-sugars-punchlines-best-boxings-most/bk/9780762794690 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00282-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977795 | 273 | 1.664063 | 2 |
EDUCATIONAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IN MATH EDUCATION AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN CZECH REPUBLIC
The paper continues the article by authors Nocar, Tang, Bártek: “Educational Hardware and Software: Digital Technology and Digital Educational Content” published in EDULEARN16 Proceedings in June 2016.
The paper deals with the conditions for successful implementation of modern teaching methods i.e. effective use of modern digital technologies and effective use of digital learning materials this time in the conditions of Czech elementary schools.
There were published the results of the first part of the research realized within the specific student grant project “ICT in Mathematics at elementary schools in Olomouc and Leshan City” in the previous article in EDULEARN16 Proceedings. The use of ICT in mathematics teaching in primary schools in the Czech Republic (Olomouc) and China (Leshan City) was investigated in this project. The teachers' competencies in ICT and teachers' attitudes towards ICT were also investigated in this project. Published survey results from the first part of the research were carried out in China. Comparison of using ICT in schools in these regions will be performed. Optimal ways of using ICT in math education at elementary schools will be searched for. The following topics were investigated through the questionnaire survey and interviews with teachers: ICT implementation to schools; use of digital technologies, software and electronic resources in lessons; teachers' competencies in ICT; teachers' attitudes towards the implementation and use of ICT in the educational process. The survey was realized by questionnaires and interviews with teachers.
The paper presents the results of the second part of the research - the results of an identical survey, which was carried out in China, this time realized in the conditions of Czech elementary schools.
Comparison of both regions will be prepared at the end of the project. The outputs of this research will represent a background for future projects which according to demonstrated needs will be focused e.g. for retrofitting schools with the necessary technology, preparation of digital learning objects for mathematics teaching at primary schools, preparation of courses for teachers to use of digital technologies in education, work with educational programs and specific mathematical software or constructivist approaches to teaching wit use of ICT such as the Inquiry-based education. | <urn:uuid:7ddabd91-2cfa-43b7-b99b-07c01c4819e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://library.iated.org/view/NOCAR2016EDU2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.951939 | 480 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Cartographers simplify road maps by using symbols instead of crowding the maps with words and descriptions. Symbols on road maps are used to designate local attractions, road names and numbers, exits, cities and towns and railways and waterways, among other things. Some maps are more detailed than others and some maps may use variations on the standard symbols, although all good maps have a legend that should explain all symbols and abbreviations.
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Railroads, Waterways and Boundaries
Railroads, bridges and ferries are delineated by symbols on parallel lines. Waterways are shown as one or more wavy lines, depending on the size of the waterway. Lakes and reservoirs are drawn as their approximate shapes, and usually blue on coloured maps. Boundaries such as county or state lines are usually drawn as thicker black lines and the names of the territories are written on the map.
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Government facilities are sometimes marked on road maps, especially on more detailed maps. Fire control headquarters are marked by a house shape with a flag on top and fire stations are shown by white squares with "FS" inside. White squares with abbreviations inside represent waste disposal facility: a J in the centre for a junkyard; an F for a sanitary fill; an S for sewage disposal plant; and an I for an incinerator. A black square stands for a power plant, and a white rectangle with "DOT" inside is a Department of Transportation facility.
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Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
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Biography of Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen
Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen first studied medicine in Bonn from 1852 to 1855, then in Würzburg and Berlin, where he received his medical doctorate in 1855, aged 22 years. He subsequently spent three semesters studying pathological anatomy under Rudolf Virchow, before he embarked on a journey to Vienna, Rome, and Paris. His exceptional gifts were soon recognized, and he subsequently spent the years 1858-1864 as assistant in the institute for pathological anatomy in Berlin, before he was appointed professor ordinarius of pathological anatomy in Königsberg in 1865. His inaugural thesis, written in Latin, concerned theories of pyaemia
He was then professor at Würzburg from 1866 to 1872 and, finally, from 1872 to 1906 in Strassburg. Here he became rector of the university in 1877 and remained active as a researcher and teacher until shortly before his death in 1910.
von Recklinghausen wrote one of the early descriptions of haemochromatosis and introduced this term into the medical literature. In 1862, while still Virchow’s assistant, he published two important papers, one showing that connective tissue contained spaces which were drained by lymphatics and in which cells were present. He showed some of these cells had amoeboid movements and identified them as leukocytes. He established the method of using silver to stain the lines of junction of cells and his work led to Julius Friedrich Cohnheim’s (1839-1884) studies on leukocyte migration and inflammation. Cohnheim was a young assistant in the laboratory at the time. von Recklinghausen wrote both in German and Latin.
Recklinghausen was widely known for his postgraduate teaching in the dissection room and the laboratory, attracting students from all over the world. Many of them later had great success and achieved high academic status. Still one of Recklinghausen's students in his memories said that his teacher had little contact with his candidates and rarely spoke to them.
Whilst in Würzburg, Recklinghausen demonstrated for the first time the relationship between metastatic foci or inflammation and bacterial infiltrates in blood vessels. Whilst in Strassburg, he helped recruit many of the famous names to the university, such as Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921), and he undertook a number of investigations on the heart and circulation, and published an authoritative book on the subject. In 1881, as a tribute to Rudolf Virchow’s 25 year jubilee he wrote his classical article on neurofibromatosis.
Recklinghausen was the epitome of the traditional histopathologist of his time and was resistant to new changes such as the introduction of the microtome or the results of the new science of bacteriology, even though he made some of the outstanding contributions in the early understanding of inflammation and bacterial spread. He trained a host of people who became leaders in Germany including Karl Friedländer (1847-1887), Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845-1904), Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866-1942) and many others.
Recklinghausen was quite a colourful personality and pleasant colleague. He opposed Robert Koch’s concept that the tubercle bacillus was the cause of tuberculosis. He would argue that to say that tuberculous lesions contained Koch’s bacillus and therefore the bacillus was the cause of tuberculosis was like saying that the pyramid-like piles of horse manure (a frequent sight in Strassburg streets before the advent of the motor car) were du to sparrows which perched on top of them.
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Over million Britons leave home since Millennium
3 November 2006, LONDON — More than a million Britons have left the country to lead new lives abroad since the turn of the Millennium, new figures showed.
3 November 2006
LONDON — More than a million Britons have left the country to lead new lives abroad since the turn of the Millennium, new figures showed.
The number of British citizens who emigrate each year has gone up by more than a third since the mid-1990s.
And while more and more people are leaving to live in Spain, France, Australia or America, fewer Britons are coming back from abroad to live at home than at any time in a decade, the Daily Mail newspaper reported.
The British Office for National Statistics said for the second year running around 200,000 Britons left the country.
The total going abroad to live was 380,000 including 198,000 UK citizens.
Numbers of Britons emigrating now compare with just under 150,000 in 1997, a level that held steady throughout the 1990s.
But the emigration boom since the turn of the Millennium shows that, by the official count, 1.1 million Britons have left the country in six years while fewer than 600,000 have returned from abroad - an overall loss of around half a million British citizens.
The figures from the ONS do not record where emigrants were going.
But a count of British passport holders abroad issued by the Foreign Office earlier this year indicated that the most popular destinations in Europe were Spain and France.
Half a million Britons live in the US and more than 600,000 people in Australia hold UK passports.
The wave of emigration is rising as numbers of migrants coming in remain at historic levels.
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No Man's Land (3) (Crawford Howard and Fintan Valaly) Have you heard the old song about Willie Mc Bride? If I hear it again, it'll turn me insides! For its sung in the Springtime and its sung in the Fall - And mostly by people who can't sing at all! You go out for a drink on a Saturday night For a pint and a song, and things are alright Until some drunken bowsey sits down by your side And he asks for the one about "Willie Mc Bride"! Well you say you don't know it but this will not do For now he's determined to sing it to you So he spills half your drink and starts off in a key That was never invented on land or on sea And as time goes by sure the whole thing gets worse For you soon realise that he knows every verse! With his arm round your shoulder - 'cos now he's your friend He's going to sing the damn thing to the end! You go out to the Gents for a quarter of an hour And you watch the TV in the old public bar And then you come back thinking that he will tire But he's still going on about gas and barbed wire! And ten minutes later you're all in a trance For he's up to his oxters in the Green Fields of France The crowd are all quiet, you wont hear a peep Does he not realise they've all gone to sleep? Ah Willie Mc Bride, why the hell did you die? The trouble you'd have saved if you'd come back alive And got a wee job or signed "on the brew"* We'd not have to listen to songs about you! But still I don't know but I'm glad that you're dead With the green fields of France piled on top of your head For the trouble you caused since the day that you died - Shooting's too good for you, Willie Mc Bride! * Belfast slang for "on the dole". Pronounce "berew"! MR apr97
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On this day in 2011, Leicester City captured the signing of highly-rated goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel from Leeds United as the Foxes began to rebuild following a season of uncertainty at the football club.
Appearing over 300 times in a City shirt, it is safe to say that the Danish international has had an instrumental impact since joining the Foxes and has enjoyed a lot of success while plying his trade on Filbert Way.
A mixed first season at the club
After being brought to King Power Stadium by former boss Sven Goran-Eriksson, Schmeichel didn’t get off to the best of starts in a Foxes shirt as he was sent off during his first clash with Nottingham Forest at The City Ground. The shot-stopper was given two yellow cards during a short period after moving the ball from the penalty spot as Lewis McGugan was about to kick it, before throwing it away once the Reds midfielder had scored it in a 2-2 draw.
He managed to put that mistake behind him though by putting in excellent performances throughout his maiden season with the Foxes, which included an outrageous close-range reflex save versus Portsmouth in November 2011. After making 52 appearances during 11/12 and keeping 17 clean sheets in the process, Schmeichel was named as City’s Player of the Year and the Players’ Player of the Year for his terrific impact and displays at the club.
Schmeichel's success in the Championship
Following Nigel Pearson’s appointment and rebuild at Leicester during the summer, the Dane continued to flourish moving into the new campaign. His performances at the beginning of 12/13 eclipsed the previous season, establishing a formidable partnership with centre-backs Wes Morgan and Zak Whitbread, while Ritchie De Laet and Michael Keane also had a big factor in that defensive record. He earned a place in the Championship PFA Team of the Year alongside Morgan, while also helping Leicester into the play-offs that season, which inevitably ended with defeat to Watford in the semi-finals.
However, despite that setback, Schmeichel and his Leicester teammates went one better the following season, winning promotion to the top-flight for the first time in 10 years. The former Manchester City keeper was influential in conceding the third-fewest goals in the division and guiding the side to precious victories over their closest rivals along the way. The 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers just before Christmas summed that Leicester side up, as defensively they were immaculate, powerful on the counter-attack, and Schmeichel was at the forefront of that with some super stops.
As well as being crucial at saving goals at one end, Schmeichel almost scored at the other during a 1-1 draw against Yeovil back in March 2014. He met Danny Drinkwater’s cross in the dying embers before crashing a header against the bar and Chris Wood knocked in the rebound, with many suggesting the keeper’s effort had already crossed the line.
Return to the top-flight
At the end of 13/14 season, he was rewarded with a new four-year deal, earmarking his impact at the Foxes since his arrival and earning a place in their plans for the new season. After a shaky start to Leicester’s Premier League adventure in their first top-flight campaign for 10 years, Schmeichel played in City’s 5-3 win over Manchester United, but suffered a broken metatarsal just before Christmas which ruled him out for around three months.
This was his longest injury lay-off and a frustrating one for the keeper while City were scrapping for their lives at the bottom of the division. They kept just four clean sheets in a 27-match spell between September and April as they were put to the test in the top division.
However, Schmeichel returned in time for the final 10 games, where Leicester won seven of them to complete the ‘Great Escape’ and retain their status in the top tier of English football. He played a vital role in that famous run, spearheading defensive masterclasses and keeping clean sheets against Swansea City, Burnley, Newcastle United, Southampton and Sunderland in the process. This good form earned him a nomination for April’s Player of the Month award but didn't end win the award.
When Claudio Ranieri was appointed following Pearson’s departure at the beginning of the 15/16 season, many tipped Leicester to struggle, and despite not keeping a shut-out until the 10th matchday in the league, City were flying otherwise. The Foxes improved defensively as the season wore on and a lot of that was down to Schmeichel’s smart stops and leadership from the back. He kept his 15th and final clean sheet of the season in an impressive 4-0 win over Swansea which put Leicester on the brink of a first top-flight triumph in their history.
Even though City conceded just 36 goals in 38 games en route to their title success, Schmeichel missed out on the inaugural Golden Glove award as Petr Cech secured that feat, pipping the Foxes keeper by one clean sheet (16). Despite linking him with moves elsewhere in the summer of 2016, Schmeichel committed his future to the Foxes by signing a new five-year deal which would take him to his 10th campaign as a Blue.
Reputation for saving penalties in key moments
The Leicester no.1 has also built up a reputation for his penalty-saving antics over the years and it became useful in the Champions League last 16 against Sevilla. He stopped a spot-kick in each leg - from Joaquin Correa and Steven Nzonzi respectively which helped City edge the tie 3-2 and progress into the quarter-finals of the competition for the first-ever time. It was an impressive season for the Dane, who scooped Leicester’s Player of the Season and Players’ Player of the Season award – both for the second time which justified another outstanding campaign in the City net.
After an up and down 17/18, Schmeichel missed the Foxes’ final five matches of that season through injury which led to doubts whether he’d be fit enough to represent Denmark at the World Cup in Russia. However, he made the 23-man squad and played a vital part in their passage to the last 16.
Schmeichel saved Luka Modric’s last-gasp spot-kick to take the game to penalties, and despite saving two in the shootout, Croatia progressed in that tie. Since he’s been at Leicester, the 6”2 keeper has become a full international for his country and has played for The Red and White 53 times and is poised to make many more in his career.
At 33 years of age, Schmeichel is still performing to the highest level, and since the Premier League’s restart, he has produced some top saves - against Watford in their first game back - before putting in a Man of the Match display versus Brighton & Hove Albion. He saved Neal Maupay’s penalty in the side’s stalemate which was his fifth top-flight spot-kick stop since plying his trade at this level.
When you look at the players who were involved in the title-winning season and Champions League run the year after and access those key men, Schmeichel should be up there as one of the Leicester greats and best-ever in his position. Appearing over 200 times in the Premier League is no mean feat, and when you consider his start to life at the Foxes, what he has achieved deserves legendary status at the club. | <urn:uuid:6ca5ad5b-6024-437d-af7f-8cfa330d7c51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vavel.com/en/football/2020/06/27/leicester-city/1025898-kasper-schmeichel-nine-years-at-leicester-city.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.98148 | 1,601 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Jean Massart (1865-1925), doctor in sciences and doctor in medicine, was assistant and professor in botany at the University of Brussels. He shortly combined this position with the curatorship (1902-1906) of the open air collections of the Jardin botanique de l'Etat. His scientific orientation towards experimental research had a strong influence on the open air displays at the Garden, where he designed new ethological and phylogenetic collections, which disappeared after the transfer of the Garden from Brussels to Meise. The enlargement of his University mission after the death of Léo Errera obliged him to resign from the Garden.
He had a profound influence on botany and nature conservation in Belgium, amongst other things by producing the first phytogeographical synthesis for the country (Esquisse de la géographie botanique de la Belgique). His name is commemorated in a street in Koksijde - village at the Belgian coast where he organised a local laboratory and conducted field work for many years. Above all the "Experimental Garden Jean Massart" of the Université Libre de Bruxelles perpetuates his experimental approach of botany and scientific education.The Jean Massart Botanical Garden | <urn:uuid:9cc3fa2d-7d03-4ebb-900b-d07e24c33dc8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jardinbotanique.be/PUBLIC/GENERAL/HISTORY/massart.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00559-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884689 | 258 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Young kids can start learning to program from as young as 4 years old.
Parents often ask what programming languages should kids start to learn. Well, as technology and programming languages are constantly evolving, the first focus should be on understanding the logic and problem-solving concepts, rather than as a way to learn program languages.
Kid can learn concepts such as conditionals and loops, where the code makes decisions or repeats itself to solve a problem. These very skills can be transferred from language to language. For example, one such program that parents can look at is Scratch Jr. (developed by MIT). With Scratch, the logic options are laid out in front of them. Grouping logic together is like putting Lego blocks of instructions together. It’s really an ideal language to teach first time learners basic coding concepts.
Stay tuned for Episode 4 as we move further into how coding enables kids to develop capabilities to build future skills for the future.
About the Featured Parents
Parents, Cheng Chang and Jennifer Lam discuss the types of programs for young kids to learn coding at an early age. Hugo, age 6 demonstrates how to use the Scratch Jr. program for his racing game. Jennifer is a co-founder of Discover Coding.
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RS-232 interface is a standard communication port in PC and other control system. And it is a very popular communication interface in control system, building access control system (AC9100), office automation system, time record system (TR510) barcode system,pos system…..etc .However,RS-232 has many limitations in transmission speed and distance ,So it can not be flexibly used in high speed and long distance control system. Now we support RS422/485 inter-face converter for RS-232 communication system. You don’t need to change any specification of your system.
- RS-232 interface converted to RS-485 interface for long distance connection
- Automatically switching Transmitting and Receiving
- LED is to show communication status
- Baud rate selectable 9600 or 19200
- One converter supports up to 255 terminal devices.
- Communication distance up to 1000 meters (must be AWG #24, #22 , #18….. individually shielded multiple pair cable)
- Don’t need to change any specification of your existing systems
- Your software with RS-232 protocol still can be used.
-Half-duplex,1 start bit,8data bits, no parity Baud rate 9600/19200 selectable.
-Power Supply: DC9~12V,300mA
-RS-232 Interface Connector: D-sub 25 pins female connector
-RS-485 Interface Connector: Screw type terminal block 4 pins
-Operating Temp: 0~55 Deg. C
-Storage Temp: -10~55 Deg. C
Note: The Specification is subject to change without notice.
CON485:for TR550 with RS-485 connection
CON485:for TR510 with RS-485 connection
CON422/485:for AC9100 with RS-485
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At Gaza Zoo, The Wild Things Return
by Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
November 24, 2009
Almost a year after Israel’s offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, the coastal enclave is still struggling to recover. One place that was hard hit during the war is the Gaza Zoo, where most of the animals were killed or died during the fighting.
The zoo’s two lions, Sabrina and Sakher, still don’t like to come near the bars of their cage. It has been nearly 10 months since the shooting stopped, but people and loud noises make them skittish.
Still, on a recent afternoon, children crowd around gaping at the exotic pair.
“This was the best zoo in all of Gaza,” says Emad Qassim, director of the Gaza Zoo.
But then the war started, and the gunfire and missiles hit the zoo.
“Many animals died that way. Those that survived ate each other. We couldn’t get here during the fighting. After 22 days, we were very shocked and sad when we finally entered the zoo,” Qassim says.
What greeted them was horrific, he says.
Fewer than a dozen of the zoo’s 200 animals survived. Rotting carcasses were everywhere.
During the war, the Israeli army released footage that it said showed that the zoo had been booby-trapped by militants. Qassim denies that, saying the zoo was a civilian institution that was unfairly targeted.
Israel launched its air and ground offensive last December in response to years of rocket and mortar fire from Gaza into southern Israel. About 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the war, which ended on Jan. 18.
Both sides acknowledge that there was fighting in the area of the zoo. The two lions, though, were lucky.
“The lions escaped. And when we came to the zoo, we were looking around and we found them in the bathrooms in the office building,” Qassim says.
The doors had slammed behind them, and they were locked inside.
“We tried to give them food, but they didn’t want any. They could barely drink, they were so emaciated. It took a month to rehabilitate them, and even then they were only eating one-tenth of what they ate before,” Qassim says.
Qassim says Sabrina is no stranger to adversity. In 2005, she was kidnapped by a clan of bandits and was only rescued by Hamas fighters in 2007. She had been physically mistreated, and her captors were charging people to have their photographs taken with her.
These days, the lions are the central attraction as the zoo tries to rebuild. Qassim says the zoo suffered $200,000 in losses.
“We are facing a huge financial problem now. It’s costing an enormous amount to replace the animals,” he says.
The zoo already has baboons, ostriches and monkeys. But there are many empty cages; some pens have cats and dogs in them.
Israel maintains tight restrictions on what can be shipped into the Gaza Strip. The new animals are being brought into Gaza through a network of illicit tunnels that have sprung up on the border with Egypt for smuggling everything from household goods to weapons.
Qassim says the zoo puts in an order, and the smugglers take care of finding the animals. The baboons came from Alexandria, Egypt. Zoo staff are waiting for a bear, which is coming from Libya.
“The smugglers are very professional. The wild animals, for example, are put in a locked cage, and they transport them through the tunnels like that so they are safe. Some of the tunnels are very large, and animals like camels can walk through without difficulty,” he says.
Qassim says he desperately needs the help of the international community to make the zoo into what it once was.
There are so few things to entertain children in Gaza, he says.
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This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Fisher v. University of Texas, upholding the University of Texas’s diversity admission policy. In a 4 to 3 decision, the Court held that carefully crafted admissions policies that consider racial diversity as one factor in creating a well-rounded student body is constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
This is a major victory for universities, social justice, and our nation. In communicating about the case, our messaging should promote the importance of diversity policies to the nation and praise the Court’s recognition of their importance. After reviewing the Justices’ decisions, it may also be appropriate to critique the dissenting opinion as short-sighted interpretations that would have held our increasingly diverse nation back at a critical time.
Today’s decision is good news for all Americans. We are thrilled that four members of the Court ruled in favor of equal opportunity in higher education and recognized that, in this post-University of Missouri America, it is critical that schools remain able to encourage diverse and inclusive student bodies. As the leading opinions noted, the national interest demands that talented students from a variety of backgrounds get a close look and a fair chance at overcoming obstacles to higher education. Providing a diverse learning environment benefits students, our workforce, and the country as a whole. Indeed, the Court’s decision makes clear that more of America’s educational, business, and other institutions should be pursuing fair and thoughtful ways of fostering diverse participation.
More broadly, our communications about diversity policies and this decision should emphasize the following themes:
- Expanding Opportunity: It’s in everyone’s interest to see that talented students from all backgrounds get a close look and a fair shot, and have the chance to overcome obstacles to educational opportunity.
- The Benefits of Diversity: Learning with (and from) people from different backgrounds and perspectives benefits our students, our communities, our work force, our military and our country as a whole.
- Preventing Racial Isolation: In a post-Ferguson, post-University of Missouri America, it is more important than ever that schools build student bodies that foster meaningful diversity that does not isolate any one group.
- Our National Interest: Fostering educational diversity and greater opportunity is critical to our nation’s future in a global economy and an increasingly interconnected world.
- Broad Support: Diversity policies, and the UT policy in particular, are supported by a broad cross-section of American society, including military leaders, major corporations, small business owners, educators, and students from all backgrounds.
Finally, while hailing the Fisher II decision, communicators should note that the Court’s affirmance of the Fifth Circuit’s decision in U.S. v. Texas by an equally-divided court, while creating no precedent, will exact significant hardship on families, communities, the economy and our nation. Praise for Fisher II should not spill over into praise for the Court in general, given today’s mixed outcomes. | <urn:uuid:4253a1c9-6afc-4c46-ad7a-4b494128b6cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opportunityagenda.org/explore/resources-publications/talking-about-supreme-courts-decision-fisher-v-university-texas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.927262 | 624 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The team of international researchers, headed up by Thomas Van Boeckel, from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) said:
“Expert opinion suggests that global consumption of antimicrobials in animals is twice that of humans. However, the underlying data from the veterinary sector supporting these claims are weak and lack standardization. Without reliable evidence to estimate global antimicrobial consumption in livestock, the links between antimicrobial consumption and resistance patterns are poorly quantified, and efforts and policies to optimize antibiotic use in animals are poorly targeted.
We present the first global map (228 countries) of antibiotic consumption in livestock and conservatively estimate the total consumption in 2010 at 63,151 tons. We project that antimicrobial consumption will rise by 67% by 2030.
Our findings call for initiatives to preserve antibiotic effectiveness while simultaneously ensuring food security in low- and lower-middle-income countries.”
The researchers said they used Bayesian statistical models combining maps of livestock densities, economic projections of demand for meat products, and current estimates of antimicrobial usage in high-income countries to quantitatively measure global antimicrobial consumption by livestock.
The team had to extrapolate levels in middle- and low-income countries from the data in intensive production systems in high-income countries.
“Data on antimicrobial use in livestock are scarce, stemming from both the lack of publicly funded surveillance systems and the reluctance of food animal producers, animal feed producers, and veterinary pharmaceutical companies to provide comprehensive reports of antimicrobial consumption or sales,” said the team.
They estimated that the global average annual use of antimicrobials per kilogram of animal produced was 45 mg per kg, 148 mg per kg, and 172 mg per kg for cattle, chicken, and pigs, respectively.
However, the contribution of aquaculture to antimicrobial consumption was not looked at.
Urgent and concerted action called for
The authors have called for urgent and concerted action in all countries to limit the overuse and abuse of antimicrobials in food animal production.
These actions, they added, should include implementation of a publicly funded international surveillance network of antimicrobial consumption in food animals in countries undergoing rapid intensification in the livestock sector, along with collaboration with drug manufacturers and animal feed producers to cross-validate estimates of consumption with sales data.
The research team also urges legislators to implement “an international agenda to harmonize regulatory frameworks among countries, and the ultimate phasing out of antimicrobial use for growth promotion, based on the successful experience in the EU and the new biological and economic evidence challenging the purported benefits of antimicrobial use in food animal production.”
They predict that up to a third of the increase in utilization in livestock rearing between 2010 and 2030 will be linked to shifting production practices in middle income countries where extensive farming systems will be replaced by large-scale intensive farming operations that routinely use antimicrobials in sub-therapeutic doses.
“For Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa [BRICS], the increase in antimicrobial consumption will be 99%, up to seven times the projected population growth in this group of countries,” they said.
Predictions on consumption
By 2030, the team puts antimicrobial usage in Asia at 51,851 tons, representing 82% of the current global antimicrobial consumption in food animals in 2010.
The team forecasts that by 2020 antimicrobial consumption in chicken and pigs in that continent is expected to grow by 129% and 124%, respectively.
In 2010, they found the five countries with the largest shares of global antimicrobial use in food animal production were China (23%), followed by the US (13%), Brazil (9%), India (3%), and then Germany (3%).
By 2030, the team projects this ranking will change to the following: China (30%), the US (10%), Brazil (8%), India (4%), and Mexico (2%).
And, among the 50 countries with the largest amounts of antimicrobials used in livestock in 2010, the five countries with the greatest projected percentage increases in antimicrobial consumption by 2030 are likely to be Myanmar (205%), Indonesia (202%), Nigeria (163%), Peru (160%), and Vietnam (157%), forecast the scientists.
Better understanding of the consequences of the uninhibited growth in veterinary antimicrobial use is needed to assess its potential effects on animal and human health, added the authors.
They said linking antimicrobial use in animals to drug-resistant infections in humans is inherently complex owing to the ecological nature of the selection pressure for drug-resistant pathogens as well as the existence of indirect routes of transmission through the environment.
But the team cited research (Chantziaras et al 2014) that took place in seven European countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and Belgium - which they said showed a strong correlation between consumption levels for eight classes of antimicrobials and the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) commensal E. coli in pigs, poultry, and cattle.
“Several works additionally suggested that repeated exposure to low doses of antimicrobial agents – the context in which growth-promoting antimicrobials and prophylactic are administered – creates ideal conditions for the emergence and spread of ARBs in animals,” said the US, Belgium, Sweden and India based experts.
The scientists said multi-resistant ARBs have been isolated in food animals in BRICS countries and throughout the developing world and yet, in those markets, the use of antimicrobials for growth promotion remains largely unregulated.
Widespread resistance may be more consequential for India than for other countries because India’s bacterial disease burden is among the highest in the world, and therefore antimicrobials play a critical role in limiting morbidity and mortality, said the authors.
“Currently, India has no regulatory provisions for the use of antimicrobials in cattle, chicken, and pigs raised for domestic consumption, nor do the majority of middle income countries for which substantial growth in antimicrobial consumption over the next 15 years is predicted,” said the researchers.
The data collection in the study was supported by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Published online before print - doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503141112 PNAS March 19, 2015
Title: Global trends in antimicrobial use in food animals
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Bulawayo residents have expressed concern over the theft of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) copper cables, plunging residential areas into darkness.
In some instances, residents have been left with no option but to mobilise funds to replace the stolen cables with the power utility reportedly failing to cope with the increase in the vandalism of its infrastructure.
CITE reached out to residents in the high-density suburbs of the city who shared their experiences.
Florence Gorimani of New Lobengula said the problem of copper cables theft had been widespread in the area, adding it has been a struggle to replace them considering some house owners are the elderly who no longer have the financial muscle to be making contributions towards that.
Makhosi Ndebele of Ward 14 said ZESA always takes too long to replace the stolen cables in the process, inconveniencing residents.
Dumisani Ngwenya of Old Magwegwe said they have experienced copper cable theft two times in their area adding they have even engaged the legislator over the issue.
0Speaking in Parliament Tuesday, Bulawayo Central legislator, Nicola Watson said the rampant theft of ZESA copper cables was an issue of national importance affecting Zimbabweans.
“I request the Minister of Energy and Power Development and Home Affairs to bring statements to the House to inform the nation what they are doing about it because it has got to the point where citizens are buying the stolen cables,” she said.
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Last fall at my shul on Sukkot morning, I had the honor of hearing Rabbi Peter Knobel lament the holiday. I suggest the occasion to be an honor, because Rabbi Knobel’s eloquent words about the difficulty of getting contemporary liberal Jews to identify with what was, in Biblical times, Judaism’s highest holiday period, got me thinking that maybe lamentation isn’t the order of the day.
Although we are technically commanded to be happy and celebrate God during the week-long holiday, yes, the pessimistic Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) is traditionally read on the Sabbath that falls during Sukkot. And, yes, we are commanded to build, eat, and sleep in open-air sukkot (“booths”) to remember our people’s 40-year journey in the wilderness.
But the central nature of the holiday is to mark and celebrate bounty. One of Judaism three pilgrimage holidays (along with Pesach/Passover and Shavuot), in Biblical times our people followed the commandment to mark the occasion of the all-important autumn harvest by bringing first fruits to the Temple in Jerusalem as offerings. (In his book, Entering the High Holy Days, Rabbi Reuven Hammer in fact positions Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur–contemporary Judaism’s highest holy days–as originally serving as preparation for the formerly more important Sukkot.)
Besides building and spending time in sukkot, the main daily ritual of the holiday is saying a blessing over and shaking in various directions the lulav–a bound set of leaves–and the etrog–a Middle eastern citrus fruit resembling a lemon. In Rabbinic Judaism, the species of the leaves and fruit have symbolic meaning related to how individual people relate to the Torah. And what those unfamiliar with Sukkot are probably thinking now is exactly the problem Rabbi Knobel lamented from the bimah.
Other major Jewish holidays include rituals and symbols that don’t need scholarly explanations. Passover has its retelling of the Exodus story, and a seder plate of symbolic items that are described right there in the Haggadah–Passover’s “guidebook” for the ritual seder meal. Chanukah has its candles and jelly donuts. Rosh Hashanah as the sounding of the shofar (ram’s horn.) Yom Kippur has, pointedly, not eating. (Or not not eating.)
Sukkot has…vegetation unfamiliar to North American liberal Jews and rituals that are often a.) difficult-to-impossible for many of us to fulfill (most apartment-dwelling Jews simply can’t build sukkot) or b.) esoteric in meaning and requiring scholarly explanation to understand (what in the world is an etrog and why do plant leaves symbolize Torah study?)
Which, of course, means that most of us simply check out after Yom Kippur and don’t bother to observe Sukkot which arrives all of five days later. Rabbi Knobel’s point: holy days that include hard-to-understand symbols just go over most of our heads–and why shouldn’t they?
So what do we do instead as Reform Jews during the Festival of Booths? As Rabbi Knobel saw it last year, we come to shul with our kids on Erev Sukkot (the eve of the holiday) to decorate sukkahs with our kids. And the next morning…we go to work or stay in bed. And yet another Jewish holiday continues to lose its adult meaning.
I agree. But I also wonder whether part of the problem is that we look at Sukkot in unnecessarily narrow terms? For example, Rabbi Roberta Louis Goodman suggests that Kohelet is read during Sukkot to underscore the fading nature of autumn. Yet in Eretz Israel, autumn is the time that flowers come back to life and bloom again, after the harshness and aridity of Israeli summer. Without ascribing the North American experience of autumn into the Israeli season, the ephemeral, back-to-dust nature of life that consumes Ecclesiastes, alternatively can be seen–at least during Sukkot–to portend its opposite.
Truly, on Sukkot we needn’t become so wrapped up in the booths and the boughs and the bemoaning. There is a reason we are commanded to be happy on this holiday. Because, simply, we are here. At this time, on this day, in this moment, we are here, enjoying the bounty of the earth once more which arrives due in small part to our effort and in greater part to means beyond our ability to truly comprehend. To be happy because that which set all in motion today, right now, for you and for me, keeps that motion going. For our benefit.
Whether we sit on a sofa or in a sukkah, are nearer to our births or to our deaths, have no care to open a prayer book or are Torah scholars, the fact remains. Here we are. Yes, so too is all that we would rather not be here with us right now: discomfort; loss; pain. Even death. But so is the joy of family and friends, the blessing of health, the ability to use our bodies and our minds, the ability to smile into each others eyes and see a glimmer of God.
We are here. And our tradition would suggest that God has decreed via the bounty of the harvest in terms both symbolic and literal that here–at least for now–we will stay. What a humbling follow-up to Yom Kippur.
And what are we to deserve that? What are we to be here at all? I am reminded of the mind-stopping power of my favorite term from the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel z”l. Radical amazement. How incomprehensibly, inexplicably, miraculously amazing that we are here, alive and aware, at all. How much further beyond words that we can, in our quietest moments, sense that that which put us here, loves use enough to let us stick around for a while?
On Sukkot, how about a denominational dialogue on that? Our children can still decorate our congregational sukkot. But when we sit and eat in them, our families and friends all together, how about we toss around this?
For everything that is good in our life, modim anachnu lach. We thank You. We shouldn’t need a special day for it. How wonderful that we have a week! We don’t need balloons and marching bands. We just need and open heart and a sense of thanksgiving. For beyond booths and lulavs and etrogs, we are all here and that is something. Sometimes, sometimes we realize it. And that’s gratitude for You.
Michael Thaddeus Doyle
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Applying the latest and most comprehensive microelectronics technology to secure defense applications is critical for the continued and future success of our military. To advance the functionality of microelectronic technology within the U.S. military commercial and defense partnerships have never been more important.
From the ’70s to the early ’90s, the U.S. Government and Department of Defense were leading the evolution of computer-based powers. As new commercial technology companies began to rise, their innovation capabilities started to advance past what the DoD could achieve with limited resources and heavier regulations. As a result, the commercial sector is the primary innovator in computer technologies.
