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In this chapter, we learned that the quantity of U.S. currency outstanding was $3,490 in March 2012. Suppose that we were to try to use this number to estimate the amount of output produced in the underground economy in the United States during 2009. Discuss how we would use this information on the quantity of currency in circulation, and what additional information you would want to have to come up with a good estimate. In your answer, you will need to consider how underground transactions might take place by other means in the United States than through the use of U.S. currency, and how some of U.S. currency is not being used for underground transactions in the United States.
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Finding a good topic for a research paper
Research paper writing can be an absolutely interesting experience if you find an interesting topic to work on. If you go wrong in this initial task, you will end up frustrated and troubled as research paper writing is a very long process which asks for a lot of effort and patience on your part. The only factor which can ease the stress is a research paper topic that interests you. But in order to find good topics for a research paper, you must know what to look for in a topic.
Understanding the specific requirements and the objective of the assignment is important while choosing a research paper topic. It is also necessary to do an effective self-assessment of your special skills and interests within the relevant subject perimeter. Once you have figured out these basic things, it will be much easier for you to spot the perfect topic for a research paper project. A good research paper topic is that which:
• Fits into the instructions in the assignment guidelines regarding the choice of topic. The most important decisive factor of a research paper submission is its guidelines. If your topic fail to fit into it, your research paper will not even be accepted.
• Is familiar enough to be dealt with impressively. Unfamiliar topics can also be handled if you have a very long deadline. But familiar topics ease the stress of research paper writing, to a great extent.
• Is capable of holding your interest through the long and tedious procedure of research paper writing. Losing interest in the topic half-way through the research can have a very negative effect on your research paper.
• Suits the intellectual level of the proposed audience. Topics which are too complex or too simple for the audience will fail to impress them and when it comes to research paper assignments, it is very important to have an attentive audience.
• Comes well within the subject area of research. Most subjects have various sections and sub-sections of which the lines which define the limits are very fine. A topic which does not come within the specific subject area will not qualify as a good one.
• Offers interesting angles for you to present as your thesis. While choosing a topic for a research paper project, you must also ensure that the topic has interesting angles which are still available for research.
• Has credible sources for reference, which are available and easily accessible to you. Without relevant and credible sources, you will not be able to complete your research in a satisfactory manner.
• Can be handled easily within the deadline of the assignment. Even the best of topics will not be of any use if you fail to present it within the deadline.
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Which test should be done for knowing whether i am suffering from thyroid or not? can i get my test done by going directly to the pathology or should i consult a doctor first....??
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Iíve also used an initiative mapping process
that is useful at the corporate as well as at the cascaded level:
- Step 1. Getting your current initiatives. This can be an eye-opener. List your objectives on the side and your initiatives, projects, or activities across the top.
- Step 2. Place an ďxĒ for each objective served by an initiative (can serve multiple objectives). The result: this identifies conditions for action
1) Non-strategic inititatives
: initiatives (and projects or activities) that donít support any strategic objectives. Get rid of them (freeing up resources to fund other projects);
2) Redundant initiatives
serving the same objective. Rationalize these and free up more resources;
Ė objectives witch are not being served by any initiative. These become candidates for new initiatives.
- Step 3. Priority setting against budget
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Unless you have the benefit and luck of unlimited resources for your web development projects, as a web master your responsibilities typically will incorporate budget management. Performing the budget dance every year can be quite a task for the web master, especially with the balancing act between web development dollars and ever increasing requirements. Budgets typically will consist of all the cost groups associated with your department or projects; in addition, if your projects are also a source of revenue, then sales budgets and income projections will be a part of the financial puzzle.
Overall it seems many IT budgets are expected to grow in 2011 and 2012, but typically, they are still very tight and characteristically are just templates of previous year's numbers. One of the special challenges in maintaining status quo budgets is applying new technology to last year's budget numbers. Especially when web masters are given new projects such as implementing cloud computing and mobile technology. These projects may not have been factored into the original budget.
The old saying, "Do more with less" is being heard more often than not in boardrooms especially during budget planning sessions. Being able to achieve more web design and project outcomes with the same or lower budgets as in previous years is the challenge for web masters.
There is no one-size-fits-all budgetary rule for web masters. Each client has different sets of requirements and in-house web development departments have their own organizational requirements. But there are some standard guidelines that can be followed to assist in making sure your budget matches the overall purpose and scope of the web projects expected by the client or organization.
Making the budget meet the web development projectWhat is the typical budget amount for a web design project for client(s) or organization(s)? Knowing how your budget is determined can help you understand the scope and where resources need to be applied. Typically many web design projects fall within the marketing budget, and depending on the industry, that can be anywhere between 0.5% and 15% of gross sales. A more accurate response is that marketing budgets can be quite flexible and these percentages are only an average. Some marketing budget levels change from year to year depending on market trends and other factors and are not always determined by gross sales figures. Start up organizations and companies promoting new products, such as pharmaceuticals, are more likely to spend more for their marketing, whereas established organizations and those with no new or trendy products are likely to have less allocated to their marketing budgets. For established web design departments, the current year's budget may typically be based on the previous year's actual figures, but this varies also from the organization or client. What should be included in the budget scope? Budgets can have hundreds or thousands of line items depending on the scope and nature of the project(s) and department(s) requirements. Most budgets will have line items for hardware, software, and third-party development; moreover, I have listed some of the line items that might or might not have been considered in your web design budgets, and in no particular order:
- Discovery and Research: Typically this includes a coherent creative scope and strategy that is aligned with the marketing and sales goals of the client or organization.
- Search Engine Optimization: Search engine results should be a high priority for web design projects, and this can take a significant piece of the budgetary pie.
- Social Networking: Many organizations are still new to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, but are planning to create a social networking presence. Does your budget include social networking efforts?
- Blogs: Many organizations and web design departments have adopted the blog format or added it to their web site functionality; maybe your site could benefit from one also.
- User Experience Design: UX is gaining attention as more sites put people first as they create products that are useful, enjoyable, and usable. Does your budget have a line item for UX design?
- Mobile Web Applications: A new and growing area is developing web sites and applications to render on and in mobile devices and applications in a clear and consistent method. Does your budget include mobile web and application development?
One example of a smart ROI project could be to include a budget line item for regular email marketing campaigns. With focused emails sent to permission-based web site clientele, reaching across broad demographics and boundaries, this type of online marketing campaign can generate a significant return with little investment.
Once the web design project or specific line item is perceived as a key method to bringing in more customers, adding more repeat customer interactions, and growing the sales, this helps to open the doors to acceptance and approval, not only for that particular project, but also for future projects.
Do you have any tips for keeping within your web development budget? Please comment on any budget tips and tricks you may have to share.
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The Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade.
Though rare, the move is not unprecedented: the court has overturned hundreds of its own decisions.
Some of the most well-known cases in SCOTUS history overturned prior decisions.
The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, gutting the landmark case that has protected federal abortion rights for nearly 50 years and kicking the decision back to the states.
Though exceedingly rare, the move is not unprecedented. Since the Supreme Court was founded in 1789, justices on the top court have overturned hundreds of their own decisions, in certain cases resulting in some of the most lionized decisions throughout the court's history.
The exact number of Supreme Court reversals is difficult to pinpoint as the list is open to legal interpretation. The justices, for example, have disavowed past decisions without ever formally overturning them. But the Library of Congress, which tracks the list of overruled Supreme Court cases, puts the estimated figure at nearly 235 cases overturned throughout the court's 233-year history.
The phenomenon has become more common in modern years, according to David Schultz, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and author of "Constitutional Precedent in US Supreme Court Reasoning," who told The Washington Post earlier this year that the court's most recent chief justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and his predecessor William Rehnquist, who were both Republican appointees — have taken issue with precedents set by the more liberal courts of the 1960s and 1970s.
Among the court's overturned cases are some of the most well-known decisions in SCOTUS history.
Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 case, which barred racial segregation in public schools, partially overturned a nearly 60-year-old Supreme Court decision.
In enshrining one of the keystones of the Civil Rights movement, the justices unanimously overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, an 1896 case wherein the court ruled in favor of allowing racially segregated public facilities as long as they were "equal."
In this cornerstone case, plaintiff Oliver Brown sued the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, after his young daughter was not allowed to attend the city's all-white elementary schools. Brown argued that schools for Black kids were unequal and invoked the "equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment.
The case slowly worked its way through the judicial system, eventually landing at the top court. Thurgood Marshall, who would go on to become the Supreme Court's first Black justice thirteen years later, argued on behalf of the plaintiffs.
"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place," Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded, officially undoing the previous Plessy precedent. "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
Miranda v. Arizona
The case that gave the country Miranda Rights, this 1966 decision invalidated two previous rulings from eight years prior.
In a 5-4 decision, the court found that police violated Ernesto Miranda's rights by failing to tell him that he could stay silent and ask for a lawyer to be present during his interrogation, during which he offered a written confession after being arrested in connection with a kidnapping and rape.
The top court ultimately ruled that the Fifth Amendment requires law enforcement officials to make suspects aware of their rights while in police custody. The decision invalidated both Crooker v. California and Cicenia v. Lagay, two 1958 cases that dealt with criminal suspects' constitutional rights to counsel before trial.
Miranda was back in front of the Supreme Court this month when the justices in a 6-3 decision struck a blow to Miranda Rights in shielding police from the possibility of monetary damages in cases where they fail to inform criminal suspects of their rights before obtaining statements which are later used against them.
Citizens United v. FEC
The infamous case remembered most for effectively granting corporations First Amendment rights also overturned previous decisions on political funding, including Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and parts of McConnell v. FEC.
The first case had upheld restrictions on corporate spending when it was in support of or against political candidates, while the latter cemented restrictions on campaign spending by corporations, tenets originally included as part of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law.
In the 5-4 majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the Citizens United decision prohibits Congress from "jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."
Obergefell v. Hodges
The 2015 case that established the federal right to same-sex marriage overruled the 1972 ruling of Baker v. Nelson.
A 5-4 majority led by Kennedy, who served as a frequent swing vote, ruled the Constitution affords same-sex couples in a marriage the same legal treatment as an opposite-sex couple and said denying them that right would "diminish their personhood."
But in light of Friday's Roe decision, Democrats and LGBTQ advocates have begun to worry that Obergefell could be overturned next — a possibility that Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly raised in his concurring opinion.
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Objectives: To examine health-related quality of life (HRQL) in adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), compared with healthy adolescents, and to determine whether clinically observed or self-perceived severity of illness affects their HRQL. Design and Setting: Cross-sectional study of female adolescents conducted at an urban, hospital-based adolescent medicine clinical practice. Participants: Ninety-seven adolescent patients with PCOS and 186 healthy patients who were seen for care between October 15, 1999, and March 2, 2001. Main Outcome Measures: Health-related quality-of- life scores as determined by the Child Health Questionnaire-Child Self-Report Form. Results: Adolescents with PCOS scored lower on subscales measuring general health perceptions, physical functioning, general behavior, and limitations in family activities because of illness. Patients scored higher on the change in health in the last year subscale, and most had been diagnosed and initiated treatment for PCOS in the last year. Patients who had higher self-perceived severity of illness also scored lower on the general health perceptions subscale, but clinical severity was not associated with differences in HRQL. Conclusions: Adolescents with PCOS experience lower HRQL compared with healthy adolescents. Polycystic ovary syndrome and perceived severity of illness negatively affect HRQL in adolescents. This study suggests a need to develop interventions to reduce the distress that patients with PCOS may face as adolescents and young adults.
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Platitudes often fall flat in the business world. They are overused and lack meaning. It will help if you put purpose behind your words. A workplace that is driven by purpose and purposeful words will go a lot further than one that isn’t. Intentional stories will encourage your employees to work harder and more efficiently.
The Job Of A Top Executive
When you are named the top executive in your company, someone sees potential in you. It can fulfill an important job and take the company to a higher place. Your employees will be looking up to you and the decisions you make. They are listening to the words that you are saying to them.
As an executive, you need to find a way to lead and encourage your employees to be the best that they can be. It’s so easy to fall back on the platitudes that we are so familiar with. But, far too often those are meaningless words. Put forth the effort to mean what you are saying and make them have a purpose.
What Is A Platitude?
Compliments and encouragement are a way to encourage your employees. As a top executive at your company, you are the driving force that keeps things going. When talking to your employees, it’s easy to fall back on trite, overused, and meaningless platitudes. There are times there is a little bit of truth behind them, they are more of a cliché.
When complimenting and encouraging, put purpose behind your words. Don’t use the same old sayings that have lost their meaning. Show your employees what they mean to you and encourage them to pursue the purpose.
What Does It Mean To Have Purpose?
A business that is driven with purpose will improve much further. When executives rely solely on platitudes that sound nice to the ear, but lack concrete direction, the business will come short of its potential. Encouragement that is surrounded by concrete and precise direction will lead your company to higher levels than it has ever seen.
Platitudes are easy, they are already thought out but they are directed to a wide audience with a wide array of circumstances. Speak with purpose and your employees will rise to the occasion when clear direction is expressed. Leave the platitude to the greeting cards and speak with purpose.
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The Supreme Court's controversial 2005 eminent-domain decision, which gave the government a green light to take private property and turn it over to developers for "economic development," still has voters riled up. Last week, voters in nine states, including Florida, passed initiatives protecting their property rights and limiting the government's power to take their homes and businesses.
Most Americans were rightfully incensed that government could arbitrarily evict people from their homes, businesses and churches simply because it could generate more tax revenue if the properties were turned into condos, offices and hotels. Eminent domain is supposed to be used only used to acquire private land for clearly defined public uses - such as roads and schools—but the court's Kelo decision opened the door for government to condemn property for almost anything that it could argue had a public "benefit."
In the year since the Supreme Court's ruling, local governments have threatened eminent domain or condemned more than 5,500 homes, businesses and churches so that they could be transferred to another private owner, according to the Institute for Justice.
Elected officials in the predominantly black city of Riviera Beach, for example, plan to condemn the homes and businesses of more than 5,000 residents to build an 800-acre private redevelopment.
And voters are fighting back. On Nov. 7, more than 80 percent of voters in Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire and South Carolina approved constitutional amendments that forbid use of eminent domain for economic development. Arizona, Florida, Oregon, Nevada and North Dakota also passed eminent-domain limits.
In all, 35 states have now curbed eminent domain abuse since the Kelo ruling.
The next battleground is the issue of regulatory takings. What should happen when the government passes a new law or changes zoning laws in ways that destroy the value of your home or land?
These "regulatory takings" have resulted in huge financial losses, or even total ruin for homeowners as aggressive land-use regulations and anti-sprawl measures ban landowners from using their property in the ways they intended.
In 2004, Oregon voters required the government to either financially compensate homeowners for their losses or to waive the zoning regulations for that property. On Nov. 7, Arizona passed a similar "Kelo-Plus" law combining eminent domain and regulatory takings reform.
Regulatory takings reform faces higher hurdles to voter appeal than pure eminent-domain limits. Environmental groups who wouldn't dare oppose eminent-domain laws poured millions into campaigns against the regulatory takings bills. In California, farmers and rural land owners in the Central Valley supported the measure only to see urban dwellers in San Francisco and Los Angeles buy into claims that the government would go bankrupt if it had to pay damages to homeowners whenever it passed a law destroying their land values.
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You’ve heard of Dry January, but what about Sober September? After a big summer that’s full of opportunities to drink on patios, vacation, and at barbeques, many people feel like they need a reset from all the partying.
You’ll be surprised at the benefits of a single month without alcohol. You may even find you want to extend your sobriety! From improved health to tasty alternatives, there are many reasons to give Sober September a try.
There’s a growing movement of trend-setters rethinking their booze choices. To help out, we’ve compiled some compelling benefits and the best tips to get started.
What is Sober September?
Sober September is when you abstain from alcohol for the month of September in order to decrease your drinking, improve your health, and reevaluate your relationship with alcohol.
More and more people are sober curious, interested in what an alcohol-free lifestyle could mean. The term was first coined by Ruby Warrington in her book of the same name. These individuals are not in recovery, but are interested in the benefits of sobriety just the same.
The history of Sober September has a bit more mystery behind it than Dry January — experts aren’t sure when it started. Worn out by festivities, people have been skipping alcohol around the new year for centuries, but Sober September is a relatively new phenomenon.
Some believe that it may have traveled across the pond. Cancer Research UK, a charity, is often credited with starting the trend that’s caught fire with Dry January participants.
What’s not debatable is that Sober September is a social media phenomenon, gaining popularity across the internet, with young professionals tired after a summer of parties, and among students looking to start their semester off on the right foot.
This period of abstaining gives students considering sobriety a chance to experience a month without alcohol use.
7 Benefits To Not Drinking Alcohol
For Sober September participants, reevaluating their drinking habits can yield surprising benefits that include a shrinking waistline and delicious new non-alcoholic drinks.
Here are the top 7 benefits to not drinking alcohol during your month-long hiatus.
There’s no avoiding the fact that alcohol is a toxin. When you give your body a month to detox, you might be surprised at just how good you feel without the effects of alcohol.
This is partially true since alcohol has seriously negative effects on your sleep. When you skip it for a month, you’ll likely feel more rested.
Some Sober September participants also report feeling less need for caffeine, as well as better performance during workouts.
Resetting What “Normal” Means
Let’s face it: At some point, going out to happy hour after work or having a glass of wine with your friends becomes a habit, not a conscious decision. A month without alcohol can give you the reset you need to reevaluate how, and if, you want to return to drinking.
During 2020, people reported high levels of binge drinking while under pandemic-related stress. That makes now a great time to reset.
Finding New Favorites
Most people have a go-to order at the bar. But when’s the last time you branched out into the world of refreshing non-alcoholic drinks? There are plentiful options, including alcohol-free sparkling wines, innovative mocktails, and delicious non-alcoholic beers.
You may just find your new favorite beverage while you’re participating in Sober September!
There are many reasons why cutting out alcohol helps you lose weight, including reduced caloric intake, less sugar consumption, and more energy for workouts.
Let’s be clear: All bodies are beautiful. However, if you’re looking for ways to manage your weight for personal reasons or for health reasons, Sober September can help.
Overall Health Benefits
In addition to weight loss, you’ll see other positive impacts on your health and well-being. Some of the best aspects of cutting out booze include:
- Better sleep
- Lower cholesterol levels
- Regulated blood sugar
- Improved mental health
- No hangovers the next day or scary blackouts from alcohol abuse
- Lowered levels of inflammation throughout the body
What’s more, 72% of participants did not drink over recommended amounts for at least 6 months following their month of not drinking. Those are some amazing long-term effects.
A Sense Of Accomplishment
There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you take on a challenge and succeed. In the same University of Sussex study, a whopping 82% of participants reported feeling accomplished at the end of their month-long journey.
Who doesn’t love (slash need) a self-confidence boost?
It’s no secret that drinking isn’t a cheap habit.
Participating in Sober September can give back the money you put towards drinking. One survey estimates that millennials spend $300 a month on alcohol purchases.
Even if you switch to tasty non-alcoholic alternatives, odds are that you’ll still save some cash during the month.
Downsides To Sober September
Yes, there are actually a few downsides to this month-long sobriety, though most of them kick in when you go back to drinking after abstaining. We’re all about full disclosure here.
- Sober September only lasts for a month, which may not give you enough time to see some of the long-term benefits of sobriety.
- Any weight loss may come back once you return to your former drinking habits.
- The first week can feel a bit odd if your social life revolves around alcohol (though that may be a good wake-up call).
- Sober September is not for people struggling with alcohol use disorder. Some individuals who live with alcoholism might think one sober month is enough to heal them when they really need to pursue long-term sobriety.
Most of the drawbacks aren’t really due to Sober September, only indirectly. That’s why some people choose to go teetotal after this amazing experience. (Teetotal means completely abstinent from alcohol.)
6 Tips For Sober September Success
Sober September is a chance for new beginnings, but like any other change, mindfulness is key.
Here are some tips to keep you motivated, grateful, and getting the most out of your sobriety if it’s your first time to participate. Welcome!
How do you start sober September? You can start sober September by:
- Finding your reason for a sober month
- Listening to yourself and your needs
- Keeping a list of the positive changes
- Making use of your extra time and money
- Inviting friends to join you in the challenge
- Discovering tasty, healthy alternatives to alcohol
Find Your Reason
Psychologists know that people that have a why behind their behavior are more likely to be successful.
We like to rally behind a cause; what’s yours for Sober September? Better health, more money, less hangovers, or even a more intentional life? Be clear with yourself.
Listen To Yourself
Many times, a break from drinking — whether temporary or permanent — can teach you about yourself.
Practice being mindful about why you want a drink. Are you dehydrated? Avoiding your emotions? Do you need some sleep? This is an opportunity to take great care of yourself.
Keep A List
Once you commit, start writing down all the positive aspects about your month off of drinking.
What beneficial changes are you noticing? Spend your time celebrating what you have in front of you instead of thinking about what you don’t.
Enjoy Your Extra Time
Odds are, you’ve got more time on your hands now — you’re hitting snooze less thanks to great sleep, you’re not spending as many nights out, and you’re not slowed down by hangovers.
What have you been wanting to do that you can use your extra time and cash towards? Be intentional.
Bring A Friend Along
With the compelling results for your health and well-being, who wouldn’t want to be a part of Sober September? Consider inviting some friends to join you in your journey. You’ll gain accountability, motivation, community, and an even stronger bond with your favorite people.
If no one is up for the challenge, perhaps one of your favorite sober stars can motivate you!
Find Delicious Alternatives
You know what they say: a failure to plan is a plan to fail.
Spend the month looking for a delicious tea, mocktail, or non-alcoholic wine that you love to drink. Keep great alternatives around the house for the times when you want a satisfying sip. Need ideas? Keep reading.
Healthier Alternatives To Alcohol
Sobriety doesn’t mean depriving yourself! You can still treat yourself without the alcohol content — your future self will thank you.
- Non-alcoholic wine by Surely. We work with top-tier California winemakers to create a beautiful, flavorful non-alcoholic product that tastes just like the real thing. Plus, with only 25 calories a glass, you can enjoy a sparkling white wine or perfectly balanced rosé while keeping your health benefits intact.
- Mocktails. These days, many restaurants and bars are catering to the sober curious with mocktails on the menu. Staying home? Try your hand at a little mocktail mixology with our roundup of the best recipes.
- Sober bars. You aren’t the only one staying sober! Check out a sober bar in your area, or take a fun fall trip to visit a place full of like-minded people.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll like Sober September so much, you keep it going for Sober October.
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Understood both in a wider and more narrow sense, burghers were always a strongly diversified social group, differing in terms of ethnicity, financial standing, professional situation, religious and national affiliation, as well as tradition and culture. High and low culture met and intersected in towns, while the mobility and entrepreneurship spirit of their inhabitants created a favourable environment for artists and thinkers. At times, the burghers would generate a culture of their own, along with their own customs and the systems of values and ethic norms considered an important feature distinguishing them from other social strata. In other cases, the burghers would be satisfied by merely adopting the cultural patterns of other groups, preferably the nobility and aristocracy. The Burgher Culture Trail connects the historical monuments of urban architecture and showcases the history of towns and their culture in the District of Jarosław. | <urn:uuid:150398fe-c804-457b-97cb-f7eae8535770> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jaroslawski.pl/en/the-burgher-culture-trail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964886 | 170 | 3.375 | 3 |
Minority Report Glove Interface From Raytheon
Defence contractor Raytheon is working on a computer interface taken from the movie Minority Report, which starred Tom Cruise. In the film, Cruise stands before a transparent screen, and uses hand movements to call up information, manipulate it or erase it. The film is based on Philip K. Dick's remarkable 1956 short story of the same name; in the story, the Precrime analytical wing stands by to interpret the fevered words of the three precogs (from "precognitive") who see into the future.
(Tom Cruise looks for clues in Minority Report)
In bringing this movie special effect to the real world of military intelligence interpretation, Raytheon has gone so far as to employ John Underkoffler, a researcher who originally proposed the idea to the makers of the film. He has developed interfaces at MIT, and currently works as a science and technology consultant for Treadle and Loam Provisioners in California.
(From Raytheon Minority Report-Style Glove Interface)
The Raytheon system uses reflective gloves; a camera keeps track of hand movements, feeding images to a computer that interprets gestures. "Your hand becomes a Swiss Army knife," says Underkoffler. The intent is to use the technology as a way to sort through large amounts of satellite imagery and intelligence data.
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Instead of adding lots of text, add an image or several. The adage about a picture and a thousand words is incredibly true. When explaining good presentation design to my students, I showed the Thirst presentation. I asked how it was different from the many presentations they have viewed. I also asked the class as a whole for many of the statistics in the presentation. As a group, they could answer every one correctly because it is visual, breaks things into small chunks, and gives them an image to recall with a statistic. Many of the images also tug on emotions which triggers the limbic system of the brain.
By moving the bullets to your notes, you also force your students/audience to paraphrase if they are taking notes. This helps them retain the information because they are not simply transcribing everything on your slides. Additionally, if they write the notes as opposed to typing them, they have to put things into their own words since they can’t write as fast as the average person talks. This helps them connect to prior knowledge or mental classification schemes they have already created.
Tell a Story
Humans are natural story tellers. On the flip side, your audience will immediately perk up and pay attention when a story is involved. We have a tendency to want to compare ourselves with the person in the story. If we find commonality, we connect with the presentation. If the person in the story is heroic or does something that’s incredibly difficult, we can’t help but try to measure ourselves against the focal character. If the story is about someone who does unthinkable things, even if we can’t identify with them, we still want to soak in the details in case we have an opportunity to re-tell the story to someone else.
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I’ve been reading about enhancements to the USB 3.0 standard that would allow a USB cable to provide up to 100 watts of power, nicely summarized in The Economist. 100 watts is more than enough to charge a laptop, and certainly enough to power other devices, such as LED lighting, televisions, and audio equipment. It could represent a significant shift in the way we distribute power in homes and offices: as low voltage DC, rather than 110 or 220 volt AC. Granted, 100 watts won’t power a stove, a refrigerator, or a toaster, but in a USB world, high-voltage power distribution could be limited to a few rooms, just like plumbing; the rest of the building could be wired with relatively inexpensive USB cables and connectors, and the wiring could easily be done by amateurs rather than professional electricians.
It’s an interesting and exciting idea. As The Economist points out, the voltages required for USB are easily compatible with solar power. Because USB cables also carry data, power consumption can become more intelligent.
But I have one concern that I haven’t seen addressed in the press. Of course USB cables carry both data and power. So, when you plug your device into a USB distribution system, whether it’s a laptop or phone, you’re plugging it into a network. And there are many cases, most notoriously Stuxnet, of computers being infected with malware through their USB ports. It no doubt took some fairly good social engineering to get an infected USB stick into a computer in an Iranian nuclear facility. But it wouldn’t take any social engineering at all, just a lunch appointment or an interview, to plug an infected drive into the USB power distribution system at some future office complex. You might not even need access to the business you wanted to attack if, as the Economist imagines, power distribution is shared between different buildings in an industrial park.
The most security conscious among us frequently put epoxy in their USB ports. But epoxy won’t work if that port is your only way to charge your laptop. We’re going to need much stricter discipline than epoxy if USB is to become a power distribution standard. More than anything, we will need to be confident that there aren’t any backdoors into our system. A quick search is scary indeed, and the NSA is the least of our worries. Can we keep our data, and our systems, safe? History suggests that we can’t.
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A newly launched Oakland company is offering 3D-printed homes — ranging from a studio model to a three-bedroom plan — that can be built with 95% fewer labor costs at twice the speed of conventional construction.
Mighty Buildings is specifically targeting the prefab cottages to consumers in California, a state with runaway housing prices.
The company said property owners want to build accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, to rent to tenants to generate income, keep aging parents near, or to use as dedicated office space in the new work-from-home environment.
“We are finding that these (customers) are a combination of homeowners with some extra backyard space who would like to have a contained, private environment for living and working on their property,” said Sam Ruben, co-founder and chief sustainability officer, in an email to The Bee.
This year, California changed the permitting process for ADUs, exempting units less than 750 square feet from local impact fees.
“We see going direct … to consumers in order to take advantage of changes to California regulations since 2017 that have streamlined the permitting process,” Ruben said.
In January, Placer County approved an update to its fee schedule for ADUs to align it with the new law. The change can amount to $15,000 in savings per unit.
Mighty Buildings offers six models ranging from a 350-square-foot studio (starting at $115,000) to a 1,440-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath home (priced up to $285,000). The company offers turnkey, end-to-end services from permitting to installation. Homeowners also have the option to buy prefabricated kits or customized components.
“As far as labor, we save 95% of the labor time, working with half as many people, and with one-tenth of the materials waste as compared to traditional construction,” Ruben said. “Compared to comparable units built here in California with traditional methods we are currently up to 45% lower in cost and will be able to achieve 20% to 30% savings over traditional prefab as well.”
Buyers face the additional standard costs of any construction project, such as site work and permitting.
The startup so far has delivered a one-bedroom Mighty Duo unit in San Diego and a Mighty Studio in San Ramon.
“We have three additional units on our floor awaiting delivery as soon as site work is completed, plus an additional 16 contracts ready to go into production,” Ruben said.
The company isn’t the first to use 3D printers to build homes. For example, Austin-based ICON claims it’s the first company in the United States to secure a building permit for and build a 3D printed home. That was in 2018.
Mighty Buildings launched in August with $30 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator and other investors, according to a company representative.
The builder doesn’t use concrete, but makes its homes out of Light Stone, a composite material that hardens when exposed to UV light. For exterior walls, the panels are covered in a fire-resistant screen.
The company is starting with ADUs but plans to soon expand to full-sized houses and other buildings.
“In the future we plan to expand into larger multi-story, multi-family capabilities as well,” Ruben said.
The company’s future plans, in short, are global, he added.
“More specifically, we are actively working with a network of developers, builders, technologists, and other businesses and institutions around the world to systematize our technology and processes — essentially, taking what we do here in Oakland and making it readily available across the country and around the planet,” Ruben said.
“Not only will localities be able to make housing and other structures affordably and sustainably, but they’ll also be better able to respond quickly to unexpected needs in the face of any uncertainty. These printing hubs can be set up in a relatively small footprint allowing them to take advantage of existing warehouse space rather than needing large, bespoke facilities.”
The Oakland facility alone could create more than 300 of these dwellings per year, Ruben estimates.
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Profiles of the Future That Never Was
We'll get to the image above in a just a moment. It was created to help promote the visionary space station proposals of scientist Gerard O'Neill in the mid-1970s, a glimpse of a hopeful, albeit technocratic future in the midst of an otherwise painfully long slog of a decade.
But first, let's set the stage. In 1975, Pat Moynihan wrote, “Most liberals had ended the 1960s rather ashamed of the beliefs they had held at the beginning of the decade.” Their collective emotional depression -- a malaise you might call it -- was greatly exacerbated by the disparity between their dreams at the beginning of the 1960s, and the very different reality that emerged as they began to attempt to implement them.
As James Piereson noted at the beginning of “Lee Harvey Oswald and the Liberal Crack-Up,” the magnum opus 2006 Commentary article that served as the prototype for his book the following year, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution:
Liberalism entered the 1960's as the vital force in American politics, riding a wave of accomplishment running from the Progressive era through the New Deal and beyond. A handsome young president, John F. Kennedy, had just been elected on the promise to extend the unfinished agenda of reform. Liberalism owned the future, as Orwell might have said. Yet by the end of the decade, liberal doctrine was in disarray, with some of its central assumptions broken by the experience of the immediately preceding years. It has yet to recover.
Along with the cognitive dissonance of the horrific death of JFK via a Marxist assassin, by 1968, liberalism was chastened by LBJ’s overreach. By 1966, he was attempting to simultaneously escalate JFK’s war in Vietnam and Kennedy's small-scale anti-poverty programs to Texas-sized proportions. He also kept JFK’s vision of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade on track. As Rand Simberg noted, LBJ was far from altruistic on this matter – he saw the space program as a sort of giant TVA project which would help modernize the south, and distribute plenty of money into his constituents' coffers.
But even before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, liberals of the era had begun to turn their back on Kennedy’s vision of the bold New Frontier – including JFK's surviving brothers. Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign ads and campaign speeches had a very different tone that tacitly rebuked his brother’s optimism. The following year, Teddy Kennedy was more explicit. He was quoted in the New York Times on the day after Armstrong and Apollo 11 took off for the Moon, as saying, “The Apollo program is for landing a man on the moon and exploration and should take another one to two years. I think after that the space program ought to fit into our other national priorities.”
And that it would, quickly scaling back in the early 1970s. The moon missions concluded; followed by Skylab, which was perhaps best known for its disastrous launch in 1973 and its ignominious crash to earth six years later, rather than its actual manned missions, and the Apollo-Soyuz link-up, and then nothing. The Apollo technology was discarded, as NASA put all of its resources for manned spaceflight into the Space Shuttle, which Arthur C. Clarke would later write off as not even the DC-3 of space, but the “DC 1 and a half,” if I’m remembering correctly the phrase he used in an interview after the Challenger disaster.
Back on planet earth, by the beginning of the 1970s, what the Carter administration would describe at the end of the decade as a “malaise” that the 39th president and his fellow liberals suffered from was encapsulated in the 1972 book Limits to Growth, as Steve Hayward wrote in the first volume of The Age of Reagan:
["Limits to growth" was partly] an influence of the rapidly growing environmental movement, which, in its early days, was much taken with the 1972 Club of Rome book The Limits to Growth. The book offered a gloomy argument that natural resource depletion and rising pollution threatened mankind’s long-term future unless economic growth was slowed or stopped. The Limits to Growth had the benefit of fortuitously appearing at the same time that commodity shortages were becoming chronic. Newsweek magazine in 1973 ran a cover picture of an empty horn of plenty with the ominous headline RUNNING OUT OF EVERYTHING? Most of the commodity shortages of the early 1970s were the result of the Nixon price controls discussed in chapter 6, and by 1976 the Club of Rome repudiated its own argument, recognizing that conquering poverty and preserving world peace would require a lot of economic growth.
The idea of the limits to growth has remained a core concept of environmentalism nonetheless, and became the new visage of liberal guilt. For some varieties of the liberal mind, gloom is exhilarating, and the limits to growth offered a large-scale sequel to the Vietnam War. Carter embraced the limits to growth view in his inaugural address, noting that “We have learned that ‘more’ is not necessarily ‘better,’ that even our great Nation has its recognized limits.” Margaret Thatcher, among many others, noted the trouble with this, writing that Carter “had no large vision of America’s future so in the face of adversity, he was reduced to preaching the austere limits to growth that was unpalatable, even alien, to the American imagination.” Liberalism is historically an optimistic creed, and having open doubts about growth was a disaster for liberalism. In the space of a decade, the central governing challenge of liberalism had transformed from allocating abundance to rationing scarcity. National Review took note of this problem as the Carter administration unfolded: “The profound negativism of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party is alien to the American tradition. The Democratic coalition could be split like a coconut on these issues. The Republicans, if they presented themselves as the party of growth, optimism, and expanding possibility could surely seize the high ground from the presently deeply divided and artificial Democratic coalition.”
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The best kid’s bedding sets are the focal point of your LO’s room. Picking out cute and endearing bedding together- bedspreads and pillows – can drum up anticipation for their newly ventured independence. After all, moving from cribs and cots into a big kid bed brings lots of anxiety for mama and tons of excitement for your little one – or not so little.
Importance of Kids Fitted Bed Sheets:
Fitted sheets textile industry manufactures kids fitted sheets which are very useful, as your baby grows older and moves around in the cot more. A fitted sheet won’t ruffle and dislodge from the mattress as a result of a squirming baby. They are easy to spread and can be removed very conveniently.
Fitted sheets for children’s beds are designed with elasticized corners that tend to snug your mattress tightly, preventing wrinkles and keeping the bed tidy to sleep. To find the best-fitted bed sheets for your kid’s bedding sets, you will need to keep the following factors in mind:
The most important quality your kid’s sheets absolutely have to have is breathability. Bed sheets must tend to allow moisture to evaporate quickly, rather than allowing it to remain on the sheets. When it gets warm at night, the sheets should be able to release some heat to keep your sleeping children at a comfortable temperature. Materials like cotton are popular for being extremely breathable.
When you are buying fitted sheets for a kid’s bed, you must analyze whether they are machine washable. Studies show that almost 15% of kids at the age of 5 wet their beds, which you’ll likely be washing your child’s sheets pretty frequently. Machine washable fitted sheets will make the job easier for you. Plus, the level of cleanliness achieved with machine washing can’t be matched with manual washing.
