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Hours after the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a warning about upcoming provocations with the use of chemical weapons, reports from various NGOs, such us the infamous "White Helmets," who are suspected of ties with terrorist groups, started to surface of the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's Douma. Some NATO countries were quick to level a barrage of accusations against Damascus before any proper investigation has even been launched.
US & Co.: "Animal Assad" to Blame
US President Trump's reaction has been one of the harshest so far, calling Bashar Assad an "animal" and blaming Russia and Iran for supporting him. Moreover, he was quick to promise a "big price to pay" for the incident. White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Thomas Bossert may have given a hint as to this "price," saying that he wouldn't "take anything off the table" with regard to Syria. Considering the last time such ungrounded accusations were sounded from the White House, air strikes were also not taken off the table.
The UK went along with Washington's sentiment. Although they were grounded enough to suggest that a thorough investigation must be conducted first, it doesn't seem that they really need one, as the British foreign secretary noted that should the attack be confirmed, it will show the Syrian government's "brutality." The EU's stance was considerably harsher and not allowing for any options other than Syrian President Bashar Assad being behind the attack, failing to give any details as to evidence establishing that.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry's statement didn't the same level of confidence in whom to blame, although it did express a "strong suspicion" that Damascus carried out the chemical attack. Still, it urged for an official investigation to be conducted into the incident. Their French colleagues followed suit and suggested gathering the UN Security Council to investigate the matter, but at the same time were not as quick to draw conclusions as its allies were.
Nine members of the Security Council have requested a special meeting to discuss the alleged use of chemical weapons in Douma.
Damascus, Moscow, Tehran: Groundless Accusations as a Pretext for Military Intervention
Damascus met the accusations with harsh criticism, denying all the allegations, calling them an excuse "to prolong the life of terrorists in Douma." It also reminded that Syria is waging a war on terrorism, while certain countries support the terrorists. Iran backed the message from Damascus, with foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi slamming it as an excuse to use military action against the Syrian government.
Moscow is adamant in its position that a provocation involving chemical weapons has taken place in Syria's Douma perpetrated by terrorists against civilians to shift the blame on Damascus. The end goal of these actions, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, is to find an excuse for military intervention against the Syrian government. It also warned against such action, as it might lead to "severe consequences" as Russian servicemen are currently present in the country, deployed at the request of the official government.
It's April 2017 All Over Again: Khan Sheikhoun Chemical Incident
80 people were killed and 200 more injured in the Khan Sheikhoun incident on April 4, 2017, when a Sarin chemical weapon was used in Syria's Idlib province. Before an official OPCW investigation was concluded, the US unilaterally decided to conduct a missile strike on Syria's Shairat airbase on April 7, claiming it was in response to Damascus alleged use of sarin against the civilian population. The Syrian government rejected all allegations and slammed the US for the attack.
Damascus strongly slammed the attack by a country that had been bombing targets inside Syria since 2014 without either a UN mandate or the Syrian government's approval, while Moscow accused Washington of violating the Arab Republic's sovereignty and called for a thorough probe into the incident. However, since then, the UN and OPCW haven't managed to provide any solid proof as to the Syrian government's involvement in the alleged attack, while also failing to send experts directly to the base, which had been suspected of being the source of the chemical weapons. The Russian Foreign Ministry has reminded that all chemical weapons had been removed from Syria in 2014 with US assistance under the Barack Obama administration. That has been confirmed by the OPCW on numerous occasions. | <urn:uuid:6ce95cb9-1700-4d90-afca-68435f7897e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sputniknews.com/20180408/nato-douma-chem-attack-blame-1063346109.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975822 | 865 | 1.570313 | 2 |
How do companies adjust their organization to national institutions: evidence from matched-pair engineering companies
Companies face competitive advantages or disadvantages depending on a country’s national institutional setting. The question is whether and how companies with highly similar product markets and technologies are able to stay competitive if they are located in disadvantaged national institutional settings. Building on the Varieties of Capitalism approach, we analyze the effect of different national institutional settings on one important characteristic of a company’s organizational structure, the span of control of production supervisors. Through plant interviews, we generated a unique dataset of matched-pair engineering companies in Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and the U.S. The findings indicate that the span of control is an important mechanism of adjustment to national institutional settings. Production supervisors in companies producing in coherently coordinated market economy like Germany have on average a broader span of control than those in coherently liberal market economy like the U.S. However, in mixed institutional settings like Switzerland and the UK, we find companies with a broad and companies with a narrow span of control, thus indicating that companies have the strategic power to adjust with their own company-level institutions to either complementing or substituting national institutions.
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What is CAD?
It is a software program that has become a necessity for all the professionals who work on computers and they are supposed to use it to perform their tasks. CAD software has been developed by experts in the field of information technology and it has been used to design everything from the simplest to the most complex things.
The reason behind the development of CAD is to make the designing process faster and simpler. There are different types of CAD software that are available on the market and you can download it according to your needs.
Let us now know what is CAD software and how it can help us to make things easier.
Computer-Aided Design is a software program that helps users to design anything. It is a computerized tool that works on the concept of designing. It is used to make the things and machines that we use every day.
CAD software has been developed to help the designers to create the drawings and the models that they want to make. It is a highly accurate and fast designing tool and that is why most professionals are using it.
How does CAD Software help?
CAD is basically software that helps the users to design the things and the machines that we use in our daily lives. Some of the examples of the things that are designed using CAD software are the following.
• Computer chips
• Car engines
• Medical equipment
Why You Should Use CAD?
There are a lot of benefits that you will get when you start using CAD software. Let us see the main reasons behind the development of CAD.
• It saves your time
You will save a lot of time if you are working on CAD as you don’t need to sketch the drawing. You just need to type the design and the software will do the rest for you. You don’t need to waste your time drawing the design, you can get all the information in one place.
• It makes things easier
The designing process is not as simple as you think, you need to pay a lot of time and effort to design something and that is why most designers are not satisfied with the designing process.
CAD helps the designers to make their designing process easier. They can just type the design and the software will take care of the rest. It will make the designing process easier and less complicated.
• It is accurate
Most of the designs are not accurate but when you make the design using CAD then you will get an accurate design. You will get the exact shape of the design and you can get the desired result.
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About 1.6 billion people don’t have reliable electricity from the grid. The good news is that solar power is now cheaper than diesel for the huge majority of these people, and innovative companies and organizations are working their way into developing countries to get electricity to more and more people. One such innovator is Sarvodaya Economic Enterprise Development Services (SEEDS).
SEEDS “has financed the installation of around 52000 solar home systems (SHSs) in rural areas of Sri Lanka,” the YouTube page for the video below indicates. Here’s more on the great working being done there:
Grid electricity extends to about 55% of Sri Lanka’s population, but to only 40% in rural areas. The infrastructure is gradually being extended; but there is a shortage of generating capacity, since the generation of power has not increased alongside an ever-increasing demand. The average rural family in Sri Lanka spends 19% of their income on energy, and many can afford off-grid electricity with a suitable credit system. SEEDS works through accredited solar installers to identify potential loan customers. These loans enable poor households in rural areas to purchase SHSs, and receive the benefits of improved light, communications and entertainment. The monthly repayments are set at a rate which the household can afford to pay, and the loans are paid back over a period of one to four years. Local field officers employed by SEEDS collect monthly repayments, and also carry out checks and minor repairs to the systems. SEEDS has financed the installation of around 52000 SHSs (out of a total of 71000 installed in Sri Lanka) since 1998. | <urn:uuid:d6db7f20-902e-4ae0-8df7-9361953ec8c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://solarlove.org/microfinancing-for-home-solar-bringing-solar-power-to-tens-of-thousands-in-sri-lanka/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.959471 | 347 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Fact Sheet: Number 10 (1997)
Developing Rural HIV/STD Prevention Education Programs
Rural communities face unique challenges in implementing HIV/STD prevention education programs. For example, in urban areas pre-existing high risk groups (e.g., homeless, drug addicted, prostitutes) have been specifically targeted for HIV/STD prevention programs.(1) In rural areas, specific identification of high-risk groups mav be difficult.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that community HIV/STD prevention programs be designed to reach less accessible or identifiable populations.(1) In genera, persons living in rural areas are more difficult to reach with HIV/STD prevention education than those living in urban areas. Some HIV/STD education programs seek community wide changes in social norms. This strategy has advantages in rural areas.(2) CDC has recommended the use of social marketing theory as a basis for modifying community norms.
Social Marketing Theory
Social marketing is a method of convincing community members to practice HIV/STD prevention. The target audience must perceive that the benefits of prevention behaviors are greater than the barriers to the behavior. HIV/STD prevention behaviors include abstinence from sexual intercourse, using condoms for intercourse, and using sterile injection equipment.
Social Marketing Components
A combination of product, price, promotion, and place forms the basis for an effective community HIV/STD prevention education program. Use of condoms for HIV/ STD prevention is used to illustrate these components:
- The product (e.g., condom) must be perceived as beneficial by the user. Condoms should be marketed so that perceived barriers to use appear small compared to perceived benefits.
- The price should be reasonable for the audience. Many communities have made condoms available inexpensively or free.
- Promotion refers to the prevention message. The content and delivery of condom use messages should be based on the characteristics of the target audience, such as their attitudes, values, and behaviors.
- Place refers to an accessible location for distribution of the message and/or product (e.g., condom).
Social Marketing Steps
Effective socia marketing programs involve several steps, each of which should be coordinated by a community planning group (CPG).(2,3) The CPG should include members of the target audience. Such persons can act as positive role models for the target audience and can help identify unique attributes of the audience. Additionally, prevention messages based on behavioral theories are more likely to be effective than those based on "knowledge campaigns" or moral appeals. Ideally, status assessment of the intended population involving several behavioral theories should occur before constructing intervention programs.(4)
STEP 1: Conduct research to understand the intended audience.(5)
- Identify the risk behavior determinants of the intended audience For example, how do poverty and isolation contribute to not using condoms! What are the perceived benefits of engaging in the high risk behavior?
- Determine perceived benefits and barriers related to the adoption of the new behavior (e.g., condom use). Learn enough about the audience to understand how to convince them to practice HIV/STD prevention.
- Identify the prevailing norms of the target audience. For example, youth are likely to share behavioral norms which should be addressed in prevention education. Some groups may deny vulnerability to HIV infection and others may accept vulnerability but still not practice preventive behavior. Each group requires a different message.(6)
STEP 2: Create a barrier/benefit ratio that is clearly beneficial to the target audience.
This ratio should be favorable to behaviors which have the potential to eliminate or lower risk of HIV/STD infection. Audience perception of the ratio is influenced by the product, price, promotion, and place components described previously.
- Based on an assessment of the target audience, create messages designed to maximize perceived benefits and minimize perceived barriers to HIV/STD prevention behaviors.
- Develop ways to minimize barriers associated with adopting the behaviors. For example, condoms should be available inexpensively or free at accessible locations.
- Select effective media for the dissemination of the message and employ leaders of the target audience as spokespersons for the prevention program.(7)
STEP 3: Conduct ongoing research of the audience which identifies possible program changes that would be required to maintain program effectiveness.
- The World Health Organization has developed several prevention indicators that can be used as measures of program effectiveness. These indicators include incidence rates of STDs at local clinics, condom saes/availability, and self reported increase in prevention behaviors by audience members.(8)
- Continue research to determine any changing perceptions of the audience. For example, has the barrier/benefit perception of the target audience changed? Like other marketing programs, new approaches may need to be implemented.
Examples of Prevention Programs
Rural areas throughout the world have benefitted from social marketing programs. This approach has also been applied in rural communities throughout the United States.
- A social marketing program in Brazil distributed 26 million low cost condoms in 1996, a 44% increase since 1995.(9)
- A social marketing program in Ghana was successful in providing prevention education to a less accessible rural male population.(10)
- Communities in Pennsylvania have implemented HIV prevention programs for gay men in rural areas. Barriers to reaching this population include unstructured gay communities and homophobic social norms.(10)
- An Iowa COG has sponsored the production of three HIV prevention educational videos for rural youth. Videos were developed for (a) secondary school females, (b) middle school youth, and (c) high-risk youth i.e., those in juvenile detention, young men who have sex with men, and substance abusers.(11)
- In Missouri, regional CPGs involved members from community-based organizations, civic groups, and other representatives of rural communities. These groups helped narrow the gap between HIV/STD prevention needs and local politics. Primarily a rural state, the Missouri State Department of Health sponsored a Holistic Harm Reduction Program, which is designed to meet the living needs of recipients. (V. Leighty, persona communication, November 13, 1997)
- Delmarva Rural Ministries (DRM) is a private nonprofit organization that promotes HIV prevention to migrant farm workers and the rural poor in a tristate area of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Programs included distribution of informational pamphlets, free condoms, and HIV information posters to persons in migrant camps.(12)
The combination of (a) social marketing, (b) behavior change theory, (c) community planning groups, and (d) target audience participation creates a promising approach to the development of effective HIV/STD prevention education programs for rural areas. CDC has titled these components, the Prevention Marketing Initiative (PMI). (2) Strategies for implementing PMI are available from CDC through the National AIDS Clearinghouse (call 1-800-458-5231 and ask for Applying Prevention Marketing).
Sources of Information
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review. (1996). Community-level prevention of human immunodeficiency virus infection among high risk populations: The AIDS community demonstration projects. MMWR, 45, (RR-6).
- Ogden, L., Shepherd, M., & Smith W.A. (1996). The prevention marketing initiative: Applying prevention marketing. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Aggleton, P. (1997). Behavior change communication strategies. AIDS Education and Prevention, 9, 111-123.
- Rural Center for the Study and Promotion of HIV/STD Prevention. (1995). Behavior Change Models for Reducing HIV/STD Risk. (Fact Sheet #3). Bloomington, IN:RCSPHP.
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- Sumartojo, E., Carey, J.W., Doll, L.S., & Gayle, H. (1997). Targeted and general population interventions for HIV prevention: towards a comprehensive approach. AIDS, 11, 1201-1209.
- Kelly, J.A. et al. (1997). Randomized, controlled, community-level HIV-prevention intervention for sexual-risk bejavior among homosexual men in U.S. cities. Lancet, 350, 1500.
- Mertens, T.E., & Carael, M. (1997) Evaluation of HIV/STD prevention, care and support: an update on WHO's approaches. AIDS Education and Prevention, 9, 133-145.
- Anonymous, (1996). Condom social marketing boosts entire condom market in Brazil. AIDS Captions, 3, 36-38.
- Friedman, M.S. (1997). Strategies for HIV prevention planning among gay men in rural communities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, New York City, NY.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (1997). Innovative or promising practices in HIV prevention, HIV prevention community planning, and application development. National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention - Intervention Research and Support.
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BRAC addresses Baton Rouge race problem
Baton Rouge- Business leaders in the capital city said Baton Rouge has a race problem. "The business community acknowledges a racial divide in our city," said Ann Trappey, chairwoman of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber.
BRAC held a press conference Wednesday in response to the Alton Sterling shooting that took place July 5th. The organization called for two things:
-Awareness of racial disparities by residents
-Reform of government institutions to close the racial gap
Those reforms include community policing, criminal justice and sentencing reform, job opportunities for ex-convicts, work training, and public education initiatives.
BRAC members didn't say the reforms would have prevented Sterling's death. However, they said that creating economic opportunities for poor and minority communities in Baton Rouge would likely reduce crime and confrontations with police.
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Based on Marc Bekoff's years of experience studying the social communication patterns of a wide range of animals, The Emotional Lives of Animals shows that animals have rich emotional lives. The author also explores the evolutionary purposes of emotions in a wide range of different species, showing how science is discovering brain structures that produce emotions, how we can track an evolutionary continuum based on shared brain structures among species, and how new information is being revealed by noninvasive neurological research.
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William Gibson’s military records show that he emerged unscathed at the end of his twenty-year stint in the army. This might indicate that he did not serve at the hotspots of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, at least, though there were, of course, other engagements during that conflict – many of them less well-known to posterity.
Here, regimental records, combined with William’s own service documents, provide a useful timeline. If it is not known precisely which company of his battalion the ancestor was in it is difficult to be precise about where he was and when. A general picture, however, can be obtained.
Apparently, William did not arrive in
until after the two famous battles mentioned above were over. His unit, 2/4th
Foot (King’s Own Royal Regiment) had been stationed at North Camp, Aldershot,
in the first week of December 1878, when orders were received to proceed to Natal on active service.
Perhaps this came as a welcome break for William who had been at Natal Aldershot since August 1877; now he would see a part of
the world he hadn’t visited before.. The change from cold winter weather in England to the blazing heat of the plains of Natal and Zululand would
have been a culture shock for the troops.
|Durban harbour from the Bluff during the Anglo-Zulu War|
Various companies were embarked in the transports
Castle and the Teuton, sailing for Cape Town and .
The united companies were marched to Pietermaritzburg from Durban – about a fifty-mile hike in full kit
- and here they heard the devastating
news of Isandlwana and the subsequent heroic defending action at Rorke’s Drift. Durban
Those desperate engagements might have been too much excitement for William’s taste. There was, however, plenty more to come.
Several companies of William’s battalion were marched to Helpmekaar, and from thence to
Greytown. Other reinforcements still garrisoned in Utrecht Cape
Town were brought up the coast in the African, a privately owned
mailship, and later marched from
to Pietermaritzburg and onward up-country. Their route was swarming with the
enemy, who kept mainly out of sight. Three companies, with Major Blake and Capt
Moore, were surrounded by a Zulu impi but were not attacked. The battalion was
distributed over a wide area, including the Durban district, Luneberg etc and on 28
March were involved in the battle at Inhlobana Hill. Some 2nd/4th
casualties were incurred at Kambula. Utrecht
It was the end of the Zulu War for William as well as the end of his army career: he took his discharge on 17 August 1880, while his battalion went on to distinguish themselves in further action during the closing stages of the conflict.
|William Gibson's Discharge Papers|
William Gibson was certainly not cut in the heroic mould but was one of those hundreds of ordinary British soldiers who fought ‘
little wars’, more out of necessity and circumstance than any feelings of
patriotism or duty. Perhaps this makes their contribution all the more
laudable. Despite the odds and any personal fears, they were prepared to ‘Stand
To’ in the face of a warlike foe which was fiercely defending the Zulu
homeland. William was finally able to retire peacefully to Ayrshire together
with his brother and their sister’s family. After the vicissitudes of his
twenty years’ service he would have been entitled to draw his army pension. I
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Sunsetting can be a normal, mission-focused part of an organization’s life cycle and occurs when the work an organization set out to do has been done, capacity has been reached, and energy and resources are needed elsewhere.
Sunsetting is a strategic decision that requires transparency, honesty, and planning. The often emotionally charged task of bringing sunsetting into strategic conversations can be difficult for organizational leadership to confront. With that in mind, how can you and your organization prepare to confront the possibility of closure with a clear mind and intentional, empathetic decision making?
There are many reasons an organization might consider sunsetting, including:
- Accomplished mission
- Changes in external environment (demographics of community served, change in need for services, other organizations better suited for the work)
- Funding challenges, financial instability, or structural deficits
- Departure of a key leader or founder who is the reason the organization exists
- A combination of some or all of the above
You may be considering a sunset because your mission has been fulfilled, and you feel closing would allow for resources and energy to be redistributed elsewhere to better serve your community. This was the case for Project 515, a nonprofit that spearheaded the push for marriage equality in the state of Minnesota, when marriage equality became legalized officially in 2013. Project 515 closed shortly after in order to clear the way for other organizations continuing the work for LGBTQ rights in the state. Project 515 co-founder and board chair at the time, John Larsen, said, “I remember sitting in the attic of our house and saying, ‘we want to go out of business.’.” Founding board member Susan Cogger-Williams said in their final report, “To have been able to accomplish our ambitious mission and sunset our organization is such a privilege and honor. You can’t argue with success!”
You may also be considering sunsetting because something in your business model is not working anymore. For example, in 2018, Patrick’s Cabaret closed after realizing their cash flow projections indicated they could not financially sustain the work they did. Scott Artley, former executive artistic director, wrote about their sunset, describing the decision a painful one for him personally, but noting “This is… about disrupting the mythology that has us avoid even confronting the possibility of closure because we conflate personal failure with admitting that an operation is unsustainable.”
No matter the reason, deciding to sunset is a strategic decision that requires strategic thinking both during the decision itself and throughout its execution. It is easy to get lost in the checklist of legal requirements and financial to-dos, but being intentional and methodical about the process throughout can help to ensure your organization can have a celebratory farewell even if it’s bittersweet for the reasons listed above.
It is also important to acknowledge that sunsetting takes time. It is at least a six-month process, but depending on the size of your organization, it’s likely the process will be longer. Approaching this time intentionally will allow for the endurance needed to see the process through to the end.
What questions should you ask of yourself and your organization when considering a sunset?
- Does the mission of our organization still address a relevant issue? Are we effectively meeting the need our community is asking from us
- Are we currently operating in a way that honors our mission and our community?
- What role could sunsetting play in accomplishing our mission?
- What would the community lose if we are not here? Are there other organizations doing this work that can fill that need?
- Are there any programs that are succeeding that would continue to serve your community if continued by another organization? Who could be successors to continue this work? (See more on program transfers below.)
- Are we the right people doing this work at this time? Does sunsetting create more space and resources in the sector for other voices and organizations better suited for the work?
- Are the other options available to us conducive to sustainable success for the organization and those who support it, or are they short-term solutions that kick the can down the road? Will these options create more stressors that will strain employee capacity and ability to fulfill the mission?
After reflecting on these questions, you may decide sunsetting is not the route you and your organization need to take – that there’s another way to restructure or reimagine your organization.
However, if your leadership does decide sunsetting is the best way to honor your organization’s mission and the community you serve, trust that your team made the best decision you could with the information you had and the expertise you bring.
Sunsetting or Dissolution
So now what? You’ve made the decision to dissolve, but what logistical steps and strategic considerations are required to carry you to the finish line? Here we offer a path through as we see it, but know this process is not linear. You may jump from section to section as you respond and adapt to the needs of your team and your community during the closure.
Because this is a long process, it is important to identify key transition leadership early on. This task force or special committee can be a mix of staff members and board leadership, and once identified, this team will need to invest a significant amount of time and attention to winding the organization down. Sunsetting is a heavy lift for leadership, but there are several decisions big and small that must be made, so it is important to bring people with different skillsets and perspectives to this group. It might also be worth considering giving this group a formal container (ex: committee, task force), to make space for the level of commitment and capacity this process will require.
Role of the Board
The board is an integral part of the sunsetting process, both legally and strategically. They must be involved in early discussions and throughout the dissolution as a part of the transition team. Board members will also go through their own process of transitioning and letting go, including the mourning and celebration that comes along with difficult decisions. Take pauses throughout the sunset to check-in and make space for that processing.
- The board is core to the strategic thinking and decision making around sunsetting. Sunsetting takes time. Board members should plan to be engaged throughout to provide guidance and support.
- Board must vote to dissolve the organization. This includes approving a “plan of dissolution”. This vote must be documented in meeting minutes.
- Plan of dissolution is a written document describing a nonprofit’s plans for distribution of remaining assets and how it will address remaining liabilities.
- Board will submit necessary paperwork (see below).
- The board chair and treasurer will have ongoing IRS reporting responsibilities for several years after the formal shut down.
Though there are some clear steps when it comes to sunsetting, we acknowledge each organization is unique in its business model, community served, funding streams, staff needs, and strategic considerations. We highly recommend relying on additional expertise when and if you need it to guide and support you through the sunsetting process. This may include an accountant, a nonprofit attorney, and communications and/or strategy consultants. Some of these skillsets may already exist on your board, but having an outside perspective to keep the process moving and identify areas that need more attention can be incredibly useful.
If you have identified programs you’d like to see continue with a new home organization, there are a few key things to consider in a program transfer.
Identify partners that will honor the program’s intent. When VSA Arts sunsetted, they transferred many of their programs to organizations with similar missions. Craig Dunn, VSA’s former executive director, said, “We obviously can’t specify how they’re going to implement the programs going forward, but we want to be sure the expectations are clear, that there’s a formal commitment to the program intent.”
Get a clear picture of true program costs and the impact of allocations and overhead. This information will be key when looking for potential partners to take on the program.
When transferring programs, you must also consider the transfer of program-specific funding, assets and/or equipment required to continue the work. The program itself might have an inherent value, especially if it is a successful one.
Identify any trademark registrations, other intellectual property or intangible assets that need to be legally transferred.
If there are individual and/or institutional donors associated with this specific program, assist in connecting these donors to the new organization. The donor can decide if they want to stick with the program or not but be sure to communicate that you trust the commitment and capacity of the organization the program is being transferred to.
Communicating with your board and staff
- Be transparent about the strategic, operational, and financial situation of the organization and the ways in which sunsetting addresses those issues.
- Continue to have honest and intentional conversations with staff and board throughout the sunsetting process.
- Be sure to name and honor successes of the organization and those who committed their energy to it. Find ways throughout the process to celebrate those successes and the legacy of your work.
- When possible, help guide board members, staff members, and volunteers to new places to transfer their energy once the organization is officially dissolved.
Communicating with funders and stakeholders
- You should be the first to tell your donors about the sunset, rather than them finding out with the rest of the community. Make a plan for the sequence and roles for outreach. Frequently, organizations communicate first to major financial partners with a personal communication (leadership circles, major donors, and funders), then to your broader donor base, supporters , and finally to the general public.
- Communicating with clients needs attention and a careful plan based on the type of relationship and connection. For some kinds of services there are legal or contractual requirements for this notice.
- Convey gratitude – your donors supported you through it all. Include a summation of their impact, lift-up what they achieved with you, and celebrate the legacy of the organization they fostered. Strive for a balanced tone focused on positive impact.
- Point to other organizations that are doing great work in the field where donors can redirect their energy and resources. If capacity allows, facilitate those connections so people feel they are in good hands.
Communicating with your community
- Identify agreed-upon talking points with your board to balance confidentiality and transparency.
- A balanced tone is critical. Honor the legacy of your work publicly and share ways in which the community can celebrate that work with you.
- If there are other organizations serving your community well, use this opportunity to hold their work up. When applicable, offer next steps for the constituents you serve to connect to these services.
When sunsetting, your organization is also eliminating jobs and ending employment of a staff who have committed their time and energy to the mission. Each staff member will be going through their own sunsetting process as they begin to identify what is next for them. It is critical to be transparent and intentional with communication and next steps.
You must also follow the same process as you would if you were ending employment for any other reason. This may vary by state. (You can find more information for the state of Minnesota here.) This process will include providing a W-2, paying out accrued wages, and paying out benefits. This process may also vary based on your HR policies – it is critical that you refer to and follow your own established rules and practices. In some cases, offering severance or bonuses for staff to stay on through the conclusion of the work can be an important strategy to leverage as well to ensure you have the staff needed to close down and that people feel supported until the end. This is a place where outside legal advice is helpful.
It can be easy to get lost in the technical side of any major transition but remember that at its core a sunset is impacting people. Provide your staff with the references they will need to find their next step and make connections when able. Plan to make space in conversations for concerns and ideas from staff, so they feel heard and supported in the transition. Celebrate the work you all have accomplished together. Allow the same space and grace to yourself as a leader in this transition.
Financial and Legal Logistics
While there are some clear required legal steps when sunsetting, we recommend seeking legal consultation to ensure the steps reflect what your specific organization needs.
- Inventory assets: Identify what needs to be sold or transferred. Once the 45-day waiting period with the Attorney General’s office has past, you may begin selling, transferring, or disposing of assets.
- By law, sunsetting organizations must distribute remaining assets to other tax-exempt organizations or to the government, not individuals of any kind. Refer to your own articles of incorporation here, as some are very specific to the organization
- Identify any trademark registrations or other intangible assets that need to be transferred.
