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How Occam’s Razor set Science Free and Unlocked the Universe
Wednesday 26 October, 8pm
Tickets £12 (Incl. £1.50 booking fee)
In the fourteenth century, Friar William of Occam taught that the simplest solutions are the best. His theory – known as Occam’s Razor – cut through medieval metaphysics via Copernicus to Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein and Higgs – to clear a path for modern science. The principle of simplicity distinguishes science from other ways of making sense of the world, such as philosophy, religion, mysticism or pseudoscience, and Johnjoe McFadden hails William as the unsung hero of our modern world. | <urn:uuid:9c94fdb7-a48a-4b2c-adff-658673a6e959> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://canterburyfestival.co.uk/whats-on/johnjoe-mcfadden-life-is-simple-how-occams-razor-set-science-free-and-unlocked-the-universe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.88239 | 160 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Would better information from an early warning system improve African food security?
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Discusses historcal records, regularities, affected groups, information gathered, and role of information in African famine. Examines the four food security systems used. Mentions the importance of drought cycles.
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The Diamond District
This block ranks with Antwerp, Belgium and Ramat Gan, Israel,
as one of the major diamond trading centers in the world.
Originally located on Maiden Lane and dominated by
Orthodox Jews, the district is said to employ 35,000 thousand people
at 2,600 jewelry-related businesses, but that may be declining due to
industry changes--the number of gemcutters on the street
has dropped from 3,000 to 300 in recent years. A view of the
street in its heyday can be seen in Marathon Man.
74: The owner of
Roman Jewelers was convicted of laundering Colombian drug money;
in 2005, his son was shot in an apparent
Rose Reiter Jewelry was founded in 1958;
Norman Landsberg goes back to 1948;
Nagin Jewelry dates to
62: New York magazine recommends
a wholesaler located upstairs at this address.
The back entrance to the Wentworth Hotel
is a shortcut to 46th Street.
50: Midtown Jewelers
46: The old space of Taam-Tov.
36: Diamond Center of America
34: Fifth Avenue Jewelers Exchange
30: Radio City Synagogue is a place of worship
for the District's many observant Jews.
Kim's Jewelry served as a fence for
a gang of jewel thieves robbing suburban malls.
20: Jewelry Center Building
10: New York Jewelry Center includes
AA Pearls & Gems Co
4: National Jewelry Exchange;
features the Diamond Dairy of New York, a
2: International Jewelers Exchange
Corner (578 5th Avenue): Jewelers on Fifth--
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State-of-the-art treatment using Ponseti casting and French physiotherapy techniques.
Limb length calculations and computer estimation of discrepancy at skeletal maturity.
Comprehensive treatment options including Pavlik harness, bracing, casting, or surgery.
Complete care of the musculoskeletal system including congenital spine, hip, and knee malformations.
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A group of retired military officers yesterday cited school lunches as a threat to America’s national security.
Mission: Readiness, as the group is called, appeared yesterday on Capitol Hill with Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack touting a report that says fatty school lunches make children so obese that future military recruitment is in jeopardy.
The report, titled Too Fat to Fight, found that more than 9 million young adults, or 27 percent of all Americans age 17-24, are too overweight to join the military.
“Being overweight or obese turns out to be the leading medical reason why applicants fail to qualify for military service,” the report says. “Today, otherwise excellent recruit prospects, some of them with generations of sterling military service in their family history, are turned away because they are just too overweight.”
In addition, the report estimates that the government spends tens of millions of dollars every year to train replacements for service members, sometimes at $50,000 per recruit, who are then discharged because of weight problems.
The solution, the officers say, is a nutrition bill that will make the food available in schools healthier.
“We are calling on Congress to pass new child nutrition legislation that would (a) get the junk food out of our schools, (b) support increased funding to improve nutritional standards and the quality of meals served in schools; and (c) provide more children access to effective programs that cut obesity.”
The pending legislation, called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, would commit an additional $4.5 billion to child-nutrition programs over the next 10 years and implement the most sweeping changes to those programs in decades. The bill, which has broad bipartisan support, is currently awaiting a Senate vote.
Although all branches of the military now meet recruitment goals, retired Navy Rear Admiral James Barnett Jr., a member of officers group, believes national security in 2030 is “absolutely dependent” on reversing child obesity rates.
“When over a quarter of young adults are too fat to fight, we need to take notice,” he said.
Tom Vilsack, who joined the officers’ group in calling for passage of the child nutrition bill, agreed.
“As the generals and admirals have indicated, it’s a national security concern,” he told MSNBC.© Food Safety News | <urn:uuid:961b4843-5cb8-498d-93ac-89ef14b1d93b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/04/school-lunches-could-threaten-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00303-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950706 | 501 | 2.203125 | 2 |
When Fred H. Wells opened a milk route in Le Mars, Iowa, in 1913, little did he know the iconic globally renowned landmark his humble enterprise would spawn.
Wells bought a horse, delivery wagon and a few cans and jars for $250 from a local dairy farmer and launched his dairy delivery service. The business grew, and in 1925 Wells and his sons began manufacturing ice cream and marketing it in nearby towns, including Sioux City, 25 miles to the southwest.
Three years later another company purchased Wells’ Sioux City distribution system and the right to use Wells’ name.
In 1935 the Wells family decided to resurrect their ice cream sales efforts in Sioux City again but lacked a company name.
So they held a “name that ice cream” contest in the Sioux City Journal. One resident submitted the winning entry after noticing how much his son enjoyed an Easter display in a department store window.
Thus Blue Bunny — and the “Ice Cream Capital of the World” — were born.
Dominating the Le Mars skyline, Blue Bunny’s 900,000-square-foot ice cream plant boasts a 12-story refrigeration tower. The block-long unit can chill more than 50,000 pallets of ice cream at 20 degrees below zero.
Le Mars’ largest employer, the company staffs more than 1,000 workers and produces 150 million gallons of frozen goodies every year, including dozens of flavors of ice cream, tri-colored Bomb Pops, ice cream sandwiches and other novelties.
According to the “Hacks ‘n Facts” page on www.bluebunny.com, the company annually uses:
- 8 million pounds of chocolate coating
- 865,000 pounds of strawberries
- 396,000 pounds of pecans
- 150 million chocolate bunnies for its Bunny Tracks ice cream
- 130 million sticks for handheld treats
The manufacturing facility has been hailed as the largest single-location producer of ice cream novelties in the world. The company is also thought to be the world’s largest family-owned and managed dairy processor.
The town of just under 10,000 was designated “Ice Cream Capital of the World” in 1994 by the state’s general assembly — and Le Mars will not let anyone forget it.
The Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor and Museum features an old-fashioned parlor with an antique soda fountain and souvenir shop. The museum on the second floor details the history of the ice cream industry in Le Mars.
The parlor and museum, located at 115 Central Ave. NW, is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday. Hours are somewhat seasonal, so call (712) 546-4522 to verify the business hours before visiting.
More than 50 colorful 6-foot ice cream cone statues dot the city. Murals and alley art harken to the halcyon days of romantic strolls, unspoiled greenery, carefree living — and, of course, the simple pleasure of enjoying ice cream.
The annual four-day Ice Cream Days festival includes 10,000 free servings of ice cream to the thousands of revelers who descend on the town every June.
Festival activities include a parade; outdoor movie; classic automobile cruise-in; historical and preservation tours; rubber cow races; arts exhibits; grill and barbecue competitions; toy show and auctions; live entertainment; fishing derby; and a downtown scavenger hunt.
The 2017 festival is slated for Wednesday, June 14, through Saturday, June 17. For information, visit www.lemarsiowa.com.
The whole town gets into the act, according to Brad Pick, a member of the Ice Cream Days organizing committee and president of the local chamber of commerce.
“There are so many groups of people that are sponsoring events, putting them together and organizing activities,” he said. “The entire community goes out to make it a great event.”
He also noted the festival is designed to highlight the town’s attractions other than ice cream.
“Ice Cream Days is a festival when we celebrate ice cream but also our community and what we offer here,” he said.
Those attractions include a host of restaurants, taverns, bakeries and drive-ins; convention center and banquet hall; barn quilts and public art; playhouses and movie theaters; a 27-hole golf course; more than a dozen parks featuring ball diamonds, disc golf courses and swimming pools; miles of hiking and biking trails; and the Plymouth County Fair.
Not content to rest on its laurels, Le Mars this year adopted a 139-page comprehensive plan detailing implementation of its vision statement:
“Le Mars, the Ice Cream Capital of the World, is a thriving community of choice with opportunity for everyone. It is a community that:
- embraces growth and development to increase opportunity for present and future residents
- is a place of choice for people of all ages and backgrounds and a destination for visitors
- promotes a high quality of life with excellent educational, recreational, and health services
- supports its downtown as the economic and social hub of the community
- maintains Midwest values by being welcoming to all people, progressive, hardworking and family-friendly
- encourages sustainability
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By David Cruz
You don’t have to look very far to see the problem. Plastic bags, as ubiquitous as mosquitoes in summer, everywhere — on the street, in the woods, caught in a tree or collecting in a stream. It’s a growing concern and a Senate committee wants to put a dent in this burgeoning mountain of plastic trash. Sen. Bob Smith (D-17) says a proposed surcharge on non-recyclable plastic and paper bags would prove to be an effective incentive.
“The way the bill works is that if you will bring in your own recyclable bags, you will be rewarded with a nickel for using your own,” explained Smith. “If you decide you wanna use the plastic bags that are in the shop, you pay a nickel.”
Your five-cent reward would be up to the grocery store or supermarket owner, but the five-cent charge would not be. Smith says the money raised from the program would be used for environmental clean-up, much like a similar ordinance passed by the city council in Washington D.C., which Smith said, saw a 40 percent reduction in the use of non-recyclable bags.
“In our case, the money would be dedicated to cleaning up the Barnegat Bay, which is in a state of absolute chaos,” he said.
Smith says the fees could raise potentially more than $20 million a year for the state. Environmentalists generally support the measure and like the fact that it will be used to clean up an important natural resource, but environmentalist Gray Russell of Montclair is skeptical that the state would use all that money for its stated purpose.
“The governor’s office has already taken monies from the clean energy fund, from recycling programs as well, and so I’m not convinced that the money would stay and go towards Barnegat Bay as indicated,” Russell said.
We saw a lot of plastic bags in use outside of one ShopRite. Shoppers we talked to were mostly unaware of the proposed legislation, but were mostly in support of it.
“If they charge me 5 cents and if I get 5 cents back if I bring them in, I’ll bring them back in,” said Yvonne Littlejohn outside the ShopRite in Piscataway.
Bill Ziegenfuss, of Edison, says he’s already using reusable bags. “I use reusable bags right across the street here at Oldie’s,” he said. “I pay one time, 10 cents; they charge for the bag and then when I go, I keep reusing them.”
Peter Fenton of Piscataway says his wife has talked about reusable bags in the past and they will considerate more in the future if the legislation passes.
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. The Captain Scott BookBench brings to life his diary of the Terra Nova expedition that ultimately claimed his life. Scott's diary has been in print since it was first published in 1913 and has sold almost 250,000 copies. He is remembered as a great explorer, and his account of the expedition shows courage and determination which has inspired readers for over 100 years.
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- v. To make a satire of; to mock.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See satirize.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. ridicule with satire
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Ultimately, though, this seems to be no more than an oversight in a sincere attempt to satirise body and face fascism in a topsy-turvy fashion.
And she must feel very loved, even though she says she has low self-esteem, because otherwise how could she satirise me?
It's all passably jolly, but the show, with book and lyrics by Peter Sham and music by Brad Carroll, misses a trick in not doing more to satirise operatic conventions.
This tale of a murderous dictator had its origins in a play Jarry wrote as a teenager to satirise a schoolmaster – and that is what it sounds like: tirelessly rejoicing in bums and squelches and self-suckings off.
Truly, I can think of no more amusingly elegant way to satirise a post-imperial power, refusing to go gently into the good night of its irrelevance, than by simply placing its national football team coach against the backdrop of the so-called mother of parliaments.
Or will Iannucci create a new sitcom, The Thin of It, to satirise the axe-wielding new government?
Carrie Bradshaw gets a proper job, a husband and children, but predictably struggles to juggle and satirise work-life issues, in a movie that acts like this is a new phenomenon.
Then again, perhaps this email is the first of many missives to come to light from football's Henry Root, a shadowy figure who has decided to satirise the cut and thrust of the Most Bestest League In The World TM, and is even now preparing to unleash his next bombshell.
In her new novel, There but for the, Ali Smith deploys the conceit to satirise contemporary culture – and to ask difficult questions about history, time, epistemology and narrative.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has ordered the city's police department to review training on crisis intervention in the wake a weekend shooting in which two people were fatally wounded by police gunfire during a domestic disturbance call.
The fatal shooting of Bettie Jones, 55, and 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier, a college student visiting his father for the holiday, at a West Side home has raised further questions about a police department already under intense scrutiny.
The shooting happened early Saturday morning at a small two-story home where Jones lived in a ground-floor apartment and LeGrier's father in an upstairs unit. Police, who were responding to a 911 call made by LeGrier's father after an argument with his son, have released few details beyond a brief statement.
It said that officers "were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer's weapon" and added that Jones "was accidentally struck."
"There are serious questions about yesterday’s shootings that must be answered in full by the Independent Police Review Authority’s investigation," Emanuel said in a press release on Sunday. "While their investigation is underway, we must also make real changes within our police department today, and it is clear changes are needed to how officers respond to mental health crises,"
Emanuel said he has directed the head of the police-review authority and the city's interim police chief to meet as soon as possible "to review the crisis intervention team training, around how officers respond to mental health crisis calls."
Police did not disclose the race of the officer or officers involved in the shooting, saying only that those involved will be placed on administrative duties.
Both Jones and LeGrief were black, and their deaths come amid scrutiny of police after a series of deaths of African-Americans at the hands of officers across the country gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. It also comes amid a federal civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department that was launched after last month's release of police dashcam video showing white officer Jason Van Dyke shooting black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014.
Grieving relatives and friends of the two victims gathered Sunday to remember them and criticize city officials who they said had once again failed residents.
LeGrier's mother, Janet Cooksey, during a vigil Sunday placed candles on the porch of the home. On either side of the door, Post-It notes indicated where two bullets hit siding on the house.
"I used to watch the news daily and I would grieve for other mothers, other family members, and now today I'm grieving myself," Cooksey said at a news conference outside the residence earlier Sunday.
Others who spoke said police should have used stun guns or other nonlethal methods if they felt they needed to subdue LeGrier.
"Why do [police] have to shoot first and ask questions later?" Jacqueline Walker, a friend of Jones, asked. "It's ridiculous."
Family spokesman Eric Russell said Jones' many grandchildren had hoped to thank her for their Christmas gifts over the weekend. Autopsy findings released Sunday by the Cook County medical examiner's office say Jones died from a gunshot to the chest and LeGrier from multiple gunshot wounds.
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Welcome to the first edition of the ASME OSU Newsletter! The purpose is to provide updates about our club and give shoutouts to our great sponsors to make sure everybody gets the recognition they deserve!
This past week, we went to the Shell Eco-Marathon for the fourth consecutive year. It is an international energy efficient vehicle competition. The goal, ultimate efficiency. This year for the first time, the club brought both a Prototype (left) and an Urban Concept (right). Both of our vehicles are in the battery electric fuel category.
The scope of the Prototype vehicle is ridiculous efficiency. Comfort is sacrificed for aerodynamics and weight minimization. Our prototype vehicle (left) has gotten second place the past three years and received a top efficiency of an equivalent 9000 mpg at Detroit in 2017. This vehicle made it through the whole technical inspection but wasn't working properly the first run on the track due to some motor controller issues. We were able to fix them, but on the second run, the vehicle hit a bump and rolled over after the first lap. The car still appears all structurally together but the carbon was cracked enough to make another run impractical and dangerous. We will now proudly retire this vehicle knowing it brought us great success all the way to its breaking point.
The scope of the Urban Concept is a vehicle that more realistically resembles efficient city driving. Opposed to the prototype, the driver sits upright, it must have two doors, street legal lights, and an actual steering wheel. Our Urban Concept has been in the making for the past few years and we were really excited to finally bring it to the track. With countless hours of work both over spring break and the past two terms, the vehicle made it through 9/12 of the technical inspection stations. Unfortunately, due to lack of a working motor controller, we weren't able to get on the track, but we learned a lot and look forward to making improvements and racing it next year!
Thank you again to all of our sponsors proudly displayed on both of our vehicles and everyone who makes this all possible. From all of us in the club, it is really something that brings us together and we enjoy it so much! | <urn:uuid:c84641dd-143a-4fe7-8884-eb7fedd500e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/ASME/events | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.96145 | 458 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Jack Harrison, who survived the Great Escape plot by Allied prisoners in a German prison in World War II, has died at age 97, his family said.The movie on which the mass escape from Stalag Luft III was based had an all star cast including Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, and Donald Pleasance among others.
Harrison died Friday at Erskine veterans' home in Bishopton, Scotland.
As one of the camp's gardeners, Harrison helped dispose of the dirt excavated from three escape tunnels. He was 98th on the list of some 200 inmates designated to make the escape on March 24, 1944, but only 76 got away before guards detected the breakout and raised the alarm.
The breakout was celebrated in the 1963 film "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen and James Garner.
Only three men managed to reach safety. Adolf Hitler ordered the execution of 50 recaptured escapers, and 23 others were returned to custody.
British news reports said Harrison was believed to be the last survivor of the plot, but this could not be confirmed. In addition to the 200 men who won places in the escape queue through a drawing, others were also involved in preparations.
"I guess it was a blessing in disguise I never made it through, as most were shot," Harrison said in an interview last year with the Scottish Sun newspaper. "But the main purpose wasn't just to escape. It was to outfox the Germans. It was a huge moral victory. It humiliated Hitler and gave the Nazis a bloody nose."
Of the three tunnels dug by prisoners, two had been found by guards and closed before the escape attempt.
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How Much Does Lighting Installation Cost?
Last Updated: January 14, 2022
It can be difficult to accurately estimate the cost to add new electrical to a home addition or remodel. In the end, the price of new electric depends on the size of the living space the electricity is added to as well as the extent of the upgrade. Generally, if you are upgrading your living space you will want to add new fixtures, switches, circuits, outlets and lighting as well. The number and quality of these will raise the price accordingly. Below is some general information that will help you figure out the cost to install electrical in your addition or renovation.
Lighting Costs #
- Most electricians charge somewhere between $35 and $75 per hour.
- To give you a relative idea of cost, the price to re-wire an entire, average-sized home (two or three bedrooms) would be somewhere between $2,000 and $6,000.
- One way to figure out the cost of electric installation is to estimate roughly $25-$50 per opening. This means each individual switch, outlet, light, etc.
- One homeowner renovated his basement, with a total of 41 openings, as well as four new circuits, 12 recessed lights, 3 wall sconces and 2 under cabinet lights. They received several estimates from electricians between $2,500 and $4,500.
- In a home, electricity is fed through an outside meter and from there into an electrical panel which runs the electricity to various parts of a house. Each house has a maximum capacity, measured in amps. If you are renovating your home or creating an addition this will require more electricity and you may have to increase the amplitude of your electric panel and/or add a separate panel to control the flow of electricity to your upgrade, especially if you live in an older home.
- A 100 amp service costs approximately $1,000.
- For 200 amps, plan on $1,200 to $3,000.
- For a new sub-panel (many renovated areas or additions require their own electrical panels) expect to pay $750 on average.
Discuss your project details with a few professionals, compare your no obligation quotes, and choose the right electrician for you!
Installing new electrical switches, electrical circuits and electrical outlets (Note: The prices below are for adding wiring to an existing space. For new construction, the prices will be approximately 25%-30% less due to the fact that walls/ceilings do not have to be punctured and repaired in order to run wire)
- It will cost $35 to $50 for an electrician to add a single electrical switch.
- For a three-way electric switch, expect to pay $50 to $80.
- To install a 120 volt electrical circuit it will cost $125 to $250.
- A 240 volt electric circuit will cost you $200 to $400.
- A standard electric outlet costs $30 to $50 to install.
- 220-volt electric outlets go for $35 to $65.
- For a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI), you'll pay $30 to $60.
- Again, keep in mind that adding electric wiring to a home can be very complicated. The cost can vary a great deal depending on the existing wiring in the home, how easy it is to open up walls to access power sources, etc. This Ezine article can give you a better idea of the factors that determine the cost to remodel electrical.
Shopping for lighting installation? #
- It is not advisable for a novice or even intermediate level do-it-yourselfer to tackle installation electrical. If you don't really know what you're doing you could be seriously injured. However, for those willing to give it a go, Doityourself.com has a whole host of articles. You may want to start here, at the introduction.
Even if you think you know what you are doing you should not ever do the electrical for an addition yourself. If it fails or something is done wrong you will be tearing out your newly finished walls and ceilings, not to mention your hair. The work will need to be inspected by the town building inspector when all is said and done. If he catches someone doing electrical without a permit that he may fine you. Also, if the electrical wiring catches fire at any point and you did the work, good luck getting the insurance company to pay for your house that just burnt to the ground.
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In mathematics and physics, a brachistochrone curve (from Ancient Greek βράχιστος χρόνος (brákhistos khrónos), meaning "shortest time"), or curve of fastest descent, is the one lying on plane between a point A and a lower point B, where B is not directly below A, on which a bead slides frictionlessly under the influence of a uniform gravitational field to a given end point in the shortest time. Incidentally, for a given starting point, the brachistochrone curve is the same as the tautochrone curve. More specifically, the solution to the brachistochrone and tautochrone problem are one and the same, the cycloid.
The curve is independent of both the mass of the test body and the (local) strength of gravity. Only a parameter is chosen so that the curve fits the starting point A and the ending point B. If the body is given an initial velocity at A, or if friction is taken into account, then the curve that minimizes time will differ from the one described above.
Johann Bernoulli's solution
According to Fermat’s principle, the actual path between two points taken by a beam of light is one that takes the least time. In 1697 Johann Bernoulli used this principle to derive the brachistochrone curve by considering the trajectory of a beam of light in a medium where the speed of light increases following a constant vertical acceleration (that of gravity g).
By the conservation of energy, the instantaneous speed of a body v after falling a height y in a uniform gravitational field is given by:
The speed of motion of the body along an arbitrary curve does not depend on the horizontal displacement.
where vm is the constant and represents the angle of the trajectory with respect to the vertical.
The equations above lead to two conclusions:
- At the onset, the angle must be zero when the particle speed is zero. Hence, the brachistochrone curve is tangent to the vertical at the origin.
- The speed reaches a maximum value when the trajectory becomes horizontal and the angle θ = 90°.
Assuming for simplicity that the particle (or the beam) with coordinates (x,y) departs from the point (0,0) and reaches maximum speed after falling a vertical distance D:
Rearranging terms in the law of refraction and squaring gives:
which can be solved for dx in terms of dy:
Substituting from the expressions for v and vm above gives:
Jakob Bernoulli's solution
Johann's brother Jakob showed how 2nd differentials can be used to obtain the condition for least time. A modernized version of the proof is as follows. If we make a negligible deviation from the path of least time, then, for the differential triangle formed by the displacement along the path and the horizontal and vertical displacements,
On differentiation with dy fixed we get,
And finally rearranging terms gives,
where the last part is the displacement for given change in time for 2nd differentials. Now consider the changes along the two neighboring paths in the figure below for which the horizontal separation between paths along the central line is d2x (the same for both the upper and lower differential triangles). Along the old and new paths, the parts that differ are,
For the path of least times these times are equal so for their difference we get,
And the condition for least time is,
Johann Bernoulli posed the problem of the brachistochrone to the readers of Acta Eruditorum in June, 1696. He published his solution in the journal in May of the following year, and noted that the solution is the same curve as Huygens's tautochrone curve. After deriving the differential equation for the curve by the method given above, he went on to show that it does yield a cycloid. However, his proof is marred by his use of a single constant instead of the three constants, vm, 2g and D, above.
Bernoulli allowed six months for the solutions but none were received during this period. At the request of Leibniz, the time was publicly extended for a year and a half. On 29 January 1697 the challenge was received by Isaac Newton, who found it in his mail, in a letter from Johann Bernoulli, when he arrived home from the Royal Mint at 4 p.m., and stayed up all night to solve it and mailed the solution anonymously by the next post. Upon reading the solution, Bernoulli immediately recognized its author, exclaiming that he "recognizes a lion from his claw marks." This story gives some idea of Newton's power, since Johann Bernoulli took two weeks to solve it.
At the end, five mathematicians responded with solutions: Newton, Jakob Bernoulli (Johann's brother), Gottfried Leibniz, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Guillaume de l'Hôpital. Four of the solutions (excluding l'Hôpital's) were published in the same edition of the journal as Johann Bernoulli's. In his paper Jakob Bernoulli gave a proof of the condition for least time similar to that above before showing that its solution is a cycloid. According to Newtonian scholar Tom Whiteside, in an attempt to outdo his brother, Jakob Bernoulli created a harder version of the brachistochrone problem. In solving it, he developed new methods that were refined by Leonhard Euler into what the latter called (in 1766) the calculus of variations. Joseph-Louis Lagrange did further work that resulted in modern infinitesimal calculus.
Earlier, in 1638, Galileo had tried to solve a similar problem for the path of the fastest descent from a point to a wall in his Two New Sciences. He draws the conclusion (Third Day, Theorem 22, Prop. 36) that the arc of a circle is faster than any number of its chords,
- "From the preceding it is possible to infer that the quickest path of all [lationem omnium velocissimam], from one point to another, is not the shortest path, namely, a straight line, but the arc of a circle.
- Consequently the nearer the inscribed polygon approaches a circle the shorter is the time required for descent from A to C. What has been proven for the quadrant holds true also for smaller arcs; the reasoning is the same."
We are warned earlier in the Two New Sciences (just after Theorem 6) of possible fallacies and the need for a "higher science." In this dialogue Galileo reviews his own work. The actual solution to Galileo's problem is half a cycloid. Galileo studied the cycloid and gave it its name, but the connection between it and his problem had to wait for advances in mathematics.
- Beltrami identity
- Calculus of variations
- Tautochrone curve
- Uniformly accelerated motion
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- Johann Bernoulli (June 1696) "Problema novum ad cujus solutionem Mathematici invitantur." (A new problem to whose solution mathematicians are invited.), Acta Eruditorum, 18 : 269. From p. 269: "Datis in plano verticali duobus punctis A & B (vid Fig. 5) assignare Mobili M, viam AMB, per quam gravitate sua descendens & moveri incipiens a puncto A, brevissimo tempore perveniat ad alterum punctum B." (Given in a vertical plane two points A and B (see Figure 5), assign to the moving [body] M, the path AMB, by means of which — descending by its own weight and beginning to be moved [by gravity] from point A — it would arrive at the other point B in the shortest time.)
- Solutions to Johann Bernoulli's problem of 1696:
- Isaac Newton (January 1697) "De ratione temporis quo grave labitur per rectam data duo puncta conjungentem, ad tempus brevissimum quo, vi gravitatis, transit ab horum uno ad alterum per arcum cycloidis" (On a proof [that] the time in which a weight slides by a line joining two given points [is] the shortest in terms of time when it passes, via gravitational force, from one of these [points] to the other through a cycloidal arc), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 19 : 424-425.
- G.G.L. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) (May 1697) "Communicatio suae pariter, duarumque alienarum ad edendum sibi primum a Dn. Jo. Bernoullio, deinde a Dn. Marchione Hospitalio communicatarum solutionum problematis curva celerrimi descensus a Dn. Jo. Bernoullio Geometris publice propositi, una cum solutione sua problematis alterius ab eodem postea propositi." (His communication together with [those] of two others in a report to him first from Johann Bernoulli, [and] then from the Marquis de l'Hôpital, of reported solutions of the problem of the curve of quickest descent, [which was] publicly proposed by Johann Bernoulli, geometer — one with a solution of his other problem proposed afterwards by the same [person].), Acta Eruditorum, 19 : 201–205.
- Johann Bernoulli (May 1697) "Curvatura radii in diaphanis non uniformibus, Solutioque Problematis a se in Actis 1696, p. 269, propositi, de invenienda Linea Brachystochrona, id est, in qua grave a dato puncto ad datum punctum brevissimo tempore decurrit, & de curva Synchrona seu radiorum unda construenda." (The curvature of [light] rays in non-uniform media, and a solution of the problem [which was] proposed by me in the Acta Eruditorum of 1696, p. 269, from which is to be found the brachistochrone line [i.e., curve], that is, in which a weight descends from a given point to a given point in the shortest time, and on constructing the tautochrone or the wave of [light] rays.), Acta Eruditorum, 19 : 206–211.
- Jacob Bernoulli (May 1697) "Solutio problematum fraternorum, … " (A solution of [my] brother's problems, … ), Acta Eruditorum, 19 : 211–214.
- Marquis de l'Hôpital (May 1697) "Domini Marchionis Hospitalii solutio problematis de linea celerrimi descensus" (Lord Marquis de l'Hôpital's solution of the problem of the line of fastest descent), Acta Eruditorum, 19 : 217-220.
- reprinted: Isaac Newton (May 1697) "Excerpta ex Transactionibus Philos. Anglic. M. Jan. 1697." (Excerpt from the English Philosophical Transactions of the month of January in 1697), Acta Eruditorum, 19 : 223–224.
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- Herman Erlichson (1999), "Johann Bernoulli's brachistochrone solution using Fermat's principle of least time", Eur. J. Phys., 20: 299–304, doi:10.1088/0143-0807/20/5/301
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- Katz, Victor J. (1998), A History of Mathematics / An Introduction (2nd ed.), Addison Wesley Longman, p. 547, ISBN 978-0-321-01618-8
- D.T.Whiteside, Newton the mathematician, in Bechler, Contemporary Newtonian Research, p. 122.
- Galileo Galilei (1638), Discourses regarding two new sciences, p. 239 This conclusion had appeared six years earlier in Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Day 4).
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- Brachistochrones by Michael Trott and Brachistochrone Problem by Okay Arik, Wolfram Demonstrations Project.
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Using innovative Thinking to Generate Business Ideas
We all have some level of inherent innovative thinking skills. As with other activities, you can teach yourself how to think in an innovative manner. Sometimes innovative thinking requires us to look at things from new perspectives. Learn to unleash your inventive genius by thinking backwards. Innovative thinking is a willingness to think beyond what is and envision what could be. All it requires is knowledge, Ingenuity and Focus.
Elements of Innovative Thinking
-Industry and Market Changes
-Changes in Perception
Sources of Innovative Thinking
-State of Mind: Creativity is a state of mind. Telling yourself or others “I’m not very creative,” or “I can never come up with new or clever ideas,” destroys that state of mind. Innovative thinking requires positive thinking.
-Environment: All of our senses — what we see, hear, feel, taste, and touch — influence our state of mind. A positive atmosphere contributes to a positive and innovative state of mind.
Some people thrive in loud, people-filled areas with much activity. Others need quiet and calm to think clearly and innovatively. Find that place, noisy or quiet, that makes you feel comfortable.
-Engange Yourself: Daydreaming, relaxation, and free association allow the mind to come up with new or unusual ideas or idea fragments.
-Determination: Creativity takes practice. Your creativity is there within you, but you must make a habit of using your imagination.
Although many of your best ideas will come when you “aren’t really concentrating,” you can make them happen more often by regularly practicing effective thinking techniques.
-Record Your Ideas: Ideas and thoughts are fleeting and unless you catch them immediately, they will be lost. There’s no way to predict when a great idea is likely to pop into your mind so you must be prepared at all times to record them. Once you have established the habit of idea recording you will be surprised at how many good ideas you actually think of each day
How to Generate Business Ideas through Innovative Thinking:
· Start a Business that revolves around your innate ability:
Innate abilities help you do things with ease. Often times I hear people say, “what do you have flair for?” Innate abilities help you do things better, quickly and ‘naturally’ than others. It helps you do things effortlessly!
One great thing about your innate ability is that it pushes you, not the other way round. Looking for business ideas? It’s in you!
· Turn Your Experience or knowledge into a Profitable Venture:
Instead of asking, “Which business can i start that will bring quick profit?”, turn your hands-on experience or knowledge into a profitable venture!
An entrepreneur is one who is able to make commerce of his ideas, experience, knowledge and ability and make good profit.
What do you know? Which skill have you acquired recently? What education have you gained? What experience have you acquired? Do you know that there are people out there waiting to be served what you have?
· Take Advantage of Technology, Situations & Opportunities
Have you heard about the story of two guys who travelled to a certain country where those who lived there wore no shoes? One of them saw an opportunity in this situation, got back to his home country, ordered a large consignment of different sizes of shoes, and exported them to the country where the people there wore no shoes. He sold more shoes than he bargained for! This is a typical example of taking advantage of situations.
There are several situations around that you need to shine your eyes at!
The 21st century business terrain has seen business operations move from manual– to technology-based. If you are tech-savvy, you could consider starting a business that revolves around helping businesses transform their operations and marketing. Taking up some information technology short courses or training may be of help also.
Today’s managers are full of ideas, theories and information. They have extraordinary knowledge and expertise. They are highly skilled at traditional business thinking. Yet many feel uncertain and unmoored. They find planning for next quarter a tough challenge, never mind committing to decisions that will play out over one to five years. They continually ask themselves what is the new process, the innovative product, the game-changing service, the compelling vision. One senior executive recently told me, “We’ve lost our crystal ball.” The questions you need to ask yourself are one or all of the followings:
- What’s Something I Could Do That’s Really Extreme?
- What Could We Add To Something We Already Do To Make It More Extraordinary?
- What Could We Strip Away From What We Already Do?
- What Ideas Could We Take From Other Industries and Apply To Ours?
- What Could We Steal From Competitors and Make A Slight Change To?
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by U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl
Should the government cut taxes?
That's the debate going on in Washington right now.
Over the next 10 years, the government is projected to run a surplus of $3.3 trillion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. To put it another way, Americans will pay more in taxes than the government is budgeted to need - thus, a tax overpayment.
Now, when you pay more tax than required on April 15, you get a refund. Many members of Congress, myself included, believe that after Social Security, Medicare, and our other spending priorities have been protected, the taxpayers should likewise get a refund of the tax overpayment they have made.
President Clinton and some congressional Democrats have tried to claim that the country can't "afford" a tax cut. As Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey recently wrote in the Washington Post, however, "To suggest we can't afford to cut income taxes when we are running a $3 trillion surplus is ludicrous."
Congressional Republicans have proposed a plan to protect important government programs and provide the American people with significant tax relief. Three-quarters of the surplus, or 75 cents of every surplus dollar, will go to Social Security, to government spending on Medicare and other domestic priorities, and toward reducing the national debt. One-quarter of the surplus, or a quarter of every surplus dollar, will be refunded to the taxpayers.
President Clinton, on the other hand, has proposed something else. While the President would put aside the same amount of money for Social Security and debt reduction - there is no difference between how much Republicans and the President dedicate to these important categories - the President would like to take the rest of the surplus and spend it.
Not only does the President not propose returning any of taxpayers' money, he actually proposes a slight tax increase!
Remember, though, this is the same president who told a New York audience earlier this year that he wasn't sure what to do with the impending surplus. One option, President Clinton said, was to return the surplus to the taxpayers and "hope you spend it the right way." He apparently chose another option.
The President has chosen to put his faith in the federal government's ability to better spend the taxpayers' money than the taxpayers. Congressional Republicans, myself included, believe taxpayers should be trusted to spend their refund.
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Every individual has a dream to be successful in the life. A person is driven by many factors that influence his/her life in many ways. The events that unfold in life, can take an individual either way. Even out of the harsh experiences, the key is to derive a positivity that could contribute to life. Successes come through positivity. Rejection, Dejection, sense of deprivation, poverty, loneliness, failure/fear of failure etc. are the harsh and negative elements that are part of human life but these states are not permanent, constant striving helps man to transform his life fully by positive means. The major factors that construct a positive life are a positive attitude, Education/Learning, Adaptability, Skill, Tolerance, Strong temperament, Cooperativeness, Giving respect to others, Friendliness, Confidence, Creativity, Openness, Sense of Satisfaction, Clarity in the objective of life, Good planning for betterment.
A positive attitude is a state of mind through which an individual perceives and comprehends things and events generally in constructive and optimistic manner. This quality certainly helps in moving forward by leaving aside all the negativity. Approach to an overall life with a positive attitude is a key to success.
Education makes a huge difference to the overall personality of a human being. It helps to build yourself from the core. Institute from where you are getting an education, also plays a vital role in developing your life. Therefore, the role your teachers is imperative to set a platform for you. Subjects that you study should be of interest to you, in that way you’ll be able to apply your mind fully towards the learning, this will also enable you to explore more. By the time you reach high school, you should have a clarity in mind about the area of specialization in your higher studies. According to the book ‘The Other Wes Moore’, “For some of us, the promotion of adulthood, or at least its challenges, is so jarring, so sudden, that we enter into it unprepared and might be undone by it”(66). The focus in this regard must be in the right direction.
Adaptability- Life is a series of harsh and pleasant events and circumstances. The ability to adjust under any sort of circumstances also holds the key to success in life. Lessons learned during tough times strengthen your inner and you come out with positive energy for the next stage of your life. According to the Other Wes Moore, “It’s not the process you should focus on; it’s the joy you will feel after you go through the process” (170).
Tolerance is the ability to accept other’s opinions with open heart and mind. It certainly makes you a better human being and helps you achieve a positive livelihood. The overall environment in your surroundings becomes very positive if the trend of tolerance prevails. Temperament needs to be solid in order to meet the challenges of daily life. The ability of not being carried away with lengthy problems is the right approach in life, certain things in daily routine make you monotonous but you have to overcome this feeling in order to accomplish the task as it is required to be done. Cooperativeness becomes part of your personality once you achieve tolerance and strong temperament. The willingness to cooperate with the people in your surroundings refine your workplace, home and gathering with friends. All these traits produce a sense of contentment in your life, which leads towards happiness. Happiness is a sense that emits inside. The ingredients of tolerance, strong temperament and cooperativeness are great in contributing to a positive life. | <urn:uuid:ca213999-f75d-4218-91ee-b79229a5d6b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://academic-master.com/factors-leading-towards-positive-life-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.957667 | 734 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Though hand-eye coordination is critical for all sports, perhaps golfers have the greatest dependency and the most to loose when optimum vision is impaired. Visual acuity (clarity), contrast sensitivity (seeing well in the shade or on cloudy days), depth perception, and color discrimination are only part of the story. Tournament golfers must be able to reconcile great distances, and score their own cards.
Not a problem for younger golfers, but golf is primarily a passion of those ages 40 and older, making us succumb to mother nature’s meanest trick: presbyopia. Literally translated as “old eyes”, presbyopia is inevitable for all people, whether nearsighted or farsighted, and requires some type of fix. Glasses are a problem because they distort our peripheral vision out to the sides of the glasses. In addition, playing 36 holes in the summer months can be miserable when the glasses are sliding down our noses. Contact lenses help in the distance, but do nothing to assist with our near (score card) or intermediate (golf club distance) needs, and bifocal contact lenses or monovision (one lens for distance and one for near) impair our depth perception, and interfere with contrast sensitivity.
(LASIK) laser vision correction has been a godsend for millions of people, many of whom (including Tiger) are avid golfers, and again, for distance, can solve a multitude of visual problems. However, several medical studies have discussed the potential problems related to seeing clearly in shadows and on cloudy days (contrast sensitivity) following laser vision correction, and of course, there is still that unavoidable issue of presbyopia (need for reading glasses). Monovision can be easily accomplished with LASIK, but significantly impairs depth perception.
