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This letter is in response to Bill Lawson [DRC, Dec. 11].
If Obamacare is the financial disaster some suggest, wouldn’t the financial markets have reacted in a negative way? Instead of shuddering at the thought of a job-killing, financial-draining program about to set the country on a downhill slide, they have reached record heights.
The financial wizards are betting on better financial times, not Armageddon. They are betting on more business.
The U.S. has an underdeveloped health care network and Social Security safety net, which leaves millions of citizens facing catastrophic illness and abject poverty. Such insecurity, either experienced or feared, has a negative impact on just about every facet of life.
The World Health Organization says that the most effective intervention is to invest in education and care in early life. “If you fail to invest in early child development, you’re storing up problems for the future.”
How can Congressman Burgess be against these things (if it is not about money)?
Mr. Lawson suggests the “elite rich” (my words) 2 percent “… employ 93 percent of the people.” He is correct. They employ and make money off them.
They do not create jobs. The guy buying the shoes, car or toothpaste causes a job to be created. The elite rich (who own the companies) supply what we demand and make money in the process. If they can keep unemployment high (labor costs down) they make even more.
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A couple living with dementia have spoken out about the challenges they face.
Alan and Stephanie Tuddenham are telling their story to mark Dementia Awareness Week, which begins tomorrow.
The pair, from Northlands Wood, Haywards Heath, are backing the efforts of health officials and the Alzheimer’s Society to create dementia- friendly communities across Sussex.
The aim is to ensure those living with dementia can be supported to stay well, live independently and continue to play an active and pivotal role in local life.
Mr Tuddenham, 68, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s just over a year ago.
He said: “I often feel like I’m looking in on family life from the outside, I’m no longer involved like I used to be. It’s quite hard not to be able to play with the grandchildren as I want to, but I just can’t.
“I do not feel like I have a role in life, as I always used to.
“I have lost all of that, I don’t know what life is about for me now. But I have to just pick my feet up and get on with it.”
Mrs Tuddenham, 64, said: “It is important people understand, so they are not frightened of someone with dementia.
“We can be frightened if someone is not behaving in the way they always have, or you don’t understand why they are acting in a certain way.
“Because there is no cure for dementia, I think people find it hard to know how to react.
“Many of the things that people with Alzheimer’s do – it’s not them, it’s the disease showing.
“If someone is acting differently, it’s their symptom, much like someone with a broken leg would walk with a limp. They cannot help it.”
The number of people diagnosed with dementia is rising faster in parts of Sussex compared to the national average, mainly due to the county’s high number of older residents.
Horsham and Mid Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group clinical director Terry Lynch said: “Only by identifying and acknowledging the challenges that dementia brings to our communities can we have a hope of giving the right care and support to the people that need it. This challenge starts by recognising that people have memory problems, getting help as early as possible and creating a community that supports not just the person with dementia, but their caring and hardworking family and friends.”
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“First world problems” has finally gone the way of “That awkward moment when,” “ironic,” “random,” “literally”—expressions which American youth once had a firm grasp on the meaning of, then they became popular, and then we stopped knowing what they even mean. The expressions turned into interjections to be thrown around when it feels right. All of these expressions are annoying, but “first world problems” is also sad.
In his 1946 essay, “The Politics of the English Language,” George Orwell warns the reader of how easy it is for expressions to become vague and meaningless while still maintaining the impression of authority on an audience. The essay serves as a great diagnostic for what has occurred with “first world problems”: it once had meaning—pointing out the absurdity in some privileged frustrations—and even humorous value, but it has so saturated Twitter and our speech that it only seems cute because we know it is supposed to be cute.
The casualties of “first world problems’s” descent into obscurity are more far-reaching than its sacrificed humor and meaning. It further removes us from the contrast the joke was intended to indicate—the “third world.” (Many experts dislike the expression, as there is such inequality between the first and third worlds that the implied “second world” may not even exist.) We didn’t know what the hell was going on there in the first place, and we’re maybe even more in the dark now that “first world” doesn’t mean anything.
In my Twitter search for what became of “first world problems,” I found a video made by the non-profit WATERisLIFE that shows Haitians reading a list of “first world problems.” At the end of the video is a plea for the viewer to reframe her or his worldview and donate to provide clean water to Haiti. And it reminded me of “KONY2012.” Not that Invisible Children or WATERisLIFE intended for their causes to become lifelessly viral, but both of these campaigns have given us very one-dimensional views of the developing world: Africa has child soldiers and Haiti has bad water. “First world problems” has done something similar, but only insofar as pointing out what the non-“first world” does not have: iPhones, Wi-Fi, being confused for lying, etc.
It may seem insignificant to pick at this flash-in-the-pan Twitter trend; it probably doesn’t anger people in Africa, as they’re not getting any less aid from America than they were before. But I think “first world problems” potentially has had an impact on our generation’s worldview. It could have been put to decent use (better than the pompous WATERisLIFE campaign), but instead it has just made the mere conversation of the first-/third-world disparity a little hollower. All we can really learn here was best said by Orwell: “(If) one jeers loudly enough, (one can) send some worn out and useless phrase … into the dustbin where it belongs.”
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1. Internally, the Center must rise.
This refers to lifting the perineum & anus in order to store qi in the dan tian. Without building up the qi here, it is useless to try anything else, as Xing Yi is an internal style.
2. The Three Centers must merge.
This refers to the centers of the crown, palms, & feet being engaged in the internal training of San Ti Shi. Dr. Yang calls this Five Gates Breathing, as the basic idea is the same. When the Three Centers breath with you, you've taken a huge step towards "Threading the body into One," which is a major mechanical & energetic concept in Xing Yi.
3. The Three Intentions must link.
This refers to Xing Yi's Inner Three Harmonies, which forms the root of power generation. In this context, the Intention's ability to control & refine the Xin, qi, & strength is emphasized. Again, the Internal Style is obvious, as the body is progressivly subordinated to the mind. Ideally, thought & action become simultaneous.
4. The Five Phases must be smooth.
This refers to the proper practice of the Five Fists. If the Five Fists are not understood & trained properly then nothing else can possibly be correct. The Five Fists are the essential motions of this style, the clearest presentation of the fundamental mechanics. In addition, the Single Training Method of Xing Yi is detailed very well in the most common versions of the five Fists. Everything else is a matter of variation when the Five Fists are well practiced & understood.
5. The Four Tips must be even.
This refers to the tongue, teeth, nails, & hair, which are considered the external manifestations of ones internal condition. The tongue is the tip of the muscle. The Teeth are the tip of the bones. The nails are the tip of the tendons. The hair is the tip of the blood. This is usually confusing to people when they're just starting to learn Xing Yi's Internal Methods, but it's not all that complicated. Essentially, the quality & quantity of qi permeating these Four Tips indicates the level of development attained internally. The Four Tips are a sort of biofeedback type of exercise, in that the focus is on leading the qi from the dan tian to distal points in order to improve sensitivity & articultion.
6. The Heart must be relaxed.
This refers to keeping calm when practicing & fighting. Calm must be the foundation for all practice, in order to advance in an orderly fashion. Losing sight of the big picture during a fight can get you killed, or worse.
7. The Three Tips must match.
This refers to an extremly importan concept with many names. The Three Tips are the nose, index finger, & big toe. "Matching," means keeping them in alignment, also know as Three Points on a Line, & Outer Three Harmonies. When standing, the lead hand & foot are oriented according to the nose, which is short hand for the central line of the body. When the lead hand & foot align with central line, then everything along that line is protected. Crotch, Solar Plexus, Throat, & Nose are all on the central line, & all favored targets of anyone who has ever fought or practiced martial arts.
8. The Eyes must be poisonous.
This refers to the proper spirit. Fighting Spirit, the drive to never give up, is key to winning. Xing Yi's Spirit is brave, strong, & resolute. When you have a strong & brave Spirit, your eyes will shine brightly. But why is it said the eyes are "poisonous?" Xing Yi's Strategy is aggressive, & the spirt of a Xing Yi Boxer must reflect that. An enemy should feel uncomfortable when facing you. Your fighting spirit should be strong, reflecting your intention to win quickly & decisivly. | <urn:uuid:cc7de5d0-589e-443c-b942-7332cc7765cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ymaa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=25015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00202-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940224 | 827 | 1.585938 | 2 |
U.K. Inflation Rate Rises to Highest in a Year on Motor Fuelby
Core inflation slows to 1.2% from 1.4% as air fares tumble
Inflation well below 2% target supports no BOE action on rates
U.K. inflation climbed to its highest in a year in January, driven by motor fuels, food and clothing.
Consumer prices rose an annual 0.3 percent following a 0.2 percent gain in December, in line with the median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, slowed to 1.2 percent from 1.4 percent, the figures from the Office for National Statistics in London show.
Inflation remains well below the Bank of England’s 2 percent target. With oil prices remaining near a 12-year low and pay pressures weakening, officials say that the economy doesn’t yet warrant a rate increase from a record-low 0.5 percent. Clouding the economic outlook is the prospect of a referendum as early as June on Britain’s membership of the European Union, which may hurt investor sentiment and consumer confidence.
“There isn’t enough inflationary pressure to worry the BOE,” said James Knightley, an economist at ING Bank NV in London. “Indeed, with the upcoming Brexit vote uncertainty potentially risking a loss of economic momentum as firms pull back on imminent job hiring and investment, BOE policy will remain stable until after the referendum.”
Central to the outlook for rates is pay growth, which has come off the boil in recent months despite unemployment reaching a decade low. The statistics office will report data on jobs and wages on Wednesday.
The main driver behind the pickup in inflation last month was motor fuel, which fell by 2.6 percent compared with a 6.8 percent decline a year earlier. Food prices also fell by less than they did in January 2015, as did clothing and footwear, while alcoholic-drink prices rose by more than a year earlier. These pressures were partially offset by air fares, which dropped 36 percent following an upward surge in December.
The pound gained after the report and was trading at $1.4453 as of 11:03 a.m. in London, up 0.1 percent from Monday.
In their February inflation report, BOE officials said they see inflation at 1.2 percent in the first quarter of next year, down from a projection of 1.5 percent in November.
On the month, consumer prices fell 0.8 percent, with core prices declining 1 percent. Separate figures show producer prices falling 0.1 percent in January as input costs declined 0.7 percent. House-price growth slowed to 6.7 percent in December, with London easing to 9.4 percent. For 2015 as a whole, U.K. house prices rose 6.7 percent. | <urn:uuid:188c47f9-8c84-4507-be5a-0e80e7355b07> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-16/u-k-inflation-rate-rises-to-highest-in-a-year-on-motor-fuel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00323-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960154 | 595 | 1.75 | 2 |
License plates l
If you want to make license plates for your vehicle you can go to a specialized center or buy them online. In either case you will need to present or send documentation, so that they can register who is requesting it, what car it is for and how many plates are made.
You will have to make a new plate for any accessory or trailer that covers the license plate of your car. It is also very common to do this procedure if you want to replace a deteriorated license plate or change the old metal plates for the new acrylic polycarbonate ones.
Of course, you can only make license plates for cars that are already registered. That is to say, the registration and circulation taxes have been paid and the formalities have been carried out at the Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). This is the only way you will have the necessary documentation for this procedure.
If the vehicle you want to register does not have the documentation, we recommend you to take a look at the following article to know the necessary steps for your car to have everything in order:
What is the license plate of a car
The license plate is a combination of alphabetical or numerical characters that identifies and individualizes the vehicle with respect to the others; it is represented on a metal or plastic plate on which the characters are engraved or adhered in an unalterable way.
In most countries, automobiles, as well as other vehicles of a minimum engine displacement, must have one plate with the license plate on the front and another on the rear, although in some places or on some types of vehicles only the rear plate is required.
Exempt from the above format are vehicles of the Diplomatic Corps, Consular Corps, Non-Governmental Organizations, International Mission, Departmental Government and some vehicles of the Police, Armed Forces and Emergency Services.
Some police and fire vehicles have the following format: PNX 123 and the inscription NATIONAL POLICE at the bottom (X referring to the department, e.g.: PNL 456 corresponding to a patrol car).
What is the license plate number of a car?
The Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT) clearly specifies that the application for a new license plate number is only accepted when the vehicle has an acronym from a province other than the domicile of the interested party. In addition, it is essential to previously request the issuance of a new technical inspection card at an ITV station with a copy of the registration certificate and the old technical data sheet.
On the other hand, if you suffer a theft of the license plate or it is very deteriorated, it is not necessary to go to the Traffic facilities. It is enough to go to a specialized store and ask for a new one. It is obvious that you must provide all the vehicle documents and the vehicle registration certificate. In this case, the license plate will be new but with the same digits and letters as the original one.
World license plates
However, this is only the result of a process that began in 1900 with the so-called provincial numerical system. Its structure was as follows: B-012345, with the letter referring to the province in which the vehicle was registered. It was used for 5.4 million cars, and lasted until 1971, when the alphanumeric provincial system – B-1234-AB – came into force, which allowed up to 262 million combinations.
Unlike those mentioned above, in the case of license plates for trailers, the background color does vary. White gives way to red in this plate to identify trailers and semi-trailers. In terms of structure, it starts with a letter on the left -R- and is followed by a combination of four digits and three letters.
From the red of the license plate for trailers, we move on to blue for Taxis and VTC. This shade has been in force since 2018, when Order PCI/810/2018 was approved in order to put an end to labor intrusiveness in the sector and distinguish professionals more easily. The structure is identical to that of an ordinary license plate, with four digits and three letters. | <urn:uuid:7512226d-961b-4833-b2c8-9fa16eea6dbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paulhemphill.net/registrations/where-is-d-car-registration-from/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.940996 | 855 | 2.40625 | 2 |
New York (Aug. 8)
A prayer book for the Jewish blind, printed in Braille, will be ready for publication at an early date. The material for this prayer book is being gathered under the direction of Mrs. Joshua Piza of New York City, under the auspices of the National Council of Jewish Women.
Mrs. Piza has been associated with organizations devoted to the needs of the blind, as well as with movements interested in sight conservation. The recommendation to prepare this publication was presented by her at the recent conference of the Council which gave its approval to this publication.
The Council has already issued a similar book for the Jewish handicapped, the prayer book for the Deaf, which was prepared by Mrs. Sidney M. Stern of Philadelphia. | <urn:uuid:7222ccf1-bab9-43a2-8b4a-9844fb76ff86> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jta.org/1924/01/01/archive/prayer-book-for-jewish-blind-to-be-issued | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00282-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975471 | 155 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The course begins with an introduction to STM32F microcontroller families and focuses on Cortex-M3/M4 architectures.
The course continues with an in-depth study of the memory organization, reset unit, interrupts handling, low power modes, and all the SoC peripherals such as I/O ports, ADC, RTC, USART, I2C, DAC, TSC, SPI, CAN, USB, Timers, Op-Amps, embedded comparators, HDMI, DMA and CRC.
The course also employs hardware and software design tools, and combines 50% theory with 50% practical work in every meeting.
|Key Topics||STM32F 4 architectures and features set.|
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Hering was more concerned with the introspective aspects of colours. He also spent considerable time investigating the eye’s perception of three-dimensional space. His work on colour refers to the problem of yellow in the three-colour-system, for example. According to Helmholtz, yellow was of necessity produced from a mixture of red and green, but this — so Hering realised — was not in line with human experience. The sensation of yellow is elementary, and not traceable to a mixture. Hering states that there are, in addition to black and white, four colours which «can occur without a tinge of another colour» and recommends that «each visual perception» can be seen as a «mixture of the six basic sensations» which oppose each other and thus interact. (Detailed text)
Date: In 1878, the physiologist Ewald Hering published his On the Theory of Sensibility to Light in Vienna, which opposed the purely phenomenal or physical understanding of colours.
Country of origin: Austria
Basic colours: Blue, red, yellow and blue
Form: Blue, red, yellow and blue
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A workout routine should be based on realistic goals, good research, commitment and consistency. Be realistic in your expectations when setting up your goals. Make sure you have enough free time to dedicate to your routine. Once you pick a workout routine, stick to it.
Working out regularly is a must if you are on a mission to build muscles. Exercise should be combined with a good diet and plenty of recovery time between sessions. Ambitions for achieving goals quickly can drive us to over exercise and put our health at risk.
Ask anyone the simple question: How to gain weight? and I guarantee you that their answer will be just as simple: Eat more! It is stating the obvious, but you do need to eat more to gain more. Eating matters.
Fitness apps on your mobile can be a great motivational tool. Find the application which reflects your personal objectives, set it up properly, use it and you are making the technology work for you. You do the hard work, the app logs it. Seeing the changes in the numbers as you progress gives you an instant boost.
Our obsession with appearance and body image seems to be stronger than ever. Whether it’s bigger biceps and pecs or a six pack, we are all in pursuit of the perfect body. Establishing a few rules of thumb would ensure a smooth ride to your perfect body.
Eating the right foods at right intervals and following an appropriate diet, are the key factors to gain weight. Working out alone is not going to do the trick. You need to exercise your muscles to encourage them to grow, but you also need to provide them with the right nutrition and diet.
Exercise is the most important part of muscle building. You don’t need me to tell you how important and obvious working out is. Your muscles need to be worked out if you want them to grow and get ripped (or toned, or defined if you prefer). Why?
The most important factor in muscle building is nutrition. Your nutrition should be based on carbohydrates and protein. Why? Carbohydrates are a perfect source of energy for your body and your body uses protein to repair and grow your muscles. You can’t expect your muscles to grow just because you work out. Your muscles need their fuel. And they need that fuel regularly. | <urn:uuid:9d16c904-3759-43c9-ba95-2b7deb67f993> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://skinnymuscles.com/page/16/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.959713 | 472 | 2 | 2 |
Walmart is making two major changes to its stores to make shopping easier.
First, the retailer is cutting down on the number of products it sells in its giant supercenters, The Wall Street Journal's Sarah Nassauer reports.
Instead of selling six different sizes of the same brand of ketchup, for example, the stores will only sell one or two sizes of the condiment.
The retailer has already cut roughly 2,500 items from its supercenters, which typically carry about 120,000 products, according to Nassauer.
Walmart is also making a change to its store aesthetics.
The company is lowering the height of shelves near checkout areas by roughly 1 foot to make it easier for shoppers to see the whole store when they walk inside, Nassauer reports.
That may seem like a relatively minor change, but it will "wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales of gum, candy and magazines," she writes.
We reached out to Walmart for comment and will update when we hear back.
Both decisions by Walmart are causing friction with suppliers because they will result in lost sales, according to Nassauer.
But Walmart needs to improve its stores to drive traffic and sales growth.
Walmart's stock took a beating this month when the company revised its profit-and-sales outlook for the year. It said profit could drop by as much as 12% next year and that sales this year will likely be flat, compared to growth of 1% to 2% that was predicted in February.
The news sent shares plunging by as much as 10%, marking the retailer's worst one-day drop in more than a decade.
Walmart's problems stem in part from its business model, which is becoming outdated, according to some analysts.
For decades, Walmart reaped huge profits by keeping employees' wages low and using its massive share of the retail market to negotiate the cheapest prices from suppliers.
But now Walmart is raising wages to attract and retain workers in an increasingly competitive retail labor market, and that's eating into profits.
The retailer is also facing growing competition on pricing and ecommerce from a number of companies, including Amazon, Costco, and Aldi.
Walmart has been investing heavily in its stores and in ecommerce to fend off its rivals.
The company recently brought back greeters to its stores to improve customer service and hired "asset-protection specialists" to check customer receipts and help reduce theft.
Walmart has also been pouring money into its online business. The company planned to invest between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion in ecommerce this year and will spend even more next year, Walmart CFO Charles Holley told analysts in February.
Walmart has been using the money to make its website more user-friendly, open additional ecommerce fulfillment centers around the US, and expand the number of products available for purchase on its website.
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The Suburban Skating School provides nationally recognized Learn to Skate programming within our communities in a professional, inclusive and safe environment. Our passionate staff empowers individuals to pursue various avenues of skating and achieve their goals, be it in figure skating or ice hockey. Skating with us is a fun way to build confidence while finding health, happiness and opportunities on the ice.
Summer Session - 6 weeks
July 27th - August 31st
Fall 1 Session - 6 weeks
September 6th - October 15th
*Fall 1 Class Schedule Coming Soon
August 22, 2022
Tuesdays & Saturdays - 6 weeks
Fridays AM & PM - 5 weeks
*No classes September 16
Fall 2: October 25 - December 17, 2022
Winter 1: January 8 - February 20, 2023
Please be aware of these important changes to our Learn to Skate program for the 2022 - 2023 Season:
Learn to Skate will be scheduled on Tuesdays from 4:50pm-7:35pm (switching from Wednesdays)
Learn to Skate will remain the same on Friday mornings/afternoons (9:30am-10:30am and 2:00pm-3:00pm)
Learn to Skate will be shifted 15 minutes earlier from our regular schedule on Saturdays - 9:20am-11:35am
The ASPIRE Program and LTS Dance class will be moved to Friday from 5:40pm-6:30pm (this is a tentative time)
Please check this page for further updates.
*prices reflect 6 week sessions
Please be aware that helmets are required for skaters 6 & Under
ANNUAL LTS USA MEMBERSHIP ($17.25):
This fee is mandatory and will be automatically included in your first session fee each season.
The Learn to Skate USA Season Runs July 1 Through June 30
New Class Offerings!
Ice Explorers ($60): For children Ages 2.5 to 4 to ease into getting on the ice prior to Learn to Skate Snowplow Sam classes. Novi Ice Arena’s Ice Explorers combines off-ice and on-ice sessions to introduce children to the rink, ice safety, and beginner skating skills in a fun and safe environment. Although not required, we encourage parents to join the class with their children. Helmets are required in this class. Please note that the participating adult must already know how to skate.
Essential Off-Ice ($60 OR $40 if enrolled in Adult/Teen class or are a SCN Member. Contact Skating Director to receive discount): Essential off-ice is an off-ice training program for Learn to Skate teens and adults, Skating Club of Novi students and Novi Learn to Skate parents. Essential Off-Ice aims to help skaters improve their skating skills and use ice time more effectively by focusing on off-ice strength, flexibility, stamina, and agility. Make friends, have fun, and incorporate the Essential Off-Ice learning experience into your personal warm-up routine.
Fit Skate ($100): Fit Skate invites current or former competitive, professional, and recreational skaters alike to enjoy the benefits of a workout program while utilizing on-ice skills. The program includes high-intensity interval training methods with on-ice skating techniques to create fun and effective total body workouts that are inclusive for all skaters.
Hockey Stride ($100 OR $40 if enrollee is also currently enrolled in the Hockey Development Program): This class is a skating skill program for beginners to explore their interest in hockey while learning edge control, stride efficiency, power, and agility. Hockey Stride is also a valuable supplement for skaters in the Hockey Development Program. Hockey Stride is open to all skaters who have passed Learn to Skate USA Basic 3 or above. Hockey gear is encouraged but not necessary.
Parent Tot ($110): For skaters ages 3-5 with little or no skating experience. Learn basic balance and skating skills in a fun, introductory class with a parent or trusted adult. Helmets are required in this class. Please note that the participating adult must already know how to skate.
Snowplow 1 ($110): For skaters ages 3-5 with little or no skating experience. Learn the basics of skating skills in an age appropriate setting. Classes feature low student-to-instructor ratios. Helmets are required in this class.
Snowplow 2-4 ($100): For skaters ages 3-5 who have passed Snowplow 1 or equivalent. Once skaters pass Snowplow 3/4, they advance to Basic 2. Helmets are required in these classes.
Pre-Free Skate – Free Skate 6 ($135): Classes build on previous skills, providing skaters a strong foundation of all elements. Instruction will focus on more advanced figure skating skills including jumps, spins, and edge work. Free Skate Class include 60 minutes of instruction and do not include practice time.
Basic 1 ($100): For skaters 6 & older. Learn the basic fundamentals of skating to begin hockey, figure skating, and speed. Helmets are required for ages 6 and under. Helmets are highly recommended for all beginner skaters.
Basic 2-6 ($100): Skaters who have passed Basic 1 or Snowplow Sam 3. Classes cover the basic fundamental skating skills that will build on each level as the skater progresses. Helmets are required for children six and under. Helmets are highly recommended for all beginner skaters.
12 & Older:
Teen/Adult ($100): For skaters 14 & older. Classes are designed for the mature skater interested in learning how to skate. Helmets are highly recommended for all beginner skaters.
($100): For skaters ages 6 and up who have passed Basic 6 and above. Learn the prime components of ice dance such as basic edges and turns through learning the first six dance patterns in the U.S. Figure Skating test structure while performing and interpreting to different musical genres.
($150): Open to skaters who have passed Basic 5 and above who are ready to take the next steps to becoming a figure skater. Through the development of athleticism and artistry, skaters build a solid skill foundation that drives success on and off the ice. Program includes on-ice and off-ice training and is open to skaters of all ages. Aspire includes 1 hour of on-ice instructional time plus a 20-minute off-ice class. Aspire skaters may also enroll in corresponding leveled classes for 50% OFF. This additional class must be booked through the Skating Director, Danielle Gamelin. Email firstname.lastname@example.org to register. Please note that an ASPIRE or USFS Membership is required for participation in the ASPIRE Program. Please reach out to the Skating Director for more information.
Learn to Skate Private Lessons:
($25): 30 minutes of private instruction with one of our Suburban Skating School Instructors. Current Learn to Skate students will be given priority in booking a Learn to Skate Private Lesson. If you would like to register, please contact the Skating Director, Danielle Gamelin with your skater’s age, skating level, and desired lesson date and time (available on Wednesdays 4:50-7:35 PM or Saturdays 9:35-11:50 AM). Learn to Skate Private Lessons are offered on a very limited basis and must be booked at least 24 hours in advance.
Online Registration: Registration is available online through our website.
Current Student Registration: Current students may register for the next session after their evaluation the 2nd to last week of the session. It is recommended to do so to reserve their spot.
Open Registration: This is open to the public as well as skaters who were not enrolled in the previous session.
Skate Rental: Skate rental may be prepaid at the time of registration. Skates are also available for rental on a day-to-day basis. Skate Rental is non-refundable.
FREE Open Skate Pass: Enrolled LTS skaters receive a free open skate pass which can be used for one open skate session during the entire session that they are enrolled. The skater must present the pass to the front desk when paying for open skate. The pass will expire the last day of the LTS session.
Refund Policy: Please be aware there is a no refund policy.
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The US government has continued to press Turkey over alleged human rights abuses committed by its proxies in northeast Syria, but according to a new watchdog report, Washington is “not fully satisfied” with Ankara’s response.
The State Department remained “deeply concerned” by alleged rights violations in parts of Syria seized during Turkey’s military operations against Kurdish fighters in October 2019, according to a quarterly inspector general's report on Operation Inherent Resolve, the official name for the US mission against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq.
US officials received reports of “killings, torture, kidnapping, extortion, arbitrary detentions and denial of water access to half a million civilians” in areas under the control of Turkey-backed Syrian opposition groups. Of particular concern, the report said, was documented violence against displaced Kurds as well as Yazidis in Afrin and Christians in Ras al-Ain.
“Turkish officials informed the US government that they take this matter seriously and support investigations of the allegations by the Syrian opposition,” the report said, adding that the State Department did not find its engagements with Turkey satisfying.
Why it matters: In the more than one year since Turkey launched an incursion into northeast Syria, rights groups continue to document abuses carried out by the Syrian National Army (SNA), an umbrella group of both moderate and hard-line Syrian rebel factions allied with Turkey.
Turkey’s border operation targeting the People’s Protection Unit (YPG), a Kurdish militia that makes up the backbone of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, sent a wave of refugees spilling across the border into neighboring Iraq. The State Department estimates more than 70,000 civilians who fled during the Turkish offensive remain displaced, many of them afraid to return to SNA-controlled areas where arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and confiscation of property are commonplace.
What’s next: Turkey’s actions in northeast Syria have complicated an already tense relationship with the United States, which in December sanctioned Ankara over its acquisition of Russia’s S-400 air defense systems.
The NATO allies got into a tit-for-tat last week after the Biden administration condemned Turkish officials for their use of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and recent arrests of student protesters.
A senior Turkish official then accused the United States of involvement in Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt, prompting a stern rebuke from the State Department, which called the comments "inconsistent with Turkey’s status as a NATO ally and strategic partner of the United States."
During their call last week, the White House said national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Turkish presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalim discussed “managing disagreements effectively.” According to the Turkish readout of the call, the war in Syria was among the topics discussed.
Know more: Cengiz Candar writes that hopes for a reset in US-Turkey relations are unrealistic given the state of human rights in Turkey. For more on the country's Syrian rebel proxies, read up on a recent Human Rights Watch report accusing Ankara of transferring Syrians to Turkey on dubious terrorism charges. | <urn:uuid:e4f0c7e7-6c71-4738-8c17-19bb01691dcc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/02/turkey-syria-ig-report-us-not-satisfied-rebel-group-proxy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.950025 | 644 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Background: Young women have been reported to be more likely to survive than men after severe trauma. Girls also have less inflammation and hypermetabolism after major burns. Yet burned women have been found to have a twofold greater risk of death than men. Our aim was to find out if there is a sex-related difference in mortality after thermal injury, particularly in the age group between 16 years and 49 years, when hormonal differences would be most influential.