- Ensure transfers are compliant with federal and state law, your organization’s bylaws, and the plan of dissolution.
- Some kinds of assets will take longer to sell or transfer, such as buildings or specialized equipment. This all belongs in the sunsetting plan and schedule.
- If you have any specialized assets, you may require some special considerations or advice (for example: historical buildings, a collection, etc.).
- Document all transfers and sales for reporting.
- Review contracts: Review ongoing contracts to understand logistics, process, and cost of terminating.
- Notify creditors: Directly notify all known creditors that your nonprofit is going out of business. Once they are notified, they have 90 days to submit any claims against your organization.
- Make plan to pay off current debts and terminate future/recurring liabilities:
- What can be covered by existing cash? What needs to be sold to free up cash to cover debts?
- If you cannot satisfy debts, make a plan to contact vendors and creditors to negotiate payment. If necessary, bankruptcy is an option.
- Close all accounts: This may include bank accounts, web platforms, online giving portals, apps, etc.
- Insurance: Stay in touch with your insurance agent/broker to identify what coverage you have and what coverage needs to continue. Some policies will need to be maintained, and paid for, to cover any claims that may come up after closure.
- Other Obligations
- Refer to any outstanding donor agreements and obligations to ensure they have been met. This may include rooms, buildings, or programs named after corporate sponsors or major donors.
- Close out any reporting commitments from funders, granters, or other stakeholders.
When distribution is complete, financial statements should reflect no remaining liabilities.
- It’s worth considering, for ease of process, that the Board formally dissolve before the end of the current fiscal year, as it streamlines the filing process detailed below.
- File 990 including Schedule N with the IRS within 4 months and 15 days after the last day of your organization’s most recently completed fiscal year.
- File Notice of Intent to Dissolve with the Secretary of State of Minnesota. Note: Once the intent to dissolve is submitted, all programming must stop. All work and resources left after submitting must be working toward the closure.
- File terminating report with Charities Division of the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, including a plan of distribution of remaining assets. The Attorney General’s Office has 45 days to respond to the notice, or they can request an additional 30 days.
- Once assets are transferred, the Board must provide a list of how the assets were distributed to the Attorney General’s office.
- Finally, file Articles of Dissolution with the Secretary of State when assets are distributed and closure is complete.
- We recommend looking at the Guide for the Voluntary Dissolution of Minnesota Nonprofit Corporations created by our friends at LegalCORPS for additional support.
- Where do we store paperwork and legal documents?
- First identify what needs to be kept. Council of Nonprofits Document Retention Policy is a great place to start. Some documents have very specific legal commitments, such as confidential client, student, or legal records, and it is important to find out what those are before disposing of or making a storage plan.
- For documents you can dispose of, you can find local shredding services near you.
- Where can we store historical documents and assets?
- Take time to document what your nonprofit has done and any knowledge gained in its lifetime. This can be given to a library or historical society. You can learn more about what the Minnesota Historical Society accepts here.
- Where can we sell equipment and furniture?
- If you’re in the Twin Cities, Furnish Office and Home accepts donations of gently used or new office furniture.
As we’ve mentioned, sunsetting can take an emotional toll. Making space for grief throughout your process while celebrating your organization’s achievements will allow for a greater sense of closure.
Whether it culminates in a final event, a collection of stories, a physical memorial, or something else entirely – create a way honor the work and its
For example, Patrick’s Cabaret threw a FUNeral, a final performance celebrating Patrick’s Cabaret’s legacy. Artley described it as:
…a final chance to say goodbye in a flurry of color, glitter, humor, and togetherness. Featuring performances and a dance party, the event was both a parody of funereal traditions and a very real ritual to help the vast community of artists and audiences mourn, grieve, and ultimately accept the finality of an organization that had been an artistic home to many hundreds of performers over its three-decade lifespan.
Whatever way you choose to celebrate, we hope you center the incredible work of your team and the legacy that work will leave in your community. Allow space for some rest and reflection. Honor the bravery and strategic smarts it took to get here. Then once this chapter is closed, and when you’re ready, you can start imagining what’s next.
- LegalCORPS: https://legalcorps.org/
- Guide for the Voluntary Dissolution of Minnesota Nonprofit Corporations
- Council of Nonprofits: Dissolving a Nonprofit Corporation
- Blue Avocado: Closing Down the Right Way
- Blue Avocado: Thinking the Unthinkable: Maybe We Should Shut Down
- Hurwit & Associates: Nonprofit Mergers, Affiliations and Re-Organizations
- The M Word: A Board Member’s Guide to Mergers
- Nonprofit AF: We must all think about sunsetting, not just foundations
- Nonprofit Dissolution: What Do You Need To Know
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Music therapy: The use of music in therapy; the therapeutic use of music. There are many different definitions of music therapy ranging from the trivial (a form of distraction that uses music as an aid to relaxation) to the lofty (the prescribed use of music to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and spiritual health and well-being).
Music therapy facilitates the creative process of moving toward wholeness in the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual self in areas such as: independence, freedom to change, adaptability, balance and integration. The implementation of music therapy involves interactions of the therapist, client and music. These interactions initiate and sustain musical and non-musical change processes which may or may not be observable. As the musical elements of rhythm, melody and harmony are elaborated across time, the therapist and client can develop relationships which optimize the quality of life. (Based on the definition of music therapy in the Joint Declaration of the 1982 International Symposium of Music Therapists)
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Minnesota farmers are leaders in the production of corn, soybeans, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes, milk, pork, beef and poultry products. They are also leaders in conservation.
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The Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to assisting Minnesota farmers in addressing water quality concerns.
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In a joint statement, the members of EI, the Quebec Federation of University Professors of Canada (FQPPU) and the national trade union of higher education of France (SNESUP-FSU), undertook to pool their resources to defend public universities.
The FQPPU and the SNESUP share a similar vision of an open, collegial and democratic university, accessible to many students, devoted to meeting social needs and protected from pressure from any political, economic or religious force. In the coming months, the two organisations will cooperate in studies, public meetings and events to bring people together to support their vision.
Pressure from external forces
For years, the fundamental mission of universities in France and in Quebec – to provide a public service for education and research – has undergone major changes. Universities are increasingly subjected to external influences that divert them from the public interest and weaken academic freedom and independence of research, both essential to a university’s mission.
A gradual but notable disengagement by the State is compromising the social and humanistic function of the university, and its capacity to meet collective needs. This impacts on students and allows the private sector a greater influence on the institution. This, in turn, leads to an increase in tuition and registration fees, a targeted and authoritarian guidance of research, and governance based on commercial principles.
FQPPU President Max Roy pointed out that the “current crisis in higher education is an international phenomenon that requires vigorous and concerted action from the academic community. The alliance between the FQPPU and the SNESUP confirms our determination to defend the university as a public service.”
For his part, Stéphane Tassel, General Secretary of the SNESUP-FSU, said that the “situation faced by higher education and research as a public service in France, and the tough battles we are waging, are similar to the situation and struggles faced by our colleagues in Quebec and their students. At a pivotal moment, we wanted to reaffirm our commitment to the public university on either side of the ‘pond’, in its universal dimension and major role in society.”
EI has lent its support to the aspirations of these member organisations. “Higher education and research constitute a public good that is essential for the social, cultural and economic development of communities, nations and regions,” said EI General Secretary, Fred van Leeuwen. “Consequently, it is incumbent upon the States to guarantee sufficient funding for higher education and research institutions.
“EI welcomes wholeheartedly this initiative from member organisations, and will continue to campaign for the full implementation of UNESCO’s 1997 recommendation concerning the status of higher education teaching personnel. The situation of higher education and research in these two countries will undoubtedly be at the heart of the discussions during the higher education and research world conference that will be held on 25-27 September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.”
Guaranteeing the exercise of academic freedoms
The 5th EI World Congress, held in Berlin in July 2007, adopted a resolution on higher education and research as a public service. This emphasises that the exercise of academic freedoms must be guaranteed for higher education teaching personnel and research staff, comprising the:
· Freedom of instruction and discussion free from any doctrinal constraint
· Freedom to conduct research and to disseminate and publish the results
· Right to express freely one’s opinion on the institution or the system in which one works
· Right not to be subjected to institutional censure
· Right to take part freely in the activities of professional organisations or representative academic organisations
The same congress also adopted a resolution on fixed-term higher education teaching personnel, which calls on EI to “recognise the value of the service provided by qualified fixed-term higher education teaching personnel, but oppose the overuse and exploitation of fixed-term appointments by higher education institutions”.
This resolution also encourages higher education affiliates to ensure that fixed-term higher education teaching personnel have guaranteed fair and equitable representation at all levels of any association or union, including membership on executive committees, bargaining committees and standing committees.
The FQPPU/SNESUP joint statement is available here
To read the Resolution on higher education and research as a public service, click here
To read the resolution on fixed-term higher education teaching personnel, click here
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A hungry mob is an angry mob ...
So says Bob Marley in "Them belly full, but we hungry." While the popular uprising in Egypt is clearly being driven by widespread dissatisfaction with 30 years of the clan Mubarak, other aspects of the unrest are undeniably economic. Egypt endures high rates of unemployment and its young people are frustrated by limited opportunities. But food insecurity is also playing a part in the week’s drama.
The United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organization reports that food commodity prices have spiked to heights not seen since the 2008 price hikes that sparked riots around the world. FAO officials are worried that we could be entering a long period of higher prices. Commodity traders are reporting that some nations are attempting to deal with the problem by hoarding commodity supplies, leading to further price escalation and drawing commodity speculators in, exacerbating the scarcity and high prics they are attempting to protect themselves from.
None of these conditions bode well for Egypt, which imports nearly half its food and is perhaps the world’s largest wheat importer. Unemployment and food prices also contributed to the unrest in Tunisia, and protests against escalating food prices recently took place in Jordan and Algeria. Other nations will soon be facing their own tensions over food prices and restive populaces. People are certainly hungry for democracy and freedom in the Arab world, but it’s also true that people are just plain hungry. | <urn:uuid:1ee7fdab-4815-4c85-b690-35d1a013c93e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/2011/01/hungry-mob-angry-mob | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970665 | 290 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Fall is the perfect time of year to get the family together in the garden. Why wait? Gather the gardening gloves, shovel and seeds, and get started with exciting projects today.
Fall is such a magical season for families. It’s the time of year when kids can jump into the pile of leaves just raked; cool, crisp air wraps around you; and leaves begin to fall, filling the yard with all sorts of color. It’s an amazing time for family activities — especially planting.
Before you make plans for family outings this fall, think about a few activities the whole family can enjoy right in the backyard. Kids will love the feel of dirt on their hands, and they’ll take pride in completing their own outdoor projects.
This project lets kids create their own garden that goes wherever they go. Simply fill the bucket with soil, place seeds inside and water. It only takes a few minutes to get started, but the smiles on their faces will last season after season.
Fill jars with water and add food coloring. Place a celery stalk inside the jar. As transpiration takes place, water is pulled through the stem. The colored water will dye the celery stalk. It’s a great way to show how plants absorb water.
Crack an egg, saving the lower two-thirds of the shell. Once it’s clean, draw eyes, a nose and a mouth on the shell with a felt tip pen. Next, fill the shell with potting soil. Put grass seed in the soil and dampen with water. Repeat this process to make as many eggheads as you’d like. Finally, place your eggheads in an egg carton, and watch your plant grow. Kids will love it.
Make a family garden journal that you can update all year. Set aside time to write notes, make observations and record information about the progress of your garden.
Adopt a plant and keep track of its growth. Make note of its unique characteristics and what your family likes most about it. Consider working with a sick plant, keeping a log of what you do to help it heal.
Allow the kids to make some mud (using a little dirt and water) and feel it between their fingers and toes. Let them walk on paper, finger-paint and write out words the whole family can see.
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noun (pl) tagetes
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noun 1. a nonreactive substance added to an explosive that may be traced if the explosive is used for unlawful purposes.
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For the better part of four decades, the business world has been dominated by one generation: the Baby Boomers.
Identified as anyone born from 1946-1964, the Baby Boomer generation is the largest generation in American history. From the instant they began their post-education careers, they have been leaders. Leading by example, leading by force, leading through the sheer size of their group.
But for the first time since their ascension into leadership roles nearly 40 years ago, the Baby Boomers are now facing a challenge from a new generation.
That generation is Generation Next. Also referenced as Generation Y and, occasionally, Millennials, GenNext is the group of young professionals currently flooding into today’s professional ranks. With birthdates between 1975 and 1995, GenNext is poised to soon take over the businesses run by their parents and lead those businesses for many decades to come.
During a webinar on Wednesday, professional sales consultant Jim Pancero spoke to members of the aftermarket’s GenNext group about the challenges these young professionals and their Baby Boomers superiors may face during in the coming years.
We are undoubtedly in a transitional period, Pancero says, and making that transition run smoothly will require cooperation and compromise from both sides.
The two generations are very different, Pancero says, and describes them as follows:
- Baby Boomers: Incredibly individualistic and self-reliant. They strive to win everything, and view co-workers as possible hindrances to their relationships with their customers. Typically resistant to technology and assistance, Baby Boomers expect to be left alone to do their job.
- GenNext: Nearly the polar opposite of their predecessors, as they actively pursue careers where they can work in a team or collaborative atmosphere. They want to create best practices to assist all customers equally, and view co-workers as reinforcements in their relationships with customers.
Speaking to the latter group, Pancero advised the young professionals to use older communication methods when working with the Baby Boomers.
GenNext will be in power sooner or later, but having a strong relationship with Boomers will allow them to take over in the smoothest way possible, he says.
“What you really have to ask yourselves is ‘How do we deal with the Boomers while they are still in power?’” he says.
One area where Pancero says GenNext can do itself a favor is by asking Baby Boomers for guidance. Viewed by Pancero as the “most important thing” in growing a Baby Boomer/GenNext relationship, Pancero says mentoring allows Boomers to pass on their expertise while still clearly remaining the dominant side of an employee relationship.
Another area where GenNext can build strong relationships with their elders is through an outward-focused personality. Don’t just think about yourself, Pancero says, think about the company and how every decision you make impacts its profitability and its customers.
Baby Boomers unfortunately view GenNext and Millennials as “me-first” employees. Showing a willingness to put your operation above your personal needs is a good way to neutralize that, he says.
Technology is another pressure point for Baby Boomers where GenNext should be careful, Pancero says.
Because they are so resistant to change, and technological change in particular, Pancero says Boomers must be approached carefully when discussing technological advancements.
He says to sell the product’s solutions; not the product itself.
“Show me how a new product can lower costs or give us a competitive advantage,” he says. “Show me how it can help our customers.”
And Pancero adds to never forget the Platinum Rule.
“Treat people the way they want to be treated,” he says.
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Statement by the Press Secretary on a Call for the Release of Dr. Kamal Labwani and Other
As we commemorate Human Rights Day, we call attention to the continued imprisonment in Syria of Dr. Kamal Labwani and the many other prisoners of conscience whom the Syrian authorities have denied the fundamental right to freedom of opinion and expression. Dr. Labwani was arrested by Syrian authorities in Damascus on November 8, 2005, upon his return from Paris and Washington, DC. While in Washington, Dr. Labwani participated in a cultural exchange program organized by the Department of State and attended a meeting at the White House. President Bush calls on the Syrian Government to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Labwani and all other prisoners of conscience, including Habib Saleh and Nizar Rastanawi, as well as those arrested after the Damascus Spring: Arif Dalilah, Riad Seif, Mamun al-Homsi, Walid al Bunni, Habib Issa, and Fawaz Tello. The imprisonment of these and other Syrian prisoners of conscience is just one example of the government of Syria's ongoing repression of the Syrian people. The Syrian Government must cease its harassment of Syrians peacefully seeking to bring democratic reform to their country. The United States stands with the Syrian people in their desire for freedom and democracy.
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Forecasting: Principles and Practice is the title of a new book by Rob Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos.
As Rob says on his webpage:
"The book is different from other forecasting textbooks in several ways.
- It is free and online, making it accessible to a wide audience.
- It is based around the forecast package for R.
- It is continuously updated. You don’t have to wait until the next edition for errors to be removed or new methods to be discussed. We will update the book frequently.
- There are dozens of real data examples taken from our own consulting practice. We have worked with hundreds of businesses and organizations helping them with forecasting issues, and this experience has contributed directly to many of the examples given here, as well as guiding our general philosophy of forecasting.
- We emphasise graphical methods more than most forecasters. We use graphs to explore the data, analyse the validity of the models fitted and present the forecasting results."
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What is Net Assets Value (NAV)?
Net Asset Value (NAV) is the market value of each unit of a Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP) fund. In simple words, if you add the market value of all the investments in the fund and divide it by the number of units in that fund, the resulting figure will be NAV. Just like shares have a share price, ULIP funds have an NAV.
It is not wise to base your investment decision on the NAV of a ULIP fund. NAV does not reflect future prospects of the ULIP fund.
Suppose you invest ₹10,000 each in Fund A with NAV as ₹20 and Fund B with NAV as ₹100. You will be allotted 500 units of Fund A and 100 units of Fund B. Assuming that both funds have invested their entire corpus in exactly same stocks and the same proportions if the underlying stocks collectively appreciate by 10%, the NAV of the two funds should also rise by 10%, to ₹22 and ₹110, respectively. Thus, in both scenarios, the value of your investment increases to ₹ 11,000.
Thus, the current NAV of a fund does not have any impact on the returns.
How does investment-timing affect NAV?
In case of ULIP fund, the cut off time is 3pm You will be allotted the NAV of the same day or the next day according to the time at which you submit your application and funds. Usually, if the application form and funds are received before 3pm; units are allotted based on the same day's NAV; otherwise, units are allotted based on the next day's NAV.
Change in valuation methodology of equity shares as prescribed by Insurance and Regulatory Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
IRDAI, through its circular number IRDA/F&I/INV/CIR/213/10/2013 dated 30/10/2013 has mandated Insurers to select either NSE or BSE as the Primary and Secondary exchange for valuation of its equity shares. The company has, owing to the volume of trades, selected Natonal Stock Exchange (NSE) or Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) as the Primary and Secondary exchange with effect from 28/11/2013. Accordingly, the equity shares held by the Company shall be valued at the closing price of the Primary Exchange, i.e., NSE. In case a security is not listed or traded on NSE, the Company shall use the closing price of the Secondary Exchange, i.e., BSE.
Modification in NAV computation
As stipulated by IRDAI effective 18/08/2011
As stipulated by the IRDAI, in its circular dated 29/07/2011 the formula for the computation of the NAV for linked funds stands modified.
The old formula as prescribed by IRDAI and as contained in the policy document: Market value of the investment plus / (minus) expenses incurred in the purchase / (sale) of assets plus current assets and accrued interest (net of fund management charges) less current liabilities and provisions, divided by, number of units outstanding under the fund at valuation date (before creation / redemption of units).
The modified formula as stipulated by IRDAI effective August 18, 2011: Market value of the investment held by the fund plus value of current assets less value of current liabilities and provisions, if any and divided by the number of units existing on the valuation date (before creation/redemption of units).
The policy document shall accordingly stand modified.
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Scaling-up HIV/AIDS Financing and the Role of Macroeconomic Policies in Kenya
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NORWICH – Two natural gas wells scheduled to be drilled in Smyrna in the coming weeks are within an extensive fresh water aquifer that holds drinking water reserves for the towns of Smyrna, Sherburne and North Norwich.
The Y-shaped reservoir encompasses approximately seven miles. Based on a 1984 U.S. Geological Water Resources Investigation, the stratified drift (gravel and sand overlying bedrock) aquifer, in the valley area from Smyrna Village south through Sherburne Four Corners, and south to North Norwich, thickens from about 120 feet near Smyrna Village to more than 300 feet in the North Norwich area. Similarly, the aquifer is approximately 100 feet thick near Sherburne Village, and thickens to the south along the Rt. 12 corridor to North Norwich. The water-table and confined aquifers within the valley hold at least 19.6 billion gallons of usable ground water in storage.
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To reduce your risk for chronic diseases, such as heart disease, perform cardiovascular exercise on a regular basis. Physical activity recommendations are based on the duration of your exercise, not the total calories you burn. For example, the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans suggest getting 2.5 to 5 hours of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking on a treadmill, weekly. However, if weight loss is your goal, keeping track of your calorie expenditure can help you achieve your goal weight.
If you’re overweight or obese, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests losing 1 to 2 pounds per week by creating a daily deficit of 500 to 1,000 calories. If your calorie intake remains constant, aim to burn an additional 500 to 1,000 calories daily on your treadmill. Or, you can combine a reduced-calorie diet with exercise. For example, if you reduce your calories by 250 and burn 250 calories on a treadmill, you’ll create a 500-calorie deficit to lose about 1 pound per week.
The duration of your workout is most important for healthy weight management and disease prevention. A review published in a 2007 edition of “Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise” recommends getting at least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise five days per week to stay healthy. Another review published in a 2009 edition of “Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise” suggests getting more than 250 minutes of exercise weekly enhances weight loss.
The number of calories you’ll burn on a treadmill is based on your duration and exercise intensity. According to Harvard Health Publications, a 155-pound person will burn about 300 calories walking on a treadmill for one hour at a pace of 3.5 miles per hour. The same 155-pound person will burn about 820 calories in an hour running 6.7 miles per hour.
Healthy Weight Maintenance
Regardless of the number of calories you burn exercising on a treadmill, your total calorie intake determines your body weight. If you eat the same number of calories your body burns throughout the day, you’ll maintain your weight. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 estimate most active women need 2,000 to 2,400 calories daily, while most men require 2,400 to 3,000 calories a day to maintain healthy body weights.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans Summary
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Azhwars are the foremost devotees of Lord Vishnu. They begot the name Azhwars as they were immersed in true devotion towards the Lord.The 12 azhwars are the true guide to unflinching devotion. Boothathazhwar, Poigaiazhwar and Peyazhwar are called the Mudazhwars. Thirumazhisai azhwar, Tirumangai, Periyazhwar, Kulasekara, Nammazhwar, Madurakavi, Tondaradipodi, Tirupanazhwar are the rest. Andal is the only female amongst the 12 azhwars. Each of these azhwars belonged to a different caste thus proving to the world that caste is no barrier to devotion. Their hymns- the Nalayira Divyaprabhandam (4000 in number) are soaked in pure love and bliss. Their stories along with a few of their hymns with apt songs are presented in these 2 DVDs by Smt. Vishakha Hari. May we enjoy this eternal experience. Smt. Vishakha Hari is a practioner of the ancient beautiful form of art called Harikatha or Katha keerthan. Herein she weaves beautiful stories of value and wisdom interspersed with mellifluous songs of yesteryear great composers. Her themes are varied and are generally from our great epicsand puranas like the Ramayan and Srimad Bhagavath. She presents Harikathas in Tamil and English (the narrative is in Tamil or English) and the songs are from various languages including Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi and Sanskrit. Her Gurus are Shri Lalgudi G.Jayaraman, the great violin maestro for music, Shri Krishnapremi Swamigal and Shri R. Hariji (her husband) for katha (story component). In this pack of 2 DVDs she is ably supported by violin vidwan Shri Ananthakrishnan, Shri Arjun Ganesh on the mrudangam, Shri Trichy Murali on the ghatam. Kruthi Bhat and Keerthana Bhat who are also students of the Lalgudi school provide beautiful vocal harmony enriching and enlivening the harikatha. | <urn:uuid:6101ff90-849f-4c8d-9b11-bf5b74251c61> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kalakendra.com/devotional/harikatha/azhwargal-vaibhavam-sd800 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00123-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929551 | 503 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Astronomers have cracked the Milky Way like a piñata, and planets are now pouring out so fast that they do not know what to do with them all.
In a long-awaited announcement, scientists operating NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting satellite reported on Wednesday that they had identified 1,235 possible planets orbiting other stars, potentially tripling the number of known planets.
Of the new candidates, 68 are one and a quarter times the size of the Earth or smaller — smaller, that is, than any previously discovered planets outside the solar system, which are known as exoplanets. Fifty-four of the possible exoplanets are in the so-called habitable zones of stars dimmer and cooler than the Sun, where temperatures should be moderate enough for liquid water.
Astronomers said that it would take years to confirm that all of these candidates were really planets — by using ground-based telescopes to measure their masses, for example, or inspecting them to see if background stars are causing optical mischief. Many of them might never be vetted because of the dimness of their stars and the lack of telescope time and astronomers to do it all. But statistical tests of a sample suggest that 80 to 95 percent of the objects on it are real, as opposed to blips in the data.Continue reading the main story
“It boggles the mind,” said the Kepler team’s leader, William Borucki, of the Ames Research Center in Northern California.
At first glance, not one of them appears to be another Earth, the kind of cosmic Eden fit for life as we know it, but the new results represent only four months’ worth of data on a three-and-a-half-year project, and have left astronomers optimistic that they will eventually find Earth-like planets.
“For the first time in human history, we have a pool of potentially rocky habitable-zone planets,” said Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who works with Kepler. “This is the first big step forward to answering the ancient question, ‘How common are other Earths?’ ”
At a news conference at NASA headquarters in Washington on Wednesday, Mr. Borucki noted that the Kepler telescope surveys only one four-hundredth of the sky. If it could see the whole sky, he said, “we would see 400,000 candidates.” He is the lead author of a paper describing the new results that has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.
In a separate announcement, to be published in the journal Nature on Thursday, a group of Kepler astronomers led by Jack Lissauer of Ames said it had found a star with six planets — the most Kepler has yet discovered around one star — orbiting in close ranks in the same plane, no farther from their star than Mercury is from the Sun.
This dense packing, Dr. Lissauer said, seems to violate all the rules astronomers have begun to discern about how planetary systems form and evolve.
“This is sending me back to the drawing board,” he said.
Summarizing the news from the cosmos, Geoffrey W. Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, a veteran exoplanet hunter and a mainstay of the Kepler work, said, “There are so many messages here that it’s hard to know where to begin.”
He called the Borucki team’s announcement “an extraordinary planet windfall, a moment that will be written in textbooks. It will be thought of as watershed.”
Debra Fischer, an astronomer at Yale who is not part of the Kepler team, said, “This is an amazing era of discovery for astronomy.” Kepler, she added, had “blown the lid off everything we thought we knew about exoplanets.”
Kepler, launched into orbit around the Sun in March 2009, stares at a patch of the Milky Way near the Northern Cross, measuring the brightness of 156,000 stars every 30 minutes, looking for a pattern of dips that would be caused by planets crossing in front of their suns.
The goal is to assess the frequency of Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. But in the four months of data analyzed so far, a similar telescope looking at our own Sun would have been lucky to have seen the Earth pass even once. Three transits are required for a planet to show up in Kepler’s elaborate data-processing pipeline, which means that Kepler’s next scheduled data release, in June 2012, could be a moment of truth for the mission.
For dimmer and cooler stars, the habitable, or “Goldilocks,” zone, would be smaller, however, and planets in it would rack up transits more quickly.
Scientists had eagerly anticipated Wednesday’s data release since June, when Kepler scientists issued their first list of some 300 stars that were suspected of harboring planets but held back another 400 for study. In the intervening months, Mr. Borucki said, some of those candidates have been eliminated, but hundreds more have been added that would otherwise have been reported in June.
One of the 400 was a Sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus that went by the name of KOI 157, for Kepler Object of Interest. In the spring of 2009, astronomers noticed that it seemed to have five candidate planets, four with nearly the same orbital periods, and in the same plane, like an old vinyl record, Dr. Lissauer said. Two of them came so close that every 50 days one of them would look as large as a full moon as seen from the other, Dr. Lissauer calculated.
“I got very interested in this system,” Dr. Lissauer said. “Five was the most we had around any target.” Moreover, the planets’ proximity to one another meant that they would interact gravitationally, allowing them to be weighed. In the fall, a sixth planet — the innermost — was found.