Bacteria often find refuge in a variety of places, and bedspreads are no exception. We spend a lot of time in bed – our children even more so! While buying fitted sheets for your kid’s bed, it is crucial to check any antibacterial properties.
Soft and Noiseless:
Sheets that crinkle and make a lot of noise are not kid-friendly. If your little one wakes up from the noise of their sheets every time they shift position, nobody in your home will be happy about it. While shopping for kids’ bed sheets, always make sure they are made from a soft material that won’t make noise, especially if your baby is a restless sleeper. And always go for fitted sheets to keep the bed and tidy and wrinkle-free.
Whether it’s kid’s single bed fitted sheets or kid’s double bed fitted sheets, durability is the most significant characteristic. Sheets must be made of strong material since they need to withstand daily use, especially by children and pets.
Other issues related to durability include colorfastness. It is a fabric’s ability to retain its original color even after several washes. Fading is mostly witnessed with bright colors. But good quality fitted sheets never fade even after multiple washes.
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Sep 04, 2015· Sep 04, 2015· With a hard rock crusher fine, the lack of these materials means a naturally weed resistant ground cover. If your project calls for crusher fines, make certain that you're getting the right type that will give you the long term benefits of a weed free and stable surface and will insure a lifetime of use and enjoyment.
Jul 17, 2018· Cost does not take into account landscaping or curb installation. Reported by: ProMatcher Research Team: 88001, Las Cruces, New Mexico - June 13, 2018 Gravel Delivery $35.46 - $41.25 per ton for pea gravel Cost estimate includes pea gravel delivery. Price does include basic pea gravel (3/8") and delivery within 10 miles.
Aug 20, 2019· An 8' wide contractor built crusher fine trail in the Denver area costs between $4 and $5 per foot, not including the cost of site preparation and infrastructure such as retaining walls, and bridges. This compares with $12 to $15 per linear foot for concrete. The fines cost about $3.00 per cubic yard delivered in the metro area.
Sand Products. $2.75 /per ton Fine Stone Dust; $5.45 /per ton Pure Stone Dust (Clean); $7.70 /per ton Washed Manufactured Sand (Underdrain); $3.50 /per ton Natural Yellow Sand; $12.00 /per ton Type B Underdrain Sand; Gravel Products. $6.40 /per ton 4" Crushed Gravel; $6.85 /per ton 1-1/2'' Crushed Gravel; $5.30 /per ton 3/4" Dense Grade; $4.00 /per ton 3/8" Dense Grade; $11.65 /per ton MDOT ...
The cost to install gravel is $1.25 and $1.80 per square foot. The average cost of a 16x38 foot gravel driveway is $1,500. Driveways on the smaller side can cost as little as $300 with a larger and longer driveway costing as much as $60,000. Whether you want a basic gravel driveway or something more stylish, multiple factors affect the cost.
Gravel Cost Per Square Foot. Gravel costs $0.50 to $2.50 per square foot on average when covering an area 12" deep (a cubic foot), depending on the type. Base gravel, crusher run, slate, shale, and crushed concrete are the cheapest at $0.50 to $1.50 per square foot, while colored and decorative gravel run $3 per square foot.. Return to Top. Gravel Delivery Cost
Crushed Fines and also known as Quarry Dust, is a form of fractured gravel chips and fine dust used to solidify the base under patios and walkways. The Sub-Base is laid above the ABC or Sub-Grade at 1″ to 2″ inches on light weight traffic areas like pathways and paver patios. Cross-Section layers that make up a mortar-less or "dry-laid ...
Landscape rocks & gravel are products of nature, variations do occur ... Rose Gold Crusher Fines. $48.50 per ton. 1/2" Rose Gold. ... 1" Rose Gold. $66.00 per ton. See More Samples. Prices are subject to change. 2" depth is recommend for ground cover on most gravels Coverage Breakdown (Per Ton): 1" Depth = 240 sq ft [approx] 2" Depth = 120 sq ...
Gravel Cost Per Yard Bulk gravel costs $15 to $75 per yard on average. Crushed concrete, sand and gravel mix, and crushed shells are the cheapest stones at $15 per yard. Crusher run, pea gravel, steel slag, and river rock typically cost $50 per yard or more.
Gravel comes in a variety of sizes and colors with lovely natural variations. Pair it with flowering plants and/or succulents for a wonderful addition to any landscape setting. Where to Use different sized Landscape Gravel. Crusher fines are typically ¼" minus and are ideal for walkways, driveways or even for a clean, minimalist ground cover ...
Minus crushed rock costs $12-$35 per cubic yard while clean crushed rock costs $30-$50 per cubic yard. Delivery and spreading can double those prices. However, the more material you order, the less the total cost. Delivery is usually free of charge up to 10 miles. Below are some crushed stone/gravel delivery prices by locations:
Calculate Crusher Run 2" minus. Type in inches and feet of your project and calculate the estimated amount of Base material in cubic yards, cubic feet and Tons, that your need for your project. The Density of Crusher Run 2" minus: 2,410 lb/yd³ or 1.21 t/yd³ or 0.8 yd³/t. A:
an appropriate mix of new gravel and silt or clay fines. However, some parts of Minnesota have limited sources of aggregate, and extracting and hauling it to the road site are becoming more expensive. To reduce costs, the Local Road Research Board wanted to consider mixing fines into existing aggregate on a road as an alternative to regraveling.
Summary: Gravel Delivery Prices Minus crushed rock costs $12-$35 per cubic yard while clean crushed rock costs $30-$50 per cubic yard. Delivery and spreading can double those prices. However, the more material you order, the less the total cost.
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Cost and Availability of Different Stone In considering the cost of crusher run vs. washed stone, realize that 25% to 45% of the weight of crusher run gravel is composed of particles smaller than 2 mm. Although quarries price gravel on a per-ton basis, its simpler to calculate gravel needs and compare costs based on cubic yards.
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Objective – This study investigates the effects of financial constraints on the conservatism practices of Brazilian firms.
Design/methodology/approach – A sample totaling 1,086 observations of Brazilian publicly traded companies listed on BM&FBovespa was developed from 2000 to 2012. In the sample 106 observations were classified in condition of financially constrained according to the criteria related to lower dividends payout, large amount of cash and equivalents available and investment or capital expenditures (property, plant and equipment). We use Basu (1997) and Ball and Shivakumar (2005) models to investigate the relationship between financial constraints and accounting conservatism.
Findings – The results show financially constrained firms adopt less conditional conservatism practices on their accounting figures. In other words, those firms avoid to disclose losses trying to access more external funds, however, increasing information asymmetry.
Practical implications – The evidence of this study could be used by creditors and regulators to support new financing policies and risk monitoring through firms’ financial statements.
Originality/value – We empirically show that conditional conservatism practices are affected by financial constraints. Also, we develop an alternative way to classify companies in terms of financial constraints from a combination of three proxies traditionally applied in the literature such as cash and cash-equivalent, capital expenditure (property, plant and equipment) and dividends payout.
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Team from North Hollywood High wins DWP's regional Science Bowl
North Hollywood High School Team A won the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s 19th annual Science Bowl Regional Competition held Saturday in downtown Los Angeles.
As a regional title holder, the team will travel to Washington, D.C., with all expenses paid by the U.S. Department of Energy, to represent Los Angeles at the National Science Bowl from April 28 to May 2. Team members also win the Hitachi Scholarship, according to the DWP.
Last year the regional championship team from North Hollywood High School placed third at the National Science Bowl. Previous DWP regional winning teams captured four national titles and placed among the top five teams nationally 10 times.
Harvard-Westlake School Team B won second place, while Bravo Medical Magnet High School Team A finished third and North Hollywood High School Team B finished fourth.
Students demonstrated problem-solving abilities in the Franklin Lu Hands-On Competition, named after the late DWP electrical engineer and Science Bowl volunteer. This year’s competition involved solving a series of puzzles, complex chemical formulas and designing, assembling and flying paper airplanes within a limited amount of time.
The first-place Franklin Lu Hands-On trophy went to Lincoln High School Team B. Team members receive the First Wind Scholarship. The second-place award was presented to Reseda High School Team B. Third and fourth places were awarded to Granada Hills Charter High School Team B and Bravo Medical Magnet High School Team B, respectively.
The DWP Science Bowl is held each year and tests students' reflexes, teamwork skills and knowledge in a television game show format. The DWP is one of only a few utilities in the nation to serve as a coordinating regional sponsor and host.
In addition to the DWP, sponsors for this year’s Science Bowl included First Wind, the Hitachi Southern California Regional Community Action Committee, the Hitachi Foundation, Clary Corp., IEEE, the Water and Power Community Credit Union, the Engineers’ Council, Office Depot, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The DWP is the nation’s largest municipally owned utility in the nation, with 1.4 million customers.
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In southwest Ohio, Dayton and Cincinnati statistically only experience a White Christmas about 20 to 30 percent of the time. Dayton tends to see them more frequently.
The most recent White Christmas for both cities occurred in 2017. While the snow wasn’t very deep, it was enough to be considered a White Christmas. The record highest snow depth on Christmas Day was in 2004. Cincinnati had nine inches of show, and Dayton had 16.
As for a White Christmas this year, that’s tricky. Christmas is a few weeks away, and it can be difficult to forecast that far out — let alone predict at least one inch of snow on the ground by Christmas Day.
First, let’s start with the probability of precipitation. According to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center, there is an above-average chance for precipitation leading up to Christmas Day. That may sound like positive news, but there is also an above-average chance that temperatures will be warmer than normal. Typical highs around Christmas are in the middle 30s. That would lend itself to rain rather than snow.
The last thing to consider: how warm is the ground? The average soil temperatures have been estimated to be around the middle to upper 30s. While above freezing, it’s cold enough to collect snow, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
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A range extender is gasoline-powered generator that can be used on an electric car to make it go farther on extended trips. It can be internal to the car or attached as a trailer for special occasions. Since most people do not travel more than 100 miles per day, pure electric cars are good for most people’s needs most of the time. Range extenders are a good way to get extra power when you want to go on vacation.
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Cats like to roam. They like to be able to explore their territories, have some leisurely sunbathing spells when it’s warm and chase leaves when autumn arrives. Most people enjoy the company of cats going about their business, but some are less than thrilled. Not everyone likes cats, and they like it even less when their neatly kept gardens are affected.
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Numeca Fine Turbo 10.1 (Win-Linux) Numeca Fine Turbo 10.1 (Win-Linux) | 2.99 GB
Program FINE / Turbo - the world's first set of current CAE software (PC) high-level solution-oriented specialized turbomachinery CFD problems and turbomachinery.
The structure of the complex of FINE / Turbo:
AutoBlade: parametric oscillator blade rows;
AutoGrid: Parameter block structured automatic mesh generator to turbomachinery;
IGG: block structured grid generator for an arbitrary geometry;
Euranus: structured 3D solver Navier-Stokes equations;
AutoBlade - parametric oscillator blade rows, allows engineers to quickly create and instantly upgrade the running of the turbomachine while working in terms of turbomachinery (chord angle input, output, throat and so on. D.).
AutoGrid - automatic block-structured grid generator, is inextricably linked to AutoBlade.
This connection allows you to parameterize not only the geometric and grid model, which in turn makes it possible to build a PC NUMECA into the overall design of the whole enterprise. AutoGrid can create parametric grid pattern blades with all the features - blowing cooling air shroud clearances, etc.
Euranus - billing module (solver). By virtue of structured approach and options multigrid (nested grid) solution is obtained by 3-5 times faster than any other purpose CFD package. This requires 2-3 times less memory.
Unique solutions NUMECA for joint calculation of moving and stationary settlement areas is aimed at getting a quick solution for a non-stationary multi-stage machines at a distinct periodic boundaries. In particular there is the opportunity to explore Clocking Effect.
Also become traditional for joint calculation of rotor and stator methods:
Mixing Plane (Surface Melting Pot)
Frozen Rotor (Stopped" Rotor)
Implemented as unique for the PC universal CFD methods:
Domain Scaling Method (scaling method)
Phase Lagged Method (Generalized spatio-temporal periodic boundary conditions)
As well as a unique method for CFD approaches:
Non Linear Harmonic (method of nonlinear harmonic analysis)
This approach is used for quick, accurate solution for non-stationary multistage turbomachinery.
Simplified methods of analysis of the flow in the flow of the Throughflow Model and Blade to Blade Module used for rapid assessment of the quality of the flow in the blade rows and the distribution of the flow of the blade height.
The unique specialized module for creating block-structured grids allows you to create parametric models blades with all the features - blowing cooling air shroud, clearances, and so on. D ...
IGG - block structured grid generator for an arbitrary geometry. Powerful and convenient environment for building high-quality discrete models. Realized high smoothing algorithms multi-block grids. Custom scripting system greatly simplifies and automates the generation of networks for common elements.
CFView - a powerful imaging platform solutions, provides a full range of options for displaying the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of 2D / 3D calculations.
Areas of use:
PC FINE / TurboTM - applied to solve practical problems of fluid dynamics for the design and optimization of all types of blade machines (turbomachines): multistage axial, radial and mixed compressors, turbines, pumps, fans and propellers, as well as snails, diffusers, heat exchangers and exhaust systems.
Year / Release Date: 2015
Developer: Numeca International Inc.
Bit: 32bit + 64bit
Compatibility with Vista: unknown
Compatible with Windows 7 full time
Compatible with Windows 8: full
Medicine: Present (TeAM SOlidSQUAD-SSQ)
System requirements: multiprocessor, multi-core PC, 512MB or more of RAM, 1.36 GB of free space on hard drive for installation
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Clinical Research Finds Waterpik® Water Flosser Significantly More Effective Than Sonicare® Air Floss
Waterpik® Water Flosser Proven up to 70% More Effective at Removing Plaque, up to 80% More Effective in Reducing Gingivitis
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (February 1, 2012) – With the recent introductions of new oral care tools that claim to make flossing easier, it can be confusing to determine which is the most effective. A recently published study now proves that the Waterpik® Water Flosser comes out on top. The study, published in The Journal of Clinical Dentistry (January 2012), shows that the Waterpik® Water Flosser is significantly more effective than the Sonicare® Air Floss (model HX8181) at removing plaque and reducing gingivitis.1 The study was conducted by BioSci Research Canada, Ltd.
During the four-week study, the 82 participating subjects were given the Waterpik® Water Flosser or Sonicare® Air Floss (model HX8181), plus a manual toothbrush, to use as part of their daily oral care routine. Clinical results illustrated that the Waterpik® Water Flosser was 80% more effective than Sonicare® Air Floss for overall gingivitis reduction and also 70% more effective for overall plaque removal.
"It's well known that tooth brushing needs to be accompanied by a form of flossing in order to clean interdentally and subgingivally, where plaque bacteria can quickly form, causing serious dental problems," said Dr. Naresh C. Sharma, the study's lead researcher. "I found the results to be very useful due to the significant difference between the two groups."
Plaque biofilm is a collection of bacteria that form complex, interactive colonies throughout the mouth, particularly in hard-to-reach areas between teeth and below the gum line, where it is difficult to remove. The removal of plaque biofilm is the basis of preventative dental health, as plaque is the leading cause of tooth decay and gum disease.
"Virtually anyone and everyone can benefit from using a Waterpik® Water Flosser," says Deborah Lyle, Water Pik, Inc.'s Director of Clinical Research. "The Water Flosser is unique in its ability to remove plaque from those areas that are typically missed by traditional brushing and flossing, thereby reducing the patient's risk for gum disease."
Water Pik, Inc. is committed to sponsoring high quality research studies that are conducted by universities and independent research facilities, and are published in peer-reviewed, professional journals. There are now 56 published clinical studies on the Waterpik® Water Flosser that demonstrate it is safe and effective, and can significantly improve oral health for people with braces, implants, crowns, bridges, and diabetes.
This new research builds upon the existing body of evidence that the Waterpik® Water Flosser is easier to use, more effective than traditional dental floss and more effective than Air Floss for removing plaque, reducing gingivitis and improving overall oral health. In fact, a recent survey finds that Waterpik® is the #1 brand of Water Flosser recommended by dental professionals to their patients.2
The study, Comparison of Two Power Interdental Cleaning Devices on the Reduction of Gingivitis, was conducted at BioSci Research Canada, Ltd. Study authors included: Naresh C. Sharma, BDS, DDS; Deborah M. Lyle, RDH; MS., Jimmy G. Qaqish, BSc; and Reinhard Schuller, MSc. To learn more about this and other studies, see our clinical research.
About Water Pik, Inc.
Water Pik is a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative personal healthcare products sold under the Waterpik® brand name. The Company has developed and introduced many products that are considered the first of their kind and have led to the formation of new markets, including the Water Flosser, and the pulsating shower massage. The Waterpik® brand is one of the most trusted oral health brands of dental professionals throughout the world. The Company's products are sold through a variety of channels, including mass merchandisers, drug store chains and specialty retailers. Headquartered in Fort Collins, CO, the Company operates facilities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit the Water Pik, Inc. website at waterpik.com. Water Pik can also be found on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WaterpikOralHealth and Twitter: twitter.com/Waterpik | <urn:uuid:5c9c7fe4-0200-42d4-9909-2f741e0abb33> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.waterpik.com/news-press/water-flosser-vs-air-floss-clinical-study-consumer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00343-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944428 | 975 | 2.0625 | 2 |
While chemical weapons are stockpiled around the world, there is a long standing prohibition against using these malicious tools of war. The Syrian government’s alleged chemical attack violates international norms against the use of chemical weapons, which are capable of widespread, indiscriminate killing.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday outlined details from a US intelligence report that said that 1,429 people were killed in a Syrian chemical weapons attack outside of Damascus, Syria on August 21, including at least 426 children. Kerry said findings pointing to Syrian President Bashar al Assad's regime as responsible for launching the attack against civilians "are as clear as they are compelling."
All but seven countries are signatories of the 1993 arms control agreement, the Chemical Weapons Convention, which outlaws the production, possession, and use of these poisonous tools. Syria is one of the few nations which has not agreed to the CWC prohibitions, and thus it has never made a formal declaration of its stock.
We don't know exactly what chemical weapon's Syria has, but other countries have worked to eliminate their chemical stockpiles. Here, Chinese Abandoned Chemical Weapons experts pack away the canisters containing mustard gas that was removed from the chemical bombs excavated at a site, which is opposite a Chinese middle school in Mudanjiang, northeastern China's Heilongjiang province in 2006.
In a response to the alleged chemical weapons attack on its own people by the Syrian regime, the USS Mahan, the USS Barry, the USS Ramage, and the USS Gravely, all Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, are en route or in position in the eastern Mediterranean for a possible strike on Syrian military assets.
Here, the guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage is seen underway in the Atlantic Ocean on September 4, 2008.
Photo by: U.S. Navy
US Navy destroyers
The US Navy continues to research better ways to wage war -- including lasers -- but for now the US Navy's guided-missile destroyers, like the USS Barry seen here, are equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Photo by: U.S. Navy
Sarin gas, a lethal nerve agent
Sarin gas, also known as GB, is believed to have been used by the government during the Syrian civil war, but is yet unconfirmed. This photo shows an M190 Honest John chemical warhead section containing demonstration M134 GB Sarin cluster bomblets circa 1943.
Like other nerve agents, man-made sarin attacks the nervous system, interrupting the nerves in muscles. Death will usually occur following convulsions and paralysis as a result of asphyxia due to the inability of the muscles involved in breathing to function.
Just slightly heavier than air, sarin gas is especially deadly in urban areas, settling into human occupied areas close to the ground. Easy to make, the weaponized gas can waft into even well fortified bunkers and penetrate buildings.
Photo by: U.S. Army
Chemical weapons chart
This chemical weapons chart, posted aboard the USS Hornet, now docked in Alameda, Calif., shows the different types of weaponized chemicals one might encounter during warfare, along with best practices and methods of managing the risks.
This map shows international participation in the Chemical Weapons Convention. The light green countries have signed and ratified the CWC, the dark green depicts countries acceding or succeeding, the yellow countries have only signed, and the red countries are non-signatory.
The Convention is designed to ensure that toxic chemicals are only developed and produced for purposes unrelated to chemical weapons. According to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, toxic chemicals are widely used in commercial industrial production as a basic raw material, or as anti-neoplastic agents, which prevent the multiplication of cells, and as fumigants, herbicides, or insecticides.
Such chemicals are considered chemical weapons if they are produced and stockpiled in amounts that exceed requirements for those purposes that are not prohibited under the convention.
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Israel's 'Iron Dome' defense
An "Iron Dome" short-range missile defense system is pictured near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on January 28, 2013. The Iron Dome defense missile system is designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells.
Fearing a retaliatory strike in response to any US military action, or that Syrian chemical weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants, Israel is taking steps to defend itself.
Photo by: JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images
Chlorine suspected in March attack
Soldiers arm their tanks as Israeli troops start preparations at a deployment area during a military exercise on August 28, 2013, near the border with Syria, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
Here is the aftermath of a German chlorine gas attack against a British emplacement in Fromelles, France, during World War I. Chlorine gas precipitates death by asphyxiation. The use of masks is an effective military countermeasure, however when used in unprepared urban civilian populations, chlorine gas can cause widespread casualties.
Photo by: Wikipedia/Hermann Rex
DIY gas masks
This photo taken on April 26, 2013, in Syria's northern Latakia province shows the items needed to craft an effective homemade gas mask. A plastic bottle, coal, cotton, gauze, cola, and cardboard seen here were used by members of the al-Ezz bin Abdul Salam brigade to assemble homemade gas masks for protection against chemical weapons like chlorine.
Photo by: MIGUEL MEDINA
Trying on a homemade gas-mask
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The 1979 merger of Peabody College for Teachers with Vanderbilt University was a significant event in the history of southern education. A generous donation from Dr. Hal Ramer made it possible to record and transcribe the oral histories of people who experienced the merger closely. These stories enrich the existing historical documents records.
This site links to the voice interviews as well as transcriptions of the interviews of former students, faculty, administrators, and friends.
This project was a collaboration between Peabody Library, Special Collections and University Archives, and the Peabody College Office of Development and Alumni Relations.
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Introduction: The Power Of Design Thinking 1
Part I What Is Design Thinking?
1 Getting Under Your Skin, or How Design Thinking Is about More Than Style 13
2 Converting Need into Demand, or Putting People First 39
3 A Mental Matrix, or "These People Have No Process!" 63
4 Building To Think or The Power of Prototyping 87
5 Returning To the Surface, or The Design of Experiences 109
6 Spreading The Message or The Importance of Storytelling 129
Part II Where Do We Go from Here?
7 Design Thinking Meets the Corporation, or Teaching To Fish 155
8 The New Social Contract or We're All in This Together 177
9 Design Activism, or Inspiring Solutions With global Potential 203
10 Designing Tomorrow-Today 227
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Christmas may be behind us, but there is something I want to reflect on that may make you think. Some of you may have heard the story about how my granddaughter thought I was one of Santa’s Elves for many of her younger years. Her mother had told her the story because she, like me, enjoyed the magic of Christmas when she was a little girl and wanted to carry on the tradition.
This is a very controversial topic around the holidays as there are some people who believe we shouldn’t let our kids think anything that isn’t true and that it will essentially scar them for life. If that were the case, then how could Disney World have been built and why does almost every child want to go there at least once in their life? And why are our kids told fairytales and bedtime stories spinning tales of the most elaborate and enchanted kind? And even on an adult level, why do we watch supernatural and mystical characters in films that we know could never exist in real life (but for a moment, suspend our disbelief). Why do we do all of this? Because what we are truly talking about here can be summed up in one word: imagination.
Speaking of Walt Disney above, “Saving Mr. Banks” was just released over the holidays and tells the story of how it took Disney 20 years to follow through on a promise to daughters and make a film adaptation of “Mary Poppins.” The author spent two short weeks in Los Angeles where Disney pulled out all of the stops with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the Sherman brothers. He had to use imagination to finally convince her and capture her fancy, and I believe in a lot of ways that is what we do with stories of Santa Claus we tell to our children.
My granddaughter is now going on 11 years old. She’s a straight “A” student and a brilliant writer. She has been able to connect to the creativity behind those incredible stories, foster that inventiveness and make it her own. After all, how could she be such a great writer without using imagination as her starting point? And guess what? She knows now I was never an elf, but we all smile about it every year when we relive our past Christmas traditions.
I completely respect those who choose to not buy into these types of holiday traditions and in no way want anyone reading this to think I’m preaching one way over the other. I’ll admit, I felt sad the day I discovered there really was no Santa Claus. However, it helped me to transition into that next phase of my life (a rites of passage, if you will), and I went on to help my parents wrap gifts for my siblings from Santa. I still get a tingle when I see a kid in Santa’s lap at the mall – to me he is nothing more than the embodiment of the spirit of Christmas. Learning about Santa never affected me in any negative way – in fact, like in my granddaughter’s case, it did quite the opposite. Without my very vivid imagination and ability to believe in the impossible, I can say with 100% confidence that there would be no Pure Romance today.
In fact, I can always find the distinct connection between our top-selling Pure Romance Consultants and their level of imagination. They have taken the Pure Romance vision and successfully helped others open their hearts and mind to what we are all about. They use imagination in their demos and help people feel comfortable by the way they tell stories about their products and people’s lives they’ve touched. And anyone who has seen long-time Consultant and National Director, Leslie Zay, do a spritely cartwheel across the stage at world conference knows that she like many keeps her dreams alive, no matter what her age today. The future truly belongs to those who continue to dream and believing in a fantasy world as a child is certainly a good precursor to that. Regardless of your point of view on this particular topic, please never forget to imagine all the days of your life– it is the cornerstone of creativity and I truly believe your success depends on it! Here’s to keeping your inner child alive and dreaming, every day to come! | <urn:uuid:91b10d17-4782-4c70-a0e5-0aea031741ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pattybrisben.com/2013/12/30/dear-santa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.974902 | 878 | 1.96875 | 2 |
More than 500 Chinese-Americans gather on February 28 in front of the office building of state assembly member Ed Chau, urging Chau to vote against SCA5 in the state assembly. The amendment was proposed by state senator Ed Hernandez, and aimed to repeal Proposition 209, thus allowing preferential treatment in education for certain minorities. Photo: Yu Yan
Hundreds of Chinese-Americans in Southern California gathered recently to express their outrage against SCA 5, the controversial proposed amendment to the California constitution which would potentially decrease Asian-American students' chances of being admitted into top public universities, despite the efforts of some legislators to mitigate community anger.
The amendment, authored by state Democratic senator Ed Hernandez, would allow the state to give preferential treatment in public education and employment to groups based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin. It aims to boost education for certain minorities, such as blacks and Latinos. If SCA5 is passed in the state assembly, it will be presented to voters statewide.
Under mounting pressure from the Asian-American community, three Chinese-American state senators who voted for the amendment during the January 30 state senate meeting, including Leland Yee, Ted Lieu and Carol Liu, communicated with Hernandez last week, hoping that the initiative could be held from the state assembly.
"Prior to this vote, we heard no opposition to this bill. However, in the past few weeks, we have heard from thousands of people throughout California concerned about SCA 5," said the three Chinese-American state senators in a press release dated February 27. "We have asked Senator Hernandez to hold SCA 5 until he has an opportunity to meet with affected communities and attempt to build a consensus," they said.
A spokesperson from Hernandez' office stressed that it is "a very slow process" before SCA5 can be put on the ballot for Californians to vote upon.
"He is not pushing anything or making anything going fast forward right now. He wants to give time for not only the Chinese community to be heard, but as well as everyone, all the stakeholders," said the spokesperson.
Meanwhile, more actions have been taken by Asian-Americans to stop SCA5 from being passed in the state assembly.
More than 500 Chinese-Americans gathered in the rain on February 28 in front of the office building of state assembly member Ed Chau, protesting against SCA5 and labelling it as "Skin Color Act 5". They urged Chau to vote against SCA5 in the state assembly. Chau promised at the gathering that he would not vote yes.
At a press conference organized on the same day by Daniel H Deng, a renowned lawyer in Southern California who launched an anti-SCA5 alliance, Republican state assembly member Curt Hagman said that SCA5 would lead the state in the wrong direction. California has experienced a good period of educational growth thanks to Proposition 209, but the new proposal would hamper the state's edge in education, he added.
Bob Huff, Republican leader in the state senate, said that it is almost impossible for Hernandez to "hold" SCA5 as it has been approved by state senate.
Gino Kwok and Joseph Chang, board members of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, agreed with Hagman, saying that if SCA5 is passed, top universities would have to set up cram courses for students who are not academically qualified but admitted into the universities based on their race.
Asian-American students now have to get a 4.28 GPA score to get into top universities such as UCLA, while students of other races often need only 3.7 for the same school, said Andrew Kuo, director of the ACI Institute, adding that SCA5 would create new educational unfairness for Asian-American students.
SCA5 sends a warning to Asian immigrants who work hard by themselves to improve their quality of life in the US, said a mother who drove with a group of Chinese-American mothers from Orange County to participate the protest. "Working hard is far from enough. Only when Chinese immigrants participate more in politics can our core interests be better protected," she said. | <urn:uuid:7bf3b13e-dbd9-4809-b5f4-7b01512eddce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/846586.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975099 | 841 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Just how can a Bad is got by you Credit Loan?
Than you requested to borrow if you are looking to borrow lower amounts such as Ј100 or Ј500, there are personal loans available, and to manage the risk, you may be required to pay a slightly higher interest rate or be offered a lower amount.
Nonetheless, there are various other choices readily available (see below) which include making use of secured finance or including a guarantor to obtain the mortgage you may need.
Can you really Get a negative Credit Loan without any Credit examine?
Indeed, as the criteria for some loans that are unsecured centered on your income and credit history, there are some other choices designed for men and women hunting for financial loans with bad credit.
Guarantor financial financial financial loans – you could add an additional individual to your loan arrangement to offer additional security – usually referred to as a guarantor loan.
So long as your guarantor features a credit that is good and an everyday earnings, it is possible to leverage their creditworthiness and borrow as much as Ј15,000. This will be widely used by people who have no credit scoring and also those shopping for extremely bad credit financial loans, including records of CCJs and bankruptcy.
The guarantor features very a big duty if you cannot keep up – so it is important to choose a guarantor who you know well and trust because they are required to pay off your outstanding loan repayments.
Logbook loans – you can use this as collateral and borrow up to Ј50,000 through a logbook loan if you have a vehicle. This enables one to launch money from your own vehicle, bike or van supplied it really is significantly less than 7 yrs . old. But, because this is a secured loan, your automobile is within threat of repossession if you fail to keep pace with repayments.
What’s the Criteria for a negative Credit Loan?
To qualify for a bad credit loan, you need to meet the next criteria:
- British citizen
- Over 18 years old
- Employed (part-time or full-time) and earning at the least Ј500 every month
- Are able to afford repayments that are monthly
- British debit account
- UK cell phone and email
Companies that provide bad credit financial loans have a much view that is different old-fashioned loan providers. They have been less thinking about your last, but keen on your personal future.
By having an income that is regular work, it reveals that you’ve got a useful method to make your month-to-month loan repayments. Loan providers may also enquire about your month-to-month expenditures such lease, expenses, resources and enjoyment and locating the perfect stability will regulate how much you are able to borrow.
How Could You Boost Your Credit History?
When you have bad credit and generally are concerned about being declined for a financial loan, you will find often some fast repairs can be done to boost your rating.
For instance, when you yourself have perhaps not currently, you can try joining the electoral roll which verifies your title and target using the neighborhood governing bodies. Credit guide companies and lenders look at this to be a good trust element as it verifies your name and place.
Other activities you are able to do add shutting any charge cards and shop cards because it potentially shows that you have access to credit and could make your stretched financially that you do not use.
Additionally, stay away from making www.checkmatepaydayloans.com/ a lot of loan requests within a brief period of time. This will be considered by loan providers becoming a little bit of a danger sign that the patient is eager for finance.
After you have completed the program in under five minutes, you certainly will obtain an immediate choice regarding the display and in case authorized, clients can usually get resources for their banking account in an hour or from the exact same day of using.
What exactly is a negative Credit Loan?
Well, just like title would recommend, a negative credit loan is a choice for customers just who either haven’t any credit rating or get one this is certainly below average which makes it difficult in order for them to be eligible for standard loans.
The reason The Reason Why Would One Need To Get a negative Credit Loan?
Really, there are lots of explanations such assets along with other company expenditures. The prominent explanation though is undoubtedly emergencies. If some body into the household is hospitalised or your vehicle stops working then getting that loan is a clear answer.
Nevertheless, then getting the money you need to resolve the emergency could prove rather difficult if you either have no credit score or have a sub par one. That’s why loan providers are supplying this method increasingly more such as for instance a road of relief to people who require financial help yet don’t have actually the credit history to back them up.
Why don’t you Ask Family or Friends Instead?
One road that individuals just just take when not able to be eligible for a standard loans for their credit history, or absence thereof, they have a tendency to appear towards their family relations and good friends when it comes to economic support. Although this is a good idea in certain circumstances, it is ill-advised as a financial obligation between family members or pals may lead to resentment if re payments are later. It’s unwise to jeopardise close bonds along with your pals and loved ones whenever you could simply get yourself a credit that is bad from the state lender rather and never have to be concerned about household feuds.
Tend To Be Interest Levels Greater?
You can expect that the interest rates they charge you will be higher than that of standard loans whenever you go to a bank seeking a bad credit loan. That said, there’s actually some reasoning behind this choice as opposed to financially disdain for the challenged. The truth is, whenever banks give away financial financial loans to individuals with a reasonable credit history or also nothing after all, they’re risking their particular resources because you can never be capable of making payments regularly if after all.
By increasing the attention prices, they increase their particular return that is potential on when you do are able to spend. This converts it right into a risky high-reward circumstance instead of a risky equal-reward scenario, aided by the latter making no good sense to leap into within the place that is first. It unfair that those who have less need to pay more, it’s this very system that allows lenders to help those in need, so don’t be too hard on the banks — at least they’re trying while you might find. | <urn:uuid:a59122cc-9168-495e-bb7a-fb2cebf7209a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://quiddityit.com/just-how-can-a-bad-is-got-by-you-credit-loan-6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965865 | 1,374 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Sep 19, 2012 at 7:46 am
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Two groups have filed a lawsuit to try to block the opening of Minnesota's wolf hunting and trapping seasons this fall.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Howling for Wolves say the Department of Natural Resources failed to provide a proper opportunity for public comment on recently approved rules establishing the wolf hunting and trapping seasons.
Wolves came off the endangered list in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan last January, and the Minnesota Legislature authorized the resumption of wolf hunting and trapping last session.
The two groups contend the online survey the DNR conducted did not provide an adequate chance for public comment. They're asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals for a preliminary injunction to block the hunt until the court can rule.
The season is due to open Nov. 3.
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ABAP News for Release 7.40 – ABAP and JSON
ABAP and JSON? Didn’t we had that before? Yes we had but since the JSON support was made available in Release 7.40 and downported to 7.02 and 7.31 (SAP Notes 1648418 and 1650141) it shouldn’t be missed in a systematic overview over all important ABAP News for Release 7.40.
I will take the chance to shortly wrap up the facts about ABAP and JSON and point to the documentation where you can learn more.
ABAP and JSON
The support of JSON in ABAP is based on the support of XML (but note that JSON is not XML).
The trick is the usage of a JSON-XML-Format that maps JSON to XML and vice versa.
Like XML data, JSON data can be
- parsed or rendered
For parsing and rendering of JSON data XML-readers and XML-writers of the sXML-Library are made to JSON-readers and JSON-writers by using the special format IF_SXML=>CO_XT_JSON. A JSON-reader understands JSON data and renders it internally like JSON-XML. A JSON-writer understands JSON-XML and creates JSON from that input.
