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Type 2 diabetes has always been defined by high blood glucose levels. Most people now think of Type 2 as a lifelong battle against high blood glucose levels, usually beginning with tablet treatment, then more tablets, and finally possibly insulin. After twenty years of basic scientific research and some recent clinical trials, we’re now in a good position to understand what drives Type 2 diabetes, and to start using more logical approaches to the basic abnormalities of the condition – and perhaps to change this standard, and feared, course of diabetes towards ever more treatment.
The real problems lie in the liver and pancreas, the two key organs that process our food after it’s absorbed from the intestine. We know that both these organs have been struggling for ages, perhaps as long as 30 years, before the fasting glucose level peeps above 7 mmol/l, the blood glucose definition of diabetes. They’ve been struggling because of overeating, especially carbohydrates. Although they’re robust organs, they weren’t intended to cope with patterns of modern eating, which floods them with food every 4 hours or so during the usual working day, often with snacks between. The liver and probably the pancreas respond to the food-carbohydrate overload by accumulating fat. Eventually the liver can’t store carbohydrate efficiently, and starts breaking it down into glucose again which escapes into the circulation, especially during the night. The pancreas struggles too, by not producing insulin efficiently enough to bring glucose levels promptly down after meals. The heroic liver and pancreas have been battered for years before they finally fail to keep blood glucose levels normal.
Overeating is the problem, but as with most of the population, individuals developing diabetes are usually overweight. But they aren’t necessarily obese. However a combination of genetics and a strong family history of Type 2, low (or high) birth weight, and many other factors, all contribute to their being more easily overloaded with the same amount of food compared with others. Years, before blood glucose levels climb into the diabetic range, important conditions, intimately linked to Type 2 diabetes, can come to light, though they aren’t sufficiently recognised as such: these include fat in the liver that we’ve just mentioned, but also hypertension, gout, polycystic ovarian syndrome in women and obstructive sleep apnoea – all linked to inefficient insulin action and grouped together as the metabolic syndrome. Because we are so focused on blood glucose levels, these conditions are considered separate from Type 2 diabetes: but they are much more sensitive indicators of metabolic abnormality than blood glucose levels, which at this stage are likely to be completely normal.
Recognising that the roots of Type 2 are in our internal organs becoming fat overloaded has stimulated some remarkable research, especially by the team in Newcastle. They stopped thinking about Type 2 as a blood glucose condition, and focused on the liver and pancreas. They used a simple approach. Reduce over-nutrition by restricting calories to 600-800 a day, compared with our usual intake of 2000-2500, see whether fat in the liver and pancreas also reduce, and as a result expect to see blood glucose levels fall, and all the other complicated metabolic blood tests improve as well. As predicted, after 8 weeks of the very low calorie diet, which resulted in about 15 kg weight loss, all the metabolic machinery was rebooted back to near-normality, nobody needed any diabetes medication, and not surprisingly they felt hugely better. Of course, this radical approach didn’t work in everyone, especially if diabetes had been around for a long time, but a recent report found that everything remained stable for at least a year, even when the liquid diet had been replaced by normal food containing the same low calories.
Type 2 diabetes is therefore not a condition of high blood glucose, but one of fat accumulation resulting from long-term overeating that eventually can lead to high glucose levels, by which time the associated high blood pressure and abnormal cholesterol levels may already have caused serious complications – for example heart attack or stroke. Focusing mainly on glucose levels means that we don’t always concentrate on these other factors, which are more important in causing the long-term complications of diabetes.
The second major recent research theme is the type of diet we should adopt. There is no topic more controversial, but there is now encouraging clinical research to guide us. The PREDIMED study showed that a true Mediterranean diet with added extra-virgin olive oil (or nuts) had a huge effect in reducing cardiovascular disease, whether or not you had diabetes. Because most people in this study didn’t have Type 2, there was no particular focus on blood glucose levels, nor actually on weight reduction – but the Mediterranean portfolio reduced the medical complications that really matter – stroke and heart attacks. The earlier DASH diet which has a lot in common with the Mediterranean diet also nicely reduced blood pressure – an opportunity for Type 2s to reduce their blood pressure medication with support from their healthcare team.
Sadly, no individual ‘superfood’ (current hero is the avocado) has any long-term beneficial effects except on the bank balances of people promoting the latest one. Though there’s no shortage of candidate herb and spice extracts that have shown real potential for treating glucose levels in Type 2 they haven’t had big enough trials. Exercise? There’s no doubt that the recommended weekly 2½ hours of moderate exercise improves cardiac and respiratory health, and that after losing weight, this level of exercise might help reduce the tendency to regain weight. Exercise itself doesn’t prevent prediabetes developing into Type 2, and doesn’t help much with weight loss, but fatty liver seems to respond well to structured exercise. Gentle walking is fine for taking in the view, but in clinical trials people with Type 2 needed to do moderate or vigorous exercise to reduce long-term complications of diabetes – and if they managed that, the heart attack rates were much lower.
In summary: too much fat in the liver and pancreas caused by years of food overload can be detected way before blood glucose levels rise to ‘diabetic’ levels, and is associated with the health problems associated with the metabolic syndrome. Weight loss of 15 kg in weight often reverses these abnormalities. We need to focus as much on blood pressure and cholesterol levels to reduce the long-term complications of diabetes as we do on blood glucose measurements. Evidence-based portfolio diets such as the Mediterranean and DASH approaches will reduce diabetes complications: superfoods don’t.
David Levy, physician at the London Diabetes Centre, was formerly consultant physician at Whipps Cross University Hospital (Barts Healthcare NHS Trust) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He has written extensively on diabetes for healthcare professionals, most recently the Hands-on Guide to Diabetes Care in Hospital for trainee doctors (Wiley Blackwell, 2016), which was highly commended at the 2016 British Medical Association Book Awards, and the 4th edition of Practical Diabetes Care (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). His book on Type 1 diabetes (Oxford Diabetes Library, Oxford University Press) is now in its 2nd edition (2017). Get Tough With Type 2 Diabetes (Hammersmith Publications) is his second book for people with Type 2 (Available Spring 2018). | <urn:uuid:0f8765a0-4ee0-4b8f-9979-fc20f1c26efa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hammersmithbooks.co.uk/2018/01/11/rethinking-type-2-diabetes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.956826 | 1,503 | 3.234375 | 3 |
As a New Zealand hunting consultant, I have actually helped numerous hundred hunters take their very first New Zealand Red Stag Searching trip. One of the most frequently asked question is, “when is the best time for Red Stag searching in New Zealand?” The details in this write-up is based on my direct experience. I have hunted the Red Deer “Holler” in New Zealand as well as likewise in Argentina. I have actually likewise pursued deer beyond the holler in New Zealand.
The biggest draw for New Zealand hunting is the Red Deer also called Red Stag. Most of the Outdoor TV Reveals, hunting magazine posts and searching records focus their reviews around hunting hunting auction during the “Holler.” The Holler is the vocal audio the red deer make throughout their rutting period, comparable in nature yet entirely different than that of the Rocky Hill Elk. The “Roar” typically runs around the 3rd week in March to the forth week in April. This moment period can change +/- 7 to 10 days by the climate condition. If New Zealand gets a winter front in early March, it can quicken the Roar.
Deer searching throughout the Holler is an interesting time to hunt and also ought to be experienced at the very least when in a seeker’s life time. The stags will roar around the clock. During this moment duration, the red deer are focusing on their areas, hinds (female red deer) and various other stags. A normal rifle fired throughout the Holler can be well under 100 yards. The Roar is also the very best time for bow hunting red deer. A great overview should have the ability to obtain the bow seeker within 25 to 40 lawns of his target. Blinds and also hides can also be set up over mud wallows and also tracks offering shots at less than 35 lawns.
Weather condition throughout the Roar is typically like early September in the Rocky Mountains. Expect the early mornings to be cool, normally in the reduced 40’s and also high temperatures in the high 70’s and also perhaps reduced 80’s.
Red Deer Searching can be done on both the North as well as South Island from late February via Mid-August. In most cases, the red deer will certainly run out velour around the 20th of February. The last 10 days of February and the initial 2 weeks of March, the red deer will certainly be in the best physical appearance of the year and also should have no damaged antlers or missing out on branches. They will certainly begin dropping their antlers around the 3rd to fourth week of August. Red Deer in New Zealand will begin battling with various other stags, normally quickly after the first seven to ten days in April. Hunters will begin to see some broken branches from this time around with the end of August. These deer have actually been known to fight so hard with other stags; they have actually broken short the antlers at the head plate subjecting the stag’s brain. When this takes place, the deer normally dies quickly after that.
With this being said, the very best time to bow search red deer is during the Roar, from late March with late April. The most exceptional red deer hunting “holler” days would certainly be the initial ten days in April. Late February and very early March and a great time to rifle search red deer and likewise a good time of the year to include some New Zealand fly fishing on the side. They can be hunted with a rifle during the roar yet expect it to be a simpler quest than normal with many shots possibly less than 100 yards. Red Deer searching ends up being more difficult from May with August with typical shots in the 150 to 200 lawn variety.
The very first week of June generally brings the initial snow of the season. Morning temperatures balance in the mid to high 30’s and highs in the mid 50’s to reduced 60’s. Late May, June as well as July better duplicate the late loss as well as Winter season hunts we can experience in the United States. This is likewise a good time to blend a red stag quest with Tahr searching or Shammy searching. The colder climate in late May begins the Tahr rut and is also in charge of the Tahr and also Shammy to turn their winter months layers darker in shade. The “lion like” hair of the Tahr will certainly likewise go to its greatest size during this moment of the year.
There are 2 ways to quest red deer in New Zealand. The initial is known as “Estate Hunting.” Estate hunts are hung on large fenced ranches or stations. These terminals are normally quite large in dimension, from 2,500 acres to 20,000 acres or even more. The secure fencing allows the breeders to manage the herds and also genes as well as also shut out regional seekers as well as poachers. Management in New Zealand has actually enabled the country to develop the largest red deer worldwide. There were 2 New Zealand red deer gathered in 2009 over six hundred (600) inches and one mored than 650 inches. All prize class red deer in New Zealand come from Estates or Ranches. The fences on these stations eliminate the term “totally free variety” but not fair chase. The majority of these buildings are extremely big and the surface and flora make these hunts equally as tough as a complimentary array quest.
True free array hunting in New Zealand is offered on both Federal government as well as private properties. These residential properties might contain cattle fencing however this does not quit the red deer from simply jumping over them and also moving openly around. Free range are a lot smaller in antler size than the estate stags. A prize free variety stag on private property will certainly have 10 to 14 factors and will certainly rack up from 220 to 275 inches. As a result of searching pressure and also no actual season for red stag, the general public homes see much smaller stags than those on personal property. It is extremely uncommon to see a “true” totally free array stag over 300 inches. Some homeowner will launch 300 inch plus red deer on their complimentary range residential properties. These stag can generally be determined after harvest by searching for holes in their ears where a tag used to be.
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Entrants were asked to design fully accessible footbridges that can be used across Britain’s rail network. Design concepts need to further improve the legacy of rail pioneers and the enduring examples of their footbridge designs that already exist across the rail landscape. Network Rail owns just under 2,400 footbridges, providing access across the railway for both passengers at stations and people using rights of way.
As part of the Department for Transport’s Access for All (AfA) programme, Network Rail has installed 200 footbridges since 2006. The AfA funding initiative was established to improve accessibility at railway stations through the creation of obstacle free routes from station entrances to platforms.
The competition was open internationally to practising architects, structural engineers, civil engineers or teams thereof, together with students of these design disciplines.
The competition was organised over a single phase, involving the anonymous submission and appraisal of design proposals. A Design Fund of £20,000 was be available for award at discretion of the Judging Panel to the submission judged to be the best response to the challenges outlined in the Competition Brief.
More than 120 entries were received from 19 countries. The Evaluation Panel were extremely impressed by the high quality of the submitted entries, the breadth of the approaches and interesting ideas developed in response to the challenge.
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The judges also decided to highly commend an entry by Hawkins\Brown with WSP.
Exhibition opens to showcase Network Rail footbridge designs
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Turbines for 720MW coal-fired power plants arrive October 2015
Santo Domingo.- State-owned Electric Utility (CDEEE) CEO Ruben Jimenez Bichara on Tuesday said the first turbines and generators for the two coal-fired power plants of 360 MW each, being built at Punta Catalina (south) will arrive in October next year.
He said the plants that will cost US$1.9 billion will arrive in five shipments, which once operational within 6 years, “will save at least US$500 million to the system annually” and create 7,500 jobs.
Interviewed on the Presidency’s Media and Citizens, the official added that the energy crisis is costing taxpayers US$3,200 per minute.
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1. [syn: bungled, botched]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Botching.] [See Botch, n.]
1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth.
2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect
manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a
3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or
perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar,
as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
adj 1: spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled
job" [syn: bungled, botched]
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ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic,
marred, messy, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged,
muffed, murdered, negligent, promiscuous, ruined, slipshod,
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December 14, 2012 - January 19, 2013
Thirty-six days after 20 six and seven year old children and six adults were slaughtered by firearms, the NRA and others are promoting a Gun Appreciation Day.
Because a nation saturated with enough firearms for almost every man, woman, and child doesn't appreciate guns enough.
Because having a Gun Appreciation Day during the week that Americans celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. is what his family and those who love and respect him would deem a thoughtful and fitting tribute to a beloved American hero who was murdered by a gun.
Because having Gun Appreciation Day the weekend before our first bi-racial president takes his second oath of office--a president who has had more death threats than any other president in our country's history is respectful of the office of the president of the United States.
Because the families of the victims of Aurora, Colorado, Virginia Tech, Casas Adobes, Arizona, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and numberless other cities and towns across America would like to show how appreciative they are of what millions of guns can do to their lives.
Because having a Gun Appreciation Day that, in the twisted mentality of the morons who planned this atrocity, is the sensitive and proper way to celebrate the more than 30,000 deaths from firearms this country sustains every year.
"Firearms enthusiasts around the country are being encouraged to head down to their local gun shops on Saturday, constitutions and American flags in hand, to send a message to President Barack Obama about Second Amendment rights -- and, of course, to buy more guns.
The event is being billed as Gun Appreciation Day and has backing from white supremacist group American Third Position (A3P), Media Matters reported on Friday. A3P, which is listed on the Gun Appreciation Day website as a sponsor, does little through its own content to veil the fact that the political movement is dedicated to white supremacy.
In its mission statement, A3P writes that it "believes that government policy in the United States discriminates against white Americans, the majority population, and that white Americans need their own political party to fight this discrimination." It goes on, saying that the group aims to "stop the immigrant invasion" in order to put "America first!"
Yes. This is exactly what the United States of America needs to do after burying those school children and adults a month ago. We need to show the world how much we appreciate our guns.
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RACING TOGETHER – how the sport benefits others
What is Racing Together?
- Racing Together is British racing’s community engagement activity
What is Racing Together’s purpose?
- Racing Together was formed to coordinate, support, represent and measure British racing’s community engagement activity that takes place right across the industry and involves a range of charitable and commercial organisations.
- Racing Together’s vision is for British racing to be known as a ‘force for good’ by helping the communities in which the sport operates.
What does it actually do?
- Racing Together offers practical support and communicates the varied work that takes place across our sport and which provides a benefit to others.
- Racing Together has established a number of national partnerships, including The Racing Foundation, Active Communities Network, Flying Futures, Dame Kelly Holmes Trust and Business in the Community. The charity Racing to School, a growing network of schools, colleges and Pony Clubs are working closely with the sport: the Aintree Beacon and Godolphin-sponsored programme with the Newmarket Academy, being just two examples.
- Racing Together will be providing to charities and other organisations access to a volunteering database for them to match volunteers to opportunities to support their work.
What is the relationship between Racing to School and Racing Together?
- Racing to School is the charity that works with British racing to provide free educational and careers-based programmes. Racing to School is leading Racing Together, incorporating its objectives within the charity’s strategy.
What are the benefits of being part of Racing Together?
- To be recognised as a contributor to British racing’s community engagement work
- Wider recognition for your community engagement activities, which can be promoted through Racing Together’s dedicated website and social media platforms and within Government.
LET US KNOW YOUR ACTIVITIES
We would love to hear about all of your community engagement activities, no matter how big or small. Please email Adam Harman, our Community Engagement Manager, who would be happy to discuss any ideas you may have and to offer support and publicity through Racing Together. Adam can also be contacted on 07387260980.
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Little Compton Garden Club
The Little Compton Garden Club, located in Little Compton, Rhode Island was founded in 1924 by a group of women who were passionate about gardening, horticulture and conservation. This continues to be the focus of the organization today, 90 years later.
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Slugs on young zucchini (courgette) plants
Report from Ms Haite-Voss, written by Jürgen Sigwart
In Ms Haite-Voss’s garden, the areas between the small leek and chard plants, and the tender shoots of peas, beans and potatoes were sprayed at the beginning of the season with Helix tosta 6D (1/2 teaspoon in 10 litres of water).
The ripening strawberries were also watered again with the homeopathic mixture. From then on, everything grew free of slugs.
A few weeks later, young zucchini were transplanted into an empty corner of the garden, which had so far not been treated with Helix tosta.
As soon as the first flowers appeared, they were immediately eaten away by slugs so that the plants were unable to set any fruit. The plants were then watered with Helix tosta 6D. After the treatment it rained and the slugs returned to continue feeding. After two further evening treatments, following which it did not rain straightaway, the slugs did not return – and they have not come back at all since then.
At the same time as the zucchini seedlings were planted, lettuce and kohlrabi were planted in an area that had already been treated with Helix tosta. Here, a further application of Helix tosta was given between the rows and so far there has been no slug damage.
Oberried, Germany, 2016
Helix tosta: Slugs on the Run
Although I've never really believed in it, I've been
treating my plants for a few years with homeopathic remedies.
I never had
much success with voles and slugs in my garden because they both thrive so well
there among my plants. An apple tree, a lovely rose more than 60 years old, a
kiwi, countless lettuce, chard, beans, lovage bushes and numerous vegetables
have all fallen prey to the rodents and slugs.
Finally I resorted to poison
although I was sorry for the animals and I felt distaste for the plants because
of all the poison in the soil. Then last year while looking for alternatives, I
heard of "Arvicolinae (rodents)" and "Helix tosta" in one of
your bulletins. I ordered the remedies but to start with there was little
This year I began using "Helix tosta
D6" and there too I've had good results. The biggest success was the
attempt to protect my iceberg lettuce, which are located next to the "slug
hole", a concrete trough in my allotment garden – no-one really knows what it's
good for, but I use it to park the water barrels next to the terrace. It's
always damp and it's a major breeding ground for slugs. Right next to that I put
my trial veggie bed for lettuce this year. I took the risk of planting my
surplus seedlings there. I then watered them with diluted Helix
tosta, half a teaspoon in 10 litres of water. I deliberately left out
two plants – and they were duly stripped bare. The others (around 20) are still
alive and doing just fine. So from now on I'll be watering and re-watering my
young plants with Helix tosta. And I'll carry on experimenting.
Next in line are my cherry and apple trees.
Ishild Kröger, Cologne,
Helix tosta : Snails / Odenwald, Germany: despite my basic trust in homeopathy as an animal healer, I initially had my doubts whether this would work. I sow my vegetables in winter on the windowsill. Later I move the seedlings to a cold frame – from then on, I always needed to spread slug pellets otherwise nothing survives. This year I tested Helix tosta as described in the book: 1st dose 10 ml in 10 liters of water; 2nd dose a week later, 5 ml in 10 liters water; 3rd dose another week later, 2.5 ml in 10 liters water. The results were amazing. After just one dose, there was not a single snail to be seen! The seedlings were untouched. Later I moved the plants to the field and even there they were undisturbed for quite some time. The snails ate a few plants but didn't return the next day. There was a problem when it rained constantly in the final few days. This seems to cause the protective effect to be lost more quickly. I'm now trying to test the plant groups once a week with a biotensor, to see whether they need another dose. I'll report back to you with my results. In the field, I have the impression – depending on plant type and weather – that the effect of the dose expires at different rates. In greenhouses, the remedy is ideal. Before, I'd already given up planting lettuce. Even in the greenhouse, everything got eaten up. This year, I started another trial out of curiosity. I treated the plants after planting as described. 19 out of 20 plants survived untouched, which I found very convincing. We live between Heidelberg and the Odenwald in Germany, in case the area is of interest to you. (JM)
Helix tosta 6D: Strawberries from an organic farm were sprayed with Helix tosta 6 (approx 500 liters / hectare) on a day recommended by the planting calendar. The slugs, which normally eat all the ripe fruit, withdrew into the heart of the plant and ate only a few of the inner fruit. It was striking that there were an increasing number of garden snails (with shells) in the area, but fewer slugs. About one week later, we did a second spraying with 800 liters / hectare on a day suitable for sowing fruit plants. This time we sprayed more into the heart of the plants. The effect was to reduce the areas that were bitten and there were even fewer slugs, and those that were left seemed lifeless. Helix tosta 6D: Plants were watered several times with the remedy (it didn't help just to spray). Rocket, which is normally very badly affected, was left alone by the snails. In parsley and marjoram, it didn't help. The effect of the remedy was noticeably reduced in strong rain, so that the treatment had to be repeated.
Helix tosta 6D: I have watered strawberries in particular with the remedy. By the next day, there were almost no more slugs to be seen, only a very few strawberries had been eaten. After several weeks, the watering was repeated as some snails had appeared, and afterwards they disappeared again.
A bed with lettuce and kohlrabi was watered with the remedy. Not a single snail was seen on the lettuce, but the kohlrabi was eaten down to the veins of the leaves. There was not a single snail to be seen, so it could have been mice that ate the kohlrabi, particularly as snails would almost certainly have attacked the neighboring lettuce too. Kohlrabi in other parts of the garden – for example, in the middle between two rows of tomatoes – did not show such damage.
The beans were also watered with Helix tosta, and here too there are no snails to be seen. Helix tosta is a complete success and I fully intend to use it again.
Helix pomatia 6C (unroasted snail, maybe worth a try ...)
I watered various young cabbage plants and knapweeds that were sprouting after having faded.
Result disappointing. In cabbages it even seemed to attract them.
Weather was changeable, occasional showers, but not very wet and not for very long, approx beginning of August.
Helix tosta 6D: Vegetable garden strongly plagued by slugs was watered several times and sprayed – so far, the snails have not returned.
Helix tosta 6D: Lettuce was sowed straight out in April, covered in sheeting and sprayed twice in one week with Helix tosta. There were slugs visible under the sheeting but without any significant damage caused. The lettuce harvest was good.
Helix tosta 6D: With Helix tosta 6D good results, hardly any problems with snails, but only until the hot period started. Thereafter I (unfortunately) always watered my beds in the evening, with the result that since then the snails were no longer put off by the Helix. Watering in the evening makes for ideal conditions to encourage the snails. Next year I'll try watering in the morning and then obviously with Helix tosta again.
Helix tosta 6D: Organically farmed vegetable beds (no chemical sprays or artificial fertilizers) were watered once with Helix tosta. In the next few days, the slugs gradually retreated and disappeared completely from the beds after 1-2 weeks. In the neighboring grass, too, there were virtually no more of them to be seen.
Helix tosta 6D: A few weeks ago, I purchased the snail remedy "Helix tosta", which I've used according to the instructions, watering with it once a week. Straight after the first watering, there were no more snails to be seen. I'd just like to say I'm very pleased with the remedy so far. (C.M.)
Helix tosta 6 D: Slugs in the vegetable garden
In recent years Ms L.'s vegetable garden was infested with slugs, which were almost impossible to control. This year she could see the first signs of slug damage as early as March. From this time she treated the plants approximately every three weeks with Helix tosta 6 D following the recommendation of Christiane Mautes, which had the effect of almost completely deterring the snails. For the rest of the year, Ms L. was glad to see that there were only minimal signs of slug damage.
Ms L. Gelsenkirchen, Germany 2013
Helix tosta – slugs
"Thanks to the Helix tosta I ordered from you, this year for the first time I've managed to get the problem of slugs under control. First I thought that the retreat of these little animals was due to the hot weather. But now, after two weeks of frequent rain, I can confirm that the treatment has been a big success.
“I sprayed all the plant pots on the terrace with liquid Helix tosta 6 D, using approx. 10 ml of remedy in 500 ml of water in a spray bottle, which I briefly shook. There was some left over in the bottle and I used this after the next period of strong rain. There were no slugs to be seen in our pots!
“It's really great to have this option. Snails are god's creatures too, and they have a right to life, so I didn't want to kill them. So they just stayed away because they must find this stuff truly disgusting! Helix tosta is clearly preferable to slug pellets."
Ines B., Ellerhoop, Germany 2014
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A welcome worthy of a world leader that was given to a 4-million-yuan ($588,000) dog has raised the hackles of critics.
The Tibetan mastiff, or Zang'ao in Chinese, arrived in his new masters' hometown of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, by air on Wednesday after he was bought for the colossal sum.
After his safe landing, a motorcade comprising 30 Mercedes-Benz vehicles escorted the canine to his new digs.
Some questioned the show of wealth.
"I don't care how they spend their money and treat their dog," said Wang Jing, 30, who works at a logistics firm in Beijing. "But I want to know why they are so rich while some are so poor."
The year-old mastiff comes from a line of dogs that originated in Yushu, Qinghai province, in the northwest.
Around the dog's neck, resting on his long black coat, was a large red silk flower, an ancient tradition more often associated with the welcome of a hero or groom.
The large Tibetan dogs can fetch anywhere between 10,000 and 10 million yuan.
People in Xi'an have been split on what they think about the dog. Some have said they despise the dog owners' extravagance, while others have said they respect the owners' right to spend their money however they like.
Rapid economic growth has created an increasing number of millionaires in China. Research by the Hurun Report, which tracks China's wealthy, said in April that 825,000 people had a personal wealth in excess of 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) - some six people in every 10,000.
The research said most of the nation's rich reported that the financial crisis had not impacted their lifestyle.
Xia Xueluan, a sociologist from Peking University, said such extravagance was likely to heighten tension between rich and poor.
"It is fine to buy a dog at 4 million yuan, as long as one can afford it with one's own money," he said. "But it is not necessary to greet a dog with 30 luxury cars. It is a demonstration and a challenge to the poor."
The Tibetan mastiff, which is owned by a woman surnamed Wang, has a shorter nose and legs, thicker hair, and is much more rare than other types of mastiff. Experts estimate there are fewer than 100 of such pure-bred dogs in the country.
"The 4-million price means this dog is at the medium to high end of the breed," said Ding Wumin, who owns a business selling Tibetan mastiffs in Beijing.
The dog's other owner, surnamed Cai, said he was a huge fan of the breed. "The dogs are very loyal to their masters, they are dependable watchdogs and holy animals," Cai said.
When asked about the reception for the dog, he laughed and said: "Many of our friends adore mastiffs too. They volunteered to drive their cars to the airport to welcome the dog."
The dog will live in an air-conditioned room and eat beef and chicken and drink mineral water.
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What new ways of learning, particularly in higher education, will Canadians need to thrive in an evolving society and labour market?
February 2015 Competition
Canada, like many other countries, is focusing critical attention on the way its education system, especially higher education, is conceptualized, structured and delivered in light of the knowledge and skills required for the 21st century. Debates are emerging in the research community and other sectors regarding effective methods of teaching and learning with a focus on learning outcomes. The breadth of resources, perspectives and areas of inquiry within this topic call for a synthesis of the current state of knowledge, including assessment and evaluation of its overall quality, accuracy and rigour, and identification of knowledge gaps where more research is required.
SSHRC is therefore launching a Knowledge Synthesis Grants funding opportunity, to which the social sciences and humanities can contribute insights focusing on the future challenge area addressed in the question: What new ways of learning, particularly in higher education, will Canadians need to thrive in an evolving society and labour market?
This topic is one of six future challenge areas identified in SSHRC’s Imagining Canada’s Future initiative. These complex issues were identified following an extensive foresight exercise and reflect key challenges that Canada is likely to face in an evolving global context over the coming decades, and to which the social sciences and humanities research community can contribute its knowledge, talent and expertise.
In support of the objectives noted below, these knowledge synthesis grants will foster a deeper understanding of the knowledge, delivery mechanisms and learning outcomes necessary for the Canadian education system to support and sustain an innovative, resilient and diverse society. They will help to identify the roles that the public, private and not-for-profit sectors may play in creating and sustaining new ways of learning, and teaching and will pave the way for developing robust policies, practices and tools.
This Knowledge Synthesis Grants funding opportunity also seeks to complement the reports released in March 2014, resulting from the 2013 Knowledge Synthesis Grants on Skills Development for Future Needs of the Canadian Labour Market.
The objectives of this funding opportunity are three-fold, as noted below:
- State of Knowledge and Research Gaps:
- describe the state of knowledge of the future challenge area theme under consideration;
- identify knowledge gaps within the theme; and
- identify the most promising policies and practices related to the theme.
- Research Data:
- assess the quality, accuracy and rigour of current work in the field; and
- identify gaps in the quantitative and qualitative data available.
- Knowledge Mobilization:
- mobilize knowledge related to promising policies and practices within the academic, private and public policy sectors; and
- facilitate dialogue between academic researchers, cross-sectoral stakeholders and education-related policy-makers in government.
Knowledge Synthesis Grants are not intended to support original research. Rather, they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge and the identification of knowledge gaps. This call is particularly focused on the state of research knowledge emerging over the past 10 years.
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support researchers, teams of researchers and knowledge users to produce knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews that will contribute to the use of synthesized evidence in decision-making and practice.
The call for proposals invites applications from researchers in any discipline that may inform and contribute to the objectives of this funding opportunity, including contributing to educational policies regarding learning and teaching. Our educational system, including higher education and the role of universities and other postsecondary institutions in imparting skills, knowledge, and resources, will shape our future society. The Imagining Canada’s Future foresight initiative highlighted three major drivers for change and social transformation in a variety of areas, domestically and internationally:
- changing demographics;
- increased global forces; and
- rapidly evolving and emerging technologies.
The following themes were drawn from the “new ways of learning” challenge area, as well as from the larger list of six future challenge areas and subquestions based on their relevance to and synergies with this particular exercise. Other issues demonstrably relevant to the themes and subquestions listed below are welcome, as are international comparisons because they may inform policy issues that are relevant for Canada.
Proposals should address one or more of the specific questions listed under the themes. However, applicants may choose to identify and/or develop specific aspects or elements within the questions to frame the knowledge synthesis to be produced. The call for proposals covers all levels of schooling, from primary school through high school, and across the full range of postsecondary education. Please note that, for the purposes of this call, we are referring to this collectively as “the Canadian education system.”
1. What knowledge and learning outcomes are required in order for the Canadian education system to support and sustain an innovative, resilient and diverse society?
- What knowledge does a diverse and/or globalized student body seek from educational institutions and work environments?
- What innovative and collective approaches to learning, teaching and research are being developed by educational institutions, particularly universities, colleges and institutes, and what learning outcomes have been identified to date?
- What does the Canadian education system do to foster deepened knowledge and understanding in support of intercultural understanding and international connectivity?
- What does the Canadian education system at all levels do to develop adequate and sustainable linguistic diversity, literacy and numeracy skills?
- What are the leading approaches and models for identifying learning and/or teaching needs and outcomes for learners, society and the labour market?
- What role do evaluation and learning analytics play in informing the evolving Canadian education system?
- What are the impacts of evolving accountability systems for postsecondary institutions on Canadian education, including outcomes-based education and competency-based education for workforce development?
2. What delivery methods are required in order for the Canadian education system to support and sustain an innovative, resilient and diverse society?
- What roles do emerging and/or disruptive information and communications technologies play in promoting deeper learning?
- What roles do postsecondary institutions, governments and employers play to meet learning and societal needs?
- What are the best practices to ensure access to and/or mobility within Canadian education for a diverse student body including persons with disabilities, adult learners, international students and immigrants?
- What are the best practices for learning delivery, including open, flexible and connected learning in a digital environment, experiential learning, distance learning, land-based learning, tailored and service learning, and internships?
- What are the learning experiences of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples of Canada, and how are they informing the future of learning, teaching and research, for urban, rural and remote Aboriginal communities?
- How is the Canadian education system harnessing Canada’s strength and innovation in the arts, digital media and cultural industries to build social, economic and cultural well-being?
- How are new ways of learning fostering greater knowledge and competency in critical and analytical thinking, problem-solving, and communication of complex ideas and data?
Value and Duration
Knowledge Synthesis Grants are worth up to $25,000 over six months. Up to 15 grants will be awarded. Successful applicants will be provided with a set of guidelines for completion of their final report.
All synthesis reports must be completed by October 31, 2015. By applying for this funding opportunity, applicants consent, should they be awarded a Knowledge Synthesis Grant, to SSHRC sharing the resulting synthesis report with other interested organizations and individuals.
Successful applicants or their delegates will be expected to attend two meetings in Ottawa to discuss the knowledge syntheses. Travel costs for these meetings should be included in the budget submitted as part of the application. Details on the meetings (scheduled for late April 2015 and mid-November 2015, respectively) will be provided to successful applicants.
Applicants must be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution at the time of application.
Applicants who have received a SSHRC grant of any type but who have failed to submit a final research report by the deadline specified in their Notice of Award are not eligible to apply for this or any other SSHRC grant until they have submitted the report.
Postdoctoral fellows/researchers are eligible to apply for a Knowledge Synthesis Grant. For SSHRC to release grant funds, however, successful applicants must have formally established an affiliation with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution before the grant is awarded, and maintain such an affiliation for the duration of the grant period.
Co-applicants may be individuals from any of the following:
- Canadian: Postsecondary institutions; not-for-profit organizations; philanthropic foundations; think tanks; and municipal, territorial or provincial governments.
- International: Postsecondary institutions.
Postdoctoral researchers are eligible to be co-applicants for a Knowledge Synthesis Grant under the same conditions as those outlined in Applicants.
Any individual who will make a significant contribution to the research initiative is eligible to be a collaborator. Collaborators do not need to be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution.
Note that individuals from the private sector or federal government may participate only as collaborators.
Grant funds may only be administered by an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution.
Applications must be emailed as a .pdf file attachment, using the following format:
- single-sided, 8 1/2" x 11" (21.5 cm x 28 cm) paper size;
- single-spaced, with no more than six lines of type per inch;
- body text in a minimum 12 pt Times New Roman font;
- all margins set at a minimum of 3/4" (1.87 cm);
- name of the institution appears within the set margins at the top right corner of every page; and
- pages numbered consecutively following the last page of your application printout.
Applications must include the following:
- a letter (maximum four pages, not including references) containing:
- a description of the knowledge synthesis project, including the significance, expected contributions and impacts of the proposed synthesis, contextualized within the current literature and accounting for previous work done in the area(s);
- an outline of the relevant expertise and experience of the applicant/team;
- a work plan, including timelines, and a description of the proposed methodology and approach;
- the applicant’s signature; and
- in the upper right-hand corner of each page, the applicant’s name and the theme and subtheme(s) under which the proposal falls;
- an itemized budget (maximum two pages), including justification of proposed expenditures;
- a knowledge mobilization plan (maximum two pages), identifying the target research users expected to receive the synthesis results, how the results will be shared with these users and one or more examples of knowledge mobilizations the applicant/team has conducted with research users;
- a half-page summary of the proposal written in clear, non-technical language (by submitting an application, applicants consent, should they be awarded a Knowledge Synthesis Grant, to the use of this summary for promotional purposes outside the research community to inform politicians, the media and members of the public who request information about research funded by SSHRC);
- a SSHRC Web CV for each applicant and co-applicant;
- the discipline codes that are applicable to the proposal;
- a list of research contributions (maximum four pages) for each applicant and co‑applicant, describing:
- research contributions over the last six years (refereed, non-refereed and forthcoming contributions, creative outputs, etc.);
- other contributions to research and the advancement of knowledge within the last six years, including research contributions to non-academic audiences (general public, policy-makers, private sector, not-for-profit organizations, etc.);
- career interruptions and special circumstances; and
- contributions to training within the last six years, including roles in supervising or co-supervising ongoing and/or completed theses, listing these by the student’s level of studies;
- a separate page containing the signature of an authorized signatory from the applicant’s institution, certifying that the institution will administer any award in accordance with SSHRC policies; and
- a signed Consent to Disclosure of Personal Information for each applicant and co-applicant.
All application materials must be submitted as PDF files and be received by February 19, 2015.
Email complete applications to KSGLearning–SSCApprentissage@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca. Applications submitted in whole or in part by any other means will not be considered.
Evaluation and Adjudication
SSHRC’s goal is to support, through this funding opportunity, syntheses covering a range of the subthemes outlined within each of the two broad thematic areas (knowledge and learning outcomes, and delivery methods, respectively).
Please note that grants may not necessarily be allocated to each subtheme; however, where there are value-added differences in approach and coverage, more than one grant may be allocated to a single subtheme.
An expert adjudication committee will assess all applications, according to theme, using the following criteria:
- expected contribution to the funding opportunity’s stated objectives;
- significance of the applicant’s chosen topic or area(s) for synthesis, based on the issues identified in this call for proposals;
- potential influence and impact in informing policy and practice in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors; and
- identification of research gaps that might be addressed by a forward-looking research agenda in the chosen area(s).
- ability to meet the objectives of the funding opportunity;
- appropriateness of the methodology or approach and of the work plan, including timelines for the design and conduct of the activity; and
- appropriateness of the requested budget.
- qualifications of the applicant/team to carry out the proposed project (expertise in the content area, synthesis methods, information retrieval, knowledge mobilization, etc.).
All applicants and grant holders must comply with the Regulations Governing Grant Applications and with the regulations set out in the Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide.
For descriptions of SSHRC terms, see Definitions of Terms.