By measuring the slight variations in transit times caused by the gravitational interference of the inner five planets with one another, Dr. Lissauer and his colleagues were able to calculate their masses and densities. These measurements confirmed they were so-called super-Earths, with masses ranging from 2 to 13 times that of the Earth. But they were also puffy, probably containing mixtures of rock, water and gas, rather than being pure rock like another super-Earth, Kepler 10b, a hunk of lava whose existence was announced last month at a meeting in Seattle. Dr. Lissauer described them as “sort of like marshmallows with a little hard-candy core.”
As a result, Dr. Lissauer said, “super-Earths might not resemble Earth at all. They may be more like Neptune than Earth-like.”
Alan Boss, a planetary theorist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said the Kepler 11 system, as it is now known, should “keep theorists busy and off the streets for a long time.”
Mr. Borucki said the growing number of small planets revealed by Kepler was a welcome change from the early days of exoplanet research, when most of the planets discovered were Jupiter-size giants hugging their stars in close orbits, leading theorists to speculate that smaller planets might be thrown outward from their stars by gravitational forces or dragged right into those suns.
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Green beans are a crowd-pleasing vegetable—and one of the quickest cooking side dishes you can make. Below, you'll find some of our favorite ways to cook green beans for dinner.
How to Prep Green Beans
Before cooking, snap off the stem end of the vegetable. Some green beans come with this end already detached. If yours still have it, just snap off the very end of the stem of each bean—a great task for any helping hands in the kitchen. Alternatively, you can line up all of the beans on your cutting board and slice off all the stems at once. There's no need to remove the "top" side with the tender shoots, though of course you can if you prefer.
Want shorter beans? Go ahead and line up several beans on your cutting surface and cut them into any length you want.
How to Blanch Green Beans
Blanching, or briefly boiling, green beans is one of the most versatile ways to cook them. You can chill blanched green beans and toss into a salad, or you can sauté blanched green beans in butter or oil to finish. Here's how to do it:
- Bring a large pot of water up to a boil.
- Season with salt liberally. You want the water to taste like the ocean—just as if you were making pasta.
- Add beans and continue to boil for 2 to 5 minutes. Remember, smaller beans will take less time to cook.
- To test doneness, use tongs to pull out one bean and rinse briefly under cool water. Take a bite. Remember that if you plan to sauté the green beans after blanching you'll want to undercook them, so remove them when they're still quite crisp.
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The MP for South West Norfolk Elizabeth Truss wants teenagers to study maths until they are 18 to improve the nation's knowledge of the subject.
In a paper published today, she set out reforms which would make maths compulsory by 2015, in line with plans to raise the school leaving age to 18.
The Conservative MP says maths should be treated differently from other qualifications, and that when teenagers begin A-Levels, vocational courses or an apprenticeship they should continue to study the subject. She also claims that despite being the qualification most in demand, maths is the subject in which the UK performs poorest in international tables.
"The proposal is that mathematics should be 'decoupled' from other A-levels and vocational courses and offered as a separate course taken by all students from 2015," the paper says.
"It could then be offered in three levels for all 16-18 -year-olds accompanied by two or three A-levels, a vocational qualification or an apprenticeship.
"Every student would have a level and grade and these would be reported in the league tables."
Ms Truss says that reforms are necessary as evidence shows that there is a shortage of maths teachers to teach the next generation, and that many adults do not have good enough maths skills for work or modern life.
Last summer's A-level results showed large increases in the number of entries for science subjects and mathematics.
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This week, our group discussed patrimonial politics. There is probably no better place to do that than Chicago! We looked more closely at the reality of the state-building project for Afghanistan, but tried to step away from the dominant Western discourse on human rights and democracy to understand how Afghan politics really work. We considered different cases and models of governance, and looked at various political actors, strategies and sources of power.
We focused most of our attention on two articles. In Warlords as Bureaucrats, Dipali Mukhopadhyay investigates two cases of “warlord-governors” and discusses their hybrid models of governance. It is fascinating to see how these two political actors have managed to combine formal and informal power to actually deliver services to the population, the central government, and the international community.
In Centre-periphery relations in Afghanistan: Badakhshan between patrimonialism and institution-building, Giustozzi and Orsini show that, since 2002, the state-building process in Badakhshan consists of a centralization of the patronage system. They argue that electoral politics are not necessarily compatible with patrimonial systems, because they create uncertainties and short-term calculations that have a negative impact on the stability of the region.
Interestingly, both articles show that institution-building and patrimonialism are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In Giustozzi and Orsini’s words: “they are ideal types that can engage in a dialectic relationship.” What is probably not compatible with patrimonialism is the overambitious state-building project that is promoted by Western institutions in Afghanistan. It is now time for Western policy-makers to adapt to the Afghan political reality. | <urn:uuid:8dd8a343-677f-4931-8881-052843b2e56b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://afghanopoly.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/patrimonialism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.947755 | 358 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Internships have traditionally been filled by college student looking for professional experience prior to graduation with an opportunity to gain college credits in lieu of compensation. With unemployment running high and more workers switching jobs several times throughout the span of their careers, it is more common now to find middle-aged professionals, particularly unemployed job seekers, vying for these internships.
In addition to the new or enhanced skills that you stand to gain through an internship, the experience can also place you in a favorable light with prospective employers. Upon hearing about your internship, a hiring manager is likely to perceive you as someone with initiative who has spent your time off wisely. Another plus of an internship is that you avoid potential work history gaps on your resume.
If you’re a middle-aged worker seeking an internship, be prepared for a company representative to question why you’re willing to take an unpaid position after having worked for pay for several years. In response, you might state that you’re willing to take an unpaid internship position to gain valuable experience and skills for landing a future job.
Before accepting an internship, be sure that expectations are clearly defined. If possible, document the expectations of both parties in a formal internship agreement to be signed by you and a representative of the company with whom you’ll be interning.
College students have known it, but middle-aged workers are just discovering that internships can be a valuable and rewarding experience. Also, internships are a great way to explore and test out a new career. In some cases, an internship may result in a job offer from the company with whom you’re interning. But minimally, it should give you the competitive edge you need to land a job offer in today’s very challenging job market. | <urn:uuid:9e55bd7c-772e-482a-b909-cb5ce8668d2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thedailyleap.blogspot.com/2010/07/today-internships-arent-just-for.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00515-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964032 | 361 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes’s energetic and frequently farcical play centers on Jim and Dave, a two-man song-and-dance team, and Daisy, the woman who drives a wedge between them. Jim and Dave have been best friends all their lives but when they both start courting Daisy, tensions flare. Finally overcome by jealousy, Jim hits Dave with the hock bone from a mule and knocks him out. Jim is arrested and brought to a make-shift trial by the town’s mayor and self-appointed judge, Joe Clarke. Hilarity ensues, swiftly followed by chaos as the town splits into two opposing factions: the Methodists, who want to pardon Jim; and the Baptists, who are keen to banish him for his crime. As the trial comes to close and Jim is banished from his hometown, Daisy is finally forced to make her choice between the two men. However, her expectations for her future husband bring Jim and Dave to their senses and they return to Eatonville, vowing to never let a woman between them again.
Editor’s Note: This play was written, and is set, in 1930. Its language, use of slang, and turns of phrase (many of which are not commonly accepted today) are consistent with its historical and cultural context.
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Equatorial Guinea enjoys development and democracy, and has become an example of social stability for African countries, said Jeronimo Osa Osa Ecoro, Secretary General of the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), in a recent statement.
Osa Osa made the statement in response to remarks by President Barak Obama at a meeting of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. President Obama had cited the long tenures of some African presidents as hindrances to the development of democracy in Africa.
Osa Osa recalled that African countries are very young democracies, currently undergoing development, and need their own time to evolve.
“We have only been living in the Western fashion for a short time,” he said, “largely due to the abuses that Western peoples exerted on our continent. Therefore, we cannot ask that now, in only fifty years, we live the same, feel the same and be as organized as they are, for example, in the United States. We ask the President of the United States and the rest of the Western world to understand that each country needs its own time and its evolution.”
Referring to Equatorial Guinea, Osa Osa said, “The permanence or longevity in office of H.E. Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has never been because he personally held onto power against popular will, but his election is due to popular vote, and renewed his mandate as a charismatic leader elected by his people.”
He said, “In these 36 years, the people of Equatorial Guinea have gone from being miserable and anonymous Africans, to being able to exercise a sense of pride and dignity that President Obama spoke of in his speech to the African Union.
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Atlanta, GA, is a hard place for Orthodox Jews to leave: That was the message I got from my Shabbat hosts in Atlanta. That is even though they are dreaming of making Aliyah to Israel and even own homes/apartments there. Everything they need for a full, fulfilling, rewarding Torah Jewish life can be conveniently found in their Atlanta neighborhood.
If the State of Israel, Prime Minister on down would just announce, inflexibly that we declare sovereignty over all of Judea, Samaria, Jordan Valley, Golan etc, no negotiations, they would back us. Your ordinary person in the States, according to them, accepts the 1967 Six Day War victory as the legal defeat of the Arab armies, Jordan, Egypt and Syria, which had tried to destroy the State of Israel. We never fought a country called “Palestine,” since there never was one in the entire history of the world. The so-called “Palestinian People” is a fiction invented/created to undermine and destroy the Jewish State of Israel.
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FIRST AID AT SEA
This a clearly set out aide memoire to emergency first aid. It is aimed at the younger more active sailor and deals with the common cuts and bruises of life on board, before going to to very brief instructions on how to cope with heart attacks and strokes. The print is large and clear ad the ring binder makes access to the relevant page easy, which will be helpful in an emergency.
However, there are 2 valid, and hopefully constructive, criticism which can be made of the content:
Under “man overboard” (p 11), although the text says it is vital to prevent this in the first place, there is no warning or advice on how to avoid this in marinas. There are sadly an increasing number of man overboard episodes occurring in marinas. (There were at least 3 in ours last year, including 2 after midnight where rescue was effected by neighbouring boat crews who heard cries for help.)
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The integrity of business in the Kingdom is threatened by a flawed legal framework and a culture of corruption, according to a report released yesterday by Transparency International Cambodia
Some two years in the making, the corruption watchdog’s wide-ranging study gives the business sector – one of 13 governance institutions it says is required to sustain a system of integrity – an overall “weak” rating of 32 points out of a possible 100.
Endemic corruption, business connections to the political elite, a weak judiciary and a lack of transparency all contribute to a business environment with little accountability and a lack of integrity, according to the report.
“Threats to business integrity include the limited implementation of certain laws, as well as widespread petty corruption and high-level nepotism within the patronage network of the ruling elite,” the report reads.
While there are laws to allow for the easy establishment of businesses and the creation of contracts, and a requirement for financial record keeping, the rules are poorly enforced and easily avoided, TI found.
Heavy bureaucratic processes open the door to bribe seeking and bribe offering, while business records stay in-house and are rarely made public.
Rath Sophoan, chairman of the board of directors for TI, said many foreign companies in Cambodia were prevented by their own regulations from engaging in corrupt practices.
“They have lots of laws governing them, and they have resources and the capacity to build internal structures to reduce their chance of committing corruption,” he said, using UK businesses as an example.
However, for local companies that rely heavily on government support for their business, corruption is difficult to avoid.
“But what they can do is try to ensure that the corrupt practice is minimal, to ensure competition is fair,” Sophoan said.
Speaking during a panel discussion at the release of the report yesterday, Mu Sochua, a lawmaker with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, said a code of conduct needs to be established for all companies to abide by.
“For companies that want to follow those basic principles, they need to be encouraged. They need it recognised that they are clean and corruption-free,” Sochua said.
Sochua also called on larger companies to be more transparent with regard to their ownership.
Among its recommendations to strengthen business integrity, TI says firms should develop their own sets of internal anti-bribery provisions, with penalties handed to employees who break them. The corruption watchdog has also called on the Anti-Corruption Unit to work with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to find ways to reward businesses for cleaning up their act, such as incentives for paying their taxes correctly.
Despite 15 years of nearly 8 per cent average annual growth, Wan-Hea Lee, the head of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia, said corruption was an issue that had led to greater inequality in the country.
“Yes there has been growth, tremendous growth, but the Human Development Report [shows] that there has been highly unequal growth,” she said, referring to a recently released UN report.
“Who knows what kind of growth, what level of growth and how equitable it could have been had this question of equity have been addressed squarely and what role corruption plays in that,” she said.
The government declined to attend the TI study’s release, but when contacted yesterday Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan said the government was making improvements “gradually”. | <urn:uuid:f47c741f-fb8d-4a0c-834b-db6beff65fdf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/biz-integrity-under-threat-ti | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00011-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971801 | 720 | 1.898438 | 2 |
To what extent can the United States control the global spread of technology, and under what circumstances should it do so? A recently established project at the Center for New American Security (CNAS) has begun to examine the theory and practice of U.S. export control policy. Although export controls have been around for a long time, this is an overdue and promising avenue of analysis into one of the most important tools of U.S. economic and defense statecraft.
Broadly speaking, the ability of the executive branch to control the export of technology stems from the Curtiss-Wright vs. United States case of 1936, which ruled that the Roosevelt administration could, with broad authorization from Congress, regulate the international export of technology with military application. A raft of legislation before and after World War II clarified the legal authority behind export controls, targeting the Axis first and then the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, export controls were critical to maintaining and extending the West’s technological edge over the Soviet Union. More recently, in 2018 the Export Control Reform Act gave the executive branch the broad authority to impose export controls directed at China’s military and dual-use technology industries.
The CNAS project has thus far produced some interesting insights. Just as in the Cold War, export controls depend utterly on the ability of the U.S. to produce a coalition. Controls imposed by Washington are of little help if allies are uninterested in observing them, or if allies prefer a system in which China is a full player. Export controls can be a double-edged sword, because if they are too onerous they can cut off U.S. industry from global developments by scaring off potential partners. Even American firms may offshore certain modes of production if they fear that the export control hammer will fall on their products. Finally, export controls may serve to convince targets and prospective targets simply to indigenize production, thus reducing their dependence on the U.S.
Notably, the Trump administration has been ambiguous as to whether the purpose of the high tech export controls it has imposed are intended to punish China for technology theft, to undercut the Chinese defense industrial base or to hurt the Chinese economy over the long-term.
To borrow terminology from Thomas Schelling, export controls tend to differ from sanctions in that they represent “brute force” rather than a “coercive” effort. The intention behind export controls is generally not to change a target’s behavior, although the State Department may pay lip service to the notion that China or Russia could get themselves out of trouble by changing their policies. Rather, the point is to inflict damage upon the defense industrial base and civilian technology base of the opponent by denying them access to certain technologies that are available to other advanced economies. In the long run, this gives the governments imposing the export controls a technological and economic advantage. The use of export controls to inflict harm on the broader civilian economy is more controversial than their use as tools of defense statecraft. However, the explosion in dual-use technologies necessarily means a) that civilian technologies must be subject to control, and b) that export controls will inflict damage on the civilian economy of the target as well as its defense industrial base.
For its part, China has accused the U.S. of creating market distortions and disregarding the rules of international trade. China has also begun to restructure its technological industrial base in order to indigenously produce the chips and other equipment that it can no longer acquire from the U.S. Intellectual property rights have complicated this effort, as American firms hold key patents in some areas that make it difficult for Chinese companies to compete on international markets.
In any case, the CNAS project (which will hopefully in the future examine the extent to which export controls and intellectual property protection interact and coincide) is a valuable contribution on one of the most important tools of U.S. policy toward China. Hopefully, it will help to develop a more nuanced conversation on how to manage technological competition while also protecting U.S. industry. | <urn:uuid:d2a5bf27-ba33-4b5a-9acc-7c775772224a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/why-us-export-control-policy-matters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.946418 | 823 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Help with bacterium's name
ed.marsden at utoronto.ca
Wed Jan 8 22:57:56 EST 1997
> I've got duplicate slides labelled as follows: Prototheca wickerhamii and
> Probetheca wickerhomii. I've looked in numerous textbooks for a spelling
> to no avail. Can anyone help?
> My suspicion is that someone in transcribing the name sloppily transcribed
> the be to a to or visa versa and the o to an a in the species. However, no
> book that I have consulted has a genus that matches either.
>>>>>I don't know if this will help but my University text lists an algae (green) by the name Prototheca. I could not find a listing
corresponding to Probetheca. Probably a spelling error.
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One of the most significant things about the meeting between Gypsy and Ray is its embrace of mystery and the unexplainable in consciousness. The story is predicated upon the belief in that which is unexplainable. The construction of the ballfield, its acceptance, and resistance becomes an essential part of the narrative. This is seen in the initial meeting between Ray and Gypsy. When they meet for the first time, she expresses surprise that both men are twins. Ray challenges this with the idea of how does she know they are different. It could be that Ray is "Richard in a change of clothes." Gypsy's response is significant:
The eyes. The eyes. Richard's are harder than yours: His look like jade that might crack at any second. Yours are warmer, wittier. You've probably loved somebody very much.
There is something in "the eyes" where the answer lies. It is not empirical, but it is as valid if it can be seen. Sounding like the baseball field itself, such a sentiment underscores the introduction between Ray and Gypsy. It represents the novel's assertion that some aspects of being in the world cannot be rationally explained. There are aspects of the world that have to be taken on faith and love, defying the quantifiable and the world of "data driven." It is this element of magic in the world that makes life worth living and makes consciousness more bearable in the novel. This is illuminated in the first meeting between Ray and Gypsy and helps to make it significant.
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This skill defines how difficult the soldering is on a particular product. It might be a couple simple solder joints, or require special reflow tools.
Noob - Some basic soldering is required, but it is limited to a just a few pins, basic through-hole soldering, and couple (if any) polarized components. A basic soldering iron is all you should need.
Rookie - The number of pins increases, and you will have to determine polarity of components and some of the components might be a bit trickier or close together. You might need solder wick or flux.
Competent - You will encounter surface mount components and basic SMD soldering techniques are required.
Experienced - You might be required to do some reflow or basic rework with SMD components. A heat gun, Heaterizer or other tools might be required, and a good understanding of SMD soldering as well as PTH soldering are required.
Expert - You will be required to have a firm understanding of both SMD and PTH soldering and are comfortable with rework as well. You are required to solder difficult packages like a BGA.
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CHINA INLAND MISSION, 1865-1951
From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Part 2: James Hudson Taylor Papers: Subject Files
Founded in 1865 with the goal of evangelising China’s inland provinces, the China Inland Mission (CIM) refused to appeal for funds. Instead, it demanded that all of its missionaries learn the Chinese language, wear Chinese dress and find a way of living without a guaranteed salary. Its representatives were international and interdenominational, and chosen for their spirituality, rather than their education, social class or gender.
Parts 1 and 2 of the CIM archive make available the papers of its remarkable founder, James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), who was raised as a Methodist in Barnsley, and converted to evangelical Christianity at the age of 17. While his close colleague, William Thomas Berger (1815-1899), was in charge of matters in England, Taylor was in charge of the mission’s work in the field.
Part 2 covers the fourteen boxes of material collected by Geraldine Taylor, the wife of Taylor’s second son, Howard Taylor, who was also a missionary in China. Howard and Geraldine Taylor were the first historians of CIM and gathered the material on a thematic basis. Topics include:
- Early missions in China
- the Opium trade
- James Hudson Taylor’s preparation for life in China
- Journeys to inland China
- Ningpo and JHT’s marriage to Maria Jane Dyer
- Formation of CIM
- the Forward Movement
- the Tientsin massacre and the Nanking riots
- American support for the CIM
- Shanghai missionary conferences
- Scandinavian support for CIM
- the Boxer Rising
- the death of JHT
- Histories of the CIM, recollections and assessments
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1. Login System using Django
Every backend developer should know how to do this since almost every commercial project uses a login system.
2. Portfolio of Projects
You can make a portfolio website in which you can showcase all the works that you have done.
3. Chatbots using Django
A lot of websites and applications are using chatbots to engage with their customers.
4. Hacker News Clone App
A good way to do Django projects if you do not have any cool ideas is to make clones of existing websites and applications.
5. Weather App using Django
You can do your project in Django and integrate it with some weather APIs.
6. E-commerce Website using Django
Create an e-commerce website with the help of the Django skills that you already have.
7. Social Media Website
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8. Video Subscription Website
Video memberships website is a website in which you can subscribe to some channels by paying some amount, just like NetFlix.
9. Online School System
In this project, you will be building an online school system where teachers can create assignments that students can complete and view their results
10. Create a Blog
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Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan will be the most affected among major economies in the region in the event of a sharp slowdown in Chinese GDP growth, according to Fitch Ratings.
Global growth and economic stability will also come under severe pressure if there is a “hard landing” in China, the credit rating agency warned.
Fitch’s base case projection for the Chinese economy is for expansion of 6.8 percent this year and 6.3 percent in 2016.
However, it also warns of an alternative scenario in which growth could slide to as low as 3 percent next year if there a collapse in public and private investment.
The shock scenario assumes, among other things, that public investment will drop 4 percent next year and that consumption growth will fall to 5.6 percent in 2017 from the 2014 pace of 8.3 percent.
This worst scenario would lead to a potential 10 percent depreciation in the renminbi, a double-digit decline in inbound foreign direct investment, an over 4-percent fall in property prices and deteriorating asset quality, Fitch said, according to the Hong Kong Economic Journal.
Export-oriented regions in Asia will see their combined gross domestic product plunge, with Hong Kong’s growth estimate for 2017 seen falling short from the base case scenario by 4.5 percentage points and that of South Korea by 4.3 percentage points.
Japan is likely to experience another two years of economic contraction in the worst scenario, while Taiwan and Singapore will also face drastic slowdown.
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Local Body Tax (LBT) is a levy on “the entry of goods into a local area for consumption, use or sale therein”. This tax is imposed on traders by the local civic bodies of each city/town/area and are different in each place. LBT was introduced in Maharashtra under the provisions of Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act, 1949, and the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Rules, 2010. LBT replaced octroi, which was a cumbersome levy because the tax had to be paid at octroi check posts set up on city limits and a trader could not move the goods into the area until the amount was paid up. However, with LBT, the traders themselves are responsible for determining the tax amount and paying it.
LBT in Maharashtra:
LBT was started in Maharashtra in a phased manner from 2013, but was not received positively by traders. The opposition was mainly because of the possibility of double taxation between LBT and Value Added Tax (VAT), as well as the additional responsibility on traders of computing the tax. Following reconsiderations, local body tax was partially abolished in the state in August 2015, and under the amended rules, now only traders with a turnover of more than Rs. 50 crore per year have to pay LBT. Traders who are already registered under VAT rules are also automatically considered registered for LBT. Also, if a registered trader’s turnover goes down from Rs. 50 crore after registration, they will not be liable to pay Local Body Tax for the next fiscal year.
Goods that attract LBT in Maharashtra:
The Local Body Tax has 2 schedules of goods under it. Goods listed under Schedule A are taxable and those under Schedule B are non-taxable.
Items under Schedule A include:
Precious metals and articles made from them, precious stones, imitation jewellery, ores and minerals, aeroplanes and helicopters and their components, capacitors and bearings, agricultural machinery, electronic communication and electrical equipment, pump sets, industrial charcoal, renewable energy devices, iron and steel items, pipes, dry batteries, lime stone, aluminium and its alloys, crude oil and its products, LPG, aviation and motor fuel, printing ink and printed materials, helmets, torches, sports goods except footwear and apparel, writing instruments, bricks, bamboo, wood and bamboo pulp, textile articles, fabrics, handloom materials, cotton yarn, coir mattress, plastic footwear, hosiery goods, sanitary napkins, medicinal drugs, bandages and syringes, sugar, papads, arecanut, raw cashews, sunglasses, clay, coffee beans and chicory, green tea leaves, processed vegetables, edible oil, fertilizers, pulse flour, Glucose-D, herbs, flavouring essences, oil seeds, pizza bread, branded milk products, spices, sweets and snacks, vegetable oils, dry fruits, animal products, liquor and toddy, tobacco and its products, and aerated beverages.
Items under Schedule B include:
Manually operated agricultural implements, non-industrial charcoal, aides for physically challenged persons, equipment used for handspun yarn production, khadi garments, broomsticks and brushes, earthern pots and red soil, animal feed, betel and beedi leaves, books, bread, cereals and flours, clay lamps, contraceptives and drugs for family planning, drugs for treatment of cancer and HIV, semen and frozen semen, blood and its components, non-branded buttermilk and curd products, milk, fresh plants and flowers, fresh vegetables, bangles not made from precious metals, clay and POP idols of deities, bicycles and its components, kumkum, leaf utensils, raw meat and seafood, eggs, domestic animals and poultry except horse, National flag, stamp paper and postal items, organic manure, silk worm products, tender coconut, goods distributed through Public Distribution System, lac and its products, incense products and camphor, pre-fabricated domestic biogas units, newspapers, handmade washing soap, currency notes and coins, neera and arrack.
LBT in Various Cities of Maharashtra:
Local Body Tax rates vary in each municipal corporation, though the Schedule B of goods exempt from LBT is common for all cities. The general range of LBT is between 0.1 percent and 10 percent. The highest LBT is usually levied on Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL), imported liquor, wines and country liquor. Currently, LBT is charged by the following local civic bodies:
- Pimpri Chinchwad
- Navi Mumbai
How to pay LBT in Maharashtra?
The Local Body Tax process comprises 4 parts:
- Registration: Dealers – buyers or sellers – who bring goods into a municipal corporation limit for sale, consumption or use – basically to earn profit through the sale of the goods – have to register themselves using Form A. If you are already registered under VAT rules, you do not have to register separately for LBT.
- Value Assessment: The value of goods has to be assessed by the traders themselves, and they have to pay the LBT dues based on the tax rates fixed as per Schedule A of the LBT Rules for the municipal corporation concerned. For example, if you are carrying raw cashew nut worth Rs. 30 lakh into Bhiwandi Municipal Corporation limits, you are liable to pay 4 percent LBT, which will be equal to Rs. 1.2 lakh. If there is any dispute on the value of the goods, the local body Commissioner can determine the amount based on the fair market price.
- Payment of LBT: The tax amount determined based on the LBT rates can be paid to the municipal body concerned via online payment, cheque, demand draft or in cash at the municipal offices or dedicated bank counters within 10 days of the following month – that is, within 40 days of movement of goods.
- Filing Returns: Returns for Local Body Tax have to be filed on a half-yearly and annual basis. Half-yearly return has to be filed by filling in Form E-I within 15 days from the end of the half-month period. Annual returns can be filed by filling in Form E-II within 15 days of the end of the assessment year.
Important Points about LBT:
Quoting LBT Registration Number: Sellers and buyers who are registered under LBT and are paying the tax, should mention their LBT registration number on invoices/bills/cash memos.
Maintaining Records: Under LBT rules, dealers have to maintain records and bill counterfoils of sales and purchases for at least 5 years.
Refund Provisions: If the goods imported from outside the city limits are moved out of the city without sale, consumption or use, then 90 percent of the LBT paid will be refunded to the dealer. Those who know that their goods will not be consumed in the city and will be re-exported, can apply with the local body to be allowed to pay only 10 percent of the LBT instead of claiming refund. | <urn:uuid:dd09f1bf-8407-4a1a-939d-4e99b464bde2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bankbazaar.com/tax/local-body-tax-in-maharashtra.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00122-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946413 | 1,458 | 2.390625 | 2 |
It’s not great news for pheasant hunters: North Dakota’s 2013 pheasant crowing count survey indicates that rooster numbers were down about 11 percent statewide.
Earlier, Iowa projected declining numbers of pheasants this season because of poor weather. Minnesotans won’t find out the ringneck status here until after the annual August roadside survey is conducted.