During our recent XCel event, Brett Hamilton, SSTM, Deputy Principal Director Microelectronics, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, explained the unrelenting importance of quality microelectronics development and the risk they currently pose. Throughout this article, we’ll review some of the key takeaways from his presentation and take a closer look into how Hamilton believes nontraditional organizations can help support defense microelectronic efforts.
How can commercial quality standards positively impact DoD prototypes?
Currently, in the commercial microelectronics sector, creating more reliable chips is crucial. As powerful new technologies are used in everyday items like smart televisions and autonomous vehicles, our lives are increasingly dependent on trusted, sophisticated microelectronics.
Take cars for example…
In a 2018 article by Price, Sutherland, and Rathert, exploring defects in the automotive industry, the authors noted that, “If the average car contains 5,000 chips and an automaker produces 25,000 cars per day, then even a chip failure rate of 1 part per million (ppm) will result in 125 cars per day that experience reliability issues as a result of chip quality.”
These same cars drive families to school, power missions worldwide, and transport military personnel home from tours. The quality of these chips is vital to the lives of everyone who interacts with them.
The automotive industry is starting to solve for these errors, by requiring that the potential risk be lessened from parts per million to parts per billion; and eventually working toward only allowing a maximum number of “total allowable failure events” regardless of volume.
According to Hamilton, by partnering with organizations that are already focused on reducing flaws in microelectronics the DoD can decrease risk and quickly develop more successful prototypes.
Addressing Risk in Microelectronics
When it comes to military-grade technology, we need to guarantee little to no risk with the microelectronics we use. In his presentation, Hamilton says that threats to our military have only increased as the world becomes more technology-powered. The reliability of microelectronics will be determined by the ability to address risks in development such as design bugs, corrupt/incomplete training data, radiation-induced damage, thermal/electrical stress, etc.
“Everything is electronic and connected up remotely, there’s a lot of open doors to be able to do way more mischievous things than in the past,” said Hamilton. “It really is a technical battle when protecting our hardware, software, and systems. Hardware is the root of trust.”
In response, the government has developed a system to increase the quality of microelectronic prototypes and reduce the risk by focusing mainly on…
- User Intellectual Property
- Supply Chain Illumination
- Shared Data and Quantitative Analysis
- Authentication/Secure Boot
- And Actionable Intelligence
Enabling the commercial sector to help power the military and encourage technology growth is vital to the success of the contemporary Warfighter.
“Microelectronics is one of the 11 DoD modernization priorities [including] 5G, Space, and Cyber; but microelectronics is different because it is actually an enabler for every other DoD modernization priority,” said Hamilton. “Leveraging PAAs has really helped us speed up that process of getting things on contract and also working with nontraditional on contracts.”
By working with OTAs and similar contracting vehicles, the DoD can increase the quality of their technology when partnering with the same innovators leading microelectronic development on the commercial side, ensuring the same type of secure reliability in our military’s technology.
Want to learn more? Watch the full webinar recording from the April XCEL Webinar: S²MARTS and Microelectronics, A Vital Partnership for our Warfighter here.
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Date: This event took place live on February 11 2014
Presented by: Spike Brehm
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.
Questions? Please send email to
Libraries like Backbone, Ember and Angular have led to an explosion in single-page web apps. These apps can provide UIs that feel faster and more interactive than traditional web apps, but this new hotness is not without its drawbacks.
The idealized single-page app runs exclusively in the browser, asking the server only for data. While this can lead to a nice, clean separation of concerns, inevitably some bits of application logic or view logic end up duplicated between client and server, often in different languages.
Worse still, an application that can only run in the client-side is not able to serve HTML to users or crawlers. This results in drastically worse initial page-load times, and more difficulty providing SEO.
At the end of the day, we really want a hybrid of the new and old approaches: we want to serve fully-formed HTML from the server for performance and SEO, but we want the speed and flexibility of client-side application logic.
In this webcast led by Spike Brehm we will discuss:
About Spike Brehm
He's currently prototyping the next generation of Airbnb's front end stack, and is busy open-sourcing Rendr: a library for building web applications that run on both sides of the wire, fetching data and rendering views on client and server, built on Backbone.js and Node.js. You can follow Spike on Twitter @spikebrehm.
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Conversations about ultra-endurance races almost always begin with metrics. How far? How long? How high? From there dialog typically turns to terrain and temperature. How steep? How rocky? How technical? How hot? How cold?
Undoubtedly all these elements play a monumental role in separating winners from losers, finishers from DNFs. But ask any endurance athlete, especially those who dabble in multi-day affairs, and they will tell you that among the most important factors in success is recovery. From one day to the next you must be able to bounce back, battling fatigue and the growing desire to quit.
This need to recover is never more critical than in the many multi-day events that pepper the pages of The World’s Toughest Endurance Challenges. Take the Trans Europe Footrace, which as its name indicates, requires competitors to run the length of Europe from the southern tip of Spain to the far northern reaches of Sweden — total mileage a jaw-dropping 2,567 miles.
The 2009 men’s champion crossed the finish line in a mere 352 hours, 3 minutes, and 25 seconds, which works out to nearly 15 days of running. The women’s winner? 529-plus hours, aka more than 22 days.
“There is a huge element of cumulative fatigue involved in racing an event of this kind,” reads The World’s Toughest Endurance Challenges. “It simply does not stop. Every day, the race moves forward from village to town, town to city. Those who can’t keep up are simply excluded from the event.”
The daily grind is longer — and arguably more brutal — in Vendée Globe, where single-handed sailors must circumnavigate the earth via the treacherous Southern Hemisphere. “With little land mass stopping the winds from whipping across the ocean, sailors benefit from the prevailing winds, but they are also at their mercy… If anything goes wrong with their boats, if they have any physical problems, or if they capsize they have to be entirely self sufficient until help can arrive.”
Once again, recovery is key…
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By: LV Barton
215 pages, Figs, tabs, b/w plates
This book deals with methods of seed handling for agricultural use. Chapters include: Records of Old Seeds, Life-Span of Seeds Buried in Soil, Moisture Effects, Other Factors Affecting Longevity, Effects of Packets on Seed Viability, Methods of Testing for Viability and more.
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Dektak 3 Profiler
A diamond stylus is moved vertically into in contact with the sample and then moved laterally across the sample for a specified distance and specified contact force. The instrument can measure small surface variations in vertical stylus displacement as a function of position. The Dektak profilometer can measure small vertical features ranging in height from 100 Å to 650,000 Å on a 5" Diameter Sample Stage. The height position of the diamond stylus generates an analog signal which is converted into a digital signal stored, analyzed and displayed. The radius of diamond stylus is 12.5 microns, and the horizontal resolution is controlled by the scan speed and scan length. There is a horizontal broading factor which is a function of stylus radius and of step height. This broading factor is added to the horizontal dimensions of the steps. The stylus tracking force is factory-set to 50 milligrams.
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The bin packing problem is defined as follows: given a set of n items with sizes 01,w2,..., wn≤ 1, find a packing of these items into minimum number of unit-size bins possible. We present a sublinear-time asymptotic approximation scheme for the bin packing problem; that is, for any ε>0, we present an algorithm Aε that has sampling access to the input instance and outputs a value k such that Copt≤ k≤ (1+ε) Copt+1, where Copt is the cost of an optimal solution. It is clear that uniform sampling by itself will not allow a sublinear-time algorithm in this setting; a small number of items might constitute most of the total weight and uniform samples will not hit them. In this work we use weighted samples, where item i is sampled with probability proportional to its weight: that is, with probability wi/∑i wi. In the presence of weighted samples, the approximation algorithm runs in O(n1/2 poly(log(n)/ε)) + g(1/ε) time, where g(x) is an exponential function of x. When both weighted and uniform sampling are allowed, O(n1/3 poly(log(n)/ε)) + g(1/ε) time suffices. In addition to an approximate value to Copt, our algorithm can also output a constant-size ``template'' of a packing that can later be used to find a near-optimal packing in linear time. | <urn:uuid:86bb8378-a435-4308-a26c-4e5b4241fc49> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/18948fa94e704b109a78c521261554d6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910313 | 319 | 1.789063 | 2 |
The Industrie des assurances multirisques (IAM) is a essential part of the Canadian economy helping people cover a variety of economic risks. A specialized reassurance company might not offer all of these guarantee goods, although specializes in a unique type of guarantee. It may also specialize in a particular form of insurance, just like health insurance or life insurance. On many occasions, an IAM can help customers with all of their particular insurance requirements.
The business enterprise insurance market is generally small , with big, federally regulated insurance firms occupying almost all of the industry. Private marketplace entities also play a major role in the business. Companies that contain pre-book capital avoid huge price increases by limiting financial movements. It also makes an agreement methodologie par salle du conseil comment les nouveaux dirigeants simpler to understand. Nonetheless whether you choose a multi-risk insurance plan, you are able to rest assured that it must be comprehensive.
In addition to offering material destruction coverage, an commercial insurance policy has been known to cover cuts due to criminal behaviour or a vacation. The protection of these dangers can be tailored to specific installation or activities. Some procedures include minimum coverage for incomes. AXA’s deal on-mesure provides a range of options to suit the needs of your business. In addition , it covers the risks of an industry, such as its products or processes. | <urn:uuid:a3fc443b-955f-46a2-a884-797bbdb462c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elearning.alberts.edu.in/blog/2022/08/02/the-industrie-desassurances-multipliers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.932551 | 282 | 1.523438 | 2 |
UNICEF is for the first time publicising what drugmakers charge it for vaccines, as the world's biggest buyer of lifesaving immunisations aims to spark price competition in the face of rising costs.
They posted on their website the actual prices that it has paid individual drugmakers for 16 vaccines purchased over the last decade. It's a move that a few Western pharmaceutical companies don't support. Novartis AG and Merck & Co., which only sells one of its many children's vaccines to UNICEF, both declined to have their prices published.
UNICEF said it will continue to disclose pricing of future vaccine deals, with the hope that the transparency will push drugmakers to cut prices and thus allow the organisation to vaccinate more children and save more lives.
"Transparency will also help foster a competitive, diverse supplier base," said Shanelle Hall, director of UNICEF's supply division. She noted that it also will help UNICEF's partners and those governments that buy vaccines on their own to make more informed decisions in price negotiations with drugmakers.
UNICEF last year spent $757 million (about R5 billion) to provide 2.5 billion doses of vaccines to 99 countries, reaching an estimated 58% of the world's children.
Its price list shows significant disparity, with Western drugmakers often charging UNICEF double what companies in India and Indonesia do. Just as striking is the steady rise in prices in the last decade, with the cost of vaccines against measles, polio and tetanus roughly doubling between 2001 and 2010. Prices of a few vaccines have remained flat or declined as additional competitors entered the market.
Huge spread of prices
As might be expected, shots that have been around for some time and those vaccines made by multiple companies cost just pennies per dose, such as tetanus and tuberculosis shots and oral polio vaccine. But a combination shot for immunisation against diptheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza can run UNICEF $3 (about R21) or more per dose.
The dual vaccine against 10 or more strains of pneumococcal disease, which causes ear infections and meningitis, costs $3.50 (about R23)a shot. And some of the vaccines require more than one booster shot, adding to the cost.
The cost is partly justified by the complex manufacturing process used to make combination vaccines. And UNICEF still pays far less than the $71 (about R482) and $114 (about R775) per dose, respectively, that is charged in the US for those two vaccines. But given that the organisation's mission is to immunise entire populations of at-risk children, any savings means more can be vaccinated.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said in a statement that it "always offers UNICEF our vaccines at our lowest price as they are targeted at the people who need them the most, but are least able to pay. We welcome UNICEF's move to publish retrospective prices for tenders and hope that this will help inform decisions for future vaccine procurement." Messages left with other Western vaccine makers seeking comment weren't immediately returned.
A real step forward
Daniel Berman, deputy director of the Doctors Without Borders Campaign for Essential Medicines, called the new price disclosures "a real step forward."
"By getting access to these prices, buyers will be able to take advantage of the increasing capacity of emerging countries to develop and produce quality vaccines at significantly lower costs," he said.
He added that GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, "should flex its purchasing muscles to encourage manufacturers" to produce vaccines that don't require refrigeration and can be administered through patches or liquids, rather than needles.
GAVI, which is supported by contributions from developed nations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is the primary funder of vaccines purchased by UNICEF. Helen Evans, interim CEO of the GAVI Alliance, said in a joint statement with UNICEF that GAVI "strongly believes in timely, transparent and accurate information on pricing."
Many of the largest global pharmaceutical companies –most recently Johnson & Johnson –have jumped into the vaccine business in recent years to diversify revenue as many of their blockbuster pills are facing generic competition. Vaccines are all but immune from generic competition in developed countries, and some newer shots, such as Pfizer Inc.'s Prevnar pneumococcal vaccine, now bring in billions of dollars in revenue each year.
Looking at less-developed countries
Those big companies are looking to less-developed countries for future sales growth, and vaccines against crippling and deadly childhood diseases are cost-effective purchases for countries with small health budgets.
Aids groups and advocates for affordable health care in developing countries have campaigned for years for big pharmaceutical companies to sell their patented medicines to those countries at drastically reduced prices, or to allow generic drug makers in countries such as India to do so. They've had some success, so UNICEF's new price plan is a logical strategy.
UNICEF's Hall said the organisation hopes to expand the transparency initiative to other essential products that it buys for children. UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, and quality basic education for boys and girls across the globe.
(Sapa, Linda A. Johnson, May 2011)
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Pulmonary edema is an abnormal buildup of fluid in the air sacs of the lungs, which leads to shortness of breath.
Early symptoms of pulmonary edema include:
- shortness of breath upon exertion
- sudden respiratory distress after sleep
- difficulty breathing, except when sitting upright
In cases of severe pulmonary edema, these symptoms will worsen to:
- labored and rapid breathing
- frothy, bloody fluid containing pus coughed from the lungs (sputum)
- a fast pulse and possibly serious disturbances in the heart's rhythm (atrial fibrillation, for example)
- cold, clammy, sweaty, and bluish skin
- a drop in blood pressure resulting in a thready pulse
The health care provider will perform a physical exam and use a stethoscope to listen to your lungs and heart. The following may be detected:
- Abnormal heart sounds
- Crackles in your lungs, called rales
- Increased heart rate (tachycardia)
- Pale or blue skin color (pallor or cyanosis)
- Rapid breathing (tachypnea)
Nursing Diagnosis : Anxiety related to Threat / Change in Health Status
Goal: Anxiety can be overcome
- Reported fear / anxiety disappear or decrease to the level that can be handled, looks relaxed and resting / sleeping properly.
Nursing Intervention :
1) Record the degree of anxiety and fear. Inform the patient / person close to the patient, the normal feelings and push expressing feelings.
Understanding that feelings (which are based plus oxygen imbalances that threaten) normal can help patients improve some sense of emotional control.
2) Explain the disease process and procedures in the level of the patient's ability to understand and handle information. Assess the current situation and the measures taken to address the problem.
Eliminate anxiety as insecurity and reduce fear about personal safety. In the early phase of explanation needs to be repeated with frequent and short because the patient has decreased the scope of attention.
3) Provide comfort measures, ie, back massage, change of positions.
Tool to reduce stress and indirect care to enhance relaxation and coping skills.
4) Help patients to identify behavioral help, eg a comfortable position, focus on breathing, relaxation techniques.
Giving patients control measures to reduce anxiety and muscle tension.
5) Support the patient / significant other in accepting the reality of the situation, especially the plan for a long period of recuperation. Involve patients in planning and participation in care.
Coping mechanisms and participation in treatment programs may improve learning patients to receive the expected result of the disease and improve some sense of control.
6) Watch out for out of control behavior or increased cardiopulmonary dysfunction, eg worsening dyspnea and tachycardia.
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What's the secret to a consistently clean desk? Take two minutes to tidy & clean your desk. Here's the details:
Before you stand and walk away for a meeting or lunch, spend two minutes tying up loose ends, such as the following:
- Clear off the center of your desk and jot down your next three action items for your return.
- Straighten the papers you were working on and put away any files.
- Enter new information into your database and toss scraps of paper.
- Return pens, paper clips and stapler to their rightful homes.
- "Stairstep" your priority paperwork by putting the most important to-do items on top and the next ones showing under that.
- Send an e-mail to move an action forward or respond to a question.
- Prioritize telephone calls you need to make when you return.
- Pencil-mark the spot where you stopped reading.
- Clear away all clutter and push in your chair.
- Take items with you that can be delivered or mailed so that you can get them out of your work area.
Excerpted and condensed from Marcia Ramsland's: Simplify Your Life: Get Organized and Stay That Way! ©2003, W. Publishing Group, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee. All rights reserved. Copying or using this material without written permission from the publisher is strictly prohibited and in direct violation of copyright law. | <urn:uuid:3370d216-3856-43af-9dcd-e955bb685226> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.housekeepingchannel.com/a_73-A_Clean_Desk_The_Two_Minute_Desk_Pick_Up | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00200-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903379 | 304 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Would Idahoans Accept 4 Dollars a Gallon as the New Normal?
West Texas Intermediate crude dropped below 100 dollars a barrel. The lowest price per barrel since May. This happened earlier this week. You may ask if it’s a sign of things to come. We see a couple of things here. One is demand destruction, which means the high cost of gasoline is cooling demand and possibly easing tight supplies. A larger reason, according to many analysts, is fear of a recession.
A severe nosedive across the world economy could reverse the market and leave it with a glut of oil. Recall the summer of 2008? I was spending well in excess of four dollars a gallon for unleaded regular. By Christmas, I was paying under a buck fifty. Millions were also out of work and the future was very uncertain as we entered what came to be known as the Great Recession.
Let’s say prices drop a little and then stabilize. What would you then consider a bargain at the pumps? Four dollars a gallon? Clearly, it’s better than five and a half dollars and the nearly six dollars a gallon I saw last week while traveling. We may be conditioned for a much higher floor for a gallon of fuel.
If I’m selling you a product and I raise the price by two dollars for a prolonged period, then cut a dollar, you could believe you’re somehow catching a break.
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Are you being chased by a spider in your home? You may be wondering if you should use spider spray or not. Spider pest control Newcastle uses spray to kill spiders in your home.
Spray for spiders can be used to kill these bugs in your home or garden.
Spider sprays like those made by Spider Defense and Bio-Kill are recommended for killing spiders.
Spray for spiders is better than using chemicals because it works without the need for pesticides or insecticides.
Toxic chemicals can cause allergic reactions and even death from exposure to spider venom which makes them very dangerous.
Spider sprays like those made by Spider Defense are safer than chemical sprays because they work without the need for pesticides or insecticides.
The only difference between these sprays is that some have been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) while others have not yet received this designation because they contain ingredients that have been proven safe but could still pose health risks if inhaled, ingested, absorbed through skin contact with clothing etc.
The short answer is definitely yes.
Spider sprays are extremely effective in deterring spiders from entering your home.
The active ingredient in spider sprays is an essential oil, peppermint oil to be exact, which the spiders find overpowering and unpleasant.
Most spider sprays are 100% natural and safe for humans and pets if used as directed.
Spraying the product around the perimeter of your home will not only keep spiders out but will also repel insects, rodents and other pests.
Take into consideration the pros and cons of spider sprays:
- Easy to use.
- No clean up necessary.
- No worries about deceased spiders and their eggs being somewhere in your home.
- No need to worry about accidentally killing beneficial insects such as ladybugs, praying mantises, or bees when spraying.
- Fast-acting on contact.
Spider sprays typically contain a pyrethrin, which is a neurotoxin derived from chrysanthemum plants. Pyrethrins can cause respiratory issues in some people and should be used with caution around children and pets. When using any insecticide, always follow the directions on the label to ensure safe use.
Spider sprays are only effective on direct contact with the spider, so if you have a large infestation with lots of spiders hiding out in cracks and crevices, it won’t be particularly helpful for your situation.
With the warmer weather, we are seeing more spiders around the home. As people who pride ourselves on being Earth friendly, we often ask ourselves, “Should we be spraying for spiders?”
Generally speaking, the answer to this question is no. Spiders are one of nature’s best predators and can help eliminate many pests that cause damage to our homes and yards. They also eat flies and mosquitoes, which can be a real problem in the warmer months. Another reason to leave spiders alone is that they are not known to transmit diseases through their bites.
Spider sprays are most effective when applied directly to spiders and egg sacs, which means you will likely need to locate where these are hiding in your home. Unless you have a serious infestation on your hands or an arachnophobe in your household, it’s best to just let them do their thing and pick up a few spider catchers for removal instead of spraying for them.
The two most common types of spider sprays are pyrethrin and pyrethroids. Pyrethrins are a natural insecticide made from chrysanthemums. Pyrethroids are synthetic chemicals that are designed to act like pyrethrins. Both types of sprays can be effective, but there are some differences:
*Pyrethrins work quickly, killing insects on contact. But they also break down quickly in sunlight and may not kill insects that return to the treated area after a short period of time. They are generally considered a safer choice, especially for the environment.
Pyrethroids have a longer residual effect than pyrethrins, so they may keep working after the spray has dried and keep killing insects that come into contact with treated areas for an extended period of time. They may be effective against species that pyrethrins aren’t and have minimal environmental impact as well. | <urn:uuid:4e90ceef-f079-451e-9026-fbc6e6bb69b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.totalcaretravel.net/wp/2022/03/30/spider-spray-or-not-and-which-is-more-effective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954081 | 899 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Re: This used to be on disease and immunity
Stephen Barnard (firstname.lastname@example.org)
Sat, 06 Jul 1996 09:58:43 -0800
> email@example.com (Domingo Martinez-Castilla) wrote:
> >5. Domestication: I humbly request any reference indicating which
> >American animal and crop species were domesticable and had not been
> >domesticated at the time of contact. In other words, how many
> >indigenous American species of plants and animals have been domesticated
> >in the last 500 years? Or even more: all over the world?
The North American Bison. They are commonly raised for food.
Also the turkey. They've been domesticated to the point where thay are
nearly unrecognizable as being related to their wild progenitor.
Also quail, which are raised for both meat and eggs.
Another example (worldwide) is the Ostrich. I believe there are efforts
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data A tugboat of mass m pulls a ship of mass M, accelerating it. Assume that water friction on the two vessels' is negligible. If the force acting on the tug's propellar is F, what is the tension, T, in the cable connecting the two ships (Variables: F, M, m) 2. Relevant equations F=ma 3. The attempt at a solution to get T I thought I would use the equation, a= (T-mg)/m & a= -(T-Mg)/M However, I cannot figure out how to derive a forumla for T that only involves F, M, and m. I can derive: T= (2gMm)/(M+m) I'm stuck can anyone help? | <urn:uuid:57c4ac35-c1f7-42d5-98aa-3d35bab462c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/cable-connecting-the-two-ships-homework.187369/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00181-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93948 | 172 | 2.71875 | 3 |
There is virtually no argument against focus under the sun, but many of us are still so resistant to it. How does focus play into our personal brands and whether or not we can attract the right customers? How can we create focus when it comes influencing people to work with us, and what are some of the biggest mistakes we make? How do we strategically influence a change in behavior by appeasing the reptilian mind? On this episode, Glen Hellman is back to talk about what gets in the way of focus, and how to get better at influencing people.
"To move or change you must be in pain— because change is a risk." -Glen Hellman
3 Things We Learned
Why focus is key in personal branding (03:29 - 05:02)
Most personal branding is poorly executed because people aren’t focused enough on who they actually want to attract. To really build a brand that attracts the right kind of people we have to be extreme. We don’t need to work with every customer, what we want is to have a strong attraction with a specific kind of customer. A strong brand will repel 70% of the audience but is very attractive to the other 30%.
How to effectively influence someone to change their behavior (11:57 - 13:13)
In order to influence someone to make a change in their behavior, we have to consider that no one will make a change until they understand the pain that will come from not taking the action. Human beings are focused on avoiding pain, so we have to frame the action in the pain it will save them from. We have to quantify the pain points and make people internalize that pain by asking those questions.
How to influence our ideal customer to do business with us (19:45 - 21:50)
The part of our brain that makes decisions sees only black and white, it doesn’t see grey. We make decisions in binaries, so the more ambiguous the difference between our brand and the other brands, the less value it has and the harder it is to pick out.
The only way to get ourselves and our potential clients to pass through the danger of change, is to focus on the pain. Without the pain, it’s impossible to become fully aware of the cost of not taking a certain step or action. We become more influential when we tell a story, and make the risk of the new less scary by using analogies to make someone more comfortable with the change. Without this process, we can’t achieve influence and we can’t make the ambiguous more certain.
Glen is well-known as DC’s Mr Cranky. He is the founder and CEO at Driven Forward. He is Washington DC region's leading certified Executive Development, Peer Group Facilitator and Business Coach. He has been a founder, CEO, and a member of the executive team leading organizations to multiple IPOs including a $360M IPO of Progress Software, mergers, and acquisitions including a $92M acquisition of Call Technologies by 3Com. Go to https://drivenforward.com for more information, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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Ladakh’s Bharatiya Janata Party MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal on Tuesday responded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s question on whether China had occupied the Indian territory in Ladakh with a detailed map, and claimed they had done so under the Congress’ regime.
Tensions between India and China escalated after soldiers from the two nations engaged in a standoff at the north Sikkim and eastern Ladakh borders over the past month. On Monday, China said that its military had reached a consensus with its Indian counterpart not to allow differences to escalate into disputes.
The Congress leader has been constantly attacking the Centre, urging the Narendra Modi-led government to “come clean” on the border conflict.
On Tuesday, Gandhi attacked Defence Minister Rajnath Singh after he took a dig at the his party. Singh tweeted an Urdu poem and replaced a word with the “hand symbol”, which is the Congress’ logo. “Once RM [Rajnath Singh] is done commenting on the hand symbol, can he answer: Have the Chinese occupied Indian territory in Ladakh?” Gandhi asked.
Namgyal responded to Gandhi’s tweet and said that his response was based on facts. “I hope Rahul Gandhi and Congress will agree with my reply based on facts and hopefully they won’t try to mislead again,” he tweeted.
The BJP leader claimed that the Chinese had occupied the Indian territory during the Congress’ rule. “Starting from the 38,000 sq km of Aksai Chin in eastern Ladakh seized by China in the 1962 war,” Namgyal wrote. “The Tia Pangnak and Chabji Valley [250m length] in Chumur area till 2008 during the UPA [United Progressive Alliance] time.”
He claimed the Zorawar Fort in Demjok was destroyed by the People’s Liberation Army in 2008 and the People’s Liberation Army Observing Point was setup in 2012, all during the UPA regime. He also said that the People’s Liberation Army “created Chinese/new Demjok/Colony with 13 cemented houses”.
The BJP MP added that India lost Doom Cheley, an ancient trade point, between Dungti and Demjok in 2008-2009. He attached a map titled “Overview of Demjok area. [The] Chinese intruded land of India till 2012 during Congress regime”.
On Wednesday, Gandhi once again questioned the prime minister’s silence. “The Chinese have walked in and taken our territory in Ladakh,” Gandhi said. “Meanwhile, the PM [prime minister] is absolutely silent and has vanished from the scene.”
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We purchased the property for our farm in 2007. It was a ten acre weed patch that had been used for a car repair business. With the help of my wife, daughters and grandsons our ten acres were transformed into the Berry & Nut Farm.
I wanted the farm to be unique, so in 2008, to go along with the one nut tree already on the property, some nut trees and nut tree seed were planted.
In 2009, I planted many more nut trees and ordered huckleberry plants. We prepared an area for huckleberry plants but the plants were delayed, and then delayed a second time. Desperately, I went to the freezer, planted frozen huckleberries in the prepared area – nothing. Huckleberry plants finally arrived and were planted. Our farm has since added more nut trees and huckleberry plants. My daughters are very involved, adding lots of flowers and potted plants.
In 2010, the 5 acre property at the Southwest end of Berry & Nut Farm was purchased. This 5 acres has 50 mature fruit trees. Now there are more trees and a bigger vegetable and flower garden.
Our hazelnuts are just starting to produce and should increase nut production each year. The black walnuts, English walnuts and heart-nuts are a few years away from producing nuts. The huckleberry plants are looking good, we hope to see a few berries this summer and hopefully have enough to sell in a couple more years.
Berry & Nut Farm produces fruit, nuts & vegetables. In the summer, our blackberries, blueberries and vegetables are picked and sold at the Farmers Market in Coeur d’Alene and to local businesses. In the Fall, our late blueberries, apples, pears, peaches and vegetables are available to the local community and businesses.
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Email users can help reduce the spam outflows in the Internet. When a user signs up for something online, he should be careful while checking checkboxes and must not check checkboxes for additional offers. Else, he will receive email from partners of the site he signed up at. It is advisable to use freebie accounts to fight spam. Create a few freebie accounts, direct them to your main account, and use those freebie accounts to sign up for something online. If an account is spammed disable or abandon it. One word of caution: Never use your primary email address to sign up for anything. At the very least a user should use three accounts: one for business, one for personal stuff and another for online shopping .
There are many freebie accounts available in the market today, the primary of which are AOL/AIM, AOL My eAddress, Excite, Fast Mail, Google Mail, Goowy, Hotmail/MSN Inbox, Lycos, MyWay Mail, Rock.com, and Yahoo!
If a user plans to use a freebie account as his main account, it is recommended that he use Gmail. Google Mail is arguably the most productive well thought out free email offering available, with highly efficient spam filters, loads of disk space for messages, and has Google with third party plug-ins to increase productivity.
There are also expendable email address services that have more selective disabling features than regular free email accounts. Having your own domain might include 50 to 100 email addresses as part of your hosting package. You can use these addresses for newsletter or shopping sign ups and redirect each account to a main account.
Whatever you may go about doing, never publish your main email address anywhere online. You can use freebie accounts, which can be dropped when necessary. Use a CAPTCHA image based code to separate spambots from human visitors. Encode your email address like me*AT#hotmail#DOT*COM so that humans can easily read them.
Few of the ISPs add junk mail header status information to messages passing through their mail servers. If the email client is suitable, you can write a “filter rule” to ditch any message whose header includes “X-Spam-Status:Yes”. The disadvantage is that there could be false positives on spam needing you to check the spam folder on a weekly basis.
You can also write your own command line email filters in a scripting language like Perl or Python; both of which have superior regex pattern matching abilities. Write a program to grab your email (copies) off POP or IMAP email servers. Build a frequency table for the keywords by saving the IPAddress information for each message. If the data is saved for long term profiling keep the spam information in a separate database. If some words in the message raise flags, compare their frequency counts against other words. This step should be manual until you build up long-term profiles. If its spam, delete the original copy of your mail server. An Operating System like Linux gives you the facility to integrate custom filters into your email client. | <urn:uuid:f71330b4-121f-4a33-82db-27e06413e916> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://knowledge-4-success.com/2009/10/keeping-your-email-account-safe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00127-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916097 | 633 | 1.835938 | 2 |
In the next few months, ICANN will have a concrete opportunity to improve its accountability and transparency by enacting the recommendations of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT). Those recommendations may not be perfect, but if the history of the ICANN process is any indication, we can't afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the very good.
The Affirmation of Commitments Accountability and Transparency Review process was a bold experiment in the finest tradition of ICANN. Stakeholders from throughout the community came together under a tight deadline to address one of the biggest challenges facing ICANN. The review team worked through resource limitations, time constraints, and the challenge of creating an entirely new process to not only fulfill its charter, but also to blaze a path for future teams.
In many ways, the final product of the ATRT process represents the ideal ICANN document; not because everyone agrees on its findings — quite the contrary — but because it synthesizes an incredibly diverse set of inputs into a clear, actionable set of recommendations. By any reasonable measure, the ATRT has exceeded expectations in bringing the inaugural AOC review to a successful conclusion.
If there is one criticism to be lodged against the final ATRT report it is that it is perhaps a bit myopic. There is more to accountability and transparency than mechanisms for accountability and transparency. When speaking of building secure software, you will often hear the term "secure by design," which means that for software to be truly secure it needs to be designed with security in mind from the outset, not just subject to security mechanisms which are applied after the fact. True accountability at ICANN requires understanding those objectives to which the organization is being held accountable. The more concrete the organizational objectives, the easier to measure its success and failures and seek procedural improvements.
Accordingly, while ACT applauds the ATRT recommendations regarding metrics in the implementation of accountability and transparency measures as well as the board's resolution requiring metrics to measure the success of new gTLDs, metrics are essential across the organization for ICANN to be truly transparent and accountable. There need to be metrics surrounding internal processes; there need to be goals and metrics on contract compliance, diversity, etc. Even more abstract objectives such as raising community or governmental confidence in ICANN can be measured through participation and surveys. What gets measured, gets done.
That said, the herculean effort by the ATRT must be rewarded by action. While the work of the ATRT may be done, the work of the ICANN staff and board of directors has just begun, and their responsibility to the ATRT process is even more significant than that of the review team itself. Now that the ATRT has produced consensus recommendations for how ICANN should strengthen its accountability and transparency processes, the burden falls to ICANN to implement those recommendations without prejudice and in a timely fashion.
The AOC is unequivocal about the board's responsibility regarding the ATRT findings. The Affirmation states "the Board will take action within six months of receipt of the recommendations." But at the most recent meeting in Cartagena, ICANN President Rod Beckstrom seemed to indicate that the board and staff would pick and choose which recommendations to implement and when, based on constraints of time and budget. While later comments by ICANN leadership seemed to back away from this assertion, the episode only furthered the impression that ICANN is not fully committed to the ATRT process.
The biggest unanswered question about ICANN in the eyes of the global community is whether the organization possesses the will and the capacity to make difficult but necessary changes to strengthen its accountability and transparency to stakeholders. ICANN has long insisted that it is responsive and accountable to the ICANN "community" and requires no additional oversight. If this is truly the case, ICANN will act quickly and without prejudice to implement the recommendations of the ATRT. The ATRT indisputably represented the will of the ICANN "community" in the area of accountability and transparency. If ICANN fails to implement the changes developed by a community-driven process that it helped create, it will raise serious questions as to whether the organization is capable of demonstrating real accountability to anyone.
ICANN has never lacked for ideas on how to improve its accountability and transparency. For the past several years — dating back long before the ATRT — members of the community have offered an array of practical and creative solutions for improving the manner in which ICANN responds to the input of its global community. The ATRT built on and refined those efforts into the most cohesive and balanced set of recommendations that ICANN has yet seen. But until ICANN takes decisive action on the ATRT findings, they remain just another set of unrealized good ideas. And ICANN may be running out of opportunities to demonstrate its capacity to improve.
The ATRT may not be a perfect document, but the ICANN process does not demand perfection. Rather, it demands a commitment to continued dialogue, community engagement, and improvement. In that respect, the ATRT has met and exceeded its charter.
ICANN doesn't have to be perfect in implementing the ATRT proposal, but they can't afford not to be good.
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Jan 04, 2022 · Cleopas was a follower of Jesus during His earthly ministry and among the few who saw the Lord on the day of His resurrection. Cleopas was not one of the Twelve, but some have surmised that he was one of the seventy ( Luke 10 ).