Successful applicants will be required to share the results of their project with SSHRC. SSHRC will use this information to develop its policies and practices. It may also share this information with other interested sectors of the Government of Canada, as well as other organizations. This does not in any way limit how researchers may otherwise publish or use the results of their research.
For more information about this funding opportunity, or for advice on how to prepare your application, please contact:
Senior Program Officer
Office of the Associate Vice-President, Future Challenges
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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This article is a little dated, I suggest you read my more recent posts in the SEO archive of my blog. A lot of what I said below is probably still true, but social media plays a larger part in search engine optimization than it did in 2006.
This is the sixth in what has become an ongoing account on some of the little tricks people try to improve their rankings in the various search engines, particularly the all mighty Google. If you wish to start at the beginning, simply follow the link.
Although I've been saving up material for the sixth instalment I've also been actively blogging. Having already covered a lot of the most common techniques to improve your rankings earlier, I've tended to concentrate lately on how my webpage has performed for a few search terms as well as new developments in online marketing and alternative search engines that continue to crop up. One particularly interesting piece of news is the fact the Japanese government has made internet search a priority and is going to throw money at it to try and produce a Japanese champion, something of a Japanese Baidu perhaps.
Here are some recent search engine stories and links I've collected but have yet to write about in my blog. First of all I discovered another interesting meta search engine: Search Tuna. This site will by no means replace Google in fact for everyday searching I can't recommend it. However if there is something you really care about and need to know what are the most authoritative sites on that subject and you are not in a hurry, Search Tuna may be able to help you. It takes a long time to return its results but they are organized well and I was pleased to discover my site was number one for Nurgle in yet another search engine.
Secondly, A List Apart has gotten into the search engine optimization game. Actually they are still more about usability and accessibility and web standards, but as most white hat SEOs will tell so are they. Of course White Hat vs. Black Hat is a contentious topic in and of itself.
Lastly someone has set up the Pepsi Taste Test Challenge of search engine results. They ask you for a keyword or search term and submit it to the big three (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and ask you which set of results you like best. To do this test properly you need to pick a keyword you often search. Not surprisingly, I chose Nurgle. I then looked over the results and selected the one that corresponded to Google. This didn't surprise me, Google is still the best and Yahoo is number two. I almost never use MSN and it isn't an anti-Microsoft bias, they just don't have search results or innovative features that compel me to use their service.
Some of the more common keyword phrases found in my logs are those belonging to names of MBA classmates. In fact I've even reported which MBA classmates are the most popular at least on my website. No less than four of my classmates have setup their own blogs while they went on exchange. Although I'm not actively competing against them, in fact the opposite I've gone out of my way to link to their blogs, but I was curious to see whether my website or their blog would rank higher for their name. I've decided to use quotations in these searches to improve accuracy.
|Classmate||Their Google Ranking||My Google Ranking||Their Yahoo Ranking||My Yahoo Ranking||Their MSN Ranking||My MSN Ranking|
|Darlene MacNeil||Not Ranked||21||1||2||1||6|
|Chris Kerluke||Not Ranked||1||Not Ranked||1||1||2|
|Gary Lau||Not Ranked||10||22||3||1||75|
Moral of the story: Don't name your kid "Dan Robinson" if you want them to rank well for their own name in search engines. Also I think Blogspot being blocked by the Chinese government at the time I did the searches affected the Google results. I had hoped just by knowing the URL I could verify the rankings but I think Google has removed "blocked sites" from their results for people inside the Great Chinese Firewall. Another thing to note is the latest MSN search index really likes blogs at least BlogSpot blogs as Muschamp.ca got beat for every name with the exception of the Dan Robinson popularity contest in which both Dan and my webpages got blown out of the water.
One area that is not written about as much in SEO circles is how to do better in the various image searches. I think the reason for this is there isn't as much profit in it. The Porn Guys in particular probably don't like people being able to browse their pictures even as thumbnails without first going through their gateway page. To this end any porn webmaster worth the title has probably blocked or in some way limited the image search bots ability to index their site. However for the end user Image Search can be a boon, that is why all the major engines now have one.
As the spiders can't actually see the images they rely on other information to rank them. The ranking used to be heavily based on file name, too heavily based in my opinion. Lately I think Google in particular is giving more weight to the text around the image which is how I would have done it all along. One thought I was struck with is, whether the file size matters? From my own limited use of the image search feature I've noticed that most of the images indexed are relatively small. Furthermore in the case of galleries both the thumbnail and the full size image are indexed. Ideally only one would be indexed and that would be the full sized one. Currently the search engines don't appear to be clever enough to do this. They do not even always successfully rank the full size image ahead of the thumbnail. I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to do it and whether or not it'll be done on my blog or as static pages, but I plan to make some sort of test of this hypothesis. Hopefully it is as clever and effective as my quadrangle juniper test.
Another factor that is often cited as affecting search engine rankings is directory depth. It is a commonly held belief that the deeper your directory structure the worse a page will rank. To this end some people throw all their pages in the root directory. The original purpose of directories in file systems was to help organize files more intelligently and on some operating systems there was a limit to how many files could be in a single directory. Modern operating systems are unlikely to have hard limits that the average webmaster is likely to exceed but thought should still be taken in setting up a website's directory structure.
One school of thought holds that you should keyword stuff your directory structure. This can get too ugly and shouldn't be too hard for a search engine to flag as gaming the engine. I advocate using directories to ease the webmaster's burden in maintaining and updating a site rather than worrying about cramming in keywords separated by dashes. One popular alternative to deep directory structures is sub-domains. About.com and Blogger.com both make extensive use of this option. I have several on Muschamp.ca. It takes a tiny bit more work than a normal directory but it makes for a cleaner URL and I think bots and more importantly end users prefer them.
If you've been a regular reader of my ramblings you should remember that the three keyword phrases I'd decided to concentrate on are "Sauder School of Business", "Tsinghua School of Economics and Management" and "Muskie" but without using quotations. Beyond the big three I decided to throw in Clusty as it gives a numeric ranking to sites unlike Kartoo. The most interesting of these is the first one because I have competition. Previously on October 18th, 2005 I ranked 83rd for that keyword phrase in Google. I'm now up to 28th.
|Keyword Phrase||Google Ranking||Yahoo Ranking||MSN Ranking||Clusty Ranking|
|Sauder School of Business||28||90||39||26|
|Tsinghua School of Economics and Management||9||37||28||53|
An astute observer would notice that I went up in the rankings in Google for all three terms. So whatever I'm doing must be working, unfortunately I haven't done much. Mainly I've continue to blog which has increased the frequency I've used phrases like Sauder and Tsinghua. I've also used internal links intelligently. Adding well written content and thoughtful organization of files, directories, and links is part of my standard operating procedures. That is all there is to SEO apparently.
As I've previously written I've been actively trying to do better in Google Image search and find out how it works. I'm happy to report that many more images from Muschamp.ca have been indexed by Google. However the ones I specifically included to guage the importance of file names are not currently showing up for obvious search terms. Rather than dwell on my failures I'll instead give some examples where I and Google have succeeded. I think in addition to increasing the number of images in their database Google has altered their algorithm for the better.
Here are some specific examples of where I've had success. When searching for Marlene Lau you also get to see a picture of just me, as well as several of Marlene. In fact since I first noticed this it appears even more images from my website have been indexed by Google, including several that were not just a few days ago. I held off writing this article until after my last exam. Several images that are in search engine optimization articles are now returned by Google Image Search. I'm sure Marlene will be overjoyed when she learns this: The first eight pictures returned are now from my site, with all but one of them containing Marlene, good work Google.
Searching for Tracy Yang this time also results in images of her being return from Muschamp.ca unlike last time. Searching for Anni Cao results in pictures of her but also results in two pictures that she is not in. In one Wendy Chang and Ines Biedermann are smiling at some party and the other is of Chi-Wei. This is quite perplexing as those files are named "WendyAndInes.jpg" and "Chi-Wei.jpg" respectively.
One of the reasons I began to investigate all this is over on my Nurgle sub-domain I have a lot of pictures and although they are indexed they didn't perform particularly well in Google Image Search. I haven't had any time at all to work on that portion of my website and I just don't see why I should have to alter my perfectly good file names so I have files called "nurgle.jpg" or "plagueMarine.jpg". I have so many Nurgle and Plague Marine pictures that I have to give them different and more elaborate names. Another reason I can't change the file names is I used Apple's iPhoto to generate many of my galleries and it names the images "0.jpg" for example. Currently in iPhoto there is no way to change this behaviour. How I discovered all this was repeatedly searching Google Image Search for Nurgle over a long period of time. I found some cool models and links, stuff I couldn't find with the normal Google search but I was dismayed that although I ranked first in Google for the keyword "nurgle" I did so poorly in the image search. I blamed it all on file names and set about to test this theory. I also didn't like the one photo Google would choose from the hundreds on my site to represent my nurgle subdomain.
I appear to be doing better, I now have the 28th ranked picture for Nurgle but I would of course like to be number one or at least on the first page. And in my case Google has truly chosen a random image. Further digging reveals another picture from my domain on the third page. Google Image Search is still difficult to predict, probably moreso for competitive keywords. | <urn:uuid:908a1070-a27b-44c2-98e2-94b3de5b0354> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.muschamp.ca/Muskie/seoSix.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971313 | 2,486 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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The Land with Potential
A talk given by Shri Parthasarathi Rajagopalachari
Dear brothers and sisters: From the beginning, my beginning in 1964, Andhra Pradesh has always had the maximum number of abhyasis and the maximum number of ashrams in India. I have seen this, I have heard it, and I am happy to see that it is growing. When I joined the Mission, I think two-thirds of the number of abhyasis in India were all in Andhra Pradesh. [Applause] Of course it is good that other areas are developing, like Tamilnadu, Kerala, Punjab, where significant growth is being recorded, but still Andhra Pradesh leads. In what is going to be a marathon race over the next few centuries, we will see how it goes.
There have been, of course, problems in Andhra Pradesh, one being the problem of moodha bhakti - blind faith, which Babuji used to quite silently, in his own way, deplore. We have all seen him visit Hyderabad, Vijayawada, where hundreds of people would come and touch his feet and go away - hundreds. Of course, he was physically tired, he was upset, but most of all he was sad that people of this land, Andhra Pradesh, still had not learned to discriminate between what is good and what appears to be good. They have not understood the distinction between what is effective and what has only, shall we say, the permission of usage, long usage, tradition, culture, religion. They have not understood that something which was practised over the last several centuries need not be good just because it is old. All that is old is not gold.
See, most of these proverbs have to be taken with a great deal of salt, not just a pinch of salt. 'Old is gold', 'a bird in hand is worth two in the bush'. Americans would laugh and say, "I would rather go for the two in the bush, rather than hold on to the one in my hand." That is how America develops, you see. America is the land where they build a new chemical plant for, say, hundred million dollars. By the time they build it, it is obsolete. They just throw it away and start building the next one. They don't fear to lose what they have, because they are sure of getting something better in exchange. We hold on to what we have: our traditions, our culture, our old practices, prachin paddhati [ancient rituals], we call it, prachin sanskriti [ancient culture]. But at the same time you have this funny, shall we say, modern development, that human beings must not be old; old people are not required anymore. Old people are not respected, old people are not even listened to; they are put away in what they call politely, holiday homes, homes for the aged et cetera.
So you see there is a dichotomy in our nature, human nature, where we are afraid to give up when we know that without giving up, we cannot receive what is new. India is the great land where marriage demands that a bride walk out of her house. Yesterday, she was still the loved daughter in the house, safe, protected. This morning a total stranger comes and a few hours later, she has to go home, go away to his home. At least our women should be sensible and know that to acquire a new status, the old status has to be given up, that something which is valuable if it is outside, you have to give up something which is valuable or you thought was valuable here.
We should have the courage to examine what we have been doing with our bell ringing and our chanting and our shouting to the high heavens, which Babuji said was spoiling the peace of God. This is all we still hear in India: clanging of bells, loud chanting, Har Har Mahadev, things like that. And we think this is holiness, this is culture, this is what is going to take us to the higher world. Far from it! We still cling to the songs and traditions of so-called saints. I do not want to name them. Just because a man sings about God does not mean he is a saint. Just because a man writes about sex does not mean he is a bad man. Doctors write about sex. The great Vatsyayana was a sage who wrote about sex, the Kama Sutra which is famous throughout the world, but certainly he was not a womaniser. And if you say "Fire", it will not burn your mouth. Similarly if you say "Shiva", it is not going to take you to Shiva. Or if you say "Narayana", it is not going to take you to Narayana. As Kabir says, "If you say 'sugar', will you taste the sweetness in your mouth?" You have to eat sugar to taste the sweetness in your mouth.
Our land is a land of belief, not backed by doing anything to express that belief. "No, no, sir. I believe in God." Which God? Does He accept that you believe in Him? "No, no, sir. He knows everything." Then He surely knows that you are not believing in God. That you are only expressing like a crow what your father expressed, what your grandfather expressed, what your great-grandfather expressed - thalamurai [generation] after thalamurai, in Tamil we say. You go on crowing the same nonsense from the same rooftops, housetops and expect to be trusted as holy, God-fearing - which is an abhorrent term. We should not fear God; we should love God.
So you see, this state has to progress a long, long way. Unfortunately for this state, there are very great and well-renowned, so-called holy places. Your Chief Minister may be happy because they yield a lot of revenue. But it comes from you people; you are contributing to that revenue. Your moodha bhakti is contributing to that revenue; criminality is contributing to that revenue. Everybody knows that big chunks of money are put into the hundis [collection boxes] of those famous kshetras, divya kshetras [divine places] as you call them, to escape the tax debt. Can religion grow rich on criminality, or vice or corruption? Should not religion be a cleaning factor? Should it not be ennobling; something which gives you a new value of life, enriches your moral views, makes you compassionate, makes you loving? On the contrary, here thieves and daakus get away with the idea that if they make ten crores and they put fifty lakhs in the temple, their book of accounts - their moral account - is balanced. We are still behaving like many of the old, primitive religions where you give God His share and you can walk away with your share, in whatever way you may have acquired it!
Our preceptors have to first give up their own religious bias. Reddys must remove the name Reddy from their name. Naidus must remove the name Naidu from their name. Give up everything to do with caste, creed, religion. If they are wearing caste marks on their forehead, they should immediately wipe it off. They don't set examples - my preceptors, most of them. That is the problem with Sahaj Marg. That is why our abhyasis still say, "What to do, sir? But your preceptor is still doing it. In his house there is a big picture of Sai Baba, or of So-and-so or So-and-so, you know. "Aaina kooda simhachalam vellipoyaru ippudu." ["He has gone to the temple now."] "Why is he not here?" "Simhachalam, sir," or any other achalam [temple], you see.
So, Andhra Pradesh is not the only part of India which is suffering from this great drag that culture, tradition, religion and language impose on a people. It is prevalent in England; it is prevalent in Ireland, in Scotland - everywhere in the world. But that is their problem. What about our problem here? Who is going to solve it if you are not going to solve it yourself? There is no use saying, "No, no sir, these white people, they are the most advanced. But they also go to church immediately after doing satsangh." That is their problem. That they are intelligent does not mean that they cannot be foolish. They can be intelligently foolish, which is much worse than being foolishly foolish. At least the fool has the benefit of being a fool and not knowing. So Christ said, "God, forgive them for they know not what they do." He did not say, "God, forgive them for knowing what they should not do - yet they do it." He never said that. Great guy, Jesus! We have a right to be ignorant, but not to remain ignorant. We have a right to be sick but not to remain sick. We have a right to be miserable occasionally, but not to remain miserable which is what depression is - all the Prozac in the world that is selling. Pharmaceutical industries are burgeoning, blooming, blossoming. People are stupid; they continue to take Prozac by the sack-full. That is the wisdom of the West. But we are willing to copy it.
And unfortunately, when I go to the U.S., I find more and more temples being constructed there by devotees [laughs] who go there only to earn money but export all our so-called virtuous elements of society. Temples in America! Unfortunately, these so-called freedoms you know, freedom of expression, freedom of worship - they are very handy in the hands of useless people who have too much money, and who are also getting rid of their guilty wealth in building temples all over the world. It is better if they build toilets in India, which we need badly. I urge all Telegu millionaires living in America to build good toilets along our highways, in our airports, in our cities; it will clean up our country. Instead of that they build another Venkatachalapathy temple in Houston, another one in Timbuctoo, another one in Toronto. What for? It is not money wisely spent, because anything which is spent uselessly cannot be wise.
So you see, our people, even when they go abroad, remain as stupid as they are here. That they make money out of software and hardware does not prove that they are really intelligent. Isn't it? Where is the wisdom? So I urge all our Indians living abroad - donate for specific purposes: better roads. Most of all, what we need in India is toilets! I mean, you just have to walk into a toilet in India, any toilet, anywhere, to see the shameful condition in which our hygienic needs are met - any toilet, anywhere in India. I feel ashamed as an Indian.
There was a time when people refused to go to Bombay because when they drove from Bombay airport into the city, the first eight miles was all bare bottoms in the morning. It was scandalous, shameful! And an exposition of our public shame. The government of Maharashtra did very little to correct it for the first twenty-five years.
I remember a joke; I don't think it is out of place. When Nehru was visiting the Soviet Union, and when the Soviet leaders had come to India, they had been very critical. Wherever they went, they saw bare bottoms. Morning, bare bottoms; afternoon, bare bottoms; evening, bare bottoms. And they were laughing away. And Nehru was quite upset. He didn't know why they were laughing, but he knew they were laughing at him and at his India, the great land of India. The Secret Service people finally told him in Hindi, "This is the problem, boss. What to do?" He said, "Why don't you stop this?" They said, "How to stop it? There are hundreds of thousands of people exposing their bottoms every morning, afternoon and evening. You can't stop it just like that." So when he was driving from Moscow airport into the city, into the Kremlin part of it, he saw in the distance a man sitting in the field. He said, "Stop! Stop! Stop!" Bulganin and Kruschev were with him. They said, "Mr. Prime Minister, what...?" He said, "Stop!" He was very angry; Nehru was a very peremptory, angry man. The whole cavalcade came to a stop. And he said, "Look there! What is happening?" Bulganin looked, Kruschev looked, and you know the Russian way, [makes a brusque, 'military' gesture] the Secret Service all went scrambling, helter-skelter, to find out what was wrong. After ten minutes, they came back and whispered something into Kruschev's ear. Kruschev smiled and said, "Move." Nehru said, "Stop. This will not move until I get an explanation. You were so critical about India. What is happening there?" Bulganin said, "Mr. Prime Minister, ignore it!" "I refuse!" Nehru said, "I will not move from here. Bring that man!" "No, I don't want to bring him. Mr. Prime Minister, don't get into this too much. It is not good." Finally they had to reveal the fact that it was the Indian ambassador in Moscow! [Laughter] You know, this sort of joke - our people listen to it. But then they say, "Sir, in the fresh air, in the fields, you don't know what relief we get Alaage [just like that]."
We have to start cleaning this country from the bottom up, literally and in every way. It is easy for people to say, "Bottoms up," when they drink. This is what I would urge the Andhra people to spend their money on; stop building temples, start building toilets. Both begin with a 'T'. Give up crude worship, give up crude beliefs; take to meditation, stick to meditation. Preceptors must go in the lead in this matter, otherwise they are not being true to their salt. Namak haraam, they say in Hindi, which is the same thing, you see. We are not true to the salt that we consume if we still preach something and practise something else.
So this Andhra - while it is co-operative, it co-operates in one way but totally opposes all growth, especially spiritual growth, spiritual evolution, by its insistence on the past and its practices. That is one aspect which has to be emphasised again and again, so that this spirit of hope, of revival which Andhra needs, which I see manifested in the increasing numbers in our centres, will continue to flourish in an open way. You know, otherwise it is like a bud which appears - only to be found that it has rotted away without ever opening and flowering. Here the rose plant is there, the thorns are there, very much in evidence, the buds appear but they are just corrupted and eaten away from inside. They shrivel up - no rose! I hope you people will take to heart instead of just feeling angry and saying, "Oh, this fellow always talks like this." He will always talk like this so long as he always has to talk like this, and there is no other way of talking. It is for your good.
Temples are good - let them make them into museums. We don't revile temple worship; we only say it is not effective. We have tried it for centuries, millennia. Where has it led us? Into deeper and deeper corruption, into today's situation in India where religion, politics and criminality are hand in hand and the people of India have no choice except to go back to those same temples and say, "Daya cheyandi Devuda." ["Bless me with your grace, God."]. And that Devuda [God] says, "Where? Whom? When have you approached Me?" And you say, "But I am coming to the temple every morning." God says, "Are you not showing your disbelief in My eternal existence, in My omnipotence, in My omnipresence, by coming here to worship? If you believed I was everywhere, would you not look for me in your own home? Do you need to come here?" "No, no, sir, I go to the post-office to post a letter. I go to the toilet for some functions. I go to the restaurant to eat. So my father said, 'If you want to worship, go to the temple'." He says, "Don't confuse between man-made institutions and divine institutions. The Divine Institution is everywhere. If I am everywhere, I am in your heart, too. Why don't you look for Me inside yourself rather than outside?" But this message we hear everywhere, we hear every day, we hear ad nauseam, but it goes in one ear and comes out the other ear. "What did he say?" "Wonderful things, sir." "What did he say?" "Like money in my pockets, he said you have God in your heart." He never said it. Money in your pocket can be taken away. God in your heart cannot be taken out. He cannot be robbed; you cannot be dispossessed.
So you see, our Andhra Pradesh, wonderful land that it is I was told originally it was to be called Vishala [Grand] Andhra; now today I was told it is going to be called Bangaru [Golden] Andhra... What is it? [Turning to the people sitting nearby] Swarna [Golden] Andhra. Swarnam [gold] - Okay, but it will not take you there [pointing upward]. It is good for putting on idols, in your pocket, but not in your heart. Kabir has said, "Water getting into a boat and money getting into a house are both extremely dangerous." Water in a boat will sink it; money in a house will destroy it. So he said, "As fast as you bail out water which is coming in through a leak in a boat, just as fast, get rid of your wealth" - otherwise you will destroy yourself. Our modern culture, our modern education is all geared, is all oriented towards more and more wealth, more and more importance, more and more visible signs of our wealth - ostentatious living, bigger cars, bigger flats, two of each if possible - all to the detriment of what is inside us. We lose our humanity, we lose our ability to empathise and sympathise. We have lost our idea of feeling.
Today you can sit near a man who is dying, and you don't know that he is dying. A man can sit in his own home and not see that his wife is sick or his mother is sick, because the capacity for a different type of vision has been lost. We are only seeing with our eyes what is outside. "He is rich, I must be rich." "She is beautiful, I must have a wife like her; if possible, her." This is the way the human mind is working now. "They are white, I must be white" - so more cosmetics. But they are also foolish. Should I also be foolish? "Sir, at least they have the benefit of being beautifully foolish." I have heard this. As if beauty can wipe out all the foolishness of foolishness, all the sickness of sickness, all the corruption of corruption. Sahaj Marg preaches simplicity, not beauty - simplicity, truth and love, knowing that the simple is ever beautiful whereas the beautiful may never remain beautiful; it is beautiful today, it is gone tomorrow. The fresh, lovely face of today is the wrinkled face of tomorrow, the blighted face of day after tomorrow, the dead face of next week. The rich man of today is the poor man of tomorrow.
Some of our abhyasis were so foolish that they went on a spree in the stock market. Some lost even a million dollars, two million dollars, and of course they salve their conscience and try to fool me by saying, "Sir, we did it only so that we could give more money to the Mission." I said, "If you had given me the money you put on the stock-market, I would have built another ashram." A million dollars in India is four and a half crores of rupees. Calcutta ashram cost half that. But they would rather squander away a million dollars of hard-earned money for which they go into exile in a foreign land, rather than do what they can do with it before trying to multiply it and 'doing more good'. It's like a man who says, "I would do more good if I had more." But you haven't even started doing 'good' with what you have!
So you see, moralizing is no use; moralizing is only making bigger fools, bigger corruptors, bigger criminals. What we have to lead is a life of values. This is the land where Lord Krishna is supposed to have fed a multitude from one grain of rice in a vessel. You have the same tradition in Christianity - Jesus feeding the multitude with two loaves and five fishes. They didn't have millions of dollars. They didn't have big kitchens and cooks. They just kept on breaking it and it kept on going, so they couldn't finish the loaf of bread. The heart ensures that. Money ensures that you start with a thousand loaves and in India it is no use; it has hardly scratched the skin of the hungry people.
So which should we depend on? The seed that love will protect and love will make grow and which will make us capable of feeding multitudes? Or the wealth that is never enough, in any country? One disaster like the recent earthquake - you know what it cost in terms of life? They said thirty thousand but estimates put it at nearly seventy thousand dead. What is going to replace those seventy thousand people who died? How are the people who lost their people in the earthquake going to be ever compensated for the loss of their loved ones? Will dollars do it? Will gold do it? Yet, we don't wake up! We have been having disaster after disaster, cataclysm of nature after cataclysm of nature - landslides, typhoons. Every year we have these typhoons, all bearing female names in the U.S. All they report is: "Twenty-seven billion dollars damage." They don't tell you how many people died. Or what was the misery caused. Because insurance does not want those facts revealed, because insurance is a big power in America - like health insurance runs the government of the U.S., more or less.
So you see, if you want the truth you have to find it here [pointing to the heart]. Not in newspapers, not in published reports, not outside - inside. And if you want the truth of your beliefs, look inside. "Am I doing right in following my forefathers in what they were doing?" - look here. You must love your parents, you must respect your parents, but never worship your parents. "No, no, sir, after all, my father he could not have done wrong." That is no argument!
So I come back to this wonderful Andhra Pradesh, a great lovely land full of potential for spiritual growth. Because all this shows an energy which is being improperly diverted, wrongly directed. All that it needs is a little change of direction, and this would be the land of spirituality. That is what we need. That is what you people need here. And I hope you will all, as Vivekananda kept repeating from the Vedas, arise, awake and rest not till the goal is achieved! | <urn:uuid:63afa63b-fabb-4169-a2ed-ebe89d28ecf9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sahajmarg.org/literature/online/speeches/the-land-with-potential | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978473 | 5,013 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Elizabeth Kolbert's book Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change originated in a series of articles for New Yorker magazine, for which she received the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award.
With a clear, personable style, it's as entertaining as possible given the deeply disturbing conclusion: "It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing." That she comes to this conclusion through no specific predictions of catastrophe - she's not making The Day After Tomorrow claims - but rather with devastatingly convincing proof that is widely accepted in the scientific community, makes an even more powerful statement.
The unabridged audiobook, read by Hope Davis (The Matador, American Splendour), is refreshingly non-alarmist in tone while still being alarming in message. Kolbert, who was a science reporter with The New York Times before becoming a staff writer at the New Yorker, presents facts calmly and rationally, acknowledging gaps in our knowledge about climate change, but also clearly demonstrating that those gaps do not challenge the basic principal that carbon dioxide levels are rising, man is a huge contributor to those levels, the climate is changing because of it, and those changes have detrimental effects to species who cannot adapt to them.
In the introduction, read by the author, she talks about Hurricane Katrina, which had struck shortly before the book was published. There had been speculation in the media about whether Katrina and Rita, another Category 5 hurricane that hit immediately afterwards, could be linked to global warming. Kolbert writes that while increased intensity of hurricanes is a symptom of climate change, no one hurricane can be blamed on the phenomenon. That even-handedness, combined with the dire underlying message, sets the tone for the book.
She gives practical examples of what global warming means, not just in abstract terms of the world we're leaving for our descendants, but changes that are affecting people, animals, and the earth today. Two scientists she interviewed were the first to present evidence of genetic changes occurring as an adaptation to global warming, in a mosquito. More compelling is the social adaptation residents of Shishmaref, Alaska may be forced to make, to relocate their community because rising ocean levels threaten to engulf their island home, or people in Fairbanks, when permafrost started to melt and destroyed homes built on top of it. The greater fear is that we will reach a threshold where the gradual climate changes will give way to more sudden consequences.
Kolbert attended a symposium gathering 300 scientists, and went into the field with researchers in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, and many other points. She always puts a human face on the scientists she encounters, with charming physical descriptions and biographical details. Through it all, she found no significant dissent to the climate change theory, other than in details. She did find reports denying the impact of increased greenhouse gases on our environment funded by the petroleum industry, or utility companies, for example.
She laments that the public are not aware that there is consensus on climate change, having been led by some media, by industries with an interest in avoiding emission controls, and even by their own governments to believe there is significant dissent in the scientific community. In opposition to this view, she cites a study of peer-reviewed journal articles on climate change - over 900 articles between 1993 and 2003. Of these, 75 percent supported the position that emissions caused by humans "were responsible for at least some of the observed warming of the past 50 years. The remaining 25 percent, which dealt with questions of methodology or climate history, took no position on current conditions. Not a single article disputed the premise."
The book has a remarkably unbiased tone despite Kolbert's obvious point of view. The final chapter, where she talks about the Bush administration's response to the Kyoto Protocol, is the most she editorializes, and even then, it's hard to argue with her conclusions when she presents quotes to demonstrate the baffling lack of content in the Bush administration's arguments against Kyoto and similar efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions, and for their own vague plans.
She points out that while American scientists have been the major contributors to our knowledge that human activity is contributing to global warming, the American government has been the major stumbling block in achieving any meaningful action towards mitigating the harm. She highlights cases where the administration altered reports by their own scientists to downplay the dangers of climate change. Even in this chapter, she explores the limitations of Kyoto and other agreements, but she makes convincing arguments against the United States' objections.
Unfortunately it's difficult not to come away with a sense of futility after listening to Field Notes. The hope must be that this book and other sources of knowledge about the issue will eventually provoke the public to spur governments into action. But there is no simple solution to reducing the levels of greenhouse gases, even if the political will existed. She profiles the town of Burlington, Vermont, which enacted several successful strategies but has still seen its levels of carbon dioxide emissions rise - though more slowly than they otherwise would have. She presents information by various scientists about the complex, multiple ways the problem must be addressed. She demonstrates that without the United States and China's cooperation, the rest of the world has little hope of making much of dent.
Still, Kobler brings the voice of science to a broader audience, who at least can be armed with facts against some of the political spin surrounding the issue, and at best can be motivated to act.
Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change is available unabridged on five compact discs, including one enhanced CD with supplementary illustrations in an 8MB PDF, or as an eAudio download from Simon and Schuster's audiobook website, SimonSays, where you can also hear a clip and listen to a podcast about the book. | <urn:uuid:a6d7e0f5-6c5a-4fda-a47c-db9999430ca9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unifiedtheorynothingmuch.blogspot.com/2006/05/audiobook-review-field-notes-from.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.956075 | 1,209 | 2.921875 | 3 |
The goal of The Condom Project is to destigmatize condoms and to increase their use. In order to break down barriers and myths about condom use, The Condom Project works with local organizations and local coordinators who use art, performance, and educational programs to effectively bring its message to infected, affected, and at-risk populations. The Condom Project uses non-traditional approaches to bring the message of condom and protection to thousands of people in six countries in Africa and two countries in Asia, providing accurate and life-saving information about condoms and their effectiveness. TCP crosses religious, cultural, and societal barriers reaching men and women of all ages who belong to cultures which are either socially intolerant of condoms, or confused and poorly educated about their supreme effectiveness to prevent HIV/AIDS by introducing the condom through an art project.
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The search continues, but, hope is fading for finding the crew of the Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan alive. The submarine disappeared last Wednesday, and the navy said an event “consistent with an explosion” was detected near the submarine’s last-known location.
The San Juan was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southernmost tip of South America, when it reported an electrical breakdown related to the submarine’s batteries.
More than 12 countries are involved in the search which is being conducted with around 27 ships and 18 aircraft, along with tens of fishing vessels. The search operation is carried out under the auspices of ISMERLO, an international organization of over 40 countries set up in 2003 following the Kursk submarine disaster.
Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, CEO of Dryad Maritime and former Principal Warfare Officer routinely involved in submarine safety and searches, says it is unlikely that the submarine is on the surface. “They’ve had enough air assets across it that if it had been on the surface within the search area, they’d have found it.”
Beneath the surface, a submarine covered in anechoic tiles for stealth would be extremely difficult to find. It’s like looking for your car keys on a rugby field using a drinking straw, says Gibbon-Brooks. “The nuclear monitoring organization that heard the non-nuclear explosion won’t have much more detail than they’ve already provided. You have to be quite careful in correlating one with the other. There is a very strong possibility that the explosion is connected with the submarine, but at this stage, it’s not certain.”
One of the possible outcomes of an electrical fault involving the batteries of a diesel-electric submarine is an explosion, he says, but weapon problems could also be the cause, as with the Kursk. The Kursk incident demonstrated that some of the compartments in a submarine can remain water-tight after such an explosion. However, it is unlikely that the San Juan crew could make a free ascent to the surface from the presumed depth that the submarine would be at if it were on the seabed, says Gibbon-Brooks.
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2003 Facilities Standards (P100) Overview
The Facilities Standards for the Public Buildings Service establishes design standards and criteria for new buildings, major and minor alterations, and work in historic structures for the Public Buildings Service (PBS) of the General Services Administration (GSA). This document contains policy and technical criteria to be used in the programming, design, and documentation of GSA buildings.
The Facilities Standards is a building standard: it is not a guideline, textbook, handbook, training manual or substitute for the technical competence expected of a design or construction professional.
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Designed for any room without ductwork, such as in hotels and classrooms, the Envision™ Series Low Sill Console geothermal/water-source heat pump has large face, rifled copper tubes, and enhanced corrugated lanced aluminum fins, which provide high efficiencies at low face velocities.
The Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO) presented four of its 2011 Geothermal Heat Pump Industry Champion Awards to key legislators in Washington, D.C. Recipients included Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), and Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.).
The Canadian GeoExchange Coalition (CGC), Canada’s national industry association for geothermal heat pump technology, has announced the release of a statistical report entitled “The State of the Canadian Geothermal Heat Pump Industry 2011 - Industry Survey and Market Analysis.”
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This Week on TO THE CONTRARY: immigration law and discrimination against women, then moms as sole and primary breadwinners. Behind the headlines, surrogacy and the single dad. The panelists discuss: Immigration Reform: Discuss whether current immigration law is gender discriminating. Mother breadwinners: Looking at the rising number of households with mothers being the source of primary income. BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Surrogacy and single dads. Single men are pursing alternatives ways to becoming fathers. Panelists: Democratic Commentator Debra Carnahan, Libertarian Commentator Nicole Kurokawa Neily, and special male guests: UPTOWN Magazine Chief Political Correspondent Charles Ellison, Campaign for America's Future Online Producer Terrance Heath.
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What temp should I keep my tank temp at with goldfish, pleco, and platties?
I agree. Somewhere between 74-76 should be good. I keep all my tanks right in the middle at 76, so there is a buffer for any fluctuations and everyone will still be comfortable. I don't think 74 would be a bad thing with a goldfish. Water can easily reach that temp outside in the summer.
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The movement of goods often occurs along a supply chain. Each stage of the supply chain is enforced either by inspectors from the HSE or from the LA. LAs inspect retail premises, warehouses and wholesale distribution, whilst HSE inspects manufacturers, road haulage, pallet networks and home delivery firms. The MGS project aims to ensure that both the HSE and LAs take a consistent approach throughout the supply chain, particularly where areas of enforcement meet e.g. a retail supermarket carrying out home delivery.
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Our company’s products are significantly robust in serving businesses that require expensive equipment to run the business which lends itself well to equipment leasing. Good examples are embroidery gear, signal making gear and restaurant tools. Also, if a vehicle is required to manage the business, we will organize for the acquisition at dealers cost and financing together with any instruments and gear wanted to be within the vehicle to operate the business.
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Some statisticians develop new statistical strategies, whereas some statisticians become unbiased consultants. Statisticians are utilized in a selection of fields, similar to training, advertising, psychology, sports, government, health Business & Finance, and manufacturing. A statistician career usually begins with a Master of Statistics, Master of Mathematics, or Master of Survey Methodology degree. Occasionally, a statistician could acquire an entry-level place with a bachelor diploma, but a grasp’s diploma is more and more the standard.
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A number of degrees might fulfill the schooling requirement for a price range analyst position, corresponding to a bachelor’s diploma accounting, finance, business, public administration, economics, statistics, political science, or sociology. At a middle market size the place revenues are generally over $20 million, most corporations search capital past their native markets. Usually, the business finance needs of the corporate have outstripped the assets of the owner or the local market. Because the job of a manager is to make financial decisions that enhance a firm’s worth, the authors have embedded real-world mini-cases throughout to apply chapter ideas to the types of situations managers of multinational corporations face. Liquidity in the form of immediate receipts from purchasers and moderately stretched funds to distributors is essential to keep a business afloat and well-capitalized.
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Individuals excited about a price estimator profession sometimes want a bachelor’s degree in an industry-related area. Common degrees for price estimators embrace arithmetic, building science, building administration, engineering, physical sciences, statistics, finance, business, economics, or accounting. Education and certification requirement for actual property appraisers and real property assessors differ tremendously. However, most actual estate appraisers for residential properties have at least an affiliate diploma, whereas most actual estate appraisers for commercial properties have no less than a bachelor’s degree. Typically, accountants and auditors need a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or associated subject, similar to internal auditing or business administration with a concentration in accounting. However, individuals with a community school diploma, bookkeepers, and accounting clerks who meet the schooling requirement of employers may be employed for junior accounting positions and later obtain an accountant position.
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In addition, a great data of regulatory compliance procedures is crucial. A diploma in finance not only helps you perceive the financial system, fiscal efficiency, and financial products, but it’ll position you for a wide range of profession prospects, whether Finance you work within the public or non-public sector, or for yourself. Finance majors usually find work in banks, corporations, nonprofit organizations, government, or corporations. Within our financial system, finance is anxious with capital, which is money or property owned or utilized in business.