While the news out of North Dakota isn’t encouraging, officials emphasize that the spring crowing count is not necessarily a good indicator of the fall pheasant population. It doesn’t measure population density, but provides an index of the spring rooster population based on a trend of number of crows heard.
The agency says brood surveys, which begin in mid-July and are completed by September, are a better indicator of the summer’s pheasant production and provide insight into what to expect for a fall pheasant population.
Here’s more from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department news release:
Stan Kohn, upland game management supervisor for the State Game and Fish Department, said only the southwest was initially spared a harsh winter, but a spring snowstorm in April buried much of the area in more than 12 inches of snow.
“Had it not been for the long winter in most of the state and the April storm, I would have expected a higher crow count statewide this spring,” Kohn said. “But I think we did lose some birds during late spring, which reduced our 2013 spring breeding population slightly from 2012.”
The late spring snowstorms and cooler-than-normal April delayed breeding and nesting for all upland game birds, Kohn said, with early nesting hens facing rainy conditions, and probably some flooded nests. “On the positive side, this occurred early enough in the nesting season that most hens should have renested,” he added. “In addition, the wet spring seemed to jump start grass and forb growth in pastures, helping later nesting pheasants with improved quality of nesting habitat. Unless we experience some early summer weather problems, I still expect much better upland game production this summer from all our species.”
However, Kohn noted, the loss of CRP is going to reduce nesting and brooding cover in the future, and will negatively affect the pheasant population.
Pheasant crowing counts are conducted each spring throughout North Dakota. Observers drive specified 20-mile routes, stopping at predetermined intervals, and counting the number of pheasant roosters heard crowing over a two-minute period during the stop. The number of pheasant crows heard is compared to previous years’ data, providing a trend summary.
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The DNR says members of the committee will contribute to the broader understanding of biological, social and economic aspects of the lake
The Department of Natural Resources will have field testing stations in Kandiyohi, Meeker, Morrison, Pope, Stearns, Swift and Todd counties.
Results mirror results in Minnesota, South Dakota.
Previously, the DNR said it would wait until an annual fall walleye survey was complete on Mille Lacs before determing whether winter walleye fishing could begin Dec. 1.
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第二节信息匹配（共 5 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 阅读下列记者采访加拿大运动鞋设计专家 Benno Nigg 时的问题及 Nigg 的回答，然后匹配 相关的问和答。请将答案填涂在答题卡标号为 46--50 的相应位置上。注意：选项中有一项是 多余选项。 Questions: A. Wha
t should people look out for when buying a new pair of sports shoes? B. What kind of technology might we see in sports shoes of the future? C. Will a more expensive shoe make me run faster or jump higher, as the ads suggest? D. When you say that expensive shoes are no better at preventing injury than cheap ones, is it true? E. Some people say we should run just as well without shoes. What’s your opinion of that? F. You helped develop the unstable Masai MBT shoes. Does this design actually work?
46．____________________________________________ Nigg’s Answer: That is a little bit overstated. But the relative frequency of running injuries doesn’t seem to have changed much in the past 30 years, in spite of all the developments in sports shoe design. The literature shows that shoes are a minor player in injury development. If you take a group of people and want to injure them, send them out every day for a 20-kilometre run. A lot of them will be injured in three weeks. The major factors are the distance run, the intensity and recovery time, not the shoes.
47．___________________________________________ Nigg’s Answer: The problem is that if you go to a store and want to find your best shoes, you don’t know what to do. Things that are sometimes done, like video analysis of your rear foot movement, may not help. The only way to assess whether a shoe is
right for you is how it feels. If you feel comfortable in a shoe, it’s likely to be good for you. We did a study with soldiers where we gave them six different inserts, and they chose the one they liked best. In four months those with inserts had 53 per cent fewer injuries than those without.
48．__________________________________________ Nigg’s Answer: A shoe may act as a training device, making some muscles to function more effectively for a majority of users. Or it may use materials that last longer. That may have something to do with its price. However, for the average runner it is difficult to distinguish between actual functional designs and unnecessary features. Generally, the more a shoe controls movement, the more it acts like a cast, which means you have some muscles that don’t work any more. This may mean that you lose some muscle strength, and your feet are more likely to be injured.
49．_________________________________________ Nigg’s Answer: There are claims that there are fewer injuries when you run barefoot, but there is not yet enough evidence, or enough research, to prove that. If you look at performance, most papers suggest an advantage of 3 to 4 per cent. With a few exceptions — Abebe Bikila in 1960 and Zola Budd in the 1980s — people don’t run barefoot, so it may be that it’s not an advantage, or it may be that we’re just not used to it.
50．_________________________________________ Nigg’s Answer: Yes, for about 80 per cent of people. The major benefits are training the small muscles crossing the ankle joint, and a reduction of knee and lower back pain. However, some claims for these unstable shoes are overstated, such as the general muscle strengthening that they are claimed to produce. 【参考答案】46-50 DACEF ***************************************************结束
请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。 以下是音乐会的信息： A. Pop star: Singer and composer Emil Chau, one of the most admired music idols in China and Southeast Asia, will perform a solo concert in Beijing. Chau was born in Hong Kong and attended college in Taiwan. He has released more than 30 albums in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. Time: 7:30 pm, March 31 Place: Capital Gymnasium, Baishiqiao Lu, Haidian District Tel: 6833-5552 B. Beautiful timbre: Jasmine Leong will meet her Beijing fans next month. Singing with beautiful timbre, Leong will present a series of love stories to the audience. To highlight the theme of love, 200 sets of lover's tickets, valued at 1800 yuan will be presented. Tickets: 180-980 yuan (US$22-121) Time/date: 7:30 pm, September 9 Location: Workers' Gymnasium, Gongti Beilu, Chaoyang District Tel: 6501-6655 C. Music for children: Some 50 colourful music-related performances will be staged until August 28 in an "Open the Door to Music" series of concerts, in a move to foster Chinese children's taste for art. The concert series will be held in several venues, sponsored by the Forbidden City Concert Hall and supported by the Beijing Municipal Culture Bureau. Tickets: 10-100 yuan (US$1-12) Time/date: 2 pm or 7:30 pm, July 20-August 28 Location: mainly in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Zhongshan Park, some in Peking University Hall in Haidian District and in the China Puppet Art Theatre and Poly Theatre Tel: 6506-5343, 6506-5345
D. Feel the mood: Jonathan Lee will host his 2006 concert in Beijing. As the master of music in Taiwan, Lee is famous for his unique annotation of love, mood and life. Time: 7:30 pm, March 24, 25 Place: Capital Gymnasium, Baishiqiao Lu, Haidian District Tel: 6835-4020 E. Commemorative show: To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, the founder of modern prose drama, a concert titled "Nora's Songs" will be given. Time: 7:30 pm, March 20 Place: Peking University Concert Hall Tel: 6275-2279, 6275-9637 F. Chamber music: The chamber concert series of China Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will greet audiences with a woodwind quintet, a string quartet plus Bach's piano concerto and suite. Time: 7:30 pm, March 25 Place: The Concert Hall of the Central Conservatory of Music, 43 Baojiajie, Xicheng District Tel: 6641-4759, 6642-5744 以下内容是与音乐会相关的信息，请匹配与之相关的音乐会。 1. To remember Henrik Ibsen, with pianist Wolfgang Plagge, violinist Annar Folles and soprano Gao Xia, the Norwegian Ibsen Trio will present the classic works of the celebrated playwright. 2. Jasmine Leong is a Malaysian singer who is very popular on the Taiwan music scene. Focusing on lyrical songs, Leong's Beijing performance will also tap into rock & roll music. 3. His platinum albums such as "You Make Me Happy and Sad," "Flowery Heart," "Music Brings Us Together" and "Emil & Friends" have brought him numerous awards in Singapore, and China's Taiwan and Hong Kong. 4. Jonathan Lee represents the creative spirit of the past 20 years in Taiwan and many renowned singers like Sarah Chan (Chen Shuhua), Sandy Lam (Lin Yilian), Emil
Chau (Zhou Huajian) and Karen Mok (Mo Wenwei) draw great inspiration from Lee's works. 5. The mix of musical treats for children in Beijing includes various kinds of art forms, including Western classical music and Chinese traditional music, as well as puppet plays, crosstalk shows, and highlights of Chinese local operas such as Peking Operas and Kunqu Operas. [全解全析] 音乐会——与之相关的信息。 1. E. 关键词：Henrik Ibsen，Norwegian playwright。 2. B. 关键词：Jasmine Leong，Beijing performance。 3. A. 关键词：perform a solo concert，his platinum albums, Taiwan and Hong Kong。 4. D. 关键词：Jonathan Lee，the master of music in Taiwan，the creative spirit of the past 20 years in Taiwan。 5. C. 关键词：music for children，the mix of musical treats for children。
第二节 信息匹配（共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项 字母涂黑,选择项有一项是多余的。 首先阅读下列国外媒体上的插图及介绍性文字： A. Cornwall You can find that 'weekend feeling' every day of the year, in the country's favorite holiday destination. Some find it in a rock pool on a golden beach, others find it along a dramatic coastal path over-looking crashing waves, while for some it can only be discovered on wild moors and quiet woods. Art lovers are sure to find all the inspiration they could wish for in a lively arts scene, while gastronauts(冒险食 客) can savour the secret ingredients that make Cornwall a foodie's heaven. Start planning, start discovering; get your free 2011 official Cornwall guide and
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B. Cornwall, paradise found The gardens of Cornwall are the envy of the world. With its temperate climate Cornwall is the perfect home for a flourishing variety of plants, trees and shrubs. For seasoned horticulturists, keen amateurs or energetic families looking for a fun day out, there is always a surprise around the next corner - maybe a hidden vista or a startling splash of colour. With over 70 gardens to choose from you can walk amongst wild woodlands or stand and admire the formal splendour of a country estate. Kitchen gardens, perfumed gardens, and even Japanese gardens - you will discover something fresh, whatever the season. Click the 'request brochure' button for your FREE guide or visit the website for more information.
C. Peak District Come to the Peak District and get right to the heart of a great holiday - right at the heart of the UK. Our world-class destination is a stone's throw from everywhere. From Hollywood film locations to superb landscapes and quality accommodation to luscious local food, we've got it all. Add awesome attractions, historic houses, glorious gardens, fantastic theme parks, fabulous festivals and vibrant nightlife - and you have the perfect recipe for a brilliant break. Order your free copy of our 2011 Visitor Guide now!
D. Discover the stunning Channel Island of Guernsey in 2011
It doesn't take long to get to the stunning Channel Island of Guernsey, but once you're here, you'll feel a long way from home - Discover its unforgettable blend of stunning scenery, unique character and rich heritage for yourself in 2011. Welcome to the islands of Guernsey. Lying close to the north coast of France and bathed by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the islands are the perfect escape. Indulge in an unforgettable meal, explore the region's rich heritage or simply revel in the beauty of your surroundings, the islands of choice have it all. On this site, you'll find all the information you need to create a holiday filled with special memories - So take some time to look around and start planning your perfect break.
E. Visit the English Riviera - South Devon’s Beautiful Bay Torquay, Babbacombe, Paignton and Brixham boast
stunning beaches and award-winning visitor attractions. But it's not just palm trees and a famously mild climate, there is treasured literary and natural heritage just waiting to be discovered. The 22 miles of coastline has been endorsed by UNESCO as a Global Geopark. Explore Agatha Christie's place of birth and the inspiration behind fictional tales and her real life story. Visit the website to request your free Accommodation Guide and prepare to explore South Devon's beautiful bay.
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以下是几位计划出行者的情况介绍。请将介绍与相关插图及说明性文字匹配起来。 46. Doris , an amateur photographer , is now learning English in the UK. She is planning for a short visit to a place where she can not only has inspiration but also enjoys good food. More importantly, she wish to make it flexible according to her schedule. Any season would be fine as long as there are colourful flowers and warm sun shine. 47.Rainy, a housewife, is taking a short break to relax herself from boring daily routine, but wishes to spend some days outdoors with her three young girls. She hates the cold winter and is ready to travel by any means of transportation so long as it won’t take a long time. She prefers street shopping to on line shopping. 48. Shirley, a professional column writer, is expecting to experience the UK in a special and unforgettable way. She writes about review on food, introduction to customs and lifestyle of the British. 49. Kathy, an artist, has great passion for nature. She is enthusiastic about exploring the unknown , learning from tradition, enjoying the amazing scenery and bathing the sun on the beach. She usually reads a lot about the persons she paints before she starts working on it. 50. King, a scholar, a nature lover, has written quite a few books on wars. On the other hand, he is particular about food. He is planning to spend one or two days simply enjoying the beauty of nature and quietness of the woods.
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Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival is not only a fun song, it also makes a great exercise for beginner guitarists. One of the big issues that beginner guitarists face is being able to change chords smoothly and quickly. Bad Moon Rising features a quick chord change with three easy open chords, making it a great exercise. I’m going to show you how to play Bad Moon Rising and how to practice that quick chord change to make it smooth. Let’s do this!
Bad Moon Rising Original Key
Creedence Clearwater Revival plays Moon Rising on the key of D. However, this key might be too high for your voice. We’ll talk about playing the song in a different key later. For now, let’s focus on playing it just like in the recording.
The chords featured in this key are D, A and G. I’m playing the A chord with just two fingers (leaving the second string open) and the four finger G chord. It would also work with the basic A and G, but the fingerings I mentioned will help you change chords a bit faster.
Bad Moon Rising uses a basic strum that changes later. The basic strum is down- down, up down, up, down, up. Basically, each of the four downstrokes falls on a beat, while the three upstrokes fall on the “and” of beats 2, 3 and 4. If the sound you’re getting is a bit rough, try angling your pick differently and see if that helps. Try not to hit the strings too hard when you strum.
The verse features the same chord pattern over and over. It makes for a nice exercise to practice your changes from D, to A, to G. Let’s start with a full strum on D. Then we do half a strum for A and half a strum for G, because those chords last only two beats instead of four. Then do two full strums on D and repeat the same pattern from the beginning.
Now we can add some subtleties to spice up the strumming pattern of the verse. We first play the D just like we talked about above. Then let’s do 2 downstrokes on A and two more on G, then back to a full strum on D.
Just to clarify, Bad Moon Rising is a four bar song. The first bar (the first four beats) is a D chord, the second bar is half A and half G (two beats each) and the cycle finishes with two full bars of D.
The Bad Moon Quick Change Exercise
The following is an exercise that I really encourage you to practice. You’re 90 percent of the way to the entire song by just mastering this exercise. Start with one full strum or measure on D, then two downstrokes on A and two on G, then start over. That is the entire exercise. Try it a few times and make sure you practice it until you have it. Start slow and increase the speed as you get better. Make sure you can play every change quickly and smoothly before increasing the speed.
Once you have this pattern down, try playing it and singing along with the verse lyrics. Again, feel free to play it slower to really master it before speeding up to the song’s actual tempo.
The chorus is even easier than the verse because it does not feature any half bars. Here we’ve got two bars of G, two bars of D, one bar of A, one bar of G and two bars of D. After that, we go right back to the verse.
A Few Strumming Tips
When you do the two down strums, it sounds better if you hit the low strings then the high strings. You can try that to add a little variety, instead of always hitting all the strings. Feel free to mix and match and see what feels good to you.
Another thing you can try is to angle the pick just a bit to hit the bass notes nicely, and then angle it to hit the high strings on the way back. For that, you need to know exactly where the bass note for each chord is. For the D chord, the bass note is on the fourth string, for A it’s the fifth string and for G it’s the sixth string. You don’t necessarily have to hit just the bass note, just have a clear idea of where to aim your pick.
Changing the Key
The original key of D is too high for my voice. Perhaps it will be too high for your voice as well. If that’s the case, we can change the key by using a capo. I’m going to place the capo on the third fret, to raise it three half steps, or one step and a half. And even though I’m using the same fingerings as the original chords, we’ve actually moved the key to F to make it more comfortable.
It is important to say that the higher you place the capo, the more the guitar loses its natural sound and starts sounding more like a higher instrument, for instance a mandolin. What I would actually do is forgo the capo and change the chords to transpose. However, that is beyond the scope of this lesson. If you are interested in learning about how to transpose a song, check out this lesson.
If you’d like help with changing keys and using a capo, check out this course included in the RGS membership. Not a member yet? No problem. Start your 14-day trial, then click the links above. I’m hoping you stick around… but if not the 14 days should be enough time to make considerable progress. | <urn:uuid:4228354e-fbab-4699-8d36-5bd4de19ad3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.realguitarsuccess.com/courses/how-to-play-bad-moon-rising-on-guitar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.9402 | 1,218 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Yet anothEr Tcl Interpreter - Generate an itcl parser for a BNF-like grammar
NOTE: Yeti was first written with Tcl 8.3 in mind, but hasn't seen updates in a long time and is now a bit out of date. I've forked it in order to remove references to outdated packages, but may eventually do some more serious optimization work. -st3ve
CMCc: Converted a YACC grammar to Yeti. It's a really great program - well written and very capable. I'm running into problems, though: how do I use Yeti to parse ambiguous grammars? Yeti doesn't seem to have any equivalent to YACC's %precedence or associativity operators, so it's hard to get it to parse something like '(a * b + x * y)' as '((a *b) + (x * y))'
AK: I don't know what Yeti does internally, LL(1), LR(1), LALR(1), ... It might be necessary to disambiguate the grammar to deal with such constructions.
AK, Aug 15: Yeti implements a basic LALR(1) parser. Reduce/Reduce conflicts are resolved via lookahead, shift/reduce conflicts are resolved in favor of shift (seems to be).
In contrast to Yacc and Bison no way to declare operator precedence and associativity information. This information has to be explicitly encoded into the grammar.
IIRC (it's a long time since I looked at the dragon book) some commonly used language constructs (in, say, C) are inherently ambiguous. An example is if/then/else. YACC uses associativity to capture the fact that an else associates with its closest preceding if. CMcC
AK - Sure ? I thought that this was a classic example of a shift/reduce conflict which is solved in favor shifting. I associated (sic) associativity more with expressions and operations in them.
AM Most books I have read about the subject say that if/then/else constructs in C-like languages require some interference with the grammar - that is, the ambiguity needs to be resolved by means outside the theory...
AMG: I'm having trouble with processing typedef in C. I'm using a grammar derived from what I have on Parsing C, though quite a bit more fleshed out. If I wait until my external_declaration handler to call [$scanner addTypeName], then things mostly work except for this fatal sequence:
typedef int int_t; int_t variable;
If I put anything (legal) between the two lines, for instance const, it works. The problem is with the single token of lookahead. Before invoking my external_declaration handler, yeti already read int_t from the scanner. Trouble is, [$scanner addTypeName] hasn't been called yet, so the scanner categorizes it IDENTIFIER and not TYPE_NAME.
Seems like a fundamental design limitation to me... any ideas?
My workaround is to do like the published code does and call [$scanner addTypeName] as early as possible, which would be the init_declarator handler. But since init_declarator isn't above storage_class_specifier in the tree, it won't know from its argument if typedef was specified. Solution to that is again like the published code: set a variable the very moment typedef is encountered, thereby establishing a communication link from one subtree to another.
Is this the best possible solution?
AMG: The st3ve versions of Yeti have vanished from the Internet, along with [L1 ]. The Frank Pilhofer 0.4.1 version is still available at [L2 ]. I have a copy of Yeti version 4c010893cd39, which is 0.4.2 or thereabouts, originally retrieved from [L3 ]. I think the last change was 29 April 2014, to ylex.tcl. For now, I'm hosting the archive at [L4 ], but as I said above, this ought to move into tcllib.
DDG - 2021-10-02: I did a few fixes (version mismatches and a method fix) and uploaded my version as 0.5.0 to https://github.com/mittelmark/yeti - a tcl++ version will be added as well later. Used the package with success in a PGN notation parser recently.
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Turkey, Iraq Agree on Accord to Track Down Kurdish Separatists
26 September 2007
Officials and media reports say Turkey and Iraq have agreed on an accord that reportedly would allow Turkish forces to cross into Iraq to pursue Kurdish separatists.
An Iraqi official says the anti-terrorism accord was reached Wednesday during Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani's visit to Ankara. The official says it will be signed on Thursday.
A Turkish television station, NTV, reports the agreement allows Turkey to carry out small-scale military operations to track down separatist Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, but would need Iraqi permission beforehand.
In recent months, rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, have stepped up attacks on Turkish targets from their bases in northern Iraq.
Kurdish separatists have been fighting for autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984. More than 30,000 people have been killed.
Turkey has threatened military action against Kurdish guerillas in northern Iraq if the United States and Iraq fail to deal with them. Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist group.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.
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The Duke legacy is more than just an inheritance. It is a view of the world formed in the crucible of dark moments of the nation and of individual lives.
Temecula, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2014
Duke University is widely known for its rich, southern roots and tradition, just like the famous family it is named after. Although you may be familiar with the acclaimed university, how much do you know about the family history behind it?
D.W. Duke is a historian, genealogist and relative of the famous Duke family responsible for starting their namesake university, numerous charitable institutions and a multibillion-dollar empire. His new novel, “The Duke Legacy,” is a piece of intriguing historical fiction based on actual events.
The novel works off more than 200 years of stories passed down from Duke family members as well as actual documentation, then melded into an inspirational story of the life and lineage of Washington Duke, the founding member of the family fortune.
“Most of what I know about Washington Duke’s younger years I heard from stories my grandmother, Sarah Taylor Duke, told me,” Duke said. “Washington Duke is an example of a person who fought against all odds to bring equity, happiness and justice to others, and given his impact in the lives of so many people, it seemed unfortunate that more was not known about him.”
“The Duke Legacy” also includes never-before-published legal documents regarding the lawsuit surrounding the Doris Duke estate and the heiress’ mysterious death in 1993.
“I hope to fill in some gaps between what is widely known and what is preserved in family folklore, letters, court documents and other records,” Duke said. “The Duke legacy is more than just an inheritance. It is a view of the world formed in the crucible of dark moments of the nation and of individual lives.”
“The Duke Legacy”
By D.W. Duke
Available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iUniverse online bookstores
About the Author
D.W. Duke is a California attorney and a Duke family historian and genealogist. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and his juris doctor from Washington University School of Law. He is the author of five books and dozens of articles, mostly concerning law. “The Duke Legacy” is his second novel. | <urn:uuid:8406cf29-0657-4309-93e6-6b8cfa40a703> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/06/prweb11959796.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00074-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967992 | 509 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Like the Joseph story, the stories of people who have been incarcerated do not occur in a vacuum without context. Not simply about wrong doing and punishment, these are tales complicated by complex historical problems that have directly impacted communities and families. In the modern day especially, men and women who are part of the system of mass incarceration very often have been affected by a cycle of poverty, institutional racism, and systematic injustices. The individual stories almost always involve intricate family dramas with generational history and inherited problems that go back decades (if not longer) and are at least in part a result of these larger forces.
By the time the story of Joseph opens, the reader of Genesis has already seen the disfunction growing in two generations of his family. There was strife in the household of Abraham, which resulted in Ishmael, the elder son, being sent into exile with his mother Hagar at Sarah’s urging, a separation surely effecting his younger half-brother Isaac as well. There was strife later in the household of Isaac as his twin boys Jacob and Esau literally entered the world fighting. The family would be divided further as the parents would choose their favorites, Jacob for Rebekah and Esau for Isaac. Eventually Jacob (the younger son) would wrangle both the blessing and birthright from Esau by means of trickery at the cost of almost an entire lifetime of exile. Complicating this situation even further was the trickery that came back upon Jacob, forcing him to marry more than just the woman he loved, Rachel, but her sister Leah as well. Their fierce competition over bearing children would have Jacob fathering children with four women (Rachel, Leah, and their maids, Bilhah and Zilpah respectively), creating a clan of half-brothers, with only a few sharing both mother and father. As a result, in addition to the already strained history of sibling rivalry, this would exasperate the situation with fraternal loyalties divided even further.
As if anything else was needed to heighten tensions, Jacob like his parents before him, picked favorites as well. Elevating Joseph above his brothers, he even punctuated his favoritism by giving Joseph the infamous “coat of many colors” (or long-sleeved coat going down to the palms, the Hebrew “כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים / c’tonet passim” could mean either). Thus, Jacob guaranteed for Joseph his brothers’ scorn, which would lead to his enslavement and incarceration.
It is no wonder that the story of Joseph rings of hope for the incarcerated. While their stories are complicated by other social and historical forces, for many of them, the Joseph story is their story. It is a story of broken families, sibling rivalries, betrayal, slavery, prison, and exile. But it is also a story of truth and reckoning, forgiveness and restoration. Like Joseph, even in prison, they still dream and like Joseph, they hope that their dreams will come to pass. They too long for forgiveness and restoration, and they too want to take part in saving their world making it a better place for their families, their communities, and for their future generations. As we go through the Joseph story together in the following weeks, it will become even more evident why this story speaks to and for the incarcerated. | <urn:uuid:b83baf15-18e6-4c51-a8cf-65f80d982262> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.josephhouseus.org/blog/the-joseph-story-part-ii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.980514 | 705 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Call a Code Blue! Medicine in America is in cardiac arrest.
If the election results are to be believed, the majority of Americans do not trust themselves and their highly trained physicians to make decisions about their health. Rather, they have relinquished total control of their medical care, including 14 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product to the same crew of incompetents who crashed the housing market, who poured billions into business failures such as Solyndra and who see food stamps as supporting a jobs-growth program.
I am a practicing physician and surgeon, with over 30 years experience in hands-on patient care. I have seen firsthand the march to socialism, and the systematic destruction of the noble profession of medicine. And, believe me, we are at the end game.
None of this is by accident. Government control of health care has nothing to do with the purported goals of improving quality, expanding access and decreasing cost – when has government ever improved these in any business? No, this is about power. After all, what is more precious than a person’s health? Politicians who seek power, therefore, see “health care” as a fast track to their goal.
The first government-run health system was introduced in the late 19th century in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm, for totally self-serving reasons. At the time, his regime was threatened by the Social Democrats, and the Kaiser’s advisors suggested beating the leftists at their own game by giving the average German something that would make him dependent on the crown. The choice? They instituted government funding for doctors. Young physicians could supplement their income by applying to be a “panel” physician and would be paid for treating the rural poor, for giving vaccines and generally dealing with public health issues (think Medicaid).
For nearly 40 years the system worked well. Kaiser Wilhelm remained in power, and these stipends encouraged doctors to practice in underserved areas of the country.
But predictably, to paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, the monarchy ran out of other people’s money. Between the cost of World War I, reparations and the worldwide stock market collapse, by 1930 little was left of the medical reforms except paperwork and regulations (which seem never to go away, even in hard times).
The worst result of this venture, however, was the destruction of the ethics of private practice. Physicians, instead of acting in the best interest of individual patients, became partners of the state. They were used to taking orders and filling out forms for government functionaries, so it was a very small leap for them to work under the Nazis and to become integral players in the Nazi death machine.
Across the Baltic, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin, too, understood the role of medicine when he opined, “Medical care is the keystone in the arch of socialism.”
One of the first acts of the new Bolshevik government was to nationalize health care – again, not out of altruistic concern for the masses of Russian peasants, but to centralize control over the population and over physicians, who tended to be free thinkers and well respected by the citizens.
Historically, however, in the absence of governmental collapse (e.g. war-torn Germany or the fall of the Soviet Union), there is no nation that has ever reverted from a nationalized, government-run health service back to a free market system. Once adopted, single payer, government health care becomes the sacred cow of a nation’s legislature. They may debate funding allocations, i.e. who gets what, they may complain about shortages, wait times and cost to the state, but they never mention turning back the clock and reverting to the traditional, patient-centered, free market medicine. Once it’s over … it’s over.
In future “The Weekly Prescription” columns, we will explore the truth of government health care around the world and what we have to look forward to in the coming years. We will address steps individuals can take to protect themselves medically when the system fails to help them. We will discuss latest scientific breakthroughs in longevity and wellness. And we will discuss how medicine can be saved.
