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Let R be a ring with unity e, R' a set, η a bijective map from R' into R. show that R' becomes a ring with unity if one defines:
a'+ b' = ηˉ¹ (η(a')+ η(b'))
a' b' = ηˉ¹(η(a') η(b'))
and that is an isomorphism of R' with R. Use this to prove that if u is an invertible
element of a ring then ( R, +, .u ,0,uˉ¹), where a .u b =aub is a ring is ring isomorphic to R.
Show also that (R, Θ ,o, 1, 0), where a Θ b = a+b -1, a o b= a+b -ab is ring isomorphic to R.
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CHARCOAL: Scarcity and 30% price hike cause burning problem for experts
Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Steven Byamukama has been vending charcoal for 20 years. His stall in Kisenyi, a low income section of Kampala city, is one of many on a charcoal dust covered and darkened patch almost a quarter of a football field. This is a dirty job and Byamukama employs an army of young men to do the heavy lifting. He handles the cash.
Like the other traders, Byamukama sells charcoal in various sizes; from longish large loads of over 75kg bags piled up on top of each other while others are in white high-density polyethylene sacks that contrast sharply with their black contents. He also displays smaller portions doled in plastic basins and discarded one litre paint tins.
The move toward the smaller portions is a result of rising charcoal prices. Many city residents can no longer afford the sack which goes for Shs80, 000, up from Shs60, 000 last year, a 30% price leap in an economy where inflation is well below 10%. According to Dr. Cornelius Kazoora, an environmental economist who has been studying the charcoal business for some time, what is happening is a “charcoal crisis.”
“Most people in Uganda are poor and the packaging of charcoal allows a person to get it for even Shs 1,000, cook a meal, and eat,” he told The Independent in an interview.
Byamukama sells a 20-litre plastic basin filled to the brim for about Shs 8000, while a smaller metallic tin called “Ddebe” goes for Shs5000.
But he complains that while the charcoal business used to be quite lucrative, his buying price has risen and his margins shrunk.
“Trees have become scarce yet the population is ever growing,” he says.
He describes how, when he started his business, it was easy to source good charcoal in the neighbouring districts of Luweero, Nakaseke and Kyankwanzi where the average distance is 50kms away from the city in central Uganda. These days, he says, most of the charcoal he sells comes from northern Uganda, at least 350km away.
Kazoora confirms this. He says people in the Cattle Corridor (Luweero, Nakasongola, Kyankwanzi, and Masindi) opened up land for plantation agriculture and livestock rearing— a development which reduced woodland in this area and has eventually affected the volume and quality of charcoal that is sold in Kampala.
To get a good stock of charcoal, Byamukama and his colleagues sometimes intercept the trucks transporting the commodity before they get into the city suburbs where competition between dealers is stiff.
He told The Independent that he now buys a sack of charcoal from truck drivers at between Shs 70,000 and Shs77, 000 and sells each sack at Shs80, 000 and, depending on demand, Shs90, 000.
Khamadi Musiimenta, another trader who has dealt in charcoal for the last 20 years in a market in Kamwokya, a suburb of the city, also recalls a time recently when most of the charcoal sold in Kampala used to come from the nearby districts and one could buy a bag of charcoal at Shs20, 000. | <urn:uuid:701fbdd0-cbda-486e-aa59-4906e807320b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independent.co.ug/charcoal-users-feel-price-heat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.953448 | 712 | 2.453125 | 2 |
In Oracle, the USER_REPPROP maintains the methods of operations on each replicated object which is owned by the current user at another master site. These operations can be an embedded process through a procedure or a direct operation on an object. The structure of the view is shown below.
SNAME [VARCHAR2(30)] - Schema name containing the replicating group
ONAME [VARCHAR2(30)] - Replicated object group name
TYPE [VARCHAR2(16)] - Object type [FUNCTION | PROCEDURE | INDEXTYPE | MATERIALIZED VIEW | OPERATOR | TABLE | PACKAGE | TYPE | PACKAGE BODY | TYPE BODY]
DBLINK [VARCHAR2(128)] - Target database for propagation
HOW [VARCHAR2(13)] - Method of propagation
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Native American Authors: Browsing by Tribe
Esselen AuthorsDeborah Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda
Online resources about the Esselen TribeEsselen Tribe of Monterey County
Author: Esselen Tribe of Monterey County
Description: A web site for the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County. Includes descriptions of their beliefs, and research reports about the tribe.
Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation
Author: Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation
Description: A web site for the Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen Nation. Includes information about their name, history, and territory.
Understanding the Composition of Costanoan Indians
Author: Lorraine Escobar
Description: Text from a paper presented by Escobar, the Ohlone/Costanoan
Esselen Nation tribal genealogist, at the California Indian Conference, at San Francisco University, 1998.
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Isawa Tsuneo was a shugenja and magistrate of the Phoenix Clan in the early 5th century.
Chasing the Shuten Doji Edit
In 402 after the Five Nights of Shame Tsuneo was given the task of determining the Shuten Doji's fate, but he disappeared and was never seen again.
The noble magistrate gave his life to bind the Shuten Doji that corrupted the Snake Clan in his tomb. He placed several wards that should remain active to avoid the spirit to escape.
- ↑ Way of the Minor Clans, p. 124
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As Steve noted a little while ago, the Northern states have been in a deep freeze for a while now. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that northern Minnesota hasn’t had a six-day stretch colder than the one the state has just suffered through since the Nixon administration, 1972. From December 6 through 11, the temperature in Duluth averaged 6 degrees. The Brainerd Dispatch went farther back in history to find the record coldest six-day stretch in December. If you’re curious, it was 1927, when for six days in Brainerd, the average temperature was 7.5 degrees below zero.
Of course, that’s just weather. But many scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the prospect of a long-term chill. The Earth has barely emerged from the Little Ice Age, and already solar activity is diminishing to an alarmingly low level. At Watts Up With That, Dr. Leif Svalgaard says, “None of us alive have ever seen such a weak cycle.” Here is the graph:
Inform the Pundits! amplifies:
The monthly International Sunspot Number from the Solar Information Data Center (SIDC) of the Royal Observatory of Belgium was released December 1st. It fell to 77.6 spots/day.
Most newsworthy is that this is still the weakest solar max in over 200 years, well below NASA’s forecast. …
We may be witnessing the sun’s last dying gasps before entering into a long slumber. The impact of that slumber on Earth’s climate remains the subject of growing scientific speculation.
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Create and edit Track Stacks
When Show Advanced Tools is selected in the Advanced preferences pane, you can create and edit Track Stacks. If Show Advanced Tools is unselected, existing Track Stacks in a project will play back, but you can’t create new ones or edit existing ones.
You create a Track Stack by selecting (adjacent or nonadjacent) tracks in the Tracks area. Nonadjacent tracks move so that all tracks are grouped together in the Track Stack. Both types of Track Stacks can contain any combination of track types as subtracks. A folder stack can also include summing stacks as subtracks.
You can hide the subtracks of a Track Stack to save space in the Tracks area, or show them in order to record or edit. You can add or remove tracks from a Track Stack, and reorder tracks in a Track Stack (reordering tracks doesn’t affect the sound).
After creating the summing stack, you can route individual subtracks to a different destination. If you do so, however, the rerouted subtracks are no longer controlled by the main track’s channel strip.
Create a Track Stack
Select the tracks you want to include in the Track Stack. The selected tracks can be adjacent or nonadjacent.
Do one of the following:
Choose Track > Create Track Stack.
Control-click the header of one of the selected tracks, then choose Create Track Stack from the shortcut menu.
In the Track Stack dialog, do one of the following:
To create a folder stack: Select Folder Stack, then click OK.
To create a summing stack: Select Summing Stack, then click OK.
Show or hide the subtracks for a Track Stack
Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the track icon in the main track.
To show or hide the subtracks for all track stacks in a project, Option-click the disclosure triangle for any track stack in the project.
Add a track to a Track Stack
Drag the header of the track you want to add between two of the subtracks in the Track Stack.
Note: When you add a track to a summing stack, its routing changes to the aux assigned to the main track.
Drag a subtrack by its header up or down inside the Track Stack.
Remove a subtrack from a Track Stack
Drag the subtrack outside of the Track Stack (below the last subtrack, or above the main track).
When you remove a subtrack from a summing stack, the track’s output routing changes from the aux used by the main track to the main outputs.
Flatten a Track Stack
You can flatten a Track Stack, in which case the subtracks again become normal tracks.
When you flatten a folder stack, the main track is deleted if its volume fader is set at 0 dB (unity gain) and it contains no automation data.
When you flatten a summing stack, the audio subgrouping is retained, unless there is no audio processing on the main track aux (no plug-ins, volume fader set at 0 dB, Pan/Balance set to neutral, and no automation data). In this case, all subtracks (or their audio subgroups) are routed to the Stereo (or Surround) Main output, and the main track Aux is deleted.
Do one of the following:
Select either the main track or a subtrack, then choose Track > Flatten Track Stack from the Tracks area menu bar.
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You don't have to wait if you want to try out the fast browsing engine Microsoft is building into its new Spartan browser in Windows 10. Here's how to turn it on right now --- and what speed gains you can expect.
Spartan is the code name for the new browser that will replace Internet Explorer in Windows 10. In addition to having a much faster browsing engine than Internet Explorer, it will have many new features, including the ability to mark up and share Web pages with others.
Spartan wasn't included in the latest Windows 10 build. However, you can turn on its browsing engine with a few simple clicks, as detailed by Brett Howse in anandtech. Keep in mind, of course, that when you do this, you may run into browsing problems. But considering that all of Windows 10 is essentially in beta, why not try it?
To do it, type about:flags into the Internet Explorer address bar and press Enter. From the screen that appears, go to the Enable Experimental Web Platform Features setting and switch it to Enabled. Then click Apply Changes and restart Internet Explorer. At that point on, you'll be using the speedier browsing mode.
If you want you can also trick Web sites into thinking that the new engine isn't Internet Explorer at all. You might do this because when some Web sites detect Internet Explorer visiting, they display pages specifically designed for the old Internet Explorer. If you want to pull that trick, when you're making the change outlined in the previous paragraph, also set the Customer User Agent to Enabled. | <urn:uuid:121a5c1b-ffca-44b0-be78-1586f097162a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.itworld.com/article/2876545/web-browsers/heres-how-to-turn-on-spartans-lightning-fast-browsing-engine-in-windows-10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00154-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925389 | 318 | 1.53125 | 2 |
This morning’s initial first-quarter real GDP increase at a 2.2 percent annual rate was stronger than the fourth quarter’s 3.0 percent after adjustment for volatile inventory fluctuations. An inventory buildup accounted for two-thirds of the fourth-quarter increase. Real Final Sales—GDP minus inventories—grew only 1.1 percent in the first quarter versus 1.6 percent in the first quarter. I would argue that the first quarter was a bit stronger than the fourth. Of course, there will be two more estimates before the final numbers are established for the first quarter, and the fourth-quarter estimate will be included in the annual revisions in July.
The price index for gross domestic purchases increased at a rate of 2.4 percent, compared with only 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter—not overly large, but headed in the wrong direction.
Personal consumption expenditure increased faster in the first quarter than overall GDP. PCE grew at an annual rate of 2.9 percent in the first quarter, up from 2.1 percent in the fourth. Unfortunately, real nonresidential fixed investment declined at a 2.1 rate in the first quarter after increasing at a 5.2 percent rate in the fourth. A healthier balance would have been more investment and less consumption (more saving). Perhaps this is made up by the declines in real federal government spending in both quarters–5.6 percent in the first quarter after a decline of 6.9 percent in the fourth.
External trade was a mild positive to GDP growth in the first quarter after having been a mild negative in the fourth. Real exports of goods and services increased 5.4 percent in the first quarter, double the 2.7 increase in the fourth, while real imports increased 4.3 percent after increasing 3.7 percent.
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Best Practice: How to Create the Best Data Model Ever
A good data model, done right the first time, can save you time and money.
We have all seen the charts on the increasing cost of finding a mistake/bug/error late in a software development cycle.
Would you like to reduce, or even eliminate, your risk of finding one of those errors late in the game?
Of course you would! Who wouldn’t? Nobody plans to miss a requirement or make a bad design decision (well nobody sane anyway).
No modeler worth their salt wants to leave a model incomplete or incorrect.
So what can you do to minimize the risk?
Well, if you are designing relational database or data warehouse systems, you can do your part by implementing a best practice approach to developing your data models.
What you need is a simple, repeatable process for reviewing your models.
Conceptual. Logical. Physical.
Years ago, a client asked me to help them develop a review process for their new data architecture committee. One that even a non-modeler could follow.
It had to be easy to follow and repeatable.
A checklist of what to look for and what to ask the modeler to make sure they got the best possible model.
It worked like a charm.
I have been using and refining that check list ever since.
It is amazing how many issues I have found over the years using this approach.
And I usually found them in early stages. They were also usually pretty small issues that were easy to fix at that stage.
A missing attribute definition.
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Small, but they would have been costly to fix if we had built the database with the original design and started coding the application, then found the mistake.
I imagine that you could probably benefit from using my process and having this checklist handy to set up your very own data model design review process. Am I right?
So I decided to publish it and make it available to all my loyal readers and followers (even you lurkers out there!). 😉
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In our sermon this morning the preacher introduced us to the idea of this concept. The idea is that we have things that are functionally our hell – the thing we most want to avoid, whether presently experienced or merely feared – and functional heaven – being released from that functional hell thing we most want to achieve. We tend therefore to look for a ‘functional saviour’ – someone or something that will save us from our functional hell and grant us access to our functional heaven.
The problem is that if these hells and heavens are the most important things in our lives, then they become the root of idolatry in our lives, and the functional saviour will be what we worship in the sense of being willing to do anything to achieve the freedom from this ‘hell’ and gain entry into ‘heaven’.
True Christianity is about recognising that God offers us salvation on HIS terms, not on the basis of what we want. Thus His priority is to save us from Hell – but that’s not the same as saving us from our functional hell, which may well be the place where He wants us to learn holiness for a time – which may be the rest of our life. This is HARD. We are always inclined to believe the claim of the Enemy that God doesn’t really want the best for us, but is making us suffer for His entertainment. So we need to be very cautious about what our priorities really are, and ask God to work with us to reveal when we are getting it wrong – as we often will.
But this analysis also helps bring other issues into sharper focus. For example the ‘social gospel’: one late 19th century presentation of it expressed it like this: ‘If cleaner streets, better housing and sweeter homes do not come within the scope of our aims, neither will those who are convinced of their right to these things come within the shadow of our places of worship’. Given that at the core of the gospel is the call to forgo all ‘rights’ except to be children of God, then we are not able to affirm their ‘right’ to these things. Yet of course we want to see them happen – but not at the cost of it being the only focus of what the church does, which is where the danger lies. At its most extreme this logic sees Christians endorsing the violent overthrow of regimes that are as nothing compared with the crudities of the Roman Empire, which the bible clearly indicates was to be accepted as ‘ordained by God’. Of course right involvement in politics with a clear set of policies may be what some Christians are called to, and we need to welcome this IF it is God’s call on a person’s life. But we must actively question such a calling because its effect is likely to make it harder for the person’s political opponents to hear the gospel. However if it is, then we should endorse it clearly.
This analysis also helps in understanding the attraction of the prosperity gospel. To the extent this promises God’s help in avoiding many functional hells, be it poverty or ill health, the danger is that the prosperity message is what is attracting the person to the church, not engagement with God for themselves. If that happens then there is a serious problem; a functional saviour is being offered, rather than our Lord Jesus. Of course it may be God’s blessing to heal people’s diseases and provide them with prosperity in order to serve Him, but the commitment to God must come first. And if the message of the evangelist is that these things WILL follow, then he is lying; this side of heaven there are no absolute promises about what we will experience.
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Car insurance despite risk classificationA car is to be newly insured, you compare different rates and finally find the car insurance that suits you. But instead of the insurance number, you simply receive the message that "Your contract cannot be concluded due to a risk classification". And now you are standing there. What does this mean and why does this contract not come into effect?? What should you do now? This article deals with the risk classification and gives you tips on how you can – must – get car insurance despite being at risk.
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What does the risk classification mean?
The word alone reveals it. For one or more reasons, an auto insurance company classifies you as a risk. Several customers can fall into this category at once. You are not always at fault per se. First, know the possible reasons:
Residence – yes, your place of residence also decides on the risk. This is especially about the regional class, which tells how high the general risk of damage is in your region. If various drivers caused accidents in the past, you will be held jointly liable as a possible new customer. After all, you too could cause or be involved in an accident. Depending on the insurance type, the risk rating now applies. If you only want liability insurance, you will not be rejected at all. The situation is different with comprehensive insurances. If vandalism damage has been reported in your region in the recent past and your vehicle is parked freely accessible on the street, you are subject to this increased risk. – Vehicle type – also the decides with the risk that the insurance company takes, if you are insured. Here, the more powerful the vehicle and the younger the driver, the higher the risk of damage occurring or being reported. An example of this could be the Ferrari in the case of an 18-year-old driver. The probability that this person loses control of the car is much higher than with a much older driver due to his inexperience. – Schufa – this is also a risk reason. If your credit check shows clear evidence of debt, the insurance company may not reject you outright, but you may be denied a particular rate because of the risk of non-payment. – Preload – at this point all the reasons related to other insurances or previous contracts come into play. If you were terminated by your old auto insurance company due to non-payment? Have you been regularly reporting damage to your comprehensive insurance company? If there was an attempted insurance fraud with a private insurance, for example private liability insurance? Insurers inform each other and in all these cases it may be that you do not get your desired tariff without restrictions.
However, the risk rating should never completely prevent you from obtaining car insurance. Car insurance is one of the compulsory insurances and you must always be offered, with very few restrictions, the motor liability in the minimum rate. Only comprehensive insurance or liability insurance with special benefits that go beyond the minimum may be rejected.
Risk classification – what to do?
First and foremost, it means for you to take a breath and not panic. Because even if all else fails, you will find a car insurance for your car and do not have to fear the lack of registration. Basically, if the cause is unclear to you, you should ask why you are rejected in this particular tariff. Because if you know the reason, you have the opportunity to act accordingly:
– Schufa – If the Schufa is the cause and the car insurance company refuses you a comprehensive insurance, you can go and agree to pay the annual amount directly. You have thus fulfilled your obligation. Can no longer default during this insurance year. At the same time you leverage the insurance company, because if you give the risk of non-payment as a reason, you take the wind out of its sails. By the way, this option is favorable, because you get a discount. – Damage potential – if the reason for the rejection is the increased number of claims in your region or regarding your type of vehicle, your hands are not tied either. There are options here:
– Other tariff – as a rule, there is already a massive difference between partial and fully comprehensive insurance. So it can be that you are directly granted the partial casco. If you still want the fully comprehensive cover, you can go and reduce the risk. – Parking location – often the rejection is due to the simple parking of the vehicle. Do you have the option to choose a secured parking space? Between "on the roadside" and "parking strip" are already huge differences. Carports, garages and private properties are of course even better. – Driver – maybe you went and specified in the insurance request not only yourself, but also other drivers. With very high horsepower vehicles, there may already be a problem in the combination with young drivers. Exclude other drivers.
You have bad cards with regard to comprehensive insurance if you yourself have already committed insurance fraud or have regularly reported damage to comprehensive insurance up to now. In the first case, companies are entitled to refer you to the compulsory tariff, and in the second case it is difficult to obtain comprehensive insurance. But here too there is an option:
– Partner – There is no rule that the insurance of a vehicle must be in the name of the person who registered or bought it. It's not for nothing that many young drivers insure their first cars through their parents or grandparents, because the no-claims class rating is much better that way. If necessary, you can also register the car through your partner. Just wait or choose a similar rate from another insurance company, as it may well be that the license plate is currently preregistered.
Risk classification thanks to pre-insurance
Completely independent of late payments, risk factors or other circumstances, the risk rating is based on previous damage reports. Many drivers rightly assume that if they have comprehensive insurance, they can report any damage to the car insurance company. Only these are recorded by car insurance companies. Pass on to other companies. So if you have regularly reported glass damage, vandalism, paint damage or similar incidents, you are considered an "expensive customer" by an insurance company. And this can have significant consequences, even if you always met your obligations:
– Cancellation – after each assumed damage, a car insurance company can cancel you. This can be done either in full, or with a reference to the fact that you can be graded to motor liability. – Change of car insurance – the best and cheapest tariff is of no use to you if the company can see that you have reported various damages in the last few years. Accidents are excluded here, if you were not the cause of the accident.
And what should you do? Basically, experts recommend to be careful when using a comprehensive insurance and not to report every claim. There are rules here:
– Up to amount of deductible – these damages should not be reported at all. You have to pay the deductible anyway, yet these damages would also be included in the file. – Partial cover – depending on your financial capacity you should not report simple damages up to 750,00 Euro. That is, you can report a glass damage with necessary replacement of the glass or a massive hail damage. The simple stone chip or a single dent, however, not. – Fully comprehensive – here the amount increases to 1.000 – 1.500 Euro. Again, if possible, only report major damage to your vehicle. Rules the repair of minor damage at your own expense.
Your advantage is simply that you do not recommend yourself as an expensive policyholder and thus a risk with an insurance company. Genuine traffic accidents are admittedly excluded from these arrangements.
Find out the risk, compare, insure
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Twenty Studies for Classical Guitar by Fernando Sor
The Spaniard Fernando Sor (1778-1839) was one of the greatest of the
composers for the classical guitar. In addition to many "serious" works
for one or two guitars, he composed a large number of studies intended
for players of lesser virtuosity. Untold numbers of students have worked
their way through these studies, which satisfy the elusive goal of providing
memorable pieces that, at the same time, enhance the skill and knowledge
of the practitioner. Andres Segovia selected a set of twenty of those studies,
each emphasizing a particular aspect of technique, and these are now some
of the best known of Sor's works.
Presented here are versions of those studies, reworked and edited for
the MIDI format.
The studies are presented in the original key. I mention this last point
as I have seen several MIDI renditions of Sor studies that have been transposed
up or down for the purpose of improving the sound on inexpensive sound
It is interesting, if unremarkable, that all of the limitations of performance
on the classical guitar are equally encountered in the sequencing process.
Having sequenced many classical pieces, I would say that those for guitar
are among the most troublesome to render with any degree of expression.
From a performance aspect, it is extremely difficult to interpret a piece
when one is constantly manipulating mathematical ratios, tempo maps, and
velocity series. Hopefully this situation will improve as sequencing software
evolves into more usable formats.
All of the MIDIs are in MIDI format 1, and reference the GM (General
MIDI) instrument convention. The guitar is patch number 25 by this standard.
I have also cross-referenced the Sor opus numbers in the MIDIs. For
those without sequencers I reproduce them here:
A final word of warning: these are not meant to be ideal models of performance for guitar students, who should by no means strive to imitate them. Rather they are intended as a diversion, to be played and hopefully enjoyed in the same spirit.
Any comments, corrections, or words of praise however faint, will be appreciated and should be addressed to me at the email address shown below.
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The Early Years Foundation Stage Framework 2021
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework, the standards that all Ofsted registered early years providers must meet, has undergone a number of changes.
The EYFS changes have come about for the following two main reasons:
- improve outcomes at age 5, particularly in early language and literacy
- reduce workload such as unnecessary paperwork, so you can spend more time with the children in your care
We have created two downloads for you to access for a clear view of the changes. Both documents consist of a comparison table with the 2017 and the 2021 areas of learning and Early Learning Goals (ELGs). These downloads can be printed out and displayed in your setting and act as a quick guide and reminder.
Click on the below EYFS downloads to access, save and print
EYFS Areas of Learning:
EYFS Early Learning Goals:
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Bill Nye speaks the truth.
[Video credit: Big Think]
In science, it's rare that you can actually state with certainty that something is wrong. Young-Earth creationism is wrong. The Universe is old.
However, I'll disagree with Bill over one thing, and I'll throw Neil Tyson into the mix too. First, here's something Neil said about adults, children, and nonsense (from an image that's gone around the web a few times):
Funny, Neil and Bill are saying the same thing, essentially, but Neil is saying he doesn't worry about the kids, while Bill is saying he doesn't worry about the adults.
I worry about both, for, oddly enough, the reasons Bill and Neil both give. We have entrenched adults teaching things to their kids that are clearly wrong, and will be damaging to them and others. Creationism, global warming denial, antivaccination, ridiculous ideas about women and their bodies... it's a cycle from adults to kids who then grow up to teach more kids.
We need to break this cycle. Make sure the education kids get in school is reality-based. Keep religion (or the lack thereof) out of schools. Vote fundamentalists out of office. And keep making sure the facts are out there and our voices are heard. Facts aren't enough. Science has facts on its side, but they're simply not enough. We need to make our stories personal, emotional, and make sure they stick.
And I'd love to agree with Bill when he says that in the future creationism will go away. I sure hope so. But YEC's been around for a while now, and is as strong as ever - after all, there are creationists on the US House of Representatives' Committee on Science! Still, maybe Bill's right. But it's up to us to make sure his prediction comes true. | <urn:uuid:eb16e9f4-0232-4588-bf55-e7438a555104> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/bill-nye-creationism-is-bad-for-children | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.980336 | 412 | 1.945313 | 2 |
God-Human Reciprocity and Symmetry
(Bringing Islam to the World One Concept at a Time!
Taking the Qur'an to Every Home and Heart that Needs It --
And which One Does Not?)
Sometimes -- I don't even know what that expression "sometimes" means, especially in this context -- the relationship between your actions and the actions of your Rabb, your master, God Almighty, is one of symmetry and reciprocity.
You do things that will please him, he is sure to do things that will make you happy. Joy and good news and bonhomie will descend upon you in ways you can't even fathom.
Min Hayithu Laa Yahtasib!
On the other hand, you do things that will displease him, and about which he has repeatedly and clearly warned you, then, he is very likely to set in motion a train of events that are sure to get your goat, as it were, and roil and annoy you, and make you distressed, and cause you grief and pain and unhappiness and suffering.
All this he does, even though he is most kind (Rahmaan).
And he is most compassionate (Raheem).
And he is most generous (Kareem).
And he is most tolerant and forbearing and patient (Haleem).
And he is most forgiving (Ghafoor and Ghaffaar and 'Afuww).
Not only that. He is also most appreciative of every little good thing that you do.
For, Shakoor is how he calls himself elsewhere in the Qur'an.
Inna Rabbanaa La-Ghafoorun Shakoor!
Innallaha Ghafoorun Shakoor!
And also Shaakir:
Fa-Innallaha Shaakirun 'Aleem!
And Shakoor is a word in Arabic, as is Shaakir -- in the Qur'an -- the only way I know how to translate is:
"Grateful, Most Grateful and Appreciative."
A Most Grateful God? I don't know what that means. But that is what the language of the Qur'an is. And that is what it means in the Arabic language.
Beyond that, you got to figure that one out on your own. I cannot even venture a guess.
But if you repent, and say sorry, not just with your mouth, but with every fiber in your being, and with all of your heart, mind and soul, he is also quick to accept your apology and your repentance.
For, he is also Tawwaab.
And of course he does let go a lot:
Wa Ya'foo 'An Katheer!
And that is God!
The Almighty! The one and only!
And his blessed name, chosen by none other than himself, and immortalized in the eternal words of the Qur'an, is: Allah!
Nothing looks like it. Nothing sounds like it. Nothing means the same thing.
"That is Allah!"
As in the following Aayat Karimah:
“Innallaaha Faaliqul Habbi Wannawaa!
Yukhrijul Hayya Minal Mayyiti,
Wa Mukhrijul Mayyiti Minal Hayyi!
Fa Annaa Tu'fakoon?”
That, then, is your God, ladies and gentlemen!
And your true and only God indeed:
Fa-Dhaalikumullahu Rabbukum al-Haqqu!
And that is your master!
And what a wonderful master he is!
And what a helpful master too!
Wa Ni'man Naseer!
People, what should I say more? Words fail me!
All I can do is wonder aloud, like the Qur'an itself does:
"Is this the Qur'an that people have gotten into the habit of
playing games with?"
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UNH to Analyze 'Bellwether' Solar Event Data From European Satellite
May 31, 2012
When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, the event was not just an additional solar wake-up call; it produced something that has the solar physics community puzzled and scientists from the University of New Hampshire poised to analyze a singular dataset gathered during the event by a European satellite called PAMELA--short for Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics.
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21st century parents are often confronted with aggressive and selfish behaviour in all aspects of society and increasingly in children’s media, such as television, video games, online and even in children’s storybooks.
In 2012, renowned celebrity vocal coach and award winning songwriter Roxanne Kiely recognised the demand and need for an educational entertainment series for young children. She created Busy Izzy, which encourages friendliness, co-operation, compassion, generosity and a healthy lifestyle.
This “edutainment” series of books, songs, videos and app is endorsed by the World Literacy Foundation and has been praised by Bec Hewitt and her family. It focuses on a range of learning areas suitable for children of all ages, including childhood development, education, social interaction and musical development. Since the release of the first book Busy Izzy and Friends six months ago, over 5,000 copies have already been sold. The valuable ethics and use of playful rhythms and rhymes of the series have already proven to be a hit with children around Australia as the second book, Busy Izzy and Newly Truly – The Big Surprise! already has a pre-order of over 2,500 copies (www.busyizzy.com).
Roxanne has and continues to make a marked contribution to the music industry with accreditation from Music NSW and as co-director of well-established music school ‘ScoopFX Music’ (www.scoopfx.com) with husband Stephen Kiely. She is also President of songwriting organisation, Songsalive! Australia and singing teacher to a number of well-known stars, such as Delta Goodrem, Hayley Warner and Marlisa Punzalan (Winner of X Factor 2014), just to name a few. With the release of the Busy Izzy series, she is now changing the world of learning for children too.
“Throughout my life, I’ve written songs about everything – from heartache to happiness and have found songwriting to be a great outlet,” says Roxanne. “At seven years of age, I started writing songs, stories and poems. I was raised on a farm and enjoyed the organic way of life which inspired the healthy recipes and songs in the Busy Izzy series. Being a songwriter and co-director of ScoopFX Music has built the foundation for me to create the Busy Izzy brand. From very early in my career as a vocal coach, I noticed that to help each student achieve their musical goals involved understanding their reasons for singing. It is through songwriting and music that our students can write and share their experiences.”
“Fear of public speaking, singing and performing are the most common phobias our students face. Stephen and I have taught and still teach many students who have anxiety and ADHD, among other conditions. Subconsciously I may have drawn from our students’ variety of conditions and circumstances when creating the Busy Izzy characters, who also experience ADHD, bullying, gender politics and even the fear of odd numbers, which are addressed in a positive and supportive manner in the series. It is also through our careers at ScoopFX Music that Stephen and I have been able to co-write and produce all the songs for the series. We’ve found that music, particularly playful rhythms and rhymes, helps children develop their reading and learning skills,” says Roxanne.
Roxanne’s top five tips on how to successfully build a new brand:
1. The Networking – don’t underestimate the people within your immediate circle and who they might know. If you have a project that people can relate to, that energy can be quite infectious and exciting to interact with.
2. The Passion – ensure you surround yourself with like-minded, passionate people who share your vision.
3. The Why – understand ‘why’ your customers will be interested in your product or service, and more importantly ‘why’ you’re doing it.
4. The Big Picture – analyse all the attributes you and your team have to offer when it comes to ideas, skills and attributes, as individuals, and as a group.