Methods: All patients admitted to the Linköping University Hospital Burn Unit with thermal injuries during the years 1993-2008 were included and the variables percentage burned total body surface area (TBSA%), age, type of burn, mechanical ventilation, and year were included in a multiple regression (Poisson log) model.
Results: Of 1,119 patients with thermal injury, 792 (71%) were men. Crude mortality was 5% among men, and 8% among women (p = 0.04). After adjustment for age and TBSA%, there was no correlation between mortality and sex, in any age group. Eight men and four women died in the group of young adults (16-49 years) in which TBSA% correlated with mortality (p < 0.01) but age did not. Mortality was 14% (32 of 221) among the men and 23% (23 of 102) of women in the group of older adults (50 years and older), and both age and TBSA% correlated with mortality (p < 0.001).
Conclusions: There is no relevant sex-related difference in survival after thermal injury. The conclusion is, however, tempered by the few deaths, particularly among younger adults. | <urn:uuid:e8d0e29c-abcd-4dfa-bf12-2204c73c13ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20693914/?access_num=20693914&link_type=MED&dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972255 | 342 | 2.421875 | 2 |
World Bulletin / News Desk
Dozens of Jewish settlers on Wednesday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where they tried to perform Talmudic rituals, a Palestinian official said.
"Some 176 settlers, backed by Israeli special forces, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound since this morning," Al-Aqsa Mosque Director Sheikh Omar al-Qiswani told Anadolu Agency.
The Jewish settlers tried to perform Talmudic rituals near the Al-Qibali mosque and the Dome of the Rock but they were prevented from doing so by Muslim worshipers and the mosque guards,” he said.
Al-Qiswani added that the Israeli police arrested one of the mosque's guards and took him to the detention center in the old city.
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa represents the world's third holiest site. Jews, for their part, refer to the area as the "Temple Mount," claiming it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. It later annexed the city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the Jewish state in a move never recognized by the international community.
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Cliffs & Castles: Hiking The Wales Coast Path
All 1,000-plus miles of Wales' dramatic coastline are now accessible to hikers and equestrians thanks to a newly-completed path that rings the entire country.
The new Wales Coast Path links together existing trails, taking in some of the most undeveloped stretches of cliffs and beaches, along with old-fashioned, family-owned inns. Trekkers can hike and haul their own packs or enlist companies like Celtic Trails or Contours Walking Holidays to transfer their belongings between B&Bs. Horseback-riding trips are set to be introduced along the route this year, too.
Celtic Trails offers a 10-day guided walk around the Llˆyn Coastal Path, a scenic, 90-mile section of the WCP that winds its way over the rolling hills and seashore cliffs of Wales’ northern peninsula. Each day, you’ll pass by ancient forts and castles—including Edward I’s famed Caernarfon—and through quaint villages en route to a nightly layover at a comfortable bed & breakfast. From $1,401 per person. | <urn:uuid:4f102fd8-ac8b-4e6d-84d9-7cd6d8e9f696> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theactivetimes.com/best-adventure-travel-2013-wales | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.930501 | 247 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715—1771)
French philosopher; born in Paris January, 1715; died there Dec. 26, 1771. He studied at the College Louis-le Grand, and in 1738 received the lucrative post of farmer-general, which, however, he soon exchanged for the position of chamberlain to the queen. Tiring of the idle and dissipated life of the court, he married in 1751, and retired to a small estate at Vore, in Perche, where he devoted himself chiefly to philosophical studies. He visited England in 1764, and the following year he went to Germany, where he was received with distinction by Frederick II. He was one of the Encyclopedists, and held the skeptical and materialistic views common to that school of philosophy. His principal works are: De l'esprit (Paris, 1758; Eng. transl., De l'Esprit: or, Essays on the Mind, London, 1759), which, condemned by the Sorbonne and publicly burned at Paris, was translated into most European languages, and read more than any other book of the time; and the posthumous De l'homme, de ses facultes intellectuelles et de son Mucation (2 vols., London, 1772; Eng. transl., A Treatise on Man; his Intellectual Faculties and his Education, 2 vols.).
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Did your grand parents use Epsom salt for something more than a hot tub bath after a hard day’s work? In addition to human health and wellness, it can help garden plants thrive, too. Epsom salt, Magnesium Sulfate, gets it’s name from the town of Epsom, England, where it was first distilled from water in the late 1500’s. It works to correct a magnesium or sulfur deficiency in the soil as an “organic fertilizer.”
Magnesium is an essential element in the chlorophyll molecule that allows plants to be able to convert light into energy. Photosynthesis is the chemical process that makes this conversion of light into energy-rich glucose molecules using water and carbon dioxide. It is the basis for life.1 Magnesium aids in nitrogen and phosphorus absorption and helps seeds germinate. Sulfur is an ingredient in two of the amino acids, methionine and cysteine, necessary to synthesize proteins. It also aids in other nutrient absorption. The chemical compound, magnesium sulfate, is a highly soluble soil amendment, which means it can be absorbed by plants through their leaves as well as through their roots. It is also pH neutral, so it will not alter the soil pH. It promotes growth, color and overall plant health.2
Before you plant, add one cup of Epsom salt to every 100 square feet of soil. Mix it in thoroughly. If you have already planted, lightly sprinkle it over the newly planted area and water in with a hose sprinkler. Once plants are established, make a liquid fertilizer mixture of one tablespoon Epsom Salt to each gallon of water and apply four times during the season.3 Tomatoes and peppers are prone to magnesium deficiency. Add a tablespoon or two per hole before planting seeds or transplants and supplement with the liquid as they grow and develop fruit.
Epsom salt can revitalize your garden. It does not cause a chemical build up in the soil or harm plants when used. Many gardeners credit their garden success to Epsom salt applications.
Additional Articles in the April 2014 Issue:
- A reminder to review and rotate three types of items in your 72 hour emergency kit.
- A discussion of the importance of “duck and cover” in surviving a nuclear attack
- What are your plans to provide protein in your diet in an emergency situation? Here are some items to add to your supplies …
- Are members of your family hearing impaired that might not hear a smoke alarm?
- Our featured contributor this month is Tess Pennington of ReadyNutrition.com. She shares an article about Bio Mass Briquettes. Now you’ll have an environmentally friendly use for those shredded documents.
- Sun Ovens are a perfect partner for bio mass briquettes, here’s how …
- Some of our friends have complained that their yards were so shady that they doubted they could grow anything in a garden. In answer to their questions, here are some plants that can be grown in shade. Don’t give up on your yard either. Read more …
- We can all be prepared to take the initiative to save a life, should we be faced with a life or death situation. Here are three critical first aid procedures that can be accomplished with one dressing.
- Our Solar Chef has included a wonderful recipe for Solar Stuffed Shells. Give it a try, these are yummy.
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| "We are an unimaginative lot when it comes to naming things."|
The title of this article is conjectural.
- "But you're Captain Jack Sparrow. You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. You sacked Nassau port without firing a shot. Are you the pirate I've read about or not?"
- ―Elizabeth Swann
The Sack of Nassau was a legendary adventure that Captain Jack Sparrow endured, being famed for "sacking it without firing a shot". He arrived in Nassau port at the wrong time, when Black Smoke James invaded it and tried to seize the position as magistrate (governor). But Jack managed to defeat him after he did not withdraw his attack.
Jack Sparrow headed to the port during that time, and encountered the magistrate in his mansion, where he barricaded himself. The magistrate mistook Jack to be James himself, so Jack took the advantage and ordered for all of his people to leave and leave the island to him. But he had to go talk with Black Smoke James himself in order to keep his promise. But he could not convince Black Smoke to leave, as he was intending to pillage the island. Jack rescued several endangered villagers from the attackers and had them quench fires so that he could escort them to a boat at the harbor. He did this, and he protected the villagers as they fled to the boat, because some of the enemy crew were still shooting and hacking at them. The boat sank, but the magistrate thanked "Black Smoke" for helping him. But he had to get off the island himself, still under attack by the enemy crewmembers. He dodged cannon fire as he fled across the docks, and reached King George's Amnesty, Black Smoke's flagship. He had to fight the pirate in his cloud of black smoke by throwing explosive kegs at him in his smokescreen, and then attacked him with his sword. Black Smoke was defeated, and swore revenge on Jack as he disappeared. Jack did not fire his pistol once during the entire event, and was thus famed for it.
- In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow, he has a fictionalized version of the event where Elizabeth Swann is at his side during the encounter. This is a story told to Barbossa in the captain's cabin of the Black Pearl while he is in captivity, which is also part of a story told to Alberto Chaves as he is on the gallows in Fort Alvo Grande, telling his adventures as last words.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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I love your reference to Wayne and his words resonates with my ongoing exploration of the body and technology. Although, I have struggled to answer your question as I seem to have taken an anthropocentric stance.
from Comments for Helen’s EDC blog http://ift.tt/2jMkmuH
At the start of my blog I shared a post regarding children and technology. Today, whilst reading Nigel Welwyn (2016) ‘Is Technology Good for Education?’ , I questioned the use of technology in the classroom and if the most appropriate systems and tools are being used within education. Although research is evolving we still don’t know the implications of our children being raised by technology. Will they have a fragmented connection with the world or will they have a lack of empathy and physical connection with others? Over the years there has been discussion regarding the increased interaction with technology and if the exposure will change the way children think and focus.
The article ‘Determining the Effects of Technology on children‘ by Hatch (2011) discussed the positive and negative sides to technology in and out of the classroom. However, I still wonder the implications of a world where technology is unavoidable and how social relationships and connections between human and nature could be jeopardised if the exposure is not monitored.
Now, I enjoyed Haraway (2007) after reading it a couple of times as it wasn’t only long but hard for me to digest in one reading. I found myself skimming words and having to go back as I found my brain going in to lazy mode/meltdown. I’m not sure if it is the amount of reading that I’m doing on a whole for the course or the time of day that I find myself sitting down to papers. Colin, one of my EDC peers, thankfully posted a youTube video of Haraway on twitter and what an interesting ‘human’ she is! It makes a difference having words animated by the person. The use of body language, facial expressions, tone of voice and timing all come into play as I got a sense of her as a person and I was not only engaged but reacting to her words. The body/mind dualism helped me process the power of consciousness.
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Samsung printers were deemed vulnerable after researchers discovered a hard-coded backdoor administrator account that could enable attackers to rewrite firmware or read network information.
The account can be accessed via the Simple Network Management Protocol interface and enables intruders to collect information from any device tied in to the network. The same security advisory emphasizes that Dell printers manufactured by Samsung are prone to the same vulnerability, enabling arbitrary code execution.
“A remote, unauthenticated attacker could access an affected device with administrative privileges,†according to the security advisory. “Secondary impacts include: the ability to make changes to the device configuration, access to sensitive information (e.g., device and network information, credentials, and information passed to the printer), and the ability to leverage further attacks through arbitrary code execution.â€
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printers were also found vulnerable by a team of researchers at Columbia University, by using Remote Firmware Update to overwrite the printers’ off-the-shelf firmware. Although a HP spokesperson stated that “newer printers do require digitally signed firmware upgrades , and have since 2009â€, the two researcher from Columbia University said that printers already compromised cannot be fixed.
“If and when HP rolls out a fix, if a printer is already compromised, the fix would be completely ineffective. Once you own the firmware, you own it forever. That’s why this problem is so serious, and so different,†said Columbia researcher Ang Cui. “This is nothing like fixing a virus on your PC.â€
Since company printers are often tied in to local networks, the findings prove that previously unexplored attack vectors could lead to serious repercussions. US-CERT believes a viable solution to avoid such attacks would be to restrict access to the SNMP interface. | <urn:uuid:e8196b97-7e03-4078-bb7b-4a5ea06cdb40> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/serious-security-holes-exposed-in-samsung-hp-and-dell-printers-researchers-say-4614.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930559 | 385 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Brazilian corporation JBS, the world's biggest meat processors, paid a US$11 million bitcoin ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia.
United Nations officials do not use WhatsApp to communicate because it's not supported as a secure mechanism, a UN spokesman said on Thursday, after UN experts accused Saudi Arabia of using the online communications platform to hack the phone of Amazon chief executive and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.
Microsoft said on Monday it obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights activists, researchers and others.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's cell phones were allegedly targeted by a group of hackers who are also accused of breaching the devices of the investigators in a massive corruption probe, the justice ministry said on Thursday.
Brazil's federal police arrested four people for allegedly hacking the phone of Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, a key member of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's Cabinet who had previously been a renowned anti-corruption judge.
Voting machines pose serious risks to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US states, carries a cybersecurity flaw that was reported over a decade ago, the hackers claim.
UK media are reporting the information includes credit card details, residential addresses and email details but the airline said the hackers had not accessed itineraries or passport details.
President-elect Donald J. Trump, expressing skepticism about intelligence assessments of Russian interference in the US election, said that he knew “things that other people don’t know” about the hacking, and that the information would be revealed “Tuesday or Wednesday.” He also underlined that no computer is safe and recommended sending important information the old fashion way, write it out and have it delivered by courier.
The Argentine Senate had to cancel a debate scheduled for Wednesday to discuss digital duties following an alleged hackers attack. The bill looks to apply a new tax to the manufacturing of digital media players, whose earnings would go to writers and music composers. | <urn:uuid:a99f2d7a-d53f-4244-8315-0e4a8086e3ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.mercopress.com/tags/hackers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954108 | 448 | 1.945313 | 2 |
First of all, I won't write too much. But if you have some question ask me at the comments section.
Fabric – You need to determine the length. If you want a mini skirt then you probably need 30-40 cm, otherwise 50 cm should be enough. In my case I bought 50 cm of fabric. But measure yourself so you will know how much you need. Because of that you need a measuring tape . Of course you need also a scissor. I always use tracing wheel to copy pattern on the paper. And you need also zipper for the skirt.
Pattern - I'm using one from Burda Style, which you can download it here. Or you can even find a tutorial how to make your own pattern. It can be even a knee skirt, but that’s not important because you will make your length. One great tutorial how to make pattern and skirt is here
With my tracing wheel I will copy pattern on paper.
Find your size and fallow the lines
Now when you have patter on paper cut it ...
Put pattern on fabric . You will have seam on the both sides.
Use chalk or pen for fabric to draw your patter on fabric. Add 2 cm seam allowance.
Now a fun part! SEW SEW!!! First sew darts and then both sides of skirt.
Leave some place for zipper.... and install zipper ( cool tutorial here )
Try it and adjust skirt.
Make one line from rest of fabric or you can use other fabric to. It is line for waist..
Sew on right side.. after that turn it in. Hem skirt.
And that's it..... Now you have your own unique skirt!
Look with that skirt was in this post!
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Human microbiome: Boon or boondoggle for drugmakers?
SAN DIEGO – Although research about the human microbiome is in its infancy, the science is advancing rapidly, with observations about the microbiome signature in various disease states reported almost weekly in peer-reviewed journals. Carefully designed cause-and-effect experiments also are being conducted, and the findings are turning the heads of venture capitalists and big pharma. But the space is so large and unwieldy and the regulatory pathway so new that efforts to capitalize on the beneficial microorganisms that colonize the human body threaten to overwhelm small biotechs seeking to build drug discovery platforms.
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When architect Daniel Burnham wrote these famous words:
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.He had in mind L'enfant's plan for the city of Washington. Burnham was the leading spirit of the McMillan Commission, which in 1901 reformulated the plan and led to a major rebuilding of central Washington. The McMillan Plan gave us the mall, as a grand boulevard surrounded by monuments and museums, the Lincoln Memorial, the Tidal Basin with its cherry trees, and many other refinements. But Burnham and his colleagues preserved the basic geometric structure of L'enfant's original plan. That plan has indeed lived on, asserting itself in every generation. It is an amazing thing, that a person in the right time and place can so shape history with a few weeks of work. | <urn:uuid:62a5ab59-751e-430d-a89e-1a30df2fa587> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://benedante.blogspot.com/2010/06/no-little-plans.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00548-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960976 | 252 | 2.484375 | 2 |
(CNS): The year 2011 marks the 21st anniversary of the World Diabetes Day, the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes community, which was launched in 1991 on 14th November by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and World Health Organization (WHO) to draw attention to the already high number of people living with diabetes at that time (over a 100 million). But the situation seems to have worsened with every passing year.
Recent figures released by IDF paint a scary picture of the diabetes epidemic showing no signs of abatement. 366 million people worldwide are now living with the disease and many more are at risk; diabetes is responsible for 4.6 million deaths a year; it is among the top ten causes of disability resulting in devastating complications such as blindness and lower limb amputations; all nations- rich and poor- are suffering its impact, and the disease is hitting the poorest hardest. It is an increasing burden on global health system with an estimated $500 billion spent a year on it.
Keeping in mind this dismal scenario, the IDF and WHO are calling upon thousands of people from over 170 countries to join together to Act On Diabetes Now –the theme of this year's World Diabetes Day—with a view to put diabetes firmly in the public spot light and take corrective action. The reasons for this almost four times rise in the incidence in diabetes over a period of 21 years could be manifold. According to Mr Lorenzo Piemonte, Communications Coordinator at IDF, “Diabetes is strongly linked to urbanization, which is the case in many developing countries where 80% of the new diabetes cases are happening. As people have access to more wealth they adopt more western lifestyles, which results in an increased risk to developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease. It is often still considered the rich man's disease, but the numbers show that it hits the poor man the hardest even in developed countries, and is increasing in every country of the world with a disproportionate impact on the developing countries.”
Dr Gourdas Choudhuri, Professor and Head, Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), also agrees that Type2 diabetes (commonly called adult onset diabetes), is spiralling mainly because of unhealthy lifestyles. According to him, “Type2 diabetes has a very strong genetic component and the genes of this have been passed down for over generations in us Indians. Yet it was not as common in our forefathers as it is in us now. The reason for this is the changing environment and life style. If we have the genes, it definitely makes us more prone to diabetes, but it does not mean that we will necessarily develop the disease. But a very high consumption of high sugar and fat—much more than what the body needs – makes our bodies fertile ground for diabetes. A high Bone Mass Index (above 25) means that there are excess fat cells in the body, and fat cells are natural antagonism reaction of insulin. Therefore their presence contributes to insulin deficiency, which is the underlying cause of diabetes. Another reason is lack of exercise and sedentary life habits both in adults and children.”
So what is the best step forward, to counteract the onslaught of diabetes? Dr Choudhuri firmly believes that, “We need to exercise well, and eat healthy. Exercise not only brings the body weight down, it also improves glucose metabolism. It is also absolutely necessary to have healthy food options available in the market. It is a good sign that multinational fast food chains, which used to sell only calorie loaded dishes like burgers and pizzas, are slowly succumbing to the demands of health conscious people, and have started selling salads too, especially in the west. In India, as of now, that level of awareness is not there. But it is just a question of mindset. Once we perceive it is as a necessity, we are bound to consume healthier and low calorie foods. A positive start in this direction is the availability of sugar free ice creams and sweets, which are safer options for people living with diabetes. Again, 'Subway' outlets in India are selling a variety of healthy food options of brown bread, greens and salads.”
Dr Choudhuri further stresses: “I cannot overemphasize the importance of schools in inculcating good eating habits and healthy life styles in students. Several things need to change at the school level. Firstly, school timings are getting shorter, and the whole emphasis is on academics and scholastic achievements. A comprehensive development of the child is taking a back seat. Secondly, the extent of games and sports activities has come down sharply, probably because of lack of available time in school. This needs to be dealt with on a serious footing. We need a more inclusive approach to physical activities, and regular use of the games field should be made compulsory for all, and not just for those who are good at sport/athletics. The other issue is that schools need to play an active part in deciding what is sold in the school canteen, as is already happening in many developed countries. One of the good things that have started in the US and other countries is the ban on sale of cola drinks in and around the schools (not just in the canteen). Sugared soft drinks with empty calories are one of the major causes of obesity. We need to do that in India too. The canteen food in Indian schools is not healthy. It is generally deep fried stuff like samosas, bread pakoras and chhola bhaturas. School authorities have to be more sensitive to these issues, and ensure that healthy (and not junk) food is sold in the canteens. Also there should be no fast food shops located in the vicinity of schools. Healthy food does not mean boring and unpalatable food. In my own hospital here we coaxed our cafeteria guy to sell at least 5 food items which were very healthy and yet tasty. One is puffed rice with baked peas, which is a legume and has fibre and protein. Another option was to make a roll of roti instead of paratha stuffed with boiled vegetables which were tastily flavoured with different types of sauces. This became a huge success with the hospital staff. Such options should be made available in schools too.”
In September this year, the UN High Level Summit on Non Communicable Diseases, held in New York, brought diabetes to the attention of world leaders and put it on the global health agenda. Mr Piemonte rightly feels that, “14th November, this year, presents the perfect opportunity to build on the momentum generated by the Summit and produce a powerful and united voice calling on governments and decision makers to deliver on their commitments, which they made in September, to tackle the epidemic.”
If nothing is done to prevent a further rise, we would be looking at over half a billion people living with diabetes within a generation. So let us all join hands to help make a difference and achieve a healthy future. On the eve of this world diabetes day, the famous Taj Mahal of India will, for the first time, bathe in blue light, joining scores of other monuments worldwide, to show solidarity in the fight against diabetes. (CNS)
Shobha Shukla - CNS
(The author is the Managing Editor of Citizen News Service (CNS). She is a J2J Fellow of National Press Foundation (NPF) USA. She has worked earlier with State Planning Institute, UP and taught Physics at India's prestigious Loreto Convent for over three decades. Email: [email protected], website: http://www.citizen-news.org) | <urn:uuid:917a25cf-c442-4264-b625-a83d03d8517f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.modernghana.com/news/361142/act-on-diabetes-now-exercise-well-and-eat-healthy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959558 | 1,582 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Brain Damage Over 50 - Oren Zarif - Brain Damage
While it is important to seek medical attention for any injuries, brain damage is particularly serious if the person is over the age of 50. Acquired brain injury (ABI) refers to any damage to the brain after birth. Causes of ABI include diseases, injury, lack of oxygen, and even a blow to the head. The most common age group for ABI is the age 40 to 49, but it may be insidious in the early stages if the person has been consuming alcohol or drugs for a long period of time. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel in the brain breaks and damages local brain tissue.
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Epilepsy is one of the most common consequences of brain injury and occurs in about one in six Americans. Epilepsy can occur after a stroke or other brain injury, and most seizures occur within the first year. Seizures can include major, minor, or partial seizures. Some victims experience difficulty speaking or understanding spoken language, which may result in difficulty concentrating or changing their personality. Seizures can also affect senses such as taste and hearing, and can be a sign of serious brain damage.
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Brain damage can be treated in various ways, depending on the severity of the injury and the symptoms present. A medical professional should be consulted immediately if brain damage is suspected. A physician will perform a thorough neurological examination to determine the extent of brain damage, including any fractured bones in the skull, blood clots, and swelling in the brain. Proper safety measures should also be taken, such as wearing a seat belt or a helmet.
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Some people recover fully from a mild TBI, but moderate to severe TBI patients require rehabilitation. This may involve speech or physical therapy. A patient may require rehabilitation for weeks or months, while others may require months or even years to recover. It is important to note that brain injuries are not all the same, and each person recovers at different rates. Therefore, recovery from a mild to moderate TBI can take weeks, months, or even years.
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A traumatic brain injury may have many complications, including seizures. In addition to seizures, there may be additional injuries resulting from inflammation, bleeding, and a reduced oxygen supply to the brain. If there is evidence of an infection, anti-seizure drugs are given to the patient to reduce seizures and protect against further damage to the brain. Some injuries can result in surgical procedures, such as removing large blood clots or repairing fractured skulls.
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A traumatic brain injury may occur after a sudden movement of the head, such as a car accident. The severity of the damage depends on the type and force of the impact. Minor head injuries are the most common, but severe ones can result in permanent damage to the brain. Vehicle-related collisions and violent assaults can also cause brain damage. Despite the risk of traumatic brain injury, studies have shown that moderate and severe TBI are associated with a greater risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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Acute TBI may result in reduced coordination and balance. The individual may have trouble playing sports due to fatigue. In addition, they may have problems with paying attention and remembering new information. People with TBI may have difficulty paying attention, speaking slowly, or retaining information. They may also be confused when routines change, or struggle with sticking to a task. But, with proper medical care, depression can be treated. However, antidepressants should be used with caution, as they can alter the chemistry of the brain.
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In addition to the physical consequences of traumatic brain injury, people with a TBI may suffer from emotional changes. The brain controls every aspect of our bodily functions, including memory, and any changes in memory can lead to long-term or even permanent behavioral or personality issues. They may also experience pain or headaches. Some of these symptoms are permanent, while others are temporary. Acute TBI can even cause permanent disabilities. There is also an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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In addition to primary TBI, secondary TBI may occur hours or even days after the original trauma. This secondary brain injury may result in a series of chemical, tissue, and blood vessel changes that contribute to further degeneration of brain tissue. The most common types of head injuries for adults and children include falls, motor vehicle accidents, and violence. Even a shaken child can result in internal damage to the brain. When the injury occurs, medical staff will take the proper steps to restore normal function and prevent the development of chronic TBI. | <urn:uuid:476984dc-6d62-4032-962c-109e6d561398> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.multipowers.co.il/post/brain-damage-over-50-oren-zarif-brain-damage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.93117 | 1,062 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The following report comes from the Wall Street Journal: A joint town hall hosted by the GE Hispanic Forum and Telemundo takes place this evening on Capitol Hill where a discussion will be held on the impact of the 2010 Census on Hispanics as well as a Telemundo-sponsored effort, Hazte Contar! (Be Counted!), to increase awareness among Hispanics about participating in the once-a-decade count. There will also be a reception recognizing a bipartisan group of Hispanic lawmakers.
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If you thought that murder, rape, and drug abuse were the best stories to propel the plots of soap operas, think again, as these days it’s the 2010 Census that will keep telenovela audiences coming back for more:
Laura Martínez — Multichannel News, 2/18/2009 1:53:13 PM MT
When Spanish-language TV viewers tune in this spring for their daily fix of drama, their Telemundo telenovela will feature a tale of betrayal, passion, love — and Census awareness.
Starting April 1, Telemundo will kick off a company wide campaign to raise awareness among Spanish speaking Latinos about the upcoming 2010 Census and the importance of their participation in the process. Aptly named “¡Hazte contar!” (Be Counted!) the initiative will encompass all of Telemundo’s properties and is expected to last for one full year.
In addition to incorporating the Census theme into the storyline of its original telenovelas, Telemundo’s campaign is expected to encompass all of its properties across its broadcast, cable and digital platforms, as the company plans to reach not only the older, Spanish dominant viewers, but also the younger generations watching mun2 online and on the Web.
The idea, said Telemundo president Don Browne, is simple: “Our mission as a Hispanic media outlet is to inform, empower and inspire our audience,” Browne said in a recent interview. “And we cannot afford for our audience not to be ready for the Census.”
An important aspect of the Census awareness campaign touches on the scores of undocumented immigrants, who historically have been afraid of participating, fearing the census workers would turn them in if their migratory status isn’t clear. “There is certain fear that participating that giving information could be detrimental to their status,” said Browne. “But the idea here is that people don’t fear this process. It’s not a time to be invisible; it’s a time to be counted.”
There is a lot at stake. According to the Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey, 45.5 million or 15.1% of the U.S. population is Hispanic, making it the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. Based on population estimates, it is expected that between 2010 and 2050 the U.S. Hispanic population will triple, resulting in one in three people in the U.S. being of Hispanic origin.
But the Census is only the latest in a series of community-awareness topics that Telemundo has incorporated in its telenovelas. These include construction safety, diabetes, breast cancer awareness and citizenship awareness. In 2008 the network was recognized by the Hollywood, Health & Society for the construction safety-themed telenovela Pecados Ajenos (The Sins of Others) whose drama touched on the perils of construction work. | <urn:uuid:f050c72f-44d3-4b7b-b6fc-4ce97473a8a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mytwocensus.com/tag/hazte-contar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940772 | 733 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Car manufacturers set green targets for manufacture of vehicles - but Land Rover has gone the extra mile and applied ambitious eco standards to their popular men’s eyewear range.
For Eyes in the Kumeu Shopping Village are proud to introduce Land Rover frames made from sustainable materials derived from castor seed oil; non-GMO, BPA free, and sustainably farmed in arid areas to combat deforestation. The material supplier is an active member of the ground-breaking PRAGATI initiative in India which works to improve working conditions, create awareness for sustainable farming and increase yields due to more efficient farming practices.
The innovative resin offers outstanding performance; 20% lighter than traditional resins, durable and resistant to impact and environmental stress cracking.