But today, we must admit to having lost a major battle. When it comes to America and socialized health care, we are no longer fighting on the beaches, the enemy is in our back yards.
Nancy Pelosi didn’t need to read the bill, because she knew the details didn’t matter. The goal of Obamacare is to take away what’s left of our medical freedom and give it to the oligarchs inside the beltway. And a majority of voting Americans agreed.
There is no better summation than that of Charlie Reese when he wrote years ago, “There’s no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one’s liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.” | <urn:uuid:21e8d512-ab69-4dbd-a3d8-4f1f9033dbac> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/america-on-lenins-path-to-health-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00281-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965046 | 1,031 | 1.875 | 2 |
Renowned science fiction author and former astronomer Alastair Reynold’s first novel is Revelation Space, a combination space opera and hard science fiction novel. While there are five novels that take place within this universe, this novel is followed by two direct sequels, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap. This was the first book I read by Reynolds, and while I found the story enjoyable, I did think the book was far longer than necessary.
Archaeologist Dan Sylveste is studying the remains of the bird-like alien race Amarantin, which was mysteriously wiped out nine hundred thousand years ago. When many of the workers abandon the dig due to a huge storm coming their way, Sylveste refuses to leave since he has discovered a huge obelisk and desires to translate the writing on it to see if he can glean any significance from it. Sylveste believes the Amarantin somehow caused their own demise and believes it may even be associated with their discovery of spaceflight; therefore, he believes it is vitally important to learn what happened so humanity can avoid making the same mistakes. Unfortunately for Sylveste, many disagree with his view and there is a coup, resulting in his imprisonment for a time.
Ana Khouri, a soldier, is separated from her husband during relativistic travel and ends up in Chasm City. By the time she joined up with her husband at their original destination, his life would practically be over so she remains in the city, working as an assassin to provide adventures for the rich who hope to be able to tell stories about surviving the attempt on their lives. One day Khouri is kidnapped and taken to a woman known only as the Mademoiselle, who coerces the woman into serving her and sends her on a mission to murder Dan Sylveste. To get Khouri near Sylveste, the Mademoiselle arranges for her to meet Ilia Volyova, a member of the ship’s crew on Nostalgia for Infinity, who is seeking Sylveste as the only man who can help with the plague their captain has contracted. Volyova is searching for a new gunnery officer since the previous one went insane and accepts Khouri without realizing her real motives for joining the crew.
Revelation Space is very bogged down by verbosity. It is a very dense book, containing many long paragraphs (including one that was over an entire page long), which can make for difficult reading at times. This book was so hard to focus on that it took me a month and a half to read the entire book, but it was intriguing enough that I kept it on my nightstand to read on occasion instead of putting it back on the shelf for later. This was during a time when work was stressing me out so that may have contributed to the problem – I often found it easier going on the weekends and finished it while I was on vacation. I still wouldn’t recommend it to anyone looking for a light read since it is very wordy and full of scientific explanations.
This is a science fiction book that is nearly as heavy on the science as on the fiction. Astronomy and physics are at times relevant to the plot, and there are various alien species and advanced technologies. The crew members of Nostalgia for Infinity are only partially human since they have enhanced themselves with machinery (the disease the captain is suffering from preys on nanotechnology). Dan Sylveste has a simulation of his dead father Calvin that he sometimes refers to for advice, even though the two of them never got along well in life and certainly have their differences still even when Calvin is no longer alive.
The characters are not particularly likable unless you enjoy reading about flawed, selfish people who are not good or even mostly good types. All the major players have committed murder at some point, although none of them did so out of motives that make them seem purely evil for it. Personally, I enjoy gray and flawed characters so they did not bother me, but those who tend to gravitate toward people they can root for as being on the side of right and justice may find these personalities to be rather despicable.
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A tactic of its time
Times change, and so do attitudes. Thirty years ago Kerry Packer was the unacceptable face of sporting capitalism. These days administrators laud him to the skies while entrepreneurs queue to emulate him.
Three-quarters of a century ago Douglas Jardine was about to become the most reviled man in sport, detested by every right-thinking Australian and disliked by not a few Englishmen. The accepted philosophy had been that shared sport could only build warmth of international relations; the Bodyline series showed that different approaches to shared sport could have an equal and opposite effect.
By the mid-1950s some of the breaks had healed and some of the bruises faded: Jardine's chief instrument in his campaign, Harold Larwood, had even settled in Sydney. When the man himself visited Australia he appeared on a radio programme called Guest of Honour, and found the natives disarmingly hospitable. "Though they may not hail me as Uncle Doug, I am no longer the bogeyman," he commented. "Just an old so-and-so who got away with it."
Confirmation of his complete rehabilitation, at least in English eyes, was then perhaps provided by the cover of Wisden Cricket Monthly in February 2002, which acclaimed Nasser Hussain as showing "Shades of Jardine" in his deployment of a leg-side attack to restrain India at Bangalore. The background to Hussain's image was indeed a shade of Jardine, loitering palely, like an apparition in one of those trick photographs favoured by Victorian spiritualists.
Within, Mike Brearley opined that Hussain had reinvented Bodyline, albeit on a less intensive and more limited basis: "Jardine won the Ashes but nearly lost an Empire. Hussain saved a reputation and might have won a series." Editor Stephen Fay wondered aloud if Hussain would prove "as ruthless as Jardine or better than Brearley". Six months later David Frith's magisterial revisitation of the 1932-33 Ashes series, Bodyline Autopsy, concluded with an approving nod to a late-life reflection of Jack Fingleton: "I think, looking back, the Australians perhaps made too much fuss about it." At this rate Michael Vaughan's reintroduction of the harlequin cap cannot be far away.
This mellowing reflects not merely the passage of time but the changing of fashion. Batsmen skewered by pace from four prongs in the 1970s and 1980s found it hard to imagine bowling any more hostile; and if they could take it, then could Bodyline really have been so bad? After all, only Larwood, abetted by Bill Voce, had kept the leg cordons busy; only once in that series had England taken the field without a slow bowler, and Voce gave way to a second spinner in Brisbane.
International cricketers teethed in the 1990s and 2000s exhibit an aggression more calculated and cruel than anything dreamed of around the time of the Great Depression. The only on-field remark that Jardine is recorded to have made with the hint of a sledge was after rival Bill Woodfull absorbed his famous body blow at Adelaide in January 1933. "Well bowled, Harold," the legend goes, was uttered for non-striker Don Bradman's edification. It's hardly "How's your wife and my kids?"
Today it is hard to imagine a captain, least of all in Ashes cricket, responding with such imperturbable passivity to the unfolding plans of his opponent. If anything, the modern custom is to get one's retaliation in first
Jardine having been brought within the realm of the acceptable, it was then but a small step to turn him into an exemplar. Beating Australia with Bradman was obviously no trifling achievement. And from a modern standpoint, beating Australia at all seems the stuff of which dreams are made. Undefeated in a home series for 15 years, still never having dipped their green and gold colours to India, Pakistan or Sri Lanka in front of Australian audiences, they are cricket's benchmark. Jardine's deeds, then, improve a little as each year of Australian hegemony passes.
There is, however, a missing dimension to these calculations: the enigma of Woodfull. The captain who had regained the Ashes in 1930 gave them up 1-4 without ever attempting to parallel England's strategy: as unreactive as Jardine was active. In his classic text Cricket Crisis (1946), Jack Fingleton reflected: "Australia certainly could have retaliated. It is a moot point whether retaliation would not have been the best and quickest way out of the mess, and whether it would not have quelled the jibes of squealing which assailed the Australians from many points at that time and in later years." But where some on his own side, such as his vice-captain Victor Richardson, favoured an eye-for-an-eye response, the Methodist minister's son turned the other cheek.
We now have a rather better understanding of Woodfull's thinking. In the course of the research for a new history of Cricket Australia, Inside Story, a letter from Woodfull came to light which was apparently read aloud at the Australian Board of Control's meeting of 30 January 1933. Woodfull thought that while "not infringing the laws of cricket", Jardine's team were "lowering the prestige of the game".
There is evidence and like to the effect that two prominent English bowlers constantly attack the batsmen without paying the slightest attention to the stumps ... Bowling of this type had unsettled the Australian batsmen during this season and all batsmen have been compelled for the first time to wear not only hip pads but also a pad covering the heart. A more serious injury than has occurred to date is only a matter of time.
Woodfull's suggestion - never entertained - was a meeting between the board, Jardine, and the aqueous English manager Pelham Warner. His general attitude, however, was that he was powerless to do anything - interestingly not so much because of Jardine as because of the Englishman's senior professionals.
To my mind we can hardly legislate on such a question but I would suggest a meeting of the Board with Messrs Jardine and Warner to see whether amicable relations could not be restored to some extent for the present. I am of the opinion that Mr Warner is against the theory ... but that the professional players are too strong in their influence and opinions.
The cricket bodies of both countries could bring pressure to bear, if necessary, on the cricket captains of first-class teams. England, I am certain, will fall into line, especially if they have a real taste of this theory next season in County Cricket. However, it is really on the field that the remedy rests, and while a cricket captain who still has the backing of MCC persists in the practice, little can be done by way of improvement.
Since entering Test cricket I have not been sure that it is for the good of the Empire and in times when England and Australia need to be pulling together, large sections of both countries are embittered. Consequently I think that utmost must be done to find a way out. It appears unlikely that this would be discovered before the end of the present series yet I think it imperative that the matches be continued for more harm than good would be done by cancellation than by carrying out of the programme.
This stoical acceptance of England's strategy for the sake of imperial harmony has a certain nobility, but it is also strangely lacking in imagination. It left Woodfull's comrades to solve by their own lights the perplexities Bodyline posed, although he also disapproved of anything that smacked of innovation: thus the captain looked severely on Bradman's response of retreating to leg to exploit the depopulated off. Woodfull was a strong enough man and a respected enough leader to enforce his will on the team, but in doing so, and actually limiting Australian response, he made Bodyline an even more effective approach than it might have been.
It may seem fanciful to suggest that Jardine would have been deflected from his course: he was no more for turning than Margaret Thatcher. But we do know he was surprised that Larwood and Voce proved so penetrative, observing during In Quest of the Ashes (1933) that he was not in advance "inclined to rate the possibilities of leg-theory very highly", because he harboured "a very healthy respect for their [Australians'] play off the leg stump". Never imagining that leg-theory "would stand such a test as would prove its effectiveness throughout the whole tour", he thought merely that it "might occasionally prove a profitable variation when two batsmen were well set". He could persist in part because there was never any threat of reciprocity, or even counter-measure.
Would Jardine make a great captain today? He certainly had the pertinacity and inflexibility of purpose to which a leader facing Ricky Ponting's Australians must aspire, although the cool insouciance in the face of the media might today be harder to achieve. "I'm here to win the Ashes, not provide scoops for your ruddy newspapers," he is alleged to have said; not even Hussain at his rudest ever tried that.
All the same, for Jardine to triumph, he needed a rival like Woodfull, prepared to be run roughshod over for the sake of imperial relations. Today it is hard to imagine a captain, least of all in Ashes cricket, responding with such imperturbable passivity to the unfolding plans of his opponent. If anything, the modern custom is to get one's retaliation in first. So while Jardine's captaincy might appear to have a modern edge, its effectiveness was very much of its time.
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Denver is located in Denver county and has a population of 554,636.
The average in-state tuition for full time undergraduate students in computer programming schools in Denver during the 2009 - 2010 school year was $14,874.00. The average tuition was $16,866.00 for non-residents studying in Colorado.
The cost, on average, for books and supplies needed for computer programming schools in Denver is $1,444.00. Students living on campus at computer programming schools in Denver paid an average of $9,292.00 for room and board during the 2009 - 2010 school year. Students living at home incurred costs of $4,903.00. There is one computer programming college in Denver. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, reportedly 0 students completed computer programming programs in Denver.
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Dorothee Wirth was born on March 23, 1970 in Germany and she is a famous luxury fashion designer.
Biography and Career:
She received her first fashion award at the age of 18 years. She won the regional Aenne –Burda Prize and the second prize at the European Aenne-Burda Prize in Germany, Burda fashion magazine. After graduating from high school of economics, she finished a high- fashion apprenticeship, learned drawing at the academy of art in Italy, studied fashion design in Germany and worked for a french
Haute Couture house in Paris, France.
Dorothee presented her first Haute Couture collection among the world leading top fashion designers like P. Rabanne, K. Féraud, M. Burani ....... She was the official German representative at the Guinness Book of World Records Longe
st Fashion Runway in the World in Berlin.
At the age of 28 Dorothee was choosen to represent Germany at the first German Consumer Goods Exposition in Shanghai. It was organized by the German Ministry of Economics and Dorothee met the political delegation as well she welcomed the mayoress of Shanghai. She presented her Haute Couture collection in a daily fashion show five days.
Dorothee Wirth has publications in international high fashion magazines.
Beside her career as a fashion designer she worked as a model and went to an acting school. She was acting in movies in Hamburg and Paris. One French movie was shown at international film festivals as well in Cannes. Dorothee presented her own creations on the catwalk and at photo shootings which she continues doing till this date.
1988 : 1. Prize Regional Aenne-Burda Prize (Burda fashion magazine,
2. Prize European Aenne-Burda Prize (Burda fashion
2000 : Nomination for the NEW FACES AWARD – Fashion by the German
peoples magazine BUNTE
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The Occupy Wall Street movement and protest movements around the world are evidence of a new era of intergenerational activists seeking deeper spiritual meaning in their quest for peace and justice.
This book is a call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism. Authors Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox encourage us to use our talents in service of compassion and justice and to move beyond our broken systems–economic, political, educational, and religious–to discover a spirituality that can not only help us get along, but help us reevaluate our traditions and transform them.
Incorporating the words of activist leaders culled from interviews and surveys, the book provides a framework that is deliberately interfaith and speaks to our profound yearning for a life with spiritual purpose and for a better world. Each chapter is construed as a dialogue between Fox, a 72-year-old theologian, and Bucko, a 35-year-old spiritual director to homeless youth. As we listen in on these familiar yet profound conversations, we learn about Fox and Bucko’s own spiritual journeys and discover a radical spirituality that is inclusive, democratic, and relevant to the world we live in today. | <urn:uuid:1789f0ae-006a-448c-affa-f46f3fbbb7b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.qicrystals.com.au/shop/occupy-spirituality-by-adam-bucko-and-matthew-fox/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.931375 | 239 | 1.625 | 2 |
Exiled blind Chinese activist urges Taiwan to stand up to China’s ‘illegitimate’ government
Exiled, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng on Monday urged Taiwan to stand up to China’s “illegitimate” communist government, as he visited the self-governing island amid controversy over his future in the United States.
Chen told AFP in an interview that Taiwanese leaders including President Ma Ying-jeou and the parliamentary speaker had backed out of meeting him during his visit to Taipei, which he said was proof of meddling by Beijing.
“What we see today is that Mr. Ma is not free,” said the 41-year-old, who last year staged a dramatic escape from house arrest in China before fetching up at the US embassy in Beijing and heading on to a new life in New York.
“Even though he is friendly and helps us come to Taiwan, we see that he is under pressure from China,” Chen said.
The activist said Ma was forging a dangerous bargain in seeking to bolster commercial relations with Taiwan’s former bitter rival China.
“First of all, you need to understand who you’re dealing with. If you’re interacting with the vast majority of people in China, it is the right choice. But you’re interacting with the Chinese communist government, which is illegitimate in nature,” he said.
“If Taiwan can’t push democracy and freedom to China, the authoritarian (rule of) China will spread to Taiwan… if Taiwan or the free world can’t insist on their principles, they will get hurt.”
Taiwan split from the mainland at the end of a civil war in 1949, but still styles itself the “Republic of China”. Beijing insists that the two entities must eventually reunite, by force if necessary.
Speaking on the new Chinese president Xi Jinping, Chen said he hadn’t seen “any difference between Xi and (his predecessor) Hu Jintao. On the contrary, he is going backwards”.
“I haven’t seen Xi making any further performances that are worth praising … Those in power all want to cling to power.”
Chen echoed some of Ma’s domestic critics who fear Taiwan is being lulled into a Chinese trap designed to bring about reunification by stealth, warning that this scenario was “something to be alarmed about”.
The past five years under Ma have seen dramatic improvements in the cross-strait climate, including the signing of a historic trade agreement and the launch of direct flights between Taiwan and China.
But Taiwan’s pro-independence opposition accuses Ma of bartering away Taiwan’s vital interests in exchange for the “marginal” benefit of increased trade with China.
The president’s office has not confirmed whether Ma ever planned to meet Chen in Taipei. Speaker Wang Jin-pyng said he was too busy with parliamentary business to sit down with the activist.
A self-taught lawyer who has been blind since childhood, Chen angered authorities in the eastern province of Shandong by exposing abuses under China’s one-child population policy.
He was sentenced to four years in prison and later put under house arrest. He said he and his wife were beaten for continuing to speak out. The family alleges that Chen’s jailed nephew has been denied medical parole despite suffering from life-threatening acute appendicitis.
After fleeing to the United States in May last year, Chen was awarded a one-year fellowship at New York University which has now expired.
NYU said this month that it would be parting ways with him, and denied any link between that decision and its plans to expand operations in mainland China’s education market.
Chen, however, has claimed that NYU was the subject of “unrelenting” pressure from Beijing to end his study programme.
In his AFP interview and at a news conference earlier Monday, Chen would not comment on his future plans. He has received offers from at least two other US academic institutions, according to NYU.
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- Are Volcanoes Mountains?
- Formation of a Mountain
- Formation of a Volcano
- Volcanic Facts
- Location-Based Divisions
- Movement-Based Divisions
- Additional Differences Between a Mountain and a Volcano
- Different Types of Mountains
Are Volcanoes Mountains?
Mountains are formed due to the movement and opposition of tectonic plates. They form along the edges of continents where the pressure exerted by one plate over another causes a rise in elevation. This is called orogeny.
Volcanoes are formed when molten rock rises up towards the surface of the Earth. When it reaches the crust, it erupts and creates lava fields, cinder cones, calderas, pyroclastic flows, etc.
There are many similarities between mountains and volcanoes; however, there is a big difference in their formation. A mountain results from various geologic processes, including movement and opposition of tective plates.
On the other hand, volcanoes form around vents when magma flows out towards the earth’s surface and reaches the surface.
Formation of a Mountain
The Earth’s outermost shell is called the lithosphere. This thin layer of rock covers most of our planet. Beneath it lies the asthenosphere, a hot, plastic material. The upper part of the asthenosphere is divided into five major tectonic plates. These plates constantly move relative to one another, sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly.
When two plates meet, there is friction and heat. Friction causes the rocks to melt and flow together, creating mountains. As the plates continue to rub against one another, the molten rock cools and hardens, creating deep trenches where plate boundaries converge.
In the case of North America, three plates—the North American Plate, the Caribbean Plate, and the South American Plate—are colliding. They are pushing up the Appalachian Mountains while sinking beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
Formation of a Volcano
Volcanic activity occurs when molten rock rises from deep within Earth’s crust. This process creates a volcano. Volcanoes range in size from small cinder cones to massive supervolcanoes. Some volcanoes form during periods of intense seismic activity, while others develop slowly over millions of years.
A volcano results from collecting erupted material after several volcanic eruptions, such as pyroclastic flows, lahars, and ash clouds. These materials accumulate into a pile of loose material called tephra. Tephra builds up around the volcano’s base and becomes hardened into rock.
As the volcano grows taller, it pushes the surrounding area away from the center of the volcano. Eventually, the volcano reaches the earth’s surface, where it erupts explosively. Explosive eruptions eject large amounts of hot gas and liquid rock from the volcano. They often produce pyroclastic flows and lahars.
Hot magma flows through a volcanic vent and cools upon hitting the ground. When magma hits the water, steam is produced. In some cases, the heat causes the water to freeze. This produces ice sheets that build up and eventually push out the volcano’s sides. The resulting mound of cooled magma is called a caldera.
There are many types of volcanic eruptions, depending on the type of magma involved. A typical volcanic eruption begins with the formation of a volcanic vent. Volcanic vents are openings into the Earth where magma rises to the surface.
Once formed, the vent becomes a conduit for molten material called magma. When magma reaches the Earth’s surface, it forms a cone shape. If there is no outlet for the magma, it builds pressure inside the cone and eventually breaks free, causing an explosion. Such explosions are called effusive eruptions.
Often occur at mid-ocean ridges, along plate boundaries, and beneath large bodies of water such as lakes and oceans. These eruptions form cones because the rising column of gas and ash cools rapidly and hardens. As the hardened magma moves away, it leaves behind a crater.
Occur when magma enters the ground near the surface of the Earth. Convection involves heat transfer due to the movement of fluids. In convective eruptions, the magma heats up and expands. Eventually, the expanding magma reaches the surface and explodes. Because the magma is moving quickly, the resulting blast wave can travel hundreds of miles.
A subduction zone is a region where one tectonic plate dives under another. At the boundary between the plates, there is friction and heating. Hot rocks melt and rise to the surface, forming a chain of volcanoes. Subduction zones are found around the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. They are responsible for most volcanic activity in Indonesia, Japan, and Chile.
The Earth is divided into several rigid plates that move over each other like pieces of a puzzle. Each piece of the puzzle is called a plate. Plates float on a layer of hot, viscous fluid called the mantle. Some plates are composed mainly of silicate minerals, while others are rich in iron. There are seven major plates:
- The lithosphere is the outermost part of the Earth, consisting mostly of crust. It includes all the continents, ocean floors, and islands.
- The asthenosphere is the lower portion of the mantle. It consists mostly of basalt (an igneous rock) and peridotite (a metamorphic rock).
- The upper mantle is located below the asthenosphere. It consists mostly of olivine (a mineral), garnet (another mineral), pyroxene (yet another mineral), and plagioclase (a glassy mineral).
- The core is made up of solid metal and liquid iron. It lies deep within the Earth and is surrounded by the mantle.
- The mantle is the middle layer of the Earth. It is mostly comprised of peridotite and contains a small amount of granite.
- The crust is the top layer of the Earth. Its composition varies from place to place. Most of the continental crust is made up of granitic rocks.
- The atmosphere is the thin shell surrounding the entire planet. It consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen gases.
There are two ways to divide the Earth’s plates: according to their location or according to how they move relative to each other. The first way divides the plates based on their position in space. The second way divides them based on their motion through time.
There are three main locations where plates meet:
- Convergent Boundaries – Two adjacent plates converge toward each other and slide past each other. This causes a new ocean floor to be created.
- Divergent Boundary – Two adjacent plates diverge away from each other. New landmasses form as the plates spread apart.
- Transform Fault – A plate slides beneath another plate at an angle. This creates a fold in the Earth’s crust.
In addition to these three types of boundaries, there are also four different modes of plate movement:
- Plate Tectonic Drift – One plate
Additional Differences Between a Mountain and a Volcano
A volcano is a geologic feature characterized by fissures and vents through which molten rock flows out. Volcanic eruptions occur when underground heat causes rocks to melt and form lava.
This creates explosive gases and ash clouds that rise into the atmosphere. When these gases cool down, they turn into volcanic bombs called tephra.
These bombs fall back to earth, where they become part of a layer known as a pyroclastic flow. Some types of volcanoes produce lava flows, while others produce cinder cones, shield volcanoes, or stratovolcanoes.
Mountain ranges often consist of several different types of mountains. For example, many types of mountains include peaks, ridges, domes, plateaus, valleys, and basins. Each type of mountain has unique characteristics and features.
Different Types of Mountains
Mountains are very important natural features of Earth. They are considered as one of the four major divisions of the planet’s surface. These large masses of rock are formed due to the accumulation of sediments over millions of years. As a result, mountains are found throughout the world.
Some of the famous mountains of the world include
- Mount Everest
- Mount McKinley
- Mount Fuji
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Mount Elbrus
- Mount Aconcagua
- Mount Kosciuszko
The term ‘mountain’ describes a mass of rock rising above the surrounding landscape. Many types of mountains depend upon the geological processes that caused their formation.
These are the tallest among all other types of mountains. They are formed due to the folding of rocks over long periods. Fold mountains are usually located near tectonic plate boundaries where continental plates collide. In addition, fold mountains are often associated with volcanic activity.
Fault block mountains
These are other types of mountains. They are formed due to the movement of faults across sedimentary deposits. Faults are cracks within the earth’s crust. When two blocks of rock move away from each other, it creates a fault. Fault mountains are usually located in rift zones where two tectonic plates meet.
These are formed due to the eruption of volcanoes. They are usually located close to active volcanoes.
These are formed due to erosion. Erosion is the process of wearing down the surfaces of rocks. Plateaus are flat areas worn out by the wind, water, and ice.
Are upwarps of mountains. Upwarps are uplifted regions of the earth’s surface. They are formed due to tectonic forces. Dome mountains are much smaller than the other types of mountains. However, they are easier to identify because they have a distinct shapes.
These are also referred to as escarpments. Escarpments are steep-sided hills. Ridge mountains are formed due to tectonic movements. The most common ridge mountains are found along the edges of continents.
These are the highest points on a continent. Peak mountains are formed due to uplift. Uplift is the process of lifting the land upward. It occurs when the weight of the material above the area becomes too great for the underlying rock to support. This causes the top rock layers to break off and rise into the air.
These are the lowest point on a continent. Basin mountains are formed due to subsidence. Subsidence is the process of sinking or dropping the land downward. It happens when the weight of the materials below the area becomes too heavy for the underlying rock to hold. This causes the bottom layer of rock to sink or drop into the lower levels of the earth. | <urn:uuid:c6ae631d-0271-4a49-9d12-b871b70efe46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.konnecthq.com/difference-between-mountains-and-volcanoes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.93603 | 2,298 | 4.3125 | 4 |
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Norwegian nature and birdlife
Norway stretches approximately 2000 kilometers along a more or less north-south gradient, along this line you will find a variety of nature types and habitats, each with its own typical bird community.
Around 45 % of the land is covered by mountain or mountain-like treeless terrain. While the tree-line is located at 1000-1200 m.a.s.l. in the south, this drops towards north and in Finnmark mountain habitat and mountain birds like Willow Grouse also occur along the coast. Although not the most species-rich habitat, many of the most sought-after species in Scandinavia such as Common Crane, Gyrfalcon, Dotterel, Red-necked Phalarope, Great Snipe, Bluethroat and Lapland Bunting inhabit the mountain areas.
Various types of woodland cover a little less than 40 %, and the woodland scenery is very different in the different parts. Along the western fjordlands the hillsides are too steep for forestry, and the original mixed deciduos woodland, often mixed with pine, is still the home of hundreds of pairs of White-backed Woodpecker and a variety of other woodland birds. Towards the western mountain areas, typically pinewoods are replaced by birch for the last couple of hundred meters below the tree line. Moving east of the mountains, pine and spruce are dominating, and forestry is more developed. In these lowlands north of Oslo and around Trondheim, both climate, vegetation, and birdlife is quite different from the western parts.
Scattered in between the main habitat types (mountains and woodland) 3.3 % agricultural land and 6 % wetlands add to the diversity, giving room for 280 breeding bird species and another 170 that pay a visit now and then.
Still, the most internationally important bird populations are located along the coastline in the northern two-thirds of the country. Colonies with six-figure numbers of breeding Atlantic Puffins and Black-legged Kittiwakes are found several places, the most famous are probably Runde and the Lofoten islands. Large numbers of other seabirds such as Northern Fulmar, Northern Gannet, Great Cormorant, European Shag, Common Eider, Razorbill, Common and Brunnich's Guillemot, Black Guillemot, and various skuas, gulls and terns add to the spectacle. But to experience all of these species at once only birding the northern coasts of Finnmark gives a certain guarantee.