5. The Reach-Out – as the old saying goes “you can’t sell a secret”. Consider grass-roots style marketing by reaching out into the community and gauging feedback. You’ll be surprised by what you will hear and learn.
“By understanding the ‘why’ behind Busy Izzy’s existence, I’m able to focus my energy on what the brand stands for and our path to make a difference in children’s lives, with positive reinforcement and friendship, creating engaging songs and music, promoting healthy eating and growing organic food. It is also through ‘networking’ and ‘reaching out’ within the wider community that we were introduced to Andrew Kay, the Founder and CEO of World Literacy Foundation. This enabled us to get Busy Izzy out to thousands of disadvantaged children and hear first-hand how they feel and relate to the characters we have created,” says Roxanne.
Busy Izzy is beyond just a book series, as the brand features healthy recipes, catchy sing-a-long songs in CDs, music videos, along with the exciting creation of an app for IOS and Android. The app will include the first two books as e-books with audio, songs from the CDs and a memory game. As the project develops and expands, more interactive and educational games will be added.
“Busy Izzy is certainly living up to her name with many plans on the horizon for the series. Book three of the series - Busy Izzy and Talkative Tess will be released later in the year. Through networking, we are now in discussion with animators in the U.K. for a Busy Izzy and Friends TV show, with sights for international distribution. Within the next five years, I hope all 10 books of the series will be published and Busy Izzy’s positive values and characteristics can be instilled in children all around Australia,” says Roxanne.
For more information on Busy Izzy, visit www.busyizzy.com
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How can the Developers live the Scrum Values even better? 🚀 - Back to the foundations of the Scrum framework (43)
You should expect the use of Scrum to become more successful when the Team lives the Values of commitment, courage, focus, openness and respect. Then empiricism starts to work and trust is being built.
👉 The more people become proficient in living the Scrum values, the more successful the use of Scrum will be.
Each of the team members should live these values. So how can the Developers show this?
- Commitment to deliver the quality that is needed by the users. Nothing more, as this would be too expensive for the user, nothing less as this would not be beneficial to the user.
- Have the Courage to plan for less to deliver more. Plan less features / items, deliver more - the expected quality for these items.
- Focus on the Sprint Goal. Everything else gets in the way. If something does not support the Sprint Goal, how important can it be to work on anyway? Focus on the Definition of Done, which is the quality goal for the team. Quality not achieved = Sprint Goal not achieved.
- Have the needed Openness to your colleagues. If you don’t find a solution to a challenge, say so. Your colleagues will help as you are all working towards the same goal.
- Respect those with whom you work. An at first sight silly idea might turn out to be just what the team needed. You’ll probably only find out by doing.
These are only one example of how each Scrum Value could be lived by the Developers.
Using the Scrum Values as a guide for the Scrum Team how to behave during the entire Sprint will support raising trust. Without trust there will be a low level of transparency - the cornerstone for Scrum.
The more the team becomes skilled in living the Scrum Values, the more transparent the Increment will be.
Together with your Scrum Team, evaluate how the Developers can live the Scrum Values even better.
How do you see that the values of Commitment, Courage, Focus, Openness and Respect are lived? What can you do to make the Scrum Team live these even better?
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The thinking man's cartoon -- a wry look at the absurdities of everyday life.
One of the most famous and popular comic strips of all time, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a timeless worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The beloved comic follows the richly imaginative adventures of 6-year-old Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether you enjoyed it as a child while expanding your vocabulary, as an adult in the newspaper or if you are reacquainting yourself with these cultural icons, Calvin and Hobbes will continue to astound and delight you. Follow the official Calvin and Hobbes accounts on Facebook and Twitter to hear about publishing news, events and giveaways involving a boy, his pet tiger and their brilliant creator.
Calvin and Hobbes
Cartoon quotes from inspirational folks! Zen Pencils is an exciting and unique new comic that takes inspirational and famous quotes and adapts them into cartoon stories. From icons like Einstein, Gandhi and Twain to modern-day philosophers, comedians and writers - their words are turned into heartwarming stories by cartoonist Gavin Aung Than. Be inspired, motivated, educated and laugh as you read famous words as never before! This comic updates on Mondays. Visit the official website here.
Gavin Aung Than
Lunarbaboon chronicles the daily struggles of a 30 something father dealing with depression, anxiety, and raising a family. It is a tribute to the bond between father and child, as well as husband and wife. The comic is meant to be read by mature adults who have playful imaginations and don't take life too seriously.
As Baldo navigates the world of girls, cars, and family, readers will learn just how well they can identify with this teen. This strip by writer Hector Cantu and artist Carlos Castellanos is sure to appeal to all.
Hector D. Cantu and Carlos Castellanos
Get more of the weathered wisdom of Cul De Sac's Richard Thompson with the comic, Richard's Poor Almanac! Considered one of the best cartoonists of the 21st century, this comic includes Thompson's witty weekly creations regarding society, pop culture, politics and more. Originally published during his time with The Washington Post, these gems are now available here on GoComics. Read, share and enjoy the brilliance of this award-winning artist.
Richard's Poor Almanac
Monty Montahue, the brainy, bumbling bachelor who's unlucky in work and love, is the star of this suburbia-spoofing, time-traveling comic strip by Jim Meddick. Monty's quirky adventures often involve his pal Moondog, his hairless cat, Fleshy, trusty cyborg, EB3, and mad scientist, Doc.
Lynn Johnston's heartwarming tales of everyday life have made the Pattersons North America's most beloved cartoon family.
For Better or For Worse
Jim Benton, the author and artist behind It's Happy Bunny, Dear Dumb Diary, Franny K. Stein, So Totally True, and more, is proud to have his cartoons shared on GoComics.com. Benton loves to experiment, and his cartoons shift directions from day to day.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
The New York Times recently ran an interesting article prompted by Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court as a non-mom. The author writes:
“I wish she were a mother,” a feminist friend said when Kagan was nominated. “This sends the wrong message.”
But what exactly makes it wrong? Is it because there is some inherent “good” to being a parent — a quality of compassion or tolerance, a worldview beyond your own mortality — that would serve a justice well? Some argue that there is. “A jurist with a mama bear lurking inside,” writes Hilary Shenfeld at iVillage.com, would give the Supreme Court someone who has “wiped away dirt and tears, helped with homework and heartache, made as many decisions as dinners, really listened and really heard.”
Perhaps. But while parenthood certainly influences the way you see the world, it does not influence it in any predictable way. There are studies that show legislators become more conservative as they have more daughters, others that find that male executives become champions of women’s rights in the workplace when they raise girls. So it is, at best, a footnote in predicting how a judge will rule from the bench.
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Lake Turkana, located in Kenya, is the world’s largest desert lake and is primarily fed by the Omo River in Ethiopia. The tribes that surround the lake are traditionally pastoralists, however, their attitudes toward fishing are changing. The Kenyan government is interested in increasing the fisheries production of the lake, as its production is low for a lake of its size. At this time, the majority of catch that comes from the lake is made up of tilapia. This fishing occurs primarily in the shallow inshore areas on the western side of the lake. There are three species of tilapia that reside in the Lake Turkana: Oreochromis niloticus, Tilapia zilli, and Sarotherodon galilaeus. These fishes are typically difficult to distinguish because of their morphological similarities, and because of this they are treated as the same species by the fishery. However, each species belongs to different genera and may have unique ecological requirements. Our goal for this study was to determine the degree of overlap between the tilapia species in the lake. This was done using literature review and stable isotopes. Fish tissue samples were collected from four different sites in the central sector of Lake Turkana from 2008-2013. The samples were homogenized and packaged in the lab at Stony Brook University and then analyzed for 13C and 15N at Boston University. The data were analyzed using Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R, the output of which is an isotopic niche space, a proxy for ecological niches. O. niloticus had the largest niche of the three tilapia species. The isotopic niches of O. niloticus and S. galilaeus overlapped heavily, but not with the isoptopic niche of T. zilli. The literature review supported these findings, showing that these three species have different reproductive requirements as well as diets in other African lakes. O. niloticus and S. galilaeus primarily feed on phytoplankton and epibenthic algae, while T. zilli feeds on macrophytes. Because of the differences that these findings demonstrate, it is suggested that the fishery should manage the three different tilapia species in Lake Turkana, Kenya, especially T. zilli separately. | <urn:uuid:850e4747-0090-4073-a476-5c98447955b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/handle/1951/72685 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.962822 | 474 | 3.09375 | 3 |
For anyone who has always loved the eye-catching Japanese-style nail art on Vanity Projects Instagram, (like me), you can now learn the skills necessary to master these techniques yourself! Beginning April 2021, Vanity Projects will be launching Vanity Projects Institute (VPI), an online education platform for both hobbyists and professionals alike.
Founded by Rita Pinto, VPI’s core mission is to merge top-tier talent with fine art sensibility. Vanity Projects’ Artist in Residence program at both the New York City and Miami nail ateliers was the inspiration behind this innovative, educational platform. Attendees will learn from master nail artist and Japanese Nail Association educator Kanae Yagi. VPI offers two courses (beginner and intermediate level) designed around using Japanese potted gel. Each course requires seven days to complete and students earn a VPI diploma at course completion.
VPI nail courses utilize Canvas, allowing for an interactive learning experience in 33 languages. Each course includes the opportunity to interact with other students in the course and the ability to pinpoint questions on an exact part of each video. The beginning course curriculum includes: prep, E-filing, basic gel brush skills, two simple gel designs, two mid-tier gel designs, group Q&A, and final test. The intermediate course includes: prep, focus on lines and brush skills, two mid-tier gel designs, two complex gel designs, a final test, and a one-on-one live session.
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To know where we are headed, we must be in touch with our theological and historical roots. A major focus of the 2020 General Assembly (GA) was partnership with Indigenous leaders in the Northeast and beyond to explore how to co-exist in right relationship with one another and the land we occupy.
Together, we deepened our understanding of Unitarian Universalism’s role in European settlement, 400 years since our direct religious ancestors on the Mayflower landed in Plymouth and began the colonization of what is now New England. Together, we delved into our theological and historical roots, bringing those threads into the present day and acting in solidarity with Indigenous communities.
This work is connected to the 2012 Responsive Resolution to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery and the 2016 Business Resolution “Thanksgiving Day Reconsidered”. The 2016 resolution calls on all Unitarian Universalists to “enter a time of education, careful reflection, and healing, during the years 2016-2021, and that special attention be given to the suffering, indignity, and loss that native peoples have suffered since the early 1600s”.
A new Action of Immediate Witness to “Address 400 Years of White Supremacist Colonialism” was overwhelmingly passed by congregational delegates.
Great intention and effort was put into creating meaningful programming on this topic, centering Native leadership and preparing for this General Assembly in relationship with the original peoples of New England and Turtle Island.
Some of these program are now available as part of a showcase of on-demand video recordings from GA, and are linked to directly below:
Worship & Featured Programs
The welcoming celebration centers Indigenous/Native UU voices as well as Jessie Little Doe Baird, Vice-Chairwoman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council
Settler Colonialism and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Featured Speaker: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, writer, and professor emeritus in Ethic Studies at California State University. She is author or editor of 15 books, including the award-winning and 2019-2020 UU Common Read selection An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Her most recent book is Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment. Forthcoming in 2021 from Beacon Press is Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
Rev. Danielle Di Bona (Wampanoag) delivered the sermon for the Service of the Living Tradition this year.
Fahs Lecture: Reflecting on Teachings about Indigenous Peoples
Featured Speakers: Jean Mendoza, Ph.D., M.Ed, co-adaptor of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, & Natalie Martinez, Ph.D., K’awaika-meh (Laguna Pueblo), author of the educator’s guide for An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People.
The worship service will include a collection for the Tomaquag Museum, an indigenous museum featuring an extensive collection and archive of Southern New England tribal communities.
THE DESTRUCTIVE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM: The Earth is crying out for all her creatures - Three-part series:
- Covenants and Colonialism
- Decolonization and Earth Justice
- Settler Colonialism and Genocide
- 1620: Beyond The Mayflower, A Path To Atonement
- Ramapough Lenape: Rightful Return To The Land
- Setting The Table: Strategies In Organizing And Decolonizing
- Spirituality: A Narragansett Perspective
- Colonialism’s Impact On Palestinians And Indigenous North Americans
- Reparations: Rooted In Repair
- Moving Towards Truth, Healing And Reconciliation
- Indigenous Resistance: NoDAPL Political Prisoners Create Climate Justice
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Soft-input soft-output single tree-search sphere decoding
AuthorsChristoph Studer and Helmut Bölcskei
ReferenceIEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 4827-4842, Oct. 2010.
AbstractSoft-input soft-output (SISO) detection algorithms form the basis for iterative decoding. The computational complexity of SISO detection often poses significant challenges for practical receiver implementations, in particular in the context of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. In this paper, we present a low-complexity SISO sphere-decoding algorithm, based on the single tree-search paradigm proposed originally for soft-output MIMO detection in Studer, et al., IEEE J-SAC, 2008. The new algorithm incorporates clipping of the extrinsic log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) into the tree-search, which results in significant complexity savings and allows to cover a large performance/complexity tradeoff region by adjusting a single parameter. Furthermore, we propose a new method for correcting approximate LLRs---resulting from sub-optimal detectors---which (often significantly) improves detection performance at low additional computational complexity.
KeywordsMultiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication, soft-input soft-output detection, sphere decoding, iterative MIMO decoding
CommentsA software package containing the code of the SISO STS-SD algorithm as well as a complete Monte-Carlo MIMO-OFDM simulation environment can be downloaded here.
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(October 27, 1853 – 1899)
By Patrick McSherry
Marine Private William Anthony gained famed for his actions aboard the Battleship MAINE the night it was sunk in Havana Harbor, on February 15, 1898.
William Anthony was born in Albany, New York on October 27, 1853. His family eventually moved to New Jersey. According to some stories, Anthony, who was struggling at school, simply disappeared from the family home to enlist in the U.S. Army at the age of 17. Other sources indicate that he enlisted in the army in 1875.
Anthony served at least term terms of enlistment in the army, serving in the American west in units such as the 7th U.S. Cavalry. Eventually Anthony found himself at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point serving as a drum major. His broad-shouldered six foot – two inch frame made him an imposing figure.
Anthony was reported to be an excellent soldier, generally with good discipline. However, he had one tragic flaw – a penchant for alcohol. Other soldiers reported that he did not drink often or at least not to excess. However, when he did, he chose the wrong times, being caught and busted in rank. Many thought that if it were not for this flaw, William Anthony would have eventually received a commission.
After serving between eight and fourteen years in the army (depending on the source), Anthony joined the U.S. Marine Corps at Brooklyn, New York on July 1, 1885. He served for two years as a clerk in the Brooklyn recruiting office. Anthony’s good judgement concerning the capabilities of the recruits. Anthony had a belief that the members of the Marines should be U.S. citizens. When it was discovered that he turned away eligible recruits because they were not citizens, he lost the position and was busted in rank. Anthony also served at sea, serving aboard the cruiser U.S.S. BROOKLYN, a vessel destined for fame in the naval Battle of Santiago.
Anthony sent a portion of each pay home to his mother, now a widow. After not seeing her son for several years, Anthony’s mother traveled to Brooklyn to see her son. She found him on guard duty. Anthony forestalled her immediate tendency by stating “Don’t kiss me now. I’m, on guard duty.”
On May 12, 1897 Anthony, still a private, reported for service aboard the Battleship MAINE. Anthony’s actions on the night that the ship exploded in Havana, Cuba on February 15, 1898, were notable in that he remained at his post and continued his duty within the sinking vessel by reporting to the ship's commander and reporting what had occurred, rather than simply abandoned the vessel. His actions were recorded by the MAINE’s commanding officer, Capt. Charles Sigsbee, as follows:
"...[following the explosion] I groped my way through the cabin into the passage, and along the passage to the outer door. The passage turned to the right, or starboard, near the forward part of the superstructure.
At the turning, some one ran into me violently. I asked who it was. It was Private William Anthony, the orderly at the cabin door. He said something apologetic, and reported that the ship had been blown up and was sinking. He was directed to go out on the quarter-deck, and I followed him. Anthony has been pictured as making an exceedingly formal salute on that occasion. The dramatic effect of a salute cannot add to his heroism. If he made a salute it could not have been seen in the darkness of that compartment. Anthiny did his whole duty, at great personal risk, at a time hen he might have evaded the danger without question, and deserved all the commendation that he received for his act. He hung near me with unflagging zeal and watchfulness that night until the ship was abandoned.”
Following the MAINE’s loss, Sigsbee kept only a few crewmen with him in Havana, shipping the majority out as soon as possible. One of those chosen to stay behind was Private Anthony. Anthony's actions aboard the MAINE were reported to the Navy Department by Capt. Sigsbee, and the Secretary of the Navy, John Longm responded by sending Anthony a letter stating that "Your conduct was a credit to the naval service and entitles you to the hearty thanks and approval of the department." For his actions on the night of the sinking, Anthony was promoted to sergeant. During the war, Anthony served aboard the U.S.S. DETROIT from March 5, 1898 until being transferred to the U.S. Marine Barracks at his former station of Brooklyn, New York.
Following the massive amount of publicity that Anthony received after the loss of the MAINE, Anthony received a complimentary letter from Adella Maude Blancet, a native of Yates County, New York but living in Philadelphia. Eventually, the two started a strong correspondence, exchanged photos etc. A short courtship began that culminated on October 13, 1898, when the couple was married in Philadelphia.
Anthony departed his service in the U.S. Marine Corps with the rank of sergeant major. Following his departure from the military, he was less successful. He seems to have been unable to find permanent work. He worked in the grape industry around Guyanoga, New York for a time. Meanwhile, he and Adelia had a son. Mrs. Anthony and their son lived with her sister near Guyanoga while William Anthony apparently traveled in search of work.
On November 24, 1899, Anthony was seen at an entrance to New York
City’s Central Park near two police officers and an ambulance attendant.
Suddenly, Anthony pulled out a bottle and drank a substance which was later
found to be cocaine in an attempt to commit suicide. He was taken to Presbyterian
Hospital, refusing to identify himself, only stating that he was from Albany.
He died at the hospital. In his pockets were a medal issued to survivors
of the MAINE, a Mauser
cartridge, and a photo of his wife. On the back of the photo was written
“Bury this with me.” Also in his pocket was a letter to Mrs. Edward Kritsh
of New York, his wife’s aunt. It simply read:
“Dear Aunt Nett: Please do as I request in my note of the p.m. I am discouraged and disconsolate. It is better to end it all. Don’t encourage Don [apparently a nickmane for Adelia] to come to this city. She is the best and noblest woman on earth and deserves better than I can give her. In case she should come, love our little boy as you would your own. Your unhappy Will.”
Anthony’s body was not immediately claimed at the hospital, but two days later was taken to the Stephen Merritt Burial Company by order of Mrs. Kritsch. Anthony’s wife was too distraught to come to the city but his mother did come to view the body. Both the Philadelphia Times newspaper and Brooklyn’s Tammany Hall offered to defray the costs with the latter offer apparently being accepted.
Sgt. Maj. William Anthony was buried at Evergreen Cemetery on Long Island.
Mrs. Anthony obtained a position as a clerk in the pension office in Washington DC. While there she met New York State Treasurer Hauser, who she eventually married. After the death of Mr. Hauser, Adella and her son returned to Yates County, residing there for the remainder of their lives.
Anthony has been honored by the U.S. Navy by naming two destroyers
after him - the World War One era U.S.S. ANTHONY (DD-172) and the World
War Two era U.S.S. ANTHONY (DD-515). The DD-515 was christened by William
Anthony's grand-daughters, Florence and Alice.
"Anthony's Body Not Yet Claimed," New York Times (New York, NY), November 26, 1899, p. 15.
"Brave Bill Anthony," Hornellsvill Weekly Tribune (Hornellsville, NY), December 1, 1899.
Creamer, John - Data on the spelling of Adella's first name, info., on her return to Yates County, and data on the christening of the DD-515.
"Maine Hero a Suicide," Naugatuck Daily News (Naugatuck, CT), November 25, 1899, p 1.
"Monument to Him," Naugatuck Daily News (Naugatuck, CT), December 14, 1899, p 1.
"Sergeant Major William Anthony, USMC (1853-1899), Naval Historical Center, http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-a/w-anthny.htm
Sigsbee, Capt. Charles D., The Maine - An Account of her Destruction in Havana Harbor. (New York: The Century Co., 1899) 64-65.
"Story of Bill Anthony," Dubuque Daily Herald (Dubuque, IA), December 2, 1899, p. 2.
"To Bury William Anthony," New York Times (New York, NY), November 27, 1899, p. 7.
"Treasurer Huaser's Bride Maine Hero's Widow," Brooklyn Standard Union (Brooklyn, NY), June 14, 1907
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NSWC IHEODTD supports Digital Rocket Launcher early operational capability From NSWC IHEODTD Public Affairs
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Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division engineers delivered 16 early operational capability, or EOC, LAU-61G/A Digital Rocket Launchers for Naval Air Systems Command’s Direct and Time Sensitive Strike Weapons (PMA 242) program office, March 28. Digital Rocket Launcher (DRL) development, testing, and limited fleet fielding for shipboard use is being conducted under a Chief of Naval Operations Rapid Deployment Capability project to provide MH-60S helicopters an enhanced capability to defend carrier strike groups against fast-attack crafts. PMA-242 is responsible for DRL acquisition and development. “DRL uses standard military interfaces to the helicopter, and incorporates a launcher electronic assembly to control launcher functions,” said Cmdr. Alex Dutko, PMA 242 Deputy Program Manager. “The
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George Gateau, Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (NSWC IHEODTD) engineer, installs electronic power supply unit to LAU-61G/A Digital Rocket Launcher (DRL). NSWC IHEODTD’s DRL team completed delivery of 16 early operational capability launchers for Naval Air Systems Command’s Direct and Time-Sensitive Strike Weapons (PMA 242) program office, March 28. new launcher will enhance existing 2.75-Inch Rocket System capabilities on the MH-60S by allowing mixed rocket load-outs, permitting the conduct of on-command inventory, providing a tubeusage count feature, and
performing a built-in system check test.” According to Dutko, the long-term goal for DRL is to fire all guided and unguided rockets, but the Early Operational Capability includes only one rocket configura-
tion, which will be utilized while on deployment with USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) strike group. More than eighty NSWC IHEODTD engineers, technicians, contractors and procurement specialists
supported the project by providing ordnance engineering and electronics expertise, logistics support for the launcher, limited production, and systems integration. IHEODTD’s DRL team also developed a compact DRL emulator for software and integration tests. “IHEODTD was responsible for providing drawings, designs, prototypes, in-service engineering, launcher-level qualification tests, overseeing manufacturing, and delivery of low-rate production units for EOC,” said NSWC IHEODTD Project Manager Michelle Goedert. “The DRL concept was based on previous PMA 242/IHEODTD design collaborations, and supports the family of all 2.75-inch rockets. Part of our DRL design is the Launcher Electronic Assembly and wiring harness which helps integrate advanced communication electronics with data storage into the launcher so it can accept load-out from
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CBIRF holds relief and appointment ceremony Sgt. Maj. Stillings retires By Andrew Revelos The Chemical Biological Incident Response Force said goodbye to its top enlisted leader and welcomed a new boss during an April 4 relief and appointment ceremony at Naval Support Facility Indian Head. The Marines and Sailors of CBIRF honored Sgt. Maj. Darrell Stillings, who led CBIRF since 2011 and retired after 30 years of honorable service to the nation. Col. Stephen Redifer, commanding officer of CBIRF, presided over Stillings’ relief and the appointment of Sgt. Maj. Brian Taylor, who served as a company first sergeant
with CBIRF during a tour at Indian Head from 2005 to 2008. Stillings received the Legion of Merit for his “outstanding service” to CBIRF and the Marine Corps, as well as letters and certificates from military leaders and President Barack Obama. Stillings’ wife, Shauna, also received a certificate of appreciation for her dedication and sacrifice during her husband’s career. “Thank you so much for honoring us with your presence here today on what is a very, very important part of Sergeant Major Stillings’ life, as well as his life with Shau-
na, as they begin the next phase of their lives,” Redifer told attendees. Stillings’ children, mother and mother-in-law received special praise from Redifer. “I can’t thank you enough for sharing Darrell with us for the last 30 years.” Redifer also extended a greeting to Taylor and his family. “Thank you so much for sharing this day,” he said. Redifer summed up the far-reaching impact of Stillings’ many years of loyal service. “You stood on the foot prints at Parris Island as a teenager and you grew into manhood in the United States Marine Corps,” he said. “During that time, Ser-
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Sgt. Major Darrell Stillings, command sergeant major of the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, salutes during a relief and appointment ceremony April 4 at Naval Support Facility Indian Head. Stillings retired after 30 years of service.
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NSBE luncheon focuses on leadership and voice By Andrew Revelos The National Society of Black Engineers Potomac River Professionals held the latest iteration of its “Lunch and Learn” series March 27 at the University of Mary Washington Dahlgren Campus, where guest speaker Tonya McNair, deputy program manager for the Above Water Sensors Directorate within the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems, offered insight on leadership and finding one’s voice. McNair drew on a wealth of experience acquired in her 23 years of service as a Navy science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professional to inspire attendees to become more effective leaders. Before prospective managers take on the challenges of leadership, however, they should know why they want to lead, she said. “I wanted to make a difference. A lot of times I was on a project and I wanted to see it moved forward. I thrive on that.” To attain the goal of becoming a leader, McNair encouraged attendees to set professional goals, seek formal training and find a mentor who can provide guidance. “You have to take hold
U.S. Navy photo by Andrew Revelos
From left to right, Michael Hamilton, human systems engineer, Vandy Jones, computing systems engineer, Tony Moss, mathematician, Brandie Jackson, systems engineering, Demario McNair, scientist, Tonya McNair, deputy program manager for the Above Water Sensors Directorate within the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems, Dwayne Hamilton, integration engineer, Angela P. Nunnally, fiber optics engineer, Brittany Herring, data analyst, Michael Tucker, test engineer. All of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professions shown, with the exception of Tonya McNair, are assigned to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. of your career,” she said. But being a leader is not dependent on a formal title. “Lead from where you are,” McNair said. “You don’t have to be the [senior executive] in the association; you
don’t have to be a GS-15.” Taking responsibility on a small scale allows leaders to succeed or fail, but above all, learn. “As you go farther up the latter, you learn, you grow and you lead,” she
said. “It’s a cycle that you go through. You need to take advantage of those [leadership] opportunities if you can.” McNair listed some of the qualities that make
good leaders: motivating, integrity, balanced, humility, inspirational, respected, respectful, ethical and selfaware, to name a few. Good leaders must also be able to give honest and construc-
tive feedback to junior associates. As for the qualities of not-so-great leaders, cliquishness topped McNair’s
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What do you want to be? Career Day helps students find an answer By Steven Moore JWAC Public Affairs King George Middle School held its annual Career Day April 1st, providing more than 600 7th and 8th graders the opportunity to learn about everything from the Air National Guard to the Virginia State Police, from cake design to veterinary medicine. “Career Day ties education to careers,” said Allison P. Daughtridge, a counselor at the school. “It exposes the students to things they normally wouldn’t be exposed to and provides the students an opportunity to begin career exploration.” “I heard students say, ‘That was fun,’ ‘I want to be an FBI agent,’ ‘I want to join DECA,’” Daughtridge said. “They asked appropriate questions and learned interesting facts.” More than 30 local and regional businesses and government agencies were on hand to meet with students and answer their questions.
John D. Rehrer, an analyst at the Joint Warfare Analysis Center in Dahlgren, speaks to students at King George Middle School about satellite imagery at Career Day.
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CARPOOL/VANPOOL WANTED Riders Needed for Vanpool from commuter lot at the corner of Houser Dr. and Rt. 208 in Spotsylvania. Depart 6 a.m., arrive on base 7 a.m. Depart base at 4 p.m. Mon. - Thurs., 3 p.m. on Fri. Drops at both sides of the base. Contact Nick Sunshine, 540-653-3816. Rider wanted for 7-passenger vanpool. Departs F’burg/Gordon Rd Commuter lot at 7AM. Departs NSWCDD/Dahlgren at 4:30PM. Transportation Incentive Program System (TIPS) qualified van. Contact Antonio at (540) 653-1512 Rider seeks rideshare from La Plata to Indian Head. Call Louie, 276-971-9837 Employee moving to either Fredericksburg, Va. or Maryland is in need of commute to NSF Dahlgren. Ideal commuting arrangement would be transportation that could pick-up and drop-off at or close to place of residence. Please call for more information, Sheila 214-529-3690. Starting a Van Pool, 7-passenger van, departs NLT at 6:35 a.m. from Fieldhouse/ Courthouse Rd. commuter lot to Dahlgren, Mon-Thurs 7:15 a.m. to 3:45p.m.; Friday 7:15 a.m. to 3:15p.m. Call Cheng at 540-6535909. A-Gate commuter wanted only. Van/carpool desired from any rideshare parking area or Reston Town Center. Depart between 6 to 7a.m., return from Indian Head between 4 to 5 p.m. Call Moses, 301-7434180. Van or Car pool desired from Fredericksburg or King George to Indian Head, Monday thru Friday with one RDO, prefer 7a.m. to 4:30p.m., but hours can be negotiated. 703909-3380.
Want to start a carpool? Need riders? “Commuter Clearinghouse” is a source for information on carpools or vanpools that already exist and need passengers, as well as a place for employees to advertise to start a carpool or vanpool. Whether you already operate a carpool or vanpool and are open to accepting new riders or need drivers, or if you are looking for a carpool or vanpool, provide us with information that might help you find or start a commuter opportunity, such as, where you will need to commute from and to, preferred schedule and contact information. You can send your information via e-mail to nsasp_pao_dlgr@ navy.mil or contact our office toll free at 866-359-5540, or DSN 2498153, or 540-653-8153.
FREDERICKSBURG RIDESHARING GWRideConnect is a free ridesharing service that assists persons who are seeking daily transportation from Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania, Caroline and King George counties to employment locations in Dahlgren among other employment sites. www.gwregion.org/gwride connect.html.
April is Navy Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Over the last twoplus years, considerable time, effort and focus has been placed on sexual assault prevention and response. Trust is up, the reporting and actual incident gap appears to be shrinking and the idea that this is everyone’s problem to solve is taking hold. The natural question is— if SAPR is part of our everyday life, our everyday conversation…why designate April as the awareness month? Joining the National and DoD effort, designating April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month affords us the opportunity to go beyond the day-to-day, to be reflective on past efforts and to decide how we want to evolve future prevention and response. The DoD theme for SAAM 2014 is “Live Our Values: Step Up to Stop Sexual Assault.” The goal is to empower each individual command to take ownership of this problem by focusing on the values we should embody day in and day out. “We’ve created changes in our reporting, investigative, and adjudicative procedures - changes which have earned critical trust and resulted in increased reporting, which deepen our understanding. No one should serve in fear. Don’t be afraid to report if you’ve been a victim of sexual assault. Together, we will work to protect victims of sexual assault and hold perpetrators appropriately accountable.” – Rear Adm. Sean Buck, Director, 21st Century Sailor Office. Every service member, at every level in our military, must adhere to and internalize service values and standards of behavior. Underpinning the Navy’s entire program is the need for every part
Felicia Hoyle, sexual assault and response victim advocacy specialist for Naval Support Facilities Dahlgren and Indian Head, and Naval Air Station Patuxent River, places a teal awareness ribbon at NSF Dahlgren on April 2. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. of the Navy’s Total Force (service members, civilians, and supporting contractors) to live the values of our profession: integrity, trust, respect, fidelity, and courage. The Navy continues to strive for an environment where professional values, team commitment, and respect define how we treat one another at every command, workplace, and throughout our military community. In order to prevent sexual assault, every member of the DoD community must be committed to advancing an environment where sexist behaviors, sexual harassment, and sexual assault
are not tolerated, condoned, or ignored. Bottom line, sexual assault is a crime. It destroys trust, divides teams, and degrades operational effectiveness. While the chain of command is responsible for cultivating a climate of trust and professionalism that is intolerant of sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexism, bystander intervention is vital in helping to stop unsafe behavior. For more information – including resources for victims of sexual assault to reach out and get help – visit www.sapr. navy.mil.
