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For women, gender inequalities is still evident in a variety of professions, including scientific research. In a recent study, released in the journal Family Practice, researchers found that women were less likely to be published in biomedical papers, outweighing men in other areas as well, by a drastic margin.
The study aimed to probe the extent of gender inequalities in research, particularly in general biomedical journals, based on the available data. “Many studies examined gender inequalities in research, but only a few data are available for general biomedical journals,” wrote Paul Sebo, the study’s lead author.
“We assessed the prevalence of female first authorship in general biomedical journals and examined its variations across a number of author, article and journal characteristics.”
For the study, Sebo, a Swiss researcher, and his team analyzed 767 articles from 2016 published in distinguished journals associated with healthcare and general internal medicine.
“We extracted the following data: author (gender, number of publications and affiliation of the first author), paper (number of authors, number of participants and study design) and journal characteristics (journal discipline and 2015 impact factor),” the findings declared. “We compared the proportion of articles authored by women and men using univariate and multivariate logistic regressions adjusted for intra-cluster correlations.”
According to the findings, researchers concluded that female authorship in the papers examined was less prevalent compared to their counterparts. In the female first authorship proportion, women were the result of 48%, or 366 articles, with more women published in primary health care journals (63%) than general internal medicine journals (33%).
The findings also determined that female authorship in published journals were more likely to be affiliated with academic institutions in the Western world. Among women, qualitative studies were favored more than experiments or systematic reviews.
“The underrepresentation of women in articles published by general internal medicine journals, in articles from the non-Western world and in systematic reviews and trials should be addressed,” the study concluded. | <urn:uuid:19becf32-3d72-43fc-9d5b-c097824e188f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mentaldaily.com/article/2020/01/researchers-find-a-lower-prevalence-of-female-authorship-in-research-publications | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.959689 | 418 | 2.71875 | 3 |
With immense gratitude and love, we honor and remember our dear friend, Rosalind Peterson, who passed away in February 2018.
Ms. Peterson was a leader and warrior in the fight to protect our environment, nature and people from the harm of GeoEngineering, weather modification, and other environmentally destructive programs. Her vast library of source materials, documents and scientific information is available for all who would like to research and learn more @:
Rosalind’s powerful contributions for this cause and her dedication to win this battle, will continue in our work going forward 4ZERO GEOENGINEERING as we keep moving into other USA states and internationally in support of her groundbreaking legislation.
In March 2017, Rosalind co-authored one of the first bills introduced into a USA state (RIH6011) that would provide public oversight and strong regulatory prohibition to include fines and penalties for GeoEngineering, weather modification, cloud seeding, and other forms of violence against the Earth. Her goal was to draft a document that could be suitably adapted for other states and nations to protect agriculture, economies and all life from GeoEngineering.
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Michelle Antelo was born and raised in Miami but has never lived anywhere else. After learning Spanish at home from her Cuban parents, she always thought her English, which she learned at school, was up to American standards.
But, as many Miamians have learned, her way of speaking stuck out around people from places other than Miami. When Antelo was a cheerleader in high school, her Broward County teammates told her she sounded different.
“They would always do that thing that people ask you to do when you’re from another country--like, ‘oh, say toilet,’ and I’ll be like, ‘toilet,’” Antelo remembers. But she never thought she had an accent.
Over generations, Miamians have certainly developed a distinct way of speaking, influenced by various waves of immigration. This accent, which experts call the Miami dialect, can make Miamians stand out--and even attract a certain stereotype.
Lisa Jeffrey: Accent Coach
Accent coach Lisa Jeffery works with people who want to learn to speak with a standard American accent--to switch their Miami pronunciation off, temporarily. Most of her clients come for professional reasons.
The Miami accent, with its Latin rhythm, Spanish-influenced vowels, and its heavy “L,” strikes non-Miamians as “cutesy-wootsy.” Jeffery says that people associate this accent with the public image of Miami.
To test her theory, Jeffery asks people what Miami would be like if it were a person.
“Would it be a male or a female? The answer is always the same. ‘Oh, a female.’ And what would Miami look like? She would be hot. With the short skirt and the vivacious Latin accent,” Jeffery explains. “Now, that is perfect for girls going to party on South Beach because it is so cute. It’s the cutest in the country, I’d say. But once they get jobs and become professionals, it’s not so popular.”
In addition to the pronunciation features that pervade their speech, Miamians tend to pepper their sentences with “likes” and end them in “upspeak,” making statements sound like questions. These features can make speakers seem unconfident and overly cute--in short, unprofessional.
Having an accent can have a significant effect on the way someone is treated. A 2010 study by the University of Chicago found that Americans are less likely to trust people with accents that sound foreign. To people from other parts of the country, a Miami accent might sound foreign.
