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Affordances and constraints on informal learning in the workplace
Le Clus, M. and Volet, S. (2008) Affordances and constraints on informal learning in the workplace. In: 11th International Conference on Experiential Learning: The Identity of Experience, 8 - 12 December 2008, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney
The workplace is increasingly recognised as a legitimate environment for learning new skills and knowledge that enables workers to participate more effectively in ever-changing work environments. Within the workplace there is the potential for continuous learning to occur not only through formal learning initiatives that are associated with training, but also through informal learning opportunities that are embedded within everyday work activities. This paper reports the findings of an empirical study that examined workers’ personal experiences of informal learning, and how, when successful, these contributed to better participation in their regular workplace activities.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Appeared in: Lecture 1,3.
Greek philosopher who was a student and follower of
. He founded the Academy school in Athens. His works consisted of "dialogs"
and others. Like
, he was interested in moral, not natural philosophy. He believed
that the heads of government should be "philosopher kings" and developed
a course of study stressing abstract thought for their education in the
Republic. Plato advocated the "quadrivium" (the four math fields
of study in the liberal arts), which starts with arithmetic, then progresses
to plane geometry, solid geometry, and finally astronomy and harmonics.
Plato believed that knowledge was "forgotten" at birth, and could be remembered.
He saw the search for understanding as an attempt to gain pure knowledge,
or "forms." In Eikos Mythos (A Likely Story), he said that
is, at best, a likely account. In Timaeus, he presented his
which consisted of forms, particular objects, God the Craftsman,
absolute space, and brute matter. As a craftsman, God could not make
a perfect world from imperfect material.
Plato believed all substances to be composed of air, earth, fire, and water.
He believed in a spherical
which was the center of his universe, and a motion of planets along
crystalline spheres. Plato invented a theory of vision involving three
streams of light: one from the what is being seen, one from the eyes, and
one from the illuminating source. In keeping with his belief that philosophy
should be pursued for the attainment of pure knowledge, he proposed studying
astronomy as an exact mathematical science based on the assumption that motions
were regular and circular. He wanted to discover the truth behind appearances,
but believed that absolute truth could not be derived.
Plato also described the five regular solids, the
now known as the
For more information:
Plato picture taken from
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Two Men Enter. One Man Leaves: Does Labour need another hero? David Shearer's failure to pull the metaphorical sword from the stone bodes ill for his looming battle with the National Party's (and the nation's?) "monomythic" leader.
“WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO” sings Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. It’s a curiously contradictory song because, if you listen to the lyrics, it soon becomes painfully clear that a hero is exactly what these captive children, “the last generation”, need: someone who does “know the way home”; someone who can lead them “beyond Thunderdome”.
Perhaps the popularity of the 1985 hit recording is attributable to the worldwide collapse in the public’s – and especially the young’s – faith in political leaders and political ideologies. This was, after all, an era dominated by the polarising figures of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, leaders who made it very clear that they would rather be dead than red and were quite willing to enlist the rest of us in proving the point. Mad Max was itself set in a post-nuclear-apocalypse world. In the eyes of many young people, heroes weren’t the solution – heroes were the problem.
And yet, as even the most cursory glance at the historical record makes clear, people not only need heroes but they are ready and willing to follow them. Indeed, modern political marketing is about little else. Just take a look at a professionally produced campaign ad. Note the camera angles, the lighting, the music, the symbolic references: the entire exercise is devoted to making the candidate look taller, wiser, braver, more patriotic, more heroic that his or her rivals.
The great American socialist, Eugene Victor Debs, warned his working-class followers against putting their faith in leaders:
I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, someone else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.
By the same token, however, Debs never came close to being elected President of the United States and his Socialist Party remained forever in the shadow of the Democratic Party.
Nor is it certain that Debs’ contention is even true. Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour Prime Minister, was hailed as a hero by his working-class followers as the world spiralled into financial ruin in 1929. But when, in 1931, bereft of ideas about how to stem the rising tide of unemployment, MacDonald threw in his lot with the Conservative Party and led a rump of Labour into a coalition “National” government, he was vehemently denounced as a traitor to both his country and his class.
The notion that a hero is someone who wields great physical and/or moral power in his own right, though widely held, is misconceived. A hero isn’t something that you are, it is something you become. Joseph Campbell, in his seminal 1949 work The Hero of a Thousand Faces, describes what he calls the “monomyth”, the narrative structure common to all hero tales:
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
Heroes succeed because they embody the virtues and have acquired the skills necessary to overcome or divert the forces their communities feel most threatened by. The hero is the distillation of collective aspiration, not its creator.
Local Hero: John Key is the distillation of New Zealanders' aspirations - not their creator.
John Key’s extraordinary success as a political leader owes a great deal to how closely his own career conforms to the heroic monomyth.
The story begins with John, an ordinary Kiwi joker with a head for figures, setting out on a risky journey into the fantastic world of high finance, where all but the hardiest and most cunning traders are eaten alive. Having mastered the magical art of making money, and acquired a vast fortune, John returns home from his adventures determined to put his hard-won skills to good use among his own people.
It is difficult to imagine a “hero” better suited to the needs of twenty-first century New Zealand. John Key’s very ordinariness confirms his “Everyman” status, and amplifies the potency of his success. The power he wields is not his own, but a weapon forged from the capacities inherent in every Kiwi: those mysterious qualities that allow New Zealanders to “punch above their weight”; that national essence which sanctions John Key’s followers’ vicarious participation in his personal and political success. He is Us, and We are Him. It’s why, until an even more emblematic hero comes along, John Key will remain invincible.
For a while, it looked as though Labour had found just such an emblem. David Shearer’s story, like John Key’s, begins with an ordinary bloke setting forth on a journey, during which he encounters all manner of monsters – from Somali warlords to murderous Israeli settlers – learning in the process the magic spells for opening the human heart to compassion, justice and reconciliation. He, too, returns to his people and, at the crucial moment, steps forward from the shadows to declare that he is the one destined to lay low the National Party usurper.
Except he hadn’t learned the spells, or, if he had, he could no longer remember them.
Forgotten Magic: What if the Once and Future King had grabbed the sword in the stone - and it hadn't budged?
It’s as if Arthur stepped up to the sword in the stone, gave it a confident tug – and nothing happened. Instead of a sword flashing in the sunlight above his head, proof positive that he was “rightwise King born of all England”, the weapon stays exactly where it is, and the hero, with an embarrassed shrug, picks up a guitar instead.
There are, of course, many variations on the classic hero tale. Instead of acquiring forbidden knowledge and inheriting mysterious powers, the hero is often required to overcome a series of obstacles and/or eliminate a host of adversaries before completing his quest. In doing so he blazes a trail and lays a path for those who follow after him. Think of the Labours of Heracles, or Theseus’s struggle with the Minotaur, or Luke Skywalker’s destruction of the Death Star in Star Wars.
Does Labour have another hero? And, if it does, can we assume that the first obstacles and adversaries he must overcome are all inside his own party?
In the words of the Bartertown mob in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: “Two men enter! One man leaves!”
Or, as Savannah Nix (more generously) declares in the movie’s closing sequence:
Still in all, every night we does the tell, so that we ‘member who we was and where we came from ... but most of all we ‘members the man that finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city, not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. ‘Cause we knows there come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they’ll be comin’ home.
We DO need another hero.
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Rhythms of Worship Paperback
The Planning and Purpose of Liturgy
by John G. Stevens; Michael Waschevski;
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There are many books written for liturgical experts, but not many for laypeople.
This book bridges that gap.
In clear, everyday language, Waschevski and Stevens describe why Protestants worship and help to equip worship planners and leaders for excellence in their tasks. The authors explore the different elements of the worship service and how each expresses our Christ-centered faith. They also describe the feasts and festivals of the liturgical year, helping the reader understand and appreciate these special times and seasons in worship.
An additional chapter considers music and arts in worship. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter invite discussion in local congregations. This book will be a valuable resource for pastors, worship committees, members, and all others who engage in worship planning and leadership.
Rhythms of Worship by John G. Stevens; Michael Waschevski was published by Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. in January 2015 and is our 62168th best seller. The ISBN for Rhythms of Worship is 9780664260170.
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I'm assuming that the tub and shower are separate fixtures:
You're not going to like my answer: It sounds like the shower valve itself is the source of restriction. Judging by your description, you have eliminated just about everything else.
Other than that, it may be possible that the hot pipe leading to the shower faucet may be bent/buckled behind the wall - but this would only be true if it a) has always been weak, and b) you had a really lousy, doesn't give-a-hoot plumber install the pipe, because this option cannot be an accident. I would therefore consider it unlikely.
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PQQ (Pyrroloquinoline quinone) is a small bioactive, non-vitamin compound which acts as a REDOX (reduction-oxidation) agent and supports mitochondrial function (1).
PQQ (Pyrroloquinoline quinone) Benefits
PQQ is a powerhouse molecule was once called a vitamin, but now we call it a bioactive non-vitamin compound. It’s a molecule that helps mitochondrial cells live longer and stay robust, equaling more energy!
Without mitochondria producing the building blocks of energy (ATP), there would be no human life. We are completely dependent upon the health of our mitochondria, but there’s a catch. In this energy producing process, mitochondria produce toxic byproducts known as reactive oxygen species: those pesky free radicals you hear so much about that damage to other cells and are involved in so many system deteriorations.
We have substances that go around fighting and scavenging these free radicals, but aging complicates things. As mitochondria age, the production of the byproducts builds up while the processes to keep them under check declines. There’s also a decline in their ability to make ATP, so it slows down the body even more.
PQQ enhances the function of mitochondria and can recycle those free radical neutralizers thousands of times before losing its ability to function as a REDOX agent. It supports cognitive function, especially in aging brains, while also reducing oxidative stress!
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• Supports mitochondrial function*
Harris, CB, et al. “Dietary Pyrroloquinoline Quinone (PQQ) Alters Indicators of Inflammation and Mitochondrial-Related Metabolism in Human Subjects.” J Nutr Biochem, vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2013, pp. 2076–84., doi:10.1016/j.jnutbio.2013.07.008.
• Promotes cognitive function while aging*
Itoh, Y, et al. “Effect of the Antioxidant Supplement Pyrroloquinoline Quinone Disodium Salt (BioPQQ™) on Cognitive Functions.” Adv Exp Med Biol, vol. 876, 2016, pp. 319–325., doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3023-4_40.
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Oral Calcium in Pregnant Women With Hypertension
Behavioral: dietary supplements
|Study Design:||Allocation: Randomized
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Study Start Date:||August 1993|
|Study Completion Date:||July 1999|
Maternal and fetal complications are more likely to occur in pregnant women with preexisting hypertension. Alterations in calcium metabolism, the renin angiotensin system, and intracellular free calcium concentration have been identified in this high risk population. The beneficial effects of calcium supplementation on blood pressure and the incidence of superimposed pre-eclampsia may be due to correction of the hormonal and cellular basis for vasoconstriction. The trial sought to prove that oral calcium lowered parathyroid hormone, reduced intracellular free calcium, and decreased vascular endothelin production, resulting in vasodilation and compensatory stimulation of the renin-angiotensin system.
Randomized. Double blind. In this observational study, subjects were assigned to two grams of supplemental elemental calcium or to placebo at 13 to 15 weeks gestation. The trial determined the effect of oral calcium supplementation on: the level of blood pressure; the need for antihypertensive drugs; forearm and peripheral vascular resistance; the incidence of maternal complications, including pre-eclampsia and eclampsia; and plasma levels of vitamin D3, ionized calcium, parathyroid, renin activity, angiotensin II, endothelin, nitrate/nitrite, prostacyclins, and intracellular calcium concentrations in lymphocytes and platelets. These variables were measured prior to randomization and every two months throughout pregnancy and the postpartum. Support ended in July 1999.
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Visual narrative and the media (Week 7)
The term ‘narrative’ simply means ‘story-telling’ which can be either spoken or written. In this modern world, narratives can be found in popular media such as film, television, radio, newspaper and so forth. They function as a way to structure and represent lived experiences. The nature of narrative can be divided into two; story and discourse. Story is about trying to determine the key conicts, main characters, setting and events. Discourse is about how the content of a story is structured and arranged. In Aristotle on the art of poetry, he stated that “A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end” (Chapter 7, para 1). This forms the dramatic or a plot structure which concludes that a narrative must have a beginning, middle and an end.
In narrative, there are two types of theories. The structuralist narrative theory and the post-structuralist narrative theory. The structuralist narrative theory basically means that a narrative must be structured by following certain concepts. These concepts includes the subject which can either be the speaking subject or the subject of speech, the genre; the framework and discourses, the point of focus, temporality and the duration to describe the length of time and duration of speed. On the other hand, the post-structuralist narrative theory basically attempts to focus on the essential “incompleteness” of narrative or to simply put it, this theory goes against the narrative structure.
This is an example of a film that has a structural narrative. The genre of this film here is an animated-fantasy cartoon. The characters involved are the princess, the prince, the fairy, the king and queen and etc. The discourses can be love, friendship, magic, marriage,violence and so on. All these makes up the paradigm. According to Daniel Chandler (2009), paradigm and syntagm are the structural forms through which signs are organized into codes. The syntagm here are simply the storyline or the plot.
In narrative, a story can be presented in two ways, through mimesis and digesis. Mimesis is the imitation of the supposed words of another, as in order to represent his or her character. In digesis, the narrator tells the story. In ‘Sleeping Beauty’, the story is being presented through digesis, which means that the story is being told from the narrator’s point of view.
Post-structuralists argues that nothing is universal and that interpretation of meaning is not fixed. This is an example of a post-structuralism film. It is a parody of the movie ‘300’. It follows the typical structure of the ‘300’ movie but the paradigm or ideology is changed. According to Walter Fisher, a narrative must have fidelity and coherence. In ‘Meet the Spartans’, the characters in the film do not act consistently in the plot and most of the characters involved are not connected to the story at all. For example, in the movie we see Britney Spears and Ellen Degeneres popping out from no where which completely makes no sense. Therefore, there is no coherence in the film because the story does not hang together. The story itself has no or less fidelity as most of the time it does not relate to our real experiences. For example,who would believe that a Spartan soldier can do a 360 head spin or break dancing? To summarize this, in post-structuralism, meaning is not coherent as intended by the producer of the text.
Aristotle . Aristotle on the art of poetry .Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AriPoet.html
Chandler, D. (2009). Semiotics For Beginners. Retrieved August, 21, 2010, from Prifysgol Aberystwyth University Website: http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/
Fulton, H. (2005). Narrative and Media. United States of America: Cambridge University Press.
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Girls Learning Code
Girls Learning Code programs are designed to help girls see technology in a whole new light – as a medium for self-expression, and as a means for changing the world.
This video shows one of their projects, Envision, which was on display during Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2014.
Ladies Learning Code
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In June, SynTech Argentina completed a series of regulated trials on pest-resistant corn and soybeans, to evaluate ecological interactions, agronomic and phenotypic characteristics for each crop. They also included comparisons between stacked and parental events. The trials included assessments of efficacy, environmental impact (non-target organisms) and residues.
Such trials in insect resistant crops require SynTech entomologists able to identify insect species, associated crop injury and potential ecological damage. At present SynTech Argentina has three experimental sites for GMO Row Crops: La Guarida, La Querencia, El Progreso (Victoria), and is intending to add further locations in Cordoba and Sta.Fe. | <urn:uuid:87131e57-3d03-4547-98f3-acc975d65a56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.syntechresearch.com/news/syntech-argentina-successfully-completes-first-major-gm-crop-trials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.926214 | 140 | 2.40625 | 2 |
While your business is growing, your data is getting more extensive and valuable. As a result, storing data effectively and securely turns into a critical challenge in the digital age.
While traditional systems fail to manage the need, a hybrid cloud environment offers a great solution to overcome this challenge.
What is Hybrid Cloud Architecture?
With cloud storage, you can save data and files to an off-site location that you access via the internet or a dedicated private network connection. Responsibility for hosting, protection, management, and maintenance of data transferred off-site for storage purposes passes to the third-party cloud provider.
A hybrid cloud infrastructure is an integrated storage infrastructure that brings together public and private clouds. In cloud storage, the hybrid system provides access to both cloud and local resources, while providing numerous advantages to companies.
Public cloud: It allows your data to be stored in an internet-accessible data center. Thus, anyone who signs up for an account can share and access data.
Private cloud: You lease the private cloud to be private to you so that other people cannot use this space.
These two cloud environments, combined within the framework of certain principles, can be managed from a single platform for high security and agility. Moreover, according to your needs, you can adapt your data quickly and securely by scaling the space or moving it between the public and private cloud. The hybrid cloud infrastructure also allows data transfer between public and private clouds. So your storage space grows without you having to make any special effort to transfer data.
Should companies evaluate a hybrid cloud strategy?
Data is one of the most valuable assets of companies. They need to operate and protect the data all the time. The company managers and owners don’t have a chance to sacrifice data security for efficiency as well as availability. They have to pay attention to all equally.
Companies use cloud storage services to store and share data due to its ease of use to process and access with less command of tech. However, the advantages of a hybrid cloud strategy are not limited to these. Availability features are also a prominent reason to choose the hybrid cloud strategy. The high availability helps companies configure each element within a system to assure reliability and performance, regardless of the number of workload demands.
Advantages of switching to a hybrid cloud infrastructure
Companies can benefit from a hybrid cloud infrastructure economically, strategically, and operationally.
Many companies choose to switch to a hybrid cloud environment for economic advantages. It reduces the expenses to obtain and maintain data storage. Local storage is also much costlier than clouds as you will spend quite a budget on servers and data centers.
On the other hand, hybrid cloud storage comes up as a cost-effective key to downsize these payments as you allocate smaller funding to on-premises and pay for the public cloud only when you use it.
The amount of data on your storage constantly grows along with your company. Therefore, it’s essential to have a scalable storage system while you get good signs regarding your business’ future.
Cloud storage services work perfectly for both private and public storage needs during the changes. The scalability skills of the virtual servers are quite unlimited as it enables on-demand platform resources. You can scale up and down the space you use (and pay for) without effort when needed.
Another advantage of cloud storage infrastructure is seen while managing the system. Once you decide the components you want to use, you can customize the whole system from a single platform. It enables companies to customize the variables, develop new applications, and easily run powerful analytics programs.
Therefore, you can adapt your storage to your specific and changing needs. For example, your storage infrastructure will adjust to your seasonal requirements if your industry has low and high seasons.
4. Cyber resiliency:
Cloud security protocols are designed to level up security. Various precautions protect data in different stages and positions. You can categorize the confidentiality of your data and store it accordingly. So you will access the data in different categories through different security steps.
Private cloud storage has a higher protocol to keep your data and applications safe and allows access only by your defined users. That’s why private cloud storages are better for processing and storing critical data. On the other hand, on-site storage keeps hackers away as they need physical access to the device to get the data.
All you need to do is ask your cloud service provider about alternatives to maintain cyber resiliency because hybrid systems have great solutions to keep you safe.
5. Disaster recovery
When you store and regularly update your large amount of data, it’s critical to have a recovery strategy. Hybrid cloud environments facilitate to back up data by duplicating it. Therefore in case of a disaster, you access the backup and maintain the business operations uninterruptedly.
Cloud as a Key Technology for Digital Transformation
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President-elect Barack Obama today sought to calm Wall Street and Main Street alike with a sober but reassuring assessment of the nation's finances.
"When you think about the structural problems that we already had in the economy before the financial crisis, this is a big problem, and it's going to get worse," Obama told CBS' "Meet the Press" program.
But he dismissed comparisons to the Great Depression, saying "I think it's important for us to remember that, as tough as times are right now, they're nothing compared to what my grandparents went through, what the greatest generation went through."
Yet the contrast between Obama's high profile and President George W. Bush's comparatively low profile marked a striking shift in presidential power. In a weekly radio address, in a television interview and in a news conference, Obama sounded like a sitting president. He rallied support for an auto bailout and the massive economic stimulus he announced this weekend, saying, "We need action, and action now."
And he spoke directly to consumers and businesses, conscious that, increasingly, they are taking their cues from him, rather than Bush.
"The president-elect is it seems to me much more hands-on, talking more about the future policies that in the past incoming presidents would have," Stuart Rothenberg, editor of The Rothenberg Political Report, told ABC News.
"He is sounding much more as if he were president than George Bush is president. … He's sounding like a problem-solver today, and apparently that's what the markets are interested in, it's what the financial community is interested in and I think they are very much looking to him now, even though he wont be sworn in for another month or so."
Obama even took the unusual step of criticizing the outgoing president, saying, "We have not seen the kind of aggressive steps in the housing market to stem foreclosure that I would like to see … If it is not done during the transition, it will be done by me."
Even his announcement today of his new choice for Veteran's Affairs secretary was a stark repudiation of President Bush's approach to the Iraq war. Gen. Eric Shinseki (Ret.) is best known for his prescient answer when senators asked how many troops it would take to stabilize Iraq.
"Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers," Shinseki said at the time, in February 2001, a month before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
That view was considered heresy in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon. Rumsfeld's deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, said Shinseki was "wildly off the mark." Shinseki was soon ushered into retirement.
Illustrating the continuing tug-of-war between the current and future presidents, by the time Obama had finished saying what his administration would do for veterans in a Sunday news conference, the White House had issued a statement saying the Bush administration had given veterans "unprecedented support." | <urn:uuid:3c101074-201b-4c7f-82bf-a56b87e53a05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=6413167&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00059-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982642 | 608 | 1.726563 | 2 |
25 March 2015 by defenceWeb
In six weeks’ time the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), of which South Africa is a member, will, along with the Human Sciences Research Council, host a blue economy workshop in Durban, to which the South African Navy will be paying close attention.
Titled “Promoting Fisheries, Aquaculture, Maritime Safety and Security Co-operation in the Indian Ocean region” it dovetails neatly with the maritime component of the South African government’s Operation Phakisa.
Late last year Rear Admiral Sagaren Pillay, Director Maritime Strategy at Navy headquarters in Pretoria, told defenceWeb “from a mandate perspective, the Navy remains responsible for the protection of South Africa’s territorial integrity and sovereignty with the maritime border being the Navy’s responsibility”. After Phakisa was announced, the Navy began looking at the implications of direct future force employment missions resulting from the Operation.
Phakisa comes from the “Big Fast Results” methodology employed by Malaysia and it is seen as being a launch platform for delivery of priorities set out in the National Development Plan. “Phakisa” means “hurry up” in Sesotho.
Speaking in Durban last June where he officially put the first implementation phase of Phakisa into operation, President Jacob Zuma said it would be led by the Department of Environment Affairs and would have four priorities. These are marine transport and manufacturing; offshore oil and gas exploration; aquaculture and marine protection services.
“South Africa is bordered by the ocean on three sides. With the inclusion of Prince Edward and Marion islands in the Southern Ocean, the coastline is over 3,900 kilometres long,” Zuma said, adding the full economic potential of this marine space remained largely untapped.
The President sees it as having the potential to contribute up to R177 billion to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) while creating up to a million new jobs by 2033. By comparison, the ocean economy generated R54 billion and served 316 000 jobs in 2010.
One item on the Phakisa ocean agenda of particular interest to the maritime arm of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) is marine protection services. This will include improving protection of South Africa’s oceans, particularly around critically endangered ecosystems.
Ahead of the May 4 and 5 blue economy core group workshop, IORA notes the Indian Ocean rim region is home to nearly a third of the world’s population.
“Additionally the region possesses a variety of resources vital for the well-being of its inhabitants. As such, IORA has placed more emphasis on growing the blue economy in the region,” the Association said.
Other IORA members include Australia, India, Malaysia as well as SADC countries Kenya, Mozambique and Seychelles.
The May workshop will concentrate on maritime safety and security as well as fisheries and aquaculture. One of the planned outcomes is improved knowledge on member states’ capacities, requirements, priorities and weaknesses in the area of maritime safety and security.
The workshop will also be looking into funding and regional co-operation for the important issues of safety and security as a precursor to oil and gas exploration and exploitation. Indications from government are the South African EEZ (exclusive economic zone) is home to nine billion barrels of oil and 11 billion barrels’ equivalent of natural gas. These reserves are equal to 40 years of South African oil consumption and 375 years of gas consumption.
The SA Navy is internationally accepted as a small one but it has a clear blue water capability in the form of four Valour Class Frigates and three Heroine Class Type 209 submarines. The fleet currently includes three revamped strikecraft serving as offshore patrol vessels. This number will be augmented by another three in the next three to four years as well as three dedicated inshore patrol vessels.
At this stage there is no indication from government on what role, if any, the SA Air Force (SAAF) will have in the maritime security sector of the ocean phase of Operation Phakisa. The defence force’s airborne arm is dependent of ageing C-47TP aircraft, operated by 35 Squadron out of AFB Ysterplaat. The SAAF is seeking to acquire maritime surveillance/patrol aircraft to replace these vintage aircraft. | <urn:uuid:fe270835-da6b-422b-8b46-857f5e04e13a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rpdefense.over-blog.com/2015/03/indian-ocean-rim-association-to-host-blue-economy-workshop-in-durban.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941888 | 906 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Help track paws for a cause
Project keeps tabs on Mount Hood's scarcest wild things
In Portland, sightings of wild animals such as bald eagles, deer and coyotes aren't common but they do occur, particularly in the outer limits of town and in the watershed areas of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
Portlanders toting binoculars often flock to Sauvie Island and fringe city and state parks in hopes of catching glimpses of animals in their natural habitats. But what about that towering mountain east of us?
High-altitude alpine animals such as wolverines, lynx and marten make Mount Hood their home year-round, and a local organization wants to introduce you to the cold-loving critters - and at the same time help protect the animals' habitats.
Cascadia Wild, a nonprofit dedicated to conservation, community and nature awareness in the Cascadia bioregion, is well into its seventh year of the Wolverine Tracking Project. This part-classroom, part-field session program educates Portlanders about their furry alpine neighbors by facilitating winter and spring tracking trips in Mount Hood National Forest in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service.
Marion Warfield of Cascadia Wild's public relations office says: 'With U.S. Forest Service cuts across the board, this partnership has taken on greater significance and meaning. More than ever, eyes and ears are wanted up in the mountain, tracking and reporting what we're finding. Keeping tabs on population trends and species information is critical in forming management plans.'
The last Wolverine Tracking Project class of the season takes place Thursday. You must attend this class to participate in any of the biweekly tracking trips or overnight snow trips that Cascadia Wild organizes between now and April.
Warfield says, 'This is a great way for folks to get out of the city, learn some nature stuff, become familiar with their mountain, meet new folks and have great fun in the snow.'
All ages are welcome, although children must be accompanied by an adult. Snowshoes and first-aid kits are provided, and carpools to and from Mount Hood are arranged.
Wolverines are listed as a federal 'species of concern.' Sightings of this largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family are rare, but the carnivorous alpine creatures are considered a prime indicator species of the general health and diversity of the forest.
Cascadia Wild volunteers also help the Forest Service by tracking the marten - a smaller member of the weasel family with thick fur and bushy tails - and lynx, a medium-size wild cat with a short tail, tufted ears and large padded paws, which is labeled as federally threatened.
All of these animals are hard to spot (tracks are much more common), but since the cost of the class includes limitless Mount Hood survey trips, you'll have plenty of opportunities to make use of your new skills.
Find out more
Wolverine Tracking Project training
When: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7
Where: Metro Regional Center, 600 N.E. Grand Ave., room 370A
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In the wake of the cash for access scandal there has been much comment about MPs remuneration and whether they should have incomes beyond their role as MPs.
The various comments by Sir Malcolm Rifkind – the free time he had on his hands; dismissing his salary of £67,000; his right to have a higher standard of living given his professional background etc. – put paid to his political career and we await to see what happens to Jack Straw.
The arguments for raising the pay of MPs are familiar, i.e. in order to get the brightest and best candidates you need to pay more, or you can’t expect talented people who would otherwise go to the City or the Bar to sacrifice themselves and their living standards and manage on an MPs salary.
But the logic of the market cannot be applied to the role of a Member of Parliament. This is a highly privileged position which is essentially about access and proximity to power.
This is what often gets missed when the role of an MP is compared to any other job in financial terms.
Much can be made about public service but the role is essentially about power and everyone who puts themselves forward to become an MP in the Palace of Westminster are well aware of this.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LATE GREAT, MR. MARION MOTLEY!!!
Marion Motley was an American Football fullback and linebacker who played for the NFL Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). He was a leading pass-blocker and rusher in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and ended his career with an average of 5.7 yards per carry, a record for a fullback that still stands.
A versatile player who possessed both quickness and size, Motley was a force on both offense and defense. Joe Perry once called him “the greatest all-around football player there ever was”. Motley was also one of the first African-Americans to play the professional game in the modern era.
Motley grew up in Canton, Ohio. He played football through high school and college in the 1930s before enlisting in the military during World War II. While training in the U.S. Navy in 1944, he played for a service team coached by Paul Brown. Following the war, he went back to work in Canton before Brown invited him to try out for the Cleveland Browns, a team he was coaching in the newly formed AAFC. Motley made the team in 1946 and became a cornerstone of Cleveland’s success in the late 1940s. The team won four AAFC championships before the league dissolved and the Browns were absorbed by the more established NFL. Motley was the AAFC’s leading rusher in 1948 and the NFL leader in 1950, when the Browns won another championship.
Motley and fellow black teammate Bill Willis contended with racism throughout their careers. Although the color barrier was broken in all major American sports by 1950, the men endured shouted insults on the field and racial discrimination off of it. “They found out that while they were calling us niggers and alligator bait, I was running for touchdowns and Willis was knocking the shit out of them,” Motley once said. “So they stopped calling us names and started trying to catch up with us.” Focused exclusively on winning, Brown did not tolerate racism within the team.
Slowed by knee injuries, Motley left the Browns after the 1953 season. He attempted a comeback in 1955 as a linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers but was released before the end of the year. He then pursued a coaching career, but was turned away by the Browns and other teams he approached. He attributed his trouble finding a job in football to racial discrimination, questioning whether teams were ready to hire a black coach. Motley was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968.
HONORS & LEGACY:
In 1968, Motley became the 2nd black player voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, located in his hometown of Canton. Having played successfully as a fullback and pass blocker on offense and as a linebacker on defense, he is seen as one of the best all-around players in football history. Blanton Collier, an assistant who took over as the team’s head coach after Paul Brown’s firing in 1963, said Motley “had no equal as a blocker. He could run with anybody for 30 yards or so. And this man was a great, great linebacker.”