SO WHAT IS THE OVER FORTY GOLFER TO DO?!?
Much of the refractive surgeon’s attention is now turned toward intra-ocular lens procedures in which the eye’s natural lens is removed, and a new, more appropriately powered lens is implanted, much like modern-day cataract surgery. The best part about “refractive clear lensectomy” is that in most cases, we can implant a bifocal artificial lens, providing both distance and near vision, still allowing the person to benefit from full binocular depth perception, using both eyes together for all activities. Though most refractive surgeons agree that LASIK will remain the predominant refractive procedure for quite some time, the shift in research toward better and better technologies which more closely emulate the eye’s natural focusing ability at all distance and near ranges will dominate over the next decade.
Sometimes additional procedures to reduce astigmatism and residual nearsightedness or farsightedness are necessary in order to yield the best uncorrected clarity. These procedures are performed at the same time as the initial lens procedure, or at a future time following healing and stabilization of the refractive error (prescription).
It is important to note that there may still be times when a thin pair of glasses will be helpful. Never the less, the freedom from corrective eye wear in most circumstances is indescribable. Clear lensectomy as a refractive procedure has been FDA approved for a number of years, and millions of these lens implants are benefiting people in this country and around the world. For most golfers, both on and off the green, this procedure is a hole in one … | <urn:uuid:daea548d-187d-4935-8570-19e4fd09f5d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://silversteineyecenters.com/blog/2011/03/your-vision-and-your-golf-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.92945 | 714 | 2.09375 | 2 |
In latest version of Microsoft Word, 2013 the default Ruler measurement unit has changed from inches to centimetres. If you prefer inches, here is how you can change it back easily.
In Word, click File
Click Advanced and scroll down to Display. Click in the Show measurements in units of”: list box and select inches
Click OK and you should see the classic ruler:
I personally was having some problems using the centimetre measurement when setting tabs in a document, so I needed to go back to inches.
If you don’t see the option to turn on the Ruler, look under the View tab within the Show group. | <urn:uuid:2103cb77-c062-47fc-bc17-062baf72d16f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://techingiteasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/quick-tip-how-to-change-the-ruler-measurement-unit-in-word-2013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00426-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.856236 | 134 | 2.625 | 3 |
It's hard to remember what it's like not to be able to read or write. My mom taught me to read fairly early, sitting me in her lap with a workbook titled Teach Me to Read. I didn’t appreciate those long hours at the time, but I’m certainly grateful for having had a literate mother who was able to teach me to read.
If you’re reading this (and you're age 15 or older), you’re among the 86.1 percent of the world’s literate population. Once you can read and write, it’s hard to relate to others who cannot.
It wasn't until I traveled to China that I re-experienced looking at text and not making sense of a single character. Many things were subtitled in English (sometimes hilariously so). But in the village we visited, that was a luxury not found. Of course, I was part of a well-shepherded group, so not being able to read signs was more of a curiosity than a problem.
For the roughly 775 million adults in the world who are illiterate, not being able to read or write creates many problems.
Thirteen of the countries where we work have literacy rates below the global average. In Senegal, the female literacy rate is a meager 46.6 percent.
Illiteracy costs the global economy $1.19 trillion.
As reading and writing is important for smallholder farmers and small business entrepreneurs, and because rural farmers often struggle to send their children to school, many of our projects incorporate literacy training. And since families who earn enough income to support their basic needs are more likely to send their children to school, our work both directly and indirectly contributes to improved literacy.
We also support literacy with our Read to Feed program, which incentivizes reading while teaching youth about the issues of global hunger and poverty.
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Just in time for all your gift making, I've got a beautifully textured pattern that works up quick!
The real life mystery of what really happened during the 11 days that Agatha Christie went missing remains unsolved, the truth dying with Agatha and perhaps her ex-husband, Archie. Still, the mystery has provided much speculation and spawned entertaining tellings of what might have happened, as in this novel.
The first thing you need to know about this fictional book about the real-life disappearance of Agatha Christie is that it NOT really a book about Agatha Christie. She is a secondary character in Nan O'Dea's narrative. The sooner you come to this realization, the more readily you'll enjoy this book.
What if every single decision you ever made branched off into a different version of yourself that exists parallel to the you right now? What if you were allowed to pick one of them and take over that life instead of your present one?
Smart writing full of humor and heart, this is a great book that doesn't make you think too hard but still surprises you.
When We Let Go is about loss, guilt, forgiveness, and relationships, specifically mother-daughter type relationships. Sometimes you're in the mood for a book that promises a good cry, which was why I requested this book, and it delivered. The book covers a lot of heavy subjects, but does so in a thorough way, allowing us to grow with the characters in our perception of those topics.
How do you feel about making hats? Never made one before? Does the thought of working in the round scare you? What would you say if I told you that if you can crochet a rectangle, you can make a hat? It's true! Turning a rectangle into a hat is the perfect way to step into the world of hat-making, and in today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to do just that.
I recently came upon this fun new stitch and I wanted to share it with you! Because I'm showing it to you in rows, I figured we could do a quick coaster pattern with it as well! Let's dive in!
A spike stitch is a stitch that is worked into a location one or more rows below the previous row. They can be worked directly below your current stitch position or to the left or right of it. You can spike any stitch because the way you work the stitch itself doesn’t change, only the placement. For this tutorial, we are focusing on the double crochet variation.
Well, I am going to be honest, this isn't my favorite Kristin Hannah book...not even close, but it's also not my least favorite. I spent the first half, yes, HALF, of this book absolutely hating the main female characters, but The second half of the book is where this story shines. | <urn:uuid:8303054d-dde2-4e98-b01f-8d356942e413> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hooksbookswanderlust.com/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.971247 | 585 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The sovereign community of the Canary Islands, Spain, has a dedicated public holiday denominated Canary Islands Day. It is celebrated annually on the 30th of May; marking the commencement of the first legislature assembly which was held on the same day in 1983.
The Canary Islands are an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean, comprising seven islands, with two capitals Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The Canaries are usually colloquially referred to with the epithet “Canaria” – a word derived from Latin, which means “Great Island of Dogs”; due to the excessive number of dogs inhibiting the archipelago. The aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands were the Guanches, who, according to recent researches, were genetically analogous to present-day Berbers. The Canaries gained their autonomy in the late 15th century; becoming a major milestone in the history of Spain as it made its way to the new world. | <urn:uuid:93bc76bd-0f31-49a0-8597-72b4622b5694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.calendarz.com/when-is/spain-holidays/canary-islands-day/2023 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.971838 | 201 | 3.203125 | 3 |
TOTAL CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
Whether the buyer is satisfied after purchase depends on the offer’s performance in relation to the buyer’s expectations. In general, satisfaction is a person’s feelings of pleasure or disappointment resulting from comparing a product’s perceived performance (or outcome) in relation to his or her expectations. If the performance falls short of expectation, the customer is dissatisfied. If the performance matches the expectations the customer is satisfied. If the performance exceeds expectations, the customer is highly satisfied or delighted.
Although the customer-centered firm seeks to create high customer satisfaction, that is not its ultimate goal. If the company increases customer satisfaction by lowering its price or increasing its services, the result may be lower profits. The company might be able to increase its profitability by means other than increased satisfaction (for example by improving the manufacturing processes or investing more in R&D). Also, the company has many stake holders, including employees, dealers, suppliers, and stockholders. Spending more to increase the customer satisfaction might divert funds from increasing the satisfaction of the other “partners�. Ultimately, the company must operate on the philosophy that it is trying to deliver a high level of customer satisfaction subject to delivering acceptable levels of satisfaction to the other stakeholders, given its total resources.
How do Buyers form their expectations?
Buyers form their expectations from past buying experience, friends’ and associates’ advice and marketers’ information and promises.
If the marketers raise the expectations too high, the buyer is likely to be disappointed. If the company sets up the expectations too low, it won’t attract enough buyers but it will satisfy those who do buy. Some of the today’s most successful companies are raising expectation and delivering performances to match.
We are giving below some actual case incidents where customers derived total satisfaction due to ingenious methods adopted by the marketers.
When General Motors launched the Saturn car division, it changed the whole buyer-seller relationship with a New Deal for the car buyers. There would be fixed price (none of the traditional haggling); a 30-day guarantee or money back; and salespeople on salary, not on commission (none of the traditional hard sell) Look at what high satisfaction can do.
Jet Blue Airways, founded in New York in 1999, significantly raised customer expectations of low-fare carriers. With its brand new Airbus jets, comfy leather seats, live satellite TV, free wireless Internet access, and a consumer-friendly policy of never bumping a passenger, it has inspired lots of low-fare / high –service copycats. Like pioneer South west, where Jet Blue’s CEO David Neeleman tried out his wings, Jet blue finds employees know how to keep customers coming back. He asks each person he hires to follow a few corporate commandments known as the Values, including safety, caring, integrity, fun, and passion. Even the CEO and the pilots get on their hands and knees to pick trash out from between seats and scrub the restrooms to prepare planes for the next trip. The pitch-in preparing keeps turnaround time down and more and more customers come to Jet Blue. The proof is in the numbers: While almost every other airline is drowning in red ink, Jet Blue is in the black. In 2003 the airline pulled in a $104 million profit on revenues of $998 million. It now carries more people from New York to Fort Lauderdale than any other airline
A customer’s decision to be loyal or to defect is the sum of many small encounters with the company. Consulting firm Forum Corporation says that in order for all these small encounters to add up to customer loyalty, companies need to create a “branded customer experience� Here is how San Francisco’s Joie de Vivre chain does this.
Joie de Vivre Hospitality Inc., operates a chain of boutique hotels, restaurants, and resorts in the San Francisco area. Each property’s unique décor, quirky amenities, and thematic style are often loosely based on popular magazines. For examples, the Hotel del Sol—a converted motel bearing a yellow exterior and surrounded by palm trees wrapped with festive lights—is described as “kind of Martha Stewart Living meets Islands magazine�.
Two Silicon Valley hotels offer guests high-speed Internet connections in their rooms and by the pool. The boutique concept enables the hotels to offer personal touches such as vitamins in place of chocolates on pillows. Joie de Vivre now owns the largest number of independent hotel properties in the Bay Area.
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BirdLife is fighting to stop vultures from slipping towards extinction. Thanks to everyone that has supported our campaign so far, we are now 79% of the way towards our urgent target of £20,000. Nearly there! But like the vultures in Africa and Europe, we need some more help. So we are launching a video, and asking for your support to help us stop vulture poisoning now.
As the video begins, we see vultures soaring gracefully in the sky and Dr Mark Anderson (Chief Executive of BirdLife South Africa) opens with the thought: “I can’t imagine the African skies devoid of vultures.”
Vultures in Africa and Europe could become extinct in our lifetime, so today we launch a video to encourage your support for our campaign to protect these incredible animals.
Vultures are important and essential for our health: “Vultures play a fundamental role that no other birds do: they clean our landscapes”, said Iván Ramírez, Head of Conservation for BirdLife International in Europe and Central Asia.
Yet they are facing new and massive threats across Europe and Africa.
“We have discovered that diclofenac is available in two EU countries. Diclofenac is now a global problem”, warns Ramirez.
As well as an impending threat of diclofenac, “in Africa they are facing many, many threats – and very different across the continent”, said Dr Anderson.
|The BirdLife Partnership – with coordinated action through local Partners in Asia, Europe and Africa – is uniquely and very importantly placed to address the threats.”Solutions exist,” adds Ramirez. “The first step in Europe is to get a Referral from the European Commission in order to achieve an EU ban on veterinary diclofenac.”
Your support is vital to this work, and will make a real difference to its success. Please, dig deep, donate now and help us keep vultures flying as high as they should be.
Whether you see vultures as incredible, ugly, beautiful, dirty and deathful or useful and under-appreciated; they are in huge need of our protection. Please give your support at: www.justgiving.com/stop-vulture-poisoning-now
Words of support from people who have donated already:
“Vultures are magnificent and important to the natural world. Let’s DO IT!! Save them.”
“Completely immoral to carry on selling these chemicals that are known to be deadly. Companies should stop doing this NOW.”
“We can’t let what’s happened in India and Nepal happen elsewhere in the world.”
“Conservation of vultures helps keep our landscapes alive.”
“Don’t let these magnificent birds disappear.”
“I am passionate that we should do all we can to save such wonderful birds.”
“Excellent work; good luck.”
“Huge luck with this vital campaign!”
“Congratulations for what you are already doing with all birds, and best of luck with vultures… wonderful creatures…”
“We can’t let these iconic birds disappear.”
“Vultures are some of the world’s largest and most graceful flyers. We cannot allow them to be poisoned, otherwise they will become extinct and that cannot happen!”
Thanks to Carles Carboneras for his vulture video footage. Thanks to Margaret Atwood, David Lindo, Simon King and Chris Packham for their support to the campaign.
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If you’ve been training for awhile, you might be ready to try your first amateur MMA bout. The best way to gauge as to whether you are ready or not for that first step into the cage is to talk to your instructors and trainers at your MMA gym. Of course, if you don’t belong to an MMA gym at all, your true first step should be to find one immediately and start taking classes.
While MMA is all about mixing up different forms of fighting, your training should include more than just martial arts. You also need to have a strict cardio plan that helps you build the endurance you need to go several rounds against a tough opponent. This might include swimming, running and hill sprints and any other activity that builds cardiovascular strength. There is also a direct correlation between cardio strength and mental focus, so get as fit as you possibly can.
Obviously, there are many key skills to be gained by careful study of Muay Thai, Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but often fighters overlook the importance of learning some basic boxing skills. Boxing improves your footwork and coordination while also teaching you how to take a hit and deliver a solid punch as well. Even if you have a black belt in BJJ, be sure that your MMA gym offers a wide variety of classes so you can be exposed to many disciplines.
Of course, while learning multiple fighting skills is smart, you still need to spend a great deal of time working on your strengths. We all have a style of fighting that works best for us, so it is important to be as strong as possible in this key area. Fighting is all about control, so work on what you actually can control and stop worrying about everything else. Another reason to focus on your key strengths is that it builds confidence in those moves, and if you can gain control in a fight, you are better able to end the fight with your strongest maneuvers.
When it comes to training, the worst thing you can do is to lose your focus. We are all busy with many other tasks, but when you are focusing on getting ready for a fight, you need to eliminate other activities. Training should take up a great deal of your time, so keep the rest of your life as simple as you possibly can.
It’s a bit of a waste to spend all this time training and then head home and eat a bag of potato chips and have a couple of beers. Your body is stronger when you feed it properly, and you also have to stay within your weight class so you need to pay attention to nutrition. Create meal plans that will maximize your health and strength and avoid unhealthy foods and drinks. This is a good plan for every day of your life and not just during training.
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Why Sleep is Important
Jun 20, 2013
How environment and behavior affect a person’s sleep
Stress is the number one cause of short-term sleeping difficulties, according to sleep experts. Common triggers include school- or job-related pressures, a family or marriage problem and a serious illness or death in the family. Usually the sleep problem disappears when the stressful situation passes. However, if short-term sleep problems such as insomnia aren't managed properly from the beginning, they can persist long after the original stress has passed.
Drinking alcohol or beverages containing caffeine in the afternoon or evening, exercising close to bedtime, following an irregular morning and nighttime schedule, and working or doing other mentally intense activities right before or after getting into bed can disrupt sleep.
If you are among the 20 percent of employees in the United States who are shift workers, sleep may be particularly elusive. Shift work forces you to try to sleep when activities around you - and your own "biological rhythms" - signal you to be awake. One study shows that shift workers are two to five times more likely than employees with regular, daytime hours to fall asleep on the job.
Traveling also disrupts sleep, especially jet lag and traveling across several time zones. This can upset your biological or “circadian” rhythms.
Environmental factors such as a room that's too hot or cold, too noisy or too brightly lit can be a barrier to sound sleep. And interruptions from children or other family members can also disrupt sleep. Other influences to pay attention to are the comfort and size of your bed and the habits of your sleep partner. If you have to lie beside someone who has different sleep preferences, snores, can't fall or stay asleep, or has other sleep difficulties, it often becomes your problem too!
Having a 24/7 lifestyle can also interrupt regular sleep patterns: the global economy that includes round the clock industries working to beat the competition; widespread use of nonstop automated systems to communicate and an increase in shift work makes for sleeping at regular times difficult. | <urn:uuid:3b6841e3-2ade-48e0-8473-0b1d3ecc21ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://elementsmassage.com/middletonwi/blog/why-sleep-is-important | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951006 | 419 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Adam Dyer is a Final Year Medical Student in Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Sean Kennelly (MB PhD FRCPI) is a Consultant Physician in Geriatric and Stroke Medicine in Tallaght Hospital (Dublin, Ireland) and a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The following work was presented as a platform presentation at the 64th Irish Gerontological Society Meeting in Killarney, Ireland (October, 2016).
Imagine you’re seeing a consult or you’re on a post-take ward round. How often do we examine a patient and identify cognitive deficits, see that the CT brain scan report and the MMSE score are readily on hand, but then ask staff about the patient’s premorbid cognition and function and are met with blank expressions?
An important factor which complicates the presentation of older people to acute hospitals is the presence of impaired cognitive status (either in the form of dementia, delirium or both). Continue reading | <urn:uuid:ad3db1e3-11b7-4570-b18e-ed1f9fe0e76c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://britishgeriatricssociety.wordpress.com/tag/impaired-cognitive-status/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.901904 | 211 | 1.960938 | 2 |
What's the Difference, Part Five: certificate signing vs strong naming
Both strong naming and digital signatures use public key cryptography to provide evidence about the origin of an assembly, so that you can apply security policy to determine what permissions are granted to the assembly.
They differ most importantly not in their mathematical details, but in what problems they are intended to solve.
The purpose of a strong name is solely to ensure that when you load an assembly by name, you are loading exactly the assembly you think you are loading. You say "I want to load Frobber, version 4, that came from FooCorp". The strong name gear ensures that you actually load precisely that DLL, and not another assembly called Frobber, version 4, that came from Dr. Evil Enterprises. You can then set security policy which says "if I have an assembly from FooCorp on my machine, fully trust it." These scenarios are the only by-design purposes of strong names.
In order to achieve this, all that is required is that you know the public key token associated with FooCorp's private key. How you come to know that public key token is entirely your business. There is no infrastructure in place designed to help you get that information safely. You're just expected to know what it is, somehow. If evil people can trick you into believing that their key token is in fact FooCorp's key token, then you have a problem. You are expected to come up with some reasonable way to determine what FooCorp's real key token is.
The purpose of a digital signature from a publisher certificate is to establish a verifiable chain of identity and trust. The chain of trust goes from a hunk of code of unknown or uncertain origin up to a "trusted root" -- an entity which you have configured your operating system to trust.
You download some code, and the code has a digital signature with a certificate from FooCorp. You examine the certificate and it says "this program comes from FooCorp. The accuracy of this certificate is vouched for by VeriSign." Since VeriSign is one of your trusted roots, you now have confidence that this code actually did come from FooCorp.
Notice how much more complex the problem solved by digital signatures is. We're not trying to simply determine "is this hunk of code associated with this name or not?" Instead we're trying to determine where did this code come from, and who vouches for the existence of the company allegedly responsible, and should we trust that company?
The difference between strong names and digital signatures emphasizes what is hard about crypto-based security. The hard problem isn't the cryptography; that's just math. The hard problem is safely managing distribution of information about the keys and associating them with the correct entities. Strong names, because they attempt to solve a very small but important problem, do not have key management issues. Or, rather, they foist the key management problem off to you, the user. Digital signatures are all about trying to automate safe distribution of key information via certificates, in order to solve much more complex problems of trust and identity. | <urn:uuid:9c63999c-4c58-4fde-8db2-a5eebe6f365f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ericlippert/whats-the-difference-part-five-certificate-signing-vs-strong-naming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.956151 | 636 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Minister D— is a daring political opponent of the French Queen; he steals one of her letters and uses it to blackmail her so that he can achieve his political ends. Although the Queen knows he has stolen it, neither she nor the police Prefect, another one of her allies, can recover the letter openly, for fear of publicizing its contents.
The Minister knows this, and he also knows that the police will try to search his home whenever he is away. At one point, he purposefully leaves to let them do this, because he has hidden the letter in an ironically obvious hiding place, where he is certain the police will not look for it. Without the Minister's knowledge, Dupin, the hired detective, deduces that this is exactly what the Minister has done, and on a visit to see the Minister, Dupin notices the letter sitting in a letter rack. On a second visit, the Minister is distracted by a diversion that Dupin has set up, and Dupin secretly switches the purloined letter with a fake letter. Although the Minister's fate is never seen, Dupin tells the narrator that since the Minister does not know about the fake letter, he will try to use it as he has used the real one, and it will backfire in his face, leading to his political downfall.
C. Auguste Dupin
C. Auguste Dupin is the detective in the story, whom the Prefect has called upon in past Poe stories to solve mysteries. In ‘‘The Purloined Letter,’’ the Prefect visits Dupin to get help in finding a purloined—or stolen—letter.
With the help of prompting questions and statements, largely from the narrator—who is a friend of Dupin—the Prefect provides Dupin with the details of the case. The letter has been stolen from the Queen, in her presence, by the Minister D— , a known political opponent. However, due to the sensitive nature of the letter's contents, the Queen and her allies, including the Prefect, cannot seize the letter openly, and so have tried to search the Minister's home in private. Dupin asks questions about the Prefect's search methods to determine if the search has been handled correctly. Dupin says that the Minister has conducted a good search, yet he encourages the Prefect to make a thorough search of the premises. The Prefect is confused, but takes his advice. However, a month later, when the Prefect returns to Dupin's home, he has still found nothing. On this second visit, Dupin asks the Prefect about the reward for finding the letter, and the Prefect says that it is fifty thousand francs. Dupin has the Prefect make out the check, then produces the letter.
Later, Dupin explains to...
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Voices from the Cacophony
By Trudy E. Bell and Dr. Tony Phillips
Around 2015, NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch one of the biggest and most exacting space experiments ever flown: LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
LISA will consist of three spacecraft flying in a triangular formation behind Earth. Each spacecraft will beam a laser at the other two, continuously measuring their mutual separation. The spacecraft will be a mind-boggling 5 million kilometers apart (12 times the Earth-Moon distance) yet they will monitor their mutual separation to one billionth of a centimeter, smaller than an atom’s diameter.
LISA’s mission is to detect gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by the Universe’s most violent events: galaxies colliding with other galaxies, supermassive black holes gobbling each other, and even echoes still ricocheting from the Big Bang that created the Universe. By studying the shape, frequency, and timing of gravitational waves, astronomers believe they can learn what’s happening deep inside these acts of celestial violence.
The problem is, no one has ever directly detected gravitational waves: they’re still a theoretical prediction. So no one truly knows what they “sound” like.
Furthermore, theorists expect the Universe to be booming with thousands of sources of gravitational waves. Unlike a regular telescope that can point to one part of the sky at a time, LISA receives gravitational waves from many directions at once. It’s a cacophony. Astronomers must figure how to distinguish one signal from another. An outburst is detected! Was it caused by two neutron stars colliding over here or a pair of supermassive black holes tearing each other apart in colliding galaxies over there?
“It’s a profound data-analysis problem that ground-based astronomers don’t encounter,” says E. Sterl Phinney, professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Profound, but not hopeless: “We have lots of good ideas and plans that work—in theory,” he says. “The goal now is to prove that they actually work under real conditions, and to make sure we haven't forgotten something.”
To that end, theorists and instrument-designers have been spending time together brainstorming, testing ideas, scrutinizing plans, figuring out how they’ll pluck individual voices from the cacophony. And they’re making progress on computer codes to do the job.
Says Bonny Schumaker, a member of the LISA team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: “It's a challenge more than a problem, and in fact, when overcome, a gift of information from the universe.”
For more info about LISA, see lisa.nasa.gov. Kids can learn about black holes and play the new “Black Hole Rescue!” game on The Space Place Web site at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/blackhole/.
LISA will be able to detect gravitational waves from as far back as 10-36 second after the Big Bang, far earlier than any telescope can detect.
This article was provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Did you know that about half of American adults have cholesterol levels that are too high? It may also surprise you to know that all cholesterol is not bad. It is important to understand what the differences are because too much or not enough of one type or another can put you at risk for heart disease.
The majority of cholesterol comes from the body, and the remaining from food, specifically animal products. There are two types of cholesterol, HDL (good) and LDL (bad). These are called lipoproteins and they carry cholesterol to the cells.
When you have too much LDL cholesterol, it can combine with white blood cells and fats to create plaque in your veins and arteries. This can block blood from flowing through the arteries and lead to heart damage or failure. If the buildup of plaque ruptures, a blood clot can form and then prevent blood flow to the heart and brain, causing a heart attack or stroke.
HDL cholesterol works to your advantage to help unclog arteries that can be blocked by LDL cholesterol and it helps remove cholesterol from the blood. For heart health it is essential to have a high level of HDL cholesterol and low level of LDL cholesterol.
The recommended level for LDL cholesterol is under 160 mg/dL, for HDL cholesterol over 40 mg/dL for men and 50 mg/dLfor women, and under 150 mg/dL for triglycerides (blood fats). If your total cholesterol is over 200 mg/dL, you need to talk to your doctor and take action that may include:
- Eat better – move towards a more healthy diet that is low in cholesterol, trans fats and saturated fats, and high in fiber (e.g. fruits and vegetables). Avoid food from animals (e.g. fatty meats, whole-milk dairy products and egg yolks). Maintain a healthy weight as a result.
- Be active – one of the seven steps toward a healthy heart and a very important way for your body to create more good cholesterol and decrease your risk of heart-related conditions. Exercising at least 30 minutes a day most days of the week is recommended.
- Regular screenings – detecting high cholesterol early can help you begin to lower it. Because high cholesterol has no symptoms, it is important to have it tested.
- Work with your doctor to create the right treatment plan to maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
- Quit Smoking
- Take medication if prescribed
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Learn more about The Emory Heart & Vascular Center’s Heart Disease Prevention Program.
About Dr. Jefferson Baer
Dr. Baer is a cardiologist at the Emory Heart & Vascular Center, and is the Director of Preventive Cardiology at Emory University Hospital Midtown. He specializes in general cardiology, lipid metabolism, preventive cardiology and valve disease. He is highly regarded in the physician community for his expertise in preventing heart disease. | <urn:uuid:4fb3d637-0bf7-4b4b-9ad7-9b36e6a3fb32> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://advancingyourhealth.org/heartblog/tag/high-cholesterol/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00254-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923182 | 635 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Industrial location analysis of Sudan
The present study is a modest attempt to analyse industrial location in Sudan, and to explain existing location patterns and industrial localization. Future industrial location trends are examined in the light of past and present development. The commitment to non-industrialisation in Sudan during the colonial regime has had a pronounced impact on the post independence spatial distribution of industry. Thus investment policies and development in the pre-independence period are investigated with reference to the set objectives and prevailing opportunities in Chapter Two. Private capital investment was insignificant compared with the public sector which was under taking 'commercial plantation' and infrastructural capital outlay. However, business and trade was the domain of private entrepreneurship. Public and private sectors were nonetheless complementary to each other and their activities were co-ordinated in what is termed the 'charter government system'. Structural transformation and economic growth (Chapter Three) is seen as a manifestation of this co-ordination and partnership. Planned non industrialisation, 'growth through trade', and primary export base are all attributed to the development endeavour of this period. An industrial location theory specific to developing countries is expounded in the Prime Base theory (Chapter Pour). Localization of industry according to this theory seems inevitable in many other prime bases of developing countries. In the second part, Sudan's industrial activity is investigated within the context of contemporary urban and regional development. In Chapter Five the spatial organisation of the industrial activity in the Prime Base is analysed in some detail, and the regional distribution and pattern of industry in Sudan is examined in Chapter Six. The emergence of secondary bases is seen as part of the economic process, and could be developed to realise industrial regionalisation. Chapter Seven is a case study of cotton-seed oil to test existing localization as against the 'theoretical optimum' according to classical location theory. Chapter Eight analyses human and natural resources in relation to regional development and future prospects for industrial location. Some suggestions are offered, and policy issues are raised in the concluding remarks. | <urn:uuid:83d3c54b-6ed2-468b-98fe-bada1f302935> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.258493 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00248-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957919 | 400 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The vast majority of English as a Second Language students attend class to improve conversational or academic English in general, not targeting any particular skill or content.
However, there is the occasional student who is there targeting a specific skill, such as writing, while being fluent in other skills in English.
Even less often a student approaches the instructor asking for individual tutoring in order to succeed on the GRE (Graduate Record Exam) or TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or CBEST (California Basic Skills Test, which all educators in California must pass) or any other myriad standardized tests that are required to enter an career path or education program. These students’ needs should be addressed as any other students’, but the question becomes how to target the specific skills required to pass these tests. General language instruction, while helpful, will not necessarily address the student needs for testing success.
8 Methods for Tutoring ESL Students for Specific Academic/Professional Tests
Obtain a Study Guide of the Specific Test
Most standardized tests will have a study guide available through bookstores. Obtain and review a copy, taking notes on possible problem areas for the ESL student. Note areas that are likely to be difficult: word analogies, tests of vocabulary, reading sections, and written exams.
In addition, seek the student’s input. Have her look over the study guide, skim its major sections, and discuss what seem the most difficult and confusing parts to her.
Take a Practice Test Online
The publishers for standardized tests, besides providing study materials, also publish websites for their materials which often come with practice tests. Take one yourself. This will give a firm understanding of the test, its structure and content, as well as its difficulties.
Get the Student to Take the Practice Test
Having the student take the practice test will give the student similar understanding of the test and its difficulties, and he or she will be able to communicate to the teacher specific areas for future attention and study, areas that he or she felt anxious about or was confused by. The teacher will also be able to see from the results areas that need attention for instruction.
Target Problem Areas
Determine two or three major areas of focus from practice test results and the student’s self-assessment. Some common areas of difficulty to focus on are listening for directions; reading for main ideas, details, transitions; and writing an academic essay.
Design Curriculum and Choose Materials
Once the general course/tutoring objectives have been determined, gather a combination of online materials and materials from your professional library. In addition, often sample materials and desk copies are available free from the publisher. Look over the materials with the student and decide together which seem to be the most helpful. Use these materials to base lessons on and build a core of activities for the term with your student.
Set up a Regular Study Schedule
Plan to meet with the student at least once or twice a week in the months before the test begins for at least an hour a session. Spend some time each session reviewing from the last session, going over new points of instruction, practicing, and assigning homework for next time.
Teach General Test-taking Skills
Some general test-taking skills that will help in almost any testing situation are preparation, rehearsal, time management, and relaxation. If students prepare and rehearse for the test adequately, this will help in addressing test anxiety that most people suffer from in any high-stakes testing situation. Managing and budgeting time both in test preparation and during the test itself is also invaluable. Raising awareness of these skills and teaching them to the student will help both in defeating the myth that some people are just “naturally” better test takers than others and help students prepare for the test.
Teach Specific Test Taking Skills
There are also more specific test-taking skills that include skimming (reading for main ideas), scanning(reading for specific information); looking at the questions before the reading passage so that material to focus on is clear; and careful reading of directions and following them, perhaps circling and numbering key words to help in the process. In addition to careful reading of test items, test taking strategies include such skills as completing easier items first and saving time at the end for the more difficult items; and applying the process of elimination in multiple-choice questions, knowing that one or two items will be obviously wrong and one less obviously so, leaving two choices, usually, which the students may use a combination of common sense and content knowledge to answer. Also teach the writing process for essay exams: careful reading of the prompt or topic, doing some prewriting or brainstorming; coming up with an outline and then writing a draft, and finally going back to edit. Students should be taught to go through these phases quickly as part of time management.
When sitting down with a student who desperately needs to pass a standardized exam for some academic or professional purpose, the instructor may at first be stymied as to help the student because the task seems overwhelming and because it seems initially that it might take years to really develop skills enough to earn a required score on the exam. But through a combination of understanding the test demand, student needs, as well as study skills, the teacher can provide invaluable coaching to assist the student in passing the “gatekeeper exam” and moving toward professional and academic goals. | <urn:uuid:ff165652-eb22-46f7-9a88-0cf67e790f3f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://busyteacher.org/23055-cbest-toefl-gre-tutoring-esl-students.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00250-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956174 | 1,100 | 3.15625 | 3 |
This article is part of our 52 week journey through Bill’s latest book, The Graduate’s Guide to Life and Money. Each week, a full excerpt from his book will be presented from beginning to end. To get your copy of his book, visit www.TheGraduatesGuide.com.
There are several ways to get from one place to another. In college you probably walked, took a bus, or bummed a ride from someone who had a car. Perhaps you even used a bike or roller blades. While you can use those same methods to get to work, you will probably go with something more sophisticated such as a motorized scooter or a Segway. You might just choose the more traditional route and use public transportation or drive a car. No matter what method you choose to get to work, you will probably own a car at some point in your life. For instance, I used public transportation to get to work, but I used my car to get to the train station. I still use the car to go to the grocery store and the movies. For now, we’ll assume you are going to be purchasing a car sometime.
Here we go again. Another one of life’s little ironies. In order to get to your job, you need a car. In order to buy a car, you need a job. Who came up with this system anyway? Sometimes it feels like the whole world has something against those of us who are just starting out. But wait… Just when it seems to get grim, you see that sign at the dealership, “No Credit? No Problem.” Perhaps you’ve received one of those “checks” in the mail. If you haven’t yet, you will. It looks like a check, from a car dealership or a major automaker in the amount of, say, $20,000.
So what is the deal with all of those auto dealerships that say credit is not an issue? Be very careful. What they will do is charge you an extra high interest rate on your loan and sometime additional fees, since you have no credit history. If you are worried about not having enough money for a down payment, you may still be able to go through a bank. Perhaps your parents will cosign. (Warning: I am not endorsing cosigning because way too often a person bites off more than they can chew, or they lose their job, or some other life event takes place and their parents get stuck with the bill). I know you want to be independent, but we all could use a little help. You could always refinance later, and take their name off of the loan. Of course, if you follow our debt elimination plan, you’ll have it paid off in just a couple of years anyway. Talk about making your parents proud.
Okay, so what about that check in the mail? Actually, it is nothing more than a loan you may be qualified for in order to purchase a new car. It is somewhat deceptive. If you assume nothing in life is free, you should be able to avoid any of these “tricksters.”
Prepare for the Sales Person Before You Walk onto the Lot
Once again, you are being called upon to do a little homework. This time you may have a little more fun. You only need to do this one if you are thinking of buying a car. You can begin your search by going on the web. Visit www.edmunds.com or www.kbb.com (Kelley Blue Book). From these web sites you can find out exactly how much the dealer paid for the car (if it is new), or an estimate of what the dealer paid for the car if it is used. You can also determine how much your old car is worth if you are trading it in for a newer one. From there you can figure a good starting point in your negotiation process.
Salespeople make their living by selling things. I have nothing against honest salespeople, but I always keep in mind that it is in their best interest for me to buy from them even when it is not in my best interest. Sometimes the dealer may try to guilt you into purchasing a car after spending time with you or talking about some promotion they are very close to getting. This is not a charity function here. You have come to buy a car; the one that is right for you. Don’t buy anything you do not want.
Another great tactic is where the dealer says they are giving you the best possible deal. Then they “talk to their manager.” After 15 or 20 minutes your salesperson returns and says the manager has allowed another few hundred dollars off, but that is as low as they can go, and that is already eating into your salesperson’s commission. In reality, they were probably talking about golf or something for a few minutes. Either way it doesn’t matter, because you should already have an idea of how much you are willing to spend.
One thing you will notice is the whole process takes a very long time. I don’t know the exact science here, but essentially you are being worn down ever so slowly. For one thing, you will have spent so much time there you might as well make the purchase because you cannot imagine going through this again. Besides, most of your day is gone and who has the time to keep looking for cars when there is so much more you could be doing with your life.
If you do decide to make your purchase, make sure there is a clear understanding of what car you are getting, what features and warranties come with it and at what price. Before you go to the final “signature” room, tell the dealer ahead of time you want to be made aware of any possible extras such as extended warranties and so on because you will not add anything else to the sale when you go to sign the paperwork. Dealers make so much extra profit from those last minute sales. It goes something like this, “By the way, I forgot to mention that we also offer a rust proofing package. We could go ahead and add that on for only $10 per month. You’ll hardly notice it in your payment. What’s $10 a month to protect a $20,000 investment?” First of all, it is not an investment, it’s a purchase, but that’s another issue. Second of all, actually there is only a first. Like I said, you are already worn down at this point and you are more likely to agree to anything.
That’s why you must ask before you sit down for the final signatures. Another way of trying to get you would be, “Okay, everything looks good. You would like to protect your vehicle with our three year extended warranty wouldn’t you?” Again, you want to know about all of this upfront.
Just for fun, here are a few other sales tactics to watch for. The salesperson will use the word authorize instead of signature. “If you would just authorize this right here.” Everyone knows that when you sign something you are making an agreement and you should read everything first. Also, everything is an investment instead of a purchase. “To protect your investment, you should…” Anything that is expected to decrease in value is essentially not an investment. This includes cars and refrigerators.
When you begin to do your paper work, not only do you have to wait for a while, the dealer will seem agitated if you start to take time and think before making a decision. If you are going to spend that much money, I say take all the time you need.
There are several ways to shop for a car. You can take the traditional route, which is to browse a few dealerships until you find something that is almost what you are looking for and is close to the price you are willing to spend. Not only will you spend a lot of time, but you may also find yourself negotiating for a car on the lot before you are really ready. The one real advantage to this method is your ability to test-drive several vehicles.
Another option is to write down specifically what you are looking for, send a fax or email to several different car lots within your driving range, and have them send you a quote. You should specify make, model and year, and what condition you want the car in (if it is used). Also, list any features the car must have such as air-conditioning and power door locks. You may also want to list anything you do not want such as any shade of brown or pink. Inform the dealerships you are interested in purchasing a car, based on the descriptions in your email or fax, and that you are sending your request to several dealerships to find out who has the best offer. Once you receive quotes, you can go to the dealership and test-drive the vehicles. If you find that the car is not really what you are looking for, then walk away. The salesperson will probably try to make you feel bad, but we are talking about your money here!
Thanks to our creative society there are several other options available for buying a car. Costco and Sam’s Club offer car-buying services they claim will save you money. You can go directly to some of the auto manufacturer websites such as GM and Ford and build the exact car you want. From there you can enter your zip code and the dealerships in your area will send a quote to you within a couple of days. Some dealerships are now offering no-haggle pricing where they mark the car with the lowest price they are willing to accept, and you can either pay it or leave it. You can even go to e-bay and bid online for a car!
The one key ingredient, no matter which way you choose to shop for a car, is to know what you want. You should create a list of all the features you absolutely must have, the ones you would really like to have, and the ones you absolutely do not want. You also want to figure out how much you can afford. Remember, you may be paying for this car for a long time. If you start to think, “I can sacrifice a little more to get a slightly more expensive car,” you may be slipping right into the dealer’s hands. It is one thing to give up a few nights out one month for a car, but to do that month after month for five years will make you miserable.
Don’t fall for the, “Well, you’re young and you’ll be getting raises so you’ll make more money soon and the payment won’t be that bad.” Remember; when you take out a loan for a car (or anything for that matter) you are already giving up future income in order to enjoy your purchase today. Don’t start thinking about giving up future pay raises also! If you cannot comfortably afford the payment today (take into account other things you want to do with your money and the maintenance costs on the car), you simply cannot afford the payment.