With Miamians, it's often not just pronunciation, but also vocabulary, that stands out, Jeffery says. Some colloquialisms common in Miami that aren’t exactly correct according to the Queen’s English--such as “supposably,” “irregardless,” and “libary”--can be grating to employers. There’s even a distinct body language associated with it, with Miamians rolling their eyes or craning their necks as they try to think of a word.
People with accented speech can even be held to a higher standard of speaking correctly, Jeffery explained. When accented speakers say “gonna” or “wanna,” it is more noticeable than when people who speak with the general American accent use these terms. She tells her clients to catch their contractions, and learn to speak more correctly than the typical American does.
Her clients include businesspeople, lawyers, broadcasters and actors. Sometimes employers refer their new hires to Jeffery or call her directly. Having an unusual accent can be especially limiting for an actor’s career.
Cedric Dumornay: Actor
One of Jeffery’s clients, Cedric Dumornay, is an actor who lives in West Palm Beach and works in Miami. He was asked to reduce his accent after he was discovered by Disney. A producer in Los Angeles told him that, with his Miami accent, he would be typecast for Caribbean or Hispanic roles.
Dumornay has been taking lessons from Jeffery for two years to learn to speak with a standard American accent. He says he gets more roles now, and doesn’t get the kind of different treatment that people who speak with an accent tend to get in social situations.
Learning to speak without one’s native accent takes a lot of repetition--and, above all, sheer will. If a client doesn’t really want to shed the accent, it simply won’t happen, Jeffery says.
But people who pursue accent training never lose their native accent entirely, Jeffery says. Instead, they learn to code-switch. They keep the Miami accent, and they develop the ability to put the standard American accent on when they choose to.
But having an accent isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and not all Miamians feel they have a reason to lose it. Antelo, who’s also an actor, says having a distinctive accent can be a benefit, by making her stand out in a casting office.
“[The fact] that they can see I have some kind of culture to me makes me more interesting, just by me opening my mouth. I think it’s like putting seasoning on a steak,” Antelo said. She has no plans to reduce her accent.
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24 Apr 2018
A team of researchers from the University of the Sunshine Coast is visiting Charleville this week to unearth information about a top-secret United States Air Force base that was considered the last line of defence for Australia against the Japanese in World War II.
Associate Professor in Tourism Brent Moyle is leading the team, which is working alongside Griffith University academics in a three-year project to create a virtual tour of the Charleville airfield circa 1942 when it became the terminal for heavy bomber aircraft from the USA.
Dr Moyle recently received a $700,000 Advance Queensland Fellowship from the State Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation for this project to design, develop and evaluate immersive digital heritage tourism experiences to preserve the region’s unique and charismatic World War II and aviation heritage.
“Many wartime remains are still visible at the airfield, including an aircraft hangar, the radio tower and a concrete shed that housed the top-secret Norden bombs fitted to the US aircraft, with debate continuing about whether other relics are buried at the site,” he said.
Among the researchers is Chris Little from Griffith University who is using non-invasive methods for 3D capture of historical artefacts that will be used to help develop interactive virtual experiences.
“This research presents an immense opportunity to open windows into the past, exposing greater knowledge around the sites themselves and sharing their hidden stories,” Dr Alexandra Bec, also from USC, said.
“Investing in this project offers the Charleville community and Murweh Shire Council enhanced commercial benefits for the region. Virtual tourism has been shown as a powerful tool to enhance visitor numbers.”
Dr Moyle said using augmented and virtual reality systems to “bring the sites back to life” had strong potential to boost tourism in Charleville.
The research project will have three stages over three years, starting with the collection of stories and memorabilia associated with the World War II site. It will be followed by design work for prototype virtual experiences, then an evaluation of the experiences developed.
- Terry Walsh
Spider venom could be key to stopping devastating honeybee mite4 Jul
A University of the Sunshine Coast researcher is investigating whether spider and scorpion venoms have the potential to save Australia’s honeybees from the invasive and deadly varroa mite parasite.
Guy gamers keen to play female lead: USC research8 Jun
University of the Sunshine Coast research is debunking the ‘boys will be boys’ myth in video games – showing most men are keen to play as a female lead character.
Jaws hold crucial insights into fate and future of tiger sharks17 May
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LAS VEGAS — “NextUp,” an initiative aimed at recruiting and empowering a younger, better-trained workforce for the kitchen and bath industry, has been launched by the National Kitchen & Bath Association.
The jobs initiative, unveiled at January’s Kitchen & Bath Industry Show in Las Vegas, will see the NKBA work closely with educators and students interested in pursuing careers in the residential design and construction industry, which is currently experiencing a significant dearth of qualified young workers, the Hackettstown, NJ-based trade association said.