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the aircraft, update the available inventory after each firing, and display built-in test results in the cockpit.” “This has been a really exciting project to support, and to watch grow from a conceptual need to its early operational capability,” Goedert concluded. “It’s good to know we’re part of a team helping deliver solutions to protect our men
and women at sea. After EOC delivery, we’ll continuing working with the program office to transition DRL to a program of record for fielding and sustainment.” NSWC IHEODTD - a field activity of the Naval Sea Systems Command and part of the Navy’s Science and Engineering Enterprise - is the leader in energetics and Explosive Ordnance
Disposal (EOD) solutions. As a Department of Defense Center of Excellence and EOD Detection Equipment Program lead, NSWC IHEODTD focuses on energetics research, development, testing, evaluation, in-service support, and disposal; and provides warfighters solutions to detect, locate, access, identify, render safe, recover, exploit, and dispose of explosive ordnance threats.
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geant Major Stillings has done things, been places and led Marines. Throughout it all, he has taught, he has mentored, he has learned and he has led this Marine Corps family. And he has never once forgotten that this is a Marine Corps family. He treats these Marines, he treats me, he has treated thousands of Marines as if they are his children, his brothers, his sisters. He has brought them up right. He let them know when they’ve done wrong and rewarded them when they’ve done well, and [he has] done so magnificently.” Stillings spent his speaking time thanking members of CBIRF, as well as
those who supported and mentored him throughout his career. “You couldn’t ask for a better unit to spend your last 36 months in the Marine Corps,” he said. “Marines, Sailors, civilians and support staff of CBIRF: it’s been a great journey here. I leave here with a little bit of bittersweet feelings because it’s a great place to work. I appreciate everything [you] have done for me while I’ve been here.” CBIRF’s unique mission makes the experiences of those in the command unique, said Stillings. “Nobody comes to CBIRF as expert,” he said, hiding a slight grin. “Everybody comes through the door and we’re all a loss.” After the laughter from the crowd
died down, Stilling’s demeanor turned serious. “About a month later, we’re trained and if something happens, I guarantee you these Marines and Sailors and civilians will answer the nation’s call.” Stillings offered words of thanks to his former commanding officers and encouragement to his successor. “Brian, you’ve got a great unit and you’re going to do great things here. Good luck to you. I wish you the best.” He closed with a goodbye to CBIRF and thanks for his family. “Marines, ooh rah. Semper Fi,” he said. “The only way I’m here today and do the things I do every day [is my family]. Thank you, I love you.”
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2014 Spring Trips and Tours Announced
Northern Virginia Relic Hunters Association’s 42nd Annual American Civil War Show
SAPR Month Movies and Discussions
Dahlgren Fleet and Family Support Center. “Open Window, “April 11 (Friday), 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; “The General’s Daughter,” April 18 (Friday), 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.; “The Accused,” April 23 (Wednesday), 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. These movies are graphic in nature and may be disturbing to some viewers.
Flag Retirement Ceremony
A flag retirement ceremony is scheduled for May 24 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Quantico National Cemetery. If you have an old or worn American flag that needs to be respectfully retired, please contact Dennis Markle at (540) 623-0167 or by email at email@example.com to arrange collection.
April 11-12, 2014, Fredericksburg Expo Center at 2371 Carl D. Silver Parkway, Fredericksburg. Admission is $6 (Good for Both Days) and parking is free. Advertised nationally, the American Civil War Show will feature over 300 tables of the finest Civil War and earlier military effects, relics, memorabilia, books, paper goods, paper goods, art and antique weapons for buy, sale or trade. These items are displayed by the country’s most distinguished Civil War dealers and museums, as well as private collectors. The general public is encouraged to bring their own items in for sale or trade. For more information, visit www.fredericksburgexpocenter.com or www.nvrha.com/show.htm.
Flag Retirement Ceremony
The NSASP Navy Birthday Ball has two fundraisers scheduled to benefit this year’s event. Buy Krispy Kreme on Thursday, April 17 at various locations across NSF Dahlgren. You can also order Easter baskets of all kinds. The NSASP Navy Ball Committee is seeking volunteers to help support the ball. For more information, visit www.navyball.org.
The flag of the United States of America is an honored symbol of our nation’s unity, its hopes, its achievements, its glory and its high resolve. When the flag is in such condition, through wear or damage, that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, it shall be destroyed in a dignified manner befitting such a symbol. A flag retirement ceremony is scheduled for May 24, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., at Quantico National Cemetery. The ceremony is open to the public; organizers are currently collecting old or damaged flags for the ceremony. Email firstname.lastname@example.org or call (540) 623-0167 for more information.
VITA Tax Preparation Available
Trash to Art Contest at Caledon State Park
NSASP Navy Birthday Ball Fundraisers
VITA volunteers are trained and ready to prepare your tax returns! This free service is available to all active duty military, their families, and retired military and their families. The official start date for preparing taxes will be January 27; appointments are being accepted now. To schedule an appointment, call Fleet and Family at 540-653-1839.
Celebrate Earth Day at Caledon State Park on April 26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.! Volunteers will enjoy a ride through beautiful forest to the Potomac River shoreline, where they will clear the beach of litter. The trash collected will then be turned into works of art, with prizes awarded for the best creations; be sure to bring art supplies like scissors, string, wire, pliers and awls. The Dahlgren Area Chief Petty Officers Association will be providing lunch for donations. Please register by calling (540) 663-3861 or by emailing Caledon@ dcr.virginia.gov
“Treasures” Thrift Store Needs Donations
The Indian Head Thrift Store “Treasures” is open on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The store is located at 12 Strauss Ave. next door to the USO. Donations of gently used items are currently being accepted.
T&J Barbeque truck at IH and Stump Neck
Enjoy delicious T&J Barbeque at NSF Indian Head on Wednesdays and Thursdays, from approximately 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., next to the library, and at the NSF Indian Head Stump Neck Annex on Tuesday, from approximately 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., next to Building 2195.
Indian Head Snakehead Contest Winner Announced
On Tuesday, March 25, the Charles County Commissioners announced the winner of the Snakehead Naming Contest. The winning name was Spotted Channa, submitted by Gilbert Castaneda. Channa is a genus of the Channidae family of snakehead fish. The two finalists were Bob Carr and Beth Groves. The Commissioners and the Department of Natural Resources will honor the contest winner and finalists at an upcoming tournament at Smallwood State Park.
Free Clothing Swap at Bethel Baptist Church
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Friday, April 11 from 12:30p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday, April 12 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 6705 Boots Lane, La Plata, Md. Contact Dana Weaver at 301-743-7225 or the church at 301-743-2363 for more information.
The Charles County Department of Community Services offers many trips and tours throughout the calendar yearbus trips, overnight trips, and “Fly Away” trips in which you travel to far away destinations. Special trips for seniors are also offered. Online registration is available at www. CharlesCountyParks.com. Registrations for senior trips are accepted at the Department of Community Services (8190 Port Tobacco Road, Port Tobacco) and the Richard R. Clark Senior Center (1210 Charles Street, La Plata). For more information on the trips and tours listed above, call 301-9349305 or 301-870-3388 ext. 5159. For more information other events offered by the Department of Community Services, visit www.CharlesCountyParks.com, or call 301-934-9305 or 301-870-3388. Citizens with special needs may contact the Maryland Relay Service at 711, or Relay Service TDD: 866269-9006.
Exhibitor Opportunities Available for Fifth Annual Port Tobacco Market Day
The Society for the Restoration of Port Tobacco will host the Fifth Annual Port Tobacco Market Day event on Saturday, May 3 from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the historic Port Tobacco Courthouse (Chapel Point Rd, Port Tobacco). Vendor setup is available Friday, May 2 from 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 3 from 7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. The rain date is Saturday, May 10. Antiquers, crafters, and yard sale enthusiasts are invited to participate in the Fifth Annual Port Tobacco Market Day event to sell goods and showcase their talents. The Charles County Garden Club will hold their annual plant sale. Food, baked goods, and drinks will be available for purchase. For more information, contact Kay Volman at 301-934-2474.
CSM’s Women + Math Workshops, April 26
CSM Women + Math = Infinite Possibilities. 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., April 26. College of Southern Maryland, La Plata Campus, Center for Business and Industry (BI Building), 8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata. This one-day event will feature workshops, presentations and discussions designed to inform young women on careers that rely heavily on math. Keynote address by Debra Salamon, the lead test engineer of the Marine Corps CH-53K Heavy Lift Helicopter Integrated Test Team. Open to young women ages 13 and older as well as high school math teachers and parents. The workshops will cover various subjects, including architecture, electrical engineering, microbiology and veterinary medicine. Free. Registration deadline is April 20. For information and complete list of presenters visit http://www.csmd. edu/stem/events_WAMinfo.html, call 301-934-7808 or SandraP@csmd.edu.
March Arts at the College of Southern Maryland
ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT SHOW. March 28 - May 2. Paintings in broad brush strokes, photos in captivating focus, and sculptures molded with playfulness are among the types of artwork showcased each spring as part of the College of Southern Maryland Annual Juried Student Art Show presented in the Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery, Fine Arts Center, La Plata Campus. The 2014 Annual Juried Student Show takes place March 28-May 2, with a Gallery Talk, awards presentation, and reception on Tuesday, April 15 at 12 p.m. For more information, www.csmd.edu.
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Special Events Dog Gone Family Fun Day! - FREE
April 26 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eligible patrons include all with base access. Bring your canine companion out with the family for a morning of fun! The day will start with a 1 mile dog walk followed by fun for all on the Parade Field. The event will feature an agility course with demonstrations, moon bounce for the kids, puppy paw prints and pictures, balloon artist, local veterinarian to answer questions, local rescue groups with adoptable dogs, therapy dogs and much more! All dogs must be on a 6 foot, non-retractable leash at all times. Proof of shots will need to be shown at the registration table that morning. For more information, please contact Dahlgren ITT at 540-653-8785.
Aquatics Center 540-653-8088
Wet & Wild Easter Egg Hunt
April 12 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eligible patrons include all with base access. Cost: Regular Admission. Oh no! The Easter bunny tripped and spilled his basket of eggs in the pool! How many can you find? Have fun and join us for an underwater Easter egg hunt! Eggs will be at different pool depths for different ages. Fun for the whole family! Please register no later than April 8th. For more information and to register, please contact the Aquatics Center at 540-653-8088.
American Red Cross Lifeguard Training
April 21 - 25 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30- p.m. (Register by April 11). Eligible patrons include all with base access. Cost: $250.00. Training to acquire Lifeguard, First Aid & CPR/ AED. The registration deadline is Friday, April 11th. For more information and to register, please contact the Aquatics Center at 540-653-6213.
Center Dance Program will be performing a dance recital at the Dahlgren School Auditorium. The 6 - 9 year old group will be performing a ballet dance to Disney’s “Let it Go” and a tap dance to “In Summer” from the movie Frozen and the song “Happy” by Pharrell. Our 10 - 18 year old group will be performing a jazz dance to “Talk to me” by Jason Derulo and a tap dance to “Empire State of Mind” from the TV show “Glee”. For more information, please contact the Fitness Coordinator at 540-653-2016.
General Library 540-653-7474
National Library Week - FREE
April 14 - 19. Eligible patrons include all with base access. The fun will go all week long! Every check out transaction or new library card will earn you an entry to win a gift card. We’ll have three lucky winners this year! On Tuesday, April 15th you’re invited for coffee and snacks from 0900 to 1230. Wednesday, April 16th, we will be making Spring bonnets at 1630. Thursday, April 17th will be our big Spring Celebration from 1600 to 1800. For more information, please contact the General Library at 540-653-7474.
3rd Annual Spring Celebration! - FREE
April 17 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Eligible patrons include all with base access. Join in the fun for the library’s 3rd Annual Spring Celebration! Ride ponies, pet rabbits and get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny. For more information, please contact the General Library at 540-653-7474.
Information, Tickets & Tours 540-653-8785
ITT Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
April 15 at 11 a.m. at the Liberty Center and Bowling Center building. Join us for the ribbon cutting and grand opening of the new Information, Tickets and Tours office. You will still find the same great tickets and discounts, just in a new location with extended hours to be announced. For more information, please contact the ITT office at 540-653-8785.
Cannonball Lanes 540-653-7327
Bowling with the Easter Bunny
April 12 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eligible patrons include all with base access. Cost: $8.50 per child, which includes two games and shoe rental. The Easter Bunny will be joining us for bowling! Be sure to bring your camera and be ready for fun! For more information, please contact Cannonball Lanes at 540-653-7327.
April 19 at 6 p.m. Eligible patrons include all with base access. Cost: $10.00 per person. This is a singles tournament. Bowl a series (3 games), a pin-fall of 9 counts as a strike. Trophies will be awarded to the top three bowlers. Please register at Cannonball Lanes. For more information, please contact Cannonball Lanes at 540-653-7327.
April 12 at 11 a.m. at the Dahlgren Paintball Field. Liberty Center Patrons Only: E1- E6 Single/Unaccompanied Active Duty Military. Have fun paintballing with Liberty! Liberty has some paintball supplies for you to use, but please bring your own if you have them. For more information, please contact the Liberty Center at 540-653-7277.
Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt
April 20. Liberty Center Patrons Only: E1- E6 Single/ Unaccompanied Active Duty Military. Happy Easter! Join Liberty on an Easter egg scavenger hunt! For more information, please contact the Liberty Center at 540-653-7277.
Movie Theater 540-653-7336 Friday and Saturday: 7 p.m. Showings Price of Shows Civilians - $5; AD, Retired, Reserve, Family Members (E7 - above) $4; AD, Reserve, Family Members (E6 below) - $2.50; Child (6-11) - $2; Child (5 and under) - Free; Tickets for a movie shown in 3-D are an additional $1 Friday, April 11th, 7 p.m. 3 Days to Kill, PG-13 Saturday, April 12th, 7 p.m. 300: Rise of an Empire 3D*, R Friday, April 18th, 7 p.m. Tyler Perry’s: Single Mom’s Club, PG-13 Saturday, April 19th, 2 p.m. Mr. Peabody and Sherman, PG Saturday, April 19th, 7 p.m. Son of God, PG-13
General Library 301-744-4747
3rd Annual Spring Celebration
April 14 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Library. Ride some ponies, pet rabbits and get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny. Free and open to all with base access.
National Library Week
April 14 – April 18. Stop by all week and open a new Library card account or check out a book to be entered to win a Books A Million gift card.
Paws for Reading
Join us the second Monday of every month to read to a therapy dog. Call or stop by to get your appointment no later than the Friday before. Call for more information.
½ Day Movie Day
Out of school early? Spend your extra afternoon watching a movie at the Library. Movies will be offered for each half day scheduled on the Charles County school calendar. Movies will start at 2 p.m. The next scheduled movie day is May 7.
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Great Wolf Lodge
June 13 & 14 (2 night stay) $468 All other weekends are $255 per night when purchased through ITT.
Stars & Strikes Bowling Center
SAPR 5k Run/Walk - FREE
April 23 at approximately 11:15 a.m. Come to the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Fitness Center at 11 a.m., followed by the SAPR 5k. Eligible patrons include all with base access. Free teal ribbon pin to all runners, free t-shirts to the first 25 registrants. Awards will be given to 1st place men’s and women’s winners overall and 1st place active duty. Free gift will be given to the Command runners with the biggest pro-rated Command turnout. For more information and to register, please contact the Fitness Director at 540-653-2215 or the Fitness Center at 540-653-8580.
Spring Dance Recital
April 17 at 6:30 p.m. Students from Dahlgren Fitness
April 12 at 11 a.m. at the Mix House. Children 12 and under are invited to spend the day hunting for eggs, making crafts, getting photos taken with the Easter Bunny and more. This event is free and open to all eligible patrons.
Summer Camp Registration
Summer will be here before you know it! Register now for the upcoming 2014 summer camp season. Call 301-7446564 for more information.
April 19 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bowling Center $6 per person. Stop by and enjoy some Easter fun with the Easter Bunny. Open to all with base access.
Weight House Fitness Center 301-744-4661
Sexual Assault Prevention and Response 5K. April 24 at the Weight House Fitness Center. Register at the Fitness Center any time prior to 11 a.m. on race day. Race starts at 11 a.m. Come out and support the cause.
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list because of its negative effect on the working relationships within a team. A positive team environment, however, can help a team overcome complex challenges. “I have been blessed to have really, really good teams and people working around me,” she said. “One thing I definitely know is that I don’t know. I feel like I don’t have to know everything, but I need to know enough to know that I don’t know everything and have a
team that compliments my strengths and supplements my weaknesses. I think that’s very important.” McNair shared the leadership wisdom that her father, a successful manager, passed on to her. “If you take care of the people, they will get the job done for you,” she said. “You just have to create a good environment for them to make it happen.” When a good team achieves success or a good leader advances to a higher
position, the challenges do not stop; rather, leaders must “stay grounded” and not “believe your own press clippings,” said McNair. “You need to recognize that your team is really what got you there.” McNair encouraged each attendee to construct their own “leadership toolkit,” a self-assessment of one’s strengths and weaknesses as a leader based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. “You have to have a selfawareness about [yourself]
in order to be successful,” she said. McNair said her own toolkit emphasized things like two-way communication, taking risks when it comes to trusting and standing up for her team, and decisiveness. The latter point was impressed upon McNair by a former boss, the late Rear Adm. David Altwegg, who emphasized the importance of “deciding to decide.” Of course, the commitment to be a successful
leader in not only challenging, but time-consuming. Successful leaders find ways to “reenergize,” whether through activities, spending time alone or with family. McNair stressed the need for family support to attendees and thanked her husband, Anthony, for all he has done during her travel-intensive career. “I want to thank him because I could not have had the career that I’ve had if I didn’t
have someone who is understanding,” she said. McNair left attendees with the advice to “own it” and take responsibility for their own career and leadership decisions. “What’s really important is that you develop your own leadership style, your own toolkit.” For more information about NSBE Potomac River Professionals, visit: http:// nsbepotomacriver.org.
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TAMPA — Her very name — Remember Maceo — summed up the reason they gathered at Jose Marti Park in Ybor City on Sunday.
Maceo, 85, is the grand-niece of the legendary Antonio Maceo, a black Cuban general who died in combat in 1896 during Cuba's fight for independence.
"Viva Cuba libre!" Maceo said after about two dozen people sang the Cuban national anthem Sunday. The group came together to rededicate a newly restored bust of the general that stands just feet from the statue of Marti in the park.
Maceo was "the greatest figure in Cuba's military struggle for independence against Spain," said Rolando Perez-Pedrero, past president of Circulo Cubano de Tampa and a member of the committee that restored the bust.
At 6-foot-6, Maceo was known as the "Titan of Bronze," Perez-Pedrero said. A calvary leader and expert in guerilla tactics, he led a rebel army known as the Mambis in a 750-mile campaign that began in the eastern province of Oriente and stretched to Punta Brava in the province of Havana, where he was killed.
Along with Cuban poet and patriot Jose Marti, Maceo led struggles for racial equality as well as Cuban independence.
"We believe we share a responsibility to carry on that legacy," said Aaron Smith, president of Sociedad La Union Marti-Maceo, the Ybor mutual aid society whose roots go back to 1900.
The bust of Maceo was first unveiled in 1996, but its bronze was weathered and its pedestal had been nicked. So supporters, including sculptor Steve Dickey and the Steward Mellon Co., came together for a $1,300 restoration.
Perez-Pedrero said $500 to $1,000 more is needed to give the statue a granite base.
As she introduced herself, Remember Marco said, "many people think I'm saying, 'Remember Antonio Maceo.' "
But her name actually comes from the love letters her father wrote his pregnant wife while he was on a business trip in the United States.
Each letter ended, "I remember you," said Remember Maceo, who taught Spanish at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago before retiring to Tampa. And when her father got home, his wife told him she had a name for their baby: "Remember."
Still, as she grew up, "my parents were always explaining to me, telling me … how proud the family was" of Antonio Maceo.
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Catchy Dissertation Topics in Financial Management
We will give you the opportunity to understand what the topic is all about and how the people can relate to these subjects along the way. Therefore, if you want to learn more, then you better read on.
- Financial Management Defined
This particular style of management refers to how the company controls its finances. It refers generally to the overall expenditures and cash flow of the company and how the people decide to take control and spend it for the benefit of the establishment.
Financial management can also refer to the various strategies that people within the company tend to employ in order to keep the cash flow stable all throughout the year.
- Finding the Right Topic Angle: Things to Consider
If you ever decide to write an essay about this topic, you have to consider the value of the exposition. How will it help the people understand the inner workings of a company? In addition, how can your article help contribute to the improvement of the managerial styles in a company as soon as possible?
With these questions in mind, you can now proceed to considering some major topics for your own study. Here are some of them as follows:
- Financial Management: An Overall Exploration
- The Correlation and Study between Financial Management and Marketing
- What Are The Elements Of Financial Management?
- How Important Is Financial Management In Business?
- How Is Financial Management Integral To The Development Of A Sound Business Plan?
- Additional Dissertation Topics to Consider
Aside from exploring the history and landscape of financial management, you can also explore this particular topic in relation to other fields of study. Here are some examples as follows:
- Understanding the Mechanics of Financial Management and Business Administration
- How Does Financial Management Improve One’s Ethics as a Businessman?
- Understanding The Psychology Behind Financial Management: What Would It Take To Become A Sound Financial Manager?
- Financial Management In Connection With Interoffice Management: The Pros and Cons
- How Your Personality Plays Into Sound Business and Financial Management Strategies
- Final Words
Financial Management is definitely something that can be challenging to write to say the least. However, if you know where to begin, you will definitely be able to create a compelling dissertation that will capture the interest of the audience and reading public alike. Therefore, if I were you, I would not give up that easily when trying to find the right topic that would suit my needs as a dissertation expert. | <urn:uuid:0e2b55e1-e9d8-4388-a7e0-30083f2fbfaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sbnfa.org/management-papers.jsm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.929379 | 499 | 2.71875 | 3 |
ASTM International - ASTM D7671-10(2021)
Standard Test Method for Corrosiveness to Silver by Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel-Silver Strip Method
|Publication Date:||1 January 2021|
|ICS Code (Liquid fuels):||75.160.20|
significance And Use:
4.1 Crude petroleum contains sulfur compounds, most of which are removed during refining. However, of the sulfur compounds remaining in the petroleum product, some can have a corroding action on... View More
4.1 Crude petroleum contains sulfur compounds, most of which are removed during refining. However, of the sulfur compounds remaining in the petroleum product, some can have a corroding action on various metals and this corrosivity is not related to the total sulfur content. In addition, fuels can become contaminated by corrosive sulfur compounds during storage and distribution. The corrosive effect can vary according to the chemical types of sulfur compounds present.
4.2 The silver strip corrosion test is designed to assess the relative degree of corrosivity of a petroleum product towards silver and silver alloys.
4.3 Reactive sulfur compounds present in automotive spark-ignition engine fuels under some circumstances can corrode or tarnish silver alloy fuel gauge in-tank sender units (and silver-plated bearings in some 2-stroke cycle engines). To minimize or prevent the failure of silver alloy in-tank sender units by corrosion or tarnish, Specification D4814 requires that fuels shall pass the silver strip corrosion test.View Less
1.1 This test method covers the determination of the corrosiveness to silver by automotive spark-ignition engine fuel, as defined by Specification D4814, or similar specifications in other jurisdictions, having a vapor pressure no greater than 124 kPa (18 psi) at 37.8 °C (100 °F), by one of two procedures. Procedure A involves the use of a pressure vessel, whereas Procedure B involves the use of a vented test tube.
1.2 The result of the test is based on a visual rating that is classified as an integer in the range from 0 to 4 as defined in Table 1.
1.3 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The values in parentheses are for information only.
1.4 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. For specific warning statements, see 6.1 and Section 7.
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Today’s consumer expects a seamless mobile payment experience; failing to meet those expectations can be devastating to a brand, idea, innovation and eventually the payments industry. Banks in particular will need to move swiftly if they are to take advantage of the opportunities on offer in the global payments business, or risk losing out to nimbler competitors.Although Mobile Money had been designed as a peer-to-peer payment system but it has gone much beyond the basic idea..
Mobile payments can be defined as any payment transactions, whether in close proximity or remote. Payments can happen through Internet, proximity technologies charge back or can be executed on mobile devices. Mobile payments market potential, as well as the different trends in business models and technologies that are shaping the global payments and mobile payments evolution are visible as opportunities to be taken up. Decision makers in banks and other financial or even out side traditional
Artificial Intelligence will boost info security through behavioural biometric intelligence in coming time. Mobile payments security will play the key role in the importance of info-security and privacy in payments. This industry is changing every day i.e it dynamic so why to relay on static method of security.
Mobile Payments – For many of us, it’s very hard to differentiate this bouquet of services such as Mobile Money, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Mobile Commerce, and Mobile Micro Insurance Services, Mobile Micro Savings & Credit Services, Mobile Data Science after building strong Mobile credit bureau (Mobile Financial […]
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De Saussure, Nicolas-Théodore
Swiss Botanist 1767-1845
Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure was one of the early founders of plant physiology. He introduced new and rigorous experimental methods to ...
Nicolas Theodore De Saussure
Swiss chemist and plant physiologist whose work provided the basis for phytochemistry. After studying the formation of carbonic acid in plant tissues, he proved ...
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In the last few years, the Internet has become increasingly important in various fields of our lives. Not only personal households have discovered the nearly endless possibilities of the Web, but also companies found many different ways of gaining revenue through the online world. Most of the global players and many medium-sized IT companies have realized what opportunities the Web and its technologies provide and used them to build up new services for consumers and businesses. In order to compete with the evolving market, companies of traditional business areas such as newspapers or TV broadcasting companies had to diversify their product lines and are forced to react in a fast, flexible and cost efficient way on every day’s changes of demands and technologies. In fact, every company has to adapt these technologies efficiently to have a chance in the growing market.
As it brings its benefits, cost savings and new customers, every new technology also comes with the more or less known downsides. Even if IT managers are qualified to consider most of the details in how to use and implement them, new software, hardware or resources will – no matter what – always cause unpredicted problems. Due to the IT dependence of today’s companies, every downtime, bug or system overload of a production system directly results in declining profits and higher costs. Especially for service providers, every downtime is business critical to many dependent companies and has to be prevented.
Therefore, companies spend a considerably high amount of money and time to create a stable, flexible and extensible IT environment that supports their business by minimizing risks, increasing availability and allowing to provide better service levels to customers.
Virtualization is a key technology that addresses to achieve these goals. It allows to run multiple virtual computers on the same physical system. By creating an abstraction of the underlying hardware, it allows to execute a variety of virtual machines (VMs) on top of a virtualized hardware.
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In a nutshell
No - avoid all illegal drugs
The expert view
It’s hard to accurately estimate how many pregnant women use illegal drugs, but research from the US suggests it could be around 5%.
Of this, around 3% of the mums-to-be questioned had used cannabis in pregnancy, and around 1% had taken cocaine.
"Do please speak to your doctor or antenatal team if you are taking recreational drugs," says MFM’s GP Dr Philippa Kaye. "Our job is not to judge you but to try and help you get the help which you may need to stop taking drugs and to keep you and your baby safe, so please speak to your antenatal team."
So, what are the risks if you have taken illegal drugs?
Well, there are risks – and the advice is always to avoid all illegal drugs – but if you shared a joint at a party before knowing you were pregnant then there’s probably no need to panic.
But regular use of illegal drugs can have effects on your health, and your baby’s development.
It’s definitely worth talking to your doctor or midwife if you are worried, and they can arrange for extra monitoring if they think it’s needed.
Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the UK, but it is still a Class B drug which means possession carries up to 5 years in prison, an unlimited fine, or both.
The NHS warns that regularly smoking weed when pregnant can lead to a low birth weight baby, while a study in the Journal of Pediatrics found that babies’ neurobehaviour – such as memory and understanding - was affected by their mums’ use of cannabis during pregnancy.
Meanwhile, research has also found an association between using cannabis in pregnancy and the risk of children developing depression as they get older.
Another point to consider is the risks from tobacco if you use it to make a marijuana joint. Tobacco is addictive, and when smoked, releases chemicals which are known to cause cancer and other health issues. For your unborn baby, the risks include:
- Low birth weight
- Placental abruption (where the placenta comes away from the uterus wall)
- Reduced oxygen flow
- Birth defects including cleft palate
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Ecstasy, MDMA and amphetamines
Ecstasy and amphetamines (speed, whizz) are class A drugs and possession of them carries an unlimited fine and up to 7 years in prison.
These particular drugs are not considered to be physically addictive on their own, but some people can develop a psychological need for them, says Dr Kaye.
What's more, they have been linked to health problems for the baby, including:
- Congenital heart disease
- Poor growth in the womb
- Low birth weight
- Small head
- Cleft palate
- Biliary atresia (a blockage near the liver)
- Gastrochisis (abnormal development of the stomach wall)
There’s also a risk of miscarriage when taking speed or pills.
Meanwhile, recent research suggests that babies may have development problems when their mums take MDMA in pregnancy.
Also known as shrooms, these are a hallucinogen and can be eaten dried, steeped in tea, or cooked in food.
While there isn’t a lot of evidence out there about how they affect pregnant women and their babies, the most sensible and safest approach is to not use them. It's also worth bearing in mind the seriousness of taking a poisonous mushroom by accident as it can lead to severe health problems and even death.
Also a hallucinogen, taking LSD when pregnant has not been confirmed to cause specific defects in the baby, but there is evidence that it could lead to miscarriage.
Dr Kaye points out that the lack of information about the adverse effects of LSD "does not make it a safe choice."
The UK Teratology Information Service – which examines the effects of drugs and medicines on pregnant women and babies – points out that data is hard to come by for pregnant women using cocaine. It does however, highlight the risks associated with its use during pregnancy:
- Increased risk of miscarriage
- Placental abruption (when the placenta separates from the womb)
- Premature labour
- Growth problems
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Birth defects
- Withdrawal symptoms in the baby after birth
While using heroin itself can lead to problems with low birth weight, premature birth, and even stillbirth, the circumstances that often go hand-in-hand with its use can also cause issues for mum and baby's general well-being.
Medically, this can include ill health such as infections, and on a personal level, difficulty with regular daily routines such as keeping antenatal appointments.
Between 48% and 94% of babies born after their mums used heroin have withdrawal symptoms, including sleeping and feeding problems, and weight loss.
"Babies are born essentially addicted themselves and would have withdrawal unless put on a gradual withdrawal programme while in hospital," explains Dr Kaye.
Mums on our forum say
"Visited the stop smoking nurse yesterday and my first day of going smoke free is Saturday.... Gulp!!!! Not quite sure how I'm going to cope with the ups and downs of cycle counting at the same time as giving up the weed," says bunnyhunny.