Next week we will look at the ins and out of financing a car, and answer the age old question “does it make sense to lease a car?”
Bill Pratt is a former credit card executive turned student-advocate. He is the author of Extra Credit: The 7 Things Every College Student Needs to Know About Credit Debt & Ca$h and The Graduate’s Guide to Life and Money. Bill speaks at colleges to educate and entertain students about real-life issues in money, leadership, and success. His goal is to help students succeed personally and financially so they can improve the lives of those around them. You can learn more at www.ExtraCreditBook.com or www.TheGraduatesGuide.com. | <urn:uuid:0ae585be-4247-481f-8c25-461b41d97dce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://finance.youngmoney.com/wheels/auto_shopping/I-work-I-drive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973153 | 2,473 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Poverty in Asia: Is the Dragon Really Rising?
A complex, contrasted picture
Yet, East and Southeast Asia have made huge progress in terms of reducing poverty and developing economies. Right now, many of these developing countries look like post-war Europe in the 1950s: there is a lack of education, hygiene, infrastructure and extreme poverty is still visible and omnipresent.
Add problems of unemployment, inequalities, discrimination, corruption and you’ll see why the path to sustainable development is not all smooth. However, this path is not all rough either and much research is available (though not always accessible to everyone) on how to make it all the way to a sustainable future, rid of absolute poverty in Asia.
- Poverty in Bangladesh
- Poverty in Cambodia
- Poverty in China
- Poverty in Pakistan
- Poverty in the Philippines
Millennium Development Goals in Asia
The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are targets that were to become landmarks in the fight against poverty. They were set in 2000 and are to be reached by 2015. However it’s now become clear that most countries won’t reach the targets set by the UN. The MDGs aim at eradicating extreme poverty and hunger as well as achieving universal primary education and combating diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, among the total 8 goals (that include 18 specific targets).
Unrealistic targets for poverty in Asia (and the world)
A lot of people have criticized the MDGs for being unrealistic and unachievable from the start. Even though this is entirely true, the initiative has been a real innovation in setting global targets. The criticisms should in fact be incorporated in such development goals so that we can make them more realistic and down-to-earth.
While, as a continent, Asia sometimes seems to be making good progress towards the MDGs, the fact is that the growth of countries such as China shadows the immense problems that other smaller countries are facing. Then, there is also the problem that looking at poverty in Asia is a very unsubtle approach: we neglect the fact the Asia covers radically different cultures, geographies and histories. Think about China, then India, then the Philippines, Cambodia, Uzbekistan and other small island states in the Pacific Ocean.
Lessons from the MDGs in Asia
In general East and Southeast Asian countries have been doing pretty well when fighting poverty in Asia whereas India (in the light of its current wealth) and Pacific island countries – among others – have lagged behind. The best lesson that MDGs have brought us remains their potential to raise awareness on global issues and raise funds from governments and NGOs worldwide.
By bringing this initiative, the United Nations have also contributed to making international aid more accountable and efficient via the MDGs’ need for results with limited resources. However the problem remains that awareness-raising is more difficult for smaller countries than for bigger ones. Hopefully, in this digital era, there is a potential to reduce this inequality in bringing media attention.
Isolated Pacific island countries
Neglected in the MDGs
Pacific island countries have been neglected by international organizations because of their small size and population. Even if the Millennium Development Goals have a universal purpose, it’s become clear that not everyone has received universal support. In other words, some countries have received much less attention than others and the fault is mostly due to our (naturally) biased perception of the world.
As a result, most of these countries won’t achieve the goals by 2015, but that’s not a surprise for anyone, as we expect most countries in the world not to achieve the MDGs. At best they will achieve a couple of them and after all it’s not that bad if a country manages “only” to eradicate hunger or offer universal education to its population.
Lack of data on poverty in Asia
The truth about poverty in Asia and the MDGs is that the goals must be tailored to each country and its context. Ambition is essential but so is pragmatism too. Then concerning the way the MDGs work, it seems that international donors and NGOs had better focusing on the most remote and poorest areas of Asia.
Rural villages are becoming more and more excluded from bigger cities and are difficult to access (and easily forgotten). There is no way these areas can achieve universal education, for the simple reason that many don’t have enough schools within reasonable distance. And there aren’t buses either bringing children from villages around to the nearest school.
All this reveals the massive lack of data on rural poverty in Asia. And that’s precisely because they have been neglected for so long that no one knows anything about these communities. This makes it difficult to know specifically which areas are most in need and exactly what they need. More research on the topic would be of great help to donors and international agencies in showing how widespread the problem is.
The rise of the Asian myths
Reality and myths about India’s rise
Despite the ups and downs in GDP growth during the crisis, there is definitely an “India myth” about the country’s marvelous development trajectory that leapfrogged degrading manufacturing and low-skilled workers. While this is somewhat true, what this myth doesn’t say is that by leapfrogging the industrial stage of development, India also leapfrogged millions of low-skilled workers and left them behind. That’s why today India makes for a huge share of poverty in Asia with its roughly 40-50% of the population living in poverty. In the end, only very few Indians have been able to reap the benefits of modernization and globalization.
In order to create a job for everyone, India would have to develop its agriculture, tame rich farmers who absorb whimsical subsidies and exploit poorer ones, but also completely reform its property right system and renovate its infrastructure. Simply put, there’s still hell of a job to do: an industrial revolution. And real reforms of its institutions.
What about China?
China’s economy is about three times the size of India’s and its infrastructure is incomparably more developed, so there is no doubt that both countries play in a different league. However does it mean that China is ready to take over the world?
Not really. Of course the country has now the means to protect its own economic interests in the world, just like most developed countries do. But inequalities and poverty in China are still a huge problem and corruption is pandemic. From 90,000 mass incidents per year in the late 2000s, riots and clashes with local authorities have risen to 180,000 each year since 2010 (according to Beijing’s official statistics bureau).
So, as you can guess, the focus right now is more on maintaining stability and on dealing with corruption and inequalities – particularly because the government has been promising economic prosperity to everyone for two decades.
Development issues in South Asian poverty
The impact of social order on poverty in Asia
It’s hard to talk about poverty in South Asia (mostly India) without talking about Amartya Sen – one of the most important academics and researcher on the topic. The way he saw it – along with anyone else with common sense – poverty in the region is mostly caused by incompetent or weak politicians who are unable to tackle a society and its unfair system.
Of course, changing an entire social order and social structure isn’t an easy task but many countries did it. The truth is that even when there are strong-willed policy-makers or reformers, they lack the political and economic means to do anything. Most of the time corruption will take care of them one way or another (e.g. directly bribing the person or his superior).
Unequal development and resistance
The situation is such that South Asia is home to the largest number of poor people in the world. While India is often described as the biggest democracy in the world, it’d be more accurate to say it’s one of the most corrupt and unequal countries in the world. The 100 richest people in India possess the equivalent to ¼ of the country’s GDP in assets. How’s that for inequality!
It’s no surprise that communist-maoist movements are on the rise in India, where people see their houses destroyed and their land seized overnight by local officials and real estate developers. It becomes hard to see the difference between capitalism and communism when you experience something like that. All this shows how important it is to build institutions that defend the rule of law and citizens’ basic rights to housing and education (among other good things).
Democracy and poverty in the South
Throughout South Asia (starting with India), there has been an obvious failure of democracy’s promise of empowering people. Instead, South Asia has maintained its unfair institutions and social order so that the democratic game was rigged from the start. Instead of being actors of politics, citizens in South Asia have been turned into the clients of the powerful elite who takes turn in seizing power at each election.
Power in South Asia is still very much a matter of chance: either you were born in the right family or you weren’t. Getting lucky and grow up in the right caste of class still determines not just your political power but your economic prospects one too. That’s why the right agenda for ending poverty in Asia must focus on overthrowing the power balance and the institutional discriminations it creates. This is not to say that no progress has been made in reducing poverty in Asia, but simply that going further will require deeper change. This doesn’t mean either that all the elite should be beheaded, but simply that average citizens must gain in freedom and power over their own lives so that they can participate in their society.
Poverty reduction programs
Human capital and growth
There are several programmes aimed tackling poverty in Asia. Mostly they include increasing growth rates via macroeconomic stability (e.g. inflation, currency), government spending (infrastructure) and foreign investment; but also developing human capital via investment in health and education.
However, too many South Asian countries do not understand how important it is to educate the whole population rather than a small elite. They completely ignore the economic impact of reducing poverty in Asia and the difference it would make within their own societies. Such short-term approach is sometimes officially recognized in the case of poverty in Bangladesh for example, where the government has acknowledged the huge lack of funding for primary public services.
The problem is then that international programmes across Asia don’t go beyond supporting NGOs and local budgets. In other words there is no set target and there is not enough focus on accountability and results concerning what is going in schools and hospitals.
The need for tailored solutions
You want specific numbers? Countries such as Cambodia and Bangladesh have among the lowest public spending on education in the world with about 2% of GDP, while the average worldwide tends to be around 4-5% of GDP – i.e. twice more investment on education. These countries also have to grapple with sky high levels of adult illiteracy, which implies a whole different strategy than just relying on traditional schools.
There is definitely a need for adult education programs and public messages promoting them… the right way. Only a few years ago in Southern China (near Cambodia), you could see on the side of the road massive advertisements with happy farmers exhorting you to “Learn To Read”. Obviously, if you don’t know how to read, you’ll have issues deciphering this message and the letters on the advertisement board. In this particular case, radio or TV would be better channels for promotion…
Class inequality and tensions
It’s become clear to many countries that enormous class inequalities and absolute poverty in Asia are driving tensions and clashes within the society. This is particularly true for poverty in Pakistan where a small elite is capturing the bulk of public services – be it education or health. The poor are increasingly at odds with the government as they face unemployment and diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B, polio and malaria.
Only Sri Lanka seems to be trying more ambitious changes concerning efficient welfare, universal education and introducing more modern equipment in its health system. Only time will tell if these reforms are successful.
Upcoming challenges and solutions
Growth and poverty in Asia
Across Southeast Asia, from Thailand to Lao and the Philippines, there has been undeniable progress in reducing poverty. The experience in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia shows that growth in agriculture and services has been fundamental to tackle poverty, but that growth in industry didn’t have much impact.
In Thailand and Malaysia, the comprehensive development of a service industry has even had a bigger impact than agriculture on lifting local out of poverty. A developed service sector will indeed bring a certain variety of jobs – not just in IT – but also in hotels & tourism, catering, retail sales and so on. However, it’s also thanks to the modernization of agriculture that these countries were able to free enough labor that went into the service industry.
An aging population
In Asia, older people are particularly at risk of all sorts of poverty: illness, social exclusion, lack of pension system, lack of job opportunities, lack of social assistance. But these people also represent a challenge for the development of the continent itself. It’s not just a problem of poverty in Asia anymore, it’s becoming a potential barrier to the further development of huge countries like China.
Asian countries obviously need to reform their social security system according to either their own financial capabilities. On one side, we’ve got people who live longer lives and would like to enjoy basic living conditions - stuff like running water, electricity and a shelter. On the other side, we’ve got governments that haven’t planned that people could actually live longer and ask for a decent life at the same time. Obviously the problem is more with creating an entire social security system out of scratch for countries that were well under-developed a couple of decades ago. It’s a whole learning process. And there is also to understand that markets and institutions must as well cater for the needs of the older population, which are very different than those of a very young population.
Micro-credit: the solution to poverty in Asia ?
Microcredit has become so trendy these days, I can’t but mention it. It’s actually been used for providing small loans and training to older people in order to teach them new skills that would make them better able to find a job. The question of “when is it decent to retire?” still remains up in the air, though. But at least a few microcredit programs have shown that older people make reliable “clients” and are able to adapt to changes.
Despite the enthusiasm for microcredit, many experts realize we don’t know as much as we should about the real impact of this strategy and how cost-effective it is compared to other programmes. If you’re looking for a good research topic, serious data and analysis is very much sought after information.
Microcredits and the bottom billion in Asia
The few rigorous studies made on how microcredit tackles poverty in Asia, however, do point out interesting things. Reaching the bottom billion (poorest of the poor) is just as difficult with microcredit as it is with usual financial or anti-poverty programs. After all the same problems have remained, namely finding and reaching these excluded populations who are also considered high risk investments.
So, how do you help them? Ideally, they should be able to get some sort of support services on top of their credit so as to provide some sort of safety net. Clever businessmen (or governments) will see that it means long term vision and long-term clients. By offering them support services - e.g. financial or business advice, guarantees – you not only make sure they reimburse their microcredit, you also win long term clients who will most likely have ever bigger needs and new business ideas to get out of poverty.
Of course, some microcredit programs aren’t financially sustainable and that’s why better data and studies are needed. This would help calculate the overall economic gain that lifting millions of people out of poverty would represent. In the end, what we do know is that microcredit at least works very well with the slightly better off poor. This is surely enough of an argument to use this strategy in a targeted manner. So, even if it's ever proven that microcredit doesn't help the bottom poor, we'd still know it's one useful tool to fight "non-extreme" poverty in Asia.
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A hasty international withdrawal from Afghanistan would be unwise. We should also guard against regional spoilers who are not invested in peace and see instability in Afghanistan as advantageous for their own geopolitical ends”.
Khan had warned of “consequences” of a hasty international withdrawal from Afghanistan” which is what has now come to the fore.
Is Khan hinting at the approaching geo-political shift in the world politics after the US exit from Afghanistan? Keep fingers crossed.
Political overtures seen in world politics does tell that “grand polarization” has begun with the US exit from Afghanistan.
The bedlam that was seen at time of the Talibs entering Kabul and later capturing Kabul should have been realized by the US in advance which thus demanded that some sort of “understanding” with the Kabul-approaching Talibs to have been struck to which it was not perhaps.
However, the US began withdrawal prior to the set date and thus the disorder followed perchance.
Thus US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s penetrating comments made on Pakistan in the recent days and weeks appears far from truth, so claim the media outlets inside Pakistan.
Secretary of State Blinken had stated in the US Congress that the “US will be looking at ties with Pakistan in the coming weeks to formulate the role America wants Islamabad to play in the future of Afghanistan”.
Blinken also said that “we are looking at in the days and weeks ahead…the role that Pakistan has played over the last 20 years, but also the role that we would want to see it playing in the coming years”.
If the US is shocked with the lightning speed with which the Talibs captured Kabul is only but the result of the “hasty international withdrawal” about which PM Khan had warned quite in advance. The US must admit.
In addition, Pakistan’s prime minister had said as early as in July this year that America’s accelerated troop exit from Afghanistan has left Washington with no “bargaining power” for arranging a peace deal between warring Afghans”.
“I think the U.S. has really messed it up in Afghanistan,” Imran Khan told in an interview with Judy Woodruff July 27, 2021, for PBS News Hour.
Khan had also hinted that with US’s announcement of the dates of the forces withdrawal, the political leverage that Pakistan have had on Talibani forces too have diminished considerably with the US dates announcement and so the US should not accuse Pakistan that the country is not using its influence on the Talibans…. This is what the Pakistani version.
Practically disturbed by the piling up of accusations, some threat loaded statements as well from no less than US Secretary Blinken against Pakistan, since the Talibs seized power in Kabul, for Imran Khan the fresh interview with the CNN international was a superb platform not only to furnish fitting answers to the US side but also an opportune moment to remind the US that it had used and over used Pakistan in its war on Terrorism.
PM Khan said talking to Becky Anderson said that the US war against terrorism was “disastrous” for Pakistan as Washington used Islamabad like a “hired gun” during their 20-year presence in Afghanistan.
“We (Pakistan) were like a hired gun,” told the CNN anchor that “We were supposed to make them (the US) win the war in Afghanistan, which we never could.”
The fact is also that the then rulers in Islamabad willingly came to help the US call and Islamabad could have easily said “no”.
In a subtle manner PM Khan sent implied signals to Secretary Blinken that it was time when not the US but Pakistan should ask Washington on how to proceed in the days ahead for the institutionalization of peace and stability in Afghanistan and the entire region.
However, Nepali observers hasten to add that PM Khan would do well if he and his government in Islamabad strikes an unanimity of interests that satisfy each other which is in the larger interest of not only Afghanistan but also to the entire region in South Asia and beyond.
PM Khan’s anger speaks that he is not happy with the way the US is treating his country.
Taking a swipe at the US President told that Joe Biden so far has not talked with him neither on South Asian regional issues nor sought appropriate support on the future of Afghanistan after the seize of Kabul by the Talibani forces.
Khan’s discontentment appears to have quadrupled when he learns through media outlets that President Joe Biden is in regular touch with his political rival-PM Modi of India who talk with each other on Quad matters and matters related with China.
India is a strategic partner of the US as is given to understand.
Tensed with the continued neglect, if it were any, PM Khan taking a jab at the US President Biden said to Becky Anderson of the CNN (Connect the World), “He is a busy man” and later said Joe Biden should be asked (instead) “why is he too busy to call”?
(PM Khan later made his comments on Joe Biden mild while talking to the Russia Today).
This is loaded with political meaning indeed.
A close reading at the aforesaid short statements made by PM Khan on President Biden does tell that PM Khan has taken the US stance on Pakistan as an affront to his country whose role in the building of peace and stability in Afghanistan can neither be ignored by the international powers like China, Russia, Germany and the entire European Nations nor even the US could afford to ignore the country.
If so, will then PM Khan inch closer to the fold of China-the rival of the US?
Perhaps the USs continued desertion of Islamabad encouraged a competent South Asian leader (Khan) with integrity to make comments on the US President in an uncommon manner.
Pakistan understands better that the US have had to approach Pakistan, its former Cold War ally, in order to build peace and stability in Afghanistan to ensure stability in the entire region that encompasses the entire Central Asian nations which border Afghanistan.
Khan told Becky Anderson point blank that now the best way forward for peace and stability in Afghanistan is to engage with the Taliban and “incentivize” them on issues such as women’s rights and inclusive government”.
He then urged the international community to come forward to help support Afghanistan at a precarious time when they need or else “chaos” will run supreme in the days, weeks and months ahead.
If the international community doesn’t support an Afghanistan which is just at a dangerous crossroads, the new set up in South Asia and a member of the SAARC regional body could what the PM said “go to chaos”, culminating in the biggest humanitarian crisis, and resulting in a huge refugee problem, and an unstable Afghanistan for long time and […] the possibility of again terrorism from Afghanistan’s soil,” he warned.
PM Khan’s fear is genuine in that any political disturbance or say eruption of civil war in Afghanistan will once again force the poor Afghani population to ask for shelter in next door Pakistan which already houses about three million refugees since four decades or so.
So Pakistan is the hardest hit if crisis grips Afghanistan in the absence of international humanitarian support.
Since a couple of days, PM Khan has been pleading the international community to help assist stabilize Afghanistan and halt the country from becoming a land that gives birth to terror and terrorism.
Talking to Becky Anderson of the CNN, PM Khan also said that “rather than sitting here and thinking that we can control them, we should incentivize them because this current government in Afghanistan clearly feels that without international aid and help they will not be able to stop this crisis. We […] should push them in the right direction.”
Pakistan Prime Minister’s appeal to the international society through Becky Anderson of the CNN to help alleviate Afghanistan resonated also in Dushanbe, Kazakhstan, wherein four powerful regional stakeholders of Afghanistan namely, China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran together and made a strong petition to the international community to help backing Afghanistan to overcome the impending humanitarian crisis.
The four countries China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran have come close on the heels of the emergence of yet another perceived “security block”, AUKUS (comprising of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States) which too some claim is more or less like a Quad of four powerful nations primarily meant to take care of the war torn Afghanistan.
-France has retaliated the formation of the three white men’s club (Australia, the United Kingdom and the US) by the US.
“ A stab in the back”, is how the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described US President Joe Biden’s announcement of a new club of three-the US, Great Britain and Australia-under the guise of countering China in the Indo-Pacific region.
This means there is a crack in the USs western block (alliance). This crack benefits China for sure.
However, intelligent international experts claim that the Quad comprising of China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran may act to counter the Quad and the AUKUS led by the United States.
What is noteworthy in this Quad, if it is a Quad at all, formed by China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran is that all the countries housed in this Quad are more or less critical to the US political supremacy and wish the world moved through “reconciliation” and sharing and respecting each country’s needs and security concerns.
Needless to say, China and Russia differ with the US on may political counts.
Likewise, Pakistan too appears to have some “reservations” of late with its relations with the US and wants the US to treat Pakistan that it deserves as a country of integrity.
In PM Khan’s words, the US should treat Pakistan “like the US has a relationship with India” but not a “one-dimensional relationship where they are paying us to fight. We want a normal relationship”.
The US can’t treat Pakistan at par with India simply because Pakistan is not a strategic partner of the US as India is through the Quad (US, Australia, japan and India).
He said this while talking to Becky Anderson just a couple days ago.
As of Iran, the US and Iran are not on speaking terms even on count of Nuclear issues.
The timing of the formation of the Quad (China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran) in Kazakhstan assumes importance and significance for the international relations expert to read in between the lines as to what may have prompted the US in the first place and China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran in the second place to form such a security block in their own way that suit to their security needs?
The US has now several security blocks scattered in the world, opine experts.
Is China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran grouping also aa security mechanism to counter the US led security blocks?
An Indian expert on security issues, Brahma Chellany claims through his Twitter handle quoting a PRC Scholar Li Haidong that “Washington is building a NATO-like alliance in the [ Indo-Pacific] region, with AUKUS at the core, and the US-Japan and US-South Korea alliance surrounding it and the Quad at the outermost level because India is not a US ally, can’t be trusted by the US.
The USs deliberate omission of India in its security scheme this time around appears to have shocked some in India. Joe Biden suspects Indian credentials because of its USSR past.
Giving a peculiar and unexpected twist to the entire world politics, Dr. Bhaskar Koirala writes in his fresh article ” Sino-Nepal Ties in the post-Afghan era”, that the course of Sino-Nepal relations is likely to enter a new historical phase in the aftermath of the US exit from Afghanistan, and the signing of the AUKUS security pact this week between Australia, United Kingdom and the United States”.
Dr. Koirala’s assertion forces Nepal to take cautious steps in the days ahead.
Is he sensing a direct US-India conflict with China in Kathmandu?
Coming back to the Dushanbe meet of the big four: As stated in the earlier paragraphs, the Dushanbe meet brings the Russian Federation, China and Pakistan are on the same page on issues unfolding in Afghanistan.
The four countries, Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran came close at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet in Dushanbe, September 17, when the Foreign Ministers of the four countries met on the margins of the SCO and CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) summits in Dushanbe to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.
A Chinese embassy news portal in Kathmandu says that “the Ministers reaffirmed their intention to promote peace, security and stability in Afghanistan and in the region as a whole”.
The Ministers emphasized that the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Afghanistan should be respected, the basic principle of “Afghan-led, Afghan-owned” should be implemented, and the rights to pursue peace, stability, development and prosperity by the Afghan people should be maintained.
The Chinese embassy portal in Kathmandu further states that Iran, China, Pakistan and Russia stressed the importance of engaging those states which should bear primary responsibility for post-conflict socio-economic reconstruction in Afghanistan, and should provide Afghanistan with urgently needed economic, livelihood and humanitarian assistance.
The four countries noted the need to conclude national reconciliation in Afghanistan, resulting in an inclusive government that takes into account the interests of all ethno-political forces of the country.
This does mean that the Dushanbe meet brought together Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan-the countries considered to be the real stakeholders in Afghanistan.
To recall, Russia, China and Pakistan are the countries that had comprised the Troika Plus which had held round of talks with the Afghani Talibans.
Thus PM Khan’s appeal to support the Talibs to avoid a crisis, has found a strong vocal and moral support also in the Quad formed in the Kazakh capital, Dushanbe that comprises of Russia, China, Pakistan and Islamic Republic of Iran.
Pakistan, the former US ally of the cold war period appears to be distancing with US and inching closer to the lobby of countries that are considered to be the permanent enemy of the United States, for example: The Russian Federation and The People’s Republic of China.
Can Pakistan afford to lose the US? Can China be a long time partner of Pakistan?
Or wouldn’t it be advisable for Pakistan to strike a tactical balance in between its ties with the US and China?
Wisdom demands that Pakistan maintains ties both with China and Pakistan in a way that satisfies both.
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The festival season is just around the corner. A variety of sweet delicacies from traditional mithais and pastries to chocolate bouquets and candy bars are going to be available in the market. It may mean trouble for the diabetics and the health-conscious as they get lured by the sweetness in the air. You may want to delve into the pleasures of sweet gluttony by opting for products labelled sugar free, or those made with zero-calorie artificial sweeteners. Saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, and isomaltulose are the most common artificial sweeteners available in the market that are used in anything from a can of diet coke to jams and jellies. Some like aspartame are also available in the form of ‘sugar-free’ pellets and powder to sweeten your concoctions at home.
A growing market
India is witnessing a rising incidence of cases of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The demand for these artificial sweeteners is continuously growing too. According to a Mordor Intelligence report, the food sweetener market is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.1 per cent between 2019 and 2024.
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While artificial sweeteners like saccharin and aspartame provide guilt-free treats and satisfy your sweet cravings, they do not come without controversy. Research studies in the 1970s including one on the carcinogenicity of saccharin linked saccharin with cancer in the urinary bladder of rats and mice, but later human epidemiology studies did not show consistent evidence of the same in humans. More recently, studies on mice associated aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose with glucose intolerance.
A 2021 study in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences found that all three sweeteners evaluated (saccharin, sucralose, and aspartame) increased the biofilm formation of E. coli in the intestines. "Understanding the role of sweeteners in regulating biofilm formation, as well as other pathogenic effects on the intestinal epithelium and antimicrobial resistance of bacteria, could have a dramatic impact on public health in a multitude of ways," it said.
Other studies observed their effects on the gut microbiome and metabolic derangements. These effects can cause obesity and cardiovascular diseases. Besides, just because something is sugar-free, does not make it calorie-free. If you are eating sugar-free cakes or biscuits, thinking that it is healthier for you, you may be mistaken.
What are artificial sweeteners?
Artificial or non-nutritive sweeteners (also known as high-intensity sweeteners) are popular ingredients that provide a sweetening flavour to food products. "The calorific value of these artificial sweeteners is very close to zero. They are mainly used by people who are trying to lose weight or people who are diabetic," explains Bangalore-based clinical nutritionist Anju Sood.
Saccharin, discovered in 1879 by Constantin Fahlberg, was the first mass-produced commercial sweetener, and it gained traction as it was cost-effective. However, many other artificial sweeteners have come to dominate the market in the past century. From cyclamate introduced in the 1950s to aspartame that entered the American markets in 1981 and sucralose in 1998, the global market for artificial sweeteners has made a revenue of more than USD 20 billion in 2020.
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The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States has approved different non-nutritive sweeteners, deeming them safe to use. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has also approved these artificial sweeteners: saccharin (soft drinks, sweets, etc.), aspartame (biscuits, bread, cakes, etc.), acesulfame potassium (fruit nectars, lollies, etc.), sucralose (ice creams, chutneys, etc.), and isomaltulose (chewing gums, lozenges, etc.). The FSSAI in 2015 also gave the nod to the use of stevia, which is a plant-based sweetener extracted from the compounds called glycosides in the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant.
What do experts have to say about them?
Most experts seem to believe that the use of these artificial or non-nutritive sweeteners in minimum quantities is usually alright. Jaipur-based diabetologist Dr Rakesh Parikh advocates the use of artificial sweeteners for his patients who are diabetic or obese if and when they have sugar cravings. “I am not recommending [everyone] to use artificial sweeteners,” says Dr Parikh.
Regarding studies that purportedly show various health concerns related to their use, Dr Parikh says that these studies are limited in their scope and have mostly been done on animals. However, with the amount of information and research available right now, he says it is safe to use these ingredients in your diet.
The only caveat is regarding the use of aspartame for patients of a rare hereditary condition called phenylketonuria or PKU, says Dr Parikh. Those with this condition cannot break down the amino acid phenylalanine, which is found in aspartame.
Mumbai-based medical nutritionist and fitness consultant Geeta Shenoy has the same outlook. She says that her first suggestion for patients with diabetes is to cut down on sugars and that it is okay to use artificial sweeteners in a limited amount. "Any of these artificial sweeteners in their pure form do not cause any problem as such," says Shenoy, adding that the issue is what it is mixed with.
She explains that these artificial sweeteners are hundreds of times sweeter than table sugar, and therefore, a less amount provides the same sweetness as sugar. Also, various additives are used with the sweetener to add to the bulk."It will just be one or two grams of that; the rest will be additives like microcrystalline. So, if you take a lot of these products, they might cause gut flora disturbances, and it may in some cases cause glucose issues," she says.
Shenoy does not recommend more than 3-4 pellets or servings of these sweeteners per day. Also, she suggests that these sweeteners can trigger underlying issues of gut flora and migraines, as is the case with other flavouring ingredients. "[For] those who have a sensitive stomach, say IBS [Irritable Bowel Syndrome] or are intolerant/allergic to certain foods, we do not recommend these artificial sweeteners," she says. She adds that it is a no for lactating persons too.
Sood, who has been practising for almost 30 years, says she generally asks people to avoid it as much as possible. "The content of their use is closely dictated. I don't let them use a higher quantum and not for a very long period," she adds. She shares how some of her clients who have been using stevia-based or non-nutritive sweetener-based food items tend to face bloatedness and water retention in their system. "If they are using higher quantum and for a long duration, these kinds of things set in. So, my general take is to please bring down your artificial sweetener content," adds Sood. | <urn:uuid:8380a54b-c3d7-409e-bfb7-1b1202eb42d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifestyle.livemint.com/health/wellness/should-you-replace-sugar-with-artificial-sweeteners-111632925407919.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.948205 | 1,552 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Archive: June 2007
6/28/2007 3:50:51 PM
An apprenticeship is a period of training under the direction of skilled and professional teachers. Apprenticeships are viable options for high school graduates who choose not to go to college. For students who are interested in shipbuilding careers, Northrop Grumman has an excellent apprentice school. Check out their admissions requirements so you can be sure to provide the necessary high school courses. Since Northrop Grumman is a government contractor, they are looking for exemplary trainees because a security clearance will be necessary for many of their full time positions.
6/28/2007 3:41:18 PM
College Admission Requirements for Homeschoolers
As you are looking at prospective colleges for your children, visit the colleges’ websites to check out any policies specific to homeschool applicants. If there is a requirement which seems unnecessary (such as requiring a GED), contact the admissions office since sometimes these are old requirements which the college has not yet updated. Other times, the website may simply be incorrect. If you do find, however, any homeschool requirements of a college to be overly burdensome and you are a member of HSLDA, contact our legal department for assistance.
6/22/2007 9:14:40 AM
HSLDA Used Curriculum Market
This is the time of the year families are wishing to sell the curriculum they are finished using and looking for curriculum they need for the next year. Take a few minutes and visit HSLDA’s used curriculum market . It is easy to set up an account to sell your curriculum. Both HSLDA members and non-members may sell; however, only members can purchase curriculum on this site. Hurry in for the best deals!
6/22/2007 9:12:30 AM
Parents who are graduating the last child from their home school and now facing “retirement” may be wondering what comes next! You may want to explore opportunities to continue serving the homeschool community with your talents and abilities. One family did just that and may provide a model for you to develop in your area. Visit the Pillar Foundation website for more information.
6/2/2007 8:36:44 AM
Sources for Math Tutors
If you and your children are struggling through high school math and need help, here are some sources to check out for possible math tutors:
6/1/2007 4:26:27 PM
The Big Dig
Focus on the Family is presenting an opportunity for your teen to take his/her faith deeper. The Big Dig , a teen apologetics conference, will "help your teen answer the tough questions about God, the Bible and what they believe." This will take place on August 10-11, 2007 at | <urn:uuid:f08c2cd3-b5a3-4f9a-abe0-e136448ad0bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.hslda.org/highschool/blog.asp?a=a2007,6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00386-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937916 | 605 | 2.015625 | 2 |
How long have you been having sleepless nights due to your uncomfortable bed? What should be done to get you out of this misery? Keep in mind that insufficient sleep and rest may lead to various health problems and when this happens, you can’t go to work or may have to stop some of your usual routines. Pretty sure that you don’t want to end up in such a state because you will feel incomplete when you cannot do those activities that you love most and you won’t surely let this day to come.
That’s why you better check if it’s there’s a need to change your bed. Would you opt to buy the usual one or maybe it’s time to look for a smart mattress so that you can get that comfortable sleep back which you had missed a lot. In my opinion, this is a concern that you should take seriously because if the situation leads to insomnia, then you will have to consult an expert for treatment. As early as possible, you have to figure out what’s bothering you most and when found out that this is just about the furniture, you will just have to get new stuff or something better.
You might be asking why does it have to be an intelligent mattress when you can always use the ordinary ones that is even easier to find and more affordable as well? Remember that you had been using the usual bed and indeed you can surely buy a new one anytime but you should have noticed that it is not already helping you catch your sleep which you deserve to have. Therefore, we have to find something that can benefit us, especially our health because sleeping disorders is not simply about treating it with pills but it includes days of monitoring, too.
What are Smart Mattresses?
It is an invention built with innovative technology with enhanced features that aid in improving a person’s level of sleep as well as to boost your sleeping experience and support your preferences. These will give you something that you cannot get by simply lying on a conventional bed since it is designed with smart functions. What you will surely enjoy here is the automated systems, though it comes with a remote control so settings could either be manual or automatic.
For example, you may control temperature, set alarms, adjust surface firmness, track your sleep, breathing, and heartbeat as well. Such functions are possible with the sensors and the system installed in this smart technology. This means that this invention is not only about the comfort it can offer.
Let’s say that it is made for customization since the said functions can automatically adjust based on your preferences. While with a traditional one, you have to adjust to it that’s why some people experience difficulties when it comes to posture and position. Anyway, the final decision is still yours so you should listen to what you need most.
The features of a smart mattress are not always the same since these have different brands, manufacturers, designs, models, and prices so more hi-tech features mean more to spend. It only means that you can get what you like to have, depending on your personal needs so always think about the comfort level and not just because it is high-end. But having a smart-home tech is trendy since you can connect it with other intelligent devices as long as you have a WIFI or good Internet connection.
When it comes to the features, this includes tracking and monitoring which is a basic one among smart mattresses regardless of brand or model. With a sensor, various biometric information, such as light, noise, heart rate, body temperature, and movement – read further at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics to learn more about biometrics. It tracks down how you sleep which includes interruptions, calculating bedtime, sleeping cycle, and movements.
You may customize this, too, by setting your preferred temperature so the surface could be warmer or colder. However, this can be automatic because it is built with a self-adjusting sensor that’s why you won’t be disturbed from sleeping so deep and soundly. Though it may come with integrated audio for mediation that can be connected to a speaker or stereo, and alarm systems that can surely wake you up.
Tips on Choosing a Smart Mattress
The first thing that we may have to consider here is, the features or functions because these will determine how much we are willing to spend so we may base on our budget, sleeping needs, and comfort. We are all aware that anything in the market which are designed with innovative technology like this intelligent stuff will always be a lot more expensive when compared to the traditional ones. Therefore, I can see that you are determined and willing to pay for this intelligent stuff since this may benefit or help you boost your comfort level in terms of sleeping.
Another important consideration would be the quality of the materials used so you should know what’s in those layers like if it is made of foam, latex, or air because these will greatly contribute to the shelf-life or longevity, though this must have a warranty. If your problem has something to do with positioning and body weight, then you have to check on its ability to customize the firmness level or flexibility so that you can achieve comfort. It should not be too saggy which means that this should accommodate pressure for you to wake up without feeling pains in your back.
This should be able to enhance the contouring by proportionally cushioning your body weight and promoting an effective spinal alignment, which is good for those with back issues or injuries. With its ability to isolate motion, you won’t have to worry about your turning and tossing because you will not disturb your partner, so it’s like having a partition or separate zones which is also used in controlling temperature. Even side sleepers or whatever sleeping position there is may feel comfortable since positioning, posture, and movements are considered, which can be adjusted to suit your needs. | <urn:uuid:21715c6c-7795-4527-ae28-612c107b6e9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehomepicz.com/smart-beds-and-mattresses-what-you-should-know-before-getting-one/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.96305 | 1,220 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Williams, D (2002) The use of the General Medical Services prescription database for pharmcoepidemological studies in Ireland. PhD thesis, Trinity College Dublin.
This thesis aims to demonstrate the usefulness of the General Medical Services (GMS) database to perform pharmcoepidemological studies in Ireland. The database provides information on some 30% of the population who received approximately 70% of the prescriptions. In the field of pharmacovigilence, the effects of external forces such as the media and regulatory advice are examined in relation to their effects on prescribing patterns within the GMS. Drug utilisation studies were conducted and results illustrate the extent of multiple drug use within the GMS, and indicate that the elderly population were particularly likely to be exposed to major polypharmacy. Prescribing quality was studied by applying a number of recognised and newly developed prescribing indicators to prescription. The second aim of this thesis was to determine whether material deprivation influenced prescribing patterns. It was possible to demonstrate that even within the materially deprived GMS population, that different levels of deprivation influenced prescribing patterns. In particular, the prescribing of symptomically centrally active agents e.g. benzodiazepines increased with increasing deprivation, whereas the prescription of disease specific centrally active drugs such as antidepressant therapies fell with increasing deprivation.
The GMS prescription database provided an important resource for performing studies of pharmacovigilence, drug utilisation and prescribing quality. By identifying a particular treatment and an outcome which can be measured in terms of drug therapy, it is possible to use the GMS prescription database for hypothesis testing even if one is constrained by a lack of diagnosis. Finally, the reasons for the apparent inequalities in drug prescribing with respect to material deprivation will require further study. The GMS prescription database provides an important source of prescription data for epidemiologic studies. It provides reliable data to expand the knowledge about the use and effects of drugs in the general population and could, with the appropriate safeguards and consent, be used to examine individual doctor or individual patient [prescribing in Ireland and will have an important role to play in the continues development of pharmacoepidemiology in Ireland.
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|Notes:||Thesis only available for reference in TCD library. Thesis no. 7320|
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R Research > Data collection method
E Concepts in biomedical areas > Drugs and alcohol substance by legal status > Prescription drug (medicine / medication)
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Floating armouries deemed unsafe
Despite operating without incident for some time, report has concerns.
Floating arsenals designed to protect shipping from pirates deemed unsafe
Report warns that vessels full of weapons for hire are ‘a danger to regional stability’
Floating armouries – ships packed to the gunnels with machine-guns, ammunition and other military equipment – are operating in international waters with a “worrying lack” of regulation. A new report has warned that the vessels could pose a threat to “regional peace and stability”.
The armouries were set up to supply private security guards employed to protect shipping from pirates, particularly off the East African coast. The report – commissioned by the Remote Control Project, a body that raises awareness of new military trends – said there was an “urgent need” for an international agreement to set minimum standards for the vessels.
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Jesus Taught It Too (The Early Roots Of The Law Of Attraction)
The casual experimenter will probably have little success with The Law of Attraction and the process that is outlined by Jesus
in these pages. If you enter this process with an attitude of, “I guess it will not hurt to try it,” then you might as well
seek some other means to fulfill your desires.
“No man putteth a piece of new cloth upon an old garment; else the new piece that filleth it up agreeth not with the old:
it taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
Another parable put he forth.