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East Charity Shoals Light is a lighthouse located in Lake Ontario near the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River. The tower originally served Vermilion Light Station in Ohio (1877”“1929) but was removed after it was damaged in an ice storm. East Charity Shoals Light is not open to the public, but it is visible from Tibbetts Point Light on a clear day. The tower was formed from recast obsolescent cannon after the Battle of Fort Sumter in the American Civil War. On July 23, 2008, the Secretary of the Interior identified East Charity Shoal Light as surplus under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000. The property was described as "Established in 1935. 56 feet tall; property includes a rectangular, reinforced concrete pier built on a wooden crib foundation with protective riprap; and a single-story octagonal concrete deckhouse with a three-story cast iron white tower topped with a lantern and lantern gallery (painted black). Deckhouse stands 11.5 feet tall and is approx. 20 feet in diameter. The concrete pier measures 50 feet long on each side and rises to approx. 18 feet above level of Lake Ontario. Interior of light includes a basement and five stories." Property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and must be maintained according to the Secretary of Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. Historic covenants will be incorporated into the deed. The easement states "1) An easement for the purpose of preserving an Arc of Visibility within the radial arc of 360 degrees with the stipulation that nothing will be constructed maintained or permitted of a height sufficient to interfere with or obstruct the Arc of Visibility of said light. 2) An easement for an unrestricted right of access for ingress and egress, to and across the Property to maintain, operate, service, repair, and replace equipment as necessary to support its ATON mission; and 3) The unrestricted right to relocate or add any aids to navigation or communications towers and equipment (along with necessary right of egress/ingress), or make any changes on any portion of the property as may be necessary for navigation/public safety purposes." | <urn:uuid:be6f65f6-79b9-4b76-b61d-9f1b733e12d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://openbuildings.com/buildings/east-charity-shoal-light-profile-19838 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00261-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940436 | 443 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Presentation on theme: "The Eagle of the Ninth 49782002 YenYuLin. The author Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) Born in West Clandon, Surrey, England Contracted Still's Disease Genre:"— Presentation transcript:
The Eagle of the Ninth YenYuLin
The author Rosemary Sutcliff ( ) Born in West Clandon, Surrey, England Contracted Still's Disease Genre: historical fiction, children’s literature Quality and depth also appeals to adults: "for children of all ages from eight to eighty-eight". Was appointed an Officer of the order of British Empire for services to Children’s literature (1975)
Eagle of the Ninth The Eagle of the Ninth (1954) The Silver Branch (1957) Frontier Wolf (1980) The Lantern Bearers (1959) Carnegie Medal Sword at Sunset (1963) Dawn Wind (1961) Sword Song (1997) The Shield Ring (1956) Three Legions (1980)
Children’s novel Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950) The Queen Elizabeth Story (1950) A Saxon Settler (People of the Past series) (1965) Tristan and Iseult (1971) (runner-up, The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award)
The Eagle of the Ninth Setting: Roman Britain, 2 nd A.D. Summary: – Discharged because of a battle wound, a Roman officer Marcus Flavius Aquila tries to discover the truth about the disappearance of his father's legion in Scotland. Disguised as a Greek oculist and travelling with his freed ex-slave, Esca, Marcus finds that a demoralised and mutinous Ninth Legion was annihilated by a great rising of the northern tribes. In part, this disgrace was redeemed through a heroic last stand by a small remnant (including Marcus's father) around the legion's eagle standard. Marcus's hope of seeing the lost legion re-established is dashed, but he is able to bring back the bronze eagle so that it can no longer serve as a symbol of Roman defeat — and thus will no longer be a danger to the frontier's security.
Difficulties Roman names vs. English names Latin terms Mood of the character Dialogue Target readers: children or adults Black Humour
The reason why I choose this text… Classics Children’s Literature Military life Honour & Self-identity | <urn:uuid:80fc26a6-646f-427e-bba8-0e5a8711c697> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/3445748/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00177-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901856 | 488 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Studenterkollokvium - Kasper Rønning Pedersen: Twistronics - a new twist on quantum materials
Oplysninger om arrangementet
Fys. Aud. / Zoom
Vejleder: Philip Hofmann
Two-dimensional material physics saw its light after the first synthetization of graphene in 2004. In contrast to bulk materials, such two-dimensional sheets can be stacked on top of each other to form new artificial materials in the form of so-called superlattices. By twisting the sheets relative to each other, it turns out that one can change the properties of the superlattice drastically. This observation is the key point in twistronics, where one studies how the properties of the superlattice are changed by the twist-angle.
The most famous example is twisted bilayer graphene, composed of two layers of graphene with a relative twist (see figure). Other examples are superlattices composed of transition metal dichalcogenides, a class of materials closely related to graphene.
In this colloquium, I will outline the development of twistronics. Furthermore, I will discuss twisted bilayer graphene and give a comparison to single layer graphene. Finally, I will consider a superlattice made of two-dimensional MoSe2 and WSe2 sheets, where twist-angle dependent electron-hole bound states have been realized. | <urn:uuid:7f8b3c3c-ad42-4322-a26b-8f0625091737> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phys.au.dk/aktuelt/nyhed/artikel/studenterkollokvium-kasper-roenning-pedersen-twistronics-a-new-twist-on-quantum-materials | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.85016 | 295 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Here are some activities to help improve hand strength:
- Stirring batter or dough with a large spoon: This activity will help improve your child’s grip strength in both hands; one holding the bowl and one stirring with the spoon. The child will be motivated by the desirable end product, which could be brownies, cookies, or even play-doh.
- Squeeze, roll, and play with play-doh or silly putty: Play-doh and silly putty can be used to encourage pinch and grip strength by having your child make balls, pinch them into pancakes, squeeze them into a long snake, etc.
- Climbing up ladders or playground equipment: Holding on to ladders, monkey bars or climbing equipment will help improve functional grip strength, as the child must support their body with their hands.
- Buckles and snaps on clothing, helmets, etc.: Encourage your child to learn and complete difficult fasteners on their clothing and accessories. This will help promote independence and hand strength for everyday tasks.
- Tennis ball friend: Cut a slit in a tennis ball and draw eyes on it to make a puppet. Have your child ‘feed’ the tennis ball different small objects by squeezing the tennis ball with their hand to open the slit.
- Craft projects with hole punchers/ staplers: Using hole punchers and staplers are difficult hand tasks that require a lot of strength. Challenge your child to create a whole art project using only these two items.
- Cutting different thicknesses of paper: Using different thicknesses of paper will turn a cutting activity into a strengthening activity. Challenge your child to progress from thinner to thicker papers (for example, computer paper, to construction paper, to poster board, to cardboard, etc).
- Squeezing a glue bottle: Create a raised maze with glue and when it is dry, have your child color it in. Another option is to put paint in old glue bottles and have your child squeeze the paint out to make a picture.
- Putting together and taking apart Legos: Legos are a great activity for strengthening all fine motor skills. To add an extra challenge, push two legos together very tightly and then have the child try to pull them apart.
- Play with clothespins: This will promote the strengthening of small muscles in the fingers for improved pinch strength. Some ideas for clothespin use are: hanging things on a string, moving game pieces, and picking up small snacks.
Performing these activities will help encourage proper finger strength, which promotes independent self-care, academic success, good play skills, and overall improved function on a daily basis. If you have concerns regarding your child’s finger and hand strength or fine motor performance, please seek out an occupational therapist for a consultation or an evaluation in order to help your child achieve their potential. | <urn:uuid:a49a084c-07fe-4704-ba06-ff57c39acd8a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nspt4kids.com/parenting/daily-activities-to-improve-fine-motor-strength/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9193 | 590 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Institutional partners play an essential role for Transalley. They support the actions carried out by the technology park and participate in the development of the service offers.
Mobility brings together many players in the transport sector on a regional scale. The partners are mobilising to highlight the actions put in place to promote all types of transport and enhance regional know-how.
Innovation / R&D
Transalley’s research and innovation activities are supported by laboratories and institutes specialising in the mobility sector.
Training / Employment
The technopole develops and promotes relations between companies and training institutions. The aim of these partnerships is to promote and facilitate the professional integration of young people in the region.
Support for Young Innovative Companies
Transalley sets up partnerships with various actors to enable project leaders and companies to develop serenely. Several aids can be provided to them, both in terms of financing and in order to go deeper into certain specific subjects with experts.
Transalley ensures that the companies located in its park have access to a regional and national influence, but also to international development through involvement in partnership projects in Europe and across the Atlantic. | <urn:uuid:72232276-47d2-40fa-a7d3-cd5bb25dfcd2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.transalley.com/en/transalley/the-partners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.943197 | 252 | 1.53125 | 2 |
When your body is showing signs that you might miscarry, that is called a ‘threatened miscarriage’. You may have a little vaginal bleeding or lower abdominal pain. It can last days or weeks and the cervix is still closed.
The pain and bleeding may go away and you can continue to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Or things may get worse and you go on to have a miscarriage.
There is rarely anything a doctor, midwife or you can do to protect the pregnancy. In the past bed rest was recommended, but there is no scientific proof that this helps at this stage.
Inevitable miscarriages can come after a threatened miscarriage or without warning. There is usually a lot more vaginal bleeding and strong lower stomach cramps. During the miscarriage your cervix opens and the developing fetus will come away in the bleeding.
A complete miscarriage has taken place when all the pregnancy tissue has left your uterus. Vaginal bleeding may continue for several days. Cramping pain much like labour or strong period pain is common – this is the uterus contracting to empty.
If you have miscarried at home or somewhere else with no health workers present, you should have a check-up with a doctor or midwife to make sure the miscarriage is complete.
Sometimes, some pregnancy tissue will remain in the uterus. Vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal cramping may continue as the uterus continues trying to empty itself. This is known as an ‘incomplete miscarriage’.
Your doctor or midwife will need to assess whether or not a short procedure called a ‘dilatation of the cervix and curettage of the uterus’ (often known as a ‘D&C’) is necessary to remove any remaining pregnancy tissue. This is an important medical procedure done in an operating theatre.
Sometimes, the baby has died but stayed in the uterus. This is known as a ‘missed miscarriage’.
If you have a missed miscarriage, you may have a brownish discharge. Some of the symptoms of pregnancy, such as nausea and tiredness, may have faded. You might have noticed nothing unusual. You may be shocked to have a scan and find the baby has died.
If this happens, you should discuss treatment and support options with your doctor.
A small number of women have repeated miscarriages. If this is your third or more miscarriage in a row, it’s best to discuss this with your doctor who may be able to investigate the causes, and refer you to a specialist.
Types of pregnancy loss
Other types of pregnancies that result in a miscarriage are outlined below.
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when the embryo implants outside the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes. A fetus does not usually survive an ectopic pregnancy.
If you have an ectopic pregnancy, you may not know it as first, until it bleeds. Then you may get severe pain in your lower abdomen, vaginal bleeding, vomiting or pain in the tip of one shoulder. If you have these symptoms, it’s important to seek urgent medical attention.
A molar pregnancy is a type of pregnancy that fails to develop properly from conception. It can be either complete or partial and usually needs to be surgically removed.
With a blighted ovum the sac develops but there is no baby inside. It is also known as an ‘anembryonic pregnancy’.
This condition is usually discovered during a scan. In most cases, an embryo was conceived but did not develop and was reabsorbed into the uterus at a very early stage. You should see your doctor to discuss treatment options. | <urn:uuid:8e24a65c-10df-48d3-a249-627a4be37759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sistapedia.com/misa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.953824 | 797 | 2.703125 | 3 |
A handful of small ball bearings or polystyrene balls represent particles in this demonstration. The vibration provided by the vibrating plate represents changes in temperature while the polystyrene ‘plug’ and masses represent applied pressure.
When the ‘temperature’ is low (the vibration is low) the particles are not seen to move much, this reflects the energy level of the particles. As the 'temperature' (vibration) increases, the particles move more and more erratically, eventually bouncing up to the top of the tube. This represents how gas molecules act when high temperatures are applied.
Add the bung and some small masses and the level of bouncing will drop and the ‘particles’ appear more concentrated. This shows that when you pressurise the gas at a specific temperature, the particles become tighter packed and therefore have less kinetic energy.
Many science departments have old units from the 60s or 70s which will still perform well, though routinely oiling the motor parts will keep things running smoothly.
Here’s the technical bit…
The temperature of a gas is the measure of its mean kinetic energy – the molecules are in constant motion and energy is associated with that motion. The higher the temperature, the greater the motion. The density of a gas is the sum of the mass of the molecules divided by the volume or space which the gas occupies Pressure of a gas is a measure of the momentum of the molecules – The molecules impart momentum to the walls of the container producing a force that can be measured accurately. | <urn:uuid:716d44f4-42db-494d-8b70-e243bae7e5dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.preproom.org/equipment/eq.aspx?eqID=5013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.921073 | 316 | 4.09375 | 4 |
If you suffer from muscle cramps and spasms, you know how debilitating they can be. They can strike at any time and last for up to 10 minutes, while the tenderness following a cramp or spasm can last for up to 24 hours.
The following home remedies for muscle cramps not only can help with muscle cramp relief and muscle recovery after a cramp, but some of these options can even help prevent muscle cramps.
- Take a hot bath. A warm bath or heating pad can help reduce muscle soreness following a cramp. According to Dr. David Kiefer, heat brings more nutrient-rich blood to the muscles, which helps transport pain-causing chemicals away from the affected areas.
- Use Epsom salts. Magnesium is an important part of our diet to help fight muscle cramps. You can also use magnesium on the outside of your body in the form of Epsom salts. Add to your bath or use a wet cloth to press the salts onto a cramped muscle.
- Massage the area. Massage therapy relaxes muscle tissue, which helps reduce painful contractions and spasms. When you experience a muscle cramp, gently rub the affected area until the pain subsides.
- Stretch. Stretching daily provides a variety of healthy perks, including relieving and even preventing muscle cramps. Try these stretching exercises before bed and as soon as you feel a cramp coming on.
- Apply Theraworx Relief. Our topical solution provides fast, targeted relief of muscle cramps and spasms. When applied daily, Theraworx Relief can even stop cramps and spasms before they happen.
Learn more about Theraworx Relief and order your bottle on our website for free delivery.
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THE international Convention Centre is empty, the 15 000 delegates have gone home and the 17th round of annual UN climate talks has ended.
As dawn broke over Durban yesterday, bleary-eyed negotiators finally clinched a deal after the longest round of climate talks to date. Scheduled to end on Friday, the negotiations went round the clock for the final two days, drawing to a close early yesterday morning.
The outcome, called the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, has elicited vastly different responses. COP17 president Maite Nkoana-Mashabane described it as one which would “save tomorrow” from the ravages of climate change, while WWF chief Jim Leape described the outcome as “nothing but hot air”.
Observers could be forgiven for thinking the two were talking about separate issues – and that pinpoints the central problem. This compromise is so open to interpretation, one can more or less make of it what one will.
The least controversial results include deals set up to establish the Green Climate Fund, to transfer clean technology to developing countries, and several other technical issues.
It is the measures to be taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the cause of climate change, that have drawn the most fire. In essence, nations have agreed to launch a fresh negotiating process which would oblige all countries – including the poorest – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a new, over-arching legal agreement. Until now, only rich countries were obliged to do so under the Kyoto protocol. The new deal would have to be agreed upon by 2015 and come into force by 2020.
This outcome may be a victory of sorts, in that it broke the deadlock and saved the Durban talks from collapse. On the other hand, it is a political compromise that will begin action a decade too late. Scientists have said global emissions must peak by 2017 if we are to have a fighting chance of keeping climate change below dangerous levels. To achieve this, we need to begin today.
This raises a chilling question: if world governments, together, cannot do what is needed to deliver us from dangerous climate change, who will? | <urn:uuid:86f056de-a056-446e-b077-4da61ced4f6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/editorial-cop-out-1196962 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00406-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954459 | 438 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Two new state highway historical markers have been approved for Gloucester to mark the former sites of Werowocomoco and Poplar Spring Church.
The markers are among 16 to be erected around the state following recent approval by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, said a spokesman.
The Werowocomoco marker will be erected on Route 17 or Route 606 and will denote the site of the Indian settlement of Powhatan at nearby Purtan Bay on the York River. The marker wording will signify the importance of the village, where Capt. John Smith was brought as a captive in December 1607 and he met Pocahontas.
The Poplar Spring Church marker will be erected on Route 17 across from Petsworth Elementary School. It will denote the site of the church about four miles away near Purtan Bay, where the first structure was built in 1677 and a second structure was finished in 1723.
The second church was one of the earliest churches in Virginia to have an organ. By the end of the 18th century, the church was abandoned. | <urn:uuid:9c6f9c61-c64d-41f4-8a0b-4efb4c59ad93> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.baltimoresun.com/dp-two-new-historical-markers-approved-for-gloucester-20130712-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00520-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970239 | 217 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Lost lessons of the Summer of 1973
Updated 1:15 pm, Saturday, May 24, 2014
Ann Ravel, vice chair of the Federal Election Commission, forced herself to pause for a quick primer on Watergate during a recent talk on money in politics. She acknowledged that some of the audience members at Cal State East Bay were too young to recall the hearings that riveted the nation for weeks in the summer of 1973. For others, the upshot of those revelations may have become lost in the haze of history.
"Most people think it was about the burglars, and it was about the cover-up and it was about President Nixon resigning," Ravel told the forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters. "But, really, at its heart it was about campaign finance. That's what it was about. It was about people going with bags of money to the White House. And, of course, the bags of money at that time contained $250,000, which today is chump change. Right?"
Yes, it does seem almost quaint in comparison with the $400 million in "dark money" - contributions made outside of the disclosure and donation limits - on presidential, Senate and House races in the 2012 election cycle. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United all but eviscerated the principles of the post-Watergate reforms: that the amount of any single contributor's donation should be limited and the source of the money should be transparent. The justices said individuals, corporations, labor unions and other interest groups had a right to spend as much as they wished for or against a candidate as a matter of free speech.
The money flowed to an unprecedented degree in 2012, in enormous chunks (casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson spent an estimated $91 million) and, in many cases, without disclosure of the source.
Does anyone besides Ravel, who was a law student at the time, remember Watergate?
"That really got people angry," she said during her May 12 talk, which I moderated. "It created an amazing sort of widespread distrust of government. People believed then that the political process was corrupt and for sale to the highest bidder. This is what led to campaign finance reform."
In the 1976 film "All the President's Men" (in which Rosenfeld's character was played by Jack Warden), a secret source whose newsroom nickname was "Deep Throat" advised Woodward that the key to unraveling the web of corruption was to "follow the money."
In an appearance for his new book ("From Kristallnacht to Watergate") at the Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos on Thursday night, Rosenfeld allowed that the famous mantra was not an exact quote. But Deep Throat's compass proved true: Money facilitated the wrongdoing and its trail led to the wrongdoers, ultimately in the White House itself.
In our on-stage conversation, I asked Rosenfeld about whether the lessons and reforms of Watergate were being lost in the aftermath of Citizens United, and a recent follow-up high court ruling that struck down a $123,200 overall limit on direct contributions to political parties and federal candidates. Now that that limit is gone, a single contributor can donate more than $3.5 million in a single election cycle.
"They're not being lost, they're being reversed - consciously reversed," Rosenfeld said. He suggested the majority opinion that money equals speech was a "farcical statement," especially for the conservative judges who claim to be "strict constructionists" in narrowly interpreting the U.S. Constitution.
"Read the Constitution: Show me where it says there's a relationship between money and free speech ... well, if it isn't in the Constitution and they imposed it on this country, they're not upholding their oath of office," he added.
It's now become common for outside groups (typically bankrolled by business interests, labor unions and wealthy individuals) to outspend the candidate-controlled campaigns in hotly contested elections. "Follow the money" has never been more essential and more elusive in American politics.
Distressingly, it just might require another Watergate-scale scandal to resurrect the outrage, and collective will for reform, that emerged 40 long summers ago.
Moments in a long national nightmare
The Watergate Break-In
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters - the trail of cash and connections led to the Nixon re-election campaign and, ultimately, to the White House and the president himself.
The Summer of '73
Americans were transfixed by the 250 hours of hearings by the Senate Watergate Committee, chaired by folksy but tenacious Sam Ervin. The most startling and consequential revelation: President Richard Nixon had a secret taping system to record his phone calls and conversations in the Oval Office.
The 18 1/2-minute gap
An extended portion of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, three days after the break-in, was erased. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, attributed it to a "terrible mistake" during transcription.
The Saturday Night Massacre
Refusing to release his secret White House tape recordings, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire the special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, who was demanding them. Richardson refused - and was fired. Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus also refused - and was also fired on Saturday, Oct. 20, 1973.
The Smoking Gun
After a long legal battle, the White House released the subpoenaed tapes, which included a July 23, 1972, conversation in which Nixon attempted to halt the Watergate investigation on the grounds of national security. This "smoking gun" linking the president to the conspiracy was made public Aug. 5, 1974. He resigned four days later. | <urn:uuid:86a2df8e-556e-463a-b5a1-051c998bf193> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/diaz/article/Lost-lessons-of-the-Summer-of-1973-5501641.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00539-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975187 | 1,196 | 1.742188 | 2 |
(LiveHacking.Com) – Network auditing can be quite a daunting task for administrators. There are a number of procedures to be followed in order to run an effective network audit. The administrator needs to gather information related to the network infrastructure – from a list of applications installed to network configurations, as well as details of every type of hardware deployed on the network. When you take into account the fact that a network audit needs to be done periodically, it is a lot more expensive to run an audit manually than investing in a tool designed for this purpose.
In order to run a network audit manually you would need to analyze each and every item to ensure all hardware and software installed on your network is authorized, and check the system configuration on each machine. You will also need to compare this data with that of previous audits to identify what hardware / software / configurations changed and/or was removed. A good network auditing tool should run this process automatically for you. This software will create a baseline list for the administrator’s approval and, once that is done, the auditing tool will simply compare each scan to the approved baseline and simply notify the administrator when things change. This not only takes the load off the administrator, but it also allows for a higher frequency of audits – ensuring issues are detected in a timely manner.
There are a number of reasons to implement network auditing within the organization; these include:
Networking auditing provides a number of benefits to the company’s legal requirements. It can ensure the administrator keeps on top of licensing and legal obligations. Additionally, it would provide the company with proof to satisfy any compliancy audits; for example several legal compliance rules mandate certain standards on the network. With a good network auditing solution you would have the required tool to prove you are compliant.
The value of network audit in terms of security is immeasurable; one could say it helps with all aspects from policy enforcement to detection of compromised system. If a user decides to open a share and allow access to everyone, for example, this can be exploited by various malware in their propagation, it can also give an unauthorized user access to data that he shouldn’t have access to.
An administrator will want to know when the configuration changes on one of the machines that he is responsible for.
An administrator needs to have an effective change management process for various reasons. S/he needs to maintain test environments, backup systems, and carry out other tasks that are dependent on these alternative systems being identically configured to the original ones.
For example, if a user were to install a new piece of software on his system without informing the administrator first, the administrator might test the latest patches before deploying them to the network and then be confident that productivity will not be impacted, but it turns out his testing didn’t take this new application in consideration and the system becomes unusable when the two are running together.
Network auditing can save the organization a substantial amount of time and money. Additionally, using software to automate network auditing reduces the risk of human error considerably.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Is Dying Detroit Trying to Murder its Museum?
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The present proposal is for everything to be de facto pedestrianised, except the public transport systems. The Oxford Road corridor goes through the university area of the city, which is a heavily congested part of the road system in the morning, so the concept makes a degree of sense. The problem is what happens to the traffic that is displaced from that corridor. The planners told me that in their view, traffic will simply disappear long before it hits the central part of the city, and people will find other ways into the city leading to a reduction in car transport. However, the models are frankly bizarre and perverse. I was shown what was described as the industry model. I do not say this boastfully, but many years ago I used to be a statistician so I probably know a little about mathematical modelling. I know that the old concept in life, "Garbage in, garbage out," applies to mathematical and road transport models just as it applies
to everything else. If we do not provide the proper parameters on the way in, we do not get the results coming out.
One bizarre thing that the model showed me was how traffic coming in from the south of the city in the morning-this will mean something to local people; I do not expect my right hon. Friend the Minister to follow it in detail-would turn right past Manchester Royal infirmary and then turn right again as it passed the infirmary, which would take it back out south of the city. No one going into the city in the morning chooses to joyride and hit the congestion zone simply to go out of the city again at that point, or at least if they do, they are crazy, and there cannot be too many people in Greater Manchester who are crazy enough to want to do that. Therefore the model, of itself, did not fill me with confidence that the modellers knew what they were doing.
I am concerned that there will be a displacement factor and that the displacement will move the traffic that currently uses the Wilmslow Road and Oxford Road corridor on to, in particular, the Lloyd Street corridor in Moss Side. That road has a number of secondary and primary schools. It is a residential part of the city. When the planners said to me that they wanted a reduction in the accident rate because some students are injured in accidents on the Oxford Road corridor, which is a serious point, I said that we do not advantage things if we reduce accident rates for students and simply move the problem on to younger people and young children on a road a little way away as we move the traffic past those schools.
The point that I want to establish for the Minister is that the modelling has not been convincing. When I challenged those putting the case, they were not convincing in their response. That is the first point. The second point is that in a system such as the one that we are discussing, there may be a benefit, but we must ensure that there are not disbenefits that are sufficiently large or sufficiently concentrated to outweigh it, at least for those local communities.
There is another part of my constituency where there will be other traffic flows. I am referring to Upper Brook street and the fact that there is already the disadvantage that some of my constituents are cut off from the university area. I want to see that situation made better, not worse.
My final point is that significant public moneys will be put into the scheme. We need to know that it has been robustly tested so that the costs are acceptable to those who will bear them, that the benefits are real and that the cost-benefit in total is worth having, but that case has not yet been made.
The Minister of State, Department for Transport (Mr. Sadiq Khan):
It is a pleasure to speak under your chairmanship, Mrs. Dean; I think that this is the first time that I have done so. I place on the record my thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) for securing this debate on cross-city bus travel. I am grateful for his contribution and for that of my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Central (Tony Lloyd). They managed to articulate, in a short time, their passion for ensuring that we get good
value for taxpayers' money and reminded me and the Government as a whole of some of the unintended consequences of good intentions that can arise when people try to improve public transport and the knock-on problems that that can cause to other parts of the public transport family.
Let me say at the outset that I will be considering shortly whether to grant initial funding approval for the cross-city bus corridor and I have been persuaded to take into account the points raised by both my hon. Friends this afternoon before I decide what I shall do with the scheme. As I said, it will come before me shortly. I will not go through the 15 pages of my speech, which I had envisaged doing. What I will do is write to both my hon. Friends with specific points that I cannot address during my speech. I want to deal with the specific points that they raised.
My hon. Friends will be aware that the Greater Manchester passenger transport executive is the promoter of the scheme, but the ITA is the governing body to which the PTE reports. I have no brief to defend them or to speak on their behalf, but I am sure that it will be appreciated that it is far better that decisions on public transport are taken locally rather than by me, sitting in Whitehall and not appreciating what happens locally.
Over the last period, we have spent record amounts on public transport, including buses. This year, we are spending £2.9 billion, and more journeys are being made on our buses this year than at any time since deregulation in the mid-1980s. Some 4.5 billion journeys are made a year, and millions of journeys are made in Manchester. However, my hon. Friends reminded me that if we are to encourage more people to use buses, simply putting more buses on the road is not enough. We need to ensure that bus passengers have punctual and reliable services on clean and efficient vehicles. PTEs have a huge role in ensuring that that is the case.
Greater Manchester PTE has been working in partnership with Manchester, Rochdale and Salford councils to identify how to improve local transport connections. Their proposals include introducing highway, bus priority and congestion management measures, together with significant improvements for pedestrians and cyclists. The scheme that we are discussing forms part of the package to be funded through the Greater Manchester transport fund, which relates to a proposed investment programme of £1.5 billion for prioritised transport schemes designed to deliver the maximum economic benefit to Greater Manchester. That is why I am so pleased that my hon. Friends have reminded me, on the day when my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave an outstanding Budget statement, of the importance of securing value for money for every single penny that is spent.
The PTE expects the cross-city bus package scheme to enhance the existing Greater Manchester quality bus corridor network and to help to address the unique problems of the Oxford Road corridor, which has the highest demand for bus travel in Greater Manchester but the poorest results in terms of performance, which causes me huge concern.
My hon. Friends have demonstrated that they know the area much better than I do. I have been told that the Oxford Road corridor is the location of Manchester Royal infirmary and the higher education precinct, which comprises the sites of two universities. It is also a
significant economic centre and includes about 4 per cent. of the city's business stock. The PTE has predicted that the employment potential of Oxford road will increase from 36,000 jobs in 2008 to more than 55,000 by 2020. The proposed scheme is designed to enhance public transport links between areas of deprivation to the north and west of Manchester.
I am aware-my hon. Friends raised these points very well-of the concerns that they have about the public consultation on the proposed measures, which I understand took place last October, November and December. I understand that there will be a further opportunity to provide feedback as part of the traffic regulation order process, which the local highway authorities are promoting on the PTE's behalf. In addition, I have been reminded that my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Central will meet representatives of the ITA this Friday to discuss, in particular, his concerns about displacement of traffic on to residential routes in Moss Side. I have taken on board the points that my hon. Friends raised on consultation.
It is worth reminding my hon. Friends of what my role is. Since receipt of the business case, the Department has been working closely with the PTE, but we are not yet in a position to approve the proposed scheme for entry to the programme of local major transport schemes. We had concerns about some of the issues relating to the application given to us, which we have worked through with the scheme's promoters. Our assessment of the bid for the scheme has focused on the traffic appraisal, which has highlighted a number of issues on which the PTE and its consultants have had to undertake further work. I hope that that is another reassurance that we, too, spotted some problems with the scheme
and we have asked for further work to be undertaken. We have now received the results of the additional work. One concern related to the modelling. My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Central remembers his days as a statistician. He will be reassured that my officials, too, thought that there were issues, which led us to ask for further work to be undertaken.
I am aware of the concerns that my hon. Friends have raised about the scheme in today's debate. I note the concerns about the impact on their constituents of the proposed implementation of the measures both along the Rochdale Road corridor and in Moss Side. I take on board the concerns raised about quality contracts. We have done all that we can to encourage local authorities to use that important tool to improve services. My hon. Friends will be aware that the Conservative party has made a commitment to abolish it from the toolkit of local authorities. We are also considering how we can revamp the way in which we subsidise bus-operating companies in order to ensure that we get maximum value for money. My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley raised concerns about some of the challenges of governance, particularly in relation to leaders from different political parties.
Let me reassure my hon. Friends that I will take on board what they have said. I will read Hansard tomorrow morning to ensure that I take on board the points that they have raised before I make a decision. If there are specific points that I have not been able to answer due to the shortage of time, I apologise. I will write to both of them this week to give them the answers that they need so that they are armed with the necessary tools, including for the meeting on Friday with the ITA, to ensure that they get the best possible service for their constituents, who deserve nothing less.
Mr. Andrew Pelling (Croydon, Central) (Ind): It is a great pleasure, Mrs. Dean, to serve under your chairmanship. I thank the Minister for taking time out of his busy diary to respond to this debate. I am pleased to see the hon. Member for Romford (Andrew Rosindell) here, as he has done so much on this matter with his private Member's Bill.
It is very much within the context of the Government's planning for Her Majesty's diamond jubilee that I believe we should have a festival of Britain, and I am keen to push the idea to the Minister. Indeed, I have raised the subject before in the main Chamber, and I was most grateful for his response; the idea of that happening in conjunction with Her Majesty's diamond jubilee was something that he welcomed as having an excellent socialist genus.
I believe that we have the opportunity to hold a year-long festival of Britain, with the Olympic games being a dramatic crescendo. I would like particularly to thank Mr. Malcolm Felberg, who took the effort to lobby me on the idea; he is a constituent of the right hon. Member for Croydon, North (Malcolm Wicks). It would give us the opportunity, in line with the Government's approach, to have activities taking place in villages, towns and cities across the country, perhaps avoiding some of the pitfalls of the grand projets that sometimes come with such occasions.
It has been the style and approach of the Government to give good notice of the jubilee week. It is testament to the way in which the Government are listening to proposals that nothing is cast in stone at this stage. However, a good deal of planning would be necessary. I believe that it would be right to have some activity on the south bank, and I am grateful for the local and regional media's interest today in the idea of having a 1951-style festival. It would be most apposite, given the First Secretary of State's antecedents and his grandfather's involvement in the 1951 festival.
It would be good to have some activity on the original south bank site; that would cheer the nation and promote British technology. Indeed, although there might be a danger of there being some Wilsonian white-heat-of-technology ideas, it would nevertheless be useful to celebrate manufacturing excellence, given that the Government are trying to manage the economy in such a way as to reduce slightly our dependence on financial services.
Most importantly, however, it will give us the chance to celebrate these glorious Elizabethan years. It will also give us a chance to capture the attention of visitors to the United Kingdom during the Olympic year and, in line with the Labour Government's slogan of 1946, to show that "Britain can make it". These are challenging times-times of austerity, perhaps-and to be able to say that we have excellence in manufacturing and that Britain can thrive and recover would be a good theme between now and 2012, as the economy recovers.
The year 2012 should be a festival of Britain that celebrates British talent in art, culture and sport as well as in industry. However, there is clearly an important royal process for it. Only Queen Victoria has celebrated a diamond jubilee. That was pushed for by Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, who really wanted to celebrate the British empire.
Now is our chance, with such a celebration, to reflect positively on our Commonwealth ties, and to consider the changing nature of British society in the context of our imperial history. It is regrettable that our children do not learn as much about our imperial past as they could, particularly as its history has made our country what it is today. Such teaching would go a long way towards redefining the nature of migration in the minds of the young. I hope that I do not offend too many colleagues in the Chamber by saying this, but it would also provide many salutary examples of how foolhardy military engagements in far-off places can be a great trap for our nation.
Beyond schools, I believe that a 2012 festival of Britain would bring the chance for scholarships and apprenticeships to assist the disadvantaged, to show that their talents are most applicable as Britain rebuilds her economy and as we move away from services-particularly financial services-to manufacturing, technology, innovation and science. Perhaps we could have diamond jubilee scholarships, open to students from Commonwealth countries, that could foster British values overseas.
It is right that we should have a physical presence. I am aware of the danger of being accused of saying that significant public sector finances should be made available for such an initiative, but we would clearly want to catch the spirit of the silver jubilee. I remember attending street parties in 1977-I am sure that other Members remember it too-and I believe that that is the community approach that the Government would like to adopt.
It might be appropriate, with many people going to the Olympic site, for them also to have the opportunity to go to a site here in the centre of London, behind the London Eye. It might be apt to have a new Skylon. I know that Winston Churchill took the original down very snappily after he was re-elected. That emblem of the original festival of Britain was the subject of teasing; it was said that, like the economy, it had no visible means of support. Perhaps that approach could be pursued now.
I am attracted by the idea of a permanent legacy for the festival of Britain jubilee year. In some ways, that is a criticism of what is going on with the Olympics. Some of the legacy prospects for the Olympics are less ambitious than they were at the start, and some of the ambitions for a cultural Olympiad have unfortunately had to be put to one side. Perhaps that is something that could be dealt with as part of a diamond jubilee for Her Majesty. After all, when we look around our country, we see in many towns and villages that a great many of our commemorations of Queen Victoria are the result of her diamond jubilee.
Hardly ever does a debate go by without my mentioning Croydon; I have mentioned Croydon 42 times during this Session of Parliament. A permanent legacy could be found in the neighbourhood of the London borough of Croydon in a rebuilt crystal palace. Another Minister described me as living on another planet for suggesting the idea, but there would be some value to it. Situated in the demographically dynamic south of London, a new palace could embody all the elements of art, culture, sport and industry that the festival would promote.
A crowning glory in jubilee year would be for a British museum extension to be built in south London-a testimony to south London and to Britain's global
reach. After all, it was after the 1851 exhibition that the original palace was exported to Crystal Palace. In many ways, one can see a continuity in the prospects for any general exhibitions that we might have. The 1851 exhibition was clearly industrial and technological, and the 1951 exhibition was about post-war reconstruction.
A 2012 jubilee commemoration and exhibition could be based on green jobs and technology, perhaps emphasising LED technology. In Croydon, a green energy technology exhibition could rejuvenate the failed Skyline project, which I am sad to report to the House went into administration this week. It would also brighten up our lives in this time of economic downturn, perhaps with a project to light up London. That would be a very bright way in which to celebrate.
I feel that Her Majesty commands our respect and allegiance as our monarch, but she has earned our love by the manner of her reign. As in previous jubilee years, we can look to our sovereign lady as a symbol of unity in difficult times.
Moreover, there is much to celebrate from the original festival of Britain. I am pleased to have a facsimile of the official festival of Britain book, which was produced by HMSO and written by Mr. Ian Cox. Many of the themes mentioned are similar to those of today. Tolerance, for example, was one such theme, although ethnicity was somewhat different. The book said that the British nation was one of the most mixed people in the world, and it emphasised the importance of tolerance. Moreover, it tried to define-this was one of the difficult challenges-what it is to be British.