Saint Cleopas ( Greek Κλεόπας, Kleopas ), also spelled Cleophas, was a figure of early Christianity, one of the two disciples who encountered Jesus during the Road to Emmaus appearance in Luke 24:13–32 . Contents 1 Etymology 2 Account in the Gospel of Luke 3 Apocryphal books 4 Traditions 5 References 6 External links Etymology [ edit]
Cleopas is a Greek name, contracted from Cleopater, while Cleophas, or Clopas as in the Revised Version, is an Aramaic name, the same as Alphaeus. [N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible [E] indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary Bibliography Information Smith, William, Dr. "Entry for 'Cleopas'".
Cleopas was one of two disciples Jesus met on the road to Emmaus on the day of His resurrection. We do not know the identity of the other disciple, but we know that neither was one of the eleven apostles remaining after Judas' death (verse 33).
Sep 22, 2021 · Cleopas was a follower of Jesus. What Do We Know about Cleopas—before and after Emmaus? Luke’s account of Cleopas is one of enlightenment. This encounter with Jesus took place on Resurrection Sunday. Luke focused on Cleopas’ transformation of faith while Christ revealed what the Scriptures taught about the Messiah.
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Iran and Qatar hope to cement new energy ties and grow existing ties in the wake of a recent visit by Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi. Raisi was in Doha this week and the countries signed several bilateral cooperation deals on Monday.
According to Al-Jazeera “Qatar and Iran signed bilateral agreements in the first visit by an Iranian president to Doha in 11 years, during which Raisi will attend a gas exporters summit on Tuesday.” Raisi said that “we have today expanded our cooperation in the fields of economy, energy, infrastructure, culture and food security.”
Raisi is also looking to build new ties with other Gulf states. This is because Iran also senses a new nuclear deal is coming that could transform its role in the region. “Before heading to Qatar, Raisi expressed hope his visit would boost ties with other Gulf Arab states and stressed Iran’s status as a major oil and gas producer and founding member of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum,” said Al-Jazeera.
According to the reportsת Iran, Russia and Qatar have large gas reservoirs, Iran's oil minister Javad Owji told Reuters on Tuesday. It appears Iran not only wants to back Russia in recent tensions with the West but that it also hopes that Qatar and Iran can achieve. Profits off the Ukraine crisis.
Tasnim News in Iran had a report on how the countries together own 56 percent of the world’s gas reserves. According to Iranian media, this makes them a kind of “golden triangle” that can dominate the world. Markets. “If the three countries, in a strategic agreement, reach a consensus on the macro policies of the global gas market, they will be effective in orienting the world's energy future,” Tasnim says.
“The consensus of the world's three largest holders of gas reserves becomes doubly important when we consider this point: Gas will be the world's leading energy supplier for at least the next 20 years.
Estimates show that global gas demand will not decrease over the next 25 to 30 years, but due to the clean (low carbon) fuel, we will see an annual and continuous increase in global gas demand,” Tasnim notes. That means that Iran is well-positioned to work with Qatar to exploit the needs of the region and the world.
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When we look at online learning, this is when you use software to interact with the teachers. When you evaluate the positives and the demerits of offline learning, you will understand what you can do to improve the quality of the online classes. You see, just when the pandemic began.
There was this thing that was the new normal. The new normal in education is the case of increasing online classes. In this period, if covid-19, it has made the learning process improve in different ways. Almost everywhere in the globe, universities are now looking for ways in which they can include online classes in their schools.
Today schools are trying to upgrade their systems to online systems. Just like any other learning method, online learning has various advantages and disadvantages. When the institutions have their positive and negative sides of online learning, online learning is going to improve.
Online classes are very efficient when it comes to learning. Teachers can efficiently deliver their lessons. Online learning possesses a lot of tools that one can use, such as videos, PDFs, and other things. When you move from using one tool to using online tools, the efficiency of bringing out a lesson is easy.
You see when you are doing online classes. Time management is paramount. It is because once the class has begun. . Students can attend lessons from almost anywhere at any time. They to make sure that they have a very stable connection to the internet. Online classes. Allow the teacher to explain concepts to a huge number of students. At the same time. Unlike normal classes where they restrict you to a particular number of students.
Another merit that you will find with online classes. Is that you can afford it easily. There is no use for accommodations elsewhere. You do not have to move to places to learn. Another thing is that all the information you need is online, so you will not have to have paperwork. Learning online is very friendly to the environment because you cannot liter the compound.
Attendance of the student
Since a student can do these classes from home, you need to miss any class.
It favors different students. The learning methods vary from using audio, visualizing. Very many students have different ways in which they learn. There those students who prefer using audio while there are those students who prefer having visuals. There are those students who prefer being in a class. And some prefer being alone because large numbers of people distract them.
Lack of focus
Screen time is something that a student can lose focus on at any time. Focusing on the screen is not easy. Often some distractions come with online classes. Since they are online, notifications can come up. So students can divert the attention to social media. It leads to worse cognitive ability and a need to ask for custom research paper writing from other people or tutor help to keep grades on the normal level.
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Multiphysics Simulation: An IEEE Spectrum Insert 2016
Industry experts explain how they harness COMSOL® software to create physics-based models to deliver on innovative product development in the latest edition of Multiphysics Simulation. Gain inspiration for your own development and research by reading about successful simulation-led product design. At companies such as GrafTech, researchers developed a detailed model of graphite heat spreaders and turned it into a simulation app for their sales team. Benefit from the brilliant simulation work by Konica Minolta that is increasing light output and efficiency in organic LED (OLED) systems.
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The report from the Illinois Anti-Harassment, Equality and Access Panel challenges political organizations to make government more representative of the population, and recommends measures for political parties to combat harassment and make politics fairer for women.
Illinois Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan appointed panel members State Comptroller Susana Mendoza, state Sen. Melinda Bush of Grayslake and state Rep. Carol Ammons of Champaign to study the issues last winter following a series of sexual harassment complaintsin the Legislature . All three are Democrats, but the panel established itself as a nonprofit and maintains it is nonpartisan.
Other recommendations from the report include tying party funding of campaigns to solid anti-harassment policies and training, requiring campaigns to establish anti-harassment policies that exceed legal definitions, establishing procedures for investigating complaints that are independent of campaign organizations, and having state parties hire “diversity directors” to recruit a wider range of candidates.
Following these suggestions would give Illinois politics a chance to “make a break from a past where women were subject to debasing and unacceptable behaviors in the workplace that not only humiliated and shamed them, but stunted or ended the potential of many bright careers,” Mendoza said.
Although there are 64 women in the Illinois General Assembly, 36 percent of 177 members, the report stresses that parties should actively strive for half, Bush said.
“The parties have to intentionally go after this, look at how they can build diversity,” she said. “It should not just happen organically.”
The report offers a revealing glimpse of campaigns, a world in which volunteers, consultants and independent contractors are put together for long days and long nights on a temporary basis. They are generally not covered by anti-discrimination laws, and it can be unclear who is in charge and who would field a complaint of abuse.
Tina Tchen, the panel’s legal counsel, said abuse in such an environment rarely meets the legal definition of sexual harassment, nor does that definition cover much of the offensive behavior, so the report seeks campaign policies that go beyond what’s required by law.
“It sets out a policy for the first time ever that, even if you’re just a volunteer on this campaign, these are the cultural values you need to have,” said Tchen, who was an adviser to former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. “If you won’t do it, we don’t want you on my campaign. These are things that have not been talked about in campaigns before.”
Mendoza, Bush and Ammons noted that they heard from hundreds of women from across the political spectrum at six “listening sessions” in July.
They said the report offers a road map for change.
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In response to the Crimean referendum, new sanctions have been announced. European Union has announced sanctions against 21 Russian individuals. This was the bare minimum expected. It will include travel visa bans and freezing assets. The longer list, which reported will be used to escalate the pressure includes 130 names. It is not thought to impact senior Russian leadership, as Putin or his family, though new US sanctions include a few Putin aides.
There appears to be some lingering, if misplaced hope that there is an opportunity for Russia to hold off annexing Crimea. This may be meant for domestic consumption in the US and Europe than sending Russia a powerful message. Such an opportunity seems very small. Russia secured a natural gas asset in east Ukraine that services Crimea over the weekend. On April 1, the Russian ruble will be introduced in Crimea. The plan appears to allow the Ukrainian Hryvnia to continue until the beginning of 2016.
At the end of the day, officials will accept Crimea is Russian controlled. They may not like it, and they may continue to protest, but the facts on the ground will be accepted. The key now is what does Russia do next. It has been making the argument that Kiev is 1) not a legitimate government and 2) that it is not protecting the Russian ethnic people in parts of eastern Ukraine. It claims it has the right to do move protect those people, even though some for the social disturbance is believed to be at least partly spurred by Russian agitators.
After Russia and Georgia fought in 2008, the US, Poland and the Baltics favored extending NATO to Georgia (and Ukraine). France and Germany objected and shortly after that Russia moved into South Ossetia that it continues to occupy. The signals that the US and EU send now are very important.
In addition to using the visa and asset sanctions on middle level officials, pushing them into the upper echelons of the Russian government would still be seen as fairly benign, like holding the G7 meeting in London in June instead of a G8 meeting in Russia. However, four other measures would be more potent.
First, a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to extend NATO to Georgia and Ukraine could be proposed. Second, the US could acquiesce to the Ukrainian request for military assistance. Third, a list of US and European companies doing business in Russia can be formally warned that such activity is under review. Fourth, and partially related, Germany and France could freeze arms sales to Russia. Shortly after the Russian conflict in 2008, France sold Russia state-of-the-art amphibious assault ships and other deals followed. Germany recently sold a state-of-the-art brigade-level training facility
German Foreign Minister Steinmeier acknowledged Europe's faux pas. He conceded that EU foreign ministers had been too quick in the early days of the crisis in Kiev to engage the opposition and too slow to take into account the larger geopolitical forces. This is to admit that the Europe over-reached and failed to take into account Russia's interests. The price to be paid is that Crimea, but it does not necessarily have to be east Ukraine, as well.
Some observers are willing to concede that the vast majority of Crimean voted in favor of joining Russia. Democracy is not simply majority rule, but also the rule of law. There are legal reasons why Scotland's referendum later this year is legitimate, but the one in Catalonia, Spain is not. Italians in Venice will have a non-binding internet-based vote this week aimed at boosting interest in a bill calling for a referendum on whether the Veneto region should break away from Italy, which polls suggest nearly 2/3 of the Venetians would like to do.
The continued rally of European peripheral bonds markets and the euro suggests the financial markets are undeterred by the Crimean referendum and sanctions. Although many policy wonks talk about the break from the post-Cold War order, investors seem to be saying not much has really changed or will change.
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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The study entitled Degree of Satisfaction of Customers regarding the Services being provided by Selected Restaurants in Virac, Catanduanes. This research tends to know the satisfaction of customers for the restaurant to improve more their services.
Trends which affects the restaurant business includes changes in: The greater number of individual who demands for delicious and well-prepared food; a greater number of people who are establishing a low calorie diet; and an increasing appreciation for attractive atmosphere, these trends in customers’ attitudes will surely be the basis for the changes in the restaurant business.
Important demographic trends, now firmly established’ include the rapid growth of population which will result in a lot more number of children, an average number of middle-aged and a less number of older people which will in turn, cause the fast food restaurant chains to discover and develop new menu items, and to adopt marketing strategies attracting customers. The change in the age pattern can also be expected to bring more customers to food services operation that cater more to young ages than the adults. This is also a tendency that small families can be expected to have more available budget to be spent in the restaurants as compared to big families.
Despite the achievements, the studies reported in this article suggest that the customer discontentment remains high: and buyer dissatisfaction is widespread considering the changes that have been made, and assuming that the survey results reflect current attitudes. The purpose here is to report the survey result and to discuss possible explanation for the continuing high level of customer dissatisfaction. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This study attempted to determine the awareness of customer in different kinds of services provided by restaurant business in Virac, Catanduanes. The main problem is to know the profile of customers and the customer satisfaction towards the following categories: philosophy of restaurant, food quality, advertising and prices. The researcher intends to answer the following questions: 1. What are the profiles of customers in terms of:
2. What is the degree of satisfaction of customers?
3. Are there any significant relationship between the profile of the customer and their degree of satisfaction?
The researcher will study the awareness of customers in different kinds of services of selected restaurant business in Virac, Catanduanes.
This study focuses on the influence of the selected independent variable among the selected dependent variable.
The independent variable of the study was the profile of customers which includes age that refers to the number of years a person exists; gender which refers to the state of being a male or a female; and the occupation which refers to a paid position of employment. These variables might influence the degree of satisfaction of an individual because every person has a unique wants and needs which will probably the basis of their contentment or frustration.
The dependent variable of this study was the degree of satisfaction of customers which refers to the stage where the customer feels contented of what they want and what they need. This variable maybe influenced by the selected independent variable because the level of contentment of every individual will base on what age, gender and occupation they have.
Independent VariableDependent Variable
Profile of the restaurant Degree of Satisfaction according Customers in the Municipality of to different aspects:
a. Philosophy of restaurant
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a anchored in a specific location and displaying or flashing a very bright for the guidance of ships, as in avoiding dangerous areas.
a ship equipped as a lighthouse and moored where a fixed structure would prove impracticable
[lahyt-suh m] /ˈlaɪt səm/ adjective 1. light, especially in form, appearance, or movement; airy; buoyant; agile; nimble; graceful. 2. cheerful; gay; lighthearted. 3. frivolous; changeable. [lahyt-suh m] /ˈlaɪt səm/ adjective 1. emitting or reflecting light; luminous. 2. well-lighted; illuminated; bright. /ˈlaɪtsəm/ adjective (archaic or poetic) 1. lighthearted 2. airy or buoyant 3. not serious; frivolous […]
noun 1. Chiefly Military. a signal, usually by drum or bugle, that all or certain camp or barracks lights are to be extinguished for the night. 2. . [lahyt] /laɪt/ verb (used without object), lighted or lit, lighting. 1. to get down or descend, as from a horse or a vehicle. 2. to come to […]
[lahyt-struhk] /ˈlaɪtˌstrʌk/ adjective, Photography. 1. (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.
noun 1. a table that has a translucent top illuminated from below and is used typically for making tracings or examining color transparencies. noun 1. (printing) a translucent surface of ground glass or a similar substance, illuminated from below and used for the examination of positive or negative film, and for the make-up of photocomposed […] | <urn:uuid:351daa62-5324-4c97-aa65-662bced07453> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://definithing.com/define-dictionary/lightship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00404-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.836411 | 383 | 2.28125 | 2 |
BIOS (basic input/output system) is the plan a calculator’due south microprocessor uses to start the reckoner system after information technology is powered on. Information technology likewise manages data flow between the computer’due south operating system (Os) and attached devices, such as the hd, video adapter, keyboard, mouse and printer.
How BIOS works step past step?
This is its usual sequence:
- Bank check the CMOS Setup for custom settings.
- Load the interrupt handlers and device drivers.
- Initialize registers and power direction.
- Perform the ability-on self-exam (POST)
- Display system settings.
- Determine which devices are bootable.
- Initiate the bootstrap sequence.
What is BIOS boot process?
In calculating, BIOS (/ˈbaɪɒs, -oʊs/, BY-oss, -ohss; an acronym for Basic Input/Output System and also known as the Arrangement BIOS, ROM BIOS or PC BIOS) is firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting procedure (power-on startup), and to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs.
What is the main function of BIOS?
A computer’s Basic Input Output Organization and Complementary Metallic-Oxide Semiconductor together handle a rudimentary and essential process: they set up the figurer and boot the operating organisation. The BIOS’s master role is to handle the organization setup process including driver loading and operating system booting.
How practise you explain BIOS?
BIOS stands for “Basic Input/Output System”, and is a blazon of firmware stored on a chip on your motherboard. When you start your computer, the computers boots the BIOS, which configures your hardware before handing off to a boot device (usually your hard drive).
What is BIOS in simple words?
BIOS, computing, stands for Bones Input/Output System. The BIOS is a computer programme embedded on a fleck on a calculator’south motherboard that recognizes and controls various devices that make upwardly the computer. The purpose of the BIOS is to make certain all the things plugged into the computer can work properly.
What are the 4 main functions of BIOS?
The four functions of BIOS
- Power-on self-test (POST). This tests the hardware of the calculator earlier loading the Bone.
- Bootstrap loader. This locates the Bone.
- Software/drivers. This locates the software and drivers that interface with the OS once running.
- Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) setup.
What are the four main parts of the kicking process?
The Boot Process
- Initiate filesystem admission. …
- Load and read configuration file(s) …
- Load and run supporting modules. …
- Display the boot carte du jour. …
- Load the OS kernel.
How practise I open BIOS on Windows 10?
In order to access BIOS on a Windows PC, y’all must press your BIOS key set by your manufacturer which could exist F10, F2, F12, F1, or DEL. If your PC goes through its power on self-test startup also rapidly, you lot can as well enter BIOS through Windows 10’due south advanced start carte recovery settings.
What is the outset pace in the boot procedure?
What is the offset step in the boot procedure? – The BIOS loads the operating system into RAM. – The BIOS makes certain that all your reckoner’s peripheral devices are attached and working. – The BIOS verifies your login name and countersign.
What are the 2 types of booting?
Booting is of two types :1. Cold booting: When the computer is started after having been switched off. 2. Warm booting: When the operating organisation alone is restarted after a system crash or freeze.
What are the different types of BIOS?
There are ii different types of BIOS:
- UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS – Any mod PC has a UEFI BIOS. …
- Legacy BIOS (Basic Input/Output Arrangement) – Older motherboards accept legacy BIOS firmware for turning on the PC.
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What happens when reset BIOS?
Resetting your BIOS restores information technology to the final saved configuration, so the procedure can as well be used to revert your system afterward making other changes. Whatever situation you may be dealing with, remember that resetting your BIOS is a simple procedure for new and experienced users alike.
What are the 3 common keys used to access the BIOS?
Common keys used to enter BIOS Setup are F1, F2, F10, Esc, Ins, and Del. Later on the Setup program is running, use the Setup program menus to enter the current date and time, your hard drive settings, floppy drive types, video cards, keyboard settings, so on.
How practise I find my BIOS chip?
Information technology can exist anywhere on the periphery of the motherboard, only is ordinarily near the coin cell battery. Yous’ll find the DTC reset pins nearby too. Besides, sometimes the BIOS is “socketed” pregnant the chip is in a socket instead of soldered onto the board.
How do I find my BIOS manufacturer?
To see the BIOS version and release date, run this command: systeminfo | findstr /I /c:bios. Note that we are using the capital letter I and not the lowercase alphabetic character L. Press Enter and the BIOS information is displayed. Y’all can also run the following command: wmic bios get Manufacturer, Name, ReleaseDate. | <urn:uuid:90827597-281f-4708-a116-8efa52b686b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chortkiv.net/1671/bios-basics-how-to-configure-your-pcs-firmware-for-first-use/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.867378 | 1,222 | 3.4375 | 3 |
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The college basketball season has begun and UNC is emerging as an early season favorite. However as games are played and student athletes battle for supremacy, it’s interesting to measure how far the game has grown in the past 27-years. In 1981, the women’s game wasn’t as advanced or applauded as it now. In fact, ESPN aired the UCONN vs. Oklahoma women’s game in the primetime TV slot on Sunday, featuring super sophomore Maya Moore, against the dynamic Paris twins. As I look the landscape of how the game is revered and played, it pails in comparison to the best three teams of the modern era.
Back to the Future
The NCAA Men’s National Champion in 1984 was none other than the Georgetown Hoyas, coached by John Thompson. A few things stand out about this team, as they had a combination of fundamental skill, speed, and intelligent guard play, mixed with an indomitable frontcourt anchored by Patrick Ewing. Coincidentally after Ewing, the school was known for having great centers with Mutombo, Mourning, Othella Harrington, Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje, Michael Sweetney, and Roy Hibbert. Last but not least they were the ultimate team that played without fear, while imposing their Hoya Paranoia on all who opposed them.
What I remember of this team was their affect on my neighborhood and others like it. I grew up in Philadelphia, the home of the Big 5, and my beloved Temple University, but it was Georgetown that I identified with being the epitome of college basketball, because everywhere I looked, people were wearing hats, jackets, sweatshirts, and tees that were the imposing color of silver and navy blue. I don’t want to turn this into a sociology lesson, but when you have a successful program, with an all black cast the people within the urban areas will rally around them, with a fervor and loyalty beyond logic.
The Hoyas were acknowledged so much so, that the fledgling sneaker company at the time…Nike gave that team it’s own sneaker aptly named “The Terminator”, with the word HOYA emblazoned across the heel. Where I’m from, that’s a sign of the ultimate respect and not only did coach Thompson and his team earn it, they commanded it from any, and everyone.
This team is the predecessor to the acclaim that basketball players take for granted today. Prior to my penning this rather racially biased piece, I watched the movie HOOP DREAMS, and one thing I noticed throughout the film was the Georgetown University references. The documentary takes place on the North Side of Chicago in and near the Cabrini-Green Housing Projects, and the co-stars Arthur Agee, and William Gates, are seen through the years (‘88-‘92) wearing their admiration for the ’84 champions from Arthur’s basketball and baseball jersey’s to William’s tee-shirt. The Hoyas are just as much a constant in this masterpiece as are the people that look up to, and represent them.
1990 ushered in a new decade and along with it came a new breed of Hoya Paranoia that challenged the status quo in the form of the Runnin’ Rebels of UNLV. They were a band of brothers that had the same high-octane offense that was lead by a powerful front court with Stacey “Plastic Man” Augmon, and Larry Johnson. LJ with his, Texas style, gold tooth…played and lead with his raw emotions, directly from the heart and soul. The guards Greg Anthony, and Anderson Hunt paced the offensive with Anthony as a key to the defense that didn’t give opponents a chance to breathe or win.
In their championship match against Duke, they cruised to a 103-73 win, as their 30-point victory remains the largest margin in history. Naturally cites near and far embraced this team and their style of play. Everyone from my older brother to 2 Pac had the Runnin’ Rebels shirt, hat, or jacket. I’ll never forget the UNLV hat and STARTER jacket that Tupac wore in the Brenda’s Got a Baby video.
I had a red UNLV shirt that I wore a least once a week the summer following their title run. They were easy to rally around because unlike most other college and professional teams…this team was more like me, and the people in my community.
There is one team in recent history, that combined the intimidation of Georgetown, and scoring ability of UNLV…and they hail from Ann Arbor, Michigan…the Wolverines of the University of Michigan. They were affectionately known as the Fab Five. In the fall of 1991, college basketball received a facelift from Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson.
Standing at an impressive 6’8″, Rose the left-handed lead guard controlled the team’s offense, while Jimmy King was Mr. Defense. The frontcourt was lead by Webber and his ubiquitous scowl, which made him a fan favorite…while Howard and Jackson rounded out the forward positions with flair.
The Fab Five played in the National Championship game as freshmen and sophomores, but much to my dismay…they were not able to win it all like Georgetown and UNLV. Had they been able to beat Duke or North Carolina their lore would have grown and would have been bigger than perhaps the game itself. They are the 5 most important freshmen in the modern college basketball era. In relation to where they stand in the bigger picture of sports, they are up there with Jackie Robinson, and Muhammad Ali.
This team has been heralded for everything that is both right and wrong with team sports. They are credited for basketball players wearing black socks, and long baggy shorts. Black socks are commonplace now, but in that day it was very rare, and the long shorts…well I can recall other teams wearing long shorts, but Michigan at that time, did everything better. They even had their “own” Nike sneaker with the never seen before Huarache that had replaced the high ankle support with straps. It became a truly remarkable shoe that is as historic, as the players that first wore them.
I was a point guard and I wanted nothing more than to grow taller and be just like Jalen Rose, while a lot of my friends wanted to overpower opponents like Webber. Even to this day, a pair of Michigan shorts on the basketball court is a sign of respect. There will never be a team like this again and while a lot of people, and the mainstream media didn’t understand or like their style, they were in actuality a very good team with a coach that led the ’89 team to a National Championship. They were and still are reviled because of the fact that they were young, talented, teen-aged men, that didn’t cater to the decorum of the NCAA tradition. Aside from their unique love of the game, their only crime was the color of their skin, and not the content of their character.
History and experience are great teachers, and what I learned from these teams is that there is nothing more beautiful than the play and cohesiveness of a team, as they have inspired not only athletes, but millions of people worldwide. It was an evolution, or better yet. a revolution to the end of the way things used to be.
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We rely on our automobiles for transporting our children to their sports and scouting activities, doctor appointments and schools. According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA), the leading cause of death for children between the ages of 2 – 14 years of age is motor vehicle accidents. Motor vehicle accidents are also the leading cause of acquired disability in children. Children make up approximately 5% of the accident fatalities. Approximately 6 children are killed and 700 children are injured every day in car crashes. Nearly 21% of children that are killed in car accidents die from drivers that are operating vehicles while over the legal blood alcohol level. And nearly half the deceased children that are killed by drunk drivers were intoxicated passengers at the time of the accidents.
Currently studies show that there is 90% compliance with regard to the use of child safety seats in children less than four years of age. Every state requires the use of infant restraint systems while infants are passengers in cars. The age-group that is at an increased risk for severe injury is children between the ages of four through eight years old. There is a 62% compliance rate with appropriate seating for these slightly older children. The reason for the inappropriate seating and inappropriate use of restraints in this age group is lack of parental knowledge. Because of this lack of knowledge, children between 4 – 8 yrs old are most commonly transported without the appropriate belt-positioning booster seats. If these children were in the appropriate seating system their risk for injury and death would be reduced by nearly 60%. Pediatric and family practice offices should be providing injury prevention education with regard to the proper use of child safety restraint systems, especially in older children as they graduate to front-facing seats to booster chairs. Over the last five years, roughly 16% of states required booster safety systems while transporting older children up to the age of eight. The law has not caught up with accident research data.
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Anti-retroviral reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
|Each tablet contains: Lamivudine - 150 mg.|
Treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in combination with other antiretroviral drugs.
Headache, malaise, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, abdominal cramps, dyspepsia, cough, rhinorrhea, peripheral neuropathy, dizziness, insomnia, depression, arthralgia, myalgia, alopecia, neutropenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, pancreatitis (in pediatric patients), skin rashes, lipodystrophy syndrome, gynecomastia.
Lactic acidosis and severe hepatomegaly with steatosis have been reported; In non-HIV-infected patients treated with lamivudine for chronic hepatitis B, evidence of exacerbations of hepatitis has occurred after discontinuation of lamivudine; The liver function in these patients should be followed-up for at least 4months. Patients dually infected with HBV and HIV should not be treated in an appropriate combination regimen.
Pregnancy: Category C;
Lactation: Lamivudine treated mothers should be instructed to discontinue breast-feeding;
Elderly: Monitor renal function.
Co-administration of sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim increases AUC of lamivudine by 44%. Zalcitabine and lamivudine may inhibit the intracellular phosphorylation of one another. Therefore lamivudine is not recommended with Zalcitabine.
Hypersensitivity to any of the components of the formulation.
Administer with or without food.
Adults and adolescents (12 to 16 years): Lavir 150 mg per bid
Paediatrics (3 months to 12 years): Lavir 4 mg/kg bid, maximum 150 mg bid
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100mg once daily. For patients co-infected with HBV and HIV, a higher dose is indicated as a part of an appropriate treatment regimen. Renal impairment: CrCl =50min/mL=100 mg once daily, CrCl 30-49 min/mL=100 mg first dose, then 50mg once daily, CrCl 15-29 min/mL=100 mg first dose, then 25mg once daily.
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Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: Legends of the Fall
A Daily Reckoning Special Position Paper
by Jim Amrhein
“The encouragement of a proper hunting spirit, a proper love of sport, instead of being incompatible with a love of nature and wild things, offers the best guaranty for their preservation.”
–– U.S. President and Nobel Prize winner Theodore Roosevelt
I ONCE WROTE an essay in this forum that I’m still getting feedback about. It dealt with the touchy subject of animal rights (or rather, the lack thereof). In the closing paragraph of that piece, I promised to expose the animal rights crowds for the hypocrites they are at a later date — and to demonstrate that the best friend any wild animal ever had is the hunter who exercises his or her personal freedom to stalk the woods, mountains, meadows, or marshes with gun or bow in hand….
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: Hunting for Reason — and Respect
And now that it’s the crisp and colorful fall, and time once again for those who are so inclined to hang some healthy wild game on the ol’ meat hook, it’s time for me to make good on that promise. I’ll also offer a “sacrificial lamb” to some critics who claim some of my columns have little financial component to them. To those folks, I say this: What you’re about to read should slake your thirst for numbers. But as you read, I urge you to keep in mind my larger point — that there’s a negative fiscal impact whenever personal freedoms are compromised.
Here’s a fact the animal rights crowd doesn’t like to hear, or to admit:
There wouldn’t be nearly as many (if any) vast tracts of publicly owned land to hike, bike, bird-watch, dog-walk, horseback ride, or generally gambol around on if regulated hunting did not exist. Funds generated by license fees and federal excise taxes on outdoor gear pay for these lands by an overwhelming margin. In fact, these monies dwarf all other sources combined — including the nearly nonexistent contributions of animal rights organizations (more on this in a minute). That means outdoor sportsmen are overwhelmingly the largest source of conservation funding in the United States….
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: “Hunter-Vationists” Are Paying for Everyone’s Party
Here are the numbers, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and other public sources:
** $746 million — Annual amount of money spent by hunters in the United States on licenses and public land access fees alone. Sportsmen’s licensing revenues account for more than half of all funding for state natural resource agencies
** $300 million — Additional monies contributed to wildlife conservation every year by the more than 10,000 private hunting-advocate organizations, like the National Wild Turkey Federation, Ducks Unlimited, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
** $4.2 billion — Amount of money sportsmen have contributed to conservation through a 10% federal excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, and gear since the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act established the tax. Millions of acres of public-use land has been purchased, preserved, and maintained with this money.
From an ecological point of view, here’s what all this translates into– The needs of wild animals — especially endangered and threatened species — are immeasurably better served by the millions of acres of well-maintained, patrolled habitat that hunters’ dollars are paying for than the lies and propaganda dished out by animal rights groups. In fact, their efforts are among the most destructive forces facing wildlife of all types today…
Why? Because if the animal rights crowd got its way and hunting were outlawed, there’d be no money for the preservation and expansion of the habitat that houses not only game species, but the endangered, threatened, and recovering species as well. Like it or not, and believe it or not, sportsmen’s dollars are in large part what has made possible the wildly successful re-establishment of the wild turkey, black bear, bison, elk, and the bald eagle. Yes, it was vast tracts of public, protected land and plenty of dollars for reintroduction efforts that made these miracles of conservation a reality — not to mention the 20-fold increase in the number of wild elk, the 133-fold increase in the wild turkey flock, and the roughly 70-fold increase in the national whitetail deer herd over the last century.
If sport hunting and/or sport fishing were outlawed (animal rights groups are gunning for them both), many of these species would dwindle once again — because sooner or later, the government would no doubt pony up a lot of these lands for development. They’d have to; who else would pay for their upkeep and regulation? The animal rights crowd?
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: A-Hunting They Will Go — for Headlines and Hype
In case you’re wondering how much money animal rights groups devote to habitat preservation and the welfare of wild species, take a gander at PETA’s 2004 financials. Straight from its Web site, I discovered that PETA’s prodigious revenue of over $29 million bought:
** 2,700 media interviews
** 703 organized demonstrations
** Nearly 11,000 mentions in print
** Coverage on at least seven major TV networks
** 150,000 “vegetarian starter kits” disseminated to the public
** Enough “educational materials” for 235,000 teachers and 11,000,000 students…
But not a single acre of land for wildlife preservation — not even for endangered species!
Hmmm. Seems that PETA and friends just don’t realize that what critters of every stripe need more than billboards, picket lines, ad campaigns, and celebrity advocates are places to live and thrive. Without the immense revenue of hunting-related dollars, these lands simply would not exist. That’s a hard pill for them to swallow. And as if it isn’t bad enough that animal rights groups — for all their high-profile anti-hunting bluster — don’t seem to pay for ANY true wildlife conservation efforts, they also spend a good deal of their time and resources obfuscating the truth about where conservation money does come from. Case in point:
In a 2003 news release aimed at opposing the New York Bureau of Wildlife’s plans to promote hunting and trapping in publicly owned sections of the Catskill Mountains, the notoriously militant Fund for Animals (ironic name, since I could find no evidence that they spend any money on wildlife conservation, either), stated that: “Although [the Bureau of Wildlife] is financed by millions of dollars of the public’s tax money, the nonhunting public’s viewpoint is consistently ignored…”
Yet according to the New York Bureau of Wildlife’s own financials, its primary source of funding is hunting, fishing, and trapping license fees, public land usage fees, and fines for violations of fisheries and wildlife management policies. Less than 12% of its operating budget comes from state tax revenues. This is a similar ratio to other states’ natural resources agencies’ funding. In fact, nationwide, sportsmen’s dollars outpace tax dollars for conservation efforts by a ratio of 9-to-1!
Can you think of ANY other federal government program that divines only 10% of its budget from the general fund?
But what’s really mind-boggling about the whole shebang is this: Even if animal rights groups could match the $3 million a day American sportsmen contribute directly to wildlife conservation and protection through license fees, land usage fees, and excise taxes, it still wouldn’t even come close to justifying the outlawing of hunting from a dollars-and-sense perspective, personal freedom issues notwithstanding.
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: Stalk Softly and Carry a Big Stack (of Cash)
We’ve established that sportsmen’s dollars are the engine driving wildlife conservation, habitat protection and expansion, and public use lands. But this really only scratches the surface of how important hunting is to the American way of life. A lot of people probably don’t realize exactly how vital sport hunting is to the U.S. economy (animal rights groups know it, they just don’t want YOU to). Here are just a few examples:
** $24.7 billion — Amount of money hunters spend every year on their sport at the retail level. This money reaches all retail segments, including hard goods, travel, gas, trips, food and drink, supplies, vehicles, leases, lodging, and guide services
** $955.4 million — Annual amount of sales and fuel tax revenue directly attributable to hunting in the U.S.
** 575,000 — Number of American jobs sustained entirely by hunting
** $16.7 billion — Total annual salaries and wages paid to those who hold hunting-related jobs in the U.S.
** $2.25 billion — Dollar amount of combined state and federal income tax revenue generated by hunted-related employment in the United States every year.
How do these numbers compare with other high-participation outdoor sports? For some perspective, compare hunting with another popular gear- and travel-intensive sport, skiing. According to the Census Bureau’s Statistics of U.S. Businesses and other sources, the skiing industry annually:
** Employs approximately 127,000 people (less than a quarter as many as hunting)
** Pays gross salaries of around $1 billion (about 6% of what hunting pays)
** Yields just over $500 million in ski equipment sales (hunters spend more than this on their DOGS).
See what I mean? Hunting is big business in the United States. So big that animal rights groups could never even come close to matching, dollar for dollar, the positive impact sportsmen have on America’s bottom line.