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the bottles will be marred: the new wine will burst the bottles, and be
spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved…”
If the inner person is not changed, these new ideas could only make matters worse. The “new cloth” is the new idea that you
can change your reality and manifest your heart’s desire. The old garment is your current state of mind, the way you view
the world and the extent to which you can accept a reversal in your thinking. If you cannot repent, if you cannot change your
mind, the new ideas will only serve to cause you frustration and disappointment. This will make the “rent,” or tear, worse
in the mindset in which you are clothed. This could lead to a focus upon the negative and as a result you will attract more
of what you do not want or desire. These types of cautions are frequently neglected and cause many to doubt the efficacy of
The “new wine” in the old bottle can burst the very fabric of your thought system. This can sour your general outlook on life
and lead you down the road of further desperation. You must put new wine into “new bottles.” In this you alter your fundamental
way of thinking and you are, in a sense, “born again” into a new way of thinking and a new outlook on life.
While this process is not that difficult, it does require focus and attention on the way you think and your reaction to the
events that occur in your life. As the bottle becomes new it can accept more wine. However, the steps in this process are
fairly precise and to attempt shortcuts will result in failure. Failure is not as negative as the word implies. It is by learning
from our failures that we grow and evolve. Like I said, you are not on a pre-set time frame. As far as the Universe is concerned,
you have eternity to create your new bottle. It is you who creates a sense of urgency and all of the stress that goes along
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I happened on John Kaag's "American Philosophy: A Love Story" back in 2016 and immediately became a fan of this young philosophy professor.
I happened on John Kaag's "American Philosophy: A Love Story" back in 2016 and immediately became a fan of this young philosophy professor (University of Massachusetts, Lowell). The book relates how Kaag undertook to save the neglected, somewhat abandoned, library of one of the founders of American academic philosophy, William Ernest Hocking. The task was immense. Unhappy, somewhat despondent, and divorced, he invited an also-divorced female colleague, Carol Hay, to work with him on the project. At first, Kaag was motivated by the philosopher William James' famous question, "Is life worth living?" The answer seemed clear when he and she fell in love and got married. Between the stories of John's rescuing the old books, and Carol's rescuing him, the book was almost delirium-inducing to history-of-ideas buffs (yours truly included). I named it my Book of the Year in this column's annual Reading Roundup. Surprisingly, NPR followed suit.
In 2019, I pounced on Kaag's follow-up book, "Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are." As before, the title was intriguing and it promised to blend the author's personal life, once again, with that of a great philosopher. In this case, he was on the trail of two 19th-century muscularly romantic brooders, Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner. This time, however, the personal gets heavier and, in a way, sadder.
The book centers on a family trip to Europe with Carol and their daughter, Becca, where John will attempt to reignite his passion for philosophical insights into Nietzsche. Along the way, he reveals that his life has been marked by depression and loneliness and mania. He'll revisit his own youth while "researching" Nietzsche. Among other extreme tactics, like many a prophet before him, he'll fast in the desert, as it were, by indulging his heretofore unrevealed tendencies toward bulimia and/or anorexia to enhance his vision quest. He almost dies in the Alps in the process.
By the end of the book Carol is pretty fed up. Some more relaxed companionship would be nice. She also has her own professorial career – as a scholar who's inclined toward the more methodical philosopher, Immanuel Kant. In fact, Kaag, whose Romantic philosopher bent finds Kant repellent, takes at a certain point to referring to her, not by her name but as "the Kantian." John, head in the clouds, is faced with the ages-old classic philosophical question: Whose turn is it to take care of our child?"
At the end of this book, Kaag fans were undoubtedly compelled to wonder: What will become of this marriage? And there the episode would end, leaving one guessing, unless they lived in Lowell and had access to the faculty gossip mill. John has saved us the trouble, however, by publishing this year, "Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life."
The woods of philosophy get lovelier, darker and deeper this time. Essentially this book attempts to explain the evolution of William James' understanding of the principles of human psychology. That challenge is intensified by showing how James' ideas emerged from the struggles of his fragile body and neurotic psyche to grope with fundamental psychological questions. Principally, he needed to answer whether humans were determined by outside forces to be who they are, or had free will to do what they chose.
John Kaag runs his own psychic dilemmas alongside James's again. He too suffers from excruciating self-doubt, self-centeredness, and self-awareness. In addition, he needs every bit of self-discipline he can muster to accept the necessity of his getting divorced from Carol-the-Kantian. And co-raise their daughter, Becca. That's a lot of selves. Along the way he finds his mellow by invoking his fellow neurasthenic, William James, whose path to self-fulfillment lay in casting aside all the doubts he'd trained himself to raise and saying, in the end: Choose a path and follow it. Then the mind, and even one's heart rate and tension level, will settle down. In a quite serious way Kaag says the Nike slogan, "Just do it," is heavier than that company knows.
That's what he wants his readers – or, at least, those persons who wonder how to live a worthwhile life – to know. Kaag is aware that his grand conclusion sounds trite, but he means it the thinking man's way. Unfortunately, his need to tell his readers how to be like him makes his book sound like a self-help book. Which in a way, it is meant to be. He's been writing articles about the philosophical and psychological benefits of doing yoga, for example, which he's taken up in recent years.
It's very common for individuals who discover something for themselves, as he has, to assume they're the first to discover what they've learned. I'm glad I read it, for I learned a lot about William James and some more about John Kaag, but it was a slog. I'll read the next one too, if there's one, but if they're anywhere near as unnecessarily preachy as this one, I'll pass after that.
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Note: This is part of the Leveller Collection of Tracts and Pamphlets.
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T.240 [1653.09.26] John Lilburne, An Hue-and Cry after the Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of England (26 September, 1653).
John Lilburne, An Hue-and Cry after the Fundamental Lawes and Liberties of England occasionally written upon the stealing of one of the grand Assertors of Them out of Newgate, by a Party of men on horseback, pretending themselves to be Souldiers, raised and paid by the People of England (not for the Subversion,) but the preservation of the said Lawes and Liberties, &c. Together with some Queries, and brief Resolves, touching the present state of Things, Written for the consolation of the saints now reigning. By a well-wisher to the Saints now reigning. By a Well-wisher to the Saints now reigning on earth, had they had the patience to have staid till the People had chose them, or that Christ the King of Saints above — had setled the Government upon them.
Europe, Printed in a year of Melodius Discord, to the tune of the Cross and the Harp, when the Servants are Princes, and the Masters are Slaves.
26 September, 1653.
TT2, p. 38; E. 714 (1.)
YOU are immediatly upon sight hereof, to make your repair to all suspected places within your several Limits of Jurisdictions, and there to make diligent search and enquiry after a Cabinet of Jewels of inestimable worth and value, which hath been purchased with the Blood and Treasure of our Accestors; and not only to, butwithin these 12 years it hath cost this Nation many millions of Treasure, besides the lives of some hundreds of thousands of English men, whom the world (to succeeding Ages) will admire for their gallantry in the several Battels and Conflicts during the late Destroy in intestine wars, in defence of the said Jewels, heretofore called and known by the Fundamentall Laws and Liberties of England: part of which Laws and Native Rights are contained in Magna Charta, and the Petition of Right; the excellency of which Law, might English-men enjoy the benefit of them, as all along this War they have been promised, would make English men the happiest Nation in the world, notwithstanding there are many essentiall things concerning the Priviledges and Immunities of the good people of England, which is not contained in the said Magna Charta, and Petition of Right; yet so excellent are those things contained in those Laws, that were the people suffered to enjoy, which is their Right by Law, then would England be the freest people in the world: This is mentioned, because the said Laws were ratified and confirmed by divers Kings of this Nation, and in particular by the late King Charles, whom the late Parliament put to death for a Tyrant, for violating the said Laws, thereby degenerating from a King into a Tyrant, as all Supream Magistrates do that cease to rule by known Laws and Rules, meerly by his Arbytrary Will and Power.
And here by the way it would be enquired, whether the Name of a King can make the people Slaves, or whether the Name of a Parliament, though legally chosen, make the people free, seeing that Parl. that are legally called to the Supream Trust, may betray their Trust, and so degenerate into Tyrants, as well as Kings, and so the Tyranny be more absolute, and more evil then that of Kings, considering that Evil or Tyranny in a Community, is worse then Unity: because that it cannot in Reason be imagined, that one man can possibly contrive so absolute a Tyranny, as where there is a Spirit of Tyranny working in a considerable number of persons in a body, &c. And therefore in your search and inquiry, you are to take diligent notice, whether any person or persons being the peoples servants, viz. being declared by themselves the Parl. of the Commonwealth of England, whether they have by themselves, or their Substitutes, at any time since their coming to the management of supream Trust, any way violated, or endeavoured to violate any of the said Priviledges or Immunities belonging to the good people of England. One special Pearl belonging to the said Cabinet bear these words. No free man shal be taken or imprisoned, or be disseized of his freehold, or liberty, or free Customs, or be out lawed or exiled, or any wayes destroyed, or be past upon, or any way dealt with, but by the Judgment of his Peers, that is, by a Jury of 12 sworn men of the Neighborhood. No man from henceforth shall be attached by any Accusation, nor fore-judged of his life, limb, nor his Lands Tenements, Goods, Chattels, into the Kings or Parliaments hands, against the Form of the great Charter, and the Law of the Land, &c.
From henceforth no man shalbe taken by Petition or suggestion made either to King or Parl. unless it be by Indictment or presentment of good and lawful men, where such Deeds be done in due manner, or by process made by Writ Original at the Common-Law. Nor that none be put out of his Franchises or Freehold unless he be duly brought in to answer, and judged of the same by the Law. And if any thing be done contrary to this Statute it shall be holden for nothing.
Herein may be cleerly discovered the Supremacy and Excellency of the Law of England; wherein is enacted, commanded, and confirmed, That whatsoever should be done contrary to the Law, shall be of no force. Nay further, No man of what estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of Land, Tenement, or taken or imprisoned, or dis-inherited, or put to death, without being called to answer by due process of Law.
By these, and many other such marks, and badges of Liberty you may see in the Cabinet: And because it is more then strongly suspected, that some Grandees pretending to Honesty, and to common Right and Freedom, and upon and by means of the said publike pretences, have inlarged their possessions by the Ruines of the Publique: I say it is upon good grounds suspected, that some of the said Grandees are guilty of endeavouring the subversion of the said Laws and Liberties of England; and instead thereof to introduce an Arbytrary Government. And therefore it is thought fit to leave you, and all the good people of England these following Instructions for your ease and benefit in your said search and Enquiry.
In the first place you are to consider the case of Mr. John Lilburn, Gentleman, what manner of proceedings hath been had against him, since these publique Liberty-pretending Times, viz. Since the Parliament was broken a pieces by Col. Pride, by advice and consent of the General and Councel of Officers, meerly pretending, that Necessity had constrained them to take that course, they knowing no other way to secure the peoples Rights. Now if you look, as you ought to do, upon Mr. Lilburn’s Case, as the Case of every free-born English man, you will find that the people of England, never in the worst of Times, received the like wounds in their Laws and Liberties, as they have done since the said Purge first. Then you may consider the cause of his late Banishment, which was nothing but for doing what in him lay (by Advice) to right a Gentleman greatly wrong’d in his estate, which, in any English mans judgment, deserves no Punishment, much less Banishment.
Secondly, consider the manner of proceeding against him: First, the Business was referred to a Committee to examine, and report to the House, and right or wrong, the House proceeded to vote his Banishment upon the said Report, although many of the said Committee might justly be suspected of Partiality, and greatly to favour Sir Arthur Haslerig’s Cause, and as much to discountenance Mr. Lilburn’s Cause. So that Mr. Lilburn had no manner of legal process, whereby he might make any just defence for himself, which they (I mean his Adversaries) and indeed Adversaries to the just Rights and Priviledges) very well knew he would do, in case it came into any Legal Court where he might have the liberty of Defence: and therefore an Arbytrary Committee must do the work, being both in persons and office fitly qualified for such a purpose; and therefore they bring in their Report, upon which the House proceeded to Vote, as followeth.
Resolved upon the Question, That the Fine of 3000 l. be imposed upon Lieu. Col. Iohn Lilburn, to be said to the use of the Commonwealth, That he be fined 2000 l. more to be paid to Sir Arthur Haslerig for his dammages, and 2000 l. more to be paid to Iames Russel, Edward Winslow, William Mollins, Arthur Squib, Esquires, four of the Commissioners for compounding, that is to say, to each of them 100 l. for their dammages.
Resolved upon the Question, That Lieu. Col Iohn Lilburn be banished out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Territories thereunto belonging, and not to return into any of them upon pain of being proceeded against as a Felon; and in case of such Return, shall suffer death accordingly. Did ever England know the like proceedings against one of its Natives: and therefore I can but wonder at the Kentish mens flattery in their late Petition against Tythes: in the preamble of which Petition they say, That the glory of Christs appearings are eminent in this Change, and that it is the Noon: But what Will that might be that hath such a Noon of Darkness, Hypocrisie, Self-love, Envy, Injustice, and what not that is evil, as you will better perceive, if you consider the cruel and just dealing exercised upon him the said Mr. John Lilburn, both as to the matter and manner of his Banishment, and since his Return. And first as to the manner of his Banishment. Consider that the Law of England judgeth in man before he be heard, as to his Defence; and therefore no Judgment could be legally given in Parl. against him as is pretended, because that before any Judgment can be given in Law against any English man for any Crime, there must be either an Indictment, Presentment, or some Information against him. Secondly, the party accused must either appear before that Court, or be out-lawed for not appearing. Thirdly, if the party appears, he must either confess the Crimes or Misdemeanors whereof he is accused, or else plead to the Indictment, Presentment, or Information, and come to tryal thereupon. Now if you consider the manner of their proceedings against Mr. Lilburn, you will soon finde, that instead of coming to a legal Hearing, and what proof they had against him to prove any matter of Fact, he was onely called into the Bar to receive his Sentence of Banishment; and whereas by the good old Law of England every punishment ought to be proportioned to the Offence, so that a man ought not to have the punishment due to a great Offence inflicted upon him for a small Offence; nor a small punishment for a great Offence: neither ought any man to be ruined by any pecuniary Muct or Fine, but every man ought to be preserved in his estate, as saving to the Merchant his Merchandize, and to the Villain his Wainage, and so every man ought to be preserved in a way of Trade, or other Calling. Now whether they deale so with Mr. Lilburn, let the world judge, who was fined 7000 l. which was far more then ever the Gentleman was worth, though it cannot be denyed but he hath deserved more of the Common-wealth, then some of those among whom the thousands and ten thousands have been divided, and Parke and Mansion houses was bestowed. Secondly, consider the manner of proceedings against him since his Return, and you will find abundance of malice against the person of the Gentleman, if not an [Editor: illegible word] endeavor to subvert the said Laws and Liberties; which if once effected, the good people of this Common-wealth will have nothing left to defend them in their lives, liberties, and estates, but the absolute Wills of those now endeavor the subversion of the said Laws. What else was the meaning that such endeavors was used to tie him up to a simple Plea of Guilty or not guilty, and so stave him off from his Plea of Oyer, or a Hearing upon the whole matter; which if it had been granted him, there needed to have been no Jury impanelled for the Matter, which the Bench very well knew; for the pretended Judgment upon which that pretended act was Grounded was no Judgment, but some Certaine Arbitrarie votes; and if the Judgment was no Judgment then sure the Act should be no Act and so the whole Matter must fall to the ground, but when by their Menaces of the Press, and still persisting in theire Refusall to grant him the Oyer, he was Constrained to Joyne Jssue and to Cast himselfe upon the Jury for his Tryall and the Jury brought in their verdict according to their Oathes and their Consciences, in which verdict they brought him in not Guilty, wherein they did approve English men, and Honest men as no doubt others would have done as well as they, if they had been such as were prejudiced against him in one kind or other.
But now beeing acquitted by a Jury of 12 Sworn men of the Neighbourhood it was expected hee should have been inlarged Speepily upon it, as by the Law of the Land hee ought to be, but Contrary to Expectation hee was detained in Newgate till the 28 of August upon which day Early in the Morning betwixt 3 and 4 of Clock hee was fetcht by a party of about 100 horse from Newgate and Conveyed to the Tower of London, and there kept Close prisoner and no man suffered to come neere him, and no cause of his deteinement known or expressed in any warrant of commitment, as ought to bee, if Legally they have any thing against him, wherefore it is strangely to be suspected they have some design either to try him by some Arbitrarie Court or other seeing English men will act according to their Consciences, and not to serve the wills of men how great in power soever, and so by Erecting some Arbitrary high Court and to trample under foot that most Just way of tryall by Juries and then (farewell) the Lives and Liberties of England, neither are they content (in having) [Editor: illegible words] prisoner in the Tower of London but much striving [Editor: illegible words] (to) have the Jury fined, if not imprisoned, for not forswearing [Editor: illegible words] and that by those men that in a late Declaration tells [Editor: illegible words] they were required to take upon them the Supreame (Authority of) the 3 Nations (its no matter by whom) and that they will be as [Editor: illegible words] of the Lives, Liberties and Estates of all others as of theire owne [Editor: illegible words] posterities whome they expect still to bee Governed by Successive parliaments.
Now Let the world judg whether the Actions of men be answerable to their protestaions; can any man imagine, that if any one or more of them should have undergone so severe a tryall for their lives and beeing acquitted by a jury would have been Content to be still deteined in person and no cause shown wherefore; and not onely so, but to bee hurried from out of their beds by a party of horse, and conveyed to the Tower; and there to be kept close Prisoner in the custody of their greatest enemies. This I can hardly beleeve; and therefore what Machivel said of Alexander the sixth, may be said of these men; Alexander the sixth saith hee never did any thing else but deceive men, and never meant otherwise; yet never was there a man would protest more effectually, nor aver any thing with more Sollemn, and observe them less then he. Nevertheless his cozenages thrived well enough because he knew how to play his part cunningly, Now whether these men knew how to act their parts cunning or not is the Question; and therefore in your Search and Enquiry you are to be dilligent and Imparciall, especially among the greate Ones, Because one of the Giandees said not long since that he knew not whether there were Any fundamentall Lawes or nor, if there were any he thought two Lines of them could not be found, now it is strongly to be suspected that he is one of the violaters of the said Lawes and therefore he would perswade the people not to Looke for the Maintanance of the said Lawes, by telling them that there are not two Lines of them to be found, and therefore they Must be Irrecoverably lost, and therefore if the said party Can or may be found he ought to be apprehended upon Suspition.
You are also to make Dilligent Search and enquiry into all Histories and Recordes of Antiquity, and especially into the Reigne of Queen Marie for a president and Parralell case, to justifie the now Governers in their late proceedings againg Mr. John Lilurbn, which if you do, which is much feared you shall be Exceedingly well Rewarded for your paines because the Aturney Generall is thought to be very busie in drawing up an Answer to to the Charge of High Treason Exhibited againg himself in the uper bench by Squire Elsliot, and for Mr. Hall it is thought that he is Takeing of Phisick and spitting his plums to Cleare his throat that the next time he comes to the bench, either the Court or himselfe may understand what he saith, and the Grandees themselves have work enough to cut out for the rest, except some few who have scarcely Read beyond the first of Mathew, or the 3 of Luke, and therefore it is no work for them, All which if you perform, you do both State and people an excellent price of service, and may expect your Reward; and for your so doing this shall be your sufficent warrant. Given under our hands Signed by populer order and appointment | <urn:uuid:f30da9b4-9210-4c6d-af46-a8b74203d927> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://davidmhart.com/liberty/Levellers/Lilburne/T240-Lilburne_HueAndCry/T240.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.97542 | 4,034 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Heart of Rock and Soul
Dave Marsh, 1989
A parable of show business: About 1955, Berry Gordy Jr. went bankrupt running a Detroit record store that reflected his taste (jazz) at the expense of the popular lust (rhythm and blues). As a result. he had to go to work in an auto factory. As a way out, Gordy got together after work with Billy Davis and abandoned art for mammon by writing pop songs. Davis adopted the pseudonym Tyrone Carlo, but was upfront enough about what he was doing to contact his cousin, Jackie Wilson,.who'd recently left Billy Ward and the Dominoes. They immediately came up with "Reet Petite." a song only Wilson. as agile vocally as he was physically, could have sung properly.
The team stayed together for a series of hits, of which "Lonelv Teardrops" is the most splendid. It is the one Wilson arrangement of the fifties sufficiently spare to get every detail right: the Latin rhythm buoyed by pizzicato strings, the female chorus chanting "Say you will," the tambourine backbeat, Wilson's own spectacular vocal flourishes (never knew "home" had four syllables, didja?).
As a result of "Lonely Teardrops," which he probably thought was hackwork, Berry Gordy became both an artist and the richest black man in American history. Twenty years later, Jackie Wilson, who made many hits, some art, but not much money, collapsed onstage while singing the line "My heart is crying . . ." from "Lonely Teardrops."
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Discussion in 'Mac Basics and Help' started by OHSIXX, Dec 4, 2007.
Or at least make them larger.
Here's a little tip that works, no matter what web browser you use. (Safari, Firefox, Camino, OmniWeb, Shiira, etc.)
Just head here and find the bookmarklet called "Resize Window to Full Screen". Bookmark it, add it to your Bookmarks Bar (or whatever the equivalent in your browser is called) and click it whenever you want a full-screen window.
If, on the other hand, you want to increase the font size, this too can be done, though the location of the option differs from browser to browser.
Enlarging safari screen
Go to system preferences. click on dock. Click on automatically hide and show the dock. Then go to safari screen and drag bottom right hand corner to enlarge screen.
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Using GIS to establish a public library consumer health collection
© LaRue; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2004
Received: 05 October 2004
Accepted: 18 November 2004
Published: 18 November 2004
Learning the exact demographic characteristics of a neighborhood in which a public library serves, assists the collection development librarian in building an appropriate collection. Gathering that demographic information can be a lengthy process, and then formatting the information for the neighborhood in question becomes arduous.
As society ages and the methods for health care evolve, people may take charge of their own health. With this prospectus, public libraries should consider creating a consumer health collection to assist the public in their health care needs. Using neighborhood demographic information can inform the collection development librarians as to the dominant age groups, sex, and races within the neighborhood. With this information, appropriate consumer health materials may be assembled in the public library.
In order to visualize the demographics of a neighborhood, the computer program ArcView GIS (geographic information systems) was used to create maps for specified areas. The neighborhood data was taken from the U.S. Census Department's annual census and library addresses were accumulated through a free database. After downloading the census block information from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ the data was manipulated with ArcView GIS and queried to produce maps displaying the requested neighborhood demographics to view in respect to libraries.
ArcView GIS produced maps displaying public libraries and requested demographics. After viewing the maps the collection development librarian can see exactly what populations are served by the library and adjust the library's collection accordingly.
ArcView GIS can be used to produce maps displaying the communities that libraries serve, spot boundaries, be it "man-made or natural," that exist prohibiting customer service, and assist collection development librarians in justifying their purchases for a dedicated consumer health collection or resources in general.
Libraries have the objective to build collections that support the communities they serve. To build a viable collection the collection development librarian, outreach/marketing librarian, and others, must determine exactly what populations reside in the neighborhood, in respect to race, spoken language, educational level, and age groups. One method collection development librarians use to gather demographic information is to physically visit the communities and integrate into the neighborhoods. They may attend events within the community in order to analyze the attendees or walk around the neighborhood to get a feel for the community. Another method for collection development is to perform an informal survey with people that visit the library and learn about their preferences and/or what they like to read or look for on the Internet. Using census information can be a third way to gather community/neighborhood information. The US Census Bureau takes a census of the United States every 10 years and publishes the results on the Internet. Taking the Census information and transforming it into a graphical format provides an objective view of the communities surrounding a library. One way to visualize the census data is through the use of GIS, Geographic Information Systems. GIS are databases arranged by spatial coordinates that, when programmed, can produce maps . The US Geological Survey office defines GIS as "a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analyzing, and displaying geographically referenced information; that is, data identified according to location ."
Many disciplines have used GIS and many large academic libraries even support GIS by establishing a GIS department and employing a librarian to specialize in GIS information. In the field of library science articles have been published describing the establishment of GIS departments in libraries and what GIS librarians do [3–7], but little has been published describing how a library has used GIS.
Governments use GIS to visualize land use planning, tax appraisal, utility and infrastructure planning and more . Businesses have used GIS for real estate analysis, marketing, and demographic analysis . Based on this approach, a research project was developed to test the use of GIS in collection development for a large metropolitan public library system.
Building a collection for a library has become a sophisticated art. Johnson states that "collection building consists of four steps: identifying the relevant items, assessing the item to decide if it is appropriate for the collection and evaluating its quality, deciding to purchase, and preparing an order ." Each step in the process of collection development produces a layer of difficulties. In order to get to these steps a collection development librarian must be aware of their audiences. To name a few necessary pieces of information, the librarian must know the predominate age of their clients, their reading genre, their reading level, their culture, and their preferred language . After one has gathered community information then the decision of what to purchase for use by the community, can be initiated and carried out .
This paper reports the steps taken to use GIS in assisting a large metropolitan public library system in visualizing neighborhoods that surround branch libraries in order to make an educated decision on whether a dedicated consumer health collection should be established to support the community. The objective of the project was to determine if GIS could be used to improve collection development.
After comparing large library systems in major metropolitan areas, (Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City) Chicago was selected as a convenient sample to be mapped with GIS because of its size, number of public libraries, their geographic distribution within the urban area, and ease of access to data. Compared to other large cities, the New York Public Library system has 86 libraries and Los Angeles has 67 public libraries . The city of Chicago has 77 public libraries with one central library.
With the selection of the city of Chicago, the next step was to create a map of the metropolitan area. ESRI ArcGIS v9.0 geographic information software (GIS) was selected as the GIS application. The software permits data manipulation and mapping capabilities. There are four components of ArcGIS that work together to give a high level of functionality to the program: ArcReader, ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo. By inserting data files into ArcEditor the datum may convert into a graphical representation. Once a base map has been created with geographic boundaries, locations may be established to show distances within the map.
In order to create the city map of Chicago, data files were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau website. The Census Bureau produces TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) Files available for free to the public . These files contain geographic structures, such as streets, highways, and addresses, for tabulation and dissemination. To set the boundary lines of metropolitan Chicago, Cook County (the county in which the city of Chicago resides) was selected as the source for the data file . This TIGER file contained the street map for the city of Chicago.
The next step required mapping distances between neighborhoods and neighborhood demographics. In order to achieve this, files were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau website which distributes the 2000 Census statistics in TIGER File format. Downloading the files for Census blocks in Cook County provided the necessary data to build a visual representation of neighborhoods.
The final piece of information needed to build a map showing neighborhoods in respect to public library locations, was to map the public libraries within Chicago. Because the base map of Cook County was a street map, addresses of public libraries were entered into ArvView to mark all the public libraries within the city of Chicago. The state of Illinois provides a database available on the Internet that permits searching types of libraries and locations of libraries, http://eliillinois.org/. The output of this search was imported into Excel, cleaned, and converted into a dBase file. The dBase file was imported into ArcView to coordinate the library addresses to the street addresses of the base map. This enabled the software to place an image for each public library in the city map of Chicago.
In this project ArcGIS was used to build maps of neighborhoods in the city of Chicago, display public libraries and spatially represent distances from libraries to populations. The US Census demographic information was incorporated into ArcGIS and queried to produce 15 different maps. Queries were built to display neighborhood demographics through colors showing the percentages of the population(s). Each query produced a map for a specific age or race. Once the map was produced the public libraries were added to the map and analysis was made regarding collection needs according to the neighborhood population surrounding the library.
By creating maps showing the demographic breakdown of the city, a public library can build, adjust, or verify its collection in respect to the neighborhoods it supports . It is easier to define the characteristics of the library's service area clientele by making visual representations (maps) of neighborhoods surrounding a library. The neighborhood information may then be used to justify additional resource purchases, a change in collection policy and even a change in library services to fit the culture of the neighborhood. By using GIS, libraries will be capable of finding specific populations within the library's neighborhood to support or serve thus taking some of the guesswork out of collection development [17, 18]. Collections may be tailored specifically to the neighborhood by using the subjective data provided with GIS.
Many studies have been conducted analyzing what people search for on the Internet and who is searching. Studies have found that women in their 40s search for and utilize health information from the Internet more than men [19–24]. Using this information to assist in collection development, a librarian would need to know how large the population of women in their 40s is in the neighborhood the library serves. Using the map created by ArcGIS showing the distribution of women in their 40s in respect to library locations can assist the collection development librarian in purchasing appropriate materials. Using the maps showing the race of women in their 40s would also assist the librarian in purchasing appropriate materials. For instance, if most women are African American then the collection development librarian would purchase materials supporting race-related health needs such as Sickle Cell Anemia, Coronary Heart Disease, Diabetes and others (See Figure 2 and 3).
Using ArcGIS can assist in defining the exact make-up of the population that a library serves. By turning the census information into a graphic the library is provided a chance to see how far (physical distance) their services may reach. Library systems that have branch libraries may have one collection development librarian who buys for each library. By using ArcGIS the central library can analyze the communities surrounding each library to purchase materials appropriately without having to spend time in each library learning the environment. Purchase decisions may now be justified with hard data from ArcGIS. For example, if ArcGIS shows that the largest population surrounding a library speaks a minority language, materials should be purchased in the dominant language to best meet the needs of the community.
There is a fairly high learning curve to use ESRI Arcview GIS. There are five programs in ESRI Arcview and each program has separate features that must be used within the specific program to be imported into the primary map. Learning what each program does and then how to incorporate the data into the map requires hours of reading. Acquiring the necessary data to build a map requires background study of the geographic area in order to assure that the map is configured correctly. Upon attaining all necessary data for the map, one must build queries to manipulate the data according to the information need, and then configure the map accordingly.
While GIS presents a new technique to use in performing collection development, there was not a way to test the differences from a collection built using GIS information and the current methods of collection development.
In addition, research has discovered that knowing the service area radius of the library doesn't mean that people within the service area will actually use or belong to the neighborhood library [17, 25]. When using GIS one must take into account geographic barriers to library access such as major highways, and railways. People are often reluctant to cross these barriers and may elect to visit another library further away with no geographic obstructions [17, 25, 26]. These barriers must be represented in the GIS map to fully display the areas libraries serve. The TIGER files contain some geographic structures but most will have to be hand coded. Thus, all neighborhoods should be examined in order to assure the marking of geographic barriers.
While GIS can take the census information and demonstrate the population surrounding a library, the census does not describe the specific users of the library . To build a map showing a library's service area, patron addresses (information now protected by the Patriot Act) would need to be coded into GIS. Using patron zip codes of residence encompasses too much or too little area and there is no correlation between US Postal Service ZIP Codes and US Census Bureau Geography . Thus, mapping or defining areas through zip codes is extremely difficult. Without patron address information, there can be no clear realization of exactly how far people will travel to a library, and if people cross-neighborhoods to use a certain library [18, 25].
Budget constraints will add a need for justification of purchases for a library's collection. Using GIS may provide one method to justify additions to collections. As health care changes and individuals take more control of their health, libraries need to have materials that provide valid information in an age and language appropriate format and be culturally sensitive. Branch libraries respond to the demands of the neighborhood and knowing what those demands are will make an effective library . GIS can assist collection development librarians located in a central library buy for branch libraries, by saving them time, and answering demographic questions about the population a library serves. Knowing details about its communities will make a more functional library within a neighborhood. To verify the use of GIS for collection development, an analysis of a library's collection should be conducted and compared with information provided from a GIS application to see if the collection satisfies the library's neighborhood.
List of Abbreviations
= geographical information systems
The author wishes to thank Marina Chilov, MLS Reference/Monograph Collection Development Librarian, Health Sciences Library, Columbia University, New York, New York for insight into collection development.
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The Celtic Otherworld was a paradise to which the Celts believed they travelled to after death. Many myths and legends describe it as an island, and the idea that the dead passed beyond the horizon appears in many tales. The Byzantine philosopher Procopius of Caesarea recorded the beliefs of the tribes of Gaul and stated that they believed the Otherworld to be west of Britannia - modern-day Great Britain. According to Procopius, the Gauls believed that when a person died their soul would travel to the coast. Once there, they would bang on the doors of fishermen’s homes and beg passage across the sea. The fishermen would then ferry the souls to their destination and return home, never revealing the exact location of the Otherworld.
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Assault Raider - Tribesmen
Useful ships, with crews large enough to board enemy vessels.
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The Sky Room at the New Museum was packed Monday night, as lawyers, supporters, investors and others came out to see the launch of Monegraph, a new marketplace that also establishes the provenance of digital works and clarifies the rights buyers have when they purchase something.
On the museum’s balcony, the Observer spoke to one artist, Whitney Mallett, who works in both documentary and video. She believed Monegraph was a means to start pushing the purchasers of works to ask the right questions, like whether or not it is O.K. to remix a work after it has been sold. She said the prior era of Creative Commons was a bit too hopeful to be helpful over time.
“I think people were really utopic about the Internet, but then these big vacuums sucked up all the content,” Ms. Mallett said.
Digital artwork, from digital music to fine art, has been a growing area for a while now. If a work is infinitely reproducible at no cost, however, how can a collector establish that they have an original or one of an edition? Monegraph takes advantage of the bitcoin database, the block chain, to log each transfer of a work (just as the database does for bitcoin), so that it really is set in stone who owns a digital piece at each moment.
“It’s not about stopping piracy. It’s about facilitating legitimate commerce,” Kevin McCoy, co-founder and CEO of Monegraph, told the Observer in an interview before the night’s presentations. He pointed to iTunes as an example of a marketplace for digital music. He said people might have their complaints about how Apple did it, but it was a way for people to know they were purchasing authorized work. There hadn’t been a good way to do that before. Once there was, people did it.
He hopes the same will happen with Monegraph. To that end, the company will be purchasing $25,000 worth of digital work for use in its upcoming advertising campaign, Mr. McCoy announced. Artists should add the work to the system, authorize remixing in the rights and share it on social media with the hashtag #thisismymonegraph.
Other companies are entering into a similar space, such as Fresco, as the Observer previously reported, though Fresco aims strictly at the newsroom market.
Rock star Imogen Heap also envisions using the block chain so that someone who purchases a piece of digital music could then sell it on to someone else.
Art buyers and sellers have been skeptical about selling art using Bitcoin, but it may not be the digital money that turns out to be powerful for artists. It might be the block chain, that makes it work.
By documenting provenance using a distributed database that—so far—no one sees a way to hack, Monegraph will probably see its strongest success in artistic works. “How transformational will it be to this $13 billion market?” Carlos Mendez, a board member, asked during the presentation. “We don’t know.”
“If you’re selling a $90,000 piece of art that’s entirely code based, for a lot of people, that’s a reach,” Steve Sacks, founder of the Bitforms Gallery, said during his part of the night’s presentation. Pointing out that collectors can’t know that they have the original, now, but Monegraph’s system could help. “Once it comes to the fine art realm, it will make a huge difference for my business.”
Mr. McCoy did a live demo of the web and mobile app’s key features at the event. Another staff member, Roxana Vosough, tweeted this photo of Mr. McCoy announcing the company’s launch:
Mr. McCoy then purchased the work live on stage, as the Monegraph page for the digital item shows. The site’s “Monegraph Inspector” allows users to check the specific bitcoin address that documents the current owner of the work. The page for Ms. Vosough’s photo is here.
Mr. McCoy called its plain language rights feature the heart of the system. The company worked with law firm Pryor Cashman to square away the legal language the underlies those plain language rights. Bill Charron, an IP attorney and partner at the firm, said he envisioned a day when Monegraph’s stylized ‘M’ will be the same as the copyright symbol. He said, “It strikes me as analogous to licensing directly from the US Copyright Office.”
The next features that the company wants to incorporate include video support, social media playback and consignment and representation, Mr. McCoy said.
A stealth mode startup launching in Noveember, Nameless (also known as NYCTV), has already incorporated Monegraph into its system, Alexandra Serio, the new company’s chief creativeofficer explained. “Nameless is a marketplace for premium video works,” the Vice Media alum explained. She has been searching Vimeo for creators making high end work and giving it away for free, and recruiting them to the site for its launch.
The app went live on iOS and Android on Monday. The Android version had only been pushed three hours before the event, Mr. McCoy confessed from the podium. Monegraph was born at a New Museum hackathon in 2014, as its other co-founder Anil Dash wrote on Medium. | <urn:uuid:4f74b79c-304e-4c3c-a8d6-948b40e811b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://observer.com/2015/09/monegraph-bitcoin-block-chain-kevin-mccoy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.960989 | 1,163 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Can CBD help you sleep?Molly Roe
We’ve covered the many benefits of CBD before on the blog. But how does CBD affect sleep? Let’s dig in to the ways CBD may help with various sleep issues and how it can be used to help you relax.
Many researchers believe that CBD improves sleep by tackling the main causes of insomnia. For example, CBD may help reduce anxiety that contributes to insomnia. Insomnia is when one struggles to fall asleep or stay asleep. Insomnia leads to feeling more tired during the day, which can affect productivity, concentration and mood.
CBD can also help ease symptoms of pain. Many people have trouble sleeping or staying asleep due to pain. A 2018 review in Frontiers in Pharmacology noted that there’s evidence showing that CBD can help soothe pain. This can, in turn, lead to relaxation and better sleep.
Furthermore, CBD offers a natural solution to everyday stress and can help relax the body, making it easier to fall asleep.
But there’s more—research has shown that CBD doesn’t just help you fall asleep at night. It may be helpful in treating REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), which is associated with poor sleep and nightmares. This means CBD may help prevent daytime sleepiness that is caused by RBD, making you more productive and focused during the day. | <urn:uuid:45d4cbcc-9565-4f12-803c-952aac4292af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.niotalife.com/can-cbd-help-you-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.955992 | 284 | 2.078125 | 2 |
We’ve written a lot about the death of the recorded music business, but in a keynote address to a music industry conference a couple weeks ago Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business.
And as far as the CD business going the way of the dodo, with sales of physical CDs declining and the growth of digital sales not making up the difference, his response is:
I don’t care.
The lamenting we read in the press is not the story of the new music business. Continuing to talk about the health of the music industry on these terms is as if we’d all been crying about the dying cassette business in 1995. The difference is that when we moved from cassette to CD the winners were the same (big companies who owned access to cash, distribution, and marketing) and the definition of winning was the same (more units sold for these big companies).
As I’ve been saying for years, the physics of the media space have changed and you shouldn’t expect the winners or even the definition of winning to stay constant, so simply looking at how iTunes replaces CDs doesn’t tell the entire story.
I see news about the health of the music industry as defined by the stock price of WMG or quarterly earnings of UMG, Sony, and EMI every day. What I don’t see, apart from a few articles on Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails, is an update on how the world is changing from the artist point of view. But I tell you, when I talk to managers and artists they feel it, they feel an ability to take their careers into their own hands, to redefine what success means for them, and that is the emergence of the new music business.
He argues that what will replace the current hits-driven music industry is a broader middle class of artists that can support themselves using the Web to promote their music, shows, and merchandise. Rogers illustrates his argument with two examples of artists who distribute their music through Topspin and are making more money than they would under the traditional system.
The first example is David Byrne and Brian Eno’s new album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. By distributing digitally and keeping most of the profits themselves, the gross revenues of the album matched what they could have expected to get as an advance from a music label within the first 50 days. The second example is a lesser-known artist in his twenties, Joe Purdy, who has sold 650,000 tracks on iTunes and was able to buy a house from the proceeds.
Digital sales don’t make up for physical? From the artist perspective they certainly can, and quickly. David and Brian keep the majority of the profits, and (via Topspin at least) are paid within sixty days of the fan purchasing (no wait for recoupment and complex royalty accounting). When your costs are low your royalty rate high and your channel direct, the marginal profitability from the artist perspective can be far different than in the old model, to be sure.