When I was on the Education and Skills Committee, we asked our witnesses, "How do you treat Britishness?" They had the temerity to reply, "How do we define that?" It is a very difficult thing to do. The HMSO book defined Britishness as a mixture of the lion and the unicorn, the lion being about realism and strength and the unicorn about fantasy, independence-something that I very much appreciate-and imagination.
Colleagues will be most amused to hear that reference is also made to a new initiative in west London-the new London airport sited 15 miles west of London. The HMSO book said that the terminal would be grouped on a 50 acre site in the centre of nine main runways, and that the facilities would enable the airport to handle "4,000 passengers". That shows how modest the ambitions were, and how easy it is for a project to grow and grow-no talk there of third runways.
Andrew Rosindell (Romford) (Con): I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on proposing this debate. He has extensively referred to the Commonwealth and the importance of involving countries with strong historical ties to Britain. Does he agree that this is also an opportunity to involve those countries and territories that still remain part of the United Kingdom? We have 16 British overseas territories and five Crown dependencies. Does he feel that they should be included in this great celebration of Britain? May I also say that the idea of a festival of Britain is something that I wholeheartedly endorse?
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On May 17, 1838, abolitionist Sara T. Smith addresses the second Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women which was originally scheduled to be held in Pennsylvania Hall. The meeting however was moved when anti-abolitionist mobs, upon learning of the Convention, burned the hall to the ground. The convention was moved to a large private home where Smith gave the address which appears below.
The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall, 1838
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In that love for our cause which knows not the fear of man, we address you, in confidence that our motives will be understood and regarded ....
We are told that it is not within the "province of woman," to discuss the subject of slavery; that it is a "political question," and we are "stepping out of our sphere," when we take part in its discussion. It is not true that it is merely a political question, it is likewise a question of justice, of humanity, of morality, of religion; a question which, while it involves considerations of immense importance to the welfare and prosperity of our country, enters deeply into the home-concerns, the every-day feelings of millions of our fellow beings. Whether the laborer shall receive the reward of his labor, or be driven daily to unrequited toil-whether he shall walk erect in the dignity of conscious manhood, or be reckoned among the beasts which perish-whether his bones and sinews shall be his own, or another's-whether his child shall receive the protection of its natural guardian, or be ranked among the live-stock of the estate, to be disposed of as the caprice or interest of the master may dictate-whether the sun of knowledge shall irradiate the hut of the peasant, or the murky cloud of ignorance brood darkly over it-whether "every one shall have liberty to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience," or man assume the prerogative of Jehovah, and impiously seek to plant himself upon the throne of the Almighty; these considerations are all involved in the question of liberty or slavery.
And is a subject comprehending interests of such magnitude, merely a "political question," and one in which woman" can take no part without losing something of the modesty and gentleness which are her most appropriate ornaments"? May not the "ornament of a meek and quiet spirit" exist with an upright mind and enlightened intellect, and must woman necessarily be less gentle because her heart is open to the claims of humanity, or less modest because she feels for the degradation of her enslaved sisters, and would stretch forth her hand for their rescue?
By the Constitution of the United States, the whole physical power of the North is pledged for the suppression of domestic insurrections, and should the slaves, maddened by oppression, endeavor to shake off the yoke of the taskmaster, the men of the North are bound to make common cause with the tyrant, and put down, at the point of the bayonet, every effort on the part of the slave, for the attainment of his freedom. And when the father, husband, son, and brother shall have left their homes to mingle in the unholy warfare, "to become the executioners of their brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands," will the mother, wife, daughter, and sister feel that they have no interest in this subject? Will it be easy to convince them that it is no concern of theirs, that their homes are rendered desolate, and their habitations the abodes of wretchedness? Surely this consideration is of itself sufficient to arouse the slumbering energies of woman, for the overthrow of a system which thus threatens to lay in ruins the fabric of her domestic happiness; and she will not be deterred from the performance of her duty to herself, her family, and her Country, by the cry of political question.
But admitting it to be a political question, have we no interest in the welfare of our country? May we not permit a thought to stray beyond the narrow limits of our own family circle, and of the present hour? May we not breathe a sigh over the miseries of our countrymen, nor utter a word of remonstrance against the unjust laws that are crushing them to the earth? Must we witness "the headlong rage or heedless folly," with which our nation is rushing onward to destruction, and not seek to arrest its downward course? Shall we silently behold the land which we love with all the heart-warm affection of children, rendered a hissing and a reproach throughout the world, by this system which is already tolling the death-bell of her decease among the nations? No: the events of the last two years have cast their dark shadows before, overclouding the bright prospects of the future, and shrouding the destinies of our country in more than midnight gloom, and we cannot remain inactive. Our country is as dear to us as to the proudest statesman, and the more closely our hearts cling to "our altars and our homes," the more fervent are our aspirations that every inhabitant of our land may be protected in his fireside enjoyments by just and equal laws; that the foot of the tyrant may no longer invade the domestic sanctuary, nor his hand tear asunder those whom God himself has united by the most holy ties. Let our course, then, still be onward! Justice, humanity, patriotism, every high and every holy motive urge us forward, and we dare not refuse to obey. The way of duty lies open before us, and though no pillar of fire be visible to the outward sense, yet an unerring light shall illumine our pathway, guiding us through the sea of persecution and the wilderness of prejudice and error, to the promised land of freedom where "every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree, and none shall make him afraid."
The numerous small societies, scattered over the various districts of our extended country, we would greet with affectionate interest, with assured hope.
Though you are now only as glimmering lights on the hilltops, few and far between, yet if with all diligence these fires be kept burning, the surrounding country shall catch into flame-the chains fall from our brethren, and they unite with us in the jubilee song of thanksgiving. To bring about this glorious consummation of our hopes, we must be diligent in business, fervent in spirit; there must be the patient continuance in well doing of those who have been battling for the world's freedom, and who have counted nothing too near or too dear to sacrifice for their brethren in bonds; there must be an increase of energy and zeal in the many who have enlisted in the ranks of the friends of freedom. In joining an Anti-Slavery Society, we have set our names to no idle pledge. Let not anyone member feel released from individual action; though by association we gain strength, yet it is strength to be used by each individual. The day, the hour calls imperatively for" doing with all our might" what our hands find to do; the means are various. To some among us may be given the head to devise, to others the hand to execute; one may have time to devote, another money; let each give liberally of that which he or she possesses. Time, talents, influence, wealth, all are required, all will aid in the great enterprise. Let each one seriously inquire how he or she can availingly promote the cause, and in that department faithfully work. Let the aged counsel, the young execute; plead not inability: we much fear that many among us rest satisfied with "the name to live and yet are dead." We give in our names as members of a society, pay a small annual subscription, and attend the meetings of the society. So far is well, but much more is needed for the accomplishment of our work. Ignorance yet remains to be enlightened, prejudice to be removed, injustice to be overthrown; and daily, almost hourly, opportunities may offer to exert our strength where it can be availingly applied; and in order to do this keep yourselves informed of every Anti-Slavery movement. The editor of the Emancipator says: "Other things being equal, those are the most efficient abolitionists who are the most intelligent; and, commonly, the most good is done in those places where our books and publications are most circulated and read."
The taunting question heard so long and so untiringly repeated, "What has the North to do with slavery?" is most triumphantly answered by the practice of anyone active, consistent member of an Anti-Slavery Society, as "we remember them in bonds as bound with them." We find we have much to do, much even for ourselves. How slowly, yet how surely, do we feel the loosening of those bonds of prejudice wherewith we have been bound; how slow are we to feel the truth that all men are indeed "born free and equal?" How much do we find to do in acting up to this doctrine, in our closets, in our families, in our intercourse with the world, and by the wayside! The attentive consideration of what we owe to our colored brethren will dispose us to manifest our sympathy with them; and to show them by our conduct that we do not consider them as strangers and aliens; that we appreciate their manly struggles for the advancement of their race; and when favorable circumstances permit the escape of any beyond the prescribed length of the chain which has bound them, we cannot, we dare not join in the rude ridicule of the vulgar, the sneering contempt of the supercilious, or the mistaken kindness of the benevolent, who say that to awaken their sensibilities to their grievances would be cruelty in the extreme; that "where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise." We see the fallacy of this hackneyed sentiment. Ignorance is not bliss-insensibility is not enjoyment. The objector little knows how tightly these fetters of caste have been drawn around, how deeply they have scarred their victim! How bitterly the injustice has been felt, and the more intensely, as it has been borne in silence, without either the solace of sympathy or the hope of relief.
... While we thus labor to restore to our colored brethren the rights of which they have been so long and so unjustly deprived, let us endeavor to come to the work with pure hearts and clean hands. Let us refuse to participate in the guilt of him "who useth his neighbor's service without wages and giveth him not for his work." Whether we are guiltless of such participation while we continue to purchase and use the products of unrequited toil; becomes a question of serious import, and one which we recommend to your attentive consideration.
It is not necessary to enter into a labored argument to prove that one of the main props of the system of slavery is the price paid by the inhabitants of non-slaveholding states and countries for the productions of the states in which slavery prevails. This is so evident that we presume none will dispute it. Considering the fact, then, as admitted, we would ask, what is the slaveholder but our agent, holding and using his human chattels for our benefit? And if it be true that "what a man does by another, he does himself?" Are we not partners with him in guilt? With what consistency, then, can we demand that he "undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed go free," while we continue to pay him for retaining them in bondage?
Our inconsistency, in this respect, does not escape the vigilant eyes of our opponents. Said a slaveholder to an abolitionist, "we make the sugar, and you buy it," thus plainly intimating that if they were culpable, we were far from blameless. We feel that on this point we have been verily guilty, and though the scales are falling from the eyes of many, yet much remains to be done among ourselves. And what are the motives that restrain us from acting consistently on this subject?
Are we unwilling to forego a few sensual gratifications in such a cause? Will we not consent to be somewhat more coarsely clothed and to deny the palate some of its wonted gratifications, rather than contribute to swell the burden of sighs and groans which unceasingly ascend from breaking hearts to the throne of Him "who executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed?"
In presenting to your consideration a few remarks on the subject of peace, we would not be understood as wishing to identify the anti-slavery cause with that of peace. We no more desire that the Anti-Slavery Society should become a Peace Society, than we wish it to be a Temperance, Bible, or Missionary Society. We believe that each of these objects may be best promoted by a distinct organization of its friends ....
... We deem it very desirable and important that so powerful an influence should be enlisted in behalf of the anti-slavery cause. The work that we have to perform is a Herculean task, and we would gladly avail ourselves of all righteous means of hastening its accomplishment.
It is a universally admitted truth, that opposition strengthens human purpose, unless the judgment and conscience are convinced that the course pursued is wrong or inexpedient. Such conviction is not produced, is not designed to be produced, by the measures which we are discussing; therefore, they unfit the mind for the reception of truth, and the heart for righteous action. Thus the only influence which their use exerts upon the progress of anti-slavery principles, is deleterious. And even if it were admitted that they are sometimes necessary for the preservation of life, are there not those who love the cause of freedom and of God, with an ardor sufficient to induce them to suffer the loss of life, rather than injure the prosperity of that cause?
To pursue the discussion of this subject farther, would perhaps be to transcend our prescribed limits. We earnestly and respectfully commend it to the attention of our fellow laborers, especially to that portion of them who believe that Christianity justifies a resort to arms for self-preservation. Those who do not thus believe, of course, need not such arguments as we have presented.
Aware that a disposition to "prove all things," has ever been characteristic of abolitionists, we feel assured that by careful study, and fervent prayer, they will be enabled to choose right paths for their feet, and that, in the accomplishment of a work upon which God has so manifestly set his seal of approbation, his servants will not be left unaided by the illuminations of that Holy Spirit who was sent to guide them "into all truth."
In looking back on the past, have we not much to encourage us to persevere in the work set before us? For a long period a solitary voice was heard crying in the wilderness; now there is the shouting of a host. Then was demanded a little more sleep, a little more slumber; now there is the awakening of the nation; and though not yet sufficiently aroused to discern friends in those who have shaken this false rest, yet if we fail not in our duty, there can be no more "folding of the hands to sleep," but our country will arise and go forth, clothed with majesty, and girded with power.
Josh Gottheimer, ed., Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches
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It's all about the birds this week for Trail Tuesday! I watched The Big Year a few days ago, so now I'm in total birding mode. It's an activity that is perfect for individuals, couples and the whole family. Plus, you have the added bonus of getting to explore some pretty amazing places. You'll be having such a good time that you probably won't even notice that you are getting a little bit of excercise, too.
Florida is one of the most productive birding states in the U.S., with a broad range of year-round resident species and tons of visiting migratory birds. Shorebirds, tropicals, wading birds and rare species like the Florida scrub-jay are all on the life list of birders. There are plenty of species to see, and plenty of places to see them!
One area in particular comes to mind – Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf Islands. There are seven sections of the Great Florida Birding Trail in the area, with different habitat types and species to be discovered. On Lemon Bay, visit the Cedar Point Environmental Park and keep an eye and ear out for bald eagles and migrating waterfowl in the winter months. Just outside of Punta Gorda, head over to the 65,000-acre Babcock/Webb Wildlife Management Area and go birding by car (there's plenty of good roads to drive) while you keep a look out for kingfishers, osprey and endangered Red-cockaded woodpeckers.
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Understanding the Immigrant–Trade Link
Chapter 3: Immigration Policy, Economic Development and the Immigrant–Trade Link: The Case of the White Australia Policy
3 Immigration policy, economic development and the immigrant– trade link: The case of the White Australia Policy In recent decades, the Australian economy has increasingly integrated into the global economy. The rise in the intensity of trade and factor flows between Australia and the rest of the world provides strong evidence. For example, in 1970, Australia’s exports and imports combined were equal to only 26.1 percent of its GDP; however, by 2000 this value had risen to 45.9 percent. Similarly, during this same time period the sum of Australia’s foreign direct investment inflows and outflows as a share of GDP nearly doubled from 2.4 to 4.4 percent. Coincidentally, while the proportion of Australia’s population that was foreign-born increased marginally from 19.9 to 21.3 percent (World Bank, 2006) the ethnic composition of its immigrant inflows underwent a dramatic shift. Namely, the share of immigrants from countries located in Asia (particularly Southeast Asia) and in the Pacific Islands increased considerably while the proportion from European countries decreased. For example, 80.1 percent of the increase in Australia’s foreign-born population during the 1990s was due to immigrant arrivals from Asia and the Pacific. Since a country’s cultural identity can be described as an amalgam of its population’s attitudes, customs and beliefs, it follows that a country’s immigration policy may influence its cultural identity and, by doing so, affect its trade flows. Given the associated policy relevance, establishing a more accurate account of the immigrant–trade relationship is beneficial. In this context, and given the...
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Distance from Gaya to Botad
Distance from Gaya to Botād is 1,393 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 866 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Gaya and Botād is 1,393 km= 866 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Gaya to Botad, It takes 1.55 hours to arrive.
Gaya is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||24° 47´ 48.6960'' N |
85° 0´ 13.8600'' E
Gaya Distances to Cities
|Distance from Gaya to Baddi||1,058 km|
|Distance from Gaya to Amarnath||1,370 km|
|Distance from Gaya to Fatehpur 24||1,063 km|
|Distance from Gaya to Begusarai||133 km|
|Distance from Gaya to Chittaranjan||219 km|
Botad is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||22° 10´ 9.0120'' N |
71° 40´ 0.1560'' E
Botād Distances to Cities
|Distance from Botad to Babra||52 km|
|Distance from Botad to Amla||667 km|
|Distance from Botad to Bah||874 km|
|Distance from Botad to Amod||126 km|
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BERTINORO, OBADIAH (YAREH) B. ABRAHAM (called also Bartinoro):(Redirected from OBADIAH DI BERTINORO.)
Celebrated rabbi and commentator on the Mishnah; lived in the second half of the fifteenth century in Italy; died in Jerusalem about 1500. He was a pupil of Joseph b. Solomon Colon (see the latter's Responsa, No. 70, ed. Venice, 62a), and became rabbi in Bertinoro, a town in the province of Flori, whence he derived his by-name, and in Castello. The desire to visit the Holy Land led him to Jerusalem; and he arrived there March 25, 1488, having commenced his journey Oct. 29, 1486. His advent in Palestine marked a new epoch for the Jewish community there and indeed for the whole country. The administration of Jewish communal affairs in Jerusalem had fallen into the hands of iniquitous officials who tyrannized over great and small. The poor were pitilessly taxed for the Mohammedan government; the rich were similarly treated and driven from the city by exorbitant demands upon them, so that the Jewish community was on the brink of ruin (see Jerusalem).Influence in Palestine.
Bertinoro's strong personality, his eloquence, and great reputation as a scholar led to his being accepted as the spiritual head of the community immediately upon his arrival. His first care was to raise the intellectual plane of the community, and for this purpose he interested the younger generation in the study of the Talmud and rabbinical lore, and he delivered sermons every other Sabbath in Hebrew, although the vernacular language was Arabic, one which Bertinoro never acquired. His connections in Italy supplied him with money for the support of the poor, which also added not a little to his influence. He succeeded in securing the abolition of the annual tax of 400 ducats, which had afforded such opportunity for oppression and injustice; in lieu a simple poll-tax payable direct to the government was instituted. When, on the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, many of the exiles settled in Jerusalem, Bertinoro became their intellectual leader. These Spanish Jews, far superior in intelligence, culture, and learning to the Arabian Jews of Palestine, presented Bertinoro with a site for a yeshibah in Jerusalem, which he founded, more than a thousand years after the extinction of the last academy in Palestine (see Academies in Palestine). Considerable support for the maintenance of the yeshibah was given by the Jews of Egypt and Turkey at Bertinoro's written solicitation. Isaac b. Nathan ibn Shulal, naggid or prince of Egypt, was especially helpful.
In the decade during which Bertinoro thus controlled the best interests of the Jewish community at Jerusalem, a radical change for the better developed. Shortly after his arrival he had actually been compelled upon one occasion to dig a grave because the community had provided no one to perform that labor; a few years later there had come into existence such benevolent institutions as hospitals, charitable relief societies, and similar associations, all under excellent management. His fame and reputation spread to all parts of the Orient, and he came to be looked upon as a rabbinical authority of highest eminence; even the Mohammedan population frequently called upon him to decide judicial cases. His scrupulous conscientiousness and moral earnestness were especially recognized. For instance, he harshly reproved the rabbis for exacting fees for services at weddings and divorces, a custom then general in Germany, and did not hesitate to style them robbers (commentary on Bekorot, iv. 6). He believed it their duty to perform religious ceremonies without monetary remuneration.Literary Activity.
Bertinoro is usually known as the best commentator of the Mishnah; the importance of his commentary is illustrated by the fact that since its appearance (Venice, 1549) hardly an edition of the Mishnah has been printed without it; even Surenhuis in his Latin translation and commentary upon the Mishnah (Amsterdam, 1698-1703) translated Bertinoro. Its excellence lies in the fact that he selected the best afforded by Rashi and Maimonides and gave this in clear and easily comprehensible fashion; in the matter of originality, however, Bertinoro does not approach his distinguished predecessors, nor even his successor in this department, Yom-Ṭob; Lipmann Heller.
Bertinoro is also the author of a supercommentary upon Rashi's Pentateuch commentary (published under the title "'Amar Naḳi" [Pure Wool], Pisa, 1810; reprinted in the collective work "Rabbotenu Ba'ale ha-Tosafot," Warsaw, 1889). His commentary upon Abot is, as Jellinek showed, only an extract from Simon Duran's work upon that book ("Monatsschrift," iv. 119, and an appendix added to a few copies of Jellinek's edition of Duran's Abot-commentary, Leipsic, 1855). Some liturgical productions by Bertinoro exist in manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Nos. 1061; 2266, 6; in the first the name of his father is mentioned). He also wrote descriptions of his travels; and his letters to his relations in Italy, although intended only as private communications, are of great historical value. Most interesting in these letters (first published by S. Sachs in the "Jahrbuch für Gesch. der Juden," 1863, iii. 195-224) is the fund of information concerning the social and intellectual conditions of the Jews in Greece, Egypt, and Palestine. He shows himself therein not only a close observer, but a conscientious and unprejudiced chronicler. For example, he studied attentively the conditions of the Karaites in Alexandria, and did not hesitate to praise them for the possession of the very virtues which the Rabbinites denied to them, such as generosity and liberality (l.c. p. 208; the text is to be emended according to the manuscript mentioned inSteinschneider, "Hebr. Bibl." vi. 131). His description of the Samaritans in Egypt (l.c. pp. 206-208) is one of the most valuable and reliable of medieval times.Letters.
His letters have been translated into German by Neubauer, "Jahrbuch," l.c. pp. 225-270, and separately, Leipsic, 1863; into French by M. Schwab, "Lettres d'Obadiah," Paris, 1866; into English in the "Miscellany of Hebrew Literature," i., 1872, No. 7. All these translations, however, are based upon a very imperfect manuscript (see Steinschneider, l.c. vi. 131, xiii. 124, who gives many emendations from another manuscript). The Hebrew edition, published by M. T. Schwerdscharf, Kolomea, 1886, is simply a reprint of the same text. Collated passages from another manuscript, as well as a short letter by Bertinoro, were published by Steinschneider in "Yehudah we-Yerushalayim," ii. 1878. The Almanzi library contained Bertinoro's novellæ upon Moses of Coucy's work, "Sefer Miẓwot ha-Gadol" ("Semag")—see Luzzatto, in "Hebr. Bibl." v. 145; the work is now very probably in the British Museum.
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 151-153, ed. Benjacob;
- Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, 19a, 24a, 28b, 30b, ed. Cassel;
- Lunez, Jerusalem, i. 113; ii. 28-32; iii. 2, 3;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. 2072-2073;
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CHRIST is the theme of the Bible:
"Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me" (John 5:39).
"Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God" (Hebrews 10:7).
He is the Word of GOD:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him" (John 1:1-18).
"And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God" (Revelation 19:13).
and the Bible is the Word of GOD:
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12).
He is the Word incarnate, and the Bible is the Word written.
He is the theme of the whole Bible. Not only in the new Testament, but in the Old Testament as well, He is the central figure. Throughout the Book, "the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy" (Revelation 19:10).
He Himself claimed to have been the subject of the Old Testament Scriptures when He rebuked the discouraged Emmaus disciples, saying, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself" (Luke 24:25-27). To the same effect is the teaching of I Peter 1:10-11, where it is declared that the sufferings of CHRIST and the glory that shall follow constitute the theme of the Old Testament writers.
He is, then, the theme of the Psalms. Indeed, the Psalms are especially mentioned in His words to His apostles after His resurrection: "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me" (Luke 24:44).
The purpose in this volume is to search for our LORD JESUS CHRIST in the Psalms. That He is there is abundantly demonstrated by the Scriptures already quoted, but also by the many quotations from the Psalms themselves found in the New Testament, in which the Psalms thus quoted are applied to Him. Such Psalms are called Messianic, though it is not doubted that the MESSIAH is in many Psalms not thus quoted and applied. | <urn:uuid:2132a5ce-f1c9-4565-bafd-3f8eb69e6b1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/OTStudies/CHRISTinthePsalmsbyWilliamLPettingill.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00332-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989021 | 961 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Where am I now? Travelin' 1.18km/s(2646mph). 70,289km from the Moon. 19 hrs! RU Excited? I am! #lcross
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On October 9th, NASA spacecraft will run into the moon, and on purpose. The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its rocket's Centaur upper stage will impact the moon, with the goal of sending some of the (possibly present) ice above the lunar surface. Once out of the eternal shade of the moon's south pole, sunlight will break the ice up into H+ and OH- molecules, which can be detected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The initial impact site was the crater Cabeus A, but the target was later changed to Cabeus (proper), selected for highest hydrogen concentrations with the greatest level of certainty, and for the high-contrast back drop to detect ejecta and vapor measurements. NASA has provided guides for amateur observations of the impact, a facebook group, and a Twitter feed so you don't miss the moment.
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Dawn Biehler, assistant professor in the Department of Geography… (Kenneth K. Lam, Baltimore…)
Bedbugs have turned up in hotels, offices and movie theaters recently. And while they aren't a severe health threat, they are creepy and crawly, and everyone wants to know why they have become so common — and how to avoid or get rid of them. Writing a book on household pests is environmental historian Dawn Biehler, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She's concluded that communities need to work together to eliminate bedbugs in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way.
Question: How long have bedbugs been around and where do they come from?
Answer: Literary references and linguistic evidence show that bedbugs have been human bedfellows for all of recorded history. Their ancestors lived on animals like bats and swallows that roosted in caves and early human dwellings across Eurasia. Over time, they adapted to humans as an alternative food source. They came to these shores with Europeans, and colonized the continent by hitchhiking with human migrants. They have become adept at exploiting our behaviors to follow humans almost everywhere we have settled.
Q: Why are we hearing so much more about them now?
A: Bedbug infestations in the U.S. decreased dramatically following the introduction of persistent, broad-spectrum pesticides like DDT and malathion starting in the 1940s. They never went away entirely, however. Bedbugs endured in some places where people were transient or lacked the resources to achieve permanent control, but such people receive little public attention. Any affluent family that became infested hired discreet professionals to solve the problem. These scattered infestations might be the source of our current outbreak. Whatever the source of the resurgence, the bedbugs are more tenacious now because our pest-control methods have changed and the bedbugs themselves have changed. We have moved away from persistent, broad-spectrum pesticides, which is a good thing for our health, and bedbugs have evolved to resist many of those chemicals anyway. These factors have enabled the current resurgence. In some ways the current attention to bedbugs reflects the fact that they are new to most of us, and many people of all socioeconomic levels are affected. Residents of low-income rental housing have been struggling with cockroaches for decades, for example, but we seldom hear about their troubles.
Q: How can you check a hotel, or even your house, for them?
A: Use a flashlight and magnifying glass when traveling to inspect hotel beds and rooms for bedbugs. Focus your attention on the bed and immediate vicinity, and check both upon arrival and the next morning. The same items can help with home inspection. There are also monitoring devices available for purchase that can be set out to detect bedbugs in your home. Save any specimens so, if you choose to hire a pest management professional, he or she can identify them.
Q: Why do they come with such a social stigma?
A: As with other pests, many people blame residents' hygiene or housekeeping when a home becomes infested with bedbugs. This is seldom the whole story for any pest, and especially not for bedbugs. Bedbugs can live anywhere with a supply of human blood; a home need not be dirty to sustain them. The stigma also goes back to the early 20th century, when upper-income people had the economic means to rid themselves of bedbugs but lower-income people did not. Then as now, effective bedbug control could be expensive and labor-intensive. Some lower-income families did eliminate bedbugs through hard, time-consuming work, but many were unable to do so. As most affluent people eliminated bedbugs, these insects became associated with poorer folks, through no fault of the people who struggled to get rid of them.
Q: Can they cause health problems?
A: Science has not verified any infectious diseases that are spread by bedbug bites and, unlike cockroaches, they do not seem to be an asthma trigger. Other kinds of health problems are still significant, however. Many people experience extremely itchy welts when bitten. If scratched open, bites can become infected from other sources of germs. Furthermore, many people in infested households suffer emotional stress and sleeplessness. Every creepy or itchy feeling, every reddish-brown spot they see sets off anxiety and paranoia. Even after the bugs are gone, some people continue to suffer anxiety, a condition called delusory parasitosis.
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What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! 15 For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. 17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
We pick up where we left off three weeks ago. Let's review what we saw in Romans 9:14-16. The question of God's justice was raised in verse 14 because Paul taught in Romans 9:6-13 that God chooses - elects - unconditionally who will believe and undeservingly be saved, and who will rebel and deservingly perish.
The terrible reality of perishing people had been raised in verse 3 where Paul was grieving over his Jewish kinsmen who, as he says, are "cursed and cut off from Christ." How can God's word and covenant with Israel stand if so many individual Israelites are unbelieving and therefore perishing?
Paul answers in verse 6 that not all those who belong physically to Israel are truly Israel. Then he explains with the examples of Isaac and Ishmael, on the one hand, and Jacob and Esau, on the other hand, that within Israel there has been a remnant "chosen by grace" (Romans 11:5). Isaac not Ishmael was chosen. Jacob not Esau was chosen. That's Paul's explanation of why there were so many of his kinsmen who were unbelieving and therefore accursed and cut off from Christ. It was ultimately owing to God's free and unconditional election of some and not others.
So Paul makes this explicit in Romans 9:11-13. "Though they [Jacob and Esau] were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad [this is where we see the unconditionality] - in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call - 12 she [Rebecca] was told, 'The older will serve the younger.' 13 As it is written, 'Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'" God chose Jacob and rejected Esau. And he did this before they were born or had done anything good or evil. That's what we mean by unconditional election.
Paul knew that in his day and ours people would stumble over this. People would say that God is unjust - unrighteous - to choose freely and unconditionally who would believe and be undeservingly saved and who would rebel and deservingly perish. So he poses the question that he has, no doubt, heard many times in response to his teaching. He asks in verse 14, "What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there?" And he answers: "May it never be!" God is not unjust in unconditional election.
Why not? That is what we began to talk about three weeks ago, starting with verses 15-16. I'll try to sum it up and add the part I promised. The part we looked at last time was how the quote from Exodus 33:19 functions in verse 15. "For He says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.'" This is given as an argument for God's justice or righteousness in unconditional election. "There is no unrighteousness with God is there? May it never be! FOR, God says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.'" How does that argument work?
The First Key: God's Glory Includes His Absolute Freedom in Election
The context of Exodus 33:19 is all important. This statement of the freedom of God in mercy is given by Moses as an expression and manifestation of God's name, his character, his glory. (We saw that last time.) That's why Paul chose to cite what looks like a simple restatement of the problem: he has mercy on whom he wills. He is free and not decisively constrained by anything outside himself. In the context, this freedom is shown to be the very essence of what it means to be God. It is an expression of his name: Yahweh: I am who I am. I have mercy on whom I have mercy. That is my name. That is my glory. That is what it means to be God.
The Second Key: The Essence of God's Righteousness Is His Commitment to Uphold and Display the Infinite Value of His Glory and His Name
That was one key to understanding Paul's argument for God's righteousness in the freedom of election. The other key is Paul's understanding of God's righteousness. Last time I simply gave you that understanding and promised I would give some support this time. I said, "God's righteousness is essentially his unswerving allegiance to his own name - his own glory. God is righteous to the degree that he upholds and displays the honor of his name. He is righteous when he values most what is most valuable, and what is most valuable is his own glory." Now, is this the way Paul understands the essence of God's righteousness?
Yes. One place to see this is Romans 3:23-25. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Notice that sin is defined in relation to the glory of God. Sin belittles the glory of God. It makes God look less valuable by desiring something else more. Then Paul describes God's remedy for that derision of his glory. Verse 24: ". . . and [they] are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins."
What we see here is that God sent Jesus to die ("by his blood"), and that by dying the righteousness of God could be vindicated and his anger could be propitiated and sinners who had belittled God's glory could be justified by faith alone. Why did God's righteousness need to be vindicated in this way? Because (v. 25b) he had passed over sins. That is, he had acted as though the derision of his glory didn't matter, and thus his righteousness, his allegiance to that glory, is called into question. He acted as though his glory was of little worth. But it is of infinite worth. And God would be untrue, he would be unrighteous, not to uphold and display the true value of his glory. Therefore, in order to justify sinners (like us!) who belittle his glory, and yet not himself belittle his own glory (in acting as though it didn't matter), he shows the infinite value of his glory by vindicating it with the death of his own Son who died for his Father's glory (John 12:27-28).
Therefore, what Romans 3:23-25 shows (as well as 3:1-8 and other places) is that God's righteousness is, at its essence, God's unswerving allegiance to the infinite value of his own glory - his own name. It's his unwavering commitment to uphold and display his glory and his name.
Paul's Conclusion: There Is No Unrighteousness with God in Unconditional Election
Now with these two keys: we open Paul's argument. The first key from the quotation of Exodus 33:19 in Romans 9:15 is that God's glory, his name, includes his absolute being and his absolute freedom in election. "I am who I am." "I have mercy on whom I have mercy." That is his glory, his name. That is what it means to be God.
The second key is that God's righteousness is his unwavering commitment always to uphold and display the infinite value of his glory and his name.
The conclusion that Paul draws is this: therefore there is no unrighteousness with God in unconditional election. When God acts in this way, choosing the beneficiaries of his mercy freely and without any constraint from human willing or human acting, he is upholding and displaying his name and his glory. And this is the very essence of his righteousness.
And so he restates the unconditionality of election in Romans 9:16: "So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy." God's ultimate choice of who will believe and undeservingly be saved, and who will rebel and deservingly perish, is not based on human volition or human behavior.
Then Paul turns to another Old Testament passage to give further support for his conviction. He cites Exodus 9:16 in Romans 9:17. And then he states his conviction again in verse 18. Verse 18 says, "So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires." You can see how similar this is to verse 15, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy." But here the opposite of mercy is also mentioned, namely hardening. "He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires."
You see what Paul is doing here. He had said in Romans 9:13 not only, "Jacob I loved," but also, "Esau I hated." One is chosen and the other is given over to become wicked. (See the sermon from 12-8-02 and the context of Romans 9:13 in Malachi 1:4, "wicked.") There are two sides to God's choosing, and verse 18 picks that up: "He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills." If the mercy is ultimately unconditional, the hardening is ultimately unconditional. That's what verse 18 adds, simply repeating what verse 11 had said, "Before they were born or had done anything good or evil," God chose who would be the beneficiary of his mercy and who would not.
Ultimately, God does not save or condemn because of constraints laid on him by the willing or doing of man. God is free. He acts according to his own wise purposes to uphold and display the fullness of his glory.
God Hardens Whom He Will
To show from Scripture that God "hardens whom he wills," Paul turns to the great old story of the Exodus from Egypt. And he chooses one verse from those 10 chapters, Exodus 9:16, and quotes it here in verse 17: "For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.'"
Why this verse from all the verses that he could have chosen that speak of hardening? Why choose one that does not even refer to hardening, and then draw out the conclusion: "He hardens whom he wills" (v. 18)? There are very profound reasons. They relate to God's freedom and to God's great global purposes of world evangelization. But that we will save for next week. I want to devote the entire message next week to going back with you to the story of the Exodus and seeing what the Old Testament teaches about the purpose of God in hardening Pharaoh.
But to draw to a close this morning and move to the Lords' Supper, I want to step back, get the big picture and make some clarifying comments. Unconditional election does not mean that our final salvation or condemnation is unconditional.
Unconditional Election Does Not Conflict with Real Conditions
It is by faith we are saved (Romans 10:9), and it is because of hard and impenitent hearts that we receive wrath and perish (Romans 2:5). There is a real condition that has to be met for justification - namely faith in Jesus Christ. And there are real conditions that have to be met for damnation, namely, hardness and unbelief. There is a real choice that we make which unites us with Christ so that we are clothed with his righteousness and have eternal life. And there is real choice that we make - in Adam and in ourselves - which is resistant to the truth and deserving of condemnation.
Unconditional election, which Paul teaches here, does not contradict any of that. What unconditional election teaches is that God chooses who will be in those two groups - who will believe and undeservingly be saved, and who will rebel and deservingly perish.
There are two huge implications for us this morning.
1) We should believe on Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and Treasure. "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9). Don't be wiser than the word of God. Don't say: God chooses whomever he wills, I don't need to choose him." The Bible says, "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Joshua 24:15). Don't say, "Why should I take hold of Christ if he takes hold of me?" Rather say what Paul says, "I take hold of Christ because he has taken hold of me" (Philippians 3:12). Don't be wiser than the word of God. "God has made foolish the wisdom of the world" (1 Corinthians 1:20). Humble yourself and turn to Christ and be saved.
2) Beware, when you have believed, that you not boast, as if your believing were ultimately your own doing. Instead be thankful and say with the apostle Paul, "I thank God that from the heart I have become obedient to the teaching of Christ" (Romans 6:17).
The Bible makes clear that God saves us in a way that excludes all boasting. Boasting is doubly excluded. It is excluded by the principle of faith and by the truth of unconditional election.
Boasting excluded by FAITH. Romans 3:27, "Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith." Faith excludes boasting because it looks away from all human distinctives (including itself!) and receives free grace.
Boasting excluded by unconditional ELECTION. 1 Corinthians 1:27-29, "God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God." God's choosing, God's free and inscrutable election removes boasting from those who really feel its preciousness.