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: Tyranny of the Majority Cuts Both Ways
Animal rights organizations are quick to sling the word “majority” around in making their case against the blood sports. They make the absurd leap that since the majority of Americans don’t hunt, that the will of the people is that hunting should be outlawed. Let’s examine this kind of logic for a second…
More Americans don’t ski than do hit the slopes every winter. More of us don’t own cats than do. Fewer Americans ride motorcycles than do, and more Americans have cell phones than don’t. Does this mean that skiing should be illegal, cat ownership abolished, motorcycles outlawed, and cell phones made mandatory?
Of course not. If the “majority rule” model applied to matters of personal freedom instead of solely to matters legislative and elective, NOTHING would be allowed, and no new technologies or activities would ever flourish or even take hold. Imagine how that would affect the economy. Beyond that, the whole point of personal freedoms is to be able to resist the tyranny of the majority if you’re so inclined.
And what’s really ironic is that if the majority in America really did wield the power in all things, animal rights organizations themselves would not be allowed. Far, far more people don’t belong to or support the goals of animal rights activists than do. But despite what PETA and friends say, the same cannot be said of hunting…
An independent polling organization (Roper and Starch) found in 2000 that 85% of American adults feel that hunting has a legitimate place in modern society. A full 62% agreed that hunters are the world’s leading conservationists.
And they’re right.
Right to Hunt vs. Animal Rights: The Talking Heads are out for Blood
What’s really lamentable to me is the fact that the left-leaning media have so skewed their portrayal of hunting that I feel compelled to write an article like this to defend it.
Seriously, do the media ever write or broadcast stories about the economic benefits of hunting or the billions of dollars hunters contribute to conservation efforts? PETA gets tens of thousands of mentions and plugs in the mainstream media — how many does the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation or Ducks Unlimited get?
And how about the hundreds of tons of meat donated every year by hunters to the homeless and impoverished — do you hear about that on the evening news? Last season, in Virginia alone, over a third of a million pounds of lean, high-quality venison was given by hunters to those less fortunate. I wonder how many tons of vegetarian food the animal rights crowd gave to these same folks? I’ll bet not one ounce (if they had, it would have been front-page news)….
The bottom line is this: Like it or not, sport hunting is an incredible boon to American society on multiple levels. But even if it weren’t, every true American should be in support of it (thankfully, most are — not that you’d ever discover this from the meat-hating media). Why? Because it’s perhaps the most vivid example in our culture of the exercise of multiple personal freedoms: to carry a gun on public land, to kill within the law, and to consume meat without interference from the USDA or FDA. That’s awhole lot of freedom bundled up in one activity.
Bottom line: Whether you agree with hunting or not, you should support it on principle. After all, how would you feel if the government outlawed something YOU love to do because some PR-savvy fringe group managed to spread enough lies about it through an activist media to make you a minority in the public’s eye?
So the next time you see a hunter by the side of the road unloading his gear or loading up his kill, give him a honk and a wave out of basic respect for exercising his freedom and paying for the out-of-doors areas we all enjoy. And if you’re an animal rights activist, pull over, park and give him a great big kiss, because he’s doing more to help animals than you ever will.
Better yet, buy a gun, some gear, a truck, and a hunting license and start really contributing to animal welfare — and your economy….
Always hunting for the endangered species of reason and fairness,
Other Whiskey & Gunpowder Articles by Jim Amrhein:
Animal Rights: “Righting” a Wrong
“No rights of ANY TYPE exist naturally, by virtue of birth alone. In the natural world, all that any creature — man included — has a “right” to are those things it can take by force or forcibly defend from being taken.”
Gimme Back My Bullets
“My goal is twofold. First, to offer some proof of the worth — rather, the vital, lifesaving importance — of an armed citizenry. Second, to truly advance the somewhat stalemated Second Amendment argument with an interpretation of the amendment’s wording I’ve never heard anyone else talk about.”
Gun Control: Showdown at the PC Corral
“It was a recording of a 911 call that an incredibly brave city resident named Dwight Love placed in response to drug-dealing activity in his neighborhood. I call this man courageous because he placed the call from his cell phone in plain sight and within earshot of the criminals who’d taken over his neighborhood.”
Useful Links about Hunting Laws and Regulations:
International Hunter Education Association — The responsibilities and proper ethics every hunter should adhere to.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — What the Federal government is doimg to protect the fauna of America.
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You could spend a long day listing all of the organizations or individuals who are putting government data online, from Carl Malamud to open government activists in Brazil, Africa or Canada.
In an age where setting up a livestream to the Web and the rest of the networked world is as easy as holding up a smartphone and making a few taps, the United States Supreme Court appears more uniformly opposed to adding cameras in the courtroom than ever.
The OpenGov Hub has similarities to incubators and accelerators, in terms of physically housing different organizations in one location, but focuses on scaling open government and building community, as opposed to scaling a startup and building a business.
Samantha Power, special assistant to President Obama and senior director for multilateral affairs and human rights in the White House, spoke about the Hub, the Open Government Partnership, which she was at the heart of starting — and the broader importance of why “open government” is important to everyday citizens: improving lives and delivering results.
A video I recorded at the event, embedded below, captured her talk. Afterwards, I’ve posted text of her remarks, lightly edited for clarity. The emphases are mine.
“I’m jealous. It just feels cool. It feels like you’d come up with lots of ideas if you worked here. My office doesn’t feel quite like this, but we did hatch, collaboratively, the Open Government Partnership.
I’ll just say a few things, mainly just to applaud this and to say how exciting it is.
The White House is a couple blocks in one direction, the State Department is another couple blocks in another, and there are a gazillion departments and agencies around who would really benefit from the infusion of energy and insight that you all bring to bear every day to your work.
President Obama started his first term issuing this Open Government Memorandum and it really did set the tone for the administration, and it does signal what a priority this was to him.
We are now on the verge of starting a second term and everybody in the administration is working to think through how does this manifest itself in the second term, the last term. You don’t get a chance after this next four years to do it again. We’re all very aware of that and we’re going to benefit from the ideas that you have.
Just to give you an indicator of what OGP has come to mean to the President — and this was catalyzed in a speech that he gave before the UN General Assembly. Those speeches are a kind of ‘State of the Union’ for foreign policy, and he chose to use that speech in year two of his presidency to talk about the fact that the old divisions, the old way of thinking of North and South, East and West, have been overtaken by open and closed and scales of openness, degrees of openness.
He challenged the countries there, the leaders, the peoples, to come back with ideas for how we could achieve more transparency, fight corruption, harness new technologies for innovation, and empower citizens. And that gave rise to this brainstorm, which in turn gave rise to this OpenGovHub, with this new leadership. We’re very, very excited about this next phrase of OGP’s growth.
This, I think in many ways, is President Obama’s signature governance initiative, and it’s something he takes extremely seriously. In bilateral meetings with foreign heads of state he often brings this up, spontaneously, if we have failed, somehow, to get it into the talking points. It is something he’s talked to Prime Minister Cameron about in the U.K. The Indonesians of course are the co-chairs now, so it’s not longer his.
The trip to Burma, which just occurred, was a very moving trip. I got to be a part of that. It was amazing to see President Barack Hussein Obama at the home of Aung San Suu Kyi, maybe the next leader of that country, talking about open government, and the Open Government Partnership, and the Burmese coming out on that trip and committing to be part of the Open Government Partnership by 2015, and articulating each of the milestones for budget transparency, on disclosure for public officials, on civil liberties, freedom of information.
So [using] OGP, and this open government conversation, as a hook to make progress on issues that this stage of Burma’s long journey it’s critical that they make progress on. So I just wanted to convey how much this really matters to him personally.
Second, and you talking about this earlier today, the challenge of conversions still exists, with other governments, with officials, in my own government, and certainly with citizens and other groups around the world who don’t self-identify within the space. And so, I think, thinking through the ways in which platforms like this one that pull together success stories and ways in which citizens have concretely benefitted, this is what it’s all about.
It’s not about the abstraction about ‘fighting corruption’ or ‘promoting transparency’ or ‘harnessing innovation’ — it’s about ‘are the kids getting the textbooks they’re supposed to get’ or does transparency provide a window into whether resources are going where they’re supposed to go and, to the degree to which that window exists, are citizens aware and benefiting from the data and that information such that they can hold their governments accountable. And then, does the government care that citizens care that those discrepancies exist?
That’s ultimately what this is about, and, I think, the more that we have concrete examples of real children, of real hospitals, real polluted water and clean water, real cost savings, in administrative budget terms, the more success we’re going to have in bringing new people into this community — and I confess, I was not one. Jeremy Weinstein used to come and knock on my door, and say, ‘What is this, open government?’ and I didn’t understand it.
Then, with a few examples, I said, ‘Oh, this is exactly what I’ve been trying to do under another rubric, you know, for a very long time.” This creates the possibility for another kind of conversation.
Sometimes, democracy and human rights, issues like that, can get other governments on their heels. Open government creates the opportunity for conversations that sometimes doesn’t exist.
The last thing I’d say is, just to underscore a data point that’s been made, but in some sense, art imitates life, like this space imitates life. This space itself seems to be kind of predicated on the logic of open government — open idea sharing, information sharing, it’s great.
Our little OGP experiment, I think, is one that a lot of these groups are using. We benefited from what most of these groups and most of you have been doing, again, for a very long time, which is to recognize that we don’t know what we’re doing. We need to hear and learn from people who are out in the field. We have ideas and can be very abstract.
What the civil society partners have brought to the Open Government Partnership is just one example of what you’re bringing to people’s lives every day. You have to interface with people [to get] the ability to track whether policies are working. J
Just as the partnership itself has this originality to it, of being multi-stakeholder and having civil society and governments at the table, figuring out what we’re doing, so too our criteria, whether a country is or isn’t eligible, is the product of NGO data, or academic frameworks, there just has to be cross-pollination.
Again, OGP is just one version of this, but I think the more that our communities are talking to one another, and certainly, speaking from the government perspective now, just sucking in the work and the insights that you all bring to bear, the better off real people are going to be in the world, and the more likely those kids are going to be to get those textbooks.
Thanks for having me.”
The 2012-2013 influenza season has been a bad one, with flu reaching epidemic levels in the United States.
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) has released statistics on its first 16 months since its historic launch in New York City, collected together in the infographic embedded below. This week, Open government leaders are meeting in Chile to discuss the formal addition of Argentina to the partnership and the national plans that Latin American countries have pledged to implement. [Livestream] Álvaro Ramirez Alujas, Founder of the Group of Investigation in Government, Administration and Public Policy (GIGAPP), assisted GOP with an analysis of these OPG action plans. Alujas found that:
- 46% are linked to commitments on public integrity
- 27% are related to the improvement of public services
- 14% are linked to more effectively managing public resources and
- 12% are related to increasing accountability and corporate responsibility.
— CiudadanoInteligente (@ciudadanoi) January 10, 2013
The infographic is also available en Español:
Accountability for accountability
As we head into 2013, it’s worth reiterating a point I made last summer in a post on oversight of the Open Government Partnership:
There will be inevitable diplomatic challenges for OGP, from South Africa’s proposed secrecy law to Russia’s membership. Given that context, all of the stakeholders in the Open Government Partnership — from the government co-chairs in Brazil and the United Kingdom to the leaders of participating countries to the members of civil society that have been given a seat at the table — will need to keep pressure on other stakeholders if significant progress is going to be made on all of these fronts.
If OGP is to be judged more than a PR opportunity for politicians and diplomats to make bold framing statements, government and civil society leaders will need to do more to hold countries accountable to the commitments required for participation: they must submit Action Plans after a bonafide public consultation. Moreover, they’ll need to define the metrics by which progress should be judged and be clear with citizens about the timelines for change.
The post-industrial future of journalism is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. The same trends changing journalism and society have the potential to create significant social change throughout the African continent, as states moves from conditions of information scarcity to abundance.
That reality was clear on my recent trip to Africa, where I had the opportunity to interview Justin Arenstein at length during my visit to Zanzibar. Arenstein is building the capacity of African media to practice data-driven journalism, a task that has taken on new importance as the digital disruption that has permanently altered how we discover, read, share and participate in news.
The 2011 Knight News Challenge winners illustrated data’s ascendance in media and government, with platforms for data journalism and civic connections dominating the field.
As I wrote last September, the projects that the Knight Foundation has chosen to fund over the last two years are notable examples of working on stuff that matters: they represent collective investments in digital civic infrastructure.
The first winners of the African News Innovation Challenge, which concluded this winter, look set to extend that investment throughout the continent of Africa.
“Africa’s media face some serious challenges, and each of our winners tries to solve a real-world problem that journalists are grappling with. This includes the public’s growing concern about the manipulation and accuracy of online content, plus concerns around the security of communications and of whistleblowers or journalistic sources,” wrote Arenstein on the News Challenge blog.
While the twenty 2012 winners include investigative journalism tools and whistleblower security, there’s also a focus on citizen engagement, digitization and making public data actionable. To put it another way, the “news innovation” that’s being funded on both continents isn’t just gathering and disseminating information: it’s now generating data and putting it to work in the service of the needs of residents or the benefit of society.
“The other major theme evident in many of the 500 entries to ANIC is the realisation that the media needs better ways to engage with audiences,” wrote Arenstein. “Many of our winners try tackle this, with projects ranging from mobile apps to mobilise citizens against corruption, to improved infographics to better explain complex issues, to completely new platforms for beaming content into buses and taxis, or even using drone aircraft to get cameras to isolated communities.”
In the first half of our interview, published last year at Radar, Arenstein talked about Hacks/Hackers, and expanding the capacity of data journalism. In the second half, below, we talk about his work at African Media Initiative (AMI), the role of open source in civic media, and how an unconference model for convening people is relevant to innovation.
What have you accomplished at the AMI to date?
Justin Arenstein: The AMI has been going on for just over three years. It’s a fairly young organization, and I’ve been embedded now for about 18 months. The major deliverables and the major successes so far have been:
- A $1 million African News Innovation Challenge, which was modeled fairly closely on the Knight Challenge, but a different state of intended outputs.
- A network of Hacks/Hackers chapters across the continent.
- A number of technology support or technology development initiatives. Little pilot projects, invariably newsroom-based.
The idea is that we test ideas that are allowed to fail. We fund them in newsrooms and they’re driven by newsrooms. We match them up with technologists. We try and lower the barrier for companies to start experimenting and try and minimize risk as much as possible for them. We’ve launched a couple of slightly larger funds for helping to scale some of these ideas. We’ve just started work on a social venture or a VC fund as well.
You mentioned different outputs in the News Challenge. What does that mean?
Justin Arenstein: Africa hasn’t had the five-year kind of evolutionary growth that the Knight News Challenge has had in the U.S. What the News Challenge has done in the U.S. is effectively grown an ecosystem where newsrooms started to grapple with and accepted the reality that they have to innovate. They have to experiment. Digital is core to the way that they’re not only pushing news out but to the way that they produce it and the way that they process it.
We haven’t had any of that evolution yet in Africa. When you think about digital news in African media, they think you’re speaking about social media or a website. We’re almost right back at where the News Challenge started originally. At the moment, what we’re trying to do is raise sensitivity to the fact that there are far more efficient ways of gathering, ingesting, processing and then publishing digital content — and building tools that are specifically suited for the African environment.
There are bandwidth issues. There are issues around literacy, language use and also, in some cases, very different traditions of producing news. The output of what would be considered news in Africa might not be considered news product in some Western markets. We’re trying to develop products to deal with those gaps in the ecosystem.
What were the most promising News Challenge entrants that actually relate to those outputs?
Justin Arenstein: Some of the projects that we thought were particularly strong or apt amongst the African News Challenge finalists included more efficient or more integrated ways to manage workflow. If you look at many of the workflow software suites in the north, they’re, by African standards, completely unaffordable. As a result, there hasn’t been any systemic way that media down here produced news, which means that there’s virtually no way that they are storing and managing content for repackaging and for multi-platform publishing.
We’re looking at ways of not reinventing a CMS [content management system], but actually managing and streamlining workflow from ingesting reporting all the way to publishing.
Some of the biggest blogs in the world are running on WordPress for a CMS. Why not use that where needed?
Justin Arenstein: I think I may have I misspoken by saying “content management systems.” I’m referring to managing, gathering and storing old news, the production and the writing of new content, a three or four phase editing process, and then publishing across multiple platforms. Ingesting creative design, layout, and making packages into podcasting or radio formats, and then publishing into things like Drupal or WordPress.
There have been attempts to take existing CMS systems like Drupal and turn it into a broader, more ambitious workflow management tool. We haven’t seen very many successful ones. A lot of the kinds of media that we work with are effectively offline media, so these have been very lightweight applications.
The one thing that we have focused on is trying to “future-proof” it, to some extent, by building a lot of meta tagging and data management tools into these new products. That’s because we’re also trying to position a lot of the media partners we’re working with to be able to think about their businesses as data or content-driven businesses, as opposed to producing newspapers or manufacturing businesses. This seems to be working well in some early pilots we’ve been doing in Kenya.
What were your takeaways from the Tech Camp? Was a hybrid unconference a good model for the News Challenge?
Justin Arenstein: A big goal that we think we’ve achieved was to try and build a community of use. We put people together. We deliberately took them to an exotic location, far away from a town or location, where they’re effectively held hostage in a hotel. We built in as much free time as possible, with many opportunities to socialize, so that they start creating bonds. Right from the beginning, we did a “speed dating” kind of thing. There’s been very few presentations — in fact, there was only one PowerPoint in five days. The rest of the time, it’s actually the participants teaching each other.
We brought in some additional technology experts or facilitators, but they were handpicked largely from previous challenges to share the experience of going through a similar process and to point people to existing resources that they might not be aware of. That seems to have worked very well.
On the sidelines of the Tech Camp, we’ve seen additional collaborations happen for which people are not asking for funding. It just makes logical sense. We’ve already seen some of the initial fruits of that: three of the applicants actually partnered and merged their applications. We’ve seen a workflow editorial CMS project partner up with an ad booking and production management system, to create a more holistic suite. They’re still building as two separate teams, but they’re now sharing standards and they’re building them as modular products that could be sold as a broader product suite.
The Knight News Challenge has stimulated the creation of many open source tools. Is any of that code being re-used?
Justin Arenstein: We’ve tried to tap into quite a few of them. Some of the more recent tools are transferable. I think there was grand realization that people weren’t able to deliver on their promises — and where they did deliver on tools, there wasn’t documentation. The code was quite messy. They weren’t really robust. Often, applications were written for specific local markets or data requirements that didn’t transfer. You actually effectively had to rebuild them. We have been able to re-purpose DocumentCloud and some other tools.
I think we’ve learned from that process. What we’re trying to do with our News Challenge is to workshop finalists quite aggressively before they put in their final proposals.
Firstly, make sure that they’re being realistic, that they’re not unnecessarily building components, or wasting money and energy on building components for their project that are not unique, not revolutionary or innovative. They should try and almost “plug and play” with what already exists in the ecosystem, and then concentrate on building the new extensions, the real kind of innovations. We’re trying to improve on the Knight model.
Secondly, once the grantees actually get money, it comes in a tranche format so they agree to an implementation plan. They get cash, in fairly small grants by Knight standards. The maximum is $100,000. In addition, they get engineering or programming support from external developers that are on our payroll, working out of our labs. We’ve got a civic lab running out of Kenya and partners, such as Google.
Thirdly, they get business mentorship support from some leading commercial business consultants. These aren’t nonprofit types. These are people who are already advising some of the largest media companies in the world.
The idea is that, through that process, we’re hopefully going to arrive at a more realistic set of projects that have either sustainable revenue models and scaling plans, from the beginning, or built-in mechanisms for assessments, reporting back and learning, if they’re designed purely as experiments.
We’re not certain if it’s going to work. It’s an experiment. On the basis of the Tech Camp that we’ve gone through, it seems to have worked very well. We’ve seen people abandon what were, we thought, overly ambitious technology plans and rather matched up or partnered with existing technologists. They will still achieve their goals but do so in a more streamlined, agile manner by re-purposing existing tech.
Editors’s Note: This interview is part of an ongoing series at the O’Reilly Radar on the people, tools and techniques driving data journalism.
Pollwatch, a mobile application that enabled crowdsourced poll monitoring, has launched a final version at pollwatch.us, just in time for Election Day 2012. The initial iteration of the app was conceived, developed and demonstrated at the hackathon at the 2012 Personal Democracy Forum in New York City.
In general, connecting more citizens with their legislators and create more resources for Congress to understand where their constituents and tech community stands on proposed legislation is a good thing. Last year’s Congressional hearings on the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act made it pretty darn clear that many technologists felt that it was no longer ok to not know how the Internet works. Conversely, however, if the tech world cares about what happens in DC, it’s no longer ok to not know how Congress works.
In that context, the launch of a policy platform by one of the biggest tech blogs on the planet could definitely be a positive development. TechCrunch contributor Greg Ferenstein writes that the effort is aimed at “helping policymakers become better listeners, and technologists to be more effective citizens.”
The problem with the initial set of tools is that they’re an incomplete picture of what’s online, at best. CrunchGov won’t satisfy the needs of tech journalists, staffers or analysts, who need deeper dives into expert opinion, policy briefings and data. (Public Knowledge, the Center for Democracy and Technology, OpenSecrets.org, the Sunlight Foundation, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation already offer those resources.)
Will “grading” Members of the House of Representatives on TechCrunch’s new Congressional leaderboard lead to them being better listeners? Color me, well, unconvinced. Will an “F” from TechCrunch result in Reps. Smith, Grassley, or Blackburn changing the bills they introduce, support or vote for or against?
Hard to know. True, it’s the sort of symbol that a political opponent could use in an election — but if Reddit’s community couldn’t defeat SOPA’s chief sponsor in a primary, will a bad grade do it? Ferenstein says the leaderboard provides a “a quantified opinion” of the alignment of Reps with the consensus of the tech industry.
Update: as reported by Adrian Jeffries at The Verge, this quantified opinion is based upon TechCrunch editorial and “data and guidance from four tech lobbies.”
Engine Advocacy, which represents startups; TechNet, which represents CEOs in areas from finance and ecommerce to biotech and clean tech; the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents major Silicon Valley employers; and the powerhouse conglomerate The Internet Association, which represents Amazon, Google, and Facebook, among others.
Ferenstein told Hamish McKenzie at PandoDaily that “We’re saying this is generally the view of many people who read our site.” If that’s the case, it would be useful to transparently see the data that shows how TechCrunch readers feel about proposed or passed bills — much in the same way that POPVOX or OpenCongress allow users to express support or opposition to legislation. At the moment, readers are stuck taking their word for it.
McKenzie also highlighted some problems with the rankings and the proposition of rankings themselves:
On three major issues – net neutrality, privacy, and cyber security – TechCrunch’s surveys found no consensus, which somewhat undermines the leaderboard rankings. After all, those rankings appear to be based mainly on three data points: a Congressperson’s position on SOPA, and his or her votes on the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act and the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. It might be true that CrunchGov takes a data-driven approach to its rankings, but when three data points out a possible set of six are omitted, it’s fair to question just how useful the measure is.
As much as anything else, that speaks to the complicated definition of “those in the technology industry.” The industry is so broad and varied, from solo developers creating social games in their basements to hardware executives wanting to drive profits on their devices, that trying to establish consensus on political issues across a broad section of a relatively amorphous community is probably an impossible task. It also overemphasizes tech issues among the myriad of policy concerns that people working in the industry hold, some of which might seem tangential but are actually inextricably tied to the industry. What of climate change? What of taxes? What of puppies?
Also, applying grades to legislators puts TechCrunch in the same camp as the NRA, Americans For Tax Reform, and the Sierra Club in terms of assessing representatives based on narrow, and politically loaded, interests. It’s a headline-oriented approach that provides low-information people with a low-information look at a process and system that is actually very complicated.
More effective citizenship through the Internet?
I’m not unconvinced these limited bill summaries or leaderboard will help “technologists” become “more effective citizens,” though I plan to keep an open mind: this new policy platform is in beta, from the copy to the design to the number of bills in the legislative database or the data around them.
Helping readers to be “more effective” citizens is a bigger challenge than educating them just about how legislators are graded on tech-related bills. The scope of that knowing who your Representative, Senators or where they stand on issues, what bills are up for a vote or introduced, how they voted, The new Congress.gov will connect you to many of the above needs, at the federal level. It might mean following the money, communicating your support or opposition to your elected officials, registering to vote, and participating the democratic processes of state and local government, from schools to . Oh, and voting: tens of millions of American citizens will head to the polls in under two weeks.
To be fair, CrunchGov does do some of these things, linking out to existing open government ecosystem online. Clicking “more info” shows positions Representatives have taken on the tech issues CrunchGov editors have determined that the industry has a “consensus” around, including votes, and links to their profiles in OpenCongress and Influence Explorer. Bill summaries link to maplight.org.
When it comes to the initial set of issues in the legislative database, there’s an overly heavy editorial thumb on the till of what’s deemed important to the tech community.
For one, “cybersecurity” is a poor choice for a Silicon Valley blog. It’s a Washington word, used often in the context of national defense and wars, accompanied by fears of a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” Network security, mobile device security or Web application security are all more specific issues, and ones that startups and huge enterprises all have to deal with in their operations. The security experts I trust see Capitol Hill rhetoric taking aim at the wrong cybersecurity threats.
CrunchGov has only one bill selection for the issue — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) (H.R. 3523). The summary explains that CISPA proposes more information sharing, has a pie chart showing that “tech-friendly legislators” are split 50/50 on it, shows endorsements and opposition, links to 3 articles about the bill, including TechCrunch’s own coverage.
What’s left unclear? For one, that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) – an “A-lister” who TechCrunch writes “has received numerous awards and accolades from the industry,” supported CISPA. Or that organizations and advocates concerned about its implications for privacy and civil rights strongly opposed it. If you’re a technologist, legislator or citizen, honestly, you’re better off reading ProPublica’s explainer or the Center for Democracy and Technology’s CISPA resource page.
There’s also framing choices that meant a number of bills aren’t listed — and that the Senate is left out entirely. Why? According to Ferenstein, “the “do-nothing” congress made it impossible to rank the Senate, because they didn’t pass enough bills related to technology policy.”
It’s true that the Senate hasn’t passed many bills — but the 51 laws that did go through the Senate in the 112th Congress include more tech policy issues than that statement might lead you to believe, from e-verify to online leak prevention. It’s also moved laws that every citizens should know about, like the extension of the PATRIOT Act, given that provisions affect the tech industry. (Yes, digital due process matters in the age of the cloud: your email isn’t as private as you might think it is.)
Putting a legislative crowdsourcing platform to re-use
Congressional leaderboard and limited legislative dashboard aside, CrunchGov is trying to crowdsource legislation using a local installation of MADISON, the software Congressman Issa’s office developed and rolled out last December during the first Congressional hackathon. MADISON was subsequently open sourced, which made the code available to TechCrunch.
It’s in this context that CrunchGov’s aspirations for technology to “democratize democracy itself” may be the most tested. The first test case will be a bill from Congressman Issa to reform government IT procurement. For this experiment to matter, the blog’s readership will need to participate, do so meaningfully, and see that their edits are given weight by bill authors in Washington. Rep. Issa’s office, which has distinguished itself in its use of the Internet to engage the public, may well do so. If proposals from the initial pilot aren’t put into bills, that may be the end of reader interest.
Will other Congressmen and staffers do the same, should their bills be posted? It’s hard to say. As with so many efforts to engage citizens online, this effort is in beta.
This post has been updated, including links to coverage from Pando Daily and the Verge.
As significant as the revisions to San Francisco’s open data policy may prove to be, city officials and civic startups alike emphasize that it’s people are fundamental to sustained improvements in governance and city life.
“Open data would not exist without our community,” said Jay Nath, the city’s first chief innovation officer, this Monday at the Hatchery.
San Francisco’s approach to open innovation in the public sector — what businesses might describe as crowdsourcing, you might think of as citizensourcing for cities — involves a digital mix of hackathons, public engagement and a renewed focus on the city’s dynamic tech community, including the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, or SF.citi.
Cities have been asking their residents how government could work better for some time, of course — and residents have been telling city governments how they could work better for much longer than that. New technologies, however, have created new horizons for participatory platforms to engage citizens, including mobile apps and social media.
Open data and civic coders also represent a “new class of civic engagement focused on solving issues, not just sharing problems,” argues Nath. “We have dozens and dozens of apps in San Francisco. I think it’s such a rich community. We haven’t awarded prizes. It’s really about sustainability and creating community. We’ve six or seven events and more than 10,000 hours of civic engagement.”
San Francisco’s dedicated citizensourcing platform is called “ImproveSF.” The initiative had its genesis as an internal effort to allow employees to make government better, said Walton. The ideas that come out of both, he said, are typically about budget savings.
The explosion of social media in the past few years has created new challenges for San Francisco to take public comments digitally on Facebook or Twitter that officials haven’t fully surmounted yet.
“We don’t try to answer and have end-to-end dialog,” said Jon Walton, San Francisco’s CIO, in an interview earlier this year. Part of that choice is driven by the city’s staffing constraints.
“What’s important is that we store, archive and make comments available to policy makers so that they can see what the public input is,” he said.
Many priorities are generated by citizen ideas submitted digitally, emphasized Walton, which then can be put on a ballot that residents then vote on and become policy by public mandate.
“How do you get a more robust conversation going on with the public?” asked Walton. “In local government, what we’re trying to do is form better decisions on where we spend time and money. That means learning about other ideas and facilitating conversations.”
He pointed to the deployment of free public Wi-Fi this year as an example of how online public comments can help shape city decisions. “We had limited funds for the project,” he said. “Just $80,000. What can you do with that?”
Walton said that one of the first things they thought about doing was putting up a website to ask the public to suggest where the hotspots should be.
The city is taking that feedback into account as it plans future wifi deployments:
Sites in progress
Walton said they’re working with the mayor’s office to make the next generation of ImproveSF more public-facing.
“How do we take the same idea and expose it to the public?” he asked. “Any new ‘town hall’ should really involve the public in asking what the business of government should be? Where should sacrifices and investments be made? There’s so much energy around the annual ballot process. People haven’t really talked about expanding that. The thing that we’re focusing on is to make decision-making more interactive.”
At least some of San Francisco’s focus has gone into mobile development.
“If you look at the new social media app, we’re answering the question of ‘how do we make public meetings available to people on handhelds and tablets’?” said Walton.
“The next generation will focus on how do they not just watch a meeting but see it live, text in questions and have a dialog with policy makers about priorities, live, instead of coming in in person.”
He was straightforward in his assessment: he said that there’s “at best a one in five chance” that the partnership will achieve its full potential. Rajani also offered a fundamental metric for assessing the success of OGP: “not how many countries sign on to the open government declaration, but how many commitments are delivered in countries, and how many citizens experience concrete improvements in their lives.”
In that vein, he highlighted two projects in Africa that haven’t delivered upon their promise:
Even where governments and civil society are willing, realizing the full promise of OGP commitments is not easy; executing meaningful programs is very difficult. In Kenya the Open Data portal makes an impressive level of data public for the first time, but few use it. In Tanzania, the project to enable citizens to report broken water points through their mobile phones, a project that was featured in the OGP launch film and that my organization supported, has largely failed, because people simply did not believe reporting data would make a difference. Overall, if we are honest, of the 300 or so commitments made in the OGP plans so far, the glass is more empty than full. These are still early days, but the window to learn lessons and get our act together is closing fast.
That said, Rajani remains fundamentally optimistic about the world’s movement towards open government:
“I believe that the idea of open government is as fundamental as some of our greatest achievements of the last century, such as that of the equality of men and women and equality of the races; indeed underlying them all is the deep human impulse for freedom and dignity. That is why, despite my concern about the prospects of the OGP, I am optimistic. Open government is so fundamental to being human that the arc of human history, driven by the everyday actions millions of people across the world, will inevitably bend towards openness. The challenge before us, and awesome privilege, is whether we muster the humility and good sense to be part of that movement.”
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How to Use Table Shuffleboard Climatic Adjusters
An important feature on our shuffleboards are the climatic adjusters! These tools help to ensure that the board is the proper, concave shape.
PLEASE NOTE that our shuffleboard tables and climatic adjusters are different from other boards and require special tuning to ensure the table is the proper shape and is not damaged. DO NOT use any other guide other than the one provided below when adjusting the climatic adjusters on your Venture shuffleboard.
What are Climatic Adjusters
The location of your shuffleboard table has variations in the amount of humidity and temperature that it is exposed to due to the changing of seasons. Due to these variations, climatic adjusters are used to ensure that your board maintains proper shape. These adjusters are located on the underside of the table.
Why are these adjusting units needed for your Shuffleboard top?
Practically all matter shrinks when exposed to cold or expands when exposed to heat. Common examples of finished products subject to these changes are: bridges, cement highways, railroad rails, etc. Wood is also subject to these changes, plus changes of humidity in the air that occur during the seasons of the year. Examples: Sticky doors, drawers, windows, etc.
Shuffleboard Tops are not excluded from this natural reaction. Scientific construction at the factory (such as is employed at Black River Shuffleboards) and constant weight by the user are important factors in greatly minimizing such reaction. However, some small degree of reaction may still take place. This can be enough to throw the top “off” temporarily, to the player’s or owner’s dissatisfaction.
Vast sums and great effort have been expended by both private concerns and government agencies in the effort to overcome the tendency of wood to shrink or swell, but with little success to date … Black River Shuffleboards has not solved the problem chemically, but at least has solved the problem in a mechanical way by means of Climatic Adjusters.
Above the diagram view of one pair of Black River Shuffleboards Climatic Adjusters in rest position. A full set consists of four or more pairs of Climatic Adjusters, depending on the length of the Board.
Black River Shuffleboards climatic Adjusters are not recommended for correction of (1) wavy surface (unless top is also resurfaced in usual manner) ; (2) Tops constructed of poorly machined or improperly seasoned lumber; (3) Tops having open glue lines between laminations; and (4) Tops having less standard Black River Shuffleboards thickness.
Check Top every week or two (if necessary) with Straight Edge and adjust the “pressure” nut slightly, as required.
Although Black River Shuffleboards Climatic Adjusters are fastened to Shuffleboard permanently, they can be unbolted and re-installed on a new shuffleboard at any time.
How Climatic Adjusters remove humps and hollows – Pro Models
Pressure is applied by turning nut A or B. Said pressure is distributed as indicated by arrow, resulting in the uniform straightening of the Shuffleboard Top at the area above and adjacent to each pair of climatic Adjusters.
The Convex (hump) condition shown above (exaggerated for purpose of illustration) may be corrected as follows:
FIRST: Loosen Nut B completely.
SECOND: Tighten Nut A a turn or two, slowly. Do the same to each other pair of Adjusters in rotation, for a gradual and uniform effect.
THIRD: Repeat process a few times, as necessary, until the playing surface is true with Straight Edge .
… AND THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT!
The Concave (hollow) condition shown above (exaggerated) may be corrected as follows:
FIRST: Loosen Nut A completely.
SECOND: Tighten Nut B a turn or two, slowly. Do the same to each other pair of adjusters in rotation, for gradual and uniform effect.