Most of Motley’s runs were trap plays up the middle, but he had the speed to run outside. “There’s no telling how much yardage I might have made if I ran as much as some backs do now,” he once said. Running back Jim Brown surpassed Motley’s rushing records in the early 1960s, but many of Motley’s coaches and fellow players regarded Motley as the better player, in part because of his strength as a blocker.
“There is no comparison between Jim Brown and Marion Motley,” Graham said at a luncheon in Canton in 1964. “Motley was the greatest all-around fullback.”
In his books The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pro Football and The New Thinking Man’s Guide To Pro Football, football writer Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated called Motley the best player in the history of the sport.
He was named to the NFL’s 75th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1994.
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Most of us have a tendency to comment when we come
across a blog post with which we agree. The blogger says something that
makes us want to shout "Me too!" and we're motivated to leave a
comment. But what happens when we read a post with which we don't
agree? What do we do then?
For today's challenge, you're going to find a blog post where you don't agree with the author and leave a comment. It might be that you just disagree with a segment of the post--that's fine. The goal of your commenting today will be to bring up your point of disagreement in your comment.
For some people, the challenge will be finding posts with which they don't agree. If this is the case, try using Technorati to find blogs on a political topic--these are usually great sources of potential conflict. You might also want to consider expanding your blog reading horizons because to learn, you need blogs in your reader that regularly challenge your thinking.
If you want to peruse some suggestions on how to disagree appropriately, check out the comments section (how appropriate!) for this post on 10 Rules for Blog Debates. Some great ideas for both commenters and bloggers, as well as a good example of how the commenting can become better and meatier than the original post.
As an add-on reflection activity, consider blogging on some of these questions. Don't forget to tag your post with "comment08".
- What happened as a result of you disagreeing with the blogger? How did they respond? How did you respond?
- What do you usually do if you find a post with which you disagree? Do you comment publicly? Email the blogger? Or do you just move on?
- If you comment, typically how do you engage the blogger? Do you ask questions to better understand his/her position? Do you make statements to explain your position? Do you track comments so that you can return to continue the conversation?
- If you're a blogger, how do you feel if people post comments where they disagree with you? How do you handle these?
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The Cherry Blossom Festival is finally in full swing in Washington, D.C., and it is beautiful. In 1912, Japan gave the United States the cherry trees in order to strengthen the relationship that was forming between the two nations. To commemorate the gift from Japan and to celebrate the beauty they bring to D.C., the Cherry Blossom Festival is held each spring when the flowers are in full bloom. The Festival brings D.C. to life with amazing art exhibits, cultural events, and an exciting parade. The events and the blossoms come together to create a celebration that people come from around the country to experience.
This year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade is on Saturday, April 11, 2015, from 10 AM until noon. The parade will run on Constitution Avenue, from 7th Street to 17th Street. You can purchase seats in the Grandstand for $20. Or, you can stand along the parade route between 9th and 15th streets for free. The parade is always a spectacle to see, sporting extravagant floats, wonderful performers, and bands from all over the country.
If you are attending the parade, you are encouraged to use the Federal Triangle metro stop. This is an easy trip for any of our properties in D.C. If you are unsure of how to navigate the metro to this stop, you can always use the trip planner, provided by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
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Council tax: the new Poll Tax
The Poll Tax riots in 1990 famously brought down Mrs Thatcher and led to the hasty introduction of the Council Tax. Twenty three years later are the reforms to Council Tax due for implementation in less than a month, about to bring the Poll Tax back from the grave?
From 1 April, instead of the current 5.9 million recipients of Council Tax Benefit (CTB) receiving cash to cover all or most of their bill, as part of the Government’s policy to roll back and cut the cost of the welfare state, the fund for CBT will be cut by 10%. At the same time the Government has localised the system, transferring responsibility for it from Government to the 326 local authorities responsible for Council Tax collection.
From April in order to balance their budgets, councils will be faced with maintaining current levels of support and making greater cuts elsewhere, removing other exemptions, the most commonly cited is Council Tax (CT) exemption on second homes, or asking those who currently don’t pay CT or only pay a very small amount, to pay. As the date for this change looms, it seems that the vast majority of councils will opt for the latter. The calculations are made particularly tricky by the Government’s stipulation that current levels of support must be maintained for pensioners – meaning that the burden will fall entirely on the working-age poor.
The Resolution Foundation has published a report setting out exactly what all this means. If you are poor and not a pensioner, it doesn’t look pretty. Just as important though, if you are a local authority, especially one with quite a few claimants and not many second homes to tax, the financial implications look terrifying.
With 5.9 million recipients, Council Tax Benefit is claimed by more households than any other means tested benefit or tax credit. On 1 April it will be replaced by 326 ‘Council Tax Support Schemes’. The Resolution Foundation report shows that almost three quarters of English local authorities are planning to respond o this localisation by introducing less generous systems of support.
For individuals and their families the implications of this are huge. The effect of this new localisation of council tax support will see many of the 2.5 million working-age recipients of CTB who are not in employment, ie those who receive maximum CTB and pay no council tax, will have to pay something. Depending on the wealth of the locality they live in and importantly the number of exempt pensioners, the figures are likely to vary between £100 and over £300 per annum with an average of £247pa. North Hertfordshire has already announced a figure of £322.40 pa and Birmingham, Britain’s biggest local authority has announced a minimum charge of £200 pa. One of the reasons for the variation is the exclusion of pensioners from the charges. This immediately increases the apparently marginal 10% to an average 19% reduction for working age recipients and in some areas with high proportions of pensioners this rises to 33%.
This is all in a context where Universal Credit is introduced in October with as yet unknown implications but with a computer system that probably isn’t up to the job, benefits increases capped at 1% pa for the next three years – a real terms cut, the ‘bedroom tax’ just about to kick in and food banks springing up all over the country. Figures from the Institute of Fiscal Studies reported in the Resolution Foundation report, show that the average working family will lose £165 pa from these changes and the average non-working family will lose £215 pa. It doesn’t take a genius to see that this combination of pressures will have huge impacts on low income families and individuals and that paying Council Tax won’t be anywhere near their top priority.
The implications for local authorities and their finances are almost as stark as those of individuals. While the average of £247 pa sounds and is, a lot for poor households, collecting £4.75 a week is likely to prove uneconomic for local authorities, especially if collection attempts go as far as hiring bailiffs or going to court. Work by the campaign group False Economy has found that more than 70 councils are resigned to seeing swaths of residents refusing to pay the tax. Harlow council is expecting to get barely one sixth of its 5,000 poor households paying up and is budgeting for a £1.14m shortfall in its finances in 2013/14. Gravesham is expecting only a 30% payment rate. Most council’s are more optimistic, but the False Economy work suggests that overall, councils are expecting one third of those supposed to pay, won’t.
Ministers are planning to save £500m by cutting and localising the CTB bill. But even Conservative former ministers are sounding alarm bells. Patrick Jenkin a key architect of the poll Tax told the BBC last year: ‘The Poll Tax was introduced with the proposition that everybody should pay something….. we got it wrong. The same factor will apply here, that there will be large numbers of fairly poor households who have hitherto been protected from Council tax who are going to be asked to pay small sums.’
Faced between the choice of heating their homes (ever more expensively) feeding their families, or paying £247 per annum in Council Tax, which is likely to go first? In trying to save £500m a year, the new arrangements look like causing huge financial problems for many councils and the kind of bad publicity for Government as these councils try to chase non-payers through the courts, that only that kind of money can buy. Welcome to the New Poll Tax.
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English New Year
In various cultures, religions and regions, first day of the calendar year is celebrated as New Year. Today, the world follows Georgian calendar and that perhaps, is the main reason why the entire world- irrespective of geography, cast and creed- gets drenched in massive New Year celebrations. It’s been long that Georgian calendar has been adopted by people and is used for all official purposes worldwide. However, regional calendars are still in use in various cultures and they have their own New Year dates, for example China and India.
The day marks end of the previous year and start of a new one with new hopes, promises and dreams. As we step into a new year, we are one year older, a little bit more experienced, a little more mature and surely ready to live to the fullest. With New Year celebration, we usher in another year and make promises to ourselves to keep, forgetting the old ones.
The day serves the right occasion for people around the globe to set new goals and resolutions and motivates them to forget the bitter memories of the past. People indulge in New Year’s eve celebrations with renewed energy and excitement. This day inspires and reminds us to wipe off old grievances and start life afresh with a new vision, hope and optimism.
Time of Celebration
English New Year is celebrated all around the world on every first of January according to the Georgian calendar. People all over the globe get holiday on this very occasion of new year to indulge in celebrations.
The expansion of western culture (British and European) in many colonies has made New Year a festival of the world and not just of the Britain or Europe. New Year Eve celebrations take place all around the world. Lavish and grand New Year celebrations take place in UK and the rest of the Europe, Australia, America, China, India and so many other parts of the world. Fireworks and performances by musicians, singers, and dancers are some of the events that take place at every nook and corner.For some people, it is party time and for the other it is time for vacation with family. Everyone waits for this day eagerly and prepares to welcome the coming year with vigour and liveliness. Tourist places get flocked with people and the entire world seems in party mood. People have gala time with their near and dear ones and even gifts are exchanged to wish happiness in the days to come.
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‘Ghost Flights’ Controversy Continues as Thousands of Near Empty Flights Operate in Europe
Controversy in the European airline industry is continuing in response to the European Union’s “use it or lose it” slot rules meaning airline carriers are operating near empty planes in order to hold on to valued airport slots. The European Commission rules were suspended in March 2020 in response to the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic but are now being reinforced on an incremental basis. Airlines are currently required to use 50% of their allocated airport slots and this is due to rise to 80% this summer.
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has directed his anger on the issue towards German carrier Lufthansa and has called on the EU Commission to ignore “false claims” by the airline. In a statement Ryanair claims that Lufthansa is not operating so called “ghost flights” due to concerns about the environment but rather “so they can further save the slot regime to protect their slots, which they aren’t using, while eliminating competition and consumer choice.”
Speaking to a German newspaper in December, Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr said, “Due to the weak demand in January, we would have reduced significantly more flights. But we have to make 18,000 additional, unnecessary flights in winter just to secure our take-off-and-landing rights. “
In relation to environmental concerns he said, “While climate-friendly exemptions were found in almost all other parts of the world during the time of the pandemic, the EU does not allow this in the same way. That harms the climate and is exactly the opposite of what the EU Commission wants to achieve with its ‘Fit for 55’ program.”
Michael O’Leary claimed in the statement that Lufthansa’s operation of “ghost flights” was an attempt to alleviate competition and accused the airline of being insincere when it comes to the environment.
He said “Lufthansa loves crying crocodile tears about the environment when doing everything possible to protect its slots. Slots are the way it blocks competition and limits choice at big hub airports like Frankfurt, Brussels Zaventem, Vienna, among others. If Lufthansa doesn’t want to operate ‘ghost flights’ to protect its slots, then simply sell these seats at low fares, and help accelerate the recovery of short and long-haul air travel to and from Europe.”
The Ryanair statement presented what the airline considers a solution to the issue saying, “Lufthansa should sell the seats on these flights at low fares, and reward EU consumers many of whom have funded the €12bn of State Aid that Lufthansa and their subsidiaries in Belgium, Austria and Switzerland have already received from hard pressed taxpayers over the last 2 years of the Covid crisis.”
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Riding alongside a fellow military veteran inside of a dusty arena on his ranch near Santa Fe, N.M., Rick Iannucci watches attentively as Chris Chaisson seeks a comfortable tempo astride Aztec, a chestnut brown horse who is helping the wounded warrior rediscover the natural rhythms of life.
“Use your soft hands,” instructs Iannucci, 59, reminding Chaisson, 32, that Aztec feels each slight movement of the reins. “Use your hands like you’re conducting a symphony orchestra.”
To Iannucci—a former Green Beret, retired U.S. marshal and lifelong horseman—horses can serve as a natural bridge for helping returning soldiers reconnect with themselves, their families, their surroundings and the civilian world.
Beginning in 2007, he opened his Crossed Arrows Ranch to U.S. veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and carry both the physical and psychological scars of war. Using money from his federal pension, Iannucci started Horses for Heroes–Cowboy Up, a nonprofit therapeutic riding program that helps struggling veterans to literally get on a horse and find a new mission in life. He charges participants no fees and receives no federal funding.
“When these guys and gals come home, they’re numb,” says Iannucci, walking his horse Hollywood to his stall after a 2½-hour riding session with Chaisson, a former Army infantryman injured in 2006 by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
“These animals serve as a catalyst to help our veterans connect with their emotions again,” Iannucci adds. “Horses don’t judge. They offer unconditional love and trust. And they’re very in tune and responsive to every movement of your body. They force you to be in the moment.”
The peaceful high desert of Crossed Arrows Ranch is soothing to combat-worn soldiers, whether they have lost an arm in an explosion or carry the invisible wounds of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a condition resulting from experiencing or seeing a traumatic event.
“Here, we call it post-traumatic spiritual disorder,” says Iannucci, noting that America’s newest veterans endured some of the longest overseas deployments in U.S. history. “These guys have seen so many days in intense combat, it wounds their spirit. We try to start the healing process so that they can have faith again in themselves, faith in others and faith in God. There’s nothing these guys can’t do if they get a new mission and ‘cowboy up’ a little.”
While serving with the National Guard in Iraq, Chaisson suffered bomb-related injuries to his face, knee and back, as well as balance and concentration issues caused by a traumatic brain injury. He came to the ranch in 2011 seeking treatment that doesn’t come in a bottle of prescription pills.
“I had gone from working as a police officer reservist to not being able to do anything. Everybody thought I was really screwed up,” says Chaisson, of Rio Rancho, N.M. “But here, I can sit around the campfire and have a cup of coffee and talk with other veterans. And when I get my horse to turn on a dime, there’s nothing better. He trusts me and I trust him, and that’s huge.”
Riding therapy is effective because one-on-one interaction between horse and rider stimulates mental and emotional growth at an appropriate pace for each veteran, says Nancy De Santis, 42, a certified riding instructor and co-director of Horses for Heroes.
“Horses are quite spiritual animals,” she says. “When you groom a horse and feel its heart beat, hear it breathe and see its flesh twitch when a fly lands on it, you’re connecting with something greater. These creatures help our veterans to get back in touch with a living being, which helps them to connect better with their spouses, friends and all of society.”
The program assists about a dozen participants at a time and has served several hundred veterans or active-duty service members since Iannucci found his own new mission after working 20 years as a U.S. marshal. Thanks to private donations and business and community partnerships, a bunkhouse constructed this year enables participants to enjoy longer, uninterrupted visits to the ranch. Many program graduates return to help incoming veterans learn the ropes of ranching.
“We’re basically a small working ranch,” says Iannucci, who keeps a half-dozen quarter horses and a half-dozen cattle on his land. He partners with larger nearby ranches to let his cowboys- and cowgirls-in-training do chores—from shoveling manure and mending fences to grooming horses and branding cattle.
“They may not end up becoming a working cowboy,” says Iannucci, a member of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association. “But once they learn how to re-tool their military skills to work in a different setting, they can adapt those skills in other ways, too.”
Having soldiered 10 years as a Green Beret and worked on several ranches, Iannucci knows how to integrate military principles, skills and language into ranch life—whether commanding a cattle roundup as if it’s a foot patrol, treating horses like “battle buddies,” or insisting on proper care and storage of gear before heading to chow time.
“On a ranch, you get sized up all the time, just like at boot camp. Who do you want to be in a foxhole with?” Iannucci says. “These people were wonderful troops, and we honor the skills they brought from their military service.”
Mark O’Byrne, a former Marine and experienced horseman from Henderson, Nev., says his time assisting fellow veterans on the ranch gave him a new mission while grappling with his own transition to civilian life.
“A lot of them are suicidal and drinking and doing drugs and going downhill,” says O’Byrne, 25, who initially turned to alcohol to cope with guilt over surviving two tours of duty in Iraq, while many of his buddies didn’t.
“But this place is about honor and camaraderie and brotherhood,” he adds. “We ride together and put in an honest day of work and know at day’s end that we’ve done good.” | <urn:uuid:02524f4e-2263-447e-8b3d-8fb572bfcf3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://americanprofile.com/articles/horses-for-heroes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.961461 | 1,392 | 1.875 | 2 |
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/07/2014 -- Aroma chemicals are compounds which consist of smell and odor. They are also known as aroma, fragrance and odorant among others. Any chemical compound is said to have odor or smell only if it is sufficiently volatile to reach the olfactory system in the upper part of the nose. The molecules that inhibit this property have molecular weight of <300. Both the sense of taste and smell are affected by flavors whereas fragrance affects only smell. Fragrances are synthetic and flavors are naturally occurring compounds. The presence of aroma is found in wine, food, species, fragrance oils, perfumes and essential oils. Many are formed biochemically in the process of ripening of crops and fruits and also form byproducts of fermentation in wines. Odorless substances such as propane, hydrogen and natural gas among others can consist of odorants. Moreover, aroma compounds have a significant role in manufacture of flavorants that are used in the food service industry to improve, flavor and increase the demand of the products. Aroma compounds are classified by structure namely, cyclic terpenes, linear terpenes, aromatics, amines and esters.
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One of the key drivers for the growth of aroma chemicals market includes the growing economies of Latin America and Asia. The large domestic market in India is the strength for growth of the aroma chemicals market. Asia is said to govern the growth in flavor and fragrance space in the near future. South America is also expected to fuel the demand of aroma chemicals in the market. The growing demand for foods, cosmetics, personal care products and household care products is expected to be one of the primary factors driving the demand for aroma chemicals.
Some of the key players in the aroma chemicals market include Hindustan Mint & Agro Products Pvt. Ltd., Silverline Chemicals Ltd, J. K. Fragrances, Veera Fragrances Pvt. Ltd., Kalpasutra Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., HPFL and Takasago among others.
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WARSAW, Poland, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- PGNiG, a Polish state-owned energy company, said it reached a deal with a Chevron subsidiary to explore for shale natural gas in southeastern Poland.
State-owned Polish Petroleum and Gas Mining, known by its Polish initials PGNiG, said the deal was signed in Warsaw with Chevron Polish Energy Resources.
PGNiG President Jerzy Kurella said both sides would benefit by sharing the exploration risks, including the possible costs associated with development of the shale gas reserves in southeastern Poland.
"We could benefit from the experience of Chevron in the exploration and production of shale gas around the world," he said in a statement Thursday.
Chevron said if the exploration effort proves successful, both sides would form a joint venture for further operations in the license areas.
Neither company offered an estimate of the reserve potential in the license areas. The Polish government estimates it has as much as 3.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports.
Critics of hydraulic fracturing, the process used to drill in shale, have expressed concerns over environmental issues ranging from groundwater contamination to land reclamation. Some governments in Europe have placed a moratorium on shale gas development as a precaution. | <urn:uuid:530c82c0-5cd2-4247-af83-96c12a09c91b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Industry/2013/12/13/Chevron-agrees-to-explore-Polish-shale-gas-potential/UPI-40791386934916/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963552 | 261 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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|Title: ||Performance evaluation and resource management of hierarchical MACRO-/MICRO cellular networks using MOSEL-2|
|Authors: ||Al-Begain, Khalid|
|Issue Date: ||1-May-2012|
|Citation: ||Zreikat, A. I., Yerima, S. and Al-Begain, K. (2008) 'Performance evaluation and resource management of hierarchical MACRO-/MICRO cellular networks using MOSEL-2', Wireless Personal Communications, 44(2), pp: 153-179.|
|Abstract: ||The paper presents a performance evaluation and resource management of hierarchical MACRO-/MICRO cellular networks using the new Modeling and Evaluation Language (MOSEL-2). MOSEL-2 with new constructs has the ability to find the performance and reliability modeling and evaluation of systems with exponential and non-exponential distributions. A MACRO/MICRO cell structure is solved numerically and mathematically in this paper to handle the handoff calls. Additionally, a simulation program is written to validate these results. In order to reduce the loss probability, a guard channels are introduced at the MICRO cell and channel reservation at the MACRO cell. Additionally, the concept of queuing is introduced where there is a possibility for the handoff calls from both MACRO and MICRO layers to be queued when all the resources are occupied. MOSEL-2 is used to find the numerical solution for this problem with both exponential and general exponential (GE) distribution. The performance analysis show the efficiency of the proposed scheme to manage the handoff calls and the ability of the suggested scheme to reduce the blocking probability of handover calls and the loss probability as the main objective is to block the new connection rather than terminating the ongoing connection as well as balancing the load all over the whole network. It is shown in this paper that there are a set of important factors that affect the performance, such as: reservation policy, channel allocation, handover ratio, capacity of the queue and the variation of the inter-arrival times. These factors are discussed via some important performance measures, such as: new call blocking probability, blocking probability of handover calls, loss probability, utilization and the average delay of the queue.|
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Three Challenges There were three big challenges that Matt Rutherford decided to make as his personal life goals: Bike through Southeast Asia, cross a big ocean on a sailboat, and start a non-profit.
Matt Rutherford is done checking the boxes; but to see that last one to completion this notoriously single-handed sailor needs crew. Starting the non-profit was just the beginning. Changing the way ocean research is conducted to understand human-induced stress on the ocean is the goal.
Matt Rutherford gained his notoriety when he became the first human to sail non-stop, single-handed around the Americas (on a 27' fiberglass Albin Vega sailboat). Take a second to grasp that. Alone, without stopping, on nothing more than a weekend cruising sailboat. Leaving Annapolis, Maryland, up through the ice of the Northwest passage, through the Bearing Sea, down the west coast of North and South America, around Cape Horn, and back up to Annapolis. Is he nuts? There is probably a good argument to be made there.
If you want to know more about Matt and his adventures his podcast is an excellent resource, specifically about what motivates him. Listen to this episode here: https://www.singlehandedpodcast.com/podcast/episode/3bbc60ee/single-handed-ep-113
You can also watch the movie Red Dot on the Ocean that was made about Matts achievement.
To understand Matt is to understand where Matt comes from. He shares freely about his life on his podcast. This includes talking about the fact that he grew up in a cult, that he started getting arrested early in life, and that he hustled drugs in the streets of Cleveland. He shares many other vulnerable details one typically only shares with close friends. He shares so much of his inner personal dialog with his podcast listeners that we get to truly know Matt without ever meeting him.
Only One Fear: Failure
Surviving tough situations early in life shaped his approach to the life he has lived. Matt is one of the most tenacious people on the planet. As he tells it, he doesn't dwell in the house of fear, except for one thing: Fear of failing to achieve what he sets out to achieve. And because that fear is so strong Matt has made a habit out of doing what the f&$k he says he will do.
The adventures of his first two goals; biking through Southeast Asia, and crossing a big ocean on a sailboat, are discussed in detail on his podcast and they shaped Matt's future. His desire to immerse himself in other cultures truly formed his beliefs that we are part of a world that is inter-dependent. That the world is larger than the myopic lens that the streets of Cleveland offered. This was further reinforced with his sailing adventure across the Atlantic, through Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and back to the states.
Once back from his Atlantic sailing adventure he was restless and looking for more. While volunteering at a local non-profit organization in Annapolis, Md (CRAB) that introduces people with disabilities to sailing, Matt started planning his next adventure. He secured a boat to refit (with no discernible funding) and planned an incredible journey to circumnavigate the America's non-stop and single-handed to promote awareness and funding for CRAB.
Matt did his best to promote the journey but most people thought he was crazy, and worse dangerously foolish. But his tenacity drove him forward. "I figured I had a 50/50 chance. I'd either make it or die trying."
He faced the challenges of navigating the ice of the Northwest Passage, he was knocked down in the Bering Sea, he rounded the infamous waters off Cape Horn, and he returned a qualified explorer and hero to many in the sailing community.
The scene went from those people that said Matt was crazy and foolish to those same people praising him for the accomplishment. That was the fuel and notoriety he needed to propel him into the third goal: Start a Non-Profit.
Ocean Research Project
In his travels and accomplishments Matt saw many beautiful things, but he also got to witness the man-made devastation that is occurring to the oceans from human induced issues such as plastic trash and climate change. Armed with his new-found fame Matt got busy working towards a solution. He started the non-profit Ocean Research Project (oceanresearchproject.org) as the vehicle to not only conduct oceanic research, but to do it under sail; vastly reducing costs and the carbon footprint of typical research vessels.
Matt was joined in 2013 by Nicole Trenholm, ORP’s marine field scientist, doubling as an expedition leader and mariner on each expedition. Together they have led successful missions mapping areas of the arctic seafloor, studying the Atlantic Garbage patch, studies in the Pacific, and more. They have partnered with organizations such as NASA, the United Nations, and others and have had their research published.
In the past two years, Matt has personally overseen the refit of a 1972 Bruce Roberts Voyager 650, the research vessel Marie Tharp. And, to be honest, he did most of the work himself. He gave up everything and focused on getting the vessel ready to conduct serious oceanic research.
He attacked the project with the same tenacity that he has attacked everything in his life previous. And that one fear of failure has continued to be the ever-present driver that has pushed him forward. The work he completed on the boat is nothing short of miraculous. It is a steel schooner perfect for the mission of ocean research, especially in the arctic.
But the idea of Matt single-handedly being able to accomplish this last goal is impossible. It requires crew, it requires like minded people who believe that they can actually make a difference. People that believe that the demise of our oceans is not a forgone conclusion.
The third goal is the gauntlet thrown down to all of us; thrown down by one badass of a human being that has shown that a fear of failure can be the driving force to do the undoable.
The Ocean Research Project team set sail this summer for the their mission to map uncharted areas of the sub-arctic off the coast of Greenland. Various scientists are joining them to conduct studies supporting the mission. It's been a bumpy start with the team needing to stop in Newport, RI to handle a few technical issues with the boat but the tenacity of the captain has infected the crew and they are continuing north.
Now it's Your Turn
Matt and the team at ORP are doing everything in their power to drive forward and make a positive impact to this planet but they need our help... and it's a lot easier than you would think:
Listen to Matt's podcast. It's entertaining. It can be rough language, crude at times, but as authentic as you can get. Once you get to know Matt it's super hard not to want to support him in any way you can.
Visit the Ocean Research Project website. The legitimacy of this organization is profound and quite honestly a no-brainer concept: Eco-friendly, legitimate scientific research conducted on board sailing vessels. There is no dilution of the science being conducted. It is legitimate, effective, and valuable research.
Spread the word. Share this article and the links within it. Get the word out. Follow their journey on the map tracker located on their website. Be a part of the journey. Care. There are organizations out there that are profiteering on the environmental issues we face.. we need to mute them. We need to direct support towards organizations that are actually making a difference.
Support the efforts. It's super easy. You will become part of the support crew simply by giving any small donation. The need for funding is real and the organization uses 100% of the funds towards the mission. There is no profit being made in this non-profit.
The Forever Goal
It makes sense that Matt's third goal is a challenge that is such a massive undertaking. The goal is to change the way oceanic climate research is conducted. It is to impact the planet in a positive way.
The organization is ready to truly make a difference this next decade, it just takes the audacity to believe it can be done and a healthy fear of failure.
It is crazy and foolish, just like the they said about his trip around the America's.. And it is the perfect challenge for a badass like Matt Rutherford. What about you?
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FACTS & FIGURES
Founded in 1960
Huaqiao University (HQU) was established in 1960 by the Chinese central government in Quanzhou, the starting point of the Ancient Maritime Silk Road, for the education of overseas Chinese. The first president of HQU was Mr. LIAO Chengzhi, an outstanding social activist and senior state leader of China. In 2004, a landmark decision was made to build a second campus in Xiamen, one of China's four earliest special economic zones, widely known as "a beautiful garden on the sea", and the campus was inaugurated in 2006.
For more than half a century, HQU has developed into a comprehensive institution of higher education, capable of different levels of program offerings in 12 disciplines - philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medical science, management and arts. Academic schools and research units have been supporting numerous projects funded by both government and industries, serving for local and national development.
Internationalization is nothing new at HQU. Student-body diversity has been the feature of the University since 1960. Now the University enrols students from over 50 countries and regions and is one of the universities in China's mainland with largest international student population. Meanwhile, with a strong commitment to serving overseas Chinese and promoting Chinese culture, HQU has a comparative strength in Chinese language and culture education.
Facts & Figures:
• Students on Campus: 31,000
Overseas Students (Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan included): 4,600
• Faculty: 1,700
• Colleges/ Schools: 28
• Quanzhou Campus: 230 acres/ 92.8 hectares
• Staff: 900
• Research Units: 195
• Xiamen Campus: 311 acres/ 125.8 hectares
Rankings in China's mainland:
• Shanghai Ranking (2018): 86
International Students as a Percentage of Total Students: 4
• Nature Index (2018): 74
• Times Higher Education (2018): 59
• 3 disciplines rank 1% by ESI globally: Chemistry, Engineering, Material Science
• Quality of incoming students: Top 10%
• University Sports Competition Ranking (People's network & FUSC, 2016): 10
• 1,237 higher education institutes in China's mainland offering degree programs (Ministry of Education of China)
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A few months ago, I stopped by a branch of my local bank and used the ATM to get $20. Unfortunately, instead of my ATM card, I accidentally used my credit card, which is issued by the same bank and has the same PIN (which is probably a bad idea, I know). The screen menu looked slightly different, but I thought it was just that this particular ATM had a different menu than usual. It wasn't until later that I realized I had gotten a cash advance on my credit card rather than an ATM withdrawal from my checking account.
I checked my credit card account online a few days later, and not only did the $20 cash advance show up, there was also a $10 transaction fee. Yargh. Then the next month, there was an additional 25 cent finance charge. I had paid the credit card balance off in full, so I wasn't sure why there was this additional charge. According to the statement, however, the "average daily balance" on the cash advance was $12.30. Because it had not been paid off (according to how they calculate these things), I had to pay an extra quarter.
So the next month, I intentionally paid an extra fifty bucks or so to make sure that the full cash advance amount would be wiped out. No such luck. This time I was charged another $1.00. Somehow the "average daily balance" had gone up to $13.87, even though my payment should have eliminated it.
Finally, on this month's statement, it shows that the cash advance has been paid off. So it cost me $31.25 to have a $20.00 cash advance, just because I accidentally used the wrong card. How annoying.
Lessons? Be careful what card you use. And more significantly, this experience made me think about folks who get trapped by usurious credit card debt. Evidently my credit card has a 12.99% APR for regular credit card purchases, but 23.99% on cash advances, not including fees. I'm not a math major, so forgive me if I'm calculating this wrong, but it seems like the net interest rate to use/borrow that twenty bucks was 56.25%. That's crazy.