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Melons: A Satisfying Snack
The next time you're in search of a healthy, flavorful, satisfying snack, think melons - as in cantaloupes! Melons are full of nutrients and won't put you over your calorie limit.
The cantaloupe, a small round melon, is refreshing, filling and a great source of key nutrients. In fact, of all melons, cantaloupes contain the largest amount of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene acts as an antioxidant in the body and may help reduce the risk of some cancers.
As mentioned, cantaloupe is a caloric benefit to your diet. You can eat enough to feel quite full without having to consume a large number of calories.
The secret of the cantaloupe is the amount of water it contains. The high water content contributes to their volume or bulk, so they are a good source of fluids, too.
Watermelons range in size and shape from miniature balls to 20 to 30 pound oblong melons with or without seeds.
Muskmelons contain a central cavity filled with seeds. There are three basic skin types -- ridged, meshed or smooth.
A leading indicator of ripeness is smell. The melon should have a sweet aroma.
Store both ripe cut and uncut melons wrapped in plastic in the refrigerator. This will prevent melon aromas from permeating other foods and vice versa. Slightly unripe melons can stand at room temperature for a few days to further develop flavor, aroma and texture.
Whole ripe melons will last about a week in the refrigerator and cut ones about two to three days. Cutting through the rind of an unwashed melon can draw bacteria from the surface into the flesh. Be sure to rinse the entire outside of melon with tap water before cutting to remove any surface dirt.
Melon Math: 3-pounce muskmelon equals 6 cups diced melon or 6 (1-cup) servings.
The nutritive value of melons greatly depends on the variety of melon. Melons are in the same family as squash; their nutritive value ranks somewhere between summer and winter squash. Most are excellent sources of vitamin C and potassium. Varieties with a deep orange flesh, such as cantaloupe, are exceptional sources of beta carotene, which provides vitamin A. The vitamin A in one cup of cantaloupe gives one-half of an adult male's daily Vitamin A requirement and about two-thirds of an adult woman's.
The great thing about melons is that the calorie and fat values are low. Use melons to boost your "5-a-Day" (fruits and vegetables) count.
Varieties of melons with a deep orange flesh, such as cantaloupe, are exceptional sources of beta carotene, which provides vitamin A.
Is the Melon Fresh?
Do not knock on a melon to check its ripeness - slap it instead, say pro-chefs. You are listening for a hollow ring, not a dull thud.
To test for ripeness in watermelon, snap thumb and third finger against the melon. If it says "pink", in a high, shrill tone, the melon is not ripe. If you hear "punk" in a deep, low tone, the melon is ready to eat.
Melon Bits & Bites
- The melons grown and consumed in the United States are actually muskmelons.
- True cantaloupes come from Europe and have a distinct warty surface.
- The khaki-colored melons with the netted rind that we refer to as cantaloupes are the most popular of American melons. Cantaloupes are best June through September. Melons can be left to ripen at room temperature, but refrigerate as soon as they are ripe. If a cantalope is ripe, you should be able to hear the seeds rattling inside and they should give off a sweet fragrance. If the melon is soft all over, it is probably over-ripe.
- If a watermelon needs to be removed from the refrigerator, and must sit for a while before being cut, try placing it in a double brown bag to keep it cool longer.
- When you're looking for a satisfying, nutrient-dense snack or dessert or side dish that will leave you with calories to spare slice into a fresh melon.
Quick Melon Frappe
Puree 1 cup cubed cantaloupe and 1 teaspoon chopped crystallized ginger in blender. Add 2/3 cup fat free milk, 1/4 cup plain fat free yogurt, 2 ice cubes and 1/2 tablespoon honey and puree. Makes 2 cups.
A delicious dessert: Pair your melons with frozen yogurt - or try the following recipe, packed with healthful, nutritious melons.
Melon Ambrosia Recipe
1 cup watermelon balls or cubes
1 cup cantaloupe balls or cubes
1 cup honeydew melon balls or cubes
1/3 cup lime juice
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1/4 cup flaked coconut, toasted
Fresh mint, optional
In a bowl, combine melon balls. In another bowl, combine the lime juice, sugar and honey; pour over melon and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour. Sprinkle with coconut. Garnish with mint if desired. Recipe makes 4 servings.
Nutritional information per 3/4 cup serving:
Calories: 137; Fat: 4g; Saturated fat: 3g; Cholesterol: 0; Sodium: 12mg; Carbohydrate: 29g; Fiber: 2g; Protein: 1g; Diabetic Exchange: 2 Fruit
Gingered Melon Recipe Card
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PHOENIX — As Arizona’s hunters head outdoors, there’s an increasing number of them using off-highway vehicles (OHVs) to aid in the retrieval of big game.
While OHVs can be helpful during a hunt, operators should keep in mind they are not allowed in any federally protected wilderness areas and proper care should be given to ensure they do not cause or exacerbate habitat damage.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department reminds those using any OHV — whether it’s an all-terrain vehicle (ATV), side-by-side or dirt bike — to ride safely and responsibly by following these 10 tips:
Know and follow all regulations and laws. OHVs used within Arizona must be equipped with a spark arrestor and muffler. In addition, all machines must be registered and have a current OHV decal, which can be purchased at any Arizona Motor Vehicle Division office or renewed yearly at www.servicearizona.com. Always wear a helmet. Whether you’re riding in a side-by-side utility-type vehicle (UTV), ATV or dirt bike, all riders younger than 18 years old are legally required to wear a U.S. Department of Transportation-approved helmet. However, helmets are strongly recommended for all riders. Eye protection is legally required for all riders if the OHV is not equipped with a windshield. Carry firearms unloaded and cased or in a gun rack. Never chase or harass wildlife. Doing so is against the law. Stay on roads and trails. Consider how you will retrieve your animal before you take a shot. It’s illegal to create your own trails as it can cause or exacerbate soil erosion and damage habitat relied upon by wildlife. Some national forests allow an exception for one-time motorized retrieval of a harvested big-game animal (limited to specific species); check with the forest you will be visiting before heading out. Check with local law enforcement, land managers and/or property owners before you head out. Area national forests are in different phases of implementing travel management rules that place restrictions on motor vehicle use within U.S. National Forest boundaries. In addition, OHVs are never allowed in federally protected wilderness areas. It’s always up to each hunter to know who owns a particular property and to determine whether there are special hunting, access and/or traveling restrictions. Respect other hunters. To minimize conflict with others, do not ride your OHV during prime hunting hours or in areas where others are hunting. Also remember to yield the right-of-way if you encounter other hunters on foot or with pack animals. Pull to the side of the trail, turn off your engine, remove your helmet and allow them to pass safely. Be prepared and equipped. Take area maps and guides, and have a compass, first aid kit, whistle, tire repair kit, tow rope or chain and other basic tools on hand. Also make sure to bring sunscreen, water, extra fuel and food. Watch your speed. Keep your speed down to minimize dust and noise.
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Flu jab reminder
Letters are being sent out to vulnerable people in Orkney offering a free seasonal flu jab.
Everyone in Orkney aged 65 and over, along with younger people considered to be at high risk if they catch flu, will be given the chance to take advantage of the vaccination.
Last year, three out of every four people aged 65 and over in Orkney were vaccinated against flu, slightly above the national average. In all, 4,500 people received this jab, which can be a lifesaver.
Dr Ken Black, NHS Orkney’s consultant in public health medicine, said: “I urge everyone eligible for vaccination to come and get the free protection which the vaccination offers against what can be a very nasty disease.
“We’re expecting the numbers of flu cases to increase in coming weeks and it’s vital that people realise it’s time to take action.”
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It happens to me every time I travel overseas. I talk with people who hear about where I’m going, and they always say the same thing: “That sounds amazing! I wish I could do that.”
My reply is always the same: “What’s keeping you from it?”
I’m not being judgmental; I’m just trying to figure out what people’s motivations and priorities are. There really could be a good reason why someone doesn’t travel much, but the responses I hear back is usually variations of these answers:
- “I don’t have money to travel.”
Fair enough if it’s true, but for many people who say this, it would be better to say, “I’ve chosen to spend money on a lot of other things, so now I don’t have money to travel.” America is a country of great wealth, and many of us living here throw things away every week that would be prized possessions to lots of other people. If that sounds a little soapbox to you, read this New York Times article.
We choose what we value, either consciously or unconsciously.
Many people, young and old, have no problem happily spending their money and even going into debt for luxuries each week. I’ve chosen to focus my own spending priorities on meaningful experiences.
One time someone told me that she couldn’t give to a charity event because she did not believe in going into debt, and that her husband believed that a pledge to give money was effectively a debt. I must have surprised the person making the comment, because I agreed and said that I also believe in living a completely debt-free lifestyle.
She nodded and said, “Yeah, we don’t have any debt either right now. Well, just the two cars… and the student loan… and the credit card… and of course, the mortgage doesn’t count.”
I was too shocked to say much of anything in response to that statement.
- “The rest of the world is dangerous.”
Most people don’t come out and say it that way, but that’s what they mean. “If I leave home, something terrible will go wrong.” Aside from the fact that bad things can happen in your own country just as easily as anywhere else, there are very few places in the world that are outright hostile to visitors.
The more you travel, the more you realize you are at least as safe in many places around the world as you are at home. Sure, you probably shouldn’t plan a trip to Baghdad or Mogadishu right now, but the list of inhospitable places is really short. The list of amazing places is incredibly long, so get started. Intelligent people usually recognize this fear to be somewhat irrational, so as long as you don’t let it keep you home, it’s not worth fighting.
- “I like staying at home.”
This is another way of saying, “I’m afraid of change and different experiences.” Before you write it off, understand that most of us feel this way at one time or another. It’s just something that needs to be overcome. A small group of people will be brave enough to do it, and the rest will stay home, never venturing out beyond their own culture of comfort. It’s their loss; don’t let it be yours.
- I’ll do this kind of stuff when I retire (or at some other distant point in the future).
I see nothing wrong with the general concept of delayed gratification. I have an IRA, I look both ways when I cross the street, and it’s reasonable to give up something now in expectation of greater future benefit.
What is dangerous, however, is when delayed gratification becomes an excuse for not living the life you want.
How many people do you know that actually do the things they say they are going to when they reach arbitrary ages of leaving the jobs they have given their lives to? Far more common is the downsizing of dreams along the way.
If you want to play golf all day and take your medication at regular intervals, the 40-year career track plan should work well for you. If you have other ideas or ambitions, though, don’t kill yourself as a slave for the future. Instead, go and figure out where you want to travel and do something about it.
4 Important Questions to Ask Yourself:
1) Am I satisfied with my work? Does it meet my needs and fulfill my desires?
Your work should not exist merely to provide income for the rest of your life. Ask yourself, what am I working for? Am I working to make a living or to make a life? If your work supports your goals, that’s great. If it doesn’t, maybe it’s time to make a change.
2) Think back to the times you have left your home country. What did you learn on those trips? Do you think you have more to learn?
For me, the more I have traveled, the more I learn, and the more I realize how big the world really is. When I was younger and had spent a fair amount of time abroad, I used to say that I had traveled “all over the world.” More than 60 countries later, I laugh at that idea. There are still many, many countries I have yet to visit, and even after I achieve my goal of visiting every country in the world, there will still be many places within those countries that I still won’t have experienced.
3) If you could go anywhere in the world, where would that be? (Don’t think about reasons why you can’t go there.)
Brainstorm through the six inhabited continents – Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, North and South America – and think about cities or countries on each of them that you’ve always wondered about. Chances are there’s somewhere, and probably several places, that you’ve always wanted to see.
Finally, while I believe that international travel is not nearly as expensive as the lifestyle many people wear themselves out to maintain, it’s true that it does cost money to travel around the world.
Therefore, you should also understand the answer to this question:
4) What are your financial priorities?
If you don’t know the answer offhand, it’s easy to get it.Just look back at your bank statements, financial software, or credit card statements for the last six months. Whether you like it or not, where you’ve been spending a lot of money is where your priorities are. If you’d like to value experiences more than “stuff,” you may need to make some changes.
In future essays, I’ll discuss exactly how you should go about pursuing the goal of world travel – or anything else you’ve always wanted to do, but haven’t known how to get started. I’ll also cover the following topics in detail:
- How to earn money without a job
- How to achieve great things for yourself while also making a difference in the lives of others
- How to align your values with your life, reducing stress and ensuring that you are doing the right things the right way
- How to change the world by rising above the norm of mediocrity
For now, the rest of the story is up to you. Think about the questions and make a plan. What’s that one place – or ten places – you’ve always wanted to go to?
Write it down and stick it to your monitor so you’ll continually be reminded of it.
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June 26: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is free! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next.
Man, Luigi Cozzi. Starcrash, Contamination, Paganini Horror, Cannon’s Hercules, his remix of Godzilla, Sinbad of the Seven Seas, the remix remake ripoff weirdness that is Demons 6 De Profundis, The Killer Must Kill Again, writing Four Flies on Grey Velvet and even just being a fan of film and running Argento’s Profondo Rosso store and museum — I just love the man. Like, I wish I could buy him dinner and drinks and just pick his brain for hours about the history of film.
I think this is as close as I’m going to get.
Cozzi originally came up with the idea — or at least the title — for Blood on Méliès’ Moon when he was working for Cannon in the 80s, but had no idea how it could be made. As much as we hate on modern technology, it did make this happen, as the Cozzi said that it was like when he “decided to become a publisher, until then, to publish a book you had to print at least one or two thousand copies. That meant a lot of money and often your storehouses were full of unsold copies. After the advent of digital, you could print even only thirty copies of a book and so I decided to start publishing books and novels.”
Let me try and summarize this absolutely berserk movie.
Inventor Louis Le Prince — a real artist could possibly have been the first person to shoot a movie of any length using a single lens camera and a strip of film; he also disappeared after boarding a train in September of 1890 on his way to demonstrate the camera, but there are theories that he was killed by Edison, disappeared to start a new life and celebrate his homosexuality where he would not be judged, that he committed suicide due to multiple failures or that his brother killed him to get their mother’s will. The case has never been solved — create a device that the Lumière Brothers would eventually call The Cinematographer.
Luigi Cozzi, playing himself, finds a book called The Roaming Universe that was left for him when Barbara (Barbara Magnolfi!) is killed by the statue of the Blood and Black Lace killer within Profondo Rosso’s Argento museum basement, a book that she received during a seance during which an old woman violently puked it into existence.
A man has also sent Cozzi a lamp fashioned after Le Voyage dans la Lune and claims that a shadow version of La Prince in the guise of a masked magician has left the doorway open to a dark dimension that will soon doom our reality using film as his weapon.
It’s a little like La rage du Démon, in that one of Méliès’ movies causes chaos, but it’s also a lot like a conspiracy tract you would have found in the 80s all Xeroxed and left in a payphone booth or a strange YouTube channel that at first you giggle about but then you say, “Well, that makes sense.” It’s baffling and brilliant and corny and silly all at the same time, a messy final message from an auteur who can’t help but be entertaining no matter what he does.
There’s also a trickster named Pierpoljakos (Philippe Beun-Garbe) who takes Cozzi through other dimensions, a severed head that can speak, Cozzi’s wife reacting to him telling her that he has to save the world by just rolling over and going back to sleep, Cozzi in fuzzy pajamas, Ben Cooper level masks, monsters and effects, as well as Lamberto Bava showing off his dad’s book collection, Dario Argento at an autograph signing and a nightmare that has critic Paolo Zelati claim that Cozzi is the Italian Ed Wood, which should upset him, but just ends up making him happy.
There’s also a discussion of the volcano sequence that Cozzi ripped off for Hercules and asks, “Did Cozzi choose the images or did the images choose him?” He also gets to fly on a rocket and when he lands, gets a smile from his own creation, Stella Starr from Starcrash.
This movie reminds me of the Profondo Rosso store itself, a cramped small place with a few books, some DVDs and goofy masks, all standing above a shrine to the genius that is Italian exploitation cinema in the catacombs below. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, it doesn’t have to and it’s wonderful.
I have in my office a Profondo Rosso mug and it’s one of my prized possessions. It’s like some alchemical object, something I hold and hope that the inspiration and madness and love of cinema that Cozzi has always had stays within me. I also am happy to report that when I mentioned his name to Caroline Munro, she lit up and said, “He really is the most wonderful man.”
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The Ultramarines were the XIII Legion of the original twenty Space Marine Legions. This loyalist Legion was later re-organized and divided into Chapters according to the Codex Astartes. Their Primarch is Roboute Guilliman, whose leadership, not to mention his authorship of the Codex Astartes, were instrumental in humanity's survival following the Horus Heresy. Because their Primarch wrote the text that defines a Space Marine Chapter, the Ultramarines follow this Codex strictly; their only deviation being the recent formation of the Tyrannic War Veterans, comprised entirely of veterans of battles with the Tyranids. The Ultramarines are possibly the most important Imperial organization on the Eastern Fringe.
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- 1 Homeworld
- 2 History
- 3 Gene-seed
- 4 Successor Chapters
- 5 Culture
- 6 Organisation
- 7 Recruitment
- 8 Noted Elements of the Ultramarines
- 9 Related Articles
- 10 See Also
- 11 Sources
The Ultramarines are unique in that, unlike their fellow chapters, they control nine star systems, rather than a single planet. Collectively, these systems are known as Ultramar, with Macragge as its capital. Macragge is a cold and rocky world, though certainly capable of sustaining life, and is home to the Fortress of Hera, the Ultramarines' main base.
- Calth: Cavern World
- Espandor: Cardinal World
- Iax: Garden World
- Konor: Adeptus Mechanicus Research World
- Parmenio: Training World
- Talassar: Ocean World
- Talasa Prime: Inquisition Fortress
- The "Three Planets"
The Ultramarines, in the days before being reunited with their Primarch, were originally known as XIII Legion. The legion was created towards the end of the Unification Wars, developed from a gene-seed that was noted to be absent of mutation and with a high adaptability. The original recruits were drawn from from the sub-equatorial maglev clans of Panpocro, the war families of the Saragon Enclave, the Midafrik Hive Oligarchy and the anthropophagic tribes of the Caucasus Wastes. As varied in culture and origin as these groups were, they all had one factor in common; their violent and often bitter resistance to the later stages of Unification, a resistance broken ultimately in each case not by negotiated surrender but near annihilation, with in some situations little remaining save interned refugees and orphaned populations left by the savage conflicts which had brought these peoples to heel. The legion was created at such a late stage in the war that they have no recorded combat operations on Terra, instead being used for the first time for the liberation of the Solar System.[50b]
They were one of the three Space Marine Legions to take part in the First Pacification of Luna, the first pitched battle of the Great Crusade. Another major early campaign of the legion was putting down the Osiris Rebellion. By 833.M30, the strength of the legion had risen to 33,000, but its morale and pride was harmed as a result of heavy losses during the Osiris Rebellion.[50b]
The Youth of Roboute Guilliman
Like the other Primarchs, Roboute Guilliman was taken as an infant by the powers of Chaos, and removed to a far-flung world in an effort to prevent the coming Age of the Imperium. The infant Guilliman's capsule fell to earth on Macragge, where it was discovered by a group of noblemen hunting in the forest. Inside the capsule they found a child, surrounded by a glowing aura. He was taken back to Konor, one of the two Consuls who governed Macragge, who adopted the infant as his son and named him Roboute[1h].
Roboute was a prodigy, growing fast in both body and intellect. By age ten, he had mastered every subject the wisest men of Macragge could teach him, and his insights into matters of history, philosophy, and science often stunned his elders. However, his greatest talents were as a military leader. These talents led his father to give him command of an expeditionary force to Illyrium, a mountainous region in the far north of Macragge, whose wild inhabitants had terrorized the civilized regions for years and successfully resisted every previous military campaign. Not only did Roboute fight a brilliant campaign but he also earned the respect of the wildmen who never again threatened the more civilised parts of Macragge. However, on his return to the capital Roboute found the city in chaos, as his father's co-Consul, Gallan, had attempted a coup. Gallan led a faction of Macragge's nobility who were used to enjoying their wealth and position at the expense of armies of slaves, and resented Konor's legislation favoring the common people, among whom he was immensely popular[1h].
Approaching the city, Roboute and his soldiers saw the city in chaos, being sacked by mobs of Gallan's men, while the Consul House was under siege. Roboute left his men to restore order to the city, while he rushed to the Consul House and lifted the siege, only to find his father close to death, surrounded by his loyal bodyguards. He had been mortally wounded by an assassin in Gallan's employ, and with his dying breath, told Roboute who was responsible[1h].
Roboute swiftly crushed the rebellion and, amid a wave of popular relief, assumed the title of sole Consul of Macragge. He set about punishing the treachery and carrying out his father's vision. Gallan and his co-conspirators were executed, and their lands and wealth were redistributed to the people. With superhuman energy, Roboute reorganized Macragge's entire social structure, creating a meritocracy where office and honours were given to the hard-working, rather than the wealthy and influential. Under his leadership, Macragge prospered as it never had before[1h].
The Arrival of the Emperor
While Roboute was prosecuting his war against the Illyrian rebels, the Emperor of Mankind and his armies had reached the neighboring planet of Espandor. It was there that the Emperor heard stories of the extraordinary son of Consul Konor, and realized that he had found one of the lost Primarchs. However, due to an unexpected warp storm, his ship was thrown far off course and by the time it reached Macragge, Roboute had been ruling for almost five years[1h].
When the Emperor reached Macragge, he found a world that was self sufficient, prosperous, with a strong and well-equipped military, and engaging in trade with nearby systems. Impressed, the Emperor assigned command of the Ultramarines Legion to Guilliman, and relocated the Legion's forward base to Macragge[1h].
The Great Crusade
With the exception of the Luna Wolves, no Legion conquered as many worlds, or conquered worlds as fast, or left conquered worlds in such good state during the Great Crusade, as the Ultramarines. Guilliman restored the legion's morale and prestige following difficulties in the Osiris Rebellion and later took revenge on the Osirian Psybrids at the Battle of the Eurydice Terminal.[50b] Whenever Guilliman liberated a world, he would not move on until he had set up a self-sufficient defense system, and left advisors behind to create industry, set up trade routes with the rest of the Imperium, and form a government whose first concern would always be the well-being of the people[1h]. The success of the Ultramarines may be thanks to their diverse but stable gene-seed. In them was found a mixrure of aggression and restraint, discipline and determination which rendered them supremely suited for joint taskforce operations and cross-theatre warfare.[50b]
As Ultramar grew into a small stellar empire in its own right, Guilliman created a supremely efficient military machine, centered around Macragge, that provided the Ultramarines with a steady flow of new recruits. Between this factor, and the minimal casualties suffered as a result of Guilliman's tactical genius, the Ultramarines soon became the largest of all the Space Marine Legions[1h] – so large, in fact, that an organizational unit above the Company was required. The Ultramarines were thus organized into Chapters, numbering twenty-two just before the Battle of Calth[Needs Citation].
The Horus Heresy
See main article - Notable Heresy Era Battles of the Ultramarines
Before Horus declared his treachery against the Emperor, he ordered the Ultramarines Legion to assemble for war in the Veridian System in Segmentum Tempestus far to the galactic south, claiming that the system was under attack by an Ork invasion force from the Ghaslakh Empire. Ultramar was close enough for an assault against Veridian, so Guilliman ordered his Legion to assemble in the Calth System[Needs Citation].
Battle of Calth
As Guilliman and his fleets arrived at Calth, they knew something was wrong, because none of their Astropaths could get messages through the Warp and the storms were interfering with the navigation of their ships; they were blocked from the rest of the Imperium. It was at this moment that the traitor forces of the Word Bearers Legion attacked, rendering the Ultramarines unable to participate in much of the Battle of Terra. Simultaneously, the Word Bearers under Lorgar as well as the World Eaters attempted to cut off the rest of Ultramar from the greater Imperium in the Shadow Crusade. The battle at Calth, though ultimately a victory for Guilliman, was devastating for the Ultramarines. Nearly 120,000 of the Legion's Space Marine were lost and another 28,000 rendered combat-incapable.[50c] This represented almost 60% of the Legion's Pre-Heresy strength of 250,000.
After the formation of the Ruinstorm, Guilliman feared Terra lost and used the Ultramarines and the realm of Macragge to create a new contingency empire known as Imperium Secundus. Imperium Secundus faced a major test in the Battle of Sotha, where the Ultramarines and their fellow Astartes allies that had gathered fought off a force of Night Lords.
The Great Scouring
Upon learning of the treachery, Guilliman immediately set course for Terra, destroying Chaos reinforcements along the way, but arrived after Horus had already been defeated, and the Traitor Legions scattered.
Because of this, the Ultramarines were one of the few Legions at full strength in the aftermath of the Heresy; thus, Guilliman and his Ultramarines bore much of the burden of holding the Imperium together against aliens and Chaos forces. During this time, the Ultramarines recruited heavily from Ultramar and eventually counted for over half of the Loyalist Marines.
Apart from leading his Ultramarines in countless battles across the Galaxy, Guilliman also accepted an extraordinary appointment as Lord Commander of the Imperium; with the Emperor crippled and Lord Malcador dead, it fell to Guilliman to re-organize the Council of Terra into a ruling body capable of running the Imperium without their sovereign.
Around a decade after the Heresy ended, the Imperium finally reached a point of stability[Needs Citation].
Creation of the Codex Astartes
After the Horus Heresy, Roboute Guilliman set himself to create the Codex Astartes, which would define the tactics and organization of all Space Marines, from battlefield strategies to squad markings. Most important of these changes was the division of the Legions into 1,000-strong Chapters. One of the Chapters would retain the heraldry of the original Legion, but the others would be given a new name and symbol. In doing so, Guilliman hoped to divide the power of the Space Marines to ensure that a civil war on the scale of the Heresy could never occur again[Needs Citation].
This, however, caused dissention among the remaining Primarchs. Rogal Dorn, Vulkan and Leman Russ opposed the splitting of their legions while Guilliman himself was supported by Jaghatai Khan and Corax. Neither side was willing to relent and the controversy grew more intense, with Rogal Dorn calling Guilliman a coward for not having participated in the Siege of Terra, and Guilliman accusing Dorn of being a rebel for his refusal to follow the Codex. The situation threatened to bring the Imperium into another civil war. When the Imperial Fists strike cruiser Terrible Angel was fired upon by the Imperial Navy, Dorn finally relented and agreed to split his legion.[4a]
Duel on Eskrador
On Eskrador Alpharius, the Alpha Legion's primarch, was apparently taken by surprise when Guilliman departed from his own strictures and led a surprise assault by his elite units on the Alpha Legion headquarters. In the resulting personal combat between Alpharius and Guilliman, it is believed that Alpharius was killed. The Alpha Legion responded, not by breaking and fleeing as Guilliman expected, but by turning on the Ultramarine detachment and harrying them so mercilessly that by the time they had returned to the main body of the Ultramarine force their casualties were almost total. The Ultramarines were driven from the planet in the subsequent battle.
The Iron Cage
Shortly after the Heresy, the Imperial Fists laid siege to the Iron Warriors' greatest construct, The Eternal Fortress. The Fortress consisted of over 20 square miles of bunkers, towers, minefields, trenches, razor wire, tank traps, redoubts and a system of complex underground tunnels in the shape of an eight pointed star. At the center was a massive bunker intended to serve as a decoy and of no value whatsoever. Guilliman advised his brother Dorn against the siege, but Dorn was embittered at having lost the debate over the Codex to Guilliman, and wished to vent his anger and frustration on his most bitter of rivals.
Hundreds of Imperial Fists littered the grounds of the fortress before Guilliman and the Ultramarine relief force arrived, three weeks and six days later. The Imperial Fists had fought without sleep and had long run out of ammunition before the Ultramarines found them. Perturabo, unable to hold against the two legions, made his final ploy, stopping the Imperial Fists to recover over four hundred of their dead and the gene seed they contained.
See main article - Notable Post Heresy Battles of the Ultramarines
- 544.M32 - During the War of the Beast, Ultramar was attacked by Ork forces. Quintarn and Prandium are invaded. The Ultramarines were ultimately able to destroy an Ork Attack Moon over Calth and another over Tarentus. Later, Chapter Master Odaenathus was killed by The Beast during the invasion of Ullanor.
- 546.M32 - In the aftermath of The Beheading, Agnathio, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, united over fifty other Chapter Masters and arrived on Terra to contain the anarchy which followed the incident. Putting an end to the political squabblings of who should succeed the High Lords of Terra, the Astartes sorted out the issues in a closed session of the Senatorum Imperialis. When they emerged, the new twelve High Lords had been chosen.[36a]
- M35 - Overthrow of the Obdurate Prince - The Ultramarines managed to destroy the heretic and his army of bandits and psykers. Space Marines of the Ultramarines Chapter used their own Librarians to home in on the Obdurate Prince’s psyker conclaves before sending in Terminator Squads of the Strike Force Ultra via teleportation. It was first major change in using composition of a Strike Force Ultra - all Space Marines were to be equipped with suits of Tactical Dreadnought Armour.[42a]
- 980.M35 - The Hrud Rising
- M41 - The Ultramarines 4th Company under Uriel Ventris ends the civil war on Pavonis, defeating the pro-Tau Governor Mykola Shonai.
- M41 - The Altor Crusade
- M41 - Second War for Armageddon - The Ultramarines sent several companies to fight and reinforce the defenders of Armageddon against five tribes of orks united under Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka.
- 143.M41 - The Jorun Retaliation
- 698.M41 - Corinthian Crusade -The Ultramarines led the Corinthian system to freedom from the Ork Warlord Skargor the Despoiler. With five other chapters of Asartes and over fifty Imperial Guard regiments it was Chapter Master Marneus Calgar who within three months pushed the Warlord back to the capital world and the fortress there. Imperial Guard gun batteries broke a breach in the wall which the Ultramarines stormed. Brother Amadon of the Ultramarines fell in that assault. It was Ancient Galatan that heroically slew the Ork warlord. Galatan finally succumbed to his extensive wounds but did not allow the banner to fall, spurring the troops on to finally liberate the system. A statue of Galatan stands in the Fortess of Hera on Macragge in honour of his courage, skill and his unfaltering dedication to duty.[15d]
- 740.M41 - The Siege of Talwa
- 742.M41 - Operation Pluto – When the Damocles Gulf Crusade was launched, the Ultramarines pledged forces who fought under the theatre command of the Black Templars and Imperial General Wendell Gauge. It was during Operation Pluto on the Tau Planet of Dal'yth that the Ultramarines led other Marines of the Iron Hands and Scythes of the Emperor into battle within the forests of Gel'bryn. The strike force was intended as a third, mobile force that could breakthrough the enemy lines or outflank the Tau and break the other two battlefronts. Instead the Astartes were met by the Tau elite, piloting Crisis Battlesuits. The Marines held the forest against insurmountable odds, with new, fresh Tau reserves being deployed against the finite number of the crusade force. Whilst Operation Pluto itself was no great success, it allowed Gauge to initiate Operation Hydra which led into the final stages of the campaign. [4b]
- 745.M41 - The Battle for Macragge - The concluding battle of the First Tyrannic War that stopped Hive Fleet Behemoth on the Ultramarines' Homeworld of Macragge.
- M41 - The Battle for Orar's Sepulchre - The first battle fought by the bulk of the Chapter since the First Tyrannic War.
- 759.M41 - Scouring of Quintarn - Marneus Calgar take personal command of forces driving out Ork scavengers who had captured the Systems of Quintarn, Tarentus, and Masali in the aftermath of Hive Fleet Behemoth.[2b]
- 790.M41 - The Nimbosa Crusade
- 797.M41 - The Siege of Zalathras
- 805.M41 - The Ultramarines and the Imperial Guard defended Jorun's World from Warlord Gorklaw's Waaagh!
- 812.M41 - The Luxor Uprising
- 822.M41 - The Ironblood Campaign
- 855.M41 - Assault on Black Reach - the Ultramarines 2nd Company under the command of Captain Cato Sicarius and Scout Sergeant Torias Telion defeated the brutal Ork Waaagh! Zanzag on Black Reach.[Needs Citation]
- 879.M41 - The Battle of Knarts Landing
- 894.M41 - The Sanctarro Campaign
- 913.M41 - The Six Hour War. The Strike Force Ultra under the command of Severus Agemman banished the Tau force from the world of K’ail.[42c]
- 922.M41 - Battle of Andraxas - Tigurius leads an Ultramarines force to Andraxas to rescue Tech-Priests from an Ork invasion.
- 944.M41 - The Balur Crusade
- 945.M41 - Purging Hive Fleet Locust
- 946.M41 - The Battle of Eagle Gate - The Ultramarines battle a Chaos warband under Daemon Prince Kor Megron on the Shrine World of Eydolim.[36b]
- 963.M41 - The Battle of Malbede
- 969.M41 - The Invasion of Taladorn
- 971.M41 - The Fall of Malodrax
- 974.M41 - The Damnos Incident - On the resource rich planet of Damnos, Captain Cato Sicarius and Chief Librarian Varro Tigurius led an Ultramarine assault onto the planet against the recently risen menace known as the Necrons. Sicarius split the 2nd Company into three separate squads; he led one against the heart of the Necron force at Kellenport's Outer Walls. Upon landing Sicarius's team was surrounded by phalanxes to guard the Necron Lord. During the battle Sicarius fell, gravely wounded by the Lord's War Scythe but was rescued and was evacuated back to his Battle Cruiser to heal. Damnos was lost to the Necrons but due to the unstable reactor of the planet and thanks to a few Thunderhawk Gunships the reactor blew and took the Necrons and planet to their deaths.[Needs Citation]
- 990.M41 - The Battle of Ichar IV - At the beginning of the Second Tyrannic War, Ichar IV was infested with Genestealers. A genestealer cult, operating under the name, "the Brotherhood," instigated a rebellion on the planet that caught the attention of Inquisitor Agmar. The Inquisitor petitioned the Space Marine chapter, the Ultramarines, to help put down the rebellion. Marneus Calgar, chapter master of the Ultramarines, arrived 39 days later aboard the space marine battle barge, Octavius. Eventually, with the combined support of the Ultramarines, PDF forces and the Imperial Guard, the inquisition successfully destroyed the invasion and cleansed the planet of all Genestealers.[6b]
- 999.M41 – The Battle of Tarsis Ultra - the Ultramarines 4th Company were dispatched to the world of Tarsis Ultra to defend it against on of the two tendrils of Hive Fleet Leviathan. With help from the Mortifactors Chapter and several regiments of the Imperial Guard, the invasion was successfully repelled, though at great cost.
- 999.M41 - Damnos is reclaimed by Cato Sicarius after the Necron Lord known as The Undying is destroyed.
- 854999.M41 - Invasion of Ultramar - Iron Warriors Warsmith Honsou assembles an enormous warband and invades the region of Ultramar, in league with the Daemon Prince M'kar. The entire Chapter must mobilize for war, to prevent Ultramar from being laid to waste.
- 989999.M41 - The Liberation of Lagan
- 999.M41 - Siege of the Fenris System - the Ultramarines send forces to aid the Dark Angels-led coalition
- Hagus Wars - a battle between the Ultramarines Second Company, led by Captain Cato Sicarius, and a Tau expansionary force. Ultramarines managed to victory.
- Liberation of Graia - Captain Titus was instrumental in the liberation of the Forge World Graia. Leading an under-strength command squad, Titus single handedly slew the Ork Warboss Grimskull, whose forces were resolutely holding most of Graia. Titus also discovered a plot by the agents of chaos.
- The Fall of Medusa V - Cato Sicarius was contacted by the Inquisition to defend the planet of Medusa V. A number of other chapters rallied to Sicarius's banner, and even the Lord Marshal Graf Harazahn of the Vostroyan Firstborn declared and led an Imperial Guard crusade against the multiple foes that assaulted the planet. However, in the end, Medusa V was lost[Needs Citation].
The gene-seed of the Ultramarines is highly regarded as one of the most stable, with only a ten percent chance of mutation[Needs Citation]. The Gene-seed is noted however for having a predisposed increase in aggression and a tendency towards cohesion and adaptation of hierarchy.[50b]
The Space Marine Chapters that split from the Ultramarines Legion are amongst the most celebrated Space Marine forces, specially those near the Realm of Ultramar. Most of these chapters closely follow the doctrines in the Codex Astartes.
The Ultramarines successors of the Second Founding maintain a far closer bond with the ultramarines than many other chapters, with many having their homeworlds in the Ultima Segmentum. But even the most distant Chapters send representatives to the Fortress of Hera, to confer with the Lord Macragge to coordinate the war across the entire Imperium. Many Space Marines of these chapters aspire to take a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Primarch.