In addition, all Stainless Steel used on new releases has a high recycled content, a rare innovation in eyewear and sourced from a specialist supplier to ensure the highest quality for optical use. | <urn:uuid:3792a5ff-ece1-4ace-bada-3444cc4d3ff7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kumeucourier.co.nz/news/851/17/Driving-Eco-Eyewear-Land-Rover-Specs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.922781 | 191 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Just started an acoustic group with guitar (me), bass, and singer. I feel as if our covers are boring and need something new. Are there any unusual or interesting acoustic techniques I could try? Normally I just use different strumming patterns, incorporate they keyboard part of a song into the guitar part, etc. Thanks!
Experiment with different tunings (I know, PREDICTABLE!). Look up Andy Mcgee. That helped me increase my creativity. Or try this: Play a chord, then do some kind of finger tap on top of that chord. Let the chord ring, while doing a finger tap. By finger tap, I don't mean some Eddie Van Halen tap. Just a couple taps/notes to coincide with the current chord. It helps create more texture and/or richness. I know it's vague advise. But just try it!
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The suit to the Supreme Judicial Court asks for rulings on Massachusetts laws Chapter 207, Section 11 (forbidding marriages not legal in other states) and 12 (requiring the clerks to verify the legality of the marriages).
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) filed a 90-page amicus brief, which argues
The Commonwealths application of §§11-12 to non-resident same-sex couples violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The right to marry is a privilege or immunity of state citizenship, and is therefore deserving of protection under the Privilege and Immunities Clause. The Commonwealth lacks a substantial justification for its discrimination between non-resident same-sex couples and resident same-sex couples and cannot demonstrate a substantial relationship between its discrimination and its purported justifications for §§11-12.
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In its press release on the subject, GLAD includes:
The brief makes the case that Goodridge is the reigning law. Goodridge said that Massachusetts may not discriminate against same-sex couples who want to marry, said GLAD attorney Michele Granda. Goodridge did not say Massachusetts can discriminate if the other state discriminates.These two sections of the commonwealth marriage law are the ones civil liberties folk point out were specifically enacted to prevent interracial marriages.
GLAD also argues that the Governor revived the 1913 law because of his opposition to the marriages of same-sex couples, knowing that it would prevent them from marrying in the state. Before May 17, 2004, the Commonwealth never took any action to bar non-residents from marrying who could not marry in their home states.
The Commonwealth never sought information from applicants about their own states laws, said Granda. The 1913 law was taken off the shelf and dusted off for the express purpose of discriminating against gays and lesbians. | <urn:uuid:f2d451b7-7fc3-458e-96f4-a930462e3f29> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2005/03/mitt-catching-it.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00116-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936731 | 394 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Mandarin and other immersion popular in Calgary
CALGARY — Six-year-old Adam Liu patiently practises his Chinese characters every day — after all, there are thousands to learn. And he’s already speaking Mandarin better than his father.
It’s a family reality that’s expected to become even more entrenched when Adam’s little sister, Laura, starts kindergarten next year in the same Mandarin-bilingual program at Highwood Elementary.
“We’re so happy with this program, it’s just wonderful. And I think it’s really beneficial for the kids,” says mother Linda Liu.
The Canadian-born mom and her Taiwanese-born husband chose Mandarin for their kids in hopes of giving them a more rounded education in culture and language.
But the edge they’ll have in the global economy will also give them a wide range of options once they choose a career, Liu says.
“It’s a very competitive time right now — and Mandarin is a major language for them to have in terms of their futures.” | <urn:uuid:1632cf9b-fdbc-4cc1-bc6b-04860e951973> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://miparentscouncil.org/2012/02/20/mandarin-and-other-immersion-popular-in-calgary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949595 | 231 | 1.8125 | 2 |
This year’s gathering of classical colleagues will be devoted to a single, overarching theme: How can stations, networks, and public media service organizations work together to strengthen classical music radio?
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We convene audiences through our programming or through listener/member events. However, there is a role that your station can play as a convener of fellow arts non-profits and other like-minded organizations and individuals.
Many radio stations are dealing with stagnating audience and declining AQH, but not every station has to be content to let it happen. In this session, we discuss the tactics and programming techniques that can help grow audience and AQH.
When historians look back on the 21st century, how will they characterize this era in human history? In the first 15 years, we've already witnessed dramatic events – from the shock of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to the rise of India and China as major players in the global economy to the déjà-vu of the recent moves by Russia to take over parts of Ukraine. Other issues such as economic inequality, environmental challenges, energy needs, immigration, technological advances, women’s rights, demographic changes, security/terrorism, nationalism, and religious freedom ripple across our communities and shape our everyday existence.
Pandora and Spotify have already changed the world public radio music stations live in. Now, thanks to ever-smarter smart phones and that Connected Car in the driveway, news and information stations face an audience trained to enjoy—and expect—an on-demand, customizable service. How will this impact the stories we tell, the services we provide, the loyalty of our current audience and our own opportunities to grown and evolve? | <urn:uuid:773d5589-8e0c-4c33-bead-724261e2e65f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prpd.org/resources?tag=75 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.936132 | 350 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Best Ways to Boost Your Metabolism
Research shows that our metabolism slows with age. Especially in women, metabolism declines more swiftly than men approximately by a usual of 2 percent per span of around ten years’ time. However, with modern skills and relatively simple ways, you can squeeze your day-to-day regime to balance this natural incline.
When You First Wake Up:
Your first meal is very crucial as it helps spur your metabolism. "Your metabolism went into rest mode over night, so your first meal of the day revs it up again," says Keri Gans, R.D.N., author of The Small Change Diet. Also try to intake foods that are high in fiber and protein.
During Your Commute:
Forcing your body to move more often helps boost metabolism in a big way. "Getting your heart rate up for a short period of time keeps it elevated afterward, which boosts your metabolism overall," says Doug Barsanti, M.A., strength and conditioning specialist and owner of ReInvention Fitness in Santa Cruz, California.
When You First Get to the Office:
“Research shows that caffeine boosts your metabolic rate, albeit mildly,” says David Katz, M.D., director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center and author of Disease Proof.
When in office, try to walk a little across the office and talk to co-workers. Do not e-mailing them for little things instead you can go to them for little discussions. "Moving more at every opportunity, even if it's just to get up to go to the bathroom, keeps your heart rate going and therefore boosts your metabolism," says Shirley Archer, an ACE-certified group fitness instructor.
When You're Buying Lunch:
"Nothing beats a turkey sandwich on whole-grain bread with lettuce, tomato, and mustard and a piece of fruit on the side," says Keri Gans, R.D.N "The protein-carb combo will give you energy to get through your day without dragging."
At the Water Cooler:
Cold water is better to boost your metabolism. “Your body burns more calories in colder temperatures because it has to work harder to keep you warm—so by drinking cold water, you end up burning more than if you guzzled room-temp H20," says Lisa Gain, Ph.D., evolutionary biologist and founder of snack-girl.com.
During Your Workout:
Expert Barsanti explains, "Short, high-intensity exercise boosts your metabolism. So when you're on the treadmill or elliptical, sprint for 30 seconds, then rest for 30 seconds, and repeat this pattern for 10 minutes." | <urn:uuid:0a78d377-a73a-4b88-b206-8c79d2323140> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.saloni.pk/blog/best-ways-to-boost-your-metabolism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00210-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938064 | 557 | 1.859375 | 2 |
It is possible to sometimes overlook the power of the impressions we make and even dismiss it when it comes to kids. Fashion is a way of expressing yourself. How a kid looks not only says something about him or her but also his or her parents. Sometimes it’s a challenge for parents to dress their kids. The stage of being a kid does not last too long, therefore it is important to dress your kids well. You want to teach your kids how to assert their individuality. Dressing your kids in clothes that do not suit them may lower the kids’ self- esteem and self- confidence. We should show kids that they are beautiful irrespective of their body shapes. Through dressing we can help kid to increase confidence and establish their personality as they learn more from life.
Tips on Dressing Kids Stylish and Comfort
· Add kids’ accessories to their outfit such as colored hair bands, sunglasses, fashionable boots, kids’ bangles and watches.
· Search for pieces that can be worn with more than one outfit so that you can use them more.
· Try out haircuts and hairstyles for your kid and see which works best for them.
· Pick the colors that work for your kids’ skin tones. You can try this by checking what colors blends well with what skin tones.
· Buy quality clothes. This will help your child stay smart and the clothes can re-use by future siblings
· Choose clothes that are comfortable for your kid. It can be devastating for a parent to watch their child struggle with clothes simply because they are fashionable.
· Try to add color to your kids outfit. You can achieve this by mixing light colored tops with dull colored bottom.
· When you find an outfit that works well on your kid try to stick with it.
Mistakes Often Made While Dressing Kids
· Don’t force your kids to wear outfits they don’t like. Try to combine what your kids like with what you would want for them so that they can be comfortable.
· Putting on kids same outfits frequently. Many parents remember the clothes they were and when they wore them better than kids’ clothes.
· Buy basics cheaper. Things like socks and underwear will not be noticed even if they are expensive. You can save the money for more noticeable like expensive jackets and trousers.
· Dressing kids in dull colors frequently. Color improves a kids’ imagination. Try to incorporate colored pieces in their outfits for best results.
The issue of dressing kids well can never be over emphasized. We need to cultivate a sense of self-worth in our kids early enough. We should be passionate while dressing our kids. Dress them well while taking family photos so they will remember how good they looked. Stylish clothes may enhance a kids’ sense of identity. Visit Esta for getting visa assistance to US. They have the best collection of footwear, accessories, dresses, trousers, face painting, entertainment and many more. Let’s bring out the best in our kids. Show them they beautiful and teach them to love and dress their bodies. | <urn:uuid:5a93eb95-d0ff-4322-8005-6f6d1b267d9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medusamagazine.com/tips-on-dressing-kids-stylish-and-comfort/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.963838 | 633 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Stress. Say the word out loud. That’s an awful lot of hissing for such a little syllable, right? How fitting! Snake-like, stress can easily creep into and infest your life – and it’ll bite you in the rear if you’re not careful. We can’t stop life from being stressful, but we can certainly find ways to counteract the impact of stressors. Here are five ways portable power for iPhone 4S can reduce some of your built up stress:
1. Exercise regularly. Exercise activates your endorphins, clears your mind, and improves your sleep, all of which help reduce stress. Many iPhone apps can make your life easier by helping you manage your daily exercise and eating routine. Having a source of portable power such as the PS68 On-The-GO Charger will ensure that you have the power you need to keep your mind and body in good health.
2. Plan ahead. Being chronically late and always rushing go hand in hand. Plan your time more wisely. A super power for iPhone 4S users is Siri, who can set timers, alarms, and reminders – all on your verbal command. Portable power like our PS71 External Battery Backup for iPhone will keep you powered (and organized) on the go.
3. Practice good sleep hygiene. Sleep deprivation raises stress hormones. Too much alcohol, staying up too late, and being in front of a screen (TV, computer, phone) just before bedtime are all bad for sleep. When it’s time to power down, count on our PS69 USB Wall Charger to restore your iPhone to full power, all ready for the next day.
4. Indulge in music and art. Music can trigger biochemical stress reducers. Art therapy has been used for years to lower stress levels. Another super power for iPhone 4S users is access to tons of music and art apps, so you can indulge your creative side wherever you go! Feeling artfully inspired by scenery on a road trip? Pull, over and take in the view. Your iPhone 4S will be charged up and always ready to go with our PS70 USB Car Charger.
5. Mini-meditate. When you’re feeling stressed, pick a focal point and go through each of your senses, noticing what that particular sense is experiencing in that moment. Spend about a minute on each sense. Before you know it, you’ll feel your stress level coming down. Besides, what’s there to stress over? With a trusty portable power charger stashed everywhere you go, you’ll always have power right when you need it. Namaste.
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About CourseJoin Scott Kelby for his most comprehensive Photo to Photoshop workflow class yet. Start in a bare studio and build an entire lighting rig from the ground up. Next is the photo shoot where Scott covers everything, including proper makeup techniques for studio lighting. Finally, take the images to Lightroom for editing, then to Photoshop for the final retouch.
- Lesson 1: Introduction 01:47
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- Lesson 3: The Software 04:22
- Lesson 4: Quick Test 02:56
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- Lesson 8: Retouching, Part 1 12:46
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As gearheads go, Brendan Chilcutt’s a pretty sentimental guy, and not just because he signs his correspondence with “love.” In January, 2012, he founded the Museum of Endangered Sounds to keep outmoded technology’s most iconic noises from vanishing from the collective memory. Click on any image in the museum’s online collection to be transported in the Proustian sense.
Some of the exhibits—a manual typewriter, a rotary phone—were already amply preserved, thanks to a proliferation of cinematic appearances in their heyday.
Others might well have slipped away unnoticed, if not for Chilcutt’s curatorial efforts. Remember that number you could call to have a recorded voice inform you of the correct time? How about the static of an analog TV tuned to an empty station? The hum of a malfunctioning Discman, the chirp of a Tamagotchi…wait, what’s that I hear? The disconcerting whoosh of time speeding up?
Drown it out by activating all thirty exhibits at once. Let them sound their barbaric yawps simultaneously as the kids try to figure out what that racket is.
h/t goes to @sheerly
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Haiti is putting the finishing touches on new legislation to tackle a scourge of post-quake sexual violence in a country where rape has only been a crime since 2005 and rights groups say enforcement is sporadic at best, Anastasia Moloney reports in this article for Women News Network.
The new laws, if passed, aim to provide a legal framework for victims of sexual violence to receive better emergency and medical care, place tougher sanctions against all forms of physical violence against women and ensure better training for officials involved in sexual assault cases.
These proposals could see survivors of sexual violence get better access to justice and lead to more rape convictions.
“The new law aims to allow the state and other actors to find common ground on how to treat and help victims,” Hemanex Gonzague, director general of the Haitian women’s ministry, told (Thomson Reuters Foundation) TrustLaw.
“It’s an important step to improve women’s rights in general and it aims to provide greater protection to victims through the whole process.”
Exact figures are impossible to come by but local rights groups say levels of sexual violence have shot up following the January 2010 earthquake.
They point to poor or non-existent lighting, overcrowding and little police presence in the scores of squalid camps in the capital. Around 500,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the earthquake still live under tarpaulin and scrap metal.
Kofaviv, a grassroots women’s group active in some of the “tent cities”, documented 269 rape cases in and around Port-au-Prince between March and October. Last month alone, it dealt with 49 cases, of which more than half involved children.
Haiti’s judicial system is largely based on French law dating back to the 19th century. Until 2005, rape was not even considered a crime against the victim. Rather it was a crime against morals — or against the honour of the family.
“One of our biggest challenges is that our laws are no longer up-to-date,” Gonzague said. “We need to modernize them. Everyone agrees that sexual violence laws need to be updated.”
The new legislation is due to be submitted to Haiti’s parliament in the next few weeks.
“I’ll present the final draft to parliament within weeks,” said Rene Magloire, a former justice minister, who now leads the drafting of new laws on sexual violence as part of a presidential commission on judicial reform. “How long it takes to vote on and become law depends on parliament.”
He said the bill also aims to give more power to the police and prosecutors involved in investigating cases of sexual assault and place more onus on the police to gather evidence that can be used in court.
“One of the most important changes being proposed is that the police and prosecutors have more power to investigate and lead an investigation,” Magloire said.
“At the moment, the judges tend to lead investigations, and they often work in secrecy. We want police and prosecutors to do more, which we hope will lead to less secrecy and corruption.”
The drafting of the bill follows a landmark decision by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in December 2010, which requested the Haitian government to take urgent measures to tackle rising levels of rape and sexual abuse and address impunity surrounding such cases.
Over the last two years, Kofaviv and other women’s groups have been working with the Haitian women’s ministry in the drafting of new legislation, contributing their suggestions on how to reduce sexual violence and improve women’s rights through clearer laws and better access to justice.
Some of those recommendations have been based on comparative international legal research commissioned by MADRE, a U.S.-based international women’s rights group, which works with Kofaviv, its sister organisation in Haiti.
The report was produced by a team of lawyers from four international firms, brought together by Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Connect network of international pro bono lawyers.
The report examines international laws on sexual violence and best practices on prosecuting sexual abuse and rape cases from six countries, which could guide and be applied to help Haiti address sexual violence against women.
“Kofaviv gathered input from other grassroots women’s groups to contribute to the drafting of the legislation,” Lisa Davis, human rights advocacy director at MADRE, told TrustLaw.
“The draft legislation includes many new provisions crucial to ensuring Haitian women and girls are protected. These provisions include a clear and expanded definition of rape, incest and sexual violence, and trainings for medical, legal and judiciary personnel and enforcement officers around questions of violence against women.”
Davis said the draft legislation had been welcomed by women’s rights groups in Haiti.
“They view the legislation as a potential powerful tool which can be utilized to combat the crisis of violence against women,” she said.
But she added that questions had been raised about whether Haiti’s notoriously slow and dysfunctional judicial system could implement the proposed reforms.
“There are those within the judicial system who could use this legislation as a tool to improve women’s lives,” Davis said. “But there is also a critical lack of capacity within the Haitian government generally, and particularly within the judicial system, especially following the earthquake.”
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Our Heavy Responsibilities to the Nation
WE MUST NOT RETREAT
By FRANK KNOX, Secretary of the Navy
Delivered at the St. Louis Conference of the United States Conference of Mayors, at St. Louis, Mo., February 20, 1941
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 322-325.
PRESIDENT LaGUARDIA and members of the United States Conference of Mayors: When your eloquent and dynamic president invited me to address you, I was more than glad to accept because of the strategic position which you men occupy in the national life of the country. National unity is a first essential in dealing with an international crisis. We are now passing through one of the most grave and menacing international crises in our history. The dangers inherent in the present situation can only be met successfully and victoriously by a united America. To a degree not true of any other group, you men touch the lives of more Americans, intimately and persuasively, than any other single group that could be assembled. Therefore, I hail the opportunity of talking to you, and I come to you in the hope that something I may be able to say will further strengthen and re-invigorate your efforts to discharge your heavy responsibilities to the nation.
In time of great danger that calls for extreme measures of national defense, we must follow a single leader. Under our Constitution, our leader whom we must all support and follow, is the President of the United States. Upon the shoulders of President Roosevelt rests a heavier responsibility for the preservation of human liberty and freedom in the world than ever rested on the shoulders of a single man before in history. We are, indeed, not only the arsenal and the munitions factory of Democracy, but we are also its last and final hope. If we fail, Democracy fails and a new Dark Age of ruthless exploitation of helpless peoples will reign again.
No finer, more moving or more understanding appraisal of the present world situation in its relation to the United States has been made than by President Roosevelt in his last three public utterances—one a Fireside Chat, to which the world lent its ear with consuming interest; the second, an address to Congress which defined the means and measures necessary to implement our purpose of saving Democracy, and finally,an Inaugural address delivered in the morning of the first day of a new term in the Presidency which will find a permanent place in the annals of our great nation alongside those of Washington and Lincoln.
Rallying to the inspiring leadership of our Constitutional Commander-in-Chief, who has courageously and resourcefully undertaken to keep alight the fires of liberty in the world, we can do no other, all of us, in this grave hour than to help create, and participate in, a spirit of national unity which will sweep aside all vestige of personal feelings, of partisan differences, of sectional hatreds, and of class distinctions. If we go into the difficult days which lie immediately ahead as a united nation; if we embrace and champion the high aims and purposes of this hour, we shall succeed together. If, through disunity, we fail, we shall all go down together. We must not fail.
It is our task, in the full measure of leadership we can command, to convince the American people that the Preservation of Liberty and the Future of our Form of Government are really at stake. Once our people are convinced that this is so; that all of the things they hold more precious than life itself; that the form of government which has given us our precious freedom, is in Deep and Grave Peril, there will be no doubt of the outcome. Under the impetus of that conviction, the overwhelming potential strength of the American nation can be swiftly enlisted, and ultimate victory is Certain.
How can any one doubt, in the light of what has happened in the past twelve months, that our form of government and our way of life is challenged? What an impressive role may be called of peoples who Were free, but now are Slaves? How fast has been the success of those forces who haw openly declared without qualification that their system of Government and their Code of Conduct are the Natural Enemies of Our school of conduct and government! Those forces who have openly boasted that their system and our system are irreconcilable I Could we summon the men ofVienna, the citizens of Prague, the dwellers of Warsaw, the Danes of Denmark, the woodsmen and the sailors of Norway, the Burghers of Holland, the craftsmen of Belgium, and the peasants of France, what would they tell us of the ghastly conditions under which they now live, contrasted with the liberties they Once enjoyed? Shall we not take alarm when we look at an Entire continent—and that continent the birthplace of our present civilization—where peoples once free, are now denied Free Speech, the right of a Free Press, the right to worship God according to their own conscience, with no freedom to dispose of their own labor as they choose and no freedom to carry on trade and industry as they please. In these freedoms lie the fundamentals of all freedom. Without these, there is naught but slavery. Can we be blind to what All this implies?
Then, along with this destruction of Individual rights has gone a parallel destruction of Political and International doctrines to which we adhere. Our great Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, the other day, inventoried these principles. I quote from his recent testimony before congress:
(1) "We advocate peace and the limitation of armaments.
(2) We support law and order—justice and morality, and the non-intervention by one nation in the affairs of another.
(3) We seek to promote sound economic methods and relations between nations, based on equality of treatment.
(4) We support and seek to practice the fullest practicable measure of international cooperation, and
(5) We are devoted to the security, the solidarity and the general welfare of the western hemisphere."
In contrast, the powers that now threaten liberty around the world, foster war and hold it out as the most admirable occupation in which man can engage!
They have made the production of armaments the Primary and most Important industry within their borders!
They have substituted for a system based on law and order, and justice and morality, a ghastly form of Terrorism and Cruelty that knows no slightest sense of Justice or Morality!
They have sought to reduce sound economic methods and fair relations between nations, to rule by Naked Force, given effect by overwhelming Military Power!
They support a system which conceives its Own race to be the Masters of the world and all others their Abject Slaves!
You can readily imagine what type of international cooperation could rest upon That base!
Our aspiration to promote the security, the solidarity and the general welfare of the western hemisphere, They hold in contempt!
Summed up, the whole world is in the throes of a contest between the peoples who believe in and promote personal liberty and individual freedom, and those who regard the rights of the State to be superior to the rights of the Individual.
This is the age-old struggle between human liberty and human slavery!
It is an Irreconcilable Conflict!
The progress of the human race is achieved wherever and whenever liberty wins! It is retarded wherever and whenever men are enslaved!
Men who do not feel this deeply—who disagree with the point of view I have just expressed, are asking, "How does this all touch us? Must we undertake to police the world? Why should we make immense sacrifices and imperil the lives and property of our citizens by any participation in what is transpiring on the other side of the Atlantic, or on the other side of the Pacific?" That is a proper question and deserves a frank answer.
To understand the background for the correct answer to that question requires that one recognize the critical importance of sea power to our country and to our entire western world. We have long been prone to regard the great oceans which stretch on either side of us as adequatebarriers against hostile invasion. They have been such, but only because of sea power—sea power exercised by two great nations, Great Britain and the United States. It has been solely because of the sea power exercised by Great Britain in the Atlantic that our western hemisphere has been safe against any aggressive designs by European nations, and likewise, it has been because of sea power exercised by our fleet in the Pacific that danger has never threatened from aggressive nations on the far side of that ocean. For a century and a quarter, British sea power has stood sentinel at the three exits into the Atlantic through which an European aggressor's fleet must come if it sought to attack us. These three exits are the channel north of the British Isles, the English channel, and the straits of Gibraltar. Our western world has been safe from attack because the British Fleet controlled these exits, and the British nation has accepted the principle of the Monroe Doctrine and consistently aided us in its enforcement. That has sufficed to make the Atlantic safe for us.
The struggle now in progress is essentially, and at its base, an attempt by Germany to seize control of the sea from Great Britain. This is why our interests in the war are so vital. Who can doubt that if Britain continues to control the Atlantic, the condition which has lasted for a century and a quarter will not continue indefinitely, but, if British control of the Atlantic should pass to Germany, Germany then would be free to send her army into other parts of the world to lay tribute upon those nations who possess the raw materials which Germany needs for the further building up of her powers of aggression. If British sea power falls and Germany becomes free to move across the ocean for the conquest of new territories, she will almost certainly move first into South America, that great storehouse of raw materials and food supplies which Germany covets.
If we do not wish to see the establishment in South America of an aggressive military power, for our own selfish interests, if for no other consideration, we should now lend our help in every way possible to prevent Germany from destroying British Sea Power in the Atlantic.
For more than 100 years our one great, firmly established national policy has been the Monroe Doctrine. Again and again our people have indicated their willingness to go to war, if necessary, to maintain this doctrine. It is more dangerously challenged today than ever before. This doctrine which forbids the extension in the Western hemisphere of non-American military and political control was initiated for the purpose of preserving the territorial, economic and social integrity of the United States. Long ago, we saw that this was the Only way we could be safe from aggression, that is, that we had to protect the Entire western hemisphere to be safe Ourselves. Our country, under the Monroe Doctrine, has grown from weakness to strength, and the nations of this hemisphere have been offered an opportunity to develop their own civilization, free from the Fear of Conquest. So long as we maintain, in association with Great Britain, Sufficient Sea Power to prevent Aggressor nations using the ocean lanes for the transport of Military Power, we can be Safe. Once this joint control of the high seas is broken, We are in Danger. It is because of the Close Associations and parallel purposes of Great Britain and ourselves
with respect to sea power that we now enjoy what in effect is a Two-ocean Navy. We Americans now have a One-ocean Navy and are just starting upon the construction of a Two-ocean Navy which it will take Five or Six Years to build. In the meantime, we are Only Safe on the high seas so long as the British fleet continues to Exercise Control over the Atlantic. The Preservation of the British fleet is Imperative while we are still engaged in building up our full naval strength to a Two-Ocean Purpose. The British part of the Present two-ocean navy upon which we rely, is Now In Grave Danger. The British Navy can survive Only if the British Isles Survive. Should the British Isles fall, we can only believe that the British Navy, which never Runs From Danger, will fall at the Same Time. We Need Time to Build Ships and to Train Their Crews. We Need Time to Build Up Our Bases So That We Can Operate Our Fleet as a Screen for Our Continent. We Need Time to Train Our Armies and to Accumulate War Stores and to Gear Our Industry for Defense. Only the preservation of the British Fleet in its fighting integrity can Give Us That Time, and they need Our Help to survive. How deadly important it is that they shall survive can be brought home to you when I point out that if the British Fleet is destroyed tonight, we shall have only 15 battleships to oppose 20 battleships flying the flags of the Axis powers. Of airplane carriers, we would have 6 to their 8. Of cruisers, we would have 37 to their 75. Of destroyers we would have 159 to their 271, and of submarines, we would have 105 to the Axis 284.
That epitomizes in a sentence, how Vital it is that British sea power shall survive, British sea power of Today plus American Sea Power of today is Definitely Superior to the Combined Fleets of the Axis powers, and The Two Fleets actually exercise Control over every part of the Seven Seas.
But, these skeptics say that even if Britain Falls, it will be a Long Time before the Axis powers could reorganize their forces for an attack upon us. To indulge in that kind of wishful thinking is to inhabit a Fool's Paradise. The assemblage of a naval force superior to our own would consume but little time, and an attack, in a few months, could readily be organized to descend upon us From Two Sides. The initial attack need not be directed directly at us. It probably would not be. Such an attack, might have for its objective the seizure of bases in Newfoundland or Labrador, or in Central and South America from whence an attack upon us could descend. Then, the dear, deluded people who cry out against our involvement in a "foreign" war, would be provided with a war on our own soil and our own women and children in our teeming seaboard cities would provide the targets for night-raiding bombers.
There is little chance to escape this peril if England falls. We would have to convert, in that event, this entire nation into an armed camp. We would have to tremendously expand our shipbuilding facilities, and work day and night to build a sea defense that would adequately protect our own sea coasts and harbors. We could not hope to build a navy fast enough to patrol all of the coastline of the western hemisphere against the combined sea strength of the aggressor nations, so we should have to abandon the Monroe Doctrine. To protect our land against actual invasion and to supplement our ocean defense, we should have to build and maintain huge standing armies. Our entire economy would have to build and maintain huge standing armies. Our entire economy would have to be transformed to an economy which puts national defense consideration ahead of all others. Turned in upon ourselves and bereft of all opportunity for over-seas trade, our standards of living and our wage levels would fall and we should be swiftly reduced to a constant daily struggle to preserve our national existence in a world ruled by totalitarian dictators.
In this fight now in progress, characterized by ruthless force employed on a scale never known before, Britain occupies the firing line. This firing line is no longer a narrow strip of territory held by a thin line of armed men, but it is now made up of the whole of the British Isles.