THIRD: Repeat process a few times, as necessary, until the surface is true with Straight Edge .
… AND THAT’S ALL THERE IS TO IT!
How Climatic Adjusters remove humps and hollows – Sport Models
Our Sport models are slightly different from our Pro models and that goes for our climatic adjusters as well. Below are instructions on how to level the Sport models using the climatic adjusters.
Concave Playing Surface
To create a concave surface, loosen Nut B and tighten Nut A on Bolts 1 & 3
Loosen Nut A and tighten Nut B on Bolt 2
Convex Playing Surface
To create a convex surface, loosen Nut A and tighten Nut B on Bolts 1 & 3
Loosen Nut B and tighten Nut A on Bolt 2
Why climatic Adjusters make a difficult job easy
Climatic Adjusters most important invention, utilizes the lever principle to convert lateral forces into equalized “push-pull” vertical forces, on the shuffleboard playing field. Thus, ample power is gently exerted to flex or bend the top in shape and keep it there!
Climatic Adjusters are perfectly engineered in every detail of design and will not interfere with normal expansion and contraction of the playing field. They are a great boon to shuffleboard owners because they enable anyone to level up the playing field accurately – in a few – minutes using only a wrench. This means practically no expense, no pleasure lost through having a shuffleboard out of play, while guaranteeing a better, truer game at all times. The money saved through elimination of frequent and expensive resurfacing more than justifies the reasonable cost of Climatic Adjusters. No longer need you stand helplessly by while your shuffleboard playing field reacts to the whims of the season – to the humidity of the spring and summer, to the dry heat of the fall and winter. A quick, easy and inexpensive cure can be had with.
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The partial loss of subgrade support associated with voids under portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements leads to increased deflections and increased load stresses. This can cause a significant reduction in the fatigue life of the pavement. This paper presents the findings of a comprehensive research study to establish the performance capabilities and limitations of the following methods and equipment for detection and measurement of voids beneath PCC pavements: (a) Proof Roller, (b) Deflection Equipment, (c) Ground Penetrating Radar Equipment, and (d) Transient Dynamic Response (TDR) Equipment. The records of grout quantity, based on field tests conducted by the highway agencies of several states during undersealing projects, were the prime source to verify the presence of voids.
All methods required extensive manual data analysis and output interpretation. Deflection methods are the least satisfactory because pavement deflections are significantly influenced by daily and seasonal variation of temperature. The TDR method is very labor intensive and relies on subjective interpretation. Radar methods hold good promise if the data interpretation and processing is enhanced.
pavement, PCC, voids, deflection, radar, dynamic, grout
Assistant Professor, The University of Mississippi, University, MS
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If bed wetting is no laughing matter for you, the same is true for your child. It is distressing and can have psychological effects on the child. Remember that children do not wet bed on purpose. Some bed wetting solutions are as follows:
Remember that most children outgrow bet wetting. You have to be patient and considerate. Avoid punishing or embarrassing the child.
Getting a child to sleep in their own bed - It is espcially difficult for co-sleeping parents to make their child sleep in their own bed.read more
Healthy Eating tips to fight Obesity- healthy eating can help to fight obesity by keep a check on your child’s calorie count.read more | <urn:uuid:0b46ecd0-0d6e-4e69-8951-f84fb9e8fd16> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.onlymyhealth.com/how-encourage-child-wet-bed-1298015652 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00210-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951829 | 143 | 2.203125 | 2 |
One Last Effort: Chapter Sixteen
After her husband’s death, when Guadalupe looked into the state of her affairs, she was shocked to discover that only nine thousand seven hundred pesos remained in the trading house, an income of ninety seven pesos a month. With that, however, she could get by, thanks to the fact that her family was small and to that spirit of management and economy that distinguishes her sex.
It would be unfair to say that she didn’t sincerely regret her husband’s death. But time provided her with the comfort that heals the wounds of this world and she began to notice that she was not well-suited to the solitude in which she was living.
As it happened, she came to hear all that was being said about Antonia Pacheco’s engagement to Luis Robles, vividly interesting to her as she thought fondly of him at times, remembering the crazy things he used to do and say to her. With their engagement, she gave up the hope that, seeing her free again, the journalist might think about walking her to the altar, and little by little she was sadly becoming convinced that her circumstances had changed and that she no longer offered the same interest that had once caused that group of young men to gather on the corner of her house and fight for the honor of her smiles.
And that Fermín Dorantes? Since his disappearance when Pancho Vélez began to court her, she hadn’t seen him again anywhere nor had she heard anything more about him. Had he died? Had he gotten married? She didn’t succeed in learning any of this.
Perhaps later she would find a new husband, although she wasn’t rich anymore and, considering the money-minded youth of today, she would need to gild her widowhood in order to hold her own.
She hadn’t been without a suitor, it’s true. But what a suitor! Worse for the wear and with hungry eyes, he ran a shoe store not far from her house. How the times change! Such nerve! How much better don Hermenegildo was!
But, my God, to settle for don Hermenegildo was a lot to ask of her who seemed to have a right to aspire to something more. However, if she thought about it, many in her situation had settled for someone like him. Besides, he was lively and well-educated; a little old-fashioned, to be sure, but it was obvious from his appearance that he was a decent person, and everyone respected him. At any rate, it was a good idea not to disregard him in case no other should appear.
But if don Hermenegildo didn’t talk! With that timidity of his, everything attracted attention, but no real results. The most that he did was to counsel her that she shouldn’t give up on marriage, and to say that a man always gives respectability to a home. He didn’t dare to say “I say this because I want this.” If it weren’t for doña Raimunda finding him out, perhaps even she wouldn’t know his intentions.
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A Tale of Two Countries: Lessons from Zambia and Ghana in Engaging the IMF
Zambia’s last programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expired in 2011. At that time, the country had established sustained macroeconomic stability and robust growth underpinned by conservative fiscal and monetary policies as well as a conducive business environment for private sector development. In 2015, however, the Zambian economy experienced a number of exogenous shocks which, coupled with a new expansionary fiscal policy stance since 2012, introduced new macroeconomic instabilities, slowed down growth, eroded the fiscal space and threatened the balance of payments position. In response, fiscal authorities initiated talks with the IMF in 2016 towards a Fund-supported programme. The paper is a combination of retrospective comparative review of the engagement of two developing countries, Zambia and Ghana, with the IMF in relation to financial and economic support programmes, and prospective assessment of the macroeconomic outlooks of the two countries based on the most recent IMF macroeconomic projections available. The main purpose of this paper is to assist Zambian stakeholders including the fiscal, planning and monetary authorities, civil society and the general public to understand the evolution of the relationships between the IMF and each of the two African States as well as the benefits and pitfalls of these varied relationships. | <urn:uuid:5a64b1c8-00d8-4961-866a-78b5972997da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.africaportal.org/publications/tale-two-countries-lessons-zambia-and-ghana-engaging-imf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.93921 | 260 | 1.78125 | 2 |
“No Bird Soars Too High If He Soars With His Own Wings” – William Blake
What a great quote…
I see this quote as our job as karate / martial arts instructors at KarateBuilt Martial Arts to develop independence. It kind of sums up what we do as parents as well. That is, I need to kind of finish my “work” as a parent when my son is 18 with a human that can “soar with his own wings“.
It’s not done often…
Unfortunately, I see many very well meaning parents trying to help their kids be independent by having them “choose”- i.e. “make choices” too early. What I mean by that is kids need to have a gentle push from parents through difficult challenges so they LEARN that they can accomplish a LOT. THEN (when they are adults, not before) they will make strong and difficult choices because they have built the confidence and skills (the metaphorical WINGS from the graphic) to believe and truly accomplish a lot.
Challenge to us as parents…
Truly it’s harder to make these choices for our kids. They (especially as teenagers – my son is 16 now) want to brush our opinions aside and fight for independence. It’s always the TOUGHEST choices that we have to make that will give them the best results in the end. That will give them the “wings” to “soar on their own”.
Sr. Master Greg Moody, Ph.D.
Founded in 1995 by Dr. Greg Moody a 7th degree Black Belt and Sr. Master Instructor, KarateBuilt Martial Arts and Karate lessons for pre-school children ages 3-6 and elementary age kids ages 7 and up are designed to develop the critical building blocks kids need – specialized for their age group – for school excellence and later success in life.
KarateBuilt Martial Arts Adult Karate training is a complete adult fitness and conditioning program for adults who want to lose weight, get (and stay in shape) or learn self-defense in a supportive environment.
Instructors can answer questions or be contacted 24 hours or the day, 7 days a week at email@example.com or call directly at 866-311-1032 for one of our nationwide locations. You can also visit our website at KarateBuilt.com.
About Dr. Greg Moody: Greg is a seventh degree black belt and senior master instructor. He has a Ph.D. in Special Education from Arizona State University (along with a Master’s Degree in Counseling and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering – he actually is a rocket scientist). He has been teaching martial arts for over 25 years and has owned eight martial arts schools in Arizona and California. Sr. Master Moody is a motivational speaker and educator and teaches seminars in bullying, business, and martial arts training, around the world.
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ExtremeTech has a guide focused on creating your own RFID access card to get into your front door.
Most access control solutions use an electronic door strike, which gives way when activated so you don't have to unlock or turn the doorknob; you just push (or pull) the door open. This is exactly what's used to "buzz" someone in a door. That buzzing sound is AC power rushing through the magnetic coil windings in the door strike, pulling up and vibrating the pin that normally keeps the strike in the closed and locked position. You're going to use DC power to operate your electronic strike, so all you should hear is a slight click.. | <urn:uuid:22633dea-cfec-435c-99cf-188f850ff7cb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.dvhardware.net/article10432.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948624 | 138 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Headaches and Food Triggers
In the past 10 years, I have treated hundreds of cases of migraine headaches in my clinic. Most recently, I met with a young lady who was having headaches so severe that she required hospitalization and IV medications to help control the pain.
In the large majority of patients, identifying food triggers have been a major factor in getting the headaches to resolve. In the case below, gluten played a big role in the genesis of headaches…
Factors to Consider to Alleviate Headaches
Headaches come in many forms (tension, migraine, cluster, etc.) and have many different causes. Some stem from postural imbalances, tension, and muscle spasms, some from environmental allergies and sinus congestion. Poor nutrition, and food intolerances can also cause or contribute to headaches. Common food triggers for headache include:
- wheat and other gluten containing grains
- caffeine (coffee, tea, OTC remedies, energy drinks, etc)
- citrus fruits
- hot dogs and other processed meats (nitrates)
- monosodium glutamate
- aspartame (aka – Nutrasweet)
- Splenda® (aka – sucralose)
- ice cream
- alcoholic beverages
Additionally, certain chemicals in processed foods (marinades, soy sauce, lunch meats, etc.) can trigger a neuro chemical release in the brain that causes the onset of headache. Finding potentiating foods for headaches can often times be difficult because the onset of symptoms does not always occur immediately after eating the trigger food. Successful treatment for food induced headaches is dependent on identifying the culprit factor. A number of laboratory tests can be employed to help find food based triggers.
Non Food Factors
Muscle tension, stress, sedentary lifestyle, and excessive computer work all contribute to muscle spasm in the neck and shoulders. Chronic spasms can lead to long term postural changes that contribute to and cause headaches. When headaches are caused by postural problems, muscular imbalances, and joint restrictions, chiropractic treatment is very effective. Recent research points out that chiropractic care is one of the most efficacious treatments for headaches and chronic neck pain when compared to other forms of treatment.
Chemicals in the environment can also contribute to migraine. Perfumes, household cleaners, shampoos, etc.
Nutritional Deficiencies Play a Role
In cases where nutritional deficiencies are present, supplementation can be very beneficial. Headaches can be related to a variety of different nutrient deficiencies including the following:
Because the standard American diet is full of nutrient depleted, chemical laden, processed foods, nutritional deficiencies are common. Proper laboratory testing should be performed to rule out nutrient deficiencies as a contributing factor to headaches. There are a variety of over the counter medications that can be taken to alleviate headache pain. However, none of these medications address the actual cause of the headache. In addition, a number of them can have unwanted side effects such as stomach ulceration and bleeding as well as decreased liver and kidney function. When taken on a regular basis, many headache medicines can also cause deficiencies of nutrients like vitamin C, CoQ10, folic acid, and potassium. Long term medication use for the treatment of chronic headaches is rarely necessary if a thorough diagnostic work up is performed.
Remember that it is important to have headaches evaluated by a professional because they can be symptoms of deeper and in some cases, life threatening problems. There are a number of factors that contribute to the onset of headaches. I have seen cases where patients actually suffered with 3 types of headaches at the same time. Accurate headache assessment cannot be accomplished in a 10 minute office visit; it takes time for the doctor to be able to ask the right questions as well as assess the history of the patient, and determine what types of tests (if any) need to be performed to aid in the proper diagnosis.
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President Trump says he's torn over young immigrants
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is known for his harsh rhetoric on immigration.
But on Thursday, he spoke in unusually personal terms as he answered a question at a White House press conference about hundreds of thousands of young immigrants whose fate rests in his hands.
"We're going to show great heart. DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me, I will tell you. To me, it's one of the most difficult subjects I have," said the president in a rare admission of uncertainly. "Because you have these incredible kids, in many cases," he said.
Trump was referring to his predecessor's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows young people who were brought into the country illegally as children to stay and obtain work permits. The program has protected about 750,000 immigrants since its inception in 2012.
Trump had promised during his campaign to "immediately terminate" what he'd deemed "President Obama's two illegal executive amnesties." But he has yet to move forward on the issue, despite pressure from immigration hard-liners, including Rep. Steve King of Iowa.
While he had previously suggested those covered by the program would be safe from immediate deportation, the president has yet to say whether they will be allowed to continue living and working in a country that is the only many have known.
On Thursday, Trump suggested he still has work to do to convince reluctant congressional leaders to get on board.
"I have to deal with a lot of politicians, don't forget. And I have to convince them that what I'm saying is, is right," he said. But the president suggested that he's been mulling a solution that goes beyond simply overturning DACA, as he had pledged.
"You know, I love these kids. I love kids. I have kids and grandkids. And I find it very, very hard doing what the law says exactly to do," he said. "And you know the law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws. I'm talking the existing law is very rough. It's very, very rough."
Immigration lawyers, activists and those protected by the program have been waiting anxiously for any signs of what Trump might do since he took office last month.
The issue returned to the headlines this week after a Seattle-area man participating in the program was detained by immigration agents.
The U.S. Justice Department said Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, admitted to having gang ties. But one of Ramirez' lawyers, Mark Rosembaum, has said the allegations are false.
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Is Curry Good For Weight Loss. Mushroom and green peas curry. Is curry good for weight loss in addition, being spicy, have thermogenic properties that raise body temperature, inhibit the growth of adipose tissue,.
Here we have listed 5 low fat indian curries that one can try while trying to lose weight. Khatuja suggests ways in which you can add curry leaves to your diet and manage weight: The water must cover the vegetables.
Curry Is A Variety Of Dishes Originating In The Indian Subcontinent.
Curry alone will not make you lose weight , include some exercise routines in your lifestyle, constant hydration and a good diet can contribute to your weight loss attempt to benefit. You can find paneer as an ingredient in various dishes like salads, curries or soups which you can order when eating out at indian restaurants for weight loss without sabotaging it. In fact, eating fish can also promote faster weight loss.
After Boiling For 5 To 10 Minutes, Reduce The Heat Just.
Curcumin is the principle ingredient of tumeric or “haldi” as it is called in hindi. The water must cover the vegetables. Is dahi curry good for weight loss?
One Teaspoon Of Curry Powder Contains:
What’s the lowest calorie indian curry? Is rice and curry good for weight loss? Wednesday, april 22, 2009 thats’s good news.
This Is The Spice That Gives Indian Curries Their Bright Yellow Color.
In this ranking, we will be looking at 5 delicious… A recent study done by journal nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases found out that eating fish can be a healthier alternative to other meat sources to stay lean. Massaman curry, a traditional thai curry with peanuts and a creamy, coconut milk base, clocks in at 552 calories and 50 grams of fat per cup, while a cup.
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It is 50 years since humans first encountered space – not Sputnik’s first orbit, nor Yuri Gagarin’s first spaceflight – but the first time a crew member stepped out from their spacecraft’s relative protection and immersed themselves in the cold, hostile emptiness of the vacuum.
On March 18 1965, 30-year-old Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov completed a 12-minute spacewalk. This feat, and that of Gagarin and Sputnik before, was just one of the many achievements of the Soviet space programme in the early years of the space race.
Leonov and others who followed him wore specially designed space suits, were tethered and later had helpful gadgets to move them around. Without the tether astronauts would have floated into empty space, with nothing to slow or change direction in frictionless space, with no rescue possible and only an inevitable death as their oxygen supply ran out. If this sounds daunting, imagine being the first ever to have faced this.
Only recently have we started to develop robotic equipment versatile and sensitive enough to carry out the complex tasks requiring fine motor skills taken for granted in any lab on Earth. Before then, astronauts had to walk in space and use these tools to repair satellites – such as the Hubble space telescope, which has given us the incredible science and images for the past 25 years. Spacewalks helped ensure we could walk on the moon, take samples, and set up experiments.
Building the knowledge required to walk in space and the robotic equipment to help astronauts also led toward the establishing of the US Skylab and Russian Mir orbital space labs, and their successor in the International Space Station (ISS).
A walk on the wild side
Spacewalks, known as extravehicular activity or EVA, usually last six hours, more than 25 times longer than Leonov’s first attempt. As in all spheres, spacecraft technology has advanced significantly in the last 50 years. The technology in NASA’s Apollo mission to the moon is often compared to pocket calculators of today. You can run an emulation of the Apollo guidance program on your computer or mobile phone.
But the basics of astronaut flightsuits, largely the result of the work of the Soviet space program, are little changed today. Such suits can be daunting even on Earth: the helmet encloses the head and face and can cause feelings of claustrophobia. So imagine the calmness of mind required to cope when something goes wrong, beyond the help of fellow cosmonauts – exactly what happened to Leonov.
As he ventured from the Voskhod 2 space capsule, Leonov’s suit expanded as the pressure around him changed. Having spent ten minutes in space, his suit was blowing up like a balloon. If he didn’t act, the suit would start coming apart, and in any case it was too wide to fit through the airlock. He vented precious air inside the suit into space and as the effects of decompression sickness and the heat from the exertion began to take their toll, pulled himself back onboard the craft.
Have we overcome such problems today? Certainly, many of these are now obvious issues that are understood and controlled. But are EVAs trivial acts of exploration and maintenance? Not by any means. Just last month, a water leak inside astronaut Terry Virts’ spacesuit caused problems during spacewalks around the ISS. It brought back memories of a similar incident with a build-up of 1.5 litres of water in 2013 that almost led to an astronaut’s death.
Walking towards the future
Such problems won’t stop missions to explore space and other planets, nor should they. Humanity has overcome many hurdles to enter space, land on the moon, and create a space station. The new technologies and materials created for the space programmes have filtered into our lives in many other guises – from flame retardants and heat resistant materials, to ultrasound medical devices, water and air filtration, memory foam mattresses, freeze-dried food and prosthetic limbs.
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His investment in Burma was one of his first in Asia, and remains so today, the joint mining operation remains in the hands of a cloaked secretive third party. One with links both the Burmese Generals and to Friedland's Ivanhoe Mines.
Our federal taxpayer funded CPP pension fund has investments in Ivanhoe Mines.
With pressure arising from international protests against the Burmese Military Ivanhoe issued a statement denouncing 'violence' in Burma. Too little too late.
Robert Friedland's Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. has taken the unusual step of condemning the deadly crackdown against anti-government protesters in Myanmar, even though the mining company no longer has operations in the Southeast Asian country ruled by an oppressive military junta.
In a statement issued yesterday by the company's directors, the Vancouver-based firm said it "deplores" the recent violence that has cost the lives of demonstrators marching for an end to the totalitarian regime.
"We share the revulsion of right-thinking people everywhere against unwarranted assaults on Buddhist monks and civilians," the directors said.
The missive marks the first time Ivanhoe, whose ties to Myanmar date back to the 1990s, has directly criticized the military government.
Yesterday's statement reiterated that, in February, Ivanhoe transferred its 50-per-cent stake in a Myanmar mine, the Monywa Copper Project, to an independent third-party trust in exchange for a promissory note.
As part of an agreement struck in October last year to invest in Ivanhoe's Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia, Rio Tinto PLC stipulated that Ivanhoe divest its Myanmar holdings.Ivanhoe said it has not received "any revenue or profits" from Myanmar since the divestiture. However, it recently received $6.6-million (U.S.) from the trust that was funded by dividends from the mine.
Ivanhoe Criticizes Myanmar Crackdown Amid Mine Sale (Update1)
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. criticized a government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar, where the company is trying to sell its 50 percent stake in the Monywa copper mine.
``Many years of discussions within Myanmar about constitutional change now appear to be jeopardized by the reactions of the state that threaten to set back, rather than advance, human rights and democratic ideals,'' Vancouver-based Ivanhoe said today in a statement.
Myanmar's security forces killed at least 30 people during last week's demonstrations and arrested 1,400, the Australian government said yesterday. The ruling junta in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, put the death toll at nine.
Ivanhoe invested more than $100 million in Monywa before transferring its stake to a trust in February in exchange for an unsecured promissory note, the company said. Ivanhoe said it has received no revenue from the project since, and will write off the amount owed on the promissory note if it can't find a buyer.
Ivanhoe got a $15 million dividend for accrued revenue from Monywa before the ownership transfer, the company said. The transfer was one of the conditions set by Rio Tinto Plc, which plans to develop a copper and gold deposit in Mongolia with Ivanhoe. London-based Rio loaned $350 million to Ivanhoe last month to help finance the venture.
On behalf of the management and employees of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TSX: IVN)(NYSE: IVN)(NASDAQ: IVN), we wish to place our voices on the record in registering deep concern about recent developments in Myanmar.
Together with people around the world, we have seen news reports containing graphic images of suppressive violence being used to disperse and intimidate peaceful protesters advocating democratic change in Myanmar.
We share the revulsion of right-thinking people everywhere against unwarranted assaults on Buddhist monks and civilians. History has shown us again and again that clubs and guns cannot permanently subjugate broadly-based popular support for fundamental freedoms that now are taken for granted by much of the watching world.
We take pride in expressing our admiration for the spirit of democratic principles exemplified by the courageous monks and their remarkable parades for change that evidently encouraged their followers. We deplore the fact that so many years of discussions within Myanmar about constitutional change now appear to be jeopardized by the reactions of the state that threaten to set back, rather than advance, human rights and democratic ideals.
In 2002 and 2003, the Board of Directors of Ivanhoe Mines publicly declared its support for a democracy-building process in Myanmar that would establish and protect rights for all of the people of Myanmar. We also supported the work of United Nations representatives in endeavouring to lend leadership and support to the process of democracy building in Myanmar. Ivanhoe Mines' support remains unchanged.
Although Ivanhoe Mines disposed of all of its business interests in Myanmar by transferring their ownership to an independent, third-party trust seven months ago, pending their sale, company directors and employees are honoured to have worked with many dedicated, hard-working men and women involved in successfully operating the Monywa Copper Project to international standards for health, safety and environmental management. Ivanhoe Mines kept its economic and social commitments to them and their communities and we continue to respect their values and aspirations for their families and nation.
Friedland's Ivanhoe finds Myanmar copper mine assets divestiture tough going
In the wake of on-going violence by the Government of Myanmar to quell a democratic uprising, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines declared they no longer own assets in the country.Author: Dorothy Kosich
Posted: Thursday , 04 Oct 2007
Mineweb reviewed a fact file on the Monywa Copper Project, which declared that "since the divestment, Ivanhoe Mines has not received any revenue or profits from any operation in Myanmar including its former 50% interest in the Monywa Copper project."
The company also stated that it has not recovered the $100 million it invested, and has not made a profit on the investment.
MICCL, the Myanmar JV that owns and operates Monywa "has not made regular dividend payments to its joint-venture shareholders during almost nine years of mine operations." Ivanhoe Mines is no longer represented on the MICCL board.
However, the Myanmar Ministry of Mines now receives a 4% royalty from MICCL on the sales of copper produced by the joint venture.
Ivanhoe has been trying to sell its stake in the S&K mine since 2004, retaining CIBC and HSBC to "review strategic alternatives for Ivanhoe's interest in the Monywa project. During 2005 and 2006, Ivanhoe had discussions with interested parties, including a South Korean company about potentially selling a significant portion of Ivanhoe's 50% interest in the mine. However, the deal was never completed.
The Monywa Copper project produced 19,544 tonnes of copper in 2006. Ivanhoe Mines received $15 million in dividend payments from the joint venture.
Out of Myanmar, but the cheques keep coming
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
October 3, 2007 at 12:12 AM EDT
For Robert Friedland, getting out of business in Myanmar hasn't been easy.
The storied mining entrepreneur's Vancouver-based company, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., has been trying since 2004 to sever its connection with a controversial mine in the country formerly known as Burma, and the task has only become more difficult amid the political strife in which as many as 138 people were killed last week when the military junta that rules the country smashed anti-government protests.
Ivanhoe officially gave up its stake in the Monywa Copper Project mine in February, transferring its 50-per-cent interest to an “independent third-party trust.”
Yet, as of July, money from the mine was still going to Mr. Friedland's company, albeit indirectly.
Mr. Friedland's connection to the Myanmar asset goes back to the 1990s. The stake was once held in one of the mining promoter's companies called Indochina Goldfields Ltd. In addition to Mongolia, Ivanhoe is also developing mining projects in China, Kazakhstan and Australia.
In the past, Mr. Friedland has defended Ivanhoe's investment in Myanmar, suggesting in an interview with The Globe and Mail in 1997 that the venture would benefit the country and its people living under the totalitarian regime.
“I am firmly convinced that Canadian companies going to a country like Myanmar to engage in business will help the average person there. I will tell you there is no country in Asia that is a perfect democracy. But the historical pattern has been that with economic development comes the flood of the ubiquitous world culture and world ideas,” he said.
Mr. Friedland, who is perhaps best known for conducting the frenzied sale of the Voisey's Bay nickel deposit, argued that non-democratic countries are sometimes better at meeting the basic needs of the average person.
Ivanhoe Mines likely to sell to Rio Tinto once Mongolian investment agreement is concluded; two spin-offs in the pipeline, source says
By Nadia Damouni in New York
Published: May 23 2007
But it has been reported that since Ivanhoe and Rio penned their investment agreement with the government in April, company officials and government representatives are discussing problems created by the 68% windfall profit taxes imposed by the government.
The mine will double or even triple the GNP of Mongolia every year over a number of years, noted the source. “The Mongolians are very keen to get this agreement correct, so are taking a little bit longer, but we are in discussions with the government. There is a team out there in discussions, moving slowly, but it’s taking some time,” he added. Ivanhoe is anticipating an agreement and to begin work at the Oyu Tolgoi project this summer, the source said.
During the World Mining Investment Congress in London last week, a TSX representative sidelined Friedland asking for comment regarding potential spin-offs. Friedland confirmed that two were in the pipeline.
In addressing the same question, the source told this news service that Rio formed its investment partnership with Ivanhoe on the basis that the core holding for Rio would be Mongolia and all other assets held within Ivanhoe Mines were secondary. Ivanhoe made a decision that it would by a certain date, dispose, or otherwise transfer out of Ivanhoe, all those peripheral assets, he added.
The source said part of that effort was the transferal of the Burma copper project, which Ivanhoe has not disposed of yet, but which currently resides in an independent trust. “So it’s out of our control,” he said. In addition, Ivanhoe has a gold project in Kazakhstan called Bakyrchik, which the source said there is not much work being done presently. He said the asset is in the process of being dressed up for an IPO in 3Q07.
Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Mines Company Limited, issued several reports noting that 15 locations in the S & K mine area of the Monywa Copper Project have been registered as contaminated sites, and
Whereas MICCL has repeatedly declared that it intends to clean up the contaminated sites and areas where other mine operations have occurred, after the mine is closed, and
Whereas shareholders of Ivanhoe Mines have agreed to divest its holdings in MICCL and other projects in Burma/Myanmar as a condition of the company’s financing arrangements with Rio Tinto Holdings International;
Whereas The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants offers guidance to companies on using the Management Discussion and Analysis section of the annual report as the vehicle to report the impacts, or potential impacts, of environmental issues on financial performance,
RESOLVED: That management prepare a report to shareholders before the sale of the company’s interests in Burma/Myanmar is finalized, or by September 2007, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information describing in detail the environmental remediation plan for the S & K mine and in particular the company’s financial obligations for restoring the contaminated area of the existing site and authenticated by a third-party environmental audit company.
Updated: 27 February 2007
April 5th, 2006
Ivanhoe Mines announced yesterday that their mining operations near Monywa, in Burma had restarted this week, just two days after acknowledging a month-long shut down of their copper mine. Although several calls made by Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) were unanswered by Ivanhoe representatives, an article on Bloomberg’s newswire on the morning of Wednesday April 5th reporting on the cessation of Ivanhoe’s operations prompted an unidentified source at Ivanhoe to claim that the mine was once again operational.
CFOB feels that the most critical question that has come out of this story has yet to be answered, and in fact has yet to be asked by members of the press. That question is merely whether the disputes that led to the cessation of mining at Monywa have been resolved. If in fact the disagreements between Ivanhoe and the military have not been resolved, the fallout from this saga only serves to reinforce CFOB’s position that the social, economic and political conditions do not lend themselves to the effective operation of multinational corporations in Burma.
The company, oft-mired in controversy continues to “wrangle” with the military junta on issues ranging from import permits for mining equipment, to fuel shortages and new taxes imposed by the junta on Ivanhoe’s exports. There is also continued concern about negotiating satisfactory agreements between the Vancouver-based company and the Burmese military with regards to expansion of the Letpadaung project, six miles southeast of the mine currently operated by Ivanhoe.
According to the annual report for shareholders of Ivanhoe Mines released on April 3rd 2006, production at the Monywa mine in Burma is expected to drop to 16 000 tons of copper cathode this year, from 34 000 annually in 2005; less than 50% of expected output. These new numbers are a far cry from the expected output of 200 000 tons by 2008, and certainly puts a damper on the estimated $125 million in annual profits expected by 2008.
Ivanhoe will continue to face an uncertain future in Burma, both propping up the corrupt junta while potentially leading shareholders on a rollercoaster ride. While the profit margin continues to decrease for Ivanhoe Mines, there continues to be no discernible benefit for the Burmese population at large. At the same time, the military regime continues to profit the most from Ivanhoe’s ventures in Burma.
29 May 2006
The global mining industry did produce one piece of good news over the past fortnight. Canadian mining house Ivanhoe announced it would withdraw from Burma, expressing to sources discomfort with having to deal with the military junta, which jointly owns a copper mine with Ivanhoe. The company will sell its 50% in the Monywa mine to a consortium of South Korean investors, including Daewoo International, which already has investment deals with the Burmese generals.
The Ivanhoe Mines exit will happen in a July 2006 sale. Last week, Burma’s military junta extended the house arrest on Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her strong voice for democracy and human rights in Burma has now been silenced for the past three years by the corrupt Burmese military rulers. In total, she has spent a total of ten of the past 17 years in detention.
August 2006 • Issue 392
Worldbeaters: Robert Friedland
‘What he does – trying to find the diplomatic words for this here – he brings the movers and shakers and the decision-makers in the country to his table as partners before anything is discovered. For example, his partners in Indochina Goldfields in Burma would appear to be the Burmese Generals.’ John Woods, Canada Stockwatch, talking to ABC’s Background Briefing in 1997.
Perhaps his most infamous business dealings involve the partnership Ivanhoe Myanmar Holdings – and later Indochina Goldfields (renamed Ivanhoe Mines in 1999) – forged with the Burmese regime SLORC/SPDC. In 1994 SLORC and Ivanhoe began a lucrative joint venture at the Monywa copper mine, reputedly the most profitable in the world.
Lest we forget, SLORC/SPDC has a record of employing forced labour. With no environmental laws, mining operations in Burma are dirty. Even Rio Tinto refuse to do business there. Mining Watch Canada say SLORC/SPDC are being well supported by funds from Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe Mines posted a loss of $23.2 million in the first quarter of 2006.Canadian Friends of Burma: Ivanhoe operations shut down in Burma
Wed 5 Apr 2006
Ottawa: Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) has learned that Vancouver-based Ivanhoe Mines ceased production at its copper mine near Monywa, Burma on March 30 2006, according to its annual report issued yesterday. The company cited expected decreases in production, inability to import additional mining equipment, and an additional 8% tax imposed on copper exports from Burma. The company also said that it is concerned about timely approvals for the expansion of the Letpadaung deposit.
Ivanhoe Mines was operating in Burma on the basis of a joint-venture with Burma’s state-owned Mining Enterprise No.1 (ME-1); the biggest mining company operating in Burma. It invested USD $150 million in mid-1990 and an additional USD $390 million was planned to invest in the expansion of Letpadaung project, located six miles southeast of the existing Ivanhoe-operated mine in Burma. The company’s stated ambition is to increase annual production to 200,000 tons of copper within four years, making it one of the largest copper mines in the world.
Until recently, Ivanhoe Mines has made steady profit - more than $25 million each year - from the existing S&K Mine. It stands out as one of the most profitable foreign operations for Ivanhoe, and was once considered the pearl of their mining empire. Ivanhoe has also diversified and entrenched its investments in Burma by partnering in ventures such as the Modi Taung gold project, holding 65% of its shares.
From the May 22-June 4, 2006 issue of Canadian Business magazine
Mining magnate Robert Friedland has made a career of dancing on the knife's edge. His Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., for example, operates in Mongolia, Myanmar and Kazakhstan--countries where, to varying degrees, governments can be oppressive and unstable, civil unrest can break out without warning, contracts can be abandoned with impunity, corruption may run rampant, or all of the above. Friedland's appetite for risk is not unique: surging metals prices have renewed interest for mining in unstable countries with promising ore bodies. Recent turmoil at Ivanhoe's property in Myanmar, however, provides a sobering reminder of what can go wrong. Which, in this case, includes pretty much everything.
While other foreign investors fled Myanmar (commonly known by its former name, Burma) because of its unfriendly business climate and opposition from shareholders and consumers, Vancouver-based Ivanhoe charged headlong into the Southeast Asian country during the 1990s. The fruit of its efforts is the Monywa Copper Project, an open-pit mine located on the lowland plains west of Mandalay. Ivanhoe owns half of the joint venture company; its partner is No.1 Mining Enterprise, which is controlled by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The mine has become mired in international sanctions and disputes over taxation and permits. Ivanhoe is now in talks to sell a significant portion of its interest in the project to Asian buyers.