The Ultramarines pride themselves on their strict adherence to the Codex Astartes, and view themselves as an exemplar for all other Space Marine Chapters. They believe - not without cause - that their Primarch's teachings have moulded the Adeptus Astartes, and the Imperium as a whole, in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, and that it is their responsibility to continue to serve as this paragon.[17a] For this reason they are viewed as strait-laced and somewhat elitist by their brother chapters, from the more anarchic Space Wolves to even their own successor chapters, such as the Mortifactors.[16a]
The chapter treats deviation from the Codex as a crime tantamount to heresy, punishable by a Death Oath – exile from the chapter on a suicidal mission to combat the forces of Chaos inside the Eye of Terror. To the Ultramarines, the Codex is more than a set of rules, it represents discipline and respect for order, the key virtues that separate the Ultramarines and their brethren from the Traitor Legions. Disobeying the Codex, even for a noble cause, is simply the first step towards the belief that the ends justify the means, and from there to total anarchy.[17a]
The Ultramarines are also strongly influenced by their unique history as stewards of Ultramar and its human population. Guilliman founded a culture based on striving for the common good, and the Ultramarines are proud to uphold these beliefs. Where other Space Marines are aloof, and sometimes contemptuous of the Imperium's "lesser" mortals, most Ultramarines are used to working closely with "ordinary" people in Ultramar, and regard any human life, no matter how seemingly insignificant, as sacred and worthy of protection.[15a][15b][16a][18a] They are also harshly intolerant when they encounter less altruistic behavior - greed, selfishness, corruption - on other Imperial worlds.[15a][16b]
During the Invasion of Ultramar in 999.M41, Inquisitor Namira Suzaku of the Ordo Malleus noted that the people of Calth regarded her and her entourage with curiosity, but no visible apprehension; she remarked that it was the first world in the Imperium she had ever visited where people felt they had nothing to hide from the Inquisition.[18b]
The Ultramarines follow the Codex Astartes in all matters of organization. Roughly two thirds of all Space Marines can trace their origins to the Ultramarines, and many still revere Roboute Guilliman as their creator[Needs Citation]. As well as a Boltgun, many Ultramarines carry a sword known as a Gladius.[22a] The Ultramarines Honour Guard wield formidable close combat weapons known as the Axes of Ultramar[Needs Citation].
During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, the Ultramarines were a much larger Legion commanded by Roboute Guilliman. Beneath him were Chapter Masters who led approximately 10,000 warriors and a segment of the Legion fleet. Each Chapter was in turn divided into ten Companies of 1,000 under the command of a Captain.
As the paragon Codex chapter, the Ultramarines are divided into ten Companies of 100 Marines, as prescribed by the Codex Astartes. Each Company Captain is a hero of the Ultramarines, many of whom are also Masters of the Chapter, in charge of a particular aspect of the Chapter's logistics[Needs Citation].
|Veteran Company||Battle Companies|
|1st Company||2nd Company||3rd Company||4th Company||5th Company|
"Warriors of Ultramar"
"Guardians of the Temple"
"Scourge of the Xenos"
"Defenders of Ultramar"
"Wardens of the Eastern Fringe"
|Reserve Companies||Scout Company|
|6th Company||7th Company||8th Company||9th Company||10th Company|
- Light vehicles and transports (Rhinos, Land Speeders, etc.) are not included in this count; such vehicles are held in reserve by their parent Company and drawn upon as their mission requires.[1a]
- a: Normally, the Captain of the Fourth Company would hold the position of Master of the Fleet. Uriel Ventris bestowed his title upon Lord Admiral Lazlo Tiberius instead, whom he felt was better suited for the job.
Ultramarines Honour Company
Because the Ultramarines Legion played little part in fighting the Warmaster's forces during the Horus Heresy, a number of Ultramarines Primogenitors Chapters contributed individual squads to a standing force near the Eye of Terror known as the Ultramarines Honour Company. Those that take this duty in the Cadian Gate are changed by the unknowable terrors. Many of these Space Marines go on to serve in the Deathwatch and are some of the most dedicated of their chapter's warriors.
The Ultramarines continue the tradition, begun by Guilliman, of recruiting from the worlds of Ultramar. There is rarely a shortage of volunteer Aspirants, since the Ultramarines are revered throughout the realm, and many families can boast of having sent several generations of their sons to serve the Chapter.[1i][15c]
Aspirants who survive training at one of the barrack institutions in Ultramar, human youths are inducted into the Chapter as Scouts, as the Codex dictates, before completing their transformation into full Space Marines.[1j]
Noted Elements of the Ultramarines
See main article - Ultramarines Armoury
- Adsidus - Battle Barge
- Aeternus - Battle Barge
- Caesar - Battle Barge[1a], destroyed (details vary[6a][1d])
- Emperor Incarnatus - Battle Barge
- Excelsior - Battle Barge, lost in the Warp in 977.M35
- Gauntlet of Power - Battle Barge, Heresy-era
- Lord Lamedon - Battle Barge
- Octavius - Battle Barge[1a]
- Pro Merito - Battle Barge; lost in the warp[Needs Citation]
- Seditio Opprimere - Battle Barge
- Severian - Battle Barge[1a]
- Accipiter - Strike Cruiser
- Fidelis - Strike Cruiser
- Fist of Ultramar
- Garra de Macragge - Strike Cruiser[1a]
- Internecio - Strike Cruiser
- Iter Splendere - Strike Cruiser
- Vae Victus - Strike Cruiser[1a]
- Valin's Revenge - Strike Cruiser[1a]
- Guilliman's Arrow - Stormtalon Gunship
- Invictus - Land Raider named in honor of Saul Invictus - Captain of the 1st Company
Notable Members of the Ultramarines
NOTE - Only NOTABLE Ultramarines should be added below (officers, special characters, main characters of novels, etc.) Any other Ultramarines should be added HERE.
- Roboute Guilliman - Primarch
- Gren Vosotho - Lord Commander of the legion before reunification with Guilliman. Killed in the Osiris Rebellion
- Marius Gage - Chapter Master of the Ultramarines Legion's First Chapter (First Master of the Ultramarines).
- Eikos Lamiad - Tetrarch of Konor[50a]
- Tauro Nicodemus - Tetrarch of Saramanth[50a]
- Eben Frain - Tetrarch of Occluda during the Great Crusade[50a]
- Valentus Dolor - Tetrarch of Occluda during the Horus Heresy
- Stolos Amyntas - Tetrarch of Iax[50a]
- Orfeo Cassandar - Legatus of Armatura
- Promus - Chief Librarian
- Phratus Auguston - 1st Chapter Master
- Verus Caspean - 2nd Chapter Master
- Atreus - 6th Chapter Master
- Klord Empion - 9th Chapter Master
- Arceas Odinathus - 10th Chapter Master
- Vared - 11th Chapter Master
- Banzor Evido - 16th Chapter Master
- Aecus Decimus - 17th Chapter Master
- Machon Phalaris - 22nd Chapter Master, killed by orks in the Great Crusade
- Eleon Iasus - 22nd Chapter Master
- Castor Alcade - Legate
- Drakus Gorod - Commander of the Suzerain Invictarus
- Titus Prayto - Librarian
- Casmir - Equerry to Phratus Auguston
- Lysimachus Cestus - Captain of the Seventh Company during the Horus Heresy. (dec.)[22b]
- Remus Ventanus - Captain of the 4th Company during the Horus Heresy. Lead the defence of Calth planet-side.
- Adallus - 199th Company Captain
- Teus Sullus - 39th Company Captain
- Lyros Sydance - Captain
- Hektor - Captain
- Lucretius Corvo - Captain and later founder of the Novamarines
- Ptolemy - First and greatest Librarian of the Ultramarines, founded the Library of Ptolemy.
- Tylos Rubio - Former Codicier, recruited by Nathaniel Garro on the orders of Malcador the Sigillite.
- Aeonid Thiel - Sergeant of the 135th Company. Marked for censure prior to the Defence of Calth for running theoretical scenarios on fighting Space Marines. Was later honoured for heroics during the battle by having the Red Helmet of Censure he wore become the symbol of Sergeant rank.[25a]
- Telemechrus - Dreadnought
- Steloc Aethon - Captain
- Proximo Tarchon - Centurion
- Didacus Theron - Centurion
- Oberdeii - Scout
- Arrias Cordos - Went on to become the first Chapter Master of the Black Consuls
- Chapter Command:
- Marneus Calgar - Current Chapter Master and Lord Macragge. 77th Chapter Master in the history of the Ultramarines
- Varro Tigurius - Current Chief Librarian, and is believed to be the strongest psyker in the Imperium[1a]
- Ortan Cassius - Master of Sanctity and veteran of the Battle of Macragge, and now leads the Tyrannic War Veterans into battle[1a]
- Lazlo Tiberius - Lord Admiral, Master of the Fleet
- Tigris Decon - Chapter Master during the Third Founding
- Odaenathus - Chapter Master during the War of the Beast in M32
- Agnathio - Chapter Master during The Beheading in M32
- Ollonius - was the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines in early M36
- Vaniel - Chief Librarian during the War of the Beast in M32
- Calistes - Captain of some company in early M36
- Garus - former Captain, now - Venerable Dreadnought
- Mikael Fabian
- Saul Invictus - Captain of the 1st Company during the Battle of Macragge (Dec.)[Needs Citation]
- Severus - Captain of the Second Company during its mission to Mithron.
- Severus Agemman - Captain of the First Company and current Regent of Ultramar[1a]
- Cato Sicarius - Captain of the Second Company and commander of Imperial Forces during the Medusa V Schism[1a]
- Uriel Ventris - Captain of the Fourth Company, sent to fulfill a Death Oath for failing to follow Codex Astartes rules[1a]
- Titus - Company Captain who fought during the Graia Invasion
- Macrinus - Captain during the War of the Beast
- Agies - Captain of the 2nd Company in M38, later encased in Dreadnought.
- Other Ranks:
- Altarion - Venerable Dreadnought
- Antaro Chronus - Armoury, "The Spear of Macragge"[1d]
- Gaius - Chaplain. Took part in purging Orks from Sylphis II
- Galatan - Ancient and Bearer of the Banner of Macragge (Dec.)
- Helveticus - Ancient and Bearer of the Banner of Macragge (Dec.)
- Severus of Tarentus - Dreadnought
- Torias Telion - Scout Sergeant, unparalleled marksman.
- Zalthus - Company Champion.
- Selatonus - Venerable Dreadnought
- Tyrannic War Veterans
- Ultramarines Honour Guard
- Fulmentarus (Heresy-era)
- Suzerain Invictarus (Heresy-era)
- Locutarus (Heresy-era)
- Evocati (Heresy-era)
|Loyalist||I - Dark Angels · V - White Scars
VI- Space Wolves · VII- Imperial Fists
IX- Blood Angels · X- Iron Hands
XIII- Ultramarines · XVIII- Salamanders
XIX- Raven Guard
|Traitor||III- Emperor's Children · IV- Iron Warriors|
VIII- Night Lords · XII- World Eaters
XIV- Death Guard · XV- Thousand Sons
XVI- Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus · XVII- Word Bearers
XX- Alpha Legion
- 1: Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)[Needs Citation]
- 2: Codex: Space Marines (3rd Edition)
- 3: Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition), p.9
- 4: Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition)
- 5: Codex: Tau (3rd Edition), pp. 58-60
- 6: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)
- 7: Chapter Approved 2001[Needs Citation]
- 8: How to Paint Space Marines
- 9: White Dwarf 288 (US) 288, p. 115
- 10:White Dwarf 264 p.47
- 11: Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One, p. 126
- 12: Index Astartes II: Imperial Fists
- 13: Index Astartes I: Iron Warriors
- 14: Index Astartes IV: Alpha Legion
- 15: Nightbringer (Novel) – The Ultramarines Omnibus by Graham McNeill[Needs Citation]
- 16: Warriors of Ultramar (Novel) – The Ultramarines Omnibus, by Graham McNeill[Needs Citation]
- 17: Courage and Honour (Novel) by Graham McNeill[Needs Citation]
- 17a: Chapter Three
- 18: The Chapter's Due (Novel) by Graham McNeill[Needs Citation]
- 19: Rogue Star (Novel)[Needs Citation]
- 20: Star of Damocles (Novel)[Needs Citation]
- 21: Fall of Damnos (Novel) by Nick Kyme[Needs Citation]
- 22: Battle for the Abyss (Novel) by Ben Counter
- 23: Chapter War (Novel) by Ben Counter
- 24: Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book) by James Swallow, Track 13: The Oath
- 25: Know No Fear (Novel) by Dan Abnett[Needs Citation]
- 25a: Ushkul//Thu, Chapter Two, p. 351
- 26: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (Video Game 2011)
- 27: Battle for Armageddon (Game)
- 28: Interview with Dan Abnett (7m40s)
- 29: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1500002
- 30: Deathwatch: Rites of Battle, p. 55-56
- 31: Consequences (Short Story) by Graham McNeill
- 32: Dead Sky, Black Sun (Novel) – The Ultramarines Omnibus by Graham McNeill Chapter One, pgs. 532-533
- 33: The Killing Ground (Novel) Graham McNeill: Chapter Eighteen, pg. 277
- 34: Battle of the Fang (Novel) by Chris Wraight, Chapter Nineteen, pgs. 419-420
- 35: Eye of Vengeance (Audio Book) by Graham McNeill, Track 4
- 36: Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook
- 37: WD286 pg.66
- 38: Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie
- 39: The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal, pgs. 80-81
- 40: Codex: Chaos Daemons (6th Edition) pg. 21
- 41: Betrayer (Novel)[Needs Citation]
- 42: Dataslate: Space Marines Strike Force Ultra (Background Book)
- 43: The Unremembered Empire[Needs Citation]
- 44: The World Engine (Novel), Chapter 1, pg. 14
- 45: Iron Warrior (Novella) by Graham McNeill, Chapter Two
- 46: Apocalypse Reload, pg. 76
- 47: Dataslate: Reclusiam Command Squad (Background Book) - Notable Reclusiam Command Squad
- 48: Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition) (E-Book Edition), pg. 102
- 49: White Dwarf 71 (2015) - The Demi-Company Virtus Invicta
- 50: The Horus Heresy Book Five
- 51: Pharos (Novel)[Needs Citation]
- 52: Warhammer: Visions 16, pg. 156
- 53: Helion Legion Terminators
- 54: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, pg. 11
- 55: The Aegidan Oath (Short Story)
- 56: Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar (Novel), Chapter 1
- Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook p. 128
- White Dwarf #305 (US), p. 87
- White Dwarf #256, p. 89
- Insignium Astartes
- Index Astartes III
- Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One, pp. 106-115
- Defenders of Ultramar (Graphic Novel) by Graham McNeill
- The First Heretic (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, [Needs Citation], pp. 60-66.
- Savage Scars (Novel)
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Winter Assault
- Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate (PC game)
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By Bridget Agabra, GentleTechHelp.com – Special to Artists Sunday
As an artist, your happy place is most likely in your art space; mixing paint, warming clay or cutting fabric – not staring at a monitor. However, being online is the best way for you to bring your art out to the world, whether you wish to sell it or not.
Using online social media to tell the story of your art – who made it, how it was created, what inspired it – is a way of elevating it into an artistic context and helps people see its unique value.
And unfortunately, in today’s COVID-19 world where events, art fairs and gatherings have been curtailed or discontinued entirely, getting your work online is now vital if you wish to connect with new and existing customers.
There are many ways to create online space for your work. For those who are tech-averse, here is a basic (and free!) way to bring your art to a greater audience.
Get A Dedicated Email Address
First, it can be a good idea to create a new email address. It looks very professional (“Jane.Jones.SeaGlassCreations@email” vs “JaneandSam1975@email”) A personalized email also makes it easier to see and respond to everything coming in without the clutter of your personal emails. Gmail makes it very easy to start a new email – https://accounts.google.com/signup] We will call this your “art name” in the following examples
Note: Software versions change frequently. The links and steps discussed below work as of publication but may change in time.
Setting Up a Dedicated Art Page on Facebook
For all its issues, Facebook is a very widely used platform where you can showcase your work to a broad audience. Because Facebook also owns Instagram, the app which is primarily for mobile devices, sharing information between them is easy. On Facebook, you will be creating a Page for your art presence.
To begin, take some time and think about what this Page will be called. Search online to make sure someone hasn’t already used that name. You don’t have to overthink it, “Jane’s Sea Glass Creations” in our example is fine. If you ultimately move to bigger online selling, it is easy enough to make a new page under a new name.
Think about how you would like people to contact you. You may want to use that new email here and not use your personal phone number.
Prepare a short paragraph describing your art, what makes it special and unique.
Gather some good photos or video clips of your work. You will want one that looks good in a horizontal perspective for the banner, and something small – like a logo or face picture to put in the small, round profile space.
Now, log in to Facebook and start creating the new Page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/creation
Setting Up An Instagram Account
After the Facebook Page is completely, head to your phone or tablet, download the Instagram app and set up an account using your art email and art name. Head back to your Facebook Page, select Settings then Instagram and put in the login information for that new Instagram account.
Instagram is all about photos and video; it is a home for art sharing so worth the time learning how to do it right. When you post a new picture or video, give a brief description of name of the work and add hashtags as a way for people to find your work. Hashtags are a way of adding your picture to a category for people interested in that.
For our example, Jane might post a picture, add the text “Seabreeze Chime, 2020” and then add a number of words preceded by a hashtag symbol that reflect your art. In our example we’ll use #seaart #glassart #beachcreations #weatheredglass #OregonCoast #windchimes #handmade #artover50 #artisangifts.
It may feel silly initially, but this is the way that Instagram users find content that delights them. Look up some types of art that you would enjoy using the small magnifying glass search tool and entering hashtags to see how others have done this.
Add Content Regularly
Add content to regularly, as you start, work, and complete a piece to bring the world in to your studio.
Facebook posts are like a blog, with a picture of your work in progress and a description of what is happening on the creation process. Facebook handles more text than Instagram so if you are feeling wordy, start with Facebook. Invite your friends to like your Page to bring in more interest.
“Before and After” photos can be a striking way to show your artistic choices and help people understand your work process.
Browse Instagram, looking at other artists, and use the heart-shaped “Like” symbol when you find work that genuinely interests you. Often, those artists will visit you in return and it can be fun to develop an art community that stretches the globe!
Please read our Tips For Creating An Excellent Artist Introduction Video to include in on Facebook or Instagram.
Taking the steps to bring your work up on screen, where the world can look (and maybe buy!) brings a whole new perspective to your art journey.
Coming Soon: Simple Online Sales for Artists – Building an Etsy store.
Bridget Agabra is the founder of GentleTechHelp.com, which brings a compassionate approach to solving computer, phone, tablet, and online problems. GentleTechHelp.com provides patient and straightforward assistance with a wide variety of tech issues to help people feel comfortable, knowledgeable, and connected. Special focus on the needs of elders, artists, solopreneurs and the tech – uncomfortable! Contact GentleTechHelp.com for special Artists Sunday packages. | <urn:uuid:118d7e86-c95a-43b5-ab62-825859f7495a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artistssunday.com/2020/08/30/the-simple-guide-start-to-getting-your-art-online-for-free/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.917554 | 1,232 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The darkest galaxies in the universe, made nearly entirely of matter which researchers think can zip right through normal matter with virtually no effect, now might be explained by a new scientific model that sheds light on their strange existence.
The normal matter of which the stars, planets, moons and people consist only makes up roughly a sixth of all matter in the universe. The rest is dark matter, the existence of which is only inferred by the gravitational effects it has on light and normal matter.
Scientists have proposed that some or most dark matter interacts with normal matter very weakly, meaning it can pass right through us and the planet with virtually no effect. There are believed to be as many as 10,000 dark matter particles in any given cubic meter of space in the solar system.
Ethereal galaxies composed almost completely of dark matter are known to orbit the Milky Way and the nearby Andromeda galaxy. These ghostly galaxies, known as dwarf spheroidals, have been stripped of most luminous matter to become dark matter shadows that are almost devoid of gas and possess very few stars.
For instance, while a typical dwarf galaxy might contain several billion stars, and the Milky Way 200 billion to 400 billion stars, "a typical dwarf spheroidal comprises only a million stars," cosmologist Stelios Kazantzidis at Stanford University told SPACE.com. "Recently a number of similar systems with even fewer stars have been discovered in the vicinity of the Milky Way."
Dwarf spheroidals are thought to be ubiquitous throughout the universe. "However, they are so faint that only those in our galactic neighborhood, known as the Local Group of galaxies, have ever been observed," Kazantzidis added.
Dark matter's nature
The origins of galaxies dominated by dark matter have been a mystery to scientists. Now Kazantzidis and his colleagues have developed a scientific model that might explain their creation.
"The most important implication of these findings is the fact that the new understanding of the origin of dwarf spheroidals may soon lead to fundamental insights into the nature of dark matter," Kazantzidis said. "Elucidating the nature of dark matter is one of the grandest challenges of modern-day science."
The new model was tested via months of simulations of galaxy formation on a number of supercomputers around the world. It entails a combination of cosmic ultraviolet rays, an intergalactic version of wind resistance and gravitational tides.
The origin of dwarf spheroidals began roughly 10 billion years ago when the universe was still hot with ultraviolet radiation from primordial galaxies and massive stars, the model suggests.
Dwarf spheroidal progenitors began life as normal galaxies, Kazantzidis said. Cosmic ultraviolet radiation heated their gases, making it easier to get stripped off. As the progenitor galaxies the researchers studied orbited the more massive Milky Way galaxy, they experienced ram pressure, or a sort of "wind resistance," from gas inside the Milky Way, he said. At the same time, the progenitor galaxies encountered the overwhelming gravitational forces from the Milky Way, which wrenched luminous stars away.
Over billions of years of orbits, nearly all the normal matter got stripped away from the progenitor galaxies, leaving behind dark matter that was not affected by either the cosmic ultraviolet radiation or the ram pressure, Kazantzidis said. What tidal shocking the dark matter did experience was not strong enough to pull away a substantial amount of it.
Missing satellites problem
The research suggests many more small dark galaxies may surround massive galaxies like the Milky Way than are currently observed, potentially solving what is called "the missing satellites problem."
"These galaxies could just be too dark to detect," Kazantzidis said.
There are remaining mysteries to solve regarding dark matter galaxies, Kazantzidis added. "The dwarf spheroidal Tucana represents the biggest challenge to my model because it lies far from any massive galaxy," he said. "Proposing a model for illuminating the origin of isolated dwarf spheroidals requires improving both observations and theoretical predictions."
Kazantzidis and his colleagues report their findings in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Nature.
- The Strangest Things in Space
- Understanding Dark Matter and Light Energy
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In many popular biology textbooks, evolutionists point to vestigial structures—organs and other biological structures that have supposedly lost function or no longer function as they once did—as proof of evolution. To be sure, some scientists have downplayed its significance, but the word vestigial has become synonymous with evolutionary “leftovers” in the popular imagination.
But, as with many such “proofs” of evolution, the problem lies with the assumptions. To say that a biological structure has reduced functionality, we have to take several things for granted.
First of all, one would have to know the level of functionality of the organ or structure in the supposed ancestral organism. Second, we would have to know that the structure in question has minimal or no use in its present form. However, of the 180 or so organs that have been called vestigial in humans, all have been shown to have function. Last, and most importantly, for this type of argument to be used, one has to assume evolution to be true in the first place! So, if vestigial organs are obviously left over from our evolutionary heritage, then evolution must be true. Here evolution is assumed to be true in order to make the argument. This is a logical fallacy, called begging the question.
As scientific understanding of the human body has grown, we have discovered the function of many organs that in the past were thought to be useless. The appendix, the pineal gland, the coccyx, and the thymus gland are just a few of the structures previously thought to have no significant function. In fact, declaring that certain structures have become useless may have actually hindered scientists’ search for their function. After all, if an organ is considered to be an evolutionary left over, why bother looking for its function?
Furthermore, the process by which an organ or structure could become vestigial has never been adequately explained. What is the mechanism that leads to loss of function? For example, consider the appendix, which was classified as a useless evolutionary leftover (although its function has been demonstrated in recent years). Evolutionists have postulated that in the past, man had a larger cecum, but as man progressed from a higher-fiber diet to a lower-fiber diet, the larger cecum became less necessary. Thus the appendix is said to have resulted from a loss of cecal size. What is not explained is just how a change in diet would change the DNA—adding, subtracting, or modifying information—in order to bring about this structural change in man.
The entire concept of vestigial organs is based on evolutionary storytelling. There is nothing in operational science to suggest that any of these so-called evolutionary “remnants” are less than fully functional in their present form.
Humans did not evolve. We were created in the image of the Creator God (Genesis 1:27). Our sin brought death to this world, and the creation groans under the effects of sin to this day (Romans 8:20–22). But there is a remedy.
Our Creator, Jesus Christ, took on the attributes of humanity (yet without sin), humbled Himself, and entered this sin-cursed earth (Philippians 2:5–8). He then died on the cross, took the punishment for our sin upon Himself, and rose gloriously from the dead. His was a true rescue mission. (For more, take a look at the best news you’ll ever read.)
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*This post is sponsored by DecoArt.
Pouring paint to create an image feels like letting the wind take your sails, it’s liberating and relieves you of complete control. If you never done a poured paint project I highly suggest giving it a try, the magic will not disappoint. I made this poured paint table top using DecoArt pouring medium and acrylic paints to create an abstract floral design. You can see it all in action in this quick video here:
The pouring medium is a fluid additive specially formulated to enable paint to flow easily across a surface. It thins paint to the ideal consistency, I used acrylics for this project with a 1:1 ratio of pouring medium to acrylic paint. Of course you can add more or less medium to get your desired flow. It will not slow down the drying time, alter the color, or lessen the adhesion of paint. Once the paint is dry seal your project with DecoArt pouring topcoat to create a smooth, high-end finish. It is a one-step formula that eliminates the need to mix harsh chemicals and flows into a self-leveling, crystal clear coat that will not yellow, leaving your artwork with its original vibrance. As you can see below the topcoat dries to a lacquer-like, high-gloss finish.
Both the DecoArt pouring medium and topcoat are ideal for canvases, wood panels, or other flat art surfaces. The gloss on the topcoat is so shiny it makes taking photos very difficult! For this project I built a C table as my kids have been asking for a surface near the family room sectional. Scroll down below for a complete tutorial.
I started with a flat plywood surface with a lip edge:
In hindsight I believe the pouring medium works best when allowed to breathe and dry with an open edge. Although the paint was dry before I added the top coat you can see below a few places in the flowers where the paint separated. I’m positive this is because I designed the table with a lip edge but it’s still pretty and organic and a great way to learn.
When I make this again, because I will be making this table again, I will keep the poured surface separate and install it after painting. I suggest a 1/2″ plywood flat surface with the same 7/8″ flat lattice edge then make the poured paint project on a separate 3/8″ plywood piece. Once the poured paint piece is dry and sealed with top coat then I will set it in place using wood glue and attach by screwing from under the 1/2″ plywood. I will definitely be trying this method and share the results along with the building plans shortly.
- tray or table
- DecoArt Pouring Medium
- DecoArt Clear Pouring Topcoat
- DecoArt Americana acrylic paints
- plastic cups
- plastic spoons
- FrogTape painters tape
Step 1: Select a flat surface for your poured paint project. Any flat surface – a tray, a table – preferably without a lip edge will be best. I built this C table to use with our family room sectional and I will be sharing the free plans shortly after a few modifications.
Step 2: If desired paint the exterior of your piece. I used DecoArt Americana Satin Enamels in soft linen.
You can see this table has a lip edge of about 1/8″ providing a barrier edge. It worked okay for this paint pouring project but when I do it again I will make the poured paint piece separate and inset into the table top after. The poured paint and top coat works best when allowed to dry and breath with an open edge.
Step 4: Slowly pour the paint on to the table surface and spread by tilting and using the spoon to push to edges and corners. I used one – 2 oz. bottle of paint mixed with 2 oz. of pouring medium. Next time I migh consider adding more pouring medium to increase the fluidity of the paint for more flow and smoother coverage.
Step 5: Prepare various paint colors for the flowers using the same 1:1 ratio. Pour small drops to create ‘petals’.
Make as many flowers as you like in various colors.
Step 6: Add stems and greenery in the same fashion pouring with smaller drops and using a skewer to pull the paint. See this process in action in my video tutorial here. Let dry.
Inevitably you will have some leftover paint, save it and make small canvas pours or check out these fun project ideas here.
Step 7: Once the paint is dry you’ll want to seal the project with DecoArt clear pouring Topcoat. Before pouring the top coat apply painters tape to the edges – this protects the paint from topcoat. The key here is multiple thin layers. Pour one layer then angle the table at 45 degrees to dry (place newspapers or a tray under one side to catch drips) then pour another layer any angle the table again the opposite 45 degrees.
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Review of Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory
|EDITOR: Pienemann, Manfred
TITLE: Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory
SERIES: Studies in Bilingualism 30
PUBLISHER: John Benjamins
Robert Felty, Departments of Linguistics and German, University of Michigan
This book is in essence a continuation and expansion of Processability
Theory (PT) as proposed by Pienemann (1998). In that book he laid out a
theory of language acquisition based on psycholinguistic principles, and
applied it to data from several languages (English, German, Japanese, and
Swedish). In this edited volume, Pienemann and five other scholars further
apply PT to several more typologically diverse languages (Arabic, Chinese,
Japanese), which results in an extension of the theory.
The book is divided into eight chapters. The first chapter provides a
summary of Pienneman's (1998) original proposal of PT. Chapters two
through six contain applications of PT to various languages. In chapter
seven, Pienemann proposes an extension to PT based on the preceding
evidence. Further empirical evidence is discussed in chapter eight, using
the extended theory of PT.
In the first chapter, Pienemann outlines the basic tenets of PT and several
tests of its applicability to real language data. PT is heavily based on
two other theories: Lexical Functional Grammar and the model of language
production proposed by Levelt (1989). His theory differs in three key
aspects from many other theories of language acquisition: (1) processing is
both incremental and parallel, (2) language acquisition is constrained by
human psychological constraints, and (3) first language (L1) and second
language (L2) acquisition occur by the same procedures. The first aspect
is drawn largely from Levelt (1989), and is used as a way to explain the
so-called ''logical problem'', i.e. how do children acquire language so
quickly with such limited input. If language processing is not equivalent
to one CPU trying to parse an entire sentence, but rather has several
different processors working in parallel, this greatly increases the
efficiency of learning language. The second aspect is a response to the
prevalent views of learnability theory, which also address the logical
problem of language acquisition, but merely from a computational
perspective. The third aspect is in direct contrast with a very prevalent
view in second language acquisition (SLA) which state that L1 acquisition
is achieved by access to universal grammar (UG), whereas access to UG is
either limited or non-existent during L2 acquisition, and thus other
strategies must be used.
After laying out the basic aspects of the theory, Pienemann briefly applies
the theory to data from previous studies on SLA, including several on
English and German. He then goes on to compare L1 and L2 acquisition of
German word order, and shows that the different developmental paths can
both be accounted for by PT, by means of the notion of ''generative
entrenchment'', a notion he adopts from biology. The underlying principle
of generative entrenchment is that development occurs in small steps, and
that earlier choices constrain later choices. In this manner, an incorrect
choice early on forces the path of L2 development down a very different
route than L1 development, though they both (potentially) end up at the
The second chapter consists of a brief history of the development of PT
prior to the 1998 proposal, as well as several developments thereafter.
Pienemann and colleagues have proposed several different theories and
models aimed at describing and explaining SLA beginning in the early 1980s.
The first of these was the Multidimensional Model (Meisel, Clahsen, &
Pienemann 1981), which was primarily a descriptive framework for dynamic
processes in L2 development. The second theory discussed here is the
Strategies Approach (Clahsen 1984), which proposes an explanation for
German L2 word order development. Pienemann explains that PT incorporates
most of the successes of these theories, as well as aspects of the
Teachability Hypothesis (Pienemann 1984, 1989) and the Predictive Framework
(Pienemann & Johnston 1987), while addressing the shortcomings of these
The third chapter marks the beginning of the meat of the book -- new
studies on SLA from a PT perspective. In 'Processability, typological
distance, and L1 transfer', Pienemann, Biase, Kawaguchi and Håkansson
compare the predictions of various SLA theories with regards to L1
transfer. Many theories of SLA take the final state of the L1 grammar as
the starting point for L2 acquisition, and therefore predict that any
relevant aspects of the L1 should be transferred to the L2. PT takes a
very different approach however, namely that the starting point for L2
acquisition is virtually a blank slate, and that any components of the L1
that could be transferred will only do so at the appropriate stage in the
acquisition hierarchy. The authors cite some fairly convincing evidence in
support of this view. The data from bilinguals and learners paired by
language (e.g. L1 Finnish, L2 Swedish and vice versa) are particularly
compelling. These data clearly show that even when the learners L1 and L2
share a feature (e.g. Subject Verb inversion after initial adverbs in
German and Swedish), the learners might show a different pattern, depending
on their level of acquisition, as based on PT's acquisition hierarchy.
Moreover, it is also shown that the degree of L1 transfer is not
bi-directional in these cases.
The first language specific paper is provided in chapter four by Fethi
Mansouri entitled 'Agreement morphology in Arabic as a second language'.
The primary contribution from this chapter is the addition of evidence in
support of PT from a language typologically very different from previous
examples. The first part of this chapter is devoted to describing aspects
of Arabic morphology and syntax in an LFG framework, and using this to
develop a proposed acquisition hierarchy. This hierarchy is then supported
by evidence from Mansouri's (2000) year-long longitudinal study of two
Australians acquiring Arabic in a classroom setting.
Similar to chapter 4, chapter 5, 'Processing and formal instruction in the
L2 acquisition of five Chinese grammatical morphemes', by Yanyin Zhang is
divided into two parts: an LFG account of the morphemes in question, and an
SLA study of three Australians learning Chinese in a classroom setting. In
the first part an LFG analysis of Chinese morphology is proposed, and an
acquisition hierarchy is constructed. The empirical evidence support a PT
account of Chinese L2 acquisition, adding to the universal claim of PT.
Zhang also analyses the impact of formal instruction on acquisition. For
each grammatical structure analyzed, emergence was found only after the
structure had been presented in class, though some learners acquired it
much sooner than others. Formal instruction did not have an impact on the
order of the acquisition hierarchy however -- that is, formal instruction
can aid in speeding up the process of acquisition, but all the stages of
the hierarchy must be followed in order.
One of the strengths of PT is displayed in chapter 6, 'Similarities and
differences in L1 and L2 development'. In this paper, Håkansson first
compares previous findings of L1, L2 and SLI (Specific Language Impaired)
learners. She then presents her own findings from a longitudinal study with
Swedish learners, with five learners from each group. As mentioned
earlier, PT can be applied both to L1 and L2 acquisition, and in this paper
the advantage of this capability is born out. Håkansson is able to use the
same acquisition hierarchy to discuss all three groups of learners, and
finds three different patterns of acquisition, though the SLI learners seem
to pattern more closely to L2 learners than L1. She uses this finding to
suggest that perhaps acquisition should not be viewed as simply a dichotomy
between L1 and L2, but rather a continuum.
In chapter seven, 'Extending Processability Theory', Pienemann, Di Biase
and Kawaguchi incorporate new aspects of LFG into PT in order to better
explain a wider range of data. Two components are added to PT in this
chapter: (1) The Lexical Mapping Hypothesis, and (2) The Topic Hypothesis.
The former is a relatively new feature of LFG (Bresnan 2001), which
explains mappings from constituent structure (NP, VP, PP, etc.) to
functional structure (FOCUS, SUBJ, OBJ, etc.). The authors hypothesize
that there is a canonical mapping, in which the order of the c-structure
directly follows the f-structure, and that operations such as subject-verb
inversion and question formation deviate from this canonical mapping, and
are therefore difficult for L2 learners to process. The topic hypothesis
claims that L2 learners will not initially differentiate between SUBJ and
TOPIC, which will cause a different pattern of acquisition than L1
learners. Like many of the other chapters of the book, the first part
focuses on formalisms in LFG, and the second part focuses on its
application to SLA. Though this chapter was fairly dense with theory,
numerous examples aided in comprehension.
The extensions proposed in chapter seven are utilized by Kawaguchi in the
eighth chapter, 'Argument structure and syntactic development', in which
the L2 acquisition of Japanese syntax is investigated. Before laying out
an LFG account of Japanese syntax, Kawaguchi briefly reviews previous
investigations of Japanese acquisition. After an acquisition hierarchy is
constructed, empirical data from two longitudinal studies conducted by the
author, one two-year and one with three-year study, with one learner each.