Adn speckle says: "I understand that it is an addiction, but why get pregnant when you know it will most likely affect your child??
"When I was pregnant with my ds, we had our tour of the hospital and while all of us were waiting outside, this girl came up to us saying how easy labour was when your smacked up!
"Honestly I couldn't believe it, she was boasting how she had saved the NHS money, cause she had her own pain relief.
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Lesson 21 – Fast Food 快餐Kuàicān
Do you like eating fast food? How many times do you eat fast food in a week? Do you know that the Americans eat the most fast food because it is fast, convenient and inexpensive? Is fast food really cheap and is it healthy? In this lesson, we are not going to talk about the nutritional value of fast food, but rather a conversation between two friends about the fast food culture affecting their eating habits.
In your country, are there many fast food restaurants? Let us begin this lesson by naming the fast food restaurants you know in Chinese. Mcdonald 麦当劳Màidāngláo, Kentucky Fried Chicken 肯德基Kěndéjī, Starbuck星巴克Xīngbakè, Subway 赛百味Sài bǎiwèi, Pizza Hut必胜客Bìshèngkè and many more. Which one is your most favorite?
Hanyu Pinyin 汉语拼音Hànyǔ pīnyīn
Wáng lì : Wǒ èle, wǒmen qù chī kuàicān hǎo ma?
Zhāng yún: Qù nǎ yījiā hǎo ne?
Wáng lì : Jīntiān wǒ xiǎng chī jī ròu, jiù qù kěndéjī ba.
Zhāng yún: Hǎo de.
Wáng lì hé zhāng yún yībiān chī, yībiān tán guānyú kuàicān diàn
Wáng lì: Wǒ fāxiàn zuìjìn kuàicān diàn yuè kāi yuè duō.
Zhāng yún: Kě bùshì, guāng wǒmen jiā fùjìn jiù yǒu sì jiā.
Wáng lì: Xiànzài shēnghuó jiézòu kuài, chī kuàicān jí kuài yòu piányi, chī de rén dāngrán duō le.
Zhāng yún: Wǒ dào bù juéde kuàicān hěn piányi. Rénmen chī shì xiǎng huàn huàn kǒuwèi’r hé gēn shàng cháoliú.
Wáng lì: Wǒ xǐhuan chī hànbǎobāo hé règǒu zhī lèi de dōngxi. Nǐ ne?
Zhāng yún: Wǒ bù zě me xǐhuan chī kuàicān, yòu méi yíngyǎng yòu bù hào chī.
Wáng lì: Zhāng yún, nǐ tài luòwǔ le.
English translation英语翻译Yīngyǔ fānyì
Wang Li: I am hungry, let’s eat fast food shall we?
Zhang Yun: Which one shall we go?
Wang Li: I feel like eating chicken today, let’s go to Kentucky.
Zhang Yun: OK.
Wang Li and Zhang Yun talked about fast food restaurants while eating.
Wang Li: I noticed that there are more and more fast food restaurants nowadays.
Zhang Yun: Absolutely. There are four fast food restaurants just my place alone.
Wang Li: Nowadays, the pace of life is so fast, and eating fast food is not only fast but also cheap, it is no wonder there are so many people eating fast food.
Zhang Yun: I don’t really think fast food is cheap. People eat it because they wanted to change their taste buds and also to keep up with the trend.
Wang Li: I like things like hamburger and hot dog. What about you?
Zhang Yun: I don’t really fancy fast food. They are neither nutritious nor tasty.
Wang Li: Zhang Yun. You are really outdated.
Word usage 词语用法Cíyǔ yòngfǎ
1. 可不是Kě bùshì is used when you agree to what the other person is saying. It can also be used to mean not really.
A: 小明今年六岁了吧？Xiǎomíng jīnnián liù suìle ba?
Xiao Ming is six this year, right?
B 可不是，明年就得上小学一年级了。Kě bùshì, míngnián jiù de shàng xiǎoxué yī niánjíle.
Exactly, he has to attend grade one next year.
他可不是一个好人，最好别和他做朋友。Tā kě bùshì yīgè hǎorén, zuì hǎo bié hé tā zuò péngyǒu.
He is not really a good person, better don’t befriend him.
2. 光guāng is used as an adverb in the dialogue above. It means just or only in English. Here are more examples to show the usage of this word.
他光吃饭不吃菜。Tā guāng chīfàn bù chī cài.
He only eats rice and not the food.
他光说话不做事。Tā guāng shuōhuà bù zuòshì.
He only talks and not work.
光guāng can also be used as an adjective to mean used up. For example, 他把钱花光了。Tā bǎ qián huā guāng le. (He has used up all his money)
3. 即 …… 又 …… jí …… yòu….. Not only ……. but also ……
彼得是一个即聪明又乖的孩子。Bǐde shì yīgè jí cōngmíng yòu guāi de háizi.
Peter is not only smart but also a well behaved child.
游泳是即健康又便宜的运动。Yóuyǒng shì jí jiànkāng yòu piányi de yùndòng.
Swimming is not only a healthy but also an inexpensive sport.
4. 又 ….. 又….. yòu ….. yòu….. Both ….. and ……. This expresses the coexistence of two cases or situations.
这个西瓜又甜又大。Zhège xīguā yòu tián yòu dà.
This water melon is both sweet and big / This water melon is sweet and big.
小明几天没冲凉了，真是又臭又脏。Xiǎomíng jī tiān méi chōngliángle, zhēnshi yòu chòu yòu zàng.
Xiao Ming has not bathe for the last few days, he is really smelly and dirty.
Note that the adjectival predicate after又 cannot be modified by adverbs of degree such as 最 or 很．For example, it is incorrect to say这个西瓜又很甜又很大.
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(Chaitraratha Parva continued) "The Gandharva continued, 'Beholding his asylum bereft of his children, the Muni afflicted with great grief left it again. And in course of his wandering he saw, O Partha, a river swollen with the waters of the rainy season, sweeping away numberless trees and plants that had grown on its margin. Beholding this, O thou of Kuru's race, the distressed Muni thinking that he would certainly be drowned if he fell into the waters of that river, he tied himself strongly with several cords and flung himself, under the influence of grief, into the current of that mighty stream. But, O slayer of foes, that stream soon cut those cords and cast the Rishi ashore. And the Rishi rose from the bank, freed from the cords with which he had tied himself. And because his cords were thus broken off by the violence of the current, the Rishi called the stream by the name of Vipasa (the cord-breaker). For his grief the Muni could not, from that time, stay in one place; he began to wander over mountains and along rivers and lakes. And beholding once again a river named Haimavati (flowing from Himavat) of terrible aspect and full of fierce crocodiles and other (aquatic) monsters, the Rishi threw himself into it, but the river mistaking the Brahmana for a mass of (unquenchable) fire, immediately flew in a hundred different directions, and hath been known ever since by the name of the Satadru (the river of a hundred courses). Seeing himself on the dry land even there he exclaimed, 'O, I cannot die by my own hands!' Saying this, the Rishi once more bent his steps towards his asylum. Crossing numberless mountains and countries, as he was about to re-enter his asylum, he was followed by his daughter-in-law named Adrisyanti. As she neared him, he heard the sound from behind of a very intelligent recitation of the Vedas with the six graces of elocution. Hearing that sound, the Rishi asked, 'Who is it that followeth me?' His daughter-in-law then answered, 'I am Adrisyanti, the wife of Saktri. I am helpless, though devoted to asceticism.' Hearing her, Vasishtha said, 'O daughter, whose is this voice that I heard, repeating the Vedas along with the Angas like unto the voice of Saktri reciting the Vedas with the Angas?' Adrisyanti answered, 'I bear in my womb a child by thy son Saktri. He hath been here full twelve years. The voice thou hearest is that of the Muni, who is reciting the Vedas.' "The Gandharva continued, 'Thus addressed by her the illustrious Vasishtha became exceedingly glad. And saying, 'O, there is a child (of my race)!'--he refrained, O Partha, from self-destruction. The sinless one accompanied by his daughter-in-law, then returned to his asylum. And the Rishi saw one day in the solitary woods (the Rakshasa) Kalmashapada. The king, O Bharata, possessed by fierce Rakshasa, as he saw the Rishi, became filled with wrath and rose up, desiring to devour him. And Adrisyanti beholding before her that the Rakshasa of cruel deeds, addressed Vasishtha in these words, full of anxiety and fear, 'O illustrious one, the cruel Rakshasa, like unto Death himself armed with (his) fierce club, cometh towards us with a wooden club in hand! There is none else on earth, except thee, O illustrious one, and, O foremost of all that are conversant with the Vedas to restrain him today. Protect me, O illustrious one, from this cruel wretch of terrible mien. Surely, the Rakshasa cometh hither to devour us' Vasishtha, hearing this, said, 'Fear not, O daughter, there is no need of any fear from any Rakshasa. This one is no Rakshasa from whom thou apprehendest such imminent danger. This is king Kalmashapada endued with great energy and celebrated on earth. That terrible man dwelleth in these woods.' "The Gandharva continued, 'Beholding him advancing, the illustrious Rishi Vasishtha, endued with great energy, restrained him, O Bharata, by uttering the sound Hum. Sprinkling him again with water sanctified with incantations the Rishi freed the monarch from that terrible curse. For twelve years the monarch had been overwhelmed by the energy of Vasishtha's son like Surya seized by the planet (Rahu) during the season of an eclipse. Freed from the Rakshasa the monarch illumined that large forest by his splendour like the sun illumining the evening clouds. Recovering his power of reason, the king saluted that best of Rishis with joined palms and said, 'O illustrious one, I am the son of Sudasa and thy disciple, O best of Munis! O, tell me what is thy pleasure and what I am to do.' Vasishtha replied, saying, 'My desire hath already been accomplished. Return now to thy kingdom and rule thy subjects. And, O chief of men, never insult Brahmanas any more.' The monarch replied, 'O illustrious one, I shall never more insult superior Brahmanas. In obedience to thy command I shall always worship Brahmanas. But, O best of Brahmanas, I desire to obtain from thee that by which, O foremost of all that are conversant with the Vedas, I may be freed from the debt I owe to the race of Ikshvaku! O best of men, it behoveth thee to grant me, for the perpetuation of Ikshvaku's race, a desirable son possessing beauty and accomplishments and good behaviour.' "The Gandharva continued, 'Thus addressed, Vasishtha, that best of Brahmanas devoted to truth replied unto that mighty bowman of a monarch, saying, 'I will give you.' After some time, O prince of men, Vasishtha, accompanied by the monarch, went to the latter's capital known all over the earth by the name of Ayodhya. The citizens in great joy came out to receive the sinless and illustrious one, like the dwellers in heaven coming out to receive their chief. The monarch, accompanied by Vasishtha, re-entered his auspicious capital after a long time. The citizens of Ayodhya beheld their king accompanied by his priest, as if he were the rising sun. The monarch who was superior to everyone in beauty filled by his splendour the whole town of Ayodhya, like the autumnal moon filling by his splendour the whole firmament. And the excellent city itself, in consequence of its streets having been watered and swept, and of the rows of banners and pendants beautifying it all around, gladdened the monarch's heart. And, O prince of Kuru's race, the city filled as it was with joyous and healthy souls, in consequence of his presence, looked gay like Amaravati with the presence of the chief of the celestials. After the royal sage had entered his capital, the queen, at the king's command, approached Vasishtha. The great Rishi, making a covenant with her, united himself with her according to the high ordinance. And after a little while, when the queen conceived, that best of Rishis, receiving the reverential salutations of the king, went back to his asylum. The queen bore the embryo in her womb for a long time. When she saw that she did not bring forth anything, she tore open her womb by a piece of stone. It was then that at the twelfth year (of the conception) was born Asmaka, that bull amongst men, that royal sage who founded (the city of) Paudanya.'" | <urn:uuid:c485d054-b2a5-4fa6-8314-d2593c1bf8ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.onfaith.co/mahabharata/1/chaitraratha-parva/section-clxxix | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971054 | 1,693 | 1.929688 | 2 |
It seems all four of these branches of design relate to each other at one point or another, and one can easily be confused for another by novices or outsiders looking in. Job postings online frequently interchange the terms for job openings, yet explain similar descriptions of job duties.
In reality, there's no difference between jobs with those different titles (except that "web designer" is limited to projects on, well, the web).
In theory, the terms refer to different aspects of the design discipline. Following are three different explanations I've read:
User experience is the broadest term and can even be applied to physical design, whereas the others seldom are. In their book About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Cooper, Reimann, and Cronin say that they have chosen to use the term "interaction design" because they're writing about software products, while some physical products offer a less interactive experience (page xxx of the Introduction).
Jesse James Garret draws a line between interaction design and interface design as the degree to which the design has been implemented. Interaction design deals with the structure of the site, while interface design deals with the skeleton (creating concrete representations of the structure created by interaction design). Garrett has a famous diagram that shows how some of the roles are related.
If the diagram interests you, Garrett has an entire book explaining it.
Yet another explanation of the theoretical division between these fields can be found in A Project Guide to UX Design (pages 30-34). The authors again treat user experience as the over-arching field, and to them interaction design is one of it's three main pillars. (The others are user research and information architecture, but you didn't ask about those terms.) According to the authors:
When you become UX designer on a project, you often end up having to play several roles....An interaction designer is responsible for defining the behavior of a site.
EDIT: Increasingly I'm hearing "web design" used as a synonym of "graphic design for the web," meaning the hi-fidelity styles and branding applied after the UX process is largely complete.
There is the philosophical notion and then there is how the roles differ in the job market.
Web Design concerns the look in feel of the website as far as Marketing and Branding and browser standards.
Interaction Design concerns the user behaviors and actions during a user flow of an interface (ie: How the widget works, how it slides up or overlays, drops down, and very specific tasks that lead to user objectives and needs).
User Experience Design concerns the overall discipline of studying users and how they use interfaces and even tangible products, but with an emphasis on user research and user centric design in contrast to just Marketing Design. A UX designer will drive the project from Research, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and Testing, giving broad direction to the team.
User Interface Design concerns with the visual design of specific widgets icons buttons, creating style guides, and pixel perfect designs with a more user centric view than just general web design. It's also not just limited to the web. UI design is more on going as many widgets and add-ons are constantly created on many tech sites.
Its a nice question! I agree there is confusion among many people and drawing a line between all the branches is difficult. Reason being all the branches mentioned overlaps at one point or other.
The answer actually lies in the names but due to their overlapping nature people do get confused. Even the companies while writing job descriptions.
Understand, these branches have evolved from earlier days when web design was new. Earlier it was only web design. And moment you mention it, people with graphic design and HTML profiles will sort in your mind.
As time passed, and the world realized about the usability of the websites. And from this point we started hearing about the new specialized roles mentioned above in your question.
UX designer - Overlaps everywhere in all the domains, as UX can be for virtually anything thats being designed. And whatever you design has users associated with it. Here comes UX who decides, the approach, what to design, how to design, consistency, branding and all the gamuts involved.
Interaction design is very specific and specialized and very commonly confused term. An interaction designer may not be working only for online applications or websites but for ANY product that requires USER INTERACTION. It can be car dashboard, calculator etc. | <urn:uuid:d87dc09f-87f8-4ba4-ab09-586fc7b09901> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/43808/what-is-the-difference-between-web-design-interaction-design-user-experience-d/43813#43813 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.959327 | 920 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Escapes into Nature
The Aquarium at Pescalis
Visit the largest fresh water aquarium in the Poitou-Charentes region; it has more than 30 species of fish from the rivers and lakes of Europe.
Horses and land discovery farm
You will discover the arts of the farrier and smith at the forge, the training of heavy horses in harness and agricultural labour of a bygone era.
The Noues de Puy Jean
A visit to an educational farm where you can learn about animals and nature. In the garden of five senses there is a large variety of plants. Relax and enjoy contact with the animals and discover the fauna and flora of the region.
A “Sheep village “ as well as an animal park – there are 6 hectares of arboretum and a large variety of vegetation, as well as 21 species of sheep from all over the world. Did you know there is a breed of sheep called “rabbit head” and another called “four horns”? Each breed has its own character and habits. Your chance to meet the different sheep – an experience as original as it is constructive.
The Birds of the Marais Poitevin
In the wetlands of the Marais Poitevin, with its distinctive vegetation, there are more than 70 species of birds to discover.
Maison du Marais Poitevin
The Maison du Marais Poitevin is a must if you want to get to know all about the Marais Poitevin. The visit takes an hour and you can discover the traditions of the Marais Poitevin through this photographic museum.
Sevres Autruche - The Ostriches of Deux Sevres
Come and see the ostriches, their cousins the rheas and the emus, close up and in complete safety. Discover the chicks which you can stroke and to provide fun for all the family there is a maize maze!
In the heart of Mervent forest, you can spend a very agreeable day at the Mervent Nature Zoo. More than 50 domestic and exotic species on show in a landscaped park of 7 hectares
Zoodyssée at Chizé
An animal adventure! At Chizé you will discover nearly 500 species of European fauna in the heart of a park of 25 acres which can be explored on foot or by horse-drawn carriage with many exhibitions and educational activities.
Come and spend a wonderful day ... its more than a simple zoo, Zoodyssée park is fun and educational.
Japanese Garden at Maulévrier
The largest Japanese inspired garden in Europe. A unique garden which will surprise you with its extraordinary architectural and botanical framework, its history and symbolism, and the ”Japanese style” cut of some of the trees.
Discovery Farm at Mantellerie
Go and discover the world of agriculture and learn about the origin of our food products, using concepts of sustainable development. Enjoy an educational visit with your family surrounded by nature and animals.
Les Jardins du Gué
Beautiful gardens to visit: a 4-hectare park consisting of seven gardens on the banks of the river The Thouet the heart of the Gâtine in Poitou-Charentes. This garden has been awarded the Outstanding Garden in 2013. Discover, garden travelers. to the river, the garden of love and its rose garden, the garden of succulents, the gardens of Arts with its columns and basins, gourmet garden, the garden of the brave with its large garden rockery and finally Time at the foot of the ruins of the old farm | <urn:uuid:1621822d-93ce-4d71-8f9e-3ed4d92365cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.gitesdesfrenaies.co.uk/activity-book.html?do=wishbox_list_items&cat_id=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.918912 | 790 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Topics in Algebraic Geometry (Intersection Cohomology)
Schedule: Wednesday 10:15-12 Friday 14:15-16 (depending on the participants I will add an exercise session - the precise format will depend on the pandemic situation)
For details and more information on the content of the course please register to the moodle-page of the course using TopicsAG - registration is important to organize the format of the course, in case of an in person lecture we will need to know the list of participants in advance.
Content: I would like to give an introduction to intersecton cohomology and perverse sheaves. Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson originally defined (or found) these in the form of a beautiful geometric construction. The starting point is that classcial (singular) cohomology of compact manifolds (or smooth projective varieties) has a number of beautiful symmetries (Poincaré-duality, Lefschetz decomposition) that fail for singular spaces - in case you have never heard of Poincaré duality the course will start by explaining what this is. Surprisingly, they found that for many singular spaces there is a way to construct a version of cohomology (concretely described by geometric conditions as a subcomplex of the singular chain complex) that enjoys these symmetries. This was quite unexpected.
It turned out, that they even found something much more powerful. There is a natural categorical reformulation of the construction that gives a new toolkit for the study of the cohomology of algebraic varieties and the structure induced on it by morphisms. The first applications of this were in representation theory, where the theory has become indespensable but it also allowed to prove conjectures in combinatorics that looked like simple linear algebra questions on the number of different subspaces spanned by a finite collection of vectors.
Part of the beauty of the construction is that it was conceived from geometric observations but then turned into a conceptual package that is meaningful in many different settings from topology to artihmetic, combinatorics and representation thoery.
If all goes well, I would like to start by motivating the classical construction, then give an intorduction to the categorical approach, if possible prove the famous decomposition theorem and give some of the applications mentioned above.
Prerequisites: You should have encountered some version of cohomology groups before. I will try to adjust the course to accomodate for different types of background. You can help me with this by filling in a short poll on the moodle page.
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Hermes and the Infant Dionysus
The statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus was discovered on 1877 but its influential presence makes it a timeless piece of Hellenism.
The statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysus supposedly created by Praxiteles is the epitome of the ideal image of youthful gods in Greek art
Explore TripAdvisor's list of top ten historic sites and landmarks worth visiting in Greece, based on travelers' votes. Get your ticket, fasten your seatbelt and follow us on a quick but refreshing trip to Greece. Acropolis Acropolis is one of the most famous and... | <urn:uuid:60861096-3405-4d6e-98d2-611e033f41b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greekreporter.com/tag/hermes-and-the-infant-dionysus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.920253 | 141 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Relief supplies are arriving in Um Qasr, a port at Iraq's southernmost tip. VOA's William Chien visited the Iraqi seaport and talked with members of the U.S. Disaster Assistance Response Team.
I leave Kuwait City with U.S. relief workers, heading northeast by truck into Iraq. After an hour, we cross the border demarcated by cities that are much older and shabbier than those in Kuwait. Another hour passes and our truck arrives in Iraq's most important port, Um Qasr.
Prior to the war, some 60 percent of humanitarian aid for the U.N. Oil-for-Food Programme passed through Um Qasr. The war ended all that, temporarily.
Except for a small, vee-shaped delta that touches the sea, Iraq is a land-locked country. Ports such as Um Qasr are very small. After entering the port, I am immediately drawn to the bustle of traffic and shipping. Everyone is intent on their work and hard to distract. Around the docks I see many trucks. There are many workers who, I'm told, have have returned to their jobs of handling arriving ships.
Port managers had originally thought they would not hire Iraqi workers, for reasons of safety. They soon learned that the decision to use soldiers and Kuwaitis would entail prohibitively high costs and would not be conducive to rallying the Iraqis. Now, they are starting to hire more locals. I hear the port manager telling a group that the port is temporarily unable to accept shipments of commercial goods because of supplies for the army as well as water, food, medicine and other supplies for Iraqi people displaced by the war.
The chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Disaster Assistance Response Team, Regina Davis, estimates that Iraq's 25.8 million people require 470 tons of grain a month. "The public distribution system, as I'm sure you are aware, was funded by the oil-for-food program under the auspices of the United Nations," she says.
Ms. Davis says that currently the grain distribution in Iraqi is funded by the UN's "Oil For Food" program. According to her estimates, about 60 percent of Iraq's population depend on this program for survival. Prior to the start of the war, the majority of Iraqi families stored enough food for one month. At present, it appears that no major famine was brought about by the war. However, in some small areas, Iraqis have experienced food shortages. | <urn:uuid:ff834417-e367-415f-ac0d-5cbf0d80236b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2003-04-04-4-reporters-66314437/543095.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00096-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974194 | 514 | 2.34375 | 2 |
This article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA), volume 12, #3, pages 179-183, March 2011.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released the new Resident Assessment Instrument version 3.0, which went into effect October 1, 2010. The intention of the revised Resident Assessment Instrument is to improve health-related quality of life and care planning, and incorporate evolving standards of terminology, assessment, and technology. To reach this goal, Section M: Skin Conditions has been greatly expanded and will alter the process of pressure ulcer assessment in all long-term care facilities across America. Details of this assessment instrument include upgraded criteria for risk factors, staging, identification, tracking, and evolution of pressure ulcers. The medical director can and should assume a leadership role in education and collaboration with primary care physicians and wound clinicians to accommodate changes in revised Section M. Integrating the medical director into the facility’s wound care program will improve the quality of care for residents of long-term care facilities.
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"...Brussels, overwhelmingly Muslim in 20 years? It can't be totally ruled out... Today, families with children - 'Whites' and of the middle class - are leaving the 19 municipalities of the Brussels Region, attracted by the convenience and low prices of the Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Hainaut provinces. The birth rates of immigrants, which is slightly higher than that of natives, and the international immigration (mainly through family reunification), compensate for this exodus and reinforces it. In reality, Brussels is experiencing what French demographer Michèle Tribalat calls a "process of demographic substitution". One population replaces another [Le Vif/l'Express quote ends here].
Which is pretty much what I said in America Alone - although my comparison of the native European exodus with the "white flight" from failing US cities in the Seventies seems more relevant than rosy-hued paeans to the "low prices of the Walloon Brabant".
Unlikely as it sounds, my book is required reading at some colleges, and the other day I was taking some questions from students who were a bit skeptical of the thesis. And one of them asked how critics refuted my argument. Well, there's been a bit of nitpicking about the rate of demographic transformation from people who say it's absurd to think Europe will be semi-Muslim by 2030 or 2050 - a line of attack which concedes implicitly that that's where the Continent's headed, and we're merely quibbling about the date of arrival. But far more common on the progressive left is to deny there's anything worth arguing over. The more militant types, as Right Girl says, cry that it's racist even to raise the question. But the more benignly deluded do as various interviewers from Canada to Australia have done and respond: "So what if Europe becomes Muslim? What would be wrong with that?" Robert Voorhamme, Antwerp's alderman for education is a bit like that, explaining why there's nothing to worry about in the news that over 40 per cent of elementary school students choose Islam for their religious studies class (versus 31.5 per cent for "non-confessional morals" and 26.5 per cent for Catholicism):
'People see a threat where there is none,' says the alderman for education... 'It is a statement that the composition of our school population is changing. But that is not a reason to be schizophrenic and to exclusively aim at students who choose Islam for their religion class subject. Has anybody ever seen it as a threat that children choose Catholic religion, or for morals class?'
Well, whether or not it's a threat, it surely means something. I take a particular interest in Belgium because my mother grew up not far from Antwerp. If you had said to her in 1960 that within 50 years 40 per cent of the city's elementary school children would be Muslim, she and most other Belgians would have thought you were nuts. If you'd said it in 1970 or 1980, likewise. Yet it's happened, and it's now estimated that by 2012 a majority of grade-schoolers will be Muslim. Which means that in ten years' time Antwerp may not yet technically be majority Muslim, buts its energy, its character, its culture, its cusine increasingly will be..."
Violence in Brussels at the hands of moroccan "youths" is exploding. Weapons caches containing AK-47's and Scorpio submachineguns have been found. On April 2, police intervened when moroccans were destroying an electricity cabin and streetlights near the Lemmensplein in Anderlecht. While there they found clear evidence of preparations for an ambush: the streets round the Lemmensplein had been covered with oil, and oil and gasoline canisters, wooden blocks and car tires were found.
Last wednesday, Brussels railway police went on strike because two officers had been lured into an ambush. When encountering two young immigrant women who were apparently being harassed by males of north african extraction, they wanted to intervene. The scene proved to be a trick though, since they were immediately jumped upon by 30-40 moroccans who beat them to a pulp.
And the following video, obtained from security cameras on New Year's Day, shows how a Bulgarian student in the Brussels underground is horribly beaten and then thrown over a railing onto the tracks a level below. Miraculously the guy, a certain Lyuben Tyulekov, survived a fall which could easily have meant his death. Security cameras clearly show the faces of two moroccans and one black. To this date, they have not been found.
Long before muslims constitute a majority in Brussels, the city will be unlivable.
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Themes and styles also help keep your document coordinated. When you click Design and choose a new Theme, the pictures, charts, and SmartArt graphics change to match your new theme. When you apply styles, your headings change to match the new theme.
Save time in Word with new buttons that show up where you need them. To change the way a picture fits in your document, click it and a button for layout options appears next to it. When you work on a table, click where you want to add a row or a column, and then click the plus sign. | <urn:uuid:d5cbf54e-acba-42cb-92bd-c061fddc8772> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lighten-ict.nl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00284-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.864984 | 118 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The price of Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies is on the climb today after the European Central Bank dismissed fears of an imminent ban.The most active meteor shower of the year reaches its peak this weekend
But since then, the price of most major virtual currencies has been climbing, although all crypto-markets remain highly volatile and prone to dramatic wobbles.
The price of one Bitcoin is sitting at about $8,800 (£6,340) this morning, which is an increase of about $400 from its lowest point yesterday.
Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), said it was not his organisation’s job to regulate Bitcoin.
He also warned the public about the risks associated with the volatile cryptocurrency, which is prone to dramatic surges and crashes.
Governments are showing a growing appetite for new rules to regulate the crypto-markets, which have seen wild price swings and a series of heists as well as a rapid proliferation in the number of coins on offer.
But in a video response to questions from the public, Draghi said banning or regulating digital dosh was not one of the ECB’s tasks.
‘Many of you posted questions about whether the ECB is going to ban Bitcoins or it’s going to regulate Bitcoins,” Draghi said. ‘I have to say it’s not the ECB’s responsibility to do that.’
The head of the Bank for International Settlements, Agustin Carstens, called last week for central banks to end what he described as the ‘Ponzi scheme’ of cryptocurrencies, by restricting their access to banks and financial infrastructure.
The world’s largest central bank chiefs are expected to discuss the matter at a G20 meeting in Buenos Aires in March.
Answering a question from a member of the public about whether he should buy Bitcoin, Draghi struck a cautious tone.
‘Frankly I would think (about) it carefully,’ he said.
Draghi pointed out that the value of Bitcoin had oscillated much more wildly than that of the euro and that cryptocurrencies were not backed by any public institution.
He added blockchain, the distributed ledger technology used to record Bitcoin transactions, was ‘quite promising’ and expected it to bring ‘many benefits’, citing its possible use to settle payments.
He cautioned, however, it was not yet safe enough for use by central banks.
‘We’re very interested in this technology but it’s still not secure for central banking and therefore we need to look through it and investigate it more,’ he said.
Last week, the price of Bitcoin boomed after a US Senate cryptocurrency hearing discussed the possible introduction of new laws to combat the volatility of cryptocurrency and stop digital currencies from being used by scammers and terrorists.
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A couple of months ago, I happened to be sitting at the a bar minding my own company whenever this lady close to myself did some thing unusual. Surrounded by possible people, she removed out this lady phone, hid they coyly under the avoid, and you will launched the web based dating software Tinder. On her behalf monitor, images of men appeared immediately after which gone away left and you will correct, according to the guidelines in which she cleaned.
We noticed a-deep sense a rejection — perhaps not yourself, however, for men and women at the pub. As opposed to getting together with the individuals to the woman, she decided to identify a companion elsewhere on the internet.
In fact, by a number of methods, online dating features ended up a great deal more beneficial – each other to prospects and people – than the antique channels it has got changed
We questioned to help you me personally, so is this what internet dating did so you’re able to us? Would it be creating another type of facts in which anybody actively prevent real-lives affairs?
“There are a great number of theories around on how online relationship is harmful to all of us,” Michael Rosenfeld, an effective sociologist during the Stanford who has been carrying out a long-powering examination of online dating, explained the other day. “And mainly these are typically fairly unfounded.”
Rosenfeld, who has been tracking this new relationships lives out-of alot more than step three,100 veuve rencontres gratuites some body, features learned of many insights concerning the broadening role of software for example Tinder. He could be very important now – approximately among the five straight couples now fulfill toward Internet. (To have homosexual partners, it’s more like two out of each and every three). The apps was in fact the truth is effective — as well as in implies most people won’t assume.
Nevertheless anxiety you to matchmaking is evolving all of us, collectively, that it is carrying out substandard patterns and you may choices that are not within needs, is being inspired alot more because of the paranoia as opposed because of the real facts
We spoke which have Rosenfeld to listen to more about his research, to learn about the ways in which the go up out-of on line dating was identifying progressive like, in order to discuss the most significant misunderstandings folks have regarding on the web dating. The brand new interviews might have been edited getting duration and quality.