The women and children of Britain share, with the British soldiers, the dangers of the battlefield. This type of war, carried on with a brutal ruthless indifference to every dictate of humanity, has reduced life in Great Britain for all men, women and children, rich and poor alike, to an existence like that of wild beasts, who live in holes in the ground, and yet, living thus, they support with gallantry and a resolute courage that counts no cost too great, the very principles on which our whole system of free government is based. We, on the other hand, in this critical contest, play the minor part of munition-makers, who provide the weapons and the munitions and the tanks and the planes with which this most critical battle in world history is being fought.
Under such circumstances, we can afford as a nation to be generous to a fault. We cannot retain our self-respect and haggle over the terms with which we will lend our help to the British, to the Greeks, and to the Chinese, when the latter are baring their breasts to the storm of battle. Selfishly, who would not admit the wisdom of freely supplying the arms to another nation actively engaged in war in which we are vitally concerned, while we prepare ourselves for defense in case we should be attacked. Our sole hope of avoiding involvement in the world-wide war now in progress lies in the hope that we may become so strong on land, on sea, and in the air, that the aggressor nations will be afraid to attack While we are thus making ourselves strong, for the sake of our own security, shall we not lend every possible aid to those who are gallantly holding the lines while we prepare.
The President, in what I conceive to be one of the most courageous and statesmanlike proposals in American history, has suggested that we eliminate from our discussion with the the British, the dollar sign, and proceed to lend them, subject to future adjustment, the vital things they need to carry on the war to victorious conclusion. At a time when the very fate of our kind of a world hangs in the balance, we must not let this British lack of dollar exchange halt the flow of material to Britain, so vital to her defense—which is also our defense. We cannot afford to stop now and dicker and trade. We must help—help in material things, but also help in spiritual things. The magnificent fighting spirit of the British, amazing to her friends and devastating to her adversaries, must be maintained. There must be no thought that while they fight with their lives a battle so vital to us, we are thinking in terms of dollars and cents. We can well afford, indeed, our own self-respect permits no other course, to let the future relations between the United States and Great Britain wait for a time when the war has been won, and the danger of dictatorship of the world has been destroyed. Our own defense in a world where force is supreme is dependent upon our speed in production of those things essential to defense. Expanding our production to help the British, directly helps us to achieve that speed in production which is our only hope of safety if Hitler wins in Europe.
I am aware that the picture I present to you is grim. It deals with unpleasant facts, but they are facts that must be faced. To refuse to face them is to emulate the ostrich and bury our heads in the sand. For men charged with public responsibility to tell less than the truth as they see it is to be guilty of cowardly faithlessness to one's trust.
I want peace as much as any American could want peace for his country. I hate war because I know from personal experience as a soldier in the last two wars, what war is, but there are some things I hate worse than war and one of them is surrender of everything that makes life worth living—a cowardly betrayal of the heritage of freedom bequeathed to us by men who loved freedom more than they loved life. I would far rather die fighting Hitler than live under his rule.
Almost literally, America stands at the crossroads. Whether we like it or not, the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty has become our responsibility. We can discharge this responsibility right now by an all-out program for production of supplies and munitions for the use of those who are actually fighting the battles for human liberty in Europe and Asia, and for our own defense. Or, we can shilly-shally and talk and debate and conjure up idle fears that have no basis in fact until those who are fighting are overwhelmed and then, we must take up the burden and fight ourselves, lest the sacred fire of liberty entrusted to our care shall go out. Or, we can adopt still a third choice and fail to help now and refuse to fight later, and then, spend everything we have and that we can produce to build a wall around the United States and live within that wall, armed to the teeth, completely surrounded by totalitarian powers intent upon our final subjugation.
These are the three roads, and the only three roads, that converge at the point where we stand today. In such an hour, if we are worthy of what we have, if we are wise as the trustees of the institutions we have inherited, and finally, if we are merely shrewd and give way only to selfish considerations, we will implement, without delay, President Roosevelt's inaugural declaration: "In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God." | <urn:uuid:b013c29f-a7b0-4445-bbf6-970e482ea1cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/1941-02-20a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00529-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957243 | 4,363 | 2.34375 | 2 |
On Monday 23 February 2016, the Australian Government signalled its intention to move ahead with changes to Australia's media ownership laws by way of a package of reforms that, if enacted, would significantly reshape Australia's media industry. The two major changes to Australia's media laws proposed in the reforms include removing the long standing population "reach rule" and the "two out of three" ownership rule.
The 'reach rule'
The reach rule currently prohibits television networks from broadcasting their content to more than 75% of the country's population. Removing the rule would allow the larger commercial networks in Australia to acquire smaller broadcasters in regional areas and trigger a major round of mergers and acquisitions across the industry. However, as part of the arrangements to remove the reach rule, it is proposed that new laws would be introduced to protect local content in regional areas.
The 'two out of three rule'
The two out of three rule currently prevents media proprietors from owning and controlling a newspaper, television and radio station in the same market. The removal of this rule is likely to be the more controversial of the two changes as it may allow, for example, a major newspaper proprietor to merge with a major television or radio network in Australia and gives rise to long held concerns about a reduction in media diversity across Australia's media landscape.
Changes not included in the proposed reforms
However, changes to Australia's anti-siphoning regime and list, which mandates which sporting events must be shown on free-to-air television, were not included in the Government's package of proposed reforms. The Government's decision to leave the list untouched has been met with disapproval from some of Australia's major media corporations, who had hoped for a significant watering down of the list in an attempt to gain increased sports broadcasting rights.
Enacting the proposed reforms
The Government has argued that the laws as they currently exist are outdated and are not appropriate in today's digital environment. Although there appears to be a lot of support for the proposed changes within the media industry, fears concerning the removal of the laws upon media diversity across Australia's media landscape and the Government's failure to amend the anti-siphoning regime will mean that the reforms may face difficulty in passing both houses of the Australian parliament. | <urn:uuid:9c048234-bc82-4e37-90a1-5fc77edf7134> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2016/australia/proposed-media-reforms-in-australia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00141-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970577 | 457 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906), Bouilloire et Fruits (Pitcher and Fruit)
June 24, 2006 to June 24, 2007
A magnificent late still life painting by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) entitled Bouilloire et Fruits (Pitcher and Fruit) was lent from a private collection and remained on view in the North Hall for approximately one year. Painted around 1888–90, it hung with other Impressionist and post-Impressionist works in The Frick Collection including Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Winter and Edgar Degas's recently cleaned Rehearsal, both dating from 1878–79. The Cézanne loan coincided with the 100th anniversary of the artist's death on October 22, 1906.
Goya’s understated portrait of the woman known as María Martínez de Puga, acquired by Henry Clay Frick in 1914, was the inspiration for The Frick Collection’s special exhibition Goya’s Last Works. It was the first show in the United States to concentrate exclusively on the final phase of Goya’s long career — the years of the artist’s voluntary exile in Bordeaux from 1824 to 1828. Fifty-one examples of Goya’s final production were borrowed from public and private European and North American collections.
Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice
April 11, 2006 to July 16, 2006
The art of Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) is inextricably linked to the idea of opulence and splendor in Renaissance Venice. His paintings are grandiose visions of the richness and spectacle of sixteenth-century Venetian life. Crowded compositions with theatrical effects, in which groups of sumptuously dressed people re-enact religious and secular events, have become synonymous with Veronese’s oeuvre, and his dazzling and effective use of color has been praised and celebrated over the centuries.
The Frick continued to add to its holdings, and the 1997 gift of a painting inspired a major 2006 exhibition on the artist Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789). This presentation offerd the public a singular opportunity to become better acquainted with one of the most original and engaging artists of eighteenth-century Europe, who enjoyed an international reputation in his day, often painting portraits of monarchs and their children in London, Vienna, Parma, and Amsterdam.
Gardens of Eternal Spring: Two Mughal Carpets in The Frick Collection
July 25, 2006 to October 1, 2006
The two magnificent carpets on display in the Oval Room beginning July 25 were among the fewer than five hundred that survive from the court of the Mughal emperors. Woven in northern India in the mid-seventeenth century, these carpets were luxurious objects in terms of both the fabrics used to make them (silk and cashmere) and the artistically complex patterns that they display. The Frick carpets date from the reign of Shah Jahan (1628–1658) and were probably made at the royal factory in Lahore, one of India’s main cities for carpet production.
In 2000, The Frick Collection’s Flagellation of Christ was confirmed to be by the artist Cenni di Pepo (c. 1240–c. 1302), known as Cimabue, following the discovery ofThe Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels (now in the National Gallery, London), a panel known to have been painted by the Florentine master.
Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art
November 8, 2006 to January 28, 2007
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A Possible Way to Find Elusive Parts
[October 2021 – In the old days, it was not unusual for stations to stock two or three copies of each part for their transmitters. More often today, finding parts for older transmitters has become the proverbial hunt for the needle in a haystack.
Dave Dybas has a possible solution.
Several years back, when I was doing contract engineering, I was called to repair a dead 5 kW transmitter.
After a bit of troubleshooting I determined the PDM Driver was bad. It sure would have been nice to have a substitute PDM Driver board, but none were around. A call to the manufacturer was fruitless, they did not have many parts for this 30-year-old transmitter.
So, I dug in and did a little troubleshooting of the driver board, and I found a bad transistor. It took a day or two for me to be able to replace that part – but still the transmitter was dead.
At that point, I was left wondering if I had uncovered all of the damaged parts on that board.
It took another day of troubleshooting, this time with an old retired engineer from the manufacturer’s company, for us to finally find the cause of the transmitter failure.
It was the fiber optic cable. The cable had gotten pinched and was not sending any PDM audio.
Fortunately, the manufacturer did have a retro fit fiber optic cable – one that required some McGuyvering to install – but I got it to work and the problem was solved.
Overall the repair took nearly a week, all because replacement parts were hard to find.
A COMMON ISSUE
I am finding that old AM Tube transmitters are still on the air in many places, yet parts to keep them running are as rare as chicken lips.
This set me to wondering: “What’s an engineer to do when he needs an obsolete part?”
Well, he can get on the phone and call around to other stations and hope to find a retired, dust collecting, too-big-for-the-dumpster, old rig to scrap parts from. Unfortunately, this is a time consuming and often inconvenient task for an engineer who may be off the air and getting pressure from the station owner.
A HELPING HAND
With that in mind, to help locate these obsolete parts, I have been toying with the idea of putting together a listing of “Scrap Heap” transmitters.
Occasionally there are ads, like those on the BDR, offering various older transmitters for sale – whole or for parts. I even have seen sites with retired 50 kW Ampliphase transmitters, just sitting there with tons of capacitors, coils, tubes, etc. While these rigs are too big and old for anyone to purchase, they sure are loaded with parts. Heck you could build several AM ATU’s with their parts.
Hence, my idea of building a list of old, disused, partially parted-out transmitters, so we could share this with engineers around the country.
Maybe the various local SBE Chapters could assist with this by asking members if they have or know of any “Scrap Heap” transmitters they might like to add to the list.
Companies with larger numbers of older/obsolete transmitters might also contribute to the knowledge base.
Then the list could be compiled by state and/or transmitter model for easy searching.
|Transmitter Model||Location/State||Location/City||Engineer Name||Phone Number|
WE CAN DO IT TOGETHER
Now some of you may be thinking, “it is the owner’s fault for not having a new solid state rig,” or one of the many other opinions that we engineers often expressed regarding stations that do not stock important parts.
But the fact is that some AM station in the boonies of Bumblefudge are barely breaking even and cannot afford a new rig. Heck they can barely afford the cost of the contract engineer.
On the other hand, having a list available such I have described could help a contract engineer make a quicker repair and give a little comfort and peace of mind.
What do you think I would love to hear your thoughts on this issue, does it sound feasible or is it too troublesome? Please let us know.
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Dave Dybas is the owner of Sparks Broadcast Service, based in Chicago.
Dave’s email is:
His website is at: www.amdetuning.com
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Turmeric is a plant native to Southwest India. It is boiled, dried and ground into a orange-yellow powder often used as a spice and a healthy meal supplement.
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The acai berry is a small red-purplish fruit that comes from the acai palm which primarily grow in Brazil and other countries in South America. It looks like a mix of a red grape and a cherry.
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Maca is a root vegetable grown in the Andes mountains in Peru. It is similar in appearance to radishes and turnips to which it is closely related. Maca is considered one of the world’s ‘superfoods’ as it has been consumed for its medicinal benefits for thousands of years in the regions of the Andes mountains.
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An All-Day Vape refers to an aroma that can be vaped for an extended period. Many vapers like to change the aroma of liquid throughout the day, preferring some only for a few vaping sessions and preferring others for longer periods. It is the latter that take the name of All-Day Vape.
The term 'analog' refers to a traditional tobacco cigarette and is used by the vaping community to make a distinction between traditional cigarettes and more technologically advanced electronic cigarettes.
Also called a rechargeable device. All electronic cigarettes are powered by batteries, almost all of which are rechargeable. The size of the battery affects the duration of use of the e-cigarette and that is why many vapers prefer large batteries.
Cartomizers are basically identical to clearomizers, but slightly older. In general, they do not have a transparent plastic window and therefore it is not possible to monitor the liquid level. They also use a slightly different mechanism to send the liquid to the coil. Instead of the silica wick, cartomizers use a polyfill substance that surrounds the coil to absorb the liquid and send it to the coil for heating and vaporization.
A cartridge is a pre-loaded container of liquid that can be attached to a closed system e-cigarette for instant vaping. It is not possible to refill cartridges, however they can be transported more easily than liquid bottles as the risk of leakage is lower. The cartridges are available in a wide range of flavors and strengths and, as the mouthpiece is located inside the cartridge itself, the change in flavor will not lead to flavor ghosting as is the case with open system e-cigarettes.
The device used to recharge e-cigarette batteries when they run out. Chargers often take the form of USB adapters, but are also available as power socket adapters.
The clearomizer is the part of the electronic cigarette that contains the liquid. It can be unscrewed from the battery and refilled with liquid as needed. The clearomizers have a transparent plastic window that allows you to monitor the amount of liquid remaining. The blu® clearomizers use silica wicks to transport the liquid to the coil which will take care of the heating and vaporization.
Closed system electronic cigarette
Sometimes called cigalike, closed system e-cigarettes use pre-charged cartridges with liquid and must be screwed directly to the battery of the e-cigarette. Unlike open system e-cigarettes, there is no need to manually refill the liquid.
The spread of vape has also led to the development of the vape culture, which in turn has led to the birth of activities such as cloud chasing, that is to say the act of exhaling very large and voluminous clouds of vapor often performed during competitions at events or shops dedicated to vape.
Also called atomizer, it is the component of the electronic cigarette that transforms the liquid into vapor by heating. The coil is located in the center of the clearomizer or cartridge.
Gulp is the term used to indicate the inhalation of steam. Depending on personal preference, a vape can take longer or shorter puffs and inhale in two different ways, with the shot in the throat or with the shot in the lungs. With the blow in the throat, the vapor is inhaled and held in the mouth, while with the blow in the lungs the vapor is inhaled directly into the lungs.
Also called an e-cig, vaporizer or cigalike, this is a device used to inhale flavored vapor that may contain nicotine. E-cigarettes come in different forms and in a variety of different flavors.
Liquid for electronic cigarettes
Also called e-liquid or simply liquid, it is the substance that is transformed into vapor before being inhaled. Liquids are available in a wide range of nicotine flavors and strengths. There are also several types of liquids: PG and VG.
EUTPD is the legislation introduced for the member states of the European Union that regulates the purchase, sale and production of electronic cigarettes.
Liquids are available in a wide range of different flavors, ranging from more traditional flavors like Tobacco or Menthol to more innovative ones like Strawberry Mint and Blueberry. Thanks to this wide choice, every vaporizer will be able to find the liquid that best suits his needs.
When a vape changes liquid, it is still possible to feel the aftertaste of the aroma of the previous liquid in the new aroma. This phenomenon is called flavor ghosting. To avoid mixing flavors, it is recommended to use separate clearomizers for the various liquid flavors used or to thoroughly clean the clearomizer before switching to a different flavor.
When refilling the clearomizer, liquid could enter the center tube and, in turn, the mouthpiece as well. This phenomenon is called 'flooding' and the best way to prevent it is to prevent liquid from entering the central tube and make sure you do not overfill the clearomizer.
The inventor of the modern electronic cigarette. Hon Lik's pioneering work led to the creation of the first modern e-cigarette in 2004. Hon Lik continues to work closely with Fontem Ventures, the owners of blu®, to create innovative products and advise on future projects.
An amp-hour refers to the amount of charging transferred with a continuous current of one amp per hour. mAh, a measure that indicates milliamps per hour, is most commonly used in connection with e-cigarettes and indicates a thousand amps per hour. The mAh measurement gives an idea of the power of a battery however, contrary to what is often believed, mAh does not indicate the capacity of a battery.
Also called advanced personal vaporizers, mods are electronic cigarettes used by more experienced vapers whose appearance and power specifications can be changed to suit your needs.
Also called an inhaler, it is the component that allows you to inhale the vapor. On open system e-cigarettes, such as blu PRO®, the mouthpiece must be removed before refilling the clearomizer. On some e-cigarettes the mouthpiece is built directly into the cartridge.
The amount of nicotine present in a liquid is indicated in percentages, milliliters or milligrams. When the amount of nicotine in a liquid is indicated in milliliters or milligrams, it generally refers to a measurement of 100 ml / mg of liquid. Therefore, if the nicotine content of an e-liquid is 1.6 mg, it means that it contains 1.6% nicotine while the remaining 98.4% is made up of other ingredients.
Ohms measure resistance. A low level of resistance results in increased circulation of electricity in the device. On some mods, you can adjust the ohm level to change how the device works.
Open system electronic cigarette
Also called vape pens, open system e-cigarettes feature a clearomizer that must be filled with liquid manually. When the liquid runs out, the electronic cigarette can be taken apart for refilling.
Propylene glycol (PG) is used, among other things, for the production of food and plastics and is more widely used than vegetable glycerin in the production of liquids for electronic cigarettes. Overall, PG offers a better throat hit, a more intense aroma, and may cause fewer clogging to the e-cigarette than Vegetable Glycerin.
Shot in the throat
The feeling you get in the back of your throat when you inhale the vapor. Some vapers choose liquids based on the hit in the throat, which can be more or less intense.
The act of inhaling and exhaling vapor from an electronic cigarette. The term 'vape' can also refer to the generic action of using electronic cigarettes or the specific act of inhaling and exhaling steam.
The unwritten laws that every responsible vaper tries to abide by. While you won't break the law if you don't abide by these rules, these general guidelines are highly regarded by the vaping community.
The name by which the consumers of electronic cigarettes are indicated. The term can designate both a person who considers himself a long-term consumer and an individual in the act of vaping.
The exhalation that occurs after taking a puff from an electronic cigarette. The vapor is basically made up of small drops of water that evaporate immediately after being exhaled. The vapor can be inhaled into the mouth and absorbed through the cheeks or it can be inhaled directly into the lungs.
Since the action of vaping dries out the moisture present in the mouth, vapers often experience the sensation of having their tongue dry after vaping for a certain period of time. This phenomenon is called 'Vaper's tongue' and can be alleviated by drinking a glass of cold water or orange juice.
Vegetable Glycerin (VG) is sweeter than Propylene Glycol, as can be perceived in the aroma of the liquids that use it as a base. Since it is thicker than propylene glycol, it can cause obstructions to the internal mechanism of the e-cigarette if the device is not stored properly. On the other hand, it is considered more suitable than propylene glycol for the production of voluminous vapor clouds.
The wick absorbs and then holds the liquid coming from the clearomizer. Often made of fabric or cotton, the wick of blu® products is partly composed of silica.
It is a conventional expression to indicate the most used battery in electronic cigarettes, able to offer users truly discreet power, duration and size. The name indicates its dimensions: 18mm in diameter by 65mm in length. 18650 cells are rechargeable and commercially available with different capacities and output power.
Battery type generally used in advanced mod boxes and some mechanical mods. This name derives from its size: 20 mm in diameter by 70 mm in length. These batteries offer greater charge and amperage than traditional 18650s. 20700 cells are rechargeable.
Indicates the thread of the attack of the most common atomizers. It has become the industry standard that most manufacturers adhere to.
AIO stands for All in One. It is an "all in one" electronic cigarette, ie the battery and the atomizer are coupled. They are compact and inexpensive devices and their only weaknesses are the difficulty of cleaning and the inability to replace the atomizer.
It usually refers to a liquid that is vaped around the clock. Our favorite liquid, the one that never tires.
It is one of the ingredients of the liquid for ecig, it characterizes its flavor. Food flavorings are usually used. There are several aromatic families: tobacco, fruity, creamy.
Mod error message, indicates that the atomizer is short-circuited.
It is the component that allows the electronic cigarette to vaporize the liquid and inhale it by the user. There are different types of atomizers: head, regenerable, disposable and dripping.
English-speaking term that refers to the atomizer.
It is an electronic cigarette that generates vapor by sucking from the drip tip, without activation or setting buttons.
The base liquid (or neutral base) is the mixture of VG and PG without the addition of flavorings. The base liquid is used to customize the flavoring and the amount of nicotine.
In the world of vaping, the battery can indicate, in addition to the classic torch batteries, the electronic device that supplies the energy to the atomizer to vaporize the liquid. There are different types of battery such as the MOD, the Big Battery and the Pod Mod. The batteries for ecig can have an integrated or replaceable battery (rechargeable batteries).
It is a MOD with a size similar to a box.
It is a battery delivery mode.
It is a type of advanced resistance and used in regenerable atomizers. Aesthetically it is similar to a guitar string, as it comes with a resistive wire wrapped around a main one.
Literally "Hunting for the cloud". It is the slang that is used to indicate the types of vaping tools capable of creating huge clouds of vapor (example cloud chasing atomizer).
Also called resistance or coil, it is the metal element that is found in the atomizer head and its function is to heat and vaporize the liquid.
Term used to describe the type of attack present on electronic cigarettes (MOD) and which allows you to screw the atomizers (see 510 or eGo).
Battery protection system that automatically deactivates it after a period of time set by the manufacturer. Protects from accidental activations such as in your pocket or bag.
From the English "bridge" is the part of the regenerable atomizer where the coil made by the user is mounted (also called build). The deck is in effect an electric bridge.
There are different types of deck such as postless or velocity.
It is a microchip for electronic cigarettes produced by Evolv LLC, an American company, which allows the management of the various functions of the Mods (WV, VV TC). There are different versions of DNA (eg DNA40, DNA75, DNA200). The Mods with DNA chipset can be connected to the PC or Mac, via the USB port, and through the EScribe software, make further customizations and modifications.
It is the mouthpiece (or mouthpiece) where the lips rest to inhale the vapor. Go to our catalog ofdrip tip.
Translated from the English "dripping" is the act of wetting the cotton of the coil directly with the liquid in the dripper (type of regenerable atomizer without tank). This system is used to have a better aromatic and hit experience. For expert or hard vaper users.
DTL or DL
Direct to lung or lung pull is a type of vapor inhalation. The vapor is inhaled directly into the lungs through normal aspiration. There are special atomizers and liquids for this type of vaping experience. Generally lung shot liquids have a higher VG (vegetable glycerol) component and a lower nicotine level than "normal" liquids (usually around 3mg / ml). DTL is the opposite of '. On our site it is indicated in the search filters by the item type of shot: Arioso (Pulmonare)
It stands for Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and is the "technical" name of the electronic cigarette used mainly by the scientific community and by legislative and non-legislative authorities.
Wire of metal material used to make the regenerable atomizer coil. The resistive wire is sold in spools, in different diameters and materials such as kanthal, ss316 steel, nichrome. Each material has its own characteristics of conductivity, ductility and strength per linear meter.
Also known as "blow in the throat". It is the sensation that is felt in the throat when vaping a liquid with nicotine. It is closely related to the amount of nicotine present in liquid or traditional cigarettes. If the sensation is too strong and disturbing, it means that there is too much nicotine present for your needs.
The liquid for electronic cigarettes (eliquid or e-liquid) is a solution of Propylene Glycol (PG), Vegetable Glycerol (VG), flavors and nicotine that is vaporized by the electronic cigarette.
It stands for milli-ampere-hours and is a measure of how much energy the battery can store. The higher this number and the more energy can be stored, the longer the charging time and the larger the size.
Wire mesh, which has the same function as a coil, that is to heat and vaporize the liquid.
stands for milligram and indicates the quantity of nicotine present in a liquid, expressed in mg / ml (milligram over milliliter).
Very common nicotine levels are: 0mg, 2mg, 4mg, 6mg, 9mg 12mg and 18mg. Sometimes the value is expressed as a percentage eg. 4mg / ml> 4%.
A MOD is the body of an electronic cigarette. The MOD generally contains: the battery / battery that provides energy, the protection and delivery circuit (to customize the type of vape), the USB port for charging and the housing / connector for the atomizer. There are different types of mods, you can learn more by reading:.
Mouth to lung or cheek throw is a type of vapor inhalation, very similar to the traditional cigarette pull it is very closed and needs a passage first from the mouth and then into the lungs. MTL is the opposite of. On our online shop it is indicated in the search filters with the item type of shot: closed (cigarette) and closed airy (cigarette without filter).
Nicotine is an organic compound present in tobacco and solanaceae (tomato, pepper, eggplant and others), which creates psychic (and physical to a lesser extent) addiction. Its function within the e-liquid is to satisfy the need for nicotine and to deliver the hit (shot in the throat).
It is the measure of the electrical resistance (ohm law). Refers to the coil / resistor. A low Ohm (e.g. 0.5ohm) indicates lower resistance and, in turn, faster heating. Resistors below 1ohm are called SubOhm.
Gasket. It is generally found in the atomizer.
It means that the device can be used when charging via power cable.
Propylene Glycol (E1520) is an odorless, colorless, sweet-tasting liquid chemical compound that is used in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries to dilute other components. It is one of the ingredients of the liquid for electronic cigarettes.
It is a cartridge that acts as a tank with the integrated coil / head. Easy and immediate to use, it is mounted on a special device (pod mod). On the market there are empty pods to be loaded with your favorite liquid or preloaded (eg myblu, juul, minifit vaporart and others). It is a disposable product, when the head (or the liquid) runs out it is replaced with a new one.
It is an electronic cigarette that uses disposable cartridges / pods.
Refill of the liquid in the atomizer.
Rebuildable Tank Atomizer or Rebuildable Atomizer. In this kind of atomizer the user has to build the head himself (coil + wick / cotton). Personalization of the maximum experience, but recommended for expert users who have notions of electrical engineering and do-it-yourself.
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It is the name of the first liquid created for the electronic cigarette. Produced by Dekang in 2004 for Ruyan LTD the company of Hon Lik (the inventor of the electronic cigarette). The basic components are tobacco, caramel and vanilla.
Salts of Nicotine
Also NicSalt or Nicotine Lactate (technical name). It is one of the most recent innovations in the vaping industry. It is a new type of nicotine with which liquids are prepared. The benefit is that you have a higher nicotine intake per shot with less throat hit. Thanks to liquids with nicotine salts, entry level devices and pod mods are able to be more performing and satisfying.
The electronic cigarette (e-cigarette, e-cig or personal vaporizer) is an electronic device that imitates the sensations and gestures of the traditional cigarette or processed tobaccos (cigar or pipe). The 2003 invention is attributed to the Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik.
It is a package that includes an electronic cigarette complete with device with battery and atomizer, and which is often recommended for beginners. Sometimes it is possible that the starter kit also includes other accessories, such as an additional atomizer, pre-loaded cartridges, etc ...
A type of resistance used mostly on advanced systems, capable of producing more steam. It is called in this way because the ohm value of this type of resistance is around 1.
The act of inhaling the vapor from the ecig. If a smoker smokes, a vape vape!
Temperature Control is a mod / battery delivery mode. Unlike VW mode, which sets the output power, in the TC the temperature in ° C of the coil / resistance is set. The advantage of the TC is to have a more uniform vape and avoids the problems of burning the cotton (battened). Not all resistive materials can be used in TC. Others, however, are more suitable eg. nickel or titanium.
Also called head coil, replacement head or pod. The head is a spare part of the atomizer and is the component that vaporizes the liquid. It is composed of an element that transports the liquid (cotton, ceramic, silica wick) into the coil / resistance which, when heated, vaporizes the liquid.
Tobacco Products Directive is a European directive that regulates the world of tobacco and electronic cigarettes at EU level and has been in force since May 20, 2017. According to the standard, for example, liquids with nicotine can only be sold in 10ml bottles with a maximum content of 20mg / ml.
Vegetable glycerin or vegetable glycerol is a vegetable additive, particularly viscous and dense that gives the smokiness of a liquid, or the amount of vapor generated during the vape.
The Variable Voltage was created to regulate the delivery power of the box. For VV devices without display, it is necessary to know the resistance value of the atomizer in order to calculate the wattage resulting from the set volts.
Variable Wattage is the most used mode on the box mod. It allows you to select the power delivered by the battery without worrying about making calculations or knowing formulas: just choose the preferred value. The higher the Watt value, the hotter the steam generated will be, so you can customize the vape. Not all atomizers are compatible with any power: generally there are indications on replacement heads.