In both studies, the proposed acquisition hierarchy is supported. The
contribution of this chapter lies in the use of the newly incorporated
aspects of PT, without which the analysis would not have possible.
Both in the present volume and in the 1998 book, Pienemann makes some bold
claims as to the nature of language acquisition, and backs these claims up
with substantial data. The data is the main focus of this volume, which
provides much further evidence in support of PT. More importantly though,
some of the data also show limitations of the theory as originally
proposed. Pienemann, Biase, and Kawaguchi are to be commended for proposing
an extension to the theory, rather than simply throwing it out in favor of
a different theory. A remaining question is whether PT can also account for
acquisition of phonology and phonetics, and if not, whether an additional
extension to the theory is possible. Phonetics might be particularly
difficult, as phonetic data is inherently continuous, whereas PT is very
discrete in nature.
At times Pienemann comes across as somewhat defensive, especially in the
second chapter, in which he dedicates 6 pages to rebuffing criticism of PT
posed by Jordan (2004). While he goes into a fair amount of detail about
the criticisms, it seems slightly out of place here. Surely to the reader
encountering PT for the first time, this discussion is confusing at best,
since it cannot fully be understood without having first read both
Pienemann (1998) and Jordan (2004). In particular, the notion of the
'emergence criterion' is discussed in length, but once again, for a
definition thereof, the reader is simply referred back to the 1998 volume.
Since this is a key point in understanding PT, it would have been
extremely helpful to provide a definition of the concept in the present work.
One significant drawback for PT is that it relies on a very specific type
of data -- production data in a natural setting from a modest number of
second language learners. In order to be able to construct a hierarchy of
stages of acquisition, a large amount of data must be collected. Then
evidence for or against the acquisition of particular structures must be
found at each stage in the hierarchy in order to confirm or falsify the
predictions of PT. Some might argue that this is the only research method
that is truly valid, but unfortunately the limits of time and money in the
real world often prevent researchers from undertaking such large projects.
The other possible drawback with using longitudinal data is that frequently
the number of participants is very small (including several studies in this
volume), and thus the generalizability of the study is questionable.
Moreover, others might argue that this approach ignores data from other
tasks such as speech perception and grammaticality judgments, which can
also provide information valuable information about stages of acquisition.
Overall the editorial quality of the book is quite high. Besides the
occasional typographical error, there were only two major errors to be
found: (1) Two tables on page 148 that are intended to show differences in
the acquisition of two learners are in fact the same table, which yields
the claims of difference unverifiable (2) the last chapter contains a
number of grammatical errors which should have been corrected by the editor.
In spite of the few shortcomings mentioned above, 'Cross-Linguistics
Aspects of Processability Theory' should prove a valuable read for anyone
interested in language acquisition, particularly SLA, and most specifically
with the acquisition of morphology and syntax. Pienemann and colleagues
have presented very thought-provoking ideas for linguists and psychologists
interested in language acquisition to ponder.
Bresnan, Joan. 2001. Lexical-Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell.
Clahsen, Harald. 1984. The acquisition of German word order: A test case
for cognitive approaches to l2 development. In R. Anderson (Ed.), Second
languages, p. 219-242. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
Jordan, Geoff. 2004. Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Levelt, W.J.M. 1989. Speaking. From intention to articulation. Cambridge,
MA: The IT Press.
Mansouri, Fethi. 2000. Grammatical Markedness and information Processing in
the Acquisition of Arabic as a Second Language. München: Lincom Europa.
Meisel, J.M., Harald Clahsen and Manfred Pienemann. 1981. On determining
developmental stages in natural second languages acquisition. Studies in
Second Language Acquisition, 3, 109-135.
Pienemann, Manfred. 1984. Psychological constraints on the teachability of
languages. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 6 (2), 186-214.
Pienemann, Manfred and Malcolm Johnston. 1987. Factors influencing the
development of language proficiency. In D. Nunan (Ed.), Applying Second
Language Acquisition, 21, 383-420.
Pienemann, Manfred. 1998. Language Processing and Second Language
Development: Processability theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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The term English units strictly refers to the system used in England until 1826, when it was replaced by (more rigorously defined) Imperial units. The United States continued to use the older definitions until the Mendenhall Order of 1893, which established the United States customary units. Nevertheless, the term "English units" persisted in common speech and was adapted as "English engineering units" but these are based on US customary units rather than the pre-1826 English system.
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Par. There is none; man, sitting down before you, will undermine you, and blow you up.
Hel. Bless our poor virginity from underminers and blowers up!- Is there no military policy, how virgins might blow up men ?
Par. Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be blown up; marry, in blowing him down again, with the breach yourselves made, you lose your eity. It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase; and there was never virgin got, till virginity was first lost. That you were made of, is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with it.
Hel. I will stand for’t a little, though therefore I die a virgin.
Par. There's little can be said in't; 't is against the rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin : virginity murders itself; and should be buried in highways, out of all sanctified limit
, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not: you cannot choose but lose by't. Out with't: within ten years it will make itself two, which is a goodly increase, and the principal itself not much the worse. Away with't.
Hel. How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?
Par. Let me see. Marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it likes. "Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with lying; the longer kept, the less worth. Off with't, while 'tis vendible: answer the time of request. Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion; richly suited, but unsuitable; just like the brooch and toothpick, which wear not now. Your date is better in your pie and your porridge, than in your cheek; and your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears; it looks ill; it eats dryly; marry;
'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet, 'tis a withered pear. Will you any thing with it?
Hel. Not my virginity yet. -
A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;
Par. What one, i'faith?
Hel. That wishing well had not a body in't,
Enter a Page.
[Exit Page. Par. Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I will think of thee at court.
Hel. Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.
Par. Under Mars, I. Hel. I especially think, under Mars. Par. Why under Mars? - Hel. The wars have so kept you under, that you must needs be born under Mars.
Par. When he was predominant.
Hel. So is running away, when fear proposes the safety; but the composition, that your valor and fear makes in you, is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.
Par. I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's counsel, and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee: so farewell.
[Exit. Hel. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven. The fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. What power is it which mounts my love so high; That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? The mightiest space in fortune nature brings To join like likes, and kiss like native things. Impossible be strange attempts, to those That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose, What hath been cannot be. Who ever strove To show her merit, that did miss her love? The king's disease - my project may deceive me, But my intents are fixed, and will not leave me. [Erit.
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rish of Cornets. Enter the King of France, with letters ; Lords and others
1 Lord. So 'tis reported, sir.
His love and wisdom,
He hath armed our answer,
It may well serve
What's he comes here?
King. Youth, thou bear’st thy father's face;
Ber. My thanks and duty are your majesty's.
King. I would I had that corporal soundness now,
His good remembrance, sir,
King. Would I were with him! He would always say,
I, after bim, do after him wish too,
You are loved, sir;
King. I fill a place, I know't. — How long is't, count, Since the physician at your father's died ? He was much famed. Ber.
Some six months since, my lord. King. If he were living, I would try him yet. Lend me an arm;— the rest have worn me out With several applications :- nature and sickness Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count; My son's no dearer. Ber.
Thank your majesty.
SCENE III. Rousillon. A Room in the Countess's
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Stew. Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavors; for then we wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
Count. What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah. The complaints I have heard of you, I do not all believe; 'tis my slowness, that I do not; for, I know, you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability enough to make such knaveries yours.
Clo. 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow. Count. Well, sir.
Clo. No, madam, 'tis not so well, that I am poor; though many of the rich are damned; but, if I may have your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isabel the woman and I will do as we may.
Count. Wilt thou needs be a beggar?
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You're going to need 2-3 skeins of contrasting colored yarn.
Start by putting your hook through the corner hole where you initially started or ended the blanket. You should have a 3" or 4" tail from starting the blanket. Just lay the tail to the side, we're going to stitch over the top of it and it will lay inside the border.
Then, start a slip knot loop with your border color and put it on your hook.
Pull (or slip stitch) the knot inside the hole...
Try to keep the "tail" of the blanket down over the top of the chain and just stitch through the chain like you normally would. This incorporates the tail without having to get a needle.
(dc) approximately 12 times in that same corner hole.
The way you make the stitching ruffle is by putting a bunch of stitches in the same opening, making a natural ruffle.
Now you're going to dc in the holes which are actually the ends of the rows in the blanket. You're going to stitch about 6 dc's in every row of your blanket. You can see in the picture here that I'm stitching inside the edges of where my blanket rows began.
You can increase or decrease the amount of ruffle by increasing or decreasing your stitches. Just remember to put double the stitches in the corner pockets. If you're doing six stitches in every spot, then do 12 stitches in the corners.
I've seen some little boy blankets done this way with no ruffle at all - just don't put very many stitches into one spot.
Go all the way around the blanket just like this.
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Joseph Mason Deem was born in Delhi, Ohio, on November 9, 1888. He entered the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on appointment from the Tenth District of Tennessee in 1905. Graduated on June 4, 1909, he served the two years at sea, as then required by law, before he was commissioned Ensign, June 5, 1911. Advancing progressively in rank, he subsequently attained that of Commander, to date from June 6, 1929. On June 30, 1937, he was transferred to the Retired List of the US Navy.
Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1909, he remained there until October of that year, then joined USS Louisiana. In April 1910 he transferred to USS New York and between August and December 1910 had consecutive duty in USS Rainbow and USS Albany. After instruction in submarines in USS Shark, he reported in August 1911 on board USS Wheeling. At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after the completion of the target practice, he was detached from the Wheeling and in March 1913 was assigned to further training in submarine in USS Castine. From October 1913 to the summer of 1914 he served in USS G-One, with additional duty in USS G-Four. He was relieved of the additional duty in July 1914, at which time he assumed command of the G-One.
Ordered to St. Louis, Missouri, he had temporary duty in connection with the engines of USS L-Five, from February to July 1916, after which he had fitting out duty in that submarine at the Lake Torpedo Boat Company. He assumed command of the L-Five upon her commissioning, February 15, 1918, and in April of that year was assigned duty in connection with fitting out USS S-Thirty at the Union Iron Works. He was detached from the S-Thirty before she was commissioned and in March 1920 became Commanding Officer of USS Hart, operating with the Asiatic Fleet. While in command of the Hart he had temporary duty during November 1920 as Commander South China Patrol. Transferred in December 1921 to command of USS Hovey, he next served, September-November 1922, as Commanding Officer of USS Buffalo.
He had training in lighter-than-aircraft at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, and in the airship Shenandoah, (formerly ZR-One) based at Lakehurst, from her commissioning in October 1923. In May 1925 he was detached from the Lakehurst Air Station, when disqualified physically for aviation duty. He commanded USS Sharkey until June 1928, when he reported for instruction (junior course) at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. From June 1931 to May 1932 he was assigned to the Executive Department at the Naval Academy. Duty from June 1931 to May 1932 as Navigator of USS Lexington was followed by further sea service in USS Bushnell.
Returning to the Naval War College in June 1933 he was a student (senior course) until May 1934, then remained for duty on the staff until May 1936. He next served with Destroyers, Scouting Force and in January 1937 became Commander Destroyer Division SIXTY-TWO. In February 1937 he assumed command of the USS Medusa and early in June of that year was relieved of all active duty pending he retirement, effective June 30, 1937.
Commander Deem died at the Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, on September 22, 1940.
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Heywire winner Annabelle Coppin: Passion for Pilbara beef
By Alyssa Allen
Annabelle Coppin is passionate about supplying quality beef to the world from the rangelands of Western Australia.
The 2003 Heywire winner works in partnership with her parents and brother producing beef on their 430 000 hectare cattle farm in the Pilbara.
"My job is versatile and full of fun things, I can be working in the office making long-term strategic plans for the property then right down to day to day operations such as shoeing horses, mustering and flying helicopters."
Coppin saw the Heywire competition as a platform to share her passion for Pilbara beef and it's potential for not only in Australia but also around the globe.
"The biggest thing about Heywire is it really opened my mind up to all the opportunities that you can get.
Afterwards I tapped into massive amounts of opportunities such as courses run by the federal government, scholarships and my knowledge on rural leadership."
Coppin received the 2008 Nuffield Australia Farming Scholarship, which aims to develop and promote excellence in all aspects of Australian agricultural production by sending winning participants overseas to study global agriculture.
"It was an amazing opportunity; I travelled for six weeks with other passionate Australian farmers and studied global agriculture.
We weren't only going to farms, we were also studying and observing agriculture systems across different countries and how we can relate it back to our country to make our agriculture systems stronger."
Coppin continued travelling after the scholarship through South East Asia and the Middle East to study the live export trade beyond Australia's front gate.
"I learnt a massive amount of where animals go after they leave my property, which then lead me to a further two years work in the Middle East in the live export trade improving trade relations and working in animal welfare practises."
Coppin describes her experience in the Gulf countries as a life-building event that made her appreciate the agriculture opportunities Australia has to offer.
"The knowledge that I learnt about those countries and why they want a live animal and what happens to those animals, is knowledge that you can't get unless you go overseas and spend time with these people."
Coppin believes that Australia has the potential for great things in the agriculture industry despite recent political debates.
"After my tours around the world and looking at all different types of agriculture systems, I think that Australia has the biggest and brightest future.
We've got the biggest, cleanest landscape that we can produce our food on and there are a lot of people out there that want food.
We have a political system would you believe and economical system that allows us to go ahead and strive, at times you wouldn't think that, but really compared to the rest of the world, Australia is the place to be in agriculture."
Coppin says it is now the time for Australia to improve their agriculture systems in order to be the global front-runner.
"I think we need to take it to the next level to fill the massive demand and a country like us that can offer a clean, green product because the rest of the world, they don't have the land mass to provide that.
It is time to step up so that in 20 years time or even 10 the world will be crying out for our food product once again I'm sure."
With so much passion for producing quality Australian beef, Coppin is certainly the person to lead the way.
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Women seem to be wired for fatigue. Being the primary care-giver, working at home and outside of the home, and being instinctively set-up for people-pleasing, the demands of a work week and family can leave a woman exhausted. It's little wonder that women are constantly trying to find a place to run away to - just to get some sleep.
What Makes Fatigue So Bad During Menopause?
For women who are in any stage of menopause, fatigue seems to be one of the most frequent complaints. Primarily, it seems the fatigue comes along with hormonal changes in the body that occur during menopause and the fatigue is exacerbated by lifestyle, diet, and stress. It starts out as a simple equation - the demands on the body are greater than the support it is getting. At first, a good night's sleep is enough to remedy the problem. A little exercise thrown in boosts energy and you're feeling better. However, it becomes chronic when you wake from a good night's sleep as tired as or more tired than when you went to bed.
What Are Some of the Symptoms of Fatigue?
Symptoms build slowly over time and manifest in a number of different ways. Before menopause, they will come and go with the monthly menstrual cycle. During perimenopause and menopause, when cycles are erratic, fatigue can be a real issue. The symptoms of fatigue should be acknowledged and taken seriously - they include:
· Feelings of mental and/or physical exhaustion
· Being tired in the morning, even if the night's sleep was great
· Feelings of being overwhelmed or rundown
· Unable to bounce back after illness or a stress headache
· Joint pain
· Muscle soreness
· Having a case of the "blahs" or a depressed mood
· Confusion, irritability, poor short-term memory
· Lightheadedness or feeling spacey
· Strong craving for sweets or carbs
· Caffeine, sugar or alcohol dependence - especially in the afternoon or early evening
· A second-wind that comes in the evening
A woman in menopause will tell you that she's experienced most, if not all of these symptoms - and she may tell you she's been that way for years and years. And, maybe she has. What the problem may be is chronic fatigue that has just gotten worse with menopause.
How Do Hormones Figure In?
In menopause, the ovaries lose center stage as their function diminishes. Adequate levels of DHEA are important to keeping estrogen levels stable. Hormones are responsible for controlling energy at the cellular level, so when estrogen and progesterone levels fluctuate a lot and when they decrease, feelings of fatigue and decreased energy accompany. On top of this, hormones play a big part in the sleep cycle - so getting a good night's rest can be a real challenge. Hormones can cause insomnia and keep a woman up through the night with hot flashes and night sweats.
The adrenals and thyroid are also complicit in this mix of hormones that affect energy. It's important to have thyroid and adrenal functions checked during menopause. A tweaking of their function may be just what is needed to bring energy levels back up.
What Can You Do?
There are a few things that can be done to address fatigue during menopause.
· Sleep. That sounds like a no-brainer, but for the menopausal woman it can be the challenge of a lifetime. Yet, a good night's sleep in a dark room can regulate hormonal output, even when it's as erratic as it can be during menopause. If sleep is elusive, there are herbal aids a woman can use to help with sleep. Remember that TV, ambient light in the bedroom, personal computers, uncomfortable beds and a rip-snortin' snorer can be sleep robbers as well.
· Emotions and Stress. Fatigue can often have an emotional component - whether it is stress from the daily life you're living, or stress and emotional angst from days gone by. It is important to discover the source of the stress and then do whatever you can to nullify its negative effects. Finding effective ways of dealing with subconscious energy loss resulting from feeding old thoughts can be the ticket to ending fatigue.
· Dietary Habits. We all know eating well is first on the list of proper care and feeding of a menopausal woman (or anyone else). Stress and fatigue can cause a mild-mannered woman to storm the fridge and cupboards, binge eating and carb stuffing. That's because the body is running on the stress hormone, cortisol. Discipline in eating well-balanced meals, beginning with breakfast, and not taking on starvation diets to lose weight will help with the fatigue issue.
· Hydration. Most women don't drink enough water. Coffee, tea, soda, alcohol - while liquid, do not qualify as hydrators. Dehydration can cause fatigue. Drink water - period.
· Nutritional Supplement. Sometimes eating enough of the right foods to ensure proper dietary balance is tough. Stress causes the body to respond to foods inappropriately sometimes, and when stress gets high in menopause, the body sloughs off nutrients. Taking a good supplement will help ensure that the body is getting enough to maintain some sort of balance while you walk the tightrope of menopause. | <urn:uuid:233985e0-fb5b-4b27-98ea-148bccd01fc6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.womens-health.co.uk/fatigue-during-menopause.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00329-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940669 | 1,114 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Your Questions About Can Swallowing Make You Sick
Can you get sick from swimming in very warm chlorinated water?
My sister sometimes gets Diahrrea, Nauseous, and gets Very Cold? It may be from very warm Chlorinated water. This happens overnight. It happened one other time when she was in a hot tub. We went swimming in a friends pool at a get-together yesterday. And she said she didn’t swallow any water. And my sister woke me up at 7am this morning. Does anybody have any idea on what it could be?
It has nothing to do with chlorine, more than likely other people who were in the pool with her are also suffering the same virus she now. In the US they do not have the same very strict health and safety rules in public spas and swimming pools as they do in most every country in the world. People in the US wear Tee Shirts and cotton shorts, underwear and clothes into public pools. When you go swimming you don’t know if the all clothes swimmers in the pool are wearing are clean or where they have been prior what was spat , spilled, wiped or if there clothes were used to clean and dry something that could cause an allergy to many other persons. Or if they are wearing clean underwear and when the last time the clothes they worn into the pool were washed. People in the pool can get hepatitis A from a person wearing dirty underwear or get a contagious skin rash that may be hidden under a tee shirt or many gastric viruses . If a person has Diarrhoea they should not swim in a pool for over two weeks as it will pass onto every one swimming in the pool. Your sister should be taken A.S.A.P to the doctor for treatment and have a blood test. She could be infected with hepatitis and pass it on to you and anyone she is in contact with. I wouldn’t be surprised if others who were at the pool aren’t seeing or being medically treated now.
Can my son get sick from eating his own booger?
He is three years old and I’ve seen him eat it a few times. I tried stopping it, but he swallowed it already.
I got sick just from reading the question!
Can I get any diseases from swallowing water from a water ride?
Today I went to an amusement park and rode on one of the water rides. The water didn’t look very clean. Almost green, a little dark. Well, a lot of it splashed on my face and some of it might have went in my mouth and I could have swallowed some. I’m really worried. What’s the worst that can happen?
Well maybe something like diarrhea or cholera but if u try to take some medicine soOner you wont be sick at all
also those diseases above wont kill you if u go to dr soOn!!!!;)
Can a woman get sick from swallowing a mans semen?
Can a female get sick from swallowing a males semen?
Any exchange of body fluids puts a person at risk for sexually transmitted diseases. Oral sex has lower risk than vaginal or anal sex but it is not totally free of risk.
Apart from those risks there is nothing in sperm that causes sickness. The taste is bitter in some men more than others and the warm, egg white texture might be nauseating to some women others I have known tell me that swallowing is their favorite sex act.
How do you feel about being sick?
When you‘re sick how do you feel? Tell me in as much detail as possible.
I feel like curling up in a ball and dying. Well, as least that’s how I currently feel with a temperature of 104.6. All I could keep in my stomach today was one piece of bread. My throat is so sore that I can barely swallow my own spit, I can hear my heartbeat in my ears, my back and neck is stiff and sore, my nose is completely stuffed and raw from wiping it, when I talk I sound like a drowning boy who ate a cat, my eyes feel like they’re on fire, I get random muscle pain, I have no one here to take me to a doctor/hospital, don’t have the strength to walk very far, I can’t stop coughing, and I started off my day by waking up at 3AM with a fever of 103.8 and haven’t slept a wink since.
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Episode 7 av Meet the Expert er akkurat lansert
Gå til Anchor.fm/pig-production, hør på virologen Kristian Havn som forteller om PRRS: Denmark runs large-scale area control project.
Episode 7 (sesong 2):
“Sow farms that were virus positive when we started the programme are doing a lot better now...also, we have less airway disease in the growers and finisher pigs regarding problems that are secondary to PRRS”
Hear from Danish swine veterinarian Dr. Kristian Havn how 40 farms in an area of western Denmark have been taking part in an area PRRS control programme over the past two years. Dr. Havn devised the programme after attending a training course where details were presented of area-level eradication of PRRS virus on a smaller scale in Iowa. One lesson had been the value of encouraging the area’s swine farm operators to work together as a team. The farms in Denmark occupied a pig-dense part of the country with a history of PRRS problems and they varied in size up to 1,450 sows. To update everyone on progress, large maps were created on which colour coding showed when a farm was finally cleared of the virus.
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Let's talk about Muscle Composition & Genetics
Sprinters and endurance athletes differ in the composition and the capabilities of their muscles. These differences may be influenced by training decisions and genetic factors.
How it works
Our muscles are made of two main types of fibers: slow-twitch and fast-twitch. We move our bodies by contracting and releasing our muscles, and fiber types play a role how a muscle contracts. While slow-twitch fibers contract slowly, they tire less easily. Fast twitch fibers contract quickly, offering short bursts of powerful energy but tire quickly in comparison to slow-twitch muscles.
Training for a marathon? Your slow-twitch fibers help you go the distance. Always bringing your ‘A game’ to sports like sprinting, throwing, and jumping? Your fast-twitch fibers help you bring maximum power right out of the gate.
The genetic link
While training and physical fitness influence athletic performance, scientific evidence suggests that genetics also influence prowess. Studies have found that most elite power athletes have a specific genetic variant in a gene related to muscle composition called the ACTN3 gene. This variant causes muscle cells to produce alpha-actinin-3, a protein found in fast-twitch muscle fibers.
Did you know?
Almost all elite power athletes who have participated in genetic studies produce the alpha-actinin-3 protein. However, you don’t need this protein to be physically fit. This genetic variant only explains about 2-3% of the difference in muscle performance between different people, and for most athletes that margin is too small to even notice. So, if you don’t have this genetic variant, don’t sweat it.
Itching and twitching to learn about your muscle fibers? 23andMe’s Health + Ancestry Service can tell you more. Pick up a kit to see what your genes have to say about your muscle composition.
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Man Takes On The Heroic Task Of Rescuing A Kangaroo From A Cattle Grid
If you’ve ever walked past a cattle grid in the country, you’ve probably figured out that it’s easy to get your feet stuck in one if you make the wrong move.
Unfortunately for this kangaroo, it’s not only got stuck in one, but it went in head first. Luckily, an unnamed man came along to valiantly rescue this poor little roo from its predicament.
It was all captured in a video uploaded by YouTube user. 17, and the description states that it all went down near the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
A little pushing and pulling resulted in the kangaroo’s freedom. The little fella hopped off into the distance without so much as a nod to the rescuer. Sometimes being a hero is a thankless job.
With one final pull, the man manages to wrangle the kangaroo’s head out from between the bars.
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Sometimes a surprise comes along. This was the case with finding this Virgin Islands Families Searchable Database. I realize that the Virgin Islands can't seem too valuable to genealogists generally, but there are a lot of people in the United States that can trace their origins to the Islands.
This searchable site is a work in progress created by renowned historian/archivist and professor emeritus at the University of Delaware. The site has a comprehensive collection of the history of those individuals and their families, who lived in the Virgin Islands. A document follows the patrilineal (father's) line of the family..... carrying the surname (family name).
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By Michael Barone
But out in the states, politicians of both parties aren’t averting their gaze from impending fiscal crises. They are working to change policies that put state governments on an unsustainable trajectory.
The most obvious example was the passage of a right-to-work law last week in Michigan, the birthplace of the United Auto Workers union.
This was retaliation for a failed power grab by both the UAW and public-sector unions — Proposition 2, which would have enshrined collective bargaining in the state constitution.
Michigan voters defeated Prop 2 last month by a 58 to 42 percent margin. It won in the two counties that include the effectively bankrupt cities of Detroit and Flint. It lost in the other 81 counties.
Right-to-work means that no one can be forced to join a union. The law also stops the automatic deduction of union dues from public employees’ paychecks — which is to say, taxpayer funding of the public employee unions that have driven costs and pensions on an unsustainable path.
Gov. Rick Snyder was initially reluctant to push right-to-work. But he saw that neighboring Indiana was attracting new jobs after it passed right-to-work last winter while Michigan was losing jobs.
Michigan’s law is similar to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s law limiting public employee unions’ bargaining powers and stopping the automatic flow of taxpayer money to union treasuries. Unions there protested, but Walker prevailed in a June 2012 recall election.
The Michigan and Wisconsin laws were partisan Republican measures, opposed by all local Democrats. Republicans have leverage elsewhere as well.
They hold the governorships and legislative majorities in 24 states with 52 percent of the nation’s population (25 states with 53 percent if you count Nebraska with its nonpartisan single-chamber legislature). They also hold governorships but not legislative majorities in five more states with 6 percent of the nation’s population.
In contrast, only 13 states with 30 percent of the nation’s people have Democratic governors and legislatures. But even where Democrats are dominant, there are stirrings of reform.
Consider Rhode Island, where Democratic state Treasurer Gina Raimondo has worked to limit the state’s unsustainable pension obligations. The state pension fund is currently paying out more to retirees than it’s taking in from current employees, and instead of getting an 8.25 percent return on investments, it has been getting 2.5 percent.
Rhode Island has hired Democrat superlawyer David Boies to bring a lawsuit to reduce the state’s pension obligations. “There’s no contract,” Boies said. “Even if there was a contract, the state, pursuing the public interest, has the right to modify contracts.”
Or consider New Jersey, where Republican Gov. Chris Christie has famously opposed the public employee unions. He has formed a coalition with Democratic legislators with roots in private-sector unions.
Those Democrats, like Christie, argue that public employees should not get far more generous benefits and pensions than the taxpayers who are paying for them.
Another example is the state of Washington, where last week two Democrats joined with Republicans to
form a new governing coalition in the state Senate. That wouldn’t have happened four years ago, when Democrats had a 31-18 edge.
But in the Obama years, that margin was whittled down to 26-23, and with two defections, the new coalition is ahead 25-24. It installed a supporter of charter schools and critic of teachers unions as education chairman and a skeptic on Obamacare as health care chairman.
If you look back on the great conservative public policy successes of the 1990s, welfare reform and crime control, the initiative came from the states and localities, mostly from Republican governors and mayors, but from many Democrats as well.
Something similar seems to be happening on pensions and union contracts. A few large states, notably California and Illinois, are trying to solve their problems by raising taxes. The result seems to be unemployment above the national average.
But in many states, reform is taking hold, led by Republicans in some cases, but by Democrats as well. The fiscal squeeze is felt more urgently in the states: They can’t print money and can’t count on Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve to buy 70 percent of their bonds.
Some Democrats in Congress recognize that entitlement programs are on an unsustainable path. But they’re not saying much in public.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama seems to be heeding the advice of those who say entitlements must never, never be reformed.
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The Simpler Path to VDI Success: Persistent Virtual Desktops That Are Cheaper and Faster than Physical PCs
Atlantis Computing and Teradici are giving a joint webcast on 4th April at 9:00AM PDT. Here’s the description:
You can now deploy the virtual desktops you have always wanted using your existing desktop images, tools and desktop management processes that have been in place for years. Persistent virtual desktops provide the least disruptive and easiest transition from physical PCs to virtual desktops but also come at a cost per desktop of $1,000-$2,000 when you size traditional storage to deliver equal-to-PC performance.
In this webinar, we will show you how you can deploy persistent virtual desktops that are cheaper and faster than a physical PC with benchmark results that outperform a MacBook Air using an Apple SSD. Brian Madden called it, “absolutely the fastest desktop I’ve ever used in my life.”
Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI™ Software
• Cuts CAPEX and OPEX costs – save up to 90% on storage costs
• Amazing user experience – faster than a PC with up to 5,000 IOPS per desktop, 12 second boot times, instant app launches and email/desktop searches*
• Automated deployment to speed the project and reduce deployment mistakes. Automated install, configuration, storage sizing and data store creation across all racks simultaneously
• Lowered risks with a simpler architecture the uses existing images and update processes to manage virtual desktops
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery – will recover thousands of desktops within a datacenter or across datacenters
• Scales Out On-Demand – scales linearly by just adding servers with no additional storage
Attend our webinar to learn how you can take the simpler path to achieving VDI success.
Teradici PCoIP Technology
Teradici PCoIP technology delivers highest performance, security and user experience for VMware View deployments with its purpose-built APEX 2800 server offload card and broad portfolio of PCoIP zero clients. The innovative PCoIP protocol provides high resolution, full frame rate 3D graphics and high-definition media, with full USB peripheral interoperability locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN.
The companies are currently showcasing simplified and cost-effective approaches for deploying VDI environments at VMware Partner Exchange 2013.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb 26, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Pivot3, a leading provider of converged storage and compute appliances, today announced a partnership with Teradici, the developer of the PC-over-IP(R) (PCoIP(R)) protocol, to further drive exceptional end-user experiences within VDI environments. With joint customers across a wide array of industries in both the U.S. and EMEA, Pivot3 and Teradici have helped provide organizations with cost-effective solutions that boost end-user experience across the board. Through the partnership, both companies will work together on co-marketing initiatives and potential bundle programs addressing key vertical markets where VDI is a perfect IT solution.
The baby finally got a name: Teradici Arch! Teradici’s PCoIP solution for RDSH gets into the first preview stage as of an article in the CIO magazine.
IDG News Service (London Bureau) — Teradici has been forced to delay the release of Arch, which combines VMware and Microsoft server-based desktops using its PCoIP protocol, due to a scalability issue. But a new tech preview will still allow enterprises to familiarize themselves with the product.
Today, PC-over-IP (PCoIP) is used to improve the performance of multimedia and other graphics-heavy applications on VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Teradici’s Arch was previously known as Remote Desktop Services Host. The platform allows enterprises to combine VMware View and Microsoft RDS desktops and have the same performance levels across both types of desktops. The first version was supposed to have shipped in December, but the company was forced to delay the launch because of a scalability issue related to VMware View, which results in only 45 sessions per virtual server.
Brian Madden has published a great video interview with Terardici’s Stuart Robinson.
Definitely check this video as it gives you a great overview and a comparison between Windows Server 2008 R2 RDP vs. PCoIP.
Thanks ro @SimonLong_ for the tip on Twitter! DELL Wyse has a two new zero clients on their website – the P25 and the P45.
Both are Teradici Tera chip driven devices but they’re using different processor units. The P25 has a Teradici TERA2321 inside and the P45 a TERA2140. The other big difference between the two is the ability two connect four DVI displays to the P45 but only one to the P25.
Please feel free to download the fact sheet which includes the detailed information.
It’s fantastic to see that the P25 does use 8 Watt if one mouse, one keyboard and one monitor is connected. That’s really green.
Both clients are perfect for HD multimedia CAD/CAM and of course they’re both compatible with VMware View.
Image source: http://www.wyse.com/
Download the fact sheet: http://www.wyse.com/sites/default/files/products/spec_sheets_2012-08/Dell-Wyse-P-class-IA-220812.pdf
Today Hewlett-Packard has published a new press release about a new zero client for VMware View. The HP t310 zero client features the Teradici Tera2 zero client processor which gives you up to five times the imaging performance of the Tera1 processor. The client will be available in North America in September and it starts at $369 and varies on the hardware options.
Great news for VMware View customers and prospects. The t310 is the second PCoIP client from HP next to the PD02 which is a eVGA OEM.
I’ve almost overseen this one:
New Tera2 zero client processors deliver high-performance, security and manageability on PCoIP hosted desktops for VMware View®, PCoIP remote workstations and Teradici RDSH for Microsoft® RDS environments
Burnaby, British Columbia – August 14, 2012 — Teradici, the developer of the innovative PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) protocol that enables a true PC experience for hosted desktops, today announced the availability of its next-generation Tera2 PCoIP zero client processors. Backed by an ecosystem of over 30 OEM desktop client partners, the new Tera2 PCoIP zero client chipset includes the TERA2321 dual display zero client processor and the TERA2140 quad display zero client processor.
PCoIP zero clients are a key component of Teradici’s industry-leading, end-to-end VDI technology and partner ecosystem which includes VMware View,APEX™ 2800 server offload cards, PCoIP remote workstations and Teradici RDSH for Microsoft RDS environments. PCoIP zero clients are available from over 30 OEM partners with SKUs and form factors to fit every need including integrated monitors, standalone clients, Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) clients, IP phones and touch screen monitors.
Tera2 PCoIP zero client features include:
- DisplayPort added to existing DVI and VGA interfaces with up to 2560×1600 resolution and 30” monitor support
- Up to five times the VDI pixel performance over the previous generation zero client
- At under 6W of typical system power, Tera2 dual display zero clients consume half the power of the previous generation
- New quad display zero client support with VMware View
- Faster USB 2.0 transfer rates
- Reduced bandwidth with client-side caching and enhanced compression
- Full power management with Wake-on-LAN support
- Smaller, more integrated processor enables compact zero client form factors
- Stronger AES256-bit encryption
- Support for upcoming unified communications voice over IP solutions
- Additional smart card support and other new features included in the latest PCoIP Firmware and Management Console release
- Broker connectivity to virtual desktops or remote workstation hosts using VMware View Manager
“Teradici is looking forward to demonstrating our next-generation Tera2 PCoIP zero clients at VMworld 2012, together with our ecosystem of OEM partners and unique zero client form factors,” said Trent Punnett, vice president of marketing, Teradici. “PCoIP zero clients continue to deliver the most secure, easiest to manage and highest performance virtual desktop experience on the market. The Tera2 dual and quad display zero client processors will take this experience to the next level by packing in new features and new capabilities that our customers have requested.”
Teradici next-generation Tera2 PCoIP zero clients will soon be available from leading OEM vendors and will be demonstrated at Teradici booth #917 at VMworld 2012 taking place August 26-30 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco. For more information, visit www.teradici.com/zeroclient.
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“Teradici’s latest Tera2 PCoIP zero client technology supports the efficiency and security of centralized computing, offering a true, uncompromised computing experience for our expanding customer base. This latest chipset delivers a powerful, feature rich, secure and easy to manage PCoIP zero client for even greater benefits to our VDI and remote workstation customers,” said Kiran Rao, sr. product manager, Dell Wyse.
“We applaud Teradici for continuing to align Tera2 PCoIP zero client functionality with the requirements of the most demanding VDI and remote workstation deployments, where security is the primary concern. We look forward to providing our customers with high-performance, secure and easy-to-manage PCoIP zero clients,” said Jeff Groudan, director, Thin Clients, HP.
“At LG Electronics, we recognize the value in providing our worldwide enterprise customers with outstanding desktop client solutions. We are excited working together with Teradici to deliver next-generation Tera2 zero client monitor solutions to address the growing needs of our VDI and remote workstation customers,” said J.J. Lee, Executive Vice President and Head of the IT Business Unit of LG Home Entertainment Company, LG Electronics.