Anyway, I applaud local churches that have financial management classes and groups to help us avoid some of these pitfalls. Consumer culture is challenging enough to navigate these days, even for those of us who try to practice good stewardship and disciplines of simplicity and frugality. Oh, that the spirit of Mammon would be defeated by the spirit of Jubilee! | <urn:uuid:bfd4c96e-df64-48a1-9890-5bf26fed2db2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesuburbanchristian.blogspot.com/2006/10/beware-of-cash-advances.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.986088 | 530 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Non-job of the week
Rochdale Council recently announced its intention to increase Council Tax by 3.5%, however using a loophole in the Localism Act, it intends to deny residents a say in a local referendum. Rochdale may not be the only council in Greater Manchester thinking of doing the same.
Employing people in non-jobs is one of the many ways councils keep Council Tax bills high, and some councillors are receiving special responsibility allowances for positions that at best can be described as dubious. I'll use Tameside as an example.
There are fifty-seven councillors in Tameside who each receive a basic allowance of £11,640. Fifty-one of those councillors also receive a special responsibility allowance. In 2010/11, Cllr B Holland pocketed an additional £8,352 for the posts of Assistant Executive Member - Carbon Reduction and Chair of Carbon Reduction Panel. Cllr Smith also got £8,352 for the onerous task of being an Assistant Executive Member - Policy Advisor.
Tameside has eight district assemblies where councillors meet with local people to discuss matters affecting them. Many councils have similar committees, however what other councils tend not to do is pay outrageous additional allowances to councillors to act as chairs and deputy chairs. Part of the role of a councillor is to serve on these committees, and as the district assemblies in Tameside met no more than six times during 2010/11, acting as a chair or deputy chair is not an all consuming task. Despite this, taxpayers had to fork-out an additional £9,581 to each of the eight chairs, and £3,194 to each of the eight deputy chairs.
Waste disposal and transport are not services provided by individual authorities. Instead, Greater Manchester councils pool their resources. As a result, waste is the responsibility of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) and overseeing transport is the Transport for Greater Manchester Committee (TfGMC). Serving on these committees should be part of the role of a councillor, however councillors are paid extra for attending a few meetings a year.
Members of GMWDA are paid a basic allowance of £2,100. The Chair is paid £12,000; Vice Chairs are paid £5,400, and Deputy Chairs of Committees are paid £2,600.
TfGMC members are paid a basic allowance of £3,825. The Chairman, Andrew Fender, pockets £28,250 on top of his Manchester councillor's allowance of almost £16,000, whilst Vice Chairs/Chairs of the Sub-Committees are paid £14,125, and Deputy Chairs of Sub-Committees are paid £5,050.
The above are just examples. There are many more when you start digging. If you are a resident in one of the Greater Manchester councils and your council wants to increase Council Tax, remember some councillors are being paid extra for dubious sounding non-jobs, and for simply fulfilling their council duties. Are they willing to cut their perks before they raise your taxes?
1:52 PM 17, Jan 2017 James Price
11:37 AM 16, Jan 2017 The TaxPayers' Alliance
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For some time, I’ve been arguing that there’s nothing in the typical university’s portfolio of commercialization activities that necessarily needs to be dependent on government grant support. In fact, universities are free to ask private donors to fund anything from the basic operations of the tech transfer office to the costs of running a proof-of-concept or commercialization center.
That universities have typically not asked for such support, but rather have waited for a motivated donor to drop it in their lap unbidden,1 is a function of opportunity cost. Every time a university president makes an “ask” of this kind, that’s one less donor who can be asked for a dormitory, a professorship, or a financial aid fund. To date, few presidents have been able to convince themselves that that are donors who will consider funding commercialization activities who would not otherwise be giving to more conventional entries on the “table of needs.”
Now (my thanks to Cameron Ford at the University of Central Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for pointing this out to me) we have a real, live example of a university capital campaign that actually prominently features such requests: the $125 million Innovate Carolina campaign launched last month by UNC Chapel Hill. The campaign is modest in size, but daring in what it includes. After the break, you can read or download from Scribd the eight-page “case statement” for the campaign.
Among other and more-conventional priorities in the broad area of innovation, UNC has decided ask for a $15 million endowed fund (at a 5% payout, that would generate ~$750,000/year) to support hiring Enterpreneurs in Residence and a $3.5 million current, expendable fund for a “KickStart” program on the model of successful Venture Lab/POC programs around the nation.
Despite its role holding down one corner of the renowned “Research Triangle,” UNC Chapel Hill has never been among the more aggressive of the three universities at commercializing faculty inventions or student innovations in a way that promotes regional economic development. This campaign represents a major step forward and one other campus development offices would do well to note.
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Check out this very interesting study to see how movement can change the way you experience emotion, release it, and find a decrease in stress. If you think about moves from Tai Chi, dance, or micromovements that create a somatic experience, there is such possibility in a few adjustments to posture. Enjoy the read!
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Reduce stress, anxiety and negative thoughts with posture, breathing and reframing
This post has been adapted from Peper, E., Harvey, R., & Hamiel, D. (2019). Transforming thoughts with postural awareness to increase therapeutic and teaching efficacy. NeuroRegulation, 6(3), 153-169. doi:10.15540/nr.6.3.1533-1
When locked into a position, options appear less available. By unlocking our body, we allow our brain to unlock and become open to new options.
Changing positions may dissolve the rigidity associated with a fixed position. When we step away from the conflict, take a walk, look up at the treetops, roof lines and clouds, or do something different, we loosen up and new ideas may occur. We may then be able see the conflict from a different point of view that allows resolution.
When stressed, anxious or depressed, it is challenging to change. The negative feelings, thoughts and worries continue to undermine the practice of reframing the experience more positively. Our recent study found that a simple technique, that integrates posture with breathing and reframing, rapidly reduces anxiety, stress, and negative self-talk (Peper, Harvey, Hamiel, 2019).
Thoughts and emotions affect posture and posture affects thoughts and emotions. When stressed or worried (e.g., school performance, job security, family conflict, undefined symptoms, or financial insecurity), our bodies respond to the negative thoughts and emotions by slightly collapsing and shifting into a protective position. When we collapse/slouch, we are much more at risk to:
• Feel helpless (Riskind & Gotay, 1982).
• Feel powerless (Westfeld & Beresford, 1982; Cuddy, 2012).
• Recall and being more captured by negative memories (Peper, Lin, Harvey, & Perez, 2017; Tsai, Peper, & Lin, 2016),
• Experience cognitive difficulty (Peper, Harvey, Mason, & Lin, 2018).
When we are upright and look up, we are more likely to:
• Have more energy (Peper & Lin, 2012).
• Feel stronger (Peper, Booiman, Lin, & Harvey, 2016).
• Find it easier to do cognitive activity (Peper, Harvey, Mason, & Lin, 2018).
• Feel more confident and empowered (Cuddy, 2012).
• Recall more positive autobiographical memories (Michalak, Mischnat,& Teismann, 2014).
Experience how posture affects memory and the feelings (adapted from Alan Alda, 2018)
Stand up and do the following:
- Think of a memory/event when you felt defeated, hurt or powerless and put your body in the posture that you associate with this feeling. Make it as real as possible . Stay with the feeling and associated body posture for 30 seconds. Let go of the memory and posture. Observe what you experienced.
- Think of a memory/event when you felt empowered, positive and happy put your body in the posture that you associate with those feelings. Make it as real as possible. Stay with the feeling and associated body posture for 30 seconds. Let go of the memory and posture. Observe what you experienced.
- Adapt the defeated posture and now recall the positive empowering memory while staying in the defeated posture. Observe what you experience.
- Adapt the empowering posture and now recall the defeated hopeless memory while staying in the empowered posture. Observe what you experience.
Almost all people report that when they adapt the body posture congruent with the emotion that it was much easier to access the memory and feel the emotion. On the other hand when they adapt the body posture that was the opposite to the emotions, then it was almost impossible to experience the emotions. For many people, when they adapted the empowering posture, they could not access the defeated hopeless memory. If they did access that memory, they were more likely be an observer and not be involved or emotionally captured by the negative memory.
Comparison of Posture with breathing and reframing to Reframing
The study investigated whether changing internal dialogue (reframing) or combining posture change and breathing with changing internal dialogue would reduce stress and negative self-talk more effectively.
The participants were 145 college students (90 women and 55 men) average age 25.0 who participated as part of a curricular practice in four different classes.
After the students completed an anonymous informational questionnaire (history of depression, anxiety, blanking out on exams, worrying, slouching), the classes were divided into two groups. They were then asked to do the following:
• Think of a stressful conflict or problem and make it as real as possible for one minute. Then let go of the stressful memory and do one of the two following practices.
o Practice A: Reframe the experience positively for 20 seconds.
o Practice B: Sit upright, look up, take a breath and reframe the experience positively for 20 seconds.
• After doing practice A or practice B, rate the extent to which your negative thoughts and anxiety/tension were reduced, from 0 (not at all) to 10 (totally).
• Now repeat this exercise except switch and do the other practice. (Namely, if you did A now you do B; if you did B now you do A).
Overwhelmingly students reported that sitting erect, breathing and reframing positively was much more effective than only reframing as shown in Figure 1 and 2. Figure 1. Percentage of students rating posture, breath and reframing practice (PBRP) as more effective than reframing practice (RP) in reducing negative thoughts, anxiety and stress. Figure 2. Self-rating of reduction of negative thoughts and anxiety/tension
Stop reading. Do the practice yourself. It is only through experience that you know whether posture with breathing and reframing is a more beneficial than simply reframing the language.
Implications for education, counseling, psychotherapy.
Our findings have implications for education, counseling and psychotherapy because students and clients usually sit in a slouched position in classrooms and therapeutic settings. By shifting the body position to an erect upright position, taking a breath and then reframing, people are much more successful in reducing their negative thoughts and anxiety/stress. They report feeling much more optimistic and better able to cope with felt stress as shown by representative comments in table 1.
Reframing Posture, breath and reframing
After changing my internal language, I still strongly felt the same thoughts. I instantly felt better about my situation after adjusting my posture.
I felt a slight boost in positivity and optimism. The negative feelings (anxiety) from the negative thoughts also diminished slightly. The effects were much stronger and it was not isolated mentally. I felt more relief in my body as well.
Even after changing my language, I still felt more anxious. Before changing my posture and breathing, I felt tense and worried. After I felt more relaxed.
I began to lift my mood up; however, it didn’t really improve my mood. I still felt a bit bad afterwards and the thoughts still stayed. I began to look from the floor and up towards the board. I felt more open, understanding and loving. I did not allow myself to get let down.
During the practice, it helped calm me down a bit, but it wasn’t enough to make me feel satisfied or content, it felt temporary. My body felt relaxed overall, which then made me feel a lot better about the situation.
Difficult time changing language. My posture and breathing helped, making it easier to change my language.
I felt anger and stayed in my position. My body stayed tensed and I kept thinking about the situation. I felt anger but once I sat up straight and thought about breathing, my body felt relaxed.
Felt like a tug of war with my thoughts. I was able to think more positively but it took a lot more brain power to do so. Relaxed, extended spine, clarity, blank state of mind.
Table 1. Some representative comments of practicing reframing or posture, breath and reframing.
The results of our study in the classroom setting are not surprising. Many us know to take three breaths before answering questions, pause and reflect before responding, take time to cool down before replying in anger, or wait till the next day before you hit return on your impulsive email response.
Currently, counseling, psychotherapy, psychiatry and education tend not to incorporate body posture as a potential therapeutic or educational intervention for teaching participants to control their mood or reduce feelings of powerlessness. Instead, clients and students often sit slightly collapsed in a chair during therapy or in class. On the other hand, if individuals were encouraged to adopt an upright posture especially in the face of stressful circumstances it would help them maintain their self-esteem, reduce negative mood, and use fewer sadness words as compared to the individual in a slumped and seated posture (Nair, Sagar, Sollers, Consedine, & Broadbent, 2015).
THE VALUE OF SELF-EXPERIENCE
What makes this study valuable is that participants compare for themselves the effects of the two different interventions techniques to reduce anxiety, stress and negative thoughts. Thus, the participants have an opportunity to discover which strategy is more effective instead of being told what to do. The demonstration is even more impressive when done in groups because nearly all participants will report that changing posture with breathing and reframing is more beneficial.
This simple and quick technique can be integrated in counseling and psychotherapy by teaching clients this behavioral technique to reduce stress. In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), sitting upright can help the individual replace a thought with a more reasonable one. In third wave CBT, it can help bypass the negative content of the original language and create a metacognitive change, such as, “I will not let this thought control me.”
It can also help in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) since changing one’s body posture may facilitate the process of “acceptance” (Hayes, Pistorello, & Levin, 2012). Adopting an upright sitting position and taking a breath is like saying “I am here, I am present, I am not escaping or avoiding.” This change in body position represents movement from inside to outside, movement from accepting the unpleasant emotion related to the negative thoughts toward a “commitment” to moving ahead, contrary to the automatic tendency to follow the negative thought. The positive reframing during body position or posture change is not an attempt to color reality in pretty colors, but rather a change of awareness, perspective, and focus that helps the individual identify and see some new options for moving ahead toward commitment according to one’s values. This intentional change in direction is central in ACT and also in positive psychology (Stichter, 2018).
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
We suggest that therapists, educators, clients and students get up out of their chairs and incorporate body movements when they feels overwhelmed and stuck. Finally, this study points out that mind and body are affected by each other. It provides another example of the psychophysiological principle enunciated by Elmer Green (1999, p 368):
“Every change in the physiological state is accompanied by an appropriate change in the mental-emotional state, conscious or unconscious; and conversely, every change in the mental-emotional state, conscious or unconscious is accompanied by an appropriate change in the physiological state.”
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result, those of us who run Windows server farms stay busy trying to keep up with it all.
We buy as much disk as a server will hold when we buy a new server but, eventually, the fact that senior vice presidents just won't clean out their mailboxes catches up with us.
We try to keep as much data as possible on a big honking file server or network-attached storage (NAS) box, but some platforms, like Exchange and SQL server, just won't store their data on file servers and NAS boxes. SQL server won't even let you dump a database for backup to a remote file share. Combine this with the need for 50% free disk space to rebuild a database, and we have storage all over and a shortage at the same time.
The traditional solution to this problem is a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN). In the SAN environment your servers can share a single pool of available storage, so you can allocate space to the servers as they need it. Therefore, you can expand existing logical drives and/or allocate temporary ones and return the space to the free pool when you're done with it.
The most obvious problem with Fibre Channel is cost. To hook a server into a Fibre Channel SAN, you would need a $1,000 host bus adapter (HBA) and a Fibre Channel switch that will set you back $800 to $4,000 a port. If that isn't bad enough, once you decide to take the plunge, you'll discover that in Fibre Channel networking you can't just plug vendor A's HBA into your server to talk to vendor B's disk array through Vendor C's switch. Fibre Channel interoperabity is an iffy thing. If your entire SAN isn't on a vendor's hardware compatibility list, you may never get it working.
Now more than two years old, iSCSI lets you build SANs without the cost and complexity of Fibre Channel. It wraps the SCSI common command set in good old TCP/IP. Standard TCP/IP as a protocol means you can use standard gigabit Ethernet as the transport protocol connecting servers to disk arrays with the same Cat5 cable and switches you know and love.
Does bandwidth equal performance?
The Fibre Channel camp will tell you that you get what you pay for and that today's Fibre Channel equipment is, at 2 gigabytes per second, twice as fast as gigabit Ethernet. And, at next year's 4 GBps, FC gear will be four times as fast as iSCSI on gigabit Ethernet. This is a typical mischaracterization of bandwidth for speed. The RAID array, not the connection speed, determines the performance for most applications. After all, the PCI-X bus in most Windows servers can only handle 1 GBps.
All you need to build an iSCSI SAN is a Gigabit Ethernet switch, an iSCSI disk array to act as the target and Microsoft's iSCSI Initiator for Windows server, which is a free download from the Microsoft Web site. At least a dozen vendors now sell iSCSI disk arrays ranging from standard Intel servers with ATA drives running an iSCSI target in software to iSCSI versions of EMC Corp.'s midrange CLARiiON CX series.
If you have a spare Windows server and want to see how iSCSI might fit in your environment, you can download a 14-day evaluation copy of String Bean Software Inc.'s WinTarget and turn it into an iSCSI target.
Once you have a SAN, you can build and allocate logical drives to your various servers, grow them dynamically and enjoy the peace of mind of being able to allocate disk space when you need it. Sure beats spending the weekend adding an external SCSI cabinet to the Exchange server, doesn't it?
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VIENTIANE, July 17 (Vientiane Times/ANN): More than one million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine donated by the government of the United States arrived in Vientiane late Friday evening (July 16).
The vaccines were donated through the COVAX Facility – a partnership co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the World Health Organisation (WHO), with UNICEF as the key delivery partner.
The 1,008,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine will be used by the Lao government to provide protection against the Coronavirus to more than one million people, representing about 14 percent of the total population, as it only requires only a single dose.
“We’re so excited that this contribution by the United States, with assistance from COVAX, will fully vaccinate 1,008,000 people,” the US Embassy in Vientiane said on its Facebook page.
The plane carrying the vaccines landed at Wattay International Airport in Vientiane on Friday evening.
The Minister of Health, Dr Bounfeng Phoummalaysith, the US Ambassador to Laos, Dr Peter M Haymond, and other officials and partners welcomed the arrival of the vaccines at the airport.
The donation is part of the United States’ contribution to global efforts to end the pandemic, and support for Laos’ goal to vaccinate 50 percent of its population by the end of this year.
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The delivery of the vaccines comes after US President Joe Biden announced in June that the United States would purchase and donate 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to 92 countries, including Laos. Some 200 million doses will be delivered by the end of this year and the remaining 300 million will be delivered in the first half of 2022.
Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Laos previously received a shipment of 132,000 doses of the Astra Zeneca-Oxford vaccines in March and a shipment of 100,620 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine in early June. Both these shipments were procured through the COVAX facility.
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|Futuristic water design that would provide water for food in the desert, featured in The Guardian in 2008. Photograph: Exploration Architecture.|
“What are the new developments in water? Are there new technologies that developing countries could use to bypass expensive and cumbersome systems? What’s the next big thing that could solve the water crisis?” Politicians and the media often ask experts for new ideas to make water “interesting”. Yet, on the whole, water systems constructed today use much of the same technology they did 100 years ago.
Yesterday’s New York Times op-ed piece by Al Gore is well worth a read. It’s one of those pieces where I found myself nodding along to the computer screen. Gore helpfully cuts through to the heart of the supposed controversies about the climate science and within the climate science community.
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His arguments echo what I heard at a recent seminar here at the Bank on the role and functioning of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the overblown reaction to mistakes that are real but which in no way alter the overwhelming majority of existing scientific findings about climate change.
During that seminar Kristie Ebi, Executive Director of the IPCC Technical Support Unit for Working Group ll (which authors the volume addressing physical and social impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation) for the next round of assessments coming out in 2013, carefully explained the extensive review process applied by the IPCC.
I had heard that the world spent less on energy R&D than on pet food, so I decided to check. Actually, it's worse than that.
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BY GEORGINA FRASER NEWHALL.
Parliament was over."Honk Honk!" shouted Prince
Gander and all his followers flapping their wings loudly, shouted, "honk!
honk!" which meant, "hear, hear." It was time to fly south. There was not
a dissenting vote. Really, the great- grandmother goose had said, it would
be impossible to tell when she would get over the chill of that morning's
bath. To be sure it was time to fly South each little group agreed, and at
the thought of the long flight over prairies and lakes, over cities and
villages, over rivers and hills they stretched and stretched their wings
until it became a matter of wonderment as to how they were ever again
going to fold them up small enough to carry snug and close at their sides.
"Did you hear my poor old wings crack?" asked the
great-grandfather goose. "I am afraid this will be my last flight." He
shook his head mournfully while all the other geese kept a respectful
"I should like to come back," he went on in a feeble
aged way. It should not like to die dowxi there."
"We ought really to give the young ones gymnastic
exercises," suggested a mother goose, who believed greatly in physical
"That is so," said the great-grandfather goose;
"perhaps it would be good for me too. It might take the stiffness out of
"Ah, the South!" said the Princess Branta to Prince
Gander, "the beautiful, beautiful South. I am glad we are going at last."
She laid her smooth, glossy throat against his, for they were lovers and
were to have a nest of their own among the cool green reeds, when they
should come back in the Spring. "Is it not far more beautiful than this?"
Prince Gander. turned his keen eyes away from the
grey clouds that drifted overhead and looked over the yellowing prairie.
He walked slowly down to the water, plunged deep under its surface,— where
the long, green waterweeds waved upwards frarn the depths of
the lake,—splashed his strong wings until little drops of water glistened
all over him like diamonds; then he thought of the green nest which was to
be built in the Spring, in the heart of the reeds, and coming back to
where his little wild love swam gently about, he stroked her gently with
his bill, making a tender, twittering sound in his throat and said,
is more beautiful than this, but not so dear—for this is HOME."
Then, for a week or two, on the
shores of the lake, which is so far away to the northward that the "merry
dancers," (for so the Scotch people call the Northern Lights), watch in it
for their reflections as they practice a mirror dance of their own—there
was nothing but flapping and flying, exercising and manoeuvring that all
might be ready when the order should come to float away into the
ever-warm, the ever-beautiful, the ever-verdant South.
"Remember," said the mother goose
who believed in physical culture, "remember, we always fly in the form of
a harrow; see that you young ones keep in a row; and don't try to fly
ahead of your elders. Some goslings are so forward and pushing, as if it
were not as great a thing to be capable of obeying as of issuing orders. I
can always tell a well-brought up gosling by the way it flies. The Prince
will lead, and the Princess will come next."
"Stretch your wings this way,"
commanded the Master of Ceremonies. "One—two--three,—that is better."
"Always keep your eye on the goose
in front of you so as to keep in line."
"Now, five flaps all together to
strengthen your wings."
And one day—when there was a
little rim of ice all about the edge of the lake, when every little spear
of grass and every bulrush lance was sheathed in silver frost,—when the
musk-ox, as he stole from his lair in the morning, was hoary with his own
breath which the wind blew backward and froze upon him; when the waters of
the lake were so piercingly cold that the green water-grasses, stealing
upward through the water to catch a little gleam of sunlight, shivered
back again to the bosom of their mother earth—on such day,—the geese flew
"What is that," asked the smallest gosling of them all,
which lies so black for miles and miles beneath us?
"Those are the spruce forests," said the mother goose;
"do you not smell them?"
"What is that which glitters like a shining
"It is the silver Saskatchewan."
"What are those which come up to us like soft grey
"The smoke from the Indian camp fires."
Away they swept towards the South; the goslings panting
and struggling but growing stronger with every day's flight. Even the
great-grandfather had ceased to complain, and beating the air lightly and
steadily as the rest felt that he had been foolish to speak of old age and
the nearness of death.
The grey clouds gathering in the east scurried round to
the west and north; flights of vagrant leaves flew in all directions, and
far below on the seemingly, silent earth, people said, "Winter is coming;
did you see the wild geese flying south to-day?"
Riding on the wind, Prince Gander twittered tenderly to
his little wild love, or screamed a cry of liberty and joy to all the
fluttering flock who followed in his train. They were half way on their
journey; they had reached a region where Indian summer lingered where
golden pumpkins yet lay strewn about the fields, and fiery sumachs
flickered like tongues of flame among the ash grey of the woods.
"I am tired," said the Princess Branta. "I am very
tired. Let us rest by that lake. How lovely the water looks! I am dying
"It is not safe," said Prince Gander sorrowfully. "Just
a little farther—
"I am very tired" repeated the Princess, while all the
goslings taking up the cry, vowed they could fly no longer. "Only let us
rest down by the lake," they whimpered, "and we will all be so quiet; none
of us will utter a sound."
"It is a great risk," said Prince Gander. "At least be
ready to fly at a moment's notice."
"Try to descend more gracefully," scolded the Master of
Cermonies, "half of you just flop down as if you had either no idea of
elegance or no breath left."
"Hush-sh-sh-sh," hissed the grandmother goose, and all
the nervous mother geese said, "sh-shsh" after her. But down where the
alders dipped into the water, and where the shadows of evening already lay
on the lake two men in a boat crouched low, silently watching the motions
of the birds."
"They are Canada geese," whispered one to the other;
"keep still as a mouse, for they are both cunning and timid."
Then the two men poked their guns through the boughs of
the alder. "Bang, bang," said one gun after the other, and the terrified
geese rising with wild shrieks, flew away into the darkness. All but one.
His wing hanging torn and wounded by his side, his pretty greyish breast
dabbled with blood, his wild bright eyes following with vain longing the
departure of his followers, Prince Gander lay terror- stricken and alone
among the reeds. Then as his captors approached, how madly lie fought for
liberty! what fierce thrusts he made with his bill Biting, screaming,
beating his wings in the faces of his foes, until at last, faint with his
brave struggle, he lay still and despairing in the grasp of the smaller of
"He's a beauty, Jack; he will make you a fine
Thanksgiving dinner," said the taller of the two."
"Not a bit of it; he's not much hurt; I'll doctor him
up a bit; the wife will be wanting him for a mate for the goose she has at
"A wild goose mate with a barnyard fowl! You'll wait a
long time!" the tall man laughed scornfully. Prince Gander dazed and
stupid, listening with half -deaf ears, heard him, too, with scorn and
"I'll try him. Sometimes they will and sometimes they
won't," answered the small man cheerfully. So sitting by the roaring fire
in his kitchen that night he and his wife bound up Prince Gander's wounds
doing their best to put him on the road to recovery. The next day after
having a stout sting tied to his leg, he was thrust into the goose pen.
There was only one other occupant of the pen—a small barnyard goose,
shabbier, dirtier, and smaller even than most of her kind. She shrank away
in terror from the newcomer, choosing the corner of the pen farthest away.
Sick and sullen, Prince Gander viewed her with contempt, hissing fiercely
whenever she ventured to move.
The farmer's wife threw some food into the pen, but it
lay untouched all that day, for the barnyard goose, crushed tightly up
against the farthest wall of the pen dared not venture past her fierce,
wild companion, and he sick from his wounds and maddened by his captivity
wished only to be left alone that he might die in peace.
The long, long day he strained at his bonds; the long,
long day and night he moved restlessly about seeking relief from the pain
and fever. Ah, for water! Wounds like these he had got before, beating
some alien goose away from that part of his northern lake which had been
claimed as especially the haunt of himself and his followers. But those
wounds he had cooled in the crystal waters of the lake; that thirst and
fever had been allayed as he lay in the shadows of the marshes. Water!
water! Was that Lake Sipi-wesk which be saw through his glazing eyes, and
which he could not reach because something had held him down to earth? Was
it the falling of Wahsitchewan which seemed to murmur in his ears?
Upon the second day of Prince Gander's captivity the
little barnyard goose rustled wildly past him; hunger and thirst had
driven her to act courageously. The farmer's wife stood at the fence. "
Lan's sake, Josh," she called to her husband, "them poor birds h'aint had
no water." She filled the pan anddashed some of the water over Prince
Gander. It cooled the fever in his wounds. Struggling to his feet he
hobbled over to where the water glistened in the pan and drank and drank
again. The barnyard goose, as if hospitably inclined, poked some
appleskins toward him.
"The gray goose is coming round all right," said the
farmer to his wife, and they talked of what they should do when he had
mated with the barnyard goose and they should have a flock of twenty.
"Mate with that vulgar-looking goose," thought the
Prince contemptuously, "what hideous yellow legs she has." He remembered
his little wild love with her pretty dark feet and legs and her breast
which was close and glossy as the breast of a grebe. But the barnyard
goose heard what the farmer and his wife said with a flutter of pleasure.
"He is the most beautiful bird I ever saw," she thought, and in the
morning she poked more food towards him with her gay yellow bill.
"I call these very comfortable quarters," she remarked
at last in an affable manner, after nearly a month had passed since Prince
Gander had become her companion. Comfort without liberty? Prince Gander
felt a new contempt for his companion. Then, partly, because of a yearning
for sympathy, and partly to sting her out of the callousness of her
content, he told her of his wild brave life in the northern solitudes ; of
the matchless lakes of his north land; of his little wild love and the
nest that was to have been built in the reeds, The barnyard goose listened
with mingled compassion and grief. How silly she had been she thought to
herself to fancy that a princely goose like this should care to mate with
a shabby, vulgar-looking little bird like herself; for several weeks she
was very sad and silent; she even omitted to push any more dainty bits in
the way of Prince Gander, for where, thought she, was the use of acquiring
a habit of self-sacrifice, if she were not to be mated. But after a while
she said to her herself, " Ali, well, those days of which he tells are all
past and gone. He is a prisoner now; he will never get back to his pretty
wild love." So she again became gay and chatty. One day—these were April
days by this time—for the long dreary winter had dragged itself away, she
said hopefully, "there is a beautiful lake behind the barn. Come and look
through this crack and you will see it. If you will not try to get away
perhaps they will let us swim in it." Prince Gander said nothing. Not try
to escape! Only give him the chance he thought. But alas, no chance came
to him, for even when they were permitted to swim in the pond he had only
a longer rope tied to his leg to allow him to swim. It is a funny lake,"
he said to the barnyard goos. "Was that mud puddle what she called a
lake?" He shook the filthy water from his wings; and breast, his shining
breast, of which he had been so proud. Even as he stood there looking at
the barnyard goose dabbling her dirty plumage in the dirtier water a
shrill, familiar cry fell upon his years. Almost before it had ceased he
had screamed a rapturous reply. Far away from the southward he could see
them coming nearer and nearer. They were all there. That was the Master of
Ceremonies flying first, the Princess close to him on the right, and the
grandfather goose returning with the rest and flying as well as ever.
Again and again he screamed until the shrill cry pierced the heights and
reached the ears of the wild geese flying north.