And where the mass-marketed approach was low-margin from the artist perspective, the target-marketed approach can be much higher margin (which is how Joe Purdy buys a house on his iTunes sales). Topspin believes there is an entire middle class of artists for whom the system hasn’t worked in the past who will be empowered by this new model.
Again, there are only two players in the music business that matter at the end of the day: the artists and the fans. The rest of us . . . either add value today with a compelling service or we die. And I’m perfectly happy with that.
Rogers is right. The music industry needs a bigger middle class of artists. It also needs more people like Rogers trying to create that middle class. | <urn:uuid:67d0b646-456e-4a0a-8e33-e3194df04cd5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/ian-rogers-on-the-death-of-the-music-cd-business-i-dont-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00157-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968806 | 825 | 1.71875 | 2 |
The Center for Cybersecurity has been created at UCSB to foster research on Internet security and support collaboration and sharing of ideas between UCSB faculty and industrial partners. In this event, several faculty members who are affiliates of the Center for Cybersecurity present their research in security and discuss their approach with members of the industry.
Plato's two millennia old refrain "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" may sound decidedly quaint and outdated today, but geometric methods remain an unparalleled mathematical and computational tool in today's pursuit of science and engineering. The need for sophisticated geometric models and reasoning is stronger than ever due a growing adoption of computational and combinatorial methods in science and engineering, coupled with mobile and embedded sensing, spatial data models, location-aware services, and networks of autonomous intelligent robots.
INARC@UCSB is performing foundational research on network science, leading to a fundamental understanding of the interaction among the social/cognitive, information, and communication networks. Network science is a new and emerging scientific discipline that examines the interconnections among diverse physical or engineered networks, information networks, biological networks, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks. This field of science seeks to discover common principles, algorithms and tools that govern network behavior.
The Center for Responsible Machine Learning is UC Santa Barbara's new commitment to advancing academic excellence in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision. A unique emphasis of the goal of this center is to tie cutting-edge research in AI with important societal impacts. We are particularly interested in studying challenging problems in algorithmic fairness, bias, transparency, explainability, and accountability of AI algorithms. | <urn:uuid:d7eb14c7-3132-42e4-bbeb-490801d04662> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cs.ucsb.edu/research/research-centers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.925844 | 335 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The sprawling Build Back Better Act contains a provision that would be transformative for a set of historically Black colleges and universities: tens of millions of dollars in annual long-term funding for scholarships.
The fate of President Biden’s social spending bill remains uncertain. But the inclusion of these dollars in the legislation is a hopeful sign for lawmakers and college administrators who have been working to snare this recurring stream of public money for schools that were deprived for decades of other government dollars they were owed.
A contingent of almost 20 land-grant colleges, including Tennessee State University and Florida A&M University, is supposed to receive state funding that matches federal allocations. But some of these HBCUs have gone decades without getting a full state contribution, leaving them with decaying campuses even as flagship public schools were lavished with financial resources.
They’ve been emboldened to call out the ways they were shortchanged: a recent budget analyst’s report in Tennessee found the state had chronically underfunded TSU by as much as $544 million dating back to 1957. And they are now chasing more reliable channels of public financial support to help them serve the largely low-income population of students who attend. | <urn:uuid:00de0939-0302-499e-9557-d27c1cdee6bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eicop.org/2021/12/22/chronically-underfunded-hbcus-eye-scholarships-in-biden-bill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975586 | 242 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Namefs and Solaris Doors for Linux
Doors/Linux is an implementation of the Solaris Doors API
on the Linux operating system. The Doors API provides a
high-speed RPC mechanism which uses the UNIX notion of
the filesystem as a universal namespace and has built-in support
Linux Namefs is an implementation of SVR4 fattach() and
fdetach() for Linux, allowing file-on-file mounting allowing the local
filesystem to be used as a naming service for pipes, files, and doors.
Released Doors and a new standalone "Linux Namefs" which compile
and vaguely work as modules on vanilla Linux 2.4.18 (no kernel
-- Jason, Jan 5, 2003
I am tentatively porting Doors/Linux to Linux 2.4.18, although my
time on the project is limited. To contribute (suggestions, code,
commentary), send me e-mail.
-- Jason, Oct 22, 2002
Note: Currently Doors/Linux and Linux Namefs are to be considered
ALPHA QUALITY SOFTWARE and has not been thoroughly tested. While it
seems to work for me, it may not work for anyone else. :-) The code
is still under development and has some features missing.
If you're feeling brave, you can try out this source:
- Linux Doors version 0.9.3 (doors-0.9.3.tar.gz)
Untested work-in-progress. Some simple regression
tests are now working. Loads against unpatched Linux kernels
(!). Uses the new Linux Namefs for fattach/fdetach.
- Linux Namefs version 0.9.0 (namefs-0.9.0.tar.gz)
Untested work-in-progress. Some simple regression
tests are now working. Works with Linux Doors.
- Version 0.9.2 (doors-0.9.2.tar.gz)
Untested work-in-progress to port Doors/Linux to
Linux 2.4.18. Releases libdoor under LGPL to ease porting
proprietary Solaris applications to Linux.
- Version 0.9.1 (doors-0.9.1.tar.gz)
Tested on Alpha and Sparc64 (32-bit user ABI) not x86.
Patch for ARM Linux
provided by Nicholas Clark.
- Version 0.9.0 (doors-0.9.0.tar.gz)
Tested on x86 (UP and SMP) and Alpha.
Please send patches and bug reports to Jason
Lango (email@example.com). If
you are reporting a bug, please make sure that it can be reproduced
with the most recent version of Doors/Linux. The author would also
appreciate success stories, if applicable.
GNU C Library support
Thorsten Kukuk has
made a glibc add-on for Doors/Linux available at his
An Implementation of the Solaris Doors
API for Linux by Jason Lango
describes the implementation.
The doors API is documented by Sun in a short whitepaper in the Fall
1996 edition of Sun
Developer News and the Solaris manpages:
Update copyright notices and release libdoor under LGPL.
Various changes to make libdoor.c and doorsk.c compile under
Unfortunately fattach() and fdetach() will need some work, as
mountpoints work somewhat differently in 2.4.x than in
- 0.9.1 (a.k.a binary incompatibility release)
Works with Linux 2.2.x. Due to changes to the Linux
file_operations structure, this version of Doors will not work
on kernels older than 2.1.119.
Support kernels with multiple ABIs, e.g. sparc64. All
user/kernel shared data structures use 64 bit pointers now.
Theoretically should be possible to have any combination of
32-bit vs. 64-bit server, client, and kernel. Thanks to Tim
Rowley for helping out with UltraPenguin.
Fixed up the benchmarking code, which I seem to have broken
several revisions ago. :-)
Made some changes to the testing framework, due to a race
found in the test of door_info(). Now the testing framework
waits for all clients to exit before killing the servers, and
no client is started before all servers are initialized.
Split bloated libdoors.c file into separate files in libdoor
directory. Changed to somewhat glibc-like coding conventions.
Significant changes to fattach()/fdetach() such that we
replace entries in the dcache rather than using d_mounts and
d_covers inappropriately. Now the fattach()'d door inherits
its attributes from the file on which it's mounted. A single
door can be mounted on multiple files and each mount point
maintains separate attributes (permissions, owner, etc.).
"make check" now runs stand-alone tests, a la GNU convention.
Previous "make check" was pretty broken. :-/
Various bug fixes in door_return() for some special cases.
DOOR_UNREF_DATA messages are now sent to doors which have the
DOOR_UNREF attribute (when the number of descriptor's
referring to the door drops to 1).
Tested on a heavily-loaded dual-processor pentium system with
no problems. The machine was running the doors benchmark and
test_bigargs/_srv (8Mb copy) in a tight loop, while browsing
the web with netscape. ;-) Thanks to Brian Perkins for
Less unnecessary page copying and dirtying, thanks to Pete
Tested on an alphastation avanti, running the doors benchmark
and test_bigargs/_srv in a tight loop with no problems.
- Initial public release
- 5 January 2003
- New Doors/Linux version 0.9.3 and Linux Namefs version 0.9.0
- 22 October 2002
- New version 0.9.2
- 14 March 1999
- New version 0.9.1
- 28 September 1998
- Official site moves to rampant.org.
- 28 July 1998
- New version 0.9.0
- 10 June 1998
- New version 0.8.1
- 4 June 1998
- Announced to linux-kernel
- 3 June 1998
- Jason demands a webpage rewrite -- wants to look professional
- 2 June 1998 (later that night...)
- 2 June 1998
- Jason allows the paper to be unleashed on the unsuspecting web.
Meanwhile, our top men are huddled around a terminal trying to figure
out why it crashes on Pentium and SMP machines.
- Late February/Early March 1998
- Additions to the paper, including a Linux kernel architecture
diagram (Linus must hate us...).
- Early February 1998
- Tom reviews the paper -- "It reads like a manpage." :-)
- Mid January 1998
- Jason unveils his working implementation of Doors/Linux to BLUG, running
on Linux/axp and Linux/ix86.
He's also been working on a paper about the implementation of doors,
complete with performance graphs
comparing them to other IPC methods.
- 30 October 1997
- Ladies and gentlemen, we have CODE!
- 19 October 1997
- After a lengthy battle, a 2.1.x kernel comes up along with the console,
much to the embarrassment of those involved. Note for future reference:
turn off CONFIG_ALPHA_SRM and CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP.
- 13 October 1997
- Discussion of how doors would be implemented -- current feeling
is to muck with the directory lookup cache to put doors into the
filesystem (in lieu of STREAMS) and a /dev/door. More source code
- 9 October 1997
- Install party -- much mucking with flash ROMs, bad floppies,
odd bootloaders, and buggy install programs. The machine finally submits
and boots Linux/Alpha to much rejoicing.
- 7 October 1997
- The NT install we've been waiting for finished -- we have a *go*!
- 6 October 1997
- Doors discussed and kernel source read.
- 30 September 1997
- Jason raises idea of avoiding adding syscall(s) and making doors a loadable
module by implementing doors on top of a /dev entry.
Potential religious war for the next BLUG meeting...
- 29 September 1997
- Back to earth -- realize previous project was too ambitious and settle for implementing Sun's doors API for Linux. Initial work assignments handed out.
- 23 September 1997
- President brings up wacky idea of doing a buzzword compliant Solaris-MC style distributed computer system (DSM, process migration, multi-threaded, single image, etc...). Takes a couple of "Err..." comments as unanimous acceptance of idea.
- Early September 1997
- Subject of BLUG project raised again
- 1996-1997 academic year
- Kicked around the idea of a BLUG project
Maintained by Jason Lango (firstname.lastname@example.org).
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|Structure||3 levels, 4 stories|
|Admin's Rating||★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆|
|Location||Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture|
|Access||Kiyosu Station (Tokaido Honsen) or Shin Kiyosu Station (Meitetsu Nagoya Honsen), walk 15 minutes.|
|Website||Kiyosu Township Site|
|Visited||several times in 1995-1996|
|Notes||Kiyosu-jo has always been a little special for me. When I lived in Nagoya I lived just a short walk from this castle. I went to the festival held here and often took walks around the castle area. It is also a rather aesthetically pleasing reconstructed castle. You can also see it frm the Shinkansen on the way into Nagoya.|
Who first built this castle and when are completely unknown. One theory states that it may have been built by Shiba Yoshishige between 1394 and 1427. Other theories say that it was built later around 1478.
Oda Nobunaga, in his efforts to unite all of Owari (Nagoya and vicinity), killed Oda Nobutomo from a rival faction of the same Oda family in 1555 and took Kiyosu-jo by force. Nobunaga completed the unification of Owari with the capture of Iwakura-jo in 1559. Nobunaga remained in Kiyosu-jo until he moved to Komaki-jo in 1563. Tokugawa's ninth son Yoshinao was the last occupant of Kiyosu-jo. It was torn down in 1610 after Yoshinao moved to the newly completed Nagoya-jo.
Many interesting stories surround the history of Kiyosu-jo. Once Oda Nobunaga pardoned his younger brother Nobuyuki for acts of treason. Nobuyuki did not learn his lesson and again Nobunaga discovered his treasonous activities. This time Nobunaga feigned illness and when his brother came to visit him Nobunaga had him executed.
Another story involves Nobunaga's successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Once a 180 meter section of a moat around the castle collapsed. Hideyoshi divided the collapsed section into 10 parts and offered a reward to the team that finished rebuilding their section first. The collapsed moat was rebuilt in less than a day. It is said that this incident is what made Nobunaga first take notice of the abilities in his lieutenant, Hideyoshi. | <urn:uuid:85e15ef7-0ce2-4ecf-8a33-91f4497f136c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jcastle.info/castle/profile/50-Kiyosu-Castle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957739 | 535 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Mexico has the 11th-highest GDP in the world based on purchasing power parity, according to the International Monetary Fund. As Europe weakens, it will be in the top 10 in the not-too-distant future. Yet, this country is regarded by many Americans as a Third World nation, dominated by drug cartels and impoverished people desperate to get into the United States.
While it is true that organized crime exists in Mexico and that many Mexicans want to immigrate to the US, a roughly equal number are leaving the US and returning to Mexico… drawn by economic opportunities in their home country. The largest auto plant in the Western Hemisphere is in Mexico, and Bombardier builds major components for aircraft there. Mexico has many problems, of course, but so does the U.K. (the 10th-largest economy) and Italy (12th).
No one would be surprised by the U.K. or Italy rankings, but many people would be stunned to find that Mexico is ranked right up with them. Obviously, Mexico is not as developed as Britain is. Like most nations transitioning from underdevelopment to greater development, Mexico suffers from substantial class and regional inequality, and the emergence of a dominant middle class is still unfolding.
At the same time, Italy also has substantial regional inequality. Mexico can't aspire to British standards, but Italy is a reasonable model. Inequality diminishes the significance of being 11th in some ways, but it doesn't change the basic reality of Mexico’s relative strength.
Mexico is commonly perceived, far too simplistically, as a Third World country with a general breakdown of law and a population seeking to flee north. That perception is also common among many Mexicans, who seem to have internalized the contempt in which they are held.
Mexicans know that their country’s economy grew 2.5 percent last year and is forecast to grow between 2 percent and 3 percent in 2016—roughly equal to the growth projection for the US economy. But, oddly, they tend to discount the significance of Mexico’s competitive growth numbers in a sluggish global economy.
Here, therefore, we have an interesting phenomenon. Mexico is, in fact, one of the leading economies of the world, yet most people don’t recognize it as such and tend to dismiss its importance.
This week, I spoke at the annual meeting of the Mexican Association of Banks in Acapulco. It was a major event, with the Mexican president and the head of the central Bank speaking, along with Americans such as Larry Fink, chairman of BlackRock. The contrast between what Fink and I had to say about Mexico, and what the Mexicans had to say, is interesting. The Mexicans were cautious, frequently dwelling on the challenges facing Mexico and not focusing very much on the country’s achievements.
Fink and I were effusive about Mexico. Given the condition of the rest of the world, we argued, North America is an island of tranquility and opportunity—with Mexico as the most promising region economically. The contrast between our views, the views of many Mexicans, and the views of most Americans is so vast that it feels as if we dwell on different planets. I know of few places on earth that are viewed so differently by different observers.
Let me summarize the argument I made. First, the Eastern Hemisphere (Eurasia in particular) is moving toward systemic failure. The EU is struggling to manage a host of problems. Russia is contending with strategic and economic challenges, particularly the collapse in oil prices. China is trying to find a stable new normal and maintain social stability. As for the Middle East, no summary will suffice. The rest of the Eastern Hemisphere is experiencing what I might call “normal instability.”
Compared to other parts of the world, North America is not only remarkably stable but is also doing well economically. One of the main views of the Geopolitical Futures model is that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was no longer any European global power. The center of gravity of the international system had shifted away from Europe, to North America. This argument rests heavily on the inherent military and economic power of the United States. The US Navy controls the oceans, and the United States produces 22% of the world’s GDP. Just as important, the United States is an inefficient exporter, a factor that cushions the US from the Eastern Hemisphere’s crisis.
While roughly 30% of GDP comes from exports in Russia, 46% in Germany, and 23% in China, US exports account for only 13% of GDP with over a third of that total sold to Canada and Mexico. Thus, while Eastern Hemisphere powers teeter on the edge of an economic volcano or tumble in, the United States finds itself relatively insulated from declines in global import demand, and the US insulates the countries on its northern and southern borders to a great extent.
The contrast between the European Union and NAFTA is critical. There are institutional differences between the attempt by the EU to integrate heterogeneous countries and NAFTA’s limits on integration. But the most important difference is that Germany, the foundation of the European system, is a massive exporter, while the United States is a net importer. Given the vastness of the US economic base, the net negative flow has little impact. However, it has an important twist in terms of Mexico. Exports, more than 80% of which go to the United States, constitute 32% of Mexico’s GDP. Thus Mexican exports to the United States amount to about a quarter of Mexico’s economy.
US GDP is about $17 trillion, and imports from Mexico’s are about 0.2 percent of the US economy, so they have very limited impact. But their impact is further mitigated because Mexican-manufactured exports contain a substantial quantity of components made in the United States. For example, Mexico is one of the top exporters of automobiles to the United States. These cars are not sold under a Mexican label, since Mexico manufactures them for foreign companies. But unlike Japanese or Chinese exports to the United States, cars manufactured in Mexico contain about 40% of their parts purchased from the United States. This means that US manufacturers contribute to the total value of Mexican exports.
Synergies have driven Mexico into dependence on the United States. The US has had the option of shifting its imports away from China and sourcing from Mexico instead. This shift has had a huge impact on Mexico’s growth. It is also one of the reasons why the Mexicans are less than positive about their economic position.
There is much history between Mexico and the United States, with the pivotal event being the American conquest of northern Mexico—from present-day California to Texas—in the 1830s and 1840s. This conquest created a complex view of the United States, informed by both anger and envy. The tragedy of Mexico, from its point of view, is that it is still so tied to the United States.
NAFTA, much debated in the US, had an even greater effect on Mexico. Access to the American market reshaped the Mexican economy, strengthening it immeasurably. It also created an enormous imbalance—economically in Mexico’s favor, politically in the United States’ favor. When you send 80% of your exports to one country, that country has tremendous power over you. This is not only a political fact, in the sense that some politician could try to shut down trade, it is also distinctly macroeconomic: If the American economy catches a cold, Mexico catches pneumonia. As other exporting countries have discovered, their well-being is in the hands of their customers. So long as the US–Mexico imbalance is there, the Mexicans will and ought to feel uneasy.
The American conquest of Northern Mexico implanted an image in American minds. The Mexicans ought to have defeated the Texans. The Mexicans had the larger army, better equipment, and, in many ways, better commanders. But the Mexicans also had the defect of a class-ridden society. The army General Santa Anna brought north into Texas had well-trained French generals and good artillery, but it was an army drawn from Chiapas, composed of indigenous people without shoes or training. It was a Napoleonic army of the impoverished led by the nobility, fighting as a mass rather than with individual skill.
When Santa Anna crossed the northern deserts, his army found itself facing the coldest winter in years, with ice and even snow. The soldiers suffered terribly, and by the time they reached the Alamo, they were exhausted. Their commanders didn’t care about the troops and made their way east to San Jacinto… where the Texans defeated them.
It is important to understand the vast chasm that existed between the officers and soldiers in Mexico's army. There are always such differences, and they sometimes run very deep. But the chasm in the Mexican army resembled the divide in the British army so apparent at Waterloo, when the commander, Wellington, called his men “scum.” The Mexicans adopted the European model, in which the soldiers were induced by money or simply pressed into service. This was the lot of Mexican soldiers; it was their lives. But when they confronted the Americans, where the gap between enlisted men and officers was substantially smaller, an army that was inert (unless pressed) confronted an army that encouraged initiative at all levels. The latter army won.
The model of European colonialism defined the Mexican forces… but not the Americans. And for the next century and a half, the Mexican legacy of colonialism continued to define the difference between the two countries’ armies.
The experience of the Mexican-American War also defined American perceptions, and perceptions turn into habits, and habits become truths. The Mexican soldiers were seen as typical Mexicans and held in contempt, while the generals were seen as fools.
Further, the border that was created shielded Americans from a real understanding of Mexico. The border was arid and mountainous—hard to penetrate. As in many borderlands, it was a brutal place of criminals and desperate men. Certain commodities are always worth more on one side of the border than on the other. Sometimes it is cattle; sometimes it is drugs. Sometimes the goods are rightfully owned, and sometimes they are stolen.
The area north of the US–Mexico border is not like the rest of the United States, and the area south of the border is not like the rest of Mexico. But the borderland is a shield, and the shield is all that most people on either side tend to see.
The American view of Mexico was formed at San Jacinto and confirmed by endless images of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa raiding US border towns. He was depicted as ignorant, brutal, and dangerous. Today, Mexico is seen as a land of drug dealers, the descendants of Villa, far more dangerous than he was to American security. This perception is like viewing the United States today as if it were Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s and as if Al Capone were the typical American.
The Mexican fear of the United States is not unreasonable. Nor is the American fear of Mexico. It is easy to construct a tale of Mexico that is heavy on cartels and illegal aliens seeking to plunder and terrify the country. There is a deep history between our nations, a history that regenerates in different ways at different times.
The bankers I met at the conference in Mexico were cautious. They have been disappointed many times before by their own country. The Americans were enthusiastic. Americans tend to forego history in favor of the future… especially where money is concerned. But everyone there knew what Donald Trump has been saying during his campaign and resented the way he preys on American fears. There is no denying these fears, and there is no denying that Trump understands them. There is also no denying that, like most fears, there is some truth to them. There are cartels, and there are illegal immigrants, if fewer than before. But it is the distance between the Mexico that these fears conjure and the reality of what Mexico has become that is startling. The Mexicans themselves don’t trust the transformation of their country that has happened. They expect success to be snatched from them—probably by the United States.
But the fact is that Mexico is the 11th-largest economy in the world, with free access to the largest economy in the world and vast amounts of American investment pouring in. It may still have to contend with the challenges of sharing a border with Central America, but with China in decline, even the poor of the south might be mobilized by the low-level industries that made China successful and that now seek a new home.
The borderland and the smugglers who live there do not represent Mexico. Mexico will be one of the top 10 economies in the world shortly, and since North America is now what Europe once was, the prospect of two great powers on one continent is worrisome.
Of course, most of us cannot imagine Mexico as a great power. Nor could most people have foreseen the emergence of China or the resurrection of Japan—or even the United States itself—as a great power. This is a failure of imagination masquerading as common sense. I always doubt the ability of humanity to manage its future. The inevitable rolls over us. But here is a moment when an understanding of what Mexico has become might just have some real value, if only for our grandchildren.
There is an old Mexican saying: “Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” I don’t know about Mexico’s proximity to God, but it is clear to me that Mexico is no longer paying a price for its closeness to the United States, and neither is the United States. But now Mexico, as the junior partner, must manage this relationship. | <urn:uuid:1140f3ab-b161-408c-854e-7709a659e7c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.loscabosagent.com/Cabo_Blog/page_1935273.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00513-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974053 | 2,840 | 2.171875 | 2 |
17 October, 2018
Author: L. Chapron, E. Peru, A. Engler, J. F. Ghiglione, A. L. Meistertzheim, A. M. Pruski, A. Purser, G. Vétion, P. E. Galand & F. Lartaud
Plastic contamination is now recognized as one of the most serious environmental issues for oceans. Both macro- and microplastic debris are accumulating in surface and deep waters. However, little is known about their impact on deep marine ecosystems and especially on the deep-sea reefs built by emblematic cold-water corals. The aim of this study was to investigate whether plastics affected the growth, feeding and behaviour of the main engineer species, Lophelia pertusa. Our experiments showed that both micro- and macroplastics significantly reduced skeletal growth rates. Macroplastics induced an increased polyp activity but decreased prey capture rates. They acted as physical barriers for food supply, likely affecting energy acquisition and allocation.
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The fabric of the historic locomotive works will live on at the ELR
4160 original bricks from the Horwich Loco Works will journey to Bury to be used in a planned restoration of the ELR’s Buckley Wells locomotive and carriage works site.
The bricks were salvaged during the dismantling of the Loco Works’ Erecting and Repair Sheds, with local Horwich firm J&M Demolition and Recycled Aggregates carrying out the works.
Bluemantle arranged the donation as part of its pledge to preserve key artefacts and maintain the heritage and history of Horwich Loco Works.
The Loco Works bricks will be used for massive refurbishment plans for the ELR site, if approval is given.
The links between the loco works and the East Lancashire Railway are already strong as the railway still runs the iconic ‘Crab’ locomotive, built for the former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Horwich in 1927.
East Lancashire Railway will be reopening its lines to passengers for the first time after the third national lockdown this coming May Bank Holiday weekend.
To find out more about the regular diesel and steam services the heritage railway organisation runs visit: http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk
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Zeynep Bilgehan: You released a solidarity message for the protestors from Ankara. First of all how long have you been in Ankara and what’s the purpose of your visit?
Tariq Ali: I was in Ankara for three days to give a public lecture at the invitation of the Cankaya municipality that had been agreed several months ago. Naturally I observed what was going on in the evenings. Unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators, the constant use of tear gas and water visited the Park and talked to the young people there.
ZB: What do you think about the recent incidents as a whole? From your point of view what happened or is happening in Turkey?
Tariq Ali: The mixture of a sharp intelligence, fearlessness and the rebirth of hope that I witnessed was very inspiring. It reminded me to a certain extent of Europe (Paris and Prague) in 1968, much more than the Arab spring. What is happening in Turkey is very clear. An elected authoritarian government, committed to neo-liberalisam and war, imagined that it could do anything it wanted because of its democratic status. This was a foolish mistake.
When I was in Istanbul a few months ago, it was difficult not to detect a pall of depression that had enveloped activists and oppositionists. The closure of one of the city’s oldest cinema on Istiklal had led to mild protestsd. So mild that the government imagined it could accelerate its select and destroy mission. They miscalculated badly. The Prime Minister, in particular, a veritable Sultan of the building industry refused to retreat and embarked on repression. This was the breaking point. People unconcerned with the proposed destruction of Gezi now came out to protest and in huge numbers. The more the repression, the more the protests grew, spreading to virtually the entire country apart from four Kurdish-dominated towns. A campaign to save a park had become a national uprising against an obstinate and thuggish regime.
ZB: You say, Turkish protestors ignited hope in Europe. In what sense did they ignite hope?
Tariq Ali: In the sense that what is happening in Turkey is part of the crisis of neo-liberal capitalism. In Spain, Greece, Portugal there have been general strikes, demonstrations, etc. Even as Erdogan was using the repressive machinery of the state to promote the building industry, the Greek coalition had closed down State television and radio in order to sack journalists. The courageous Turkish citizens opened up a new front at an important time. And their example might well spread ro France and, who knows, perhaps even Britain and Germany in the months ahead.
ZB: What do you think will be the outcome of this protests?
Tariq Ali: What is crucial as I said in my solidarity message is that the government has discredited itself with the help of a tame and servile Turkish media which ignored, underplayed and slandered the occupiers in Taksim during the first weeks. Journalists who collaborated should hang their hands in shame. As to how the new opposition regroups it is difficult to say. But if a new democratically structured political movement is formed (like, for instance, Syriza in Greece) it could give a permanent voice to the people from below. A monthly public assembly in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Bodrum, Antakiyya and other cities to discuss the situation at home and abroad and report on te building of a new movement would create something permanent and make the clearing and re-clearing of the squares a bit meaningless. This is my hope.
ZB: In your message you briefly mention that ‘In the long term the Turkish politics will be transformed” Could you elaborate this? What will happen? How will Turkey change?
Tariq Ali: Turkey has changed. This is clear in what we are witnessing. As I said above the key now is how to institutionalise this change so that Turkish democracy is enhanced. Real Democracy as opposed to actually-existing democracy is a delicate flower. It has to be nurtured and cultivated but not with the blood of its citizens or regular surveillance (reminiscent of, but technologically on a higher—and therefore more debased— level than the former Stasi in the dead East Germany) or drones and torture or the imprisonment of those who speak the truth. Neo-liberal capitalism is hollowing out democracy. Those who fight the capitalist onslaught are also strengthening democracy.
ZB: In our previous interview we had talked about the Arab Spring. You said “The spring has turned into winter”. Can you compare what’s happening in Turkey with Arab Spring? What is similar and in what sense it differs?
Tariq Ali: The similarity is in the scale of the uprising, but otherwise the situation is different. As I’ve already said Turkey in its intellectual life and its political culture is far closer to Europe. One has only to look at the books translated from European languages, at the univerity and school curriculuums, etc to realise this and the style and instinct of the demonstrators confirm all this, at least, in my opinion. Military dictatorships have existed in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. In the current period where the United States has moved away from dictatorships in its client states, Turkey has benefited. But the new regime and, in particular, the big bullying Prime Minister think they can rule in the same old way. Erdogan’s project is to build himself as the anti-Ataturk using the language of NATO in the garb of ‘moderate’ Islam. We have noted the ‘moderation” in recent weeks. The notion that Islamist conservatism can solve the real problems with Turkey as a model now appears like a sick joke in Turkey, leave alone Egypt and Tunisia.
ZB: Can we call this movement a Turkish Spring? Why?
Tariq Ali: Why bother using that phrase. It has already turned sour.
ZB: Any chance this movement will also turn into a winter? What should be done to avoid this?
Tariq Ali: History teaches that it is impossible to maintain a movement at the same level indefinitely. So one should not even accept such a possibility. The real question is how to move forward after the first phase. And here I have made a few suggestions already. Organisation from below to create a new politics. A broad and united movement will need a political platform, something that can be fought for in the years ahead.
ZB: How will this movement effect the Middle East?
Tariq Ali: When the Syrian Foreign Office recently advised its citizens not to visit Turkey because of the turbulence and repression, this was official satire at it best and answers your question. In Ankara the personality cult of Erdogan reminded me a bit of Mubarek and Assad.
ZB: Finally in your message you say “Take the initiative to tone down the occupy but get together to show you’re stil there”. Could you elaborate this? How should the protestors continue?
Tariq Ali: What I meant was that its always better for the movement to decide on a temporary retreat which is not political but tactical.
ZB: Do you think a political movement can arise from this? Should it arise or should this movement stay as a civil resistance?
Tariq Ali: As I’ve said above, the birth of a new political movement would be the best way forward. Turkey is a land without a real opposition since both conservative Islamism and conservative nationalism are agreed on neo-liberalism, on NATO, on a tight control of the media, on imprisoning jouranlists (Turkey has the gold medal on this front), etc. So there is a vacuum. The time is auspicious. Erdogan’s demagogy has alienated some of his colleagues.
Socially conservative, politically unscrupulous, economically beholden to special industries and militarily NATO’s favourite Islamists, the party in power ignored the voices on the street. The truths being shouted in city after city may be unpalatable to the government but they are worth more than the honeyed tones of mercenary columnists, TV anchors of the official media. And whatever happened to the 60 ‘wise men’ chosen by the regime. Has their collective conscience died?
This interview was conducted by Zeynep Bilgehan on 18th June for the Turkish paper Hürriyet.
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Source: "Portrait and Biographical Record - Published 1894 by Excelsior Publishing Co., Chicago" Pages 500 & 503
John J. Loos has for many years been a resident of Sheboygan County, settling in the town of Rhine in 1854. He is a
son of George W. and Elizabeth (Eckelmann) Loos, and was born August 9, 1826, in Guntersblum, Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany. His father was a painter by trade, which vocation he followed all his life. Our subject received a
common-school education, and later attended a school taught by a learned professor, and has, therefore, enjoyed good
school facilities. When fourteen years of age, he began an apprenticeship in the paint shops of his father, which
occupation he followed until he was twenty-eight years old.
On the 30th of June, 1854, in company with his wife, one child and a brother, Mr. Loos took passage from Liverpool
for the United States. After a voyage of forty-nine days they landed in New York City, where they remained only a
few days. Beginning their journey Westward, they came by way of Albany, Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago, to Sheboygan,
where they tarried for a time. Mr. Loos went to the town of Rhine in a few days, where, in company with a friend, he
bought one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 14, covered with a heavy growth of timber. Two years later
they sold this property, and Mr. Loos removed to section 5, where he bought eighty acres of timber-land. Here he
built his log house, 16x20 feet. In its construction he was assisted by four men. They split the logs and carried
them on their shoulders to the building site, afterward putting them in place; thus was the first home of this
pioneer made, but such houses were substantial, and this particular one may yet be seen on Mr. Loos' farm. In 1873
his present comfortable home was erected. Among the first experiences in the new country was one never to be
forgotten by Mr. Loos and his family. In the vicinity of their new home, the Indians were encamped, and on this
particular night were celebrating the marriage of some of their people. The contracting parties were prominent in
their nation, and the ceremony was performed with all the formalities peculiar to these children of the forest. All
night long the sounds of their revelry could be heard, and at times so boisterous were they, that Mr. Loos was
afraid harm might come to his home before the festivities drew to a close. Day dawned, however, finding all safe,
but they sincerely hoped they might be spared a repetition of such merriment. The old Indian burying-ground lies
west of his home, and on the same section.
In the Fatherland, Mr. Loos wedded Miss Jakobiene Kuhn, and from May 13, 1851, until November 6, 1891, she shared
the joys and sorrows of the home of this old settler. Born of this union were nine children, three sons and six
daughters, of whom seven are living. George is a pastor in the Reformed Church of the United States, stationed at
Monroeville, Ohio; Eliza became the wife of Jacob Bast, a farmer of Germantown, Washington County, Wis.; John G. W.
will be mentioned further on; Christina married Christopher Bast, a brother of Jacob, and also a resident of
Germantown, Wis.; Charlotte F. became the wife of Henry Awe, a farmer and sawmill owner of Clark County, Wis.;
Jakobiene and William are still at home. The latter is a student at the Mission House, in Herman Township. John G.
W., who now owns two hundred and sixty-three acres of fine farming land, a part of which was originally owned by his
father, was bora in the old log house March 1, 1861. He received his education in the district schools, being reared
on his father's farm, where he has passed his life, thus far.
On the 13th of February, 1885, Mr. Loos was married to Miss Bertha Lerche, a daughter of Christian and Augustina
(Krueger) Lerche. Mrs. Loos was born>September 23, 1866, in Rantoul, Calumet County, Wis. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Loos six
children were bora, three sons and three daughters, five of whom are living, and are named as follows: Otto, Walter,
Maria, Lydia and Johnnie.
The entire family belong to the Reformed Church, and attend services at Kiel. Mr. Loos has served as Road Master a
number of times, and in politics supports the Republican ticket.
Copyright 1997 - 2009 by Debie Blindauer
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There was one given when Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget proposal hit the table Tuesday, it includes a tax increase. But if Dayton would examine the course of the state’s economic recovery he would say “no” to increasing the tax burden on hard working Minnesotans.
Unfortunately for Minnesota families and businesses, the state’s positive fiscal narrative is unlikely to survive with two years of complete Democrat control of the legislative and executive branches; especially if they raise taxes.
Here are several reasons lawmakers should resist the urge to raise taxes this biennium.
To start with, look to the old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” According to current budget projections, there will be $1.7 billion more to spend in the next biennium than the last biennium, a substantial increase in revenues.
Avoiding tax increases in the last budget cycle allowed for steady job growth that improved the state unemployment rate to 5.8 percent, a full percentage point lower than it was in early 2010. More people working meant more people paying income taxes. More people working meant more customers for Minnesota businesses which translated into higher corporate income tax collections for the state.
The bottom line is that the current tax rate structure is delivering more revenue to the state every year — no need to propose a major overhaul of the state’s tax system.
Another reason not to mess with the tax code is tax rates were just raised at the federal level for everyone — 2 percent for all wage earners through the payroll tax and 5 percent to 10 percent for higher income families and small businesses.
No one knows what impact these tax increases will have on the state’s economy. There is concern in Minnesota about the effect these increases in the payroll tax and capital gains tax will have on our economy. Dayton’s budget team developed a fiscal cliff scenario that predicted Minnesota’s unemployment rate rising to 7.1 percent by the end of 2014 if the Congress did not pass legislation to avoid a major federal tax increase.
Just last month our trusted economists warned us about the negative impact of federal tax increases on the Minnesota economy. How can we turn around this month and assume a state tax increase won’t have the same effect? It will. Raising taxes — federal or state — will slow the state’s economy and raise unemployment.
An alternative to increasing taxes and jeopardizing the state’s economic recovery would be to impose moderate spending restraint. Currently, the state is projected to spend, when including all funds, over $60 billion during the next two years. A modest reduction of 2 cents per dollar of projected spending would yield a small surplus at the end of the biennium. Democrats talk about hardships of spending reductions, what could be so difficult in finding 2 cents per dollar in excess or waste in $60 billion of expenditures.
Recently, Shar Knutson, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO said: “After a decade of cuts only budgets and fiscal gimmicks that made life harder for middle class Minnesotans, elected leaders have an opportunity to finally balance our budget in a responsible way that moves Minnesota forward.”
Other than overlooking the significant fact that the state’s spending has grown by more than 50% in the last ten years, she is correct. There is a responsible way to balance the budget that will move Minnesota forward; and that is by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse, slowing the growth in state spending, not by raising taxes.
But if early bill introductions are any indication, the DFL is already signaling they are more interested in new spending than in spending reform. The House and Senate majorities are proposing new spending on big ticket items like all day kindergarten and increases in aid to local governments. Their proposed tax increases are hardly for current spending but for a tidal wave of new spending. The most damaging result of this legislative session could be the growth in state government at the expense of the growth in our state’s economy.
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Effective communication starts with stop. Stop reacting.
Reacting is our friend when we're driving our car. We want to stop before we run in to something. No thinking needed. Just slow down.
However, reacting does not work for us when we want to communicate.
In communication we want to respond, which does require thinking, engaging our intelligence, and choosing an appropriate response.
We need to "put in the clutch" to disengage from our mental engine reaction. We need to pause and choose, "Where do I want to go? Where do I want to steer our communication and drive our relationship? Where do I want us to wind up?"
We need a new reaction designed to help us move from reacting to responding.
That new reaction is, "Yes, and. "
For example, "Yes, and tell me more."
Looking closely, we can understand that our "Yes" gets us out of the mental reaction "hole" and our "And" provides us with the pause we need to reflect and choose a gear shift that will get us where we want to go.
"And" places our hands back on the steering wheel. Anything after we say after our "And" is the future, our future - because we said so.
No magic wands or Phoenix feathers required.
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Janine Brodie, a Trudeau Fellow, gave a thought-provoking ‘big thinking’ lecture at the 2012 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences in Waterloo, entitled, Social Literacy and Social Justice in Times of Crisis. Her lecture was a brilliant political analysis of the current trends affecting Canadian society, with a rich history of critical role of the social sciences. I am going to quote liberally from her paper, to share some of her critical insights into our present economic and social trajectory, and I strongly encourage you to read the entire paper.
The present global economic crisis denies the next generation the promise of social mobility, which is so critical to the implicit social contract of liberal democracies (p. 4)
The 2011 OECD report reminds member countries that income redistribution is “at the core of responsible government” (p. 8).
In his 1931 book, Inequality, Tawney argues that democracy is an inherently unstable form of government unless it is also committed to the elimination of all forms of privilege and to the taming of economic power (1931: 30) (p. 10).
The social sciences challenged hierarchy, fatalism and ignorance, and generated new ways of thinking about the possibilities of democratic governance (Delanty, 1997: 25) (p.10). The social in social literacy is irreducibly relational, emphasizing our mutual interdependence while literacy refers to proficiency in a particular way of seeing and understanding (p. 12).