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On June 18 and 19, Opportunity Finance Network hosted its eighth annual Small Business Finance Forum for nearly 400 representatives of neighborhood development financial institutions and other mission-driven small business lenders and companions. Held at the JW Marriott in downtown Chicago, this year’s Forum placed a particular concentrate on progressive approaches to supporting entrepreneurs going through the best barriers to entry for starting and growing their very own businesses. Students will learn to apply the newest tools and applied sciences of economic analysis and data techniques to unravel the challenging issues that they will confront in a worldwide business setting. Highly certified FSU students enrolled on this main are in a position to pursue a mixed bachelor’s/master’s pathway that gives them a jump-start on a master’s diploma.
Our sturdy curriculum, mixed with our CFA® University Affiliation, fully prepares you to steer the method forward for funding administration in the high-tech worldwide marketplace. Designed to additional the research of the monetary administration of a firm’s current assets and present liabilities, this course completes the basic information and abilities required to be a cash supervisor in a contemporary business. Completion of this course is one of the necessities for a pupil Business to take part within the Certified Cash Management Associate Program. This course deals with banks and financial establishments all over the world. Students look at the roles of banks and lenders in business, business bank processes and banking or financial regulations. A massive portion of time in this course is spent on threat management and business banks. Students also become familiar with the Federal Reserve System and international banking. | <urn:uuid:6e0d74f3-ad98-4bd3-9d1f-e9dafd77a202> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taifacebookjavamienphi.xyz/finance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.926986 | 1,298 | 1.65625 | 2 |
UNESCO Added the Turkmen Rugs to its Intangible Cultural Heritage ListCulture | December 17, 2019, Tuesday // 16:11| views
Turkmenistan's leader on Tuesday hailed as "historic" the announcement that its traditional hand-woven carpets have been recognised as global cultural heritage by the United Nations.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said it was "evidence of world recognition of our marvellous carpets" and will help promote them abroad.
This month, the centuries-old family tradition was added to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.
The National Museum of Carpets contains more than 2000 carpets, many from centuries past and one supersized version woven in 2001 by 40 weavers.
The 14-by-20-foot carpet, which weighs 1.5 tons, has made the country a Guinness record holder, though the title is now held by a carpet woven in Iran.
Because of the density of the carpets - one square meter can consist of up to 400,000 knots, weaving a four square meter carpet could take several months.
Prices for wool carpets are around $ 115 per square meter, while a silk carpet can cost double.
Typically, models reflect nomadic tribal art and incorporate elements from different species of animals.
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Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago aren’t partners, relatives or even collaborators. But when the two artists first met, four years ago on a plane from Los Angeles to Miami, they became fast friends over their shared fascination with Picasso. At the time, most ambitious young artists coming out of top schools were preoccupied with the conceptual strain of modernism as defined by Duchamp; Curry and Houseago favored the more painterly—and deeply unfashionable—modernist ideas announced by Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, which revolutionized the staid portrait tradition and incorporated references to “primitive” art. Both Curry and Houseago had idolized the master since they were teenagers, and thus began an intense and sustained conversation that continues to inform their respective practices.
“Tom and I were more interested in taking Picasso’s route,” recalls Curry, whose studio, adjacent to Houseago’s in L.A.’s Warehouse District, is stacked with works recently returned from his and Houseago’s monthlong joint residency and exhibition at Ballroom Marfa in Texas. “It felt really radical.”
“Aaron was one of the first people I met who I could talk about Picasso with,” adds Houseago, who credits a high school trip to view Picasso’s late-period paintings with establishing his belief in the “sublime” potential of art. “In art school I was told that art was at an end. The death of the author was a very big philosophical reference point, and I was really desperately unhappy about that idea.”
Houseago, 37, is a garrulous and burly powerhouse who grew up in Leeds, England, and studied at London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design before moving to L.A. in 2003. The bashful Curry, also 37, was raised in San Antonio, Texas, and first studied Picasso and Dalí in books pilfered from the public library. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he completed his M.F.A. at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
After meeting en route to the opening of “Red Eye: Artists From the Rubell Family Collection,” the two discovered other common interests, including popular music (the Beatles, the Smiths, Led Zeppelin) and the most classical inspiration in all of Western art—the human form. Today both are represented by Michael Werner in New York and this fall are again showing side by side at Berlin’s new VW gallery, but their respective drawings and sculptures are strikingly distinctive.
Curry creates radically flattened silk-screen portraits from sketches made on a computer drawing pad and crafts elegantly anthropomorphic sculptures from flat plywood panels that nonetheless evoke Henry Moore’s rotund bronzes. “I always want my paintings and sculptures to exist between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional,” he says.
Houseago, in keeping with his outsize personality, makes large smeary charcoal drawings that owe an acknowledged debt to Picasso’s primitivist impulse, while the sculptures he hews from massive blocks of redwood have the rough vigor of a Brancusi—or perhaps a folk artist’s chain-saw carvings.
“I wasn’t taught to draw at art school,” Houseago says with exasperation at what he considers the high-concept prissiness of his curriculum. “I could talk for hours about Michel Foucault, but I couldn’t draw. So I feel like I’m in a punk band. I’m completely unskilled. I feel like I just have to do it.”
For both, L.A. affords the freedom to pursue their creative dialogue—and their individual work—unimpaired by art-world trends.
“If I decide Donatello is important to me, he’s important,” says Houseago, voicing a sentiment shared by his studio neighbor. “The same with Nirvana. Those two things can coexist.” | <urn:uuid:712324c1-03c4-482c-bda3-16c3d3716a6a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wmagazine.com/story/art-houseago-curry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00056-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964881 | 882 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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Do you still own one? If you were raised in the suburbs, you can probably still remember the sound of an RC car as it zoomed down the street, like a mouse's blender put on puree. Some of you never forgot the sound, and upgraded to gas powered beasts, or traded in your old Tyco trawler for a high-end hobby shop racer. Or, if you're like me, you live on a busy street and keep your old RC car in the closet full of dust. Fortunately, we now have Re-Volt, a cheap solution for all those RC racing urges. And it's just like the real thing. This may look like a console style racer, but don't be tricked. This is a fast-paced, fun simulation that will test your brain and your fingers as much as it will your reflexes.
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A privacy lawsuit against Facebook’s photo-tagging feature is set to go ahead after a judge rejected the social network’s request to have it dismissed.
San Francisco federal district court judge James Donato has ruled that the case, which alleges the violation of an Illinois law that bans the collection and storage of biometric data without explicit consent, could proceed to trial.
“The Court accepts as true plaintiffs’ allegations that Facebook’s face recognition technology involves a scan of face geometry that was done without plaintiffs’ consent,” wrote Donato in the ruling.
The photo-tagging function in question has been a part of Facebook since 2010. With the aid of facial recognition software, the tool identifies users in photos and automatically tags them.
Prior to the feature’s introduction, Illinois had already passed its Biometric Information Privacy Act in 2008. The law demands companies acquire the consent of a consumer before collecting or storing biometric data. As recently as March, fellow tech giant Google was targeted in a lawsuit that alleged that its photo-tagging system — which, like Facebook’s, uses “faceprints” to identify people in images — had violated the Illinois law.
In response to the plaintiffs’ allegation that they never gave Facebook permission to use their faces as biometric identifiers, the social network argues that the feature is divulged in its terms of service, reports CNBC.
Facebook contends that users can opt out of the function at any time. Additionally, Facebook argued that the law being cited does not apply to its tool because its “faceprints” originate from photographs.
“Trying to cabin this purpose within a specific in-person data collection technique has no support in the words and structure of the statute, and is antithetical to its broad purpose of protecting privacy in the face of emerging biometric technology,” adds Judge Donato in his ruling.
If you wish to turn off the auto-tag function for yourself, here are Facebook’s instructions as to how you can do so:
- Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page and choose Settings
- Click Timeline and Tagging in the left column
- Next to How can I manage tags people add and tagging suggestions?, click Who sees tag suggestions when photos that look like you are uploaded?
- Choose an option from the dropdown menu
- When you turn off tag suggestions, Facebook won’t suggest that people tag you in photos that look like you. Keep in mind that friends will still be able to tag photos of you.
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The art of fictional writing in modern times has gone beyond fairytales and folklore and has steadily developed into a delicate process of educating readers while exposing them to certain aspects of life they otherwise might not have known. Although there isn’t a limit to what fictional stories can contain, it is not out of place to see a fictional story with strong relations to a true life event.
Stepping into the scene with her debut book, Cheryl T Long produces a masterpiece of facts and realism. Although a fiction, her book paints a vivid picture of what a lot of young girls are subjected to in different parts of the world. Growing up in societies that provide little or no support, these girls are forced to survive in any way they can.
‘As The Flowers Bloom’ is a captivating fictional story about a young lady who grows up in an environment of abuse and neglect, yet has a dream to become a famous dancer. Running away from home in search of greener pastures, Cherish would soon discover that the streets are even rougher than she thought. After so many wrong turns and disappointments, she finally gets much-needed help and pursues her career.
Nevertheless, she would soon find out that her experiences while growing up would shape a lot of decisions she would make in the future. Not recognizing the amount of hold an abusive past would have on her, she innocently pursues her ambitions in ways she knows how to. In the course of this, she gets roped into certain detrimental relationships. One of which was falling for a man who was helping her pursue her career but who also became abusive along the way.
Having experienced such lifestyle a lot in her younger days, Cherish has to make a choice to either bear and endure abuse from the man she loves, or step out and find a way to rise above these demons that keep haunting her.
The writer’s expertise is shown in the way she carves out different details and scenarios as relating to human experiences with style, engulfing the reader in a world of raw truths and situations. From the first page to the last, her writing style and story continuity is sure to keep you glued till you get to the end.
With some other books in the pipeline, Cheryl shows us what to expect from her stable in the not-so-distant future. “I love to write and share my stories with all I come in contact with” were the words of an excited Cheryl.
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20269 - ECONOMICS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
CLMG - M - IM - MM - AFC - CLEFIN-FINANCE - CLELI - ACME - DES-ESS - EMIT - GIO
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
The course applies the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in international economics to the process of European integration. By the end of this course, students are able to practically use advanced economic and statistical tools for the analysis and possible solution of the most relevant issues in economic policy currently discussed in the EU. To this aim, specific group assignments using actual data and special guests from the EU Institutions complement the course program.
The course is divided into four parts.
- Economic integration and growth.
- Innovation policies and economic integration.
- Economic geography and cohesion.
- Future developments of the EU in the post crisis context.
Among the topics covered, the course in particular touches upon the following:
- International trade models with heterogeneous firms.
- Micro-foundation and analysis of productivity dynamics.
- Role and emergence of Global Value Chains.
- Innovation and international trade.
- New economic geography.
Structural reforms in the EU.
- Two take-home group assignments on the first three parts of the course, worth 70 per cent of total marks.
- A final written exam makes up for the remaining points. Take home grades are valid for one academic year.
- Individual essay, on a topic to be agreed in advance, on one of the first three parts of the course, worth 50 per cent of total marks.
- A final written exam makes up for the remaining points.
- D. ACEMOGLU, P. AGHION, F. ZILIBOTTI, Distance to Frontier, Selection and Economic Growth, Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4:37-74.
- C. ALTOMONTE, T. AQUILANTE, G. BEKES, et al., Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy, Economic Policy 28, 2013, (76):663-700.
- I. COLANTONE, R. CRINO, New imported inputs, new domestic products, Journal of International Economics, 2014, 92:147-165.
- P. KRUGMAN, Scale Economies, Product Differentiation and the Pattern of Trade, American Economic Review, 1980, 70:950-959.
- T. MAYER, G. OTTAVIANO, The Happy Few: the Internationalisation of European Firms, Bruegel Blueprint 3; 2007.
- M. MELITZ, The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity, Econometrica, 2003, 71:1695-1725.
- M. MELITZ, G. OTTAVIANO, Market Size, Trade and Productivity, Review of Economic Studies, 2008, 75: 295-316.
D. PUGA, European Regional Policies in Light of Recent Location Theories, Journal of Economic Geography, 2002, 2:373-406. | <urn:uuid:67e479e8-153f-4b94-94c2-58fbb057b709> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://didattica.unibocconi.it/ts/tsn_anteprima2006.php?cod_ins=20269&anno=2018&IdPag=6069 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.772127 | 668 | 1.84375 | 2 |
One of the great myths about using the Internet as a social tool is that too much time at a computer can make you more insular, turn you into the stereotype of the introverted geek with diminished social skills. As in the old joke about computer programmers;
How can you tell if a programmer is extroverted?Some critics of social media are really very serious about this – the Archbish says that teenagers are killing themselves because of their transient on-line friendships (as opposed to fifteen years ago, when next to no-one had the Internet, and the UK suicide rate was markedly higher*). But they miss the absolutely essential point about on-line social interaction. This is part of the real world, not another world disconnected from this one. And I would argue that on-line social interaction can improve both our social confidence and our social skills.
He's stares at your shoes when you're talking to him.
Once again, chronic illness makes my experiences rather extreme, but not irrelevant.
If you spend a lot of time at home, your social muscle gets deconditioned. However much you might long for it, when you finally find yourself in the company of other people, especially new people, it can be extraordinarily hard work. The physical presence of new people can be over-stimulating. They look different, they smell different and you have a whole new repertoire of body-language, facial expression and tone of voice to get used to – and respond to appropriately. Other people take an enormous amount of energy before you even start trying to talk to them. Fortunately, they're mostly more than worth it.
The real problems arise when we pay attention to what we are doing. We're tired and we're slightly bamboozled. We're probably not smiling enough – or perhaps smiling too much and failing to drop our smile when we're being given sombre information (I'm afraid I do that a lot – if I'm still smiling after you've told me your cat has died, please give me an extra second to process the information before assuming I am glad). And we're almost certainly not saying the right thing. We're boring. We're tactless. We're standoffish or we're over-friendly. Frankly, we're such a complete and total idiot that we probably shouldn't be let out around other people at all!
My loss of confidence was probably the quickest and most crushing psychological effect of being ill. Other emotional consequences took a while to set in but I went from being genuinely out-going, stage-struck teenager to being uncomfortable around people other than my close family, within the space of about six weeks.
Now this wasn't just about isolation. In fairness, the cognitive effects of my illness were at their worst early on – I was a zombie, frankly. A zombie too nervous to get close enough to actually eat your brains. Disability can also have a profound effect on our self-image. We have to find brand new ways of realising that we are okay as people, that we have the same value we always did. We may have to adjust to a different kind of body. And we face particular challenges to our social confidence, like using a wheelchair or walking stick, which can be like wearing a flashing light or an invisibility cloak, depending on who's looking.
So there have been occasions when I'd said I was too ill to go out when actually, I was too scared. And that's a horrible situation. It was never that I didn't want to go - I would have been looking forward to it. But then it'd be time to get ready to go and I'd begin to get nervous, and eventually the nerves would rise to a panic. And for the strength of that panic, there might as well have been a pack of hungry velociraptors in the street outside. I was not going anywhere.
Of course this is deadly, because as with any phobia, avoidance only makes the next time even harder. At the point where you commit to go somewhere but chicken out at the last minute, that's a problem and only a few steps away from being an illness all of its own. Fortunately, such occasions were very rare for me, but some level of social anxiety is very common even for healthy people who leave the house more than once a fortnight. It is completely reasonable to want to come across as a decent kind of person. Even if you are happily non-conformist, you don't actually want to irritate or offend anyone, even the squares!
Anyway, these periods where my social confidence got so bad coincided were periods where either wasn't on-line, or not spending much time on-line. Spending time on my computer compensates a great deal for the isolation of illlness. It's no substitute, as I've said before. But it does seem to prevent my particular level of isolation from damaging my mental health. And if it can do that for me, I don't see why it can't benefit everyone who uses the Internet as a social tool.
Rather than turning us into loners, on-line contact is excellent practice for face-to-face. In particular, you lose the fear of strangers. I frequently “speak” to people I don't know very well, and I have learnt that I don't fluff up that badly. Occasionally, I am clumsy and wires get do get crossed –one would expect this to happen more often on-line than off – but it's almost always resolvable and if not, you learn it doesn't matter all that much. The world doesn't implode if one person thinks you're an idiot. At the same time, strangers are often extremely helpful, friendly and supportive. And some of them become your friends.
But even transient encounters are not unimportant. Comments like the Archbishop's about social networking undermining community life strike me as particularly ironic. Communities, unlike families and friends, are relatively large groups of people who don't know one another well but look out for one another despite the vagueness of their acquaintance. What undermines community life is the idea that you shouldn't trust or invest in people who you don't know intimately. This is why neighbours don't talk to one another – a reluctance to talk to strangers means that strangers is all they'll ever be.
You also get to learn and practice social skills in a safer environment on-line. It's safer because you can take your time to respond - even on IRC, you've got a chance to think twice before you speak. And perhaps best of all, on-line, it is possible to sit in a corner and listen without saying anything for periods of time without anyone fussing over you. Off-line, especially if you are a woman, you are expected to look cheerful and join in. And make the tea.
There are lots of forms of social isolation and alienation which can make people self-centred, not just not getting out much. But on-line, you can't just talk about yourself all the time, you are confronted by the complexities of other people's lives, reminded that your troubles are not extraordinary and your opinions not unique.
Of course, not on-line interaction is trouble-free. Social-networking and e-mail pose particular problems as tools for bullying and harassment. Not all interactive media is truly interactive, and there are places where people can express uncompromising opinions without paying any attention or respect to others and without getting any real feedback. Instinctively, I have my doubts about whether the BBC's Have Your Say pages or the newspapers who have a Comments thread under every story aren't in fact deeply unhealthy for their users. And fora where there is nothing but bickering and bullying are likely to be as damaging to one's social skills as a hostile work environment. But safe places do exist and they can be created.
* I'm not suggesting the Internet has brought down the suicide rate, just that there's no evidence that it's making things worse. I know what I'm about to say is a cheap shot but it's also a serious point (we are talking about the untimely deaths of young people, after all). They reckon about a third of teen suicides worldwide are related to sexuality - you know, perhaps some kid falls in love but some authority of other in their life, a church for example, says that love is an abomination. So if you were an Archbishop and you really did care about young people, as opposed to gaining publicity through your participation in a moral panic (one very popular with a news media which is struggling in the Internet age), then there might be more pressing matters to look at. Just saying. | <urn:uuid:fcd68cfd-6801-4f33-acf6-aa3cb166c5e0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2009/08/this-is-real-world-2-social-confidence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00013-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978893 | 1,781 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The Sunís Origin, Composition and Source of Energy
O. Manuel, C. Bolon, M. Zhong and P. Jangam, Chemistry Department, Univ. Missouri-Rolla
(A Report to the Foundation for Chemical Research, Inc., 12/25/2000)
The Sun and its planetary system formed from heterogeneous debris1-11 of a supernova (SN) that exploded 5 billion years ago12,13. Meteorites and planets recorded this as decay products of short-lived nuclides and linked variations in elemental and isotopic abundances. Cores of the inner planets grew in the central iron-rich region of the SN debris, and the Sun formed on the collapsed SN core. See Figs. 1-5.
Diffusion enriches lighter elements and the lighter isotopes of each element at the solar surface14-16. When corrected for mass fractionation, the most abundant nuclide that accreted on the Sun was shown17 to be 56Fe, the decay product of doubly-magic 56Ni; the next most abundant nuclide is the doubly-magic 16O. These nuclides were abundantly produced18 in SN 1987A. The most abundant elements - Fe, Ni, O, Si, S, Mg, and Ca - are the seven, even-Z elements that Harkins19 found to comprise 99% of ordinary meteorites. The least abundant elements - Li, Be and B - have loosely bound nucleons, confirming a link19 between abundances and nuclear structure hidden beneath the Sunís H-rich surface, with one conspicuous and important exception - an excess of protons. See Figs. 6-8.
3-D plots20-22 of energy vs. charge density vs. mass or atomic numbers for the ground-state nuclides reveal a cradle, shaped like the trough made by cupping the hands together, that contains all nuclear matter in the universe (Figs. 9-12).
The Sunís radiant energy and protons in the solar wind (SW) come from the collapsed supernova core, a neutron star (NS), on which the Sun formed. The cradle (Figs. 9-12) indicates that the energy of each neutron in the Sunís central NS exceeds that of a free neutron by @ 10-22 MeV (Figs. 13-15) Solar luminosity and the flux of solar-wind protons are generated by a series of reactions (Fig. 16): a) escape of neutrons from the central NS, b) decay of free neutrons or their capture by other nuclides, c) fusion and upward migration of H+ through material that accreted on the NS, and d) escape of H+ in the SW. An example might be:
a) The escape of neutrons from the NS, <1n> Ė> 1n + 10-22 MeV
b) The decay of free neutrons, 1n Ė> 1H+ + e- + nanti + 0.78 MeV
c) Fusion of hydrogen, 4 1H+ + 2 e- Ė> 4He++ + 2 n + 26.73 MeV
d) Some H+ reaches the surface and departs in the solar wind
Reactions like a) and b) produce part of the Sunís radiant energy and perhaps the luminosity of isolated neutron stars25. Note that reaction a) alone may release more energy per nucleon than is released by the sum of reactions b) and c), the decay or capture of neutrons plus H-fusion. The well-established Solar Neutrino Puzzle26 confirms that reaction c) generates only part of the Sunís total luminosity. Most 1H+ from b) is consumed by H-fusion, but the anomalous abundance of H (See Fig. 8) shows that 1H+ also leaks from the interior, selectively carrying lighter nuclides to the solar surface (See Fig. 6) before departing in the solar wind at an emission rate of about 2.7 x 1043 1H/yr. Homochirality in living creatures26 was likely initiated by circularly polarized light (CPL) from the Sunís early NS. Their fate and climate changes of planets27 may depend on the half-life of this massive nucleus at the Sunís core.
Acknowledgements The support of the Foundation for Chemical Research, Inc. is gratefully acknowledged. This conclusion to our 40-year effort to understand the origin of the Solar System and its elements would not have been possible without moral support and encouragement from the late Professors Glenn T. Seaborg and Raymond L. Bislinghoff.
Figure Captions (Click on Figure titles to reach the Figures)
Figure 1. The solar system formed out of the debris of a single supernova (SN) and the Sun formed on its collapsed core1-11. This explains the data in Figs. 2-5.
Figure 2. Combined 244Pu/136Xe and 238,235U/206,207Pb age dating shows that the supernova (SN) exploded about 5 billion years ago12.
Figure 3. 26Al/26Mg age dating shows that condensation began almost immediately, trapping high values of 26Al/27Al in SiC and in graphite grains of meteorites within 1-10 million years (0.001-0.010 billion years) of the supernova13. Grains that started to condense earlier grew larger, like fallout particles from nuclear weapons. They also trapped elements before complete mixing of isotopes made in various SN layers. These isotopic anomalies are illustrated in Figure 5.
Figure 4. Primordial He and Ne from the outer SN layers were trapped in carbon-rich meteorite grains with excess 136Xe (on the right). Isotopically "normal" Xe came from the interior of the star where fusion had destroyed light elements like He and Ne (on the left). The r-process made excess 136Xe in the outer stellar layers where He and Ne remained. Shown here are data for mineral separates of the Allende meteorite. The linkage of primordial He and Ne with excess 136Xe is observed in all types of meteorites4 and in the He-rich atmosphere of Jupiter10.
Figure 5. The isotopic anomaly patterns of numerous elements show excesses and deficits of the same isotope in different meteorite grains5,9,11. These elements display "mirror-image" isotopic anomaly patterns because elements of normal isotopic composition are mixtures of the isotopically anomalous components made in different SN layers. This illustrates the isotopic anomaly patterns observed in three elements with seven stable isotopes, Ba, Nd and Sm.
Figure 6. The lighter isotopes, mL, are enriched by a factor, f, relative to heavier isotopes, mH, in the solar wind, where f = (mH/mL)4.56. H leaking from the Sunís interior preferentially carries lighter particles to the solar surface14-16.
Figure 7.After correcting for the mass-fractionation shown in Figure 6, the most abundant elements in the bulk Sun are Fe, Ni, O, Si, S, Mg and Ca14-17. In 1917 Harkins19 reported that these same, even-Z elements comprise 99% of meteorites.
Figure 8. Fractionation-corrected solar abundances are linked to nuclear stability17, as suggested by Harkins19 in 1917, except for a large excess of H leaking from the Sunís interior. This figure is published in Ref. 17 and 20.
Figure 9. This plot of mass per nucleon, M/A, vs. charge per nucleon, Z/A, for all stable and long-lived nuclides shows that 1H has both the highest potential energy (M/A) and the highest charge density (Z/A). By contrast, 56Fe has the lowest potential energy (M/A) and an ordinary value of Z/A (charge density). First published in a report20 to FCR, Inc., this figure is reproduced in Ref. 17.
Figure 10. A 3-D plot of ground state nuclides shows the nuclear energy surface that defines the cradle of matter in the universe. Shown here are potential energy, M/A, vs. charge density, Z/A, vs. mass number, A, for all data available in the sixth edition of Nuclear Wallet Cards23. Parabolas of isobars showing mass per nucleon and b-decay energies per nucleon are represent by slices through the cradle at constant A. First published here, this figure is reproduced in Ref. 21.
Figure 11. A 3-D plot of ground state nuclides shows the "cradle" as a function of atomic number, Z. The isotopes of each element, represented by slices through the cradle at constant Z, define mass parabolas that are related by the capture or emission of neutrons. First published here, this figure is reproduced in Ref. 21.
Figure 12. Least-square lines fit to the parabolas at each value of A (Fig. 10) are used to estimate potential energy per nucleon for isobars, from Z/A = 0 (Z,A = 0,A) to Z/A = 1 (Z,A = A,A). The data in Fig. 11 can also be used to estimate the potential energy of isotopes from Z/A = 1 (Z,A = Z,Z) to Z/A @ 0 (Z,A = Z,infinity), a very massive nucleus composed completely of neutrons, except for the Z protons.
Figure 13. The "cradle" from Figure 12 predicts values of M/A when the charge density is zero, Z/A = 0, for odd values of A = 1-263. First published here, this figure is reproduced in Ref. 22.
Figure 14. The potential energy of particles in a neutron star can be estimated by extrapolating values of M/A at Z/A = 0 from Figure 12 to a neutron star at 1/A @ 0. The "best fit" line through all values of A yields an intercept at 1/A = 0 suggesting that these particles will have @ 10 MeV more energy that the free neutron. First published here, this figure is reproduced in Ref. 22.
Figure 15. The potential energy of particles in a neutron star can be estimated by considering only A > 150 and extrapolating values of M/A at Z/A = 0 from Figure 12 to a neutron star at 1/A @ 0. The intercept of this "best fit" line at 1/A = 0 suggests that these particles will have @ 22 MeV more energy that the free neutron. First published here, this figure is reproduced in Ref. 22.
Figure 16. Nuclear reactions that generate the Sunís luminosity and the excess 1H shown in Figure 8. The energy generated by reactions 1a, 1b and 1c can be represented by vertical transmissions between the lines in Figure 15. The emission and decay of neutrons may contribute to the luminosity of isolated neutron stars24. The flux of solar neutrinos25 confirms that reactions 1c and 2c, H-fusion, generate only part of the Sunís total radiant energy.
1. O. K. Manuel and D. D. Sabu, a) "Elemental and isotopic inhomogeneities in noble gases: The case for local synthesis of the chemical elements," Trans. Missouri Acad. Sci. 9, 104-122 (1975); b) "Strange xenon, extinct superheavy elements and the solar neutrino puzzle," Science 195, 208-209 (1977); c) "The noble gas record of the terrestrial planets," Geochem. J. 15, 245-267 (1981); d) "The noble gas record of the primitive nebula and the Earth," in LPI Technical Report Number 83-01, Conference on Planetary Volatiles, pp. 108-110 (1983); e) "Isotopic anomalies in meteorites," in Chapter I of Essays in Nuclear, Geo- and Cosmochemistry, M. W. Rowe, editor, Burgess International Group, Inc., Edina, Minnesota, pp. 1-42 (1988).
2. O. K. Manuel, in a) Proceedings of Robert A. Welch Foundation Conference on Chemical Research XII. Cosmochemistry, 263-272 (1978); b) "Isotopic and elemental heterogeneities in meteorites: Evidence of local element synthesis," Geokhimiya, no. 12, 1776-1800 (1981); c) "Origin of elements in the solar system," in The Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 607-664 (2000).
3. R. V. Ballad, L. L. Oliver, R. G. Downing and O. K. Manuel, "Isotopes of tellurium, xenon and krypton in Allende meteorite retain record of nucleosynthesis," Nature 277, 615-620 (1979).
4. D. D. Sabu and O. K. Manuel, "Noble gas anomalies and synthesis of the chemical elements," Meteoritics 15, 117-138 (1980).
5. L. L. Oliver, R. V. Ballad, J. F. Richardson and O. K. Manuel, "Isotopically anomalous tellurium in Allende: Another relic of local element synthesis," J. Inorg. Nucl. Chem. 43, 2207-2216 (1981).
6. C.-Y. Golden Hwaung, "The origin of the Solar System", M.S. Thesis, University of Missouri-Rolla, 60 pp. (1982).
7. G. Hwaung and O. K. Manuel, "Terrestrial-type xenon in meteoritic troilite" Nature 299, 807-810 (1982).
8. J. T. Lee, B. Li and O. K. Manuel, "Terrestrial-type xenon in sulfides of the Allende meteorite", Geochemical Journal 30, 17-30 (1996).
9. J. T. Lee, B. Li and O. K. Manuel, "On the signature of local element synthesis", Comments on Astrophysics 18, no. 6, 335-345 (1997).
10. O. Manuel, K. Windler, A. Nolte, L. Johannes, J. Zirbel and D. Ragland, "Strange x1enon in Jupiter", J. Radioanal. Nucl, Chem. 238, 119-121 (1998).
11. O. K. Manuel, J. T. Lee, D. E. Ragland, J. M. D. MacElroy, Bin Li and Wilbur Brown, "Origin of the Solar System and its elements", J. Radioanal. Nucl, Chem. 238, 213-225 (1998).
12. P. K. Kuroda and W. A. Myers, "Iodine-129 and plutonium 244 in the early solar system", Radiochim. Acta 77, 15-20 (1996).
13. P. K. Kuroda and W. A. Myers, "Aluminum-26 in the early solar system", J. Radioanal. Nucl, Chem. 211, 539-555 (1997).
14. O. K. Manuel and G. Hwaung, a) "Information of Astrophysical Interest in the Isotopes of Solar Wind Implanted Noble Gases,"Lunar & Planetary Science Conf. XIV, 458-459 (1983); b) "Solar Abundances of the Elements," Meteoritics 18, 209-222 (1983).
15. J. M. D. MacElroy and O. K. Manuel, "Can Intrasolar Diffusion Contribute to Isotope Anomalies in the Solar Wind?", J. Geophys. Res. 91, D473-D482 (1986).
16. O. Manuel, a) "The need for isotopic data on refractory elements in the solar wind," in LPI Technical Report Number 86-02, Proceedings of the Workshop on Past and Present Solar Radiation: The Record in Meteoritic and Lunar Regolith Material, p. 28, (1986); b) "Isotopic ratios in Jupiter confirm intrasolar diffusion," Meteoritics & Planetary Science 33, A97 (1998); c) "Isotopic ratios: The key to elemental abundances and nuclear reactions in the Sun," in The Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 285-293 (2000).
17. O. Manuel and Cynthia Bolon, "Nuclear Systematics: I. Solar Abundance of the Elements," preprint (12/2000).
18. R. A. Chevalier, "Abundances in SN 1987A and other supernovae", in The Origin of Elements in the Solar System: Implications of Post-1957 Observations, O. K. Manuel, editor, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, NY, pp. 285-293 (2000).
19. W. D. Harkins, "The evolution of the elements and the stability of complex atoms. I. A new periodic system which shows a relation between the abundance of the elements and the structure of the nuclei of atoms," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 39, 856-879 (1917).
20. O. Manuel, C. Bolon, M. Zhong and P. Jangam, "The Sunís Origin, Composition and Source of Energy", Report to the Foundation for Chemical Research, Inc., 12/12/2000.
21. O. Manuel, Cynthia Bolon and Prashanth Jangam, "Nuclear Systematics: II. The Cradle of the Nuclides," preprint (12/2000).
22. O. Manuel, Cynthia Bolon and Max Zhong, "Nuclear Systematics: III. Solar Luminosity," preprint (12/2000).
23. J. K. Tuli, Nuclear Wallet Cards, Sixth Edition, National Nuclear Data Center, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (2000) 74 pp.
24. Marten van Kerkwijk, "The Mystery of the Lonely Neutron Star", ESO press release, 11 Sept. 2000. <http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2000/pr-19-00.html>.
25. T. Kirsten, Rev. Mod. Phys., 71, 1213-1232 (1999).
26. J. R. Cronin and S. Pizzarello, "Enantiomeric excesses in meteoritic amino acids", Science 275, 951-955 (1997).
27. M. C. Malin and K. S. Edgett, "Sedimentary rocks of early Mars," Science 290, 1927-1937 (2000). | <urn:uuid:5dca32c4-2cce-4d92-a72b-d1a4f99832f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thesunisiron.com/archives/report_to_fcr.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.839248 | 4,083 | 3.625 | 4 |
Stockholm, Sweden, June 5, 2007 - Abbey Road Studios and Propellerhead Software announce they have partnered to produce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill for Propellerhead Software's Reason. Abbey Road Keyboards delivers a hypersampled collection of seven unique instruments recorded using the original equipment at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill consists of Reason 3.0 patches with samples of Steinway "Mrs. Mills" piano, Challen studio piano, Hammond RT-3 & Leslie Model 122, Mannborg Harmonium, Mellotron Model 400, Schiedmayer Celeste and Premier Tubular Bells. These time-tested keyboards have been at the studios since the early 60's and were used on some of the most popular tracks of all time - from "A Hard Day's Night" to "Dark Side Of The Moon" as well as numerous film scores such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens, all three Lord of the Rings movies and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, to name but a few.
Abbey Road Keyboards was recorded in the famed Studio Two, where The Beatles recorded almost all of their songs. It is a spacious recording room, with a 28' high ceiling and over 2,280 square feet of space. Its acoustics are meticulously tuned with suspended bass traps, hanging quilted curtains and four 10' by 20' acoustically-treated panels that swing out from the walls to temporarily reduce the total room size. Not only was Abbey Road Keyboards sampled using state-of-the-art equipment and techniques from this studio, Propellerhead Software consulted with senior Abbey Road engineers to also capture these instruments as they were back in the day, incorporating some of the same vintage microphones, preamps, outboard processors and mixing consoles.
All instruments were captured using Propellerhead Software's Hypersampling method. To capture every aspect of the instruments - from the way they resound in the Studio Two to their unique timbres and characteristics - they were all recorded at multiple velocity levels, from multiple angles, using multiple sets of microphones through the original mics, preamps, consoles and outboard gear at Abbey Road. With all the mic signals available separately in Reason, the Abbey Road Keyboards user can select between vintage sounding combinations of mics and pre-amps or state-of the art clean recordings, ready for the user's own preferred processing.
"Propellerhead Software is honored that Abbey Road has selected us as a partner for this project," says Ernst Nathorst-Böös, CEO of Propellerhead Software. "Hearing the sound of these vintage instruments coming out of Reason is just fantastic. It sends chills up your spine."
"As the market leader in the music software market, Propellerhead Software was the natural choice when it came to finding a partner for this project," says David Holley, Managing Director, EMI Studios Group. "An outstanding achievement. An inspiring collection of sounds and it really does feel like you're in Studio 2 with the real instruments."
Steinway Vertegrand "Mrs. Mills" piano:
Manufactured in Hamburg, Germany in 1905 by Steinway & Sons, this exquisite piano has been tuned in a way that makes it sound out of tune - but in a very pleasant way, like some beaten-up barroom piano only better. Thanks to its lacquered hammers, the "Mrs. Mills" piano produces a bright, cut-through-the-mix sound and responds very dynamically to varying note velocities.
Challen studio piano:
Sounding more like a typical home piano than the Steinway, the Challen piano offers a warm tone along with an unusually long sustain in its notes.
Hammond RT-3 & Leslie Model 122:
The RT-3 is much bigger and heavier than the familiar big and heavy Hammond B. Besides the organ, there's one other crucial item necessary for the full and proper effect: a Leslie 122 speaker. The talented Hammond organist Peter Adams played on the sessions to help capture many combinations the Hammond-and-Leslie sound.
The Mannborg Harmonium is a foot-pedaled organ that sucks air through the reeds when pumped with the pedals. This Harmonium could qualify as the first instrument with a split keyboard; keys on the left side of the split point play a different group of reeds than those on the right. This split feature is maintained in the Harmonium presets.
Mellotron Model 400:
The Mellotron Model 400 qualifies as one of the earliest sample players, except that instead of having RAM chips full of sounds inside, its samples have been recorded on 6' long strips of 3/8" magnetic tape. Abbey Road Keyboards features the samples of the Cello, Strings and Flute tapes.
The Celeste is like an overgrown glockenspiel, played with piano style keys. It produces soft and warm, bell-like timbres. Historically speaking, a Celeste has most often been used within orchestral contexts, however many Abbey Road artists have discovered the Schiedmayer to work well for pop and other musical styles.
Premier Tubular Bells:
The Tubular Bells is an orchestral percussion instrument made up of hollow metal tubes mounted on a frame. It's tuned and laid out like a keyboard instrument and played by striking it with rubberized hammers. Who would use tubular bells, known as orchestral chimes, in a pop song? The Beatles, for one. Listen to "You Never Give Me Your Money" or "When I'm 64".
Abbey Road Keyboards is a two DVD set containing both 16-bit and 24 bit versions of the sound library. The 16-bit version is lighter on the CPU and is suitable for composing and production work, while the 24-bit version is good to use at final mixing. The two are easily interchanged.