"Do not pay any attention," said the Master of
Ceremonies, "it is only another trick of that beast man. It was here
Prince Gander was killed last fall." So quickening their flight the flock
passed out of sight, Prince Gander's screams changed from delight to
despair; his heart swelled until it almost burst. He dragged himself over
to the barn and crouched down in the shade. He wished he were dead. He
wished he had been killed at that Thanksgiving time, which had followed
close upon his capture. Now, at least, he should die; the insufferable
stench from the barnyard must kill him. Away in the north land to which
his comrades were winging their swift flight the air would be spicy with
the new green plumes of the spruce, and the odorous buds of the cottonwood
tree; a myriad purple and blue anemones, in too great haste to greet the
Spring to wait for their slow leaves, would even now have rushed into
bloom and would be flinging their sweetness upon the unfettered wind. How
well he knew the way northward Always northward! Past the marshes of the
Red River; past Manitoba and Winnepegosis; over the sand dunes, high above
the buffalo wallows; resting by silent pools; rioting in crystal rivers;
breasting the chill, pure winds which fluttered from out the caverns of
The farmer, passing by the barn, kicked furiously at
Prince Gander, "Get out of here, you sulky brute," he said, flinging his
pitchfork at the bird. The poor bird hobbled painfully closer to the barn
to lie there unmolested and forlorn for the rest of the day, while the
barnyard goose dabbled and splashed in cheerful enjoyment of the longed-
There's something the matter with the wild goose,
Josh," said the farmer's wife. "I know it," he replied ruefully. "I guess
I broke his leg to-day when I threw my fork at him."
"What a pity," said the woman. "Anyway I guess he aint
agoing to fancy the white goose for a mate;" so the next time she went to
town she brought home a large and very important-looking barnyard gander
who speedily made friends with the little white goose. By-and-bye when she
went to swim in the pond at the back of the barn she had a flock of soft
little yellow goslings floating behind her; after that being deeply
occupied with her large family and her husband she had not much time to
give to poor Prince Gander. He was left entirely to himself to mope as
much as he pleased. Sometimes the new gander from town would give him a
fierce dig with his bill as he passed or viciously drove him away from the
feeding pan; and the goslings as they grew big, following their father's
example, vied with each other in their persecutions. Even the little
barnyard goose, I am sorry to say, looking on complacently, thought," How
well they know how to fight their way in the world; it is mostly by
trampling on others that we get the best for ourselves."
So the seasons went past and the Prince had been a
prisoner for three years. Spring and Fall, he had seen his comrades fly
alternately north and south, but he had cried to them no more. He who was
crippled and degraded, he, who was battered and filthy in plumage and
humilated in mind, what had he to do with the gay, the beautiful, and
free? So he only watched them with a dull yearning and a memory of past
joys which was growing fainter and fainter with every succeeding year,
Then, one day, the little barnyard goose waddled swiftly towards him from
the feeding pan, where she had been gorging herself with dainties. "You
are to be killed," she said breathlessly; "you are to be killed and sent
to market. I heard them talking about it." How changed he was! He who was
once such a grand bird with perfect, brown wings, had become both spare
and draggled l A great pity filled once more the heart of the little
barnyard goose. She plucked at the ragged rope which season after season
had bound him to the region of the barn. Some way,—perhaps, it was already
loose, for the farmer and his wife had grown careless of their wild and
unprofitable captive—the rope yielded Prince Gander was free. Now go; fly
away—as fast as you can; fly, fly,"—and more to escape her flaps and
thrusts than for any other reason—for indeed he was yet too bewildered to
realize that he was free, he attempted to fly. Ah, breath of his life! was
this freedom again? Was this he who was mounting, mounting, feebly and
heavily, perhaps at first, but climbing steadily toward the blue vault of
heaven! Northward! Honk! honk!" he screamed. People looking up from earth
said," How strange to see a wild goose flying north at this time of the
year." His flight was slow and heavy; part of the rope which had held him
captive, still hung upon his leg; his wings were stiff and weak from
disuse, and he was soon weary. But even his slow flight brought him at
last to the prairies of his Canadian home. Like scarlet coral were the
wild rose hips; the pea grasses had turned red; the pools set in the
prairies had frames of saffron-colored reeds and golden uriopsis. He
stopped to dabble once more in the Falls of the Wahsitchewan, and lurked
for days beside the Rhiiielike waters of the greater Churchill.
The sun was sinking low, only its topmast rim being
visible above the horizon, as Prince Gander reached the lake of his
memories. The black bear and the moose peeped out from woody coverts at
the lone bird flying overhead. Through the stillness of evening, Prince
Gander heard loud gabbling; the joyous splashing of wings, little cries,
too, of friendship and love, and peace and liberty. Between him and the
lake stood a tall pine; so tall it almost pierced the clouds; gaunt and
scraggy and grey, with branches twisted and gnarled until they looked like
claws of an ogre. Blinded by fatigue, and flying unsteadily, Prince Gander
blundered in his flight and flung himself against the demon-tree. He
uttered a scream of agony. The startled flock upon the lake, ceasing their
frolics and their clamor, turned their shrewd eyes upon the newcomer. Then
with one swtft impulse they swirled upward, through the air, towards their
long-forgotten leader; full of all the fury and fierceness of their kind;
eager to beat him with their wings, to strike him with their bills, to
pluck his ragged plumage from his breast. But the claw of the demon-tree
had struck deep: Prince Gander faltered, fell—down through the screaming
flock of geese, down through the amber air of sunset,—down among the
sedges,—dying,—dead, upon the margin of the lake he had loved and
remembered so well. One by one his old companions, recovering from their
alarm, stole close to where he lay, gazed at him solemnly, pushed at his
body with their bills, then left him unknown and forgotten among those
very reeds where he had thought to nest.
Out of the forests stole darkness and silence,
hand-in-hand and creeping down upon the lake cast their drowsy spell
abroad, till nothing stirred in all the great lone land but the phantom,
soundless dancers of the northern skies.
"Dae ye ken
this?" said one old Scotchman to another as they walked along from church.
"I do believe that oor minister's in the habit o' gemblin'."
no,' replied his friend.
"Weel, I hope no, but it's unco
suspicious. Last Sunday, what dae ye think he saidin his prayer?"
"I have no idea."
"Weel, instead of 'O
Thou who hast the hearts of kings in Thy hands,'
he prayed 'O Thou who hast the king of hearts in
"It looks bad," replied his friend. "We maun see what
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The virtual world has already become so compatible with the real one that it is sometimes difficult to say which of the worlds we visit more often and longer. We make friends we never see, build houses or even entire cities, grow gardens, read books, watch movies – and all this without leaving the computer. So, if the virtual world has become so important to us, why not transfer some knowledge into it from the real world and vice versa?
For example, computer technology helps simplify our lives by performing various time-consuming tasks. And finally, computer technology just helps us to keep the accumulated. Electronic libraries already exist and are actively used, we watch films recorded on digital media, admire works of art not in a museum, but on the Internet. Fans of archetypal forms may say that this is blasphemy, then art cannot be electronized, but it’s convenient. There is no need to choose free time to visit a museum or a cinema, you can watch everything electronically at any convenient time. And what kind of savings: you don’t need to go somewhere far away. The Internet is always nearby!
And why not ask the computer to help us arrange our real space so that it is pleasant to be in it? There are a lot of programs that at the touch of a button will build a house that you’ve been dreaming about all your life. With accurate calculations and step-by-step instructions for its construction. Or they will choose an interior for an existing dwelling, taking into account your individual characteristics. Isn’t this a virtual architecture? After all, it was created with the help of digital technologies.
On the other hand, virtual architecture refers to the embodiment of ideas in cyberspace. Люстры интернет магазин, like virtual architecture, they are free from real conventions. This helps the architect to realize his most incredible ideas, which would never have materialized without the help of a computer.
The virtual architecture does not necessarily have to materialize. It is enough for her to exist in an electronic version. But it is also possible to implement a virtual project in the real world. And there are examples of combining real and virtual. For example, the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau. So an existing building has a so-called media facade – a shell that visually changes the space around this building, introduces an element of novelty. Such a building will look and be evaluated in a new way. In addition, this shell looks very nice at night. | <urn:uuid:7ef23d10-7f02-48c9-9984-08c4fa529de9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interiorua.com/realna-li-virtualnaya-arxitektura/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.94251 | 531 | 2.75 | 3 |
Parts of Papua New Guinea can get up to 400 inches of rain a year. Even in areas where less rain falls it can be a bit overwhelming. The good news is there is generally an abundance of fresh water. The bad news is rain and dust make mud! And sometimes that mud can be downright slippery, making even simple trips dangerous. Pray for Language Development workers and Bible Translator’s safety as they go to remote allocations only accessible by paths and dirt roads. Pray for dry weather to make their journeys a little bit easier!
These two Papua New Guinean youngsters will grow up with the benefit of having the New Testament in their language. The translation project started before their parents were born! And…the job is not finished. Now this language group is working on the Old Testament. Pray that before these children turn into full adults and have children of their own, they would have a completed Bible.
New projects are needed in almost 300 languages in Papua New Guinea. Many of these language groups are ready and willing to assist in a project but need some direction and training. They are ready to fly but unfortunately, the resources to make it happen are limited. Pray that the resources needed would be made available and that another project could takeoff soon!
The Bible Translation Association of Papua New Guinea (BTA) National Conference was held in Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea (PNG) from June 28-July 5. During the conference, David Gela, one of the original members of BTA, stepped down after 35 years of leadership as BTA director and handed the position to the newly elected director, Tony Kotauga. During the ceremony, leaders anointed Tony with oil, and then David and his wife Sineina knelt down and washed the feet of Tony and his wife. As a symbol of stepping into his new role, Tony and his family walked across the stage into the arms of the Board of BTA. Then together with David and Sineina, they walked to the opposite side of the stage into the arms of Kirk Franklin to symbolize David accepting his new role as Wycliffe Global Alliance’s Pacific Area Director. It was a great day of celebration and energy as two local groups from Tony’s church in Lae and David’s village in West New Britain sang songs and danced in celebration.
Throughout the week, this new leadership was known as the “Joshua Leadership” as many people compared David’s hand off to Tony with Moses’s commissioning Joshua. Many guest speakers came to share their support including Kirk Franklin, Executive Director of Wycliffe International, John Watters, President of SIL International, and Freddy Boswell, Executive Director of SIL International. SIL-PNG’s Director David Tute signed a new partnership covenant with BTA during this time, declaring that SIL-PNG would support BTA in all of their endeavours.
Members were excited to begin a new chapter, saying that this conference was “renewing and a great time of repentance.” David Beleyeme, a translator in the East Sepik region of PNG, said, “[I am] excited about this new leadership change. [After this conference,] I have a renewed passion to begin translation again.” Many people expressed their excitement for the years to come and their sincere thankfulness to David for his time at BTA.
All tied up! This expression is often used when we seem to have way too many things going on at once. As a result, there is absolutely no room to move in our schedule. Like this pig, we are now helplessly tied to the events that led to this captivity. Sometimes when Language Development workers and Bible Translators are trying to get the task done, it seems that life’s events have tied them up and are preventing them from accomplishing what they are scheduled to do. Planing travel, medical crisis, relational pressures, even getting meals ready can be more demanding than what was originally planned for the day. The result? They feel all tied up! Pray that tomorrow would have less interruptions than today so that the work of Bible Translation can move forward.
Papua New Guinea is a multi-cultural population. With over 830 languages, its cultural differences make a unique diversity that is proudly displayed. The Bible translation effort that is currently underway in PNG is intense. Over 200 language projects are in process and yet there are almost 300 languages still needing a project started. Could you be one of those needed to bring the Bible to these remaining languages? If you ave an interest in language development, linguistics or translation, this could be the place for you. But, you don’t have to be a trained linguist to be of help. Support workers are needed from many different occupations. Many roles are needed especially accountants, managers, mechanics, doctors, teachers and more. Pray for your involvement today.
Sometimes the way forward is smooth and easy. But often the only way is over rough seas. Bible translation is valuable work. It changes lives and impacts communities. It often involves significant spiritual battles as the evil one is not pleased with the work being accomplished. This work requires prayer support. The way can be marked with strong winds of opposition and high seas of turbulent accusations. Pray that the translators who meet these fears head on, are grounded in His word and armed with His love for the people they work with. May they have the grace sufficient to meet the needs of the day.
The bilum (string bag) is an integral part of many Papua New Guinea cultures. Men and women, young and old can be seen carrying them. It is the place to store all the things you need for a trip, carry food from the garden and it even is a nursery for the infants (see below). Over the past couple years there has been a movement called the Bible Bilum Covenant that is helping the PNG churches to see the need for heart-language Scriptures. The covenant encourages the PNG church to get involved in the Bible translation process. Pray that more churches will get involved in this important activity.
Translation in Papua New Guinea doesn’t happen in a bubble. This team recently finished and published the book of Mark. It takes a committed team with many different gifts, strengths and personalities (and sometimes nationalities!) Working in a team helps create an effective translation. When translators can talk together about grammar, key terms and cultural nuances, the conversation can become quite animated. Discussions are lively and at times humorous as new words are tried and old concepts reconsidered. Pray for these teams. Pray that they form bonds that are life-changing as they work together for God’s glory.
As you watch the waves relentlessly pound against the rocks you can see the power of the wave battling the durability of the rocks. Which is stronger? It’s hard to tell. It seems like the rocks hold up well against any single wave but upon examination, the rocks show evidence that the waves have made their impact. So it can be with the Word of God. It doesn’t always seem to have a dramatic effect, immediately on a person. But as these magnificent words work into the crevices of our lives, slowly they change us into the person God wants us to be. But if the Word of God is not in the language one has learned from birth, the impact is like a calm sea on a rocky coastline. It barely challenges the reader because the meaning isn’t as clear. Pray for more translated Scriptures in the 830+ languages in Papua New Guinea today. | <urn:uuid:b3504c6c-ec53-4890-acec-abbf5f0d26e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepngexperience.wordpress.com/2015/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.967792 | 1,568 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Serbia, Gazprom open gas storage for South Stream pipeline
Serbia's state-run gas company and Russia's Gazprom opened on Monday an underground gas storage facility as a part of future South Stream pipeline, Tanjug news agency reported.
The storage facility in the northern town of Banatski Dvor has a capacity of 450 million cubic meters of gas, the agency quoted Srbijagas head Dusan Bajatovic as saying.
Serbian President Boris Tadic and Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller attended the official launching of the reconstructed facility that will be managed by a joint company founded in 2009 in which Gazprom has 51 percent stake, while Srbijagas controls 49 percent.
The value of the joint venture is estimated at about 50 million euros ($67.6 million).
The storage facility will serve as a part of the 20-billion-euro South Stream pipeline that should be completed by 2015 and will run from Russia under the Black Sea to Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary before branching out to Western Europe.
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MULTIMEDIA: Can video art save our planet?
It’s the hottest topic in
the news at the moment – how can we be greener and more
environmentally friendly. The organisers of a new
international competition Convenient Truths have drummed up
almost US$30,000 in prizes – that’s over £15,000 – to be
awarded for videos that show an actionable, inspiring
solution to even part of the problem.
Do you have an idea for a video on how to save the planet?
It doesn’t have to be glossy, slick or have high production
values – it could be something you snap in 60 seconds on
your mobile phone camera as you cycle to the office, or a
comedy about the stinking pile of compost you’ve collected,
taken on your old VHS video camera that’s been sitting in
the cupboard since we all went digital.
The organisers of Convenient Truths were inspired by Al
Gore’s documentary on climate change, An Inconvenient Truth.
They say “An Inconvenient Truth presented a problem - we
want you to show us how to solve this problem”. Videos can
discuss anything to do with daily life including
transportation, home and garden, work, recreation, etc, and
the subsequent actions being taken to reduce one's carbon
footprint. To be eligible for the EPIC International Prize
you also need to address issues of conscious consumerism and
its relationship to global warming.
Any kind of action you're taking to lessen your own
greenhouse gas emissions can be worthy of a contest video.
The entries featured on the competition site already include
cartoons, a short documentary about students at an
Automotive High School converting a diesel car to run on
French fry grease from their cafeteria, a mockumentary
featuring two girls going “toxless” with household cleaning
products, gasmasks, and wearing little else, and a very
cheesy fictional story about a father and son keeping up
with the “Greens” next door.
The competition is supported by www.inspiredprotagonist.com.
Judges, who include David Suzuki and Daryl Hannah, are
looking for videos that are inspiring, pragmatic and
compelling, and between 1 and 2 minutes long. The medley of
sustainable prizes up for grabs includes eco trips to
Alaska, carbon footprint offsetting, and a range of
sustainable goodies, as well as the warm feelings that
result from being a "green" citizen of planet earth. Entries
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First off, what are your goals here? Two things you've mentioned concern me if your goal is to learn ballet:
1. They have tap classes at the school as well. While this does not in and of itself diminish the quality of ballet instruction, it is an indicator.
2. They put you en pointe with less than a year of training. This is a serious, serious problem. Even if it does not lead to injury, it won't lead to you dancing well either.
If you continue on this course, you will likely have no future beyond high school as a ballet dancer.
My advice would be that if you wish to learn ballet (and not get injured) --- then find a school that's serious about teaching ballet. And don't expect to go en pointe until you've studied ballet seriously (3-6) days/week for at least a couple of years.
My other advice is to get used to studying with children, for now. Ballet class is not a social hour. If you wish to dance well in the future, you have to start at the beginning and work your way through the training program. Most of the people in your age group have more experience at this point, that's why they're in a more advanced class. Within 3-5 years, you will probably be placed with your age group, since you will likely learn faster than the children. But it takes time and dedication. In the meantime, you can be of help in the children's classes: although you're not any more advanced than them in technique, you are more mature and can help the teacher that way if you take a positive attitude.
Thanks for your advice, but no thanks. I don't think that the pointe is a serious problem at all. My dance teacher has been teaching for thirty years, I think I'll take her judgement when it comes to pointe, seeing as she's been doing it for thirty years. As far as everything else goes, I believe I do have a somewhat better technique than they do because they've been dancing longer than I have and they don't even know what they are doing. Thanks. | <urn:uuid:83cd0a01-62cf-42b0-a23d-59721949471d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.ballet-dance.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=162348 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985056 | 440 | 1.523438 | 2 |
G.fast is a new broadband over copper technology that will enable network operators to reduce the cost of delivering gigabit bandwidths to consumers.
Technicolor has been one of four companies participating in the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), multi-vendor G.fast interoperability demonstration at the 2016 Broadband World Forum (BBWF) conference.
Karel Adriaensen, Director of Product Management at Technicolor, explains how and when G.fast will become available to accelerate the rollout of ultra-broadband services.
Adriaensen: Service providers today face increasing demand for high access bandwidth from end users who want to get higher quality video and immersive experiences in their homes.
G.fast is a relatively new technology that supports access bandwidths up to one gigabit per second over the existing copper lines. This is equivalent to what is possible with fiber today. The limitation is that the copper lines cannot be too long –a few hundred meters, at most. This gives G.fast a complementary role in service providers’ overall ultra-broadband strategies.
Adriaensen: It is quite complementary to other technologies. A lot of service providers are facing demand for gigabit bandwidths. They can deliver those by deploying fiber networks, and these are quite common. However, fiber networks are quite costly, especially if you want to deploy them in a brownfield situation, that is, an existing area that has infrastructure already in place. A lot of civil works are required. That makes deployment difficult and expensive.
The most difficult and the most expensive part of these fiber deployments is the last few meters before you reach the individual user’s living unit. You have to dig, and you have to get access to the user’s home. That can be operationally difficult and cost prohibitive.
This is where G.fast comes in. Service providers install it over the last few meters of the existing copper. So you run fiber until the last few meters, and then you switch over to G.fast. This allows operators to deliver an end-to-end one-gigabit service at a highly reduced cost.
Adriaensen: It is in an early market phase. There are no sizeable commercial deployments yet anywhere in the world. However, a lot of operators around the world are evaluating the technology, from a technological as well as operational and commercial point of view.
Standardization is complete, chipsets are becoming available, operators are evaluating it, and the first sizeable commercial deployments are expected to start in 2017 and grow in the following years.
Adriaensen: The next step is to bring G.fast technology beyond trials and proofs of concept by producing commercial products and rolling out commercial deployments. Technicolor already has a number of commercial G.fast products available.
For example, we are working with a tier one operator today that is deploying a new high-end gateway from Technicolor with G.fast integrated. By 2017 several hundred thousand of those gateways will be deployed around that operator’s country.
What is interesting is that the carrier does not plan to immediately enable G.fast.
The operator wants to create a nationwide footprint and as soon as that is done – and a sufficient number of G.fast gateways are deployed – they will turn on the G.fast capability and start to offer commercial services.
We expect this to happen in 2017 and then see G.fast adoption numbers grow over the following years.Show less | <urn:uuid:87660a5a-e203-4f55-9c20-8fb1c9775b11> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thefuturetrust.technicolor.com/article/content-experiences-everywhere/technicolor-accelerates-delivery-of-1gbps-services-and-g-fast-helps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943941 | 718 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Node.js Foundation to shepherd Express Web framework
The Node.js Foundation is adding the Express MVC Web framework for Node.js as an incubation project in an effort to ensure its continued viability. Express, or Expressjs, is a minimalist Web framework for developing Web and mobile applications. Incubation status means the project will receive mentoring and open source governance from the foundation, a representative said. Continue reading this story here. | <urn:uuid:cfe6bf71-fc45-4e0b-8c5f-6d2e34428a8c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.htmlgoodies.com/daily_news/node.js-foundation-to-shepherd-express-web-framework.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00480-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885817 | 88 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Los Angeles Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is so much the opposite of his predecessor, the late Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, that it is a historical oddity that their names are being linked in California these days.
Brown was a convert from the Republican Party, a career politician who sparked a great and enduring Democratic upsurge when he won the first of his two terms in 1958. Schwarzenegger is the GOP in-law of the Kennedy clan, a show biz celebrity who jumped into politics at the top by defeating Democratic Gov. Gray Davis in the recall election a little over a year ago.
Brown, whose historic accomplishments in government are recounted in a newly published biography, "California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown,'' by journalist Ethan Rarick, was awkward at best in his public appearances and often inept as his generation attempted the transition from backroom politics to the television age.
Schwarzenegger was designed to be camera-ready -- a bodybuilder and movie star who announced his candidacy on the Jay Leno show. But now, as the glamour fades, his governing skills are being tested -- and questioned -- as never before. The chances of a Republican revival in this mega-state depend directly on whether he can begin to match Brown's deeds in meeting the needs of California.
The agenda Schwarzenegger announced in Sacramento earlier this month is bold in its proposals for structural reforms of state government but miserly on money. The borrowing and economizing he used to get through his first year in office still have left an $8 billion shortfall in the new fiscal year. Determined not to raise taxes, Schwarzenegger is proposing to strip $2 billion in promised funding from the schools, divert $1 billion of earmarked highway money to the general fund and slice health and welfare benefits.
He has triggered a monumental fight with the Democratic-controlled Legislature, whose members are emboldened by Schwarzenegger's failure to defeat even one of them in the races in which he campaigned last fall.
He has been forced to renege on promises he made last year to local governments, educators and other constituencies. George Skelton, the veteran Sacramento-based columnist of the Los Angeles Times, wrote recently that Schwarzenegger "does seem to have promised too many things to too many people and now can't keep all his vows. This is beginning to take a toll on his image among insiders. For the first time, his credibility is being questioned.''
Schwarzenegger retains his popularity with the public and has found a winning populist issue by targeting the generous pension benefits Brown and other former governors lavished on public employees.
But some fellow Republicans are beginning to question his operation. They describe a gubernatorial staff whose wide range of views -- from conservative Republicans to avowed liberal Democrats -- has created continuing internal debates, rather than clear policy lines.
Some Republicans agree privately with Democratic consultant Gale Kaufman's description of Schwarzenegger's fiscal policy as "schizophrenic.''
His support for an initiative that would remove redistricting decisions from the Legislature and give them to a panel of retired judges has been hailed by reform groups but has drawn a mixed reception from Republicans. Some see it as a possible path to a future challenge to Democratic control of the Legislature and the California congressional delegation. But others argue that the short-term effect would more likely be to jeopardize the re-election of safe Republicans who now run four major committees in the U.S. House of Representatives by forcing them into competitive districts.
Meantime, the larger question is whether California is gaining or losing ground in reclaiming the reputation it won under Brown for being the pacesetter among all the states. Readers of Rarick's biography are being reminded that, however much he bumbled his TV appearances, Brown gave California what its explosive growth required: a water system that tapped the resources in the north to meet the population and industrial needs of the south; a network of freeways that enabled people to move from homes to jobs and back; a higher education system that equipped millions for middle-class jobs; and a set of social policies that allowed California to integrate massive numbers of immigrants and minorities.
The infrastructure Brown built -- the highways and campuses -- is badly overstrained today. The social policies are under challenge. The question facing Schwarzenegger is whether he can do what Pat Brown did -- match policies and resources to help California through the next half-century of its growth.
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Here's a sample of our volunteer opportunities:VIEW AS
We are working towards the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by helping those whose income is less than $1 US per day. Increase access to safe drinking water. Achieve universal primary education. Promote gender equality and empower women. We focus on projects that aid the most vulnerable - specifically, mothers and girls living in extreme poverty. Our projects have been directed towards helping wastepickers reach these MDGs.
The Unforgotten Fund (UNFF), founded in 2007, provides clean food and water, shelter, schooling and a future for child wastepickers living in, or near, trash-dumps. We are currently working at the dumpsites in Lusaka (Zambia), Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Pune (India).
We provide aid for trash-dump children in the form of:
- Hunger relief: We provide meals for children that were looking through trash for food to eat.
- Education: We enroll children in primary school, and free them of the burden of needing to earn money by selling items found in the trash. We provide extra tutoring in bridge programs.
- Water: We provide and develop clean sources of drinking water.
- Independence: We provide microloans and skills training to the mothers of trash-dump children to start businesses, so that the families do not become dependent on our aid. | <urn:uuid:3b958852-4867-449f-ac27-7a033aa2dceb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/org932082.jsp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00529-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94806 | 299 | 2.34375 | 2 |
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake, best known as Tony Lake, (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War. He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
Lake is the grandson of Kirsopp Lake, a member of the Church of England clergy who came from Oxford, England, to America in order to teach New Testament studies at Harvard. Lake's father, Gerard Kirsopp Lake, was a New Deal Democrat and his mother Eleanor (née Eleanor van Someren Hard), a Republican.
Lake himself was born in New York City. He attended Middlesex School and Harvard College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. Lake studied international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge and later received a Ph.D from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1974. | <urn:uuid:cb45a3c0-555b-4704-9d6b-5d99e1881aca> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.upi.com/topic/Anthony_Lake/news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00386-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977778 | 282 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The EJS Galileo Sunspots Model illustrates the motion and changes in appearance of sunspots as they move across the disk of the Sun. Galileo's observation of the changing appearance of sunspots around 1611 provided strong evidence that the spots were actually blemishes on the surface of the Sun, an idea that conflicted with the Aristotelean notion of the perfections of the heavens. Through these observations Galileo was able to determine the obliquity of the Sun (the angle between the Sun's equator and the Ecliptic plane) as well as the rotational period of the Sun.
The simulation shows four randomly generated sunspots, and one sunspot that has a user-defined latitude (to allow the user to examine the behavior of sunspots at various latitudes). All sunspots are oval in shape. As the spots move across the Sun their appearance changes due to foreshortening and a slight tilt as the spots approaches the limb (or edge) of the solar disk. These effects come about because the Sun's surface is spherical, not flat. So the sunspot changes it orientation relative to the viewer as it moves around on the Sun's surface.
In addition to controls that allow the user to define the latitude of one of the sunspots, this model allows the user to set the obliquity of a line representing the Sun's equator. The user can adjust the obliquity of this line until the sunspots all move parallel to the line. In this case the obliquity of the line is the actual obliquity of the Sun. In addition, the model displays the elapsed time (in days) so that the user can determine the rotational period of the Sun by measuring the time required for a sunspot to complete its motion around the Sun. (Note that the period of a sunspots motion is latitude-dependent, as it is in the real Sun.)
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Japan's government says it is working to arrange a reunion for a Japanese woman separated from her family in North Korea for nearly two years. Japan and North Korea, which have no diplomatic relations, have discussed the issue repeatedly in recent months.
Hitomi Soga has not seen her American husband and two daughters since October of 2002, when she returned to Japan after 24 years in North Korea.
Ms. Soga, who was kidnapped in Japan by North Korean agents in 1978, has been pleading with her government to pressure Pyongyang to allow the rest of her family to leave.
Government spokesman Hiroyuki Hosoda said that arrangements are under way for the family to be reunited in Indonesia.
Mr. Hosoda added it is very difficult to quickly complete the logistical and security arrangements for the reunion, which is likely to take place on the island of Bali.
Ms. Soga, who works as a nurse, met Friday with local officials to discuss what support will be available for her family after the reunion.
During a brief exchange with reporters outside a local government building, Ms. Soga says she is delighted by news of the impending reunion, but it is unlikely the family will settle in Japan any time soon.
Her husband, Charles Jenkins, is listed by the United States as a military deserter and Japanese officials might be compelled to hand him over to U.S. forces for prosecution if he sets foot in Japan. He has lived in communist North Korea since 1965, after he disappeared from his U.S. Army post in South Korea.
Indonesia was chosen as the reunion point because it does not have an extradition treaty with the United States and maintains diplomatic relations with North Korea.
The breakthrough on the reunion came Thursday during a meeting between the Japanese and North Korean foreign ministers. They met the on the sidelines of a regional conference in Jakarta.
Ms. Soga, who was forced to teach North Korean spies Japanese customs and the language, married Mr. Jenkins in 1980. | <urn:uuid:07981392-cc57-4fc4-8d72-49c0d0f7e61a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2004-07-02-8-1-67501512/283032.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97928 | 405 | 1.992188 | 2 |
POSTECH Launches Self-Contact Tracing Map for COVID-19
Professor Juhong Park of CiTE fuses voluntary participation and IT technology for a new model of solution.
A team led by Professor Juhong Park of the Department of Creative IT Engineering will operate “COVID: Share to Survive,” a self-contact tracing map project that involves anonymous participation from suspected and confirmed patients of COVID-19.
This worldwide project (www.sharetosurvive.org) was initiated to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by sharing the movements of confirmed patients. In the event of suspected symptoms or after being tested for COVID-19, people can voluntarily disclose their symptoms and their path of travel on the map, anonymously.
The project is translated and released in nine languages, including Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. The location information is designed to be displayed in real time and disappears when the virus reaches its half-life (7 days).
Suspected or confirmed patients can simply enter their places of visit on the project’s website, and the public can easily check where a person with certain symptoms visited.
In other countries, only the number of confirmed cases is published and the patient’s travel log is not revealed like in Korea, making it hard to identify the route of contagion and those who crossed paths with the confirmed are in the dark.
In Korea, the confirmed patients’ travel log is thoroughly revealed. But their diagnosis or places visited are not immediately verified, as it is made public only after they test positive for the virus. Therefore, there may be a small discrepancy in real-time route of infection. Prof. Park’s research team planned this project in response to this glitch.