Much of Monywa's problems stem from Friedland's choice of business partners. The SPDC is a military junta that seized control of Burma in 1988 and held onto power despite democratic opposition and its loss of an election in 1990. Its international image is poor. According to the U.S. State Department, the SPDC maintains its control by censoring information, suppressing ethnic minorities and repressing the rights of its people. Amnesty International accuses it of restricting freedom of movement, employing forced labour and keeping more than 1,300 political prisoners in custody. And Human Rights Watch, a nongovernmental organization, claims that "the junta's pledges of democratic reform and respect for human rights continue to be empty rhetoric." Assuming that the SPDC earns the same amount of income from the mine as Ivanhoe, Monywa provided the junta with nearly US$23 million last year. Given the SPDC's international unpopularity, one might think that windfall would give the regime ample reason to keep Ivanhoe happy. In fact, relations between the two parties have evidently soured.
In early 2004, Monywa JVCo started in-fill diamond drilling at the Sabetaung deposit. The first phase of the drilling consisted of 28 holes for a total of about 1,800 meter (m). The objectives for the first-phase drilling were to test for potential increases in ore reserves, redefine copper grades, develop a new resource model, and identify potential target areas for future drilling. As of December 31, 2003, estimates of copper resources at the S&K Mine were 205 million metric tons (Mt) with an average grade of 0.37% copper, and at Letpadaung, 1,067 Mt with an average grade of 0.39% copper (Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., 2004).
Although most Western and Japanese mining
investors looked elsewhere in Burma in the mid
1990s, Canadian companies (for more about
Canadian involvement in mining in Burma see
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., Appendix I) and Leeward
Capital Corp., obtained a gold exploration and
mining concession in Kachin State, which they
reportedly gave up in 1998 to pursue extraction
and export of amber in another part of Kachin
State. However, Leward Capital in early
September 2003 was in the final stages of
concluding an agreement to explore, “develop”,
and mine for precious and base metals on a 700
sq km block on the border of the Shan and
Kachin states. The site called Set Ga Done, north
of the Shweli River in Mabein Township has
already been partially explored by another
company and is currently being worked by local
surface miners. The 75% interest in the block
formerly held by East Asia Gold, an American
company, is now shared by Leeward Capital
Corp. and Canadian Jet Gold Corp (Jet Gold
Set Ga Done, Myannmar
Kaiser Bottom Fish newsletter April 2003
When Bre-X lurched into the limelight in 1995 and spawned a land rush in Indonesia, Jim Davis figured the market was ready for a broader look at the geological potential of southeast Asia, and, taking his cue from Robert Friedland, acquired concessions in Myanmar, an obscure military dictatorship tucked between China, India and Thailand with excellent but seriously underexplored
geology. Friedland’s focus was the existing Monywa copper deposit which he put into production with Japanese debt financing. Leeward embarked on grassroots exploration and managed to farm out several projects to other juniors. The collapse of Bre-X as a massive salt job in 1997, followed by the Asian currency crisis, and then the decline of gold to $260, killed off market interest in Myanmar,
prompting Leeward’s partners to drop out and Leeward to relinquish its concessions. The situation was compounded by Myanmar’s economic and strategic irrelevance to the United States, which made it a convenient poster-child for human rights organizations in need of a military dictatorship to lament. The Myanmar government’s insistence that it retain a 50% stake in mining projects was also an obstacle which has since been revised to a more reasonable 20-25% interest in line with other third world countries. Although Leeward was forced to drop its concessions it kept its toehold in Myanmar alive during the last five years by developing a small business buying “Burmese” amber from local miners. During the tough years Davis would spend hours examining the amber through a microscope in search of embedded insects with enough success to cover the
cost of maintaining a presence in Myanmar. (Entities such as the the American Museum of Natural History pay a handsome price for embedded insect amber specimens.) Leeward’s status as one of the very few juniors with a registration in Myanmar nearly paid off in 2001 when Robert Friedland explored the possibility of transferring Ivanhoe’s new Modi Taung mesothermal gold discovery into a separate vehicle. A lawyer discouraged the plan and to this day Modi Taung lies hidden in the shadow of Ivanhoe’s Torquoise Hill copper-gold project in Mongolia.ICEM news release No. 16/2003F or the third year running, the 20-million member ICEM and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the umbrella federation covering 2.3 million working Canadians, joined forces at the shareholders meeting yesterday of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia. The union federations continue to press the renegade mining firm to end its joint venture in Burma with the ruling military junta there.
And on the day of the meeting, Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) released an updated list of global companies engaged in various forms of business transactions in Burma, and Vancouver-based Ivanhoe is one of seven Canadian firms on the list of 375. ICFTU, representing 158 million workers in 231 affiliated organizations in 150 countries, broadened its denuniciation of the Burmese regime to bring further international pressure against a regime that on 31 May re-arrested Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the political party that won the last free elections in Burma.
"The list provides proof that, despite the increase of human rights violations in the country, some companies are still taking a 'business as usual' approach with this oppressive regime," said ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder. "Governments should act together to end investment and to end this trade with tyranny. Business should be responsible and act immediately to pull out."
Ivanhoe, publicly traded but majority controlled by Robert Freidland, is involved in a joint venture operation called Monywa Copper Project with Burma's ruthless military junta, a regime notorious the world over for murder, torture, ethnic cleansing and use of slave labor. Ivanhoe is now pushing forward on extending its mining operations to a larger field called Letpadung, as well as a new gold mine at Moditaung. The firm's annual meeting 12 June saw union members combine with Burmese refugees, religious leaders and human rights activists in protest.
"Events in Burma in recent weeks are impossible to ignore," stated CLC President Ken Georgetti. "They cannot be glossed over by the public relations spin of companies like Ivanhoe or additional noises of concern from the Canadian government. To do so requires a moral blind spot too large to live with." Georgetti predicts strong public support if the Canadian government were to react with full and effective economic sanctions against investment in Burma.
Ivanhoe Mines of Canada is seeking a multi-million-dollar financial injection from Japan to expand its huge and controversial copper mine in military-ruled Myanmar, a report here said.
Efforts are underway to attract Japanese input following a 60 million dollars investment by Ivanhoe and 90 million dollars spent by Japanese corporations, including Marubeni and Nissho Iwai, on the first phase of the Monywa copper project, according to the Myanmar Times. "We are trying to negotiate a financing package from Japan," Ivanhoe president Daniel Kunz said in the weekly's edition to be published Monday.Ivanhoe is a 50 percent joint venture partner with the government in the project, which began in 1998 and now produces 27,500 tonnes of copper per year from deposits in northern Myanmar's Sagaing Division.
Completion of Monywa's second-phase development would see total annual production surge to 155,000 tonnes, the newspaper said, making it one of the world's largest copper mines. But Kunz said poor electricity supply in the country could be a factor which influences the start of the second phase "We are interested to confirm a reliable (electricity) supply as it is five times bigger than the first phase and we are looking at a very large amount of power," he was quoted as saying.
He said a "perfect supply of power" was needed to operate the highly modern facility, which could require 70 MW of electricity in the second phase. Monywa has caused controversy in Canada, where groups such as the Canadian Labour Congress have linked the copper project to mass conscription of forced labour and called for Ivanhoe to cease investment in Myanmar.
According to the Department of Geological Survey and
Mineral Exploration (DGSME), which reports to the Ministry
of Mines of Burma, only four foreign exploration companies
remained in Burma and invested $217,0003 during fiscal
years 2001 and 2002. Of these four, the only two that were
active in 2002 were Ivanhoe Myanmar Holding Ltd. (IMHL)
[a subsidiary of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (IML) of Canada] (gold)
and Cornerstone Resources Ltd. (zinc); the remaining two,
which explored for copper and gold, ceased mainly because
of a shortage of funds.
In an effort to boost foreign investment, the Government
of Burma modified the Foreign Investment Law and the
Myanmar Mines Law and created a series of incentives to attract
international metal producers and mining companies by mid-
2002. Some of the changes include a tax holiday during the
construction of a mining project and a 3-year tax break from
the startup of commercial production. Also, the rate of royalty
required by the Government has decreased; for gold and other
precious metals, it dropped to 2.5% from 5%, and for base
and other metals, to 2% from 4%. Another significant change
is the elimination of production sharing between the foreign
investor and the local private partners. The only requirement of
the Government is its option to buy shares from the investors’
project once the investors have recovered the initial investment;
in this way, the Government can have an ownership of 50%
(Metal Bulletin, 2002c).
Demonstration at AGM of Robert Friedland's Ivanhoe against support for Burma's misery
"FOREIGN INVESTMENT = MORE SOLDIERS, LANDS CONFESCATED, DISPOSSESSION, SLAVE LABOUR" - a sign at the demonstration
Shareholders of Ivanhoe Mines were greeted by 40 to 50 demonstrators at the company's annual general meeting Friday morning at the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver.
Burmese exiles and student groups joined together with environmental, social justice and human rights activists, Filipino and Indian activists and labour leaders from the Canadian Labour Congress, BC Federation of Labour, the Steelworkers, CEP, and the ILWU Local 400 to denounce Ivanhoe for its partnership with Burma's military regime, cited internationally for gross human rights violations, its refusal to recognize the results of 1990 democratic elections and the persecution of pro-democracy and ethnic groups.
Demonstrators staged a mock "die-in", lining chalk-marked bodies with words such as "child soldier", "slavery", "dead student protestor" across the entrance way, while sign waving protestors carried a gigantic puppet of controversial Ivanhoe chairman Robert Friedland and a banner depicting sites of forced labour in the Southeast Asian country.
Ivanhoe Mines, which is listed on both the
Sydney and Vancouver Stock Exchanges, has
faced increasing criticism in Canada of its 50%
stake in the Monywa copper project in joint
venture with a Burmese government owned
With protests at its meetings and outside its
Vancouver offices increasing, Ivanhoe has
lashed out at its critics. “It is Ivanhoe’s position
that the determination of a project’s social
priorities cannot be a one-way street controlled
by those with the megaphones whose motives
approve of the publication of false and
defamatory claims in statements that are slanted
to mislead and influence decision makers in
Western societies”, stated an Ivanhoe statement
posted on the website of the government-owned
Nor is Ivanhoe prepared to accept that the
Myanmar military government is benefitting
from its 50% share of the profits. “Some critics
have mistakenly claimed that substantial profits
from the mine are a major source of revenue
for the government of Myanmar and its military
budgets. Such allegations are false”, it claimed.
Ivanhoe stridently rejected calls by human rights
activists that Ivanhoe withdraw from the project.
“Sanctions have been described as a form of
war. Our experience has convinced us that there
is a viable alternative to escalating sanctions
on aid and trade. We believe that there is a place
for appropriate investment that can significantly
contribute at a local community level to peaceful
and progressive improvement within a
Canadian journalist Karen Connelly told a
recent protest outside Ivanhoe’s Vancouver
office, “There is a direct link between military
violence in Burma and the money-making
ventures of companies like Ivanhoe Mines. By
its presence in Burma, Ivanhoe Mines and other
Canadian and international companies prop up
a savage military regime and make money on
the backs of impoverished and oppressed
Forced labour and pollution rampant at Canadian-owned mineAccording to a recent report, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., a Canadian company owned by Robert Friedland, is "raping the environment" and using forced labour in Burma.
Ivanhoe operates the US$90 million Monywa copper mine, Burma's largest mining investment, in a 50-50 partnership with the Burmese military dictatorship (known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The mine is the centrepiece of Friedland's corporate holdings, which include properties in the U.S., Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, China, Australia, Fiji, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Angola, Sierra Leone and Namibia.
The report, titled Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma, was written by mining expert Roger Moody and released by MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB).
For Immediate Release — September 18, 2000
The largest single mining investment in Burma, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., is a company registered in the Yukon to take advantage of Canada's generous tax breaks for foreign exploration and development.
Neither the mining industry itself, the Canadian stock exchanges, nor the laws governing corporations in Canada, currently provide any safeguards against the impacts of irresponsible mining on communities and the environment in conflict-torn countries like Burma, Sudan and Sierra Leone.
The military coup in Burma took place 12 years ago today, on September 18, 1988. Burma continues to be ruled by an illegal military dictatorship that continues to prevent Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected NLD from taking office. This new report on mining in Burma, written by internationally renowned mining expert Roger Moody, is being simultaneously released in Ottawa and Whitehorse by Canadian Friends of Burma and MiningWatch Canada.
Entitled Grave Diggers, the report exposes the shocking state of mining in Burma, where regulations are lax and environmental standards absent. It is the first systematic investigation into mining in Burma, naming the companies involved, their relationship with the ruling regime, and in some cases, the situation of miners, local people and the general population.
"Grave Diggers makes it clear that Canada is complicit in maintaining the dictatorship in Burma, through its unjust tax and corporate laws," said Joan Kuyek, National Coordinator for MiningWatch Canada.
Ever grateful for the economic sanctuary he found here in the shady Vancouver and Alberta Stock exchanges of the nineties, his success at using the Canadian pro-capitalist courts to sue the U.S. Government and EPA, and after his success with Voisey Bay, he still describes Canada as ‘Soviet Kanukistan’.
It is ironic that the Voisey bay nickel discovery that he sold to Inco led to the mutual internecine merger battle between Inco and Falconbridge attempting to buy each other out which led to them being bought up by foreign investors last year.
He has not only been involved in dealing acid (LSD), which is how he got his start in venture capitalism, his early gold mining investments were plagued with acid leaks in particular cyanide spills. He went from hippie to hip capitalist.
The man allegedly responsible for the costliest mining disaster in U.S. history has beaten the latest government efforts to make him pay to clean up the resulting mess.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice argued successfully for Canadian courts to freeze $152 million in assets owned by Robert Friedland in order to pay for the clean-up of the cyanide and heavy metal contamination of a mine in the San Juan mountains of southwestern Colorado.
But a Canadian judge early last month lifted the asset freeze, ruling that there wasn't enough evidence to hold the dual Canadian-U.S. citizen responsible for the toxic spill at the Summitville mine.
This is not the first time that Friedland has escaped harsh censure from the U.S. legal system. In 1969, he was sentenced to two years in a youth corrections facility selling the hallucinogenic drug LSD. He served several months before being paroled for the incident.
Around the world, Friedland has left a trail of environmental wreckage behind him. There was a spectacular cyanide spill from his gold mine in Summitville, Colorado, in 1993, dubbed the 'Exxon Valdez of the mining industry'. He avoided legal responsibility by making a timely resignation. He then tried to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency and Justice Department for 'conspiracy, abuse of process, libel, breach of disclosure duties, loss of business opportunities and damage to reputation'. He subsequently moved his assets out of the country, reaching a settlement in 2000 for $27 million a fraction of the $150 million needed to clean up the mess.United States and State of Colorado v. Robert Friedland, Civil No. 96 N 1213
Pursuant to the proposed Consent Decree, defendant Robert Friedland
will pay $27,750,000, to be paid over a nine year period, to the United
States and State of Colorado to resolve the claims of the governments.
This action also resolves claims of Robert Friedland filed in Canada
against the United States and employees of the United States, including
claims by each side for attorneys' fees. The United States will pay
$1.25 million to defendant Friedland to resolve all issues related to
the Canadian litigation.
Attorney General Ken Salazar announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Edward W. Nottingham on February 17 issued an order striking all of Summitville defendant Robert Friedland's claims against the State of Colorado and most of his counterclaims against the United States. (United States and Colorado v. Friedland, CA 96-N-1213, U.S. District Court, Colorado). Colorado and the U.S. had filed motions to dismiss the various counterclaims and a February 25 hearing on those motions to dismiss has now been vacated in light of the Court's order.
"This is great news for Colorado as we continue to proceed with the prosecution of this case," Attorney General Salazar said.
Friedland was the Chief Executive Officer of Galactic Resources Limited, a Canadian Corporation, whose wholly owned subsidiary, Summitville Consolidated Mining Company, Inc., (SCMCI), operated the Summitville Mine Site near Del Norte, Colorado from 1985 to 1992. SCMCI abandoned the Site in 1992 after declaring bankruptcy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Colorado have spent nearly $150 million cleaning up the environmental problems at the Site.
The United States and Colorado filed suit against Robert Friedland in May 1996, alleging that Friedland was an "operator" of the Summitville Mine Superfund Site under federal environmental laws and therefore liable to the U.S. and to Colorado for the cleanup costs incurred by the state and the federal government. Last year Salazar vowed to renew action on the dormant case and move forward in recovering Colorado's cleanup costs from Friedland and any others who might be liable. Last October, the attorney general's office amended its complaint against Friedland to add more defendants.
Friedland's counterclaims alleged that Colorado and the U.S. were liable parties under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Recovery Act (CERCLA) as a result of Colorado's regulation of the Site prior to 1992 and that both parties participated in the ongoing remediation. Judge Nottingham had dismissed similar counterclaims against Colorado and the U.S. in September 1999, but granted Friedland leave to refile his counterclaims, which he did in October. Nottingham's February 17 order strikes those counterclaims.
Finance-Guyana: Backers of Gold Mine Have History of Disaster
By Pratap Chatterjee
August 31, 1998.
Backers of the two gold mining companies implicated in Guyana's biggest environmental disaster were also associated with the two biggest cyanide-related gold mining disasters in this country, an IPS investigation has discovered.
On Aug 19, the holding pond at the Omai gold mine, located some 160 kilometres from the north-eastern Atlantic coast of South America broke, spilling some four billion litres of cyanide-laced waste into a tributary of the Essequibo River over a period of five days.
The mine is run by Cambior of Montreal, Canada, and Golden Star Resources of Denver, Colorado, which together own 95 percent of shares in Omai, which produced 252,000 troy ounces of gold last year.
The Guyanese government owns the remaining five percent. Profits from the mine contributed about a quarter of the Guyanese national income of 500 million dollars in 1994, according to Golden Star officials.
Golden Star Resources was controlled by the man who ran the Summitville gold mine in Colorado, site of the most expensive environmental disaster in U.S. history. Cambior bought up a mining company that ran a South Carolina gold mine which was the site of the biggest-ever cyanide spill prior to the Omai disaster.
These two companies also control major mining operations in Burma, French Guiana, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Suriname and Venezuela.
The man who helped raise the money to create Golden Star Resources was Robert Friedland, a U.S. native who has taken Canadian citizenship. Friedland once owned a company called Galactic Resources that operated the Summitville mine in the San Juan mountains of Colorado.
His African and New Guinea mining operations brought him into partnership with private mercenary armies used to maintain those operations.
His newest project is a giant copper mine in Mongolia which he describes as a giant 'empty' space a perfect area for dumping mine tailings. As if no one lived there.
“‘Interview With John Macken, CEO and President of Ivanhoe Mines, and Layton Croft, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs,’
LD: A lot of the protests and also articles in Mongolian papers have been specifically directed at Ivanhoe without taken other foreign mining companies or Mongolian mining companies into account. Just last week there was an article in “Odriin Sonin,” (Daily News) titled, “The Faster Friedland Leaves, The Better.” Then there was the effigy burning. Are these more personal, or business related attacks?
JM: I look at them as personal attacks and I’ve tried to correct them. Robert Friedland is the founder of Ivanhoe and has really given it its vision. He is also the Chairman of the Board and I recently became the President and CEO of the company, and my mandate is to understand his vision, which I happen to agree with, and I am here to make that a reality. My whole career has been building mines, I’m not a promoter or anything else, I’m a miner. But Ivanhoe has taken on a lot of Friedland’s persona in many ways, and he is a very colorful and flamboyant person, and a delight to be around. It’s very easy to go on the web and find out stuff about him, both negative and positive; obviously the negative tends to stick longer, so he’s an easy target. If you want to pick on mining in Mongolia, obviously the foreign companies are a simple target, and then if you look at companies in country, Ivanhoe is the highest profile in terms of investment and discovery, so then it is very easy to end up with Robert Friedland. So I’m here to give Ivanhoe Mines a new face and show that we want this project to go forward and that we don’t want to have the message diluted with all of this negative stuff about Robert Friedland. That is my mission at the moment; mainly to correct the record and show that what we propose for Mongolia is fair and equitable. We understand that there are sentiments in Mongolia that since the resource prices are so high that they want more of it, and we do not see a problem with mechanisms that will allow that to happen. However we also need to protect the investors and keep the country attractive for foreign investment. The key to development in Mongolia is foreign investment; the type of investment that is clear and transparent and governed by laws in their home countries that don’t allow unpleasant things in these countries; be it corruption or human rights abuses or environmental degradation. The Mongolians, by and large, and those who have had the chance to go abroad understand that western companies and democracies have to answer at home to very strict laws and codes that Mongolia doesn’t have at the moment. So really the key is to attract disciplined and transparent investment from abroad, into Mongolia and then incorporate it with the citizens. It is really lead by example, and that is our philosophy.
He has charm and wit, his admirers in the mining and venture capitalist world claim he is a new kind of venture capitalist, a philanthropist and visionary. While ignoring his partnering with Burmese warlords, mercenaries, and those who would exploit indigenous peoples as forced labour.
Thursday, 7 June 2007
IN A wide ranging speech covering global warming, nuclear proliferation and the murder of Russian spy Alexander Litivenko, Ivanhoe Mining managing director Robert Friedland today wowed an audience of Australian resource industry heavyweights with his plan to breed more geologists to create world peace.
In the case of Ivanhoe Mining, the focus is on talented promoter Robert Friedland. The operative word is "promoter".
In any stock promotion there will be (i) a "compelling" story, (ii) a network of information distribution, and (iii) numerous financial advisors who in effect pass the good word (??) to their clients.
Consequently, the buying comes in waves, and astute traders remain on stand-by during these opportunistic times.
Successful traders who make trading decisions related to such situations have always studied the modus operandi of the promoter. In Robert Friedland's case, I have put in the necessary hours of study. At certain times (not today), I have been a major trader of Friedland's stocks.
These days, I don't have sufficient time to monitor "special" situations as closely as I'd like. But I know many of you do. With IVN you will have to avoid the media stories, and pay special attention to price and volume, including options price and volume.
At the end of the day, if you are nimble, you ought to do well. The mining property of Ivanhoe Mining is apparently an excellent one, and Friedland is a superb promoter. The wild card is Mongolia.
But rather than read anything in the media about that, just pay attention to price and volume. There are big traders involved and they know the facts " minute by minute " and occasionally are known to even have a media story or two published.
His investments are far and wide. Gold , nickel, copper, coal, oil and gas, oilsands technology, Palladium and Platinum, diamonds.
He and his wife were the founders of Sirius Satellite Radio.
But there is a deeper dark-side to Sirius and the origin of some of its capital. The largest single shareholder of Sirius, the origin of about $2 million of its seed capital, is Robert Friedland, who has a long and checkered history of running penny stock mining companies on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (recently merged and renamed the Canadian Venture Exchange), which is to equity markets what Jerry Springer is to talk shows. By some estimates, the chance of a private investor making money in the companies on the VSE is around 1 in 10. Mr. Friedland ran several companies up and down on the VSE, and always came out unscathed. By his own admission, he was attracted to the unregulated nature of the VSE.
In my research on Sirius, I found article after article on Friedland and his mining activities, most of them containing tales of environmental disaster, industrial mismanagement of resources, and most importantly, Friedland somehow sliding out of harm's way in advance of the cavalry. It's a pattern that is too consistent and too deep to ignore. Whether it has anything to do with the operations of Sirius is another question.
But allow me to paint a picture. The lead investor of Sirius has a past history of using other people's money, raised on the equity markets, as his risk capital. This may not be out of the ordinary; obviously every public company is depending upon the willingness of investors to assume risk by holding shares. But the sheer Machiavellian brutality with which Friedland has conducted his corporate affairs in the past would give me grave pause as to his motivations with Sirius. And, since he, through his wife, is the largest shareholder, his wills and desires can in fact wag the dog.
While he remains tied to Canada via his corporations, his home now is in Singapore. He uses Canada's lack of a single regulator and loosey goosey provincial securities exchanges to engage in raising venture capital. He uses others money to fund his investments. And if they fail he somehow still comes up the winner.
Friedland and Ivanhoe take on their opponents aggressively. Last year he challenged Forbes description of his less savory endeavors when they published his bio in their list of billionaires. And Ivanhoe maintains an activist like PR web site that challenges media and other public statements about him and his companies endeavours.
Former Ivanhoe executives are moving into a variety of mining companies, giving Friedman access to even more partners for his investment schemes.
His brother Eric is President of Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. which is mining diamonds in the NWT. Peregrine is another off shoot of the family business; Ivanhoe Mining.Peregrine is partnered with Australian mining giant BHP Billiton.
Position: President and Director
Mr. Friedland has over 20 years of exploration and development experience in mining as well as mining finance and was the founder of Peregrine. Mr. Friedland was the President and Director of Fairbanks Gold Ltd. and played a primary role in the creation, development and financing of the Fort Knox gold discovery in Alaska and the subsequent sale of Fairbanks Gold and partners to Amax Gold Corp. for $86 million. He was formerly CEO and Director of Carson Gold Corp., which explored and developed gold mining assets in Venezuela, and which, as DiamondWorks Ltd., developed two producing diamond mines in Angola as well as the re-opening of the Koidu Diamond Mine in Sierra Leone. Mr. Friedland was also a Director of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. from Ivanhoe's inception to its recent major copper gold discovery in Mongolia called Oyu Tolgoi. Mr. Friedland has a B.Sc. degree in Geophysics and Geology from the Colorado School of Mines.
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Shenton is a Certified General Accountant and has worked with the Ivanhoe Group of companies from November, 1989 until joining Peregrine. During this time he served as Chief Financial Officer for three Ivanhoe Group companies including Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Ltd., Jinshan Gold Mines Inc. and Asia Gold Corp. Mr. Shenton also held the position of Controller with Diamond Fields Resources Ltd., DiamondWorks Ltd. and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
Mr. Challis is a mining engineer with over 30 years experience in the operation, management, financing and analysis of mining projects around the world. Mr. Challis started his professional life in London as a Mining Engineer with Gold Fields of South Africa Limited and eventually returned to London to work as mining analyst for James Capel & Co., Barclays Bank Ltd. and MecLeod Young Weir. In 1994, he joined CM Oliver in Toronto as a Director and Senior Mining Analyst prior to moving back to London where he was instrumental in establishing a European presence for that company. In 1997, he joined Ivanhoe Capital Corporation and was involved in numerous early stage exploration ventures in diverse locations. In 1999, he become President and a Director of Shore Gold where he oversaw the planning, engineering and initial extraction of nearly 23,000 tonnes of kimberlite from Shore's Star kimberlite in Saskatchewan via vertical shaft. In 2003, he joined Cornerstone Capital as President, COO and Director and recently he has accepted the Presidency of Solex Resources Corp. Mr. Challis has an honours degree in Mineral Exploitation from University College, Cardiff and an MBA degree from Cranfield University. He has both South African Metalliferous Mine Captain's and Mine Manager's Certificates of Competency. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and a Chartered Engineer.
In mining the interlocking boards of directors and the mutual overlap between competing companies as partners is the very model of monopoly capitalism. And Ivanhoe is a good example of how overlapping and interlocking boards end up benefiting Friedland by creating 'new' partners for his and his families resource development plays.
EXCO RESOURCES - first class takeover candiadate.
If Robert Friedland goes on "shopping tour" a lot of of investors looks with argus eyes at him. Robert Friedland is famous for having a good nose for commodity. In 1994 as Robert was searching for diamonds in the Canadian Vosey Bay did he stumble over the largest nickel discovery on the planet. Some years ago with his new founded company Ivanhoe Mines in the Mongolia he discovered high graded gold- and copper deposits. His new engagement's name is Exco Resources. Exco has in Australia the copper- and gold project "Cloncurry". This has currently 350'000 tons copper and even so much ounces of gold. Especially of interest is the situation of the currently producing mine in the neighbourhood of the Cloncurry project where BHP Billiton and Xstrata are active. Xstrata operates e.g. the copper- and goldmine Ernest Herny which however will be depleted in 2-3 years. New deposits are needed - maybe a takeover of Exco Resources? A speculation on which Robert Friedland counts on. His company Ivanhoe has acquired in the meantime 12 per cent of Exco's shares
Former and current executives of Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines are helping to guide the development of China’s newest and third or fourth largest gold mine, Jinshan Gold Mines’ Chang Shan Hao 217. Meanwhile, the Chinese government plans to open up even more impressive gold projects to development by foreign mining companies.
Author: Dorothy Kosich
Posted: Thursday , 21 Jun 2007
Walsh is the former vice president of corporate development for Ivanhoe Mines, which holds 46% of Jinshan. Über mining promoter Robert Friedland is the founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Former Ivanhoe Vice Chairman Edward Flood, former Ivanhoe President Daniel Kunz and current Ivanhoe Deputy Chairman Peter Meredith are directors of the company, while former Ivanhoe Mines and former Ivanhoe Energy executive Beverly Bartlett is Corporate Secretary of Jinshan.
China Mineral Acquisition Corporation has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to merge with Sunwing Energy Ltd., the Chinese oil and gas exploration and production subsidiary of Ivanhoe Energy Inc. CMA will acquire Sunwing in an all stock transaction with Ivanhoe becoming the owner of approximately 75-80% of CMA's common stock.
CMA, based in New York, New York, was incorporated in March, 2004 as a blank check company whose objective is to acquire an operating business having its primary operations in the People's Republic of China.
Glenn R Baldwin (35)
Executive vice president: Head of international operations
BEng (Hons) Mining
Mr Baldwin was appointed executive vice president: head of international operations in April 2007. Prior to his appointment at Gold Fields, Mr Baldwin was the chief operating officer at Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Ltd. After finishing his degree, Mr Baldwin spent seven years in Australia developing his mining skills. Coming to South Africa, he further developed his technical and operational skills as the vice president operations for Southern Platinum Limited and in various roles within the Anglo American Group.
Ivanhoe's President and CEO Joe Gasca, reports that Dr. Michael Silverman has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, with responsibility for all technical and engineering aspects of Ivanhoe Energy's proprietary HTL(TM) heavy oil upgrading process. Dr. Silverman's promotion to this important role is being made at a key time for Ivanhoe Energy as the company intensifies its efforts to secure a heavy oil resource in the Athabasca region of Western Canada, along with other business development activities.
Silverman, who joins Ivanhoe Energy from Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), will be responsible for all technical aspects of Ivanhoe Energy's proprietary heavy oil upgrading process (HTL(TM)) as the company prepares for full-scale commercial operations. This will include interfacing with leading engineering firms in the design of the first commercial HTL installation. Silverman has almost 30 years of experience in technology development and management, including the commercialization and marketing of new technologies, and is a leading expert in fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes. In addition to FCC responsibilities, Silverman's most recent position at KBR was Vice President of Petrochemicals where he was responsible for all aspects of the petrochemicals technology portfolio for the 56,000-employee engineering, construction and project management firm.
Mr Robin Jones – Project Manager, Engineering
Mr Jones has a BSc degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Cape Town and holds a RSA Government Certificate of Competency (Mines and Works). He has 15 years experience in the mining industry, the majority of which is in the development and operation of PGM mines in South Africa. Mr Jones has extensive experience in project management and developing resource projects from scoping study level through to implementation.
Prior to his current position of Project Manager for CopperCo’s Lady Annie Project, he spent several years working for Impala Platinum before joining Aquarius Platinum as part of the executive team that developed the highly successful Kroondal Platinum Mine.
Commencing his career at Impala Platinum Ltd, Mr Jones gaining considerable experience in PGM underground mining operations and mineral processing at Impala’s operations located near Rustenburg in South Africa. While at Impala, Mr Jones was also responsible for various brownfield concentrator process plant additions and upgrades.
Mr Jones spent a year working at engineering contractors Dowding Reynard and Associates (DRA), as a project engineer on the implementation of Southern Era’s Kilpspringer diamond project before joining the DRA project team on the Kroondal Platinum project.
Mr Jones joined Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum and relocated to Australia in 2005 where he held the position of General Manager Project Development for Ivanplats Syerston Pty Ltd while undertaking a complete update of the feasibility study for the Syerston Nickel Cobalt project during 2005.
Below is a history of Robert Friedland and his venture capitalist schemes. Good, bad and ugly.
Robert Friedland is in the vanguard of North American natural-resource sector leaders who have pioneered business links in Greater China during the past 20 years. One of the mining industry’s best-known international financiers, Mr. Friedland is the founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian public company whose shares trade on the New York, NASDAQ and Toronto exchanges.
He also is Deputy Chairman and controlling shareholder of oil and gas producer Ivanhoe Energy and Co-Chairman of its China operating subsidiary, Sunwing Energy. Ivanhoe Energy owns a breakthrough upgrading technology that permits recovery of heavy-oil reserves around the world and their conversion to lighter, more valuable crude oil at lower costs than other available technologies.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 26, 2007) - The Mining Association of British Columbia is pleased to announce that Robert M. Friedland, Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, will be speaking at the Asia Pacific Forum on Mining and Minerals, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver from September 30 to October 3, 2007. Mr. Friedland will be the keynote luncheon speaker on Monday, October 1.
Robert Friedland is in the vanguard of North American natural-resource sector leaders who have pioneered business links in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region during the past 20 years. One of the mining industry's best-known international financiers, Mr. Friedland is the founder and Executive Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, a Canadian public company whose shares trade on the New York, NASDAQ and Toronto exchanges.
Mr. Friedland was named the "2006 Mining Person of the Year" by Canada's Northern Miner, a leading industry publication, for his coup in gaining Rio Tinto as a partner for Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia. The Northern Miner said the partnership was "a defining moment in one of the world's biggest mineral-development success stories of the past decade." It described Mr. Friedland as "a dynamic force for a quarter-century in the minerals industry through a host of private and public-company vehicles."
Mr. Friedland has been associated with resource and technology ventures for more than 20 years. In 1996, he was named Developer of the Year by the Prospectors' and Developers' Association of Canada for his work in establishing and financing companies engaged in mineral exploration and development around the world.
Mr. Friedland is Chairman of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, his family's private company, specializing in venture capital and project financing from bases in Singapore and Beijing. With his leadership, Ivanhoe executives and affiliated benefiting companies have raised several billion dollars on international capital markets since 1993.
Robert Friedland, the Orient’s Occidental oracle who doubles as chairman of Ivanhoe Mines [HUGO], claimed to have been blindsided on Tuesday at a resource investment conference. Scheduled to tell investors about African Minerals, his soon-to-be-listed play on nickel and platinum, Friedland professed ignorance. “African Minerals is a private company. I have nothing to say about it. . . I don’t know how I got roped into talking about this private company. We literally really have nothing to say.”
In case you missed that: African Minerals, private company, Robert Friedland, hush-hush.
Friedland went on to deliver a feature length prequel for Ivanhoe’s Oyu Tolgoi deposit, reiterating how the demand of the modernising masses in India and China will soak up copper – and almost irrespective of price because large run manufacturing efficiencies are driving unit prices down even where metal components are significantly more expensive.
As Co-Chairman and controlling shareholder of Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum Ltd. (Ivanplats), Mr. Friedland is closely involved with several mining projects in Africa and Australia, including a copper-cobalt discovery in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the development of a significant nickel-platinum-copper deposit on South Africa's Bushveld Complex.
Old Names (Code) African Minerals Limited (AFM)
State/Province BC Country Canada
Pan Palladium Limited
Private Canadian mineral exploration company. Substantial shareholder in Pan Palladium Limited.