Some of the most spectacular summer birding in Europe can be experienced along the Varanger Peninsula and entering the Pasvik taiga forest. A week or ten days birding should produce much sought-after species such as the above mentioned seabirds, White-billed Diver, King Eider, Steller's Eider, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Three-toed Woodpecker, Shore lark, Red-throated pipit, Arctic Warbler, Siberian Tit, Siberian Jay, Pine Grosbeak and much more.
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by Stephen McNulty
Artificial intelligence has been getting scarily good lately, and people are starting to notice.
The internet has been ablaze over the last few months with surprisingly good artwork and images generated by artificial intelligence. The technology has come a long way, and a recent crop of websites have emerged that purport to create A.I.-generated images or drawings from any user-submitted prompt.
They have become instant internet hits, and why wouldn’t they? That I can type in “duck sitting in an office chair eating waffles,” for instance, and come back with a picture of, well, a duck sitting in an office chair eating waffles, evokes a certain awe even in my generation of digital natives. There’s an endless novelty to it all—I’ve spent hours on these websites asking the ever-mysterious algorithm to come up with different creations, each more esoteric and weird than the last. Like a seven year-old awed by the magician’s sleight of hand, I say, “Do it again, do it again,” and the A.I. complies. READ MORE | <urn:uuid:13f952fd-76ba-49b5-837f-d9881bb8113c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Parish---the-thought----August-1--2022.html?soid=1114567510642&aid=eUh9Z81_imk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.952873 | 249 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The drone-technology is slowly revolutionising the transport industry of today.
Scorpion-3 is able to carry around 120kg at the speed of 30 miles per hour. The highest altitude it was able to reach so far was 33 feet and it can fly for up to 27minutes without stopping. All of these limits have been set by its creators to prevent unwanted accidents.
This incredible vehicle is available for a staggering price of $150,000 and we hope that one day this will become part of our everyday transport.
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Philip Johnson‘s Glass House will soon have a new leader manning the transparent and modern ship. Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that Henry Urbach will be taking over as director of the historic architectural landmark in New Canaan, Connecticut. Urbach most recently served as curator of architecture and design at SFMOMA, having taken leave from the position last spring to work independently, which included research work at the Glass House itself. Previously, he’d also run a popular gallery in New York for nearly a decade, the eponymous Henry Urbach Architecture. It is currently planned that he will take on the roll at the Glass House on April 2, replacing its current interim director, Rena Zurofsky, who had this to say about his selection:
I met Henry last spring and was struck by his energy and enthusiasm for the site. He seems to me ideal to lead the dedicated Glass House team into even more innovative and exciting programmatic terrain, and to push restoration programs on track. I congratulate Henry, and also Estevan Rael-Galvez, Vice President of Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, on his astute choice. | <urn:uuid:b02eb47a-4125-456f-8e70-54877ece2a74> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/henry-urbach-named-as-new-director-of-philip-johnsons-glass-house/290592?red=ub | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00510-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97657 | 239 | 1.742188 | 2 |
In the context of Geographic Information System’s evolution from monolithic systems to personal desktop GIS and then to collections of remote Internet services, we discuss the combination or chaining of distributed geospatial web services. The adoption of web services technology provides remote access to a diverse and wide array of geospatial datasets and allows developers to create web applications (web browser-based or GIS client-based), hiding the underlying server functionalities from their public interfaces. A major challenge in working with these remote services, as opposed to a single desktop application, is to properly integrate ad hoc services to build a coherent service chain; this is especially tricky in real-time scenarios where web applications need to be built on-the-fly. This chapter discusses strategies for geospatial web service chaining and poses some challenging issues, many related to semantics, to be resolved for geospatial web service chaining to become a commonplace activity.
Chaining Geospatial Services
Interoperability, or the ability of software components to interact with minimal knowledge of the underlying structure of other components, has become a basic requirement for distributed information systems (Sheth, 1999), and so it is also critical to GIS and to geospatial web services. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has formed working groups within the GIS community to foster interoperability between geodata and geospatial services in order to define well-established interfaces to a wider range of geospatial web services (Whiteside, 2005). Table 1 lists a sample of key geospatial web services interfaces as defined by OGC.Table 1.
Examples of geospatial Web services
|Service name||Service description|
| Web Map Service (WMS)|| Dynamically produces spatially referenced maps of client-specified criteria from one or more geographic datasets, returning pre-defined maps in an image or graphics format (png, jpeg, gif)|
| Web Feature Service (WFS)|| Allows clients to filter and retrieves vector representation of geospatial features and feature collections|
| Web Coverage Service (WCS)|| Retrieves client-specified coverage or image dataset|
| Catalog Service (CSW)|| Retrieves object metadata stored that meets specified query criteria|
| Gazetteer Service|| Retrieves location geometries for specified geographic names|
| Web Terrain Service (WTS)|| Dynamically produces perspective views from geographic feature and/or coverage data, returning pictorial renderings of data in an image or graphics format|
| Web Coordinate Transformation Service (WCTS)|| Transforms the coordinates of feature or coverage data from one coordinate reference system (CRS) to another, including for example, conversions and rectification|
| Coverage Portrayal Service (CPS)|| Dynamically produces pictorial renderings in an image or graphics format of a coverage subset dynamically retrieved from a Web Coverage Service (WCS)|
Key Terms in this Chapter
Service Chain: Sequence of services where, for each adjacent pair of services, occurrence of the first service is necessary for the occurrence for the second service [paraphrased from ISO 19119].
GML: The Geography Markup Language is a XML grammar defined by OGC to express geographical features. To help users and developers to structure and facilitate the creation of GML-based application, GML provides GML profiles that are XML schemas that extend the very GML specification in a modular fashion. A GML profile is a GML subset for a concrete context or application but without the need for the full GML grammar, simplifying thus the adoption of GML and facilitating its rapid usage. Some common examples of GML profiles that have been published are Point Profile, for applications with point geometric data, and GML Simple Features profile, supporting vector feature requests and responses as the case of WFS.
Service Metadata: Metadata describing the operations and geographic information available at a particular instance of a service [paraphrased from ISO 19119].
Service Provider: The role of service provider provides software applications as web services, creating functional descriptions and making them available in public registries.
Service: Functionality provided by a service provider through interfaces [paraphrased from ISO 19119].
SOAP: A protocol for exchanging XML-based messages between services over a computer network, usually the Internet. A SOAP message may think of as an envelope that wraps mainly two elements: a header, with useful information to interpret the data, and a body, which actually contains the exchanged data among web services.
OGC: The Open Geospatial Consortium is an international industry consortium participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OGC members include government agencies, commercial companies, and university research groups.
ISO/TC211: ISO Technical Committee 211 in Geographic information/Geomatics is in charge of establishing a set of standards for digital geographic information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth.
WSDL: A XML-based specification that allows service providers to describe syntactically service interfaces. Basically, a WSDL description allows service providers to describe a web service’s function and its input and output parameters in order to be discovered and invoked by client applications and other web services.
UDDI: A specification/protocol that allows service providers to publish service descriptions in a service registry and service consumers to discover services in a service registry according to their service descriptions, usually described in WSDL. The main element of UDDI is the business registry, a service registry based on XML that contains three kind of information for each web service published: white pages or contact information, yellow pages include business categorization, and green pages that comprise technical information of the web service along with a link to its WSDL description.
Service Consumer: The role of service consumer requires certain requirements and needs that are fulfilled by one or more web services available over the Internet.
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Americans have a wealth of options when it comes to having fun outdoors. From camping and archery to road tripping and diving, the only limitation to having fun outdoors is the imagination and those activities provide several health benefits:
- The stress of firing a bow leads to proper muscle development in almost all muscle groups.
- Rollerblading is among several sports that enhance the cardiovascular system by regulating blood circulation and heart rate.
Another option people have for outdoor adventuring is rock climbing. According to Climbing Business Journal the number of people participating in sport climbing, bouldering or indoor climbing is growing both in number and in popularity.
Climbing is popular among the Generation Z crowd as the participation in climbing is the highest along with sales of supplies for rock climbing being among the highest.
Rock Climbing can be lots of fun, but there’s a lot of equipment you’ll need not to be properly involved in it, but also to stay safe. Here are 10 supplies for rock climbing that are must-haves:
- Harness: this allows you to attach yourself to the rope that keeps you from plummeting. If you do fall, the harness can help you stay upright.
- Rope: every sort of climbing requires a special kind of rope and rock climbing is no exception. When choosing a rock climbing rope look for ones that are flexible, elastic, strong, thick and can help you withstand a fall. If you’re out climbing over particularly treacherous terrain, a rope can go a long in helping you stay safe. It can be expensive, especially for beginners, but it pays off in the long run.
- Carabiners: these help you hold the rope in place and make it secure. Experienced climbers carry a few dozen of these as they’re light and relatively inexpensive.
- Nuts: these protect climbers from falls and are put into rock cracks to help hold your rope in place.
- Descenders: your rope will run through these to provide some friction while you’re rappelling down.
- Helmet: as with almost any outdoor activity that requires one, a helmet helps keep your head safe, especially from any falling rocks you may encounter when climbing.
- Chalk: climbing is fun, but it also requires a great deal of strength in some cases and the strain of climbing can make your hands sweaty. Chalk helps give you a better grip as you climb or rappel.
- Shoes: climbing shoes are rubber soled in order to adapt to the surface of rocks. Clinging to a rock when climbing can be difficult and the proper footwear can help you gain a better hold over the terrain.
- Clothing: there’s no hard and fast rule with clothing when it comes to climbing. Certain sporting goods stores offer specific clothing for rock climbing and adventure clothing, but it’s recommended that you wear something comfortable that allows you your legs some movement for moving along the terrain easier.
- Tape Sling: these are strong nylon strips that are often paired with carabiners at each end to help connect nuts to your rope.
There are many supplies for rock climbing available and spending the time and money on the right rock climbing equipment can make your experience more fun and safer. When you do venture out, it’s important to know your route and if you’re new to the sport, considering finding a guide who can teach you the basics. | <urn:uuid:afb4f6d8-5f06-4be0-8c24-f51b66fb02ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlinevoucher.net/2018/06/10-things-you-need-if-you-want-to-take-up-rock-climbing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.942785 | 703 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Highly efficient optical filter based on vertically coupled photonic crystal cavity and bus waveguide
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We experimentally demonstrate a new optical filter design based on a vertically coupled photonic crystal (PhC) cavity and a bus waveguide monolithically integrated on the silicon-on-insulator platform. The use of a vertically coupled waveguide gives flexibility in the choice of the waveguide material and dimensions, dramatically lowering the insertion loss while achieving very high coupling efficiencies to wavelength scale resonators and thus allows the creation of PhC-based optical filters with very high extinction ratio (>10 dB).
Debnath , K , Welna , K , Ferrera , M , Deasy , K , Lidzey , D G & O'Faolain , L 2013 , ' Highly efficient optical filter based on vertically coupled photonic crystal cavity and bus waveguide ' Optics Letters , vol 38 , no. 2 , pp. 154-156 . DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.000154
© 2013 Optical Society of America. This paper was published in Optics Letters and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at http://www.opticsinfobase.org
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Although the events after death have been described already and will prove to be an incentive towards preparing ourselves for the Hereafter, I wish to list some practices and occasions described by Revered personalities, which will help everybody in their preparations.
Only those who are aware of the reality and facts about the Hereafter, can inform us about this and these are Muhammad (S) and his progeny, who are the cause of creation of the Universe. The gist of their teachings is that if anybody has to undertake a journey, he should make preparations for it.
Therefore daily before sleeping, Imam ‘Ali (as) used to announce from the mosque, “O People, get ready and make preparations for your journey of the Hereafter. May Allah have mercy on you. The proclaimer of Death is announcing. Take heed. Be prepared. You will face numerous hazards there.” (Nahjul Balagha)
The first occasion of these is the time when one experiences the pangs of death.
“And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape” (Sura Qaf, 50:19)
This is an extremely hard time. On one side there is the intensity of pain and illness, the tongue becomes mute and the body refuses to respond.
On the other hand, the crying and wailing relatives and the thought of being separated from them forever, the grief of the children becoming orphans, separation from one's mate and life-partner and from wealth and other worldly goods (in the collection of which one had spent his lifetime): the agony of death, combined with these hardships to be faced after death, all cause this time to be painful beyond imagination.
Shaykh Saduq has quoted Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (as) as saying, “If anyone wishes to make the pangs of death easy and light, he should maintain good relations with his relatives and should be kind and gentle with his parents. One who behaves thus will die easily and in his lifetime will not be troubled with paucity and will on the contrary live happily.”
The Holy Prophet (S) has recommended Sura Yasin (36) and Sura al-Saffat (37) and reading the dua “La Ilaha Illa Allah al-Haleemul Karim...” (There is no power except Allah, the Forbearing and Gracious) to the end in the Qunoot as being beneficial for the time of death. (Recommending of particular Sura and Dua for particular objectives is because of the special meanings contained in them; which if understood and taken to heart have corrective influences upon man).
Second Occasion: Adeela indal-Maut (Satanic thought in death). This is the turning away from the truth to the false and wrong at the time of death. This is because Satan approaches men at the time of their death creating and raising doubts in their minds to the extent that one's correct faith may be completely shaken.
One may even become bereft of it and he may die an infidel or faithless. Traditions advice us that as a safeguard one should be in the habit of recalling Usul al-Deen with its proof so that when he is reminded of the Usul al-Deen on his death-bed and in Talqeen, certainty of his faith would prevail and doubts would cease. Dua al-Adeela in Mafatihul Jinan is also helpful and should be read at the death-bed.
Reciting the Tasbih of Hazrat Fatima (as), wearing Aqiq (Carnelian) ring, reading Sura al-Mu'minun on Fridays, reading “Bismillahi La Hawla Wala Quwwata Illa Billah” after Morning and Maghrib Prayers, are all beneficial.
Third Occasion: Wahshat al-Qabr (Fear and horror of the Grave): This is more severe, and fearful than the previous occasions. When the body is brought near the grave, it should not be put into it at once.
Since this is a very fearful time, it should rather be prepared for it by breaking the journey thrice (Manzil), because the spirit still retains interest in the body. The Holy Prophet has said, “The most fearful time for the dead is their first night in the grave. Help your dead in this time of need by giving charity on their behalf and by praying for them (Salaat al-Wahshat).
In this prayer in the first rakat, one should read Ayaat al-Kursi (2:255) after Sura al-Hamd (1) and in the second Sura al-Qadr (97) ten times after Sura al-Hamd (1). Alternatively, Sura al-Tawheed twice in the first rakat and Sura al-Takathur ten times in the second rakat. ( i.e. after Sura al-Hamd). Also beneficial is reading “LA Ilaha Illa Allahu Al-Malikul Haqqul Mubeen” (There is no power except Allah, the King, the Right, the Manifest) 100 times daily and reading Sura Yaseen (36) every night before sleeping.
Fourth Occasion: Constriction in the Grave: This is also a difficult time. The grave calls out everyday. “I am the rest-house of the travellers. I am a house of horror and also of Respect.” For some, the grave will be a garden from amongst the gardens of Heaven and for others a pit from the pits of Hell.
Imam al-Sadiq (as) has said that nobody can escape this constriction, but there are practices which can prove helpful in this regard. e.g. 1) Imam ‘Ali (as) has said that reading of Sura al-Nisa (4) every Friday will save one from constriction. 2) One who makes a habit of reading Sura al-Zukhruf (43) will remain safe from the constriction and beasts in the grave. 3) Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (as) has said that whoever dies between Thursday noon and Friday noon will be spared constriction. 4) Imam al-Ridha (as) has said that the habit of night prayers keeps one safe from constrictions. 5) The Holy Prophet (S) has said that reciting Sura al-Takathur (102) before sleeping helps to ward off constrictions. 6) People buried in the sacred land of Najaf are also spared constrictions.
Fifth Occasion: The Questioning by Munkar and Nakeer: Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (as) has said that one who does not believe that questioning will take place in the grave is not a true faithful. These questions have been already mentioned. Reading Talqeen twice before the burial is completed is very beneficial but specially (and maybe only) if the person had these beliefs and thoughts in his lifetime.
Sixth Occasion: Barzakh. Barzakh has been discussed already. It is a time of extreme helplessness. Deeds done for the dead and the benefits arising from one's previous deeds are the only useful things at this time and most fearful day.
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The massive earthquake in Nepal on April 25, 2015 has many of us wondering what we can do to help. The devastation resulting from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake is tremendously affecting rural villages. Our concern and compassion for all the people of Nepal and surrounding countries will need to convert to thoughtful action for both immediate relief and long-term recovery efforts that address the most vulnerable communities.
Sarvodaya USA is accepting donations for our sister organization, Sarvodaya Nepal. Sarvodaya Nepal is a grassroots organization founded by former Sarvodaya USA Executive Director Shisir Khanal. Shisir and his wife Swasti Shrestha have dedicated their energy to address the education crisis through the Teach for Nepal program (TFN) which places recent Nepali graduates in underserved schools. Our TFN Fellows are highly trained community organizers and teachers who live and serve in remote areas that other agencies cannot access.
Please donate today to help community-led relief and recovery efforts. Every dollar helps Nepalis rebuild Nepal.
We have heard from Shisir and we know that he and Swasti are safe. However, on the day after the earthquake, Shisir traveled to Shikharpa, a village about three hours south of Kathmandu where two TFN fellows worked. There he found widespread destruction to houses and to the school. Tragically, one of the TFN fellows was killed in the earthquake, and the other was injured; Shisir brought him back to a hospital in Kathmandu for treatment. He reports that TFN fellows in other villages are describing severe damage, destruction, injury, and death in the communities where they work.
Shikharpa is well known to many Wisconsin residents, as it has hosted several Quest Nepal and University of Wisconsin Global Health trips. The Sarvodaya Nepal Relief and Recovery effort will focus on assistance to similar village areas.
Although most of the media coverage so far has focused on the situation in the urban centers of the Kathmandu Valley, most of Nepal’s 24 million people live in rural areas. Many of these areas are difficult to get to under the best conditions, but the earthquake has already made them more isolated by completely destroying roads or creating landslides that are blocking roads and even footpaths to the areas.
The best use of your donation is to give to an organization already active on the ground. Your contribution goes directly towards assisting families and communities affected by this tragedy.
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Recently unveiled at IMM Cologne 2010, the Blow Sofa, like the Blofield Couch, is easily transportable and inflatable with one big difference ... it is constructed from dunnage bags, not PVC. Commonly used to protect freight cargo, dunnage bags are inflatable, recyclable “pillows” made from recycled scrap wood. In addition to the dunnage bags, the Blow Sofa also incorporates rubber straps, a metal rack, and, last but not least, air.
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For a sector that has a real and verifiable impact on so many of the historical and contemporary challenges facing society, philanthropy may be one of the least researched and understood fields in contemporary life. It is trapped in an environment of undocumented clichés and misperceptions, due in part to dysfunctional tensions that remain between academia and practitioner experts.
Why teach philanthropy?
Nearly ten years ago, as a philanthropy and public affairs professional, living in France, I decided that there was a need for a course in philanthropy to promote the growth of civic engagement and encourage the development and professionalization of philanthropy in France and in Europe. I proposed a course, New Philanthropy and Social Investment, to the ESSEC Masters of Business Administration. This course went on to be the starting point for France’s only chair in philanthropy, currently housed at ESSEC Business School.
Since 2010, I have created and taught a selection of masters-level courses in this field at Sciences Po in Paris. The longer I teach citizen engagement and philanthropy, purposely linked together, the stronger is my conviction that doing so is essential, especially in the context of the ‘shrinking space for civil society’ and growing awareness that new models are needed for an equitable and sustainable future.
Students take the courses to find out not only about philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and how social investment tools work, but about alternative ways to lead their lives, and how they might have an impact on the looming social and environmental challenges we all face.
Why study philanthropy?
Students take the courses to find out not only about philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and how social investment tools work, but about alternative ways to lead their lives, and how they might have an impact on the looming social and environmental challenges we all face. The fact that most of the students who take my courses represent dozens of nationalities including the UK, Morocco, Korea, India, Brazil, US, Italy, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine as well as France, show that this appetite is global.
They want to explore the shifting roles of individuals and citizens, business and the state; the legitimacy of philanthropy; tax relief and equity; and who should be setting the agenda (global, regional, local) for providing public goods.
Most of them have not had any previous academic exposure to philanthropy or other forms of private action for public good. They are seldom aware of the dynamic scope of the third sector in the global economy and our lives. Their perception of philanthropy is largely based on misconception and mistrust.
In general, they say they would like to make a difference, but are not clear on the best way to do so. The objective of the courses is to broaden their vision and present options and, hopefully, inspiration on how to become effectively engaged citizens.
The first and continuing obstacle to teaching philanthropy is not demand, but the availability of appropriate academic research in recognized disciplines and evidence about the scope of the field and its impact, particularly outside the US.
Why isn’t there more of it?
The first and continuing obstacle to teaching philanthropy is not demand, but the availability of appropriate academic research in recognized disciplines and evidence about the scope of the field and its impact, particularly outside the US. In 2008, a small group of donors and philanthropy professionals launched the European Philanthropy Learning and Research Initiative to commission a study to map the status of research and teaching in Europe and to make recommendations to address the situation without much up-take, originally, from European foundations.
Since that time, several new academic centres and initiatives in the philanthropy sector have been established. The problem is that they tend to focus, with some noble exceptions, on the ‘how to and management’ rather than on some of the basic ethical, sociological and evidence-based research issues that would justify and define philanthropy as a critical element of democracy.
Two recent books note that philanthropy deserves more academic attention than it has so far received and research is beginning to pay attention to that claim.
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If you are pondering what is a online meeting, read on for some basic information. The objective of a electronic meeting is always to communicate with someone via computer. This type of meeting can be extremely beneficial for groups who should not have the luxury of bringing everyone to the office in person. However , digital meetings also can have some disadvantages. Often , they are not as effective because they could be as a result of weak audio tracks or tech connection, or perhaps other factors. The good news is, there are some simple techniques you need to use to ensure a productive virtual assembly.
First, you should definitely create plans for the meeting. http://www.sharedataroom.org/what-is-a-virtual-meeting/ Include important talking points and any relevant documents. Mail the intention to all the participants so that we are all aware of the topics available. Then, make sure you stick to the curriculum, as a very long agenda may distract people from the main task in front of you. Limit the duration of the meeting to 30 minutes or perhaps less. Conferences lasting any more than this kind of make it difficult for participants to remain targeted.
Next, distribute reminders. If the meeting is recorded, use a calendar party invitation to send reminders to those so, who haven’t but received the meeting. Submit reminders a couple days before the assembly to ensure everybody provides a chance to get in touch. You can also mail materials ahead of time, if related. Be sure you include recommendations for stamping them, in order that everyone can get access to them through the live program. | <urn:uuid:a559dfca-0c8e-406d-96a4-5cea354c73be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://speedagecourier.com/what-exactly-is-virtual-get-together/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.950098 | 323 | 2.28125 | 2 |
BASIL LAM - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: WILLIAM GLOCK, BARRY MCDANIEL - HFSID 112237
Sale Price $234.00
BASIL LAM, BARRY McDANIEL and WILLIAM GLOCK
The three musicians pen their names on this album leaf
Signatures: "Basil Lam", in black ink, "Barry McDaniel" and "William Glock", both in blue ink, 5¾x4. BASIL LAM (1914-1984)was a harpsichordist and early music scholar. In the 1960s, Lam headed the classical musical division of the BBC. In addition to playing in different music ensembles, Lam produced a fair number of articles and books, mostly concentrating on the works of Handel, Beethoven, and Bach. He also was involved in editing musical scores; two of the more notable pieces he worked on are the lute music of Dowland and Handel's Messiah.BARRY MCDANIEL (1930-2018) is an American operatic baritone who spent his career almost exclusively in Germany. He was also a celebrated concert singer and recitalist. Growing up performing at local concerts, McDaniel attended the University of Kansas where he studied voice. He then moved on to the famous Juilliard School of Music, where he studied under Mack Harrell. In 1953, following his graduation from Juilliard, McDaniel traveled to Germany on a Fulbright scholarship where he trained at the Stuttgart Music Conservatory with Alfred Paulus and Hermann Reutter and made his operatic debut. He served for two years with the U.S. Army and after returning to Europe he enjoyed a burgeoning opera career in Germany, his talents being very much in demand; he was seen in 2,100 stage and concert performances in Berlin alone. McDaniel was awarded the title of "Berliner Kammersänger" by the Senate of Berlin in 1970. WILLIAM FREDERICK GLOCK (1908-2000) was a British music critic. After attending the University of Cambridge and Gonville and Caius College, Glock studied piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin. He began his career as a critic in 1934 where he worked for the Daily Telegraph (1934) and then for The Observer (1934-1945). He established The Score in 1949, a musical journal, functioning as its editor for over a decade. Afterward he served as a music critic for the New Statesman (1958-1959). From 1959 to 1972, Glock served as BBC Controller of Music and from 1960 to 1973, he worked as Controller of The Proms. His memoir, Notes in Advance, was published in 1991. In 1964, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1970 he was knighted for his contributions to "musical life". Signer on verso merits further research. Irregular right edge from being neatly torn from album. Lightly toned. Otherwise, fine condition.
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MapCam Images Bennu on Arrival Day
On Dec. 3, OSIRIS-REx’s MapCam imager acquired this set of optical navigation images seven hours before the spacecraft’s arrival maneuver. These eight images were taken over the span of one minute and are the first Bennu images obtained at a high phase angle – in this case 80° between the spacecraft, the asteroid and the Sun. The spacecraft’s range to Bennu was 12 miles (19 km), and the asteroid spanned about 380 pixels in the camera’s field of view.
Date Taken: Dec. 3, 2018
Instrument Used: OCAMS (MapCam)
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
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Article by Justin Pritchard
Regardless of its country of origin, brand, age or history, a car is a machine made of parts that will eventually wear out, break, and require replacement. The speed and rate at which this occurs depends on many factors — so buying a new car without making some important generic checks is strongly advised against.
“But it’s red and has a sunroof and I just love it!!!!!!!” say used car shoppers every day, everywhere, with lust in their eyes.
Used Car Checks. Click image to enlarge
“And it’s safetied!! Surely, it can’t have a blown head gasket and a leaky diff and a rat’s-nest of wiring issues waiting to leave my wallet emptier than the Canadiens’ locker room after the beginning of May?”
Firstly, yes it can. Secondly, a safety, certification, or whatever, is largely a joke. In most provinces ‘certified’ means the horn works, and that the vehicle has four tires and four brakes and a windshield. You can even safety a car without an engine, if you like. A safety is in no way a guarantee that the vehicle is reliable, or won’t break down. It simply means the vehicle has met some very minimal standard that it’ll go down the road without falling apart like Chinese patio furniture.
So hopefully, the used car you’re considering is in great shape with no issues. But maybe it’s not. To help protect yourself from expensive surprises, and to help confirm that the seller isn’t trying to pass along a repair he’d love to be someone else’s problem, here’s a list of important used-car checks you shouldn’t miss.
Hitting some used-car dealers or sellers this weekend? Print this out, and take it shopping with you.
And remember: you need more than an hour to go buy a car. Do your homework, make an appointment with a mechanic, and don’t be a sucker.
Timing Belt: Depending on the year, make and model of the vehicle in question there’s a good chance its engine employs a rubber belt to control valve timing. This belt connects the crankshaft and camshaft pulleys, thereby operating the valves in precise relation to the position of the pistons inside the engine.
In simple English the timing belt sets the mechanical heartbeat of the engine.
If your own belt breaks, you’re likely to have a saggy sort of day in the trouser department. If your timing belt breaks, your valves will get smashed in when they’re hit by the piston that’s supposed to not touch them and your drive is over. Congratulations: you’ve just experienced catastrophic engine failure, your engine is a paperweight, and you’re out $2,500 – minimum.