Due to the possibility of false information or malicious use due to anonymity, the team uses artificial intelligence to identify unusual user patterns. But even with a small number of unfiltered malicious data, the team considers a priority to block contact with sources of infection.
“All data except officially confirmed patients’ information disappears after a week and even if false or malicious information is shared, it will be of little significance as the number of genuine participants increases,” Prof. Park explained. He added, “The project focuses more on identifying the path of those who show early symptoms and pinpointing the source of infection in real time.”
He also called for active participation from suspected and confirmed patients stating, “Though small, we have already seen people voluntarily enter their path of travel from Korea, the U.S., and the Netherlands, which looks promising.” He further commented, “We expect this project – based on the good will of the participants, and respect and trust of each other – will bring about a sense of one human community that everyone should live in harmony.
With this data, the team will research whether anonymously shared information can actually lead to infection prevention and develop artificial intelligence technology that can recognize data errors. | <urn:uuid:50ac27c4-7c38-4c18-90c7-7bcf3f1eae2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://postech.ac.kr/eng/postech-launches-a-self-travel-log-map-for-covid-19/?k&c&event | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.939154 | 621 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The idea of control is absurd, guns or not. The world is far too complicated to predict events, system behaviors, or whether even your email will send when you hit the send button. Prediction is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of control. And when we say “gun control” we believe we can predict who would be a responsible user of a gun and who wouldn’t. We believe with the proper equipment features we can control what happens when a user pulls the trigger or that it’s actually the user who owns the gun… and so on. It’s literally all based on an absurd premise.
And yet, control is exactly the fallacy of our political and social systems. Guns and other tools of destruction provide the operator the illusion of control. Lightweight, homage regulating laws provide the population the illusion of control. These illusions really just mask the chaos of a contingent world. Any distressed person operates under highly conflicting contingencies or has lost the ability to recognize contingencies (of behavior and consequence). In fact, this happens to all of us all of the time. We live under near constant confirmation and related behavioral (cognitive biases) as a result of our limited perceptive systems and neural componentry (and often sick and broken bodies). Our system constantly pattern recognizes incorrectly (we think God helps us score touchdowns….). These incomplete interpretations of the contingencies of the world become especially problematic in a stressed and distressed situation. (I’ll skip a deep discussion of behavioral, physical and chemical science and just lump all of it in an idea that we are all systems ecologically looking for homeostasis/equilibrium.)
When contingencies conflict or get very confused and the environment is primed properly disaster is more likely to occur. Priming includes a cultural dimension, accessibility of destructive tools, lack of obstacles to act, etc. Combined with stress, illness, and chemicals (drugs/booze/etc) in a person and a more combustible situation emerges – this is the nature of probability and complexity.
Proponents of guns and various “let’s all pack heat” strategies suffer from the same delusions of control as perpetrators of mass killings and gun murders. The world is not fundamentally controllable – in situations with guns and situations without guns. Every person and system is a collection of contingencies – the collective probabilities of circumstance and events. For instance, at Christmas time if you have hot colored lights plugged in, faulty electric outlets and dead, dry pine trees in your living room you have increased the chance of burning your house down. I assure you there are lower probability of raging fire decorations you can display in your home.
The key to dealing with our uncontrollable world isn’t pretending control exists. We either increase or reduce probabilities of events by changing ourselves and/or the environment. Changing the contingencies is non-trivial and multifaceted. One key is to not put too many degrees of freedom between an act and the experience of the consequences of that act. This is a subtle but very important point. Many studies show humans are not good at anticipating delayed consequences – delay in time and in-directness (associations) of consequences. This truth is at the heart of addition formation, financial debt, wars, education and literacy, and so on. You can do your own study on this truth by reminding yourself of your last Vegas trip, checking your alerts for all those idiot Candy Crush notifications from your “friends,” looking at your credit car bills or reviewing your local church (and bible!) for policies on tithing and confession and promises of heaven and hell.
Guns are so easy (very few contingencies) to obtain and use (poorly) that there is almost NO PERCEIVABLE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE to gun ownership relative to THE DELAYED ULTIMATE CONSEQUENCE of gun usage. Pulling a trigger is such a simple act…. even gun makers and the NRA know this. It’s why they attempt to stratify guns into level of effort to use: manual, semi-automatic, automatic and so on. The delay in round expulsion is built on the idea that if you add more work for the user the less they can kill and the more time it takes to load and fire rounds the more the prey and other contingent circumstances can adjust in response. This is all highly consistent logic and observable phenomena.
Most systems, including individual people, operate on a strategy of efficiency AKA the path of least resistance. We resolve our stresses efficiently (according to our own weird histories/abilities). When guns are easy to get then that’s an outlet we go with (replace guns with drugs, TV, gambling, sex, food, yoga, etc). We know this truth. We’ve used it forever… Grocery stores get ya every time with this. And so does the government. Some things it makes hard to do or get (more contingent): health care, food stamps, driver’s licenses, info on NSA programs. Somethings it makes easy (less contingent): paying your taxes (do it online! send cash!), getting parking tickets, buying lottery tickets, campaign donating!
Never underestimate the power of laziness! (capitalism and governments/kings and religion don’t!)
If people generally didn’t operate this way voter turn out would be 100%, education rates would be off the charts and no one would ever buy a lottery ticket or use a slot machine again (well at least they might pull the handle instead of auto spinning).
I firmly believe in the complete disarmament and aggressive buy back and destruction of all arms – civilian and otherwise. For this country and all of them. I believe in trying to get the probability of widespread carnage and unintended consequences as low as possible. While compromise is inevitable my position is not one of compromise.
If you’re for guns or even a gun apologist you really just don’t trust the world and believe in control and want to maintain what you perceive as a competitive advantage to the unarmed or the less well armed. Perhaps it is a competitive advantage, local to you. System wide you’re increasing the chance of unintended disasters and you’re partially complicit more or less in the continuing violence against kids and students. You are also probably ok with it or don’t believe it because the consequences of your slight increase in probability of someone else’s disaster don’t register in your pattern recognizer.
As I said earlier… lowering the probability of gun violence takes more than gun laws. It takes education, first and foremost. And it takes economic opportunity, better health care, jobs, love, and everything in between. I chose to be complicit in increasing those things at the expense of my right to bear arms. We’re all just a small piece of a contingent and uncontrollable world and I’d rather stand in perspective and connection with people rather than behind armor, triple locked doors and concealed weaponry. | <urn:uuid:c2742e53-f8aa-41e6-ae86-c88274bb6d53> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://socialmode.com/tag/social-networks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932467 | 1,447 | 2.203125 | 2 |
In 2020, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) adopted a Recommendation to prioritize coral reefs within the CBD Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The Recommendation comes from the very real need to safeguard coral reef ecosystems and their significant value from the current trajectory of collapse due to climate change, overfishing, pollution and other local pressures. Each of the recommended indicators covers a facet of coral reef health and integrity:
- Live Coral Cover — provides a snapshot of overall coral reef health
- Coral Reef Extent — determines whether the area of coral reef systems is increasing or decreasing
- Fleshy Algae Cover and cover of key benthic groups — indicates coral reef health, increases in algal cover can show declining health
- Fish Abundance and Biomass — marks the function and productivity of coral reefs
- Percent Coral Reefs Effectively Protected — measures commitment to protecting coral reefs
- Index of Coastal Eutrophication — signals water quality impacts in coastal areas
Each coral reef indicator has been thoughtfully considered for its scientific validity, usefulness at national, regional and global scales, and widespread availability to reporting parties as noted below. Why are these indicators vitally important? How can they make a significant difference?
The Coral Reef Indicators…
ARE ACCESSIBLE — These are not lofty, esoteric indicators that no one can measure. They are already being used.
CREATE ACCOUNTABILITY — Together, these indicators will ensure our global commitment can be tracked and our progress measured
HOLISTICALLY ASSESS PROGRESS — The coral reef indicators provide a holistic snapshot of coral reef health status. They measure the most important elements of the vitality and integrity of coral reef systems.
GUIDE ADAPTIVE ACTION — If conservation and management plans are not on track, the indicators will help guide alternate routes to improve coral health.
GENERATE ALIGNMENT — These indicators will provide global alignment and consistency, including measurement standards, which are critical as we seek to understand the status and changing dynamics of our coral reefs.
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Creating the Single Effect of Horror in the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency direct or indirect is not to the one preestablished design Edgar Allan Poe said this statement when explaining the meaning of the single effect of horror The short story entitled The Fall of the House of Usher reflects Poes ideas on how to accomplish this He revels his tremendous effort to do this by choosing each word carefully to effect the reader Changes in either mood or setting can completely change around the story so making decisions on which words to use is significant Poe uses these key certain literary elements setting plot and mood to create this single effect of horror Poe opens the short story by putting this unpleasant picture inside the readers head as he describes the atmosphere The white trunks of decayed trees the black and lurid tarn and the vacant eyelike windows 212 are examples of Poes attempt to present the house as being desolated and empty which also causes a mood The narrator explains the Usher mansion having an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven212 Poe continues to describe this dull and dreary day using descriptive words such as decayed strange peculiar mystic and Gothic to create that atmosphere He sticks with this mood throughout the story keeping it consistent Another technique Poe uses to create this single effect of horror by the mood he portrays As showed he creates a mood through the setting but he also does this through the plot One example of this is when the narrator is reacting to the appearance of the Costello 2 house the first glimpse of the building a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit 212 With the main character feeling uncomfortable it causes the reader to feel that feeling as well The house seems to emotionally hurt him for it
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You might call it the yoga teacher’s equivalent to the going-to-school-in-your-underwear nightmare that some people have as kids: You’re in the middle of a class, and your students are deep in Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose), when you freeze, unable to decide where to bring them next. Your entire repertoire of yoga poses, it seems, has disappeared from your mind.
Or maybe your version of the dream goes this way: All of your students seem to be bored or in pain. There are voices in your head saying that the class is just not working. You begin to believe that you don’t know how to teach, and you mumble a prayer to the Hindu god Ganesha to help you slip out the back door while your students are in Savasana (Corpse Pose).
If you experience fears like this, you’re simply going through a common human drama. It might feel especially tough because, as yoga teachers, we often expect ourselves to be exemplars of calm and balance. The truth is, we’re human beings, learning and making mistakes like anyone else.
But when it’s happening to you—when you’re the one faltering in front of a room of eager students waiting for your next breath command—it can be tough. Longtime yoga teacher Katchie Ananda says that moment is exactly when you should stop thinking about your anxiety.
“There is a very simple but very effective technique, which is remembering that this is not about yourself, it’s about the people you’re helping,” Ananda says. “Ask yourself, ‘How can I serve these people right now?’ Teaching really is about serving. It’s not a performance. It’s not about being a superstar. We are in the service department.”
If you do that, “you all of a sudden see all these things that need to be said,” says Ananda, the co-owner of Yoga Sangha in San Francisco.
Deborah Metzger, founder of New Jersey’s Princeton Center for Yoga and Health, adds that often the perception that a class is sliding downhill is only a perception. “How do you know what’s going wrong? It may be in your mind.” Metzger suggests you check in with yourself: “Are you holding your breath?”
There are, of course, times when your sense of unease is coming from something outside, says Metzger, who’s been teaching in the Kripalu Yoga tradition for 13 years. Her advice: Don’t panic. “Maybe somebody’s come in to class with some weird energy, for example. You can take a moment to center yourself. You can have people close their eyes and go inside. And you can do the same.”
It’s also important to prepare yourself fully for teaching. If you’re having frequent “lost in front of the class” experiences, you may need to spend more time prepping. That doesn’t necessarily mean studying ancient passages of the Yoga Sutra, says Ananda. First, you need to reconnect to your own experience of doing yoga. “Go to class a few minutes early, light candles, play music—do anything that makes you feel that you’re connected to the source,” says Ananda, who is a certified Anusara Yoga teacher. “Are you really teaching from your personal experience, from your own practice? Are you coming from the source—or are you just repeating things you’ve memorized?”
Often, Ananda adds, knowing what to do is about common sense. “If you feel the class is going down, that they have low energy, think about how you feel when you have low energy. What do you need? You can suggest they rest, or you can use some humor to lighten up the energy.”
Plus, you can use a difficult moment to develop a class lesson. “People will watch you to see what you do when things are uncomfortable,” says Metzger. “You’re a role model—and you’re also human. You have issues that come up, and people need to see how you deal with them.”
Metzger falls back on the old adage, “as above, so below.” In class, she says, “I teach what I need to hear. It’s natural for a new teacher to have these fears. Teaching will bring up this stuff, if you have old wounds and critical voices. Ask yourself, ‘Is this similar to how things show up in my everyday life?” Metzger recommends using those thoughts as lessons to grow from, rather than fears to cling to.
If you’re still stuck, there are some good basic tricks to remember. There’s nothing wrong with writing down your sequencing plan and bringing it to class, and it’s also totally fine to ask the class what they want to do next. And check up on your self-doubts—if there’s a student who seems unhappy, ask how she’s doing after class. You could learn something important about how to shift your teaching, or you may be happily surprised.
Ultimately, Ananda says, your teaching experiences will only grow as you carry yoga’s teachings into your daily life. “You aren’t there to be a cheerleader. You’re there to provide a window to the universal teachings. Why are you doing yoga? Really, it’s about embodying the teachings. It gets easier as you are, more and more, living a yogic lifestyle.”
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- 29 CFR 1910 Subpart I, Personal protective equipment. OSHA Standard.
- NIOSH Guide to the Selection and Use of Particulate Respirators Certified Under 42 CFR 84. US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Publication No. 96-101, (1996, January). The Table of Contents to this document provides links to the corresponding sections by title.
- NPPTL Respirator User Notices. The National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH service time recommendations for P-Series Particulate Respirators.
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I Chose the BJU Grammar for my 10th grader because of the focus and concentration on writing. The curriculum provides a good variety of topics and writing styles to help advance a student with aspirations to excel in journalism, editing, or other communication careers.
I like the summary section at the conclusion of each session. Grammar is so boring if you have been studying it since elementary school. BJU's integration of literature and biblical reference help move a boring subject into one that builds character, expands the mind, fosters creativity and motivates students to think beyond the immediate.
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Rated 5 out of 5Â by Marcia Advanced level of the study of grammar for sophomores!
This textbook is a big jump in difficulty from Writing & Grammar 9. However, it is good preparation for Writing & Grammar 11 and 12. My sophomores struggle with the combining of all 8 parts of speech into one chapter. I enjoy the personal letters, and I mail the letters out each year even though the students rarely use the postal service any more.
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It took 17 months but the Tennessean is finally reporting what the Tennessee Center For Policy Research pointed out in July of 2006--the state run golf courses are losing taxpayer money hand over fist. In an article penned by TCPR titled "A Needed Slice: Operating in the Red Is Par for the Course" you can read details like this:
The Jack Nicklaus-designed Bear Trace courses were built in the mid- 1990s at a cost of $20 million to the state. A private firm—Redstone—managed the courses, but because of their remote locations—in far-off places like Henderson, Winchester and Harrison along the state’s southern border—there was little demand for the lavish resorts. The private management company, which successfully runs a PGA tour course in Houston and several other distinguished courses, tired of hemorrhaging money— $6.85 million over the past three years—on the out-of-the-way courses and returned them to the state. Without the management expertise of Redstone and carrying a decades-long track record of failure in the golf business, the state government figures to lose even more than the private company. The difference is that, under state management, the loses incurred by the courses are paid by taxpayers.
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Nepal is a country with some of the most inspiring and dramatic landscapes in the world, most noted for being the home of the Himalayas and the tallest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Since opening its borders to visitors during the 1950s, Nepal has become a haven for adventure tourists and mountain trekkers.
For this architecture competition, Buildner architecture competition organisers is working in cooperation with Samarth – Nepal Market Development Programme, which works across Nepal to improve the economic performance of rural sectors; to develop a high altitude accommodation unit which will be the first of its kind to ever be established in Nepal. We are therefore asking participants to submit clever and inventive proposals for a Himalayan Mountain Hut to be positioned along any of the mountain range’s many trekking trails.
The purpose of the Himalayan Mountain Hut is to provide trekkers safe, comfortable and inviting lodgings, where they and their guides can rest, refuel and, if necessary, wait out troublesome weather.
While there is no specified location for this Himalayan Mountain Hut, the proposal should be applicable to various different sites along trails throughout the Himalayas. It should form a unique, new quality product for Nepal to be adapted and replicated in all parts of the country.
Competition is open for all. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum).
- Correspondence with organizers must be conducted in English.
- All information submitted by participants must be in English.
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The Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department began to ban open fires in city mountain and desert preserves, effective May 12. In consultation with the Phoenix Fire Department, smoking and charcoal fires are included in the ban due to the extreme fire danger that the combination of low humidity, increasing temperatures and frequent high winds. Additional information on the ban is available online, at phoenix.gov/parks.
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Have you ever asked yourself the question: “what are IoT sensors?”
The internet of things may be a new trending topic in today’s world however IoT sensors have been around for decades for the most part.
How is this possible?
IoT sensors are simply electronic sensors with a more modern meaning.
To further understand how these sensors collect and share data then here I will cover the subject in a little more detail.
Trying to find all of your information about IoT in one place is not always easy due to the number of different job roles involved in the subject.
The following list describes just some of the technical job roles that you may encounter in a IoT project:
- Electronic Engineers will usually work with sensors and other electronic components.
- Network Engineers focus on LAN/WAN and other communication mediums such as mobile networks.
- Server/Website Administrators maintain and improve on SaaS (Software As A Service) platforms for IoT such as IFTTT.
- Those online platforms may need a Database Administrator to maintain the backend databases that hold much of the IoT sensor data for example.
Over the years we’ve seen a dramatic decline in the interest in electronics and is fast becoming a dying trade.
This is partly due to the fact that our electronic products are cheaper to replace than to have it fixed by a qualified engineer.
Electronics once had a big following of hobbyists who would build circuits at home for fun and education but the price of components today makes this an expensive hobby.
First came along electronics. Then electronics where used to build computers.
After computers were networked together by using the internet we then seemingly went full-circle and started to use electronic sensors to monitor the real-world and log this data onto servers.
This data can be used to control systems or for research purposes.
Some of you may notice a serial port and/or a parallel port on the back of older PC’s.
These ports were used to connect real-world electronic sensors to monitor our environment.
As time and technology moves on, these busses were rendered obsolete and have generally been replaces with USB.
In 2012 the first Raspberry Pi was introduced into the world and there have been many competitors in the market ever since it’s release.
A Raspberry Pi is known as a single-board computer. It uses ARM architecture similar to mobile devices and is capable of running a desktop operating system similar to a PC.
The Raspberry Pi incorporates GPIO (General Purpose Input Output) header pins directly on to the board.
These header pins can be used to connect various input electronic components such as sensors, and output components such as LED’s (Light Emitting Diodes).
As I mentioned above, the Raspberry Pi is capable of running a ‘fully-fledged’ operating system.
Some projects don’t require as much capabilities as this and so a microcontroller board such as an Arduino can be used.
Arduino’s don’t require as much power as a Raspberry Pi but it can only be programmed with one simple program nicknamed a ‘sketch’.
Again there’s also many competitors to the Arduino on the market as well as many different Arduino’s themselves with different price tags and different capabilities.
There single-board computers and microcontroller boards are ideal for building IoT devices with whatever sensors we choose to use.
These project boards are relatively cheap to buy, power efficient, have a small form-factor and easily configured by the user.
With all of these factors together we can install our devices almost anywhere.
Using mobile communications such as 4G/5G we can also connect our projects to the internet with ease too.
I explain Arduino in more detail in my ‘Arduino for beginner’s‘ post.
What Types Of IoT Sensors Are There?
I explained above that IoT sensors are simply electronic sensors.
So “What types of ELECTRONIC sensors are there?” would be a better suited question.
There’s so many electronic sensors that we can use to monitor various types of real-world activity.
- Barometer (air pressure)
- Microphone (sound)
- Gyroscope (orientation)
- Thermistor (temperature)
- LDR: Light Dependant Resistor (visible light levels)
- Infra-Red (Infra-red light)
- RFID: Radio Frequency Identification (proximity radio data transmission)
- NFC: Near-Field Communication (Similar to RFID)
- Proximity (close contact)
- FLIR: Forward Looking Infra-red Radar camera (heat signature radiation)
- Finger Print Scanner
- Gravity Sensor
- Hygrometer (Air humidity)
- GPS: Global Positioning Satellite System (longitude, latitude, altitude)
- NFC: Near-Field Communication
- Pedometer (movement)
- Soil Moisture
- Gas Detector
- Smoke Detector
How Do IoT Sensors Work?
IoT sensors/electronic sensors work in many different ways.
For me to explain how each individual component works would require a much more extensive coverage than this blog post.
However I will cover some IoT sensors here to give you a good understanding of how some of these components work.
The above image shows an LDR (Light Dependant Resistor) otherwise known as a photoresistor.
As the name suggests, this component acts as a resistor but the resistance of this component decreases as more light is exposed to the light sensitive material on the top.
Also the opposite is true. As less light falls on the surface of the component then the more resistance it will have.
We can use voltage changes and mathematics across this component to measure it’s state.
This data can be stored electronically and can be further processed if we need.
We can program a computer to switch on a light when a room becomes dark for example.
The relationship between voltage, current and resistance is known as Ohm’s Law and more information on this topic can be found on the wiki.
Many IoT sensors exist as a single component such as the LDR that I previously mentioned above.
Some sensors require some supporting electronic components to function such as an ultrasonic range sensor and so we would see these exist as a module (on a circuit board).
Usually we would purchase these modules ready-made and manufactured.
Reasons for this would include cost, time and reliability.
The ultrasonic range sensor module would emit ultrasonic sound (meaning that humans can’t hear it) and then detect it’s emitted sound reflection.
This sensor module can detect a physical object in front of it at a close proximity such as a wall because the sound waves reflect back from the wall and enter the receiver component.
This module is commonly seen in robotic projects on wheels that would stop it from crashing into walls for example.
What Is IoT Sensor Data?
In the above section I described how the LDR/photoresistor component uses light to physically change the component’s resistance.
We are free to use this data how we please once the local electronic device that holds the LDR stores this data as binary digits in memory.
For example then we can send this data to a central server on the internet where it can be further accessed by other computers.
We could also send this data direct to another device such as our mobile phone.
How Do IoT Sensors Collect Data?
IoT sensors will store data if we program it to do so. We would usually set a time interval such as every 10 seconds or every minute for example.
Computers work fast and so we would’t usually want a sensor reading every micro-second for example unless it’s purpose required it to do so.
As you can imagine, storing a sensor reading every thousand or even a million times per second would store a vast amount of unnecessary data very quickly.
Depending on what we want the data for would depend on what we would do with the data that has been collected.
If we wanted to trigger a switch on the same device that’s collecting the data then we would store the data in that local device such as a Raspberry Pi or Arduino.
However, we can also transmit this sensor data to a remote location over the internet where we can monitor this data or use it activate a switch on another device somewhere else in the world.
What Are The Most Used Sensor Types In IoT?
We live in a world where almost everyone in the world carries a mobile phone with them.
Today’s mobile smart phones incorporate many different types of sensors such as ones that I’ve already mentioned above.
Components are getting smaller over time and so it makes it possible to fit more of these sensors in to small devices.
Today’s mobile smart phones usually have the following sensors (among others):
Technically I wouldn’t say that a camera is an IoT/electronic sensor even though it’s also an input component.
However, camera software can be used in conjunction with a camera to detect movement.
Some camera’s can be used to detect heat signatures too.
A mobile smart phone makes an excellent example of an IoT device.
As you go about your daily life while carrying your phone, you are essentially a walking IoT device.
The sensors inside the phone are sensing real-world data around you and these sensors are storing data more often than we would think.
Phone manufacturers such as Google and Apple and also app developers of your installed apps can pull data from your phone.
Sometimes we allow this data to be taken and other times this data is taken without our consent unfortunately.
In this post I covered the subject of “what are IoT sensors?”
By now you should have a good understanding of how some of these electronic components work individually and how data is stored and processed interactively.
I also covered some of the most common IoT sensor types and briefly described how they work physically.
It’s very possible to build a cheap IoT system and here is more information if you’re interested in trying it at home.
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OSMB Reminds Boaters To Be Sober On Water
This Memorial Day weekend is the official kick-off for the boating season in Oregon. The Oregon State Marine Board wants to remind boaters headed to the water to stay sober, wear a life jacket and be courteous to other boaters.
The Coast Guard reports that remains in the top 10 contributing factors in accidents and fatalities. In 2011, there were 296 accidents with 243 injuries and 125 deaths attributed to alcohol consumption, nationwide. Alcohol or other substances impair judgment, vision, balance and coordination and the effects are amplified on the water due to the motion of the boat and glare, wind and sun, increasing the likelihood of boating accidents and fatalities. And the reality is any amount of alcohol impairs a person to some degree, usually starting with their inhibitions.
In Oregon, a boater is considered legally “under the influence” with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or higher. What this means is the boater will automatically lose boating privileges and pay a fine. Marine deputies can still arrest boaters for observed impairment below 0.08 percent BAC, which can still lead to a boating under the influence conviction. An impaired boat operator who is arrested for BUI faces fines of up to $6,250 and/or up to one year in jail, loss of boat operation privileges and suspension of boat registration for up to three years.
Play it safe by:
* Leaving alcohol at home or on the shore. Instead, take along non-alcoholic beverages and plenty of water.
* If you are feeling fatigued, take a break on land and return to the water when you are re-energized and alert.
* If you dock somewhere to eat and choose to drink alcohol with your meal, wait a minimum of one hour for each drink consumed before operating your watercraft.
* Being alcohol-free while onboard is the safest way to enjoy the water. Intoxicated passengers are equally at risk of injury and death.
* Operators and passengers should wear properly fitting life jackets. To learn more about life jacket types, styles and legal requirements, visit http://www.oregon.gov/OSMB/pages/safety/lifejacket.aspx.
* Take a boating safety course. In Oregon, all boaters must now take a boating safety course and carry a boater education card when operating a powerboat greater than 10 horsepower.
* Never boat alone -especially when paddling.
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Language barrier can really be a pain while communicating with people, likewise the web is also made up of several websites which are not in your native language. So would you skip reading interesting content, just because it is in a language you do not understand.
Most likely the answer would be yes, however, there are several ways to translate web page content, one of involves Google Translate, but what if you want to subscribe to a RSS feed of a website in a foreign language?
Turns out that there are several ways in which you can translate RSS Feeds and then subscribe to them in your own native language. I will list out a few resources using which you can translate RSS feeds to your own language and then subscribe to them in your RSS reader.
Also Read: 10 Ways To Combine and Mashup Multiple RSS Feeds
Google Reader Translation
If you are a Google Reader user, translating feeds to your own language is a piece of cake. Just subscribe to the RSS feed you want in Google Reader and click on the "Feed Settings" button. From the available options, select "Translate into my language" for the foreign language feed. That’s it, Google will use the Translate API to translate the feed to the language you have in your account settings.
Yahoo Pipes is one of the most innovative piece of software ever created. It allows you to mashup RSS feeds and create a single one. In addition to that, Yahoo Pipes also offers several other functionalities, one of them being the ability to translate RSS feeds to your native language.
Webware has detailed instructions on how you can translate a RSS feed to your own language. Head over to this link to learn the trick.
Ed Note: The Babel Fish translation operator is deprecated, you will find it under the Deprecated options.
Feed Language Translation
Feed Language is a RSS feed translator which is powered by the Google AJAX API and uses Google Translate API for translating feeds to and from 52 languages. To create a feed, just enter the URL of the RSS feed and select the language combination.
Feed Language will create a new RSS feed which will contain the translated content. You can then use the new RSS URL to subscribe to the feed in your RSS reader.
Mloovi – RSS Feed Translator
Mloovi is a free tool which translates RSS newsfeeds from and to 52 languages using Google Translate. You can sing up for a free account and translate RSS feeds to your language. The converted RSS feeds will contain ads from Mloovi.
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This year is set to be the deadliest year for refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean in the desperate attempt to reach safety or a better life in Europe, with the mortality rate tripling since 2015, according to a new report.
The Amnesty International report, called A perfect storm: The failure of European policies in the Central Mediterranean, links the soaring death toll in the Mediterranean, which has seen 2,000 deaths since January, to failing E.U. policies. The route between Libya and Italy has become the primary means for refugees arriving in Europe, and the most hazardous.
It found that by giving non-governmental organizations (NGOs) the largest share of responsibility for search and rescue in the sea crossing, Europe’s governments have failed to prevent drownings and the horrific abuses, including torture and rape, that are faced by thousands of refugees and migrants in Libyan detention centres.
According to the report, E.U. leaders dramatically decreased the number of deaths at sea in 2015 when they implemented measures to strengthen search and rescue capacity in the central Mediterranean, including providing more rescue boats closer to Libyan territorial waters.
However, the report said that governments then shifted their approach, instead preventing the departures of boats from Libya in order to keep the number of arrivals in Europe down. Amnesty described this as “a failing strategy that has led to ever more dangerous crossings and a threefold increase in the death-rate from 0.89% in the second half of 2015 to 2.7% in 2017.”
The report criticises the E.U. for focusing on strengthening the Libyan coastguard’s ability to prevent departures and intercept boats – which often put refugees and migrants at risk – rather than deploy an “adequately resourced and dedicated humanitarian operation near Libyan territorial waters.”
Amnesty has been made aware of allegations that members of the Libyan coastguard have abused migrants, with some even shooting guns towards boats. A U.N. report published in June on the situation in Libya had similar findings. It mentioned a number of human rights violations against migrants including “executions, torture and deprivation of food, water and access to sanitation.” The report added that “Abd al-Rahman Milad (alias Bija), and other coastguard members, are directly involved in the sinking of migrant boats using firearms.”
“If the second half of this year continues as the first and urgent action is not taken, 2017 looks set to become the deadliest year for the deadliest migration route in the world,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Europe Director, in a statement. “The E.U. must rethink its cooperation with Libya’s woefully dysfunctional coastguard and deploy more vessels where they are desperately needed.”
Italy is currently caught up in a dispute with NGOs over search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, threatening to prevent them from docking in Italian ports if they didn’t better manage how they are dropping off refugees. Italy wants other EU states to take in refugees saved at sea.
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AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of public scoping session and extension of public comment period.
SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is holding a public scoping session for issue-focused public meeting(s) to be held in April 2009 on the APHIS proposed rule, ``Importation, Interstate Movement, and Release Into the Environment of Certain Genetically Engineered Organisms.'' The purpose of the scoping session is to discuss with all interested parties the agenda and format for the April 2009 issue meeting(s).
DATES: The scoping session will be on March 13, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The scoping session will be held at USDA Center at Riverside, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, MD, in Conference Room A. For directions or facilities information, call (301) 734-8010. Other Information: Additional details regarding the format of the meeting are available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotechnology/340/ 340_index.shtml.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you plan to attend the scoping session, please contact Mr. Richard Coker, BRS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238; (301) 734-5720.
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
SUMMARY: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces its decision to expand the scope of the Mitchell Act Hatchery Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to include analysis of the environmental effects of hatchery programs in a way that will inform future NMFS decisions about Endangered Species Act compliance for all Columbia River hatchery programs. Our previous notice of intent to prepare an EIS on the funding and operation of Columbia River hatcheries under the Mitchell Act was published on September 3, 2004. We are opening a 30-day comment period on our decision to expand the scope.
DATES: Written or electronic comments from all interested parties are encouraged and must be received no later than 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time April 13, 2009.
ADDRESSES: All comments concerning the preparation of the EIS and NEPA process should be addressed to: Patty Dornbusch, NMFS, 1201 N.E. Lloyd Blvd., Suite 1100, Portland, OR 97232. Comments may also be submitted via fax (503) 872-2737 Attn: Mitchell Act Hatchery EIS, or by electronic mail to MitchellActEIS.email@example.com with a subject line containing the document identifier: ``Mitchell Act Hatchery EIS.''
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Patty Dornbusch, NMFS Northwest Region, (503) 230-5430.
GENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of application for letter of authorization; request for comments and information.
SUMMARY: NMFS has received a request from the U.S. Navy (Navy) for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to military readiness training activities and research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT&E) to be conducted in the Northwest Training Range Complex (NWTRC) for the period beginning September 2009 and ending September 2014. Pursuant to the implementing regulations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is announcing our receipt of the Navy's request for the development and implementation of regulations governing the incidental taking of marine mammals and inviting information, suggestions, and comments on the Navy's application and request.
DATES: Comments and information must be received no later than April 10, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the application should be addressed to Michael Payne, Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3225. The mailbox address for providing email comments is PR1.0648-XN87@noaa.gov. NMFS is not responsible for e-mail comments sent to addresses other than the one provided here. Comments sent via e-mail, including all attachments, must not exceed a 10-megabyte file size.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jolie Harrison, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, (301) 713-2289, ext. 166.
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.
SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (Navy) announces its decision to revise the Record of Decision (ROD) issued on June 26, 2008, and published on July 7, 2008 (73 FR 38424) on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (OEIS) for the Hawaii Range Complex (HRC). These revisions address the authorizations recently issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in December 2008 and January 2009 under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for the incidental harassment of marine mammals resulting from Navy training and Department of Defense (DoD) research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) activities conducted within the HRC for the proposed action presented in Alternative 3. The Revised ROD is effective February 26, 2009. Except as discussed in the Revised ROD, all other provisions of the June 26, 2008 ROD remain in full force and effect. Implementation of the preferred alternative, initiated in June 2008 will continue. Because the Navy is required by section 5062 of Title 10 of the United States Code to organize, train, equip, and maintain combat-ready forces, ongoing training and RDT&E activities within the HRC will continue at current levels in the event that the proposed action is not implemented.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Revised ROD has been distributed to all those individuals who requested a copy of the Final EIS/OEIS and agencies and organizations that received a copy of the Final EIS/OEIS. The full text of the Revised ROD is available for public viewing at http://www.govsupport.us/navynepahawaii/downloads.aspx. Single copies of the Revised ROD will be made available upon request by contacting the Public Affairs Officer, Pacific Missile Range Facility, Attn: HRC EIS/OEIS REVISED ROD, P.O. Box 128, Kekaha, Hawaii 96752-0128; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org; or calling the Public Affairs Officer at telephone: 866-767-3347.
AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
ACTION: Notice of open teleconference meeting.
SUMMARY: This notice announces an open teleconference meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee under the Biomass Research and Development Act of 2000. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that agencies publish these notices in the Federal Register to allow for public participation. This notice announces the meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee.
DATES: March 19, 2009 at 11 a.m.-12 p.m. EST.
ADDRESSES: Meeting will be conducted via conference call. Call-in information can be obtained by contacting T.J. Heibel at (410) 997-7778 ext. 223; e-mail: email@example.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Valri Lightner, Designated Federal Official for the Committee, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585; (202) 586-0937 or T.J. Heibel at (410) 997-7778 ext. 223; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of document availability and request for comments.
SUMMARY: The Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007 is available for public review. Annual U.S. emissions for the period of time from 1990 through 2007 are summarized and presented by source category and sector. The inventory contains estimates of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), perfluorocarbons (PFC), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions. The inventory also includes estimates of carbon fluxes in U.S. agricultural and forest lands. The technical approach used in this report to estimate emissions and sinks for greenhouse gases is consistent with the methodologies recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and reported in a format consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reporting guidelines. The Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007 is the latest in a series of annual U.S. submissions to the Secretariat of the UNFCCC.
DATES: To ensure your comments are considered for the final version of the document, please submit your comments within 30 days of the appearance of this notice. However, comments received after that date will still be welcomed and be considered for the next edition of this report.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to Mr. Leif Hockstad at: Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Division (6207J), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460, Fax: (202) 343-2359. You are welcome and encouraged to send an e-mail with your comments to email@example.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Leif Hockstad, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Climate Change Division, (202) 343-9432, firstname.lastname@example.org.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
SUMMARY: Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92463, EPA gives notice of a meeting of the National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT). NACEPT provides advice to the EPA Administrator on a broad range of environmental policy, technology, and management issues. NACEPT is a committee of individuals who represent diverse interests from academia, industry, non- governmental organizations, and local, state, and tribal governments. To mark NACEPT's 20th anniversary and its achievements over the last two decades, a project was initiated to: (1) Identify the issues and challenges that EPA will face and should focus on over the next 10 years; (2) Review NACEPT's operations and accomplishments; and (3) Develop a strategic framework for how NACEPT can best serve EPA based on the prospective and retrospective findings. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the prospective and retrospective reports, and to develop a strategic framework for the Council. A copy of the agenda for the meeting will be posted at http://www.epa.gov/ocem/nacept/cal- nacept.htm.
DATES: NACEPT will hold a two-day meeting on Wednesday, March 25, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday, March 26, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, 201 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD 20745. The meeting is open to the public, with limited seating on a first- come, first-served basis.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sonia Altieri, Designated Federal Officer, email@example.com, (202) 564-0243, U.S. EPA, Office of Cooperative Environmental Management (1601M), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency), National Center for Environmental Innovation (NCEI) is giving notice of the availability of its solicitation for proposals from institutions that are interested in organizing two symposia over four years to promote sharing and transfer of innovative environmental protection approaches among States, EPA, and other primarily governmental representatives. The solicitation is available at the Agency’s State Innovation Grant Web site: http://www.epa.gov/innovation/2010symposium.htm, or may be requested from the Agency by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org, telephone, or by mail.
Eligible recipients include States, territories, Indian Tribes, interstate organizations, intrastate organizations, and possessions of the U.S., including the District of Columbia, public and private universities and colleges, hospitals, laboratories, other public or private nonprofit institutions, and individuals. Nonprofit organizations described in Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code that engage in lobbying activities as defined in Section 3 of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 are not eligible to apply. For-profit organizations are generally not eligible for funding.
DATES: Eligible applicants will have until April 22, 2009, to respond with a pre-proposal, budget, and project summary.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the solicitation can be downloaded from the Agency’s Web site at http://www.epa.gov/innovation/2010symposium.htm or may be requested by telephone (202-566-2236), or by e-mail email@example.com. You can request a solicitation application package be sent to you by fax or by mail by contacting NCEI as indicated below. Applicants are requested to apply online using the www.grants.gov Web site with an electronic signature. Applicants are encouraged to submit their pre-proposals early. For those applicants who lack the technical capability to apply electronically via www.grants.gov, please contact Scott Fontenot by phone at (202) 566-2236 and/or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org, for alternative submission procedures. FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this notice, please contact EPA at this e-mail address: email@example.com or, you may call Scott Fontenot at (202) 566-2236.
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, EPA gives notice of a public meeting of the Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee (PPDC) on April 22-23, 2009. A draft agenda is under development that will include reports from and discussions about current issues from the following PPDC work groups: Work Group on 21st Century Toxicology/New Integrated Testing Strategies; Work Group on Web-Distributed Labeling; and Work Group on Comparative Safety Statements for Pesticide Product Labeling. The agenda will also include a discussion about current water quality issues (including an update on spray drift); a discussion about an overall strategy regarding incident data, including pyrethroid incidents and pet incidents; and updates on the Endocrine Disruptors Screening Program, Pollinator Protection, and the Endangered Species Act consultation process. Several PPDC work group meetings have also been scheduled in March and April 2009, and are open to the public. Information about all of these meetings can be found on EPA's website at: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ppdc.
DATES: The PPDC meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, April 23, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. To request accommodation of a disability, please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT, preferably at least 10 days prior to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your request.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in the Conference Center on the lobby level at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's location at 1 Potomac Yard South, 2777 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA. This location is approximately one mile from the Crystal City Metro Station.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margie Fehrenbach, Office of Pesticide Programs (7501P), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 308-4775; fax number: (703) 308-4776; e-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.org.
Executive Order 13505 of March 9, 2009
Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research Involving Human Stem Cells
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. Research involving human embryonic stem cells and human non-embryonic stem cells has the potential to lead to better understanding and treatment of many disabling diseases and conditions. Advances over the past decade in this promising scientific field have been encouraging, leading to broad agreement in the scientific community that the research should be supported by Federal funds.
For the past 8 years, the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund and conduct human embryonic stem cell research has been limited by Presidential actions. The purpose of this order is to remove these limitations on scientific inquiry, to expand NIH support for the exploration of human stem cell research, and in so doing to enhance the contribution of America's scientists to important new discoveries and new therapies for the benefit of humankind.
Sec. 2. Research. The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of NIH, may support and conduct responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell research, to the extent permitted by law.
Sec. 3. Guidance. Within 120 days from the date of this order, the Secretary, through the Director of NIH, shall review existing NIH guidance and other widely recognized guidelines on human stem cell research, including provisions establishing appropriate safeguards, and issue new NIH guidance on such research that is consistent with this order. The Secretary, through NIH, shall review and update such guidance periodically, as appropriate.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
Sec. 5. Revocations. (a) The Presidential statement of August 9, 2001, limiting Federal funding for research involving human embryonic stem cells, shall have no further effect as a statement of governmental policy.
(b) Executive Order 13435 of June 20, 2007, which supplements the August 9, 2001, statement on human embryonic stem cell research, is revoked.
(Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration on a wide range of issues, including improvement of public health, protection of the environment, increased efficiency in the use of energy and other resources, mitigation of the threat of climate change, and protection of national security.
The public must be able to trust the science and scientific process informing public policy decisions. Political officials should not suppress or alter scientific or technological findings and conclusions. If scientific and technological information is developed and used by the Federal Government, it should ordinarily be made available to the public. To the extent permitted by law, there should be transparency in the preparation, identification, and use of scientific and technological information in policymaking. The selection of scientists and technology professionals for positions in the executive branch should be based on their scientific and technological knowledge, credentials, experience, and integrity.
By this memorandum, I assign to the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (Director) the responsibility for ensuring the highest level of integrity in all aspects of the executive branch's involvement with scientific and technological processes. The Director shall confer, as appropriate, with the heads of executive departments and agencies, including the Office of Management and Budget and offices and agencies within the Executive Office of the President (collectively, the "agencies"), and recommend a plan to achieve that goal throughout the executive branch.
Specifically, I direct the following:
Within 120 days from the date of this memorandum, the Director shall develop recommendations for Presidential action designed to guarantee scientific integrity throughout the executive branch, based on the following principles:
(a) The selection and retention of candidates for science and technology positions in the executive branch should be based on the candidate's knowledge, credentials, experience, and integrity;
(b) Each agency should have appropriate rules and procedures to ensure the integrity of the scientific process within the agency;
(c) When scientific or technological information is considered in policy decisions, the information should be subject to well-established scientific processes, including peer review where appropriate, and each agency should appropriately and accurately reflect that information in complying with and applying relevant statutory standards;
(d) Except for information that is properly restricted from disclosure under procedures established in accordance with statute, regulation, Executive Order, or Presidential Memorandum, each agency should make available to the public the scientific or technological findings or conclusions considered or relied on in policy decisions;
(e) Each agency should have in place procedures to identify and address instances in which the scientific process or the integrity of scientific and technological information may be compromised; and
(f) Each agency should adopt such additional procedures, including any appropriate whistleblower protections, as are necessary to ensure the integrity of scientific and technological information and processes on which the agency relies in its decisionmaking or otherwise uses or prepares.
Each agency shall make available any and all information deemed by the Director to be necessary to inform the Director in making recommendations to the President as requested by this memorandum. Each agency shall coordinate with the Director in the development of any interim procedures deemed necessary to ensure the integrity of scientific decisionmaking pending the Director's recommendations called for by this memorandum.
(a) Executive departments and agencies shall carry out the provisions of this memorandum to the extent permitted by law and consistent with their statutory and regulatory authorities and their enforcement mechanisms.
(b) Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
The Director is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
THE WHITE HOUSE
Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Action: Notice of a meeting
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the CDC announces the following meeting of the aforementioned committee:
Time and Date: 6 p.m.-7 p.m., March 4, 2009.
Place: The teleconference call will originate at the CDC. Details on accessing the teleconference are located in the supplementary information.
Status: Open to the public, teleconference access limited only by availability of telephone ports.
Purpose: The committee will provide advice to the Director, CDC on strategic and other broad issues facing CDC.
Matters To Be Discussed: During this conference call, the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS) will provide recommendations to the ACD, CDC for transmittal to the administration. Since the NBAS was created in May, 2008, the subcommittee has been on a very aggressive timeline in order to provide the administration with key recommendations for improving the nation's biosurveillance capability. In order for these recommendations to go through the proper clearance steps and still be timely and relevant for the administration, the ACD, CDC must review and approve these recommendations as soon as possible. The NBAS was originally scheduled to present these recommendations to the ACD, CDC at the meeting scheduled for February 24, 2009. Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services proposes to rescind the December 19, 2008 final rule entitled “Ensuring That Department of Health and Human Services Funds Do Not Support Coercive or Discriminatory Policies or Practices in Violation of Federal Law.” The Department believes it is important to have an opportunity to review this regulation to ensure its consistency with current Administration policy and to reevaluate the necessity for regulations implementing the Church Amendments, Section 245 of the Public Health Service Act, and the Weldon Amendment.
DATES: Submit written or electronic comment on the regulatory changes proposed by this document by April 9, 2009.
ADDRESSES: In commenting, please refer to “Rescission Proposal.” To better manage the comment process, we will not accept comments by facsimile (FAX) transmission. You may submit comments in one of four ways (no duplicates, please): 1. Electronically. You may submit electronic comments on this regulation to http://www.regulations.gov or via e-mail to email@example.com. To submit electronic comments to http:// www.regulations.gov, go to the Web site and click on the link “Comment or Submission” and enter the keywords “Rescission Proposal.” [Attachments should be in Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or Excel; however, we prefer Microsoft Word.] 2. By regular mail. You may mail written comments (one original and two copies) to the following address only: Office of Public Health and Science, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: Rescission Proposal Comments, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 716G, Washington, DC 20201. 3. By express or overnight mail. You may send written comments (one original and two copies) to the following address only: Office of Public Health and Science, Department of Health and Human Services, Attention: Rescission Proposal Comments, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Room 716G, Washington, DC 20201. 4. By hand or courier. If you prefer, you may deliver (by hand or courier) your written comments (one original and two copies) before the close of the comment period to the following address: Room 716G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201. (Because access to the interior of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building is not readily available to persons without federal government identification, commenters are encouraged to leave their comments in the mail drop slots located in the main lobby of the building. A stamp- in clock is available for persons wishing to retain proof of filing by stamping in and retaining an extra copy of the documents being filed.) Inspection of Public Comments: All comments received before the close of the comment period are available for viewing by the public, including any personally identifiable or confidential business information that is included in a comment. We post all comments received before the close of the comment period on the following Web site as soon as possible after they have been received: http://www.regulations.gov. Click on the link “Comment or Submission” on that Web site to view public comments. Comments received timely will also be available for public inspection as they are received, generally beginning approximately 3 weeks after publication of a document, at the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201, Monday through Friday of each week from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Raising chickens is not necessarily something that is done to get fresh eggs. Certain chickens offer you an option to have meat available for food. Some of the best tasting chicken meat is obtained from areas with homesteads. All that is needed is a suitable area and a little hard work to raise meat chickens. This is one task that will provide you with great rewards.
Many people who are thinking about raising meat chickens may not know where to start. Some people who have tried this often learn the hard way, but local chicken experts have tricks they can offer. If the thought of raising meat chickens is appealing, then important information is needed. This includes the need to have a simple coop for your chickens.
A coop for chickens can be anything from a shed to something that may resemble a dog house. Once your chicken coop has been constructed, then you can start to think about various types of meat chickens. The chickens for your homestead will come from a hatchery. This is where to start looking for a suitable breed.
If you do not have a hatchery nearby, then look for any farms that are family owned. They will have all the information about the breeds they raise. You may want to research online to learn about meat chickens you can get for your homestead. The best option is to transport any new chicks yourself instead of having them delivered by a third-party shipper.
You have many options to consider for raising meat chickens. This includes the type of feed and if you will be keeping them in a confined area. Being organic is all the rage today (with good reason!) and is the most likely option if you want to start raising chickens.
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Jeanne Long – Universal Clock
Universal Clock by Jeanne Long teaches you that we can somehow precisely predict the future just by taking a long way back into the past events.
Believing that the future is naught but a repetition and a mere reflection of past events, Universal Clock by Jeanne Long shows that there is a potential possibility that we can accurately forecast those future events in all financial markets, as long as you are willing to do what is necessary – taking a long journey into the vague and elusive past to determine the causes.
Universal Clock featuring the Wheel of 24 of W.D.Gann has been a breakthrough at its time with the technical analysis and practical application of planetary positions upon the financial markets. With clear instructions, the course clears out the confusion and frustration, and make sure that you are well familiar with not only the concept but also the insights into each individual for instant use.
- Chapter 1 – Following In The Footsteps Ò W.D.Gann
- Chapter 2 – The Archeoastronomy Legacy
- Chapter 3 – Price Repetition Patterns
- Chapter 4 – The Universal Clock
- Chapter 5 – Planets In Action
- Chapter 6 – The Divisions On The Universal Clock
- Chapter 7 – Wheels Within Wheels
- Chapter 8 – Planets Take Price By The Hand
What will you learn?
- What the Universal Clock is and how it works
- Using the Universal Clock to forecast the time and price of a trade
- In-depth instruction on W.D.Gann’s mysterious Wheel of 24
- Astro-techniques that are potentially practical in the modern marketplace
- The author’s very own technical tools combined with the aforementioned techniques
- Insights into timing special events
Who is this course for?
Universal Clock by Jeanne Long offers a special approach to understanding and predicting the markets, which may spark interest in traders at all levels.
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The empty bottles are backed up at the feed screw. The screw is geared to the infeed star. The infeed star, which is driven by a servo motor, takes over the bottles and feeds them into the filling carousel. The bottles taken from the infeed star are stopped mechanically or pneumatically and filled through fast-switching valves. The filling process is controlled by continuously measuring the liquid level.
After the bottles are filled, they are fed to the transfer star from where they are taken to the bottle capping machine. The bottles are capped with individual caps mechanically, pneumatically or by means of a servo motor.
Highly dynamic servo drives for optimum movement of star wheels and bottle capping machines
FlexProfile allows for motion control that is perfectly adjusted to the process
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3 April 2014 Highlighting the critical importance of keeping investments in health high on the international development agenda, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encouraged African decision-makers today to fund programmes for the eradication of malaria.
“Since the Millennium Development Goals were launched, we have seen proof that fighting malaria is a good investment that saves lives and speeds up economic progress,” said Mr. Ban earlier today at an African Union-sponsored Roll Back Malaria event in Brussels.
The Secretary-General, who has been in Brussels much of this week holding talks with European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) officials on a host of pressing global issues, said in a 12-year period, larger-scale malaria interventions saved 3.3 million lives, 90 per cent of which were children.
As the 2015 deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, Mr. Ban urged countries to boost their funding for malaria control. As of 2012, only half of the $5 billion needed to reach everyone had been funded.
“As one [World Health Organization] official put it, this “half” amount can be seen as a glass half full or half empty,” said the UN chief. “We would all prefer to see the glass half full. But for too many people, the glass is half empty. This is true for parents who have no nets to cover their children and patients who cannot get treatment. It is also true for the displaced families who run from conflict after so much loss – and then have to struggle against malaria as well.
The Secretary-General went on to explain that malaria affects primarily the most vulnerable populations such as children and displaced persons. “Eight out of every ten [Central African] refugees arriving in Cameroon are affected by malaria and other diseases,” he deplored, adding that “even in secure parts of Africa, where governments are strong and societies are at peace, hundreds of thousands of people fall ill and die from preventable diseases every year.”
Mr. Ban applauded the efforts made to “fill the glass” by the Roll Back Malaria UN-partnering campaign. The initiative is the global framework to implement coordinated action against malaria. It mobilizes for action and resources and forges consensus among partners.
“We need to ensure that Governments, bilateral and multilateral donors, and private sector contributors increase their levels of funding to support all needed efforts to address malaria around the world,” concluded Mr. Ban, as he called “on all partners to contribute to health interventions now that will save costs and lives in the future.”
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Flint Residents Debt-to-Income Ratios
Flint residents have 599 median credit score and the average number of late payments is about 7.35. Below represented DTI (Debt-to-Income) ratios shows how Flint residents debts stacks up against their income. As of 2020.
Credit Card DTI
Car Loan DTI
Student Loan DTI
Flint Residents Financial Statistics
Below represented statistics is for Flint, Genesee County, Michigan. As of 2019.
Median age of Flint's residents, years
Labour force participation rate, %
Unemployment rate, %
% of residents with no health insurance
Median individual income, USD
Median household income, USD
% of households with income under $35,000
% of households with income $35,000 - $75,000
% of households with income $75,000 - $100,000
% of households with income over $100,000
% of households that own their residence
Median home value owned by residents, USD
Median rent cost, USD
Rent Burden, %
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#SustyTalk: ITV’s Julia Giannini on science-based targets, supply chains and disclosure
edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with content editor Matt Mace discussing ITV's new science-based carbon targets with the company's senior manager of Social Purpose Julia Giannini.
With edie readers working remotely or on furlough, this brand new series of video interviews keeps you connected to the inspirational business leaders who are continuing to drive sustainability and champion climate action from their own homes.
#SustyTalk is all about keeping edie’s loyal readers connected to sustainable business leaders across the world, whilst reminding us all that sustainability and climate action must go on through the current Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
The latest episode sees edie’s content editor Matt Mace talk to ITV’s senior manager of Social Purpose Julia Giannini to discuss the company’s new 1.5C science-based targets.
The company has now confirmed that it will aim to reduce scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 46.2% by 2030 and scope 3 emissions by 28% by 2030, both against a 2019 baseline. The targets will be approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
ITV will also join the RE100 later this year, as part of a commitment to power the business with 100% renewable energy by 2025. ITV’s owned buildings in the UK are already powered completely by renewables, accounting for 55.4% of its global electricity consumption.
During the conversation, Giannini outlines how the science-based targets were set during a disruptive six months for the global economy. The conversation touches on ITV’s new commitment to engage its suppliers to act more sustainably and its progress as a signatory of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
During the conversation, Giannini also noted how the global response to coronavirus pandemic should be approached through the lens of climate action.
“The fact we’ve set a 1.5C science-based target is a really strong commitment to show we are willing to listen to global science and we are willing to act upon global science,” Giannini says. “You can see that reaction in the way we’ve had to respond to Covid-19 as a global society. There is a real marrying of interests in terms of the pandemic we find ourselves in and the justification for why we need to respond in a similar way to what climate science is telling us.”
edie spoke to Giannini last year to discuss how sustainability had been embedded at the organisation via a top-down approach supported by chief executive Carolyn McCall, DBE. Read the interview here.
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When you're struggling to study for finals, navigate the complexities of college relationships and gather enough money for rent and textbooks, starting a business might be the last thing on your mind. But many business giants began their careers in college, and you don't have to have a small fortune -- or even lots of free time -- to start a business. While building a start-up is work, starting in college can help you get the experience you need to enter the business world and can enable you to build a strong base of loyal customers.
If you're artsy, a handmade business could be an ideal creative outlet and a money-making opportunity. Whether it's handmade jewelry, ceramics, clothing or furniture, the market for handmade items is rapidly expanding. Websites focusing on handcrafted items such as Etsy and Artfire provide ready access to customers who are already interested in buying these items, and setting up a storefront is free. You'll still need to market yourself and use search-engine friendly terms in your item descriptions, but with talent and some luck, you can quickly begin making money.
Reselling is the practice of purchasing, then selling any item for a markup. For college students, used textbooks, vintage clothing and antique store finds can be excellent items to resell. You can set up shop on an online marketplace such as eBay, advertise in local newspapers or -- if your school or apartment allows it-- sell directly out of your apartment or dorm. You'll need to choose items that people want to buy, and add a markup that's sufficient to cover your costs of doing business.
Teaching and Coaching
If you're a strong student, play an instrument or are good at a sport, a tutoring or coaching business could be ideal. College students sometimes need writing coaches to help them write essays, tutors to help them through challenging classes, music teachers, or coaches to help them practice their sport in between team practices. You can set up an independent business and advertise to fellow students or see if your school is looking to contract with tutors or coaches.
Cleaning and lawn services, baby-sitting and errand-running might not seem particularly glamorous, but many people need these services, which means there's a huge market. Particularly if you can get a group of friends together to share the work, you might be able to quickly gain a loyal following. Advertise on Internet bulleting boards, social networking sites and on church and organizational bulletin boards.
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The Church of Scotland seeks to be a church that inspires the people of Scotland and beyond with the Good News of Jesus Christ through enthusiastic worshipping, witnessing, nurturing and serving communities.
With over 1000 congregations throughout the country, the Church of Scotland strives to express our love for God by our love and practical care for each other and for those we live with and encounter in our daily lives.
The Church of Scotland’s governing system is presbyterian which means that no one person or group within the Church has more influence or say than any other. The Church does not have one person who acts as the head of faith, as that role is the Lord God’s. Its supreme rule of faith and life is through the teachings of the Bible. You can read more about how the presbyterian nature of the Church of Scotland developed by reading a brief history of the Church. | <urn:uuid:0c421424-6820-4ab0-ad83-0d909482f10a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.canongatekirk.org.uk/about/the-church-of-scotland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.962346 | 180 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Congressional Budget Office this week released a report analyzing various budget scenarios for carrying out the Vision for Space Exploration. This report was prepared as directed by the NASA Authorization Act of 2008 (section 410), which required the CBO to update its 2004 analysis of the projected costs of implementing the VSE.
The CBO […]
While members of Florida’s Congressional delegation push to keep the space shuttle flying after 2010, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) remains on the side of Constellation, particularly the Ares 1. He told the Huntsville Times that NASA couldn’t afford flying the shuttle after 2010 while also supporting Ares and the ISS. “With only so much resources […]
While the White House may not have settled on its pick to be NASA administrator, a libertarian group is prepared if, by some freakish turn of events, it came to power. The group announced today that its pick to “run” NASA would be Jim Davidson. Read on for why “run” is in quotes:
The journal Science wasn’t the only publication new presidential science advisor John Holdren talked with this week when he discussed issues like the future of the shuttle and cooperation with China. In an interview with Nature, Holdren addresses that comment by President Obama regarding the “sense of drift” at NASA:
The president said recently […]
Yesterday the Houston Chronicle wrote the obituary for Nick Lampson’s prospects to become NASA administrator, after Lampson himself appeared to tell the paper that the White House had not offered the job to him and that he was “moving on with my life”. Wait, not so fast, says the Orlando Sentinel in a mid-day blog […]
We don’t have a NASA administrator yet, but we do have a presidential science advisor, in the form of John Holdren, who formally started work last month after a nomination hearing in February. In an interview today with the journal Science, Holdren addressed (among many other things) space policy issues.
He started with playing down […]
Former congressman Nick Lampson tells the Houston Chronicle in today’s edition that he is not a candidate for the NASA administrator job. Lampson said he has not undergone the background checks and other vetting that would correspond with being a candidate for the job. And about those reports he had met with White House Chief […]
The Washington Post’s Joel Achenbach, who wrote the article expressing Sen. Bill Nelson’s frustration at the lack of a NASA administrator, blogged today about another potential candidate: Congressman Bart Gordon, chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee. Achenbach said he asked Gordon about the job and that Gordon “said he already has the best […]
It’s been clear for some time that there are a few members of Congress, like Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), who would like to see the shuttle’s life extended beyond 2010 in order to minimize, or at least delay, the economic fallout that could hit the state’s Space Coast region once the shuttle program shuts down. […] | <urn:uuid:b853c81a-403a-4868-9ada-752fd2200796> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.spacepolitics.com/2009/04/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00449-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958936 | 635 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Airline Transportation Statistics Program provides comprehensive data and analysis to support U.S. DOT policies, programs, and regulations regarding the airline industry. Air transportation plays a critical role in enhancing the economic competitiveness of the nation and it is the data provided by the Airline Transportation Statistics Program that enables the U.S. DOT to make decisions that are well informed.
FY 2012 Airline Transportation Statistics Program
|Program Activity||FY 2010 Actual||FY 2012 Request||ChangeFY 2010-2012|
|Airline Transportation Statistics Program||[4,000]||[5,000]||[1,000]|
1 The total funding includes salaries and administrative expenses and contract program.
Strategic Goal: Safety, economic competitiveness, livable communities, environmental sustainability, state of good repair, and organizational excellence.
Purpose/Beneficiaries: The comprehensive program data necessary for consumer protection and enforcement activities, a major Secretarial priority, and for aviation policy decision making.