Top 19 Shareholders (as at 24th July 2007)
Rank S H A R E H O L D E R Shares % 1 Cereus Holding Ltd (Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum) 25,640,997 19.40%
African Minerals aka Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum aka Cereus Holding Ltd
(Director since 2002)
Mr Hayden has been a Board member since May, 2002. Mr Hayden is a geophysicist with nearly 30 years experience in the mineral exploration industry, much of which has been in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Before joining PPD in 2002, Mr Hayden was the founder and President of Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum (formerly African Minerals Ltd.), a Canadian company which has assembled extensive mineral holdings in South Africa, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr Hayden has worked in a management capacity with several mining related companies both in Australia and overseas.
Chrome Tailings Retreatment Plant
(Aquarius Platinum (SA) Corporate Services (Pty) Ltd 50%,
Ivanhoe Nickel & Platinum SA (Pty) Ltd 25%,
Sylvania South Africa (Pty) Ltd 25%)
On 10 October 2001, Plateau Resources entered into an agreement with African Minerals Limited, now Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Limited ('Ivanplats'), a private affiliate of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, whereby Ivanplats had the right to earn a 50% JV interest in the Company’s 2 900 ha Rietfontein 2KS Farm. Under the terms of this agreement, Ivanplats was to incur expenditure pursuant to exploration activities undertaken on Rietfontein 2KS in each of the ensuing two years to obtain the right to form the 50/50 JV.
Drilling on the Rietfontein property from 2001-2003 outlined extensive near-surface PGM mineralization on Anooraq's Rietfontein property, adjacent to where Ivanplats is delineating a PGM deposit on its Turfspruit property. The Rietfontein mineralization which extends over 1,650 metres is an estimated 150 metres thick
STEVE FORREST ASSOCIATES
Pgms are used extensively in technologies that protect the environment, most notably as the catalyst in auto catalysis, reducing emissions from car exhausts. They are also recyclable, providing an on-going source of supply.
Equally significant for today is the use of pgms in fuel cell technology. Platinum is critical to the performance of fuel cells. Fuel cells have the potential to dramatically increase the efficiency of cars and generators, whilst reducing air pollution still further. This new technology could in time replace the conventional combustion engine and stationary power systems.
Title: Petrology and mineralisation of the southern Platreef: northern limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa Authors: Kinnaird, Judith A.; Hutchinson, D.; Schurmann, L.; Nex, P. A. M.; de Lange, Renee Affiliation: AA(Economic Geology Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand), AB(Economic Geology Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand), AC(Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Ltd), AD(Economic Geology Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand), AE(Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Ltd)
Billionaire plans to take latest play public
ANDY HOFFMAN, MINING REPORTER, Toronto Globe and Mail,
13th March 2007
Robert Friedland cemented his status as a legend in the metals and minerals sector in 1996 when he sold the Voisey's Bay nickel deposit to Inco Ltd. for $4.3-billion, pocketing a nifty $600-million in cash and stock for himself.
Then he defied the odds again last year, winning the backing of industry giant Rio Tinto PLC, which agreed to partner with his Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. in developing the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold project in Mongolia.
Now the billionaire mining entrepreneur has zeroed in on Africa for his next big play -- a pair of deposits in the long-troubled Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire.
Currently held in a private entity called Ivanhoe Nickel and Platinum Ltd. or "Ivanplats," Mr. Friedland is planning to take the company public some time this year.
"It's only a matter of time before we take this to the market to incentivize our people and try and do in the Congo what we did in Mongolia," Mr. Friedland said recently at a mining conference in Florida.
Ivanplats, which Mr. Friedland indicated has an implied market value of $600-million (U.S.), is planning a dual listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and in London.
Mr. Friedland doesn't expect to begin mining copper in Congo until at least 2016, and is counting on the government of China to complete a railway near the project. China's surging economy has driven the current boom in metal prices and Mr. Friedland said "the Chinese government's hand-to-wallet reflex" should be stimulated by the metal riches in the region.
When I first met Mr. Friedland at the Carlysle Hotel in August, 1994, he was packaging his satellite radio idea, then called CD Radio. For three days we visited one institution after another with no encouragement. Our last visit was to the American diamond king Maurice Templesman. There is no question Mr. Friedland was disappointed. There was no backer for satellite radio in the U.S.
However, his fertile mind already centered around his Vancouver-based Diamond Field Resources and he invited me to Vancouver. Eventually, the Toronto-based First Marathon brought CD Radio public, and when I introduced him to the legendary Bernie Schwartz, Chairman of Loral Satellite, the idea was gaining recognition. There was a whole regimen of people larger than life who carried the idea further. Eventually there were 18 million subscribers in America for Satellite Radio, each paying $12.50 a month.Robert Friedland’s achievements in life are two-fold.
He lived in the Far East and he was certainly one of the individuals who has foreseen that the three billion new capitalists from the Far Eastern countries and the seven billion people on the whole globe, are going to gobble up commodities in a way it has never been done before. He has thought about china before most people. Actually, he told me that his biggest personal investment in the 1990s were 10 percent of a Chinese casino. He backed and set up and developed mining companies, whether nickel, copper, or gold, simply because he believed that the world is going to progress towards a peaceful living and the demand for commodities is going to increase exponentially.
The other achievement is surprisingly a different definition; it is numbers. Friedland always thought big. He conceived CD Radio and in the 1900s he raised about a billion dollars. Diamond Field Resources, of which he was co-chairman, was sold for $3 billion. Ivanhoe advertised with its partner, Rio Tinto, as a potential market capitalization of $15 billion.
But the numbers he will be remembered for, and which initiate this article, is the $11 billion, the combined value of Sirius Satellite and XM Radio. In about thirteen years, an idea which was simply logic not revolutionary development, his willpower carried to a level that it has a combined value of $11 billion. Surely there are going to be difficulties, the first being a multi-million billion-dollar debt and competition from other sources. But satellite communication is known in the automobile industry, it is known among common people, and it has entered the living rooms, such as mine in Southampton. It is the black and white television of the 21st century.
While blood is flowing freely in Iraq’s streets, A. Robert Abboud, a man who helped bail George W. Bush out of his Harken Energy fiasco, is angling for a contract that will give his firm, Ivanhoe Energy Inc., access to a major oil field in north central Iraq.
Mr. Abboud, who runs his own investment company and who has been president of Occidental Petroleum (1980-84), chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago (1975-80) and chairman and CEO of First City Bancorporation of Texas (1988-91), is co-chairman at Ivanhoe Energy and appears to be acting as the firm’s diplomatic frontman in going after the Iraqi oil.
He has experience in Iraq, working in concert with the administration of Bush senior to promote trade with Iraq under Saddam Hussein, acting in the 1980s as chairman of the United States-Iraqi Business Forum. In this role he worked with Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm and major U.S. companies that were clients of the Kissinger firm, according to a fascinating statement presented to Congress in 1991 by Cong. Henry Gonzalez D-TX, who said Mr. Abboud, because of his executive experience, “was well-wired into the U.S. business community.”
Mr. Abboud, in joining Ivanhoe Energy for an annual $250,000 salary and about $1.4 million in stock and stock options, is working with Robert Friedland, Ivanhoe’s largest stockholder, nicknamed “Toxic Bob.” Mr. Friedland is reported by SourceWatch to be worth $1.2 billion, and the website says his “colorful corporate career has included wild speculations on mining futures, spectacular pollution scandals” and willingness to work with the notoriously repressive government of Myanmar (formerly Burma) in a joint venture to develop an extremely profitable copper mine.
Ivanhoe, a relatively small oil development company with a patented process for thinning out thick oil so it can flow easily through pipelines, is facing two hurdles to tapping into Iraq oil wealth.
First, the Iraq Parliament must pass the new, pending oil law, that will open its oil fields to private firms like Ivanhoe, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron on extremely favorable terms to the oil companies. Ivanhoe “will closely monitor” the development of the new law, Mr. Abboud said on the conference call. The United States is pushing hard for the immediate passage of this law, and its passage is one of the benchmarks that will be used to determine whether the U.S. will continue to keep troops in Iraq. The oil law is opposed by Iraqi oil union workers and many others.
The second hurdle, once the oil law is passed, is the selection of Ivanhoe by Iraqi officials to develop the field. Mr. Abboud said on the conference call that, in a recent trip to the Persian Gulf, he spoke with Iraqi officials about the oil venture and that he thought that the relationships that Ivanhoe officials have developed with Iraqis would be fruitful. It’s important to remember, he said, that: “It’s their oil. They’re going to be in charge.”
Speaking on the conference call of the oil field in question, the Ivanhoe leaders would not reveal its exact location or size. Leon Daniel, of Ivanhoe, said the field has “huge quantities” of oil, but asked for more specifics, he would only acknowledge that most fields in Iraq are at least a billion barrels in size. It is a “challenging environment”, Mr. Daniel said, “where the prize is big.”
In answer to investor questions about security, he said the field is “far removed from Baghdad” and not in a troubled area; the challenge is “not like securing Baghdad.” He said there are “competent security forces” in the area, with clear lines of sight, and “we can make the work site secure.” He said that the thinned-out oil could be moved from the site in pipelines either south or north through Turkey, a path that would likely be more secure.
Ivanhoe drew attention to the project with an April 19 press release announcing that the Japanese oil and gas firm Inpex Corp. had invested $9 million in it for a 45% share in the proceeds; Ivanhoe will get 55%. The announcement resulted in a jump in the Ivanhoe stock price from a close of $2.32 on April 18 to $2.65 on the 19th. The stock has since settled to $2.21 as of April 25, 2007.
Wed Feb 9, 2005MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Robert Friedland, chairman and CEO of IVANHOE MINES LTD., dismissed concerns about past setbacks the industry has suffered as he paid tribute to the rebirth of the Philippine mining sector at the Philippine Mining Conference in early February.
MINING CONFERENCE - Robert Friedland praises Philippines
Publisher: Canadian Mining Journal
Author: Richard Mills, CFA
Armed with glowing statistics of the vast size of the country's mineral wealth (Philippines is said to have the world's 5th largest mineral reserves), Friedland spoke "from the heart" about the opportunity, to 400 attending delegates from more than 15 countries.
Friedland was speaking in support of the recent Supreme Court ruling that will allow the government to revive the mining sector, which once supplied close to 25% of the country's export earnings.
Delegates such as Wayne Spilsbury, Asia-Pacific general manager of exploration for TECK COMINCO LTD., and Peter Leaman, global assessment leader for BHP BILLITON, said investors felt positively bullish about the newly elected government's commitment to support themining sector. They added, however, that while high-level support seems to be present, most investors are also wary of the obstructions faced at the local government and community levels.
Philip Romualdez, head of a local mining firm and chairman of the industry association, complained about a recent law that "gives indigenous people veto rights over new mines on ancestral lands---although no one is sure who counts as an indigenous person in the Philippines, or where their lands lie." Despite the serious concerns, delegates grumbled that they deal with similar local issues in many countries and impediments can be worked on.
The world's most notorious mining promoter, Robert Friedland (or "Toxic Bob", as he is more accurately known) has finally got himself into Forbes, probably the world's most widely-read business weekly. But he's furious! For not only is Forbes reminding its wealthy readers of the "Midas Man"'s previous dubious deals, involvement in the USA's biggest environmental mine disaster and his connivance with the "thugs" ruling Burma. It's also come close to accusing the Canadian-based mogol of deliberate over-hyping of its new prospects in Mongolia. Friedland has now threatened to sue Forbes.
The 400 Richest Americans
#374 Robert M Friedland
Net Worth $1.0 billion Source Ivanhoe Mines (quote: IVN), Mining/Lumber, Self made Age 56
Marital Status Married, 3 children
Education Reed College, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Chicago-born "Toxic Bob" made first fortune after stumbling onto one of the world's largest nickel deposits in Voisey's Bay, Nfld. Pocketed first fortune brokering sale of nickel-rich property to Inco. Now touting copper and gold deposits discovered in Mongolia by publicly traded Ivanhoe Mines. Also claims to have found energy-potent coal deposits in Mongolia; claims they are "the beluga caviar of coal." This year stepped down as chief exec, says he's not retiring. Focused on fighting regulatory battle with Mongolian government, which has passed a windfall profit tax on copper and gold mining.
In the course of a lengthy story that purports to expose promotional hyperbole, FORBES indulged in some of its own in " Gold Rush" (June 19).
A reputable magazine has serious problems when it sacrifices its concerns for accuracy in its quest for entertainment value. The references to Robert Friedland are nothing more than lies, half-truths and cheap shots that are unworthy of a serious business publication. You say that Mr. Friedland "is flogging yet another incredible idea." FORBES chose not to seriously or fairly represent the viability of Ivanhoe Energy (nasdaq: IVAN - news - people )'s heavy-oil technology, yet felt free to deprecate it.
You then referred to Ivanhoe Energy's heavy-oil conversion technology and falsely asserted: "That technology, Mr. Friedland claimed, could potentially help Ivanhoe achieve a market value on a par with Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people )." FORBES ridiculed the statement it falsely attributed to Mr. Friedland, "With divine intervention, perhaps." Mr. Friedland has never said that he expected Ivanhoe Energy's capitalization to equal Google's. The transcript of the conference call reveals that Mr. Friedland referred en passant and by analogy to Google only in the context of his extemporaneous discussion about raising venture capital for new technologies and his comment that "technology knows no theoretical limit to its valuation, especially upon proof and validation." You also stated that Mr. Friedland "left a mess at a gold mine in Summitville." That is the same argument made by the EPA in a court proceeding that was dismissed. The Justice of the Ontario High Court, who carefully reviewed the evidence, found as a fact that the allegation was false and misleading: "It is clear that Friedland had nothing to do with the bankruptcy, had nothing to do with the abandonment of the (Summitville Mine) site and was in no way involved in the guilt plea entered by SCMCI in 1996." That is why, as you noted but did not explain, the "feds paid Mr. Friedland $1.3 million for his Canadian legal fees."
Counsel to Robert Friedland
The World's Billionaires
Edited by Luisa Kroll and Allison Fass 03.08.07,
Fortune: self made
Net Worth: 1.2
Country Of Citizenship: United States
Residence: Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Asia & Australia
Marital Status: married, no children
Reed College, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Dodged a bullet when Mongolian government decided not to grab a stake in the copper and gold deposit his NYSE-listed Ivanhoe Mines discovered in Mongolia. This Chicago-born mining promoter has been touting the discovery. He made his first fortune in 1994 after stumbling onto one of the world's biggest nickel deposits while searching for diamonds in Voisey's Bay, Nfld. Sold Diamond Fields Resources in 1996 for $3.1 billion.
Robert Friedland (born 1951) is Deputy Chairman/Director of Ivanhoe Energy and Ivanhoe Mines, Inc. He has had mining interests in the Venezuelan Amazon, Siberia, the Rocky Mountains, Zambia and the Atlantic coast of Southern Africa. He holds dual-nationality with Canada and the United States. His personal fortune is estimated at $1 billion. Ivanhoe Mines is developing giant copper-gold and coal reserves in East Asia, especially Mongolia.
Friedland was chairman of Galactic Resources which operated Summitville mine, the site of the United State's worst cyanide release and mine bankruptcy and Superfund site. This mine closed in 1990 but is still having a strong impact on the region. It is estimated that at least $120 million will be required to clean up the bankrupt Galactic Resources mining site, which has damaged 17 miles of river. The former environmental manager of the facility has been indicted for intentionally dumping lead and cyanide directly into streams. Friedland currently resides in Singapore.
His deals with the Government of Mongolia over the copper mine in the fragile Gobi environment is opposed by several civil society organisations of Mongolia.
He earned his nickname 'Toxic Bob' after a spectacular cyanide spill from his gold mine in Summitville, Colorado in 1993, which has been called the biggest cyanide disaster in U.S. History, named the 'Exxon-Valdez' of the mining industry. He was CEO of the Omai gold in Guyana in 1995 when a tailings pond collapsed killing all life in two rivers.
The Summitville situation poses human rights issues in two senses: first, that the governments overseeing the area have an obligation to protect neighboring citizens from hazardous pollutants and secondly, in the question of the right of Canadian citizens to have access to information about a Canadian corporate entity's actions or alleged actions in another nation. In fall of 1993, a Canadian judge issued an order barring Canadian journalists from broadcasting or publishing stories about Robert Friedland and his alleged ties to the Summitville problems. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. had been preparing an investigative report. But when U.S. and Canadian citizens asked for reprints of an article about Summitville from The Denver Post, the newspaper faxed or mailed out hundreds of copies of the piece.
Outsourcing Polluters -- a Strange Tale of Success
Posted by jbholston May 13, 2004
Some of those with longer Colorado memories than mine will remember the story of the Summitville Gold Mine
End of Friedman's career? Hardly.... He now runs a $1.45 billion mining conglomerate distributing Galactic's tactics around the developing world... (continued...)
Putting a Price on Pollution
Jim Kuipers, 3/18/2003 (pdf)
Financial Assurance for Mine Reclamation and Closure
Case Study #1: Colorado’s Summitville Mine
The Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) has long enjoyed a reputation as the "Wild West" of mining funds. Despite attempts to refurbish its tarnished image, a January 1994 report by James Matkin of the Vancouver Stock Exchange & Securities Regulation Commission found the VSE a hotbed of "shams, swindles and market manipulations." Scores of junior companies and entrepreneurs regarded as too high-risk, or flatly unacceptable in New York and London have flocked to the VSE. Of these, none has been more welcomed in the Canadian markets than gold mine financier Robert M. Friedland, a Canadian whose Venezuelan Goldfields (Vengold) in 1993 made the biggest float in VSE history -- $31 million.
However, no one's track record casts more doubt on the integrity of Canadian money markets than that of Friedland, a man who admits he was attracted to the VSE because "it is one of the freest and most underregulated venture capital markets in the world."
The Ugly Canadian (see "The Ugly Canadian," Multinational Monitor, November 1994) - or "Toxic Bob" as he's also sometimes called - has, in the space of four short years, transformed himself from the pariah of North American mining into the "Man with the Midas touch".
KNOWING WHO TO KNOW
It is on the Asia-Pacific region that the astute alchemist is now focused. As calls for his indictment over Summitville grew louder in 1994, Friedland shifted his main investment vehicle, Ivanhoe Capital Resources, from Vancouver to Singapore. Vengold, a company Friedland initially used to penetrate the gold-rich eastern flank of Venezuela, became mining giant RTZ's junior partner in the vast Lihir gold project in Papua New Guinea. At the same time, efforts in Burma began paying off. In 1990, Friedland had been the first foreign mine promoter to ignore calls for a boycott of SLORC, the Burmese military regime. His Indochina Goldfields has a copper exploitation deal with the state-owned Number One Mining enterprise and has spent over $30 million exploring and drilling the indigenous territory of Burma's central valley. Friedland "seems to thrive in countries that have dodgy governments, that are reputed to be corrupt," says John Woods of Canada Stock Watch.
Friedland himself has said: "To do business in Asia you not only have to know how, you have to know who." And in Burma he certainly knows who. One of Indochina Goldfields directors is Reggie Tun Maung, a Burmese national who has intimate connections to the SLORC. John Woods suggests that Friedland's Burmese partners in Indochina Goldfields may be the Burmese generals themselves.
Largely to restructure his diamond interests in DFR after the Inco takeover, Friedland created DiamondWorks in 1996, changing the name and reorganizing a company previously called Carson Gold. DiamondWorks has mining claims in Canada, and some gold projects inCh ina. But its major concern has been to maintain control over the lucrative Koidu diamond property in Sierra Leone which it acquired in 1994, before anti-government forces overran the diamond fields. Executive Outcomes/Branch Energy fielded the mercenary force that recaptured Koidu in early 1996. This was apparently the point at which DiamondWorks met Branch Energy and the two agreed to merge.
Friedland, Robert (Profile) Maclean's June 3, 1996
Two years ago, at this very same conference, Friedland was pitching a company called Diamond Fields Resources Inc. and its fabulous prospects for vacuuming diamonds off the shoals of Namibia. The following year, he was telling a very different story, of how Diamond Fields had struck the mother lode, not in Namibia but in Voisey's Bay, Labrador, and not on diamonds but on a most prosaic commodity - nickel. Hold on to your shares, delegates were told in '95. Diamond Fields was destined for takeover, and a high-priced one at that. This year, Friedland does not have to push Diamond Fields at all, because the junior company really did strike it rich on nickel, and not just run-of-the-mill rich, but the richest. And it did become a takeover target, with nickel giant Inco Ltd. of Toronto claiming the prize for $4.3 billion. Sometimes Friedland likes to say Voisey's Bay is the mine find of the half-century. Sometimes the whole century. It does not really matter. Big is big.
Today, Friedland runs nothing less than an empire: offices in Vancouver, Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta. His exploration interests are spread from Zambia to South Korea to Fiji. All of it is thematically pinned to pending explosive consumer growth in developing countries, into which he will lever Canadian expertise in mining and oil and gas.
At the top of Friedland's corporate pyramid sits Ivanhoe Capital Corp. One of the myriad interests under Ivanhoe is Shanghai Land Corp. Through Shanghai Land, Friedland is partnered with Toronto entrepreneur Vic De Zen and De Zen's Royal Plastics Group Ltd. Royal Plastics builds houses from panels of moulded polyvinyl chloride, which are slipped together and filled with concrete. They're cheap and easy to erect. "We don't cut no trees. We don't kill no life," says De Zen. "You tell me one thing wrong."
Canada, and its freewheeling financial markets that ease the raising of equity capital, was the place to make the circle whole. Natural resource companies became Friedland's mètier. Both the Alberta and Vancouver stock exchanges are chock-a-block with so-called shells, moribund corporations with an exchange listing. Promoters take over the shell and plow in fresh assets. Private investors, who help finance the company before it goes public, are rewarded with so-called cheap stock. Like a golden messiah, Robert Friedland came unto Vancouver, a New Age promoter the likes of which had not been seen before.
In the 1983 prospectus for Galactic Resources Inc., Robert Friedland is described as president of that company, a self-employed tree farmer in Gaston, Ore., and a purchaser and developer of mining properties. Galactic was Friedland's first big stock score, and his most infamous. Through Galactic he oversaw the development of the Summitville gold mine, in the San Juan mountains of Colorado.
In 1986, Summitville Consolidated Mining Co., a subsidiary of Galactic, started production at the site. Summitville was a heap-leach project, with cyanide used as the leaching agent to lure the gold from rock piled in huge heaps atop plastic liners. The heap-leach idea in the early 1980s held enormous investor allure, reviving dormant ore bodies too expensive to mine by conventional means. Friedland projected that Summitville, which had been mined on and off since the late 1800s, was capable of producing 110,000 ounces of gold annually. The heap-leach facility was designed as a zero-discharge system; there was to be no runoff into the adjacent Alamosa River-Rio Grande watershed.
Summitville was plagued by problems from the start. According to documents filed with the department of health in Denver, pollutants from the leaching process were detected in water in the drain system in the summer of 1986. Between June and October of 1987 there were nine cyanide spills at Summitville. By the end of that year, the Water Quality Control Division of the department of health was issuing notices of violation. In September, 1990, the Environmental Protection Agency inspected the site after receiving anonymous calls about illegal discharges. The EPA warned the Water Quality Control Division to take enforcement action, which it did the following February. By November, 1992, the company was facing $40 million in costs for environmental stabilization. The following month, Summitville Consolidated declared bankruptcy. Galactic followed suit in January, 1993.
Much has since been made of the Galactic mess. A report on the site by Knight Piesold and Co., Denver-based consulting engineers, documents a complex history, including degraded water conditions, that long predated the arrival of Friedland. But it also clearly states that the activities of Summitville Consolidated caused further problems: acid contamination of the groundwater and metal contamination from the exposure of reactive sulphide rock.ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 6 April 1997 -
Robert Friedland: The King of the Canadian Juniors
Bre-Ex is one of the Canadian Juniors. But Background Briefing has been following another Junior - one not connected at all with Bre-Ex, but he is the 'King of the Canadian Juniors', Robert Friedland. He's an Australian resident, and he's known to some people in the industry as 'Toxic Bob'. We've found that an associated company of Robert Friedland, Diamondworks, owns 'Branch Energy' which is the mining company most closely associated with Executive Outcomes, Sandline and Colonel Tim Spicer.
Interestingly, a letter from Tim Spicer to the PNG Government last August offered mercenaries in exchange for a stake in the Bougainville mine. Details of the proposal came from Tony Buckingham, and this is the connection we're following up today.
Tony Buckingham is a key figure in Executive Outcomes; he's the Chairman of Branch Energy and also of a company called Heritage Oil. Heritage Oil is described at the Inquiry as the owner of Sandline. And Tony Buckingham is also the major shareholder in Diamondworks.
Robert Friedland's PR firm has told Background Briefing that Robert Friedland only has a small share holding of less than 3% in Diamondworks, and that it's his brother Eric who's President of the company.
However, in a brochure produced last year by Robert Friedland's private company Ivanhoe Capital, Diamondworks is listed as one of the many companies that "have benefited through association" with Friedland. Robert Friedland has a $9 million house in Sydney, and he's very well connected. The best people work for him, he's active in the hottest spots - Burma, Indonesia, Tasmania, to name just a few.
The Canadian Juniors - and there are a few Australians doing the same thing - are the masters of hype; they're not afraid of political risk, and they have fabulous reputations for big business daring.
Many cashed-up Canadian mining companies have been moving around the globe looking for any kind of rich mineral deposit. And they've been supported in the dream by brokers, mining analysts and journalists. Last year, there were concerns in the Canadian media that these brokers, investment houses and mining companies were becoming so cosy and interlinked you sometimes can't tell them apart. And they're often gambling with institutional finance - pension funds and mutual funds, eager for quick returns on a booming Stock Exchange.
Candid audio-tapes of humanitarian stock promoter Robert Friedland (the
man behind such public ventures as mega-disaster Galactic Resources Ltd.
and mega-success Diamond Fields Resources Inc.) in conversation with
business associates have surfaced. The Vancouver Sun, the first media
outlet to air portions of the lengthy tapes (in an article, "Fugitive
stood to gain from DiamondWorks", its December 31 1996 edition) says the
tape recordings "provide a rare insight into the rough and tumble world
of junior capital financing which Friedland inhabits."
As well as exposing a darker, at times abusive, side of a personality so
regularly in the Canadian business news, the tapes reveal that several
recent Chinese ventures associated with Friedland -- ranging from a
casino deal to plastic house construction -- have been beset by
foul-ups and/or failure.
As one example, not long ago, Canadian journals were recounting
Friedland’s boosterish spiel about his Shanghai Land Holdings building
plastic houses in China in partnership with Toronto Stock
Exchange-listed Royal Plastics Group Ltd. But, now, in Friedland’s own
words, an Asian business associate, Bill Zheng (a fugitive from
Taiwanese justice for many years), "has left me with… smoking embers.
That’s all I’ve got. There was a partnership with a Chinese fund for
handicapped that was supposed to deliver all kinds of wonderful shit,
and all they did was screw us. So today I’m here talking with my
partner, Royal Plastics, and we’re trying to explain where the $10
million went and why everything is a total disaster…"
The tapes are apparently so full of foul language that the Sun, being aIn addition to TSE-listed Royal Plastics and Lateral Vector Resources
family newspaper, rather than going the Richard M. Nixon route and
printing (expletives deleted) frequently, in quoting Friedland has
dropped much of the objectionable language in favour of ellipses.
(Seeing as how the internet is not a family paper, full text versions
can be expected to appear on-line. Readers are forewarned that if the
Friedland et al tapes were a rap record they would definitely come
emblazoned with a parental advisory sticker.)
(an oil and gas joint venturer with Friedland’s Sunwing Energy), the
controversial promoter refers to other deals, including Vancouver-listed
Carson Gold Corp. -- recently renamed DiamondWorks Inc. DiamondWorks’ announced acquisition of China’s largest operating diamond mine collapsed recently and the VSE junior now says it will generate tremendous revenues from diamond prospects in Sierra Leone and Angola where it has associated itself with a controversial South African mercenary outfit, Executive Outcomes.
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Chronic Bronchitis Questions For Doctor
The following are some important questions to ask before and after the treatment of chronic bronchitis.
Questions to ask before treatment:
- What are my treatment options?
- Is surgery an option for me?
- What are the risks associated with treatment?
- Do I need to stay in the hospital?
- How long will I be in the hospital?
- What are the complications I should watch for?
- How long will I be on medication?
- What are the potential side effects of my medication?
- Does my medication interact with nonprescription medicines or supplements?
- Should I take my medication with food?
Questions to ask after treatment:
- Do I need to change my diet?
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- Are there any medications or supplements I should avoid?
- When can I resume my normal activities?
- When can I return to work?
- Do I need a special exercise program?
- Will I need physical therapy?
- What else can I do to reduce my risk for complications?
- What else can I do to reduce my risk for having this problem again?
- How often will I need to see my doctor for checkups?
- What local support and other resources are available?
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In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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- The court will not be directly concerned with how, or on what, the insurer spends the premium income.
- It is still worth shopping around among insurers other than the four main players.
- If the arbitrators confirmed the view of the insurers, then the benefits would not be payable.
- Yet there is no prohibition against insurances where the insurer does have an interest in the life of the insured.
- Thus I feel caught between the Government and insurers with uninsurable losses.
- Patients referred to hospital specialists not contracted to their insurer will have to pay extra.
- Approach an insurer direct or try a broker, who will scour the market for you.
- One involves the immediate conversion of the insurer's payment obligation into cash.
- Against this background fears of the impact of a mass sell-off by insurers cannot be discounted.
- Yes, and therefore a judgment may be entered in favour of the insurer as a party to the proceedings.
- Even switching the amount of the shortfall predicted by your insurer to a repayment mortgage will help.
- You can still claim on your travel insurance, but then the insurer will recoup the cost from the airline.
- You should speak to your insurer or broker before taking on these more costly projects to assess their benefit to you.
- Consumers may think going directly to an insurer will save money in terms of commission fees.
- We are talking to a life insurance company and a couple of non-life insurers for this.
- All claims should be reported to the insurer within thirty days of such claim arising.
- Effectively, the insurer and reinsured have agreed that such information is immaterial.
- I bought contents insurance from my existing insurer, but did so online for extra discounts.
- It cannot have been contemplated that the insurer could benefit from its own breach.
- The company no longer exists but Linda hopes to apply for compensation from its insurers.
English has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
Many words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
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Me mau kia ita ki te tuakiri o te whanau / Whanau identity and whanau development are Interdependent
Penetito, Kim Himoana
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Whanau is often qualified as synonymous to the description family, or extended family. The purpose of this study is to show that whanau is not only a social grouping belonging to Maori society, but an aspect of cultural identity central to the future development of Maori. Whanau is a concept belonging to Te Ao Maori, and the development of this concept has been challenged through the history of Aotearoa by external cultural influences and internal responses to these influences. These influences include Western paradigms and societal norms introduced through colonisation and leading to the modern perception that whanau is a mirror image of the concept of family.Modernisation, as an example of a Western developmental theory is applied in this study to demonstrate the impact of an ethnocentric notion on the concept and experience of whanau - culturally, socially, economically and spiritually. It is observed by the writer that whanau remains central to strategies for development as a people notwithstanding this experience. This observation required that the study explore the key elements retained by whanau, for the concept of whanau to have achieved sustainability. Although the effects of external influences have impacted on the structural, functional and relational aspects of whānau, it is evident in the findings from this study conducted with descendents of Ngati Te Oro that the practice of whanau as a cultural grouping was significant to retaining a cultural identity. This finding has strengthened the position that there are specific contributing aspects towards a secure whanau identity that provides the foundations as well as the vehicle to progress the development of Maori. | <urn:uuid:99c5c250-a93d-49a8-90fe-5b216b28d4e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/handle/10292/37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00231-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942271 | 367 | 3.03125 | 3 |
In the short-run, the answer is likely ‘yes’. As COVID-19 (hopefully) slows and if economic growth remains strong, health care spending will fall as a share of the US economy. At least this is what the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) thinks in their Health Affairs study published last week. They write:
National health spending growth is expected to have decelerated from 9.7 percent in 2020 to 4.2 percent in 2021 as federal supplemental funding was expected to decline substantially relative to 2020. Through 2024 health care use is expected to normalize after the declines observed in 2020, health insurance enrollments are assumed to evolve toward their prepandemic distributions, and the remaining federal supplemental funding is expected to wane. Economic growth is expected to outpace health spending growth for much of this period, leading the projected health share of gross domestic product (GDP) to decline from 19.7 percent in 2020 to just over 18 percent over the course of 2022–24. For 2025–30, factors that typically drive changes in health spending and enrollment, such as economic, demographic, and health-specific factors, are again expected to primarily influence trends in the health sector. By 2030 the health spending share of GDP is projected to reach 19.6 percent.
In short, as COVID wanes health care spending falls as a share of the economy through 2024. By 2030, however, health care spending looks to rebound to be near 1 in every 5 dollars spent in the U.S. economy.
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Located five miles southwest of the heart of downtown Jacksonville, Murray Hill is about as diverse of a neighborhood as you can get. After a bit of decline in the latter part of the 20th century, Murray Hill’s popularity has grown by leaps and bounds. With great restaurants and local businesses opening up on its historic streets, the neighborhood is experiencing a renaissance of sorts. Hipsters, young families, and aging residents all call this neighborhood home.
Murray Hill Neighborhood of Jacksonville
100+ Years in the Making
After the Great Fire of 1901, developers began to plat Murray Hill for new community development. With Henry Ford beginning to ramp up his assembly-line process of manufacturing, developers kept automobiles in mind when designing the Murray Hill neighborhood. That was extremely forward-thinking of them since cars were still a relatively new concept. They included paved roads and detached garages in their plans.
Unfortunately, by the mid-1920s, the town fell deeply into debt. In 1925, Jacksonville annexed the town in an effort to regain its title as the largest city in Florida. (Tampa snatched that title away from them for a brief time before that.) The city began a resurgence again during WWII, with the opening of NAS Jacksonville located on the Westside. But, when families began moving to the suburbs in the 1950s and 60s, Murray Hill declined again. Luckily, efforts to reinvigorate the city’s main thoroughfare have helped breathe new life into the area.
Current statistics show Murray Hill’s population at 8968. The median home value is $109,200, well below the $184,700 national median home value, according to Niche.com. This helps make it a very affordable place to live. That may be why it appeals to such a diverse array of people.
Things to Do
There’s a reason people consider this the Carb Capital of Jacksonville. In the last few years. dozens of fantastic eateries set up shop in this lovely neck of the woods. Breakfast? Maple Street Biscuit Company offers the flakiest pastries. Chase it with a cup o’ Joe at Vagabond Coffee. Lunch? Pick up a sandwich at Gina’s Delicatessan. Dinner? Moon River Pizza or El Jefe Tex Mex provide lip-smacking great food. Looking for a vegan option? Murrah Hillbilly serves up the best in Southern comfort food but without any meat. And you won’t even miss it.
Considering moving to the Murray Hill neighborhood? Contact the Welch Team to find the perfect home for you and your loved ones.