The ReFill also includes Guide To Abbey Road Keyboards, a 40-page full color booklet by Mark Vail (the author of Vintage Synthesizers and The Hammond Organ). The booklet provides a behind-the-scenes look at the ReFill recording sessions, the mics and outboard gear used and the instruments themselves.
The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill will be available from Propellerhead dealers worldwide in mid June 2007. MSRP is EUR €199 / USD $219.
Abbey Road Studios was the first purpose-built recording studio in the world. Opened in 1931, the studio made its name with large orchestral works and, of course, The Beatles. It has also been the venue for many major film score recordings, including Aliens, Braveheart, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, the last three Star Wars films, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter. Unquestionably, it is one of the most authoritative, established and well-known names in the world of music. Today, Abbey Road Studios is the most technically advanced recording, film scoring, post-production and remastering complex in the world. http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk
Formed in 1994, Propellerhead Software is a privately owned company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Renowned for its musician-centric approach, Propellerhead has created some of the world’s most innovative music software applications, interfaces and technology standards. Musicians, producers and the media have praised Figure, Reason, ReCycle and ReBirth applications for being inspiring, great sounding and of impeccable quality. Technologies such as ReWire and the REX file format are de-facto industry standards, implemented in all major music software. Today, Propellerhead’s products are used all over the world by hundreds of thousands of professionals and enthusiasts for all kinds of music making. http://www.propellerheads.se
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From Benjamin Rush
Philadelphia March 12th 1803
The Solicitude I felt upon the account of your health, excited by your letter of last summer, is in a great measure removed by the history you have given me of your disease in your favor of the 28th. of February. Chronic diseases even in persons in the decline of life, are far from being incurable, and I have great pleasure in assuring you that complaints of the bowels such as you have described yours to be, have very generally yeilded to medicine under my care, and that too in some instances in Old People.—The Remedies which appear to me proper in your case are
1 A Diet consisting chiefly of solid Aliment, taken at short intervals. The Stomach should never be full, nor empty. Like a School boy when idle, it does mischief to itself, or to parts connected with it. Fish, and every other Article of food that disagrees with your bowels should be avoided. The most inoffensive vegatable that you can take with animal food, is the potatoe. Biscuit, or toasted bread or boiled rice should be taken when convenient, with all your meals. Sherry wine, or madeira when pure and old, may be taken in moderation alone, or with water daily. Port wine may be taken occasionally, but it is too gouty for habitual Use.
2 The utmost care should be taken to promote a constant determination of the powers of the System, externally, and of the discharges, thro the skin which are natural to it. Perspiration is an excretion of the first necessity to health and life. The means of promoting and encreasing it in your case should be the warm Bath in cool weather, and the cold Bath in Summer. The best time of using them is about 12 or 1 oClock. The System bears them best at those hours. With the warm and cold Baths, flannel should be worn next to your Skin, and uncommon pains should be taken to keep your feet constantly warm. They are the avenues of half the paroxyisms of all chronic diseases when cold. It will be the more necessary to promote warmth & vigor in your feet, as the disease in your bowels is probably the effect of a feeble, misplaced Gout.
3 Gentle exercise should be used at those times when you feel least of your disease. When your bowels are much excited, rest should be indulged. Riding on horseback should be preferred to walking or riding in a Carriage. Avoid exercise of every kind before breakfast, in damp weather, and after Sunset. Your custom I recollect formerly was to breakfast as soon as you left your bed. That custom is now more necessary than ever to your health. Carefully avoid fatigue of body & mind from all its causes. Late hours, and midnight studies & business should likewise be avoided. It will be unsafe for you to sit up later than 1 oClock.
4 To releive the Diarrhœa when troublesome, Laudanum should1 be taken in small doses during the day, and in larger doses at bedtime so as to prevent your being obliged to rise in the night. I have seen the happiest effects from a Syrup prepared in the following manner. Take of the powder of Oak Galls six drachms & Cinnamon two drachms. Boil them in a pint of water to half a pint,—then strain them, and add to the liquor half a pint of Brandy, and as much loaf Sugar as will make them over a slow fire into a Syrup of which take a tablespoonful, or more three times a day.—Pepper mint tea may be taken occasionally with both the above remedies for paroxysms of your disease. In cases of severe pain, an injection composed of forty drops of Laudanum mixed with a tablespoonful of Starch and half a pint of water will give ease. The Laudanum when thus received into the System, seldom affects the stomach with sickness, or the head with pain afterwards.—
5 If the above Remedies do not releive you, Blisters should be applied occasionally, & alternately to your wrists and ankles. Such is the Sympathy between the skin & bowels, that the irritation of the Blisters on the Skin suspend all morbid action in the bowels. In the mean while astringent medicines act with double, or perhaps quadruple force upon them.
6 If the Blisters in addition to the other Remedies that have been mentioned do not cure you, recourse must be had to as much mercury, either used internally combined with opium, or externally in an Ointment, as will excite a gentle salivation. This remedy is a radical One. I have not often been obliged to resort to it in obstinate Diarrhœas,—but when I have, it has seldom failed of performing an effectual, and permanent cure.—
To encourage you to expect releif from your present disease, I could furnish you with many histories of the efficacy of each of the above Remedies. I shall mention the effects of but One of them. The Revd: Dr Ewing late Provost of our University was cured of a Diarrhœa of several years continuance in the 66th: year of his age by the Use of the Cold Bath.
I have been much struck in Observing how seldom a diarrhœa (where the stomach is unimpaired) shortens the duration of human life. The late Wm Smith of New York Afterwards chief Justice of Canada, was affected with it for fifteen years in the middle stage of his life, and General Gates (now between 70, & 80 years of age) was seldom free from it during our revolutionary War, and I beleive for some years afterwards.—
I beg you would continue to command my Advice in your case. All your communications upon it, shall be confined to myself.
I shall expect to see Mr Lewis in Philadelphia, and shall not fail of furnishing him with a number of questions, calculated to encrease our knowledge of Subjects connected with medicine.
The Venerable Dr Priestley is now, we fear upon his last visit to our city. His health & strength have declined sensibly within the two last years, but his Spirits are unimpaired, or rather improved, and his conversation is as instructive & delightful as ever. The Philosophical Society did homage to his genius, and character a few days ago by giving him a public dinner. The toasts will be published shortly. They were confined wholly to philosophical characters and Institutions.—
Have you seen Acerbi’s travels into Sweden, Finland, and Lapland? They are more interesting than any work of that kind yet published, inasmuch as they embrace both science & literature. The author is an Italian, but he writes in an elegant English Stile.—
I return Latude with many thanks. It is I find an abridgement only of a large work in which is contained an account of a hospital of deranged people with whom he lived for some time after he left the Bastile.
I have only to add a single thought foreign to the Subjects of this letter, & that is, fatal as has been the issue of the Struggle for Republicanism in Europe, and precarious as the tenure may be by which we hold our excellent republican2 form of government, I still continue in my abstracted situation, and private pursuits in life, to admire and prefer it to all Others, as most consistent with the rational nature, and the moral and religious obligations of man.
With the most cordial Wishes for your health and every blessing that can be connected with it in public and private life, I am Dear Sir your sincere old friend
PS: I recollect you were in the practice formerly of washing your feet every morning in cold water in cold weather.3 It is possible that practice so salutary in early and middle life, may not accord with your present age. The bowels sympathize with the feet above any other external part of the body, and suffer in a peculiar manner from the effects of Cold upon them. As warm and cold water produce the same Ultimate effects upon the feet;—suppose you substitute the former, to the latter hereafter in the Winter Months. The warm water acts as a direct stimulant while the cold water produces Action, and warmth indirectly only, After first inducing weakness and cold in the parts to which it is applied. The action and warmth are induced only by reaction, and when the energy of the feet is not sufficient for that purpose (as is sometime the case in the decline of life) the cold water may do harm. The whole System will often react against Cold, when a part of it, especially a part remote from the heart & brain will not.—Hence a general cold bath will sometimes be inoffensive, & even Useful, when a partial one will be hurtful.
Should you conclude to Use the Cold Bath in summer begin with water at 90°: or 85° and let its heat descend gradually to 55°: or 60°:
RC (MHi); Rush added the numbering of paragraphs as an afterthought, inserting the numerals in the indentations of the paragraphs; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Mch. and so recorded in SJL.
The letter in which TJ discussed a problem of health was not from the summer, but 20 Dec. 1801 (Vol. 36:177–8).
venerable dr priestley: in a special meeting convened for the purpose on 28 Feb., the American philosophical society resolved to invite Joseph Priestley to dinner “from their high respect for his Philos: Labors & discoveries, & to enjoy the more particular pleasure of a Social meeting.” Priestley attended a meeting of the society on 4 Mch. and accepted the invitation. The event took place at Francis’s hotel the next day, Saturday the 5th. According to one report the toasts given on the occasion “were appropriate to the object in view, and appeared to have the good fortune of being unexceptionable. It was pleasing to see all distinctions of religious sects and political opinion buried in the pleasing sentiments of fraternal esteem” (minutes in PPAmP; Concord, N.H., American Republican Gazette, 28 Apr.).
acerbi’s travels: the first publication of the Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the Years 1798 and 1799 of the Italian lawyer, diplomat, and scholar Giuseppe Acerbi was in English. The two-volume edition appeared in London in 1802 (Peter Hainsworth and David Robey, eds., The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature [Oxford, 2002], 5; Robert L. Kahn, “Seume’s Reception in England and America,” Modern Language Review, 52 , 65n).
A year earlier Rush had asked to borrow the memoirs of Henri Masers de latude. Authorities in prerevolutionary France had confined Latude in the Bastille for many years and in a hospital for the insane (L. H. Butterfield, ed., Letters of Benjamin Rush, 2 vols. [Princeton, 1951], 2:848n; Vol. 37:68, 69n, 86).
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This course develops an understanding of the internal logical structure of computers with the basic structure and functioning of conventional computer systems. Discussion of conceptual techniques of assembler and machine-level programming as well as an introduction to appropriate data structures is included. The course highlights microcomputer operating systems (DOS, WINDOWS and UNIX) and the control programs they comprise as well as techniques for communicating with the operating system. The course includes such topics as multiprogramming, multiprocessing and time-shared operating systems, the virtual memory concept, and system software.
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]
My parents are always saying there’s so much bad stuff about video games, but is there any good stuff? – Ethan B., age 12, Geneva, Ohio
Gamers, have you ever noticed that you’re the first person to spot animals at the zoo? Or if someone drops candy on the ground, you know exactly where every piece landed? That may be because you play video games.
Research has shown people who play video games like Fortnite or Rocket League have higher visual acuity, meaning they can keep track of multiple moving objects at once – or even see things in the fog or rain that others cannot. It’s one of the many benefits researchers like me have discovered about playing video games.
For those who think video games are a waste of time or a negative force in your life, it might be worth showing them what the latest science has to say.
Video games can develop other skills, too. For example, they can teach you to never give up, no matter how many times it takes to beat the final boss or reach the next level. The persistence you use in video games shows that hard work will help you achieve your goals, both inside and outside the video game.
To succeed in video games, you can’t just work harder; you have to work smarter, too. Beating the final boss or another really good player is not as simple as using the same strategy over and over again. Instead, video games train you to solve problems by considering and trying different solutions.
Think about your favorite games. They give you lots of different problems with multiple solutions, which makes you realize solving problems can be really fun. Playing video games can teach you critical thinking skills that, combined with hard work, will bring you a lot of success.
That’s because, even if it’s “just a game,” teammates who help each other in video games are more likely to help each other in the real world and be more helpful toward strangers, too. Experiencing the benefits of being a team player teaches you the value of teamwork, which is something you can use for the rest of your life. If, however, you use video games to be mean to others – or let mean video game players stick around – you’ll miss out on most of these benefits.
Applying skills to real life
While you can turn on a video game and quickly feel powerful, in charge and popular, it’s good to remember games are a little like playing life on the easiest settings. Real life tends to be more challenging.
But think about how you get bored playing a game on the easiest setting – and how it suddenly becomes fun again when you increase the difficulty. For the same reason, life can be more rewarding than video games.
Take learning how to play an instrument, for example. I found that learning how to play a guitar is way harder and more frustrating than playing Rock Band on the hardest setting. But it’s so much more fun to shred a guitar in real life than it is to play one on Rock Band.
So enjoy developing your skills by playing video games. But also ask yourself: Are you up for the challenges waiting for you outside video games?
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Kenyan startup founder Nzambi Matee recycles plastic to make bricks that are stronger than concrete
Kenya Architecture News - Feb 12, 2021 - 15:05 88122 views
Nairobi-based startup company Gjenge Makers, founded by Nzambi Matee, has created a lightweight and low-cost building material that is made of recycled plastic with sand to make bricks that are stronger than concrete material.
Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old trained engineer and schooled in biochemistry, founded the new ways of converting waste into sustainable materials.
With her initiative, Matee has recently been named a Young Champion of the Earth 2020 Africa winner at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The award "provides seed funding and mentorship to promising environmentalists as they tackle the world's most pressing challenges."
Video by UNEP
Her company Gjenge Makers' project has started to use the product with paving stones applied in houses, schools or streets, the product is highly durable and diminishes its maintaining cost. Her startup company produces about 500-1000 bricks per day, "recycling close to 500 kilograms of plastic waste a day."
"Plastic waste is not just a Kenya problem, but it's a worldwide problem," said Nzambi Matee.
"Here Nairobi we generate about 500 metric tones of plastic waste every single day and only a fraction of that is recycled."
"We decided what more can we do instead of just sitting in the sidelines and complaining. Essentially, companies have to pay to dispose the waste, so we solved their problem."
"That waste essentially comes for free."
Explaining the process in detail, her company gets the plastic waste from packaging factories or buys it from other recyclers, she mixes with sand as the plastic like the binder.
The company has three machines, the extruder does the mixing of plastic waste, with sand, at very high temperatures and then the press compresses it.
"Plastic is fibrous in nature, so therefore, the brick ends up having a stronger compression strength," Matee added. "We right now have a capacity of producing 1000 to 15000 bricks a day."
"So far we have recycled 20 metric tons, and we're looking to push that value to 50 by the end of next financial year," she added.
"Plastic is a material that is misused and misunderstood"
According to the young entrepreneur, plastic has an "enormous" potential to work with it, but it is "misused and misunderstood."
“It is absurd that we still have this problem of providing decent shelter – a basic human need,” continued Matee. "Plastic is a material that is misused and misunderstood. The potential is enormous, but its after life can be disastrous."
The company's pavers are fully certified by the Kenyan Bureau of Standards. They have a melting point over 350°C, and they are much stronger than their concrete equivalents.
Matee, who specialized in material science and worked as an engineer in Kenya’s oil industry, was inspired to launch her business after routinely coming across plastic bags strewn along Nairobi’s streets.
In 2017, she quit her job - who was working as a data analyst and set up a small lab in her mother’s back yard. There, she began creating and testing pavers, which are a combination of plastic and sand.
Although her neighbours complained about the noisy machine she was using, Matee waited for one year to develop the right ratios for her paving bricks.
"I shut down my social life for a year, and put all my savings into this,” she said. "My friends were worried."
According to UNEP, globally, people purchase 1 million plastic drinking bottles in every minute while up to 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used annually.
"Through trial and error, she and her team learned that some plastics bind together better than others. Her project was given a boost when Matee won a scholarship to attend a social entrepreneurship training programme in the United States of America. With her paver samples packed in her luggage, she used the material labs in the University of Colorado Boulder to further test and refine the ratios of sand to plastic," explained in UNEP's website.
With this process, Matee also developed the machinery she would use to make the bricks. "Once we know how to make one paver, we need to know how to make 1,000 pavers," she explained.
"We must rethink how we manufacture industrial products and deal with them at the end of their useful life," said Soraya Smaoun, who specializes in industrial production techniques with UNEP.
"Nzambi Matee’s innovation in the construction sector highlights the economic and environmental opportunities when we move from a linear economy, where products, once used, are discarded, to a circular one, where products and materials continue in the system for as long as possible."
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This kid-friendly recipe isn’t really icky, the kids just love saying it. But they love eating it even more!
One boneless, skinless chicken breast per child
¼ cup corn starch
¼ cup self rising flour or all purpose flour
Salt and white pepper
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
½ cup honey or agave nectar
Note: If you have a big jumbo breast, use one breast for two children. I like the normal-sized chicken breasts – the larger ones don’t appeal to me. Aside from looking like they came from a mutant chicken, they’re tricky to cook. Whether you’re grilling, baking or sautéing them, by the time the center of the chicken has cooked properly, the outer chicken is over cooked and dry.
Rinse and pat dry your chicken. Cut chicken into long strips about a ¼ of an inch wide, then cut strips in half.
Mix cornstarch and flour together. I like to use cornstarch and self-rising flour, because I find it gives the chicken a nice and light crispy crunch. The cornstarch gives it the crisp, and the self rising flour gives it a little volume/fluff to the yeast that is in it.
Season your cornstarch and flour mixture with salt and white pepper. I use white pepper, because I want to bring out the flavor of the chicken, but the kids won’t like seeing little black pepper bits. If you don’t have white pepper, just omit it from the recipe. White pepper is a great pantry staple as you can use it for mashed potatoes and sauces in which you do not want to see the black pepper bits.
Next, heat up the vegetable oil in a large frying pan. Dredge your chicken pieces in the flour-cornstarch mix. Be sure to knock off excess flour. It will clump and burn in your hot oil. The method we’re using is known as a shallow fry. It’s similar to wok frying, in which you use very little hot oil and quick fry your food. Place your chicken pieces in the hot oil. The chicken should take 4 to 5 minutes.
When the chicken is done, remove it with a slotted spoon or kitchen spyder. Immediately put the chicken in a stainless steel or glass bowl. Hit the chicken pieces with a bit of salt, then slowly pour the honey or agave over the chicken pieces, and lightly toss so all the pieces get coated with yummy sweetness.
You’re done! Serve with plain rice, fries or potato chips and thin sliced carrots, then watch it disappear.
Tip: This is a great hand passed nosh for the grown ups as well. Add some chili flakes to the honey to give it a little heat. Take some thinly sliced red cabbage marinated in a little rice wine, then roll it in butter lettuce. Mmm.
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When she was seven years old, her family fled from the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia, which lies in the South Caucasus on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.
And while Khetsuriani was too young to properly remember the war, it had an impact on her world and those around her: “I can only imagine how bad it must have been for my family members. We don't talk about it anymore; the past is the past."
For Khetsuriani, life moved on also. A bright scholar, she finished school in Tskaltubo in west central Georgia and went to university in the nearby city Kutaisi to study computer technology and English. But those courses were never finished.
At 18 years old, Khetsuriani was diagnosed with a tumour in her spinal cord and needed immediate surgery. The surgery kept her alive but resulted in paralysis that meant a different kind of life in a wheelchair. Her world changed once more.
"It all went very fast because the tumour was life threatening. I did not know that I was going to be paralysed before I went into surgery and then, suddenly, I was in a wheelchair,” explained Khetsuriani.
"At first, I did not know what to do, I just stayed in my room and did nothing. Then I said yes to rehab. I had this dream to be able to walk again."
The reality was much harder. Three years on from the surgery her uncertainty about her purpose in life meant she contemplated drastic measures. Ultimately, she thought better of it and spent another three years bravely trying to walk again, before coming to a defining conclusion that pointed to a different path.
"I worked six years before I realised that it would never be enough,” added Khetsuriani. “I had to accept that the rest of my life was going to be in a wheelchair. I had to start my life all over again."
Hope comes calling
That life took a new path when Khetsuriani received a chance phone call from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, handing her a unique opportunity.
"I had met someone from the Georgian National Paralympic Committee (NPC), and he called me because they needed someone at their office who could speak Russian and English."
Khetsuriani fitted the profile and decided to move.
"It was difficult for my mother, because she had been taking care of me as if I were a precious flower. It was comfortable, but she did not give me any room to breathe. My mother wanted to come to Tbilisi with me, but I told her I had to do this all by myself and I went."
Living in Tbilisi helped Khetsuriani learn how to be independent and find her own way.
"At the office I had to write letters and pick up documents. The work made me happy, the contacts I had with my colleagues (was uplifting). I got back a life."
One year after working with the NPC, Khetsuriani was introduced to wheelchair fencing. Little did she know that she was on the path to being a champion athlete.
"The vice president of the committee, who was my colleague and a good friend, asked me to try the sport because they wanted to develop wheelchair fencing. I was not an athlete. I had played basketball and tennis in school as a kid but never seriously. But I gave fencing a try and I met my coach Makhalz Meskhi.
"It's such a difficult sport and I told Makhalz I could never learn it, but he said that I just needed time. He convinced me to continue," Khetsuriani continued.
From novice to champion
At first Khetsuriani trained together with a couple of former soldiers who were injured during the Abkhazian War.
"But they quit. I think the sport was too difficult for them. It's very intellectual. You learn a lot from your coaches, but in the end, it comes down to yourself, your own tactics, your own improvisation."
As the trailblazer of Georgian wheelchair fencing, Khetsuriani celebrated her first major medal with silver in the women’s sabre B at the 2015 World Championships in Eger, Hungary.
Learning from the disappointment of finishing seventh at Rio 2016, she won gold in the women’s sabre B the following year at the 2017 World Championship in Rome, Italy. At the 2019 edition in Cheongju, South Korea; her hopes for another gold ended in the quarter-finals to Hungary’s silver medallist Boglarka Mezo.
Still, Khetsuriani has hopes at her second Paralympics.
"That's a goal and winning a medal (in Tokyo) is important, but in the end it's even more important to improve the quality of my fencing every day,” she said, before adding that she is already thinking about a different kind of life in her world.
"I've got a husband and he's been talking about having a baby for a long time already, so after Tokyo that’s the first plan."
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Tarchia lived for the period of the late Cretaceous Era. They were very small for the era sharing the same time as the T-rex and other huge creatures.has its way around they fitting into evolution with their suspicious skills.
The Tarchia had a heavy strong body with a hard shell on its back. This was pretty common with all of dinosaurs in its group the Thyreophoran which is the same group that the Stegosaurus is in. Also another wild feature was that the Tarchia had a club at the end of its tail. The spine on the end of the tail was fused together so the club on the end of the tail could be swung crazy in all directions stunning a carnivore enough to run away. It would something like getting hit with a 40lb concrete block.
The information on this dinosaur is based on more than 7 complete species that were found in Mongolia. That region is known to be desert like so we know that the Tarchia were desert creatures.
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Guest Post by Jim Messina, Campaign Manager, Obama for America
For this video, we asked people to compare Mitt Romney's real positions with the ones he's claimed to support in the final weeks of the campaign.
We know Mitt Romney will say anything to win, even if it’s not true – just like he did in Massachusetts and in the first debate. The real Mitt Romney has been running on his “severely conservative” positions for years, but now – just weeks before Election Day – he’s trying to hide them because they’ll hurt the middle class and his chances of winning.
We saw this clearly in the first presidential debate on Oct. 3, as Governor Romney cynically and dishonestly hid the self-described “severely conservative” positions he’s been running on – and there’s no doubt he’s memorizing more deceptions as he prepares for Tuesday’s second debate.
On Tuesday, Romney will be asked some simple questions by Americans from diverse backgrounds about how his plans will impact their lives. So we’ve provided some simple translations to help voters – and the media – interpret the deceptive answers he’s most likely to give in return.
Question #1: What’s your tax plan and what will it mean for middle-class families?
What he’ll say: “I will not, under any circumstances, raise taxes on middle-income families.” – Mitt Romney, Denver Presidential Debate, 10/3/12
Translation: As part of his tax plan, Romney has proposed $5 trillion in specific tax cuts. As independent, non-partisan analysts have highlighted, to pay for his plan, Mitt Romney has promised $1 trillion more in tax cuts for the rich than there are tax benefits to close. As a result, he would have to cut popular tax deductions that middle class families rely on, like the mortgage interest and charitable deductions, to pay for $250,000 tax cuts to multi-millionaires. Paying for Romney’s tax cuts would mean the average middle class family with kids would see their taxes go up by $2,000 a year.
Reality under President Obama: The typical middle class family has seen their taxes cut by $3,600 by President Obama over the course of his first term, and he has a detailed plan that would keep income taxes low for 98% of families and 97% of small businesses, while asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share to help create an economy built to last.
Question #2: What about that $5 trillion tax cut skewed toward the wealthiest I’ve heard about?
What he’ll say: “First of all, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut…I’m not going to reduce the share of taxes paid by high-income people.” – Mitt Romney, Denver Presidential Debate, 10/3/12
Translation: Mitt Romney has detailed a specific tax plan that provides $5 trillion in tax cuts weighted towards millionaires and billionaires – a combination of a 20 percent cut in individual income taxes, eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax, repealing the estate tax and the high-income Medicare tax, and cutting taxes for corporations by $1.1 trillion. That math is clear, but when it comes to paying for these tax cuts, Romney hasn’t specified a single loophole he’d close. Even if he eliminated every deduction for high-income taxpayers and enough loopholes to pay for his corporate tax cut, he’d still need to increase middle class taxes by $1 trillion to pay for his plan.
Reality under President Obama: President Obama has already signed $1 trillion in spending cuts as part of a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by more than $4 trillion, while maintaining critical investments in innovation, education, and infrastructure needed to create jobs now and grow our economy in the coming decades.
Question #3: So how can you claim your tax cuts won’t result in more taxes for the middle class?
What he’ll say: “Six studies have guaranteed…that this math adds up…even their own deputy campaign manager acknowledged that it wasn't correct.” – Paul Ryan, Vice Presidential Debate, 10/11/12
Translation: While Romney will cite “studies” to back up his wild suggestion that he won’t raise taxes on middle-class families, independent fact checkers and journalists have noted time and time again, those so-called “studies” are actually partisan op-eds, blog posts and analyses by conservative think tanks. None have disputed the total cost of his plan or the fact that it is a large tax cut for those at the top – so none prove that he can pay for his tax plan without raising middle-class taxes. He’s trying to take statements out of context to get around the truth: he’s proposed $5 trillion in specific tax cuts, and even if he closes every deduction for the wealthy, he’ll still fall $1 trillion short. That means he has to either raise taxes on middle-class families or explode the deficit.
Question #4: How will you bridge the deep partisan divide in Washington?
What he’ll say: “We need to have leadership — leadership in Washington that will actually bring people together and get the job done…I've done it before. I'll do it again.” – Mitt Romney, Denver Presidential Debate, 11/3/12
Translation: The decisions Governor Romney made in Massachusetts caused the state to fall behind badly: ranking 47th out of 50 in job creation and leading the nation in debt per capita. As Governor, he was more interested in running for President and picking fights than building governing coalitions. His doors were closed to lawmakers – his aides even erected a velvet rope and cordoned off an elevator in the capitol for his personal use – and Massachusetts legislators have panned his tenure as Governor. His record of failed leadership and failed policies in Massachusetts included slashing funding for education and job training while raising taxes and fees on middle class families and small businesses.
Reality under President Obama: President Obama worked with Democrats and Republicans to sign three free trade agreements, repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” cut $1 trillion in spending, and pass the payroll tax cut to put $1,000 back in the pocket of the typical American worker.
Question #5: What’s your plan for bringing our troops home from Afghanistan?
What he’ll say: “We agree with a 2014 transition.” – Paul Ryan, Vice Presidential Debate, 10/11/12
Translation: Romney has no plan to end the war in Afghanistan and bring our troops home, and he’s been consistently blank on any details about a plan for a U.S. military withdrawal. In fact, Romney said announcing a withdrawal date from Afghanistan was President Obama’s “biggest mistake” there. And he’s failed to outline any plan to go after terrorists and say how he would finish the job against al Qaeda.
Reality under President Obama: President Obama promised to end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home, and he did. He is bringing the war in Afghanistan to a responsible end, after refocusing our efforts on the real reason we went to war in Afghanistan – to find the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, and to decimate al-Qaeda’s leadership.
Question #6: What should the United States do to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon?
What he’ll say: “This administration has no credibility on this issue… Under a Romney administration, we will have credibility on this issue.” – Paul Ryan, Vice Presidential Debate, 10/11/12
Translation: The Romney-Ryan ticket has not presented any new policies that are different from what the President is already doing and have struggled to articulate what they’d do differently regarding Iran – except blustering about recklessly taking us to war. And Romney finally admitted this week that the President’s “crippling sanctions” on Iran are working to bring its economy to its knees.
Reality under President Obama: President Obama has repeatedly stated that a nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, and he will keep all options –including a military one – on the table to prevent that from happening. And he has taken actions to put Iran under more pressure than ever before, including imposing the most crippling sanctions on Iran in history.
Question #7: How will you support teachers to ensure a quality education for our children?
What he’ll say: “I love great schools…And the key to great schools: great teachers.” – Mitt Romney, Denver Presidential Debate, 10/3/12
Translation: Just last week, Romney told the Des Moines Register that he didn’t believe putting more teachers in classrooms would grow the economy over the next four years, and he’s fought against efforts to reduce class sizes saying it hurts education. Romney would slash investments in K-12 education and Pell Grants. If applied across the board, the cuts in the Romney-Ryan budget could kick 200,000 kids out of Head Start and eliminate 65,000 jobs for educators. These same cuts could slash Pell Grants by nearly $1,000 for almost 10 million students. Romney also claims credit for Massachusetts’ schools, but he inherited one of the best school systems in the nation. He did his best to reverse that though – his drastic budget cuts in his first year led to teacher layoffs and larger class size.
Reality under President Obama: President Obama has a plan to recruit and prepare 100,000 science and math teachers. And he has doubled funding for Pell Grants by ending over $60 billion in subsidies to banks acting as middlemen helping to make college affordable for nearly 10 million students and their families.
Question #8: Do you believe the auto bailout was an important step to save American jobs?
What he’ll say: “Mitt Romney’s a car guy.” – Paul Ryan, Vice Presidential Debate, 10/11/12
Translation: When the American auto industry and the million jobs it supports were on the brink, Governor Romney would have just “let Detroit go bankrupt.” And he didn’t just write it in an op-ed, he repeated it on national television. The auto rescue saved over a million jobs; the auto industry has created nearly a quarter of a million jobs since GM and Chrysler retooled; and the Big Three are all profitable for the first time in years – but Romney thought it was a bad idea.
Reality under President Obama: The auto rescue saved over a million jobs; the auto industry has created nearly a quarter of a million jobs since GM and Chrysler retooled; and the Big Three are all profitable for the first time in years – but Romney thought it was a bad idea.
Question #9: Will you stand up to China and keep them from cheating?
What he’ll say: “It’s time for us to stand up to China for their cheating.” – Mitt Romney, campaigning in Ohio, 10/13/12
Translation: Contrary to his rhetoric, we know Governor Romney wouldn’t stand up to China. In his book, he criticized the President for standing up to China on behalf of American tire industry workers, calling it “decidedly bad for the nation and our workers.” And while he criticized China’s “cheating,” he has maintained investments in China.
Reality under President Obama: President Obama is ensuring that American businesses and workers have a level playing field where they can compete and win, and he has brought trade cases against China at twice the rate of the previous Administration—and we’ve won all that have been decided.
Question #10: Will you fight to achieve comprehensive immigration reform if elected?
What he’ll say: “We’re going to put in place a permanent solution…I will put in an immigration reform plan.” – Mitt Romney, Univision Forum, 9/19/12
Translation: Despite insisting that he wants a long-term solution to our broken immigration system, the only solution Governor Romney has proposed for the 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country is “self-deportation” – making life so miserable for them that they all choose to return to their countries of origin on their own. Governor Romney is the most extreme, anti-immigration nominee in modern history. He has surrounded himself with anti-immigration advisers and promised to veto the DREAM Act – calling it a “handout” and “favoritism.”
Reality under President Obama: President Obama has done everything within his power to reform our immigration system—and when Congress didn’t act, his administration did, lifting the shadow of deportation for thousands of young people brought to this country as children who know no other home, and who are Americans in every way except on paper.
Question #11: How will a Romney presidency impact middle-class families? Do you stand for all of us?
What he’ll say: “My campaign is about the 100 percent of America, and I'm concerned about them.” – Mitt Romney, Univision Forum, 9/19/12
Translation: Governor Romney famously wrote off huge chunks of the American people as victims who are dependent on government – calling 47 percent of our country “victims” who won’t ever “take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” The day after the video of Governor Romney telling his supporters this at a private fundraiser leaked, he doubled down on those comments. If Romney told his wealthy donors behind closed doors, “my job is not to worry about those people,” why should the middle class believe he’ll be President for all Americans when he tries to say it Tuesday night?
Reality under President Obama: When he was elected in 2008, 47 percent of the people did not vote for President Obama, but he didn’t say, “Well, I'm not going to worry about those folks.” He looked to the American people and said, even though you didn’t vote for me, I've heard your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President, I will fight for you, too.
Question #12: What’s your plan to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil?
What he’ll say: “I want to get America and North America energy independent, so we can create those jobs.” – Mitt Romney, Denver Presidential Debate, 10/3/12
Translation: Governor Romney's so-called energy plan is devoid of any policy specifics or concrete steps that would realistically increase our nation’s energy security. Instead, Governor Romney wants to keep giving billions of dollars in tax subsidies to the big oil and gas companies each year at a time when they’ve hardly been more profitable and recklessly open new sensitive areas for drilling. But he would abandon efforts to increase energy efficiency and develop our clean, homegrown energy sources. That’s not a recipe for energy independence – it would only ensure that Big Oil’s profits continue to soar while we cede our clean energy sector and the jobs it supports to our overseas competitors like China and Germany.
Reality under President Obama: After 30 years of inaction, President Obama has doubled fuel efficiency standards so our cars and trucks will go farther on a gallon of gas, helped double our production of job-creating clean wind and solar energies, and championed an all-of-the-above American energy strategy. Today, oil production is at 14-year high, natural gas production is at an all-time high, and we are less dependent on foreign oil than at any time in two decades.
Question #13: What would you do to ensure that the Benghazi attack is never repeated?
What he’ll say: “Shouldn't we have a Marine detachment guarding our ambassador in Benghazi, a place where we knew that there was an al-Qaida cell with arms?” – Paul Ryan, Vice Presidential Debate, 10/11/12
Translation: The truth is that House Republicans have repeatedly provided less in funding for diplomatic security than President Obama has requested, and the Romney-Ryan budget could cut diplomatic security funding by as much as $300 million. Now, Congressional Republicans, led by Congressman Ryan, are saying we should be beefing up security – but they haven’t explained how they would do that with the deep cuts in the Romney-Ryan budget or why they proposed lower funding in the past. And Governor Romney is trying to take advantage of the tragedy in Libya for personal political gain, just as he did in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy and just as he secretly promised his wealthy donors he would when he was caught on video in May.
Reality under President Obama: Immediately after the attacks in Benghazi, President Obama referred to it as an “act of terror,” has been focused on ensuring the security of our personnel abroad getting to the bottom of what happened, and bringing those responsible to justice. And the President is squarely focused on getting all the facts about what happened, and making sure it never happens again.
Question #14: What’s your plan to replace the Affordable Care Act?
What he’ll say: “Pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan.” – Mitt Romney, Denver Presidential Debate, 10/3/12
Translation: Governor Romney’s plan only protects people with pre-existing conditions who have had “continuous coverage.” That means if you had to go without health insurance for a few months because you lost your job or your insurance company hiked your rate, his plan offers you no protections. Governor Romney’s “plan” would affect as many as 89 million Americans who have had gaps in their health insurance coverage and offer them nothing but a cold shoulder when they need help. Moreover, Governor Romney’s “plan” for people with pre-existing conditions is already the law. President Clinton signed a law in 1996 that protected people with pre-existing conditions if they maintain continuous coverage.
Reality under President Obama: Because of Obamacare, Americans will no longer be able to be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition, women won’t be charged more than men for the same health coverage, and all Americans will have access to affordable health care.
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Historical Events For November - 21
Friday, 20 January 2017
0235 On November - 21 st Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope on November - 21.
0496 Pope Gelasius I on November - 21.
0695 Pope Sergius names Willibrord as archbishop Clemens of Friezen on this day in history.
1272 Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England on November - 21.
1317 On November - 21 frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
1481 On November - 21 ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87
1492 Pinta under Martin A Pinzon separates from Columbus's fleet on this day in history.
1495 John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) on November - 21.
1555 On this day in history georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61
1561 On this day in history carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author
1579 On November - 21 thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier
1580 Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed on November - 21.
1610 On November - 21 benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies
1620 On this day in history the Mayflower reaches Cap Cod
1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass on this day in history.
1637 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child) on this day in history.
1645 On November - 21 johann Lohner, composer
1654 On this day in history richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1683 On November - 21 johann Michael Muller, composer
1692 Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet on November - 21.
1694 On November - 21 voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)
1695 Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36 on November - 21.
1696 On November - 21 j Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London
1710 Barnardo Pasquini, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.
1724 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist on November - 21.
1728 Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian gen-admiral, dies at about 57 on this day in history.
1729 Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville on November - 21.
1729 On November - 21 josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence)
1730 On November - 21 françois de Troy, French portrait artist
1742 Alessandro Felici, composer on this day in history.
1759 On this day in history battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1768 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher on November - 21.
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This title offers 48 cards illustrating 2-step sequences of day-to-day events. Designed to help develop logical and critical thinking skills, this set will also help with verbal reasoning, as well as encourage the use and practice of questioning. It contains 24 sequenced pairs that illustrate how 'one thing leads to another'. A specific situation is presented on the first card, the user then having to predict the possible outcome that may, or may not, be shown on the second card. It includes a variety of situations that are immediate or happen over a period of time; welcome or unwelcome; positive or negative. Subject matter includes: the boy plays with the ball indoors ...and knocks the flowers down; the girl leaves the bath water running ...and it overflows; the boy eats a lot of chocolate ...and feels ill; and, the girl builds the bricks into a high tower ...and they fall down.Über den Autor:
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This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr.] The back and sides of a pig salted. The hair is singed instead of being scalded, and the meat is separated from the shoulder-blade and bones, and cured by salting and drying.