You have perhaps one of the most novel investigation establishes in the modern love. What maybe you’ve heard of just how individuals big date now?
Really, one of the first things you have to know understand exactly how relationship – or most courtship traditions, just like the not everyone phone calls it matchmaking – changed over time is that the chronilogical age of atically over day. Some one used to get married within their early twenties, which created that relationships that was complete, otherwise extremely courting that was over, was done with the reason for paying off immediately. Which can be perhaps not the life you to definitely young people lead anymore. Age very first matrimony became in the later twenties, and a lot more people in its 30s as well as forties are determining not to relax.
An upswing regarding phone programs an internet-based relationships websites offers somebody accessibility even more prospective couples than simply they might satisfy at the office or in your local. It can make it easier for someone who wants anything really specific within the somebody discover what they’re appearing getting. It also helps the people whom make use of the applications by permitting these to see a period off regular hookups that do not enjoys to lead to dating. I think these items are certainly feature of contemporary relationship.
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Women who choose to have epidurals should pay for them, midwives have suggested.
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) says that by charging women who do not really need the pain-relieving injections, more natural births would be encouraged.
A study last month found that women who opted for epidurals were 40 per cent more likely to need help to deliver.
The procedure numbs the whole lower half of the body and can lead to a greater need for forceps deliveries and caesareans both of which can put the health of both mother and child at risk.
Louise Silverton, the RCM's deputy general secretary, said: "Epidurals provide effective pain relief but, where there is no clinical indication that they are necessary, they can significantly raise the likelihood of other interventions such as instrumental deliveries or Caesarean sections occurring.
"The United Kingdom already has an extremely high Caesarean rate and, as the acknowledged experts in normal pregnancy, labour and birth, we midwives need to debate ways in which we might help to bring this rate down."
The RCM is planning to further discuss charging women who opt for medically unnecessary epidurals, which can cost up to £500 in private clinic but anyone who needs one for medical reasons would be exempt from the charge.
But Maureen Treadwell from the Birth Trauma Association told the Daily Telegraph: "The women least able to pay would get the rawest deal. Some professional women can just put the cost of an epidural on their plastic cards but women who can't afford it will suffer." | <urn:uuid:de47a473-3f05-4b3e-b708-fc69f4dada20> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/parenting/pregnancy/news/a13387/women-may-have-to-pay-for-epidurals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967276 | 331 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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Michael Fassbender (born 2 April 1977) is an Irish-German actor. He is perhaps best known for having played Lieutenant Archie Hicox in the war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), Magneto in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), and the android David in the science fiction film Prometheus.
His other credits include Stelios in the fantasy action film 300 (2007); the drama film Fish Tank (2009); the romantic drama film Jane Eyre (2011); the historical film A Dangerous Method (2011), directed by David Cronenberg, in which he plays psychologist Carl Jung; as well as the biographical film Hunger (2008) and the drama film Shame (2011), both directed by Steve McQueen. For his role in Shame, he won the Volpi Cup best-actor award at the 68th Venice International Film Festival held in August 2011 along with being nominated for a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA. | <urn:uuid:83c33e60-1067-49eb-9df6-f03aa3a5468d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.geni.com/people/Michael-Fassbender/6000000016821850473 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00021-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942215 | 210 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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1991 Ranger 2.3l gets tach signal from the ICM(ignition control module) located on the front of the intake manifold.
ICM runs the spark system, check wires they often get frayed/loose
Crank position(CKP) sensor is the main timing sensor for the ICM and the computer, engine will not start without a stable signal from that sensor, so no, not the CKP sensor.
But the misfire could be a problem with the ICM which are known to have issues when older, so tach issue and misfire could be symptom of ICM problem.
Many auto parts stores have testers for these ICMs, you bring in that module and they can test it.
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A recurring question we receive is in regards to our naming convention. Some people think that AK-47 should be called AK-47, always and forever. Others think there should be no mention of it anywhere. We landed in the middle: our own Tweed flavor, with recognition of the genetics that some people still want to see.
So why did we decide to rename our strains?
No Name Brand.
Are all chocolate chip cookies equal because they use the same ingredients, or does one cookie taste better because of the skill of the baker? Should the skilled baker not take pride in his baking and develop some level of brand recognition? Or should he just put his hard work in a yellow bag with black Helvetica type that says Chocolate Chip Cookies? This was the analogy that led us to branding our strains with a hint of Tweed.
I have to admit that I didn’t realize how complex and rigorous it was to grow a plant. I thought you put a seed in a pot, water it, add a bit of sun (or maybe artificial light), and a few months later you have something spectacular. I now know that this is not the case; it requires a tremendous amount of skill, knowledge, and care to produce a high quality product. Not to mention all of the proprietary growing methods and nutrient concoctions our R&D and production teams are developing to aid in the natural process. So yes, it is true that the base ingredients of our AK-47 is the same as everyone else, but it is this dedication and focus to the plant and its growing cycle that makes our AK-47 “Herringbone”.
So yes, it is true that the base genetics of our AK-47 is the same as everyone else, but It is this dedication and focus to the plant and its growing cycle that that makes our AK-47 “Herringbone.”
THAT NAME IS STUPID. NO, SMART?
Now that you understand the rationale behind strain branding, the question remains how did we come up with the names. It’s relatively simple – the ambition is to pay homage to the things that have helped create Tweed, our brand and our voice… basically who we are as a company.
The obvious naming convention is inspired by the fabric, the patterns, how it’s made, and where it comes from. We have also taken cues from famous icons throughout history that have been known to wear the fabric. Bakerstreet (Hindu Kush) for example is the street Sherlock Holmes lived on, and nobody – ever – wore a Tweed Deer Stalker hat and cape better than him.
The second naming silo pays homage to the Hershey Chocolate factory that we occupy. We have a few Chocolate strains, so it seemed like an obvious connection. Sixty Three (Chocolate Chunk) represents 1963, the year that the Hershey factory opened in Smiths Falls. We also have a strain called Milton (Cocoa Kush), inspired by Milton Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company (He may, or may not, be rolling in his grave).
Thirdly, when developing the Tweed Identity we looked at brands that are models of success for how they’ve stayed true to who they are decade after decade. Fender is a brand that we looked at when developing the Tweed identity, and lucky for us their first amps were covered with tweed. And so Leonidas (Super Silver Haze) became a strain inspired by Clarence “Leo” Fender, who founded Fender.
While these may be our three main drivers for building our names, we also like to make exceptions to this rule and have some fun with it. Our customers and collaborators strengthen our brand, which is why we like to engage them sometimes to help “name the strain.” Or in the case of Clarence (Chocolope) we promised this to someone who was instrumental to us in the early days and helped us secure our home in the former Hershey Chocolate Factory.
So there you have it, this is why it’s important for us to put a spin on the naming of our strains. We may all start with the same basic genetics, but the difference in the end product is a result of our expertise, care and the process that goes into it, which ultimately makes it unique to Tweed… We also sympathize with Dorothy the 73 year old grandmother sitting around a bridge table and explaining to her friends how “Alaskan Thunder F*#k” is great medicine for her arthritis.
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President Barack Obama agreed to an arms deal with Taiwan today that would upgrade the country’s fighter jet fleet for self defense purposes, but many members of Congress are dissatisfied with the plan, saying it is not enough.
The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the deal, worth over $5 billion, saying in a statement that relations with the United States will continue to “strengthen” national security and “maintain the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.”
The Chinese government, which does not formally recognize Taiwan’s statehood, has been vocal in opposing such an upgrade, indicating that arms-sales between the United States and Taiwan would heavily strain relations with China.
But for many members of Congress, and upgrade package is not enough. In a slew of letters to the president, leading legislators in both the House and Senate say they support the sale of new fighter jets–rather than the exclusive upgrade of existing weapons–citing job growth and increased international security should the deal follow through.
Texas Senator John Cornyn and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez introduced the initial legislation last week requiring the United States to sell the fighter jets to Taiwan. Cornyn’s home state manufactures the new F-16C/D model in Fort Worth, where should the bill pass, building the additional 66 jets would bring in Texan jobs and cash.
“This decision not to sell Taiwan new F-16C/Ds represents a failure by the Administration to live up to its obligations under the Taiwan Relations Act,” Cornyn said in a statement today.
Under the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the United States is legally obligated to provide the island nation with military aid to strengthen its self-defence capabilities targeted against China.
In response, Republican Rep. Kay Granger, TX-12, tacked on a House companion bill to its Senate counterpart to expedite approval of the sale. Connecticut Senators Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal, independent and Democratic respectively, both jumped on board to co-sponser the bill, along with Republican Senators Jon Kyl, Arizonia, and James Inhofe, Oklahoma.
“In the last year alone, Chinese defense spending increased 12.7 percent and they have been very public about their development of their 5th Generation Fighter Aircraft,” Rep. Granger said in a statement. “We must support Taiwan’s effort to replace their aging aircraft.”
Republican presidential candidates are taking advantage of Obama’s reported decision as an opportunity to further critique the president on his handling of foreign policy issues.
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It has been and argument in political science about the why and to which extend do we have to obey the state. This has created a lot of division among political scientist and even has lead to an evolution of ideologies such as Anarchism and the rest. So to what extent should the individual obey the state and for which reasons?
Obeying the state undoughtedly has its own advantages. It creates a regulatory framework for our behavior which intend helps the citizenry to enjoy an appreciable level of satisfaction. Hence through obeying the state we guarantee each others right.
But the real question why and to which extend should the citizens obey the state and what are the reasons why we should continue to give such obedience?
To Machiavelli, who is often hailed as the first modern voice in political theory, pre-dates the Reformation, of course, and so his famous book The Prince (written in 1513) is more an anticipation of what was to come later. He is writing in direct response to the political anarchy in Italy, long characterized by what seemed never-ending and very bloody wars between the various rival ducal and papal states.
What makes Machiavelli interesting is not any comprehensive new theory of the state (which he does not offer) but his revolutionary insistence that the traditional emphasis on virtue in the ruler is a mistake. What the ruler should concentrate on is not doing the right thing but doing whatever is effective for protecting and ensuring his own power. And that necessarily requires that the ruler abandon any notion of adhering to virtue. He should lie, torture, kill, assassinate, invade, and so on as the situation requires. What Machiavelli recommends, above all, is an intelligent practical sense of what particular actions will work best in a given situation to make the ruler's power more secure, combined with a ruthless willingness to undertake such action (such a quality Machiavelli calls virtu-hence the old saying about him, "There is no virtue in virtu") . Machiavelli argues that this is, in fact, how successful rulers have always operated, and therefore this is how the modern prince ought to proceed. In his political world the end (protecting and increasing the prince's power) always justifies the means. In modern times this attitude is often called Realpolitik.
Reactions to Machiavelli have typically fallen into one of three camps. Many (including most of his contemporaries) dismiss his proposals as morally absurd and, as often as not, politically self-defeating. Machiavelli's prescriptions, many argue, are a recipe for evil actions and for political catastrophe (a good contemporary example is the US-UK position on Iraq. Having, in effect, lied to justify a war they wanted to fight, the political leaders of those countries are now in a position of having to beg for help from those who refused to believe them and of having, with increasing desperation, to tell their own citizens that the enormous and continuing cost in lives and dollars is worth it. Moreover, their Machiavellian tactics may have seriously weakened the power of both leaders and, of course, diverted resources away from the war against terrorism).
Defenders of Machiavelli argue that he is right to see that politics has to be based upon the way people really behave and not how we might like them to be. Since the essential prerequisite for a political life is stability, Machiavelli correctly insists that the prince must be prepared to make sure his power is secure at all costs-and for that he has to be willing to use the full range of options without moral restraint. Only that will guarantee the security of the state upon which everything else depends.
A third group sees Machiavelli's political vision as a satire, a work ridiculing those very things for which defenders of Machiavelli as a serious political thinker applaud him. There's no time to review this position here; those interested in seeing why one could look at the book in this light might like to read another lecture of mine available through this link-Machiavelli.
Like Machiavelli, Hobbes begins with the recognition that virtue is an insufficient basis for justice in the modern state. He admires virtue but acknowledges that there's not enough of it around, because human beings by nature are greedy, fearful, jealous, and quarrelsome creatures. The only way they can live peacefully together is if they agree to submit themselves completely to a sovereign power which will have the authority to make laws and enforce them equally on all the citizens. Hobbes doesn't define a particular version of the sovereign-he prefers monarchy, but what he has to offer works equally well with an assembly of delegates, like a parliament, or any other form of governing authority on which people can agree.
Hobbes thus proposes a radically new model of the state: a single all-powerful sovereign and a general population all equally obligated to obey the sovereign's written laws, which are the only recognized authority people have to acknowledge. Old traditions, inherited customs, traditional religious attitudes, long-standing personal relationships, old systems of rank and privilege-none of these matters unless the sovereign's law makes them matter. Our only obligation as citizens is to the sovereign's law. In an all-important sentence, Hobbes lays down one of most important liberal principles: What is not forbidden by the sovereign's law is allowed.
Hobbes justifies this arrangement with a very interesting argument, too complex to describe in detail here. But let me offer a few highlights. Essentially he invites us into a thought experiment designed to show us that his model is the reasonable thing to agree with (given what human beings are like) and that it's in our self-interest to follow his recommendations. We should obey the state, Hobbes argues, not because it's established by God (it clearly is not), but because it serves our self-interest to do so.
Hobbes begins by picturing what human beings are like without political organizations-in what he calls a state of nature. Here everyone is perfectly free-there are no laws and no morality (since for Hobbes morality is ineffective without laws and a sword to back them up)-and each person has the right to grab and keep whatever he can for as long as he can. This leads, in Hobbes' most quoted phrase, to a life that is "nasty, brutish, and short," a condition which sooner or later persuades people that they should submit to a common authority so that they can get some peace and quiet to enjoy their lives free of a constant fear of death. In effect, a group of free individuals agrees to submit to the unconditional authority of some outside party (a king or sovereign assembly) who will protect them from each other. It's important to note that in Hobbes' theory the sovereign is not a party to the contract (which exists among those governed). Hence, there are no strings attached to its power.
From this notion of an agreement comes the idea of a social contract-a legal arrangement among the governed to submit equally to a common authority (everyone surrenders all of his or her power to the outside party of the sovereign). It's almost impossible to overestimate the importance of this concept in modern politics, for it introduces a number of ideas absolutely fundamental to our modern political arguments. The first is that the individual has an identity and certain rights independent of the state. He may trade these rights for the security a state offers, but there are some he can never forfeit (if the state, for example, fails to provide such security or seeks to take his life, the contract is void and the obligation to obey the sovereign disappears). Such a view of individual rights is completely foreign to the Old Order, where the individual has no existence outside the state (indeed the state provides the individual his identity, his most fundamental sense of who he is)-whatever rights he enjoys (if he has any at all) are conferred by the state or by communal traditions, not by his existence as an independent human being-and he certainly has no authority to challenge the state in the name of certain rights he enjoys just because he's a human being.
A third important concept here is the sense of equality under the law-all citizens, as equal partners to the contract, are equally bound to obey the sovereign. There is not one law for the rich or the righteous and another law for the poor or the profane. Inherited rank or one's family connections or one's economic power confer no special privileges, no release from one's obligation to obey just like everyone else.
And, most importantly, Hobbes' system permits and promotes a new kind of freedom. Because in the Hobbesian state our only duty is to obey the law, we have freedom to do whatever the law does not forbid. Hence, where the law is silent, we acquire the freedom to do what we like, without the restrictions of public opinion or competing religious or community traditions. Such personal freedom is different from the traditional notions of freedom as the liberty of a state to govern itself. Under the Old Order a state might well be free in the latter sense (i.e., free to govern itself), yet grant its citizens very little personal liberty-in fact, given the importance of public opinion and uncontested religious traditions in small communities, for the most part there was relatively little personal freedom for anyone, rich or poor, simply because their behaviour was always closely regulated by social forces and moral codes operating all the time around them, even in their own lives at home.
Hobbes believes that this new liberty, what has come to be called Negative Liberty, will enable people to concentrate on what they really want to do, which is to make money and to construct their own secure middle-class lives in isolation from and competition with each other. If the state gives them a chance to channel their natural greed and competitiveness into profitable activity, they will be peaceful and law abiding, and the wealth they generate will keep the state strong. We don't have to try to make people good or happy-we simply have to keep them from killing each other over religious questions and let them follow their desires as competitive and acquisitive individuals to make money for themselves. It's a system tailor-made for the emerging free-market capitalism of the time. In effect, Hobbes' theory is predicated on his assumption that people would rather make money and live comfortably than continue to fight each other over religion.
Hobbes' state thus consists of two worlds: the public sphere in which the sovereign's control is all-powerful and the citizens' duty requires obedience to the law (because that's what they've agreed to) and a private sphere in which the citizen is free of obligation to anyone. This concept of Negative Liberty-personal freedom to do whatever we want in our private space-is at the centre of what we call Liberalism. We can and do argue all the time about how big or small this sphere of personal freedom should be (at the moment we seem to be reducing it in the name of national security), but we all see it as essential to our way of life and, in fact, devote a great deal of our lives to creating and protecting a private space for ourselves, where we can live without having to deal with annoying things like other people or the government. Most of you, for example, place a very high value on having your own private space and are looking forward to constructing your own private life where you do not have to answer to any outside authority. This notion, which we take for granted, is a modern idea, born in Hobbes' model of the state.
Another vital new principle Hobbes' liberal vision introduces is the legal nature of political obligations. Whereas, in the Old Order political power and obedience were closely linked to particular people, families, and inherited relationships and old traditions, in Hobbes' vision, power and obedience are linked only to the legally established office rather than the person. We obey the Nanaimo City Council's rules not because of the people who sit around the Council table or because of old traditions, but because of the positions they occupy, which are established and backed up and can be changed by the authority of the Sovereign. Once Gary Korpan ceases to be mayor of Nanaimo, he loses all his public authority, which rests with the position, not with the person. Political authority thus is stripped of its traditional dynastic basis: I have no obligation to obey anyone just because of who he or she might be, since my legal obligations extend only to positions of authority established and backed up by the sovereign's power, not to the people who occupy them.
I've spent some time on Hobbes because he, in effect, sets down the blueprint for modern liberal political thinking, and, even if he was frequently vilified for his hostility to traditions and religion, the thinkers who come after him are very much responding, in various ways, to what he proposed (for a more detailed look at Hobbes, you might like to consult this link-Hobbes).
John Locke, for example, writing about half a century after Hobbes, adopts his vision of the liberal state in all its most important basic principles. He does, however, make some important and influential adjustments by ameliorating Hobbes' very reductive vision of human nature and by seeking to deal with what many perceived as the most dangerous feature of Hobbes' vision of the political state, the excessive power in the hands of the sovereign. Where Hobbes is seeking, at all costs, to limit the ability of citizens to fight each other (especially over religious questions), Locke is more concerned to protect citizens against the tyranny of the government (the difference may reflect the different political climates-by Locke's time the fear of and experience with civil wars in the name of religion had faded considerably).
The most famous examples of what Locke is proposing are the documents his ideas did so much to shape, the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. The latter document enables a citizen to do something which in Hobbes' state is not possible (except when the state comes for one's life)-to challenge the government's authority to enact and enforce a particular law and thus to limit that citizen's ability to do as she likes (like carrying guns, or expressing her opinions, or organizing a meeting of fellow citizens, or worshipping at a church of her choice, and so on). And, as we witness all the time, it gives the law courts the enormously important task of sorting out just what certain constitutional rights mean in relation to particular pieces of legislation. In a state where citizens have constitutional rights, their private space is protected against government interference much more clearly than in a state where such rights do not exist. In this connection, it's interesting to note that the United Kingdom, the original home of liberal theory, has no constitution-it follows Hobbes' idea that total authority rests with the sovereign-hence there is no judicial appeal against the laws passed by parliament, as there is in the United States and now in Canada.Before leaving these two enormously important liberal thinkers, it's important to make one further point. Neither of them is particularly interested in whether the citizens are happy in their personal lives in a political system that encourages personal freedom and competition at the expense of communal traditions (the "pursuit of happiness" is a wonderfully ambiguous phrase). Nor are they concerned with the moral quality of citizens' lives. What matters is obedience to the law, not adherence to any particular moral code or, indeed, any moral code at all. Finally, neither of them is particularly concerned with equality-other than the important idea of equality under the law. The Liberalism of Hobbes and Locke is designed to promote individual economic activity in a spirit of competition, within the boundaries established by laws binding on everyone, an arrangement that virtually guarantees that some citizens will be very much richer than others and will be free to spend their money as they see fit and that some citizens will fail in their economic activities.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, the most powerful, passionate, and paradoxical response to Hobbes came about one hundred years after he published his massive masterpiece, when Jean Jacques Rousseau, a citizen of Geneva in Switzerland, wrote his political discourses-especially the Second Discourse (On Inequality) and his Third Discourse (The Social Contract). In these works, Rousseau lays the initial ground work for the West's most historically important alternative to the liberal model defined by Hobbes and Locke. Rousseau begins by adopting Hobbes' basic metaphor: human beings originally existed in a state of nature; this ended with a social contract which established civil society. But he drastically alters the emphasis. For Rousseau, man in a state of nature was perfectly happy, independent, free, and self-sufficient (a "noble savage"). The social contract was a disaster because, in setting up society, human beings inevitably introduced inequality-some people ended up with more property or more esteem than others, and this brought about all human unhappiness and oppression, which arise, most importantly, not merely from material differences but also from psychological states. Inequality makes people feel unhappy, because they cannot help comparing themselves with others who have more goods, more talent, or more honours. And psychological distress of this kind is, for Rousseau, a form of oppression. For a more detailed discussion of this aspect of Rousseau's thinking, you might want to explore this link: Rousseau.
Rousseau has three major objections to what Hobbes and Locke are proposing. First, Rousseau argues that in such a modern liberal state, human beings will end up trading the complete freedom they enjoyed in a state of nature for a small and insufficient fraction of freedom given by the state (How can human beings be truly free when they have to obey the sovereign?). Second, as mentioned above, he sees in the inequality produced by liberal competition a source of material and psychological oppression (something Hobbes and Locke do not concern themselves with). Rousseau is particularly sensitive to how people who have a certain political freedom can become economic slaves to the market place and psychological slaves to the images of the materially good life. And third, he objects strongly to the reductive view of human beings basic to Hobbes' theory. If human life is to be worth anything, Rousseau argues, a person has to have a moral worth as an independent individual capable of making rational decisions about his own life for moral reasons, rather than operating merely as an economic agent whose only duty is to obey the sovereign's law without question.Rousseau realizes that there's no going back to a State of Nature, no matter how utopian that existence may have been. Human beings now have to live in society, among other human beings. So the challenge to the political theorist is to find a way to organize a state in which human beings are as free as they were in a state of nature (or feel no loss of freedom by existing in society) and in which they feel that they are fully equal, without any psychologically crippling sense that they are better or worse than anyone else in any way. And finally, the political arrangements should encourage the full moral development of the individual citizen as a self-governing, independent, rational moral being. What he's demanding, of course, is a very tall order-a utopian arrangement in which the individual lives in civil society without losing any sense of independence and freedom and without any feelings of psychological inadequacy or inferiority.
His answer is complex, and I have time here (again) to provide only a very rough preliminary sketch of his argument (in The Social Contract). To begin with, Rousseau rejects any form of government other than a majoritarian democracy in which all citizens participate equally at all times in the decision making (hence the state must be relatively small). If the citizens are educated enough to see the reasonableness of this arrangement (a very important condition), they will come to understand that in following the decisions of the majority of all the citizens (as these decisions emerge from an assembly of all citizens) they will be following the General Will of the state, which will always be right (provided, as mentioned, the citizens have all been educated in the appropriate way). A person who disagrees with the General Will in any particular decision will understand that the mistake belongs to her and not the community. Such a communitarian arrangement, Rousseau argues, must be extremely careful not to create a complex bureaucracy of government which will inevitably arrogate power to itself and sabotage the legitimacy of the state, which rests on the fact that all its members are equally important in the decision making. Rousseau argues that an arrangement like this would enable people to obey the state without any sense of a loss of freedom, because they would be following what their reason told them was the right thing to do, and self-imposed rules do not register as a loss of freedom. In effect, they would be obeying themselves ("You should obey the state because you are the state").
It's important to notice a couple of things about Rousseau's proposal. First, he's emphatic about how important it is that people have to be educated into understanding an arrangement like this. Where Hobbes and Locke settle for people as they are, warts and all, and seek to channel their natural vices into useful economic activity, Rousseau wants people to be better than they typically are, to develop more fully as happy, independent, free, rational moralists, and they will have to be educated to do that if his system is to work. But Rousseau is not claiming that this can happen with people as they are now, except perhaps under very unusual circumstances in very specific places (e.g., in Corsica). Second, Rousseau is extremely pessimistic about a state like the one he's proposing ever being successfully implemented or, if it is, lasting very long. So he has very little to offer by way of a practical program of action to achieve such a political ideal.The best examples of some of the main features of what Rousseau is proposing are offered by certain forms of communal living (the Israeli kibbutz, for example), where a relatively small community governs itself with the equal participation of all and where there is much less emphasis on competitive economic activity to promote the accumulation of personal goods to decorate a private space. There are many tributes to the psychological and economic benefits of such an arrangement (and no shortage of volunteers who prefer these arrangements to normal liberal society). It may well be the case that many of us would be much happier and productive in such a state than in what we have available around us. It is, however, difficult to find successful large-scale examples of such communitarian political structures.
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This was my recent guest post on Little Red Reviewer.
For those who didn’t see it I decided to post it here….
Barry N. Malzberg (b. 1939): Metafiction and the Demystification of the Cult of the Astronaut
In the World Book Encyclopedia Science Service publication The United States Astronauts and their Families: A Pictorial Presentation (1965), each astronaut is allotted a two-page spread replete with staged photos of their family life and hobbies. Otis L. Wiese, the editor of the volume, proclaims grandiosely “Man’s reach for the world of space is born of his insatiable curiosity about the unknown… his indomitable drive for accomplishment… his instinctive response to a challenge. Astronauts-Husbands-Fathers: these men are the men featured here but it’s essentially as family men that we portray them” (i).
The photographs are fascinating. Roger B. Chaffee’s wife Martha teaches him lunar geography (22), L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. sits at the helm of his speedboat Bluebonnet which is capable of reaching 80 knots (28), in another photo him and his family spend time with their German shepherd (29), Donn F. Eisele teaches his daughter “the finer points of marksmanship” (35), while Alan B. Shepard, Jr. plays piano tunes for his daughters (61) and in the facing image shakes hands with John F. Kennedy (61).
Their families illustrate the epitome of the American family: the ultra-masculine man with his cars and boats, the supportive wife facilitatingher husband’s heroic greatness, and a gaggle of adoring children. Many captions establish parallels between the job of being an astronaut and his family life. For example, under an image of Russell L. Schweickart playing blocks with his children it reads “Astronaut Schweickart supervises a building project at home – at the Manned Spacecraft center he works on very different “space” problems” (53). Remember, this was the age of astronaut trading cards; the age where children meticulously filled out charts of the participants in all the United States manned space flights; the age of the astronaut celebrity. Donn F. Eisele was almost kept off an Apollo mission because of rumors of his extra-marital affair…
In Barry N. Malzberg’s sci-fi visions there is nothing farther from these so-called “truths” presented by Wiese’ publication. Malzberg presents the American Space Program as a pernicious product of an encroaching mechanical age that warps its young naïve idealists who slowly go insane, become impotent, and destroy their families in frantic attempts to embody these ideals. In The United States Astronauts and their Families, the masculine ideal is further characterized by their utopian family existence. Malzberg portrays the family life of his anti-heroes as attempting to embody the ideals of the space program. But it is a dystopic family existence, a violent family existence, an existence characterized by desperate attempts to ferret out meaning.
Many of Malzberg’s astronaut characters interact with their wives mainly through the experience of sex (often, impotence). In The Falling Astronauts (1971), the first in a thematic trilogy of books on the space program, Colonel Richard Martin interprets a sexual experience with his wife, who may or may not be asleep, in terms of docking a spaceship: “he feeds into her slowly, feeling the tentative hold, the slow, circling motions of orbit, anxious to grasp, but fearful that if he does so the connection will be broken…” (7). In Malzberg’s most critically acclaimed novel, Beyond Apollo (1972), our astronaut anti-hero even dreams of the fierce sexual prowess of his Captain – who may or may not be himself depending on how you read the work’s layered metafictional turns – while in his own life his wife derives no satisfaction from his mechanical administrations and impotence.
It is important to note that although a great majority of Malzberg’s sci-fi predecessors glorified space travel and proclaimed the positives of humankind’s obsession with exploration, there are many earlier stories which discuss potential flaws, the damage it might eventually have on families, how it will manipulate young idealists: C. M. Kornbluth’s short story, ‘The Altar at Midnight’ (1952) and James Gunn’s collection Station in Space (1958) are great examples. But Malzberg goes beyond these earlier works and suggests that the space program makes machines out of men. This plays out in the extensive scenes between Evans and his wife in Beyond Apollo along these lines: “We have been geared for efficiency. I begin to fuck her like a proper astronaut […]“ (27).
Malzberg’s fiction is heavily inspired by the rise of postmodern metafiction in the mid to late 1960s and the New Wave movement in science fiction. Metafictional techniques –- for example, the author breaking the fourth wall by addressing the reader or referencing the cigarette add placed in the paperback and the use of unreliable narrators and experimental structure: the epistolary novel, etc.— combine in a particularly jarring yet effective way with one of Malzberg’s overarching themes, the nature and quest for truth. His characters relentless seek the “truth.”
In In The Enclosure (1973) the alien main character Quir urgently desires to figure out why he has no memories of the reason for his voyage to dispense information to humankind that has resulted in their imprisonment. But, he slowly realizes that his own people most likely implanted the memories that he has. His journal, the novel itself, is an attempt to physically memorialize something that is known. Quir must do this because his people are trapped in a degrading environment where their own past is unreachable.
In Beyond Apollo the book itself might be the novel written by the main character, or at the very least it has many parallels. The reader actively must decipher what is “truth” and what are elaborate authorial deceptions recounted by the mentally unstable narrator. Whether the narrator even knows what truly happened or is coping with extreme trauma by telling lies is also up for debate.
Guernica Night (1975) has a fascinating passage where Malzberg himself enters in one of the final chapters of the narrative and recounts a conversation he had with another author who tells him to “use artifice, use art, use masks, the manipulation of masks behind which the truth may be given, because only the masks are universal” (124).
While in Revelations (1972), which I would argue is one of his best novels, Malzberg invents a television program which seeks to strip away all artifice from its participants to get at their true selves: “The truth is sacred: it is high, it is deadly, it is concealed and it is often uglier than darkness…” (64). Of course, the ideals of the show might be exemplary but the result is brutal: The truths “revealed” turn out to be whatever the show’s audience wants to see and the participants are drugged in order to be less resistant.
Returning to where I began, the utopian vision presented by The United States Astronauts and their Families: A Pictorial Presentation (1965) is also an elaborate artifice despite what the editor might proclaim. The photos are obviously staged, whether the astronauts even engaged in the majority of the activities is up for debate, but the American people wanted to believe that James A. Lovell, Jr. played horseshoes with his son and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., surrounded by his smiling family, fed tiny “PoPo” the marmoset monkey with a silver spoon. Malzberg’s astronauts fervently buy into these models of the heroic American family and in their quest to reach them have to deal with devastating repercussions.