There are no warning lights or wear indicators when a timing belt is wearing out. Simply, they’re changed regularly before failure. So, be double-sure to determine where the timing belt on the ride in question sits within its service life. Ask the seller for documentation proving that the belt was replaced. If they claim it has been but can’t seem to find that pesky receipt, remind them that their dealer can probably pull it up for them.
If the timing belt on the ride you’re considering is past due for servicing, be sure to determine what, if any, other maintenance duties the seller neglected, and budget for a timing belt change. This can cost $600 or more, depending on the model.
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The reaction of the Rajapaksa regime to the successful US resolution at the Human Rights Council makes out the resolution to be, in effect, the first defeat suffered by the regime, its feeble efforts at damage limitation notwithstanding. Needless to say it should not have come to this.
What passed for policy was “shy-making” when set against the standards set by Sri Lankan diplomats of yore who were the envy of the developed and developing world.
It was strident and incoherent, lacking in strategic input and downright expensive to boot – the travels to Africa and elsewhere, the sojourn in a five star and other hotels for all and sundry numbering seventy according to some counts and in one of the most expensive cities in the world!
A wide view during the 19th session of the Human Rights Council. 23 March 2012. Photo by Jean-Marc Ferré
Who will take responsibility for this? Probably no one and this is a key reason why this episode should be seen as a microcosm of policy making and execution under this regime that cries out for remedial action.
Comments and Questions are in Order.
The first is the demonstrable inability of the regime to fully comprehend an interdependent world in which domestic and international politics are not totally separate spheres of action. Regime consolidation and survival being paramount, from the outset it characterized the resolution as an infringement of national sovereignty and expended a lot of energy and muscle in galvanizing public opinion at home against it.
In addition to the many public demonstrations it organized, through the state controlled media and privately owned clones, the regime orchestrated vicious and vituperative attacks on human rights defenders including this columnist. Ministers and at least one high- level state media functionary were enthusiastic revelers in this carnival of hate.
All of this has been noted by a somewhat bewildered international community, which is at the same time, supposed to believe that the regime is passionate about reconciliation – in its own time of course!
On one occasion the Uruguayan president of the UNHRC noted the intimidation of civil society representatives in the Council without naming Sri Lanka and subsequently, naming Sri Lanka , the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement of concern with regard to the intimidation and attacks on civil society representatives at the Council, in Geneva and back at home.
The domestic drama and hiatus may have made good political sense to the regime. It distracted from the economy and reminded the masses yet again of the historic defeat of the LTTE and who was responsible for it. It also revived the patriot vs traitor categorization of the public discourse.
What it did not do was to impact positively on what was most important, the vote in Geneva , which by the regime’s own reckoning, is a violation of national sovereignty and more dangerously, the thin edge of the wedge in respect of regime change and an international war crimes tribunal.
More fundamentally illustrative of its ignorance of an interdependent world is the assumption that it can get away with the portrayal of contemporary Sri Lanka as a place in which reconciliation and harmony, the rule of law and democracy sans disappearances, militarization, torture and the culture of impunity are the order of the day. This too, when the LLRC notes that its interim recommendations dating from September 2010 have yet to be implemented.
It is worth noting that the disappearance of Ramasamy Prabhakaran in Colombo two days before his fundamental rights petition was to be heard by the Supreme Court, the abduction of Jesudasan outside a court in Colombo and the alleged attempted abduction of the Mayor of Kollonawa by members of the security forces, all took place in the lead up to the sessions of the Human Rights Council and during them.
Information, despite the determined efforts to suppress it, like water in a clenched fist, seeps out. When it does it cannot be dismissed or wished away by disingenuousness, invective and deceit.
This is why local human rights defenders are being maligned – for challenging the regime’s portrayal of human rights and governance on the ground, in the belief that if there is to be genuine reconciliation we need to begin with an honest diagnosis and acknowledgement of the gravity and dimensions of the problem.
On the ground with respect to the international community, the regime seems to have been anywhere but. Did they not see this resolution coming? What did the mission in Washington report?
What did the US public relations company hired to do the work of the mission report?
Was it not the case that the US pulled the Canadian resolution in the Council last year on the grounds that the international community should wait for the LLRC report?
Was not the foreign minister invited to Washington to discuss the resolution in a letter from the US Secretary of State informing the GOSL of the US intention to move a resolution in the Human Rights Council?
Would a visit to Washington have made a difference and obviated the need to travel around the world drumming up support?
Or is it the case that the regime is so damn arrogant that it does not give a damn, confident that it would defeat the resolution – that every time it would only be a matter of “shape” karala ganna puluwan (we can fix it)?
“Shape” karala ganna puluwan?, seems to be the attitude towards India as well, in fact the leitmotif of the regime.
Whilst domestic political pressure from the south was certainly a factor (and what did the Rajapaksha regime do about that?), it is worth considering as to whether stringing along the Indian government on a commitment to a political settlement, for example, may not have been another.
Given the President’s subsequent remarks on what the Indian Foreign Minister thought the President had told him on his last visit about a political settlement and Thirteenth Amendment Plus and the cumulative frustrations Delhi has endured with regard to its assistance to the north and east, could it have been taken for granted?
Were it to be the case that Delhi ’s relationship with Washington trumps all else including regional solidarity, did the denizens of the foreign ministry, associated monitors and advisors not detect this?
If they did, was their advice heeded at the apex of power?
Indeed, was there any consideration of the possibility that Washington would not have moved in the first place without Delhi ’s concurrence and therefore that the real change in the Indian position was from abstention to a positive vote?
Equally important as the strategic reappraisal of the design and execution of our foreign policy is the fate of the LLRC report. In the babel of ministerial voices it is difficult to discern as to whether all of it or some or none at all will be implemented.
The resolution calls on the GOSL to implement the constructive recommendations of the report, to take all necessary additional steps to fulfill its relevant legal obligations and commitment to initiate credible and independent actions to ensure justice, equity, accountability and reconciliation for all Sri Lankans and to present as expeditiously as possible a comprehensive action plan detailing the steps taken and to be taken re the above as well as requests the Office of the High Commissioner to report to the Council on the provision of assistance to the GOSL made in consultation with the GOSL and with its concurrence.
The challenge confronting the regime is as to whether the LLRC recommendations are good for the country and therefore warrant implementation or as to whether the LLRC recommendations are bad for dynastic consolidation of power and therefore should be jettisoned, especially since it could be made out post-resolution, that the recommendations are being implemented under international pressure.
When the LLRC report came out, the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) issued a statement in which it made the point that the implementation of the LLRC recommendations required a paradigm shift on the part of the regime. In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that point and to continue to live in hope. | <urn:uuid:12ee80f8-3dd1-4b18-9abd-32fc9aca529f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://srilankabrief.org/2012/03/shape-karala-ganna-puluwan-can-fix-it-plan-of-govt-failed-in-geneva/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965352 | 1,636 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Drinking Enough Water can protect you From the Risk of Heart Failure
When you stay hydrated, all the parts of your body function properly. Not only this, but it also keeps your heart healthy and save from heart failure.
Drinking enough water is good for our health, and it gives us many benefits. If you want to keep yourself hydrated, drink water.
If you want to rejuvenate the skin, drink water; if you want to get relief from headaches, drink water.
Not only this, but drinking water can also protect you from the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Let us know what this new study says about this.
Your Heart Health and Water
Drinking water reduces your risk of heart diseases like heart failure. In addition, studies have shown that drinking enough water can improve your heart health.
Fifteen thousand people were included in the research, whose age ranged from middle-aged to old. They were tested for 25 years.
Later, those whose blood had low water content and high salt content were involved in a higher risk of heart diseases.
It was also found that after a decade or two of these people, major organs such as the heart would stop functioning properly.
It would help if you started drinking more and more water
According to this study, even if you consume sodium in normal amounts, your risk of heart disease increases. So it would help if you started drinking more and more water.
It will help if you increase your liquid intake. Salt intake should be reduced. This will keep you hydrated and reduce your risk of heart diseases.
A woman should drink 6 to 8 glasses of water a day. If you can’t drink water, drink healthy drinks, like milk, tea without sugar etc.
Only 60% of women can meet their day’s adequate water intake. This is because hydration in the body can be traced to the sodium found in its blood.
When you go without water, the serum sodium concentration in your blood increases. So at this time, our body starts conserving water. Due to which the problem of heart diseases starts to arise.
Know some important facts about hydration and heart health
- Every day your hydration level and sodium intake level varies according to your intake.
- Heart failure occurs when the heart becomes too weak or hard. It is a serious condition and becomes more severe with time.
- Its symptoms are breathlessness and fatigue, which can be controlled due to your lifestyle changes.
- You move towards a healthy lifestyle and do exercise regularly. Even so, your risk of a heart attack may be reduced.
- Serum sodium concentration is found to be high in the body. So it also increases the risk of left ventricular hypertrophy.
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The architectural work of John Lautner became immortalized in popular culture with the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds are Forever. Sean Connery’s final official turn as Bond, also put on display the Lautner designed Elrod House. With all the extravagances in Diamonds are Forever, which included the Ken Adam designed penthouse apartment of Willard Whyte, this scene is arguably the most memorable. Perhaps that has something to do with Bambi and Thumper, the athletic female duo that gleefully pummel Mr Bond. Even so, the spacious interior, panoramic vista and interplay of diagonals with circular forms, leaves an ever-lasting impression.
The living room, a conical concrete dome divided by fans of glass, opens to the surrounding landscape and a semi-circular pool. Lautner’s ability to define spaces using diagonals and curved surfaces in the same context with equal deftness is where he surpasses his famous mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. All these qualities prove ideal for film. It’s as if the Elrod House had been designed for the 2.35:1 frame aspect ratio of Diamonds are Forever. His architecture continued to make appearances in movies from Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989 to 1998’s The Big Lebowski.
Aspects of Lautner’s built works reveal the time period in which they were conceived, yet despite this, they seem to transcend eras. It’s possibly attributable to the future fantasy that emanates from Lautner’s iconic designs. Lautner himself notes, “Disappearing space seems to me, to be the most durable and endurable and life-giving quality in architecture.” Both reasons ideal for film and fiction.
In 2005, his famous Chemosphere became the home for Michael Jones, protagonist in the excellent Warren Ellis & J.H. Williams III comic series Desolation Jones. In his blog Warren Ellis explains, “This is, of course, the Chemosphere, as designed and built by the visionary architect John Lautner in 1960. I believe the publisher Benedict Taschen lives in it these days. I chose the Chemosphere as Jones’ home because it looks like a spaceship lodged in the Hollywood hills, with Jones as its illegal alien passenger.”
Pop culture’s limelight on John Lautner’s architecture persists. Last Friday, the new CBS series Moonlight prominently featured the Lautner designed Sheats-Goldstein residence as the habitat for wealthy vampire Josef Konstantin played by Jason Dohring. Even through landscape designer Eric Nagelmann’s impressive gardens, it was immediately recognizable. Apparently diamonds are forever.
Photos from Diamonds are Forever. Copyright Danjaq, LLC & United Artists. Captures from JohnLautner.net.
Chemosphere illustration by J.H. Williams III from Warrenellis.com.
Goldstein Residence from the CBS series Moonlight.
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Welcome to the Lost Ladybug Project
Across North America ladybug species composition is changing. Over the past twenty years native ladybugs that were once very common have become extremely rare. During this same time ladybugs from other parts of the world have greatly increased both their numbers and range. This is happening very quickly and we don’t know how, or why, or what impact it will have on ladybug diversity or the role that ladybugs play in keeping plant-feeding insect populations low. We're asking you to join us in finding out where all the ladybugs have gone so we can try to prevent more native species from becoming so rare. | <urn:uuid:d1f635db-075a-48b5-808a-7b7842b7d332> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lostladybug.org/index.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00483-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956408 | 131 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says music is often one place where people turn during trying times, both for comfort and for inspiration.
He spoke Wednesday during a White House tribute for singer-songwriter Carole King. She is the first woman to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
Obama says the people of Oklahoma “suffered mightily” this week after a powerful tornado reduced much of the town of Moore to rubble and killed 24 people.
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Yes, today is Earth Day. I don’t know about your kids’ school, but my kids’ school puts a lot of focus on the environment. Maybe it’s just being a good citizen, but I think some of it is because Rhode Island is the Ocean State and we see all the trash that gets washed up on our beaches.
When COVID shut down schools in spring of 2020, I “taught” Earth Day by introducing them to a classic show from my youth, Captain Planet. (Sorry, it seems no streaming service includes it. If you choose to buy it from that link, Kid Wealth may earn a commission.) We got through four episodes, which was enough television for a homeschool day. While I do encourage teaching kids with television, sometimes you need something more “hands-on.”
What if you could do something for the environment and make money at the same time? I was at a yard sale with my son and this can tab bracelet caught my attention. It was mixed in with a bunch of odds and ends. It was only a quarter, but I would have easily paid a couple of dollars. Of course, I had to have it. My son wore it religiously, but after a few weeks he moved on to something else. I guess he’s a typical kid, right?
We bring it out every Earth Day because it sparks a conversation about smart recycling. However, this Earth Day, I thought, “What if we made them and sold them?” Wouldn’t that be a good business? The cost of goods (can tabs and string) is very, very close to zero. Hopefully, you have access to a bunch of can tabs – recycling them is the point of Earth Day. We don’t have a bunch of them, so we’d have to buy them. If you already have can tabs, the biggest cost is the “Inspire” tag in the picture. You can buy 80 different motivational tags on Amazon for $11 – about 15 cents each. My 9-year-old says that his friends would probably pay $3 to $5 for one. That’s a profit of more than $2.50 and $4.50 for each sale.
Before you can legitimately consider this business, you’d have to know how to make these can tab bracelets. Fortunately, the internet has you covered. Here’s an Instructable on making can tab bracelets.
There are two remaining things to consider. The kid has to put in the time and sweat equity to make the bracelets. Additionally, the child has to come up with a marketing and selling plan. It sounds easy, but it wouldn’t be right to sell at school – we don’t want to distract from learning. Maybe it’s possible to sell at soccer or Little League games? You might have to check with the league and the rules on that.
Don’t Forget to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Ever since we watched the Curious George movie, I’ve been hooked on Jack Johnson music. It’s great for kids because there are no cuss words and the songs usually have an uplifting message. Jack Johnson is a champion of the environment. Check out this sweet video of him singing his song “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” with some children. It’s not only great for the environment, but it helps save money too: | <urn:uuid:11c96a6e-be5b-41e0-9377-a53afb0f38f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kidwealth.com/tag/earth-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.975697 | 729 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Members of the local Coast Guard Auxiliary say they want to make boating safety a priority for Florida boaters.
Saturday they led a class on boating techniques and safety in Tallahassee. Both adults and children participated in the eight hour course.
"I think everybody that operates a boat today should take a safety course, I really do. It's a wonderful course. One day out of your life to sit through and learn all the rules and regulations and safety tips. There's too many deaths in boats occurring and too many unsafe boaters out there," said Dick Hunt, a course participant from Tallahassee.
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It’s basic to make an illuminated way of life eventually with the goal that you remember you’ll be equipped for keeping it after you’ve arrived at your ideal weight. Making specific you’re equipped for keeping up with your better approach for life is essential to protect off the heap you’ve lost.
Cauliflower might be an astonishing option in contrast to potatoes. You should simply purchase a broiler that is incorporated to prepare supper cauliflower florets in with a modest quantity of water as per wanted. You can then make an empowering dinnertime dish without the sugar growl.
Entrancing is a way for weight decrease utilized by numerous people to shed weight.
A powerful method for shedding pounds is to avoid egg yolks and eat up best the yolk. The yolk integrates valuable fats; nonetheless, it ought not to be a piece of your good dieting plan for weight decrease. Egg whites are sublime assets of protein.
Consume better meats to drop additional pounds. Take a stab at including chutney or salsa to your meat, instead of velvety sauces as well as seasoning it with flavours rather than sauce. This can add taste to your meat, without including more prominent calories.
A genuine way to lose weight is to be lively to guarantee that you don’t invest an assortment of energy thinking about suppers. On the off chance that we’re lounging around eating, suppers considerations are on our psyches and the desires will follow on the grounds that it’s a way to divert us. It’s vital to keep up with occupied to safeguard these personalities from happening.
Chutneys arrive in a development to add amazing taste to your meat.
Have a lot of energizing supper’s things inside your home while you’re hoping to get more fit. Get yourself an enormous Tupperware field. Set up your veggies, then region them to the top piece of your crate, and a touch amount of water. It is consistently a smooth and nutritious bite that is not difficult to haul around!
Rewards yourself pleasantly sooner or later in your health improvement plan is something essential in making a food routine compelling. Shop, have a back rub or take a walk.
Store your vegetables inside the ice chest.
While settling on a solid eating routine weight-decrease plan make sure to abstain from becoming involved with the present moving health improvement plan. The weight decrease industry is prestigious for this sort of food routine that is popular for a concise period, just to wind up blurring quick. The reason these crazes pass on is that they’re presently not maintainable for long-lasting period gifts.
You can help with achieving your weight reduction wants via using the stairwell in inclination to the use of a lift. While it’d appear to be inconsequential pushing off the lift and making the strides, very much like not the utilization of the lift, will be critical to dropping weight.
Include a disaster area inside the canter of your supper.
This gives your body the usefulness to decide if you’re ravenous and that you might prevent ingesting. Set a timetable that you forestall part of the way through every feast. Stop for two or three minutes and endeavour to consider how much food you’re eating.
Discussing weight decrease is a truckload less troublesome than getting started with a program. You’ll no doubt wonder for what reason you’re so anxious to begin.
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Assuming you work a lively movement, make a point to take food sources that are healthy and reasonable for your canvases.
This can lead you to show for your weight reduction plan.
Stay away from the utilization of an unreasonable measure of any dinners thing in the event that you eat up a great deal of fixings with sandwiches and wieners to help decrease down on calories. These sauces are finished of sugar and may blast the calories to your food. Utilize best a little amount to introduce your dinners to furnish it with a couple of flavours.
Demand that your dressing be served along while requesting salad ingesting at an eatery this is situated. This will make it less confounded to not consume an inordinate measure of dressing. You’ll be glad that you did this little adjustment when you begin getting in shape.
It is parcels less challenging to recognize and diminish the amount you spend when it’s far wished.
It is pivotal to be conscious of consuming the legitimate weight-decrease plan. Dispose of all garbage dinners contraptions from your cooler and cooler. Sound utilization is essentially all around as urgent as practicing to lose abundance weight.
An empowering eating routine and a decent way of life are significant to dropping weight. You need to eat up the perfect sum and sorts of fat to be healthy. At the point when you consume fats you are more finished for longer however it could likewise steadily the charge at which you at any point take inside the dinners you eat. Pay interest to your utilization of calories consumed to decrease weight!
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By M. Kathy Raines
Special to the PARADE
“Kis-ka DEE! Kis-ka-DEE!”
The great kiskadee, a feisty, strikingly-colored flycatcher, shrieked its name as it swooped through the foliage fringing a boardwalk at Sabal Palm Sanctuary in Brownsville.
Though chirps and calls often baffle me as I seek out flitting songsters, I never fail to recognize the brash call of this aptly-named bird—the last syllable of which ends in an unmistakable whine, rather like the sound of a cat or a squeaky toy. Its name originally comes from the French “Qu’est-ce qu’il dit?”, meaning, “What did he say?”
The genus name of the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) originates with the Brazilian Tupi word “pitangua”, for “flycatcher”. “Sulphuratus” describes its brilliant yellow color. The bird’s order, Passerformes, denotes a perching bird, one with three forward and one backward-pointing toes. It is the largest in the family Tyrannidae, for tyrant flycatchers. Early field guides called it the kiskadee flycatcher.
The great kiskadee, a large, thick-billed bird, wears a black cap, topped with an often-hidden yellow patch. A bold black patch streaks across its beak on a white head. Its belly is yellow, its wings and tail, reddish brown. The bird’s large eyes may help it home in on prey. Its black mask, like an athlete’s “eye-black”, seems to help it detect insects and fish in sun-dazzled water.
This bird prefers riparian forests (those near water), thorn scrub or woodland edges, but, having a diverse diet, it flourishes in a variety of habitats. And its numbers are growing. Though a somewhat noteworthy find here in the 1970s, I now hear the birds’ unmistakable “Kis-ka-DEE!” most days as they flash through the canopy of my Brownsville neighborhood. They nest in our trees and join the locals at my feeder, especially when I’ve put out fruit. Though once uncommon along our coast, I often see them at the South Padre Island Birding, Nature Center and Alligator Sanctuary.
This tropical bird now nests in Louisiana’s Mississippi Delta and areas around Houston. Great kiskadees live in the Caribbean and extend as far south as central Argentina.
An omnivore, the kiskadee gleans insects and spiders, as well as fruits, from leaves and branches, a process called “snatch-gleaning”. It also seizes insects midair, plunging—much like a kingfisher— into surface water for dragonflies and little fish. In dry areas, it eats small snakes, lizards and mice. One observer witnessed a kiskadee flying with a small mouse, which it repeatedly bashed against a tree—presumably making it palatable—dropping it occasionally, and, with the aid of a partner, snatching it back up.
The kiskadee visits feeders and particularly relishes sweets like bananas and peanut butter. It also eats pet food, scavenges through garbage and sometimes raids other birds’ nests or steals their food.
Great kiskadees are generally monogamous, with couples remaining together throughout the year. In courtship, a bird may lift its head and drop its bill, revealing its fuzzy yellow crown.
Together, both sexes gather nesting material such as grass, Spanish moss, paper, cotton, sticks and feathers, by hovering over it, then plucking it up. Also, they may steal materials from other birds’ nests. Both birds build and wedge a football-shaped nest into a tree fork or cavity, between clusters of bananas, in nesting boxes or a crack in a building, depending upon available resources. Beginning with a cup of soft grasses, kiskadees bolster the sides, topping the nest with an awning-like dome. They enter the tall, bulky affair from the side. Both birds defend their nest ferociously as the female incubates the three-to-five brown speckled white eggs.
The nesters threaten intruders such as grackles, snakes, hawks, and other kiskadees by
stuttering as they give chase or screeching a “Reep!” if their adversary remains still. In the tropics, kiskadees drive away capuchin monkeys and toucans.
Flying close, great kiskadees harass bronzed cowbirds, usually preventing them from parasitizing their nests— laying eggs in their nests, prompting them to raise cowbird chicks—which can devastate less attentive bird populations.
However, despite the kiskadees’ ferocity, the shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis), a tropical bird which may breed in southern Florida, sometimes manages to parasitize kiskadees’ nests. Also, a mere wren, the black-capped donacobius (Donacobius atricapilla) in Amazonian Peru, occasionally raids kiskadees’ nests.
After from 15 to 22 days, hatchlings arrive, weak, nearly naked, and with eyes closed. They appear to fledge in about 15 days. Juveniles, like many young birds, sport a slender yellow line at the inside border of their bills.
Besides its namesake call, the great kiskadee cries “K-reah!” and a raucous “Kayeer kayeer trrrrrr kweer!” at dawn, along with other vocalizations. Kiskadees will fight fiercely both for what is theirs and what is not. One observer witnessed a kiskadee pecking at a pocket gopher’s head. Then, when the tormented creature retreated, the bird took its place, resting upon the rodent’s abandoned mound.
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Upcoming Webinar on Thursday, April 22—Safeguarding the U.S. Food Supply: Excellent Industry Compliance With the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Final Rule
Do you have questions about BSE? Did you know that FDA works to keep the food supply in the United States safe for people and animals?
Every day, FDA is protecting people by making sure that the food they eat comes from healthy animals.
At a 30-minute webinar, FDA experts will discuss animal feed controls the agency has put in place to keep BSE out of the U.S. cattle population, thereby ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply from BSE. The presentation (download slides) will include an opportunity to ask questions.
When: Thursday, April 22, 2010, at 2 p.m. ET
(View and listen to archived presentation here)
Host: FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine
Speakers: Shannon Jordre, Consumer Safety Officer, and Burt Pritchett, D.V.M., Veterinary Medical Officer from the Division of Compliance, Center for Veterinary Medicine at FDA
Note: There will be a limited number of spots available for the webinar, so please log in prior to 2:00 p.m. You will need computer speakers to listen to this webinar. Closed captioning will be available.
To join the webinar:
- Click the URL https://collaboration.fda.gov/fdabasics/ (or cut and paste it into your Internet browser)
- Click "Enter as a Guest" button, fill in your name, then click "Enter Room"
This webinar is the third in a series of monthly online sessions hosted by different FDA centers and offices. The webinar series is part of FDA Basics, a Web-based resource aimed at helping the public better understand what the agency does.
This article appears on FDA's Consumer Updates page, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
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How magical would it be to instantly trade the sidewalks and steel of an urban downtown for a woodland utopia? Clifton's spanned 16,000-square-feet of faux redwoods, frolicking forest creatures, scenic murals, a brook babbling with limeade and a 20-foot waterfall cascading over artificial rocks. To say that Clifton’s was unique is like saying LeBron James is a pretty decent basketball player. Imagine a larger-than-life diorama designed by Walt Disney on a Pine Sol-fueled bender. Simply put, it was unlike any other restaurant in Los Angeles.
Discover Los Angeles
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument is located near the site of the early Los Angeles pueblo, where 44 settlers of Native American, African and European heritage journeyed more than a thousand miles across the desert from present-day northern Mexico and established a farming community in September 1781. Today, as a department of the City of Los Angeles, El Pueblo is a living museum that attracts more than 2 million visitors to the oldest district in L.A. Read on and discover the cultural attractions of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument.
Stretching for six blocks from 3rd to 9th Streets along South Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, the historic Broadway Theatre District includes 12 movie theatres built between 1910 and 1931. At its height, the neon-drenched district had the highest concentration of cinemas in the world, with seating capacity for more than 15,000 patrons. The Broadway Theatre District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 1979, the first and largest historic theatre district listed on the Register. It is the only large concentration of movie palaces left in the United States.
Efforts by the Los Angeles Conservancy, the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, the Broadway Theatre Group and the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation have restored many of these theatres to their original splendor. New generations of Angelenos can now experience live performances and cultural events at these spectacular venues. Read on and discover the great movie palaces of the Broadway Theatre District.
There's a reason why one of Downtown L.A.'s most vibrant districts is called the Historic Core. Located between Hill and Main Streets and 1st and 9th Streets, this eclectic neighborhood showcases many of the things that originally put Los Angeles on the world stage, including lovely parks, ornate movie palaces and other architectural marvels. It's also where visitors can experience places that have helped contribute to L.A.'s more contemporary reputation as a food and arts destination. With no shortage of beautiful buildings, cutting-edge art galleries, trendy bars and gourmet restaurants, the Historic Core is where L.A.'s golden era meets modern times. | <urn:uuid:60b36049-74d9-46a1-ac1d-e6c41a744d9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ahima17.discoverlosangeles.com/articles?tags%5B0%5D=3119®ion=51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.936244 | 610 | 1.921875 | 2 |
The Hole in our Holiness is a fine book that makes a good argument that all devout Christians should read and inwardly digest. And then, as soon as possible, we should forget about it.
It's a fine book because Kevin DeYoung makes as good a case as can be made for pursuing holiness. Holiness is never formally defined in the book, but what he apparently means by it is righteous behavior motivated purely by a desire to obey Christ. Being familiar with DeYoung's writings, I know he is aware that holiness embraces more than this, but here he uses the term in its more ethical sense.