“At Samsung we are dedicated to delivering the latest technology solutions to our customers. We are excited to continue this partnership with Teradici to deliver fully integrated Tera2 PCoIP zero client monitor solutions for VDI and remote workstations. We believe Samsung’s LCD-integrated zero clients with Tera2 will deliver added functionality and enhance the user experience,” said Charles Park, vice president, Visual Display, Samsung Electronics.
“PCoIP zero clients deliver incredible performance, security and manageability benefits for VMware View® deployments. The next-generation Tera2 zero client chipset has dynamic features with the performance to meet the needs of an expanding ecosystem of VDI customers in federal, healthcare, education, financial services and other enterprise markets,” said Raj Mallempati, director, product marketing, End-User Computing, VMware
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About PCoIP Technology
Teradici’s PCoIP protocol is an innovative remote display technology that allows the user’s desktop operating system, applications, and data to reside in the datacenter, eliminating the need for traditional desktop workstations, PCs and thin clients, and delivers an uncompromised user experience to each person, anywhere, over any network and to any type of device without incurring the security risks associated with having data reside in remote PCs, laptops, or tablets. PCoIP technology provides high resolution, full frame rate 3D graphics and high-definition media, with full USB peripheral interoperability, locally over a LAN or remotely over a high-latency WAN. It compresses, encrypts and encodes the entire computing experience at the datacenter and transmits it ‘pixels only’ across a standard IP network to secure, stateless PCoIP zero clients, thin clients, and mobile devices.
The PCoIP protocol is implemented in several software configurations, including VMware View™, the industry leading desktop virtualization platform as well as in silicon for hardware accelerated performance and enhanced security. A growing ecosystem of over 30 third-party vendors provide a wide variety of PCoIP products including server plug-in cards, rack and tower workstations, blade PCs, zero clients, integrated monitors, and IP phones with PCoIP capability.
Teradici Corporation has developed PCoIP® (PC-over-IP®) technology, a unique remote display protocol which makes network delivered computing a viable corporate computing reality. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Burnaby, BC, Canada, Teradici for the first time enables an exceptional end user experience for datacenter-based computing. Through a combination of unique graphics algorithms, flexible software solutions, high-performance silicon processing, and workstation/server add-in cards, the company is changing how personal computers are used, deployed and managed. For more information, including current career openings, visit: www.teradici.com.
Teradici, PCoIP and PC-over-IP are trademarks of Teradici Corporation and may be registered in the United States and/or other countries. Any other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.
VMware, VMworld and VMware View are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
Teradici(R) Provides High Security Desktop Authentication With Support for SIPRNet Hardware Tokens in PCoIP(R) Zero Clients for VMware View(TM)
Teradici updates comprehensive suite of PCoIP zero client security features to include latest government SIPRNet mandates for user identification and authentication
Teradici extends the PCoIP zero client firmware to support news security features.
Two days ago Teradici announced the compatibility of their APEX2800 server offload cards for VMware View 5.0 on vSphere 5.0. The offload card monitors the activity of the virtual machines and does offload the most active displays to reduce the server CPU utilization by up to 50%.
“With our dedication to developing and providing solutions that highlight and complement the benefits of VMware View deployments, we are pleased to announce full compatibility on ESXi 5.0 with the APEX 2800,” said Trent Punnett, vice president of marketing, Teradici. “We are committed to maintaining full compatibility with future releases of VMware View and vSphere to ensure the APEX 2800 remains future proof for our growing PCoIP-enabled VDI customer base.”
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Learn more about the APEX2800 card: http://www.teradici.com/pcoip/pcoip-products/teradici-apex-2800.php
Teradici has released a new firmware on Monday. One of the main features is USB support in a VMware View session. Here are the other features.
PCoIP Firmware Release 3.5.0 Key Features
Now available for download at http://techsupport.teradici.com, PCoIP Firmware Release 3.5.0 delivers improved performance, flexibility, security and access through the following new features:
- USB 2.0 Support with VMware View Sessions: With this new release, PCoIP zero client users can expect to see up to 3x improvement in transfer speed for bulk transfers (read and write) when compared to earlier PCoIP zero client firmware releases. The new firmware release also delivers greater flexibility by supporting a larger number of DVD drives.
- Imprivata OneSign® No Click Access™: Teradici and Imprivata have developed a joint PCoIP strong authentication solution by combining PCoIP zero clients with Imprivata OneSign Virtual Desktop Access with VMware View™. Compatible with a broad range of access cards and ID badges, this solution provides PCoIP zero client users with fast and secure access to their roaming desktops from any location with a simple tap of their badge.
- 802.1X Network Authentication: PCoIP zero client devices can now be deployed with the highest degree of 802.1X security using EAP-TLS certificate-based authentication.
Additional PCoIP Firmware Release 3.5.0 features:
- IPv6 support: PCoIP zero clients updated to support ongoing mandates for IPv6 adherence.
- “Help Desk” mode: Administrators can enable a login screen link which allows users to log into a particular VM of the administrator’s choice. This VM may be configured by the administrator to provide specific support directions for users.
- Support for up to 25 View Connection Server addresses: Adds additional flexibility and scalability for large enterprises.
- 100BASE-FX: Support for fast Ethernet over optical fibre for enhanced security over long distances.
In conjunction with PCoIP Zero Client Firmware Release 3.5.0, Teradici is releasing PCoIP Management Console 1.7 now available for download from the Teradici Support Site at http://techsupport.teradici.com.
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Style: For the first few years of the nineteenth century, fashion dictated the rather impractical style of skirts with trains for walking or daytime dresses. Women were probably thankful this fashion was short-lived. By 1802, The Lady’s Magazine, a London publication, wrote that short round-gowns were the latest fashion.
Gowns with short or long sleeves were worn, with short sleeves preferred for formal occasions.
Fabric: White maintained its popularity in the early 1800s. Cotton, as seen in this dress, and silk were both considered appropriate for formal occasions.
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Many people are surprised to learn that plastic surgeons are trained to evaluate and to treat hand disorders. Around the USA, about 1/3 of all the hand surgery is performed by plastic surgeons.
So, for the next few blog posts, I will forego discussions of Botox, facelifts, and tummy tucks, and will instead focus on common hand problems, such as carpal tunnel syndrome....
The carpal tunnel is the passageway in the wrist formed by...
- 8 carpal (wrist) bones, which make up the floor and sides of the tunnel
- the transverse carpal ligament, which is a strong ligament stretching across the roof of the tunnel
Inside the carpal tunnel are...
- 9 flexor tendons, which flex (bend down) your fingers and thumb
- the median nerve, a cord about the size of a pencil containing thousands of nerve fibers supplying sensation (feeling) to your thumb, index and middle fingers, and half of the ring finger
Pathology - The Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by increased pressure in the carpal tunnel resulting in compression of the median nerve. When the median nerve is pushed up against the ligament, blood flow to the nerve is restricted, causing a sensation often described as "pins and needles" to the fingers. In severe or chronic cases, numbness can be constant.
Carpal tunnel syndrome can be caused by a variety of problems. Certain medical conditions that may lead to compression of the median nerve include:
- Inflammation or swelling about the tendons
- Fluid retention
- Wrist fractures and dislocations
- Crushing injuries to the wrist
- Rheumatoid/degenerative arthritis
- Tumors and tumor-like conditions
There is considerable debate as to whether specific work activities may lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. Certain occupational activities which involve repeated flexing of the fingers or wrist, or prolonged use of vibrating tools may contribute to the development of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Determining whether or not carpal tunnel syndrome is a work-related condition can be very difficult. Each case must be considered individually and must be based on documentation of specific work-related activities which may contribute to this condition.
Non-work related activities of daily living and leisure may also provoke symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Lawn mowing, long distance driving, or hobbies such as knitting or wood carving are activities which involve prolonged or repetitive grasping and wrist flexion and may elicit symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Numbness, burning, or tingling of one or more of the fingers (excluding the little finger) is the most common symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome. This numbness can happen at any time; often these symptoms occur at night and may awaken the individual from sleep. Partial relief can sometimes be gained by shaking, massaging, or elevating the hands. At times, the numbness may extend up the arm, into the elbow, and as far up as the shoulder and neck.
A decrease in sensation or feeling may result in clumsiness and weakness of the affected hand. Patients may find themselves dropping objects and less capable of performing tasks requiring gripping or pinching strength.
On the palm side of the hand, just below the thumb, is a bulging pad of muscle called the thenar muscle group. Some of these muscles are controlled by the median nerve. With advanced carpal tunnel syndrome, this muscle group may begin to waste away, giving a flattened appearance to the palm when compared to the other hand.
- Conservative treatment:
- avoidance of activities that may provoke further symptoms
- wearing a splint to restrict movement of the wrist
- a cortisone injection into the carpal tunnel to decrease swelling
- When conservative treatment fails, or when symptoms are severe and/or longstanding, I usually recommend surgery....
- small incision on the palm of the hand
- cut (release) the ligament forming the roof of the tunnel
- The pressure on the median nerve is relieved.
- The whole surgery takes less than 30 minutes.
With the blood flow to the median nerve restored, the symptoms of burning and tingling are usually relieved soon after surgery. Patients can expect soreness from the incision for 4 – 6 weeks and discomfort from deep pressure for as long as several months. Improvements in strength and sensation depend on the extent of the nerve damage prior to treatment. Normal grip strength may not return for several months following surgery. The natural healing process and regeneration of nerve fibers will occur throughout the following six months to a year.
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Our Flight Vehicles
All of our Flight Vehicles are launched from the Starfire Space Cannon. The Starfire Sapce cannon is an 8” bore by 45 foot long multi-chambered artillery piece that has been custom designed to fire payloads into space.
The Starfire Space Cannon
(The Starfire Gun)
The problem with a conventional cannon as a space launcher is that it has one big propellant charge and when that charge is fired it produces a very high pressure spike, often 50,000 to 60,000 PSI which drops off rapidly as the projectile travels down the bore.
These high pressures place high G loadings on a payload, often tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of G’s. Now, launching at high G’s may be OK for simple payloads such as fuel or construction materials but it is not much good for launching payloads that are useful for the average person.
The Starfire Space Cannon, on the other hand, breaks the propellant charge down into a number of smaller increments. These increments are ignited sequentially as the vehicle travels down the bore. This gives you much lower pressures and much lower G loadings.
One interesting aspect of this technology is that the longer the barrel the more efficient the system becomes. The Starfire Space Cannon has been limited to 45’ only because of the need to keep it road mobile, but with this technology a barrel twice or even three times as long would be even more efficient.
Starfire is developing a series of flight vehicles to be launched from the Starfire space cannon.
Our Mosquito vehicle is a low cost glide probe designed to carry payloads on high altitude suborbital flights.
The Dragonfly will be an advanced flight vehicle capable of placing small satellites into earth’s orbit.
We are currently pursuing a development plan in 5 phases.
Phase 1 – Static testing of Starfire Space Cannon gun system – done.
Phase 2 – Flight testing of the mosquito – In preparation for before the end of 2019.
Phase 3 – Static testing of a gun launchable rocket motors.
Phase 4 – Flight testing of a gun launchable rocket motors and avionics.
Phase 5 – Flight testing complete satellite vehicles.
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The approach of this chapter is polemical in nature, reflecting the very fluid situation that lies ahead for orchestras post COVID-19. The chapter has three main academic research objectives. First, to put the current debate in context, it looks at the key challenges that orchestras have faced since the turn of the last century and in what way COVID-19 posed new problems that impacted orchestral music. The second objective is to outline some special short-term measures introduced to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, namely: (i) the income-support measures needed to sustain orchestras; and (ii) the extent to which orchestras could come together and practice, and in fact perform, even if only in front of no or very limited live audiences. The third objective is to discuss what possibly lies ahead for live orchestral music, post-COVID-19, and in a rapidly changing world regarding technological advances in the production and consumption of orchestral music. To inform this discussion, some broad trends in the ‘consumption’ of orchestral music over time, particularly in terms of numbers attending live concerts and revenues from streamed concerts, are examined.
|Title of host publication||Cultural Industries and the Covid-19 Pandemic : A European Focus|
|Editors||Elisa Salvador, Trilce Navarrete, Andrej Srakar|
|Number of pages||14|
|Place of Publication||London|
|ISBN (Print)||9780367651916, 9780367651909|
|Publication status||Published - 2022|
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Cut costs, cut costs, cut costs. This is the mantra being sung all across corporate America and especially in healthcare due to the reduction of Medicaid payments. Labor typically represents about 65% of healthcare organizations costs. In corporate America, it is “do more with less,” but that doesn’t work in hospitals. A low nurse staffing level tends to lead to higher rates of poor patient outcomes such as pneumonia, shock, cardiac arrest, urinary tract infections, and all other sorts of other maladies.
How can budget strained healthcare organizations cut their largest expenditure, labor, without effecting patient care?
The easiest way to reduce labor costs is to reduce the amount of agency spending and overtime hours. Some CFO’s would love to implement a policy that says you cannot book staff through an agency or put a nurse into overtime, but this is easier said than done. What do you do when there is a critical hole in the schedule and there is no one available on staff to fill it?
The solution: Internal Float Pools. Health care organizations everywhere are attempting to build float pools to help manage their labor spending and reduce nursing burn-out.
Quite often, the biggest and the most well-funded hospitals in an area scoop up most of the qualified staff. They can guarantee the most hours and offer fancy ways to schedule shifts online. They also usually offer the highest pay. So how can healthcare organizations that are late to the game – or just need to increase the size of their float pool – compete?
- Try to reach a different group of people. Promote the flexibility of being able to work as much or as little as you want in order to recruit people who might be superb employees, but are not looking for full-time work.
- Market your float pool. Come up with a catchy name and advertise it. You can do word of mouth advertising through employee referrals or even try something like Google AdWords.
- Offer convenient and fun ways to pick up open shifts. For example, you can use a web-based solution (like ShiftWise) to send a text message to everyone qualified to work a particular shift. Regardless of what your float pool staff is doing at the time, they can pick up the shift right from their phone by responding to the text message.
- Offer different tiers of pay to incentivize good habits and bring on the right people.
- Make it easy to post their own availability. The best employees are also the busiest. Remove cumbersome fax machines, paperwork and time consuming phone calls by taking availability online.
The management of a float pool is different than other labor types and it does require a different philosophy and set of tools. However dramatic cost savings in labor can be realized once a float pool is fully developed and properly managed. Job satisfaction will go up and patient care will be improved. Healthcare CFO’s everywhere can finally catch a good night’s sleep because overtime and agency spending will only be a last resort. | <urn:uuid:c3052637-2ac4-4fff-a00e-a12e67e6bf93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.shiftwise.com/lets-work-smarter-not-harder-article/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.955586 | 609 | 1.640625 | 2 |
As the UK enters its tenth week of lockdown, many of us have got to know our kitchens better.
With restaurants and pubs closed and fast-food chains only just beginning to reopen, home cooking has become hugely popular.
But what dish has the nation been cooking most?
A new study by Tombola has uncovered the UK's five most searched for British meals as well as the cooking questions we're searching for online.
The research revealed fish and chips is the most searched for British meal online, with £1.2 billion spent on the family favourite every year.
However, Tombola found Brits can save a whopping 48 per cent by cooking fish and chips at home for just £7.53.
And it seems the nation is on board as the search term "how to make fish and chips" has seen a 61 per cent increase during lockdown.
Pie and mash is also popular with a 53 per cent increase in searches between March and April 2020.
Brits are also looking to replicate their favourite curry, with "how to make a chicken tikka masala" receiving a 52 per cent increase in searches.
Brits' most common cooking questions.
How to make fish and chips
How to make pie and mash
How to make a chicken tikka masala
How to make toad in the hole
How to make bubble and squeak
How to make cottage pie
How to make shepherd’s pie
How to make steak and kidney pie
How to make a Sunday roast
How to make bangers and mash
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- an illustrated guide to the mythical creatures, spirits and animals of Greenland
The world of Greenlandic mythology is inhabited by a motley crew of dangerous, cheeky and fantastical beings that have played a vital role in Inuit beliefs and stories throughout the ages. This book is a collection of what is generally known about these diverse beings, spirits and animals and a description of their appearance and features. You will also find a brief history of Greenland and the shaman tradition. Illustrations by contemporary Greenlandic and Nordic artists transport the mythological beings into the 21st Century.Vis mere
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- Security TWENTY
- Women in Security Awards
Nearly half of manufacturers have been the victim of cyber-crime, and a quarter have suffered some financial loss or disruption to business as a result, according to a report by EEF, a trade association of manufacturers.
The report points to manufacturing sector as the third most targeted for attack, with only government systems and finance more vulnerable. Yet manufacturing – which has 2.6 million employees, provides a tenth of UK output and 70 per cent of business research and development – is amongst the least protected sector against cyber-crime in Britain, says the new report, Cyber-Security for Manufacturing. It’s published by EEF, the manufacturers’ trade body and insurer AIG, and was carried out by the security and defence think-tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). It raised the susceptibility of manufacturers to cyber risk, revealing that 41 per cent of companies do not believe they have access to enough information to even assess their true cyber risk. And 45 per cent do not feel that they do not have access to the right tools for the job.
The 11-page report includes the cases of damage to a German steel mill after network tampering; and a 2017 malware attack on a petrochemical manufacturer in Saudi Arabia.
Cyber threat is holding back companies from investing in digital technologies, with a third of those surveyed nervous of digital improvement. Some 12 per cent of manufacturers admit they have no technical or managerial processes in place to even to start assessing the real risk. One of the easiest forms of cyber-attack comes through poorly protected office systems, often the first put in historically in manufacturing businesses.
Stephen Phipson, CEO of EEF, said: “More and more companies are at risk of attack and manufacturers urgently need to take steps to protect themselves against this burgeoning threat. EEF has a vital role supporting manufacturers in the face of this challenge and we are working closely with RUSI, whose world-leading Cyber Security Research Programme is well established as a key voice to understand the fight against the threat of ever evolving cyber-crime to the modern business..
“We know businesses cannot afford to ignore this issue any longer and while we welcome government’s progress in improving cyber-security resilience, to date through the work of the NCA and NCSC, there needs to be an increasing focus given to the specific needs of manufacturing, which hitherto has been lacking.
“Failing to get this right could cost the UK economy billions of pounds, put thousands of jobs at risk and delay the supply of essential equipment to key public services and major national infrastructure projects. I hope this report underlines the critical risk to government and industry.”
David Emm, principal security researcher at the IT security product company Kaspersky Lab, said: “The world isn’t ready for cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure, but attackers are clearly ready and able to launch attacks on these facilities – as this trend towards attacks on the manufacturing sector shows. We’ve seen attacks on power grids, oil refineries, steel plants, financial infrastructure, seaports and hospitals – cases where organisations have spotted attacks and acknowledged them. However, many more companies do neither, and the lack of reporting of these attacks hampers risk assessment and response to the threat. Security must be tailored to the specific needs of each organisation and be seen as an ongoing process. This is true also of the human dimension – tricking people into taking action that launches the initial exploit is as common in attacks on such facilities as it is in any other attack.”
Steve Malone, director of security product management at Mimecast, said: “It’s simply not good enough that only 62pc of manufacturers invest in cybersecurity training. While the sector has specific requirements for control systems and IoT, the risk management reality is much worse, as it is vulnerable to the same attacks as everybody else – particularly spear-phishing emails and ransomware targeted at employees. The upcoming GDPR may be a wake-up call for some, but we’re still not seeing these threats taken seriously. Regulations such as the NIS Directive, which aims to help build cyber resilience for essential and critical services, will be key for fostering a new culture of security.”
Tim Erlin, VP at cyber security product firm Tripwire, said: “It’s important to distinguish between cyberattacks on manufacturers and cyberattacks on industrial control systems. While they may be related, they’re not the same thing. Any organization with connected computer systems may fall victim to cyberattacks across a broad spectrum of technologies, but attacks on the systems that control a manufacturing plant floor are much more specific. Of course, manufacturing isn’t the only industry using industrial control systems. We have seen a rise in attack on control systems themselves, and the impact to the business of these attacks can be very direct. At the same time, cyberattacks in general continue to plague organizations around the globe.”
And Rob Norris, VP Head of Enterprise and Cyber Security EMEIA at Fujitsu said: “With events over the past year revealing just how enormous the potential cost – both reputationally and financially – of suffering a major security breach can be, manufactures cannot afford not to take their data protection and cyber security seriously, or indeed make it a number one priority. In fact, with our latest report revealing a fifth of the UK public believe cybercrime and hacking are the biggest challenges facing the UK today, every single manufacturer has an obligation to make data protection as much of a priority as the public.
“Although organisational awareness is on the rise, it’s clear many still struggle to put in place the right measures to safeguard employees, customers and the broader business. Because even the best-run company could suffer from a hack or data breach, manufactures should adopt a two-pronged approach by complementing employee training and awareness with continued investment in technical and security controls. In doing so, they can be on the front foot for proactively identifying and managing threats instead of waiting for breaches to happen. After all, cybercrime is not a probability, it is an inevitability and it will be the way in which manufactures prepare for it however, that can make all the difference.”
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In this class, you will learn the basics of moku-hanga, Japanese woodblock, and explore other variations within the medium. Moku-hanga differs from many printmaking techniques as its printed by hand without a press and uses water based ink. We will also explore a hybrid technique using western based oil inks with the same printing process. By the end of this workshop you will be able to take this technique and print at home, in an unventilated space and without a press! Prerequisite: None
Supply fee upon registration.
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THE INHERITANCE AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE
RIGHTEOUS AFTER DEPARTING THIS LIFE
Insomuch as we shall have to treat particularly of this matter in what we have to say in interpreting the remainder of the Book of Revelation from the fourth chapter to the end, we will first call attention to the erroneous views which are entertained and taught by the great mass of religious teachers throughout the world, who live and die under the face of the covering cast over all people and the veil that is spread over all nations.
It is, and has been, a great puzzle and a great subject of wonder and speculation among the religious teachers of the various sects and denominations, Protestants and Catholic, as well as among other religious teachers in other societies and peoples throughout the earth, as to what the righteous would be employed in after death, in the other world, because from their standpoint, the Scriptures appear to them to be silent upon that important subject; and therefore to them and all who believe with them this great question is open to all kinds of speculation and supposition, from the crude dreams of the untutored Indian of the American wilderness, to the more subtle and bewitching theories of the popes, bishops, and priests of the Catholic church, and the bishops, doctors of divinity, and ministers of the sects and denominations of the Protestant churches.
But if their blind eyes could be opened, if they could be turned from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, then they would be able to see distinctly that the Scriptures are perfectly clear upon the condition of the dead, and declare in unmistakable terms what both the righteous and the wicked are employed at between death and the resurrection and also what the work of the righteous will be after they are raised in glory. This work may be stated in few words as follows.
First, between death and the resurrection, they will sleep and do nothing else; and the place where they sleep and the bed in which they sleep, is the dust of the earth. They sleep mentally and physically, and so perfect and unconscious is their sleep that they know nothing of what transpires in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, because the Scriptures speak expressly and in no uncertain terms on that subject, saying, “ In death there is no remembrance"; and again, “ The dead know not any thing”; and again, “ His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them." Again, Daniel says, “Many that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.” And Paul says, “I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep." Yet the ignorance that prevails in the earth in these days on the state of the dead, has, we may say, no bottom. Again Paul says, “ Them which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him,"that is when God comes to judge the world.
Who is there that is not both blind and dumb, that could fail to see and understand that such Scriptures as these with which the word of God abound are both pointed and decisive on this subject?
Second, the Scriptures also speak expressly concerning the work that the righteous will be sent to perform after they are raised in glory, for Paul, speaking to the saints and appealing to the knowledge that they then had on this doctrine, says to them, “ Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world?” And David says of the resurrected saints, “Let a two-edged sword be in their hands, to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people (of Israel) to bind their (Israel's) kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute upon them the judgments written; this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.”
Third, the work that the saints will be employed at for a thousand years, after they shall have been engaged for a period of ten years, more or less, in executing the judgments written upon Jew and Gentile, will be to reign with Christ as kings and priests upon the earth, and over the nations of the earth, the nation and kingdom of Israel being the chief and first-born among the nations (Exod. 4:22) over whom the saints will reign. The twelve apostles of Christ are promised the thrones of the house of David (Ps. 122: 5), for when Peter said to Jesus, “Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee, what shall we have therefore?” Jesus said to them, “Verily I say unto you, that ye that have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE RIGHTEOUS AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN RAISED
FROM THE DEAD The work of the righteous after they have been raised from the dead in glory in executing the judgment written, we will now proceed to show as it is taught by symbols and similitudes in the Book of the Revelation, beginning with chapter four. This chapter commences with a vision of John in which a door is opened in heaven, and the first voice which he heard, he says, “ was as it were a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter."
When Daniel was called in to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the great image whose brightness was excellent, and the form thereof terrible, Daniel said to the king, “ There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets and maketh known to the King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days," and again he adds, "what shall come to pass hereafter.” Even so what John was called up in vision to see was what must be hereafter, that is, what must be in the latter days and be manifested among the people of Israel and the nations subsequent to the resurrection of the body of Christ from the dead.
JOHN'S VISION OF THINGS IN HEAVEN
The Father — Occasion of his coming — Symbolic description - Rainbow – What it symbolizes — Four and twenty elders — Seven lamps of
fire — Zechariah's vision of four chariots — Sea of glass — The hundred forty
and four thousand — The four beasts — Book sealed with seven seals Opened by Christ.
When a door was opened to John in heaven, and he was commanded to come up hither that he might be shown what should be hereafter, he adds, "And immediately I was in the spirit, and behold a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne, and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone, and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald, and round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats were four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings, and voices, and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
“And before the throne there was a sea of glass, like unto crystal. And in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts, full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty, which was, and is, and is to come; and when those beasts give glory and honour, and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth forever and ever, the four and twenty elders fell down before him that sat on the throne and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
This wonderful spectacle which John beheld in heaven, when a door was opened to him, that he might see a picture of the things that shall exist in the heavens above the earth in the latter days, at the time of judgment, and in the place of judgment at Jerusalem and in the border of Israel, where the Lord said that he would come to judge his people,- these things we will now speak of as John saw them, in order as follows: first, the Father himself sitting upon the throne of judgment; second, the rainbow that was round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald; third, the four and twenty elders sitting on seats round about the throne; fourth, seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God; fifth, a sea of glass before the throne like unto crystal ; sixth, four beasts round about the throne full of eyes before and behind; seventh, a Lamb standing in the midst of the throne, and in the midst of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
FIRST. THE FATHER (REV. 4:2-3)
OCCASION OF HIS COMING The chief object which John saw in heaven and described, was the Father himself sitting upon the throne of judgment, as it will be when he comes to judge the world by that Man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. But the Father himself will be there to direct the work of judgment by the hand of Jesus Christ his Son, to whom he has given authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man, and by the hand of his brethren the saints, and the holy angels.
The Father came down in his own individual person upon Mount Sinai to give his holy and righteous law to his own people, the house of Israel, by the disposition of angels. And one of the positive proofs that he was there in person is the fact that Moses was permitted to see his back parts through the crevice of the rock in which the Father placed him, while he passed by and proclaimed to him the name of the Lord. Again, he uttered the ten commandments in the hearing of all Israel, who stood at the foot of the mount that burned with fire. Out of this great fire he spake the ten commandments with a loud voice to his people, and he added no more. And inasmuch as his own voice had never been heard by mortal man before since he created man upon the earth, Moses said to the children of Israel, “ Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard, and live?” People had often heard the voice of angels, who are called gods, before, but the voice of the Father had never been heard by mortal man until he spake to Moses and to his own people Israel out of Mount Sinai.
The law that God gave to Israel by the hand of Moses contemplates and appoints a judgment to sit at the end of the world that then was founded and established at Mount Sinai, which world consisted of the nation and house of Israel. This is clearly seen by what the Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai after the children of Israel had corrupted themselves and made a calf to worship, after the manner of Egypt, and changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. And when the Lord would destroy them for this wickedness, Moses interceded for them, saying, “Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.” And the Lord said unto Moses, “Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book . . nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”
There is a day, therefore, when all the righteous judgments of that law are to be visited upon the transgressors that are, and have been, and will be under that law, and their manifold transgressions and their mighty sins are all sealed up among God's treasures, and these seals will be opened by the Lamb of God, and executed by the Lion of the tribe of Judah in the time of judgment, under the supervision of the Father himself, who comes the second time for that purpose when all things, as Luke says, that are written must be fulfilled. For the Lord also says to Israel by the hand of the prophet Hosea (7:12), “I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard.” The law was required to be read in their congregations, when they heard the righteous judgments that were to be inflicted upon all who violated the statutes and judgments contained therein. Therefore the judgment day is called the day of visitation, as the Lord spake by the hand of the prophet Hosea, referring to the end of the world when it comes, saying (9:7), “ The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come"; again (verse 9), saying, “They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.”
Again, contemplating that day as it will be when it comes, the Lord says by the hand of Ezekiel (7:3-4), “Now is the end come upon thee, and I will spend mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations, and mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.” And in verse 15 the Lord speaks of the three principal elements of destruction that he will employ against them, saying, “The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within; he that is in the field shall die with the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him."
These are the tangible and material judgments that will be visited upon the unbelieving Jew first, and afterward upon the Gentile in the day of judgment. When Israel sinned and David was moved to number the people for a cause against them, the Lord gave David a choice of three things,three months to flee before the sword of his enemies, or seven years of famine in his land, or three days' pestilence. David chose the pestilence, saying, “Let us now fall into the hand of God, and not into the hand of man.” Seven thousand died by this scourge from Dan to Beer-sheba, and when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, “ It is enough, stay now thine hand.”
Now carefully note here the three chief elements of punishment that God employs in his wrath upon the wicked. The Lord submitted these to David, and he chose the pestilence, and the Lord sent his angel to walk to and fro throughout the land of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, to cut down seventy thousand people in three days by the burning pestilence, a disease which devours in this fearful manner, as it is said by the prophet Zechariah (14:12) concerning those that came against Jerusalem in that day, “And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem " (that is, after they shall have performed their | <urn:uuid:fb18f398-fe21-4fbc-b8f6-1e3567e0db68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.pr/books?id=PhQPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA669&focus=viewport&vq=%22%3B+as+in+Egypt+there+is+no+rain,+but+the+land+is+watered+chiefly+from+the+Nile,+the+pestilence+will%22&dq=related:ISBN0140092331&lr=&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.975938 | 3,412 | 2.25 | 2 |
The crazier parts of the scientific community have long declared anything that can walk on water to be possessed by black magic, lizards and bugs included. But black magic or no, roboticists at the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have managed to make it work on a robotic insect that, in addition to walking on water, can also jump.
Modeled after a water strider, the legs of this robot are made of a a porous, water-repellent nickel foam. Real water striders, of course, do not have nickel foam legs, but the concept is the same: you spread the weight of the robot out enough that the surface tension of the water can support it. This is a tall order for a robot this large: weighing in at 11 grams, this porker is over a thousand times the mass of its biological inspiration.
To get the robot to jump, a separate set of legs was added, bringing the total to five. By using these actuating legs to push against the surface of the water, the robot was able to make leaps 14 centimeters high and 35 centimeters long, taking off at nearly 65 kph, which impressive for such a little guy.
Like that CIA fish from last week, a robot with these capabilities could be used for, uh, "water quality monitoring," 'cause that's totally what the CIA is into. Our guess is that the only water quality monitoring that robots like these will be doing is the kind where the water just happens to be right next to something that, by sheer coincidence, somebody wants to spy on. | <urn:uuid:c443f8af-7566-4722-a89c-2f94289a5b12> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/water-strider-robot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00279-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961633 | 320 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Team members desire to know that their efforts have contributed to the overall success of the team, department, and organization. Effective leaders focus positive attention for good results on their team rather than themselves. Sharing the glory allows team members to see their efforts as more than single activities, but rather as a larger contribution to the whole.
Sharing the glory is not just a nice thing to do for people. Sharing the glory is a powerful motivator that reinforces and rewards the most important outcomes people create for the organization. When you recognize people effectively, you reinforce the actions and behaviors we most want to see people repeated. Sharing the glory is simple, immediate, and powerful reinforcement. In this module, you will develop ways to share the glory that are equally powerful for both the organization and the employee. You will address some of the important issues necessary for recognition to be viewed as motivating and rewarding by our team members, and important for the success of your organization. You will plan and practice a method of recognizing people and teams in a formal and public setting.
At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:
• Identify additional opportunities to lead by example through sharing the glory • Practice sharing the glory in an appropriate way • Realize the impact that sincere recognition has on morale and retention
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Regular menstrual cycle is an essential part of a woman’s life since it is the nature’s way to reproduce a young one. When a girl starts her puberty there are some biological processes going on inside her body. Every girl is born with about 450,000 eggs. During the onset of her puberty (12 to 15 years of age on average) just about 6000 eggs are left that are released one by one every month followed by thickness in the uterus lining. This uterus lining is thickened in order to prepare the body for pregnancy. If the pregnancy hasn’t occurred, the lining sheds away with blood after every 28 days till the women reaches menopause (at around 50 years of age). Confused? Let’s be clearer.
Every healthy woman experiences ovulation which indicates her egg is matured and transmitted from her ovaries to uterus. The uterus gathers itself with thick lining so that if she becomes pregnant that would support the fetus weight. If the fertilization hasn’t occurred and she doesn’t get pregnant this uterus lining sheds itself in the form of blood. The calculation of menstrual cycle is counted as day 1 of the periods flow. The ovulation occurs at the midway of every month. This means if a woman has regular menstrual flow every 28 days she will probably ovulate 14 days before her next periods. If she has a regularity of 34 days her ovulation will occur 17 days before her next periods.
The menstrual flow occurs for around 3 to 5 days oozing about 4 tablespoons of blood per day. The normal flow occurs after every 24 to 35 days and if the limit is lesser or more than this we call it irregular menstrual periods. The flow may also be less or heavy as per the situation which is also counted as irregular menstrual cycle. If the female wants to get pregnant it is generally advised to note down her cycle in a calendar so that the approximation of her ovulation is noted. They are recommended to have intercourse 2 to 3 days before her literal ovulation so that whenever her egg arrives, it gets fertilized in no time with the sperms since the sperms can live inside her for 3 to 5 days. Irregularity in the periods flow leads to problems in conceiving.
In order to regulate menstrual cycle we have herbal period regulator pills in the form of MCBC capsules. These capsules are skilled in regulating the periods both in terms of blood flow and the time period it takes for the next occurrence, al thanks to the herbal ingredients present in the product. The ayurvedic elements that are used in making of MCBC capsules are in their least refined form and are blended in the correct ratio. Not only this, the product is tested on continual basis so that whoever consumes it never experiences any signs of side effects. Regular intake of herbal period regulator produces marvelous results even if a woman takes these along with some other prescribed medicines in parallel and that also for longer period of life. We also assure that if you feel like getting cured and want to stop the course intake you are free to do that as well since these herbal pills to regulate menstrual cycle are not going to generate withdrawal effects too.
These herbal pills to regulate menstrual cycle never generate any side effects all due to the fact that these are manufactured in a hygienic and technological sound environment. The firm where these are made is a GMP certified company that follows hard safety norms. This ensures that one is going to witness outstanding results with a regular intake of MCBC capsules.
This herbal period regulator needs to be taken for a time frame of three-four months which is just an average approximation. One could get the outcomes less or more than this duration as well which is perfectly normal because of the variation in the physical bodies. It all depends on your body’s ability to get restored and your current health status. The noticeable changes are generally seen within 2 to 3 weeks but if we talk about long term outcomes it takes somewhat more time. We assure that once you get the results that would be for long run and it is up to you for deciding whether or not you want to continue this.
Take 1 or 2 capsules of MCBC herbal period regulator twice in a day after meals, i.e. one after breakfast and other after dinner, twice every day and repeat this for at least 3 to 4 months.
There is no special dietary plan while consuming these pills for irregular menstrual cycle since whatever your body needs is fulfilled by the regular intake of MCBC. We still suggest you to stay away from habits like smoking and drinking and have fresh fruits and vegetables as much as you can instead of tinned or canned food items.
To buy MCBC capsules in India, these are the steps one needs to follow:
Once the confirmation of payment is done, we will dispatch your package for delivery.
Your package will be sent by discreet packaging in which everything would be wrapped in a plain paper. This is followed throughout the process till the parcel reaches your doorstep. You will be getting your product within around 3 to 5 business days.
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