Barry N. Malzberg’s corpus is often literary and thought-provoking. The heavy utilization of metafictional techniques, explicit sexuality, anti-heroes, and gloomy tone will not appeal to all fans of science fiction.
I recommend — with links to those I’ve reviewed.
Beyond Apollo (1972)
The Falling Astronauts (1971)
In the Enclosure (1973)
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Crucially, consumers in Canada and around the globe now view job creation as
the most concrete symbol of economic revival, Wright says. That stands in
contrast to the early 1990s, when the presence of construction cranes was a
key sign of economic growth.
The RBC Canadian Consumer Outlook index also found that, while 56% of
Canadians view the current state of the national economy as good, that is down
from 59% in September and 62% in May. But 48% are extremely optimistic the
economy will improve over the next year.
The November survey results will be set as the benchmark of 100 against
which future results will be compared.
-By Monica Gutschi, Dow Jones Newswires; 416-306-2017;
Jacoline Loewen, author of Money Magnet and Managing Director of Loewen & Partners, Private Equity, Toronto.
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Editor Note: Updates will be forthcoming on this post throughout the next two days.
We at The New Nationalist (TNN) have switched on our reality-driven neocortex and are tracking the multiple storms (including space weather) closely. It struck us that the mainstream media (MSM), and perhaps NOAA itself, have decided that the public’s attention span is only able to focus on one large threat at a time, that being Hurricane Irma. Irma has dominated the media to such a degree that very few are even aware of this week’s X-flare solar storms. It now seems — and it’s no surprise to us — that they’ve been blindsided.
A solar storm generated by the first X 2 ejection from the sun caused NOAA to issue a G4/severe space-storm alert at 23:50 UTC on Sept. 7. This was a last-minute warning, an observation rather than a forecast. At 06:17 UTC on Sept. 8, they reported a G3/strong storm. Yet, there was no mention of it anywhere (that we could spot) in the MSM lugenpresse. The solar storm shows up as a K8 in the early morning hours on the three-hour bar chart below. So we just went through six and a half hours of a severe solar storm. Systems worldwide are being stressed. Update: next video gives some particulars.
Do the red bars indicate the massive X 9.3 storm? At press time, the “experts” weren’t even saying, leaving us in the dark.
Update 15:00 UTC: No X 9.3 has appeared suggesting that the smaller X2 may have been swept up and merged into the fast moving early arrival X 9.3. More details on impact in this video.
The odds for more X flares is graded at 50% for Sept. 8 and 9. As time progresses the 2673 sun spot is turning away from earth facing. TNN updated our post yesterday at 19:00 UTC and reported that additional M 7.3 and X 1.3 flares went off. Those are also on the way. This was totally ignored in almost all media. UTC is +5 hours EST.
Update at 16:30 UTC: Smaller M-3 came in, but must have had the speed and density to kick in another K8 severe solar storm. Same wallop as the Xs.
As the K8 solar storm hit, an 8.4 mega quake struck offshore in Chiapas, Mexico, at 04:49 UTC. A 3-meter tsunami wave was reported as possible in Central America and southern Mexico. At posting time, 08:20 UTC, there are unclear reports of damage, although it was widely felt.
Update at 08:45 UTC: The worthless Lugenpresse reporting of damage per usual is little more than reading from scripts. However, considerable footage taken off of Twitter that’s now being put together by alert Youtube observers, as seen in second video below.
Update at 4:00 UTC: Fatalities are put at 32 and damage is reported. Given the size of the mega-quake Mexico dodged a bullet. Chiapas is more rural and isolated.
Update at 09:45 UTC: After Mexico’s mega quake, quake tracker Dutchsinse notes that ocean buoys are signalling seismic activity in numerous locations around the main North American plates. These are not tsunami related. It suggests plate displacement. So over the next 48 hours, the plate will be impacted by a confluence of severe solar storms, earthquake aftershocks and large hurricanes. The Cat 4 or 5 hurricane will literally shake the plate seismically when it moves onto land and from the tidal push.
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Siadat, Seyed Hossein and Selamat, Ali (2008) Location-based system for mobile devices using RFID. In: Proceedings - 2nd Asia International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, AMS 2008. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, 291 -296. ISBN 978-076953136-6
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Propagation of wireless technologies, mobile computing devices, and the Internet has provided an opportunity to develop and deliver new types of location-based applications and services to users. This paper presents a prototype application of internal location-based service using passive RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to determine location. We also address some of the issues, advantages and disadvantages of using RFID technology. The function of the system is based on strategically located passive RFID tags with exclusive identifiers placed around buildings which are identified using a RFID reader attached to a PDA or mobile phone. The phone reads the RFID tag and through the wireless network, sends the request to the server. The server resolves the request and sends the answer which is in different format back to the phone. The users will be able to locate their position by reading the RFID tag and selecting the query or information desired.
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Efforts by US community pharmacy groups to discourage cross-border sales of prescription drugs from Canada became more complicated with the release of a controversial new "Safe List" that purports to identify trustworthy Internet suppliers of cheap Canadian drugs.
In announcing the new list, officials of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA) said that seniors and other US consumers can now buy prescription drugs on-line without fear because the pharmacies on the list have been verified as "legitimate."
According to the officials, for each on-line pharmacy listed, the group verifies the site's provincial pharmacy license and "ensures that it complies with rigorous quality standards."
CIPA is a Winnipeg-based mailorder pharmacy group. The officials said that they compiled the "Safe List" because US "consumers needed a credible method to distinguish between legitimate and dubious on-line pharmacies"a chore that "no US agency, including the FDA," has agreed to undertake.
The Oncology Care Pharmacist in Health-System Pharmacy
According to the National Cancer Institute, almost 40% of men and women will be given a diagnosis of some form of cancer in their lifetime.
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Response of phytoplankton community structure and taxon-specific growth rates to seasonally varying physical forcing in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda
Limnol. Oceanogr., 43(5), 1998, 921-935 | DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0921
ABSTRACT: The response of phytoplankton community structure and dynamics to varying physical forcing was studied at a station southeast of Bermuda over a period of 18 months. The dominant groups of algae, as delineated by taxonspecific carotenoids, were prymnesiophytes, pelagophytes, and cyanobacteria. Other groups such as diatoms, dinoflagellates, prasinophytes, chlorophytes, and cryptophytes were never abundant. Although phytoplankton biomass varied over the year with maxima in the winter, likely in response to elevated nutrient concentrations, the composition of the eucaryotic phytoplankton community and the relative biomass of cyanobacteria in the surface layer did not change. The distribution of phytoplankton biomass and primary production over five size classes was virtually constant over the year as well: picoplankton (<3 µm) contributed 79% to total Chl a and primary production. Taxon-specific phytoplankton growth rates were measured using the pigment-labeling method. Growth rates of prymnesiophytes and pelagophytes did not vary systematically over the year; rates in the surface layer ranged from 0.2 to 0.6 d-l, declining to values <0.l d-l at the 1.6% light level. Growth rates of cyanobacteria in the surface layer were highest during the winter (0.6 d-l) and lowest during the summer (0.3-0.4 d-l). These results are surprising since it was expected that the increased physical forcing during the winter period would affect growth rates of all phytoplankton, not only cyanobacteria, and shift the composition of the phytoplankton community from picoplankton toward larger phytoplankton, possibly diatoms. These results suggest that the structure of the phytoplankton community, particularly the eucaryotic component, is extremely resilient to change. Similar conclusions have been drawn from studies of the distribution and abundance of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the North Pacific Central Gyres. The properties that convey these characteristics to the communities are likely the physiological attributes of the organisms and the parameters governing their interactions with grazers. | <urn:uuid:a5c480f4-8adc-48eb-9c76-a7dfffe111a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_43/issue_5/0921.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00283-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925177 | 561 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Northern Mantis History
Northern Mantis Kung Fu is made up of 18 different Kung Fu arts. The founder of the original Mantis Style was a Shaolin martial art student called Wang Lang.
The Praying Mantis style was originated approximately in 1620 AD; at the end of the Ming Dynasty. During this time China had been going through turmoil at the hands of the Manchu forces. However a young man by the name of Wang Lang decided to organise a revolt against them and the new authority, the Tsing Dynasty, using the monks and disciples of Shaolin.
His scheme was discovered and the Tsing Government ordered the armed forces to attack and burn the temples of Shaolin to the ground. Wang Lang with some of the disciples, helped the Chief Monk to escape, they travelled far before they finally settled down at Laoshan, Shantung province.
After the death of the Chief Monk, one of the elder monks called Feng was chosen as successor to rule the temple at Laoshan. At leisure, Feng would always test his fighting skill with Wang both for amusement and exercise. Wang was defeated all the time and so sought to improve his skills, each time he tried harder to beat Feng but failed. Fang would encourage his younger brother to practice harder whilst he was out travelling the country, so that once he returned they could compete again.
One day during a hot summer Wang, whilst walking through the forest, heard the chattering sound of some insects. He looked around until he found two insects, a mantis and a cicada fighting each other. He was surprised how the mantis, being the smaller insect, eventually subdued its opponent. He decided to bring the mantis home with him, so to study its fighting method. From it he obtained tactics both in attack and defence, as well as the fighting methods such as sinking, seizing, blocking and catching. Wang was excited with what he had learnt, but still could see that there was something missing. Whilst practising one day out in the forest, he watched the monkeys at play, it fascinated him on how agile they moved, so he continued to watch. He found that by copying their foot movements and combining these movements with the forearm movements of the mantis, he had created a style much faster and stronger to anything that he had already learnt.
Upon the return of the Chief Monk, another contest was again held. However this time the outcome was different, and me Chief Monk was easily beaten. The Chief Monk was so surprised to find that his brother had acquired his ability in so short a time, and was very curious to know the reason why. Wang explained that by watching both the mantis, and the monkey's he had combined what he had learnt, and so had created what we know today as Mantis kung-fu.
Our system, Corja Shantung, is a Northern Praying Mantis Style. The system was taught directly to our chief instructor Sifu Alim by the late Grand Master: Ghie Shio Fu, also known as Chan Lee.
After the first World War, many Chinese migrated to other lands. Ghie Shio Fu travelled with a colony of Chinese immigrants to Indonesia. He left them in a town and travelled into the forest for 3 months by himself to find a place to call home. He went back and took the colonists to this place where they settled.
Indonesia at that time was a violent place so Ghie Shio Fu taught Corja Shantung Kung Fu to his friends. Our Master, Sifu Alim was one of his students. He is among only one of the two students who made it to the final masters grading. He was also the youngest master in this system. The other master stayed in Indonesia, however attempts to trace him have been unsuccessful. Sifu Alim came to the United Kingdom to live where he formed his own school.
Very little is known about Ghie Shio Fu before Indonesia. We do know he was an accomplished martial artist. It was said he possessed monk like qualities and was very well versed in many Kung Fu skills. In the early days nobody spoke much about their past. Ghie Shio Fu trained his students very hard. He abandoned some of the traditional teaching techniques (giving names like "Monkey stealing the peach" to movements) and started using a numbering system.
One thing that Ghie Shio Fu said is that Shantung Kung Fu is the original Northern Praying Mantis Art. I suppose this statement will cause a big stir from many other systems, however we are just going by what we have been taught and see no reason to believe otherwise. I will also say that we do respect all other martial arts and seek to live in harmony with everyone. There are many who criticise our art, however, like everyone else we must have our say.
The numbering system works like this; Each motion within the technique is numbered 1, 2, 3, etc. So the student knows how many moves there are in each technique and is less prone to mistakes. There are still a few techniques however with specific names but the numbering system is still used. We remember each technique by writing down a brief description as a title. | <urn:uuid:317d56f8-7b61-44a6-bcb2-90aef6748955> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.frixo.com/sites/mantis/history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9883 | 1,062 | 2.5 | 2 |
Just one year after Sept. 11, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States commonly known as the 9/11 Commission, was formed to prepare an account of the circumstances surrounding the worst terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil. In 2004, the complete report laid out 41 recommendations. Many have since been implemented. However, there is still work to be done. When Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reveals the report card for the past decade today, three areas must be addressed.
First, Congressional oversight of the Department of Homeland Security should be reformed. Ten years ago the 9/11 commission recommended “unifying and strengthening congressional oversight…” but political motivations have kept congressional leadership stalling. Currently, DHS has to report to over 100 committees,subcommittees and caucuses. Proposed reform could reduce this number to six. Less time in congressional hearings is more time that DHS officials can spend actually doing their job and protecting our nation.
Furthermore, the U.S. should stop senseless security measures that are unworkable and add little value for the resources they consume. These include a national biometric exit program and a 100 percent interview requirement for all visa applicants. Such programs demand enormous investments with little return in combating terrorist travel or enforcing U.S. immigration laws. Existing tools are sufficient for tracking foreigners exiting the country and compliance with U.S. immigration laws. Visa interviews should be based on “risk,” thus focusing on classes of persons, states, and individuals of greatest concern.
Finally, the U.S. government needs a cybersecurity strategy focusing not just on technology but on a comprehensive approach. The internet has become an invaluable tool for global terrorism to spread propaganda, gather intelligence, fundraise, recruit, plan operations, and conduct cyber-criminal activities. As such, the U.S. government must have a sustained equivalent counterinsurgency strategy for cyberspace that includes collecting intelligence, integrating government and civilian action and building host-nation cybersecurity, among other components. A legislative initiative is needed that gets all the pieces exactly right, ensuring that civil liberties, privacy, and economic prosperity are maintained while securing America’s digital infrastructure.
At the same time, merely expanding federal regulatory powers is not the solution. Due to the dynamic and fast-moving nature of cybersecurity, regulation is often too slow and may actually hinder security by building a culture of mere compliance with regulations and a false sense of security against enemies who are agile, motivated and clever. To win the battle for cyberspace, cyber strategy must become much more multifaceted.
Over the past decade, progress has been made to unify and strengthen the ability of the U.S. to protect the homeland from terrorist attacks. Between September 2001 and April 2013, 53 of the 60 Islamist-inspired terrorist plots against the homeland were thwarted due in large part to the concerted efforts of U.S. law enforcement and intelligence. However, on April 15, 2013 two explosions went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds more. Progress has been made, but much work remains if such attacks are to be avoided in the future. | <urn:uuid:06dff8ee-d067-4b08-8658-b6dc1fcef0ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dailysignal.com/2014/07/22/u-s-needs-protect-americans-another-911/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00211-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9506 | 644 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Positive discipline that is. Last week I went to hear a guru in the field of positive discipline, Jane Nelsen, speak about her methods. It was a very informative, funny and thought-provoking lecture. This woman is very honest about her methods, and how to use them, and I appreciated that honestly greatly – especially as I try my hardest to use positive discipline strategies in my discipline choices with my oldest child, and have them fail.
The basic theory behind positive discipline is the enduring understanding of mutual respect between parent and child. That the relationship is reciprocal, that we deserve the same respect and dignity that our children do. Our brains respond better, learn better, and comprehend better when we feel safe and cared for. When we are stressed, we shut down, tune out, or just get angry. When a child is in the right state of mind, he or she is better able to understand what a parent it trying to convey, and hopefully remember the message longterm. So trying to keep disciplines measure positive allows for this. In addition, when we give children choices and more autonomy in how we discipline them, according to the philosophy of positive discipline, we are empowering our children to learn the important life skills necessary to lead successful lives.
With those principals in mind the key points I honed in on and try to do with my older daughter, and soon with my younger daughter, are: asking versus telling, redirecting, and hugs.
Asking versus telling. This was a big one. I found that I often already did this, but it was nice to see more examples. The concept is that a parent guides their child to make a choice about their behavior, rather than being told to do something. For example, instead of telling your child to go get their shoes, one might say, “We are going to preschool now, and need to go outside, but have nothing on our feet to run on the playground in, what should you put on in order to be ready to go?” This puts the choice to go get their shoes on them, rather than you just telling them, and many young kids like feeling like they decided to do something. Now I am not saying I will do this EVERY time my daughters need to get their shoes on, but taking more opportunities to ask them to complete tasks, rather than tell them, will hopefully have long term results, and better follow through on their part. At dinnertime the other night, I knew my daughter was happily engaged in an activity and might not want to leave it to eat, so instead of saying, “It’s dinnertime, come wash your hands,” I gave her a heads up, and a choice and said, “In a few minutes it will be dinnertime, would you like water or milk?” I followed through with her choice, and then when it was time to eat I asked her, “Would you like to wash your hands or set your fork on the table, first?” I was able to direct her to the kitchen, as well as avoid the tantrum of her being pulled away from her activity.
Redirecting. Another big strategy, and something I have been trying hard to do in the last week. This is two-fold. Sometime redirecting is merely distracting. When you know your child is going to be upset about something, distract them with another toy or book, and don’t dwell on the issue. Moreover, it is often guiding their behavior to show or tell them what they CAN do, versus what they CAN’T. For example, my oldest was having fun, yelling loudly next to my youngest and scaring her a little, so I simple said, “Wow! You are being very loud, and that is scaring your sister, we can be loud in our room, so if you want to be loud, go yell there.” It worked, she immediately left and went and yelled in her room. Now it didn’t stop the yelling, but it did remove her from the situation, and I didn’t have to warn her to stop, she left.
Hugs. I have only tried this once, and it sort of worked. The basic idea here is, if your child is having a tantrum and just loosing it, you can redirect their attention away from what is upsetting them by simply getting down to their level and saying, “I need a hug.” They may tantrum more, but if you keep repeating yourself, softly, they might just get it, forget what they were upset about and give you a hug, thus calming themselves down. Ms. Nelsen also mentioned that it can work the other way to, where the adult can ask the child if they need a hug, or suggest that they seem so mad, they might want a hug. At naptime the other day my daughter was resisting her nap, and getting revved up, so I sat down on the floor, looked like I was sulking and asked for a hug. She soon saw me, heard what I was saying and stopped crying about nap, came over and gave me a hug. Then I said I would feel better if we could read a story before nap, and yes, she was okay to get in bed with me and read. Now, she did start whining when I left after the story, but for the moment it worked.
Now here is where it doesn’t work for me. Tonight we were playing in the backyard with family, carving pumpkins, having fun and my daughters were playing on the blanket and grass with grandma, when my oldest wanted some more attention. So in order to get this attention she comes up to her little sister and whacks her on the face, sees it gets a rise out of the adults, and does it again. This has happened before, and I try to simply fawn over the victim, my youngest, but it just struck a cord in my tonight, and my anger lead to my reaction, which was to swoop my oldest daughter up in my arms, carry her into her room, and close the door so she could have time out. I didn’t even say a word, but she knew. A few minutes later I returned and gave her a VERY firm, but short, lecture. She knew what she had done wrong, but ultimately I know it wasn’t the best way to handle the situation, and that she will probably repeat the offense. She got what she wanted – attention. In the back of my mind the whole time I am thinking, this isn’t necessarily going to solve anything, but it made me feel better for the moment. It’s times like these that I have to refocus myself to stay positive in my discipline techniques and remind myself what my goal is. Time out really isn’t that effective for the children, yet I still give them, I feel like it is more for the adults. I feel this way especially because I find myself giving time outs for the same reasons – so something isn’t working here. I remember going through this when my oldest was about 16 months old and a biter. We tried every strategy we could, even did time outs, which at that age really was useless, and eventually she just outgrew it. I know my oldest won’t outgrow whacking her sister in the face, but I have to think of a better way to handle the anger I feel when she does that, and how to modify her behavior so that it stops happening. Thus the motivation for my post tonight. I am sure there will be more on this topic later. In the meantime, check out Dr. Nelsen’s books, as well as other child-rearing books. I added the Positive Discipline App to my list of apps for parents. This has a lot of great strategies and might be a nice, quick introduction to the philosophy. On the children’s bookshelf I have also suggested a nice serious of kids books, like Teeth are Not for Biting, to help with problem behaviors like biting, or hitting.
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One of the Ullswater ‘Steamers’ iconic heritage boats has been revived, as the 133-year-old ‘M.Y Raven’ has been fitted with a brand-new deck during a significant restoration project.Raven has been cruising the length of Ullswater in the Lake District since 1889, as one of the original ships of the Ullswater Navigation and Transit Company which was used to transport goods, mail, and passengers.
Listed on the National Historic Ships register, M.Y Raven was originally built as a steam vessel but was eventually converted to diesel powered Cumming Engines in the 1930’s.
Now visitors for years to come will still be able to enjoy Raven, thanks to the recent completion of large restoration project led by Hamish Patterson of Patterson Boat Works, to lovingly restore her back to ship-shape. Hamish worked alongside the team at Ullswater Steamers to replace the upper decks with 70 square-metres of sustainably sourced Iroko. Meanwhile her saloon has been refitted with American Light Oak, with the whole project being proudly finished to a first-class yacht standard.
Barry Crellin, Engineer at the Ullswater Steamers says, “Raven has been brought back to her former glory, the whole team worked really hard to finish this project to a high standard and the results are superb! There is so much history in these vessels and projects like this ensure we are protecting the rich 160-year history of the Steamers so they can enjoyed by visitors for years to come.”
Raven is back out on the water now and passengers can sit back and relax from onboard, whilst enjoying the spectacular views across the Ullswater valley. Raven was officially added to the Steamers fleet on 16 July 1889 after identifying a need for a second boat during the peak holiday seasons. She was built on the Clyde and delivered in sections by train to Penrith before being transported by horse and cart to Pooley Bridge.
She was christened ‘Raven’ by Miss Winifred Parkin, aged 6 – legend has it the younger the person that names a boat – the longer she will live! Which is certainly the case for Raven who is still cruising across Ullswater almost 133 years later.
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About Ullswater ‘Steamers’ Ullswater ‘Steamers’ is a family-owned business that has been operating in the tranquil Ullswater Valley since 1859. Today, the company provides a sustainable and environmentally friendly way of linking some of the most iconic walking routes and views in the Lake District National Park. Ullswater ‘Steamers’ has one of the largest heritage passenger vessel fleets in England, including the oldest working passenger vessel in the world, Lady of the Lake. | <urn:uuid:366dff4c-17bf-46c5-b0d6-f90ce5490ef3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ullswater-steamers.co.uk/news/ullswater-steamers-complete-preservation-project-on-second-oldest-vessel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.968642 | 635 | 1.734375 | 2 |
On-line version ISSN 2395-9134Print version ISSN 0187-6961
CORREA ALSINA, Fernando. La dinámica del empleo en la frontera norte de Uruguay. Estud. front [online]. 2011, vol.12, n.23, pp.79-93. ISSN 2395-9134.
Uruguay shares a long border with Brazil. There, inhabitants from both sides of the border shop in whichever country they find the cheapest prices. As a consequence of severe changes in the bilateral real exchange rate, the demand moves alternately from side to the other of the border, affecting the level of employment in two Uruguayan border provinces. The theoretical model outlined in this article intends to capture the main elements of the analyzed situation. The econometric estimates carried out validate the stated model and show that the labor markets on both sides of the border are not integrated enough to smooth the impact of demand movements.
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One Somerset is the campaign to create a single council for the whole of Somerset, proposed by Somerset County Council. They approached Senate Media to create an explainer animation that would explain the process, benefits and timeline of the proposal to the residents of Somerset.
In addition, we were commissioned to create a case study animation that would bring to life the benefits of the new council to residents in various scenarios.
We devised a concept that involved incorporating elements from all corners of Somerset onto one landscape.
We included key landmarks such as Wells cathedral, Glastonbury, the cricket ground and Butlins in Minehead. This landscape formed the backdrop against which the benefits of the proposals could be sold to the residents of Somerset.
At the point that we started on this project, the One Somerset brand had only just been created and only comprised a logo. The key feature of the logo was a stripe linking the “o” in “one” and in Somerset. To help build brand recognition and consistency with the visual materials, we made frequent use of the stripe as a way of linking scenes. | <urn:uuid:93fdd9ac-a8c6-48f0-acd8-bfbe790eee48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.senatemedia.co.uk/work/one-somerset/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.962499 | 224 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Orders to US factories for durable goods rose 0.9 percent in August, led by increased demand for airplanes, autos, and other transportation equipment, the Commerce Department reported. The positive performance came despite predictions from many analysts of a 0.9 percent decline. Orders for durable goods - items expected to last at least three years - climbed to a seasonally adjusted $206.9 billion, following a revised 4 percent gain in July.
Confidence among US consumers slipped in September by much more than analysts expected, the Conference Board said. Its index, a measure of consumers' willingness to spend, dipped to 134.2, down 1.8 percentage points from a revised 136 in August. It was the third straight monthly decline, suggesting the Federal Reserve's higher-interest-rate strategy is cooling the economy.
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The world of web design Dubai is a key growing sector that is going through tremendous advancements all the time. It is very important for companies and brands to make sure that the creative ideas and concepts they decide on are properly designed and developed to ensure maximum reach and popularity. As a result, smartphone and Web Design Dubai puts a heavy emphasis on brainstorming teams and sharing possible successful ideas.
Brainstorming is a tried-and-true technique for producing good web design. It essentially entails the use of new ideas generated at random. Because the digital side is a creative one, here are a few key reasons why brainstorming sessions are highly effective and should be done by every company involved in application development:
1. Helps bring in more ideas:
Brainstorming sessions typically entail a brand’s or mobile app company’s creative team dreaming about and spontaneously proposing suggestions or supporting strategies that can be created or proposed. This ensures that the best ideas are shortlisted and the ones that are not selected are enhanced or changed in order to add to the big idea. In addition to this, these ideas are incredibly useful as it is made sure that no plausible concepts are overlooked. This also efficiently ensures that the best form of web design Dubai is done in the best way possible.
2. Involves the entire team:
Another reason why businesses should conduct in-depth brainstorming sessions is that it involves the entire team. This means that the employees who are involved will make sure to give out and produce the best ideas they have. This will also make them feel more involved and contribute, which will boost employee morale and motivation to do better work. This also means that they are operating properly on the app production and that it is of good quality.
3. It builds team relationships:
Instead of placing the pressure on one person in the business, brainstorming means that collaboration and partnerships are encouraged. This in turn motivates employees to contribute and be of good use to a business. Give your employees an informal setting to sit and discuss potential ideas and a domino effect will be created which will enable a greater number of ideas, build stronger and better team relationships for development of web design Dubai and also increase employee morale. Furthermore, team relationships will allow your teams to become more acquainted with one another and share more ideas.
Brainstorming sessions have tremendous positive impacts on web design Dubai. It encourages the best ideas to emerge, regardless of where they start or come from. It lets people feel like they were a part of the formation, which promotes a positive work ethic. It also increases concentration and promotes imagination.
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Neo-Nazi youngsters face life behind bars
The gang, known as “The White Wolves,” allegedly attacked their victims because they were viewed as “non-Slavic” by the thugs.
The trial will be held in front of a jury but behind closed doors, a decision opposed by the defense.
One of the suspect's lawyers says the accused have admitted only partial guilt of involvement.
“Most of the group is facing life imprisonment, but those who had not come of age at the time of the crime could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison,” said Aleksandr Vasiliev.
Notably, one of the leaders of the group is 18-year-old Aleksey Dzhavakhishvili, whose father is Georgian. The young man nevertheless sees himself as a representative of Russia, a Slavic nation, Interfax agency writes. Aleksey is accused of two killings.
According to the findings of the investigation, the youngsters united into a group in order to kill people of non-Slavic origins two years ago, on Adolph Hitler’s birthday. On the evening of April 20, 2007, Dzhavakhishvili and other members of the gang allegedly attacked and killed an Uzbekistani citizen. They filmed everything with a mobile phone.
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The artwork makes us question our own identity in relation to the attire we wear, depending on where we are, at what point in our lives and how we connect with others through attire and within that, the codes and signals they project.
The artworks below are powerful and bold, the stillness amplifies the message almost seeming like a photographic painting.
The gallery shared the following text that relays what lies behind Lakin Ogunbanwo's artwork:
Ogunbanwo’s project began in 2012 when he first became interested in the traditional dress of ethnic groups in Nigeria: the Yoruba, Ibo, the Hausa-Fulani and others. Attire is a very clear indicator of ethnic identity in Nigeria and Ogunbanwo has observed the younger generation creating sartorial hybrids of western and traditional style thus reinventing the visual codes through which they publicly communicated aspects of themselves. In Ogunbanwo’s signature style of elegant minimalism, the aesthetic focus in this series is on light, texture, shape and silhouette. | <urn:uuid:fc6414b3-5b84-4743-b48e-ef1aa5a27fa6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://artbreath.weebly.com/coffee-talk/archives/11-2017 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.949733 | 216 | 1.539063 | 2 |
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's Poison Control Center has now issued a reminder about the dangers of a killer usually associated with winter. It comes on the heels of a tragic summer weekend.
"If you're asleep, you may never know you've got carbon monoxide," said Kathy Chambers, with the Salt Lake Valley Health Department.
That's likely what happened to a young girl and a man from Colorado who were discovered dead after sleeping in a tent at a Utah campsite. They slept next to a propane tank hooked to a heater.
"They thought this is a good way to stay warm, so they used it. And you may think in a tent [it] isn't air tight, but they are," Chambers said.
A man and his grandson barely escaped the same outcome at Fish Lake. They'd put a cover on the boat to stay dry and unintentionally trapped exhaust fumes. The man passed out.
"Even a single exposure can cause permanent brain damage," said Dr. Lindell Weaver, medical director for hyperbaric medicine at Intermountain Medical Center. "The best treatment is prevention."
It's a warning doctors and safety advocates have issued so Utahns will be mindful of carbon monoxide risks all year round. They urge people to:
- Install CO detectors on boats, houseboats and RVs.
- Stay away from the engine exhaust areas of boats. CO from boat motors is much more concentrated because catalytic converters aren't required. Concentrations behind a houseboat, for example, can be lethal within seconds.
- Recognize the symptoms of CO poisoning: headache, nausea, dizziness or loss of consciousness.
"First thing you need to do is get out the area, the confined space where you're having the symptoms, and get into fresh air," Chambers said.
CLICK HERE for more information on CO safety in the summer months.
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Anodized aluminium structure and panels in painted steel.
Main metallic elements in stainless steel.
Diagram in the front panel with similar distribution to the elements in the real unit.
Centrifugal pump (motor-pump):
- Maximum flow: 80 l/min.
- Maximum height (approx.): 20 mwc (meter of water column).
- Pump-and-engine-set coupled to an AC motor.
- Speed of the pump adjustable from speed controller.
Pressure meters (manometers).
Flow meter, range: 0-150 l./min.
Water transparent tank, capacity: 60 l.
- Metallic box.
- Speed controller.
- Torque display.
- Speed display.
- Cables and accessories, for normal operation.
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Advanced rheologic & tribologic characterisation of micro/nano scale fluid films and solid thin films
Characterisation of thin films at micro-to-nano scale is essential for the design of reliable micro systems and for further progress in product miniaturisation in many fields, such as microelectronics, micro systems technology, medicine, bioengineering, petro chemistry and the food industry.
Since necessary analysis methods and equipment for routine examination of very thin films or very small liquid amounts were not commercially available, the project developed an automated measurement system for very small forces and torques for rheological and tribological examination of thin solid or liquid films and very small amounts of liquid.
The modular system structure provided for later additions of system components to ensure applicability in a variety of applications. Adapted analysis methods and measuring standards led to an innovative measurement system towards closing the gap in force and torque measuring between < 1μN and 10 mN.