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Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
discuss nursing practice today by addressing the following:
- Explain how nursing practice has changed over time and how this evolution has changed the scope of practice and the approach to treating the individual.
- Compare and contrast the differentiated practice competencies between an associate and baccalaureate education in nursing. Explain how scope of practice changes between an associate and baccalaureate nurse.
- Identify a patient care situation and describe how nursing care, or approaches to decision‐making, differ between the BSN‐prepared nurse and the ADN nurse.
- Discuss the significance of applying evidence‐based practice to nursing care and explain how the academic preparation of the RN‐BSN nurse supports its application.
- Discuss how nurses today communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and how this supports safer and more effective patient outcomes.
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Changes in the Nursing Field
Nursing practice has changed in many ways over time. When nursing started, it was just a mere role that was not cherished in meeting the healthcare outcomes. However, many changes have happened, including formal medical training for nurses, improved appreciation in the healthcare system, and changes to consider it a formal career. Formal medical training has led to many nursing specialties that were not present in the past (Donelan & Dutwin, 2018). These specialties have changed the scope of the practice and led it to gain a lot of respect from other medical fields across the healthcare system. Treating an individual today is not dependent on a
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Americaa has a crisis that much of philanthropy and the social sector writ large isn’t registering. Our job creation machine, largely built after World War II, is broken. It turns out that it is really hard to get un- and under-employed people into good jobs—even if they are trained for them—if those jobs don’t exist.
For the past 40 years, the entities that create 90 percent of all new jobs—start-up companies less than five years old—have been on a steady downward trajectory. A recent Economic Innovation Group (EIG) report, “Dynamism in Retreat,” paints a frightening picture of this long-term decline.
By: Ben Hecht, Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Video : Proof theory foundations (2013) by Franck Pfenning [
What's a Proof ?
(2007-01-09) Only "negatives" are worth proving.
"You can't prove a negative" is a proverb about tests, not proofs.
To a mathematician, "proofs" are not restricted to mere "tests".
Arguably, in the above adage, the very word "negative" lacks clear meaning as well
(since most statements could be cast in either "positive"
or "negative" forms).
To play along, we should dub the first of the following sentences "positive"
and the second one "negative":
A square can be the sum of two nonzero squares.
A cube cannot be the sum of two nonzero cubes.
Both statements are true in the realm of integers.
The first one can be "proved" by just one example
(the most popular of many
is 25 = 16+9).
On the other hand, the second statement tells that counterexamples do not exist...
That affirmation can only be supported by a piece of reasoning,
since a lack of solutions can never be demonstrated by many failed attempts.
To the author of the above infamous proverb,
such a thing was clearly inconceivable.
Yet, it's precisely what mathematicians call a proof.
Once you've seen and understood just one such proof, you'll know better.
Since 1 < Ö2 < 2,
if a positive integer n was making
an integer, the smaller positive integer
m = (Ö2-1) n
would make mÖ2 an integer also!
invokes the concept of divisibility.
It may be easier and more intuitive, but it's less elementary
(it relies on more previous knowledge).
(2012-06-11) Proof by induction.
The basic way to prove a statement about infinitely many things.
The elementary type of induction
(as taught at the high-school level) pertains
to integers: To establish that some statement P(n)
is true for all nonnegative integers, you only have to
P(0) is true.
Assuming the truth of P(i) for every i < n
(the so-called induction hypothesis)
it can be proved that P(n) is true.
Although the first part is pleonastic (it's only a special case
of the second part with n=0, with a vacuous induction hypothesis)
it's useful to keep it, since
the proof of the second part would otherwise almost always start
with a distinction between n=0 and the other cases.
That type of elementary induction could be reformulated to apply to the elements
of any countable set.
However, the general concept of induction
(sometimes known as structural induction )
has no such restrictions. Loosely stated:
If something is true of the simplest things and can be shown
to hold true of more complex things by assuming it's true of simpler
ones, then it holds true of the most complex things.
In this context, it's just assumed that those "most complex things"
are structually composed of simpler ones in a predefined way.
For example, Conway's surreal numbers
are simply built from simpler surreal numbers.
Structural induction can thus be used to establish the
validity of a statement about all surreal numbers
(there are uncountably many of them)
in a way that does not reduce to simple induction on integers.
(2007-01-16) Stochastic proofs are wrong with
Sometimes, an elusive truth is reinforced by many failures to attack it.
One celebrated example is the iterated
which tells (beyond the shadow of a doubt) whether a large number
is prime or not, without actually proving anything
when that number happens to be prime...
For a composite number,
each iteration stands a substantial chance (over 75%) of proving it's
Thus, if several iterations fail to provide such a proof,
we may be very confident that the number is indeed prime
(the probability of error decreases
exponentially with the number of iterations).
Another example consists in determining
whether a (large) finite group
is cyclic (knowing the factorization into primes of its
A finite group is cyclic if and only if it
has a primitive root.
It turns out that a random element of a cyclic group is
primitive with a fairly large probability
(and it can be proved to be primitive very efficently
if the prime factors of the group's order are known).
Thus, if many random elements are not primitive,
then the group is "almost surely" not cyclic.
(2007-01-16) Heuristic Arguments
Establishing the likelihood of a conjecture with an approximative proof.
For example, I argue (against the dominant opinion)
that there are probablyinfinitely many Wieferich primes,
although only two of them are known (in spite of
great efforts to find a third).
A proper heuristic argument is not a hasty generalization.
It's actually a strict mathematical proof about a modified
problem, where part of the original mathematical structure is
substituted with a probabilistic model.
Quantitative conclusions from such a model can be enlightening
while an exact solution to the original problem remains elusive.
This may be construed as "relaxing" some mathematical
constraints while retaining the problem's essential aspects.
A good heuristic argument must be supported with convincing
of the probabilistic assumptions underlaying the model.
A heuristical argument is never foolfproof (or else it would be a proper
mathematical proof) but it should be nearly so...
The qualifier "heuristic" shouldn't be an excuse for sloppiness !
The accepted heuristic arguments gave the
wrong answer for a paradoxical result which has now been proved
Maier's theorem (1985).
(2013-05-01) Computer Proofs
Appel & Haken used a computer to prove the 4-color theorem (1976).
They were able to reduce the general case to 1936 special cases
that could not be reliably checked by hand.
The fact that a legitimate proof of a major theorem had not
been verified by a human being raised eyebrows at the time.
(2009-06-21) Ruling out proofs
Facts which can't be established by some or all types of proofs.
Generations of mathematicians have attempted to
prove Euclid's fifth
postulate of plane geometry from the other four axioms of Euclidean
It is now known that such a proof is not possible.
The reason why this is so is rather subtle:
If Euclidean geometry
(including the fifth postulate about parallel lines)
is at all consistent, then it can serve as a framework to
describe other surfaces besides a plane.
One such surface is the sphere...
The geometry of the surface of a sphere provides one example
where the first four axioms of Euclid are verified with
suitable redefinitions of the concepts involved
("points" are actually pairs of diametrically opposite locations
and "lines" are great circles). Yet, the
fifth postulate is not verified, as all "lines" intersect
(there is no such thing as two "parallel" great circles).
Therefore, the fifth postulate cannot
be a consequence of the other four.
Note that this conclusion can be reached without settling
the question of whether the Euclidean postulates
are consistent or not. We just note that if
they are consistent, then a consistent "model" can be
constructed (spherical geometry)
where the fifth one is false.
Hence, that fifth postulate is truly an independant
axiom which may be assumed to be true or false.
In examples of lesser historical significance,
similar arguments can be used to rule out some types
of proofs for a given statement.
For example, "Fermat's last theorem" can be shown to be false
within certain "models"
(involving beasts like p-adic integers).
This shows that it is a so-called global
statement whose proof must involve some peculiar
property of the rational integers besides
ordinary algebra, ordering
and divisibility by finitely many prime numbers.
The proof must involve something very specific to the integers,
like the validity of Fermat's own
infinite descent method...
(2016-01-30) Power Tools
The worth of some general theorems is in the proofs of other theorems.
In mathematics, any proven result can be called a theorem.
However, that name is best reserved to general results which give rise to
interesting proving techniques. Here are a few examples:
Pigeonhole principle (Dirichlet, 1834):
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Public liability insurance is designed to cover third party claims against you or your business for bodily injury and/or loss of or damage to property not including property in your care, custody and control which should be insured under a property policy. Someone making a claim against you has to prove that their claim was caused by your negligence but even if you think you weren’t negligent you need this protection to cover the very expensive costs of defending such a claim through the Courts.
All businesses, no matter how large or how small, need this protection. It is important to ensure that the policy has a sufficiently large limit of indemnity as multi-million euro awards by the Courts are becoming more common. Depending on your business a suitable limit might be as low as € 1 million or as high as € 50 million.
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Pterosaurs Diorama Depicts Ancient Brazilian Coast
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If you want to spoil budding paleontologists, says Alexander Kellner, co-curator of the new Pterosaurs exhibition, send them on their first dig to the Romualdo Formation in the Araripe Basin, in northeastern Brazil.
In the Romualdo (like all of the Araripe Basin), says Kellner, “You always find fossils! It’s amazing.”
Many are beautifully preserved, immediately recognizable as the animals they once were. The fossils are also of particular geological interest because they date from a time—110 million years ago—when the continents weren’t in the same positions as they are today. South America was only starting to split off from Africa, and a north-south seaway may have run down through today’s Brazil, including through the Romualdo. So the fossils form a snapshot of a vanished assemblage of animals in an ever-changing world.
A diorama in the Pterosaurs exhibition brings to life a scene from the Romualdo Formation from that time—a time when pterosaurs ruled the skies and hunted for fish along an ancient coast.
Life-size models of large, crested pterosaurs, Thalassodromeus sethi, swoop over a lagoon, hunting schools of the unsuspecting fishes in the water below. Underwater, schools of Rhacolepsis fish are being chased by a predatory 3-foot-long Cladocyclus. In the background, spinosaurid dinosaurs walk amid trees called Brachyphyllum, which paleontologists know were part of the ecosystem at the time.
“These fossils are world-famous,” he says, because they are often so well-preserved, sometimes including soft tissue, muscles, and blood vessels. Why? For one thing, says Maisey, the animals may have fossilized very quickly. Instead of being scavenged, perhaps they sank quickly to the bottom of the water, getting stuck in what Maisey calls, evocatively, a low-oxygen “algal goo.” There, bacteria may have eaten through the tissue, afterward excreting phosphates that, in effect, created a 3D model of what was there before—hence the beautiful preservation. “It’s like a 3D printer, using bacteria,” says Maisey.
The Pterosaurs exhibition includes a remarkably well-preserved fish fossil that visitors can touch: Vinctifer comptoni, a filter-feeding fish from about 110 million years ago that was one of the most common fossil fishes in the Romualdo Formation. Find it on the right side of the Romualdo Formation diorama—you can even feel its scales!
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Background - UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) specify recommendations for the treatment and management of OCD using a stepped care approach. Steps three to six of this model recommend treatment options for people with OCD that range from low-intensity guided self-help (GSH) to more intensive psychological and pharmacological interventions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), including exposure and response prevention, is the recommended psychological treatment. However, whilst there is some preliminary evidence that self-managed therapy packages for OCD can be effective, a more robust evidence base of their clinical and cost effectiveness and acceptability is required.
Methods/Design - Our proposed study will test two different self-help treatments for OCD: 1) computerised CBT (cCBT) using OCFighter, an internet-delivered OCD treatment package; and 2) GSH using a book. Both treatments will be accompanied by email or telephone support from a mental health professional. We will evaluate the effectiveness, cost and patient and health professional acceptability of the treatments.
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by adminLatin American History seminar 16 October 2012 Rebecca Earle (Warwick) Embodying Race in Colonial Spanish America
Casta paintings have become quite popular in the art and antiques world. Largely created in eighteenth century Mexico by unknown artists and purposed by unknown parties, Casta paintings depicted family scenes, giving us a rare opportunity to glimpse into the private lives of those living in Colonial Spanish America.
These windows into the past are useful as there are very few alternative sources available for this period and place for gaining an idea of private and family spaces. Rebecca Earle examines these paintings from the point of view of race relationships. In particular she is interested in what the paintings are trying to represent – suggesting a unity to conceptions of race and racial identity – in contrast to the reality in which race was viewed as a much more mutable classification. Earle explores this theme noting that physical characteristics were not the only method used to racially classify. Social aspects were often equally important including the types of clothes worn and living standards. | <urn:uuid:5dacb32c-3be7-401c-b366-5bd18fa01dd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.history.ac.uk/2013/01/embodying-race-in-colonial-spanish-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97783 | 207 | 3.1875 | 3 |
As many people go away around December and January, it seems timely to discuss medication considerations when travelling.
Firstly, you need to ensure you will have enough prescribed medicine for your trip. Arrange to see your doctor and chemist for prescriptions. If you need more than a month’s supply of medicines, your GP can make a notation on the script, for travel, so that extra can be dispensed by the chemist.
You should take a medication list from your doctor, stating what the medicine is, the dose you take, and that it is for your personal use (or for someone travelling with you). Keep medicines in their original, labelled, packs.
Certain medications require special considerations, for example insulin injections (so a sharps container should be carried) and refrigeration of thyroid medication.
Think about what extra medicines you may need for situations such as acute pain, nausea, diarrhoea, urinary infections (if you are prone), chest infections if you have airways disease, and asthma inhalers. Some GPs prescribe travel kits for such purposes.
It is important to be aware of laws regarding taking your medications into foreign countries.
In the first instance, you should be aware that it is illegal to give your PBS-subsidised medication to others. You cannot send it to overseas relatives, or on-sell it.
You also need to be careful taking your medicines into other countries for your own use. It was recently announced that visitors to the United Arab Emirates must gain approval online to travel with prescription medicines; failure to disclose prescribed medication at Dubai, for instance, could result in prosecution.
Plan ahead and have a healthy and happy holiday.
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When Bobby's little brother was still a baby, he started having one ear infection after another. At first, he was too young to tell anyone when his ear hurt, but he would tug at the ear and cry.
Actress Tracy Gold appeared for six seasons in the television series Growing Pains. She had been diagnosed with anorexia at age 12, but went through psychotherapy and seemed fine for the next few years.
The Ebola virus belongs to the group of viruses called filoviruses, as do the Marburg and Reston viruses. Scientists first identified the Marburg virus in 1967, when it caused a small outbreak among sick monkeys brought from Africa to a medical laboratory in Marburg, Germany.
Elephantiasis was known to the early Greeks and Romans. It is a tropical or subtropical disease, occurring where many kinds of disease-carrying mosquitoes are found: South America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Indies, Africa, Spain, Turkey, Asia, Australia, and many South Pacific Islands.
The body's circulatory system is like a huge network of small roads and large interstate highways. It is important that blood continuously flow through the body to carry nutrients, oxygen, and other substances to cells and organs.
Air reaches the lungs through a series of ever-smaller tubes. First air passes through the trachea (TRAY-kee-a), which is the large windpipe from the throat down the neck.
Viruses and other microbes rarely get into the brain, but when they do, they can cause an inflammatory condition* called encephalitis (en-sef-a-LY-tis). Most cases of encephalitis are so mild that they are never identified.
The heart contains four chambers, each of which has a special function as the heart pumps blood through the body. The inner walls of these chambers are called the "endocardium" and are lined with small blood vessels and smooth muscle.
Endometriosis is a condition in which endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus. The endometrium (en-do-ME-tree-um) is the lining of the uterus (womb), which is the muscular organ in which a fetus develops during pregnancy.
It happened at her birthday party. Eleven-year-old Erin was ready to blow out the candles on her cake when she suddenly released a loud cry and dropped to the carpet.
One minute, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno was sitting in church.
To people with farsightedness, the words on this page would seem blurry, unless they were wearing prescription (pre-SKRIP-shun) eyeglasses or contact lenses designed to correct the problem. But if they looked up from the page to read a sign across the room, they probably could read it easily.
Sarah was always very quiet and never caused any trouble in elementary school, but she had few friends and never did fit in. Although she got fair grades, the teachers never knew how difficult the lessons were for her.
The body adjusts its temperature in much the same way that the thermostat in a house works. With a thermostat, people set the temperature they want, and the heating or cooling system clicks on until the inside of the house reaches the right temperature.
It is estimated that more than half of all women will experience the breast changes that are known as fibrocystic breast disorder. The symptoms vary from person to person.
Fibromyalgia is a relatively new term for an old disorder. It means pain in the muscles and joints*.
Flat feet can happen at any age, and babies are born with them. Babies have fatty pads in the soles of the foot and in front of the heel, which fills the arch and gives feet their flat appearance.
Robin and her friends squeezed every pleasure they could into the early days of September, milking summer vacation for all it was worth. The make-your-own-sundae party at Robin's was the best time they had all summer.
Bread mold and mushrooms are among the most familiar examples of fungi (FUN-ji), organisms that grow in an irregular mass without roots, stems, or leaves. Fungi feed on other organisms, living or dead, and play an important role in helping dead plants and animals decay.
The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped organ that sits under the liver on the right side of the abdomen. The gallbladder concentrates and stores a greenish-brown liquid called bile that is made by the liver.
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Everyone has had a black and blue mark somewhere on his or her body. These marks arise as bruises when blood vessels are damaged or broken, explains Medicine Net. When you bump your knee against the coffee table, blood leaks from injured blood vessels to give rise to a raised area or purplish flat mark on the skin.
Although you may think the best solution to a bruise is to cover it with make-up until it heals, there are several home remedies that can actually speed up the recovery process and make the bruise disappear more quickly. So next time you suffer from a bang or a bump, simply open your kitchen cabinet to try one or all of these home remedies.
1. Parsley. This herb is known to decrease inflammation, reduce pain, and make a bruise fade more quickly, says Reader’s Digest Best Health Magazine. This home remedy requires crushing a handful of parsley leaves and spreading them over the bruise. Wrap the parsley-covered bruise in an elastic bandage and let the herb work its magic.
2. Vinegar and warm water. Vinegar increases blood flow near the surface of the skin. This is why applying a homemade solution of vinegar and warm water to the bruise will help dissipate the blood under the skin more quickly. Reader’s Digest Best Health Magazine also recommends trying witch hazel for the same effect.
3. Cabbage. Heal With Food explains cabbage is a super food against bruising because it is full of Vitamin K and C. To use cabbage topically, break the ridges of a few cabbage leaves and dip them in hot water. Then apply the strips to the bruise. If you are prone to bruising, try adding sauerkraut, or fermented cabbage, to your diet.
4. Cayenne pepper and vaseline. To speed up the healing process of a bruise, Skin Again recommends mixing 1 part cayenne pepper with 5 parts vaseline. Mix well and let the solution cool before applying to the bruise.
5. Tea bags. Green and black tea are rich in tannins effective in shrinking swollen tissue and narrowing blood vessels. Take the advice of Annie’s Remedies and apply a tea bag dipped in hot water to a bruise to help it heal.
6. Boiled egg. An old-wives tale that actually works is the boiled egg for a black eye. Livestrong advises wrapping the egg white from a boiled egg together with a silver ring in a thin handkerchief or cloth. You should do this when the egg is still hot. Apply the cloth to the bruise, rubbing and moving the egg until it cools.
7. Pineapple. Pineapple and papaya have high levels of bromelain, an enzyme helpful in breaking down blood clots and reducing swelling, reports Skin Again. Make a bruise healing super smoothie by mixing together pineapple, papaya, and ginger. You can also add cayenne pepper for an added kick.
8. Onion. Herbalist Hut claims onion is one of the best natural remedies for bruises. This is because onions are natural pain relievers and contain properties that aid the healing process. The best way to benefit from onion is to apply freshly cut onion mixed with salt directly to the bruise.
Bruises are a natural part of life. But what if you could heal them faster and more efficiently? Wouldn’t you at least try it?
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A study of smart device-based mobile imaging and implementation for engineering applications
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Mobile imaging has become a very active research topic in recent years thanks to the rapid development of computing and sensing capabilities of mobile devices. This area features multi-disciplinary studies of mobile hardware, imaging sensors, imaging and vision algorithms, wireless network and human-machine interface problems. Due to the limitation of computing capacity that early mobile devices have, researchers proposed client-server module, which push the data to more powerful computing platforms through wireless network, and let the cloud or standalone servers carry out all the computing and processing work. This thesis reviewed the development of mobile hardware and software platform, and the related research done on mobile imaging for the past 20 years. There are several researches on mobile imaging, but few people aim at building a framework which helps engineers solving problems by using mobile imaging. With higher-resolution imaging and high-performance computing power built into smart mobile devices, more and more imaging processing tasks can be achieved on the device rather than the client-server module. Based on this fact, a framework of collaborative mobile imaging is introduced for civil infrastructure condition assessment to help engineers solving technical challenges. Another contribution in this thesis is applying mobile imaging application into home automation. E-SAVE is a research project focusing on extensive use of automation in conserving and using energy wisely in home automation. Mobile users can view critical information such as energy data of the appliances with the help of mobile imaging. OpenCV is an image processing and computer vision library. The applications in this thesis use functions in OpenCV including camera calibration, template matching, image stitching and Canny edge detection. The application aims to help field engineers is interactive crack detection. The other one uses template matching to recognize appliances in the home automation system.
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Prince William had a secret plan to relocate to the United States years before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle settled in California. There was reportedly a time when Kate Middleton's husband wanted to move across the Atlantic.
Prince William Allegedly Planned To Move To The United States
According to experts, just like Prince Harry, Prince William had a plan to move to the U.S. The unearthed claim was issued by The Scotsman in 2003. The future king was allegedly planning the move for privacy.
"Having enjoyed a degree of privacy as a student at St Andrew's, perhaps it’s not such a surprise that William has announced his intention to spend a few years living in the US after he finishes his degree," reporter Louisa Pearson claimed.
"Work in a gallery or auction house, and the possibility of a postgraduate degree, have apparently been discussed."
The publication added that the second in line to the throne was determined to maintain a degree of anonymity. And he allegedly felt that the United States offered him the best shot.
"But William seems determined to forge his own path — he rarely undertakes royal duties and signs his cheques ‘William Wales,’" Pearson added.
It has been almost 10 years since Pearson said it and Prince William never moved to the United States. However, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge plan to visit America next year. The duke will be taking the Earthshot Prize to the U.S. because he wants to pass the baton to a country whose leadership is essential for all five of its Earthshots and he chose the United States.
Prince William Not Feeling Trapped Despite Prince Harry's Claim
Prince Harry spoke about his and his wife Meghan Markle's decision to step down from their royal duties. During their interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke of Sussex said, unlike him, his brother Prince William and dad Prince Charles were feeling trapped in the monarchy.
"My father and my brother, they are all trapped," he said. "They don't get to leave. And I have huge compassion for that."
However, the Duke of Cambridge's pals fired back at Prince Harry's claim. According to them, it wasn't true that he was feeling that way.
"We're hearing reports that Prince William felt quite affronted by the claims that Harry made in the interview, not only to the suggestion of racism within the royal family.. ...We've also heard through friends of William who have spoken to the newspapers over here that he really rejects that suggestion from his brother that he feels 'trapped' by the firm, that he feels trapped by his future role," royal expert Katie Nicholl told Entertainment Tonight. "If you speak to the sources close to William, they say this is very much not the case. He's very willing to embrace his destiny as a future king, and he's very happy to step up to his responsibilities."
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Abuses against domestic workers, typically taking place in private homes and hidden from the public eye, have garnered increased attention in recent years. The long list of abuses committed by employers and labor agents includes:
Poorly regulated recruitment practices shift most costs to migrant domestic workers, leaving them heavily indebted. In the worst situations, women and girls are trapped in situations of forced labor or have been trafficked into forced domestic work in conditions akin to slavery.
- physical, psychological, and sexual abuse;
- forced confinement in the workplace;
- food deprivation;
- non-payment of wages; and
- excessively long working hours with no rest days.
Since 2001, Human Rights Watch has conducted research on abuses against domestic workers originating from or working in El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Togo, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
This research has focused primarily on two groups especially at risk of abuse:
- migrant domestic workers and
- child domestic workers.
Increased rural poverty, inequitable trade policies, and economic crises have pushed many women and girls to migrate as domestic workers abroad. Girls are often pushed into domestic work by poor access to education, violence in the home, and a general acceptance of child labor in many countries.
Governments’ responses to abuses against domestic workers have largely been piecemeal and reactive. Most countries exclude domestic workers from key labor protections afforded to other workers. Such rights include guarantees of a minimum wage, overtime pay, rest days, annual leave, fair termination of contracts, benefits, and workers’ compensation. Isolation in private homes, a deep power imbalance, and the obstacles to prosecuting abusive employers successfully often put domestic workers at risk of an appalling array of criminal abuses.
Another critical area for reform is the recruitment process and monitoring of labor agencies. Lack of information, deception, and coercion in the recruitment process can lead to exploitation or trafficking of domestic workers. In the case of migrant domestic workers, labor agencies have subsidized low fees for employers by shifting most recruitment costs to workers, leaving them heavily indebted.
Some governments are making progress in protecting domestic workers. Labor legislation in Hong Kong sets a positive example: domestic workers have equal rights to all labor protections extended to other workers and have formed trade unions to further advocate for their rights.
Labor legislation should be complemented by criminal laws allowing for successful prosecution of offenses such as physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, forced labor, forced confinement, and trafficking in persons. In increasing by 1.5 times the normal penalties for crimes like assault or forced confinement if they are committed against domestic workers, Singapore has rightly acknowledged the particular risks faced by these workers.
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18 March 2022
4 min read
If you live in England, Wales or Scotland, you might have noticed that your household energy bills have increased recently, or heard they’re going to be increasing over the next few months.
We understand this may be an unsettling time. If you’re worried about keeping up with the cost of your energy bills, we’ve put together some guidance on support services and helpful schemes that are available.
One key factor is the increase in wholesale gas prices — the amount that energy firms pay gas producers for energy that’ll be sold on to consumers.
These prices have risen dramatically since October 2021, due to knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic and other economic factors.
This has led to the energy price cap — the maximum amount energy firms can charge their customers — being increased in England, Wales and Scotland. It means that anyone living in these countries will now pay more for their household energy.
The Government has a range of schemes to help vulnerable people and those on a low income pay for their bills. It might be worth checking if you’re eligible for any of the following grants.
If you were born on or before 26 September 1955, you could get between £100 and £300 to help with your heating bills. This is known as a Winter Fuel Payment.
The deadline for you to make a claim is at the end of March.
You may be eligible for a Cold Weather Payment if you’re getting certain benefits or have a Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) loan from the Government.
You’ll get a £25 payment if your local area experiences freezing temperatures continuously over a seven-day period.
The scheme runs from November to March each year.
You could also get £140 off your electricity bill under the Warm Home Discount Scheme. You might be eligible if you get Pension Credit, or if you live in a low-income household. A number of energy firms take part in the scheme, but not all of them.
The money is not paid directly to you — it’s a one-off discount on your electricity bill, between October and March. If your energy firm’s 2021/2022 deadline has passed, you may be eligible for their 2022/2023 discount.
There are also a number of independent organisations who can offer you support and advice if you’re worried about energy bills, or experiencing financial hardship.
Citizens Advice offers free and impartial advice for people experiencing money and debt-related problems.
You can talk to one of their advisers using their chat service, by phone, or through their Relay UK service if you can't hear or speak on the phone.
The British Gas Energy Trust is an independent charitable organisation set up to support families and individuals struggling to pay their bills.
They can point you in the direction of local advice centres, and offer grants to those most in need. Their Bounce Back Checklist can also tell you what support you might be entitled to.
You don’t need to be a British Gas customer to be eligible for support.
StepChange is a UK charity which offers free debt advice based on an assessment of your situation, along with practical help and support.
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do; that’s why we’re always here to listen and support you, no matter what money worries you may have.
If you call us, we can help you work out a budget, and offer support based on your individual circumstances.
Before you call us you’ll need:
Call us on 03457 212 212. Lines are open Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, and 9am to 5pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Call charges.
We’ve put together some simple tips on how to budget, including zero-based budgeting which can help you track your outgoings.
Here are some online resources that you might find useful, as well as some tips to help if you’re experiencing financial hardship.
You might be eligible for extra support from your energy supplier or network operator if you sign up to the Priority Services Register.
You can sign up if you are disabled, have a long-term illness, or if you’ve reached the state pension age. You may also be eligible for other reasons that aren’t listed.
Your supplier or operator can help with things such as:
As well as the British Gas Energy Trust which is open to anyone, there are also a number of energy suppliers who offer grants to their own customers to help them pay off their debts.
Under Ofgem rules, suppliers must work with you to agree a payment plan you can afford.
You could ask for:
If you live in England and your home’s council tax band is A, B, C or D, you will be eligible for a £150 ‘energy’ rebate in April 2022.
You’ll automatically receive this payment if you pay your council tax by direct debit. If you don’t, there could be a delay to your payment as your council will have to contact you and invite you to make a claim.
There’s also a similar scheme available for eligible Scottish residents, but the way the £150 is distributed may differ depending on the local authority. The Welsh Government has also announced it’ll be offering a rebate to eligible residents, though the details of this are yet to be confirmed.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022.
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Sriwijaya University (FKIP UNSRI) in collaboration with Pangasinan State University (PSU) in the implementation of SEA (Southeast Asia) Teacher 2022 program.
In order to introduce and prepare for the SEA Teacher program, FKIP Unsri conducted an orientation activity for 2 days, on 23-24 March 2022 at the FKIP Hall of Sriwijaya University, which was attended by the Dean, Deputy Dean, Supervisory Lecturer, Tutor Teacher, and Students who participated in the program.
SEA Teacher is an exchange program for students who major in Teacher Training and Education Faculty to practice teaching in countries in the Asian region initiated by the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). This program seeks to provide students with actual teaching experience in schools throughout collaboration with numerous universities in Southeast Asia. This program will be held from 28th of March to 27th of May 2022.
There are three students from PSU Philippines who participated in the SEA Teacher 2022 program at Sriwijaya University, namely Recca Lyn Mamorno from the English Education Study Program; Lyka F. Adlawan from Physical Education Study Program; and Jinnelyn Mananzan from Science Education Study Program. The eight accompanying students from Sriwijaya University, namely Annisa Maulidiya Putri and Nabila Nur Amalia from the English Education Study Program; Muhammad Rian and Dimas Koeswara from Physical Education Study Program; Muhammad Aidil Fatha and Fazaliya from Biology Education Study Program; and last but not least, Mardiah Afifa and Fathiyyah Yasmin from Physics Education Study Program.
The SEA Teacher 2022 program between Sriwijaya University and PSU Philippines has two partner schools which both located in Palembang, South Sumatera, namely Srijaya Negara Junior High School for English Education Study Program students, and Singapore-Indonesia School (SIS) Palembang for Physical Education and Science Education Study Program students.
SEA Teacher is basically similar to PLP (Pengenalan Lapangan Persekolahan) activities which are routinely carried out by the 7th-semester students of FKIP UNSRI. Students will learn how to make lesson plans and learn teaching practices to prepare the pre-service teachers who are ready to enter the community.Students are expected to gain in-depth teaching experience through this program, so that later they will become teachers who have high quality in teaching, and can strengthen the relationship between Indonesian and Philippines. | <urn:uuid:ca8dafbb-57f2-458b-a655-e1ae1628e087> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fkip.unsri.ac.id/englishlangedu/index.php/2022/03/25/orientation-activity-of-the-sea-teacher-program-on-the-even-semester-of-the-2021-2022-academic-year-sriwijaya-university-indonesia-x-pangasinan-state-university-philippines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.936336 | 536 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Read Faulkner’s “Barn Burning†carefully and note the “theme†you feel speaks most clearly to you from the story. Prepare to discuss what you feel and why. Note that some common themes include: “loyalty to family vs. loyalty to lawâ€; Sarty’s “search for peaceâ€; “good vs. evilâ€; what it means to “do the right thingâ€; “innocence vs. guilt.†and, like some other stories we’ve read, “coming of age.â€
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Heinz Neddermeyer was a German citizen born about 1915. He is also considered to be the first great love of writer Christopher Isherwood. Heinz and Christopher met in Berlin on March 13, 1932 when Heinz was 17. Christopher would often describe their relationship as an adoption, being the Heinz was so much younger and not entirely mature. The couple lived together in Berlin until May 1933 when, due to the uprising of Hitler, they were forced to flee the country. They traveled Europe and North Africa until May 12, 1937 when Heinz was expelled from Luxembourg and forced to return to Germany. The next day he was arrested by the Gestapo and sentenced to three and half years of forced labor and military service. He survived the forced labor which was brief. Being conditionally free, he married a woman named Gerda in 1938 and had a son named Christian, his only child, in 1940.
In 1940, during the autumn height of the Blitz, Stephen Spender published an open letter to Christopher Isherwood in the New Statesman. "You can't escape," wrote Spender. "If you try to do so, you are simply putting the clock back for yourself: using your freedom of movement to enable yourself to live still in pre-Munich England." Isherwood, who left long before the Blitz, was annoyed. So was Dwight Ripley. "It takes in all of us refugees," he complained to Rupert Barneby, while implying that there was more than politics at issue. "I shall always think of the Spenders henceforth as Delight and Inez, How bitter they are, and no wonder." Earlier, Spender in fact urged Isherwood to emigrate to America in search of refuge for his German lover, Heinz Neddermeyer. In Dwight's circle of friends, Brian Howard likewise had a German lover, Toni Altmann. After Hitler was named chancellor, Isherwood spent the next four years, Howard the next seven, each contending with a sucession of revoked visas, expired passports, and sudden deportations in their continuing efforts to find asylum or new citizenship for Neddermeyer and Altmann, respectively, and so prevent their eventual repatriation and arrest in Germany. Both Englishmen tried to get their lovers into England, and both were refused on moral grounds. Erika Mann married W.H. Auden and became a British subject overnight. When Neddermeyer was arrested in Paris, it was Tony Bower who went to rescue him. Isherwood joined them in Luxembourg, but from there Neddermeyer was expelled into Germany, where he was arrested, charged with reciprocal onanism ("in fourteen foreign countries and in the German Reich," remembered Isherwood), found guilty, and sentenced to successive terms in prison, at hard labor, and in the army. Brian Howard's efforts on behalf of Toni Altmann were likewise frustrated at the end. Howard was an early and outspoken antifascist, the first Englishman to understand the Nazi threat, claimed Erika Mann, who, when asked to describe his plans for returning to serve England, had responded in language of persuasive spontaneity: "So, really, I have no plans, except to do my best for Toni." Altmann was interned by the French in Toulon in September 1939, then moved to Le Mans, where Howard lost track of him. Howard remained in France trying to locate his lover until, in June the following year, he escaped on a coal freighter that departed Cannes the day before the Germans arrived in Marseilles. Christopher Isherwood wrote that when England rejected Heinz Neddermeyer it became for him, in that instant, "the land of the Others."
It was not uncommon for gay men to turn this drastic turn in their lives after being arrested and sentenced to prison by the Nazi party. Although the two continued to correspond, Heinz would not see Christopher again until November of 1952 while Christopher was visiting England and Germany for productions of his "Berlin Stories".
In November 1956 Christopher received a note from Heinz stating that he had been in a political argument at the factory where he worked in East Berlin. Fearing arrest, he fled to Hamburg. Christopher sent him some money. Nothing else is mentioned of Heinz in Christopher's diaries other then fond memories of their past in various cities around Europe and a kind note from Heinz when Christopher's mother passed away in August of 1960.
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Wonder Wizard and Gulliver
were trademarks used by General Home Products for selling video games
manufactured by Magnavox.
The first game in the line was called Triple Challenge (model 7701) and sold under the Gulliver trademark. All later models were sold under the Wonder Wizard trademark. One of the most interesting is model 7702. It was sold in 1976 and contains a Magnavox Odyssey 300 circuit board housed into a derivate of the 1972 Odyssey case. The bottom part of the case is identical, only the top differs and was made in two versions: one with silver knobs and woodgrain only in the section containing the "Wonder Wizard" name, and one (as pictured) with black knobs and woodgrain everywhere. Like Odyssey 300, this system used a 3-position switch to choose one of three predefined combinations of difficulties, avoiding the need to change the ball speed, ball angle and bat size separately. Few systems used this design and most others used individual skill level switches.
The Bulls Eye (model 7704) and Sharp Shooter (model 7705) had a rather unique metal case which allowed it to be attached to the left or right side of the TV set. The Model 7704 played only four games; the model 7705 added two target shooting games with a light gun. They both used the same AY-3-8500 game chip.
The Scoreboard (model 7706) was a clone of the 1976 Gamatic 7600 (Japan), which was sold under many brand names all over the world (Univox in France, Intel in Germany -short name of Interelectric-, Grandstand in England, etc.)
The model 7709 apparently closed the line. It was designed in a flat case and decorated similarly to model 7702; it played the six games of the AY-3-8500 chip.
Finally, David Winter discovered an unreleased model in a 1976 sales brochure: Desert Fox (model 7707), a Tank Battle system playing four games using the General Instruments AY-3-8700 chip. Model 7708 was neither included in the 1976 brochure nor reported so far. It is believed that it has been planned later like model 7709 and included another dedicated game chip like Car Racing, Motocross, Submarine or others. It is likely that we will never know.
Models known to exist:
|Wonder Wizard 7702: a luxuary design.|
|Wonder Wizard 7702 in its original packaging,
with the user manual, and the switch-box which
connects it to the television set.
The user manual has the same size than the one
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This is a quite small unit (about nine inches wide).