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Definition of sapsago
: a very hard green skim-milk cheese flavored with the powdered leaves of an aromatic European legume (Trigonella caerulea)
Origin and Etymology of sapsago
modification of German Schabziger
First Known Use: circa 1846
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Ithaca: A physicist whose career was highlighted by research that helped capture moving images of the first moon walk has died. Ernest Sternglass was 91. Cornell University says Sternglass died Thursday of heart failure in Ithaca, New York.
Sternglass corresponded early in his career with Albert Einstein, who encouraged him to pursue applied physics over theoretical research. Cornell says Sternglass' research helped lead to a sensitive television camera tube that captured low-light lunar action during the 1969 moon landing.
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An effective tennis serve is crucial to your development as a player. The ability to incorporate different types
of tennis service to your game is vital in winning matches.
The serve is a complicated stroke, composed of a series of motions, the objective of which is hitting the ball in a timely manner to be effective. How you hold the racket, how you position your feet, how you throw the ball, how you position your body prior to the impact of the tennis racquet hitting the ball are all important aspects of the stroke. And also keep in mind that the rhythm of your service directly affects your timing and the effectiveness of your serve.
There are three basic types of service: the flat or basic serve, the topspin , and the slice.
The flat or basic is hit on a flat trajectory with a minimum of spin. The topspin has a high arcing trajectory and a high, kicking bounce. The slice is hit with sidespin and some topspin, making the ball swerve in the air and after the bounce.
It is important to choose the tennis serve depending on your physique and the requirements of the match that you play at any particular time.
Usually, the flat tennis serve is used for the first serve, the topspin for the second serve and the slice as a variation tennis serve.
Here are the primary components of the serve prior to the actual moment the racquet hits the ball:
Remember to modify your stance according to each type of tennis service. However, generally speaking, your feet should be shoulder-width apart, your front foot a few inches away from the baseline to avoid foot fault, two feet away from the centermark, your knees bent.
The ideal grip for serving is the Continetal grip. This grip allows you maximum snap in your wrist for power and at the same time, imparts spin when you hit the ball.
The Continental Grip
Holding The Ball
Hold the ball between your thumb and all four fingers.
Position of Your Feet
Align your feet so that your toes point toward the target area. Allow for some variation according to the type of serve.
The Ball Toss
The ball should be tossed in front, slightly to the right of the leading shoulder, and at least a little higher than you could reach with your racquet so that the ball is hit after it has fallen a few inches. Coordinate your movement so that the you release the ball when your tossing arm is at full stretch. There is a slight variation in the ball toss according to the type of the tennis serve.
Remember, you're only as good a player as your second serve.
Your first tennis serve might be as fast as Andy Roddick's when it hits the court 15% of the time, and you consistently dink the second one, then it's fair to say that you won't win many matches.
You've got to develop a dependable second tennis serve. Slow down your second serve using ball control (spin), and body control (at point of contact on the serve, the left leg and the right arm - or the right leg and the left arm if you're left-handed, should be in a straight line).
On the ball toss, concentrate on the wrist because it causes the ball to go wherever it goes - long, short, left or right.
Improving Your Stroke
The more fluid your tennis serve motion, the more effective your serve becomes. I know it's not easy for a beginner but constant practice will take care of that.
As you prepare to swing at the ball, take the racquet back and lift it into a throwing position between your shoulder blades as you toss the ball. Remember that serving the ball is basically like throwing the ball with your hand except that you use the racquet to do it.
Keep your racquet high and away from your body. This motion is the trigger for the hitting thrust at the ball. The farther the racquet is away from the ball, the more momentum it gathers the moment it hits the ball with legs, shoulders, hitting arm and wrist all playing their parts in that fluid motion.
Below are a general series of steps needed to accomplish a well-hit tennis serve. They basically apply to all kinds of serves.
1. As you take the racquet back, the inside of your hitting wrist and the hitting face of your racquet should point towards the court surface at the end of the take-back.
2. Push your front hip forwards as you move your weight over your bent front knee, thereby stabilizing your front foot.
3. The back shoulder must turn in to add its power to the hit as the racquet head is thrown up to meet the ball. It is very important to time the shoulder turn. Turning the hitting shoulder too early or too late will result in an ineffective tennis serve.
4. Keep your head up with your eyes on the ball at all times. At the hit the wrist should snap forwards to present the strings to the back of the ball, with an up, through and over action. Be careful not to baby this shot, so to speak. Hit the ball with authority.
5. During the follow through, let the racquet go past your left leg (or right leg, if you're left-handed) as your momentum carries you forward onto your right foot which has swung through across the baseline.
If you would like to find out how to improve and revolutionize your game including your tennis serve, Brent Abel is highly recommended. Go to his site, WebTennis.net.
Brent Abel is highly recommended to:
• Dramatically improve your tennis strokes...
- tennis serve
- one-handed backhand groundstroke
- forehand groundstroke
- two-handed backhand groundstroke
- forehand and backhand volleys
- returns of serve for singles & doubles
- drop shot
• Understand the simple yet essential keys to footwork.
• Develop the necessary mental skills for practice and competition
• Be more focused on court positioning - Finally understand exactly how superior court positioning in your singles and doubles strategies can have an enormous effect on challenging your opponents.
• Get fitter and learn simple exercises for tennis specific injury prevention, greatly reduce the risk of tennis elbow, rotator cuff, and other tennis related injuries
• Learn to become an "all-court" tennis player instead of just being a one-dimensional predominantly baseline player
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Following Jesus video series
Jesus was defined by the times and His Father’s agenda—and during His first 30 years became in life what He wanted us as His disciples to multiply.
Jesus established what we call the great commission ethne principle, “Go and make disciples of all ethnicities or relational streams.”
On Paul’s first journey, churches were planted in relational streams, and on the second—churches multiplied in the oikos or households in relational streams.
On each journey the Paul followed Jesus’ methods—connecting in relational streams, planting in households, and in planting regional mission hubs on his third—the movement exploded.
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Old shoes and boots make whimsical planters for flowers. This project takes something otherwise useless and transforms it into a quirky garden feature. Use sturdy leather shoes or boots for longer-lasting planters. You need to make drainage holes in the soles for healthy plants, so if the shoes have holes in them, all the better. Bear in mind the limited size of shoes and boots when choosing what kinds of flowers to plant in them; small or slow-growing plants are appropriate.
Things You'll Need
- Old shoes or boots
- Potting soil
Remove the insoles from the shoes if possible and discard them.
Clamp the shoes to a workbench with the bottom of the sole facing you. Use a large-sized bit to drill holes all over the soles, spaced about one inch apart. This is important because the roots of the plant may rot if water cannot drain easily from the planter.
Remove the shoes from the clamp. Untie the shoelaces from the top few sets of holes and tie the laces in a double knot. Opening the shoe a little increases the planting area, while the laces hold the shape together.
Fill the shoe with potting soil, tapping it down into the foot and toe section. Fill the shoe lightly up to the ankle without packing the soil down.
Use the trowel to press a hole in the ankle part of the shoe. You can angle it toward the foot section to make the hole deeper if necessary.
Gently tap around the outside of the plastic pot containing the seedling, hold the plant at the base of its stem and carefully tug it out of the pot.
Press the root ball of the seedling down into the hole you made in the potting soil. Sprinkle and pack some extra potting soil around the seedling to hold it in place. Water the seedling thoroughly.
Tips & Warnings
- Line the ankle part of the shoe with moss, allowing some to trail over the sides before adding the potting soil for a different look.
- Shoe Planters Article
- The Ultimate Container Garden; Stephanie Donaldson; 1997
- Photo Credit Mary R. Vogt /Morguefile.com
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This week I attended the Michigan Fiber Festival, at the Allegan County Fairgrounds. I go every couple of years and it is a special treat if I can take a class while I am there. This year I signed up for a fiber blending course.
The students throughout the festival were 98% women, which is curious to me. I sat in a circle of women around my own age with our spinning wheels lugged up from home. The teacher gave us each samples of various fibers from silk worms, alpacas, and several kinds of sheep. Some were dyed bright and beautiful colors and some were natural and waiting for a good washing.
The teacher showed us how we could make interesting textures and lovely colors by blending a variety of fibers right from our hands feeding into the spinning wheel. It opened my eyes to new possibilities and I am eager to start experimenting. I came home and spun up the remains of the fibers I’d received and plied it all together into a very random skein of yarn. There is not enough to make an article of clothing, but I think when I finish my current weaving project I will try using this as the weft and see what kind of wild and wooly fabric it will make.
The other, totally unrelated thing that I found interesting this morning is a small clump of shiny gold insect eggs deposited under the leaves of our raspberry bushes. I came upon it by accident and was surprised by the metallic sparkle. I don’t know what they are, but an internet search leans toward some sort of stinkbug. Hopefully, it is not something that will one day mature and consume my plants, but I’m not about to go on a search-and-destroy mission. | <urn:uuid:9f8ac23f-fa77-40f4-a7fa-35de02ca10e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bluestempond.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/a-couple-interesting-things/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.972606 | 354 | 1.570313 | 2 |
December 11, 2008
TU THANH HA and CAROLINE ALPHONSO AND IAN BAILEY, Globe and Mail
TORONTO and VANCOUVER — As more police forces withdraw older models of tasers, the controversial stun gun manufacturer is insisting its devices are safe and has offered to help test them.
Police forces in Winnipeg, Newfoundland, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Fredericton and York Region, north of Toronto, are following police agencies in British Columbia and the RCMP in removing pre-2006 taser models for tests. Ontario has ordered tests but no blanket recall of the older models.
The move stemmed from a CBC/Radio-Canada report that found four of 41 tested units discharged more current than the manufacturer said was possible. The tests involved X26 taser models manufactured before Dec. 31, 2005.
Peter Holran, a spokesman for Taser International, dismissed the report as scientifically unsound.
"It is unfortunate that false allegations based on scientifically flawed data can create such uncertainty," he said in a statement. The Arizona-based company said it has provided its factory test protocol to laboratories in Canada "so police agencies can avoid the scientific errors made by the CBC." Mr. Holran said the four stun guns that produced higher electrical currents can be explained by the lack of a spark test before the devices were used, a safety procedure required of all officers using tasers in the field.
A spark test is required because a taser that hasn't been fired for a while needs more voltage to activate, he said.
Yesterday, the Winnipeg Police Service cited the test results as it announced it was removing the X26 models from service. "I think it is a very valuable tool. But given this information with regards to these particular models, we are concerned," said Constable Jason Michalyshen. Tasers became controversial in Winnipeg when 17-year-old Michael Langan died after being tasered during a confrontation with police last summer.
The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary removed tasers from service on Tuesday. Constable Paul Davis said the RNC is awaiting the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police's policy on tasers.
"We don't know where we're going to go at this point in time as far as testing, replacing, repairing, that type of thing," he said. "That decision will made some time in the future."
The RNC suspended its purchase of stun guns for front-line officers last fall following the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski after a tasering incident at Vancouver International Airport.
In Quebec, Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis has ordered that all tasers manufactured before Dec. 31, 2005, be systematically tested by the provincial crime lab, in addition to random audits on later models.
Vancouver Police have completed an inventory of pre-2006, X26 model tasers. Sixty-three of the 171 tasers in the VPD will be taken out of service for further testing. This follows a request yesterday by Solicitor-General John van Dongen asking municipal police forces around B.C. to recall pre-2006, X26 models from service for further testing. In Ontario, the Ministry of Community Safety has instructed police services to check their X26 models, department spokesman Anthony Brown said yesterday.
York Regional Police Chief Armand La Barge said concerns surrounding tasers purchased prior to 2006 resulted in the force pulling 14 of its 31 tasers from service. "They will be tested before any consideration is given to having them put back into circulation," he said.
"We are looking at having a process in place whereby we would be examining all our tasers on an ongoing basis."
Toronto Police, Canada's largest municipal force, previously replaced its old tasers, and no longer has any that were purchased before 2006.
Other forces say their devices function properly. "We're quite confident our tasers are all in good working order," said Constable Wayne Patterson of the Peel Regional Police. "They are tested regularly each time they are taken out."
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
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We've had another rare sighting here on our Mountain this year!
You may remember that we shared with you two Luna Moths that we found this year, one of them just a day or so old and in pristine condition!
A week or so ago, we found another rarity, a Polyphemus Moth and of course Mum went crazy with the camera!
The Polyphemus Moth can be found nearly all over the US, except in the desert states and throughout Canada as well.
Like the Luna Moth they are large in size. This one was about 4-5" long, although we didn't get to see it open so we don't know it's wing span.
Also like the Luna Moth, the Polyphemus Moth has a very short life span, and that's why it's so difficult to spot them and considered somewhat rare.
As adults they live a maximum of only 4 days. Their entire life cycle averages about 3 months from eggs to larvae to pupa and then through adult. Again, like the Luna Moth the caterpillar is green, round and fat, but Polyphemus Moths have single horizontal lines along each side of the body, Luna Moths have vertical yellow lines on each segment. Cool huh?
Polyphemus Moths are named because of the large eyespots on their wings; named named after the Greek myth of the Cyclops, Polyphemus.
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Shepherdstown in Jefferson County, West Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
The Spirit of 1775
Less than half mile eastward is the famous spring around which, from their rendezvous on lands of Morgan and Bedinger, July 17th, 1775 Captain Hugh Stephenson’s Company of Virginia Riflemen, 98 volunteers started on their bee-line march to Boston Town, 600 miles away, reporting to General Washington on August 11th. They all pledged to meet at this spring fifty years hence, if alive.
Captain Hugh Stephenson
First William Henshaw
Second George Scott
Third Thomas Hite
Fourth Abraham Shepherd
Ensign William Pyle
First Samuel Finley
Second William Kelly
Third Josiah Flagg
Fourth Henry Bendinger
First John Crawford
Second David Miller
Third Henry Barrett
Fourth George Michael Bedinger
Surgeon Garrett Tunison
Meeting at the spring in 1825, only two of the five survivors were able to keep their pledge:
Maj. Henry Bendinger of Berkeley County
Maj. George Michael Bedinger of Kentucky.
Erected 1932 by National Society Daughters of the American Revolution – Pack Horse Ford Chapter
Marker series. This marker is included in the Daughters of the American Revolution marker series.
Location. 39° 25.577′ N, 77° 48.913′ W. Marker is in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in Jefferson County. Marker is on S Duke Street / Kearneysville Pike (West Virginia Route 480), on the left when traveling south. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Shepherdstown WV 25443, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Elmwood Cemetery (approx. 0.2 miles away); Confederate Soldiers in Elmwood Cemetery / Colonel Henry Kyd Douglas (approx. 0.2 miles away); Fountain Rock (approx. half a mile away); Reformed Church Parsonage (approx. half a mile away); Free School (approx. 0.6 miles away); Civil War Hospital Site (approx. 0.6 miles away); Shepherd State Teachers College (approx. 0.6 miles away); Shepherdstown (approx. 0.6 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Shepherdstown.
Also see . . . Pack Horse Ford Chapter. Pack Horse Ford has an important place in the history of the Virginias, since its situation determined the site of Shepherdstown and opened the way to the settlement of the Shenandoah Valley. By this route, the famous company of patriots, organized at Morgan's Spring, made their (Submitted on August 2, 2012, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)
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By Crystal Lewis
Prayer is primarily viewed as humanity's tool for getting things from God. While this view of prayer may be popular, it can be misleading and hurtful to some. The belief that prayer can "move the will of God" can cause us to believe that God is being benevolent when our needs are met and is not interested in our well-being when we are in need. This can be problematic for a variety of reasons.
For instance, are we to believe that God has forsaken the starving people in our world because he hasn't answered our prayers to provide food to them in their time of need? Should we believe that God is so ambivalent to the collective needs of our world that he would spend time sparing one person of sickness or suffering only to ignore the ones who, for some reason, have not prayed?
Because of these troubling questions about this topic, I prefer to view prayer as a state of constant communion with God. I am reminded that God knows our needs before we ask, and that we are to pray without ceasing. In this constant time of prayer, we remain connected to the Spirit and mission of God, and can give food to the hungry, and care for the sick, and bring comfort to the broken hearted.
I believe that God intervenes in our world at times, but I remain convinced that it is our mission to partner our works with the faith we exhibit during prayer. And I believe that prayer should be viewed as the life-giving and strength-increasing communion with God that is necessary to impact the world in Christ's Name.
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Crystal S. Lewis is a progressive Christian who writes a blog called Jesus Was A Heretic, Too. She is currently pursuing a Master of Divinity at Wesley Theological Seminary. Follow Crystal on Twitter.
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“First and foremost it’s about provenance,” says Hong Kong fashion journalist Divia Harilela of what makes an item truly iconic. “And it’s also about style, in the sense that it is something that will transcend time.”
Travel from the Chanel Atelier on the Rue Cambon to the outskirts of Paris and you will find the birthplace of another icon of style. It was in 1859 in the sleepy rural town of Asnières-sur-Seine that trunk-maker Louis Vuitton built his workshop dedicated to making the most innovative luggage of the age, and it was there that he would go on to create one of the world’s most enduring symbols of luxury.
The first trunk produced by Vuitton came in grey Trianon canvas, which made it lighter, more durable and more waterproof than those made by his competitors. It was also the first to have a flat top instead of a dome, making it perfect for stacking in the baggage carriages of trains and in the holds of ships.
Fast-forward more than a century and you have a design that has been re-imagined by the likes of artists Takashi Murakami, Stephen Sprouse and Damien Hirst, and that has travelled with everyone from Joan Collins and Paris Hilton to the Maharaja Hari Singh (who in 1928 commissioned 38 pieces of Vuitton luggage, including one for his polo mallets). Among its most famous devotees have been Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Vreeland, both of whose sets of Vuitton cases were auctioned by Christie’s as part of their estates. Today, all of Vuitton’s trunks are still made by hand in Asnières, often to the exact same specifications as the originals and using the same techniques established all those years ago.
“It tends to be with most iconic designs that there is a story,” says Matthew Rubinger, international director of handbags at Christie’s. “Many of them are actually quite practical. Dior and its Lady Dior bag is a perfect example of this.”
While attending the opening of an exhibition celebrating the work of Cézanne in Paris in 1995, Princess Diana, so the story goes, was given the then unreleased bag as a gift by Bernadette Chirac, France’s First Lady. She instantly became a fan, ordering one in every available colour and carrying it on countless public engagements. Seizing on the opportunity, Dior renamed the bag Lady Dior in her honour. In a campaign fronted by actress Marion Cotillard it remains at the forefront of the brand’s offering today, the simple boxy style, complete with top handle, re-imagined in different colours and fabrications season after season.
At Fendi, the Baguette bag exploded onto the global fashion scene in 1997. Named for the French loaf it resembles, the bag has since been released in more than 700 iterations. “Many designers decided to go into accessories because they realised if you get the right bag you can really grow your business,” says Silvia Venturini Fendi, creative director of accessories at the fashion house and granddaughter of its founders. “But actually, the Baguette was the opposite of a mass-production strategy. They were all different, and some of them had many different components from all over the world, such as beads and Swarovski crystals and feathers. If one of those components doesn’t arrive on time, the chain stops.” For the designer, it was the bag’s scarcity that was the main draw. “People were not expecting to wait for a bag. This was the start of the famous waiting list; people were calling, trying to move from number 200 to be on the top. It was crazy!”
Equally crazy, perhaps, is the idea that something as ubiquitous as a colour could become so much a part of a brand’s DNA that one can hardly be imagined without the other. Yet that’s precisely the case with Valentino and his famous shade of red. “When I was young, I went to see the opera Carmen
in Barcelona and the whole set was red – the flowers, the costumes – and I said to myself, ‘I want to keep this colour in my life’,” the designer explained on the eve of a 2012 retrospective of his work at Somerset House in London. “So I mixed a shade with the people who make fabrics – it contains a certain amount of orange – and Valentino Red became an official Pantone colour.”
First appearing in a strapless tulle cocktail dress as part of the designer’s 1959 collection, the red went on to feature in almost every collection he produced, and has been worn by everyone from Brooke Shields to Emma Watson, Jennifer Aniston and Anne Hathaway. It was a masterstroke that made Valentino the first telephone call for celebrities and VIPs on their way to the red carpet, and in his final appearance at the helm of the brand, at his 2008 haute couture show in Paris, the finale featured no fewer than 30 models wearing Valentino Rosso dresses.
All of these pieces might have been around for decades, but their cachet has never been higher. “Consumers today, more than at any other time in history, are really curious, and interested in how pieces are made,” says Rubinger, referring to a renewed emphasis on artisanal skill that – perhaps as an antidote to the rampant consumerism of the last decade – has reawakened a passion for iconic items of the past.
“Now it’s about timeless and unique items that will stand the test of time,” adds Harilela. “That is the legacy of these products. They are beautifully made, they are unique and they age well. Fashion isn’t made to last a lifetime, but heritage is.”
Words by Gemma Soames
Chanel’s Little Black Jacket is one such piece. Designed in 1954 by Coco herself, it was more than just an antidote to the constricting fashions of the time – it was a revolution. Not only did it give women a whole new wardrobe to match their modern lives, it was also the embodiment of new techniques. The LBJ had no interfacing and was cut in a boxy shape, to allow as much movement as possible. And then there were the details – buttons embossed with lions (the designer’s own star sign), and later the interlocking Cs and a small weighted chain sewn into the hems to ensure they hung perfectly. These unmistakable elements allowed Chanel to “own” both the design and the look itself. As Karl Lagerfeld put it: “Coco Chanel invented a type of piece that had never before existed in this particular form, and no one can take this achievement away from her. It is an icon that embodies the essence of Chanel style. Some things never go out of fashion in the world of fashion: jeans, the white shirt and the Chanel jacket.” | <urn:uuid:b89c7d19-b85b-470a-8040-cac9030aa1b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.landmark.hk/en/inspiration/landmark-magazine/women/the-making-of-an-icon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975749 | 1,493 | 1.664063 | 2 |
1 Department of Science Studies, Faculty of Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus University2 Department of Mathematics - Science Studies, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Aarhus University3 Department of Mathematics - Science Studies, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology, Aarhus University
Scientific exploration, national "flag-waving", and relief maps of the Philippine Trench on the Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950 to 1952
By the early 20th century, oceanographers intensified their efforts to map the deep sea. The great depth of the Philippine Trench was first observed by the German Planet Expedition in 1912. During World War II, the US naval vessel Cape Johnson used directional echo-sounding to obtain a depth of 10,497 m. In 1951, the Danish Galathea Deep Sea Expedition from 1950 to 1952 verified the result of the Cape Johnson sounding. Today, the greatest depth in the Philippine Trench is the Galathea Depth of 10,540 m. The Galathea Expedition produced several echograms of the deepest parts of the Philippine Trench in order to map its bathymetric features. The resulting maps are presented in this poster. Unlike many other contemporary developments in deep sea topography and cartography that were shaped by the Cold War, the Galathea maps of the Philippine Trench were intimately connected with the expedition's attempt to "wave the Danish flag". The expedition was the first scientific expedition to have on board a separate press section communicating its scientific results as well as Danish nationality to the wider public. In this poster, the Galathea maps of the Philippine Trench are placed within this context of combined national "flag-waving", publicity, and scientific exploration.
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Editorial: “Right now, science needs the right stuff“
ON 26 FEBRUARY, two days after NASA’s space shuttle Discovery blasted off on its final flight, a plane loaded with researchers soared over Cape Canaveral, Florida, home to the shuttle’s launch pad, in preparation for a very different era of space science.
These lucky few were training to conduct experiments aboard a new generation of spacecraft built by commercial outfits like Virgin Galactic.
The vehicles’ primary purpose will be to ferry tourists to the edge of space, about 100 kilometres above Earth’s surface. But it is the potential to expand research in astronomy, planet formation, and other disciplines that had scientists salivating at a recent meeting on the science applications of space tourism in Orlando, Florida.
“We’re entering a regime where the space scientist is going to be able to go into the field the same way that geologists and biologists and oceanographers do,” says Daniel Durda of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado.
On 28 February, SwRI signed the first contracts to fly scientists to space on vehicles made by Virgin Galactic and XCOR. The flights are expected to be up and running by 2013 or sooner. When they do, what can we expect to learn from the on-board experiments?
Science has already been done on the International Space Station, the shuttle, satellites and high-altitude balloons. But Alan Stern, who is leading the new programme at SwRI, says that the planned flights, which will include a few minutes of weightlessness, will make a unique contribution. | <urn:uuid:af9f5dcf-fb37-4f70-b58f-b5238817e52e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928033.600-tourists-spark-era-of-space-science/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00039-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935944 | 336 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Endurance sport refers to sporting activities undertaken by individual athletes in which key muscles are exercised at maximal intensity for a prolonged period of time. Examples of endurance sports include triathlons, cycling, marathons and swimming.
Endurance athletes devote countless hours to their training, pursuing hundreds of laps in the pool or tracking many kilometres of running or cycling each day. No matter how they train, endurance athletes complete a great volume of training. This places immense strain on their bodies physically and mentally meaning that diet and supplementation is very important.
Replenishing carbs and electrolytes during long periods of exercise is vital to keep the body fuelled with energy to keep going. Electrolyte Plus improves hydration by replacing glycogen and electrolytes during exercise whereas Recuper8 assists endurance and enhances recovery for those competing in gruelling events.
Supplementing with Joints Complex will aid in maintenance and repairs of joints while taking a protein such as Protein Matrix+ will help muscles recover faster between training sessions. | <urn:uuid:65ef53b6-d55e-41ea-bf32-c8818bd840fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bulknutrients.com.au/categories/shop-by-sport/endurance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00057-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952729 | 201 | 3.375 | 3 |
Senior economic and political Analyst
War always brings hunger, deaths, displacement, poverty and destruction. It is the duty of world’s policy makers and influential ones to promote peace, harmony and negotiations. United States and European were widely indulged in war mongering, arms supply and closed their eyes from atrocities, planned and organized genocides by Israelis against Palestinians and Indians against Muslim minorities and people of Kashmir. Both EU and USA supported the bloodshed in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. They have dual standard and this dual standard is jeopardizing global peace and stability.
In response to Russia and Ukraine conflict European Union and United States of America imposed sanctions on Russia. The EU adopted five packages of sanctions. The measures are designed to individual sanctions, restrictions on media, diplomatic measures, and restrictions on economic relations with the controlled areas of Donetsk oblasts. These sanctions were imposed on 23rd February, 2022. After February 24, 2022 the EU massively expanded the sanctions. On 8th April, EU banned on import of coal from Russia. It has full ban and an asset freeze on four Russian banks.
These sanctions as there are general impression that hit Russian economy badly but the other side of coin is that it also hit the EU economy very badly. EU Was hardly recovered from Covid Pandemic which left private consumption and investment well below pre-covid forecast even as fiscal and monetary support underpinned an impressive rebound in employment almost to levels last seen before the pandemic. Spiking energy and food prices are now cutting deeply into household consumption and economic uncertainty is poised to restrain investment. Latest regional economic outlook lowers the growth forecasts for Europe. For advanced economy growth projections cut by one percent point to 3% in 2022, Inflation will increase 5.5% in advanced economies and 9.3% in emerging European economies. Oil prices are increasing which is severely damaging the growth targets and making the life in Europe miserable. In the Euro area, inflation reached 7.4% in March, the highest level since the introduction of the single currency. Four countries are facing double digit inflation in euro area core energy prices, which reached almost 45%. Sanctions against Russia badly affected global supply chain. Consumer confidence has dropped remarkably since the sanctions are imposed. In Europe 90 % gas consumed is imported and Russia provides half. Russia also accounts 27% of oil and 46% of coal imports. Defence spending going to rise significantly which will further exacerbate the situation and would be a great burden on economy. Many European companies like McDonald, Ikea left Russia which reduced their revenue significantly.
European Union and Russian conflict economists have defined as “the third asymmetric shock” that Europe had experienced in the last two decades after 2008 financial and economic crisis and the covid 19 pandemic. This crisis will also spell out the end of globalization and it is going to might reshape alliances. EU is going to review protectionism similar will do USA. Russia Ukraine conflict has already created economic disruption and increased poverty, food , insecurity and inflation for beyond Eastern Europe. Ukraine grows enough food to feed 400 million people world-wide which include 50% of the world’s sunflower oil supply,10% of the worldwide grain supply, and 13% of the global corn supply. This food supply chain disruption has badly affected many European countries. Food prices already soared in Germany, UK and other countries. On 31st March, 2022 Vladimir Putin ordered the gas export to Europe should be paid in Rubles instead of euros. Demand to pay in rubles can lead to bypass the euro or dollar financial system and therefore continue to feed Russian State finance. Germany is worst hit by Ukraine war and cannot afford sanctions against Russia. Germany’s investor’s sentiments fell to its lowest level since the start of covid 19 pandemic. The Zew Research Institute disclosed that economic sentiments index recorded the biggest decline in the 31st year history of its monthly poll of investors, reflecting fears that EU’s biggest economy could hit by a recession and soaring inflation as a result of sanctions against Russia and Ukraine war soaring energy prices and waning confidence and threatening to derail the what promised to be a second strong year of economic recovery from the covid 19 pandemic in Europe.