Partners: Stakeholders include:
Description: The program collects and disseminates airline data related to on-time flights and other consumer-related issues, domestic and international passenger and freight traffic, passenger ticket information, and airline financial, fuel cost and consumption, and employment information. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) collects data from 130 U.S. airlines and foreign carrier operations to and from the U.S. Annually, BTS collects more than 8,000 data reports from U.S. and foreign carriers. These data are reported by the air carriers as required by regulation.
Base Budget: The base budget is $4M; funding is provided by the FAA through an interagency agreement.
Prior Year Accomplishments:
The program is the sole source of the airline operations data required by federal statute and regulation and essential for USDOT policy making, Congress, the airline industry and the traveling public. Without this funding:
USDOT agencies and Congress would not have the data necessary to provide oversight and make informed policy decisions regarding the airline industry, including operational safety, and its impact on the economy and traveling public;
The airline industry would lose the ability to schedule and set ticket prices based on objective, industry-wide airline data, with potential industry cost impacts since no private sector entity has the authority to collect industry-wide airline data; and
The public would lose access to consumer information possibly used to make informed travel decisions such as airline on-time performance.
Effectiveness Measures: The collection and reporting of airline on-time performance data, including its tarmac delay data, are key components of Secretary LaHood's successful efforts to ensure consumers have available the information necessary to make informed decisions about their travel, and to provide airlines an incentive to reduce the inconvenience and added expense to passengers that results from flight delays. The data also provide USDOT and stakeholders important information on the prevalence of the issue to better inform decision-making.
USDOT enforcement relies on data to enforce rules on tarmac times, chronically delayed and overbooked flights, and the Air Travel Consumer Report. Airline data are the most requested category on the BTS website with more than 10,000 requests per month. Industry representatives use the data for their own analyses and maintain links to the BTS webpage.BTS also receives information on customer satisfaction from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. BTS tracks air travel customers registered on social media networks such as Twitter. GAOrelied heavily on BTS airline statistics for their study of airplane delays and study of ancillary revenues. (See GAO-10-542 National Airspace System: Setting On-Time Performance Targets at Congested Airports Could Help Focus FAA Actions.)
Research: Customer outreach; American Customer Satisfaction Index; data requests; and downloads from RITA web pages and stakeholder feedback.
Efficient: Federal statute and regulation require this data collection program. A key measure of efficiency for the air transportation statistics program is the timeliness with which BTS releases the air carrier data (passenger, flights, freight) to the public, typically within 30 days. On-time data are released within 15 days of carrier submission.
Funding Options: To achieve a` higher level of performance and usability from the airline data program; $5M is required for FY 2012. The increase of $1M over the FY 2010 funding level will support data modernization and related efforts, starting with an information systems requirements analysis that will define what will be needed in the future for development and implementation of the modernized system.
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What is a crosshatch pattern?
Crosshatching is an extension of hatching, which uses fine parallel lines drawn closely together to create the illusion of shade or texture in a drawing. Crosshatching is the drawing of two layers of hatching at right-angles to create a mesh-like pattern.
Is Vince low dyslexia?
Low is very personally invested in his project as he himself has dyslexia. He is drawing well-known dyslexic celebrities for his project because he wants to express that dyslexia is not a curse, but a gift.
What is scribble art called?
What do you mean by scribbling?
(Entry 1 of 2) transitive + intransitive. 1 : to write or draw hastily or carelessly a note scribbled on the back of an envelope Harriet scribbled in her notebook as soon as she took her seat.—
What artist painted Barack Obama?
How do you fill a vector in Illustrator?
Illustrator also allows you to remove the fill from the object.
- Click the “Selection Tool” or “Direct Selection Tool” icons, which are the black or white arrows in the Tools panel, and then click the object you want to fill.
- Click the “Fill” icon in the Tools panel or press “X” to activate the Fill tool.
What is dot painting called?
How do you expand a pattern in Illustrator?
Just go to Edit > Preferences > General (Ctrl + K) or Illustrator > Preferences > General if you are on Mac. Check the Transform Pattern Tiles box and click OK to save. You can also check the Scale Strokes & Effects box to make sure that your stroke weight will change when you resize an object.
What is a foreshortening?
Foreshortening refers to the technique of depicting an object or human body in a picture so as to produce an illusion of projection or extension in space.
Why did Rembrandt make so many self portraits?
What was Diego painting? Why did Rembrandt paint so many self portraits? Because he used his own face to practice painting expressions. How did Rembrandt make a living?
Which artist painted Barack Obama portrait for the Smithsonian?
Does Kehinde Wiley use oil paint?
Trained at Yale University, Wiley won an artist in residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001. His paintings depict contemporary subjects with flawless technique, rich oil works by an artist well-versed in the compositions of the great European portraits.
How do you create a pattern swatch in Illustrator?
Create your own pattern swatch in 5 easy steps with Illustrator
- Arrange vector elements into a square. Go to View > Show Grid.
- Position your elements.
- Create an “invisible box”
- Drag it into the swatches panel.
- Voila + save.
What is a hatch pattern?
Hatch patterns are defined in one or more definition files that have a . pat file extension. Regardless of where a definition is stored, a custom hatch pattern has the same structure. It has a header line with a name, which begins with an asterisk and is no more than 31 characters long, and an optional description.
Why are scribbles considered art?
Random scribbling is considered as art because its known as the first stage of life(early childhood) that involves the ability to use one’s hands and fingers with dexterity, this skill is vital to mastering hand-to-eye coordination mostly for children’s those who are learning how to write.
Who is Vince low?
A young artiste barely 30 years old , Vince LOW comes from KUALA LUMPUR, capital of Malaysia. He presents his art works, a series of portraits whose technical specificity is particularly original. His strokes of pencils go in all directions, to give a scribbling effect.
What are some shading techniques?
- Hatching/Parallel Hatching. This can be considered the most basic of all of the shading techniques included here.
- Cross Hatching. Cross Hatching is like taking parallel hatching to the next level.
- Contour Hatching.
- Tick Hatching.
- Woven Hatching.
How do I make a diagonal pattern in Illustrator?
How To: Create a Seamless Diagonal Pattern in Illustrator
- Start with a “square” artboard.
- Create your vertical line.
- Align your shape to the top right corner.
- Rotate 45 degrees.
- Duplicate your shape and align it to the opposite corner.
- Make a Blend between the 2 shapes.
- Expand your blend.
- Create a square to crop with.
Who invented scribble art?
Cane developed the scribble method as a way to get through the creative block and be satisfied with the artwork. The scribble is the child’s own design and can’t be compared to anyone else’s. Children can have two types of pride.
What type of artist is Kehinde Wiley?
What is the stippling technique?
Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists.
How do I fill text with a pattern in Illustrator?
Using Adobe Illustrator to Create Fill-In Text Patterns
- Create a new document in Adobe Illustrator.
- Select the type tool on the left hand menu and type out your desired text, and then select the font and font size for the text.
- Place an image of the desired fill-in pattern by selecting “Place and select a picture” under the “File” menu.
What media does Vince low use?
- Vince Low wanted to create art from the chaos of pen lines.
- He uses just scribbled lines to produce stunning portraits of stars.
- They were created as part of a campaign to create awareness of dyslexia.
What does Vince low do?
Simply ink-redible: Scribble artist Vince Low makes doodling an artform – Sharmilla Ganesan. Vince Low has turned his dyslexia and his doodling into works of art, taking the jumble of lines he sees and weaving them into portraits that tell a hidden story.
What does a crosshatch pattern look like?
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Marfle solution collects automatically and continuously location and speed data from the vessel motion. On top of that, vast amount of engine CAN bus data is collected, the most important features (among others) being Fuel Rate, RPM, oil pressure and boost pressure. Marfle solution cleanses the data items and displays them on the Vessel Screen.
One could argue that the most elementary output is Fuel Consumption Curve. There are two simple ways to use that curve.
- Accurate Sea Trial Results
Vessel manufacturers as well as many vessel owners and operators do sea trials that are telling us about the performance and the condition of the vessel. The routines for sea trials have existed for a long time.
However, with Marfle solution the monitoring and accuracy may be taken to the next level: it is possible to verify the correct execution of the sea trial plan and high-resolution data is accessible in all stages of the trial and can be replayed in the modern Marfle user-interface at any time. As no data is ever lost, various further data analysis tools may be employed.
- Finding local optimals in RPM curve.
Vessels are usually designed to operate on specific speed and RPM ranges. The fact can be seen easily from the fuel consumption curve (below), where idle and the optimal speed has the most operating hours (green bar). Helmsmen are professional what comes in driving your vessels but their styles may vary. Also, the helmsmen's feeling about the vessel and the measured data may not exactly be the same. With accurate measurements fleet manager may guide helmsmen to optimal use and share the best-practises among helmsmen.
Marfle solution brings very detailed data for the fleet manager in order to adjust the RPM range to be best suited for the job and to prolong the engine life-cycle. Savings in fuel consumption is one natural target. Below you find a case study done by Marfle.
This boat drives pretty well on its optimal RPM ranges, but when there is a speed limit area, the drivers are speeding unduly RPM range on 1200 (See green bar at 1200 RPM). When studying ranges from 1100 to 1300 rpm, the speed increase is almost non-existent while the fuel consumption is increasing sharply (see blue bar and red bar). The local optimal for driving speed limit areas is therefore 1100 RPM.
Guiding the helmsmen to use 1100 RPM when operating around this speed, it can be estimated that 150 litres of fuel could have been saved on this trip. In other words, fleet manager gains almost 1.5% total saving in fuel consumption with one single calculation and one single change. This and other similar phenomena may be found from Fuel Consumption Curve.
Marfle team is continuously investigating vessel data to find things to automate and opportunities to save. Fuel Consumption Curve is just one example of the power of Marfle solution and analytics.
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The kibaran tin and columbite-tantalite provinces in eastern D.R. Congo: Structural control, SnO2- SHRIMP vs muscovite K-Ar geochronology and implications to Rodinia and Gondwana tectonics
|Location||International Geological Congress,oslo 2008|
|Author||Kokonyangi, Joseph۱; Dunkley, Dan۲; Itaya, Tetsumaru۳; Arima, Makoto۴; Yoshida, Masaru۱|
|Holding Date||06 October 2008|
The Mesoproterozoic Kibaran Orogenic System of central Africa developed between 1.4 and 0.95 Ga (from rifting to post collisional stage). It hosts one of the world’s largest and valuable quartz and pegmatite veins mined for cassiterite, tungsten, columbite-tantalite, monazite, ilmenite, gold and REE since the 19s. The origin and time of emplacement of the mineralization is poorly constrained partly because, attempts to date the mineralization through their host rock and/or associated silicates accessory minerals such as micas and feldspar have been hampered by uncertainties and disturbances of isotopic systems. An alternative approach is to date the ore themselves directly.
In this paper, Pb-Pb SHRIMP geochronology was directly applied for the first time on the cassiterite occurring within quartz and pegmatite veins and those disseminated in associated peraluminous, two micas granitoids in the Kalima and Mitwaba areas of eastern DRC. K-Ar ages obtained on muscovite occurring together with the dated cassiterite in greisen are matched to the Pb/Pb SHRIMP data and the significances of individual dates are interpreted in the frame of the metallogeny of central Africa.
Finally, the implication of these geochronological data to the understanding the blocking temperature of cassiterite is assessed. Geochronological data coupled with structural observations are finally used to discuss the Rodinia and Gondwana tectonics between 1000 and 550 Ma in central Africa. | <urn:uuid:16c42a9d-9273-4ad3-bb6c-083900f7216a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsi.ir/en/articles/9710/the-kibaran-tin-and-columbite-tantalite-provinces-in-eastern-d.r.-congo-structural-control-sno2-shrimp-vs-muscovite-k-ar-geochronology-and-implications-to-rodinia-and-gondwana-tectonics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.867094 | 488 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Water temperature is subjective
For all washing skills (hand and nail care, foot care, partial bed bath, peri-care, catheter care), you will need water for bathing. Before filling a basin with water to bring it to the bedside, you must check the water temperature with the inside of your wrist. The water should feel warm, not hot and not cold – just warm. But just because YOU think it feels good, doesn’t mean the patient will agree!
Age is more than just a number
Why? I’m glad you asked! Aging causes REAL changes to the body and one of those changes is just under the skin. As people age, they begin to lose the protective layer of fat beneath their skin. This layer of fat also provides insulation. Without this insulation, an older person will perceive temperatures much differently than you do. Think of it like this: if you go outside in the middle of winter with long pants, boots, mittens and a coat on, the temperature won’t feel quite so bad. Sure, it will be cold, but it’s not unbearable – because you have protective layers on that hold in your body heat and block out the cold. But what if you just had on shorts and a tank top and you were outside in the middle of winter? It is going to feel really, really cold – because you have nothing to hold in your heat and block out the cold. This is what happens as we age…we begin to lose our protective layers. So cold is going to feel really, really cold. And hot water may feel really, really hot. Since you still have your layers, there is no way for you to understand how the patient is going to feel about a certain temperature – because it feels just fine to you!
The patient’s opinion is more important than yours!
So EVERY time you fill a basin with water for a patient’s use, you need to offer it to them and ask them to check the water temperature. If they feel that it is too hot or too cold, then fix it! Ignoring this issue can cause serious injury or discomfort to your patient. Remember, we are there to help THEM – the patient – with things they cannot do themselves. If they could bathe themselves, would they use water they weren’t comfortable with? No. And neither would you. You would adjust the temperature until you were comfortable. You should do the same for them. It is an important component of patient rights. And it is graded on the test. Even when you are performing these skills on a manikin for the test, you must ask the “patient” (the manikin) if the water temperature is okay (the evaluator will check it to ensure that the temperature is appropriate).
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|Ship Class||County-class Heavy Cruiser|
|Builder||John Brown Ltd, Clydebank, Scotland|
|Laid Down||26 Aug 1925|
|Launched||17 Mar 1927|
|Commissioned||24 Apr 1928|
|Decommissioned||31 Aug 1954|
|Displacement||10,240 tons standard; 14,253 tons full|
|Machinery||8 Yarrow boilers, Curtis high pressure and Parson low pressure geared turbines, 4 propellers|
|Power Output||80,000 shaft horsepower|
|Range||2,270nm at 31 knots, 9,500nm at 12 knots|
|Armament||4x2x203mm Mark VIII guns, 4x4x102mm 4in Mark V QF guns, 4x40mm 2pdr guns, 16x.303mm machine guns, 2x4x533mm torpedo tubes, 4x47mm 3pdr guns2x.5in machine guns|
|Armor||38-76mm magazine and machinery spaces, 51mm turrets, 76mm conning tower, up to 110mm belt|
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseHMAS Australia, a 10,240-ton County-class (Kent-sub-class) heavy cruiser, was built at Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. During the first decade of her active career, she mainly served in Australian home waters, but also cruised abroad on occasion. The cruiser was modernized between 1938 and 1939, receiving much improved armor protection plus significant modifications to her forward superstructure, anti-aircraft gun battery, gunfire control systems and aircraft facilities.
ww2dbaseAfter WW2 broke out in Europe in Sep 1939, Australia operated in the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic, protecting shipping routes from the threat of German surface raiders. She went to the north Atlantic in mid-1940, and in Sep of that year took part in the British Navy attack on Dakar, French West Africa, where she was hit by shells from the French cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm. Returning to Australia in 1941, she resumed her shipping protection work in the Indian Ocean.
ww2dbaseIn early 1942, with Japan now at war with the Allies, Australia was flagship of a small task force assigned to protect the South Pacific eastwards from Australia. In that capacity she engaged enemy aircraft in May, during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In August, she participated in the Guadalcanal invasion in the Solomon Islands. Thereafter, she mainly served as one of the heaviest ships involved in the fight for New Guinea island, initially in a covering role. During 1942, the torpedo tubes and machine gun mountings were removed, replaced by seven single 20-millimeter guns with full radar suite (fire control, surface search, and air warning).
ww2dbaseBeginning in late 1943, with the landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Australia provided fire support and surface ship protection for the assault across northern New Guinea. On 8-9 June 1944, she was flagship of the task force that pursued Japanese destroyers off Biak.
ww2dbaseIn Mar 1944, the aircraft and catapult were removed, and the 20-millimeter guns were placed on twin mountings. In Aug 1944, the starboard crane was removed, the derricks and samson posts were substituted, and radar was upgraded.
ww2dbaseHMAS Australia participated in the Leyte invasion in Oct 1944 and the landings at Lingayen Gulf in Jan 1945, both in the Philippine Islands. She was hit by a Japanese plane in the former operation, losing some twenty of her crew. No less than five special attack aircraft struck her during the Lingayen operation, taking the lives of over forty crewmen, but she remained on her gunfire support station until no longer needed.
ww2dbaseIn Feb 1945, her X turret was removed, and two 8-barreled 2-pounder "pom pom" guns were added; additionally, two quadruple, one twin, and two single 40-millimeter Bofors guns were also installed. She remained active in the post-war era, in her final years as a training ship, until she was paid off for the last time in August 1954. HMAS Australia was sold for scrapping in January 1955.
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II
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Last Major Revision: Jan 2005
Heavy Cruiser Australia (D84) Interactive Map
Australia Operational Timeline
|14 Sep 1940||HMS Cumberland detached from convoy escort with HM Cruisers Devonshire, Australia and HM Aircraft Carrier Ark Royal to establish patrol off Cape Verde for interception of three Vichy French cruisers attempting to reach Dakar.|
|18 Sep 1940||HMS Cumberland deployed in pursuit of French warships Gloire, Georges Leygues and Montcalm with HM Australian Cruiser Australia (Note: These ships sailed from Dakar without detection. French ships were later intercepted by HM Cruisers Cornwall and Delhi. The cruiser Gloire was persuaded to go into Casablanca but the other ships went back to Dakar).|
|21 Sep 1940||HMS Cumberland joined HMS Ark Royal, HM Battleships Resolution and Barham, HM Cruisers Devonshire, Australia and Fleet destroyers in support of Free French landing at Dakar and carried out defensive patrol offshore (Operation Menace).|
|28 Jul 1942||US Navy and Marines began a four-day amphibious landing exercise at Fiji as rehearsals for the Guadalcanal landings set for two weeks later.|
|21 Oct 1944||HMAS Australia was hit by a special attack aircraft off the Philippine Islands; it was unsure whether this was a Japanese Army or Navy aircraft as both branches launched tokko attacks on this date.|
|8 Jan 1945||HMAS Australia was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands.|
|9 Jan 1945||HMAS Australia was damaged by Japanese special attack aircraft at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands.|
|1 Jan 1955||Australia was decommissioned from service.|
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(One of the many things where the Roman Catholic Church goes wrong).
If I would walk into a greengrocer and order a loaf of bread, what do you think I will get, and what I will bring home?
Or what would I get, if I went to the bakery store and ask for meat or fish?
Of course this is stupid. Nobody would do that, but when we talk about faith, this is exactly what thousands of people are doing, and than they are still amazed that they do not get what they asked for.
Than again. They are not only at the wrong address; they also do not ask what they need. Instead of that, they just say some words they have learned out of their head. (Like ave Maria)
Crazy? To me it is, but to thousands this is their daily practice. Why? Because it is their religion, because there is a person who tells them they have to do it this way.
Jesus clearly tells us that when we pray we have to pray to the Father in His (Jesus’) name.
Why than are thousands not doing that, but pray to Mary or some other saint?
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“So what are the questions that could save your life?”
– Cathy Edwards, BBC Health Check
“The Checklist is a document, but also a tool for operating rooms that can help us to be safe. Safe for our work and safe for the patient.”
You can see Joselyn and the team in action, in our Checklist video – which shows how communication, planning and commitment brings this mythical piece of paper to life.
Our ongoing work in Rwanda is thanks to phenomenal partners like these, in country and abroad, who know what it takes to make surgery safer.
From the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist pilot study at Kibagabaga, covered by the BBC, to oximeter distribution and training across all operating rooms in the country thanks to generous Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society members, to saving mothers’ lives with training at a SAFE Obstetric anaesthesia course – we’re proud of our work, and to know that this is just the beginning. | <urn:uuid:1dfeab2e-d243-4a24-9549-c3cc469018c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifebox.org/rwanda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.944757 | 210 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Drink-Driving The Morning After: The Penalties
The damaging effects of driving 'the morning after' and how the limits change across the UK,
THINK! has emphasised the penalties people face for driving the morning after a night out while still over the drink-drive limit. These include: a minimum 12 month ban, criminal record, large fine, imprisonment and penalty points on the licence.
However, the safety campaign argues: “This list does not reflect the everyday consequences of being caught”. It claims further potential penalties include: the increased cost of insurance, job loss, trouble getting into countries such as the United States of America, the shame of having a record and the loss of independence.
Road Safety Minister Andrew Jones said: “Getting behind the wheel after a big night out is a risk that drivers just should not take.” During 2013 alone, there were an estimated 740 morning after, drink-drive, collisions. Furthermore, about 5,500 motorists fail a breath test every year between 6am and 12pm.
Mr Jones added: “Not only are they (drink-drivers) putting themselves in danger, they also endanger others and their actions can destroy lives. Wait until you are sober before you think about driving”, he proclaimed.
The National Police Chiefs’ Council lead, Suzette Davenport, added: “The majority of drivers are aware that driving whilst impaired by drink or drugs is not worth the risk - but some do not think about how they will get home or to work the morning after a night out.
She argued: “Thinking ahead about getting home, or to work, safely the following morning is crucial and potentially if you are driving the morning after drinking you may need alternative travel arrangements. Driving under the influence is never worth the risk to yourself, to your future and to those you could injure or kill”.
Drink-Drive Limit In England, Wales and Northern Ireland
The England, Wales and Northern Ireland the drink-drive limit is:
- 35 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath;
- 80 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood;
- 107 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine.
Drink-Drive Limit In Scotland
In Scotland the drink-drive limit is:
- 22 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath;
- 50 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood;
- 67 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of urine.
Impossible To Tell If Over Limit
THINK! further emphasised that: “It is not possible to say how much alcohol you can drink and stay below the limit.” Factors include:
- weight, age, sex and metabolism (rate at which body consumes energy);
- type/amount of alcohol;
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Ellen Schneiderman, R.N., introduces herself recalls the changes a woman's body will go through during the first trimester.
Hi, my name is Ellen Schneiderman and I have been a maternal child nurse for about 25 years now, and here at Banner Desert we see women from Phoenix and the East Valley from Mesa, Phoenix and Scottsdale area.
In the first trimester a woman should be feeling very subtle things. She is going to feel tired. She is going to notice that perhaps she may have some nausea and vomiting. She is going to see her breasts starting to be a little bit tender. She may notice some mood swings. She is going to feel a little bit tired. She may have some increased urination at times and she may have some vaginal spotting at times, which could be normal. If she has some vaginal bleeding however, it’s very important for her to call her doctor right away because that could be a sign that she is having a miscarriage.
During the first trimester is the most important time for the development of her fetus. All the organs are formed during the first trimester and so it’s very important that she maintain a healthy diet, not take any kind of medications without checking with her doctor first because all the organs that the baby will have are formed in the first trimester.
Other things a woman could notice is just a small weight gain in the first trimester, but a good thing for a woman to start doing is to maintain the normal exercise routine that she had prior to getting pregnant because this could keep her weight down as her pregnancy progresses and it can also give her a good sense of well-being because she is going to have some mood swings on and off during her pregnancy, and just to keep her exercise routine going is something that she should start now and continue up until the baby comes and even then after.
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For about four decades now, a course in receptor pharmacology has been given at University College
London for undergraduate students in their final year of study for the Bachelor of Science degree
in pharmacology. More recently, the course has also been taken by students reading for the Bachelor
of Science degree in medicinal chemistry. The students following the course have relied for their
reading upon a variety of sources, including original papers, reviews, and various textbooks, but
no single text brought together the material included in the course.
The last decade or so has seen remarkable advances in our knowledge of cough. This
applies especially to its basic mechanisms: the types of airway sensors, the pharmacological
receptors on their membranes, the brainstem organization of the ‘cough
centre’, and the involvement of the cerebral cortex in the sensations and the voluntary
control of cough. With the exception of the last of these, nearly all the studies
have been on experimental animals rather than humans, for obvious reasons.
Less than 20 years ago the field of cannabis and the cannabinoids was still considered
a minor, somewhat quaint, area of research. A few groups were active in
the field, but it was already being viewed as stagnating. The chemistry of cannabis
was well known, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9-THC), identified in 1964, being the
only major psychoactive constituent and cannabidiol, which is not psychoactive,
possibly contributing to some of the effects. These cannabinoids and several synthetic
analogs had been thoroughly investigated for their pharmacological effects.
How drugs act and interact, how they enter the body, what happens to them inside the body, how they are eliminated from it; the effects of genetics, age, and disease on drug action — these topics are important for, although they will generally not be in the front of the conscious mind of the prescriber, an understanding of them will enhance rational decision taking. Knowledge of the requirements for success and the explanations for failure and for adverse events will enable the doctor to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks of drug therapy. Pharmacodynamics.
is no longer possible, even in the face of an intensive and synchronized release of ACh (C). Although nicotine mimics the action of ACh at the receptors, it cannot duplicate the time course of intrasynaptic agonist concentration required for appropriate high-frequency ganglionic activation. The concentration of nicotine in the synaptic cleft can neither build up as rapidly as that of ACh released from nerve terminals nor can nicotine be eliminated from the synaptic cleft as quickly as ACh.
Adverse Drug Effects
premature breakdown of red blood cells (hemolysis) in subjects with a glucose6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency. The discipline of pharmacogenetics deals with the importance of the genotype for reactions to drugs. The above forms of hypersensitivity must be distinguished from allergies involving the immune system (p. 72). Lack of selectivity (C). Despite appropriate dosing and normal sensitivity, undesired effects can occur because the drug does not specifically act on the targeted (diseased) tissue or organ.
partial charges. When a hydrogen atom bearing a partial positive charge bridges two atoms bearing a partial negative charge, a hydrogen bond is created. A van der Waals’ bond (B) is formed between apolar molecular groups that have come into close proximity. Spontaneous transient distortion of electron clouds (momentary faint dipole, !!) may induce an opposite dipole in the neighboring molecule. The van der Waals’ bond, therefore, is a form of electrostatic attraction, albeit of very low strength (inversely proportional to the seventh power of the distance).
For benefits of chronic alcohol consumption, see page 187. Central nervous system. The development of dependence on alcohol appears to involve alterations in central nervous system neurotransmission. The acute effect of alcohol is to block NMDA receptors for which the normal agonist is glutamate, the main excitatory transmitter in the brain. Chronic exposure increases the number of NMDA receptors and also 'L type' calcium channels, while the action of the (inhibitory) GABA neurotransmitter is reduced.
The reality is more complex since the receptor binding profile of clozapine and the newer atypical antipsychotic agents suggests that D2-receptor blockade is not essential for antipsychotic effect. The atypical drugs act on numerous receptors and modulate several interacting transmitter systems. Clozapine is a highly effective antipsychotic. It has little affinity for the D2-receptor compared with classical drugs but binds more avidly to other dopamine subtypes (e.g. D1, D3 and D4). It blocks muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, as do certain classical agents (e.g.
Overdose, including self-poisoning, causes bradycardia, heart block, hypotension and low output cardiac failure that can proceed to cardiogenic shock; death is more likely with agents having membrane stabilising action (see Table 23.1). Bronchoconstriction can be severe, even fatal, in patients subject to any bronchospastic disease; loss of consciousness may occur with lipid-soluble agents that penetrate the central nervous system. Receptor blockade will outlast the persistence of the drug in the plasma. Rational treatment includes: • Atropine (1-2 mg i.v.
Drugs Acting on Motor Systems
spinal disorders. Benzodiazepines enhance the effectiveness of the inhibitory transmitter GABA (p. 226) at GABAA receptors. Baclofen stimulates GABAB receptors. !2-Adrenoceptor agonists such as clonidine and tizanidine probably act presynaptically to inhibit release of excitatory amino acid transmitters. The convulsant toxins, tetanus toxin (cause of wound tetanus) and strychnine diminish the efficacy of interneuronal synaptic inhibition mediated by the amino acid glycine (A).
Acetylcholine is a widespread chemotransmitter in the body, mediating a broad range of physiological effects.There are two distinct classes of receptor for acetylcholine defined on the basis of their preferential activation by the alkaloids, nicotine (from tobacco) and muscarine (from a fungus, Amanita muscaria). Cholinergic drugs (acetylcholine agonists) mimic acetylcholine at all sites although the balance of nicotinic and muscarinic effects is variable.
Pharmacokinetic Interactions Causing Decreased Drug Effects
Gastrointestinal absorption can be reduced if a drug interaction results in drug binding in the gut, as with aluminum-containing antacids, kaolin-pectin suspensions, or bile acid sequestrants. Drugs such as histamine H 2 receptor antagonists or proton pump inhibitors that alter gastric pH may decrease the solubility and hence absorption of weak bases such as ketoconazole.
Adrenergic receptors (ARs) are expressed in almost all organs and tissues and
regulate a large number of diverse physiological processes upon activation by
epinephrine and norepinephrine. There are three families of ARs, a1, a2, and
b-ARs, with distinct pharmacological properties and functions. Since the first
identification of bARs more than three decades ago, research on ARs has led to
the establishment of many fundamental concepts in G protein-coupled receptor
The topic of pharmacology usually escapes the attention of many college students by
virtue of the fact that pharmacology itself is rarely taught on the undergraduate level.
It generally is reserved for postbaccalaureate students who are enrolled in health
curricula associated with medicine, dentistry, nursing, and the veterinary sciences;
however, certain upper level undergraduates are interested in the subject. This book
is the product of teaching undergraduates the principles of pharmacology over the
last 20 years.
What is ‘biochemical pharmacology’?
• A fancy way of saying ‘pharmacology’, and of hiding
the fact that we are sneaking a subject of medical interest
into the UW biochemistry curriculum.
• An indication that we are not going to discuss prescriptions
for your grandmother’s aching knee; we will focus
on the scientific side of things but not on whether to take
the small blue pill before or after the meal.
What is it not?
• A claim that we accurately understand the mechanism
of action of each practically useful drug in biochemical
The incidence of cardiovascular disease has decreased in the last several years with
a better understanding of the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes (ACS),
widespread implementation of lipid lowering drugs, improved surgical treatments such
as stent placements, and new therapeutic regimens such as the statins, low molecular
weight heparins, and platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors. Nevertheless, it
remains today as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the Western world....
It has been nearly 20 years since the last Humana Press book devoted to
serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) receptors has appeared. Since then, the
field of 5-HT receptors has undergone a revolution due to the discovery of many
additional 5-HT receptors. Although 5-HT was chemically elucidated in 1948 by
Page and colleagues (Rapport et al.