The case for holiness is not hard to make, as the Bible is full of injunctions to that end. There is no better summary than that of Ephesians 1, wherein we are told that from before the foundation of the world God chose us to live holy and blameless lives (v. 4), and then in chapter 2, that we have been saved by grace so that we might do good works (v. 10). Put in the perspective of salvation history, every other biblical admonition to holy living seems like mere commentary.
In pursuing the life of holiness there are many land mines to avoid, and DeYoung warns us about most of them. For example, he rightly notes the temptation to think that good works are something owed to God because of all the love he has lavished upon us. He also reminds us that "holy" is not something we become as much as a reality we live into, since by Christ's death and resurrection, we are already holy in the most important sense. Because of many such nuances, the book avoids many of the dead ends that one finds in other pleas for righteous living.
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Two writers we highly respect are worried about an American-Islamist attempt to influence the Obama Administration.
M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, takes note of a resume book prepared by a Muslim congressional staffers organization. The group is tied to Islamists, or people who want more than the freedom to practice their faith. They want their faith to influence, and ultimately govern, society. The whole concept of an organized effort to place Muslims in government jobs offends Jasser, who argues anyone is free to apply and be judged on individual qualification:
"At AIFD we have a mantra, which is that 'we are Americans who happen to be Muslim rather than Muslims who demand to be American.' My parents came to the United States in the 1960s because they understood our nation to be a meritocracy and not one plagued with the inequities of political correctness which are more concerned with immutable characteristics of individuals such as race or religion than with real equality and merit. Islamists thrive on identity politics and the deceptive collectivization of Muslims into one 'bloc'. This resume book and the Islamist interests of the CMSA feed into that mentality where the faith identity of Muslims is not a private matter of concern only in the mosque and at home. Their resume book is all about influence for Islamists under the banner of 'being Muslim.'"
Read the whole essay here.
Meanwhile, journalist Douglas Farah writes about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's acceptance of an invitation to be a keynote speaker at the 10th anniversary conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), which he describes as "a sort of umbrella organization for many of the [Muslim Brotherhood] groups in the United States."
Some CSID officials have long been suspected of terror financing and Muslim Brotherhood ties. As an organization, CSID advocates for American support for Islamist movements in other countries. About Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups in the U.S., Farah writes:
"To be clear: these groups have a clearly enunciated and never renounced policy of toppling the government, hollowing out the institutional structures, and imposing the caliphate here, where Sharia law is the law of the land. As I have often said, if they want to openly join the political process and espouse this, they are welcome and they will be marginalized, even within the Muslim community."
He also points to Dalia Mogahed's appointment to the President's Advisory Council Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as a disturbing sign. Mogahed is a protégé of Georgetown University Professor John Esposito, and the two work together at the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies. Esposito was a defense expert witness at the Hamas-support trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, a consistent defender of admitted Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian and worked with a think tank that was part of a U.S.-based Hamas support network.
Esposito also is a frequent speaker at fundraising banquets for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), identified as a Hamas front by an FBI agent in the HLF case, and listed among the entities in the Hamas-support network – which was called the Palestine Committee.
CAIR issued a press release to congratulate Mogahed on her appointment.
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The UK is the number one choice for secondary education and the second most popular destination for undergraduate and postgraduate study, according to theHurun Research Institute’s latest report on the lifestyle trends of China’s wealthiest. So, how do you tap in to this market?
Of all the world’s internet users more than one in five connect from China. Of those 676 million people, more than half are under the age of 29. That’s a hell of a lot of young people online and with the vast majority surfing on their mobiles; this is one of the most effective platforms for reaching them.
Games are a natural go-to place for young people, regardless of whether they’re domiciled here or in China. But unlike the UK, and despite there being around 200 million gamers in China, ‘gamification’ has not yet made it into their vocabulary.
This doesn’t mean it’s not in play though; brands like Smart, Uniqlo and Nike are already using gamification successfully and the social gaming landscape is developing rapidly. Social games have emerged as a convenient alternative for students to gain a sense of release, evident in the rise of Sina Weibo as one of China’s most influential social platforms.
There’s no doubting the evidence stacks up for using gamification as an effective way of reaching the student market in China, but once you’ve made this decision things become more complex.
We recently launched a game on Sina Weibo to engage students in China with NCUK programmes as a route to a UK degree. In the project’s development there were a myriad of considerations, from game build as software development kits are often in Chinese, to gameplay – China’s gamers have half the retention rate of their western counterparts, they play much faster and consume more content.
If you are considering this route, there are some linguistic, cultural and behavioural fundamentals that need to be understood.
Among the hundreds of mutually unintelligible spoken languages, Mandarin and Cantonese are used most frequently, but don’t expect somebody to understand them both. Again there are two written languages commonly used, but somebody who reads Traditional Chinese cannot be expected to be able to read Simplified, so Chinese websites often have three regional variants. My best tip here is to work with someone who is a native speaker or find a team who has access to specialist input.
In a country that places more emphasis than most on symbolic meaning, the use of colour should be applied cautiously. Black is associated with evil and corruption. White has associations with death and funerals. Yellow is sometimes associated with pornography. While red is generally a safe bet, overuse can seem clichéd and overly reminiscent of celebrations.
We’ve already looked at why a ‘mobile first’ approach should be an important part of your strategy, but if you’re targeting desktop users beware the curse of legacy versions of Internet Explorer. The widespread piracy of Windows XP in China means prolific use of the operating system’s (OS) old browser, IE6. Any web developer will confirm that supporting any version of IE is a pain, but at least a third of browsing in China is through IE6 so it shouldn’t be ignored.
If you’re developing an app, Android is by far the most popular mobile OS. Don’t imagine though that a submission to the Android and Apple stores will suffice. In China there are more than 500 app stores and Google Play isn’t one of them (iTunes is). Attempting to submit to all 500 will be a major headache, so take a pragmatic approach by focusing on a handful.
If you’re planning a social campaign it pays to understand the landscape. YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are banned in China and your choice of platform will depend on your target demographic and activity. Consider popular sites QZone, Weibo, WeChat and Ren Ren.
Navigating the Chinese market may be a minefield, but don’t be put off. It offers amazing opportunities and with the right help and support the results can be immensely rewarding.
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CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT AFRICAN-AMERICAN QUILT EXHIBIT
The Sisters of the Cloth Quilting Guild will exhibit quilts from the 1930s to present in the Krull Gallery at the downtown Allen County Public Library from February 20-March 30. The Gallery will be open regular library hours.
The library exhibit coincides with Black History/African-American History Month. The quilt makers range from teenagers to ninety-young-at-hearts. African and African-American made quilts are known for their vibrant colors and geometric designs. Kente cloth, discussed in the previous article, will be found in this exhibit.
Besides the library the guild members share their love and pride in their quilts by displaying them throughout the area in schools, museums, community centers and events such as the Marie Webster Celebration in Marion, Indiana.
Founded in Fort Wayne in 1999 the Sisters of the Cloth Quilting Guild’s motto is “Each one teach one”. The motto reflects the guild’s purpose to teach and preserve the art of quilting for future generations. No wonder Traditional Arts Indiana magazine chose to feature them in an article.
As in many endeavors, teaching starts at home as guild members involve their children and grandchildren in the making of their quilts. Guild members volunteer to teach the art of quilting at area high schools and at shows where teenagers and younger children alike can try their hand at constructing a quilt.
An active guild, the Sisters of the Cloth twice hosted the annual Gathering of Quilters to huge success. The Gathering is celebrated annually on International Quilting Day the third Saturday of March at various locations around Indiana.
As a non-profit, the Sisters not only quilt together for their own enjoyment and company, they quilt to benefit their community. Each year the members decide on a charity project. Project Linus and daycare center children, seniors and veterans have all received lap quilts or pillowcases made by the loving hands of the guild members.
Make certain to plan to come downtown to see the exhibit and if you like, stop by and see me upstairs at 124 West Wayne Street where there is always a quilt in the frame!
Lois Eubank is the owner of Born Again Quilts a restoration studio. She may be contacted at 260- 515-9446.
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The Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has issued a proposed rule that would require federal contractors to set a hiring goal of having 7 percent of their workforces be people with disabilities.
Published in the Dec. 9 Federal Register (76 Fed. Reg. 77,056), OFCCP's proposal would strengthen affirmative action requirements under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, which requires federal contractors and subcontractors to provide equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities.
OFCCP in July 2010 published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, seeking public input on specific questions prior to issuing a proposed rule under Section 503. The agency received 127 comments, including 80 responding to at least some of the questions posed by the proposal, the agency said.
“This proposed rule represents one of the most significant advances in protecting the civil rights of workers with disabilities since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis said. “This proposed rule would help federal contractors better fulfill their legal responsibility to hire qualified workers with disabilities.”
The Labor Department noted that although Section 503 regulations have been in place for almost 40 years, the current unemployment rate for persons with disabilities is 13 percent, well above the overall unemployment rate of 8.6 percent. According to data from DOL's Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost 80 percent of working-age individuals with disabilities remain outside the labor force, compared with 30.5 percent of those without disabilities, the department said.
“For nearly 40 years, the rules have said that contractors simply need to make a ‘good faith' effort to recruit and hire people with disabilities,” said OFCCP Director Patricia Shiu. “Clearly, that's not working. Our proposal would define specific goals, require real accountability, and provide the clearest possible guidance for employers seeking to comply with the law.”
The Federal Register publication triggered a 60-day public comment period on OFCCP's proposed rule.
In a Dec. 8 telephone briefing, Shiu said the proposal represents a “sea change” in OFCCP's enforcement of Section 503. She said the “big change” is the hiring or “utilization” goal, which is intended as a “yardstick” to help contractors measure their own success and to alert OFCCP to potential problems.
“This goal is aspirational,” Shiu said, explaining that OFCCP's focus mainly will be on determining whether covered contractors are following other required steps including recruitment, notification of job openings, and accessible hiring procedures.
“I believe that what gets measured, gets done,” Shiu said. OFCCP's proposed regulations provide “concrete steps” the federal government can take to help “close the gap” between persons with disabilities and those without disabilities in employment and labor force participation rates, Shiu said.
Shiu and Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris both emphasized that OFCCP's proposed 7 percent hiring goal for each of a contractor's occupational groups is not set in stone.
This proposed utilization goal is “not a hiring quota nor a restrictive hiring ceiling,” Shiu said. “Rather, it is an equal employment opportunity objective, and an important tool for measuring the contractor's progress toward equal employment opportunity and assessing where barriers to equal employment opportunity remain.”
OFCCP developed the 7 percent figure after looking at federal contractors' occupations and at data regarding persons with disabilities who could perform those jobs, including discouraged workers not currently in the labor force, Harris said.
“We're suggesting 7 percent but asking for comments on a range between 4 percent and 10 percent,” he said.
Asked how OFCCP's proposal might affect military veterans with disabilities, Shiu said it “absolutely” would apply to disabled veterans. She said there is a “fair amount of overlap” regarding the benefits for persons with disabilities under the Section 503 proposal and under OFCCP's proposed rule regarding affirmative action under the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act, issued earlier this year.
OFCCP's proposal would revise the definitions of “disability,” “major life activities,” “substantially limits,” and other statutory terms within the existing Section 503 regulations to conform with the ADA Amendments Act and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's final regulations implementing that new law, which amended the Rehabilitation Act as well as the ADA.
Federal contractors would have to take specific steps regarding recruitment, training, recordkeeping, and disseminating policies, similar to those already required under Executive Order 11246 to promote workplace equality for women and minorities, the agency said.
The proposed regulations would enhance data collection and recordkeeping requirements, including the documentation and processing of individuals' requests for reasonable accommodation, OFCCP said.
Federal contractors would have to conduct annual self-reviews of recruitment and outreach efforts, OFCCP said. For the first time, federal contractors would be required to list job openings to increase their pools of qualified applicants, the agency said.
Under OFCCP's proposal, contractors would have to invite all job applicants to “voluntarily self-identify” as persons with disabilities whenever they apply for or are considered for employment. Contractors also would have to survey their current employees annually, in order to give them an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify as persons with disabilities, anonymously if they prefer.
OFCCP said this invitation to self-identify is consistent with the ADA. “Although the ADA generally prohibits inquiries about disability prior to an offer of employment, it does not prohibit the collection of this information by a contractor in furtherance of its section 503 obligations to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities,” OFCCP said.
OFCCP's proposal would require contractors annually to review their personnel policies to ensure that their affirmative action plan (AAP) obligations are being met and would prescribe specific steps contractors must take during such reviews. Steps that the current Section 503 regulations recommend as appropriate procedures for AAP review would be made mandatory under OFCCP's proposal.
Comments on OFCCP's proposed rule, identified by RIN number 1250-AA02, may be submitted online at http://www.regulations.gov; by fax (if six pages or less) to (202) 693-1304; or by mail to: Debra A. Carr, Director, Division of Policy, Planning, and Program Development, Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs, Room C-3325, 200 Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210.
Text of OFCCP's proposed rule may be accessed at http://op.bna.com/dlrcases.nsf/r?Open=kmgn-8pckcu.
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A Co-writing Development Approachto Wikis: PedagogicalIssues and Implications
Authors: Said Hadjerrouit
Abstract:Wikis are promoted as collaborative writing tools that allow students to transform a text into a collective document by information sharing and group reflection. However, despite the promising collaborative capabilities of wikis, their pedagogical value regarding collaborative writing is still questionable. Wiki alone cannot make collaborative writing happen, and students do not automatically become more active, participate, and collaborate with others when they use wikis. To foster collaborative writing and active involvement in wiki development there is a need for a systematic approach to wikis. Themain goal of this paper is to propose and evaluate a co-writing approach to the development of wikis, along with the study of three wiki applications to report on pedagogical implications of collaborative writing in higher education.
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J. F. Carter, "Lines of communications: Using a wiki in a mathematics course", Primus, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2009.
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Horses and bayonets’ shows Obama’s debate strategy
(CNN/Kevin Liptak) — Perhaps it only makes sense that a candidate who prepared for a presidential debate near Colonial Williamsburg would choose to slam Mitt Romney’s plan for more Navy ships by using the phrase “horses and bayonets.”
President Barack Obama’s quip – meant to make the point that modern warfare doesn’t require the type of equipment it did in the past – appeared part of a larger strategy of casting his opponent as stuck in a time warp on important issues. Republicans, seeing an opening, are making sure shipbuilders just down the road from President Barack Obama’s Virginia prep location are aware of the president’s suggestion their industry is a thing of the past.
Obama made the jab Monday at his final debate with Mitt Romney.
“You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916,” Obama said in a pointed jab at the GOP nominee. “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military’s changed. We had these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. So the question is not a game of battleship where we’re counting ships. It’s ‘What are our capabilities?'”
That was in response to an allegation from Romney that “our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917.”
“The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission,” the Republican candidate continued. “We’re now at under 285. We’re headed down to the low 200s if we go through a sequestration. That’s unacceptable to me.”
Romney was referring to the large cuts to the defense budget that would be triggered if a deal isn’t reached on reducing the federal debt by the end of the year. His assertion that 313 ships are required for a fully operational Navy uses an outdated figure – Navy Secretary Ray Mabus dropped the number to 300 ships in April.
Mabus has also criticized Romney for his assessment of the Navy’s strength compared to 1917, saying it’s an outdated way of looking at American defense strategy.
“It’s like comparing the telegraph to the smartphone. They’re just not comparable,” Mabus said in April, according to the Navy Times.
The “horses and bayonets” line was one of several attempts by the president to cast Romney as behind the times. Obama also pinned his GOP rival to the 1980s – “they’re now calling to ask for their foreign policy back” – for his remark to CNN in March that Russia was the United States’ number one geopolitical foe.
In stump speeches, Obama harks to another era for Romney’s stance on reproductive rights, saying the candidate’s position is “more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.”
And Obama hammers Romney for favoring a “trickle-down” economic approach, saying that method was a proven failure in the past.
Yet Republicans say Obama’s lumping together of Navy ships with “horses and bayonets” could harm him in the key battleground of Virginia, where some of the Navy’s largest shipbuilding and repair operations are based. Obama and Romney have both been battling fiercely for votes in the southeastern part of the state, where communities in Newport News, Norfolk and Portsmouth are largely sustained by Navy operations.
Republicans immediately latched onto the comment on Twitter, saying it showed Obama would be open to cutting military jobs in the Commonwealth.
@EricCantor: Mr. President, for the thousands of Virginians in the Navy family, cutting our naval forces isn’t a game of battleship.
@EWErickson: I’m #ProudofObama for treating the Navy so dismissively. That only helps Romney in Virginia, Florida, etc.
Romney’s surrogates blasted the president in statements.
“President Obama’s dismissive comments about the Navy tonight should be concerning for any voter who cares about the safety and security of Americans at home and abroad,” Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, said in a statement distributed by Romney’s campaign. “President Obama has not only ignored these concerns – but his flippant comment about ‘horses and bayonets’ was an insult to every sailor who has put his or her life on the line for our country.”
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As the fatest and most versatile real-time editing software, Edius Pro 7/8 can perfectly handle limitless of audio, video, graphics and title tracks, however, sometime, you may still receive "Import error" message when you try to import some incompatible file formats such as Tivo or file container format with multiple compression video/audio codec such as AVI, MKV, VOB, MXF, etc to Edius Pro 7/8.
To solve above mentioned problems, you will need to transcode or rewrap the video files that you are going to edit with Edius Pro 7/8 into one single file format or codec that can be easily recognized by Edius Pro 7/8 as below:
Video format: 3GPP, AVCHD, AVC-Intra (4K 444/4K 422/4K-LT/200/100/50), AVC LongG, AVI, DIF stream, DVCPRO(DVCPRO HD/50/25), Flash Video, MPEG HHD MOVIE, MPEG Program Stream, MPEG Transport Stream, MPEG Video Stream, MPEG File, MXF, P2 Clip File, QuickTime Movie, RED File, SONY HVR-DR60/HVR-MRC1 Meta File, Transport Stream (MPEG2, H.264), Windows Media*1, XAVC, XAVC-S, XDCAM, XDCAM EX, XF Clip File.
Audio format: AAC Files, AIFF Files, Dobly Digital (AC-3), Dobly Digital (AC-3) (for professional), MPEG Audio Layer-3, MPEG Audio Stream, Ogg Vorbis Files, Wave Files, Windows Media Audio.
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Fight DC-3 Disappearance in
On December 28, 1948, the flight Douglas Dakota DC-3 (NC16002) took off at 10.03p.m. from San Juan airport of Puerto Rico heading for Miami (Florida). While it was only 50 miles south of Florida, it sent the last message to indicate its position. Only 20 minutes to go, the flight was never seen or heard of again.
It disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle area with all its 28 passengers and 3 crew members.This was the first instance of a DC-3 aircraft disappearing. There were subsequently two more such cases, all of them happened within 50 miles of Florida Keys. The Keys is a string of small islands just south of Florida.
Here is the full story of DC-3 / NC16002 disappearing in Bermuda Triangle.
Background of DC-3 (Douglas Dakota)
Douglas Dakota or the DC-3 has been probably the most reliable aircraft ever designed and built. There were more than 10,000 DC-3 planes manufactured, and still hundreds remain in use. These are propeller driven aircraft and not jet planes. The economics and practical consideration have still kept them in use although small jet planes are now gradually replacing them.
You will see lots of these aircraft in Florida and also in the whole of Caribbean and Bahamas. Their job is mainly island hopping. Because of small distances between the islands and also short runways, the big jumbo jets are usually unfit for such activities and DC-3 is ideally suited for this. The DC-3 is also widely used as private charter planes by many airlines and also for spraying pest controls from the air, particularly mosquito killers.
Douglas Dakota DC-3
The dreaded flight of DC-3, NC16002
At 7:40p.m. on 27th December 1948, the DC-3 landed at San Juan airport in Puerto Rico. It came from Miami and was scheduled to return after a short halt at San Juan.
Captain Bob Linquist reported to the ground engineers that the light indicator for the landing gear did not come on at the time of landing. The ground crew immediately started the checks and figured out that the battery was weak and running low on water. The stewardess Mary Burkes was busy deplaning the passengers and the co-pilot Ernest Hill was going around the aircraft for routine checks. The ground crew refilled the battery and informed the captain that it would take several hours for the batteries to recharge fully. The captain however decided not to wait that long and rather charge the batteries in the air from the aircraft's own generator.
So at 8:30p.m the DC-3 was all set to depart for Miami. By this time, Mary Burkes had on-boarded 28 passengers for the return trip.
However, there was lot more annoying wait before the plane could finally take off. The radio transmitter in the aircraft was not working properly due to the low battery. So the aircraft was asked to wait at the end of the tarmac. The head of Puerto Rican Transport drove to the plane to talk to the captain. Linquist informed him that he could clearly receive the messages but could not every time send messages due to the low battery.
Finally at 10:03p.m. when all seemed to be okay, the flight was allowed to take off. The captain was advised to stay close to San Juan till the two way communication was fully established from the air. The flight circled the San Juan city for 11 minutes, and once the both way radio communication was confirmed, it started its journey out towards the sea for Miami.
Next, at 11:23p.m, the captain Linquist sent his routine radio transmission to indicate the flight position - it was at 8,300 feet altitude and reported ETA 4.03a.m at Miami. But funnily, while the message was received at Miami control tower which was some 700 miles away, there was no transmission received at San Juan which was much closer.
The captain next reported the flight position when it was 50 miles south of Florida and only 20 minutes to land. Strangely again, the message this time was received at New Orleans which was about 600 miles away and not Miami that was so close by. New Orleans radio tower forwarded the message to Miami station.
And that was the last time a message was ever received from the DC-3. The weather was normal. Repeated radio signals from the control towers did not get any response. The flight DC-3 had suddenly disappeared with all its passengers and crew.
What may have happened to DC-3
An explosion could have explained the aircraft getting disintegrated in the air keeping no trace of anything. No one from near or around Florida had heard any explosion. Also the waters at the Florida Keys area is so shallow that any debris could easily be seen. Even after long intensive search, there was nothing found.
Many believe that the transmitter of the aircraft was faulty and therefore the captain did not receive a message sent from Miami radio station at 12:15a.m informing that there was a change in wind direction from North West to North East. As a result, the plane could have been blown 40 to 50 miles south and off its course by the wind. Then they would have got lost, had run out of fuel and crashed. The gulf stream would have dispersed all the debris and bodies.
This also looks improbable because when the captain last reported its position, it was 50 miles south of Florida. There was no need for the aircraft to go south of Florida to reach Miami. So the captain knew that they had been moved off course by the wind and would have used the in-flight positioning instrument to fix the position of the flight.
One thing for sure. Whatever may have happened, would have happened suddenly and very fast. The real mystery of Douglas Dakota DC-3 in Bermuda Triangle remains unsolved till date.
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Various links I’ve collected over the last couple of weeks:
- Geoff Mulgan talking about post-capitalism-crisis society (note that there’s an interactive transcript at the side for those, like me, who are allergic to video). He focusses on ideas of social entrepreneurship and investment in social capital.
- New Scientist article showing evidence of methane bubbling up in the Arctic Ocean. This may be due to the warming of the West Spitsbergen current (1o over 30 years), and it could indicate the upcoming release of really large quantities of methane.
- The Climate Safety report: a very readable summary of the current situation, which demonstrates another reason why carbon trading won’t work, namely, because we need to move RIGHT NOW.
- Action points on climate change for the individual (from my friend Elizabeth, an environmental economist).
- Finally: the Copenhagen climate summit is coming up in mid-December. The Economist provides a brief round-up of facts and figures. If on the other hand you wish to protest, here’s the UK Climate Camp webpage (includes links to transport), or you can check out the website of the international Climate Justice Action group. There will also be a march in London on the 5th Dec 2009. | <urn:uuid:4606ad1d-5544-4e98-8728-e1036a2c1a63> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://julietkemp.com/category/social-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00276-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881324 | 265 | 1.59375 | 2 |
In fact, research shows there are key factors that help rev up a child's brain to maximize learning. Let's take a look.
According to The Wellness Impact: Enhancing Academic Success through Healthy School Environments, developed by the National Dairy Council in partnership with the GENYOUth Foundation, American College of Sports Medicine and American School Health Association, skipping breakfast and hunger have an immediate negative effect on learning ability.
"Over half (62 percent) of all teens come to school without breakfast each day," says Karen Kafer of the National Dairy Council. "Breakfast-eaters have better attention and memory than breakfast-skippers."
Quick breakfast ideas include cut-up fruit, whole-grain cereals (with less than 5 grams of sugar) with milk, boiled eggs, yogurt topped with fruit, and baked goods made with whole-grain flour and added fruits and veggies.
Children (and their brains) need nutrients to grow and thrive. According to The Wellness Impact, better diet quality is linked to superior academic performance.
"Parents want to maximize nutrition at every meal and snack by focusing on food groups," says Jill Castle, MS, RD, and co-author of Fearless Feeding: How to Raise Healthy Eaters from High Chair to High School. "Main meals should have three to five food groups (whole grains, fruit, vegetables, dairy and non-dairy alternatives, healthy fats and protein) and snacks should have two to three food groups."
So instead of the same old goldfish or crackers for a snack, try whole-grain crackers with cheese and some fruit.
According to the The Wellness Impact, neuroimaging research reveals that certain parts of the brain are larger in fit children, enhancing learning. But that's not all. Even short bouts of activity during the day positively affect the brain's structure, making it more like a sponge.
"Students who are more active during school perform better on standardized tests for reading, math and spelling," says Kafer. "Yet three in four high school students aren’t active for (at least) 60 minutes each day."
In addition to organized sports, make regular activity a part of each day, and try getting your kids to be active before they dive into homework. If your child is having trouble concentrating, go for a 10-minute walk with him. His brain will be more receptive afterwards.
The brain needs rest to be at its best, but many kids are falling short. According to a recent study in China, children with daytime sleepiness and short sleep duration at night had impaired academic achievement.
Make sure you establish a regular routine and bedtime hour, so kids know what to expect.
The Wellness Impact encourages schools and/or districts to establish a wellness committee to create and initiate a wellness policy. Ask if your child's school has one, and if they do, join the committee to help review and update it. If they don't, maybe you could help start one.
With breakfast, nutrient rich-diets, physical activity, enough sleep and a healthy school environment, kids everywhere will be more than ready to learn. What parent doesn't want that?
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“I hope my musical drama about Theresienstadt will encourage audience members to educate themselves on the obvious parallels with the current genocide in Darfur.”
Composing and playing music while waiting for death by disease, starvation, or gas—this was the daily life of many talented musicians and composers imprisoned at Theresienstadt, the Nazi concentration camp just outside Prague.
In response to pressure from the International Red Cross, which was investigating allegations of abuse, the Nazi’s developed the Theresienstadt camp with the intent to deceive the outside world. Prisoners were allowed to keep their instruments and were encouraged to form orchestras, quartets, and choirs. Operas were produced, works were composed, and performances were given. Then, after being forced to participate in a propaganda film, those musicians and composers who remained alive were transported to Auschwitz.
To study the music and lives of the musicians imprisoned at Theresienstadt, David Brown, a junior majoring in Music Composition, has been granted the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award. Monies attached to the award have enabled him to perform research in Prague.
Incorporating musical elements gleaned from his research, David and a Rollins College Theatre professor are working together to “create a musical drama that will bring light to this amazing story.”
“Important world issues” concern David. While studying at the University of Central Florida, he led efforts to spread awareness on the situation in Darfur, and he managed to raise nearly $50,000 for the refugees. He says, “I hope my musical drama about Theresienstadt will encourage audience members to educate themselves on the obvious parallels with the current genocide in Darfur.”
A superb student (he maintains status on the Dean’s list), David has been inducted into several honor societies, including Phi Eta Sigma and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. He’s pleased he chose to transfer to Florida State, which has “one of the best music schools in the country, a world-class music library, plenty of practice rooms, great ensembles, and perhaps most importantly, an enormous faculty of experts in just about every musical field.”
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