Can we really comes to grips with our uncertain world without first interrogating the profoundly anti-social instincts of market-driven governance that have informed our politics and our daily lives for more than a generation (p. 15)?
Between 1980 and 2009, the market incomes of the top 20% of earners in Canada increased by 38%, remained stagnant for the middle 20%, and dropped by 11% for the bottom 20%. In the decade between 1997 and 2007, the top 1% took 32% of all income growth (CCPA, 2012) (p. 19).
Nothing has trickled down, except perhaps insecurity and uncertainty (p. 19).
It is far easier to change the subject or shoot the messenger: in short, to manufacture social illiteracy. . .Typically junk politics breeds contempt for experts and science and asserts stark divisions between taxpayers and freeloaders, immigrants and native born, public workers and private workers, and criminals and victims (DeMott, 2003; Himmelfarb, 2011:6) (pp. 20-12).
In Canada, we see the production of social illiteracy in the staging of horizontal antagonisms, the silencing of equity-seeking groups, and the suppression of social knowledge. The dismantling of equity-seeking and environmental groups is another vector in the active production of social illiteracy in contemporary Canada (p. 21-22).
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Darling Children, life consists of two things: first to perform actions and second to reap the results thereof. If we cultivate the right attitude with which we have to perform actions and the right attitude with which we have to experience the results of those actions, our lives will become full of peace and bliss.
It is seen that what we expect, often does not take place, and what we may never expect, often does take place. It is because the obtainment of the results of our actions depends on several factors besides our effort.
Only if all the factors are fulfilled, will the result come according to our expectation. However, the only thing that we have control over is how to perform the actions.
Therefore what we can do is to perform actions to the best of our ability and not worry about the results. That is why Lord Krishna advises in the Bhagavad Gita to perform actions without expectation of results. It doesn’t mean that one should work without accepting the wages. If we are able to perform actions without being preoccupied with the benefits, we will be able to discharge our duties efficiently. And their results will come to us, naturally.
Even if a student writes the examination very well, if the professor who evaluates the papers or the clerk who records the marks is not careful enough, he will not receive the desired marks. One student studied very well and wrote the examination to his utmost satisfaction. He was expecting first rank. However when the results were published he had just secured a pass. Still he was not despondent. He asked for a re-evaluation of his papers. In the re-evaluation he was awarded first rank. How did this happen? On enquiry it was found that the professor who evaluated his papers originally was in a disturbed state of mind at that time, because his wife had eloped with someone. That is why Amma said even if we perform our actions very well the results will depend upon many other factors which are not in our control. Our success is determined by several factors over which we have no power.
Even if a person crosses a road very carefully, there is a chance that some vehicle driven recklessly may knock him down. This shows that in order for all the factors governing the results of our actions to be fulfilled positively, we need to have the grace of God. The easiest way to receive this grace is that we perform all our actions as a worship of God. If we look upon all our actions as worship of God, then we will be careful to perform them in the best way possible.
In worship we will offer only the best things to God. We will never offer a rotten fruit or withered flowers to God. We will never use unclean utensils while we are performing the worship. Similarly, if we make every action of ours a worship of God, then we will be able to perform only good actions. Eventually all our actions will become noble and selfless and we will refrain from evil actions, as they are not fit to be offered to God.
The most important attitude a worshipper should have is humility. If we make our actions a worship, we will never become egoistic. Even if we attain success, we will take it as the grace of God and not as a proof of our merit. For whatever we get after the puja is the prasad of the Lord. We should continue to keep the attitude of humility even after the result is obtained. After worship we will not be concerned about the defects of the prasad, but will accept it as a blessing from the Lord. If we have to meet with failure, we will accept that also as the prasad of the Lord.
That doesn’t mean that after failure we should sit indolent, accepting it as the will of God. If there is a possibility for success, we should try again. Even after sincere effort, if we again meet with failure, we should accept it as the will of God. If we accept success as the grace of God and failure as His will, we will neither become elated in success nor go to pieces in failure. We will not be lost in self pity if we can accept even failure as the will of God. We should be able to accept even failure as a necessary experience that we have to undergo at a particular time for our growth. We should feel happy that our prarabdha (results of past actions we must reap in this lifetime) is over. We should look upon it as a lesson and learn from it so that we can advance in our lives.
If we have proper discrimination, we will be able to transform any situation in our life to our benefit. The right attitude towards action will liberate us from boredom and bondage. If our attitude is right, we will be able to perform our duties with diligence and enthusiasm. When this is coupled with the grace of God, success will certainly be ours. Whatever be the case, we should not despair. God is always with those who put forth effort sincerely with the right attitude. Success also belongs to them. | <urn:uuid:165aaab8-8759-4cb3-9e6e-3cba88ed1772> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.amritapuri.org/10180/action-result.aum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00342-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979009 | 1,038 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The Internet brings people of all ages together from around the world, and one popular way to do so is through chat games that use avatars to represent the players. While some virtual chat games come at a cost, many of them are free to play. The chat games that are designed for younger crowds take extra precautions to make sure everyone playing is in a safe environment, so it's easy to introduce your younger children to games that are appropriate for their age range.
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"Tootsville" is a vibrant world of colourful characters. Each child gets his own virtual home, can shop for clothes and furniture, and can eat all the junk food he wants at the local candy store. The virtual games found throughout the world allow your children to earn virtual "peanuts" when playing, which they can trade in for cool virtual prizes. The game is suitable for children of all ages but was designed specifically for 6-14 year olds.
Presented by Disney, "Club Penguin" offers a virtual world of educational games and platforms for meeting new friends. The site is free to play on but access to some content and features require a monthly membership fee that starts, as of May 2011, at £3.80 a month (with discounts when you pay for several months at a time). The game features filtered chat and live moderators to ensure your child's safety at all times.
Players can customise their avatars once they've logged in to "SmallWorlds" for the first time, changing the colour and style of hair and clothes. The activities include training pets, hanging out with new friends, shopping for new clothes, and playing interactive games. There are usually thousands of players online at any given time and signing up is fast and free.
This world offers kids the opportunity to express themselves in the way that they look and the activities they choose to participate in when they're playing. Similar to Tootsville, the world offers various games to play, many avatar customisation options to choose from, and the ability to meet new friends across the globe. Some activities found in the world include puzzle, strategy, arcade and action games.
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Because obesity is linked to many common chronic illnesses, losing weight is one of the best things you can do for your current and future health. But many people report failing at one weight loss plan after another. If you’ve had problems getting your weight under control, it’s likely that you have fallen victim to one of the following seven weight loss saboteurs.
1. You tend to crash diet. Remember that weight loss is about making permanent lifestyle changes. If you starve your body into dropping ten or twenty pounds, then go right back to your old diet and activity habits, that weight will return. In fact, crash dieting can actually cause your body’s metabolism to slow, so that you regain even more weight when you start eating “normally” again. Rather than viewing weight loss as a cycle of “dieting” and “eating normally”, you have to change your “normal”.
2. You deprive yourself of treats. On the other hand, changing your eating patterns does not mean you should given up your favorite treats for the rest of your life. It’s not realistic to tell yourself, “I’ll never eat cookies again”. Eventually you will deplete your will power, and splurge on a bag of Chips A’hoy. Instead, allow yourself a small treat several times per week. If you enjoyed an extra-long workout this morning, promise yourself one cookie after dinner, for example.
3. You deprive yourself of sleep. When your body is deprived of sleep, your metabolism slows. Your body also produces hormones which cause you to crave sugary, high calorie “comfort” foods. Part of your lifestyle changes must include a commitment to regular, quality sleep.
4. You worry too much about the numbers. When you’re trying to lose weight, you may feel tempted to weight yourself multiple times per day. As the numbers on the scale fluctuate slightly (which is normal, due to water weight and other reasons), you may feel depressed any time it appears your efforts aren’t paying off. Resist the temptation to weigh yourself every day, and schedule a weekly weigh-in instead. You will feel more motivated when you see visible, more accurate results.
5. Your friends and family sabotage you. Some of the people closest to you might attempt to derail your weight loss plan. It could be that they feel insecure about their own weight, or they don’t understand how difficult your weight struggle truly is. Talk to your loved ones in a firm, but friendly way, and set clear boundaries. Remember that your health is your number one priority. Your loved ones shouldn’t need you to sacrifice that in order to have fun.
6. You snack late at night. Toward the end of the day, we all lose some of our will power. We’re tired from work and taking care of our families, and it can be tempting to reach for comfort foods. Brush your teeth after dinner, or start going to bed a little bit earlier at night. Find a way to signal to your body that you are finished eating for the day. If snacking in front of the TV is your main problem, record your favorite shows and then watch them during the middle of the day on weekends, when you’re feeling less stressed.
7. You don’t drink enough water. Adequate water intake helps your body to effectively metabolize the foods you eat. Remember that your urine should be clear to light yellow; if it’s darker than that, you’re dehydrated.
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Have you been through an experience where you have gone out to grab a few drinks with your friends and did not plan on getting drunk? You could be recovering from a night of excessive drinking already and could have made up your mind not to drink more than what you can handle. More often than not, though, things do not go as you plan. When you get caught up in the experience, you might end up drinking more than you intended to without inhibition. The million-dollar question then becomes how to avoid getting drunk? Does a viable answer even exist to this question? Well, you are in luck because we have got the answer to it along with some hangover prevention ideas.
Being drunk is not a pleasant experience for anyone. You have no control over your actions or words and may end up doing something to embarrass yourself or the people you are with. Even worse, you could end up hurting yourself or your friends or family members because when you are drunk, you may believe that you are capable of doing the impossible. Furthermore, if you get drunk the chances of you experiencing side-effects until the next day is highly likely. Hangovers are not pleasant and became another negative add-on to an already terrible situation when you get drunk. That is precisely why many people are curious to know how to get drunk without a hangover too.
The million-dollar questions remain: How to avoid getting drunk and how to prevent a hangover? Let us address the former question first. Jim Koch’s celebrity advice comes into play here, because it genuinely makes sense when you dissect it. Jim swears by having one teaspoon of yeast for every beer he consumes and assures his listeners that you will not get drunk if you follow this method. He then goes on to explain why it works. Yeast has one active ingredient, an enzyme that helps break alcohol molecules. Although your liver has enzymes that can perform the same function, the enzyme in yeast provides added support by starting the breakdown process in your stomach.
Jim Koch gave us some solid advice on how to avoid getting drunk, but what do you do if you end up drinking more than you intended to and do not have yeast available immediately? Your main concern at this point should be hangover prevention. One of the most important things to do is to hydrate yourself since alcohol being a diuretic, drains the water in your body. It is also important to eat the right kinds of food to help replenish the nutrients that the toxins in alcohol deplete from your body. Getting enough rest and not overdoing it even if your body feels functional is also some more great advice. Light exercise is recommended because the activity will help your body feel less slow if you are up for incorporating some movement in your routine.
Overall, with all the hangover help mentioned in this article, you should be able to either decrease or entirely eliminate the effects of a hangover if you end up getting drunk. The recommended approach, though is what advice Jim Koch provided, coupled with hydrating between drinks. It will also be better for your health in the long term because it takes some workload off of your liver. Knowing your alcohol tolerance will also really help you to know when to stop drinking before you end up overdoing it. It is always a better idea to be safe when you are consuming alcohol so that you do not risk harming yourself or those around you! | <urn:uuid:ffc2e713-7f39-4a54-a0a3-b96d424565f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hangoversupplement.com/how-to-avoid-getting-drunk-valuable-advice-and-hangover-prevention-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.96496 | 686 | 1.820313 | 2 |
I have just finished a 4 digit counter circuit. However, i am having difficulty getting the ripple blanking to work. I have used 74LS160N synchronous 4-bit counters feeding 74LS47N BCD to 7 segment display drivers and then to 7 segment displays with common anode. I have tried connecting the ripple blanking between each 74LS47N but with no joy! I have tried what is supposed to be connected and when this didn't work i tried every other configuration but i cant seem to get it.
The RBO of the MSB 74LS47N feeds the RBI of the next one down and so on. The RBI of the MSB 74LS47N is tied to earth and the RBO of the LSB is left open. With all the RBO's and RBI's tied high the circuit works perfectly and all displays show zero or a relevant number.
I have attatched the circuit file, please excuse the mess of it, there's connections everywhere !!!
Can anyone help me with this please? Any input would be very much appreciated as it is an aspect of the circuit i would really like to get working.
Is this what you are trying to achieve?
The last OR Gate U28b could have been eliminated and the output could have been taken directly from U27b output, but I left it so the circuit could be continued with more digits. I also included a reset button.
Please let me know.
Thats a superb circuit you've put together. It just shows even simple things like mounting the IC's 90 degrees round can neaten up the circuit no end
Thats exactly what i was after but unfortunately i dont have the time or the parts( the gates) to incorporate it into my device.
The circuit you've built is exactly what i was after but i didn't know if it could be done by simply adjusting a few of the connections to the IC's to get the ripple blanking working. The ripple blanking connections on the 74LS47N's made me believe it could be done with some alterrations. maybe thats not the case.
If the only way it can be done is to use the external gates then i won't be able to use it. The circuit i have is fine but the ripple blanking would have just neatened up the display a bit and possibly saved a bit of battery life. Its not essential that i get it working but thankyou very much for the input, its very appreciated.
I also noted that you have tied the ABCD inputs to the 74LS160n's high, does this a make a difference at all as i have just left mine open?
Just another quick point. i see your clk arrangement is slightly different to mine. My RCO feeds the ENP of the next IC but yours is connected to the CLK of the next IC. Can you tell me if there is any difference between the two?
As to concerning your questions, by tying my RCO to the ClLK created a ripple triggering circuit. This method would cause the display to the right to be the Least Significant Digit. It also insured that the count would almost always start at zero instead of the random starts, and could eliminate having to add additional components to insure the counter starts at zero, an economical approach.
As for tying the ABCD pins together to high, in this case it could have tied to GND also, but thinking about it tying to GND is better. However, the reason is, when working with digital circuits, it is a good practice to never leave the unused inputs on counter IC's with serial and parallel input open to prevent false triggering. A circuit with ungrounded inputs may work fine in your home but if it is placed in an environment with high static discharge, like under the hood of a car with leaky plug wires, you may not get the same results.
I will fiddle around with your circuit to see if the same result can be achieved without additional parts.
Ok. Thanks for that input. Its good to try and pick up new things.Obviously i'm still a beginner as far as electronics is concerned. Thats good advice about the connections being left open. I'll be sure to connect them to either ground or +voltage. I'll have a play around with it.
Hi again, I actually built your circuit because experiece has taught me always build the circuit. After doing so, I discovered a counting error existed in the practical circuit. Simulators are good but they are not perfect.
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It came through an online message board from a village in eastern France. Attached was a photo of a standard-issue U.S. Army duffel bag, and the name on it in faded block letters was unmistakable:
WILLIAM A. KADAR.
"I can't believe this," Arleen Haas, 33, recalled thinking as she looked at the photo again and again. Kadar, her grandfather, had fought in eastern France during World War II, winning a Purple Heart and enduring a string of POW camps in the closing months of the war.
Haas has spent much of her life collecting and preserving memories for her grandfather, now 93, who she says has given her so much. She saw the duffel as one more way to help Kadar stop time — if only for a moment. His ability to remember has been fading, much like those block letters.
"This duffel bag might just spark something," she remembers thinking. "It would just blow his mind."
Several years ago, Kadar agreed to talk about the war as part of a documentary project. The former tech sergeant, wisps of white hair showing, seemed to enjoy telling the old stories. But that wasn't always so.
"The whole time we were growing up, we were told he didn't want to talk about it," said Lynn Sattler, Haas' mother and eldest of Kadar's five children.
Still, reminders filled Kadar's basement in Merrillville, Ind., where large and colorful medals covered the walls. There was also a small sheathed sword bearing a swastika squirreled away in a cabinet.
"In fourth or fifth grade, I remember being kind of fascinated that he was in the military," Haas said. "When you're a kid, you see a military medal and you are like, 'That was the coolest thing.'"
Kadar was with the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division, in France in October 1944. He described how he and his fellow soldiers helped free the French town of Bruyeres from Nazi occupation. Some nights, sleep never came. The fighting "was day and night," he said.
His wartime combat led to his Purple Heart. Then he spent several months in German POW camps, where prisoners were shot, food was scarce and there was no heat.
"Our food, gee," Kadar said. With soup, "you wondered what was in it. Potato soup, you were lucky if you got a piece of potato."
When liberation came in late April 1945, he figured he had lost 100 pounds.
Those stories enthralled Haas. "It's like being a superhero," she said.
When Haas turned 18, she signed up for the Army Reserve without telling her parents.
Stationed in Germany in 2004, she decided to retrace Kadar's wartime journey. She snapped pictures along the way, of the small French towns he traveled through, of the countryside, of the former prison camps.
That journey complete, Haas picked up a book with a black leather cover and filled its bare white sheets with her grandpa's stories. She tucked the photos inside and sent him the memento, postmarked from Germany.
Memories returned, and Kadar thanked his granddaughter. As time went on, he turned to the book to retrieve moments that had temporarily vanished with age.
Once Haas returned to the U.S., she set out to find a man her grandfather had often talked about, the one who had helped him check for mines along a bridge in France to prepare the way for Allied tanks. The one Kadar called the best soldier there was.
"My grandfather is William KADAR," she wrote in summer 2008 on an online forum for the Texas Military Forces Museum. "He is still alive and well and I am trying to find anyone who knew him from the war. He is especially interested in finding Jesus FLORES."
She eventually tracked down Flores' sister, but it was too late. Flores had died.
"I remember when she told me that, I cried," said Haas, a former Army captain. She put an update on the message board. Someone replied, offered condolences. Then the thread went silent.
In June of last year, Haas was in the car when a message came through on the long-forgotten thread.
"Not a lot of time to be currently with you," the message read, "but a young cousin (16) recently found a very nice bag that William will sure be very happy to see."
The writer, a Frenchman named Hervé, had been working with the Texas Military Forces Museum to return World War II memorabilia to Americans. Hervé told Haas that his cousin, Charles, had found William's bag at his grandfather's house in Rehaupal, France — near Bruyeres.
Below Hervé's message was the photo that would soon consume Haas. She showed her husband.
"We were both in shock," Haas said.
She wrote back: "It is with tears of joy that I answer this post. What an incredible find! ... How shall I get this bag?"
After many months of back and forth, the bag Kadar left behind nearly 70 years earlier arrived.
In January, Kadar smiled as Haas helped him untie the burgundy-colored ribbon and unfurl the surprise gift, surrounded by family and local journalists.
Kadar spread his hand across its Army green surface. "Well, I finally got it," he said.
Sattler said her father smiled throughout the day. But no new stories came.
"There was no really memories brought back of what I really done, the miles I walked," Kadar said in a telephone interview. "The bag is a mystery; I don't remember anything about it."
Still, he said, he couldn't thank his granddaughter enough.
The local news report struck a chord. "Thank you, Mr. Kadar, for your service to this country," one online commentator wrote. "We owe you more than we could ever repay, and you deserve more than you would ever accept. You and your brethren truly were the greatest generation."
Soon, Kadar's phone was ringing: old friends, relatives, strangers. "There were some from California — oh, all over, Florida," Kadar said. "People that I knew and some others I didn't remember."
Sattler noticed more of a spring in her father's step, more of a sparkle in his blue eyes, after the empty duffel arrived.
"He's more ... cheerful when he calls," she said.
The flood of calls felt good, Kadar said. "It just," he paused, "was nice to hear from people."
Kadar's health has since waned and he rests at home now. When Haas visits, his smile is there. And she is there for him.
This recalls something he spoke about in the documentary.
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While there is rightfully much concern about the COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) becoming a pandemic (see Bara Vaida’s excellent tip sheet on covering the virus), let’s not forget we’re in the middle of flu season, another disease that is potentially fatal for older adults. While COVID-19 is deadlier, flu is much more prevalent.
Flu activity is high in the U.S. and expected to continue for weeks, according to CDC’s Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report for the week ending Feb. 15, 2020. You can see a breakout by age groups for Influenza A and B strains here. CDC estimates at least 29 million flu illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths from flu so far this season.
Due to age-related changes in their immune systems, people 65 years and older may not respond as well to vaccination as younger people. Although immune responses may be lower in the elderly, studies have consistently found that flu vaccine has been effective in reducing the chance of medical visits and hospitalizations associated with flu.
Older adults are at high risk of developing serious complications from flu compared with young, healthy adults. Our immune defenses become weaker with age, and many older people have other serious co-morbid conditions like heart disease, which can increase vulnerability to flu-related complications. While flu seasons can vary in severity, during most seasons, it’s those 65 and older who bear the brunt of the flu and it’s complications. In recent years, for example, CDC estimates 70% to 85% of seasonal flu-related deaths have occurred in the older population and this group comprises 50% to 70% of seasonal flu-related hospitalizations.
Older people can get the “regular” vaccine or one of two vaccines designed specifically for people 65 and older: high dose Fluzone is three-component (trivalent) inactivated flu vaccine, (Sanofi Pasteur Inc) specifically for people 65 and older. It contains four times the antigen of standard-dose inactivated influenza vaccines. The higher dose of antigen in the vaccine is intended to give older people a better immune response, and therefore, better protection against flu.
Another option is Fluad, a standard-dose, three-component (trivalent) inactivated flu vaccine, (Sequeris) which contains an adjuvant. It’s designed specifically for people 65 years and older. Like most flu vaccines, it’s manufactured using an egg-based process; it is formulated with the adjuvant MF59.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine for adults 65 years and older. Fluad Quadrivalent, uses the same MF59 adjuvant as the Fluad vaccine, but with an additional strain included. Fluad and Fluad Quadrivalent are currently the only adjuvanted seasonal influenza vaccines approved for this age group in the U.S. One recent study shows that enhanced flu vaccines provided better protection to those 65 and older compared with standard vaccines.
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Quote from: shifters74 on 10:48, 25 November 19No reason why you cant have auto boot as per biged's post if some one provides the code (will make it an option as i use an M4 for that).
Quote from: biged on 19:50, 25 November 19using one of the Pi's UARTs for serial comms, if the Pi has the spare pins
Quote from: biged on 19:50, 25 November 19using the Pi as a real time clock
Quote from: biged on 19:50, 25 November 19 paging memory contents in or out, as per shifters' MCPconnecting the CPC's keyboard and screen to a Linux prompt on the Pi, or to an ssh connection elsewhereconnecting one CPLink-enabled machine to another one over the internetmaking the Pi act as a second processor to run applications, perhaps Z80 applications running in emulationusing the Pi as a computation server or FPU, to speed up fractals or other numeric work
Quote from: shifters74 on 21:41, 25 November 19MCP does this providing you only want HH:MM (could add SS if you want it)cheersshifters
Quote from: GUNHED on 22:58, 26 November 19Seconds would be necessary IMHO, else it's not really usable. If there will evolve some kind of 'standard' I'll support it with FutureOS. About anything else - depends on my free time.
Quote from: LambdaMikel on 19:19, 26 November 19... use the Pi as a "print server" for my CPC...
Quote from: shifters74 on 23:04, 26 November 19OK Added in the current dev build Shifters
Quote from: shifters74 on 16:39, 27 November 19It means some significant changes to MCP ... snip...
Quote from: GUNHED on 17:14, 27 November 19Do you have any CLU if we need a TRON program... just in case...
Quote from: LambdaMikel on 21:59, 27 November 19... also, I am still dreaming of using my CPC for email... preferably from BASIC with a couple of RSX commands.END OF LINE
Quote from: zhulien on 02:11, 28 November 19I am wondering if I should adapt this to use the PI for tasking instead of the CPC - what do you think? Maybe a better programmer than me wants to continue what i started to make a hopefully better MCP?http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/programming/interrupts-questions/msg164115/
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When you are a high school student, it is hard to imagine that life could be any better than it is. You are surrounded by your friends, the people who know you best. You are in the prime of your life, and everything is new and exciting. But then, one day, you graduate from high school, and the next step is college. For many students, college is a time of great expectations.
When students begin their college careers, they have a general idea of what to expect. But, more often than not, the reality of college life differs from the expectations students have. This post will explore the differences between expectations and reality, focusing on academics, social life, and campus life. For example, students generally expect college to be more challenging academically than high school. However, many students find that their coursework is less demanding than what they experienced in high school.
Additionally, while college offers more opportunities for socializing than high school, it can also be a time when young adults feel more socially isolated than ever before. Campus life is often not as exciting as students anticipate either; instead of spending their days and nights exploring new activities and meeting new people, many students find themselves studying or working long hours.
Expectations vs. Reality: How the College Experience Measures Up
When you go off to college, one of the things you’re probably most looking forward to is living on your own. Finally, you can break free from your parents and their rules! But as it turns out, for many students, college isn’t quite the independence they were hoping for. In fact, for many people, college is more like living with roommates than living on your own.
Most colleges require students to live on campus in a dormitory for at least their first year. This can be a shock if you’re not used to sharing a room with someone else. And even if you are used to it, your new roommate will be different from anyone you’ve ever lived with before. You may also find that having roommates affects your grades.
It’s no secret that college students are often on a tight budget, making food choices a top priority. But what are today’s college students eating? And, more importantly, is their diet what they expected it to be? The Princeton Review found that the most popular food choice for college students is pizza. Nearly 1 in 5 students said they eat pizza every day. Other popular options include ramen noodles, sandwiches and burritos.
Many college students say they’re not getting the nutrients for healthy eating. For example, a study by the American Dietetic Association found that only about one-third of college students eat the recommended daily allowance of fruits and vegetables. And nearly half of all college students reported being on a diet to lose weight or maintain their current weight.
For many students, joining a Greek organization is very appealing. The promise of a close-knit group of friends, social events, and philanthropic opportunities. But what happens when these expectations don’t quite match up with reality? Greek life can be a great way to meet new people and get involved on campus. However, there are some things to keep in mind before pledging.
For starters, not all campuses have a thriving Greek life scene. And even if your school does have a few fraternities and sororities, it’s essential to do your research before rushing. For example, some chapters can be highly competitive and exclusive, while others may be more relaxed and welcoming. It’s also important to consider your personality and interests before picking a house.
One of the biggest shocks for many students during their first semester of college is realizing that they are no longer the youngest person in the room. The average college student is now around 22 years old, which means that most first-year students are among the youngest on campus. For some students, this newfound maturity comes as a welcome surprise. They enjoy being surrounded by more experienced and worldly classmates and appreciate having access to resources and opportunities that come with being an adult.
For others, however, the transition to college can be difficult. For example, adjusting to increased independence and responsibility can be challenging, particularly for those who have never been away from home for an extended period. Additionally, many students find that the realities of college life do not always match up with their expectations.
The college experience is often full of surprises. For some, the reality of attending college doesn’t quite match up to their expectations. For others, it’s everything they thought it would be and more. For example, in a study conducted by UCLA in 2009, it was found that only 26% of students had a class schedule that matched their original expectations.
One of the most significant discrepancies between expectations and reality was the class size. Nearly 50% of students reported that their classes were larger than expected. Additionally, only 58% of students reported having the same professors for all of their classes, often a key component in creating a community on campus. While there are some differences between what students expect and what they experience while attending college, there are many similarities.
Leaving home for college is often seen as a rite of passage – an exciting adventure into the unknown. But unfortunately, for many students, the experience falls short of their expectations. Here’s a look at how college life differs from what was imagined. Classes are harder than expected. The workload is more significant, and professors are less forgiving than high school teachers. In addition, there is little or no guidance from educators on how to be successful in college.
Campus life is not as social as expected. With classes and studying consuming most of the students’ time, there is little opportunity for engaging in extracurricular activities. And when students do have free time, they often choose to relax in their dorm rooms or apartments rather than go out and socialize. As a result, housing is not always what was hoped for. | <urn:uuid:5885332f-c0c8-4c7c-a70d-6c7b8a9c139c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universitymagazine.ca/expectations-vs-reality-college-experience-measures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976825 | 1,248 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Almanac: October 26, 2015
- 1911 - Mahalia Jackson (d. 1972)
- 1929 - Neal Matthews, Jr. (Jordanaires) (d. 2000)
- 1936 - Al Casey (d. 2006)
- 1944 - Mike Piano (Sandpipers) (71)
- 1944 - Alan Henderson (Them) (71)
- 1946 - Keith Hopwood (Herman's Hermits) (69)
- 1951 - Bootsy Collins (64)
- 1951 - Maggie Roche (Roches) (64)
- 1952 - David Was (born David Weiss) (Was (Not Was)) (63)
- 1953 - Keith Strickland (B-52's) (62)
- 1962 - Kristen Hall (Sugarland) (53)
- 1963 - Natalie Merchant (52)
- 1967 - Keith Urban (48)
- 1978 - Mark Barry (BBMak) (37)
- 1981 - Guy Sebastian (34)
- 1994 - Wilbert Harrison - Stroke (65)
- 1999 - Hoyt Axton - Heart attack (61)
- 1958 - Bill Haley & the Comets played the first Rock and Roll show in Germany. 7,000 turned out and it ended in a riot.
- 1959 - The Everly Brothers said they were thinking of leaving Cadence Records for RCA or Warner Brothers.
- 1961 - Bob Dylan signed with Columbia Records.
- 1963 - Bob Dylan sold out Carnegie Hall. He had played at the venue for 53 people just one year before.
- 1965 - The Beatles are given their MBE's by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
- 1970 - A wake was held for Janis Joplin in San Alselmo, CA. The singer left $2,500 in her will for the celebration should she pass away.
- 1970 - The Rolling Stones were sued by the mother of the man killed by the Hells Angels at Altamont.
- 1978 - The Police played their first U.S. show at the Rat Club in Boston.
- 1980 - Paul Kantner suffered a stroke during a Jefferson Starship recording session. He eventually recovered after two weeks in the hospital.
- 1984 - John D. McCollum, 19, committed suicide after listening to Ozzy Osbourne records all day. His death would kick off a landmark court case over whether music can lead to violence and suicides.
- 1991 - Ozzy Osbourne broke his foot while performing in Chicago.
- 1992 - Pearl Jam set a record for the time by selling 950,000 copies of Vs. in the first week.
- 1993 - The Catholic Church of Puerto Rico protested the upcoming concert by Madonna by asking members to tie black ribbons in trees.
- 1998 - The RIAA loses its battle to have MP3 devices banned.
- 1998 - Marilyn Manson opened their Mechanical Animals tour in Kansas City, MO.
- 1998 - It was announced that Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Roberta Peters and Fats Domino would receive the 1998 National Medal of Honor.
- 2000 - The attorney-general of the province of Ontario asked the federal government to not allow Eminem to enter the country for a tour based on hate speech.
- 2000 - Capitol Records threw a huge party for Garth Brooks to honor his being the first artist to sell 100 million albums in a decade and have four 10 million sellers. Brooks used the occasion to announce that he was retiring but would record one last album.
- 2001 - Courtney Love played her first solo show in Ventura, CA.
- 2002 - The Statler Brothers played their final date in Salem, VA.
- 2006 - Reba McEntire was honored at the taping of a CMT Giants show.
- 2007 - TI was released on $3 million bail to await trial on a charge of unlawful possession of firearms, machine guns and silencers.
- 2007 - Britney Spears was relieved of hit-and-run charges after she compensated the other driver. She still faced charges of driving without a license.
- 2011 - Aerosmith postponed a South American show for 24 hours after Steven Tyler fell in his hotel bathroom, requiring stitches and emergency dental work.
- 2013 - Quincy Jones sued the estate of Michael Jackson over reedited songs, saying they were depriving him of royalties and production fees.
- 1969 - Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter
- 2002 - Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey (98 Degrees)
- 2010 - Billy Ray Cyrus and wife Tish (filed)
- 1936 - The Great Speckled Bird & The Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff (his first recording session)
- 1962 - Close Together, You Can't Judge a Book By the Cover, Soon Forgotten - Rollin' Stones (sic) (first recording session)
- 1962 - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan (first session with a band)
- 1964 - Beatles for Sale - Beatles (last day of recording for the album)
- 1981 - Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie
- 1973 - Mind Games - John Lennon (single)
- 1993 - World Gone Wrong - Bob Dylan
- 1993 - The Song Remembers When - Trisha Yearwood
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In deeply conservative Saudi Arabia the religious police once elicited terror, chasing men and women out of malls to pray and berating anyone seen mingling with the opposite sex.
However, the stick-wielding guardians of public morality have watched gloomily as in recent years their country eased some social restrictions — especially for women — and grumble bitterly at the changing times.
“Anything I should ban is now allowed, so I quit,” said Faisal, a former officer, who asked to use a pseudonym to protect his identity.
Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest Muslim sites, has long been associated with a rigid branch of Islam known as Wahhabism.
The notorious morality police — officially titled the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, but known simply as the mutawa — were previously tasked with enforcing the observance of Islamic moral law.
That included overseeing any action considered immoral, from drug trafficking to bootleg smuggling down to monitoring social behavior, including the strict segregation of the sexes.
However, the force was sidelined in 2016, as the oil-rich Arab kingdom tried to shake off its austere and ultra-sexist image.
Some restrictions have been eased on women’s rights, allowing them to drive, attend sports events and concerts alongside men, and obtain passports without the approval of a male guardian.
The mutawa has been “deprived of all its prerogatives” and “no longer has a clear role,” said Faisal, 37, dressed in dark traditional robes.
“Before, the main authority known in Saudi Arabia was the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue. Today, the most important one is the General Entertainment Authority,” he added sarcastically.
He was referring to the government agency that organizes events, including a performance last year by Canadian pop star Justin Bieber at the Saudi Formula One Grand Prix car race and a four-day electronic music festival.
For decades, the mutawa’s agents cracked down on women who did not properly wear the abaya, an enveloping loose black dress worn over the clothes.
The rules on the abaya have now been relaxed, mixing between men and women has become more common, and businesses are no longer forced to close during the five daily prayer times.
Turki, another former mutawa agent who also asked for his name to be changed, said the institution he worked for a decade effectively “no longer exists.”
Those officers who remain do so “only for the salary,” he said.
“We no longer have the right to intervene, nor to change behaviors that were considered inappropriate,” he added.
Since becoming Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader in 2017, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has sought to position himself as a champion of “moderate” Islam, even as his international reputation took a hit from the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
For writer Saud al-Katib, the reduction of the mutawa’s power constitutes a “significant and radical change.”
Many ordinary Saudis, such as Lama, a woman puffing a cigarette in the center of Riyadh, say they are not shedding tears for the agents.
“We would not have imagined smoking in the street a few years ago,” said Lama, her flowing abaya open to show her clothes beneath.
“They would have hit us with their sticks,” she said laughing.
Rather than patrolling the streets, mutawa agents now spend much of their time behind their desks, developing awareness campaigns on good morals or health measures.
The mutawa is now “isolated,” a Saudi official who requested anonymity said, noting “a significant drop in the number of its employees.”
Mutawa leader Abdel Rahman al-Sanad wants to reform the force — in a country where more than half of the population is under 35 years old — and has even told a local television station the commission would recruit women.
Sanad has admitted some agents had in the past committed “abuses” and carried out work without any “experience or qualification.”
However, the authorities cannot afford to get rid of it completely, said Stephane Lacroix, an expert on the region and a professor at France’s Sciences Po university.
The mutawa are linked “to a certain Saudi identity to which many conservative Saudis adhere,” Lacroix said.
But, while some things have changed, others have not.
Although the religious police have seen their powers wane, alongside the reforms have come a crackdown on dissidents — including intellectuals and women’s rights activists.
URGENT CALL: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency pleaded to gain access to the plant, saying ‘every principle of nuclear safety has been violated The UN’s nuclear chief on Tuesday warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control,” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi said in an interview that the situation is getting more perilous every day at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in the southeastern city of Enerhodar, which Russian troops seized in early March, soon after their Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. “Every principle of nuclear safety has been
On a beach in the Chinese coastal city of Xiamen, just a few kilometers from Taiwan’s Kinmen, life is carefree, despite some of the worst cross-strait tensions in decades. Ignoring warnings from Beijing, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday — the highest-ranking elected US official to visit the nation in 25 years — sparking a diplomatic firestorm. China yesterday launched some of its largest-ever military drills — exercises set to disrupt one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. However, on Xiamen’s palm-fringed beach, there was little concern. “A war? No, I don’t care,” a young IT worker surnamed
According to Forrest Gump, life is like a box of chocolates because “you never know what you’re going to get.” Now, an Indian remake of the movie has been hit by boycott calls over years-old comments by its Muslim star, Aamir Khan. It is the latest example of how Bollywood actors, particularly minority Muslims such as Khan, are feeling increased pressure under Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Modi. Laal Singh Chaddha, an Indian spin on the 1994 Hollywood hit with Tom Hanks, is expected to be one of India’s biggest films of the year. This is due in large part to its
ACROPORA REVIVAL: A marine science official said that the results of recent studies showed that the reef can still recover in periods that are free of intense disturbances Parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover in decades, an Australian government report said yesterday. Portions of the UNESCO heritage site showed a marked increase in coral cover in the past year, reaching levels not seen in 36 years of monitoring, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said. Scientists surveying 87 sites said that northern and central parts of the reef had bounced back from damage more quickly than some had expected, thanks mainly to fast-growing Acropora — a branching coral that supports thousands of marine species. “These latest results demonstrate the reef can still recover | <urn:uuid:1827061a-884e-4f11-85eb-69360f8f258e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/01/15/2003771428 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.963304 | 1,604 | 1.875 | 2 |
Oil on canvas
Framed: 52.7 x 44.1 x 4.5 cm (20 3/4 x 17 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 44.4 x 36 cm (17 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.286
Though flowing loose and free across her shoulders, the woman’s hair is partly bound up in a red kerchief, a tell-tale sign she is an active participant in the French Revolution. The painting also celebrates primary values of the Revolutionary period--close family bonds and, especially, the mother’s role in raising children--by depicting an intimate connection between mother and daughter.
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Edward Hawarden
Theologian and controversialist, b. in Lancashire, England, 9 April, 1662; d. in London, 23 April, 1735. The loyalty to the Faith that came to be a heritage among the Hawardens is testified by their maintenance of domestic chapels in their residences in Appleton and Widnes throughout the period of persecution, as well as the frequent appearance of the name on the list of non-jurors and the recusant-rolls. Edward, after a brilliant course at the English College, Douai remained there as a classical tutor, and after his ordination (7 June, 1686), as professor of philosophy. In 1688 having taken the bachelor's degree at the University of Douai, he spent two months as tutor of divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford, which James II purposed making a seat of Catholic education, but the impending revolution forced him to return to Douai, where he soon proceeded D.D. and was installed in the chair of divinity. In 1702 he was persuaded by the all but unanimous desire of the secular and ecclesiastical authorities of Douai to take part in the concurrence for one of the royal chair of divinity in the university, but the influence of a hostile minority secured the installation of another candidate by mandatory letters from the court. Shortly afterwards complaints were lodged at Rome that the Douai professors, Dr. Hawarden in particular, were propagating the errors of Jansenism, but official investigation completely exonerated all.
In 1707 Hawarden left Douai to take charge of the mission of Gilligate, Durham, and later Aldcliffe Hall, near Lancaster. The quaint brief entrees in the Tyldesley Diary give an idea of his daily life until the seizure of Aldcliffe Hall in 1717, after which he removed to London, probably on his appointment as controversy-writer. Dr. Hawarden received the thanks of the University of Oxford for his able defence of the Blessed Trinity in the famous conference with Dr. Samuel Clarke (1719). Among his works are: "The True Church of Christ, shewed by Concurrent Testimonies of Scripture and Primitive Tradition" (London, 1714); "The Rule of Faith truly stated in a new and easy Method" (London, 1721); "Charity and Truth or Catholicks not uncharitable in saying that none are saved out of the Catholick Communion, because the Rule is not Universal" (Brussels, 1728); "An Answer to Dr. Clarke and Mr. Whiston concerning the Divinity of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (London, 1729); a collective edition of his works was published at Dublin in 1808.