This book is intended to provide an overview of the pharmacology of neurotransmitter
release. Neurotransmitter release initiates synaptic transmission, the major
mechanism by which neurons communicate with each other and with effector cells.
Mechanisms of Dyspnea Respiratory sensations are the consequence of interactions between the efferent, or outgoing, motor output from the brain to the ventilatory muscles (feed-forward) and the afferent, or incoming, sensory input from receptors throughout the body (feedback), as well as the integrative processing of this information that we infer must be occurring in the brain (Fig. 33-1). A given disease state may lead to dyspnea by one or more mechanisms, some of which may be operative under some circumstances but not others. ... | <urn:uuid:5fd24f29-0ecc-4c5d-82ae-76981fb0de69> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tailieu.vn/tag/receptor-pharmacology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917024 | 2,152 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Dartford warbler (Jill Pakenham/BTO)
Mapping the Warbler's recovery
By Kevin Heathorn
Experts are mapping the population of Dartford warblers to find out why the species has staged such a remarkable recovery in parts of South West England.
One of Devon's largest landowners is taking part in a crucial UK-wide stock take of the bird population.
Clinton Devon Estates is funding research into the Dartford warbler - one of more than 250 species which will feature in the 2007-2011 Bird Atlas, a comprehensive study of bird distribution patterns.
The survey is being organised by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), BirdWatch Ireland and the Scottish Ornithologists' Club.
Mapping the bird population will help experts to find out how changes in habitat and climate have affected various species over the last 20 years.
Dartford Warbler (Mike McKavett, RSPB)
In an amazing turnaround in fortunes, the Dartford warbler has staged a remarkable recovery in parts of South West England.
In 1994, there was just one pair of Dartford warblers on Exmoor, but the most recent RSPB survey recorded 115 pairs. The figure reflects a national recovery for the species.
Following severe winters in the 1960s, there were only 11 recorded pairs in the whole of the UK. Now, there are an estimated 3,208 pairs - up from 1,890 pairs in 1994.
The recovery is attributed to milder winters, better heathland management and land restoration.
Clinton Devon Estates owns large tracts of land which is the natural habitat of the Dartford warbler - including Woodbury Common and the East Devon Pebblebed Heaths.
"The Dartford Warbler is an example of a species which was very close to extinction in the 1960s with just a few pairs remaining," explained Jack Varley, estates director of Clinton Devon Estates.
"Now there are estimated to be in excess of 3,000 breeding pairs, but we won't know the true picture until this vital research is complete.
"We have a close affinity to the Dartford Warbler, whose natural habitat is classic lowland heath with gorse and heather, just the sort of environment we are helping to preserve by careful management of our own East Devon Pebblebed Heaths.
East Devon Pebblebed Heath (Clinton Devon Estates)
"Normally, the Dartford Warbler is found much further south, but it seems to like the dense gorse offered by the heaths – as do the Curlews, Yellowhammers, Buzzards and Kestrels."
The study began in November 2007 and will span four winters and four breeding seasons.
It's estimated that more than 50,000 volunteers will be involved in counting and mapping birds during the four year period.
"This national stock take covers all types of bird from the most common to the more endangered," said Andy Clements, director of the BTO.
"Forty of the species on our list are red listed and 121 amber listed as Species of Conservation Concern.
"The work will help us to provide firm scientific evidence on the health or otherwise of the bird population.
"This information can then be used by the BTO, other conservation organisations and the Government to enable us to take the right steps to protect our birds and their habitats in the future."
The study will update research compiled in the Bird Breeding Atlas of 1988-91 and the Bird Wintering Atlas of 1981-84.
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Why might there be CO2 shortages? UK carbon dioxide supply crisis explained as private sector deal ends
There have been warnings that the UK could be on the verge of another food and drink supply crisis
Why is the UK facing a CO2 supply crisis and what could it mean? (images: Getty Images)
Warnings of potential food and drink shortages made headlines again after an agreement guaranteeing CO2 supplies expired on Monday (January 31st).
But how did we get here – and what might happen next?
Here’s what you need to know.
Why is CO2 important?
Although it is the gas that has contributed the most to accelerating climate change, CO2 is also very useful to humans.
Not only does it give carbonated and alcoholic beverages their fizz, but it also stuns animals for humane slaughter, extends the shelf life of food products, facilitates surgery and cools nuclear power plants.
Without CO2, our food industry and our energy supply would be paralyzed.
What put the CO2 supply in doubt?
The CO2 supply crisis first emerged in September 2021 when US manufacturer CF Fertilizers announced it would have to close its two UK factories due to high natural gas prices.
Fertilizer production creates CO2 as a by-product, and CA alone is responsible for around 60% of UK food grade carbon dioxide production.
But it is an energy-intensive process.
There has been a global crunch in gas and energy supplies over the past 12 months, pushing prices to record highs.
Reasons for this compression include:
- A cold winter in Europe last year meant that more gas than usual was used and supplies were eaten up in
- A largely calm summer in 2021 meant that we depended on gas for our energy, rather than wind power. This meant that it became difficult to replenish depleted gas supplies
- Demand from China has increased dramatically as the country seeks to revive its economy after Covid-19
The United Kingdom, on the other hand, is one of the largest gas users in Europe, but at the same time has less storage capacity than many other European states.
Following warnings in September that the closure of CF could lead to food shortages from key industry bodies, such as the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), the British Poultry Council (BPC) and the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), the government stepped in.
It signed a short-term agreement to subsidize the reopening and operating costs of one of CF’s factories.
This deal was followed in October 2021 by a CO2 industry agreement to buy carbon dioxide from CF at a specified price (which has not been made public) to ensure it can stay open.
It was this agreement that ended on January 31.
What could happen now that the CO2 agreement is over?
CF Fertilizers has not said what the expiration of its agreement with industry CO2 wholesalers means for carbon dioxide production.
The government has hinted it won’t pull out its checkbook for another industry bailout, telling NationalWorld: ‘It’s up to the CO2 industry to secure supplies for UK businesses.’
Indeed, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) believes that the causes of the September 2021 crisis were unprecedented and that the current situation is not the same.
Indeed, another major CO2 producer – Ensus – has since come back online, additional imports have been purchased and companies with anaerobic digesters have started contributing to the UK’s CO2 supply.
However, the food industry believes another shortage is on the horizon as energy prices remain high, with the FDF again calling on the government to intervene.
“This could lead to shortages of the products we find on our supermarket shelves, adding further pressure on families already facing high food price inflation,” said Kate Halliwell, FDF’s chief science officer.
“We will continue to work with the government on this. It is essential that together we ensure that supply can continue and that we build long-term resilience in the production of food-grade CO2.
The BMPA told NationalWorld that if CF shut down again, the UK would run out of 25% of the CO2 it needs.
This deficit could also increase, he suggested, because there was no guarantee that anaerobic digesters would continue to supply the industry “when prices stabilize or come back down”.
He also said there was a “big unknown” about “how long CF will stay in the UK” due to the high production costs here.
NationalWorld has approached CF for comment.
The long and short of this saga is that the UK faces the very real prospect of food and drink shortages.
And it has already happened.
In the summer of 2018, the World Cup race in England and an unusually long period of hot, dry weather increased demand for carbonated drinks, such as beer, and left the UK short of CO2 at a time when most of the plants that produce the gas were closed for maintenance.
This led to beer taps drying up and production of food products, such as Warburtons crumpets, shutting down or operating at reduced capacity for several weeks.
Although the success of football may not be repeated, there is a good chance that the CO2 crisis will occur.
Additional reports per AP
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The illustration and video play an integral part in our patient care. As you know, most patients do not remember anything that is said in a physician's office. For an in-office educational experience, if a picture is worth a 1000 words, then your video educational products are worth a million. Your products allow for a consistent explanation of a particular orthopedic process/disease that is readily visualized and understood by our patients. By providing the website link to the same material, your products allow the patient to then review the material at their home / office in a more relaxed setting when they are better able to concentrate and pay attention.
The net effect is that we have fewer call backs with questions about diagnosis/treatment, our patients are better educated with respect to what is happening to them, and they become an educated member of their treatment process as opposed to an uneducated, inactive participant who is going through the motions without truly understanding why."Rick Hammesfahr, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon The Center for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Marietta, GA
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"In most any diagnostic situation, there are typically 10 to 15 minutes when a patient is in the exam room and I'm not there. So, not only do the animations reduce the amount of time I need to spend going over the material, but they also leave the patient with the assurance that the visit was well coordinated and meaningful. It's a win-win.
As nice and as personable as surgeons are, we don't like having to go over the same stuff over and over. Having the ability to make sure that everybody gets accurate information each time - it's not just a time-saver, it's a brain-saver because I don't have to explain it.
In short, I've found that patients don't ask questions. When I was at Emory during my residency, I recalled that if I walked in and said, "you have pancreatic cancer; we're going to have to remove your pancreas", 50% of the patients would say, "sure, let's go get it!" I have to be positive that even though they're not asking questions, I answer those questions for them. That's where the Nucleus animations come in."George Crawford, MD, General & Thoracic Surgeon The Crawford Clinic, Anniston, AL
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Animations not only help patients understand procedures and discharge instructions, but also improve nursing and physician workflow efficiencies."Lynne Sycamore, Patient & Family Education Coordinator Gwinnett Medical Center, Gwinnett, GA
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"A picture is still literally worth a thousand words so an animation conveys succinctly what a verbal or textual description can not. Our modern consumers/patients have become even more visually clued, so the animation allows them to understand and then formulate any additional questions. While they watch an animation, you are free to do other tasks."Michael Fenster, MD ("Dr. Mike"), Cardiologist and Founder of The Grassroots Gourmet www.drmichaelfenster.com Brooksville Cardiology, Brooksville, FL
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"The animations are great. I think it would be a great benefit as a physician to instruct a nurse to please show patient John Smith the liver biopsy video or tell my office staff that I had written a prescription for a biopsy, please have him see the video before he leaves the office."Gil Hoang, MD, Radiologist Wyoming Valley Health Care, Wilkes-Barre, PA
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Beyond our primary goal of education, we hope providing these videos will encourage potential patients, both locally and across the nation, to recognize Detroit Medical Center as a destination for specialty care."Ken Bearden, Corporate Director of Integrated Marketing Communications Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI
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Nucleus is a partner, not just a vendor that gives us a product off the shelf and disappears until it's time to renew the contract. Foot and Ankle is a huge service line for us, and Nucleus didn't have any animations for that topic, but they were happy to create some. The flexibility and responsiveness has been wonderful for us!"Nicole Petroski, Director of Web Content Strategy Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
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English poet and playwright Robert Browning was born on 7 May 1812.
He was one of the foremost Victorian poets, famous for his mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues.
When he married poet Elizabeth Barrett, in 1846 the couple came to Italy first in Pisa and then in Florence, until Elizabeth’s death,
In Italy they had their only child Robert Wiedemann Barrett Browning, who was to become a painter. He was nicknamed “Pen”, because, when he was a little child, he used to mispronounce his name Wiedeman (after his paternal grandmother’s maiden name).
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, – so you ignore,
So you make perfect the present, condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfection’s endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense,
Merged in a moment which gives me at last
You around me for once, you beneath me, above me –
Me, sure that, despite of time future, time past,
This tick of life-time’s one moment you love me!
How long such suspension may linger? Ah, Sweet,
The moment eternal – just that and no more –
When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core,
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet
In these very intense lines Robert Browning beautifully expresses his desire for a perfect union with his wife Elizabeth.
Aware that ideal love can only exist for a fleeting moment he attempts to isolate that very special state of perfection : that moment gives him a sense of something lasting in his life.
The use of temporal language (time, moment, present, past, future…) creates a lexical field of time, reminding the lover and the reader that time is finite and it is always necessary to seize the moment (carpe diem).
Di tutta la tua vita, dammi solo un attimo!
Di tutta la vita che è venuta prima
e quella che verrà dopo e che quindi ignori
Perciò rendi perfetto il presente, condensa
in un’ondata di ardore, dono di perfezione,
pensiero e sensazioni, anima e sensi.
Fusi in quell’attimo che finalmente per una volta
mi dona te intorno a me, sotto di me, sopra di me –
e mi rende certo che, nonostante il tempo futuro e quello passato,
in questo attimo fugace della vita tu ami me!
Quanto tempo può durare questa sospensione? Ah, Amore,
l’attimo eterno – solo quello e nient’altro –
Quando l’estasi è al culmine, ci aggrappiamo alla sua essenza,
mentre le guance bruciano, le braccia si aprono, gli occhi si chiudono e le labbra si incontrano!
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The 2016 spin-out PharmEnable's technology can predict improved small molecule hits to targets across a range of disease areas
The PharmEnable team
PharmEnable, a Cambridge-based drug discovery company using advanced medicinal chemistry and AI-enabled approaches to design the next generation of highly complex and specific drug candidate molecules, has closed a £1.8 million ($2.25m) seed financing to support its transition into a drug development company.
The 2016 spin-out of Cambridge University aims to develop new treatments for conditions with significant unmet clinical need, by designing highly complex molecules for addressing challenging biological targets.
The round, which was significantly over-subscribed, was led by Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, as well as the University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund VI, managed by Parkwalk Advisors. It also attracted support from a wealth of angel investors and notable life science funds.
Dr Christine Martin, Head of Life Science Investment at Cambridge Enterprise, said: "We are pleased to support the company in its transition to in-house drug discovery. We believe the company will have significant impact through addressing undruggable therapeutic targets."
Financed to date by its founders and service-based revenues, PharmEnable will use the funding to evolve its business model and invest in a pipeline of drug discovery programmes across a number of disease areas including cancer and neurodegenerative disease. Additionally, PharmEnable will continue to engage in strategic partnerships with pharma, innovative biotechs and academia.
The PharmEnable platform technology can predict improved small molecule hits to targets across a range of disease areas. Its approach focuses on exploring and mapping the possible chemical universe and designing novel small molecules that are highly complex with shapes similar to those found in nature.
This approach can identify hits with improved specificity compared with traditional screening methods, and allows PharmEnable to take on particularly challenging biological targets, such as protein-protein interactions and epitranscriptomic modifications that have been undruggable by existing approaches.
The solution consists of two elements: ChemUniverse a diversity-focused virtual database of chemically diverse molecules; and ChemSeek, a suite of gold standard AI-enabled tools for finding drug target matches from structure and ligand data.
"We are pleased to welcome on board our new investors and appreciate their confidence in our business," said CEO of PharmEnable, Dr Hannah Sore. "We have proven the strength of our platform in tapping unexplored parts of the chemical universe to find novel and specific hits for currently undruggable targets, and are excited to now be able to invest in our own pipeline of drug discovery programmes, as well as to develop further strategic partnerships." | <urn:uuid:44236a48-72a6-4c62-b409-30231fe0a493> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://manufacturingchemist.com/news/article_page/Cambridge_Uni_spin-out_raises_225m_to_transition_to_drug_development/167352 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942574 | 544 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Title:Fragile Countries and the 2008-2009 Crisis
Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; GIOVANNETTI, GiorgiaDate:2010Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2010/13; European Report on DevelopmentAbstract:This paper analyses the channels through which the economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009 is
transmitted to fragile countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Trade stands out as the main direct channel,
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Shayna Grunewald, CEO
What does it mean for a home health-care agency to be ACHC accredited?
Like Hospitals, Medicare certified Home Health Agencies must be “Accredited” by an entity that is “Deemed” (approved) by CMS to ensure ,through on-site inspection, that we are preforming and providing Skilled Care in accordance with CMS Medicare Regulations. Lake Centre Home Care is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). ACHC spends a few days with us every few years observing and ensuring we provide services as defined by CMS. Accreditation surveys ensure we are delivering excellent patient care, that we are following Medicare regulations as well as Florida’s AHCA (Agency for Health Care Administration) regulations. Surveyors spend time with our patients to determine if they are informed and had the opportunity to participate in the development of their Plan of Care and Therapy. Surveyors review patients’ records to ensure it reflects what is provided in the patient’s home, that physician orders are followed, and Medicare criteria is met ,such as HomeBound Status. Getting surveyed is an in-depth scrutiny of every aspect of what is required and expected of a Medicare Home Health Agency. Accreditation is required and yes “It’s a big deal to be accredited”. It proves that you are providing patients appropriate care and therapy, that you instill ethical business practices
and are a business in good standing.
What does it mean for a home health-care agency to be listed with a 5-star-rating by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)?
Lake Centre Home Care has a 5-star rating. Like other business entities that utilize a Star Rating, the intent is to provide the Public with an “At-a-Glance” indication of a company’s performance. CMS utilizes a rating scale from 1 to a 5 Stars. It is based on confidential patient feedback provided by our patients directly to Medicare regarding their services from us. Patients are asked whether they felt safe, if we helped them, if our Nurses and Therapists were sensitive to their pain, did we keep them informed, would they want to return to us should they need Home Health in the future, and other questions. STAR ratings are also utilized by hospitals and doctors to consider which Agency they refer their patients to.The “STAR Rating is one of many ways that Medicare measures our performance. Our “Outcomes” are also compared to all Florida Medicare certified Home Health Agencies. Such “Outcome” measures include: patient improvement resulting from our Care and Therapy, were our patients “Re-Hospitlized”, did they acquire a new infection while under our care, did they utilize hospital emergency services and was it preventable. These measures keep us focused to provide quality, timely and effective care and therapy, to each patient and every visit.
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Lake Centre Home Care
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Kissimmee is located in Osceola County just south of Orlando between Orlando and St Cloud along Highway 441 near Lake Tohopekaliga. Kissimmee is part of the Orlando, Florida metro area.
From the late 1800's into the turn of the century, the economy of the Kissimmee was strictly reliant on cattle and sugar cane. In the 1940's, the construction of the Kissimmee Airport by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was preparation for the inevitable U.S. involvement in World War II. These events led to Kissimmee's population increasing by another 38% to over 3700 citizens.
In addition to such international attractions such as Sea World, Universal Studios, and Disney World, the area boasts several corporate headquarters and is the home of the Houston Astros spring training facility.
Bed and Breakfasts and Country Inns Unicorn Inn English Bed & Breakfast |
Restaurants, Cafes, Delis, Bakeries Mr. Wonton Kissimmee Restaurant | Wild Bills Wild West Dinner Extravaganza |
Golf Tropical Palms Resort |
History Medieval Life |
Motels, Hotels and Resorts Behlor Realty | Best Western Eastgate | Club Sevilla Resort | Days Inn Maingate East of Walt Disney | Four Points By Sheraton Lakeside | Kissimmee Florida Villa | Larson Inn Family Suites Kissimmee | Ramada Eastgate Fountain Park | T.L. Kissimmee Hotel Main Gate |
Residential and Commercial Real Estate Jim Schreck and Dave Courtney Real Estate Agents |
RV campgrounds and dealers Port O Call RV Resort | Secret Lake RV Resort | Yogi Bears Jellystone Park Camp Resort |
Transportation Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum |
Vacation Rentals AAA Vacation Homes | Sun Country Villas |
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08/08 Coming to The area
Florida Old Time Music Championship Dade City FL April5-6 FOTMC celebrates Old Time Music in Florida, encompassing musical styles ranging from child ballads to southern dance music of old time string bands. Contests in many old time acoustic instruments, String Band and Old Time Singing contests.
Catfish Festival Crescent City FL April5-6 Since April 1978, the Rotary Club of Crescent City has held its annual 'Catfish Festival the first Saturday of April at Crescent City's Eva Lyon's Park. This massive volunteer effort has one significant purpose: raising money for college/vocational school scholarships for the high school children in our community. After costs are paid, every dollar generated is used for scholarships.
Santa Fe Comm College Spring Arts Festival Gainesville FL April6-7 The festival is one of the three largest annual events in Gainesville and is known for its high quality, unique artwork. It is held in the downtown historic district, nestled amid restored turn-of-the century homes, stately palms and abundant azaleas. More than 130,000 visitors are anticipated each year.
New Smyrna Beach Balloon and Sky Fest New Smyrna Beach FL April5-7 New Smyrna Beach Balloon and Sky Fest features world class air shows .....day and night! As well as amazing live music on stage and all of the fun in the Entertainment Theater
Peace River Celtic Festival Punta Gorda FL April10 Our Festival is perpetually dedicated to the memory of David Parker, member of Elks Lodge 2606 and the founder of the Peace River Celtic Festival. David loved Celtic music, laughter, good friendship and good times! If you cherish these things as well, you'll want to be part of this special event!
Hernando County Fair and Youth Livestock Show Brooksville FL April5-13 Week long celebration of the county, entertainment, food, fair rides, livestock and agriculture competitions, demolition derby. | <urn:uuid:cac47025-7142-44d7-88c4-07723aca4f2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ohwy.com/fl/k/kissimme.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.900241 | 829 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The Intense and Challenging World of Group Fitness
One to one personal fitness can offer a huge range of benefits and is a viable, rewarding career path. You can help individuals improve their physical fitness and health and form a bond with them. As a basis, this is a perfect way to conduct your fitness business. There are alternative routes to take and other fitness activities you can expand into, however. There is no harm in furthering your own knowledge and teaching a variety of different classes to bring in a greater amount of custom. One such activity is group fitness. Group fitnessinvolves teaching a group of individuals and helping them improve their fitness and teamwork. This form of fitness can provide a different range of benefits and can also be tremendously rewarding.
Group fitness activities such as Bootcamp training allow you to test your skills at managing a large team. You will organize their activities and routine, and manage their exercise program. The class members will work together for the better fitness and push each other to attain new levels of achievement. Maybe you are interested in pushing the envelope further with Bootcamp classes. Bootcamp exercises can include running, interval training, and other explosive fitness methods. Bootcamps are an exciting and engaging activity to teach and participate in.
An ASFA® certification in Group Fitness & Bootcamp instruction is one of the best ways to learn what is required for group exercise methodology. During this course, you will learn what you need to know about group fitness. You will also learn how to take a group fitness class, and what you can do to spur your clients on to greater heights. This online ASFA® certification can allow you to effectively take your career in a new direction and increase your client base and revenue potential!
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Robots which interact and cooperate with humans are required to be sensitive to changes of their surrounding environment for handling physical resources and supporting open and distributed human-robot- computer systems. But it is difficult to incorporate sensitivity into real-time systems, and to identify the owner of a physical resource in an open and distributed human-robot-computer society. In this paper, we formulate a physical ownership model which is a possible solution to the managing of physical resources among humans and robots. Then we present a reactive operating system PULSER which supports the implementation of the model. A new interrupt mechanism is proposed to support sensitivity with real-time facility and a physical resource manager is implemented to support the ownership model. Also, we describe a new facility for wireless communication in open and distributed systems.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Hardware and Architecture
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Technology and Design for CCEA GCSE Paperback
This brand new resource has being specially written for the revised CCEA GCSE specification.
Heavily illustrated with over 500 photographs and diagrams, and printed in full colour, the textbook covers all the options for the examined course, following the structure of the specification.
It concludes with a section offering tips and advice for the controlled assessment units.
The content of the book is supported by past paper questions, activities, word boxes, 'check your learning' and 'key word check' sections.
Prior to publication the book was fully reviewed by Raymond Moffatt, who will be well known to many teachers.
This book is the first resource specifically written for the whole CCEA course in many years. Unit 1 - Technology and Design Core Unit 2 - Systems and Control Unit 3 - Product Design Unit 4 - Design Assignment Unit 5 - Design Project
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher: Colourpoint Books
- Publication Date: 01/05/2012
- Category: Educational: Design & technology
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Make bows & arrows and atlatls & darts – in Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa, California
The bowmaking workshops are a series of sessions where you reserve time to work on your project. We have group, family or individual workshops for all skill levels. The plan for each project depends on what you want to do and what skills & materials you need to get it done. Shooting proficiency is not required to make a bow. If you’re new or returning to archery, we recommend the “Bowmaking – Orientation” workshop below or one of the shooting classes on our “Archery Lessons” page.
The atlatl & dart workshop is now available – scroll down, this page. If you’re new to atlatl, we recommend trying the “Atlatl Throwing Class” on our archery lessons page – learn how to throw some darts, have fun and see what size you want to make.
For all crafting classes:
– Weekday and weekend workshops are available year-round to fit your schedule.
– Go to the SIGN-UP FOR LESSONS page to reserve your project start time.
– We will email confirm with directions and parking.
– Venmo, Paypal, cash, or check (payable to Mark Smith) at start of workshop.
Bowmaking – Orientation
This is where we start if you want to make a bow and you do not have previous experience or you want to engage in advanced bowmaking. We don’t make things in this class, we learn how it’s done & what to expect. The class reveals a “how & why” to one of our most ancient method arts. We compare wooden bows & arrows to factory made materials and review what skills & behaviors are required to make wooden bows. Along the way, we will cover some history, science, art and primitive skills. Demonstration & evaluation will be hands-on, using woodcraft tools, tiller sticks and trying out a few bows. We arrive at your measure and choose the right project that matches your size, crafting level, shooting level and expectations. This class is not required before making a bow, but highly recommended for the first time archer and first time bowmaker.
FREE – Bowmaking Orientation class
open to individuals, familes & groups
Time: 30 to 60mins
Bowmaking – Craft
Here is where we focus on creating your bow. Archery proficiency is not required, but basic shooting skill will come in handy. The bow staves are prepared to different levels of completion, so people can select & complete a bow within their skill level. We will methodically teach the wood to bend perfectly by repeating the crafting process: exercise/measure/scribe/tiller. Tillering is removing shavings of wood in just the right place in just the right amount. We will explore several methods, hand tools and work techniques to shape the limbs and handle. When the bow reaches the desired performance, we will seal the wood or create wood dyes and then seal the bow. Stock bow materials are straight-grain seasoned hickory and heat-treated planed Moso bamboo. Class hours are flexible, we take lots of tiny breaks and you can come & go. We recommend planning for 2 very long days or a bunch of short days. Bring your snacks or there are grocery & restaurant services about a half mile away. We have an outdoor sitting space, cooking area and water available. NOTE: The work will require hand & finger strength endurance, ample fortitude and keen attention to small changes. Adult helpers are required for youth bow projects.
Bowmaking Craft classes:
includes bowstring . . .
$100 Youth bow, adult helper required
$147 Native Plains Longbow, beginner skill level
$157 Native Plains Longbow, beginner skill level, long length
$177 Modoc Hunting Bow, intermediate skill level
$297 Bamboo Reflex Deflex, advanced skill level
Time: 20 to 30hrs
Note: On the “Sign-up” Page you will be reserving your start window day & time. After you get here and choose your project – together we’ll estimate & reserve the days & times to complete your project.
Arrows – Bowstrings – Tuning
This class is open to all folks that need traditional arrows. Some basic shooting skill is required. Arrows carry their own chapter of science; and require the archer & bow to prove the right arrow for the best flight. Your tests may point to adjusting brace height, nock height, arrow length, arrow weight, arrow spine, making a bowstring, shooting technique and so on. After we dial-in the bow and find your arrow recipe, we make six Port Orford cedar arrows with Trueflight feathers. Extra arrows and hunter practice sets are available. Bring your notepad; there will be lots of detail regarding your parts & specs, accessories, tournament dates and more.
$65 Arrow crafting & tuning
includes 6 fieldpoint premium arrows
add ons: $10/extra arrow, $10/bowstring, $14/broadhead
Time: 2 to 4hrs
Note: On the “Sign-up Page” you will be reserving your start window day & time.
$25 Bowstring craft only,
includes 1 bowstring – you make it or I make it…
Time: 30mins to 1hr
$45 Tuning bow & arrow only
Tired of wimpy arrows flying at 65mph? Can’t manage to penetrate the 2 inch thick hide of that pesky woolly mammoth? Maybe you need an atlatl (pronounced “AHT-LAHT-L” or “AHT-L-AHT-L”).
Atlatl crafting is open to all ages. The small youth crafters should probably attend a throwing class first – they will need their adult with them for throwing and crafting classes. All classes are about 4 to 6hrs, by appointment, almost anyday – click on our “Sign-up” Page to reserve your start time. In this class, students will make a dart and atlatl and then have the opportunity to test their workmanship in our throwing area.
The atlatl is a simple throwing stick that uses mechanical leverage to increase the throwing force about 2.5 times. This is a serious device. The projectile used is a spear-like dart, 4 to 6ft long and flexible like an arrow. The atlatl & dart is akin to the bow & arrow and is treated with the same respect. The current atlatl distance record is over 756ft ft.
$70 Atlatl Crafting class
includes all materials for 1 atlatl and 1 dart
Extra darts are $25ea to $40ea
Time: 4 to 6hrs
Note: On the “Sign-up” Page, you will be reserving your start window day & time.
Mobile Workshops – archery craft and culture
We offer mobile workshops featuring archery related crafts & demonstrations or activities that engage ancient, primitive and life skills – set up in your space – designed for your group, gathering, school or organization. The mobile workshops might be a singel or weekly short event at your venue, or a scheduled 2-5 day workshop, or an activity that spans a couple weekends. We work with you to design the best fit for your age groups, skill levels, themes or community – let’s have some fun!
– crafting series: making longbows, arrows, atlatls, darts, advanced cordage & hitches.
– culture series: archery & atlatl history, art, science, games and practice – knife safety & cutting tools – advanced archery development – safesport & behavioral orientation
Our CALENDAR PAGE shows local all-ages events and our mobile workshops.
Email or call for detail and planning.
Archery & Atlatl Lessons
- Discover traditional archery in a comfortable informal setting.
- Available year round for all ages and all skill levels.
- Schedule your practice, bring your friends, play some archery games.
- New class: Atlatl throwing
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Film Screening as fundraiser for freedom bookshop.
'Durruti' and 'The Take': Films about the Past and Present with Lessons for a Revolutionary Future".
"Durruti" is about the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist militant Buenaventura Durruti. The film gives an account of his life and, to some extent, his times. There is historical newsreel footage and film from the CNT archieves that has rarely been seen in Australia. One of the points the film makes is about the revolution that was being made amidst the war, especially of the workers control of farms, factories and services and the community's control of living spaces.
"The Take" is an account of workers control in a contemporary setting: Argentina from 2000 to today. It's an inspiring film about ordinary workers doing extra ordinary things to secure a worthy life for their families and communities after capitalism abandoned and nearly destroyed them. | <urn:uuid:5b19c9b1-7014-4f7c-88b1-40434703a406> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jura.org.au/node/2082 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957566 | 193 | 1.84375 | 2 |
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