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We have a lot of green foliage that never died back over the winter,
mostly from bulbs. We're just getting some new sprouts/blooms on
crocuses, etc., and I'm wondering if I can cut back the foliage from the
old plants in order to make the new blooms stand out, and to just
basically clean up the garden.
Thanks for your advice! :)
As a total rule never remove green leaves from any plant, growing from
underground, that you wish to retain and flower again.
It is highly unlikely that the older leaves are from any of the bulbs or
crocuses making new growth.
Foliage from spring blooming bulbs like crocus, narcissus and tulips should
be allowed to remain on the plant and ripen and dry before being removed.
Unsightly, yes, but necessary to return nutrients back into the bulbs to
generate next season's flowers. The foliage of other plants - typically
perennials and summer or fall flowering bulbs - can be cleaned up at this
time of year, but don't get carried away. Some will retain foliage through
winter for added cold protection and others often generate a basal show of
foliage that is an early start on the new growing season. Best just to
remove foliage that is obviously dead or otherwise disfigured from the
winter and leave the rest.
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A recent ominous article in the Los Angeles Times began with the headline, “A drop-off in startups: Where are all the entrepreneurs?”
Writer Walter Hamilton cited a number of alarming statistics that seem to signal the death of entrepreneurship:
- According to the Census Bureau, the number of start-ups fell almost 28% from 1977 to 2011
- By other measures — as a share of all businesses or relative to the size of the working-age population — it has fallen in half
- People ages 20-34 created 22.7% of all new companies in 2013, down from 34.8% in 1996
Hamilton discussed several factors that seem to be crippling new business startups, “including increased risk aversion among workers, shifts in government regulation and a consolidation in corporate America that has left many industries dominated by a handful of behemoths.
“Falling entrepreneurship is bad for the economy,” Hamilton concluded. “It means fewer jobs being created and a reduction in innovation that is essential to economic growth and rising living standards.”
The numbers might not lie, but they aren’t showing the whole picture. If anything, entrepreneurship is a sleeping giant that is getting ready to roar again, for several reasons.
- The “handful of behemoths” mentioned is not hiring in droves. Far from it. Big companies continue cutting employees and tightening their belts. There may be a lot of fear and “risk aversion” among people, but there’s also a lot of disgust and a deep-seated longing to be free from a system that has kept so many dependent on someone else for their livelihood.
- The biggest of the big institutions will continue to splinter and fragment, necessitating partnerships with smaller entrepreneurial or “intrapreneurial” ventures
- Hundreds of thousands of college students hit the job market every year with sketchy prospects at best (and a heavy burden of student loans). Many are forced to move back home with their parents. Fortunately, lots of them are creating opportunities with little more than a laptop and Wifi. There will be a wave of young people, on the heels of the Millennials, who will bypass college altogether in favor of carving an entrepreneurial path.
- The population as a whole is aging, with roughly 10,000 Baby Boomers reaching retirement age (65) every day for the next 15 years. They are the ones being edged out of the workplace fastest. They are also the ones with decades of experience, capable of keeping their skills sharp as consultants and free-lancers—providing their services more nimbly and cost effectively than many full-time employees.
So is entrepreneurship dead or dying? Hardly.
Can I prove it? No. However, my gut tells me entrepreneurship is poised to have a Renaissance.
Just as people overcame Fear (with a capital F) after the Great Depression, the same is happening in the wake of the Great Recession. Entrepreneurs I talk to sense this, in the countless people they encounter who are unhappy with the way things have been. There’s a growing eagerness to use the abundance of affordable tools to do something different with their lives. To return to a way of life their ancestors carved out when they first came to this country and “made it,” through sheer hard work and ingenuity.
While I’ll accept the “facts” that indicate entrepreneurship has been dropping, I won’t accept that entrepreneurship is at death’s door. I think anyone who sees it that way is missing an unprecedented opportunity.
Startups always have been and also will be a backbone of the American economy—even a moral imperative stemming from the pioneering spirit of our forefathers.
Get ready to watch the trend lines take a dramatic turn upward in the coming decade.
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Clemson University, Clemson, USA
Humans are explorers by nature. Exploring outer space is as old as our civilization. Serious attention was first directed towards exploring the Moon and Mars. Over the last eight decades, we launched rockets, satellites, orbiters, and astronauts to orbit the Earth and other solar system bodies. Several feasibility studies were also conducted to develop prototypes and design concepts of lunar and Martian infrastructure in parallel to these milestones. This seminar presents a state-of-the-art survey on past and recent advances on the frontiers of extraterrestrial construction materials. We start by highlighting the effects of the extreme space environment on construction materials. Then, we outline our understanding of lunar and Martian indigenous resources from materials science, construction, and structural engineering points of view. We continue to assess the physical features and property characteristics of materials native to the Moon and Mars, or mined from near-earth objects (NEOs), or cultured through modern technologies. Then, we dive into how such materials can help us realize design concepts for large (i.e., intended for permanent presence) and small (e.g., short presence) scale lunar and Martian habitats. Finally, we identify key limitations and challenges with respect to materials science and developing space infrastructure that merits serious research.
Dr. Naser is a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences & a member of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute for Science and Engineering (AIRISE) at Clemson University. Dr. Naser’s research group is creating Causal & eXplainable machine learning methodologies to discover new knowledge hidden within systems belonging to the domains of Structural engineering and Materials science to help us realize functional, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure (with special emphasis on space and fire engineering).
The seminar takes place every third Wednesday of the month at 13:30 CET/CEST online via zoom and consists of a 40-minute talk followed by a 40-minute discussion.
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G8 summit sparks climate discussions
As the G8 summit is set to focus on climate change – currently the burning global issue – the U.S. is being widely accused of ignoring what is happening and President Bush's latest proposal for action has left many experts sceptical.
With reports of record temperatures being reached in every region of the world, and with images of icebergs melting and glaciers receding being broadcast in every medium, the debate over global warming is rarely out of the headlines. Although still controversial with some politicians, the majority of scientists say that humans are causing global warming by polluting the atmosphere through the emission of greenhouse gases.“Yes, it is real, we know this because scientists have told us that if we didn't have the phenomenon of global warming or climate change the world would be far colder than it is now,” believes Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.But some groups, including the Bush Administration, question the evidence. Jeff Kueter, President of the Marshall Institute, says people get carried away by statistics and inaccurate data. “It's those projections going forward to 2100, the melting of the Greenland ice sheets and Antarctica and all that, that cause people great consternation and worry. But the reliability of those forecasts is something I would suggest that people question and take a very hard look at, whether they think those forecasts are actually as reliable as they are made out to be,” he noted.With both the Earth's temperature and the debate over global warming heating up, more groups are criticising the U.S. for lagging behind other nations in combating global emissions and greenhouse gases.“Basically under the Bush administration the U.S. has been absent from the playing field on this issue, we have refused to join the Europeans, the Japanese and other industrialised countries in taking on mandatory commitments to reduce our emissions of global warming and pollution,” Alden Meyer stressed.With the U.S. being the largest emitter of carbon dioxide and feeling increasing criticism for not taking the lead in mandating pollution cuts, President Bush unveiled a new plan for reducing emissions by half by the year 2050. “By the end of next year, America and other nations will set a long-term global goal for reducing greenhouse gases. To help develop this goal, the United States will convene a series of meetings of nations that produce most greenhouse gas emissions, including nations with rapidly growing economies like India and China,” George Bush stated.But some experts caution against using government intervention to set up climate initiatives. “If we were to wake up tomorrow and say we want to increase corporate fuel economy standards, the fuel efficiency of our automotive fleet by 25% overnight and snapped out fingers and made it so, within six to seven years all the gains that you from that magic increase in fuel efficiency would be wiped out, and they would be wiped out through no fault of your own except that your economy would have grown and you'd add more people to the system. And the developing world would add more cars to their fleet as their standard of living goes up,” Jeff Kueter pointed out.President Bush announced his long-term climate change strategy, just ahead of the upcoming G8 summit in Germany. But so far, the White House says it will not support the cap and trade system that has been accepted by other countries to reduce carbon emissions. And with global warming set to be a major topic of discussion at the upcoming G8 summit, the U.S. may find itself faced with a showdown in a fight to control climate change. | <urn:uuid:ed8d7a99-e164-4962-9dbd-95930afbf0af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/news/g8-summit-sparks-climate-discussions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963641 | 741 | 2.875 | 3 |
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2). It is clear that the United States looks on this pathetic situation as a place that needs assistance, and the U.S. has provided aid off and on to Sudan through the years of its independence. It may be, Lewis writes, that the U.S. actually did not intervene in any way in the carnage in Darfur until massive international publicity forced America's hand. The 22-year civil war that claimed 2 million lives and "displaced 4 million people" ended in 2005, Lewis explains, but was "scarcely noticed in the West" (Lewis, p. 1).
What has been the U.S. role in the peace accords and Security Council Resolutions?
The U.S. has had its hand in numerous attempts to end the Darfur and Sudan tragedies. Prior to 2005, the year in which the UN Security Council -- along with Sudan and other cooperating nations -- put together the "Comprehensive Peace Agreement" (CPA) the U.S. is given credit for leading the path to a peaceful settlement, according to Kelly Machinchick, writing in the Archive of America.gov. "The U.S. has acted as the key facilitator in keeping the peace process on track," Machinchick explains. In July, 2002, the main adversaries in the "brutal 20-year civil war" took the first steps toward a resolution of the conflict, Machinchick writes, and it was the United States that was "integral" in the "push for an end to the fighting that has claimed over two million lives and destabilized the northeastern region of Africa" (Machinchick, p. 1).
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has created a "Sudan Peace Forum" (SPF) to keep a close eye on developments in Darfur; the USIP released a statement in 2003 that applauds the U.S. diplomacy, asserting that the U.S. "…has been an important force for cohesion, binding the numerous international actors and the Sudanese parties together" (Machinchick, p. 1). The compromises that have been hammered out relative to the sharing of oil revenue and potential self-determination of the South "would not have been impossible without U.S. engagement throughout the negotiating process," Machinchick's article concluded.
While that report rings with positive pronouncements and plaudits for the United States, it should be remembered that the America.gov (Archive) is a component of the U.S. Department of State, and of course State putting the best foot forward as far as America's accountability vis-a-vis Darfur and Sudan in general. The 2003 report from USIP, and the various announcements and resolutions that the U.S. (and its allies) put forward did not stop the wanton murder of tens of thousands of innocent villagers and others in Darfur. Diplomacy in this horrific matter is always important, but all the august remarks and high-toned rhetoric in the halls of Congress, the United Nations, the Department of State in Washington -- and in the executive branch of government itself -- has not brought an end to the hostilities and blood-letting in Darfur.
In a 2004 Press Release the UN Security Council announced that it has passed Resolution 1556
The U.S. has indeed been deeply involved in the various United Nations Security Council resolutions, although American abstained from voting in the Security Council on Resolution 1593. This was a Resolution in which the UN was turning over to the International Criminal Court the responsibility for prosecuting those accused of the continuing brutal slaughter and other wrongdoing in Sudan. The Resolution recognized the violations of "international humanitarian law and human right in Darfur" and understands that genocide (although it doesn't use that word) has been going on since July 1, 2002 and hence, the Court may be able to conduct "proceedings in the region, which would contribute to regional efforts in the fight against impunity" (Security Council, Resolution 1593, Press Release, 2005).
Why did the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Anne Woods Patterson, abstain from voting on this Resolution in 2005? She said after the vote that while the U.S. supports bringing those responsible for "the crimes and atrocities that had occurred in Darfur" to justice, and ending the "climate of impunity" in Darfur and Sudan, the U.S. opposes the view that the International Court should be the agency to "exercise jurisdiction over the nationals, including government officials" in Sudan (Security Council Press Release, March 31, 2005).
That having been said, Patterson added that a better mechanism needed to be devised to bring those responsible for the carnage in Darfur to justice. She also was pleased that "none of the expenses incurred in connection with the referral would be borne by the United Nations," the Press Release stressed. And showing the clout of the United States in this matter, Patterson went on to assert that if there was any effort "to retrench" on the principle that the UN not be held liable for expenses (in the actions taken by the Court), by the UN or "other organizations to which the United States contributed, could result in [the U.S.] withholding funding or taking other action in response" (Security Council Press Release, 2005).
Again displaying the power that the United States wields in this (or any similar) situation, Patterson -- even while abstaining from the vote on Resolution 1593 -- was able to push for a provision to be written into the Resolution that basically protects any U.S. citizen that happened to be "supporting operations in the Sudan" from any kind of investigation or prosecution. "That did not mean there would be immunity for American citizen that acted in violation of the law," the Press Release declared. However, if Americans in any way were accused of wrongdoing in Darfur or Sudan per se, the U.S. would "discipline its own people when appropriate" (Security Council Press Release, 2005). In other words, if an American acted in an improper way regarding possible sexual advances on civilians or cooperated with those committing the atrocities, he or she would not be prosecuted under the International Court as any one else in Sudan would be prosecuted. He or she would be disciplined under gentler guidelines.
Meanwhile the negotiations relative to Abyei, Sudan (located at the as yet undeclared official Sudanese border between South and North) -- with the U.S. In full participation -- were carried out in November, 2010, in an attempt to have the two parties reach an agreement on "oil-sharing arrangements, and border disputes, among other issues," according to a report in the Enough Project. The United States is involved in that discussion, and America is working "to push the two parties toward a grand bargain," the article explains. "High-level US. engagement continues," the article goes on, with "President Obama recently calling Mbeki" (the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel Chair, Thabo Mbeki) "to discuss negotiations in Sudan."
Moreover, the U.S. involvement in November, 2010, included P.J. Crowley, the U.S. State Department's special envoy to the negotiation. Crowley has joined the talks with Mbeki and Sudanese government officials, Enough Project reports. And a U.S. proposal at that time was under consideration by both parties -- and that is that the Southern Ruling Part "would be open to annexing Abyei to the South through a presidential decree rather than a vote" Enough Project continues.
How deeply involved is the U.S. In the negotiations for peace in the Sudan?
Another U.S. Special Envoy, Gration, has told the negotiator in Sudan that what really matters to the United States is "protection of the rights of northerners and southerners in both regions," as well as a "path to citizenship" for all citizens. The Obama Administration has "grave concerns" about the citizenship issue, and hopes that it will be given consideration in any and all contingency plans (Enough Project). The role of the U.S. In those November negotiations "cannot be understated," the writer explains, as it is "widely understood" among international officials and the Sudanese that a northern agreement on any new deal "…is contingent on the right incentives from the Obama Administration" (Enough Project).
The U.S. State Department fact sheet alluded to by Enough Project offers incentives for fulfilling "two key principles" in any brokered deal beyond the UN's existing 2005 agreement; those principles are: a) "additional U.S. trade and investment in Sudan in non-oil sectors"; and b) an exchange of ambassadors. Obama has renewed economic sanctions and that signals that "the right benchmarks are met," and that the administration will not change its relations with the Khartoum regime, Enough Project reports (p. 3).
The fact that the United States has stayed focused like a laser on the political, military and human rights aspects of Sudan and Darfur, is not lost in the literature. While there is not a lot of material reflecting step-by-step the American pressure placed on the United Nations, there are ample materials available to demonstrate America's commitment and concern in this area of the world. And moreover, when Secretary of State Colin Powell testifies in front of U.S. Congress and the United Nations that "genocide has been committed… and genocide may still be occurring…" (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2004), that is putting…[continue]
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Like clockwork, just after dusk, they approach the fence. Eleven bull elephants, bunched together in a great ridge of grey, wait by the electrified wires. They hold their heads high, alert, until the largest bull makes its way to the wires. He curls his trunk above his head and slowly and repeatedly pulls the wires back with his tusks, carefully avoiding an electric shock, until the wires sag to the ground. In a flurry of dust, noise, pushing and pulling, the rest of the group crosses the fence and they scatter, under the cover of night, to raid crops.
This was the first time I saw elephants break a fence. I watched from the cover of a Euclea bush, some 100 metres from the fence and was stunned by the skill, strength and cooperation I saw amongst this group.
Rows of electrified wires held up by wooden posts, which stretch for kilometres are a common sight across African elephant ranges. The Kenya Wildlife Service estimates that there is already 1,500km of electrified fencing in Kenya, and that this length is growing every year.
If poaching continues at its current levels, the only way elephants will survive in the wild will be within well-funded, fortified conservation areas – the current reality for the survival of rhinos.
Unlike rhinos it is harder to confine elephants within designated spaces. With their vast requirement for space, food and water, complex societies, intelligence and taste for crops, they roam widely and cross boundaries created for them. Elephants can adapt to break even the most sophisticated of fences – resulting in a costly race with wildlife managers as they upgrade fence design.
I have been carrying out research in Laikipia, Kenya, into how and why elephants break electrified fences and what the consequences of this behaviour are for elephants and for people. I have focused on 130km of electrified fence built to divide Laikipia County into a place where elephants are tolerated (within ranches and conservancies) and a place were they are not (on small-scale farmland).
I found that elephants seek out weak points (of low voltage) close to farmland. Along fences well-maintained, elephants will continue to break it in places they have broken in the past. It is invariably bull elephants that are involved, not females. Certain individuals are responsible for the physical act of breaking. ‘Breakers’ tend to be older, larger bulls and are often followed by younger adolescent bulls that seem to associate with older males to ‘learn’ how to break fences. Breakers get through the fence in unique, individual ways to avoid an electric shock.
One bull I have studied – known as Ismael by Space for Giants – carefully wrapped his trunk around posts, between the wires, to uproot them and flatten the fence. I once saw him push a smaller bull through the fence before him to break it. In the three years of watching his movements (on the ground and via the GPS collar Space for Giants fitted him with in 2010), Ismael broke a 10km section of fence 451 times. With regular practice on an adjacent weaker stretch of fence, wildlife managers in a neighbouring Ol Pejeta Conservancy believed that Ismael and fellow bulls had learned how to break their high-voltage, frequently patrolled fence. The cost of their persistent damage drove the Kenya Wildlife Service to translocate Ismael and nine other bull elephants to Meru National Park in August 2013. Park officials later told me tales of a large male elephant who wore a GPS collar that was teaching a group of bulls how to break fences.
There are risks associated with breaking fences for elephants that go beyond circumventing an electric shock. On the wrong side of the fence they have to negotiate human presence as they make their way silently around farms to eat crops that farmers have spent months of hard work to cultivate. Elephants alter their behaviour to negotiate this risk. In Laikipia, elephants broke out of the fence onto cultivated land after dusk and broke back in before the sun rose. Data from elephants fitted with GPS collars showed that they increased their speed on the wrong side.
Space for Giants has drawn on lessons learned from this research and across electrified fences more widely in Kenya, to inform how to best mitigate human-elephant conflict.
Governments and wildlife managers are increasingly pitching and constructing electrified fences as the only solution for people to share a landscape with elephants. When elephants continue to break fences and destroy crops, farmers’ expectations are dashed and their tolerance of elephants crashes. Commercial farmers could sustain these losses but for subsistence farmers, the loss of a crop represents the loss of their livelihood. Angry, desperate farmers can kill fence-breaking bull elephants in retaliation. In my study area in west Laikipia, a group of five elephants died, on the wrong side of the fence, after eating pumpkins laced with strychnine by farmers. As fence-breaking bulls tend to be the largest elephants, they often carry large tusks. By roaming over the wrong side, bulls are vulnerable to poachers.
In an ideal world, landscapes would be open and connected and not shaped by barriers. Land use would be carefully planned around wildlife areas. However, unless the current poaching crisis is halted, and boundaries between cultivation and elephant range soften, electrified fences will have to continue to define and delimit the future of elephants.
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I am trying to model some exoplanets and I don't understand how this model works. Below is a link of the model. What I don’t understand is how does graphing the transit depth vs wavelength provide information. I am trying to determine the atmospheric chemistry/atmosphere/properties of planets.
Planets with atmospheres are not discs with hard edges, when viewed in transit across the star. The atmosphere allows light to pass through the limb of the planetary disc.
The radius within which the planet is effectively opaque to light from the star will depend on the density and composition of the atmosphere as a function of height and also the wavelength of light that it is illuminated by. This is because the opacity of the atmosphere will be much greater at wavelengths where some molecule or atom that is present has an absorption feature.
Therefore if you observe a transit at different wavelengths, you will see different transit depths, because the planet has a different effective area at different wavelengths.
For example, if the atmosphere contains lots of atomic sodium, then because sodium strongly absorbs light at 589nm, the planet is opaque to a greater radius at 589nm, and the transit depth will be bigger at 589nm than at wavelengths either side of this.
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Recreational Lake and Water Quality Districts (Iowa)
Last modified on February 12, 2015.
|Name||Recreational Lake and Water Quality Districts (Iowa)|
|Policy Category||Other Policy|
|Policy Type||Environmental Regulations|
|Affected Technologies||Biomass/Biogas, Coal with CCS, Concentrating Solar Power, Energy Storage, Fuel Cells, Geothermal Electric, Hydroelectric, Hydroelectric (Small), Natural Gas, Nuclear, Solar Photovoltaics, Wind energy|
|Program Administrator||Iowa Department of Natural Resources|
Territory contiguous to a recreational lake may be incorporated into a recreational lake and water quality district if such action is conducive to the public health, comfort, convenience, water quality, or welfare. Development or construction in such a district is restricted.
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(The Ivriya organization)
by Mosze Rozenker
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
The First World War greatly harmed the Jewish population, whose source of income had been whittled away. At the height of this worrying period and with nagging thoughts about both the present and the future, there were a few citizens, for which the problems of our people were close to their hearts and did not forget them even at this critical time, and they conceived the idea of imparting the Hebrew language to the youth. Indeed, the introduction of this ray of hope and light into the darkness of our lives, served as a basis for the Zionist movement in our city with all it's parties and directions.
In October 1914 the following men assembled: T. Klajnman, J. L.Traub, M. Rotenberg (the three of them were murdered), Mrs. Kowlaska-Graubard (now in Israel) and the writer of this article, to discuss the implementation of this idea. We decided to form an association, whose purpose was to endow our national language to all levels of our people. We called it "Ivriya" and it was a source of inspiration and filled our hearts with joy. After a time we were joined by Elimelech Rotner, of blessed memory, a Zionist and a Jew who completely dedicated himself and who strove greatly for the cause and was chairman of the organizational committee of our organization.
We conscripted the local teachers to our activities: Sowotka, Zilberberg, Londner, and Zajdman (all of whom were slaughtered), who did their utmost in the field of teaching. In addition, the teachers Horgal and Janowski, of blessed memory, who were not born in our city, taught Hebrew in Bedzin and eagerly accepted our invitation [to join in]. The lessons took place in the evening in the school belonging to M. L. Sandiszew (died in Israel). We saw a blessing in our work, since hundreds of students signed up for the Hebrew classes. It should be noted that even religious circles and assimilated families approached us [to join in].
Our work was not easy, since we encountered many financial difficulties. The tuition fee that the students paid did not cover the outlays entailed, and we were forced to find different ways of covering the deficit that we carried. To this purpose we founded a patron's organization that participated in monthly payments, and we organized various events (lectures, parties, theatricals and film days) in order to obtain the money that we required.
We were also active in the artistic field. A theatrical troupe was founded with the association, directed by the talented teacher Zilberberg, which presented various plays from time to time and was lovingly received by the audiences. Most of the "actors" were youths, who were conscripted from the "chaderim hametukanim" [modern religious schools] and from the "Moderni" [Modern] school, which existed at that time.
There were quite a few disruptions by ultra-religious circles, since our association provoked their anger and saw our activities…as a desecration of the holy language. In particular the "Chassidim" of the Rabbi from Gur incited against us and threatened to boycott the parents whose children visited the "Ivriya" and had fallen into evil ways but we were not deterred. The primary teachers were also disturbed by our activities, since they were worried about their livelihood.
As the "Ivriya" developed, others joined in: Mirjam Tenenbaum, Zvi Fefer, Motel Erlich, Jechiel Tencer, Jehuda Szenberg (who are no longer alive) and Mrs. Rechil Graubart-Gutman who luckily survived the horrors of the Holocaust and went with her children to live in Israel.
We weren't content with only teaching the Hebrew language, but also ran cultural activities, in particular to which, Dawid Melc participated, a member of Kibbutz Ein Harod. Bible classes were also started [by us].
This valued activity continued during the war years. In 1917, with the Balfour declaration, a number of Zionist organizations popped up in our town and our members, who were active in "Ivriya" joined up to these and were their driving spirit.
The "Ivriya" organization continued on in the "Tarbut" [culture] association that was established in our town after a period of time.
We would like to memorialise the teacher Rabbi Josef Wroncberg, amongst the first teachers and Zionists, who was active in our town during the first years of the [20th] century. He began his activity in the "Hovevei Zion" [Lovers of Zion] association, and he imparted his ideas to the town's residents and ignited their longing for Zion. He loved the Hebrew language and did much to disseminate it. Many people received a Hebrew education from him. He was always deep in study, a multi-talented teacher and educator, witty in writing and in speech and his many students drew their knowledge from this abundant source.
There were many Hebrew teachers active in Bedzin and Rabbi Josef Wroncberg was
one of the greatest of them. His memory is remains in the hearts of his last
few students in Israel!
|The writer, David Maletz (Ejn Charod)
with a group of girl pupils
by M. H.
Translated by Lance Ackerfeld
In the first years of the nineteen twenties a "Tarbut" association was established, as a branch of the center in Warsaw, to impart Hebrew into all public circles and develop a Hebrew educational system. All the local Zionist parties, apart from "Mizrahi", which had its own educational system, represented the "Tarbut" association. The "Poeli Zion" [movement] were included with Zish"a ("National Jewish school organization") but still respected the Hebrew language and the Right-wing "Poeli Zion" recognized "Zish"a ("Central Jewish school organization") and were committed to education and culture in Yiddish.
The local committee of "Tarbut" were represented by delegates of the General Zionists, the "Hitachdut" party, the "Shahar" organization, Revisionists, the "Hashomer Hazair" organizations, "Gordonia" and "Hashomer Haleumi", however they did little in the association because most of their efforts were for their own organizations.
Next to "Tarbut" there was a well-stocked library, from the days of the "Ivriya", however there were few readers because of the lack of space in its usual location. The library drifted between houses till a remote corner was found for it, in the General Zionists hall. Since there wasn't a paid librarian, there was no-one to worry about the library, to bolster it and purchase new books. Out of their fondness for the language, the following worked as volunteer librarians: Hanoch Altman, Dawid Lewin, Dawid Rembiszewski (the three of them were killed) and Berisz Liwer (now living in Ramat Gan), who excelled in his tireless loyalty and dedication to every Zionist task.
Apart from teaching Hebrew in evening classes, no actual constructive contribution by the "Tarbut" organization in Bedzin can be noted. These evening classes, for which the writer of this article worked for to the best of his abilities, had a great deal of success, especially during the years of the great "aliya" [emigration] to Israel. Hundreds marched to its doors, however, we weren't able to satisfy everyone because the poor conditions in the building. Only after the management of the "Yavne" school agreed to give us the use of some its classes every evening, were we able to extend our activities, and opened our doors wide to all those eager to learn Hebrew. These were the teachers that taught the evening classes and worked to its success: A. Z. Bornstzajn, Iccek Ziberszac and Iccek Fiszel from Sosnowiec. They were taken from us. May their memory be blessed and the memory of all the "Tarbut" activists remains with us.
Together with this, it is essential to note that though Bedzin was noted for its loyalty and national activities, it didn't have a "Tarbut" school purely for teaching Hebrew, apart from the "Yavne" gymnasia (named after Fürstenberg, and the "Mizrahi" school), in which Herbrew was extremely prominent. However, more than once attempts were made to establish a Hebrew school, being that all the necessary essentials for creating and maintaining it existed, but the last plan, the most realistic, was thwarted with the Holocaust and the loss of our community.
The late journalist, Lejbl Kerner addressed this question in "Zaglembie
Zeitung" [Zaglembian daily] in 1938:
"The idea of establishing a Hebrew school in Bedzin is accompanied by birth-pangs and great efforts. We became tired of hearing in the many meetings dealing with this subject uplifting news that had nothing definite and practical being done behind them. There is no doubt, that a "Tarbut" school is a vital need and many parents would gladly send their children to receive a Hebrew education, since only a school of this type would be able to educate its students in national spirit, and its graduates would continue on to complete their studies in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem or in the Technion [Israel Institute of Technology] in Haifa. Hence it is incumbent on the Zionist activists of Bedzin and the devotees of the Hebrew language, to set out with enthusiasm and enterprise in order to fulfill the idea of a "Tarbut" type school that we need like our daily bread".
On the subject of praise we wish to recall the Zionist women's organization "Wizo" in Bedzin, at the head of which stood the outstanding activist and lecturer par excellence who knew Hebrew extremely well the late Necha Rotner, who began a Hebrew kindergarten during the nineteen twenties, which exists till the Holocaust. More than once I happened to be in the kindergarten and received pleasure and spiritual uplifting, hearing the Hebrew language spoken by Jewish children in Bedzin.
Even though, in the end, our "Tarbut" activities weren't very
fruitful, it can be determined that this organization served as an important
stimulus to the imparting of the Hebrew language to the Bedzin population, from
which only a few survived and managed to "make aliya" [emigrate] to
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.- Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City, said this week discrimination and abuse against women are actions contrary to God’s plan and will always be denounced by the Church.
During Mass at the Archdiocesan cathedral, Cardinal Rivera called sterilization and abortion, which principally leave as victims poor and marginalized women, “abominable” acts.
He said the Church is concerned about the current situation of women, who are frequently the objects of attacks on their nature and mission through reproductive health programs and other initiatives that lack a comprehensive vision of women.
Cardinal Rivera said today’s new forms of marginalizing women, fostered by a consumerist and hedonist society, cannot be accepted by any Catholic, since they transform women into mere objects of consumption.
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McMullen County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 851. Its seat is Tilden. McMullen is named for John McMullen, founder of a colony in Texas.The McMullen County Courthouse was designed by the architect William Charles Stephenson, originally from Buffalo, New York. Stephenson also designed some fifty buildings in Beeville, including the Bee County Courthouse.
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Humans are going to have to do a lot more if we want to save the world's coral reefs.
Coral bleaching is probably exactly what you're imagining: Colorful corals turn white and die. When major changes take place in the ecosystem, corals expel the algae that gives them their color. Since algae is the corals source of food, they begin to starve.
Scientists say if current climate trends continue, 99 percent of reefs will experience annual bleaching by the end of the century. Catastrophic events could begin as early as 2043.
And even the Paris climate agreement can't save the reefs. A 2-degree Celsius rise in global temperature is too much for corals to adapt to. And the agreement's ideal target of just a 1.5-degree Celsius rise would still be too little, too late.
To give reefs a better shot at adapting to a changing climate, the world would need to agree to an emissions reduction plan that's 1.5 times those pledged in the Paris agreement.
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Econ 101 for Wall St: The Economics of HFT
There's been a ton of discussion about high-frequency trading and market microstructure lately. Here's a great summary in the NYT.
What's missing from the conversation is the basic economics at hand. Here's a summary.
The problem is two kinds of efficiency
- and the second outweighs the gains from the first.
If algos can discover higher values, that's fine. It unlocks allocative efficiency
: goods are allocated to their highest valued, or most productive, uses.
The problem is that the market for
algos is not efficient. It is a big, fat market failure happening in real time. Flash orders displayed to some but not others are an information asymmetry that subverts subvert competitive efficiency
. The rebates (read: bribes) that exchanges grant for "providing liquidity" are just a side payment that does exactly the same thing: they create a new source of scale economies for the deepest-pocketed traders, that are essentially switching costs to not defect to rival platforms.
What's the point of subverting competitive efficiency? To enable not price discovery, but price discrimination. Authentic price discovery is prevented by side payments, that ensure that prices float well above value. Flash orders ensure it.
What is the biggest problem with this arrangement? Prices will never
be forced down to marginal cost. In fact, the dynamics are these: algos compete to discover higher values, unlocking allocative efficiency. Yet, without competitive efficiency, the algos capture a larger and larger share of that allocative efficiency.
In the end, this market microstructure eats itself: the returns to people on either side of the trade vanish.
Sound familiar? It should
. Liquidity that needs rebates isn't real liquidity. Just like SUVs subsidized by cheap gas aren't real transportation. Just like pharma companies that rely on subverting markets don't provide real healthcare.
It's just business as usual in our awesomely lame Ponzi zombieconomy.
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Grue is a brand new installation at the Old Parcels Office at Scarborough Station and is created entirely out of recycled cardboard and repurposed materials.
Visitors to the attraction will explore four themed rooms – Town, Sky, Sea and Forest – which are all created using unpainted cardboard to stunning effect. The environmentally-friendly attraction comes from the creative mind of Steve Wintercroft, a Scarborough-based artist who has worked with Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Bjork and Game of Thrones to name a few.
It also features the handiwork of more than 300 people, including pupils from St Augustine’s School, Scarborough Sixth Form, local Guide groups and members of the local community of all ages. Its name, Grue, is taken from the historic word for snow or shiver.
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“The cardboard architecture that has gone into creating these four environments is quite incredible, and to ensure that the raw materials remain visible, the only painting is done with light – making this a remarkable twilight experience for local people,” said Rach Drew, co-director of Arcade, which has produced Grue.
The team has been working with the local community to create individual parts of the installation throughout November, with open crafting days for the local community where people could come along for an hour or a day to create items to feature in the experience.
“Steve is a world-class artist in his own right, and has been the driving creative force for Grue, whilst demonstrating to people just how much you can do with recycled materials,” said Rach.
Creating environmentally-conscious art has long been a guiding principle for artist Steve, who trained as a cabinet maker and then became a surfboard shaper. From his home and studio in Scarborough, he now produces digital templates for masks that can be made from waste card anywhere in the world.
“I would hope that everyone who sees this experience in the coming weeks looks a little different to what is normally discarded on Christmas Day – the wrapping paper and packaging can have another life even before they make it into the recycling bin with a little creativity,” says Steve Wintercroft.
Grue is located in the Old Parcels Office Artspace, located in a grade II listed building on Scarborough Station. Sally Gorham, Chair of the Old Parcels Office, who commissioned the installation, commented, “This project really fulfills our aim of bringing high-quality contemporary
art to Scarborough and not only giving local artists and performers a platform to show their work, but making it accessible to everyone, regardless of background or income.”
Indeed, Grue is being run on a ‘pay as you feel’ basis, with a suggested donation of £3 per person.
It is anticipated that visits will take around 15 to 20 minutes. Visitors are offered timeslots with up to six people per slot to ensure distancing is possible. It will be open on three weekends in December leading up to Christmas, from 3pm - 7pm and Thursdays from 4pm throughout December, plus Monday December 20 and Tuesday December 21.
Grue by Wintercroft is produced by ARCADE, commissioned by the Old Parcels Office Arts Centre Scarborough, funded by Yorkshire Coast BID and supported by Arts Council England, Kickstarter backers and Invisible Dust.
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Lee R. Raymond
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Minnesota (May 16, 2011).
- PhD, chemical engineering, University of Minnesota (1963).
- BSc, chemical engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1960). ,
Lee R. Raymond was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil from 1999 until he retired in 2005 with a nearly $400 million severance package, one of the most generous in history. Raymond worked at Exxon and affiliates for his entire career. He served as director of Exxon and Exxon Mobil Corporation from 1984 to 2005. He was Chairman and CEO of Exxon in 1993, and continued to work with the group after it merged with Mobil Oil Corporation in 1999. ,
Raymond was elected chairman of the American Petroleum Institute (API) from 1996 to 1997 and again in 2001. A 1998 Communications Plan suggested API was working with several groups to promote “uncertainty” about climate change science and links to fossil fuels around this time. According to the document, “victory will be achieved when […] Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’. ” While Raymond’s name doesn’t appear directly in the documents, representatives from both API and Exxon Corp were listed as “GCSCT [Global Climate Science Team] members who contributed to the development of the plan.” , , ,
Raymond has also been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a fossil-fuel-funded think tank whose members have consistently questioned established science around human-caused climate change. In his 2012 book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, journalist Steve Coll noted that Raymond knew Vice President Dick Cheney “very well.” In the 1990s, while Cheney served as chief executive at Halliburton, his company regularly provided services to Exxon. Both Raymond’s wife, Charlene, and Cheney’s wife, Lynne, regularly met at retreats and meetings hosted by AEI. ,
Raymond has maintained various other corporate connections and board seats. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an emeritus Trustee of the Mayo Clinic, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member and past Chairman of the National Petroleum Council, and is Lead Independent Director at JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Exxon & Climate Change Denial
ExxonMobil has spent tens of millions of dollars funding organizations questioning the existence of man-made climate change. From 1997 to 2005, Exxon gave at least $19.5 million in grants to climate change denial organizations. A total of at least $35 million in grants went to climate change denial groups between 1997 and 2016 with over $5 million of those donations earmarked for climate change. Many grant recipients were members of the Cooler Heads Coalition.
Climate Investigations Center noted that Lee Raymond was responsible for promoting Ken Cohen, formerly Legal Counsel for Exxon, to the position of Vice President for Public and Government Affairs. Steve Coll wrote in Private Empire:
“Ken Cohen and his public affairs shop, in tandem with the K Street office in Washington, oversaw contributions to free-market advocates who published, spoke out, and file lawsuits to challenge policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or assess the long-term impact of global warming.”
Stance on Climate Change
In Private Empire, Coll described Lee Raymond, as “notoriously skeptical about climate change and disliked government interference at any level.” While leading ExxonMobil, Raymond was one of the few CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to openly oppose the Kyoto Protocol.
Archived documents suggest Raymond was briefed on climate change issues as early as 1985, although he continued to be skeptical for many years after. For example, in a 1997 speech before the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing, China, Raymond outlined his views on climate change:
“First, the world isn’t warming. Second, even if it were, oil and gas wouldn’t be the cause. Third, no one can predict the likely future temperature rise,” Raymond said.