Framework Programme 5 – Competitive and Sustainable Growth
1 June 2002 – 31 May 2004
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A village “chowpal (congregation)” at Baluahi. A Brahmin, Nauratan Pandey, who appears to be a supporter of Narendra Modi is heard exhorting his Rajput fellow villagers: “If you vote for RJD it will amount to squandering your vote. The Yadavs are voting for the BSP candidate, Dadan Yadav Pahalwan, and Brahmins are voting for the BJP.”
Pandey argues that with the Yadavs deserting RJD candidate Jagdanand Singh, a Rajput, in favour of a fellow Yadav nominee, Jagdanand hardly stands a chance. “So, you (Rajputs) should vote for the BJP to prevent a BSP Yadav from winning and ensuring the victory of Ashwini Kumar Choubey,” he says.
Pradyuman Singh, an elderly Rajput at the “chowpal”, senses his Brahmin co-villager’s “guile” and rises to counter him. “If the Brahmins are voting for the Brahmin Ashwini Choubey and Yadavs for a Yadav, Dadan Pahalwan, why should we, the Rajputs, not vote for a Rajput, Jagdanand?” he asks.
Pandey’s “game” is up as the chowpal members break out into a collective laughter. “Pandit ji, Rajput — Yadav bhi ab chalak ho gaye hain (Pandit ji — Brahmins are usually referred as Pandit ji in Bihar hinterlands — Rajputs and Yadavs too have become wise now),” says one of them.
If anything, the discourse at the chowpal at Baluahi — seven kilometres south from Dinara, an Assembly segment in the Buxar Lok Sabha constituency, 160km west of Patna — indicates that the electorate is weighing the candidates on the scale of caste more than the tom-tommed wave for Narendra Modi.
“Traditionally, Buxar has been a Brahmin-Rajput dominated seat, voting on caste lines for decades. Rajputs gained a bit of added strength when two Rajput-dominated Assembly segments — Dinara and Ramgarh — got added to the Buxar Lok Sabha constituency in the 2009 delimitation exercise. “Though there is talk of a ‘Modi wave’, voting would primarily take place along caste lines in Buxar,” explains Sivesh Kumar Singh (27) in neighbouring Dumraon.
The seat of Buxar — neighbouring Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh from where Modi is contesting — drew added attention when the BJP denied a ticket to its four-time MP and party veteran Lal Muni Choubey. Lal Muni initially rebelled but later fell in line following a request from Modi himself.
But its the polls on Thursday that will eventually settle if the people have swallowed the “humiliation” meted out to Lal Muni — a son of the soil — or avenge it by insulting Ashwini, a rank outsider to Buxar who hails from far away Bhagalpur and is hardly known for any worthwhile contribution to the central Bihar’s seat.
Reputation wise, Jagdanand stands far taller than his prime opponents — Ashwini (BJP) and Shyamlal Singh Kushwaha (JD-U). Jagda babu, as he is known, had wrested the seat from Lal Muni in 2009 when a realistic wave was blowing in favour of the Nitish Kumar-led NDA in Bihar. Jagdanand was one of only four MPs that Lalu Prasad’s RJD got against the NDA’s 32 out of the 40 in the state.
Jagdanand , who has won all the elections he has contested — Assembly or Lok Sabha — ever since 1985 was known as “Bijuria baba (the man who gave electricity)” in his Kaimur region. Thanks to Jagdanand’s grip on the electricity officials in his region, Kaimur got supply of almost 18 hours of power per day when the rest of Bihar was reeling from the “lantern age” of the Lalu-Rabri Devi era.
The electorate, cutting across caste lines, admitted that the contributions of Jagdanand — known for his die-hard honest and clean image — to the electrification, school and health centres in Ramgarh — the Assembly segment of Buxar that he represented from 1985 to 2009 — and Buxar that he won in 2009.
Even as talks of a “wave” are doing the rounds, Buxar appears to be set for a triangular contest, primarily among three candidates: Jagdanand, Ashwini and Shyamlal Kushwaha. Ashwini’s only strength is that he belongs to the dominant Brahmin caste and is trying to encash in on the wind said to be blowing in Modi’s favour across this part of the land.
Shyamlal, a former minister in the Lalu-Rabri government, is banking on the votes of his Koiri caste besides the extremely backward castes (EBCs) and Mahadalits, besides the Nitish government’s performance in terms of roads, schools, health centres, bridges and other infrastructure in the region.
The constituency — also known as the rice bowl of Bihar for the high yield of paddy and rich with the Sonal canal system irrigating its vast swathe of farmlands — is divided into six Assembly segments: Brahampur, Buxar, Dumraon, Rajpur (SC), Ramgarh and Dinara. The seat neighbouring the holy city of Varanasi is also famous for its religiosity with the Ram Janki and Nawlakha temples on the banks of the river Ganga crossing through Buxar and attracting devotees from far and wide.
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Lately, I’ve been interviewing medical researchers and writing profile pieces for a monthly newsletter.
Their work is knee-deep in technical detail, from bio-markers to brain scans and microscopes to microglia.
The challenge is to translate the technical so it is meaningful for a wide audience—extending from government funding bodies right through to patients and carers—while remaining credible for fellow researchers.
The solution? Get personal and add colour.
The researchers are so passionate about their work that it only takes a couple of questions to get them talking. Their genuine enthusiasm and the drive to find answers provides a gold mine of quotes and anecdotes that bring their stories to life.
Injecting some personality and colour in this way can really lift an otherwise technical article.
The other trick I learnt from my journalism days is to weave in a theme.
One researcher, for example, was describing how she kept coming across different studies and papers that mentioned a particular type of cell. This sparked her interest and led to her current line of research. It occurred to me that she was like a determined detective, piecing together a range of disparate clues to chase an answer. She agreed, and that became the theme for the article, framing the opening and closing lines.
Similarly, another researcher made a throwaway comment about how the cell he is focusing on has been pretty much overlooked since it was discovered in the 1870s. The cell may hold the key to new therapy for a prevalent disease, so this became the opening sentence for the article.
Another option to add colour is by painting a picture for readers. One researcher is reviewing data from a longitudinal study, but describing it as ‘poring over hundreds of brain scans’ is a more vivid way of explaining the work so it is engaging and relatable for a wider audience.
The aim is pique the reader’s interest to find out more.
You can apply the same concepts to any piece of writing, especially profile pieces or articles about projects or initiatives. Describe the work, or the ultimate outcome, in ways that are tangible, add colour and personality through quotes and anecdotes, and highlight human interest through personal stories.
‘The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.’
|Cinden Lester has more than 25 years’ experience as a professional writer, editor and communications specialist. She worked as a broadcast journalist, in private sector marketing and public relations, and in government communications before establishing her own Canberra-based communications consultancy in 2000.
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|Title:||From cohesion policy to financial equalisation? : lessons from Germany for ways of reducing regional disparaties in the European Union|
|Authors:||Mackenstein, Hans W.|
|Presented at:||University of Leicester|
|Abstract:||Since the late 1980s, the European Communities have seen rapid developments towards economic and political integration. This thesis argues that the institutions and decision-making structures of the European Communities resemble those of a union of states at an early stage of federal integration. However, as an entity with more than one level of government, the Communities are subject to the main objective of federalism: how to simultaneously achieve the contradictory aims of unity and diversity. At the heart of this conflict lies the issue of regional disparities and to what extent within a federal framework such disparities should be reduced.;To answer this question, the thesis undertakes a comparison of the European Communities with a federal entity of similar character, yet one at the opposite end of the process of integration: the Federal Republic of Germany. As a highly integrated federation within which the centre and the constituent units co-operate strongly with one another, the Federal Republic of Germany provides a good example of how authority may be shared and divided between the Community level and the Member States in future. The degree to which a federal union is politically integrated has a direct effect on the quality of its redistributive policies, and on who will be responsible for those policies.;If the European Union is indeed heading towards more integration, it may one day decide to compensate for more general political unity by shifting responsibility for regional redistribution back to its constituent units. This would mean the adoption of a horizontal financial equalisation scheme amongst the Member States instead of a centrally organised cohesion policy. However, the main lesson from Germany is that financial equalisation does not reduce regional disparities, and that the EU has already found, in the form of the Cohesion Fund, a preferable approach.|
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Summary of Policy
Statement Issued by the
American Heart Association
According to the American Heart Association, the Transcendental Meditation technique is the only meditation practice that has been shown to lower blood pressure.
The AHA’s scientific statement* said: “Because of many negative studies or mixed results and a paucity of available trials, all other meditation techniques [including Mindfulness] received a ‘Class III, no benefit, Level of Evidence C’ recommendation. Thus, other meditation techniques are not recommended in clinical practice to lower BP at this time.”
Reduced rates of death, heart attack and stroke
The AHA scientific statement also reported the finding that lower blood pressure through Transcendental Meditation practice is associated with substantially reduced rates of death, heart attack and stroke.
The AHA scientific statement concludes that alternative treatments that include the Transcendental Meditation technique are recommended for consideration in treatment plans for all individuals with blood pressure greater than 120/80 mm Hg.
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By Charlotte Davies
From tracking the illegal trading of ozone-depleting substances, to helping law enforcement agencies stop the trade of endangered big cats in Asia, data analytics increasingly is being used to fight environmental crime. Much like organized crime, environmental crime can be localized or global. Left unchecked, it can threaten biodiversity and species’ survival on a global level.
Part of my mission as a crime analyst is to assist the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in protecting the last of Asia’s endangered big cats — including the tiger, leopard, snow leopard and clouded leopard — which currently face various threats including habitat degradation, prey decline and poaching for their skin and bones. Using data analytics, my ability to track the illegal trade is now easier.
The worldwide population of tigers stands at around 3,500. The urgent need to save them has garnered the attention of key national and intergovernmental organizations. Despite global attention to this issue, these tigers continue to be threatened by the transnational, illegal trade in their skins, bones and other body parts.
For many years, the EIA, with its partner Wildlife Protection Society of India, has conducted covert field investigations into the illegal Asian big cat trade and encountered first-hand the traffickers and dealers involved. From the data perspective, these investigations generate a wealth of information. Historically, this data was stored in various formats — nominal information on profile sheets with telephone numbers and photographic records attached. EIA also kept tabs on enforcement events such as seizures and arrests, collating this historical information within a database.
Over time, the number of investigations increased and the amount of unstructured data grew. It became increasingly difficult to unbundle the vast amount of records. In a trade characterised by repeat offenders, favoured trafficking routes and persistent trading hubs, EIA sought a smarter way to organize the information — a method to interrogate and explore the inter-connectedness of subjects and events, and draw hypotheses.
With IBM investigative analytics software, EIA can now visually and persuasively demonstrate the nodes of inter-related criminal activities, providing a clearer picture to policy makers of what is happening in the black market. Analytics help to arrange and integrate information, suggest and draw common themes, reveal linkages and hone investigations to where the impact will be greatest.
By using this software, we’ve recently linked seemingly disparate cases of trafficking of different species to a group of enterprises, and then isolated further connections between associates of this network and additional trafficking cases in completely different countries. EIA can also export and share intelligence, tailored to partner specifications, with law enforcement agencies and other NGOs combating the illegal trade. Such results help EIA campaign for more meaningful and effective enforcement commitments.
EIA’s investigations into the illegal trade in Asian big cats — including tigers — demonstrate not only that the trade exists and is ongoing, but also the dynamics of the criminality involved and the impact that targeted, intelligence-led operations can have in breaking up the networks perpetuating the trade.
Charlotte Davies joined EIA in 2008, and works on illegal wildlife trade and forest issues. Join Charlotte and Shaun Hipgrave, Strategic Alliances, Intelligence Analysis, IBM UK, on a People for a Smarter Planet tweet chat on Thursday, 8 November at 9:00 AM ET (2PM UK time). To join, follow #P4SPChat.
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10 New Things We Think Are Old
We don’t always think about why we do or think certain things—we just do them because they’ve always been done that way. But when we look closely at history, we find out a lot of what we assume is old is actually quite new. Here are 10 such examples:
10 Pet Food
When our dogs or cats are hungry we automatically reach for a bag of Kibble or a can of strangely gelatinous meat. But if we think about it logically, we know our four-legged buddies haven’t always eaten specific animal food. We’ve had pets for thousands of years, and pre-packaged foods have only become popular with the last century.
So when did pets first get their own dedicated meals? It all started in 1860 when James Spratt came up with the dog biscuit. Before then, man’s best friend foraged, ate our scraps, and was happy to do so.
After the success of Spratt’s biscuits, other companies entered the market with their own biscuits and foods. In the 1900s, horse meat was a common ingredient in canned dog food, and many horse slaughterhouses started pet food companies as a means to get rid of the meat. During the metal rationing of World War II, canned pet food was deemed as non-essential, and dry kibble became the pet food of choice.
9 Daylight Savings Time (DST)
Many of us curse the clock every spring as we’re forced to “spring forward” and lose an hour of precious sleep—though we feel somewhat vindicated in the fall when we regain that lost hour. Yes, the system is a little screwy, but we’ve been doing it for hundreds of years and it helps the farmers or something—right? Well, not exactly.
As for how long daylight savings has been around, it’s not as long as you might think. Benjamin Franklin often gets credited with the idea, but he only mentioned it in jest in a satirical essay. The idea was never seriously pushed until 1895 when George Vernon Hudson, presented the idea as a way for people to have more daylight and consequently more leisure time after work. While there was interest in Hudson’s idea, it still didn’t catch on until 1916 when Germany adopted DST as a method to save fuel during World War I. Others, including the US and Great Britain, used DST during World War I and II, yet reverted to standard time during peace years. It wasn’t until about 40 years ago, during the energy crisis of the 1970s, that Daylight Savings Time was made permanent in many areas.
8 Paleo Diet
By now, most of us know the idea behind the paleo diet: humans haven’t evolved to eat grains and other “modern” foods invented after the industrial revolution, and we should go back to consuming what we ate throughout 95 percent of human existence—mostly vegetables, fruit, and meat.
At first glance, the diet appears to make sense. We know the agricultural revolution came about 10,000 years ago, and anatomically modern humans have been around for 200,000 years. But researchers at the National Academy of Sciences have recently discovered that Paleolithic people never ate the “paleo diet.” That’s right—this supposed ancestral way of eating is a contemporary diet based on assumption.
Sorry, paleo dieters.
For many of us, the beliefs of modern religions like Mormonism or Scientology sound downright kooky. But Christianity has some equally bizarre tales—a guy with magical hair, talking donkeys, etc. We barely think twice about such stories because we have heard them for so long. One of the main things Christianity has going for it is how long it’s been around. But has it really?
When we look at the history of religion, we can see Christianity has only existed for about 2,000 years out of the past 200,000 years of known religion. This means for 99 percent of human history, there was no such thing as Christianity. Because of this, it’s safe to call it a relatively modern faith. Hinduism, Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian beliefs, and a variety of Pagan religions all predate Christianity (and coincidentally, Christianity has a lot of similarities with all of these earlier practices). If we want to go back even further we can find sacred Venus figurines dating back to 25,000 B.C., ceremonial cremation from 50,000 years ago, and ritual funerary caches from Neanderthal times.
So if we’re going to use age as an indicator for a “true” religion, we should probably all be hanging out at Stonehenge, displaying busty Venus carvings, or worshipping the Mother Goddess.
6 US Income Tax
Einstein once said, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” For Americans, that statement is no truer than on April 15th when Uncle Sam demands his dues. Although most of us dread the day, there’s no way around it—death and taxes, as they say, are the only guarantees in life. But is that really true?
Throughout much of US history, there was no income tax. While the Constitution was ratified in 1776, the income tax wasn’t permanently established until 1913 with the 16th Amendment. Even after that point, the tax didn’t apply to everyone, which meant very few people paid any income tax at all until 1942.
Today, the teenage years are treated as a unique phase of human development. They have their own music, books, styles, and there are even branches of psychology dedicated to studying this transitional stage of life. Considering how much significance we place on this time period, it’s amazing that the concept of a teenager is actually quite recent. In fact, the word “teenager” didn’t even exist until musician Bill Haley used the term in the 1950s.
Not only that, but people between the ages of 13 and 19 weren’t given any special treatment—they were either children or young adults, but nothing in between. Prior to child labor laws, there wasn’t much distinction between what was expected from children as compared to adults, since everyone was required to work.
So, when did people in their teens start slamming doors, whining that nobody understands them, and crying over boy bands? Perhaps they were always moody, but we’d guess our ancestors didn’t have much time to be self-absorbed when they were working dawn till dusk in a factory. It took three converging changes in society for the teenage identity to emerge: disposable incomes, the popularity of the automobile, and child labor laws. With the car, adolescents could finally get some distance from their parents, and thanks to their newfound freedom and some money in their pockets, they could actually buy things.
4 Three Meals A Day
For those of us in the West, our parents and grandparents have pushed three squares on us for so long that many of us assume that consuming breakfast, lunch, and dinner is how it’s always been. In reality, eating three meals a day is a fairly recent practice that only became popular with the advent of the electric lightbulb. Before then, our third meal was virtually nonexistent since it was difficult to prepare food in the dark. In fact, eating a meal after dark became a symbol of wealth, since it meant a person could afford electricity.
In Ancient Greece, it wasn’t uncommon for people to only eat once a day, and the average Medieval European only had two meals. Those who ate twice usually had a light breakfast of only bread and ale while dinner was consumed in the afternoon. If anything was eaten in the evening, it was usually something small that required little to no preparation. Such eating habits carried into colonial times and were common among agrarian people until the early to mid-20th century.
3 Fiat Currency
Creating money out of “thin air” has become so common many of us forget that we used to be able to exchange paper money for gold. Now, under the fiat system, paper money only has value because we collectively agree that it does.
While most of the world’s countries permanently went off the gold standard after WWI and WWII, the United States hung on until 1971 when President Nixon shocked the globe by declaring the US was switching to fiat currency. This news was alarming because many countries had fixed their own money’s exchange rates to the US dollar—because US dollars were supposed to be as good as gold.
Originally the switch to a fiat currency was intended to be temporary—to make up for the fiscal strains caused by the Vietnam War. Of course, we printed too much, so we could never go back.
2 The Number Zero
Zip. Zilch. Nil. Nada. Zero has so many synonyms and is such a fundamental concept that there’s no way it’s a recent invention. But it’s true. Though people have always understood the concept of nothing, zero wasn’t fully introduced into mathematics until the 5th century A.D., and it didn’t reach the West until the 1200s. Without zero, even basic calculations were a challenge for mathematicians.
About four to five thousand years ago, the Sumerians used it as a placeholder. The Babylonians were the first to recognize zero as a real integer that stood between negative one and one. Shortly thereafter, the Indians and Mayans also came up the number zero.
While we like to think of ourselves as important and fundamental to life on earth, humans are a relatively new and likely an inconsequential species. The Earth is an estimated 4.54 billion years old, and humans have only been stomping around for about .003 percent of that time. And with the threat of asteroid strikes, severe climate change, nuclear holocaust, and so many other disasters, there’s a good chance we won’t be around forever.
If you want to feel even more insignificant, consider the age of the whole universe. While no one knows for sure, scientists estimate it to be between 12 and 14 billion years old. When we consider how much came before us, it’s apparent humans are only a minor blip on the universal timeline.
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What Causes Arthritis Pain
Understand why you hurt, and learn the different types of pain.
With arthritis comes joint pain. Yet do you know why your joints hurt so much? The series of events that ultimately make you reach for your ice pack or bottle of analgesics involves a complex interaction between your brain and body.
Here’s a look inside the pain process, and how the type of pain you have determines its treatment.
The Pain Process
Though pain is never pleasant, it’s an important signal our bodies use to warn there’s something wrong. Usually, what’s wrong is that you have an injury of some kind, but in some cases what is wrong is that your body is misfiring pain signals.
When you have an injury – in the case of arthritis, an injury to your joints – the damaged tissues release chemicals that alert nearby sensory nerves. These nerves carry the message up your spinal cord to your brain. Your brain processes the message and sends a signal to your motor nerves to take action. So if you start to cut yourself while chopping tomatoes or you touch a hot pan you’ll pull away before you cause more damage.
Besides removing the source of injury, your body has other ways of managing pain. One method is to release painkilling chemicals, called endorphins. The brain also sends signals through the nerves to block additional pain messages from being received – thereby cutting off the sensation of pain.
Types of Pain
Doctors classify pain into two categories based on its duration:
Acute pain happens when you have a disease or injury. It is part of your body’s warning system. You’ll experience acute pain if you burn your hand on the stove, pull a muscle, have knee surgery or get a kidney stone. The pain may be momentary – the cut of a knife before you pull your hand away. Or, it can last for days or weeks – like a tooth that throbs until you can get to the dentist to have it filled. Some acute pain – for example an arthritis flare or gout attack – comes and goes.
Acute pain often is described as sharp, throbbing, shooting or stinging, though it can also be mild. It usually improves once the cause has been treated. Acute pain that isn’t resolved can eventually turn into chronic pain.
Chronic pain lasts for at least three months, but it can continue for many more months, and even years. Arthritis pain, migraine headaches, nerve damage, and low back pain are examples of this type of pain. Chronic pain is often described as an aching, dull, burning or throbbing.
Pain can continue long-term because there’s no treatment for your condition, or your doctor can’t find the source. Pain can also be self-perpetuating. Over time, the constant barrage of pain signals can change nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord. So even after the injury has healed or the condition has been treated, you’ll still feel the discomfort. In a sense, chronic pain becomes its own disease. This is the case with complex regional pain syndrome, fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions.
Pain is also divided into categories according to its source and characteristics – nociceptive and neuropathic pain being the two most prominent. It’s important to distinguish between the two types, because each is treated differently. Centralized pain is an important and complex category of pain.
Nociceptive pain is the immediate cause-effect pain you feel in the midst of an injury or illness. Nociceptors are receptors around your body that detect when there’s a threat to your body, and signal your brain to respond to that threat. Pain relievers such as NSAIDs (ibuprofen, aspirin) or opioids work well at treating nociceptive pain, because they interrupt the transmission of pain signals from nerves to your brain or from your brain back down to the location of injury.
Neuropathic pain is due to nerve damage that makes pain signals continue to fire, even after the immediate cause has been removed. Neuropathic pain can produce unusual sensations, like a tingling or electric feeling. Neuropathic pain can be especially frustrating because it doesn’t respond well to pain relieving medication. Instead, treatments target the affected nerves. One therapy for neuropathic pain, called neurostimulation, sends an electric current to the spinal cord. This creates an alternate sensation that prevents the original pain signals from reaching the brain.
Finding Pain Relief
Sometimes the source of pain – especially chronic pain – might not be immediately apparent. It can be frustrating and upsetting to live with a pain you can’t effectively address. Even though pain isn’t always curable, you and your doctor can work together to develop a comprehensive pain management plan that will bring you relief.
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Michael Jordan was once famously quoted on the subject of failure:
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Failure is one of the most challenging and frustrating elements of running a business, and it can come in many forms – missing deadlines or quotas, having to rehire for a position, receiving a negative review, etc. It can take the wind out of your sails and damper any leader’s enthusiasm if not addressed properly.
So, let’s discuss how to fail forward and transform a misstep or setback into an asset that becomes a practical developmental tool for your business.
Failure Can Be Good, Actually
It’s important to realize that no business is immune to failure – just look at New Coke or McPizza. Still, great leaders adopt a growth mindset that inevitably turns these failures into opportunities for change that can develop them into an even more successful company. This momentum is possible with any business, even physical therapy practices.
Look at perceived failures as a learning experience that gives you a new chance to model strategy and embrace a new direction. While the initial feeling of failure can be disheartening, it should only be temporary. It’s already in the past and what you and your team do with that failure is what will define your business and achieve the most significant impact.
5 Leadership Strategies to Becoming a Failure-Forward Business
1. Openly Address the Failure
Don’t hesitate to acknowledge the failure. Not addressing a failure can result in a lot more trouble down the line, and failing to acknowledge mistakes can give those mistakes more power than they initially had. Let your employees know what has happened, but more importantly, what will be done about the issue.
2. Take Ownership of the Failure
To affect real change, you must take extreme ownership of the misstep and put the right people and processes in place to keep it from happening again. In their book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win” Jocko Willink and Lief Babin explain how leadership is the most important factor to any success and great leaders own the results either way to lead and win. This develops the trust and loyalty necessary to do great things.
3. Use Failure as a Launching Point
A mistake you do not learn from is a wasted opportunity. While repeated failures are a natural part of life, you can make them sting a lot less by embracing them as learning opportunities. If a policy or decision has resulted in a failure for your private practice, note it so you can try something else next time the situation arises.
4. Lean Into a Growth Mindset
Be sure to lead by example so your staff develop a growth mindset and make sure it becomes part of your work culture. Your physical therapy clinic should embrace challenges or failures and learn from them in order to increase capabilities and future achievements. Having this mindset transforms mistakes into opportunities for growth.
5. Steer the Company Culture
Consider equipping your team with the ability to produce small failures to learn. Don’t focus on failure as a catastrophe or something to only recover from. Instead, create a culture in your clinic that allows staff to try new things, fail, and learn from them. Be failure-forward by default.
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MEG Academy’s private practice coaching is a proven method to set your clinic up for success with built-in redundancies for a failure-forward mindset. Our physical therapy business consulting has helped owners achieve success, expand their reach, and build on those results.
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Why have you chosen to do what you do? What makes you tick about the education sector?
Every child has special gift to offer the world and that talent needs to be nurtured. Edtech provides the tools to do that. It will continue to grow and help nourish that talent within every kid as personalization grows.
The present system fails. It standardizes children so they grow up as rule followers and memorizers. Some Edtech promotes rote learning but there is much out there now that promotes creativity; we are all excited to work with edtech that promotes creativity and enthusiasm for learning. Edtech is like the golden pencil...it is valuable, fun, and everyone wants it.
Share with us three predictions on the future of Edtech.
- Edtech will grow dramatically in the coming years and teachers will learn to use it to support their teaching, not in place of their teaching. This will happen as more education leaders recognize teacher professional development is the key to effective use of tech.
- The use of VR and AR will help engage students more effectively. Teachers will use VR and AR to get their ideas across instead of lecture. The use of technology will help teachers bring more real world examples into the classroom and enable students to work on solving problems within their communities. Academic learning will be supported by project based learning. Edtech will support learning outcomes with evaluation tools that show social emotional skills, not just memorization.
- More work environments will use more edtech to train workers and use personalized training and use edtech to change the skills workers have to meet the needs of the industry without firing them.
What technologies do you have the potential to transform the education industry?
Companies like ExplorePlanet3 that uses immersive technologies, gaming, filming and AR to teach science have the potential to transform the way science is being taught in our schools. We lose the interest in science in more than 50% of all students by grade 9. With tools like ExplorePlanet3, all kids will love science. We need more platforms like this in other subject areas.
Adaptive learning will grow and more schools will use it and so will businesses to train employees. Students, teachers and employees will use more VR and simulations to experience the real world. Google Explorations is a good example of what will be coming in education and business training. Real world learning that can be simulated using tech is on the horizon.
As we are celebrating out 5th anniversary of EdtechXEurope, we are looking at the key trends over the past 5 years in edtech. What would you say have been the key areas of change that are impacting edtech today? Anything unexpected that surprised you? Trends that were overhyped and never met their expected potential?
Mobile computing makes the difference. All kids have a phone and schools will finally realize that teaching kids to use those phones is better than banning them.
Interactive MOOCs could possibly be on the horizon or MOOCs involving social interaction. The reason MOOCS failed is that they typified learning in isolation and no one likes to do that.
Why is it important for all players in the edtech ecosystem to continuously connect, network and learn from each other?
People work most effectively in teams. Creativity happens through interaction with people and ideas. If we want to dramatically grow we need to connect continuously and learn from each other. It should happen more often. It is also important to connect with teachers and students, try ideas out in the real world, not in isolation. Lots of failures can be prevented by letting the targets of the learning, the students, have a say. We need to understand what works and share it.
When you think about joining EdtechXEurope this year, what are you looking forward to? What makes you excited about our event in London?
It is so exciting to be able to connect with people who have similar interests, see the new products that have been created, see the new data that is available. There is nothing like being with people who are just as excited about edtech as you are. It is great to meet thinkers from all around the world and exchange ideas and contact information. We need to stay in touch...not just during conferences, but during the year using the tools we are hoping the rest of the world will also use.
Join Esther and our 100+ thought leader speakers at EdTechXEurope 2017 on 20 - 21st June 2017 - reserve your place now >>
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Info about Kirovsk, (Russia)
Also called Hiipina, Hiipinae, Hiipinä, KVK, Khibinogorsk, Kirausk, Kirovs’k, Kirovsk, Kirovskas, Kirowsk, Kírovsk, ji luo fu si ke, kilobseukeu, kirofusuku, kyrwfsk, kyrwfsk awblast mwrmansk, Кировск, Кіраўск, Кіровськ, كيروفسك, کیروفسک، اوبلاست مورمانسک, キロフスク, 基洛夫斯克, 키롭스크, its latitude is 67.6147500, and longitude is 33.6727400.
In Kirovsk are settled 26.581 natives, its timezone is Europe/Moscow (Europe/Moscow_cet).
For your trip to Kirovsk you can snowboard around Russia.
More details about Kirovsk in Russia (RU)
It is the capital of Kirovsk Urban Okrug.
Population of Kirovsk is 26.581 residents, considering 2018 latest census. You want to dial local phones. You can use 81531 as local dialing code for phone numbers. Kirovsk zip code is 184250, for this reason, if you want to send anything to family via post on your travel it can be used 184250 code as per description.
Kirovsk elevation above mean sea level specifically meters above sea level (M A.S.L.), should be around 380 meters. For this reason this city is a perfect destination when you want tall mountains to see for your next holiday and love adventure in the nature while you are on vacation to visit a new place.
For more detailed information on Kirovsk please check its official website http://kirovsk.ru.
Kirovsk also received award for Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Kirovsk things to do and activities: best trip destination for:
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Studies have recently shown that a stressful workplace could potentially take up to 33 years off your life. In fact, between 2014 and 2015, a whopping 40% of all work related illnesses were blamed on stress.
Now is an important time to be learning how to cope with stress at the office. From meditation to adult colouring, here are our top tips on how to tackle office stress.
Take an online meditation course
Researchers from Dalian University of Technology in China conducted research which found that participants who meditated for 20 minutes a day five days a week had “measurably less anxiety and levels of the stress hormone cortisol” than those who did not. In addition to that, the results also showed that the participants levels of depression, anger and fatigue were improved with regular meditation.
In fact, University of Washington researchers found that not only did meditation training help their participants experience fewer negative emotions, but meditation also helped improve focus and their memory for details.
Using meditation to combat stress can be done easily, and doesn’t always require you attend a class. With online meditation courses, you can take twenty minutes out of your day, perhaps on your lunch break, and use the time to meditate. Available as an app, you can find a quiet spot away from your desk to de-stress. Using a meditation course like this is both corrective if you’re already feeling worried at work, as well as preventative for dealing with future potential stress points.
Stress and other mental health problems can make it harder to motivate yourself to exercise, but it’s important to do your best to keep active. Jon Denoris, personal trainer to the stars, cited improved mental health as one of his top 5 reasons to stay fit.
Exercise is a powerful tool for preventing the buildup of stress. Research has shown that exercise releases feel-good chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, helping you feel better. Exercise also acts to “reduce harmful changes in the brain” which are the result of stress. This, coupled with the fact that research has shown that sitting for 8 hours a day is as bad for your health as smoking only goes to show just how important it is to keep active.