In UK alone inflation and price hike made the lives of people miserable and many people are forced to abandon one time meals. Many families to save their electricity bills they are spending time in cheap restaurants. According to one survey 52% people stopped to meet with their friends. 44 % reduced driving their cars.
The German economy is at risk of shrinking nearly 2% this year if the war in Ukraine escalates and an embargo on Russian coal, oil and gas leads to restrictions on power providers and industry, according to the Bundesbank.
The estimate translates into a hit to output of about 5 percentage points compared to a March baseline, Germany’s central bank said in its monthly report.
Looking 25 years out, it is estimated that 80% of the EU’s natural gas will be imported, with Russia providing up to 60%, equating to one fifth of the overall EU energy mix coming from Russia in the form of pipeline natural gas. This figure does not include the energy the EU will import from Russia in the form of oil, which is estimated to be as much as another one-tenth of the total energy mix. Thus, as the world’s major price-setter for natural gas, Russia— supplying one-third of the EU’s energy in 2030—will be in a position to use its energy supplies as levers of control by dictating terms. The negotiations that transpired with Ukraine at beginning of 2006 and with Belarus in the closing days of 2006 show the huge economic and political leverage Russia commands with countries dependent on its energy.
A common phrase that is often repeated in European political discussion is “the EU and Russia are mutually dependent on one another respectively as buyer and supplier of energy.
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In a nut and shell it is a lesson from History that war and sanctions are not viable solutions. EU and USA imposed sanctions against Iran but it not only survived but enabled itself to produce many of its requirements while Russia is a world power and imposing sanctions against it would not bring positive results rather it would increase unemployment amongst EU ranks. It is therefore it needed to start dialogue with Russia and to find the solution of the problem otherwise historians raise questions and record them why such sanctions had not been imposed on Israel which was busy in genocide of Palestinians and India was committing same crime of genocide of Kashmiris while EU and USA were fully supporting them. Same why not EU reacted when USA and its Allies invaded Vietnam and Iraq. Such dual standard would not bring any positive results.
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(1800 – 1842)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Baamewaawaagizhigokwe, “Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky”) of Sault Ste. Marie is considered by literary scholars and historians to be the first known Native American writer. The granddaughter of the revered Ojibwe chief Waubojeeg, she began as early as 1815 to write poems and stories while translating songs and other Ojibwe works. As the wife of the Michigan Territory Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, she continued her work, collaborating with him on his efforts to document Native cultures. Her essays can be found in “Literary Voyager” also known as “Muzzeniegun” the periodical they jointly published in Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit, and New York. Her stories were additionally published in adapted versions by her husband, and became a key source for Longfellow’s epic poem ‘The Song of Hiawatha.’
As a poet, essayist, storyteller, and translator, she was dedicated to preserving her people’s cultural contributions by committing them to the written word. In the process, she created a body of work that is recognized today as having a unique and invaluable place within American literature. That place was further strengthened by the 2007 publication of her biography by Robert Dale Parker, which was named a Library of Michigan Notable Book.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft lived during an extraordinary period in Michigan history and overcame persistent social conventions regarding women and Native Americans to create something of real value to the generations that followed her. Even today, her work is cited in scholarly articles and published in literary anthologies.
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INTRODUCTION the present research aims at the quarrel and speculation regarding the classic antropolgica question, ' ' what he is the man? ' '. Already since very early we opt to relating to us this study to it as an exercise of speculative character and not ' ' conclusivo' ' , a time that we are ahead of a being of many faces and diverse manifestations; ahead of this, it has of if perceiving that we would be exaggerating when writing, simply, that we would go to answer to such question. Perhaps this is not the objective of the inquiry, even so for many certain times things can denote confident a determined perspective and. But a position will be taken. We assume, here, a relative perspective to the Philosophical Anthropology and the questions raised for Ernst Cassirer, of where the man is faced under a symbolic bias. The cassireriana workmanship Assay On the Man (1944) will be the control point of this research, that it also aims at to dialogue regarding the symbolic forms that are part of the culture human being. Ours research will be, therefore, tied with the bibliographical references of workmanships that deal with Anthropology and Philosophy, and will assume an analytical methodology for times (after all, we will be isolating basic aspects of the expression human being in order to analyze where it consists the beginning of the human being) and for times dialectic (mainly at the moments where we display in agreement man the constant conflict between nature and culture that it is inherent). Learn more at this site: Jeffrey Hayzlett. To take a position before a so ambiguous and opened subject to as many perspectives becomes necessary, in way that also we aim at to reach certain objetividade. However, also it seems opportune still to assume in this introduction, that many reflections contained in this study if move away from the material that we use for reference. | <urn:uuid:b1b7337c-b1e4-499e-9f74-fe8ba96a1904> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.profitpacific.com/tag/philosophy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.944936 | 392 | 2.359375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — U.S. 2015 corn production was forecast at 13.585 billion bushels, down 101 million bushels from 13.686 billion bushels forecast in August and down 4% from 14.216 billion bushels in 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its Sept. 11 Crop Production report.
Soybean production was forecast at 3.935 billion bushels, up 19 million bushels from 3.916 million bushels forecast in August but down 1% from 3.969 billion bushels last year.
The USDA corn number was above the average pre-report trade estimate of 13.493 billion bushels. The soybean number also was above the pre-report average of about 3.838 billion bushels.
Corn futures traded slightly higher after the report while soybean futures declined.
Based on Sept. 1 conditions, corn yield was forecast at 167.5 bushels an acre, down from 168.8 bushels forecast in August and 171 bushels an acre in 2014, the USDA said. Harvested area was forecast at 81,101,000 acres, unchanged from August but down 2% from 2014.
Soybean yield was forecast at 47.1 bushels an acre, up from 46.9 bushels forecast in August but down from 47.8 bushels an acre in 2014. Harvested area was forecast at a record 83,549,000 acres, unchanged from August and up less than 1% from 2014.
The USDA corn yield number was above the average trade forecast of 166.6 bushels an acre, and the soybean number also was above the trade average estimate of 46 bushels an acre.
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Neustroev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich
Born Nov. 14 (26), 1825, in Kronstadt; died Mar. 13 (26), 1902, St. Petersburg. Russian bibliographer and bibliophile.
Neustroev compiled a unique library containing more than 100,000 books and manuscripts in Russian and other Slavic languages, part of which he later donated to scholarly societies and state book repositories. A posthumous catalog of the 2,500 remaining books—Materials for the Catalog of Books, Manuscripts, Engravings, and the Remaining Collection of A. N. Neustroev (1902)—was published.
Neustroev was the author of the basic work Historical Survey of Russian Periodical Publications and Collections for 1703–1802, Described Bibliographically and in Chronological Order (1875), which contained 138 titles of Russian periodicals of the 18th century. The survey indicated the periodicals’ frequency and place of publication as well as their editors, publishers, and most important contributors. It included historical information and an analytical table of contents. In 1898, Neustroev’s Index of Russian Periodical Publications and Collections for 1703–1802 and of the Historical Survey of Them was published.
REFERENCESFaresov, A. “Piatidesiatiletie deiatel’nosti A. N. Neustroeva.” In Istoricheskii vestnik, 1893, no. 12.
Loviagin, A. M. “A. N. Neustroev.” In Literaturnyi vestnik, 1902, book 4.
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We started off the lesson by talking about what XO's are, and what OLPC is. Mostly we just explained some of the differences between XO's/sugar and what the students are probably used to using. The first thing they wanted to know was if they could get on the internet. So much for not telling them about networking on the first day, as we had planned... We also showed some picture of kids using XO's in lots of different places, and were surprised about how excited they were to see that. They all started leaning over their desks to get a look. We're thinking about maybe incorporating a weekly OLPC story, since they seemed to think that was pretty cool.
Next we had a discussion about care of the laptops, and came up with 7 of the most ridiculous contracts I have ever seen, ranging from "No distrucshun, no spilling" to "I will treat my laptop as if it were my DSi." We sent home forms for their parents too.
After that, we gave them their laptops. We had originally planned to give them some instructions for using the Record activity and then have them find something they liked about the XO and make a short presentation on it. They were way too busy changing their name, solving mazes, making friends on the mesh network, and, in the case of one of the students, programming in turtle art, to do any such thing. I'm sure if we hadn't taken all but five activities off the home screen they would have opened all of them. We did manage to teach them how to find the journal and how to get files of a USB drive, how to turn off the computer properly, as well as some other practical things like unfreezing the touchpad and left vs. right click.
About 15 minutes in, they remembered to ask about chat again, so we told them about the rest of the activities. They are going to try to figure out if the mesh network stretches between their houses tonight - there's a chat scheduled for 7pm. We also have a pair of brothers who said they would try to see how far the network stretches. They also learned about the different mesh channels and that there's a limit on how many people can be connected on one at a time. There were about 5 people in one chat before it stopped working.
Some of the things we thought were interesting:
- If we can get one kid excited about something, then the whole class will know in about 2 minutes. If not, the only way to spread information is to make everyone close their computers.
- All of the kids started deciding how good they were at the Maze activity (e.g. "I'm really good at this!", "I'm ok, but not the best") even though they couldn't see each other's work.
- Some things they picked up on right away, like how to open activities. Some things that we would have expected them to have seen before on other computers, like left and right mouse buttons, we had to tell them several times before they got the hang of it. Our turtle art programmer figured out how what turtle art was for right away, but couldn't figure out how to delete blocks.
- They didn't think the computers were slow at all, which we had been worried about. The only time they got impatient was the initial boot-up and opening an activity for the first time
Things we're concerned about for future classes - we'd love suggestions!
- The atmosphere today was really collaborative, and we'd like to harness that in the future to make sure we don't get too much of a learning gap. This is particularly important because we have a large age range in the classroom - we don't want the 5th graders to go off on their own. We also have one student who seems to know a lot more about computers but is less social, so we're trying to think of ways to both keep him engaged and get him to interact more.
- A lot of the kids seemed really interested in seeing the inside of the laptop and learning about repair, but we're hesitant to unleash them with screwdrivers. We're thinking about maybe showing pictures, or taking them out in groups of 2 to see the laptop taken apart.
- We're planning on only talking to them as a group at the beginning of class to minimize the amount of times we have to get their attention when the computers are out. Hopefully they'll get most of their initial exploring done during the week before next class, but we're still a little concerned about keeping them on task. | <urn:uuid:43d584e3-2319-457d-a171-b9d4a5589587> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://olin-olpc.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-day-of-class.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 | 0.990422 | 938 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the American publication of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
The famed French aviator’s children’s novella has been translated into more than 250 languages and dialects. The Little Prince‘s official Facebook page has attracted 1.1 million “likes.”
To commemorate this anniversary, we’ve put together a list of five ideas on how fans can celebrate…
1. Visit the Museum of The Little Prince in Hakone, Japan. Explore the establishment’s park, outdoor sculptures, and the indoor exhibition.
2. Sit for a Little Prince movie marathon. Over the years, several filmmakers have created movie and television adaptations of the novella.
3. Plan a trip to the nearest telescope and go stargazing. In 2003, a small asteroid moon was dubbed “Petit Prince” in honor of the book.
4. Karaoke, anyone? Singer Regina Spektor recorded a Little Prince-inspired song called Baobabs.
5. Enter BookRiot’s Little Prince-themed giveaway. The grand prize winner will receive $50 gift card to the book retailer of their choice.
Here’s more from Publishers Weekly:
The Little Prince was first published in the U.S. on April 6, 1943, by Reynal & Hitchcock, which was absorbed in 1948 by Harcourt, Brace. To celebrate the book’s 70th anniversary, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is bringing out three new editions: an anniversary gift set, a young adult paperback, and a paper-over-board edition of Joann Sfar’s graphic novel adaptation.
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Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us?
From ancient times, countries have chosen the sewer to get rid of household and industrial waste, yet the contaminants we flush resurface in our food chain. Fish swim through waste water dumped into rivers, while sewage sludge is spread on farmland as fertilizer.
Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this bold documentary questions whether the sewer is actually compounding our waste problems. While scientists warn of links between sewage practices and potential health risks, activists, engineers and concerned citizens challenge our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are the alternatives?
2003, 52 min 43 s
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Silver Plaque - Category: Documentary: Science / Nature at the Television Awards
International Film Festival
October 6 to 20 2005, Chicago - USA
Bronze Plaque - Category: Science and Technology
International Film and Video Festival
November 10 to 14 2004, Columbus - USA
Second Place - Category: Oceans, Water Quality & Watersheds
EarthVision Film & Video Festival
October 27 to 30 2004, Santa Cruz - USA
Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Science / Medicine
Yorkton Film Festival
May 27 to 30 2004, Yorkton - Canada
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Well vs Good
Though the two terms, well and good, sound the same, grammatically there is much of a difference between well and good. Good is used as an adjective whereas well is used as an adverb. There are times when good is used as a noun (merchandise or the noun good) too. Good is also used as an adverb to mean well in the informal language. In the same manner, though the primary use of well is when it is used as an adverb, there are times when it is used as an adjective. Well is also used as an exclamation (Well? Do you have the box with you?).
What does Good mean?
Derived from the Old English word gōd, good gives a positive meaning. It can be, as the Oxford English dictionary says, “having the required qualities; of a high standard,” as in,
His marks were not good enough for Harvard entrance.
Now, have a look at the following sentence.
He is a good athlete.
In the above sentence, the word good is used as an adjective. It describes what type of an athlete this subject, he, is. Furthermore, it is customary to describe a thing by the use of the word good. For example, in the sentence,
He has a good voice
The word, good describes a thing called voice.
The comparative and superlative forms of good are better and best respectively.
What does Well mean?
Look at the following sentence.
He ran well in the race.
In the above sentence, the word well is used as an adverb, describing how this person, he, ran.
It is important to note that an action is described by the word well. For example, in the sentence,
He sang well
The word well describes the quality of the action. If you think that you are good in something say cooking or singing, then you can use well to make your intentions clear. For example, you can say when somebody invites you to take part in a singing competition,
I can sing well too.
Here, the word well is used to express your intention that you would like to take part in the competition and that you are good in the art of singing.
The principle mentioned above cannot be applied to the use of the word good. Occasionally, the word well can be substituted by the word good. For example, in the sentence,
He sings good
The word well was occasionally replaced by the word good, but the substitution is optional.
The comparative and superlative forms of well are better and best respectively.
What is the difference between Well and Good?
- Good is generally known as an adjective. Well is known as an adverb.
- Good is used to describe a thing while well is used to describe an action.
- Both well and good carry the same meaning.
- Occasionally, good can replace well.
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Moonlighting and entrepreneurial activity among teachers a growing trend, according to university and government data.
Online PR News – 10-April-2014 – Oakland, CA – Moonlighting activity among teachers doubled during the last three decades, according to a 2012 study by the Sam Houston University's College of Education. Their latest survey, not yet published show 44 percent of teachers in Texas moonlight. Low salaries continue to force instructors to take on extra jobs or start a business.
The teaching profession has long been one that produces many part-time entrepreneurs, reports The Wall Street Journal. These circumstances have inspired a new guide edited by Dee Adams entitled So You Want to Become A Freelance Online Teacher.
"The Web has created tremendous interest in moonlighting online," says Adams, an independent information researcher. "But whether one moonlights as an employee or boss, the activity isn't for everyone. Choosing the right idea is crucial for success, but some hopefuls don't understand the true nature of their skill set or the marketplace. And they choose the wrong work, pile on too many tasks and burn out."
Since 1980, Sam Houston University has tracked activities for Texas teachers who work other jobs during the school year. But the professors point out the issue is global: their study in Kirov, Russia uncovered similar trends. And studies are planned for Uganda and 3-4 states in the U.S. in 2014.
The National Center for Education Statistics shows teachers starting out in the U.S. are 23 percent more likely to hold multiple jobs. And farming, contract writing, waitressing, cake designing, escort service, military reserves, or tending bar are only a few of the occupations held by educators, according to the Ph.D. dissertation of a teacher.
Twenty-five percent of moonlighters are considered self-employed by the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.
"The range of teacher entrepreneurship is amazing; from nonprofit, social ventures to twists on traditional businesses. One instructor formed a fence installation enterprise with a partner. Probably the most amusing idea uncovered is that of a former math teacher who became a stand-in entertainer. He cashed in on his appearance to a famous comedian...Jerry Lewis."
To sample free excerpts of Adams' material, visit Niche Creativity.com and check out a recent post Why So Many Teachers Moonlight & Start Businesses.
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Can you invent a better smiley? Programmable Logic DesignLine Blog 9/27/2007 Post a comment Following my earlier blog on "The 25th Anniversary of the Smiley", one reader suggested a rather clever new design, which set me to wondering...
SerDes: A new definition? Blog 9/26/2007 Post a comment The mission of engineers is to find a better way and that might be what Align Engineering has done with its Align Lock Loop (ALL) technology.
FPGAs look for a lingua franca Signal Processing DesignLine Blog 9/26/2007 Post a comment ESL tools have made FPGA design a lot easier, but the lack of a common design language means the learning curve is still too steep.
Tool 'engages' EE students News & Analysis 9/24/2007 Post a comment Why have American students been losing interest in electrical engineering? One theory is that dramatic technological advances in electronics have had the unintended consequence of making electronics less accessible to curious young minds.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Programmable Logic DesignLine Blog 9/18/2007 Post a comment Don't forget that September 19 is one of the now-classic geek holidays and ranks right up there with 'Pi Day' (14 March) and 'Pi Approximation Day' (22 July).
Samsung invests in picoChip News & Analysis 9/18/2007 Post a comment Samsung participates in the D-round for funding fabless chip vendor picoChip (Bath, England). The value of the funding round is $27 million. Samsung's investment, however, has not been disclosed.
PSoC starter kit offered in USB thumb drive format Product News 9/17/2007 Post a comment Cypress has introduced the PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit, a USB thumb drive kit that is designed to provide a quick, easy, and affordable way for embedded customers to evaluate the integration, flexibility, and real mixed-signal programmability of PSoC mixed-signal arrays.
Measure power efficiently, effectively--and early Design How-To 9/17/2007 Post a comment Designers frequently turn to advanced power reduction techniques such as power shutoff (PSO) and multi-supply-voltage (MSV) architectures to help reach power consumption targets in advanced technology nodes (90 nanometers and below).
Multimedia signal processing with programmable logic Design How-To 9/14/2007 Post a comment The main advantage of using FPGAs for video and imaging applications, compared to using a standard digital signal processor is that FPGAs have a built-in high level of parallel processing. FPGA solutions improve the price-to-performance ratio by enabling FPGA coprocessors to do the heavy lifting, with HD solutions using a single DSP device and a single FPGA instead of as many as eight to ten DSP devices.
ARM rolls Cortex-M1 kit for Cyclone III FPGAs Product News 9/13/2007 Post a comment ARM's new Cortex-M1 Development Kit is optimized for Altera's Cyclone III FPGAs. It has been integrated into Altera's Quartus II design software, and the core is configurable as a component in Altera's SOPC Builder tool.
Altera, European firms launch HD initiative News & Analysis 9/13/2007 Post a comment Seeking to foster the adoption of high definition broadcast systems design, Altera Corp. has launched the High Definition Quality Initiative. 4i2i Communications Ltd, ATEME SA, Let It Wave SA and PLD Applications joined the initiative as founding members.
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It is nearly spring in the northern hemisphere. The March equinox – when the sun crosses the celestial equator from south to north – will fall on March 20.
This time of year – near the spring equinox – is the most favorable for spotting a young moon. See if you can catch one today after sunset by the blazing planet Venus. A young moon is a thin waxing crescent moon visible in the west in evening twilight. The thinnest moons of the year are typically seen in spring. New moon was yesterday; that is when the moon was most directly between the Earth and sun. So tonight is your chance to see a very young moon low in the west, shortly after sunset. To catch a lunar crescent that is only one day past new moon is no small accomplishment!
However, do not tarry when looking for the moon and Venus. At mid-northern latitudes, the shining couple will follow the sun beneath the horizon a little over one hour after the sun sets today. Find an unobstructed horizon in the direction of sunset. Your window of opportunity for finding the moon and Venus above the horizon is about 30 to 60 minutes after sunset. Binoculars help immeasurably for your young moon and Venus quest.
Why are young moons so much easier to spot near the spring equinox? The answer is that the ecliptic – or path of the sun, moon and planets – stands nearly straight up with respect to the horizon on these near-spring evenings. Contrast the moon’s location tonight and again tomorrow night. From night to night, notice that the moon is moving almost straight up relative to the western horizon. Near the autumn equinox, that is not happening. After sunset at that time of the year, the ecliptic lies at an angle that is very slanted with respect to the horizon. Therefore, the moon’s path from the sunset from one day to the next is nearly sideways along the horizon, and the moon stays buried in horizon haze or hidden behind buildings.
So, enjoy the young moon! It is a sign that warm weather is coming for us in the northern hemisphere.
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One of the principal casualties of Kabul is the establishment’s grand vision of a U.S. foreign policy for the new century — where liberalism and democratic capitalism have won the battle for the future, and the U.S., victorious in the Cold War, would lead the world in the realization of a New World Order where we would write the rules and police the planet.
As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan.
Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a CBS poll found that Americans, while still approving of President Joe Biden’s decision to get us out of this “forever war,” were stunned by how badly botched the withdrawal was being executed.
By 75-25, Americans believe the withdrawal is going badly. And those who believe it has gone “very badly” outnumber by 9-1 those who believe it has gone “very well.”
Biden’s own approval rating has plummeted to 50%, the lowest of his presidency. Yet, the disastrous debacle at Kabul airport is by no means played out. It may yet become worse, far worse.
For it is difficult to believe the United States can get all its citizens out by Biden’s deadline of Aug. 31, and impossible to believe we can withdraw all of our imperiled Afghan allies from that 20-year war who today live in terror for themselves and their families.
And there is a certainty — indeed, it is already happening — that some of those left behind will be subjected to atrocities by rogue elements of the Taliban, if not its leadership. Those atrocities will make for film and footage in the Western press, underscoring the failure of the United States to rescue allies it left behind.
And, with reports already emanating from Afghanistan about food shortages, the country could become a human rights hellhole by fall.
Consider. The Taliban may have been able to overrun 15 provincial capitals and Kabul in a week. But the government officials running those cities cannot readily be replaced by Taliban fighters whose vocation for the last two decades has been fighting a terrorist-guerrilla war.
While the triumphant Taliban have no interest in a renewed war with the United States, they do have an ideological interest in trumpeting their triumph over the superpower and rubbing America’s nose in its defeat.
What, then, are the consequences of America’s humiliation?
Biden’s reputation as a capable veteran of half a century at the highest levels of the U.S. government is being daily deconstructed.
The United States is being portrayed in the world’s media as “a pitiful, helpless giant,” in former President Richard Nixon’s phrase. And that is the America whose public face today is that of Joe Biden.
As for the American people’s appetite for intervention in future wars for democracy and nation building, that is almost surely gone.
Nations that have relied on the U.S. to come fight their wars for them should probably be raising their defense budgets.
Billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment — armored vehicles, Black Hawk helicopters, drones, artillery, mortars, thousands of rifles and thousands of tons of munitions — have been lost. Some of this will end up in Russia and China, with some of it transferred to ISIS and al-Qaida.
And, lest we forget, other dominos did fall in the wake of America’s strategic defeat in Vietnam. Cambodia fell to Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Laos fell to the Communists.
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Ethiopia fell to the Derg in East Africa. The former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola fell to the Communist bloc. Marxists took over Grenada in the Caribbean. The Sandinistas took Nicaragua.
At the end of the 1970s, our Near East ally, the shah of Iran, was overthrown, and an anti-American Islamic republic led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was established.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.
Across the Atlantic, “Euro-communism” took root.
The perception that President Jimmy Carter did not understand the character and purpose of our Communist enemies, and that Ronald Reagan did, was high among the reasons the country took its gamble on the Gipper.
That another casualty of the Afghan fiasco is Biden’s credibility is his own doing. Repeatedly, in recent days, what Biden predicted would never happen did happen. And the president made statements seemingly disconnected to the events on the ground in Kabul.
Often last week, Biden gave off the image of a befuddled man who did not understand what was going on or know what he was doing. Nor are Republicans alone in making the point. Democrats and NATO allies are saying the same thing.
One of the principal casualties of Kabul is the establishment’s grand vision of a U.S. foreign policy for the new century — where liberalism and democratic capitalism have won the battle for the future, and the U.S., victorious in the Cold War, would lead the world in the realization of a new world order where we would write the rules and police the planet.
Biden depicted that new world struggle as between democracy and authoritarianism, and America as leading mankind toward the triumph of democracy.
The debacle in Kabul begins Biden’s leadership of that struggle with America’s worst humiliation in living memory.
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The primary colors are responsible for secondary and tertiary colors. You may need to recall the processes of making lime green to accomplish your project, or you may need to help your children with their artwork. But your brain is not helping in recalling the elementary school color theory.
When you want to create different hues, you need to know about the primary colors. We don’t always have every color available on hand. But one can make the desired color by mixing the right primary colors with an accurate proportionality.
Lime green paint has the resemblances of yellow and green. Close by these two tones, you can likewise add various levels of white and black to get the best result. Go through this article to master the techniques for creating different shades.
What Colors Make Lime Green?
Color, color, and color! Color is everywhere, and color means life. An artist expresses his emotion using different shades of colors. The primary colors do not always produce the shades that we see in nature. Some colors you will see are the basic ones. And some are complicated and produced by mixing up different raw colors.
However, you need to follow specific rules to make the desired color by combining two or more colors. Blending yellow and blue will yield green. But what you need to maintain in this process is the right amount of colors to get the lime green hue.
What Two Colors Make Lime Green?
Making lime green paint, you need to mix up a definite quantity of green and yellow colors. You can get unique lime-green colors by combining these two colors. But if you do not have this color on hand, don’t worry, there is a solution for that too.
You can mix yellow and blue to achieve the lime green color. When you combine yellow and green that will initially produce green. But adding more yellow will turn the mixture more vibrant. Thus, you can create different shades of lime green to add depth to your painting.
Likewise, you can add white to make the lime green color, which is the lighter end of the range. And adding black will make it darker. However, remind that the amount of color you will put will determine the result. So, start slow and steady to get the coveted outcome.
How to Make Lime Green Paint – Step by Step
You can make different shades of green by mixing various amounts of yellow and blue. Green lime is also remembered for this kind. However, you can use lemon yellow and ultramarine blue to do the task. But the fact is mixing the color properly.
And people fail to use the correct amount of color to create desired shades. You have to maintain a particular ratio to get the outcome. Otherwise, the effort will go in vain. Here, you will get a step-by-step guide to making lime green paint. So grab your equipment, and let’s start the journey in the realm of color.
First, you need to find all the equipment to start the main task. Here, equipment plays a vital part, so choose wisely for the best outcome. I have listed some of the things that you need in this tutorial.
- Spatula or spoon
- Color mixing tray
- Paints: yellow, blue, white, black
When your instruments are ready, it is time to start experimenting with the colors. Think about how much amount of hue you want in the paint. Pour the required amount of yellow into the color mixing tray. However, make sure that the ratio of yellow is a bit higher than the blue.
Yellow paint is going to determine the intensity of the lime green color. Now pour some blue in that paint, but remember to take it less than the yellow paint. Thus, you will achieve the lime green color.
However, if you want the green color first then the lime color, you have to take the same yellow and blue. It will give you an unlimited green color.
At this step, take a utensil like a woody spoon or turner and mix the paints. Keep mixing the colors until you get an even green color. Try to move the mixture in a cyclic motion and ensure no streaks remain. After completing, you will get an elegant green color.
Now, it is the ideal opportunity for making the lime green. Add more yellow primary to the green color you made in the 3rd step. You will get a lighter shade of green or lime green color. Make sure you’re adding yellow paints at a steady hand, as you can’t get back what you have already added.
In the event that you want a lighter shade, add more yellow in a controlled way. Again, if the paint becomes more delicate than your expectations, add a bit of blue to get a darker shade. Then stir the mixture properly until reaching the desired color.
How to Make Lime Green without Yellow?
Now, you can make the perfect lime green color by following the above-mentioned steps. But, what if the paint is missing? How will you manage at that time? No worries. I will have you a secret to make lime green even without yellow or blue.
Yellow is necessary to bring a green hue in color. And lime green is unimaginable without the green tint. You can still make a green hue even if you run out of yellow. You can pick a mixture of ultramarine blue and orange to get green. After achieving green, utilize the previous techniques to get a lime green color.
You can also create lime green if you run out blue. Use the mixture of burnt umber and cadmium yellow light instead of blue. Moreover, you can apply the combination of Payne’s gray and cadmium yellow light. Now you can create a lime green color by adding a lighter hue.
How to Make Lime Green with Primary Colors?
Primary colors are single monochromatic colors. The secondary and the tertiary color combine two or more colors. To create lime green with basic colors, you may need the following equipment.