November 8, 2005
Lee Raymond: “The climate – the climate has changed every year for millions of years. If we weren’t here, the climate would change. It has to do with sun spots, it has to do with the wobble of the Earth, and it has – there are all kinds of things that come and go. If you talk to a geologist, he will tell you the Earth, over its history, has been much warmer than it is now and much colder. There have been times in the Earth’s history where there has been no ice on the Earth. No ice on the Earth. Man didn’t have anything to do with it. So now, the question is, given that there is natural variability – that we know. That’s not an unknown. We don’t know what it is, but we know that it’s changing all the time. Now, the question is, is part of what’s happening related to something other than natural variability? And if so, how do you determine what that is? And the reality is, the science isn’t there to make that determination.”
Charle Rose: “But why do a bunch of scientists from the National Academy and some scientists from the United Nations even say, well, we think it is?”
Raymond: “Well, there are a lot of other scientists that don’t agree with them.”
Rose: “You think it’s 50/50? I mean, I don’t know, I’m asking this out of – I mean, is there an even split or is it 90/10?”
Raymond: “Wait a minute, Charlie. Science isn’t – science is not a democratic process, where everybody gets together and votes.”
Rose: “I know that.But I’m asking, is it – it’s also, there is this reality. Ninety percent of the people can say, we believe, we believe that humans contribute to the emissions in the air in a significant way that causes global warming. Ten percent can say, we see no evidence of that, we think it’s a natural variance, and climate is a natural change. That’s you know, you choose to believe the 90 percent or you choose to believe the 10 percent or –”
Raymond: “I don’t know. Ninety percent of the people thought the world was flat. No? Right?”
“Our analysis indicates that the current state of climate science is too uncertain to provide clear answers to many key questions about climate change. Even if global warming were a proven threat — which it is not — targets agreed on in Kyoto, Japan, fail to provide a fair, practical or cost-effective solutions,” Raymond wrote.
October 13, 1997
In a speech at the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing, China, Raymond presented three questions: “Is the Earth really warming? Does burning fossil fuels cause global warming? And do we now have a reasonable scientific basis for predicting future temperature?” In his response, he cited a range of common myths regarding climate change:
“In answer to the first question, we know that natural fluctuations in the Earth’s temperature have occurred throughout history – with wide temperature swings. The ice ages are a good example,” Raymond claimed, revealing his belief in a common climate change myth.
“In fact, one period of cooling occurred from 1940 to 1975. in the 197Os, some of today’s prophets of doom from global warming were predicting the coming of a new ice age. — Myth #2
“Some measurements suggest that the Earth’s average temperature has risen about half a degree centigrade since the late 19th century. Yet sensitive satellite measurements have shown no warming trend since the late 1970s. In fact, the earth is cooler today than it was 20 years ago.” — Myth #3
“We also have to keep in mind that most of the greenhouse effect comes from natural sources, especially water vapor. Less than a quarter is from carbon dioxide, and, of this, only four percent of the carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere is due to human activities – 96 percent comes from nature.” Myth #4
“Forecasts of future warming come from computer models that try to replicate Earth’s past climate and predict the future. They are notoriously inaccurate. None can do it without significant overriding adjustments.” Myth #5
“[T]he case for so called global warming is far from air right. You would think that all the uncertainty would give political leaders pause. Unfortunately, it hasn’t, and officials continue to insist that agreement is needed in Kyoto.”
November 14, 1996
Lee Raymond spoke at an American Petroleum Institute event while he served as API‘s chairman of the board. During his talk, text of which is republished and annotated at Climate Files, Raymond described “so-called global climate change” as “the issue that perhaps poses the greatest long-term threat to our industry.” Raymond also questioned the science and described global warming as a “theory”: ,
“Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide — are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. But scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate,” Raymond said.
On Gay Rights
Lee Raymond found himself in conflict with gay rights organizations after he denied corporate benefits to same-sex partners of his employees, Steve Coll noted in his 2012 book Private Empire. The following interchange was quoted in the book, according to an interview with an executive who served as a director of the Exxon corporation during the Lee Raymond era and recalled the interchange:
“Do you discriminate against people based on sexual preference?” the director asked.
“Of course not,” Raymond answered.
“Then why don’t you say it?”
“Well, it’s not required by law.”
ExxonMobil Climate Ads
Greenpeace’s Polluterwatch project compiled ExxonMobil and Mobil ads from 1972 to 2004. As Polluterwatch reported, the ad series fully contradicted the findings of their own scientists regarding climate change.
Below are those released since Lee Raymond became a director in 1984:
June 7, 2004
“While there can be little doubt that wind and solar will grow rapidly, these start from a very small base, and even with extremely rapid growth, will only supply about one-half of one percent of the world’s energy in 2020. The predominate energy sources will remain oil and gas.” [14:00]
“In the decades ahead, carbon dioxide emissions from greater fossil fuel use will climb. We simply do not yet have the economical solutions or technologies that would permit us to meet future energy demands without carbon emissions growth, and as important, we do not know how to increase economic growth without increasing energy use.” [27:50]
“The danger exists that economic activity will be compromised due to the efforts to meet the commitments that have been made. This is the fundamental reason that the developing world has been very cool to Kyoto.” [29:13]
“In my view, the most sensible and fundamental avenue to meet rising energy needs throughout the world, as well as to address greenhouse gas emissions concerns is through a long-term effort in energy research and development. Much, if not most of this will be privately sponsored research.” [29:40]
“We don’t run this company on emotions. We run it on science and principles.”
October 13, 1997
“Let’s agree there’s a lot we really don’t know about how climate will change in the 21st century and beyond,” Raymond said in his speech before the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing.
“We need to understand the issue better, and fortunately, we have time,” he said. “It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.”
May 9, 1982
“We see governments come and go,” Lee Raymond once remarked according to The New York Times.
Raymond has noted that ExxonMobil’s interests were global rather than focused on the United States. At an industry meeting in Washington, Raymond was asked whether Exxon planned to build more refineries the US.
“Why would I want to do that?” Raymond asked, as an executive recalled it to Steve Coll.
“Because the United States needs it … for security,” the executive replied.
“I’m not a U.S. company and I don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the U.S.,” Raymond said.
Lee Raymond teamed up with former Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founder Aubrey McClendon to frack wells in Ohio. At the time, McClendon was under investigation by the SEC for his previous financial dealings while he was at Chesapeake. DeSmog reported McClendon received a permit permit to frack five wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on November 26.
“The Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded McClendon’s new company, American Energy Utica LLC, five horizontal well permits Nov. 26 that allows oil and gas exploration on the Jones property in Nottingham Township, Harrison County,” an article in The Business Journal explained. “In October, American Energy Utica announced it has raised $1.7 billion in capital to secure new leases in the Utica shale play.”
Raymond was listed as s a director of of American Energy Ohio Holdings LLC, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. The Wall Street Journal reported the company raised $1.35 billion for Mr. McClendon’s new firm, American Energy Partners LP, however “The extent of Mr. Raymond’s participation isn’t clear; he declined to comment, as did American Energy.” Raymond’s son, John Raymond, served as Managing Partner, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Minerals & Energy Group, initially the largest capital investor in the venture. John Raymond also served as a partner. , ,
News that Lee Raymond would be tapped to lead a panel on America’s energy future was met with criticism from environmental groups. Over 60,000 letters were sent to the Energy Department to protest Raymond’s appointment.
“ExxonMobil is currently the worst of the oil giants fueling America’s oil addiction,” said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director of Exxpose Exxon. “Putting Exxon’s Lee Raymond in charge of solving America’s energy crisis is like putting Jack Abramoff in charge of solving political corruption.”
December 12, 2000
Religious shareholders in ExxonMobil filed a resolution charging Lee Raymond with misleading investors at the company’s annual meeting. The resolution filed by Patricia Daly of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey said:
“We believe that ExxonMobil has misinformed shareholders about global warming with inaccurate statements and unreliable information. In addition we believe CEO Lee Raymond made inaccurate statements and used unreliable information when discussing global warming at the May 2000 Annual Meeting.”
“Shareholders are potentially vulnerable to the financial costs of global warming and have the right to a full and accurate assessment about it, not the half-truths and half-science that ExxonMobil offered them last year,” said Daly. “We are very concerned that management has so little regard for investors that they are willing to make misleading and disingenuous statements in a shareholder meeting. This is simply a terrible abuse of the truth by ExxonMobil.”
Scientist Lloyd Keigwin, whose work was repeatedly used by ExxonMobil to make the case there is uncertainty about climate change, supported Caldwell’s argument. Raymond had cited Keigwin’s temperature data from the Sargasso Sea during the May 2000 meeting. “So the issue isn’t only: is the earth warming but why is it warming,” Raymond had concluded.
Keigwin responded in a December 11, 2000 letter: “I believe ExxonMobil has been misleading in its use of the Sargasso Sea data. There’s really no way these results bear on the question of human induced climate warming. I think the sad thing is the a company with the resources of ExxonMobil is exploiting the data for political purposes,” he said.
August 10, 2000
ExxonMobil ran an ad in the Washington Post titled “Political cart before the scientific horse” that was severely critical of the draft synthesis report of the US National Assessment on climate change. On September 26, 2002, Michael MacCracken, a retiring senior scientist for the Office of the U. S. Global Change Research Program, wrote a letter to Lee Raymond wherein he responded to ExxonMobil’s critical comments on the draft of the report.
“Without having participated in the Federal Register review process that had led up to the draft report being made available for public comment (after two rounds of technical review), nor having participated in the public meetings discussing the draft report and its contents until the very end, the ExxonMobil proceeded to make a number of charges in the advertisement, generally based on rather poor understanding of what was being done and why the National Assessment was being undertaken.”
He proceeded to address each of ExxonMobil’s charges with a detailed response, including the claim that climate models “are not yet capable of predicting Earth’s global
climate,” that “global models simply don’t work on a regional level,” and other charges.
“More thorough consideration and investigation should have been given by ExxonMobil to the content and process of the National Assessment,” MacCracken concluded.
Under Raymond’s leadership, ExxonMobil released a four-part series of Op-Eds on climate change that appeared in a number of newspapers. The articles were titled Do No Harm, Unsettled Science, The Promise of Technology, and The Path Forward on Climate Change. Raymond wrote the ads “summarize our views on this important issue.” Exxon’s publications promoted supposed uncertainties regarding climate change science and opposed actions like the Kyoto Protocol.
A group of environmentalists, having bought shares in ExxonMobil, attended the corporation’s annual meeting in Dallas where they criticized the corporation’s policies. One activist shouted for a “long-term solution to global warming.” Lee Raymond responded by quoting from the debunked Oregon Petition:
“There is no convincing scientific evidence that any release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate,” Raymond began. He continued in his own words: “I’m not saying you’re wrong. What I am saying is there is a substantial difference of view in the scientific community as to what exactly is going on.”
Raymond provided a statement in a 1998 ExxonMobil pamphlet titled “Global Climate change: everyone’s debate” claiming that “Even if global warming were a proven threat — which it is not — targets agreed on in Kyoto, Japan, fail to provide a fair, practical or cost-effective solutions.”
View the complete document below, via Climate Files
Global Climate Change Everyone’s Debate(Text)
November 11, 1996
Lee Raymond spoke at an American Petroleum Institute event while he served as API‘s chairman of the board. During his talk, Raymond contended that many Americans share a “distorted view” that fossil fuel use poses a threat to the environment.
During his speech, text of which is republished and annotated at Climate Files, Raymond described “so-called global climate change” as “the issue that perhaps poses the greatest long-term threat to our industry.” Raymond said of the Kyoto Protocol:
“Right now, a United Nations-led effort is moving toward decisions in 1997 to cut the use of fossil fuels, based on the unproved theory that they affect the Earth’s climate.”
Raymond urged that “we in the industry provide a voice of common sense … [by] getting people to look at the science surrounding the issue, the economics of the policies being proposed and the impact on them as individuals.” On the science, Raymond contended that “scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate.”
Near the conclusion, Raymond proposed a plan, citing success of a coalition fighitng the Btu tax.
“Addressing these and the other long-term issues we face will require that we do a better job of convincing others — Politicians and the public alike — of the merits of our case. To do that, we’ll need to draw on a third ‘C’ — cooperation.
“In dealing with important issues in the past, we’ve been most effective when we’ve kept a clear focus on our common interest. The coalition we formed to defeat with Btu tax is an excellent example.
“On that issue, we brought together various groups within the industry. We mobilized our employes. We gained the support of small business. We worked with other trade groups and associations. And we even picked up the support of a wide range of energy consumers. In the end, we all came together and cooperated to defeat an ill-conceived and onerous proposal.”
Raymond also identified the auto industry as an ally in their fight:
One example is our close cooperation with the automobile industry in research programs on both sides of the Atlantic. Recently, they have become engaged in the global climate issue and are active, aggressive allies. They, in turn, have gained the support of others, and I expect that circle of support will continue to expand.”
During his European tour from July 11 to 26, apart from reporting on Exxon’s business results, Raymond discussed the importance on staying “focused” on external issues. “One such issue,” he reported, “and probably the most important external issue, is the theory of ‘global climate change.’”
“Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases – especially carbon dioxide – are causing or will cause global temperatures to rise. But more than 96 percent of the carbon dioxide is naturally produced in the environment, and it has nothing to do with human activity. It and the other greenhouse gases are necessary for life to survive on Earth. Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.
“The lack of scientific understanding on this subject has not prevented activists from politicizing it and seeking to stir up all kinds of fears. They do so in an effort to force wrenching changes in our lifestyles and in the economies of the world’s industrialized nations, with their real objectives often obscure. Such attempts represent a threat both to sound science and sound economics,” Raymond claimed.
According to Raymond, in developing nations, “the most pressing environmental problems are related to poverty and not global climate change.” He added, “Addressing these problems will require economic growth, and that will necessitate increasing, not curtailing, the use of fossil fuels.”
“This does not mean that we will inevitably experience grave consequences from global warming. We should keep in mind that some Cassandras of global warming were predicting the coming of a new ice age 20 years ago. And so, it makes little sense today to adopt economically punishing policies on the basis of uncertain predictions,” he said.
“Our first priority ought to be to improve scientific understanding. Exxon is helping with that process by conducting its own research and by supporting that of others, including a major research effort at M.I.T. on the science, economics and policy options of potential global warming.”
In the fall of 1996, Raymond published an article in the Exxon publication The Lamp titled “Climate change: don’t ignore the facts.” According to Raymond, “Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases – especially carbon dioxide – are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. (See Global Warming – What to Think? What to Do?) Yet scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate.”
In the spring of 1996, Exxon Corporation released a publication titled “Global warming: who’s right? Facts about a debate that’s turned up more questions than answers,” that included a statement from Lee Raymond promoting uncertainty on climate change science. Climate Files noted the piece also cited Exxon-funded climate change deniers throughout.
In an interview with The New York Times following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Raymond had a differing version of the company’s cleanup efforts at the time of the spill. He blamed Alaskan officials for not granting permits to use cleanup equipment. ”We had a lot of cleanup equipment on the ground, but we couldn’t get the permits to use it until it was too late,” Raymond said.
Raymond also countered suggestions by experts that the oil company’s spill response could have been slowed by the departure of nine of its oil spill specialists during staff cutbacks. ”We have people all over the world trained to handle oil spills, even if they don’t have the exact title of oil spill specialist,” he said.
The Exxon Valdez spill is considered one of the most devastating human-cased environmental disasters in history.
In a later deposition on the spill, Jim Sherman, a lawyer for the State of Alaska, asked Raymond what, if anything, he felt Exxon did wrong:
Jim Sherman: “I asked you a moment ago … what, if anything, you felt Exxon did wrong, and I think your answer began by saying, well, you didn’t really think it was a matter of right and wrong.”
Raymond: “Well, I don’t mean to be argumentative, but assigning blame isn’t the same as being right or wrong.”
Sherman: “Well, do you think the State of Alaska’s actions in the first seventy-two hours after the spill in regard to dispersant use were wrong?”
Raymond: “My own view is that dispersants should have been applied. If you are suggesting that the state didn’t think they should be applied, then I guess we would have a difference of view. And since I’m right, I guess by your supposition you are wrong.”
Sherman: “By those same terms, did Exxon do anything in the course of the weeks that followed the spill that was wrong?”
Raymond: “The state may have a view on that and I have a different view.”
- American Petroleum Institute (API) — Former chair in 1996-97 and 2002-03. Also chair of Climate Change Committee. Listed as “director and a member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee” in a 2005 press release. ,
- American Energy Ohio Holdings LLC — Director, according to 2013 SEC filings.
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Lead independent director. Director Since 2001. Director of J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated from 1987 to 2000.
- Mayo Clinic — Emeritus trustee.
- Council on Foreign Relations — Member.
- National Petroleum Council — Member and past chairman.
- American Enterprise Institute — Former member, board of trustees. Elected at AEI‘s December 12, 2003 meeting. ,
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — Former trustee.
- President’s Export Council — Former member.
- The Business Council — Member (as of November 1995).
- The Business Roundtable — Member (as of November 1995).
- Trilateral Commission — Member (as of November 1995).
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) Global Infrastructure Investors L.P. — Listed as a “Senior Advisor” to the KKR Infrastructure Team. as of 2010.
- United Negro College Fund — Director (2005 press release).
- American Society for Engineering Education — Member of the National Advisory Council (2005 press release).
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — Trustee (2005 press release).
- Business Council for International Understanding, Inc. — Honorary trustee (2005 press release).
- The Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations — Member.
- The American Council on Germany — Member (2005 press release).
- The Emergency Council for American Trade — Member (2005 press release).
- The Singapore-U.S. Business Council — Member (2005 press release).
- The Secretary of Energy Advisory Board — Member (2005 press release).
- 21st Century Campaign of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers — Member, the Executive Committee (2005 press release).
- National Academy of Engineering — Member (2005 press release).
- The University of Wisconsin Foundation — Member (2005 press release).
- Decision Sciences International Corporation — Advisor.
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) — Trustee.
- Esso Inter-America Inc. — Director (1983).
- Lee Raymond does not appear to be active on social media.
- Steve Coll. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (May 2012).
- “Lee R. Raymond: Honorary Degree Recipient,” University of Minnesota. Archived May 25, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/tnECf
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- “Oil: Exxon Chairman’s $400 Million Parachute,” ABC News, April 14, 2006.
- (Press Release). “New Chairman” (PDF), American Petroleum Institute, November 13, 1997.
- “PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: API elects oil major executives to leadership positions,” Oil & Gas Journal, December 3, 2001. Archived May 31, 2013 from Google cache.
- “Denial and Deception: A Chronicle of ExxonMobil’s Efforts to Corrupt the Debate on Global Warming” (PDF), Greenpeace, May, 2007. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmogBlog.
- “Exxon’s Decades of Advertising Against Climate Science,” Polluterwatch, September 15, 2015.
- “Kovner Elected Chairman, and Raymond, Vice Chairman,” AEI, January 1 2003. Archived May 30, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/JkFQy
- Steve Coll (2012). Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, The Penguin Press.
- “Energy—key to growth and a better environment for Asia-Pacific nations,” October 13, 1997. Retrieved from Climate Files.
- Cindy Baxter. “It’s not just what #ExxonKnew, it’s what #ExxonDid next,” Climate Investigations Center, November 12, 2015. Archived June 3, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/eSsAK
- “1985 Memorandum and Handout for Meeting with Lee Raymond and Exxon Corporate Research,” Climate Files.
- “Lee Raymond,” Charlie Rose, November 8, 2005. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- “1998 ExxonMobil Pamphlet: Global Climate Change Everyone’s Debate,” Retrieved from DocumentCloud.
- “lee raymond 1996 ooo,” C-SPAN, November 11, 1996. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- “1996 Exxon’s Lee Raymond Speech at API Annual Meeting,” Climate Files.
- “Global Energy Issues,” C-SPAN, June 7, 2004. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- “The Proverbial,” Washington Post, December 2, 1998. Quoted in Private Empire by Steve Coll.
- Interview with an Exxon executive. ‘dog eat dog’” New York Times, May 9, 1982. Quoted in Private Empire by Steve Coll.
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- “2002 US Global Climate Change Program Scientist Michael MacCracken Letter to ExxonMobil’s Lee Raymond,” Climate Files.
- “2000 ExxonMobil Global Climate Change Op-Ed Series,” CilmateFiles.
- Brendan Montague. “How ExxonMobil Reacted When Environmentalists Crashed its First Annual Meeting 15 Years Ago,” DeSmog UK. April 16, 2015.
- “lee raymond 1996 ooo,” C-SPAN, November 11, 1996. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog.
- “1996 Exxon’s Lee Raymond European Trip Talking Points,” Climate Files.
- “1996 Exxon’s Lee Raymond “Energy, The Economy, And The Environment: Moving Forward Together,” Climate Files.
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- “Climate change: don’t ignore the facts,” The Lamp, Fall 1997. Archived February 4, 1997. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/vVDWo
- “1996 Exxon Publication: ‘Global Warming: who’s right?‘,” Climate Files.
- “The Giant With a Black Eye,” The New York Times, April 2, 1989. Archived June 1, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/yJ5a8
- “Frequently Asked Questions About the Spill,” Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council. Archived June 30, 2007. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/mOmvA
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- “Board of Trustees,” American Enterprise Institute. Archived May 14, 2008. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/tlxBi
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- “Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Infrastructure Investors L.P” (PDF), August 11, 2010. Retrieved from Stanislaus County Employees Retirement Association.
- “BIOGRAPHY,” Decision Sciences. Archived May 30, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/qjdX3
- American Energy Ohio Holdings, LLC SEC filing. No. 0001589215-13-000001. 2013-10-16
- “Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon Buys Fracking Wells In Ohio’s Utica Shale,” DeSmog. December 13, 2013.
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- “Aubrey McClendon Marches Ahead in Utica Shale Play,” Business Journal, December 6, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/XXELq
- “Energy Industry’s Odd Couple: Lee Raymond and Aubrey McClendon,” The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2013. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/wnt8j
- Exxon: The Road Not Taken. Investigation series by InsideClimateNews.
- Steve Horn. “In Midst of ExxonMobil Climate Denial Scandal, Company Hiring Climate Change Researcher,” DeSmog, December 14, 2015.
- Brendan Montague. “This Is The Man Exxon Chose To Lead Its Effort Against Climate Science”
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- Archived Lee Raymond videos at C-SPAN.
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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Sociology, Markets and Cultures Concentration, B.S.
Dr. Beth A. Eck, Department Head
Phone: (540) 568-6171
Location: Sheldon Hall, Room 123
Dr. Benjamin Brewer, Coordinator
Phone: (540) 568-7391
Location: Sheldon Hall, Room 212
Dr. Liam Buckley, Coordinator
Phone: (540) 568-6171
Location: Sheldon Hall, Room 117
L. Buckley, B. Eck, A. Paugh, S. Poulson
B. Brewer, B. Bryson, C. Colocousis, K. Dobransky, M. Ezzell, R. Lawler, J. Linder, M. Polanco, J. Solometo, J. Spear, K. Tanaka, M. Tracy
D. Blanton, R. Howes-Mischel, S. Newman, L. Porter, D. Trouille
The mission of the sociology program is to develop students’ ability to analyze the social world by using diverse sociological theories and research methods that stress the importance of social, cultural and historical contexts for understanding relationships between social actors and structures.
Goals and Objectives
To fulfill its mission, the sociology program cultivates the sociological imagination, providing students the following sets of skills and experience. Upon completion of the B.A. or B.S. degree in sociology, students will be able to:
- Recognize and understand the social dimension of the human experience and the diverse social arrangements and practices found within and across societies and cultures.
- Recognize how developing a sociological lens is a practical skill for living a productive and meaningful life.
- Identify and understand sociology’s major theories, schools of thoughts and analytical paradigms.
- Identify and understand sociology’s origin, development and practice within its social and historical contexts.
- Demonstrate the use of skills in investigating the social world utilizing methodological components such as concept formation, measurement strategies, data analysis, summary and presentation of findings.
- Demonstrate the use of the scholarly tools needed to practice sociology, including rigor, perceptiveness, creativity, logical consistency, tenacity and discipline.
- Recognize the norms of the scholarly community and of a participatory society, including collegiality, openness to public scrutiny, testing reinterpretation and refutation.
Career Opportunities and Marketable Skills
Working as a professional sociologist most often requires a graduate degree, but the following careers, some supplemented with collateral training, are representative of our previous graduates.
- Teacher, professor, social worker, researcher, case manager, biostatistician
- Admissions officer, demographer, data analyst, personnel interviewer
- Nursing home director, hospice coordinator, day care provider/director, epidemiologist
- Mediator, congressional aide, writer/author, advocacy worker, job analyst
- Population specialist, management trainee, sociologist, market research analyst
- Secret service agent, customs/immigration officer, labor relations specialist
- Personnel administrator, public relations specialist, public health statistician
- Urban/regional planner, race relations specialist, underwriter, fundraiser
- Education specialist, community services director
- Criminologist, probation/parole officer, police officer, corrections officer
A major in sociology provides skills and perspectives that enhance all careers. Students who study sociology gain:
- Increased general knowledge.
- Broadened viewpoints informed by sociological perspectives.
- Sensitivity to organizational issues and social change.
- Abilities in critical thinking, analysis, writing and communication, examination of attitudes and values and enhancement of computer skills.
- Further information about careers in sociology is available from the American Sociological Association website under Careers and Jobs.
Co-curricular Activities and Organizations
Degree and Major Requirements
- General Education 41 Credit Hours 1
- Quantitative requirement 3 Credit Hours 2
- Scientific Literacy requirement 3-4 Credit Hours 2
- University electives 32-33 Credit Hours
- Major requirements (listed below) 39 Credit Hours
1 The General Education program contains a set of requirements each student must fulfill. The number of credit hours necessary to fulfill these requirements may vary.
2 In addition to course work taken to fulfill General Education requirement.
To earn the B.S. degree with a sociology major, students must complete a minimum of 39 credit hours in sociology. Of these credit hours, 18 are required courses; the remaining 21 credit hours are electives chosen from over 30 sociology courses. Students must observe the prerequisite sequencing of required courses as shown in the course descriptions.
Students must earn at least a “C-” in all sociology classes or any course that is substituted for a sociology core course. If a student earns below a “C-” in a course, he/she can re-take the course once in order to meet the “C-” standard.
1 Prerequisite for SOCI 200 : SOCI 110 , SOCI 140 or SOCI 101 .
2 Students can substitute SOCI 231 with MATH 220 , PSYC 210 or COB 191 , but must take an additional sociology course to complete the required 39 hours of sociology.
3 Prerequisite for SOCI 300 : SOCI 200 and SOCI 231 (or equivalent), sociology majors only.
4 Prerequisite for SOCI 480 : SOCI 300 .
5 This course fulfills the College of Arts and Letters writing-intensive requirement for the major.
6 Students may fulfill the senior seminar requirement by completing a supervised internship with a substantial writing expectation. Students must secure their own internship placement before enrolling in the internship course and should consult an adviser or the sociology program coordinator for details. Students may also fulfill the senior seminar requirement by successfully completing the SOCI 499 Honors Thesis sequence.
7 If a course other than SOCI 231 is used to meet the statistics requirement, 24 elective credits will be required to reach the 39 credit hour total.
The sociology program encourages majors to select electives that create a coherent program of study suited to their special needs and interests. Such a focus would involve four or more courses from the following concentration groupings:
Within any of the defined concentrations students may gain credits toward completing the concentration through certain special topics or other courses. On occasion, courses taken outside the major or university may qualify. For special topics courses in sociology, see the instructor of record for that course. For other questions or possibilities see an adviser or the sociology program coordinator.
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Poverty is one of the reasons why vulnerable children are in care, sadly, parents of these children are often working, yet the wages they earn are not enough to support them. Further, increasing living costs and decreasing benefits make it difficult for families to feed themselves, especially as Universal Credit’s safety valve of an extra £20.00 per week finishes this month. When this goes on, more families than ever are in poverty.
Food banks are a blessing; they provide families in need with more food. However, families are concerned because they know that children living in poverty will come under poverty’s label. Their fears are real; they fear social services will take their children into care due to poverty, which is happening.
We have a massive shortage of foster carers to care for these children. Furthermore, the cost of Children’s residential care, especially in the independent sector, is extortionately high. Thus, these rising costs have severely crippled Local Authority budgets for Children’s Services.
Our Local Authorities pay more to IFAs for their foster carers.
Independent Fostering Agencies are also charging Local Authorities higher fees for their foster carers. Maybe if our Local Authorities and the Not-for-profit Charities had more foster carers, they wouldn’t need to use expensive foster carers from IFAs?
Indeed, because families are now struggling, there is a Machiavellian system that cruelly takes children into care due to poverty? Surely, child poverty should not be a reason for families to separate? Maybe if we gave more support to families when they need it to alleviate poverty in the first place, it would reduce the number of children needing foster carers? Or am I too simplistic in my views?
Massive changes are needed to alleviate poverty.
It is heart-breaking that Social Services remove children and place them in care because their parents don’t have enough money to feed them, even though they are working and in employment. Indeed, we should be calling for massive changes; because it is unacceptable that families who want to stay together are unable to due to poverty?
Furthermore, if your standard of living is dictated by the postcode lottery of where you live, not how you live, and the chances of support if you ever get stuck are zero, how are families meant to cope? According to the State of Child Health Report, 30% of children live in poverty in a typical UK classroom. It doesn’t say where this data originates from as some regions of the UK, for example, the North East and North West of England, have been hit hardest.
Furthermore, more children in care from both these regions have faced an increase of children being in care due to poverty and neglect. Therefore, how many children from those regions have children who live in poverty, and what support networks are there in place to help them?
Poverty is no longer a postcode lottery.
Austerity has been a geographical divide, with the North bearing the brunt of austerity; however, affluent areas in the South are now feeling the effects of poverty. Suppose you combine poverty with the impact of a global pandemic and Brexit? When you do, you realise that it becomes another ‘label’ to justify the actions that poverty brings.
According to an article in the Guardian, poverty hit the North East of England very hard. According to a joint report by the directors of children’s services in the region, the report states, ‘The North-East has the highest rate of referrals to children’s social care in the UK, significantly higher than the national average. Since 2009, the region has seen a 77% increase in its care population. Inner London has seen a 25% reduction over the same period.‘
‘The directors call for a “radical rethink” of how to provide safe and loving homes for children who cannot live with their birth family. They argue the “dysfunctional market” for children’s residential care must be dismantled or radically overhauled and profit-making eliminated or capped.
Not for Profit Charities and communities coming together are the way forward.
Placing children in care because of the label ‘poverty’ has made them vulnerable; however, the support of strangers and communities working with Not-for-Profit Charities is making a significant impact. They have created support networks and campaigns to ensure vulnerable children and their families get the added support they need when it’s needed most.
Food poverty makes families vulnerable, and hungry children are less likely to concentrate at school; not surprisingly, they achieve less. Subsequently, the effects of poverty have a downward spiral effect on a child’s future and chances in life.
Furthermore, it was a geographical divide where the’ haves versus the have nots,’ was as my Nan would say. She wasn’t far wrong; nothing has changed, except, sadly, the have nots are now in former affluent areas. There is no geographical divide between poverty; everyone is vulnerable.
Tough times are calling for tough decisions for families in poverty.
Coronavirus has lasting effects on families, especially Long Covid, as we are yet to find out exactly what we are dealing with. Subsequently, in these challenging times, parents face tough decisions for the future. One of the most heart-breaking decisions is to place your children into care because you can’t afford to feed them. It is no wonder that mental health problems for children and adults are rising as the one thing families have that children need love; however, love is not enough to keep families together and food on the table. Sadly, it has become a vicious circle that needs to end.
Coronavirus; bringing out the best and the worst in humanity.
Coronavirus is bringing the best out in us; however, it is bringing the worst out in others, and vulnerable families with no support feel neglected and helpless.
As a community, we work together with Not-for-Profit Charities and Community organisations to relieve families in poverty. However, that only works if they know where these organisations are and what they must do to get help?
Verve works alongside Not for Profit Charities, creating campaigns such as the Knitting for Babies Appeal, The Bereavement Blankets Appeal and Emergency Food Parcels with Salford Food Parcels. These campaigns have been successful due to the kindness of people who came forward to help. We didn’t ask for money; we asked for items that families needed now, like knitted baby clothes and blankets. And they came by the thousands, and I have taken them directly to local SureStart centres, community centres, and Mother & Baby units to ensure they went where Mums needed them most.
The kindness of strangers makes a difference in the smallest of ways.
However, we do not do this alone. We can support families because of the kindness of strangers who have come forward to knit for Babies and keep them warm. They knit Bereavement blankets that comfort people critically ill in hospital with COVID; whilst bringing a smile to children with the beautiful, knitted toys they donate.
Recently, I collected a considerable amount of knitted clothes that a kind lady near me had donated. She had spent hours knitting because it helped her forget herself and her troubles, but she struggled to sew and finish them off. I told her, don’t worry, we’ll get this sorted out for you. And thanks to the ladies from the Glossopdale Charity Crafters knitting club who kindly offered their services to us, that’s precisely what is happening.
These women offer their support out of the kindness of their hearts; they are the best. Quite often, they have been in a comparable situation themselves; they understand only too well the failings we have as a society to protect our vulnerable. This understanding is the motivation that drives them to make a difference in the smallest ways, with kindness and love.
How can we help to restore pride with kindness and love?
There is no reason working families should have children in care because of poverty; we must do something about this. The smallest of differences made, such as a knitted baby’s blanket, would cost over £10.00 in a store; however, donated and hand-knitted blankets have two advantages. The first it’s saving Mum’s money which can go towards other things. Secondly, it restores pride because their baby looks beautifully warm and made with love.
Finally, children in care are waiting for foster carers to offer short term and emergency care until their parents get the help they need. Or go to family members under Special Guardianships or Kinship foster care. More importantly, a lack of local foster carers means children are moved out of the area, and sibling groups are separated.
Recruiting foster carers is a priority; however, we don’t need a spare bed for children. We need foster carers with space in their hearts and homes to support a child when they need you most, however long they need you. Also, we have to be mindful that children have families and, thankfully, need emergency or short-term foster care until they go back to the communities they belong to.
‘Even the smallest gesture of kindness makes an enormous difference when you are at your lowest ebb. Many of us have been there; we know how it feels. However, together, we can all get back up again; as families in a community. in which we belong.’
If you want to arrange a call about fostering with a Not for Profit Charity, contact us on the form below. There is no cost and no commitment, just honest advice on the fostering process and criteria; hopefully, this will enable you to make the decision fostering easier if you have clarity. Can you foster? | <urn:uuid:5efec105-beb6-4e2a-9107-bc067c51db97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ververecruitment.org/poverty-is-one-of-the-reasons-why-vulnerable-children-are-in-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.967646 | 2,064 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The most common types of adoption agreements are open, semi-open, and closed. Each of these agreements affect you and your child differently. With an open and/or semi-open adoption agreement, fostering a relationship with your child’s birth parents is important. This is the biggest distinction between open and closed agreements. Given the open nature of this adoption agreement, the child can explore their background more freely. However, when discovering they are adopted, children often need support and reassurance. There are helpful tips from both the birth and adoptive parent viewpoint to consider at each stage in the adoption journey.
Before Placement – From a Birth Parent’s Perspective
Before you place your child, try to form a relationship with the adoptive parents and have a clear understanding about how involved you would like to be in the child’s life. You guys can plan the first couple of visits with each other. Talk about the frequency of visits, photographs, and updates during the child’s life. Of course these plans may change as the child gets older, but do your best to be understanding and flexible with the situation at hand. If both parties are consistent, this will also offer peace of mind to the child(ren).
After Placement – From a Birth Parent and Adoptive Parent’s Perspective
“I just placed my child up for adoption, now what?!” After placing your child in an adoptive parents’ care, there are a ton of questions running through a birth mother’s head about what’s next: “Will they stick to our agreement?” “Is my child going to understand my decision?” “What can I do to make this experience better?” With so many lingering questions, it is easy to be overwhelmed with emotions. Remember, you are not alone in this situation. There are other birth parents experiencing these same feelings.
As the adoptive parent(s), be sensitive to the birth parent(s)’ emotions. They have empty arms, changing hormones, bodily pain, and potential postpartum depression. While on the other end, as the adoptive parent(s), you are filled with excitement because of your new addition to the family. Keep in mind the grief the birth parent(s) may be feeling at this time, so don’t be alarmed if they begin to pull away. Try to be sensitive to their feelings and respect their needed time and/or space.
If They (The Birth Parents) Begin to Become Distant
Don’t feel at all offended when a birth parent seems to be become distant or taking time for themselves. This could be a very confusing time for them and they may be feeling a sense of grief or anger. This is very normal in most adoption cases and can occur at any time, even years after the adoption.
Although they maybe distant and pulling away, keep the lines of communication open. They may not respond, but that is okay. Seeing that you put forth effort may encourage them to respond eventually. It is important to not bombard them repeatedly. Have patience and reassure them that they are welcome in their child’s life.
Stay In Touch
In the adoption journey, it is good to stay in touch, keeping in mind that the birth mother is no different than anyone else. Most likely, they have their own issues and events in their lives. There is no harm in becoming a friend to them. Do your best to show that you are interested in their lives and care about what is going on. If you are both comfortable, set a date where just the two of you go out for lunch or meet in the park. This can be a great way for you to get to know each other better and bond over things you have in common.
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AN orphaned baby squirrel is recovering after a dog returned to it’s owner – with the tiny mammal in its mouth.
The week old red squirrel kit is thought to have fallen out of a tree in woodland in Inverness.
The Scottish SPCA is now looking after the animal, who has been named Squirrelly, at their National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross.