While personal trainers are often the go-to way to get fit, helping you to stick to an exercise regime and offering advice, there are less demanding ways to keep fit and reduce stress. If you spend all your time working at a desk, and like many of us struggle to find the time or the motivation to exercise outside of work, then you might try ‘deskercise’.
There are crunches, dips and plenty of other small ways to keep fit. Opting for a standing desk too can help you switch up your time from sitting and slumping.
Take breaks, don’t just keep going
Getting stressed can sometimes occur because you aren’t giving yourself time off. When workloads pile up or the solution to a task is hard to figure out, you might be tempted to just keep ploughing through, pushing yourself to get results. But this can cause even more stress.
Instead, make sure to take regular breaks. Don’t think of your lunch break as a treat, treat it as a necessity. Brief diversions from your work can actually help you to find solutions faster.
While on your breaks, be they for five minutes or an hour, try to do something away from your desk, something unrelated to work. For instance, read a book, listen to a podcast while going for a walk near your office, or pack an adult colouring book – one of the hottest trends in stress and anxiety management.
There are also plenty of websites out there which can make your quick breaks more relaxing. For example Rain For Me is a website which exists solely to make the relaxing sounds of heavy rain and Silk which lets you weave complex digital art with your cursor.
In between breaks, if you feel moments of stress rising up, try combating it with breathing exercises. Effective breathing acts to control the body’s fight-or-flight response to stress, so if you feel yourself starting to panic at work, try breathing through the feeling, rather than trying to suppress it.
The NHS recommends breathing deeply and gently in through your nose and out through your mouth. You should feel your stomach expanding, rather than your chest. You might like to count slowly from 1 to 5 as a way of measuring the length of your breaths, and as a way to take your mind away from whatever is causing your stress.
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At Greyfriars Academy reading is recognised as a key life skill and of paramount importance to academic success. We strive to ensure all children become enthusiastic, motivated and life-long readers and writers with a love of literature and an enjoyment of reading for pleasure. We enable the development of children’s confidence in reading and writing by exposing them to a wide variety of genres, text types and reading and writing experiences. This supports them to develop the necessary skills to accurately decode words in order to be able to read fluently with a good comprehension.
In the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage One (KS1), there is a greater emphasis on phonics; this is then applied throughout the rest of the school to consolidate what has been learnt. This is not to say Phonics teaching is restricted to this these key stages. We use the same support for children in their later stages of schooling or for children who speak English as an additional language.
We use the sequence Teach, Review, Practise and Apply for new sounds (phonemes) alongside Phonics Bug resources to promote consistency of our teaching. This is underpinned by the Department of Education approved document ‘Letters and Sounds’ which allows our Phonics teaching and learning to be progressive from our Reception to Year 2.
Phase 1 lays the foundations for more discrete Phonics teaching which starts in Phase 2. As children move into Reception they continue to build on their listening skills and are introduced to Phase 2 which marks the start of systematic phonics work. Children work through the different phases and as they grow in confidence and experience. They are introduced to alternative ways of representing the same phoneme. However, we recognise Phasing as a non-linear process with skill from Phase 1 being regularly interwoven throughout the children’s reading curriculum and continuous provision learning.
We believe that Phonics is crucial to provide the foundations of learning to make the development into fluent reading and writing easier in all subject areas. Through Phonics, our children learn to segment words to support their spelling ability and blend phonemes to read words.
In Key Stage 2 children are guided through appropriate incrementally book banded reading material. They are then encouraged to choose ‘free reading’ books from either the class, or school, library. Children are also allowed to borrow books to take home: either to read to someone at home or to be read to by someone at home. This encourages reading enjoyment and the sharing of books with adults and siblings.
Across the school we have daily guided reading sessions where we use echo and performance reading of texts followed by interrogation of the text. We are currently using VIPERS guided reading materials which focuses on improving reading fluency, the acquisition of high level vocabulary and questioning using the 6 assessment foci from the National Curriculum.
In each year group we also have a set of age appropriate books that the teacher reads to the class on a regular basis. This teacher modelling of texts gives the children a model of how to read using expression, intonation and awareness of punctuation.
Where appropriate children receive extra support within, or outside the classroom from either the class teacher or teaching support to ensure all children achieve.
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Pronunciation: (sOO"pur-ov'yu-lāt", -ō'vyu-), [key]
—v., -lat•ed, -lat•ing.
(of humans, domestic animals, etc.)
to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
to cause to superovulate.
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Pakistani authorities say at least 45 people were killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the country’s southwestern Baluchistan province today. As my colleague Josh Voorhees writes, that number is likely to rise, and reporting by Gul Yusufzai of Reuters suggests the damage caused by the quake, which was so powerful it created a new island off the country’s southern coast and was felt as far away as New Delhi, is likely to be extensive:
Officials said scores of mud houses were destroyed by aftershocks in the thinly populated mountainous area near the quake epicenter in Baluchistan, a huge barren province of deserts and rugged mountains.
Abdul Qadoos, deputy speaker of the Baluchistan assembly, told Reuters that at least 30 percent of houses in the impoverished Awaran district had caved in.
The quake is a grim reminder that while reporting on disasters like these is often dominated by death tolls, which are used as a kind of shorthand to diagnose the severity of an event. Putting aside the inherent problems involved with calculating death tolls and the geographical biases involved in disaster coverage, the number of dead can be a misleading way to think about the scale of a disaster like this one, particularly when it comes to decisions about funding for relief efforts. In a crowded international news environment, we may decide which disasters to pay attention to based on how many people were killed, but that's not the best way to decide how much help is needed.
Ioannis Evangelidis and Bram Van den Bergh of Erasmus University discuss this problem in a recent paper for Psychological Science:
In December 2003, the Bam earthquake in Iran killed 26,796 people and affected 267,628 more. Private individuals responded by donating $10.7 million. In January 2000, the Yunnan earthquake in China killed 7 people and affected 1.8 million more. Donors contributed only $94,586. These observations suggest that donors may be sensitive to the number of fatalities and much less so to the number of persons affected.
Looking at relief data from 381 disasters between 2000 and 2011, they found that “more than $9,000 was donated for each additional person killed in a disaster” but there was no significant correlation between the number of people affected and the donation amount.
In several independent studies, they also found that volunteers were likely to suggest more money should be donated to hypothetical disasters with higher casualties, rather than higher numbers of people in need. (Caveat: The study relies partially on test subjects recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a method some scholars find problematic.)
There is some good news in the study. The authors found that the subjects were willing to increase the amount given to the disaster when the numbers became more specific, i.e. 4,000 people “left homeless” as opposed to “affected” or “in need,” suggesting that donors may consider such numbers more reliable.
But overall, the research suggests that biases and misleading heuristics on the part of donors could be keeping money from reaching the people who need it. (I suspect a similar dynamic may come into play for the allocation of news coverage.)
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During last week, oil prices (WTI & Brent) changed course and slightly increased: WTI rose by 1.4%; Brent oil, by 0.41%. As a result, the gap between the Brent oil and WTI shrunk again; the difference between Brent and WTI ranged between $18 and $20. According to the recent EIA report, oil stockpiles declined again by 2.4 MB. Will oil change course and fall next week? During the upcoming week, several publications may affect the oil market. These items include: OPEC monthly report, IE monthly update, U.S retail sales, industrial production, CPI and EIA oil weekly report.
Here is a weekly outlook and analysis for the crude oil market for March 11th to March 15th:
Oil Prices – March
During the previous week, crude oil price (WTI) slightly rose by 1.4% and reached by Friday $91.95/b; Brent oil also increased by 0.41% to $110.85/b; during the month, WTI oil inched down by 0.11%; Brent oil, by 0.48%.
In the chart below are the developments in WTI and Brent oil prices during February-March (rates are normalized to January 31st). As seen below, the prices of oil have had a moderate decline in recent weeks.
The gap between Brent oil and WTI spot oil has slightly contracted during last week as it ranged between $18 and $20 per barrel. During the month, the premium fell by 2.22%.
The oil stockpiles declined again by 2.4 MB and reached 1,782.3 million barrels. The linear correlation between the shifts in stockpiles remained mid-strong and negative: this correlation implies that the price of oil, assuming all things equal, will moderately rise next week.
Moreover, the oil imports to the U.S fell by 0.8% last week. The weekly changes in oil imports have a mid-strong negative relation (0.34) that suggests oil prices will rise next week.
The next weekly update will be published on Wednesday, March 13th and will refer to the week ending on March 8th.
OPEC Monthly Report
The OPEC report will present the main changes in crude oil and natural gas’s supply and demand worldwide; the report will also refer to the shifts in the production of OPEC countries during February 2013; this news may affect oil prices (See here a summary of the previous report). If the report will show a sharp drop in production, it could pressure up oil prices.
The next report will be published on Tuesday, March 12th.
IEA Monthly Report
This upcoming monthly report will show an updated (for February) outlook and analysis for the global crude oil and natural gas market for 2013 and 2014. If the report will show a rise in expected demand for oil on a global scale, oil prices are likely to rally.
The next report will be published on Wednesday, March 13th.
Main Oil Related News Items for the upcoming week
Wednesday –U.S. Retail Sales Report: in the recent report regarding January, the retail sales edged up by 0.1% from the previous month; gasoline stations sales rose by 1.4% in January; this report could signal the developments in U.S’s gasoline demand and thus may affect oil prices;
Friday –U.S Core Consumer Price Index: According to the U.S Bureau of Labor statistics during January, the CPI remained flat (M-o-M); the core CPI rose by 0.3%; the core index rose over the past twelve months by 1.9%.
Friday – American Industrial Production: The upcoming report will refer to February 2013. In the previous monthly report, the index slipped by 0.1% during January;
Foreign Exchange and Oil Prices Correlations – March
During last week, the EURO/USD slipped by 0.13%. On the other hand, the AUD/USD slightly increased by 0.32% during last week. The correlations among these currencies pairs (Euro/USD) and oil prices remained strong and robust. E.g. the linear correlation between the rate of oil and EURO /USD was 0.55 during February-March. If the U.S dollar will continue to strengthen against the “risk currencies”, this may pull down oil prices.
Oil Prices Outlook and Analysis
Following the moderate growth in the prices of oil last week, oil prices might continue to slowly grow. From the supply side, the decline in oil imports to the U.S is contributing to the rise in oil prices. If the OPEC and IEA reports will show the production in OPEC and non-OPEC countries remained stable, then the price of oil might slightly decline. From the demand side, the moderate growth in the U.S and Chinese economies may have contributed to the expected drop in growth in demand for oil. The upcoming reports regarding the U.S economy and the IEA projection for the global demand for oil might shed some light on the expected shifts from demand side. The gap between Brent and WTI oil ranged between $18 and $20 and might continue to slowly contract in the coming days as the US economy is progressing (WTI oil) while the EU economy (Brent oil) is slowing down. Oil stockpiles declined again last week, which could pull up oil prices in the U.S this week. On the other hand, several factors worth mentioning that could pull down oil prices: if the EU economy will keep showing little progress; the upcoming EIA, IEA, OPEC reports could show unexpected changes in supply and demand. Finally, if major currencies such as the EURO will continue to fall against the U.S. dollar, they may also curb the rally of oil prices. The bottom line, I guess the prices of oil will slightly rise on a weekly scale.
My guess is that WTI oil will range between $90 and $94 and Brent between $109 and $112 during the week.
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Two of the most important minerals in the body are calcium and magnesium, which are both needed in large amounts to maintain the metabolic functions of the body. Though only calcium is widely advertised in the market, magnesium is also important to achieve proper balance together with calcium. These two minerals always work mutually to sustain the functions of muscles and bones since excess or lack of one mineral will already cause several metabolic disorders.
Calcium, the backbone mineral of the body, is found in huge amount in bones and teeth while it retains healthy blood counts and regulates heartbeat and pulse. About 99 percent of the calcium in the body is deposited into bones and teeth to maintain its firmness. It also helps the blood to clot when bleeding, contracts the muscles, transmits nerve impulses, activates enzyme production of gastric juices, aids in pH balance and in fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism. It also helps prevent colon cancer. Lack of calcium in the body may lead to tooth decay, osteoporosis, brittle bones and nails, rickets, problems in joints, high cholesterol levels and palpitations just to name a few.
In line with this, magnesium regulates the absorption of calcium into bones, transmits nerve impulses, relaxes muscle, regulates body temperature and pH balance, and releases nerve tension. About 70 percent of magnesium in the body is deposited into bones and only 1 percent is in blood circulation. It also absorbs and utilizes minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, and vitamins C, E and D. It also regulates neuromuscular activity of heart and maintains its rhythm, and converts sugar into energy for the body to use throughout the day. Magnesium is also involved in hundreds of biochemical and enzymatic reactions in the body, which helps in energy production and aids in function of the adrenal glands. Magnesium deficiency can cause psychotic behavior, weight loss, convulsions, vasodilation, muscle cramps and abnormal heartbeat.
Calcium and magnesium work together to maintain balance in the body such as calcium helping the blood to clot easily while magnesium dilates the veins to prevent excessive clotting and calcium contracting the muscles as muscles are relaxed with the help of magnesium. A ratio of 2:1 of calcium to magnesium is needed by the body to be physically fit. Known to prevent degenerative diseases like osteoporosis, calcium is often prescribed to people suffering from these diseases, but unknown to many; excess calcium may lead to formation of calcium deposits in different parts of the body where calcium is not usually deposited in the first place. This is where magnesium enters the scene as it stimulates the production of a hormone which increases the absorption of calcium into the bones called calcitonin. Magnesium also restrains the production of a hormone which releases calcium from bones to blood and soft tissues called parathyroid hormone.
Another example of calcium-magnesium balance is the phase happening inside the mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell. The cell makes use of the calcium pump during energy production, where magnesium is needed to function properly. The pump becomes efficient when there is enough magnesium in the cell, which produces enough energy and prevents the mitochondria to calcify.
Calcium and magnesium work best together if provided in sufficient amounts but tend to act conversely to each other. The body easily stores calcium while magnesium is eliminated immediately. To obtain both minerals, one must eat plenty of green leafy vegetables which are known to be rich in both calcium and magnesium. Also, calcium is best found in milk and dairy products while magnesium is present in meat, bananas, seafood and garlic. | <urn:uuid:4d21ef63-969d-4102-afe6-d6f38ecbd3bd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infobarrel.com/The_Importance_of_Calcium_and_Magnesium_Balance_in_the_Body | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933387 | 719 | 3.546875 | 4 |
The costs of scholarly journals directly related to print, that is, the costs of printing and distributing by mail, have been estimated at about 20-30% of a journal's cost.
Fortunately in these difficult economic times, this means that the vast majority of scholarly journals have a ready means to decrease costs by 20-30%. If these savings are passed along to customers, this will do wonders for the sustainability of our scholarly publishing system in the critical near to medium term.
Christopher V. Hollister, in Economics of Open Access talks about the recent move by the open access journal Communications in Information Literacy to provide Print-On-Demand (POD) via lulu.com, providing libraries and readers wishing a quality print journal with the service they desire, in a manner that EARNS modest revenue for this journal, rather than COSTING revenue. (Hat tip to Brian Owen for a pointer to Hollister's article).
As Hollister points out, POD is not only a good move economically, it is also environmentally friendly; no unwanted print issues are produced, and printing can happen locally, reducing shipping costs.
Many libraries have been moving to electronic-only subscriptions for years now. In difficult economic times, even more libraries will be looking for such efficiencies. A move to electronic-only / POD to support open access, or to reduce subscription costs, would likely be very much welcomed by library customers in these difficult times.
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From the Examiner:
As Congress and the White House began to discuss health care reform, author and journalist Virginia Postrel offered a modest suggestion: If simple and decisive government action can curb costs in health care, as Obamacare advocates claim, why not begin by fixing Medicare before rushing in with sweeping changes to the entire system? The government already runs half of America’s health care system. According to federal statistics, federal and state governments together spent virtually the same amounts on health care in 2007 as did all private insurers and patients combined — $1.036 trillion and $1.045 trillion, respectively. Medicare, which serves the elderly, is the largest public program, accounting for 19 percent of all health care spending in the U.S.
Emphasis mine. More here. | <urn:uuid:312b2b2c-0337-4d88-8906-98d0f1113917> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iwf.org/2009/06/29/a-different-approach-to-health-care-reform/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.949244 | 157 | 1.765625 | 2 |
From simple idea to flushed out final product, Microsoft Publisher is
there for you every step of the way. In today's marketing oriented day and age, it's essential to catch potential customers and markets attention immediately. And the best way to do that is to create something that is visually stimulating. Face it, presentation is definetly everything, and the people at Microsoft kept that in mind while putting together Publisher.
It's almost too easy to use this thing. All you need is an idea, and Publisher does pretty much the rest. Whether your goal is print or web publication, layout, design, and content management has never been easier. Though it is designed with professional sales and marketing materials in mind, Publisher is just as effective in creating, designing, and maintaining anything for print. You can do everything from sales one-sheets, to press releases, to webpages, to a print magazine by using the provided templates or working from scratch with a blank page.
Publisher includes over 8500 possible combonations of publications types, designs, and color and font schemes to make sure you get exactly what you want. You can easily add content to your clipboard, and simply drag and drop to where and how you want it on your document. When precise object positioning is a priority, advanced graphic and text treatment such as tracking, kerning, and scaling are available in the accessible toolbar. Included is spell check, a thesaurus to beef up and make your type more attractive and appealing, print preview, headers and footers, and the picture toolbar
so all the things you're used to in Office, are right at your fingertips. You can even convert existing brochures and newsletters into websites with a simple single click.
So get off the couch and quit whining about how someone took your idea or how you could be a millionaire with your idea if you only had the tools. Microsoft Publisher is your answer. Make your idea a visual reality and turn your dreams and desires into substance. Get them out of your head and onto paper. Before Publisher, that was the first and toughest step. Now it's all easy
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As part of the 14-day design festival that took place in Mexico City, SPACE10 presented the exhibition "Deconstructed Home", with the intention of taking it to different places in Mexico. Five designers were convened and through six intensive weeks of design research and experimentation, they identified and explored new possibilities and uses for the biomaterial of their choice.
The resulting work is developed into a thought-provoking exhibition that shares the designers' visions of how these biomaterials could shape homes of the future, referring both to the spaces where we live and sleep, and our wider home, the planet. Designers considered how the local soil beneath our feet or the wax of xunaán kaab - a stingless bee native to Mexico - could help shape the future of materials. Others looked at how waste from maize, rambutan and tamarind harvests could be reworked in a way that supports the environment and local communities.
The recent pandemic has highlighted flaws in our global supply chain, the ongoing climate emergency has revealed more problems with the way we manufacture and transport materials and products around the world. How can we make use of discarded natural materials and design processes to engage with our local ecosystems in a supportive way? And how can the materials of the future create a positive impact for local communities?
- Elsa Dagný Ásgeirsdóttir, Senior Creative Producer, SPACE10
The exhibition invites visitors to consider how we can design, make and build our homes and everyday objects in connection with place, culture and time, in a regenerative way. The design ranges from the physical walls that form a place of shelter to the objects that preserve and enable nourishment. Almendra Isabel's photographs accompany the exhibition, capturing the place of origin of each material to share how the projects can create a positive impact for local communities and species. The prototypes are displayed alongside the raw materials they are made from, connecting landscape, matter and object. Read on to find out more about the projects.
Protective Articles / Taina Campos
Maize, Milpa Alta, Mexico City
"The protection items are a series of containers that can be used to serve, protect and transport food, made from discarded corn husks. To design the vessels, Taina Campos worked with Mujeres de la Tierra (Women of the Earth), a community organisation that supports women who have suffered domestic violence. The women make and sell tortillas, tamales and atole to become economically independent. They wanted non-plastic containers to carry their food, so Taina turned to the waste from the maize harvest to make a material. Protecting native maize is culturally and ecologically vital, for the health of the land and the people".
Migrant Objects / Bertín López
Rambutan, Tapachula, Soconusco
"Bertín López transforms discarded rambutan shells into material to create objects for the home. The bowls honour the land and farmers of Soconusco by using the entire harvest. The rambutan migrated from Southeast Asia in the 1950s and established itself in the soils of Soconusco. What was once foreign has become part of the local identity. Migrating Objects supports the complex relationships between rambutan trees and surrounding species by playing a vital role in the ecosystem. The design could be relevant in other hot climates where the diaspora rambutan has also found a home."
Homes for Honey / Gabriel Calvillo
Beeswax, Tixpehual, Yucatan
"Gabriel Calvillo uses beeswax to mould pots and frames, essential structures for native beehives. Homes for Honey is a cross-species collaboration, where humans prefabricate the foundations and bees finish the construction. Melipona is a tribe of stingless bee species with local ecological and cultural value. Mayan peoples used hollow logs to raise Xunaán kaab (Melipona beecheii) for two thousand years, creating an intimate relationship of interdependence between pollinators and people. However, stingless beekeepers are declining, as is biodiversity. Native bees are important for building resilience in a time of climate uncertainty."
Building with soil / Karen Kerstin Poulain
Soil, San Francisco Chimalpa, Naucalpan
"For Building with soil, Karen Kerstin Poulain imagines an alternative way of working with dirt: pouring it! Made from tepetate, water, rice husks and very little energy input, the composite is resistant to compression and cracking, while reducing agricultural waste. Soil is little explored in modern Mexican architecture, with barriers in the lack of local techniques and social connotations with poverty. While concrete was the darling of industrialisation, it is an energy-intensive material and is responsible for eight per cent of global CO2 emissions. To build affordable housing, we need alternative methods, and liquid soil has great potential.
Weaving Relics / Paloma Morán Palomar
Tamarindo by Tequesquitlan, Jalisco
"Weaving Relics transforms tamarind fibre into yarn to explore possibilities in textile applications. Paloma Morán Palomar's family grows tamarind in Tequesquitlan, a small town in Jalisco. While the edible fruits and seeds are used, the peel and fibres are discarded. The project reconsiders the waste while respecting the memory of the material. The resulting carpet interweaves traditional weaving techniques with current material discoveries. By experimenting with what she has at hand, Paloma turns waste into something useful, valuable and beautiful, extending the family, cultural and ecological heritage into new futures."
Following the exhibition's debut at LOOT, the project will be exhibited at Casa UC (Av México 200, Hipódromo, Cuauhtémoc, 06100 Mexico City, CDMX) in collaboration with What Design Can Do Mexico and the Universidad de la Comunicación. Subsequently, the exhibition will travel to PAD, in Guadalajara. | <urn:uuid:b293cb46-7df6-4d56-9306-c5c1b6ac1bab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.archdaily.com/981871/5-designers-explore-the-possibilities-of-biomaterials-in-mexico | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.917801 | 1,257 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The Two Finger Test (TFT), also known as the virginity test, is an insertion of two fingers inside the vagina in order to test the laxity of vaginal muscles. The test is supposed to determine whether a woman has ever been subjected to or engaged in sexual intercourse.1 The paper aims to assess whether the two finger test violates national and international law. It also seeks to prove that the consequences associated with this practice are detrimental to one’s physical and psychological well-being.
The significance of the paper is based on the thesis that the two finger test is nothing but a mere misogynistic and unjustified assumption that those women who are habitual to sex are less likely to have been raped. This paper also appreciates the ruling made by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on 4th January, 2020 regarding the elimination of the archaic test.2
According to World Health Organization (WHO), the two finger test or virginity testing involves an inspection of female genitalia, which is meant to determine whether a woman has had sexual intercourse.3 It is a practice that perpetuates gender discrimination and inequality and so is contradictory to Article 25 of the Constitution of Pakistan, that is, equality of citizens as it is carried out only on the female victims of sexual assault.
Violating the National and International Law
The test also offends Article 14 and Article 19 of the Constitution as the test is related to the security and dignity of a woman. By its very nature, a virginity test is an invasion of the privacy of a victim’s body.4 It becomes a blatant violation of women’s dignity especially when it is performed without her informed consent.5 It was also held in the case of Lilu @ Rajesh and Anr v State of Haryana6 that the two fingers test is a violation of women`s rights to privacy.
The test is also regarded as a violation of international human rights mainly the prohibition against cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment under Article 16 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT) and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) as the practice is cruel and humiliating and conducted in a manner which indirectly punishes and intimidates the innocent victim.7
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Report published in 1994 also issued a call to eliminate all those practices that are grounded in the idea of sexual discrimination.8 The 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) also made a declaration with a view to abolishing the archaic prejudicial and customary practices,9 including TFT.
Akin to Torture
The situation intensifies when the victim is required to go through a vicious cycle of pain and torture. One social worker worded her experience as ”I felt that this is so unfair to be sexually abused and then have to go through such a vicious process of torture”.10 Besides being a form of torture, the two finger test can have a deadly effect on the lives of victims.
Instances can found where women commit suicide or are killed11 in the name of family honor just because they could not qualify the so-called test, thus violating the fundamental right to life of the victim. The adverse effects are more or less a mimic of the original act of sexual violence, thus leading to re-stigmatization12 and insults after an assault.
Risk of Infection
Bring threatened by virginity testing, some females, for the purpose of preserving their virginity, tend to insert unhygienic materials such as raw meat or toothpaste into their vaginas to give it a resemblance of an intact hymen which is likely to cause infections.13 In addition, the two finger test is associated with a range of health problems.14 Due to its forcible and invasive nature, the examination itself can become the cause of bleeding and infection.
Even if performed with the examinee’s consent, the test can still cause the victim to catch certain diseases because, in many parts of the world, virginity testing is performed by untrained and non-professional individuals in un-hygienic settings with a lack of necessary medical equipment and repetitive usage of the same gloves,15 thus increasing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency viruses.16
We all know that the primary and foremost duty of a medical professional is to safeguard the health of his/her patients. The duty was reaffirmed in the 1964 World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki.17 Hence, an analogy can be drawn that medical experts who perform the two finger test undermine the fundamental ethical principle, that is, do not harm.
In one of its handbooks, WHO concluded that the degrading virginity or the two finger test had no scientific validity.18 This is why many countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and India have made criminal laws to punish those who perform the examination.19 Pakistan’s Ministry of Human Rights also accepts that the survivors (examinees) are either completely unaware or not provided with enough details to refuse these tests.20
Consequently, women who get this test unwillingly reach a heightened risk of suffering from various psychiatric illnesses. The documented harms resulting from this test include loss of self-esteem, depression, guilt, panic, worsened self-respect, intense anxiety, feelings of disgust, and dysfunctional sex life. Psychological harm has already been reported in four studies.21
A survey of forensic physicians conducted in Turkey found that 93% of respondents agreed that the two finger test leads to psychological trauma and 60% agreed with the assertion that the test causes the loss of self-esteem.22 Detailed interviews with medical experts who perform the two finger test reveal that the test can cause victims to develop feelings of rejection and weakened self-confidence;23 victims have been reported to suffer severe mental torment.24
Moreover, in Palestine, the focus discussion groups revealed that the examinees of the two finger test were ”extremely fearful of and indeed felt terrorized by [the experience]. …Their feelings of fear and invasion were manifested in a variety of ways: by their refusal to sit on the examination chair, through crying, screaming, pushing, freezing-up, being silent, fainting, etc”.25
On the other hand, it is even more heart-wrenching to note that even certified virgins are not safe and are at a much higher risk of becoming the victims of forced prostitution and other forms of violence.26 They are more likely to be subjected to sexual violence in those communities where sex with a virgin is believed to be more pleasurable or is considered as a cure for sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency viruses.27
Also, the practice of enrolling or employing only virgins promotes discrimination, be it educational or employment.28 In light of the above discussion, it can be concluded that the two finger test has a ruinous effect on a victim’s physical, psychological, and sexual well-being. The pernicious effects of such practice cause immediate and long-term consequences and deliver irreparable damage to those who deserve sympathy.
Pakistan Criminalizes the Two Finger Test
According to WHO, the examination has no scientific or clinical merits.29 The distensibility of the hymen meant for an indication of sexual intercourse is not letter-perfect.30 Paksitani Justice Ayesha A. Malik delivered a judgment that abolishes the archaic and outdated virginity test and excludes it from the ambit of a criminal investigation. Justice Ayesha A. Malik also urged people to make themselves aware of the reasons for calling this practice illegal and unconstitutional.
She says that ”change can only be brought about when the people responsible for the change understand and acknowledge the reasons for changing old practices which no longer find any justification. Merely documenting change and not implementing change does not mean that Federal or Provincial Government have acted in accordance with the Constitution, the law and international obligations. Hence a concerted effort must be made so as to ensure that virginity tests are stopped in totality”.31
It is important for all, especially health care providers, to understand that the two finger test has no clinical or scientific value. Health educators are requested to update medical textbooks to reflect this evidence as well as work on bursting myths and misconceptions regarding intact hymens.
Health care professionals must realize their obligation to provide medically accurate and reliable information. They should also ensure that the victims of sexual assault are not re-victimized in the process of medical care. Their job is to provide sensitive, effective, compassionate, and confidential medical care.
1 Aruna Kashyap, Reena Reddy, and Chloë Fussell, ”Dignity on trial: India’s Need for Sound Standards for Conducting and Interpreting Forensic Examinations of Rape Survivors,” Human Rights Watch, accessed March 1, 2021, https://www.hrw.org/report/2010/09/06/dignity-trial/indias-need-sound-standards-conducting-and-interpreting-forensic.
2 M Ilyas Khan, ”Pakistan court outlaws ‘virginity tests’,” BBC, Jan. 05, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55541447.
3 WHO, ”Eliminating virginity testing: An interagency statement,” accessed March 1, 2021, https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1157258/retrieve.
4 Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, ”Imposition of virginity testing: a life-saver or a license to kill?” Social Science & Medicine 60, no. 6 (2005): 1187-1196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.07.015; Elif Gürsoy and Gülsen Vural, ”Nurses’ and Midwives’ Views on Approaches to Hymen Examination,” Nursing Ethics 10, no. 5 (2003): 485-496, https://doi.org/10.1177/096973300301000505.
5 Independent Forensic Expert Group, ”Statement on virginity testing,” Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 33 (2015): 121-124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2015.02.012.
6 Lillu @ Rajesh & Anr vs State Of Haryana, (2013) 14 SCC 643, https://indiankanoon.org/doc/78844212/.
7 Daniel Pollack, ”Virginity testing: International law and social work perspectives,” International Social Work 51, no. 2 (2008): 262-267, https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872807085864.
8 United Nations, Report of the International Conference on Population and Development, A/CONF.171/13/Rev.1 (1995), https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/events/pdf/expert/27/SupportingDocuments/A_CONF.171_13_Rev.1.pdf.
9 United Nations General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, Thirty-fourth session, A/RES/34/180.
10 Shalhoub-Kevorkian, ”Imposition of virginity testing,”.
11 Shalhoub-Kevorkian, ”Imposition of virginity testing,”.
12 Mehri Robatjazi et al., ”Virginity Testing Beyond a Medical Examination,” Global Journal of Health Science 8, no. 7 (2016): 152-164, https://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/gjhs/article/view/52613.
13 Le Roux L. Harmful traditional practices, male circumcision, and virginity testing of girls and the legal rights of children. Cape Town: University of Western Cape; 2006 (https:// etd.uwc.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11394/1995/ Le%20Roux_LLM_2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y).
14 Rose McKeon Olson and Claudia García-Moreno, ”Virginity testing: a systematic review,” Reproductive Health 14, no. 1 (2017): 1-10, https://reproductive-health-journal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12978-017-0319-0.pdf; Independent Forensic Expert Group, ”Statement on virginity testing,”.
15 Pollack, ”Virginity testing,”.
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