- Blue paint
- Yellow paint
- White paint
- Bowl or paint tray
Now, following the basic rules, get an equal yellow and blue. Then mix them perfectly to get green. Adding a little yellow in the green will give you lime green.
How to Make Lime Green Acrylic Paint?
Acrylic paint is water-soluble, and you can use it on cards, canvas, paper even on plastic and metal. You can clean up and brushes with a cleanser and water in the wake of utilizing acrylic paint.
The lime green acrylic paint preparation is the same as the previously mentioned steps. First, you have to measure the same amount of yellow and blue acrylic paint. Mixing them properly, you will get the green color. Then adding a bit of yellow, you will get a lime green color. Thus, you can make lime green acrylic paint.
How to Make Lime Green with Food Coloring?
You can easily use the food coloring to make lime green. You can use that color in a variety of recipes or crafts. Before starting, you will need the following ingredients.
- Yellow food coloring
- Blue food coloring
- Rubber spatula for mixing
- Drop stopper
First, you have to make the primary green color. Take 30 drops of blue food coloring and 75 drops of yellow food coloring and mix them properly. Then you can add more yellow to the mixture to get lime green. Also, you can take nine drops of blue food coloring with 300 drops of yellow food coloring to achieve a lime green color.
Lime green is an eye-catching hue. However, it doesn’t matter the purpose of using lime green. If you know how to mix up the colors to get different shades of green, you give your projects a new dimension. In this article, I have surfaced the easiest but most effective methods for creating lime green color.
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If it’s not a gondola nor a boat, then what is? …
As you might have heard before, we Mexicans are very good when it comes to fiesta, we are party animals, heart and soul, “and so, let me tell you about a place full of tradition, color and good music where you will find the true meaning of Mexico”. Come with me if you want to know what does Mexican boats look like, why are they so famous and why are they called “trajineras”.
The spanish verb trajinar means “to carry goods from one side to another”; that’s why we call these kind of boats “trajineras”. Trajineras were born in the era of the former president of Mexico Porfirio Díaz, since he wanted to please his guests by giving them a tour through the famous canals of Xochimilco in Mexico City. The first trajineras used to have woven roofs and chairs made out of a plant called tule, and they were decorated with floral arches with female names on them, such as “María” or “Rosario”. Nowadays, not only you can still find these typical trajineras in Mexico City, but you can also enjoy a fun ride within the beautiful scenarios of Cancun. So join me in this countdown to discover the difference between a trajinera and a regular party boat.
4.- It’s not a gondola
Although in a gondola there can also be a guy in charge of paddling while singing “ay, ay, ay cielito lindo”, that would definitely not be a trajinera. And that is because a gondola can only fit 6 people, while a trajinera can hold a party with 20 friends.
3.- It’s not a canoe
Just a minute! In Xoximilco Cancun only a person is paddling while in a canoe more persons paddle, then is it or is it not a canoe? First of all the trajinera is not small since the whole mariachi manages to fit in, even “Los Norteños” have enough space to play on board, including their set of drums, which of course wouldn’t be possible in a canoe, so, no, it is definitely not a canoe.
2.- It’s not a boat
Although it has its own crew, and you may get all the “what will we do with the drunken sailor” vibes while the captain is responsible for adding a little humor to party all night, it is not a boat. Let me explain you why: passengers (better known as compadres) do not have to weigh any anchor, all they have to do is enjoy a night full of tequila and a lot of dancing.
1.- It’s not a kayak
Our trajinera has compartments for storing the most precious treasure of the night: the drinks. They will enable us to navigate the waters and feel the adrenaline of the mexican party as we play the mexican game “toques, toques” and dance the night away to the rhythm of “rikitiki”. So, as you can see, trajineras are not a kayak.
So what is a trajinera?, I’ll help you with the answer. A trajinera is your water ride through music, party, food, drink and the best Mexican night of your life. Now you know compadre, the next time you visit Xoximilco in Cancun, you will not forget that the best party is on board of a trajinera.
Tell us. Have you heard of the trajineras or Xoximilco party?
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The oldest aardvark held in captivity in the United States has died at 28, having outlived its species' average lifespan by a decade, the Philadelphia Zoo said.
The zoo said on Twitter on Wednesday that AJ, a male aardvark, was euthanized on Jan. 5 due to age-related heart failure.
"Aardvarks are unique and almost unlikely-seeming animals," Dr. Andy Baker, the zoo's chief operating officer, told Reuters on Thursday. "AJ was an unusual favorite among guests and staff and he will be greatly missed here at Philadelphia Zoo."
AJ was born at the Cincinnati Zoo in November 1988 and arrived at the Philadelphia zoo in 1989.
Aardvarks are found in most regions of sub-Saharan Africa and usually live into their upper teens or early twenties, according to the zoo's website.
AJ shared his exhibit with a 12-year-old female aardvark named Sunshine, who came from the Montgomery Zoo in Alabama in 2006. She currently shares their exhibit with meerkats within the Small Mammal House.
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President Barack Obama will host his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on a state visit on January 19, the United States said, setting the stage for a summit in which North Korea and currency strains are likely to loom large.
The White House said the visit would highlight the importance of expanding cooperation "on bilateral, regional and global issues."
While Beijing and Washington are likely to use the summit to cast their relationship in a friendly light, Obama and Hu will have disagreements to discuss, especially North Korea and China's trade surplus and currency controls.
North Korea, angry at live-fire artillery drills into what it says was its territorial waters last month, shelled a South Korean island, killing four people. It is also accused of sinking a South Korean submarine in March, killing 46 sailors.
North Korea has also triggered regional alarm by claiming fast progress in uranium enrichment, which would give it a second pathway to making nuclear weapons.
China has resisted calls from Washington and its regional allies, South Korea and Japan, to criticize and increase pressure on Pyongyang, which relies on Beijing for economic and diplomatic backing. Beijing has instead urged all sides to return to talks.
U.S. complaints that China keeps its yuan currency too cheap, giving it an unfair trade advantage, are also likely to feature.
The U.S. trade deficit with China rose 20 percent in the first 10 months of 2010 and could top $270 billion for the year when final figures are in. That would pass the record of $268 billion set in 2008.
But carefully negotiated summits such as this are more about nurturing understanding than scoring policy breakthroughs, said David Lampton, professor of China studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington.
"Lately, one of the biggest problems in U.S.-China relations is that each side has had excessive expectations of what the other could conceivably deliver," Lampton wrote in an earlier email response to questions about Hu's trip.
"If this trip can lead the two leaders to have more realistic appreciations of the limits each country faces in dealing with the other, that alone should be counted a successful trip."
China will want the United States to avoid the gaffes that marred his trip to the White House in 2006, when China's national anthem was announced as that of the "Republic of China," Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing considers a breakaway province.
Hu also stood flustered on the White House lawn while a follower of Falun Gong, a spiritual sect banned in China, harangued him for three minutes from the press area.
China called that visit a "state visit," but the U.S. deemed it an official visit, a less prestigious tag. The last visit to the White House by a Chinese leader that both sides called a state one was by Jiang Zemin in 1997.
Hu's visit will include a state dinner in the evening. That will be a symbolic trophy for the Chinese leader, who analysts have said will use the trip to boost his status as he prepares to leave office from late 2012.
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A brand new teen area is up and running at the Hood River library branch on State Street, and with it, new Teen Services Assistant Harley Judd.
Judd began the position in May after several months as a substitute library employee. “I ingratiated myself into the Hood River Library,” he joked.
Judd has numerous responsibilities at the library. “Everybody here works all over the place,” he explained. Some of his responsibilities include purchasing all young adult reading materials, checking out books (“I really enjoy doing the customer service aspect”) and manning the children’s desk.
But his primary focus is to serve as a liaison between the library and the teenagers who patronize it. If a teen hasn’t been to the library in a while, he encourages them to come check it out.
“I’m really committed to making (the library) the place they want it to be,” he said, adding that teen library programs are “flexible and fun. There are lots of opportunities they can take advantage of.”
Once such opportunity is Judd’s latest offering: Free ACT, PSAT and SAT test prep, which runs Thursdays from 4-5:30 p.m. through April. He provides loose direction, materials such as practice tests, and helps “point them in the right direction.” Right now, it’s running on a drop-in basis.
The inspiration for the program comes from Judd’s own high school days. He remembers college test prep as a stressful time, and his goal is to provide a causal, free service that will help improve test scores.
He’s also continuing the Teen Speak program, started by former teen librarian Kathleen Joritz, which takes place the first Saturday of every month from 2-3 p.m. The open forum allows teenagers to have a voice in what happens at the library, from books ordered to events planned.
“We love to have new members,” he said. He likes helping teens make things happen at the library, adding that he’s “pretty open to changes” and appreciates all ideas.
“I love when kids are super enthusiastic,” he added.
On Saturdays, Judd can also be found at the Cascade Locks library. The branch is smaller and has a different audience, but he tries to pay the same attention to teen programming there as he does in Hood River.
He has plans for future activities, but they are budget-dependent, so he’s keeping quiet for now. What he can say is that he’s hoping to improve technical aspects and access for teens.
He has a lot of training in various computer platforms (think Macintosh and Windows), as well as software (such as Photoshop and music-writing software), and wants to share that knowledge with his teen patrons.
It was a twist of fate that brought Judd and his wife, Johanna Nesse, to Hood River. Both have ties to the Gorge, although neither had been back since living here as children. Nesse grew in up The Dalles, where her father, a physician, ran a clinic, until she was in middle school, and Judd lived for a short period of time in Lyle when he was in seventh or eighth grade. Both went to high school in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and both went to college in Denver, Colo.; she at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center to become a nurse practitioner, and he at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he studied film and journalism.
Colorado is not friendly to new graduates in the medical field, Judd said, so they began visiting both small towns and big cities in various states. Eventually, they focused on Oregon. When Nesse interviewed for a job with Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles in May 2012, they visited Hood River for the first time since they were children.
Judd calls their trip “four perfect days. Low 80s and sunshine. It sold us.” What also sold them was Hood River’s proximity to Portland and the recreational opportunities of the Gorge.
His wife was offered the job, and the rest, as they say, is history.
You might say it was a twist of fate that brought Judd into library services as well. He worked “various junky college jobs in coffee shops and cafes” while attending the University of Colorado Boulder, until he moved into a neighborhood fairly close to a Denver library branch.
“I was thinking to myself, ‘This would be a nicer place to work,’” he said. “I was sick of coffee shops.” So he went in and asked how one went about getting a library job. The woman he spoke with — who eventually gave him his first job as a shelving clerk — advised him to simply fill out an application and, after passing a test and an interview, he slowly began working his way up through the ranks. He eventually ran the bi-weekly children’s story time in addition to circulations and programming.
After he and Nesse moved to Hood River, he saw an ad for a substitute library employee position and knew he would apply. “I kind of came along for the ride (when he and his wife moved to Hood River), and I was very happy when I saw the position at the library open,” he said. With his experience at the Denver library branch, he was ready when the teen services assistant position opened — one year after his first visit to the Gorge as an adult.
In addition to his position at the library, Judd has his own photography business — Harley Judd Photography. He takes photos of “all sorts,” he said, including senior pictures, quinceañeras and weddings. He also does fine art and fashion photography, and can be contacted via his website, harleyjuddphoto.com.
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Six kids wait for their parents, Mitchel and Connie Burt, to serve breakfast burritos for Sunday supper.
"I want a big one!" says 7-year-old Bradley.
Connie Burt, 34, sits down after making sure each child, from Andrew, who will be a year old in May, to 9-year-old Mary, is situated.
Rounding out the Burt crew is Rebecca, 6, Joseph, 3, David, 2 and dad Mitchel, 41.
The average household size in 2000 was 2.62, or about three people per household, according to the U.S. Census Bureau Web site, www.census.gov.
The Burts are one of about 1.5 million households to have more than seven people. The census bureau also found that between 1970 and 2000, families with five or more people decreased from 21 percent to 10 percent of all households.
Eric Lindsey, assistant professor in the department of human development and family studies at Texas Tech, said that the decrease in family size is a growing trend.
Lindsey said family resources, rather than the number of children, are the most important factor in determining family size.
"The time parents spend with children can be a factor," he said. "If parents can spend more time with children, the more they have."
Lindsey said stress plays a role as well.
"In a family with a large number of children, there might be more stress," he said.
The statistics from the census bureau did not surprise Brian Carr, a licensed psychologist in Lubbock.
"I think it's an economic and societal change, in terms of the increase in adults having to work outside the home," he said. "It's more unusual to discover a stay-at-home mother than when I was a kid."
However, the Burts, married for 10 years, enjoy the liveliness of having six kids in the house. Connie, a home-based consultant with Creative Memories, teaches people how to sort and label photographs and make scrapbooks. She said she knew she wanted children.
"Once you get started, it's hard to stop; they're just too sweet," she said. "If God chooses to bless us, who are we to argue?"
Although Mitchel, a carpenter with the Texas Tech Physical Plant, has only an older brother and younger sister, his mother had 11 brothers and sisters. His father had six siblings. Connie has two sisters, and her parents are only children.
Lindsay said most research suggests there is not a big difference between only children and children with multiple siblings, although there are some differences in terms of single children.
"Studies suggest single children do better in school and have higher self-esteem," he said. "But on the other hand, research suggests that children with siblings tend to have better social skills and are a little better at interacting with others."
A large family confronts budget constraints, Mitchel said. The Sunny Delight served with the breakfast burritos at Sunday night supper was a special treat because, Connie said, they only drink water or milk. The family drinks about eight gallons of milk a week, Connie said, though buying bottled water has somewhat alleviated the expense of milk, serving as a replacement.
"You find ways to make it work, and God provides for everything you can't," she said.
Dining out is a rare occurrence for the Burts. When they do, they try to take the children to a sit-down restaurant so they can practice their manners, Connie said.
When they take a vacation, they camp instead of staying in a motel, Connie said. Sometimes, motels want to split the family, putting them into two rooms.
Last year, the Burts drove to Big Bend National Park, where they camped and picnicked for seven days. This summer, they plan to visit Georgia to see relatives.
Connie also home-schools the three oldest children, and the younger children draw, practice writing or sometimes play with toys, she said.
School begins at 8:15 a.m. with a Bible study, and then they walk at the mall for about an hour, Connie said. She said all required subjects, such as reading, math and language arts, are completed in the morning.
Subjects such as Spanish, science and history are taught in the afternoon.
Connie begins home-schooling the children when they show signs of readiness.
She said Rebecca started early, at the age of 4, and Bradley started later, at the age of 6.
"We wanted the kids to have a religious education, a biblical background, and private school for us was just not an option," Connie said. "At this point, home-schooling is easier because we have eliminated someone else making requirements on our time, and we can decide what's important. That's kind of nice."
The children who are old enough are required to choose a musical instrument to play. Mary, 9, and Rebecca, 6, play piano, and Bradley, 7, chose the violin. Each child may choose one other activity, such as tennis or T-ball. Mary took art lessons for quite some time and both she and Bradley have played basketball at their church.
"We encourage them to find their interest," Connie said.
As a family project, the Burts are involved in 4-H, where they have participated in photography, clothing and food and nutrition. They also attend First Baptist Church together.
Gardening is another part of family life the kids enjoy. Mitchel said it has been a good learning experience, and they try to have a garden every year.
"The kids know about gardens, and where food comes from," he said. "A lot of kids think it comes from the grocery store ... we try to instill in them the knowledge of how to grow it themselves if that's the case."
Connie said they have grown green beans, squash and zucchini, tomatoes, onions, green peas, okra, black-eyed peas, peppers, broccoli, eggplant and celery. She said the kids have picked some of the vegetables to plant, and the produce is frozen and canned.
Mitchel said the kids have a daily "chore chart" they must complete in order to receive "privilege time." Connie said a couple of the chores, such as making beds, are done before the children come to the breakfast table.
The rest, along with their schoolwork, are completed throughout the morning so that by 11:30 a.m., they have 30 minutes to engage in an activity of their choice.
"If they weren't obedient, we couldn't have had so many," Connie said. "If we didn't really keep them structured, and mostly require them to be obedient immediately, you could never manage them."
Though 9-year-old Mary admits to getting "lost in the shuffle," each child has a distinct personality. For example, Mitchel tabbed Joseph, 3, as the clown.
Rebecca, 6, agrees.
"He was born funny and he's gonna grow up funny," she said.
Assistant professor Lindsey said siblings play a big role in educating younger siblings, and that older siblings can take the burden off parents by taking care of the younger children.
Mary, 9, said being the oldest of six children is tough.
"You have to have the most chores and really, really watch the little kids," she said.
Mary said she wants to babysit when she's old enough, and wants to be a nurse.
"I've been to lots of nursing homes and I see how they need help," she said.
So when do Mitchel and Connie have time for themselves?
The children go to bed at 9 p.m., and Mitchel and Connie also have a prayer time before the kids rise in the morning.
"It's really not that hard," Mitchel said.
The family is in the process of getting a larger home. The home they live in now has three bedrooms, and the girls share one and the boys share one. The family recently bought a van that can hold everyone.
"We prayed about it, and Bradley was actually the one that found the ad in the paper," Connie said. "He found the ad on Sunday, and it was in our driveway by Thursday."
Mary said she doesn't think she could ever have a better family.
"It's better to be in a bigger family," she said. "When you are an only child, there's no one to play with."
Whitney Peil, 19, is an agricultural communications major from Perryton attending Texas Tech. As an only child, you often have to play alone, she said.
"Board games are hard to play by yourself," she said. "I didn't play a whole lot of Chutes and Ladders when I was a kid because I didn't have anybody to play with."
Peil read a lot of books as a child, and played with dolls. She used her imagination to make scenarios for her Barbies. She also played outside with her dogs.
Peil said she was more shy than kids who came from larger families because the only people she ever interacted with were adults.
"You tend to have a larger vocabulary than other kids because you're always around adults," she said. "You use bigger words, though you may not know what they mean."
Peil was a bit more reserved than other kids when it came to spending the night at someone's house.
"Since I was so close to my parents, it was more intense for me to be away from them," she said.
Peil did not have a curfew in high school.
"I pretty much was able to go where I wanted to, when I wanted to, as long as I called," she said. "I think my parents felt that I was more responsible and mature than others my age, and that was probably from being an only child."
Carr and Peil believe that sharing is a problem for children with no siblings.
"One thing that can be difficult is that they may not be as prepared to compromise," Carr said. "The child that has grown up with sisters and brothers has learned to share, to negotiate."
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within the Serious and Organised Crime
group (SO7) of London
's Metropolitan Police
. They are responsible for investigating robberies against cash
s, jewellers etc) and (if involving firearms
) commercial premises. Members of the Flying Squad are picked from uniformed police
officers with advanced driving skills, who are made honorary Detective Constable
s while they serve. Aside from specialising in driving very fast around London
, members of the Sweeney cultivate links with informant
s, gathering the necessary intelligence
to be one step ahead of the criminal
The Flying Squad was formed by Commissioner Sir Nevil McCready in 1919, to deal with a crimewave caused by an influx of demobilised unemployed veterans into London. The 'Mobile Patrol Experiment', as it was prosiacally known, was headed by Inspector Walter Hambrook, who had a roving commission, two horse-drawn canvas-covered vans and twelve detectives under his command. The intention was to cover the entire metropolitan area rather than remain confined to individuals districts, and to sweep in and make arrests just as a street crime was being committed. With this mobility and daring swiftness they were nicknamed the 'Flying Squad' by one gushing editorialist.
By 1921 the squad head expanded to 40 officers (or 'thief takers'), but it wasn't until 1948 that the squad became an independent branch within the Metropolitan Police. Their autonomy and elite status ensured that they were the first police to be given cars, later to include Ford Granadas and high-powered Jaguars. Over the years the Flying Squad has delt with a number of known criminal personalities, including the Kray Brothers and Brixton nail bomber David Copeland, and in 2000 spectacularly foiled a gang of thieves in the act as they attempted to steal £200 million worth of diamonds from the Millennium Dome.
The squad was merged and renamed the 'Central Robbery Squad' in 1978, although its more theatrical moniker remains commonly used. They are also known as 'The Sweeney' or 'Sweeney Todd', derived from Cockney rhyming slang (Todd = squad, but could also come from Plod). The exploits of the Flying Squad were shown in a 1970s TV series called The Sweeney. | <urn:uuid:6b802abf-fbff-47b9-a698-d93da393e0e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://everything2.com/title/flying+squad | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00515-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978118 | 455 | 1.875 | 2 |
If you have a special child in your life, chances are you’re acquainted with Jan Brett picture books. If you haven’t read a Brett book, you might want to change that situation. You’ll delight in her colorful, detailed illustrations, the satisfying storylines and, perhaps best of all, the secondary stories told pictorially in the page borders. You might start with Brett’s latest book, The Three Little Dassies.
I learned all about dassies while chatting with Brett last week just before her art demonstration and book signing session at the Cincinnati Zoo. The presentation was part of her October promotional tour, during which Brett is traveling across the U.S. in her dassie-decorated bus.
Dassies are groundhog-like creatures with cute, koala-like faces. They live in southern Africa, and Brett encountered them while on a birding trip in Namibia with her husband. After returning home, she couldn’t get the dassies out of her mind. Since the chubby creatures live in family groups in stone homes, Brett realized they would make perfect characters for an African version of the three little pigs.
You can find the finished book at local bookstores and libraries as well as online, but I got a chance to see Brett’s book dummy. Illustrators create these dummy books to work out the pacing of the story and the composition of the individual spreads. You might say they’re the dry run before committing to creating the finished art. Once the illustrator finishes the dummy, he or she sits down with the editor and the art director and hash out any changes that need to be made.
Below is a sample spread from Brett’s dummy for The Three Little Dassies.
See the rope-like designs in the borders? They’re actually strings of wooden beads. Native women in the area wear necklaces of these beads, which give off a scent like sandalwood. But the beads didn’t stay in the border. If you look at the published book, you’ll see the borders are unified with background elements of African grasses and fabrics. You’ll also see that the eagle is clothed—to make him more of a comic or, as Brett put it, “goofy” character as opposed to a scary one.
Covers are an extremely important component in picture books. In an unusual last minute decision, the original cover art was switched out. Here’s the original cover:
Note the clothed, dapper eagle.
Here’s the current cover:
I could go on. Brett bubbled with information about writing and
illustrating picture books, not to mention African geography, culture,
flora and fauna. Her drawing demonstration for her book signing
session inspired me to try my hand at drawing a dassie (I’ll spare you
I also got a sneak peak at her upcoming book.
“As usual” Brett told me, “I’m behind schedule, so I’m working on my
next book while on this tour.” She told me and the children attending her presentation that, when working on a finished illustration, “it takes an hour to do an inch.” You can tell from the partial illustration below that Brett’s next book will be set in a more northern clime.
So again, I urge you to head to your favorite book seller or library
and treat yourself to a Jan Brett picture book. An accompanying child
to whom you can read the book is optional. If you can attend a Brett
book presentation/signing, treat yourself to that, too (again, with or
without child). You’ll find a tour schedule at www.janbrett.com.
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Coral reefs host a quarter of all sea species, but climate change, overfishing, and pollution could drive these ecosystems to extinction within a matter of decades.
Marine biologists have been racing to restore degraded reefs by collecting corals from the wild and breaking them into fragments. This encourages them to grow fast and quickly produces hundreds of smaller corals that can be raised in nurseries and eventually transplanted back onto the reef.
But if each fragment is an identical copy with one common parent, any resulting colony is likely to be genetically identical to the rest of the population. This matters – having a diverse range of genetically conferred traits can help ensure reefs against disease and a rapidly changing environment.
So what if scientists could use sexual reproduction in coral restoration projects? In the wild, the stony coral species that compose the bulk of the world’s tropical reefs cast their sperm and eggs into the water column to reproduce. Corals often synchronize these mass spawning events with full moons, when tides are exceptionally high. This ensures powerful water currents disperse the eggs far and wide, so that they’re fertilized by sperm of distant colonies.
Sexually produced offspring have a unique combination of genes from distinct parents, and this helps keep coral populations genetically diverse. Reefs restored with corals created by sexual reproduction are likely to be more resilient, though managing this process hasn’t been easy for scientists to do. But by working on one project in Mexico, I saw what is possible, and learned how to do it myself.
Coral sex in the lab
Coral reefs are so enormous they’re visible from space. But watching them spawn is surprisingly tricky. They only do it on a handful of nights each year and the exact date and time is determined by environmental factors that scientists are still working to fully understand.
Climate change is causing reefs with known spawning patterns to shift their timing too, making these events less frequent and predictable. This makes it difficult for different colonies to synchronize spawning, reducing their chances of successful fertilization in the wild.
The CORALIUM Laboratory of the National Autonomous University of Mexico is part of a Caribbean-wide network of dedicated coral spawning experts. Scientists here collect coral sperm and eggs from multiple Caribbean reefs in order to fertilize them in the lab.
The team waits for the full moon to signal when corals are likely to spawn. Coral sperm and eggs are collected with floating nets and plastic containers, and divers take extreme care to avoid damaging the reef. The millions of sperm and eggs collected are rushed back to the lab where they’re cleaned and monitored all night as they undergo assisted fertilization to begin life as free-swimming larvae. These larvae are very sensitive to water quality, temperature, and pathogens, so they need constant care.
Eventually, the larvae settle on hard surfaces where they change into polyps – the initial building blocks of a coral colony. In the ocean, these surfaces are often dead coral skeletons. In the lab, they are seeding units – 3-D shapes designed to resemble coral rubble that can float on ocean currents before resting on reefs.
Each juvenile produced this way carries a unique mix of genes that they will pass on to a new generation of corals. The resulting population has a stronger gene pool that can help it withstand new diseases and other threats. This long-term strategy also ensures sexual reproduction can continue on restored reefs, which would not be possible for a population composed of identical clones.
Restoring Caribbean reefs
The Caribbean may have lost as much as 80% of its coral cover since the mid-1970s. The colonies that remain are now relatively isolated, reducing the chances of them being able to crossbreed. But in the controlled conditions of the lab, fertilization rates of over 80% are common and larval survival is high. That means thousands of juvenile corals are reared until they’re ready for the reef after just a few weeks of incubation.
But with late night dives by experts, specialized materials for collecting spawn and a lab where fertilization is carefully controlled, this work is often too expensive for smaller restoration projects. So scientists here have developed low-cost methods for lab spawning and are training teams from across the Caribbean to do it.
I took their course in 2016, and one year later, found myself setting up a new spawning site in Akumal, one hour south of the CORALIUM lab near Cancun. Coral spawning had never been observed here, but I trained volunteers from a local dive center on how to spot the signs. On our fifth consecutive night dive, we saw the synchronized spawning of multiple colonies of Elkorn corals.
We set up a hotel room as a temporary lab with sterilized plastic larvae tanks and filtered seawater and produced thousands of coral babies for restoration sites. In 2018, we built a beachside coral spawning laboratory on a shoestring budget. Positioned under a tree, the breeze block structure has mosquito netting walls that allow the cool sea breeze to keep the tanks at a constant 28-29°C.
The lab was just about up and running in time for that year’s lunar eclipse. We hadn’t anticipated a mass spawn of so many colonies, so the lab inauguration was a chaos of color-coded collection cups from different sites and parent colonies.
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African Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestors who came from Africa. Their forefathers were brought to American colonies as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries. About 40 million African Americans, 13% of the total population, live in the USA today.
In the past African Americans have been known by many names. They were called Negroes, Blacks and Coloureds. The term “nigger” was used in the southern part of the USA , where discrimination against them was very bad. In the last 30 years the term African Americans has officially been used.
About half of them live in the southern states of the USA, the rest in large cities of the East, Midwest and West.
Slave auction in the 18th century
European traders brought the first slaves from Africa to the new colonies in the 1600s. After arriving in the New World they were bought by white masters and had to work on large cotton and tobacco farms in the South. They didn’t get any money for their work and living conditions were very bad. The economy of the South depended on slaves.
Slave work was very difficult. Most women cooked, cleaned the house and raised the children of their white masters. Men were trained to be carpenters or masons. Most of them, however, were farm labourers. They planted and harvested crops.
Not all Blacks in America were slaves. “Free Blacks” lived and worked in big American cities but they had very few rights. Expressing political views, carrying guns and meeting with white people was forbidden.
Americans in the northern states thought that slavery shouldn’t be allowed in a free country. As time went on more and more people joined in the fight to end slavery. These abolitionists helped slaves escape to the North through secret routes. This system was called the Underground Railway.
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States. He was strongly against slavery. Many southern states withdrew from the union and formed their own country – the Confederate States of America. It was the beginning of the Civil War, which lasted until 1865.
In 1863 Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in the Emancipation Proclamation. The northern states won the Civil War and American slaves were free.
The time after the Civil War became known as the Reconstruction. The American government sent soldiers to the southern states to protect the Blacks and their newly won freedom.
Although they were officially free, most of them still lived in poverty and in very bad conditions. In the South they worked as sharecroppers, farmers who cultivated land and could keep a share of what they grew for themselves.