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In Japan, there is now growing public concerns to the frozen ground. This is because that Japanese government proposed frozen soil wall as one of the effective ways to protect diffusion of contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station damaged by 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. For public enlightenment, the Subcommittee on Ground Freezing of the Japanese Society of Snow and Ice has published special document dealt with basic of frozen ground and its engineering applications.
The open-access database for historical domestic ground temperature and frost depth data in Japan has digitized data from 14 Japan Meteorological Agency stations, which are going to make open in spring 2015 (K. Saito, T. Sueyoshi of National Institute of Polar Research, K. Watanabe of Mie University and K Takeda of Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine).
For stage 1 of the terrestrial research sub-project (GRENE-TEA) model intercomparison project (GTMIP) in the GRENE Arctic Climate Change Research Project, model driving data that assimilates the observation data from four sites (Fairbanks, Yakutsk, Tiksi, Kevo) are produced and made open for participants (K. Saito and S. Miyazaki of NIPR). Submission of the model outputs in November 2014, and the analysis results will be presented at ISAR-4 in Toyama, Japan, April 2015.
A. Ikeda (University of Tsukuba) and G. Iwahana (UAF) has maintained the 10 m-deep borehole on the summit of Mt. Fuji. The borehole temperatures were successfully monitored since the summer of 2011.
In Alaska, K. Harada (Miyagi University), K. Narita (Akita University) and K. Saito (JAMSTEC) have carried out researches at the Kougarok site near Nome since 2005 in order to monitor permafrost conditions after severe wildfires. K. Harada also has been conducting the project named 'Frost tube in Japan' since November 2011, under the collaboration with the project of 'Permafrost Outreach Programs' by K. Yoshikawa (WERC, INE, UAF). Frost tubes were set at 19 schools in Hokkaido area, Japan, frost depth measurement will be done by school children and teachers.
In eastern Siberia, long-term permafrost monitoring at Tiksi was conducted by Y. Iijima, H. Park, and H. Yabuki (JAMSTEC) with Russian colleague A. N. Fedorov (Permafrost Institute, Russia). Measurements of vegetation and topography change at 1x1 km CALM grid revealed increases in thermokarst depression and ponding at polygonal tundra. Regional changes in active layer thickness were measured in mid-September at monitoring sites of Spasskaya-pad, Yukechi and Churapcha (newly set up) in central Yakutia.
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The Southern Urals in Russia was contaminated by radioactive discharges into the Techa River (1949-1956), the Kyshtym accident (1957), and the current releases and discharges from the Mayak Nuclear Materials Production Complex.
In this paper, the consequences of radioactive contamination of the Ural region are analyzed.
The current content of 90Sr in the components of food chains is as follows (Bq kg-1 wet weight) :
potatoes, 0.2-6.7 ;
grain, 0.5-12.6 ;
milk, 0.2-6.3 ;
beef, 0.2-1.7 ;
lake water, 0.12-1.0 ;
river water, 0.2-8.5 ;
fish, 7-480 ;
mushrooms, 400-1,100 ;
and berries, 700-16,000.
The content of 137Cs is as follows :
potatoes, 0.5-3.8 ;
grain, 0.3-2.9 ;
milk, 0.2-4.5 ;
beef, 0.3-2.6 ;
lake and river water, 0.002-0.019 ;
fish, 2-32 ;
mushrooms, 110-1,600 ;
and berries, 150.
A major fraction of the dose to humans comes from the consumption of local food products, including natural ones, which have higher contamination levels than agricultural products.
The average annual dose rates in contaminated areas are (0.5-4) x 10-4 Sv y-1, which is lower by a factor of 102-104 than in the periods of « acute » exposure (1950-1951 and 1957-1958).
Natural organisms received very high doses up to 200-800 Gy resulting from radioactive discharges into the Techa River and the radiation accident in 1957.
In all cases, including the « acute » exposure followed by the chronic irradiation, the doses to biota were by a factor of 10-103 higher than those to humans.
Mots-clés Pascal : Pollution radioactive, Radiocontamination, Impact environnement, Dosimétrie, Déchet radioactif, Chaîne alimentaire, Oural, Russie, Eurasie, Strontium, Césium
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Radioactive pollution, Radioactive contamination, Environment impact, Dosimetry, Radioactive waste, Trophic chain, Urals, Russia, Eurasia, Strontium, Cesium
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Multi-tasking items for your student
It can be the most wonderful time of the year -- as long as you're fully prepared.
After a summer of fun, remembering everything you need to get your kids ready for the new school year can take creative thinking and a lot of patience.
But with the stress of preparing the basics such as a backpack and stationary, it's easy to overlook the less obvious things that make life easier.
Mother of two Tracie Wagman, publisher of Help! We've Got Kids, an online resource of family-friendly services in multiple cities across Canada, knows how to get her kids off to a sleek start.
"There is lots to do," says Wagman. "I always check that clothes fit, and a haircut is one not everyone thinks about, but you may not have time to do it afterwards. There might be people with kids who need EpiPens and asthma medications who might want to double check -- have they expired?"
She also recommends updating emergency contacts. "They may have changed even from last year -- then there's before and after school childcare, that's easy to forget. You're worried about school and when it starts, but what is your kid going to do at 3:30 when they get out and you're working?"
Homework prep is important, adds Wagman. Kids don't like it, but activity books or prep classes could benefit academic achievement. Reorganize bedrooms to make space for homework, do a dry run of the route, let kids practise eating within a timeframe, and break lazy summer mornings by waking up early now.
For 9-year-old blogger Hannah Alper of Richmond Hill, Ont., her back to school shopping list has one aim - to be eco-friendly.
On her blog, callmehannah.ca, she visited Staples and listed eco-friendly items for people heading out to shop. However, her biggest tip is to reuse.
"People should look out for things they have already that they can reuse," says Hannah. "Reusing is even more important than recycling. Recycling is really expensive. The trucks, the factories, the machines that they use cost a lot of money and use a lot of energy "¦ Things that you can probably reuse are your backpack and lunch bag, binders, rulers, pencil sharpener, scissors, and pencil case."
Her favourite item is a sugarcane notebook. "After the sugar is used to make sugar, the waste of the sugarcane is made into pulp which is made into paper, and that helps save trees," she says.
With the first day of term creeping closer, this week is the perfect time to start, says Wagman.
"There's a lot of mixed emotions at this time. You might have had the summer off and had quality time with kids and been more relaxed, and it's nice, because everybody gets back into a routine again, but it's also stressful," says Wagman. "You want to make sure they have everything they need, and that they sign up for everything, but you don't have to get overwhelmed by it. If they go to school that first day and only have one pencil, that's all they need. You don't need to go crazy.
"Just make sure you have a list, and what you need to make it easier on yourself."
- Reuse to save waste.
- Buy multi-packs of stationary and share between kids.
- See if after-school programs are cheaper through the city.
- Buy reusable containers for lunches.
- Look for homework preparation online.
- Share childcare with another parent.
- Don't spend much on notebooks and binders - they're easily damaged, and might need replacing again.
- Look for gear at gently used kids clothing shops such as Once Upon A Child and check for used equipment at Play It Again Sports for equipment.
- Order labels with just your last name to share among the family.
- Do clothes/shoes/sports equipment fit? Are they labelled?
- Update emergency contacts.
- Arrange before-and-after-school childcare.
- Check medication expiration.
- Practise the early start.
- Do a dry run of the route.
- Practice eating within a time frame.
- Prepare a calendar and ask for a list of extra-curricular activities.
- Practice tying up laces, putting on new gear.
- Reorganize bedrooms to fit a homework area.
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|May||Individual companies were organized and accepted for service in Georgia and made their way to Richmond.|
|Individual companies were mustered into Confederate service for the duration of the war on different dates and at different locations:
Company A – “Sparks Guards” – Captain John B. Cumming, at Richmond on June 2
|July 14||Major William D. Smith, Acting Assistant Adjutant General to General Lawton, was elected colonel of the 20th Georgia.|
|August 30||Captain John A. Jones of Company I was promoted to major.|
|September 2||Lieutenant Van A. Leonard was elected captain of Company H.|
|September 3-4||Moved to Mason’s Hill, near Annandale, Fairfax County, Virginia|
|September 5||Captain John B. Cumming of Company A was elected lieutenant colonel.|
|September 14||Lieutenant Albert B. Ross was elected captain of Company A.|
|October 3||Captain Henry J. Smith of Company H resigned. Lieutenant John A. Coffee was elected captain of Company H.|
|October 7||The 20th Georgia was assigned to Early’s Brigade, Van Dorn’s Division, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac.|
|December 31||Captain Jesse F. Cleveland of Company K resigned.|
|January 3||Captain Lucius C. Norwood of Company E resigned.|
|January 10||Lieutenant Ransom D. Little was elected captain of Company E and Lieutenant William Craig was elected captain of Company K.|
|January 16||Captain John B. Strother of Company B resigned. Lieutenant Henry C. Mitchell was elected captain of Company B.|
|March 7||Colonel William Smith was promoted to brigadier general. Lieutenant Colonel Cumming was promoted to colonel. Major John A. Jones was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Captain Roger L. Gamble of Company C was promoted to major and Lieutenant Willis F. Denny was elected captain of Company C.|
|April||The regiment was recorded as having 560 effectives.|
|May 23||Toombs’ Brigade became part of D.R. Jones’ Division|
|June 14||Major Roger L. Gamble resigned. Captain James D. Wadell of Company D was elected major. Lieutenant Sheppard W. Blance was elected captain of Company D.|
|June 25-July 1||
Seven Days Battles
Battle of Malvern Hill
Captain Van A. Leonard of Company I was mortally wounded.
|July 17||Lieutenant Charles B. Mims was elected captain of Company I.|
The 20th Georgia lost 152 casualties. Lieutenant Robert Jordan of Company C was killed.
|September 14||Ordered late in the evening to march to Sharpsburg.|
|September 15||Arrived at Sharpsburg and was placed on the bluff above what we become known as Burnside’s Bridge.|
|September 16||Engaged with Union skirmishers.|
The regiment was commanded by Colonel Cumming. It lost 4 men killed, 47 wounded and 17 missing, about a quarter of its effective strength of 250 men, defending the bluff behind what would become known as Burnside’s Bridge.
From the first of two War Department markers for Toombs’ Brigade that were on the Antietam battlefield, located on the Harpers Ferry Road just south of Sharpsburg:
Toombs’ Brigade took position on the evening of September 15, on the bluff commanding the Burnside Bridge and ford a short distance below. His skirmishers and several Batteries of Artillery engaged the enemy during the afternoon of the 16th. On the morning of the 17th the Brigade was exposed to a heavy fire from the enemy’s Artillery on the opposite side of the Antietam. Between 9 A.M. and noon the enemy made several attempts to carry the bridge, but failed. An assault at 1 P.M. was successful and the Brigade fell back and formed line in this road, on the extreme right of the Division and co-operated with Archer’s Brigade of A.P. Hill’s Division in checking any further advance of the enemy.
From the second of two War Department markers for Toombs’ Brigade that were on the Antietam battlefield, at one time on the west side of Branch Avenue but no longer standing:
On the morning of the 17th, the 2d and 20th Georgia of Toombs’ Brigade, the 50th Georgia of Drayton’s Brigade, and a Company each of Hood’s Texas Brigade and Jenkins’ Brigade occupied a position commanding the Burnside Bridge and Snavely’s Ford. At 1 P.M., the Ninth Army Corps forced the passage of the bridge and ford, and Toombs withdrew his command to the Antietam Furnace Road in the suburbs of Sharpsburg. During the engagement at the bridge and ford, and while falling back, Toombs was joined by the 15th and 17th Georgia, of his Brigade, and five Companies of the 11th Georgia of Col. George T. Anderson’s Brigade. Re-forming his command on the Antietam Furnace Road, where he was joined by portions of Kemper’s, Drayton’s and Garnett’s Brigades, Toombs advanced on the left of Archer’s Briagade of A.P. Hill’s Division and, at this point, engaged the Federal troops in the lane and fields beyond. Late in the afternoon his command was relieved by Branch’s Brigade of A.P. Hill’s Division and moved easterly across the Sharpsburg Road, where it remained until withdrawn to re-cross the Potomac.
From Colonel Cumming’s Official Report on the 20th Georgia in the battle:
On the 15th instant I was stationed at a post as picket guard, which post was the scene of action on the 17th, so far as my regiment was concerned. On the evening of the 16th instant, the enemy appearing in force, I sent out a body of skirmishers, who were driven back. Early the next morning the enemy showed in great force – at least three brigades, supported by artillery, among which were some mountain howitzers. They poured a heavy fire upon us, which continued almost uninterruptedly for nearly five hours. My regiment, about 200 strong, maintained its position, inflicting a heavy loss to the enemy, killing and wounding, according to statements of some members of my command who were taken prisoners, nearly 1,000. The fire of the enemy continued in undiminished force, and as all the ammunition available on the ground from the boxes of the dead and wounded men had been expended, and being enfiladed by a battery which the enemy had planted on our left, I deemed it proper to withdraw my command. This order was not given until the advancing enemy were within six or seven yards of my line. A portion of the regiment under my immediate command returned to the engagement during the afternoon and fought on the right of the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Georgia Regiments until after dark. When men acted as my command did, I cannot mention the names of any who particularly distinguished themselves, as every one did his whole duty. Accompanying this is my list of casualties, showing: Killed, 4; wounded, 47; missing, 17; total, 68.
|October||Toombs’ Brigade was transferred to Hood’s Division due to General Jones’ heart disease.|
|January 31||Captain John R. Ivey of Company G resigned. Lieutenant Wiley N. Hutchins was elected captain of Company G.|
|March 3||Colonel Toombs resigned. Colonel Benning took over the brigade|
|April 11-May 4||Suffolk Campaign|
|May 29||Colonel Cumming resigned due to medical reasons. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Jones was elected major. Major James Waddell was elected lieutenant colonel and Captain Eli M. Seago of Company F was elected major. Lieutenant William L. Abbott was elected captain of Company F.|
The regiment was commanded by Colonel John Augustus Jones and brought 525 men to the field. It lost 25 men killed, 84 men wounded, and 28 missing in fighting along the Wheatfield Road.
Colonel Jones was killed on July 2 and Lt. Colonel James D. Waddell took command. Lieutenant F. McCrimmon of Company H was also killed. Captains Albert B. Ross of Company A and Henrt C. Mitchell of Company B were wounded, as were Lieutenants P.G. Hatachett and Ellington J. Morgan of Company E.
From the War Department marker for Benning’s Brigade on the Gettysburg battlefield:
July 2. Arrived and formed line about 4 P. M. in rear of Law’s and Robertson’s Brigades and moving forward in support of these took prominent part in the severe conflict which resulted in the capture of Devil’s Den together with a number of prisoners and three guns of the 4th New York Battery.
July 3. Held Devil’s Den and the adjacent crest of rocky ridge until late in the evening when under orders the Brigade retired to position near here. Through mistake of orders the 15th Georgia did not retire directly but moved northward encountered a superior Union force and suffered considerable loss.
July 4. Occupied breastworks near here facing southward until midnight.
July 5. About 5 A. M. began the march to Hagerstown Md.
After the battle Lieutenant Colonel James Wadell was elected colonel. Major Eli M. Seago was elected lieutenant colonel, and Captain Albert B. Ross of Company A was elected major. Lieutenant Willis W. Breazeal was elected captain of Company A.
|July 13-14||Recrossed the Potomac on the return to Virginia.|
|September||Transferred with Longstreet and the rest of hood’s Division to the Western Theater.|
Battle of Chickamauga
Lieutenant Colonel Eli M. Seago was wounded. Captains Willis W. Breazeal of Company A and Wiley N. Hutchins of Company G were killed. Captain John A. Coffee of Company H and Lieutenant John S. Sligh of Company F were wounded.
Lieutenant Theophilus S. Fontine was elected captain of Company G.
Battle of Wauhatchie
|November 20 – December 4||
Siege of Knoxville
|December 5||Withdrew from Knoxville to the northeast.|
|December 6||To Rutledge.|
|December 9||To Rogersville.|
|February 12||Major General Charles W. Field was assigned to permanently take over the wounded Hood’s Division.|
|April 10||Lieutenant William C. Spence was elected captain of Company D.|
Brigadier General Benning was wounded in the shoulder on May 5 and Colonel Du Bose of the 15th Georgia took command of the brigade.
Lieutenant Colonel Eli M. Seago was wounded. Lieutenant Patrick N. Bostick of Company C was killed. Lieutenant Samuel B. Cleghorn of Company G was wounded, losing his leg.
Captain John A. Coffee of Company H was elected major although still absent due to his Chickamauga wound. It was later decided that the promotion was in error and he was retired to the Invalid Corps.
|May 8||Major Albert B. Ross resigned to become the Clerk of Court of Bibb County, Georgia. Captain William Craig of Company K was elected major.|
Lieutenant W.A. Alexander was killed on May 10.
Battle of Chaffin’s Farm (Fort Harrison)
Captains John B. Richards of Company F and Charles B. Mims of Company I and Lieutenant George F. Adams of Comany K were captured.
Battle of Darbytown Road
Captain William Spence of Company D was wounded.
|November 16||Lieutenant Colonel Eli M. Seago was elected colonel.|
|January 6||Captain Willis F. Denny of Company C was furloughed for disability. He did not return to the regiment.|
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Your driveway represents the welcome you want to convey to visitors, passersby or prospective buyers in the event of a sale. With asphalt paving, you have the opportunity to boost curb appeal, increase the property value, and make the best impression. Typically, asphalt is less expensive than concrete or other materials.
Advantages of Asphalt Versus Concrete
Asphalt has certain advantages over other surfacing materials. Composed of a mixture of aggregate and petroleum-based liquid cement, asphalt is mixed and placed while it is at least 300 degrees F. With asphalt, it must be applied quickly depending upon the thickness, the outdoor temperature and the season.
Favorable characteristics of asphalt include:
- Fast set – hardens by cooling rather than curing
- Strength and durability – less susceptible to salting in winter and able to withstand fluctuations in temperature
- Flexibility – has flex and give to withstand settling without cracking or breaking
- Smooth and continuous surfacing – due to flexibility, needs no spacers to allow for expansion or contraction
- Easily resurfaced – asphalt is easily resurfaced as a DIY project using driveway sealant. You cannot achieve this same convenient resurfacing with concrete.
- Aesthetics – special asphalt formulations may be colored and imprinted to replicate pavers
Hiring Commercial Paving Companies
Your due diligence is best performed by vetting commercial paving companies before you settle on a contractor. Verify their qualifications by checking references on such criteria as quality of work, timely performance, attention to detail and completion of work. Request evidence of adequate liability coverage and trade association.
A paving company will expect you to obtain competing bids and to get references. Once you have decided on a contractor, expect to see the particulars noted in writing including:
- Responsibility for grading work
- Compacting of sub-grade and base
- Measuring compacted thickness
- Pavement slope and smoothness
- Payment schedule
- Guarantee of finished work
Other Areas Considerations for Paving
Some details should remain front of mind as the work on your asphalt paving is done. Due to the surface height, you may need to check your gates for clearance and have foreknowledge of who is responsible for re-hanging as needed. Be prepared to raise any water valves or sewer lines to meet the surrounding asphalt. Ensure surface drainage is addressed properly to prevent ponding or standing water issues on the finished surface.
With the numerous areas of concern such as air and surface temperature, time available for compaction and lift thickness, you are better off initiating contact with a reputable paving company yourself. The unscrupulous fly-by-night visitors who show up unannounced do not have your best interests in mind. Trust your evaluation based upon the proof that can be provided for you to check up on. Too much is contingent upon doing the job right the first time and having the ability to contact the contractor in the event of recourse. | <urn:uuid:1ab02278-e0b0-42f3-a4fb-941ef4474c72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://all-county-paving.com/asphalt-paving-is-both-inviting-and-attractive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.940888 | 594 | 1.546875 | 2 |
India Has World's Second-Highest Number of Facebook Users at Over 43 million
The base more than doubled at the end of 2011 accounting.
NEW DELHI – India is fast becoming an important market for Facebook, with the country is now home to about 43.5 million users, narrowly beating Indonesia's 43 million userbase.
The U.S. leads with 155 million users, while Facebook's total global user base of over 800 million, if measured as a country, makes it the third mostpopulous country in the world after China and India's billion-plus populations.
India's base is notable given that Internet penetration is still nascent, estimated at about 120 million users.
“We continue to focus on growing our user base across all geographies, including relatively less-penetrated, large markets such as Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. We intend to grow our user base by continuing our marketing and user acquisition efforts and enhancing our products, including mobile apps, in order to make Facebook more accessible and useful,” Facebook said in its filing.
The company also estimated that there are over two billion global internet users that Facebook aims to connect.
According to a survey of Facebook's Indian demographics by The Hindustan Times newspaper, 72.8 percent of users are male while 48 percent are in the 18-24 age group with 27 percent in the 25-34 age group. | <urn:uuid:ccddb273-0957-44bb-bbb3-90b7c3308f2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/india-has-worlds-second-highest-286904 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945975 | 292 | 1.5625 | 2 |
This guest post is written by Nick Petra of Strategic Duck Business Consulting: It’s easy for a business owner to get “lulled” into a belief that by increasing their marketing efforts more business would come their way and all problems will be solved. That type of thinking results in spending most of the business hours marketing and very little to the rest of the vital business components. With this type of mentality most business owners start their business and remain a small business in size, income and vision. I have experienced so many occasions where the check book was the financial record keeping system. Few business owners really understand the concept of money and how it applies to the business.
A business plan is an essential tool for a growing business. One of my first orders of business with a new client is to develop and implement a strategic focus business plan. Once that is completed, a strategic financial plan is developed to put realistic numbers as to what is needed to reach company objectives.
The financial plan covers the same action categories as the business plan, i.e. systems, cost of products/services, marketing and operational costs. Projected budgets, income and expense worksheets provide a method of measuring progress and the needed accountability. Overseeing the financial health position is something that every owner must tend to at least on a weekly basis.
I find that money and the realities of its role in growing a business is a much avoided topic. It conjures feelings of fear instead of the realization of the benefits it brings. A “money” accountability system does not have to be difficult to establish and maintain. Once set-up and implemented it will grow as the business grows. The “hand” system will be replaced by new software and eventually an accounting person will take over the work. The most important thing to remember is that as the business grows, the owner must always assume weekly responsibility for knowing and understanding the exact financial position of the firm.
As a Certified Financial Planner I have experienced the difficulties when a financial strategy is not established in a company early in its existence. The longer it is put off the less the survival chances for the business.
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This is a transcript of part of an interview conducted by Dr. Tariq Ramadan with sister Batool al-Toma, director of the New Muslims project at the Islamic Foundation, UK, in the weekly TV program “Islam and Life.”
In the interview, sister Batool, herself a convert to Islam, explains the different reasons that encourage westerners to decide to become Muslim.
Tariq Ramadan: This week we are going to discuss the challenges facing people who convert to Islam.
“I have always held the religion of Mohammed in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phases of existence which can make itself appeal to every age.” George Bernard Shaw
Famous Western Muslims
People in the Western world have been converting to Islam for some time. Cassius Clay, the three times World Heavy weight boxing Champion, embraced Islam in 1965. He said:
“The feelings I had while standing on Mount Arafat on the day of the Hajj was the most unique. I felt exalted by the indescribable spiritual atmosphere there as over one and a half million pilgrims invoked God to forgive them for their sins. It was an exhilarating experience to see people belonging to different colors, races and nationalities, kings, heads of state and ordinary men from very poor countries all clad in two simple white sheets praying to God without any sense of either pride or inferiority. It was a practical manifestation of the concept of equality in Islam.”
Jemima Goldsmith, daughter of the British billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, converted to Islam when she was only 21 years old. She said:
“It would seem that a Western woman’s happiness hinges largely upon her access to nightclubs, alcohol and revealing clothes; and the absence of such apparent freedom and luxuries in Islamic societies is seen as an infringement of her basic rights. However, as we all know, such superficialities have very little to do with true happiness.”
After a long search for meaning and a life of fame, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll, Cat Stevens embraced the Muslim faith. He said:
“I realized that this was the true religion – religion not in the sense the West understands it, not the type for only your old age. We must follow the will of God (Allah). Then, we can rise higher than the angels. The first thing I wanted to do now was to be a Muslim.”
What do the Westerners see in Islam that makes them decide to become Muslims? Did the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq or Western support for Israel encourage westerners to convert? In 2009, approximately 40,000 Brits, 70,000 French nationals and 100,000 Americans became Muslims. What reasons lie behind these astonishing rates of conversion?…
What Attracts People to Islam?
Tariq Ramadan: So these are the questions:
Why are so many people are coming to Islam?
What is attractive about Islam?
So these are questions that we want to tackle today so to answer these questions I’m joined by the director of the New Muslims project at the Islamic Foundation, Batool al-Toma.
So Batool, thank you for being with us today. You have watched the clip. I think that yes something is happening in the West which is quite clear that the people are attracted to Islam. You have been involved in dealing with converted people coming to Islam for the last 15 years. You yourself are a convert so you came to Islam, so if you were to respond to this very simple question: Why is this move towards Islam so frequent in our societies in the West?
Batool al-Toma: Well, it’s quite difficult really because the attractions are wide and very varied, and people come to Islam for all sorts of different reasons. Obviously, one of the reasons since time in memorial has been the fact that people meet other Muslims, and there is an attraction there. There is personal relationship, and so they want to get married. This is one reason and this will always be there. We should always sort of look at these kinds of situations when somebody converts to Islam for the sake of marriage, there has always been the suggestion that they are not quite a good Muslim because they converted to Islam for that specific reason. But you know, this is not for us to decide. Allah’s plan is much greater than our plan. And so Allah may have brought them to this situation for a reason.
Tariq Ramadan: It’s a very important point. You are saying that the reasons why you come to Islam say nothing about the sincerity and the in-depth of your faith. It could be a reason that’s apparent to all as marriage, but at the end of the day your intention, your heart, could change over the process of becoming a Muslim?
Batool al-Toma: Indeed, very much so. And you will often find that people who have converted to Islam for marriage or have married a Muslim and not had to convert in the situation of women, the women often become Muslims and become extremely sincere and practicing people. And they actually become a lesson and an example to other Muslims.
Tariq Ramadan: So, this is one dimension and it could be the majority situation in fact when you have people coming to know each other and its for marriage. But we also have people like Cat Strevens who became Yusuf Islam, it was something that was his relationship to the Quran. He read the Quran, he got the Quran from his brother, he read the Quran. And you have other people like Cassius Clay for example coming to Islam without anything which has to do with being in a relationship with someone, but the very essence of the message which is there is one God and which is your life has a meaning.
Batool al-Toma: And of course people come to Islam for all sorts of different reasons as I said. People because of all the dreadful situations that had occurred around the world, and have happened because Muslims have interpreted the Quran in terms of wanting to carry out these catastrophies for religious reasons, have triggered many non-Muslims to want to look into Islam to see what does this religion say about terrorism, peace, peaceful coexistence with other people from other faiths and so on, and have been shocked and surprised by what they found in the Quran and the teachings of the Prophet peace be upon him.
And I have had people come to me saying “I want to convert to Islam but I’m more shocked, I’m surprised that I have come this distance because it is not a faith that I would ever wish to look into.” But somehow because they have read into Islam in order to try to understand what goes on in the mind of Muslims who use their faith in order to carry out these terrible atrocities around the world.
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People with higher levels of the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil may also have larger brain volumes in old age equivalent to preserving one to two years of brain health, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Shrinking brain volume is a sign of Alzheimer’s disease as well as normal aging.
For the study, the levels of omega-3 fatty acids EPA+DHA in red blood cells were tested in 1,111 women who were part of the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study. Eight years later, when the women were an average age of 78, MRI scans were taken to measure their brain volume.
Those with higher levels of omega-3s had larger total brain volumes eight years later. Those with twice as high levels of fatty acids (7.5 vs. 3.4 percent) had a 0.7 percent larger brain volume.
“These higher levels of fatty acids can be achieved through diet and the use of supplements, and the results suggest that the effect on brain volume is the equivalent of delaying the normal loss of brain cells that comes with aging by one to two years,” said study author James Pottala, of the University of South Dakota in Sioux Falls and Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc., in Richmond, Va.
Those with higher levels of omega-3s also had a 2.7 percent larger volume in the hippocampus area of the brain, which plays an important role in memory. In Alzheimer’s disease, the hippocampus begins to atrophy even before symptoms appear.
The study was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
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FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Outlines Key Resources to Invest in Coal and Power Plant Community Economic Revitalization
White House Releases Initial Report Detailing Existing Resources for Energy Communities
Department of Energy Announces $109.5 Million to Support Energy Jobs, Executive Director to Spearhead Interagency Efforts
Today, the White House Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization released a report that was delivered to President Biden and included the initial recommendations from the Interagency Working Group  to catalyze economic revitalization, create good-paying, union jobs, and support workers in energy communities â hard-hit coal, oil and gas, and power plant communities â across the country.
The Interagency Working Group identified nearly $38 billion in existing federal funding that could be accessed by energy communities for infrastructure, environmental remediation, union job creation, and community revitalization efforts. This funding includes the over $260 million in existing resources already mobilized by the Department of the Interior to support abandoned mine land reclamation, predominantly in Appalachia. This funding will be bolstered by the historic investment in energy communities proposed by President Bidenâs American Jobs Plan.Â
The report is a first step, delivered to the President 60 days following Executive Order 14008, which established the Interagency Working Group. In addition to identifying resources available for immediate deployment, the report identifies urgent geographic areas, hard-hit by past coal mine and plant closures and vulnerable to more closures, that are priorities for investment and engagement and next steps for the Working Group to deliver on the Presidentâs long-term commitment to support energy workers and communities.
In connection with the report release, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced $109.5 million in funding for innovative projects that will catalyze next generation industries to retain and create jobs directly in energy communities, including
- $75 million in funding to engineer carbon capture projects â This funding will support customized engineering designs to install carbon capture and storage technology for power and industrial plants. Retrofitting with carbon capture technology could employ a similar workforce that exists today in energy communities and position American industry to compete in a global economy that is rapidly turning toward decarbonization.
- $19.5 million in funding awards for critical mineral extraction from coal and associated waste streams â Critical minerals are vital to the manufacture of batteries, magnets, and other important components for making electric vehicles (EV) and other clean energy technology. Coal communities and workers could be well-positioned to see new industrial jobs extracting critical materials from the waste left behind by coal mining and coal power plants in many areas.
- $15 million for geothermal energy research projects at West Virginia University and Sandia National Laboratories â DOE will provide up to $15 million for two projects to help drive down costs and risks associated with the discovery of new geothermal resources for power production and heating-cooling. West Virginia University (WVU) will use the funding to explore year-round deep-direct use heating and cooling on campus in preparation for the 2027 planned closure of the existing coal-fired cogeneration plant that supplies steam for the school. WVU will drill an exploratory well with a full logging and coring program critical to developing the resource under the campus and will evaluate shallow reservoirs for energy storage, away from fossil fuels and transitioning to a fully clean grid by 2035. Sandia National Laboratories will use innovative approaches to conduct electromagnetic surveys to refine geothermal exploration methods and aid drillers as they explore for geothermal energy in the Western United States, a potential opportunity to create jobs for laid-off oil and gas workers.Â
The Interagency Working Group also named Brian Anderson as its Executive Director. A longtime resident of West Virginia and a descendant of coal miners, Anderson serves as director of DOEâs National Energy Technology Laboratory with facilities in Morgantown, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Albany, Oregon, and is a renowned scientist with extensive expertise in technology development for carbon management in hard-to-decarbonize sectors. In addition, DOE identified senior staff from DOEâs Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, Office of Energy Jobs and Office of Indian Energy who will also support the work of the Interagency Working Group.Â
President Biden is committed to robust federal leadership in direct partnership with energy communities to foster investment and economic revitalization, ensure the creation of good-paying jobs that provide a choice to join a union, remediate mining and drilling lands and plant sites to address environmental degradation, and secure the benefits workers have earned.
During his first week in office, President Biden established the Interagency Working Group to coordinate an integrated, whole-of-government approach to supporting energy communities. As its first action, the Interagency Working Group convened stakeholder roundtable sessions to hear from community and worker representatives as well as sector experts on the needs and most promising strategies for economic development and transition. The Working Group also identified existing federal resources that can be immediately deployed to support hard-hit energy communities.
Today, the Interagency Working Group, issued an initial report identifying key federal programs that could spur economic revitalization in energy communities.
EXISTING FEDERAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DEPLOYMENT TO ENERGY COMMUNITIES:
As a first task, the Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization identified existing federal resources that can be immediately deployed to support hard-hit energy communities. When deployed in key energy communities, these funds will:
Invest in Job Creating Infrastructure Projects
- Fund Critical Infrastructure Investments in Coal Country â On April 7, 2021, the Department of Commerceâs Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a $2.5 million grant to the Pea Ridge Public Service District of Barboursville, West Virginia, that according to grantee estimates is expected to retain 851 jobs and generate $14.6 million in private investment by extending public sanitary sewer services to support local businesses and encourage future economic growth. These funds were provided under EDAâs Assistance to Coal Communities (ACC) initiative which provides grants to coal communities for a range of activities including economic diversification, job creation, capital investment, workforce development, and re-employment opportunities. In FY21, EDA received $33.5 million under the ACC initiative which has ongoing availability, with applications reviewed on a rolling basis. The Department of Commerce is also revising EDA investment priorities to promote projects that meet the needs of coal and power plant communities. The updated guidance will apply to all EDA funding, including the $3 billion received through the American Rescue Plan.
- Provide Access to Rural Broadband â The Department of Commerceâs National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has three broadband grant programs with funding totaling $1.5 billion. These programs collectively focus on bringing broadband access to tribal communities, minority communities, and those regions that have households without access to broadband at speeds of at least 25 megabytes per second (MBps) for download and 3 MBps for upload. Energy Communities with broadband needs will be eligible to apply for deployment grants from these programs. The NTIA is exploring how to facilitate increased participation from Energy communities through targeted outreach.
- Fund Transportation Infrastructure â The Department of Transportation releases the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant program solicitation annually. RAISE is an approximately $1 billion competitive grant program that provides flexible capital funding that can support multi-modal and multi-jurisdictional projects. Applicants can include municipalities, counties, tribal governments, and states. For the upcoming RAISE Notice of Funding Opportunity for FY2021, DOT is determining how to integrate the transportation needs of applicants like Energy Communities that are focusing on job creation and climate change response.
Create Jobs through Pollution Mitigation and Environmental Remediation
- Provide access to $1.3 billion in grants, loans and technical assistance  to address Mine-Impacted Water â The U.S. Department of Agricultureâs Rural Utilities Service Water and Environmental Programs (WEP) is a program that provides financing for rural communities to establish, expand, or modernize water treatment and waste disposal facilities. Energy Communities can utilize WEP to address issues related to mine runoff or mine-impacted water. Recently, a rural Michigan town received WEP funding to treat a water source that was contaminated with high levels of magnesium and iron due to mining. WEP currently has $967 million available for loans, $308 million in grant funds, and $36 million in technical assistance and training funds.
- Revitalize Brownfields â Â The Environmental Protection Agency anticipates releasing the guidelines for its Brownfields Assessment, Cleanup, and Revolving Loan Fund Grant programs in Fall 2021. Brownfields grants are competitively awarded and provide funding to empower states, communities, tribes, and non-profit organizations to inventory, assess, and clean up brownfields. Brownfield grants facilitate environmental cleanup and economic redevelopment in communities across the country. Success stories include projects in communities adversely affected by closed or abandoned power stations and mining sites. The competition for FY2022 assessment, clean up, and revolving loan fund grants will open in fall 2021 .
- Create Good Jobs by Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands â Last month, the Department of Interiorâs Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSMRE) announced the availability of $152.2 million in annual reclamation grants and began disbursing $115 million to eligible states and tribes for coal mine reclamation projects that support economic revitalization efforts through the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization grant program. These projects directly address the economic development needs of Energy Communities. OSMRE also has an additional $24.8 million available in FY2021 to provide administrative and technical support for coal reclamation projects in certain states and tribal areas. DOI also highlighted $4.2M of funding at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to remediate orphan wells on public lands. This funding is estimated to address 39 of the 102 orphan wells in BLMâs most recent orphan well inventory, with another $8.7 million to remediate wells in Alaskaâs National Petroleum Reserve. Dislocated oil and gas workers living in energy communities would be ideal candidates for employment on these projects.
Catalyze Next Generation Industries
- Provide $8.5 billion in loans for breakthrough carbon capture technologies â DOEâs Loan Programs Office (LPO) has $8.5 billion in funding for carbon capture projects through LPOâs Title 17 Innovative Energy Loan Guarantee Program. LPO is open for business and ready to help deploy carbon capture technology to enable low-carbon manufacturing of cement, steel, and other industrial products in addition to power plants. Retrofitting with carbon capture technology would draw upon a similar workforce that exists today in energy communities and could create thousands of new jobs while positioning American industry to compete in a global economy that is rapidly turning toward decarbonization.
Fund Civic Infrastructure that Sparks New Economic Activity
- Fund Small Businesses â The American Rescue Plan provided $10 billion to the Department of Treasuryâs State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), a program that supports state, territorial, and tribal programs that finance small businesses, including in economically disadvantaged and minority communities. The Department of Treasury is exploring ways to encourage the use of SSBCI funding in Energy Communities including by highlighting the objectives of Executive Order 14008 in related program guidance and outreach.
- Fund Non-Profit Job Creators â The Department of Health and Human Services announced its intent to prioritize energy communities in its upcoming solicitation for the Community Economic Development (CED) discretionary grants program. The CED is a $13.6 million grant program for non-profit community development corporations in disinvested communities for purposes of creating new jobs for low-income individuals, including Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients. HHS will provide additional consideration under the solicitation to applications that demonstrate that the project will support energy communities.
- Invest in Economic Revitalization in Appalachia â The Appalachian Regional Commission announced the next round of funding availability for its Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative grants. The program supports Appalachian communities that have experienced job losses in coal mining, coal-fired power plant closures, and coal-related supply chain and logistics industries. Applicants to this competitive program should have a transformational vision for diversifying the regional economy, addressing both short-term response and long-term restructuring. Applications should also be regional, collaborative, large-scale, and outcome-driven. Priorities for funding include workforce development, entrepreneurship, industry clusters, substance use disorders, and broadband access. Current funding availability is $55 million.  Â
Secure Benefits and Opportunity for Energy Workers
AMERICAN JOBS PLAN INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY COMMUNITIES
President Bidenâs American Jobs Plan will provide a historic investment in the economic revitalization of energy communities. Specifically, the plan will:
Invest in Job Creating Infrastructure Projects
Increase investment by $115 billion to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair. This includes funding to improve air quality, limit greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce congestion. The plan will modernize 20,000 miles of highways, roads, and main streets, not only âfixing them firstâ but âfixing them right,â with safety, resilience, and all users in mind. It will also repair the worst 10,000 smaller bridges, including bridges that provide critical connections to rural and tribal communities.