Squirrelly was picked up by a dog
Centre manager Colin Seddon said, “Squirelly really struggled when he first came in but he is now feeding well.
“It’s likely he has fallen out of a tree as he is too young to be by himself.
“He’s being syringe-fed every two to three hours, between 6am and 11pm, and he’ll then be moved on to solid food.
The tiny mammel is being fed by a syringe
“Soon we’ll be keeping handling to a minimum to ensure he doesn’t become tame.
“Squirrelly will stay with us until he’s about ten weeks old and he’ll then be released back into the wild.”
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Colorado Springs Commercial Backflow Testing
Property managers need to install and maintain backflow prevention devices to avoid contaminating water supply. These devices prevent unclean water from flowing back into a city’s drinking water. Your backflow prevention device should be tested and inspected annually and replaced when needed.
How to Know if You Need Backflow Testing
Yearly backflow testing in Colorado Springs is mandatory. Beyond conducting annual testing, here are common warning signs of contamination:
- Strange water taste or smell
- Discolored water from faucets
- Slow water flow
- Sediments in water from portable sources
What to Expect from Leo’s Sewer & Drain Cleaning
Our experts will conduct thorough testing on your commercial property’s backflow prevention devices. We use sophisticated tools to check for issues like irregular gauge movement and leaks and confirm whether valves are working optimally. If issues are detected, we determine whether you need a device replacement or repair.
Our plumbers understand how crucial it is for you to prevent the water from your commercial property from cross-contaminating. We are skilled in offering the best services and boosting your confidence with quality backflow testing services. We are also certified to handle all your backflow prevention needs.
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Our gardens are beautiful and can be an excellent way to put our eco friendly green thumbs to work. But plants need water, and lots of it. If it doesn’t rain regularly, that usually means using the hose or sprinklers. Unfortunately this is very wasteful of water–it runs off where it isn’t needed, it evaporates, it’s easy to over-water, and so on.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to store water when it isn’t needed, and then release it automatically when you do? Well there is.
I’m talking about Terra-Sorb water crystals. These are absorbent crystals designed to absorb up to 200 times their weight in water. When buried under and around plants, they absorb water when it rains and is not otherwise needed, and then slowly release the water as plants need it. Not only does this cut the need to water your plants, but it also reduces the loss of nutrients and fertilizers through run-off.
The water crystals are small, are made out of non-toxic potassium-based polymers, and last up to five years. They eventually break down into fertilizer that keep your plants going strong. They’re small and can be mixed either into garden soil or into your containers.
Water saving crystals are widely used, especially by cities in order to preserve landscaping in drought-prone or heat-stressed situations like city parks and traffic medians. Plant survival rates are very impressive even in environments like the very arid, dry Australian countryside.
The best way to use water crystals is by planting them under the plant when you first put it in your garden. If you want to add them to existing plants, cover the crystals with soil around the plant rather than digging up the whole plant. Direct exposure to sunlight may reduce their effectiveness, so try to avoid that.
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Graduate students: apply for the Ontario Graduate Scholarship or the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology at your school’s graduate office. You can get $5,000 per term, to a maximum of $15,000 for an academic year.
What is the average for Ontario Scholar?
Ontario Scholar – An Ontario Scholar is a student who has an average of 80% in their top six grade 12 coded courses. It is not dependent on when these grade 12 courses were taken.
How many Ontario scholars are there?
To be an Ontario Scholar, students must achieve an average of 80% or higher on their top six Grade 12 courses. This year, 4,845 DPCDSB graduates earned this distinction.
What does it mean to graduate with scholars?
Tuesday, May 26, 2020.
Is Honour roll an award?
Awarded to students who have achieved 80% or higher in classes listed by the grade level requirements.
Do scholars still exist?
Most often they are permanent employees, and the position is often held by particularly distinguished scholars; thus the position is often seen as more prestigious than an ordinary full professorship.
What do you need to be an Ontario Scholar?
A student may be designated an Ontario Scholar if he or she satisfies both of the following requirements: He or she obtains an aggregate of at least 480 marks in any combination of ministry-approved Grade 12 courses that provide a total of six credits.
How do you graduate with honors in high school in Canada?
(1) Honours: Students earn an honours diploma upon graduation if they achieve an overall average of 80% in five subject areas (English, mathematics, science, social studies and an elective). have a minimum mark of 50% in each of the required courses. A student is awarded an academic high school diploma.
Why did they stop grade 13?
Combined with financially pressured school boards beginning to call for the abolition of grade 13 as a means of financial restraint, this resulted in the government reevaluating its secondary education system.
What are the Grade 8 grad Awards?
Excellence in Achievement Awards (Medals)
These awards are presented to grade 8 students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in English, French, Math, Science, History, Geography, Physical Education, Drama, Dance, Music and Visual Arts.
How much money is a full ride scholarship?
A typical bachelor’s degree takes four years. So, a full ride scholarship at these schools may be worth averages of $67,028 (public), $172,260 (private nonprofit) and $95,104 (private for profit). Of course, if it is a full ride, it may provide funds for other expenses too.
Do Presidential Scholars get money?
What can I win? Unlike other scholarship programs, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program does not award a monetary scholarship. Instead, students chosen as Presidential Scholar will receive an expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C. and are presented with a medallion at a special ceremony sponsored by the White House.
What is the lowest GPA for honor roll?
What is the Honor Roll? You are on the Principal’s Honor Roll if you earn an “A” in every class. You can still earn the regular Honor Roll if you earn all A’s and B’s with no more than one C. You must have at least one “A” if you have one “C” as your Grade Point Average (GPA) must be a 3.0.
What percentage is honors?
How Many Students Graduate with Honors? It’s hard to give an exact percentage because each school has its requisites. The percentage is between 20 and 30%, because that’s the range most schools use to determine if a student deserves the honors.
What Mark is Honours?
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And so as November comes around, the well-worn arguments about poppies arise from certain quarters so I thought I would put out there why I wear one. I don’t know why other people wear them, why other people wear white poppies and others will never wear them. They are all perfectly welcome to come to their own decision on the matter and I will not criticise them here or anywhere else.
Every year as I wear my poppy, I remember in particular the first world war in which three of my relatives participated. They were all volunteers – one might debate whether they were misguided, but for what ever reason, they felt they had to go.
My Grandfather was a career soldier so one imagines he approached this war in the same way he had all the others he had been involved in. I never met him but I did know he survived the war and eventually joined the Police when he left the army. I have his medals and they show he soldiered in many battles from the Punjab to South Africa. It is incredibly uncomfortable for me to see that the majority of these medals were won in the creation or defence of Empire. But that was what the country wanted its soldiers to do in those days.
I also had two Great Uncles who joined the army as Privates in that war. One managed to rise to the rank of Serjeant (yes, for some reason they spelled it with a ‘j’ in the Medical Corps). The other joined the Seaforth Highlanders. Both were killed in action within a few weeks of each other in 1915 – one on the Western Front in the aftermath of Neuve Chapell, the other at Gallipoli. My Great Uncles barely made it into their twenties – who knows what lives they could have had?
It is absurd to infer what my poppy shows that I thought any particular war was just. And it has nothing to do with nationalism or even patriotism. If anything, the opposite. I wear mine to remember how my grandmother lost her two elder brothers which devastated her. And how by all accounts my grandfather never really got over his experiences in the trenches. And how he was eventually killed in an air raid when my father was 13 years old. I wear it in remembrance of the thousands of people from city in which I live (Coventry) died in horrific circumstances during the fire storms. But also of their counterparts in Dresden and Hamburg not to mention Moscow, Warsaw and practically every city in Europe. I wear it to remember people I served with who were injured physically or mentally by their service. I wear it because veterans have never been treated well enough by government so the Royal British Legion and other charities are there to fill the gap.
But to me the real tragedy is that this is actually a very ordinary story because almost everyone in Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Turkey etc etc has a similar one to tell. I wear the poppy to remember them, their families and their friends. I hope that by making politicians take notice of the casualties of war every year. they might be more reluctant to send our young people to fight again. | <urn:uuid:634070ca-acf5-4807-82c2-fada6d8bb3d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://patricktissington.com/why-i-wear-a-poppy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.990716 | 638 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. In version 1.0 we have added an extra feature to SQL Data Generator that makes this situation work a bit better. What happend is if you have a unique constraint across several columns we detect that each of the columns do not have to be unique so we restart the generators. I will try to explain this a bit better but it is very hard to explain without a piece of paper :). Feel free to skip this bit if you just want the fix for your problem :).
If we have a generator that gives the values (a,b,c) and another generator that produces the values (1,2) and we have a unique constraint across two columns in the beta the follwoing would have happened
Then the generator on Col2 will run out of values so we only generate 2 values which is clearly incorrect as we can generate 6 values. So in the released version we detect that we can repeat the values in the generator as long as you do not get two rows the sames. I will not explain the algorithm here as it is not very interesting but what you should end up with in SDG version 1.0 is.
Which will give you all the possible values. So why is this not working for you. Well there is a bug in the current version (1.0) where it is not detecting that it can do the column restarts correctly. I will email you a patch that fixes this bug and if anyone else has this problem then please send me an email and I will give you the patch. It will be fixed in the next patch release. One important point to add is that all the generators that are assigned to columns that are part of the unique constraint must be set to "All Key Values are Unique" or the columns will not get restarted.
Now as you have noticed the skip rows feature does not detect duplicates and skip them. Unfortinatly we chouse a very poor name for this feature. This feature infact only detects when values are the wrong type or too wide from a column and skips thouse rows. I will definatly look at extending this feature to skip duplicate rows too I agree that it would make sense if it skipped rows that violated constraints were duplicate rows too. So sorry for our very poor naming of this feature. As a work around you can use the IGNORE_DUP_KEY when createing unqiue index and then the duplicate rows that SQL Data Generator produces will just silently get dropped and not stop the generation. It is a bit of a nasty hack but will work.
I hope that clarifies everything but if you have any more questions please ask as I do not think that was my best explanation ever.
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Infineon Technologies (Neubiberg, Germany) has started the production of its BGTx0 chipsets for wireless backhaul communication systems. The transceiver family provides a complete radio frequency (RF) front-end for wireless communication in 57-64 GHz, 71-76 GHz, or 81-86 GHz millimeter wave bands. Paired with a baseband/modem, the system solution:
- Requires less space.
- Offers improved reliability and lower cost for the critical wireless backhaul links needed in mobile base stations that support LTE/4G networks.
- simplifies system design and production logistics by replacing more than 10 discrete devices by a single device.
- Helps to reduce operating expenses in high data rate millimeter wave infrastructures.
The lead customer Sub10 Systems is currently qualifying BGT70 and BGT80 E-band transceivers for an FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) system. The targeted system supports a data rate of more than 1 Gbit/s with link distances of about 2.5 kilometers.
Each mobile communication standard uses specific frequency bands to transport data. Current standards operate below 43 GHz, known as microwaves. As future standards – like latest LTE/4G – will require more capacity and higher data rates, public authorities have released V- and E-band using millimeter waves. Network operators are expected to invest heavily in small cell infrastructures in the years ahead in order to provide mobile phone users with high speed internet and full network coverage.
For more information, please visit www.infineon.com
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What Goes into Building and Maintaining a Hiking Trail?
I have been building and maintaining trails since the early 1990’s in the Coast Mountains with the B.C. Mountaineering Club. Many of the trail building skills and techniques I have learned and developed over the years have been passed down from member to member in the field. In this article, I wanted to share with you some of what is involved in creating and maintaining a trail in the Coast Mountains.
Firstly, you cannot simply park your truck at the end of a logging road and start building a new trail. For any new trail, I first begin by carefully studying numerous topographic maps, and inspect satellite imagery closely to pre-plan the route. A reconnaissance trip to flag the planned route usually follows next. Once the proposed route for the new trail has been chosen, I must consult with Government officials and obtain permission for any trail to be constructed on crown land. This is known as obtaining a “Section 57” from the Ministry of Forest Lands and Natural Resource Operations. There are in fact very few official Section 57 backcountry hiking trails in the Sea to Sky Region (around 5 in fact). Obtaining a section 57 can be difficult. A written application is required with extensive mapping. After the application is submitted, consultation must happen with all parties who have an interest or stake in the area in which the trail will travel through (including and especially all First Nations).
In the case of the Watersprite Trail, due to soft ground, heavy rainfall, dynamic creeks, swamps and micro-terrain, I made sure that the trail would utilize old logging roads as much as possible. Micro-terrain refers to the subtle and complex features on the landscape that are too small to appear on topographic maps and on satellite imagery. Contending with Micro-terrain as a trail builder and planner requires great experience, intuition and knowledge and is a rare skill set.
Building the Trail
We first begin by clearing the logging roads and marking the planned route. The greatest menace is the mighty red alder, which rapidly grows in all directions like an octopus and can obliterate and choke any old logging in a few short years. A team of chainsaw and brush cutter operators (with a spinning steel disc saw at the end) takes the lead, while a team of “swampers” in the rear throws the fallen debris to the side of the trail. We also employ a wide variety of hand tools such as loppers, handsaws, axes, pry bars, etc. If the road is old and badly overgrown, this effort can be brutal work. As an example, on one badly overgrown road in the Skookum Valley, our team of 5 chainsaws operators, two brush cutters and supporting swampers were only able to clear a pitiful 300 meters of road per day.
Once the trail has been “punched through” and the route established, which can take a dozen day trips or more, the next step is to enhance and upgrade the trail.
Upgrading the trail for the masses
As the number of hikers has exploded in recent years, and the number of destinations has decreased due to a decline in access resulting from forest road loss and deterioration, the use impacts on any new trail that the public has become aware of is enormous. Heavy foot traffic will rapidly turn a small mud puddle into a sea of muck in a single year. A steeper section of trail where the ground is not stabilized will rapidly lose all its top soil and will become a mucky and slimy root-ladder is short order (there are many fine examples of this out there). To mitigate these problems, we drain the water by digging cross ditches. Where this is insufficient, boardwalk may be required. Boardwalk however is laboursome and expensive as we have to purchase and carry in all of the materials. Steep sections of trail are stabilized with stairs created using lumber that is supported by vertically pounded rebar which are then backfilled using shovels.
Bridges must be built across the larger creeks, but these also present challenges. Firstly, we cannot fall trees for materials as this is illegal and requires a timber license. For bridges, we must find naturally fallen material and haul them into place over the creek. To make things more challenging, different woods rot at different rates, therefore we choose only naturally fallen red and yellow cedar whenever possible. This requires the use of Come Along Cable Puller systems, chainsaws, pry bars and a lot of physical might. We also have to construct gabions (piles of rocks or stacked logs) on each bank to support the logs/beams, and hammer the logs into the ground and the gabions using sledge hammers and long sections of rebar (with pre-drilled holes using a hand drill). This is of course a large operation. Decking is then added to the bridges, along with non-slip asphalt roofing pre-cut into strips to prevent nasty falls on wet days.
Every year the snow bends over a large amount of alder and falls timber on the trail (known as deadfall). New mucky sections appear and damage from heavy traffic needs to be addressed. Before the leaves appear on the alder and as the snow first retreats, we typically do a clearing run with the brush cutters and hand loppers. Sometimes, we even have to deal with landslides, slope failures, or damaged trail infrastructure. We typically perform this work in both the spring and the fall. As in the construction of the trail, yearly maintenance is a multi-day effort.
Final thoughts from a Trail Crew Chief
I often encounter complaints on social media about the condition of a trail that I am responsible for (such as the new Watersprite Like Trail which is still under construction and undergoing major upgrades) and wanted to provide my perspective. I take personal pride in making sure the trails I am responsible for are in the best shape they can be in. That being said, I and the members of my crew are unpaid volunteers and the Coast Mountains are brutal and unforgiving in their treatment of any trail. As volunteer trail builders who have families, busy lives, and limited resources, we are doing the best we can, and I know that there is always more that could be done. We very often spend our own money to work on these trails sometimes a dozen or more times a year. We are deeply committed, and enjoy the work.
The explosion in the number of hikers and the promotion of hiking and the outdoor lifestyle, in addition to the power of social media to rapidly share the existence of a new trail (this combined with a serious shortage of quality hiking trails and destinations in the coast) has placed a serious burden on us trail builders. I also have concerns and worry about the safety and well being of the large number of unprepared hikers I see using our wilderness trails.
We need your help. You can do your part to help us by volunteering for a trail clearing trip, or donating to the BCMC trail building fund (known as the BCMC conservation fund).
Remember, that without us trail builders, there would be precious few hiking destinations. Imagine how unpleasant and crowded hiking to Garibaldi Lake or Joffre Lakes would be if those park trails were the only hiking destinations available to the public.
See you on the trail.
Chris Ludwig – BCMC Webmaster and Trail Building Crew Chief
Chris Ludwig has been and avid hiker, mountaineer and trail builder in the BC Coast Mountains for over 25 years. He currently serves as the Webmaster, Conservation Chair and Volunteer Trail Crew Chief for the B.C. Mountaineering Club. He is also the co-founder and Webmaster for the Garibaldi Park 2020 organization. | <urn:uuid:e50d4952-397f-4a15-a820-c9ff9510aed8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vancouvertrails.com/blog/trail-building-maintenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.962299 | 1,608 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Tony Abbott could make huge inroads into the deficit without increasing taxes, or reducing pensions and other benefits, the Greens claim, but it would involve taking on the most privileged sector of the economy, the big banks.
The balance of power party has commissioned updated modelling of its pre-election policy to charge the big four banks a small fee for the implied prudential guarantee they enjoy because the Australian government would not let them get into serious risk of default.
“Instead of levying people to balance the budget, the government should levy the big four banks," said Greens deputy leader and finance spokesman, Adam Bandt.
The modelling by the independent Parliamentary Budget Office, found that almost $11 billion could be raised for the Commonwealth over the four-year budget period through the imposition of a 20 basis point levy (0.2 per cent) on bank assets above $100 billion.
Mr Bandt, said the policy made sense because the big banks enjoyed a competitive advantage in raising the wholesale funds they need to on-loan to customers because their superior credit ratings reflected the fact that they would not be allowed to fail by the Australian government.
“The taxpayer is effectively underwriting their operations, which in turn allows the big banks to source money more cheaply on domestic and international markets," Mr Bandt said.
“It’s a loan guarantee worth billions of dollars and it’s the kind of support Holden or Qantas would have loved.
“Tourism, manufacturing and small business don’t get to borrow cheaply by having their operations underwritten by the government, so why should the big four banks?"
The federal government stunned Qantas earlier this year when it first appeared to back, then backed away from, a request from the national carrier for a loan guarantee to help the airline rebuild its credit rating.
Treasurer Joe Hockey explained that decision as evidence the age of corporate entitlement was over.
The Greens' policy arose from an International Monetary Fund report titled: "A fair and substantial contribution to the financial sector: Final Report for the G20."
Mr Bandt said it would have a levelling effect in the market by helping the second tier financial institutions to become more competitive in loan pricing.
The PBO modelling concluded that charging the big four banks, NAB, CBA, ANZ, and Westpac a 20 basis point rate for the government backing, would net the federal budget $15.8 billion over the forward estimates but would also see a $5.1 billion decrease in company tax over this period.
Administration costs were predicted to be "mininmal" in the costing, which is rated as of "high reliability" due to the base of high quality up-to-date information and recent growth forecasts.
“The big four banks are making world-leading profits, thanks in large part to implicit support from taxpayers and the government," Mr Bandt said.
“If ‘the age of entitlement’ is over, surely the big four banks should pay their own way and meet the cost of these huge public subsidies.
“The beauty of a public support levy on the big banks only is that competitive pressures will prohibit them passing it on to customers."
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Further supplementary memorandum by the
Strategic Rail Authority (TYP 45B)
1. Which markets the 40-50 per cent growth
in passenger kilometres will be between peak and off-peak and
an indication of how much of this is expected to be mode-shift
and how much newly generated trips?
Peak and off-peak growth forecasts are only
produced for London and the South East, as Strategic Routes and
Regional services have less well defined peaks. Peak growth for
London and the South East is forecast to be in the range of 14-20
per cent over 10 years, and off-peak growth in the area by 30-54
per cent, depending on the particular market conditions and planning
developments within each franchise.
For the network as a whole, a review of research
on mode shift has indicated that between 30 per cent and 70 per
cent of new rail journeys are diverted from the road network,
depending upon the particular conditions of each franchise. The
SRA is continuing to develop, in conjunction with the Highways
Agency and other experts, this key area of research and review
its approach to determining the most appropriate value to use
in each particular case.
2. A breakdown of how much of the Plan is
attributed to each of the schemes identified on page 53 of the
As the SRA are in commercial negotiations with
private sector investors on many of the schemes at present, it
is not possible to provide a complete breakdown indicating how
much of the Plan is attributed to each scheme.
3. Why passenger kilometres rather than journeys
has been selected as the target for the Plan and whether there
has been a change from looking at journeys to passenger kilometres
over the life of the SRA?
The SRA's draft Directions and Guidance from
the Secretary of State include the targets in the Government's
10 Year Plan. It would be for the Department of Transport, Local
Government and the Regions to explain why the target is passenger
kilometres rather than passenger journeys. In our view, however,
passenger kilometres is a better intermediate measure than passenger
journeys of the contribution of increased rail use to the 10 Year
Plan's wider goals of reducing congestion, greenhouse gas emissions
etc. There has been no change as between passenger kilometres
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As a twelve year old girl, I came across the Space Invaders video arcade game and was mesmerized by the relentless thump-thump of the advancing aliens, the satisfying sound effects, and the addictive simplicity of the game play. Soon thereafter, I convinced my parents to buy my first computer, an Atari 400 with its awkward membrane keypad, and became entranced by the potential of building my own interactive experiences. I set out to teach myself the BASIC programming language and learned how to make pixels move around the screen. While I never developed a full-fledged video game, before I finished high school I went on to write a grading application for teachers at school, build a voice command interface demo at the local Army post, and teach at a computer summer camp.
After completing a Computer Science degree at Stanford University, I went on to work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. I found myself coding up algorithms and routines for this or that function within much bigger projects. The analytical puzzles kept me challenged, but it was less than fully satisfying. As part of a bigger team, I missed designing how the product would work, interacting with real users, and weighing which features were most important. I became drawn to management positions that would give me this broader purview, solving real problems and designing complete solutions. It is this tangible aspect of real world problem solving that I believe is key to engaging more girls and women (as well as boys and men) in technology -- make the work tangible and relevant.
Many girls and women who show an initial interest and aptitude for computer science find narrow coding tasks to be isolating and unfulfilling. Starting around junior high, girls start opting out of the field of computing and continue to opt out through high school, college, graduate school, and throughout their professional careers. Ominously, according to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, the percentage of computer science degrees awarded to women in the U.S. has declined from over 37% in 1984 to 18% in 2010. At more senior levels, the representation of women diminishes to 11% of corporate officer positions at Fortune 500 technology companies, 4% of senior management positions in technical/R&D departments in Silicon Valley companies, and only 8% of leaders of venture-backed start-ups.
This disparity not only undermines opportunities for women, but also exacerbates an economic imbalance as computing related jobs are growing at twice the rate of other jobs. In the U.S., the Department of Labor estimates that there will be more than 1.4 million new computing related jobs by 2018, and that half of those will go unfilled if current trends continue. The under-representation of women in computing fields is also a significant factor in women’s lower income levels. The World Bank has found that the wage gap between men and women is impacted more by the lower-paying job sectors women pursue than wage differences between similar jobs.
Early exposure to technology, curricula oriented around tangible problems rather than abstract concepts, visible role models, and peer support through girls’ camps or clubs have all been shown to improve the retention of girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) studies. Harvey Mudd College found that when they redesigned their mandatory introduction to computer science class to use tools that enabled students to write interesting and useful programs quickly, offered students the opportunity to attend a conference for women in computing, and provided hands-on research experiences, they more than doubled the percentage of women choosing to major in computer science.
Certainly, there are innate challenges for women working in the still largely male-dominated computing industry, and both overt and covert discrimination exist. At the same time, structuring both academic curricula and industry projects to embrace building complete solutions that meet real needs can make software development more fulfilling for women... and for men. It might even result in better designed and more usable products for us all. | <urn:uuid:89bd3407-444f-4c77-9b54-6bc9bab2a16a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2012/10/04/coding-not-just-guys-and-geeks?page=3&fontsize= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00508-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960304 | 796 | 2.1875 | 2 |
UNICEF is upgrading its digital schools, currently piloting in Uganda.
In Uganda, 40% of children drop out of primary school in part because they cannot afford the time and financial resources for schooling, and children have to remain in their communities to help with housework. Even for students who stay in school, there is no certainty of actual learning outcomes. On the other hand, teachers in rural schools cannot read and write English fluently. Teacher absenteeism is ranked the highest in the world at 35%, with teachers guaranteed to miss at least two days of work each week.
UNICEF Uganda’s mission is to create an environment where children have access to quality learning anytime, anywhere.
Digital School in a Box
As part of its portfolio to enhance the outcome of universal primary education in Uganda, UNICEF plans to set up 60 “Digital School in the Box” to reach the most marginalized groups. These digital schools, serving 100 to 200 children each, are set up in schools and health centers in rural communities where children spend most of their time so that they have access to quality education content 24/7 and are more prone to learning in a collaborative manner. Each digital school is built around a solar-powered laptop with Internet connectivity, a projector, a speaker and a document camera.
Goals and Scale
At present, UNICEF procures items (i.e. laptop, speaker, projector etc.) from different producers and assembles them into the box. This process can be onerous at times and may be hazardous in the long run when upgrades and repairs come into the picture. Thus, UNICEF would be interested in exploring collaborations to produce a technology innovation “integrated digital schools/digital school in a box” which will be manufactured and deployed in Uganda.
We have three specific goals:
Modify the design of current “digital schools”
Produce 50 upgraded “digital schools” in three to four months to pilot in Uganda
- Mass-produce “digital schools” in Uganda and explore functions besides education (such as health and entertainment)
These digital schools will bring quality learning to thousands of children in rural Uganda. Outcomes of the initiative may be scaled to the East African community and other countries supported by UNICEF’s global network.
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The Handwriting Is on the Wall
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.
When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.
And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of U.S. students who no longer get much handwriting instruction in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or less. As a result, more and more students struggle to read and write cursive.
Many educators shrug. Stacked up against teaching technology, foreign languages and the material on standardized tests, penmanship instruction seems a relic, teachers across the region say. But academics who specialize in writing acquisition argue that it's important cognitively, pointing to research that shows children without proficient handwriting skills produce simpler, shorter compositions, from the earliest grades.
Scholars who study original documents say the demise of handwriting will diminish the power and accuracy of future historical research. And others simply lament the loss of handwritten communication for its beauty, individualism and intimacy.
"It's like so many other things in our society -- there's a sense of loss for what once was," said Laura B. Smolken, a professor of elementary education and early childhood development at the University of Virginia.
At Keene Mill Elementary in Springfield, Debbie Mattocks teaches cursive once a week to her gifted-and-talented group of third-graders -- mainly so they can read it. All their poems and stories are typed. Children in Fairfax County schools are taught keyboarding beginning in kindergarten.
"I can't think of any other place you need cursive as an adult other than to sign your name," she said. "Cursive -- that is so low on the priority list, we really could care less. We are much more concerned that these kids pass their SOLs [standardized tests], and that doesn't require a bit of cursive."
Older students who never mastered handwriting say it doesn't affect their grades. "A lot of kids have just awful handwriting. . . . Teachers don't take off points for poor handwriting," said Matt Paragamian, a 10th-grader at St. Albans School in Northwest Washington. Many of his classmates take notes in class on their own laptops and do homework on computers.
Until the 1970s, penmanship was a separate daily lesson through sixth grade, said Dennis Williams, national product manager for Zaner-Bloser Handwriting, the most widely used penmanship curriculum. At its peak in the 1940s and '50s, most teachers insisted on as much as two hours a week, but a 2003 Vanderbilt University survey of primary-grade teachers found that most now spend 10 minutes a day or less on the subject. To adapt to this new reality, the Zaner-Bloser method has been changed to a 15-minute daily plan.
In Montgomery County, schools "don't have separate handwriting instruction for handwriting's sake," said spokesman Brian Edwards. Only a handful of schools in Prince George's County teach handwriting. Fairfax educators struggle to include penmanship.
"It is hard to fit it in," said Pat Fege, the county's language arts coordinator. The goal now is only to produce legible handwriting, Fege said. "It's just not the vehicle it once was." | <urn:uuid:824e6ba1-461d-4559-a6cd-515c9a64842e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001475.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00115-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966301 | 715 | 2.125 | 2 |
with holistic Oriental Medicine philosophies of promoting wellness
rather than curing illness, velvets primary use
is as a tonic to maintain general good health. Highly
trained Oriental Medicine Doctors prescribe velvet in combination
with a number of herbs, according to the treatment required.
Deer velvet antler
has been found to contain a variety of complex elements, including
amino acids (almost half of its substance), enzymes, minerals, vitamins,
fats, male and female hormones and leuteinizing hormone, and a very
potent growth-promoting hormone known as IFG-1 (insulin-like growth
In addition, deer
antler velvet is largely cartilage, whose many components include
chondroycytes, condroblasts, glucosamine, glycosaminoglycans, chondroitin
sulfate A, and prostaglandins.
Renewed sexual energy may be a pleasant side effect of improved wellness.Click
Here to find out more. Many of the traditional uses of velvet
are now becoming supported by western science. Research is ongoing,
assessing the degree of effectiveness in the following areas:
The immune system
Athletic performance and strength
effects on stress
role in growth
The effects on osteoporosis
role in arthritis
role in supporting animal health in horses and dogs.
Velvita IGF-1 Velvet Antler Extract is a exciting new product. Experience for yourself the powerful strengthening and energizing qualities of Deer Antler Velvet Extract in a spray for maximum potency and effectiveness. Velvita IGF1 is a standardized soluble formulation of the extract Pantocrinum, a natural material found in red deer antlers. The formulation procedure preserves all of the extract’s active ingredients in a pure form, a process that boosts the already high blood absorption rate of Velvita IGF-1 Spray.
Natural source of IGF-1 and growth hormones
Proven faster recovery from physical exertion and injury
Has anti-aging properties
Increase sexual performance
Higher energy levels
Increase muscular strength, endurance and lean body mass
Build a powerful immune system
Look and feel younger
More youthful skin and hair
Provides nutritional support for bone and joint structure and function
RESEARCH ON BENEFITS FOR SPORTS PEOPLE AND BODYBUILDERS -IMPROVED
NZ data suggested a positive effect of deer velvet antler for
weight training. The research has been repeated in the US. The
most crucial finding is that deer velvet antler significantly
increased strength in relation to body weight and most noticably
in the leg squat exercise. A second feature was that aerobic
capacity was also improved. See Research section for more details.
NEW RESEARCH ON WOUND HEALING PROPERTIES
research is highlighting the wound healing properties of deer
velvet antler. Scientists are seeking to find the factors in
deer velvet that promote blood vessel growth and apply them
to healing of particularily chronic wounds.
provided in the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of
1994 (DSHEA) allow for use of certain statements called "statements
of nutritional support." The use of nutritional support
statements must be substantiated by sufficient scientific research.
Nutrinfo Corporation, a well-established regulatory affairs consulting
firm in the dietary supplement business has reviewed the scientific
research on velvet antler and concluded that there is substantiation
to allow for the following nutritional support statement:
"nutritional support for joint structure and function"
The key ingredients in velvet antler associated with the support for
joints are collagen Type II and chondroitin sulfate.
have shown most of the carbohydrate in antler is proteoglycan, which
is a combination of protein and carbohydrate. The carbohydrate protein
is primarily glycosaminoglycan, of which chondroitinn sulphate is
by far the predominant constituent.
a protein, an important part of connective tissue, and is the most
common protein in the body. A report published by Nutrinfo, indicated
there is a significant body of scientific research which shows that
orally administered collagen may help relieve some symptoms of rheumatoid
arthritis for some people.
In general deer velvet antler may have
range of benefits.It may:
Help maintain good
Help maintain a
solid sense of wellbeing
Help support joint
structure and function
and find out for yourself
is Velvet Antler
Deer velvet antler is the antlers of male deer during the phase of rapid
growth so called because of the velvet-like covering of skin. Deer velvet
antler is living tissue which grows at a very fast rate of up to 2 cm/day
in some deer species. This means that cartilage, bone, and support tissues
such as nerves, blood vessels and hair follicles must also grow at this
phenomenal rate. Deer velvet is the only known mammalian organ that
regenerates in this way. The rate of growth would be the equivalent
of regrowing an arm in a matter of 60 to 90 days. How are deer able
to do this? What are the physiological changes that the animal goes
through? Because of this, scientists are actively researching the reasons
for such growth and seeking to exploit anterlers features for human
benefit. Check out some of the latest research
It may be that
the factors responsible for the rapid regeneration of the velvet antler
can explain the benefits of the product. These combined features of
velvet are likely to be caused either by unique regulatory substances
or substances found in other tissues but at lower levels. In a world
where natural medicines have achieved some prominence, its unique features
places velvet in an exclusive position of importance for improved human
Velvet antler is unique in that it grows each spring, is cast in the
late winter and is replaced the following spring by the same natural
process. Deer velvet antler is not only a product unique in the animal
kingdom but is it can be considered as a renewable resource. It can
be removed annually with no harm to the animal.
Velvet Is Endorsed by
Mr New Zealand
velvet gave me the extra edge."
introduced it as part of my training program to win the International
Federation of Body Builders, Mr New Zealand title."
Check out my book "Muscle Building Secrets Unleashed"
Antler Velvet is poised to be one of the most versatile multipurpose
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Michael Lowenthal's novel "Charity Girl" (Houghton Mifflin, 336 pages, $24) offers a shocking piece of hidden American history: During World War I, the U.S. government detained 30,000 women. More than 15,000 were locked up for indefinite periods to protect the soldiers who had given them venereal diseases. This happened to most without any charges for any offenses. In other words, most were not prostitutes.
Lowenthal tells the story through a delightful young woman, Frieda Mintz, who wraps bundles of fine purchases at Jordan Marsh in Boston. Frieda has run away from her mother and her mother's choice: an older, wealthy widower who wanted to marry 17-year-old Frieda so someone would take care of his children.
She meets an Army private, Felix Morse, while participating in an All-America Liberty Loan parade. She is part of the Jordan Marsh contingent of pretty girls wearing khaki trench caps and sashes that say "Brunettes and Blondes buy Liberty bonds."
Frieda can't both eat and pay the rent; she is always hungry. She and other "wage-earning girls -- vampers and laundry feeders, stenographers" are called charity girls because they allow the men they meet at dance halls to buy them drinks and food, and then, in return, offer a snuggle in the balcony (or more).
Frieda is dazzled by handsome and callow Felix, who later tests positive for syphilis at camp and gives her name as his last contact.
She loses her job after the appearance at work of the "hunch-shouldered and indignant" Mrs. Sprague, she of the Committee on Prevention of Social Evils Surrounding Military Camps. Frieda is told "more soldiers are hospitalized with social diseases than with battle wounds" and "if a soldier's hurt when he goes over the top, that's the price of freedom, and we'll pay it. But any man hit by this other kind of sickness -- well, he's crippled in his body and his soul."
When Frieda tries to reach Felix at camp, she is attacked by soldiers, then jailed.
Lowenthal never overplays his hand. Frieda and the women she meets -- other prisoners, the matron, elegant social worker Alice -- capture our interest and concern. And jaunty Frieda strives to learn and grow. | <urn:uuid:c84d2a33-40e5-4953-881d-68d0f330d6d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-07-19/features/0707170353_1_frieda-mintz-charity-girls-jordan-marsh | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00308-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967901 | 504 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The photo above is Mark Ronson on a Thursday night at TED, in the midst of teaching a four-hour seminar in pop music history. Working backward and forward in time, he proved to a sweaty crowd how everything with a beat is connected to everything else. Old heads in the audience broke into horrible, grimacing dances when he dropped Diana Ross’ 1980 hit “Upside Down” … and as Ronson played newer and newer songs that used the Nile Rodgers-powered sample, bringing it forward across the next 34 years, the younger people in the crowd picked up that energy. “We got it from here, grandma,” they seemed to say. (Aw, thanks, kid.)
The way musicians internalize and repeat other people’s music has never been so easy to hear as it is now; recorded samples (and audio search algorithms) make it simple to spot the borrow. But musicians have been refactoring each other’s work as long as there’s been music. Brahms offered a theme and variations on Haydn, Saint-Saëns on Beethoven, and really every working musician has done it — when you play a piece of music to the point that it lives inside your fingers as well as your brain, it’s immensely satisfying to flip it and reverse it. In Emily Guendelsberger’s legendary essay on Blues Traveler’s “The Hook” (stay with me), she describes her thoughts one Sunday while playing a piano version of Pachelbel’s Canon in D for an endless communion service, while slightly hungover; atop the mindlessly familiar repeating chords she starts playing pop hit after pop hit, trying to keep from going insane, the choruses pouring from her fingers while her mind soars through music history — to eventually land on a new appreciation of a frat-rock classic.
There was another impulse at work during Ronson’s Thursday night set too: the near-physical urge to play a song you love to someone else. One pleasure of watching a great DJ work is how he or she looks when they drop something that you will L.U.V. Playing a great song, preferably on great big speakers, is one of the pure pleasures of being connected to someone else, whether it’s a crowd or one person. Like the final scene in High Fidelity, there’s a physical joy in imagining someone else listening to a song you love.
And it’s a different urge from that of playing your own music. In fact, in that Thursday set, one of Ronson’s biggest fans asked him to play her favorite song off one of his own records. He shyly declined: “No one wants to hear my shit!” Not true, but he read the room right — instead of the one-to-many communication of artist to audience, we were engaged in a mesh network of mutual love for other people’s music, letting it flow through the DJ’s hands and our bodies just as hip-hop artists let the great old samples flow through their brand-new songs.
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