Symbol of the Ku Klux Klan
Whites continued to discriminate against African Americans. Blacks were not allowed to attend the same schools or go to the same churches as whites. Segregation meant a complete separation of life between the two groups. Blacks were also kept from voting.
During the second half of the 19th century violent groups started to terrorize the Blacks. The most famous was the Ku Klux Klan. Bands of white-hooded Klansmen rode through the countryside at night. They beat up and murdered many Blacks and white people who felt sympathy for them.
The World Wars and the Great Depression
During World War I and in the years that followed more and more Blacks started to move to the cities of the North where they expected to find a job and lead a better life. Most of them, however, were disappointed because they were not educated and didn’t have the skills that they needed. Slums and black ghettos developed in the inner cities throughout the northern United States.
World War II opened up new opportunities for Black people. About a million men joined the army and served for their country – mostly in all-Black units. As time went on more and more Blacks succeeded in getting a higher position in the army. Some of them even became pilots and officers.
In the past hundred years African Americans have moved from the red states to the blue ones
Civil Rights Movement
After World War II a new movement for civil rights began. African Americans started to have more confidence and believe more in themselves. They had they served for their country with honour during the war and in the North many Blacks started living in better conditions. A new group came to life – the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People). It attracted many members and received support from both Blacks and Whites.
The Civil Rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s. In 1954 the Supreme Court decided that segregation in schools was against the constitution. In 1955 a black woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama because she refused to let a white passenger take her seat. Blacks in the city started boycotting buses. This boycott was led by Martin Luther King, who became the leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
The movement reached its climax in 1963. Over a million people, Blacks as well as Whites took part in a protest demonstration in Washington D.C.
In the following year Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. This law banned discrimination in school, public places, jobs and many other fields. African Americans received the right to vote and in 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first Black judge to serve with the Supreme Court.
The March on Washington - 1963
While Martin Luther King and wanted to improve the situation of Blacks in a non-violent way, others were more violent and militant. In the 1960s Malcolm X preached that Blacks should use force and violence to achieve equal rights. Stokley Carmichael coined the term “Black Power”.
During this decade the country was hit by a series of riots, mostly in big cities. Blacks protested against bad schools, poor housing, high prices and unequal treatment by the police.
In the 1968 Olympic Games two American medal winners held their closed fist in the air and in protest, turned away from the American flag during the ceremony. In the same year the most respected leader of the American Blacks, Martin Luther King, was assassinated by a white man in Memphis, Tennessee.
African Americans Today
Since the violent times of the 60s African Americans have made progress and improved their situation in every part of American life.
The largest cities, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles have had Black mayors. Colin Powel and Condoleezza Rice were two African Americans who became Secretary of State, and in 2009 Barack Obama became the first African American President of the United States.
In the film industry Halle Berry and Denzel Washington are among the most famous stars. Bill Cosby was the first African American with his own comedy show and Oprah Winfrey is the most famous and best-earning talk master on American TV.
Despite these advances, about 25% of African Americans live in poverty. Discrimination still exists in many areas and the standard of living lags behind that of the white population. Compared to other groups, average income is much lower and the rate of unemployment higher. Nevertheless, African Americans have made big gains since slavery ended 150 years ago.
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So I've read that typically high pressure systems bring good weather and clear skies. However, for the current high pressure system we're experiencing in central USA, we're having quite a bit of IFR/MVFR conditions.
The IFR/MVFR conditions down along the Gulf of Mexico where there's a stationary front make sense, but I'm curious why there's IFR/MVFR weather from Missouri through Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio in the midst of this high pressure system.
Is my understanding flawed about high pressure systems? Perhaps I should really be thinking of high pressure systems as stable air masses (in this case stable, low clouds). Or are there other factors at play leading to IFR/MVFR conditions being associated with this high pressure system?
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In addition to maintaining faculty ID, department, and contact details on each teacher, you can navigate by numerous criteria as well as create queries, add contacts from Outlook and generate reports. Simplify the creation dynamic combo boxes that update automatically depending on user action using this handy Access template that allows you to use either VBA code or macros to realize your design.
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Flu Epidemic at Jail Just a Rumor, County Says -- While Banning Face Masks to Avoid Panic
A rumored flu epidemic centered on the Maricopa County Jail is false, officials say, and a move to prohibit jail visitors from wearing face masks is merely to avoid possible panic.
Calls were flooding in all day on Thursday about the rumor, which was apparently spread by some defense lawyers in emails, says Cari Gerchick, spokeswoman for the county and its Correctional Health Services department, which oversees jail health issues.
"There is no outbreak at the jail," she says.
True, there is a bad strain of the flu going around that some lawyers came down with, Gerchick says. But it didn't come from the jail, where no unusual pattern of contagions has been noticed, she says. Bob England, director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, looked into the rumor and deemed it false, she says.
"There is a nasty strain of flu floating around in downtown Phoenix," says a Facebook post that appears to be from a local law firm. "Three criminal defense attorneys have been hospitalized. Two are critically ill and in comas."
The post goes on to link the illness to sick inmates at the jail. Then it mentions how "lawyers have been prohibited from wearing flu masks while visiting clients at the jails..."
That part is correct, Gerchick acknowledges. The Sheriff's Office decided to ban the wearing of face masks because "there is no medical need or benefit from it, and it could cause a panic," she says.
The post claims that lawyers are staying away from the jail until the situation is resolved, and that an investigation was launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gerchick says the investigation is essentially already complete -- and there's nothing out-of-the-ordinary going on.
This episode is reminiscent of an alleged outbreak of chicken pox at the jail in 2010. Then, it was Sheriff Joe Arpaio spreading the rumor.
This time, Gerchick says, it's the lawyers who have their facts wrong.
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Catch up on the day's news and stay informed with our daily digest of the most popular news, music, food and arts stories in Phoenix, delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday. | <urn:uuid:de5e7f18-04be-41da-878a-6944d00b93b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/flu-epidemic-at-jail-just-a-rumor-county-says-while-banning-face-masks-to-avoid-panic-6644584 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00477-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974976 | 497 | 1.78125 | 2 |
People are curious to keep their plants indoor, especially in cities where they lack space for gardening. In cities, most of the people live in buildings that do not receive proper sunlight and do not even have a terrace.
While some of them have space and terrace but they wish to keep their plants indoor to take proper care of them and to feel that they are living with nature. In both cases, it is the love for plants that has inspired them to grow and live among them.
I was asked a similar question when one of my friend Ben brought a succulent plant from the nearest nursery. He wanted to keep the succulent plant in his room. To which I replied that if you want to keep it in your room then you will need to keep it at a place that receives sunlight.
I advised him to keep his gorgeous succulent plant near the southeast facing window. Succulents love bright light to grow. So it is better to keep them in sunlight.
No sunlight for a longer duration will kill your plants. Without light for longer duration will affect photosynthesis that is very necessary for the growth and development of plants. It will lead to discoloration of leaves, weakening of plant parts, and then will lead to the death of your plant.
Not every plant needs too much amount of sunlight. Few plants grow well in shade or indoors but keeping them for longer duration without sunlight is not good and they will eventually die.
If you are willing to keep them indoors for a longer duration then I will suggest you to use grow lights for plants.
Plants can survive indoors for longer durations if they receive light in the ideal required amount.
Either you can provide it by placing your plant at a spot in your indoor space that can fulfill your plant requirements of sunlight to process photosynthesis or you can use the technology and provide the light from grow lights.
You have to be wise and smart. Before planting any plant indoors try to find out sunlight requirements of the specific plant and the region in which they grow. You can read our articles to know about growing different house plants.
You can easily grow Snake plants, Jade plants, Aloe vera, Peace Lily, Pothos, Areca Palm, Boston Fern, Weeping Fig, Chrysanthemums, etc.
और पढ़ें: 13 BEST INDOOR PLANTS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR HOME HEAVEN
और पढ़ें: 5 BEST PLANTS FOR BEGINNER GARDENING
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Posted 10/31/2013 at 1:18 PM
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Typecast is a tool for the web and for mobile design. Monotype acquired Typecast and are making a free version of it available for professional designers and those with a knack for learning, through Google Fonts.
Hobbyists and students with those doing web design for the first time are part and parcel of what Typecast’s Paul McKeever, in a call via VentureBeat talked about as being ideal users of the tool. In a targeted way, McKeever is talking about the overall type of audience that engages the use of Google fonts. | <urn:uuid:5a366c6d-c902-4f52-afb1-92687bef2c6d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://matemedia.com/typecast-beautifies-web-designing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946109 | 131 | 1.609375 | 2 |
By the 1950s, the Suez Canal was crucial for Britain's trade in the Middle East, for its communication with overseas dependencies and for its containment of Soviet influence in Africa. The sudden nationalisation of the canal in July 1956 by Gamal Abdul Nasser, and the obstruction of British military intercession by the United States, struck a blow to the prestige of the nation that resonated in the work of British novelists for decades to come. This essay examines the discursive responses to the Suez Crisis in such texts as John Fowles'Daniel Martin(1977), Lawrence Durrell'sThe Alexandria Quartet(1957-60) and Olivia Manning'sThe Levant Trilogy(1977-80), analysing its links to orientalism, anti-Americanism, Cold War hostilities and fears about British national decline.
|Number of pages||20|
|Journal||Literature & History|
|Publication status||Published - 1 Sep 2013|
- Suez Crisis
- British fiction
- Cold War | <urn:uuid:af382e02-1ad7-4688-adf4-9cfe4eecf066> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/publications/british-literary-responses-to-the-suez-crisis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.8641 | 252 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Modern Mayans are claiming that the December 21, 2012 so called 'doomsday' that many say the Mayan calendar calls for is a for profit misrepresentation of the calendar. Rather than an environmental apocalypse that many claim the calendar foretells modern Mayans are saying that the December 21 date represents one on which mankind will make significant custom oriented changes in order to be in harmony and balance with nature. The Mayans are claiming that the determinants resulting in these significant custom oriented changes will not involve a cataclysmic 'doomsday' event. Per the article:
...This calendar, the Long Count, is a wonderfully complex system that spans around 5,200 years and is of huge spiritual significance to the Mayan people. The final cycle of the calendar -- the 13th b'aktun -- will complete on Dec. 21. Obviously this means the world will come to an end... Right? Wrong. In a statement released by Oxlaljuj Ajpop, the end of the cycle simply "means there will be big changes on the personal, family and community level, so that there is harmony and balance between mankind and nature." To some crazed doomsayers desperately trying to make money from selling their nonsensical books of doom, this "harmony and balance" means the Universe is going to char broil the planet, killing everyone who isn't 'prepared' (i.e. those poor unfortunate souls who ignored their warnings). The Mayan descendants don't quite see "harmony and balance" in the same way. | <urn:uuid:1f5f7cbb-ae7f-4a41-a367-7d32e09b1229> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://atheistnexus.org/m/group/discussion?id=2182797%3ATopic%3A2088456 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00412-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934278 | 313 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) is an Alien Tort Statute (ATS) case brought by Nigerians from the Ogoni community who suffered abuses in 1993-1995, when the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and other Ogoni groups demanded an end to destructive oil development in their region and were meant with a violent military crackdown. Kiobel is a companion to Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, which settled in 2009 and in which ERI served as counsel, and arises out of some of the same events.
In 2006, the trial court judge in the Kiobel case issued a decision finding that the plaintiffs could not bring claims for summary execution, but that Shell could be sued for aiding and abetting other human rights abuses. The judge authorized an unusual "interlocutory" appeal, in which issues are presented to the Court of Appeals before the case has concluded in the trial court. Both sides appealed; the plaintiffs challenged the summary execution ruling, and Shell challenged the aiding and abetting ruling. (The trial court judge subsequently reversed her views on summary execution in a ruling in the Wiwa case, allowing the Wiwa plaintiffs' claims to proceed.)
In 2007, ERI and its co-counsel in the Wiwa case filed two amicus briefs to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, supporting the plaintiffs' appeal on the summary execution issue, and opposing Shell's cross-appeal on the aiding and abetting issue. Two groups of international law scholars also filed amicus briefs in the cross-appeal, supporting the plaintiffs' claims of crimes against humanity, arbitrary detention, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The case was argued to the Second Circuit in January 2009.
In September 2010, the Second Circuit issued a surprising decision. Instead of ruling on any of the issues that had been briefed and argued, the Court of Appeals decided that the case had to be dismissed because, it found, corporations could not be sued for human rights violations under the ATS.
In October 2010, the plaintiffs submitted a petition for rehearing, and ERI submitted an amicus brief in support of rehearing. ERI's brief was submitted on behalf of major human rights and labor groups, including Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights organization in the U.S., and two of the largest unions in the U.S., the Service Employees International Union and the United Steel Workers, as well as the Center for Constitutional Rights, Global Witness, the International Labor Rights Forum, the World Organization for Human Rights USA, the Human Rights Law Foundation, and Accountability Counsel. The brief argues that the Kiobel decision wrongly relies on the fact that corporations cannot be brought before any international tribunal to conclude that corporations are not subject to international law. Because the ATS is a domestic remedy for violations of international law, and because international law has always primarily been enforced through domestic mechanisms, it makes no sense to limit the enforcement of international law to the few areas in which international tribunals have been created.
Six other amicus briefs were filed supporting rehearing, including briefs on behalf of international law scholars, scholars of the Holocaust and the Nuremburg trials, legal historians, federal jurisdiction professors, victims of terrorism, and the Public Good Law Center. The judges that decided Kiobel rejected all of the amicus briefs, and ERI and the other amici then filed a motion asking the full court to reconsider whether the amicus briefs should be filed. Ultimately, the judges of the Second Circuit split evenly on whether to rehear the case, leaving the decision standing.
The plaintiffs next petitioned the US Supreme Court and, on February 28, 2012, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Kiobel case, which will ultimately decide whether corporations – like human beings – can be sued for their participation in gross human rights abuses, or whether they enjoy a unique immunity from liability.
On March 5, 2012, the Supreme Court ordered the case to be re-briefed in order to be re-argued in the fall of 2012. The rebriefing and reargument was not about whether corporations could be sued, but instead was about the extent to which the ATS applies to abuses that occur overseas. The Supreme Court ultimately held that the ATS does not provide an avenue for justice for Nigerian human rights victims who sued a British and Dutch corporation for assisting the Nigerian government in committing abuses in Nigeria, since the claims did not "touch and concern" the United States "with sufficient force." Lower courts' interpretations of the Kiobel decision have been mixed.
- U.S. Court Finds Corporations Immune From Liability For Human Rights Abuses
- Tightening the Net on Corporate Human Rights Abuses, from North and South
- Making Sense of the Kiobel Decision and Corporate Liability for Human Rights Abuses
- Kiobel's first victim: Flomo v. Firestone
- ERI Files Brief for Human Rights and Labor Groups Challenging Corporate Immunity for Abuses
- At U.N. Human Rights Council, India expresses concerns about U.S. corporate accountability
- Should Kiobel judges be able to prevent their colleagues from seeing critical amicus briefs?
- Corporate Liability and the ATS: Kiobel's Impacts Remain Unclear
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The findings, which were published in the journal Immunity, may explain why individuals who were vaccinated were largely spared the worst consequences of the delta surge
NEW DELHI — According to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, despite causing a surge in infections this summer that resulted in thousands of hospitalizations and deaths, the delta variant of the virus that infects with COVID-19 is not particularly good at evading antibodies generated by vaccination.
The results, published in the journal Immunity, help explain why those who have been vaccinated have generally avoided the worst effects of the delta surge.
The researchers examined a range of antibodies produced by humans in response to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination and discovered that delta could not escape all but one of the antibodies. Several of the antibodies failed to recognize and neutralize other problematic variations, such as beta.
Co-senior author Ali Ellebedy, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology and immunology, medicine, and molecular microbiology, has demonstrated that spontaneous infection and vaccination produce long-lasting antibodies. However, the duration of the antibody response is simply one factor in determining protection. It’s also important to consider the scope.
Resilience is conferred by breadth. A broad mix of antibodies with the ability to identify several slightly different viral types makes up an optimal antibody response. Even if a few antibodies lose their capacity to detect a new variety, the arsenal should still be able to neutralize it.
Antibody-producing cells extracted from Pfizer vaccinated people
Ellebedy and his colleagues, including co-first authors Aaron Schmitz, Ph.D., a research specialist; Jackson S. Turner, Ph.D., an instructor in pathology & immunology; and Zhuoming Liu, Ph.D., a staff scientist, extracted antibody-producing cells from three people who had received the Pfizer vaccine to assess the breadth of the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
They cultivated the cells in the lab and extracted a set of 13 antibodies that target the original strain that circulated last year.
These antibodies were tested against four types of concern: alpha, beta, gamma, and delta. 12 of the 13 correctly identified alpha and delta, eight correctly identified all four variations, and one incorrectly identified any four variants.
The capacity of an antibody to protect against viruses and kill cells in a dish is used to determine its utility. Although both neutralizing and non-neutralizing antibodies contribute to the body’s defense, neutralizing antibodies that prevent infection are considered more effective than antibodies that identify the virus but cannot stop infection.
The research found antibodies that neutralized delta variant
Five of the 13 antibodies neutralized the original strain, as per the researchers of the study. They found that all five neutralizing antibodies neutralized delta, three neutralized alpha and delta, and only one neutralized all four variations when tested against the novel variants.
2C08 is the antibody that neutralized all four of the concern variations and three more variants tested independently. Also, 2C08 protected hamsters from illness induced by every variation evaluated in animal studies: the original variant, delta, and a beta mimic.
Some people may have antibodies that are equally as effective as 2C08 in defending them from SARS-CoV-2 and its numerous variations, according to Ellebedy.
The researchers determined that around 20% of persons infected or vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 produce antibodies that identify the same location on the virus that 2C08 targets using publically available datasets.
Furthermore, only a small percentage (.008%) of viral variations have mutations that allow them to evade antibodies that target that spot. | <urn:uuid:000949fd-9cb6-41f8-9c80-6b013b1c541b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.digpu.com/health/study-explains-why-vaccinated-people-face-minimal-risk-during-delta-spike | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.951481 | 772 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Protect Whistleblowers from Acts of Reprisal
On the 23rd of June every year, the world is called upon to remember and celebrate valiant individuals who risk life and limb to come forth to disclose information about corruption, misconduct, illegal activity, or other wrongdoings. But just six days before the World Whistleblowing Day this year, one of the whistleblowers of the ‘Maasai Mara Heist’ that came to light in 2019 was dismissed from duty, this action should bolster our collective resolve as Kenyans to insulate whistleblowers. The whistleblower of this case that saw the Vice-Chancellor among other Maasai Mara University officials charged for misappropriation of funds in 2020, Spencer Sankale, has undergone what immensely discourages most individuals from reporting corruption, and acts of reprisal.
Many individuals fear that they will face various forms of harassment if they report corruption or other wrongdoing, and for those that have made disclosures at the workplace, these acts of ‘payback’ may lead to more severe consequences such as the loss of employment. And it may not end here for Sankale if the relevant authorities such as the Witness Protection Agency, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, Commission on Administrative Justice, and others fail to come forward to ensure maximum protection for the patriotic and bold Kenyans that majorly veered out of their comfort and secure zones to disclose the heinous plunder of public resources that was being committed at the university.
Whistleblowers in Kenya have historically faced retaliation through harassment, dismissal from employment, threats to their lives and actual violence. Many recall the story of the late David Munyakei, the whistleblower in the Goldenberg scandal. He eventually lost his job at the Central Bank of Kenya and died a destitute, his family living from hand to mouth long before and long after his demise.
Reports published by Transparency International Kenya, including successive bribery indices, have shown that most Kenyans encountering corruption did not report it and reasons given for this include fear of reprisal. According to the Kenya Bribery Index, 2019, 87% of Kenyans that witnessed bribery incidents did not come forth with reports on corruption, with 20% of the respondents citing fear of intimidation or reprisal as the reason for holding back. This is a clear sign that Kenyans lack the much-needed confidence in reporting cases of corruption; without these reports, actions against corruption such as investigation and prosecution of corruption cases, and recovery of stolen assets become difficult.
Sankale’s ‘summary dismissal’ most curiously by the Chair of the University Council, proffers us a deep moment of reflection on what needs to be done to strengthen witness and whistleblower protection. Kenya still lacks a comprehensive policy and legislative whistleblower protection framework in place, even to ensure that brave individuals like Spencer, who risk their lives and those of their families, enjoy robust protection from all forms of retaliation for coming forth to report corruption or bear witness to ensure perpetrators are convicted and resources lost are recovered.
Kenya’s journey towards a comprehensive whistleblower protection policy and legislative framework has been long, going back to 2003 when Kenya ratified the United Nations Convention on Anti-Corruption (UNCAC), and in 2007 when it signed up to the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption. Both instruments require states to put in place policy and legal mechanisms to protect whistleblowers but Kenya still lacks an overarching law on whistleblower protection, although active advocacy for a whistleblower protection law commenced in 2013.
Provisions to safeguard persons who disclose information on corruption are scattered in the Constitution and fragmented in various laws. Some anti-corruption legislations cover aspects of whistleblower protection such as The Bribery Act (2016) which provides a definition of a whistleblower and the protection of whistleblowers and witnesses under the act, from harassment and intimidation, and proposes for the punishment of individuals that punish whistleblowers. The Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act (2003) provides for the protection of informers while the Public Officer Ethics Act (2003) protects persons who are witnesses in relevant cases.
In 2015, a Task Force on the Review of the Legal, Policy and Institutional Framework for Fighting Corruption in Kenya recommended enactment of a whistleblower protection law. This prompted the drafting of the 2017 Whistleblower Protection Bill and a raft of legislative amendments to anti-corruption laws such as Access to Information and Bribery Act. Once again , the whistleblower protection bill has not made much progress which prompted 2 Members of National Assembly to sponsor the bills as private members bills (Whistleblower protection Bill 2017 and the protected disclosures bill 2019). The bills are at various stages at the National Assembly.
The National Ethics and Anti-Corruption Policy, Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2018, lacks an elaborate narration on a framework or mechanism for the protection of whistleblowers but it lists the formulation of a policy and legal framework for whistleblower protection, in a matrix which outlines the key interventions to breathe life into the policy. No timelines are committed for this task assigned to the Department of Justice.
It is time for Kenya to put in place appropriate and comprehensive protection and other measures to ensure the safety and well-being of those who bear their all to disclose and expose corruption scandals. It is pertinent that such a law provides protection from harassment, stigmatization, threats, and any other form of retaliatory action including dismissal, suspension, or demotion or other disciplinary action at the workplace. Whistleblowers like Spencer Sankale require not punishment, but unequivocal protection against adverse repercussions for putting his best forward for the public interest.
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- Updated on: August 23, 2016
- Newest File: buildersguides-1.10.2-1.0.0.jar
- Release Type: Release
- Supports: 1.10.2,1.9.4,1.9,1.8.9,1.7.10
- License: All Rights Reserved
Builder’s Guides Mod 1.10.2,1.9.4,1.9,1.8.9,1.7.10 installs a collection of cheap, reusable blocks to your Minecraft. These blocks not only provide guide lines and highlight center positions but some of them also give you visual guide lines to assist in building.
Target – something for the Target/Advanced Marker blocks to lock onto.
Range Marker – shows distance between the marker and the next block in the facing direction. Will also highlight the center block if it exists.
Multi-Range Marker – same as the Range Marker, expect you have 6 guide lines.
Target Marker – shows distance between the marker and the Target block
Advanced Marker – shows guide lines for a horizonal plane, vertical plane or cuboid defined by the Target blocks. Highlights all center blocks.
Laser Marker – displays a guide for a number of blocks in the facing direction.
Coord Marker – displays the coordinates of the blocks, for when you are bored of pressing F3
Axis Marker – displays guide lines in any combination of the X, Y and Z axes.
Sky Marker – display a guide line from the block to the world height.
Chunk Marker – display the current chunk boundaries and highlights the 4 center blocks.
Dire Marker – a tribute to DireWolf20 – displays guide lines for a 9×9.
Right click a block to change the guide line color.
Shift right click blocks changes their mode.
Right click a block with the Allen Key to rotate.
Shift right click with the Allen Key to make the block rescan for targets.
All guide lines are limited to 64 blocks.
Download and install Not Enough Items to get all recipes
How to install Builder’s Guides Mod:
- Install the version of Forge that corresponds with the mod (http://files.minecraftforge.net/ Choose the installer version of Forge)
- Download the Builder’s Guides Mod.
- Drop the entire zipped file into your mods folder (Search %appdata% on your PC then go into .minecraft, then mods(create this folder if it is not there))
- Open Minecraft and make sure your profile is set to Forge
- Start Minecraft and enjoy!
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UN council's call for action on North Korea human rights abuses welcomed
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Friday calling upon the UN Security Council to take action on widespread human rights abuses being perpetrated in North Korea.
The closed off communist country is accused by the council of committing "ongoing and systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations".
These include "the denial of the right of freedom of thought, conscience and religion".
The resolution says that the body of information received by the council "provides reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed".
A key recommendation of the council is the referral of North Korea to an "international criminal justice mechanism".
The resolution follows the report of the UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea, which detailed human rights abuses in the country.
Presenting the final report to the council last week, commission chair Justice Michael Kirby said it was the duty of the UN to "address the scourge of human rights violations and crimes against humanity in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea".
CSW and the Jubilee Campaign, in a joint oral statement to the council, said: "The clear and unambiguous evidence of the wide range of crimes against humanity being committed in the DPRK, and the near certainty of command responsibility, demand an equally clear response.
"The blood and the tears and what is left of the dignity of the North Korean people cry out to us. We must act."
CSW's East Asia Team Leader Benedict Rogers welcomed the resolution, saying that the human rights violations being committed in North Korea were "unparallelled".
He appealed to church leaders in particular to speak out on the plight of Christians and the wider population in North Korea.
"Christianity is considered a particularly severe threat, with the result that Christians are prohibited from practising their religion," he said.
"We call on Christians and church leaders worldwide, including Pope Francis, Archbishop Welby, to pray for and speak out on behalf of the suffering people of North Korea, and especially on behalf of Christians in the country, who are among the most persecuted in the world."
Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Hugo Swire also welcomed the resolution and its recommendation that a criminal justice mechanism fully investigate North Korea.
He said: "I want to acknowledge the work of the Commission of Inquiry in fulfilling their mandate and the courage of those who gave their testimony, notwithstanding the potential risks for them and their loved ones. Together they have provided the substance for the strongest resolution the international community has passed on this issue to date."
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Once you start the process of identifying scholarships that you qualify for, start a scholarship table that will help you track the progress of them. The scholarship table should list the name, amount, deadline, if you have completed the scholarship application, and if you have submitted the application for each scholarship you have identified. This will be a very effective tool in helping you remain aware of the status of your scholarships. When you begin to complete your applications you will notice that there are many components to each scholarship, which could seem very cumbersome. However, you can break each scholarship down to smaller sections, which will essentially allow you to spread the time you spend on each application out and make the process less strenuous.
Most scholarships can be divided up into these sections:
- Contact Info
- Academic info
- Extracurricular Activities
- Personal Statement/Essays
Each component is very important and will require attention in order to build a strong application, but there are certain components that tell the scholarship review boards the most about who you truly are as a person. These components are the essay(s) and the recommendation(s) and I believe that these components are the foundation of your application.
The essay(s) is a critical portion of your application because it shows how well you can articulate your personal experiences, past accomplishments, and future aspirations. While reading your essays the reviewers should receive a glimpse of your personality and delve into who you are as a person. They should reflect your potential to write at the collegiate level and ability to be both creative and eloquent. You must find a way to begin your essay creatively because that will keep the reader interested throughout your entire essay. The introduction should be the beginning of telling the reader a story, instead of writing like you would for a research paper. Once you draw the reader in with an interesting introduction, expand on the story with your body paragraphs. After the body paragraphs, wrap the essay up with a strong conclusion that shows what you learned from the story and how that story made you a better person. When you complete any essay for a scholarship application, save it to your computer and a flash drive so that you can revise it and possibly use it in subsequent applications.
The scholarship letter of recommendation will give the reviewers an opportunity to see a respected individual's opinion of you and should accentuate the activities and information listed in the rest of the application. The reason they are so important is because it is the only part of the application that is not completed by you, and sometimes the quality of your recommendation (length, content, position of person who completes it) says more about who you are as a person than anything you could say about yourself. This is why it is imperative that your recommendations are completed by people that have had a close relationship with you (other than a family member), have observed your participation in different extracurricular activities, and are familiar with the scholarship you are applying to. Always give your recommenders at least three weeks to complete your recommendation whether they are hard copies or online and always have a résumé ready to give them in case they want to know more about all of your past activities. If the recommendation is a hard copy, ask your recommender if you can make copies for future scholarships so that you do not have to ask them every time. Keep in mind that each portion of your scholarship is important, but the essay and recommendation are the foundation of your application, and a strong foundation means a strong application.
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