Upgrade and modernize Americaâs drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems, tackle new contaminants, and support clean water infrastructure across rural America â including by providing $56 billion in grants and low-cost flexible loans to states, Tribes, territories, and disadvantaged communities across the country. President Bidenâs plan also provides $10 billion in funding to monitor and remediate PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in drinking water and to invest in rural small water systems and household well and wastewater systems, including drainage fields. Further, President Bidenâs plan will invest $45 billion to replace 100 percent of the nationâs lead pipes and service lines, which will create jobs and reduce lead exposure in homes and 400,000 schools and childcare facilities.
Produce, preserve, and retrofit more than a million affordable, resilient, accessible, energy efficient, and electrified housing units. Through targeted tax credits, formula funding, grants, and project-based rental assistance, President Bidenâs plan will extend affordable housing rental opportunities to underserved communities nationwide, including rural and tribal areas.
Put union building trade workers to work upgrading homes and businesses to save families money. President Bidenâs plan will upgrade homes through block grant programs, the Weatherization Assistance Program, and by extending and expanding home and commercial efficiency tax credits. President Bidenâs plan also will establish a $27 billion Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator to mobilize private investment into distributed energy resources; retrofits of residential, commercial and municipal buildings; and clean transportation. These investments have a particular focus on disadvantaged communities that have not yet benefited from clean energy investments.
Deliver affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to every American through a historic investment of $100 billion to build high-speed broadband infrastructure to reach 100 percent coverage. The Presidentâs plan prioritizes building âfuture proofâ broadband infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas so that we finally reach 100 percent high-speed broadband coverage. It also prioritizes support for broadband networks owned, operated by, or affiliated with local governments, non-profits, and co-operativesâproviders with less pressure to turn profits and with a commitment to serving entire communities. Moreover, it ensures funds are set aside for infrastructure on tribal lands and that tribal nations are consulted in program administration. Along the way, it will create good-paying jobs with labor protections and the right to organize and bargain collectively. President Bidenâs plan will promote price transparency and competition among internet providers and the President is committed to working with Congress to find a solution to reduce internet prices for all Americans, increase adoption in both rural and urban areas, hold providers accountable, and save taxpayer money.
Create Jobs through Pollution Mitigation and Environmental Remediation
Put the energy industry to work plugging orphan oil and gas wells and cleaning up abandoned mines. Hundreds of thousands of former orphan oil and gas wells and abandoned mines pose serious safety hazards, while also causing ongoing air, water, and other environmental damage. Many of these old wells and mines are located in rural communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment. President Bidenâs plan includes an immediate up-front investment of $16 billion that will put hundreds of thousands to work in union jobs plugging oil and gas wells and restoring and reclaiming abandoned coal, hardrock, and uranium mines. In addition to creating good jobs in hard-hit communities, this investment will reduce the methane and brine that leaks from these wells, just as we invest in reducing leaks from other sources like aging pipes and distribution systems.
Invest $5 billion in the remediation and redevelopment of Brownfield and Superfund sites, as well as related economic and workforce development â turning this idle real property into new hubs of economic growth and job creation.
Mobilize the next generation of conservation and resilience workers. This $10 billion investment will put a new, diverse generation of Americans to work conserving our public lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, and advancing environmental justice through a new Civilian Climate Corps, all while placing good-paying union jobs within reach for more Americans.
Catalyze Next Generation Industries
Build next generation industries in distressed communities. President Biden believes that the market-based shift toward clean energy presents enormous opportunities for the development of new markets and new industries. For example, by pairing an investment in 15 decarbonized hydrogen demonstration projects in distressed communities with a new production tax credit, we can spur capital-project retrofits and installations that bolster and decarbonize our industry. The Presidentâs plan also will establish ten pioneer facilities that demonstrate carbon capture retrofits for large steel, cement, and chemical production facilities, all while ensuring that overburdened communities are protected from increases in cumulative pollution. In addition, in line with the bipartisan SCALE Act, his plan will support large-scale sequestration efforts that leverage the best science and prioritize community engagement. And to accelerate responsible carbon capture deployment and ensure permanent storage, President Bidenâs plan reforms and expands the bipartisan Section 45Q tax credit, making it direct pay and easier to use for hard-to-decarbonize industrial applications, direct air capture, and retrofits of existing power plants.
Jumpstart clean energy manufacturing through federal procurement. The federal government spends more than a half-a-trillion dollars buying goods and services each year. As a result, it has the ability to be a first-mover in markets. The President is calling on Congress to enable the manufacture of electric vehicles, charging ports, and electric heat pumps for residential heating and commercial buildings, as well as critical technologies like advanced nuclear reactors and fuel, here at home through a $46 billion investment in federal buying power, creating good-paying jobs and reinvigorating local economies, especially in rural areas.
Strengthen manufacturing supply chains for critical goods. President Biden believes we must produce, here at home, the technologies and goods that meet todayâs challenges and seize tomorrowâs opportunities. President Biden is calling on Congress to invest $50 billion to create a new office at the Department of Commerce dedicated to monitoring domestic industrial capacity and funding investments to support production of critical goods.
Advance U.S. leadership in critical technologies and upgrade Americaâs research infrastructure. President Biden is calling on Congress to provide $30 billion in additional funding for R&D that spurs innovation and job creation, including in rural areas. His plan also will invest $40 billion in upgrading research infrastructure in laboratories across the country, including brick-and-mortar facilities and computing capabilities and networks. These funds would be allocated across the federal R&D agencies, including at the Department of Energy.
Support small, medium and rural manufacturers. President Biden is calling on Congress to quadruple support for the Manufacturing Extensions Partnership âincreasing the involvement of minority-owned and rurally-located small- and-medium-sized enterprises in technological advancement. He is also calling to invest $14 billion in NIST to bring together industry, academia, and government to advance technologies and capabilities critical to future competitiveness.
Increase access to capital for domestic manufacturers. Americaâs manufacturing industry needs to innovate, adapt, and scale to win the industries of the future. President Biden is calling on Congress to invest more than $52 billion in domestic manufacturers. The President is calling on Congress to invest in existing capital access programs with a proven track record of success, with a focus on supporting rural manufacturing and clean energy. The Presidentâs plan also includes specific supports for modernizing supply chains, including in the auto sector, like extending the 48C tax credit program. He also will call for the creation of a new financing program to support debt and equity investments for manufacturing to strengthen the resilience of Americaâs supply chains.
Fund Civic Infrastructure that Sparks New Economic Activity
Invest billions in critical physical, social and civic infrastructure including through the Economic Development Agencyâs Public Works program, âMain Streetâ revitalization efforts through HUD and USDA, the Appalachian Regional Commissionâs POWER grant program, the Department of Energy retooling grants for idled factories (through the Section 132 program), and dedicated funding to support community-driven environmental justice efforts â such as capacity and project grants to address legacy pollution and the cumulative impacts experienced by frontline and fence line communities.
Partner with rural and Tribal communities to create jobs and economic growth in rural America. Today, despite the fact that rural and Tribal communities across the country are asset-rich, more than 8 in 10 persistent poverty counties fall outside of a metropolitan area. President Biden is proposing to transform the way the federal government partners with rural and Tribal communities to create jobs and spur inclusive economic growth. As part of his plan to ensure that all communities recover â regardless of geography â President Biden is proposing a $5 billion for a new Rural Partnership Program to help rural regions, including Tribal Nations, build on their unique assets and realize their vision for inclusive community and economic development. This program will empower rural regions by supporting locally-led planning and capacity building efforts, and providing flexible funding to meet critical needs.
Make it in ALL of America. The President believes we must build social infrastructure to support innovation and productivity across the country. He is calling on Congress to invest $20 billion in regional innovation hubs and a Community Revitalization Fund. At least ten regional innovation hubs will leverage private investment to fuel technology development, link urban and rural economies, and create new businesses in regions beyond the current handful of high-growth centers. The Community Revitalization Fund will support innovative, community-led redevelopment projects that can spark new economic activity, provide services and amenities, build community wealth, and close the current gaps in access to the innovation economy for communities of color and rural communities that have suffered from years of disinvestment.Â
Invest in community college infrastructure. Investing in community college facilities and technology helps protect the health and safety of students and faculty, address education deserts (particularly for rural communities), grow local economies, improve energy efficiency and resilience, and narrow funding inequities in the short-term, as we rebuild our higher education finance system for the long-run. President Biden is calling on Congress to invest $12 billion to address these needs. States will be responsible for using the dollars to address both existing physical and technological infrastructure needs at community colleges and identifying strategies to address access to community college in education deserts.
Secure Benefits and Opportunity for Energy Workers
Empower Workers. President Biden is calling on Congress to update the social contract that provides workers with a fair shot to get ahead, overcome racial and other inequalities that have been barriers for too many Americans, expand the middle class, and strengthen communities. He is calling on Congress to ensure all workers have a free and fair choice to join a union by passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, and guarantee union and bargaining rights for public service workers. His plan also ensures domestic workers receive the legal benefits and protections they deserve and tackles pay inequities based on gender.
Create good jobs. The Presidentâs plan demands that employers benefitting from these investments follow strong labor standards and remain neutral when their employees seek to organize a union and bargain collectively. He is asking Congress to tie federal investments in clean energy and infrastructure to prevailing wages and require transportation investments to meet existing transit labor protections. He also is calling for investments tied to Project Labor, Community Workforce, local hire, and registered apprenticeships and other labor or labor-management training programs so that federal investments support good jobs and pathways to the middle class. Finally, he is asking Congress to include a commitment to increasing American jobs through Buy America and Ship American provisions.
Call for a $40 billion investment in a new Dislocated Workers Program and sector-based training. This funding will ensure comprehensive services for workers, who have lost jobs through no fault of their own, to gain new skills and to get career services they need with in-demand jobs. Sector-based training programs will be focused on growing, high demand sectors such as clean energy and manufacturing, helping workers of all kinds to find good-quality jobs in an ever-changing economy. | <urn:uuid:41e4f864-e568-48ea-94e1-a6e457b56ece> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mandalatribal.com/fact-sheet-biden-administration-outlines-key-resources-to-invest-in-coal-and-power-plant-community-economic-revitalization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.931296 | 5,287 | 2.078125 | 2 |
A Student View of Academic Libraries
While much of their content is web accessible, libraries endure on the campus. New Gensler research looks at their current and future use.
University and college students put in three times more hours studying on their own than studying with peers, according to a recent survey of 1,200 US students, analyzed in Gensler’s Student Perspectives on the Library. The survey also confirms that extra study time correlates with better grades. Interestingly, while the A students put in the most hours, they use the library less than the B students. This suggests that the top performers are best able to screen out distraction. Whatever their performance level, students report that they prefer to study in the library. The main reason they give for this is straightforward: libraries offer places where they can focus, and focus makes their study time more effective.
The power of proximity
Given this preference, it’s surprising that two-thirds of students’ study time happens elsewhere. Their living situations may play a role: for individual study, students in dorms and campus housing prefer their own quarters slightly more than the library—with a slight gain in performance. Gensler’s research on student living confirms this, says David Broz: “Students expect to find a live/work environment at on-campus dorms and housing. This often reflects study habits they established in high school.”
Students’ study time also relates to where and how they live. Those living on campus spend the most time studying alone and the most time studying collaboratively. Those living within walking distance of campus also study slightly more than average, while those commuting to campus spend the least time on each activity. This suggests that commuters lack options about where to study, compared with their on-campus and near-campus peers. Providing more options that address their unique needs may be an important direction for libraries in the future.
The right resources—digital, physical, experiential
A related issue that Gensler investigated is whether printed books are still important to students or if they mainly access content as e-books or other digital, web-conveyed formats. The research found that students visit academic libraries more often to access digital resources than to check out printed books, but access to both outweighs socializing, attending events, or seeking help from librarians.
Asked about the relative importance of library resources, now and in the future, students reported a preference for digital resources (and integrated technology) over book collections. Research on library usage patterns, documented in Gensler’s Academic Libraries at a Crossroads, found that only 10 percent of students were observed using printed books, while 23 percent were using computers or tablets. The Gensler study Librarians on Libraries also points to academic libraries’ growing focus on digital resources. But parallel research suggests a more nuanced view of this issue. Naomi Baron of American University found “a near-universal preference for print,” with 92 percent of 300 students surveyed reporting that they concentrate best when working with print. A Student Monitor survey of 1,200 students also reported a preference for print for every type of study except research.
This suggests that the question of books versus digital resources is not an either/or proposition: students increasingly want easy access to digital tools and resources, but it would be premature for libraries to shed their collections.
Implications for the future
Academic libraries can benefit from a better understanding of how and why students use them. What they value, beyond the libraries’ book collections, are the ways that focused study and research is supported. “The competition for great study spaces on campus is fierce,” says Gensler’s Melissa Mizell. UC Berkeley’s Moffitt Library, which her team is renovating, accentuates libraries’ third place aspect: “the vibe, the slight din, the social component, being near others yet able to focus.”
Commuting students and those struggling academically are the most in need of libraries and their services, but are not currently the library’s heaviest users. To serve them better, libraries will have to give them more targeted attention in the future. One approach to consider is to provide places where commuters can easily access a variety of study settings and resources; another is to put in place a network of outreach facilities tailored to the special needs of lower-performing students.
Academic libraries will continue to evolve around core study and access needs. In this role, they will have to balance the energy of gathering with the need to support focused work. But they will also need to invest in new facilities that close the gap with students who aren’t being served by the current model. Adding spokes to the hub and integrating the digital more seamlessly are among the potential strategies.
Mark Thaler is a regional leader in Gensler’s Education & Culture practice, based in New York.
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How to preserve barberies
PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE: The Compleat Servant-Maid; Or, The Young Maidens Tutor, 1677 | CLASS: Authentic
DESCRIPTION: How to make barberry syrup & preserves
How to preserve barberies.
Make choice of the largest and fairest bunches, picking off the withered or shrunk Barberies, and wash them clean, drying them in a clean cloth, after this take a quantity of Barberies, and boyl them in Claret Wine till they be soft, then strain them well thorow a strainer, wringing the juice hard thorow it; boyl this strained Liquor with Sugar till it be thick and very sweet, let it then stand till it be cold, then put your branches of Barberries into Gally pots, and fill them up with this Liquor: By this means you will have both the Syrup of Barberries, and their preserves.
RETURN TO: 17th Century English Recipes
A Boke of Gode Cookery17th
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Book two in the series finds the four boys on a survival weekend in Maine with deposed leader Steven's father and uncle. This story is narrated by Jerome, the club's new leader. During the course of the adventure, the boys face fear and physical challenges that will amuse, entice, and entertain readers. Once the club members finish their first day of paint ball war, bug eating, and wet weather, they discover that the two men are living an entirely different existence at night: warm trailer, good food, TV. The crew begins to plot their revenge and successfully overcomes the torment placed upon them by the sadistic adults. When their weekend is over, the friends return home more mature and much wiser.
(From School Library Journal)
Original title: Babes in the Woods
Genre: Fiction→ Children & Young Adult→ Family & Relationships
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Memorial to honor monks killed 15 years ago
by Erin Zlomek, The Arizona Republic, Aug 11, 2006
West Valley, AZ (USA) -- When six Thai Buddhist monks wearing orange-yellow robes were shot to death in a West Valley temple, no one thought the place they died would become a destination for Buddhists, Thai and humanitarians worldwide.
<< Wat Promkunaram Temple in Waddell, scene of Arizona's worst massacre (1991)
Soon after the 1991 murders, the United Nations officially recognized Buddhism as a religion, a feat some attribute to the ripple generated by the murders.
Each year around this date, about 300 people journey to Wat Promkunaram Temple in Waddell to mediate, pray and remember those six monks and three other victims who died. This year, the memorial is Aug. 19. The massacre happened 15 years ago on Aug. 10.
Because so many people come to Arizona and remember the lives lost, the annual ceremony doubles as a conference for the national Council of Thai Buddhist Monks.
More than 100 monks, Christians, Thai-Americans, members of Thai student groups and advocates for peace, will gather. They'll discuss world politics, faith and family over fried chicken, pizza and Tom kha gai, a Thai coconut milk soup. In past years, the Thai ambassador has attended the memorial service as well as the Thai Consulate out of Los Angeles.
Members of the temple, located at 17212 W. Maryland Ave. welcome all people to the daylong event, regardless of race or religion.
In 1991 templegoers imported a memorial structure from Thailand to commemorate those lost. Those attending the ceremony will light candles and meditate, eventually placing the lit candles on the memorial's edge.
The memorial sits next to gardens of basil, chili peppers and lemongrass. Its first tier is a shallow, circle pool filled with floating lotus leaves and flowers.
According to Buddhist tradition, for each step Buddha took on earth, a lotus flower appeared. The circle represents Dhamma, which are the cyclical Buddhist teachings on how to live a happy life.
Shooting up from the pond is a triangle-shaped pillar. Three is a significant number in Buddhism: Buddhists bow three times and chant three times, one for Buddha or enlightened teacher, the second for Dhamma and the third for Sangha, or Buddhist followers. On each side of the pillar is a plaque for the three civilians killed in the massacre.
On top of the pillar is a hexagonal platform. Each side bears a plaque for each monk a killed. The memorial serves as an urn. Behind each plaque rests a small amount of the deceased monk's ashes, the remainder of which was scattered in ocean waters off the shore of Thailand, in accordance with Buddhist tradition. | <urn:uuid:01dde6a3-2ce5-468d-aba0-cfc06080eb3a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=64,3024,0,0,1,0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00540-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940668 | 584 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Fourth firefighter recruit school underway in Thorsby
By Scott Mims
Firefighter recruit school is not for the faint of heart. It doesn’t take long to learn that while observing drills at the Thorsby fire training facility.
Thirteen young men, including six from Chilton County fire departments, are training to be career firefighters at Thorsby. They are part of the fourth class held at the facility, which is one of only eight such facilities statewide.
Thorsby Fire Chief Lee Gunn said nearly 70 firefighters have gone through the department to build their careers.
“I really think it’s been one of the most positive things we have done to get these kids in the position to get jobs,” Gunn said.
The 13 subject areas of training focus on ladders, rescue, hose operations, hazardous materials operations and more.
Prerequisites for the 400-hour recruit school include either a high school diploma or GED, passage of the Cadet Physical Agility Test (CPAT), physical examination and either EMT basic or first responder training.
Those who graduate earn Firefighter I and II certification. The goal is for the class to be offered once a year.
“We’ve had a lot more success with people signing up for the class this year,” Gunn said.
The school saves the department money because firefighters can train on site rather than travel to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa.
Gunn said it costs about $3,000 out of pocket for one person to attend fire college.
Sixteen of the 18 firefighters at Thorsby are career certified. Gunn said that’s unheard of at a volunteer fire department.
“When you’re going into a fire, the fire doesn’t know whether the guys are paid or not paid…and they’re all expected to do the same thing,” he said.
Thorsby’s training facility also generates money for the town because it is used by other departments as well.
Gunn said the school would not be possible without the support of town leaders.
“We’ve been very fortunate to have great mayors and city councils to support the fire department,” he said.
Several graduates of the recruit school who are now full-time firefighters return as instructors on their days off. One day of training is a full eight hours, and six crews take turns preparing meals every day for the entire group.
“I really have to commend those guys,” Gunn said. “They’re working hard to keep this city protected and keep these guys trained.”
Clanton Fire Chief David Driver and Lt. Jeff Dansby are both graduates of the Thorsby recruit school. Driver is a full-time chief at Clanton, and Dansby works full-time for Homewood Fire Department.
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There are several advantages to investing in solar panels. Their popularity across New Zealand is leading to more landowners investigating their viability as well as the impact they may have on ongoing power costs. But before we dive into the considerations you’d need to factor in before adding solar panels to a shed, let’s look at why this is becoming a popular option.
Around 80% of New Zealand’s electrical energy is already sourced from renewable sources. Hydroelectricity is one of the main produces of environmentally-friendly energy in the country, but geothermal and wind also contributes to our nation’s green energy credentials. This means that few people explore solar as a way to reduce their environmental and carbon footprint, so why the increased interest in harvesting the sun’s natural energy?
Living in New Zealand we’re lucky that we enjoy an almost undisturbed supply of electricity. It does, however, come at a bit of a cost. New Zealand is ranked 10th in the world for the cost of electricity per kilowatt-hour at $0.20. The average household in a fully insulated home can use around 6,000KWh in a year resulting in an average electricity bill of $1,200, which might not sound like a lot but it can certainly add up over the years.
Beyond the eventual cost savings, solar panels can be a great edition if you’re after independence from the national grid. Supply-disrupting storms or accidents may happen infrequently in New Zealand but they do happen, as witnessed in Auckland earlier this year and as scheduled for the Waikato. For a rural property, which might not be a top priority for re-connection, this can mean days or weeks without power. For a residential property in a town this may mean the fridge gets a bit warm and the Netflix-binging is on pause. However, for a farm or rural operation, this might have more severe consequences.
Solar is also becoming significantly cheaper as the technology becomes more readily available and suppliers look to gain a competitive foothold in the marketplace. Aside from the peace of mind which comes from an uninterrupted flow of energy, the direct cost of the solar panels is offset by the reduced outgoings in electricity bills. Keith installed solar panels at his vineyard and expects them to have paid for themselves within 10 years, listen to his story below:
What do I need to consider when adding solar panels to a shed?
There are several factors that impact whether a shed can accommodate solar panels. If it’s structurally able to, then the shed’s orientation, location and materials may undermine its suitability. With a shed that’s yet to be built then all of these things can be considered in the design and build process; something the team at Alpine Buildings has a lot of experience doing.
So what are the key factors outlining a shed’s suitability for solar panels?
- Load-bearing capacity
- Roof pitch
- Energy requirements
- Shed location
In the next section of this article, we’ll explore each of the factors and their impact on your decision to have solar panels added to your shed.
On average a single solar panel weighs around 18kgs depending on the type of solar panels used. Cheaper panels are likely to weigh more while more expensive, technology advanced panels may weigh less. Typically a roof is designed to balance being lightweight, to not overload the structural supports below, while maintaining enough strength to withstand a healthy dumping of snow. Most modern structures are designed to handle snow, and can, therefore, hold solar panels, but combining the two may overload the roof. And if your shed’s roof was never designed to hold a foot or so of snow then it might struggle with solar panels.
A degraded roof will have lost much of its load-carrying capability and would not be able to support solar panels so it’s worth considering the shed’s design if you’re looking to add solar panels to an existing shed. If you’re looking to build a new shed then solar panels should be factored into the design process so the shed’s load-carrying capacity can be appropriately increased.
The shed’s load-carrying capacity can be enhanced by decreasing the space between the purlins and using structural steel in crucial areas. These will all be factored in during the design stage of building a shed with Alpine Buildings and is one of the many benefits of using a company with an in-house design team, rather than an off-the-shelf solution.
Solar panels are most efficient when perpendicular to the sun’s rays and it’s recommended to have your panels tilt on a 28-30 degree angle. This can be achieved by calculating the pitch of the roof and then angling the panels with additional struts to increase or reduce the angle accordingly. You can actually check the energy accumulation you could achieve with a set tilt angle for your location on the NIWA website.
Whereas the pitch of a roof is somewhat dictated by the width of the shed, greater consideration can be made towards using the roof pitch to help facilitate the desired angle of the panels if required.
One of the main factors driving the suitability of your shed’s design for solar is the required energy you need to generate from the panels. Are you running a Man Cave with a TV and lights or a workshop with a compressor? Are you storing the excess energy in a battery or simply using it as it’s produced?
Understanding how much energy you need to generate will help to determine the number of panels required as well as the wiring needed to set-up the shed. You can use pages like this as a rough guide on how solar energy is generated and used.
It's important to consider your shed’s location when installing solar panels. Avoiding shading, which significantly reduces the effectiveness of solar panels, and areas where debris may fall on the panels is key. Bird droppings can reduce the effectiveness of a solar panel and even light blocked by a branch or nearby tree can reduce the output form a panel.
The amount of shading a solar panel is subjected to is not a direct correlation for the reduction in power. What that means is 2% of the panel covered in shade or debris, might not result in only a 2% loss of energy generated. Solar panels are connected on a string so one partly shaded cell might reduce the output of the entire module.
Going beyond stating the obvious in that solar panels in the Northern Hemisphere should face South and solar panels in the Southern hemisphere should face North, your shed needs to be orientated to capture the most sunlight possible. You may have had a plan to have the doors to your shed facing a certain direction but the sun’s arc across your property may mean a slightly different orientation could be better.
There is a balance to strike between optimum energy output and practicality, so if the shed cannot be moved additional consideration may need to be placed on the way the solar panels are aligned on the roof space of your shed.
As you can begin to see many of these questions are best answered at the beginning of your shed’s design process. Avoid costly additional expenses later, talk to the team at Alpine Buildings to ensure your solar power needs are considered from the very beginning.
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An 83-year-old retired biochemistry professor was found by his wife unresponsive in his bathtub approximately 60 min after their last conversation. She found him lying upright in the empty bathtub, wearing pajamas with his arms folded across his chest. When emergency medical services arrived, he was hypopneic, with a barely palpable pulse and no measurable BP. En route to the hospital, pulseless electrical activity developed for which he received chest compressions, IV epinephrine (1 mg) and atropine (1 mg), with return of spontaneous circulation after < 10 min of resuscitation. The patient’s medical history was notable for ischemic cardiomyopathy and a recent stroke that diminished his functional capacity, although he remained able to perform most activities of daily life. | <urn:uuid:814662d1-b956-48aa-9dc9-bdc19d0607d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1080882 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00040-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98692 | 162 | 1.75 | 2 |
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It often feels as though the smallest and seemingly insignificant injuries are the most painful. Paper cuts, we are looking at you. Canker sores? Don’t get us started. Stubbed toe? We may need a few moments to cry in private.
One of the biggest culprits of tiny size, big pain is the dreaded blister. If you’re an athlete, blisters can be the result of over-training. They can happen if shoes are new and not yet broken in. They can happen if shoes are old and no longer providing the necessary support. They can happen if your shoes are perfectly fitted and you’ve simply been wearing them too long without a rest.
Workout blisters can also be caused by gym equipment, especially if you’re lifting weights or training in boxing or kickboxing without using gloves.
Coming home with a body full of blisters after spending some time in the great outdoors is also a common side effect of fresh air. Holding a canoe paddle for hours on end, pitching a tent, or tying down your belongings with cords can all lead to blisters.
When it comes to treating your blisters, finding a bandage that will act as an added layer of protection and not only help heal, but act as a barrier between your blister and the outside world is key. The only thing worse than a blister is one that gets aggravated while it’s healing. Again, time for a private cry.
Check out a few great products that not only treat blisters but can help heal them and prevent future blisters from forming.
1. Adventure Medical Kits Blister Medic
The Adventure Medical Kits Blister Medic packs plenty of remedies to help you heal unwanted blisters. Designed by an emergency medical doctor, the pack includes strip bandages, knuckle bandages, antiseptic towelettes, Spenco 2nd Skin, mole foam pads, non-woven adhesive patches, antibiotic ointment, folding scissors, and a waterproof container. If you’re frequently getting blisters from running shoes or workout equipment, keep a few of these kits on hand.
2. Spenco 2nd Skin Squares Soothing Protection for Blisters
The squares are made from medical grade gel and adhere to any part of your body, making them an ideal option if you get blisters in different areas (AKA not always on your feet). The hypoallergenic, latex-free hydrogel squares cool and soothe blisters while protecting the skin from any additional rubbing or chafing. The squares are comprised mostly of water, which means they won’t create a painful seal around the skin. Spenco serves a dual purpose, with the patches acting as a preventative barrier and treatment patches.
3. Band-Aid Brand Hydro Seal
The Band-Aid Brand Hydro Seal Adhesive Bandages offer a long list of benefits for a small price. Able to last seven days, even through showers, the Band-Aid protects the blister from germs and acts as padding against anything rubbing against the blister and causing pain. Made with natural rubber, the All-Purpose style of Band-Aid is designed to fit any area of the body but may feel oversized and bulky on areas like toes and fingers, making the toe-specific Band-Aids a better option. | <urn:uuid:7bba0176-4877-4cdd-b333-18b9b65c8b13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spy.com/articles/grooming/hygiene/how-to-heal-blisters-156421/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.936571 | 717 | 1.992188 | 2 |
STRUCTURE AND PHYSIOLOGY
B. bronchiseptica is a Gram-negative, aerobic, non-endospore forming coccobacillus. This bacterium is motile and oxidase and catalase positive.
TRANSMISSION AND DISEASE
The pili of B. bronchiseptica attach to the ciliated epithelium of the respiratory tract. Although a primary pathogen for a wide range of animals, B. bronchiseptica, has been isolated from immunocompromised people and young children. In humans, this microorganism causes pneumonia and symptoms similar to whooping cough.
As a non-spore-forming bacterium, B. bronchiseptica is one of the easier-to-disinfect microorganisms on the disinfection hierarchy.
This Bordetella strain is commonly found in the respiratory tracts of many animals and is the leading cause of kennel cough for dogs and cats.
James G. Fox, Glen Otto, DVM and Lesley A. Colby. “Selected Zoonoses: Respiratory Infections.” Laboratory Animal Medicine (Third Edition), Elsevier Inc., 2015. 1349-1350.
Joe Simmons and Susan Gibson. “Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases of Nonhuman Primates.” Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research (Second Edition) Volume 2: Diseases, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, 2012. 105-172. | <urn:uuid:61a3d34a-9635-4b73-a995-dee7b292e70d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://microchemlab.com/microorganisms/bordetella-bronchiseptica/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.851017 | 326 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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The Developmental Medicine Center at Boston Children’s Hospital is a multi-disciplinary program dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with developmental, learning, and behavioral difficulties and their families through integrated and collaborative clinical care, training, translational research, and community engagement and collaboration. The interdisciplinary staff is comprised of developmental-behavioral pediatricians, educational specialists, nurse practitioners, child psychologists, and child psychiatrists; in addition, there is the opportunity to consult, as needed, with specialists in Speech-Language, Sleep Disorders, Neurology, and Genetics. As a tertiary care site, the DMC accepts referrals for children with developmental and behavioral challenges that are not well met in the general medical and mental health communities. Established in the 1980’s, the goals of the DMC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program are:
Established in the 1980’s, the goals of the DMC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program are:
To prepare fellows to pursue careers in academic health centers or other health care settings by providing them with the requisite skills to become outstanding clinicians, inspiring teachers, and contributors to the profession of psychology through active involvement in professional organizations.
To provide fellows with advance practice competency in assessing challenges in child and adolescent development -- including attention deficits, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and regulatory problems -- by integrating the tenets of clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience, evidence-based interventions, and principles of child and family development in order to provide psychological services and conduct scientific research.
To facilitate advanced scholarly skills as psychologists, demonstrated by being active consumers and producers of psychological research and employing such knowledge in making informed decisions regarding assessment and intervention.
Postdoctoral fellows are involved in direct clinical service in the DMC for 60% of their time, including performing diagnostic assessments on multi-disciplinary teams; consulting in hospital-based and community settings; and providing short-term treatment for anxiety, disruptive behaviors, social skills deficits, elimination disorders, and feeding problems. The number and variety of programs contained within the DMC generally makes it possible to adapt the fellow‘s clinical experience to his or her learning needs and professional goals. Rotations are six months in length. Fellows are involved in consultation and assessment, participate in multi-disciplinary teams and clinics, and provide feedback to parents and schools. The goals of rotations are to expand knowledge base of learning, developmental, medical, and behavioral disorders and co-morbid psychiatric conditions; provide timely and tailored evaluations; and develop consultation and communication skills in a fast-paced medical environment. There also are opportunities for fellows to work closely with psychology staff to develop supervision and administrative skills. The DMC clinical programs available for fellowship rotations include:
INFANT & TODDLER TEAMS: This program serves children birth to 3 years of age who may be developmentally delayed and/or have an autism spectrum diagnosis. The pediatrician takes a history from the parents and performs the physical examination. The psychologist evaluates the child, including neurodevelopmental assessment, such as the Bayley and ADOS-2.
PRESCHOOL TEAM: This program serves children ages 3 to 6 years presenting with developmental and behavioral problems, including language, cognitive, and motor delays; social communication problems; regulatory issues involving toileting and sleep; question of an autism spectrum disorder and emotional and behavior concerns such as attention deficits, noncompliance, learning disorders, mood concerns, and anxiety.
SCHOOL TEAM: This program serves children ages 6 to 11 years presenting with learning challenges, developmental delays, question of an autism spectrum disorder, and social-emotional and behavioral problems, such as attention deficits, learning disorders, mood concerns, and anxiety.
ADOLESCENT TEAM:This program services adolescents from 12 to 17 years of age who are having academic, social-emotional, and/or behavioral difficulties. During this developmental period, attention deficit disorders are often subtle, and learning disabilities may be masked by “acting-out” behaviors. Alternately, adolescents with a history of an early history of developmental and social-communication problems may present with mental health issues, like depression or anxiety.
ADVOCATING SUCCESS for KIDS (ASK) PROGRAM: This program is a collaboration between Boston-area community health centers, the Community Care Alliance and the Office for Child Advocacy at Boston Children’s Hospital. The program serves children ages 3 to 14 years within four urban-based primary care centers who are referred by primary care providers because of concerns about developmental, learning, social-emotional, and/or behavioral problems. Additionally, children often present with complex psychosocial situations, possible prenatal substance exposure and/or trauma history. The goal of this program is to screen children for such concerns and to advocate for appropriate services and interventions. In depth consultations are available at Children’s Hospital Primary Care Center (CHPCC) for complex cases.
ADOPTION PROGRAM. This program is a consultation team for children who have been adopted domestically or internationally and their families, as well as children in foster care. Common concerns may include long-term abuse, neglect, or a history of institutionalization
CHILD & PARENT PROGRAM (CPP): This program is a unique clinical program providing psychological assessment, short term parent and child treatment, and school consultation services for young children and their families. CPP specializes in working with children birth to 4 years with complex medical, developmental, and psychological profiles. The program also accepts referrals for older children with parents or siblings who are coping with severe mental health disorders and or physical illnesses. CPP is the former “Brazelton Clinic" and uses the Touchpoints care model for working with families.
DOWN SYNDROME PROGRAM: This program offers multidisciplinary clinical evaluations for children with Down syndrome from birth until the age of 18. Program staff work closely with children, parents, medical specialists, community physicians, and educators. The Down Syndrome Program Team consists of a developmental pediatrician, genetics fellow, speech pathologist, physical therapist, nutritionist, dentist, and audiologist as well as a program coordinator and a resource specialist. Additionally, ongoing psychology consultation, including assessment, parent training, and psychotherapy, is provided.
GROWTH & NUTRITION PROGRAM: This program is staffed by physicians, nurses, psychologists, nutritionists, speech and language pathologists, and social workers and provides care to children who are severely underweight. Children are treated for organic and nonorganic feeding disorders and failure to thrive. A broad range of disorders are diagnosed and treated with high-calorie diets, education, federal food assistance, family therapy, behavioral feeding therapy, and general behavior modification programs.
CONSULTATION & THERAPY: This service provides individual, group, and family therapy, such as Toilet Training School for parents and children with encopresis and enuresis; Parent Training for children with ADHD; behavioral and family-based treatment for feeding disorders; school consultation; and cognitive behavioral treatment for anxiety in children and adolescents with social-communication disorders.
The research rotation allows fellows the opportunity to participate in ongoing research projects in the division and/or quality improvement efforts. Fellows are matched with research advisors from the psychology faculty and receive mentorship from Noelle Huntington, PhD. Along with developmental-behavioral pediatrics fellows, psychology fellows participate in research seminars comprised of didactic sessions, journal club, and skills training in research design, methods, and analysis. Fellows are expected to present their finished scholarly projects at the end of the training year. Additional activities include attending lectures in the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience directed by Dr. Charles Nelson. Based on availability of research grants, a psychology fellow may elect to spend a second year in ongoing clinical research projects and/or define a discrete project that can be completed within a fellowship year.
Research projects in the Developmental Medicine Center encompass topics and methods in basic science, translational, clinical, and health services research. There are methodologists and statisticians available to assist in planning studies and analyses, and when financially feasible, research assistants may be assigned to help with aspects of research. Research computers and standard statistical software are available for use by fellows in all the programs. Please see the following for most updated information regarding ongoing research studies in the division: http://www.childrenshospital.org/centers-and-services/departments-and-divisions/division-of-developmental-medicine/research-and-innovation/current-studies.
The DMC dedicates one-half day a week for education and professional development of staff and fellows, including a monthly interdisciplinary meeting and forum for special presentations; morbidity & mortality conference; case conference; and journal club. There also are weekly seminars for psychology fellows focused on neurodevelopmental, medical, and psychiatric disorders; feeding, sleep, and toileting disorders; psychological assessment of complex cases; evidence-based interventions; educational methodology for teaching; advocacy; and professional development. There are several opportunities each year to visit community agencies, specialized schools, or other clinical programs at BCH.
Supervision is provided by the staff in the DMC Psychology Program and involves in-vivo observations as well as one-to-one meetings. Each fellow receives a minimum of three hours of supervision per week. There is a supervisor assigned for each clinical rotation and fellows have the opportunity to work with several different supervisors over the course of their training. Group supervision experiences are provided to address clinical analysis skills, professional development, and preparation for licensure and board certification. At the beginning of the training year and, on a regular basis thereafter, the fellows training needs are reviewed and discussed. Participation in other clinics in the hospital to obtain specialized training can be arranged on an individual basis. Progress, competencies, and training goals are evaluated on a regular basis.
There are opportunities for fellows to become active participants in the Division’s robust Quality and Performance Program (QPP), which oversees all quality improvement activities. Fellows can attend team leadership meetings and quality improvement seminars, develop quality metrics for clinical outcomes and processes, review data for ongoing projects, and propose, implement, and present their own mentored QI project. Emphasis is on developing solid working knowledge of quality improvement principles and strategies for rigorous and effective implementation.
Finally, within the Division of Developmental Medicine and in the broader Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School community, there are a plethora of educational opportunities, including seminars, lectures, and trainings, that the fellows are required or encouraged to attend.
The DMC is offering 3-4 postdoctoral fellowship positions for the 2016-2017 training year. This is a full time, one year training experience in which the fellow’s time will be divided between clinical service delivery, didactics, and scholarly activities. The option for a second year advanced fellowship may be available with consideration of funding and matching fellow / program interests. The current stipend is $42,840 for the first year. Benefits include medical and dental insurance, 20 vacation and professional leave days, and nine Hospital holidays per year. Psychology fellows hold clinical appointments in the Boston Children’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry and academic appointments in the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry.
The successful applicant will have a PhD or PsyD in clinical psychology or school psychology from an APA/CPA accredited doctoral program and have completed a predoctoral internship at an APAP/CPA accredited program. Additionally, applicants should have substantial clinical experience with children, including use and interpretation of psychological and neuropsychological tests, coursework in child development and developmental psychopathology, and experience with evidence-based treatment and developmental disabilities; training and competence in addressing issues of diversity and individual differences; and a commitment to clinical research. Boston Children’s Hospital is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The starting date for fellowship is Thursday, September 1, 2016.
Interested applicants should complete the Boston Children’s Hospital Postdoctoral Fellowship application (“Application for Postdoctoral Psychology Fellowship”) and send the completed application, letter of interest, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, two psychological or neuropsychological reports, and certified transcript of doctoral work to Ms. Carol Berne, Department of Psychiatry, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Her phone number is 617-355-4563 and her email is: firstname.lastname@example.org. Applications materials need to be received by Monday January 4, 2016.
Questions about the DMC fellowship are best addressed via E-mail to Dr. Carrie Mauras (email@example.com).
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