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The Torah is formatted into 53 portions. The numerical value of 53 spells Gan, garden. The Torah is a garden yielding the most Divine fruit.View Articles
More than a source of information, more than a treasury of profound wisdom, more than a collection of religious instruction, more than a divine guide for humankind, the Torah is the articulated embodiment of the Essence of existence Itself. Want to know “Why?” Look in the Torah. Want to know “What?” Look in the Torah. Want to know “Where,” “When,” “Whom?” Look in the Torah. In addition to being the source and sum of sacred scholarship, the Torah is the documentation of how the Creator thinks. You don’t so much open it’s holy pages, as it’s holy pages open you.
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This is the original collection of one-liners, aphorisms, and just veritable wisdom. Read it and look smart.View Articles | <urn:uuid:e7ce9ffd-18c5-431d-af2f-3897c763dd97> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.meaningfullife.com/category/torah/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879544 | 285 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Late Tuesday evening, with a vote of 261-116, the U.S. House of Representatives passed S. 679 – the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streaming Act of 2011. The U.S. Senate previously pasted this legislation on June 29, 2011 by a vote of 79-20. The purpose of this legislation is to reduce the amount of presidential appointments that the Senate must confirm thereby improving the efficiency of confirming a selected 220 executive branch positions. Currently there are approximately 1,400 executive branch positions that require a Senate confirmation.
Included in the 220 executive branch positions that this legislation eliminates from senate confirmation are the 20 members of the National Museum and Library Services Board. This action may affect the current 8 nominees that have already been nominated for the National Museum and Library Services Board if they are not confirmed by the time this bill goes into effect.
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The state of Mississippi just enacted the country's most stringent anti-abortion law, reports CNN. The new law makes it illegal for women to obtain abortions after 15 weeks, even in cases of rape and incest. Abortions after 15 weeks can only be sought in emergencies where the mother's health is at risk, or cases of "severe fetal abnormality." Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed the Gestational Age Act into law, which goes into effect immediately.
Katherine Klein, of the ACLU Mississippi, responded to bill to the Jackson Free Press, saying that "we certainly think this bill is unconstitutional. The 15-week marker has no bearing in science. It's just completely unfounded and a court has never upheld anything under the 20-week viability marker."
While Klein didn't indicate if a lawsuit may be forthcoming, the governor seemed aware that it may be on the horizon. "We are saving more of the unborn than any state in America," said Gov. Bryant. "We'll probably be sued here in about a half hour, and that'll be fine with me. It is worth fighting over."
Obviously, this is a huge setback for reproductive rights in America. Laws in Mississippi were already stringent enough — women must obtain counseling and wait 24 hours before the procedure, a burden that requires several trips to a clinic. Only physicians who are board-certified in obstetrics/gynecology can perform abortions, even though doctors routinely perform other types of procedures outside their speciality. This means that family practitioners and emergency room physicians must send their patients seeking an abortion to an OB/GYN.
Additionally, there is only one abortion clinic in the entire state of Mississippi (it's located in Jackson). For low-income women, 15 weeks may not be enough time to secure funds needed travel to Jackson and pay for an elective abortion, which is not covered by Medicaid. | <urn:uuid:a11ac18e-3926-4f39-9bf8-85468238f870> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.papermag.com/mississippi-just-signed-the-strictest-anti-abortion-law-in-the-united-states-2550092654.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971642 | 382 | 1.867188 | 2 |
author: faqih e millat mufti jalaluddin ahmad amjadi language: urdu pages: approx. 260 words in the title: pahliyaaN means riddles ----- this book contains 523 issues of hanafi fiqh that have been asked as questions/riddles/teasers with the answers on the next page. the questions have been separated into different chapters such as 'aqeede ki pahliyaaN, taharat ki pahliyaaN, imamat ki pahliyaaN etc. the preface is by 'allama arshad ul qadri raHimahullah which is about 30 pages long. 'allama arshad was the teacher of faqih e millat. it is an interesting book for students of fiqh and fiqh enthusiasts. | <urn:uuid:0a6aeb50-8c31-4985-975e-42a38375f208> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sunniport.com/index.php?threads/ajaaib-al-fiqh-fiqhi-pahliyaan.5325/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.922535 | 183 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Richard Charles Lewontin (born March 29, 1929) is an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and social commentator. Lewontin admitted to placing blind faith in materialism, while ignoring supernatural phenomena.
- "The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of. . . . Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth."
- "We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." | <urn:uuid:9fa082a9-5bac-4d73-8051-bbdb957765cb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.conservapedia.com/Richard_Lewontin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939207 | 288 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Do you find yourself sitting at home thinking, what am I going to do after high school? Are you unsure of majors or what to study, what university to attend, or even a career path? A gap year (a year between high school and college where you take a break from school) might be the right decision for you. While many might picture a gap year as the time for relaxation and aimless wanderlust, it can be used as a period of internal exploration, volunteering, uncovering future possibilities, and so much more.
Of course, there are pros and cons to consider with any big decision, and gap years are no exception. To shed some light, we've detailed a few factors that can potentially come when taking a break from school.
Pro: save money for university
College life can be expensive, so spending time working and saving money to assist with future living costs while at university is an excellent use of your gap year. When you're on your own for the first time, removing anything that adds pressure on your shoulders is a great idea, and finances are among them!
Con: risk losing your academic momentum
The best-case scenario from taking a break from school is returning to your studies with vigor and motivation. The worst-case scenario is losing academic momentum completely. Before deciding on a gap year, take time to reflect on your personality and consider if taking such a long break will work for you.
Pro: submit a more impressive application
For example, are you interested in art history, architecture, theater programs, etc.? Spend your gap year exploring things like architectural cultures, various theater programs, volunteering at museums, etc., and use your college application essay to emphasize how your experience influenced you.
Con: you might feel like you're falling behind
If you decide on a gap year, your friends might be established in their university life by the time you arrive. So from a personal standpoint, you can feel off-pace. From a professional perspective, taking a year out can add an extended period to an already lengthy educational process, resulting in missing out on an early start in your career.
Pro: gain professional experience before heading to university
If you decide to make your gap year about work experience, either through a job, an internship, or a volunteer program, you can gain meaningful professional exposure. An added benefit is you'll make connections and understand the profession's daily tasks. You may even get a better idea of what careers you want or do not want to pursue.
Con: missed opportunities with friends
You could miss the excitement and bonding of starting university together, trips during spring break, and graduation. On the flip side, there are possibilities to meet new people during your gap year as well.
Pro: make a difference
If you design your gap year around community service or volunteering, this provides you with transferable skills, empathy, and a sense of understanding a world outside of your own. These insights are priceless when you decide to study in a host country with a culture that might differ from your life experiences thus far.
Con: requires extra planning
With so much flexibility and various ways to personalize your gap year, you'll have to consider the amount of planning this will take. It may be a break from university decisions, but it will not be a break from making many other choices. After your gap year, you don't want to look back and realize that the most productive thing you did was binge-watch Netflix. So if a gap year is the route you're headed, get ready to plan the next 12 months!
Pro: build life skills
You probably filled your time in high school with routine, but a gap year will likely come with more flexibility and responsibility — the increase of both forces you to mature quickly. During this time, you may find yourself setting and maintaining a budget, grocery shopping, doing laundry, creating a schedule for your responsibilities, etc. This will help you adjust more quickly when you're away at university without the support of friends or family nearby.
Con: people might not understand your decision
You may find that not everyone will support your gap year decision. Parents might worry that you'll never get to college, and friends might fear they'll lose touch. A great way to combat your opposition is to prove that you've done your research and you're not making this choice lightly.
Like most major life decisions, there are advantages and disadvantages, and just because something works for one person doesn't guarantee it will work for you. Think carefully, do your research, and go into it with your eyes wide open. This shouldn't be a decision you jump into because you're tired of studying for tests or indecisive about your future. Think long and hard about what you're going to do so that when you look back, you've used your time productively. | <urn:uuid:8d21c557-4652-4dba-8943-309581e075a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webifairs.com/post/pros-and-cons-of-gap-years-is-it-worth-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955644 | 985 | 2.046875 | 2 |
This post originally appeared in September of 2015. Unfortunately, tragically, it continues to be a relevant and persistent concern.
Elaine’s* son was off and running on his first week as a high schooler at a big, urban school. He told her about his teachers, talked about the other kids, making friends, and other elements of the “stuff” of high school. By Wednesday he hinted that while he loved school, he could feel the over-crowdedness of its 3,000 students. On Thursday the after school chatter shifted from funny things teachers said to “our school really is overcrowded. That’s where the school shootings usually take place. I’m really worried that could happen here.”
Elaine was quiet. “What…aren’t you going to comfort me, tell me it won’t happen?” asked her son. But even before the words “oh you don’t need to worry about that” left her mouth, they dropped. She, too, had the same fears. “You got nothing for me?” he asked again.
But really, she didn’t. The news is full of more shootings and more lives lost. The tragedy of it all can feel rampant and unstoppable.
“Hearing about shootings is frightening and unsettling, especially when they happen close to home,” says Dr. Margo Jacquot, PsyD Owner/Director of The Juniper Center, a trauma recovery center in Park Ridge, IL. “As parents we do not need to bring up these events to our children, but many will hear about them in school or on the news they hear at home in the background. Even more than adults, kids need help figuring out how to handle the natural emotions that come with hearing tragic news.”
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A psychologist friend speaks often about "double binds"—two contradictory expectations placed on a person. Both expectations cannot be met; it's impossible.
When faced with a double bind, no matter what you do, you are inevitably wrong.
As a country singer might put it, "When you're wrong, you're wrong, and when you're right, you're wrong."
Pastoral ministry has more than its share of double binds. DBs can be hard to detect, because one (or sometimes both) of the contradictory expectations never gets spoken. You don't discover you were in an impossible situation until you fail.
As a rap singer might put it, "You don't find the bind till you've lost your mind."
Here, for example, is a list I started of Double Binds for Pastors (spoken from the viewpoint of churchgoers):
- We want you to guide us and help us grow, but don't change anything substantial in the church because we like it the way it is.
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Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Subject/Focus of the Database
Company & industry overviews, data, and investment advice.
Description of Database Content
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is composed of many parts, including stock reports, industry surveys with trends & projections, financial data, investor analysis and advice, a register of corporate executives, a finance dictionary, personal finance tips, and screeners for stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
Good overview sources are Stock Reports (6-8 pgs. per company) and Industry Surveys (trends, outlook, financial comparisons, etc.) These and others are options in the "simple search" pulldown menu on the right, or available via the broader tabs across the top of the page. Once inside any of the sources, move to related sections using the options in the left column.
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“If Joe Biden wants to run for re-election, he should say so clearly and soon — and then start acting like it,” Yglesias wrote. “또는, if the president is not sure he wants to run again, he should take that as a strong sign that he shouldn’t — and then make that announcement soon, 너무,” 그는 계속했다, emphasizing the word “soon.”
While Yglesias acknowledged it is still early for a typical incumbent president to announce his candidacy for re-election, he argued that, given Biden’s unique attributes, such an announcement is needed.
“예, it’s abnormally early for an incumbent president to be making an official announcement. But for all modern incumbents, a re-election campaign has been a foregone conclusion. For Biden, 그렇지 않다,” 그가 썼어.
“And for many Democrats in Washington, the presumption now — partly because of his age and party [sic] because of his policies — is that he’s not running,” 그는 계속했다.
Yglesias noted, “Many Democrats see his tenure thus far as reflecting tendencies they usually see in a lame-duck president,” 같은 “prioritiz[ing] ambitious foreign policy goals … over domestic issues such as inflation,” 와 함께 “compromis[ing] his diversity goals to hand out senior jobs to old friends … while simultaneously outsourcing most of the staff work to the left wing of the party.”
Some Democrats who do not believe Biden will run for re-election “are currently casting around for alternatives to Vice President Kamala Harris,” Yglesias reported.
He recalled how “3 월 2021 [바이든] convened a roundtable meeting with historians to discuss his potential legacy and his ‘think-big, go-big mentality’.”
“This is the kind of thing presidents normally do in the March after they get re-elected. That’s when they turn the page on practical politics in favor of efforts to define themselves in the eyes of history,” 그는 지적했다. | <urn:uuid:a952187a-a7ff-4082-aad5-25391398a680> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://i898.s1000.xrea.com/matthew-yglesias-argues-biden-needs-to-announce-2024-plans-soon-hes-being-reckless-with-politics/?lang=ko | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969037 | 561 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The mole is still stuck.
The mole is the name given to the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument on NASA’s Mars InSight lander. It’s job is to penetrate into the Martian surface to a depth of 5 meters (16 ft) to measure how heat flows from the planet’s interior to the surface. It’s part of InSight’s mission to understand the interior structure of Mars, and how it formed.
But it’s stuck at about 35 centimers (14 inches.) The mole can do science shy of its maximum depth of 5 meters, but not this shallow. And NASA, and the DLR (German Aerospace Center) who provided the mole, have a new plan to fix it.Continue reading “Here’s NASA’s New Plan to Get InSight’s Temperature Probe Into Mars” | <urn:uuid:48394b33-64bf-4b49-9e9d-d97a264aaa98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universetoday.com/tag/mole-stuck/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.838049 | 191 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Collisions in One Dimension Model Relations
PSRC Related Resources
The Easy Java Simulations Modeling and Authoring Tool is needed to explore the computational model used in the One Dimensional Collision Model.
This is a more advanced model of collision, in which the user may set up either a one-dimensional or two-dimensional elastic collision of two hard disks in an isolated system.
Other Related Resources
Ejs open source java applet 1D collision carts Elastic and Inelastic Collision.
This is independently created lookang using Ejs, a virtual laboratory simulation for One Dimension collision of two carts allowing inquiry learning for elastic and inelastic studies. This applet has been been used in schools in singapore and has been refined since 2008
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Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow Using Arterial Spin Labeling Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) reflects the amount of blood perfusion in the brain, often defined as ml of blood per 100 gram of brain per minute. CBF is an important measure in understanding brain physiology and pathophysiology. Thus, it is important to establish a robust method suitable for longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of neurovascular and neurodegenerative diseases non-invasively. Pseudo-Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (pCASL) MRI is a new MRI technique that is able to detect blood flow changes, non-invasively. The blood flow change detected by pCASL MRI is relative and it is expressed in terms of arbitrary MRI units which does not have any physiological meaning. Thus, quantifying absolute CBF map is of a great interest. In the first part of this study, I quantified absolute CBF (aCBF) map by utilizing phase contrast MRI as a normalization factor. Next, I provided a systematic investigation into the detection power of ASL and the optimal strategies for data analysis. The power of ASL MRI in detecting CBF differences between patient and control subjects is hampered by inter-subject variations in global CBF, which are associated with non-neural factors and may contribute to the noise in the across-group comparison. I found that when normalizing the CBF with whole-brain CBF or CBF in a reference region (termed relative CBF, rCBF), the statistical significance was improved considerably (p<0.003). In the last part of this study, the aCBF of ten major brain human fibers were estimated for the first time and the relationship between Fractional Anisotropy (FA) and aCBF was investigated. The inverse association between aCBF and FA suggests that higher myelination restricted the blood flow to the center of the fiber or higher myelination made the conductance of the action potential more efficient. In summary, ASL MRI has become the method of choice for measuring cerebral blood flow and it has a great potential in clinical settings for diagnosis of most neurological disorders before anatomical changes are observed. | <urn:uuid:bee52005-88b7-4795-adde-826338b9b3d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://repositories.tdl.org/utswmed-ir/handle/2152.5/836 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920319 | 458 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Main Entry: 1 cor·rupt
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, from com- + rumpere to break -- more at REAVE
1 a : to change from good to bad in morals, manners, or actions;
Main Entry: 1 in·flu·ence
Pronunciation: 'in-"flü-&n(t)s, especially Southern in-'
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin influentia, from Latin influent-, influens, present participle of influere to flow in, from in- + fluere to flow -- more at FLUID
1 a : an ethereal fluid held to flow from the stars and to affect the actions of humans b : an emanation of occult power held to derive from stars
2 : an emanation of spiritual or moral force
3 a : the act or power of producing an effect without apparent exertion of force or direct exercise of command b : corrupt interference with authority for personal gain
4 : the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways
Dear Mr. Andi,
While I would do anything for you, I must refuse your request below. I do this for your own good. You must trust that the closer to the center of Boston one comes from, the more one knows.
Mr. Andi - I am looking out for you!
I explained in your wife's comments
"Well, I will reluctantly go along with this on one condition.....you agree to spend the time you save showering attention on my good friend Mr. Andi!
Say it with me........"Honey, let me go get you a beer, so you don't miss any of this Sox game!"
Seriously I know you are just moving on to bigger and better things. I wish you fair winds and following seas."
You came over here to report
"Maggie - day one isn't going so well. Tonight I said, "Honey, I'll take a beer" as Andi was passing through the living room, but she just kept walking. Clearly, I have my work cut out for me. I'll send her up to you for some training if progress isn't made soon.
Don't worry - I'll take good care of Andi. Well, when the Sox aren't on, that is!"
I must say no. I am the LAST person you want training anyone, much less the wonderful Andi. I am more of what you would call a "corrupting influence"!
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Don Knuth says we should teach calculus without limits.
I would define the derivative by first defining what might be called a “strong derivative”: The function has a strong derivative at point if
I think this underestimates the difficulty for novices of implicit definitions. We’re quite used to them: “f'(x) is the number such that bla bla, if such a number exists, and, by the way, if such a number exists it is unique.” Students are used to definitions that say, simply, “f'(x) is bla.”
Now I will admit that the usual limit definition has hidden within it an implicit definition of the above kind; but I think the notion of limit is “physical” enough that the implicitness is hidden from the eyes of the student who is willing to understand the derivative as “the number the slope of the chord approaches as the chord gets shorter and shorter.”
Another view — for many if not most calculus students, the definition of the derivative is a collection of formal rules, one for each type of “primitive” function (polynomials, trigonometric, exponential) together with a collection of combination rules (product rule, chain rule) which allow differentiation of arbitrary closed-form functions. For these students, there is perhaps little difference between setting up “h goes to 0” foundations and “O(eps)” foundations. Either set of foundations will be quickly forgotten.
The fact that implicit definitions are hard doesn’t mean we shouldn’t teach them to first-year college students, of course! Knuth is right that the Landau notation is more likely to mesh with other things a calculus student is likely to encounter, simultaneously with calculus or in later years. But Knuth seems to say that big-O calculus would be self-evidently easier and more intuitive, and I don’t think that’s evident at all.
Maybe we could get students over the hump of implicit definitions by means of Frost:
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
(Though it’s not clear the implied uniqueness in this definition is fully justified.)
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When does homeschooling end? For most of us these days, the reflexive answer is, "When the youngest child graduates from high school."
That's true, if we're thinking of homeschooling in the narrow, academic sense.
But do you plan to ever see your child after high-school graduation?
Will he or she be coming home for summers, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring break?
Do you expect your children to navigate the entire college academic maze and social scene with zero input from you?
How about the search for jobs, from a summer job to the first "real" full-time job? Do you have any thoughts or suggestions?
How about marriage? Will they effortlessly find spouses who are faithful, loyal, compatible, and who are committed to raising your grandchildren as well as you raised your children? How about spouses who are zealous for and knowledgeable about your religion?
Invasion of the Helicopter Parents
Some parents couldn't care less. These "satellite parents" are remote and uninvolved, fully occupied with their own lives. I think most homeschoolers agree this is not the way to go.
On the other hand, many parents are taking a serious interest in their children's pre-college, college, and post-college lives. Dubbed "helicopter parents" by the media, these parents hover nearby (only a phone call away!).
School officials at all levels, K - 12 and college, are unhappy about the "helicoptering" phenomenon. This makes sense when parents are rude and intrusive, or when they rabidly seek to protect their children from all negative consequences when they (the children) behave badly. (There's a special term for these folks: "Black Hawk" parents, named after the famous attack helicopter.) But simply being connected and concerned is often enough to earn the "helicopter" label.
I'd like to point out something that recently struck me.
Basically, most "helicopter parents" are middle-class folks who are trying to do for their kids what upper-class folks have always done for their kids.
Upper-Class Helicoptering: A Long, Proud Tradition
Before little Percy or Evelyn toddled off to Harvard or Radcliffe, Mumsy and Papa had already spent a lifetime working the social network on their behalf. Dancing lessons... with the "right" kids. Membership at the country club... so they could meet the "right" people. The Debutante Ball. Keeping in touch with the alumni network at the old alma mater. Giving generously to the university to which the parents planned to send their kids. Expensive prep-school educations. And it didn't stop there! The social network hummed ever more fiercely during those college years, as Papa "talked up" his kid with his friends in business or government. Summer jobs were arranged. Paths were greased.
Did you know that to this day, Harvard students often plan to marry someone special they meet at Harvard? That's because upper-upper-class families have always taken marriage very seriously. After all, you can't have a dynasty without legitimate, well-brought-up heirs. As much effort went into making sure their children ended up with the "right" spouses as went into getting them into the "right" schools and the "right" jobs.
Why This Matters
You might be thinking, "Who cares how a bunch of rich snobs raise their kids?"
The reason I brought all this up is that today's middle-class homeschooling (and other) parents are in the same boat as yesterday's Harvard parents.
They knew that the right college and right job could mean the difference between remaining a member of their (upper-upper) class or not.
We know that the right college and right job can mean the difference between remaining a member of the middle class or becoming outsourced or laid off.
They were terribly concerned that their children marry people of the right social class. Only a few such people were available, so the competition would be keen.
We are terribly concerned that our children marry people of the right moral (and often, spiritual) class. Today, finding a spouse who understands and believes in marital fidelity is hard. With the "dumbing down" of Christianity (and just about every traditional religion) such that the average churchgoer's religion is at least half pop culture, parents have serious concerns that their child may end up getting married to a seemingly religious spouse, then dumped. Homeschool parents also worry about whether their child's spouse understands the educational issues and will want to homeschool. On top of this, today's young men are increasingly allergic to marriage. All these factors mean only a few potential mates even measure up, so the competition will be keen.
One reason the "old money" upper class remains the old money upper class is that the parents have always paid attention to these details. When upper-class parents start ignoring their children, the next generation becomes useless playboys with trophy wives, and heaven only knows how the grandchildren, if any, will turn out. However, thanks to all their money, they at least won't be broke.
Middle-class parents have no such golden parachutes to hand on to their children. Lacking trust funds, all we can do is provide the best education possible and try to keep those family bonds strong so our young adults will have the support they need to stay on the straight and narrow. We're not trying to hijack our kids' lives; we're simply standing guard as they move out into the battle zone.
What does a helicopter do? Deliver the troops to battle and evacuate casualties. So if there is no culture war, nobody needs a helicopter. But if kids today are facing a tougher future than we ever did, what's wrong with a little backup?
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When you are shopping, the one thing you probably never forget to do is check the expiry date. This pretty okay because when you buy something, it’s mandatory you know how long it will last. So, if it’s your first time buying a water filter system, you may be wondering, “do water filters expire?”
A water filter will last a long time without a “due date” if it remains dry. A filter is basically a plastic cartridge filled with activated carbon and no chemicals. Once it gets wet after serving for some time, it will need changing. Therefore, feel free to buy your filters in bulk.
Once your filter starts being used, the story changes completely. The most stable/high-quality filter can last for about six months. However, if the filter processes large amounts of water or filters water with a lot of coarse sediments, its lifespan will be less than six months.
On the other hand, if you filter processes few volumes and goes unused some days, it’s likely to serve you beyond the recommended time frame.
Your filter comes with a recommended time frame use and the gallons of water it can process. This timeframe and volume vary from one filter to the other. We have whole house water filters, pitchers, faucets, countertop, undercounter and reverse osmosis filters amongst others. Each of these has its own recommended working time frame. For a guide read our post When should I change my filters.
Why are they so important?
Drinking water straight from the tap, wells or any source including rainwater is a risky affair.
Impure water contains organic acids, volatile organic gasses, chlorine, fluoride, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, agricultural chemicals and heavy metals like lead, mercury, aluminum and copper. Now, can you imagine what all these contaminants can do to your health?
Some impurities like mercury are arsenic, and some like lead have slow effects that amplify as time goes by. Even the so much cherished bottled water and municipal water sometimes contain impurities. The only way you can be sure you are drinking safe water is by purifying it on your own.
Besides removing contaminants from water, some advanced filters have the ability to introduce other useful minerals like magnesium back into the water. Such minerals make water taste good. They are also known to enhance the taste of coffee and tea.
Signs that your water filter needs to be changed
So many people actually don’t know when to change their water filters. While you may write it down, it’s still very easy to forget. Water filters are not like tire bursts that you can detect right away.
However, if you value your health and that of your family members, you should be able to tell when your filter is no longer functioning. If you can’t, the following pointers will help you out.
Change in the taste of water
If you have using a filter for a while, it’s not that hard to detect a shift in its taste. Clean water has a natural good taste. If this taste gets replaced with chlorine smells, silvery taste, and other unusual odors, it could be an indication that your filter is no longer working.
Some filters have been equipped with a LED light that flashes a yellow as a warning that your filter is losing its grip. At this time you should have a replacement at hand. The moment it flashes red, get rid of it and insert the new one. However, it might be a good idea to replace at the first flash.
Use your instinct
Assuming you already know how the quality of water and the volume processed affects the lifespan of the filter, you should not wait until the recommended time to change it if your water has plenty of sediments or if you have processed large volumes.
As a side note, you’ll find some filters to be simple to replace the filter while others can be extremely hard. Get help from experts to avoid breaking some parts of your filtration system if its science is beyond your grasp.
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(HealthDay)—For females with osteoporosis, the rate of adjacent-level vertebral fractures is relatively low, with reduced odds with bisphosphonate therapy, according to a study published in the Dec. 1 issue of Spine.
Bruce Frankel, M.D., from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and colleagues examined the risk of adjacent-level vertebral fractures in patients with osteoporosis using data from a large, randomized fracture intervention trial of alendronate treatment. Incident morphometric fracture rates were assessed for bisphosphonate-treated and bisphosphonate-naive patients (1,950 participants).
During a mean follow-up of 2.9 years, the researchers identified adjacent-level vertebral fractures in 3.4 percent of patients in the alendronate group and 7.4 percent of patients in the placebo group, with annual rates of 1.2 and 2.5 percent, respectively. The thoracolumbar region (T11, T12, and L1) seemed to be the most prone to new adjacent-level fractures. In univariate analysis, older age at randomization, lower bone mineral density, inactivity, and placebo therapy correlated significantly with adjacent-level fractures (P ≤ 0.05). The odds of adjacent-level fractures were decreased with bisphosphonate therapy and higher bone mineral density, and were increased with older age at randomization, in multivariate analysis (P ≤ 0.05).
"New vertebral fractures adjacent to prevalent fractures occurred relatively infrequently in this treatment trial of alendronate in females with osteoporosis, and were more common with older age at randomization, lower bone mineral density and placebo treatment," the authors write.
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Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.
Because they were not mine to know, the trees untouching themselves
We will remain. We can do everything
of friendship and all the other things.
They make you write it all down without future ado: The day that all the leaves come off the
trees fall off the trees are blown off the trees
……….……….……….……….……….……….……….[ and dropped into the bay ]
Could you, would you be the two boys for me?
……….[stacking salt crystals and
So, bring them in
……….[make him swallow
Make it so I beg you
Make it so that I beg you
Pretend you’re the two boys and I beg you
And I have to beg you
Pretend that I’m begging you
How do I get out of here
Which way do I go to get out of here
Leave the trees
for this reason
And now was suddenly from the pines:
Bells at night. She exhales
smoke that turns into steam. A shot of fog seeping
from the edge of the forest, pans to the interstate.
That the perfected word is pulled up through the spine
and extracted from the marbled athlete’s mouth.
That picture of a hill from the year I was born.
That I had to leave the apartment to understand what had happened
there, daily and in segments, that this thing is shaped like
that thing, it is a feeling of crying of just this is what’s happening
and I don’t know what I will do. Now that the veins are finally rising
through the skin on the backs of my hands, should I be forced to look
upon you whole? That we would need a place to sleep,
that we could be so lucky.
To know what it was for in the end and all at once, to do the picture
and then sell it. How can we possibly understand what has happened to us. I sent myself
to the wide-open apartment, not to brand but to edge in the bath and unflatten
your life and ceremonies of contouring touch and untouch, come unlaminated
come to write it all down and then give it away, any last words surrendered
to gently swinging panes, to see the surface and underside at once,
the muted side of a leaf. For an aerial view who would flee their lives.
and I the crescent earth impress
a knee that doesn’t move away
If they need more time:
Churning screen of the eveningworld
Quiet it candlelight
Small tables or sentences, disappearance
lamb wandering around in the office tower
The mage spread the night sky shining through its world-scooped indent, then nudged a small
envelope toward me this morning. It was a message about a mistake I’d been making, judging
and fantastically contorting another person in an attempt to see myself the way I want to be seen,
the way I think my dad used to see me as a child if I’m being honest, and the message alerted me
to the fact that my contortions were wrong, they had nothing to do with her. I have my room
here, winter on the other side of the window, this week when the birds are always looping back
around, the anniversary of the mage’s death.
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Two-pore domain potassium channels (K2P) play a central role in the control of cellular excitability and the regulation of the cell's electrical membrane potential. K2Ps have been widely conserved throughout evolution. They are polymodal ion channels that are subjected to extensive regulation by a diverse set of physical (pH, temperature, mechanical force) and biological signals (lipids, G-protein coupled receptor pathways). They are broadly expressed in excitable and non-excitable cells, and have in turn been implicated in a large spectrum of physiopathological processes, ranging from the regulation of neuronal excitability, respiratory and cardiac function to the control of cell volume, hormone secretion and cell proliferation. Recently, loss- and gain-of-function mutations in K2P channels have been directly linked to human pathologies (Birk Barel syndrome, familial migraine with aura, cardiac conduction disorder).
In contrast to many other ion channel families, comparatively little is known about the molecular and cellular processes that regulate different aspects of the cell biology of K2P channels. For instance we know only of very few factors that specifically regulate the expression, the activity and the localisation of K2P channels at the cell surface. Therefore the central question addressed by our team is: How is the number of active potassium leak channels present at the cell surface controlled in vivo?
To identify novel genes and conserved cellular processes that regulate the biology of K2P channels in vivo we take advantage of the powerful genetic tools available in the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We use the full array of techniques available in C. elegans including genetics, live imaging, electrophysiology and state-of-the-art CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering and next-generation DNA sequencing. These studies will provide new leads to understand the cellular pathways that control K2P function in other organisms. | <urn:uuid:6be94e84-44f6-46c9-8ed9-d19e85ff72de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://excitingworms.eu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00193-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922983 | 390 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Working Paper, Institute of Urban and Regional Development 2008,03
The United States lost 4.5 million manufacturing jobs, about 24 percent of its manufacturing base, between 1980 and 2005. This loss, its causes, and its consequences for displaced workers and the nation as a whole, have been extensively studied and debated. Yet researchers have paid little attention to the kinds of jobs that have replaced the lost manufacturing jobs in manufacturingbased metropolitan areas that lost manufacturing jobs. These metropolitan areas, located primarily in the Great Lakes region, the Northeast, and the upper South, are the places in which the impacts of manufacturing job loss on the regional economy were, and generally still are, of greatest public concern. Policymakers in these regions need to understand how the industrial structures of their regional economies have changed if they are to craft effective industrylevel policies to rebuild those economies. Such policies may be designed either to accommodate the changes that have occurred or to alter the growth pattern of the regional economy. | <urn:uuid:14d5a78f-c4d1-47d1-b86b-6fd52d8fce81> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/59395 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00107-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958537 | 194 | 2.375 | 2 |
(The scarf is made by braiding
9 double strands of cording.)
Step 1: Knit 15 feet of cording in 9 different coordinating
Step 2: Cut each strand in half and finish off the ends.
You will now have a total of 18 separate cords, each about 7 1/2
Step 3: While holding 2 strands of each color together, arrange
the 9 sections of cording in the desired sequence you want them
to appear in the braid.
Step 4: Follow the 5-strand braid technique, but use 9 strands
instead of 5. (This multiple-braiding technique can be applied to
any odd number of strands.) Begin braiding at one end and continue
braiding to within 8 inches of the other end.
Step 5: Tie a small piece of cording (in any of the yarns)
around the ends of the braid (about 8 inches from each end).
FIVE-STRAND BRAID TECHNIQUE
1. Stitch or pin the ends of five lengths of cording together to
2. Bring the left strip over the strip to its immediate right (diagram
3. Then bring the right strip over the strip to its left, under
the next strip and over the one after that (diagram 2).
Continue braiding by repeating these two steps, always using the
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Q. I’m really confused about what to do with my home. An engineer was just here, and I showed him the space under my house caused by the flood. It apparently washed out most of the dirt under my concrete floors, and I’m very concerned about the floors collapsing. First, what do you think is holding up my floors, and second, the engineer told me to fill the space with concrete, which is going to be very expensive. What might you suggest?
A. I looked at the picture you sent, and have several observations. Over the years I have had many issues with contractors and masons who, instead of following my plans, built foundations that went onto the ground, not into the ground, and then 4 feet down, to just below the 3-feet-deep frost line. Sadly, they got final approvals and sign-offs even though I advised the owners that this was wrong.
Your home’s foundation walls are basically concrete beams with steel reinforcing rods in them. These beams go from one pile, driven into the earth, to the next pile. A purist engineer who designed your foundation (and I did look at your original house plans) only solved structural problems, and did not address issues such as foundation wall heaving due to frost or problems associated with rainwater, or even floodwater, from getting under the house. Unfortunately, nobody questioned a professional who signed and sealed the house plans, so anybody else who could have doubted what was planned let it go because the professional took all responsibility.
The concrete floor only has a small amount of thin steel reinforcing in it, instead of properly sized rods. Because of this, open spaces underneath will cause the slab to crack and drop. What is currently holding your slabs up is uneven peaks of earth that remain and the possibility that the metal reinforcing might be cast into the side walls or over the strips of foundation that run up the middle, under your ground floor. The advice that the engineer gave you is incorrect and will even possibly make things worse. Filling areas under your house with concrete is like throwing an anchor, not a life preserver, to a sinking swimmer. Adding more weight, not even tied into the bottom of your floor slabs, will cause the mushy, deteriorating material below your house to sink even more.
I’m telling my clients to use expanding closed-cell foam. This accomplishes supporting the slabs, adhering to the bottom of the concrete (even though the concrete would be better off if it had a clean surface) and providing moisture resistance and insulation, all in one application. I hope this helps. Good luck!
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The State Library of NSW has just released a new online tool, Amplify, developed in partnership with the New York Public Library. The website provides access to the library’s rich digitised sound archive. The first collection made available is 75 hours of audio featuring a series of interviews with Nimbin residents from the Library’s Rainbow Archive.
Anyone who is interested in these unique oral histories can now listen to the interviews, and even help transcribe them. The collection has already attracted contributors who are busily transcribing these fantastic resources. We look forward to seeing more of the collection published online! | <urn:uuid:66058300-63f3-4bf1-b21a-442dfccef815> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historycouncilnsw.org.au/amplify-state-library-nsw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.941098 | 122 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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