“Unfilled jobs in the design and construction industry may be attributed to consistent messages to students and their parents that the most accessible path to success starts with a four-year college degree,” said NKBA Chief Executive Officer Bill Darcy. “Four-year college degrees are one way, but not the only way.
“To attract the best talent,” Darcy said, NKBA’s NextUp program “will engage with a wide network of students who have interest, curiosity or an entrepreneurial drive that is more compatible with a hands-on career in the kitchen and bath industry, so they are aware of the many paths to success.”
According to the NKBA, “hundreds of thousands” of construction jobs are currently going unfilled each month in the design and construction trade. A stagnant workforce “adversely affects the kitchen and bath industry,” as projects take longer to finish, and longer timeframes “mean that fewer projects can be completed,” the association noted.
The NextUp program, according to the NKBA, will approach the problem in three ways:
- Creating hands-on experiences that introduce high school students to the craft of design and construction through six interactive kitchen and bath career simulations that feature exercises in finish carpentry, installation, kitchen and bath design, plumbing, electrical and showroom design. Also featured will be a “Kitchen of the Future” and a STEM Kitchen Robot competition at a middle school near NKBA headquarters.
- Changing “the dialogue” about career paths students can pursue after high school graduation that are alternatives to the traditional four-year college degree path, (thus) “raising awareness that there are many pathways to lucrative and stimulating work creating safe, beautiful and functional spaces in the heart and soul of the home.” The message, said NKBA officials, will be communicated through a national awareness campaign targeting young adults, their parents, educators and other influencers.
- Connecting “interest to action” through NKBA chapters charged with building networks of local kitchen and bath design talent.
“We know we have a big job ahead of us to attract the best possible talent that will contribute to the future prosperity and vibrancy of the kitchen and bath industry,” Darcy said. “It’s a tall order, but exactly what a trade association is designed to do: raising the level of professionalism by inspiring, leading and empowering each member of our community.” | <urn:uuid:4aa019b9-b5d6-4a1d-bbb5-65ebb9b7049a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kitchenbathdesign.com/nkba-program-aimed-at-recruiting-young-workforce-to-design-construction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.949734 | 633 | 1.898438 | 2 |
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a librarian. I know, an odd ambition, but when I looked at what they did all day (or what I thought they did) it seemed like the perfect job. I sat around and handed out books, and maybe had to put a few away now and then, which just seemed like an opportunity to spend time with some of my best friends. This was my illusion, right until I sat down with a librarian and made that fateful comment. “It must be so nice to sit around and check out books all day.” I’d like to say she laughed, that she didn’t sigh heavily and roll her eyes at me, but that’s not what happened. “Son, let me tell you what we ACTUALLY do… Because it’s far more than you thought.”
What? They Don’t Just Check Out Books?
Not even close. The job a library worker does is incredibly involved, and really touches on a lot more aspects of your experience than you’d imagine. Sure, the foundation of their job is loaning library materials and collect and record returned materials, including making sure you brought them back in the shape they left in.
But all those activities that happen at your local library? Guess who gets to plan those and make them come about? The library computer system that you use to find your favorite books, enjoy your favorite website, or print out that school report? Yeah, Librarians tend to do Tech Support as well. They can even help you find the resources when you’ve got that important project at school due and you can’t find anything on your chosen subject.
They’re kind of the Gods of Information, and they have been since before the Information Superhighway had its first bit of cable laid.
That’s… Kind of a lot
Yeah, it really is. It should come as no surprise that Library Worker Day is a thing, and these hard working men and women of the libraries of the world deserve our respect and recognition for this wonderful thing they do.
While they may not be working with Card Files anymore, it’s important to remember that at some point, a legion of these dedicated individuals had to transfer millions of these cards into the database you now search with comfort and relaxation from your computer desk. So this Library Workers Day, maybe take a minute to remind them just how appreciated they are. They may even forgive some late fees… maybe.. | <urn:uuid:762ff8af-1c3a-4b40-b694-fb9ec09802b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.daysoftheyear.com/blog/heros-of-the-written-word-library-workers-day-cometh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00381-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977634 | 525 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Greener fleet: SEA Electric’s truck donated to the Salvos might be an early prototype, but it is expected to easily manage the charity’s suburban delivery runs and save two tonnes in CO2 emissions each year.
SEA Electric donates EV truck to Salvos Stores as Australia Post trials Fuso eCanter
THE Salvation Army and Australia Post have added a full-electric truck to their respective vehicle fleets to assess the viability of switching to a zero-emissions powertrain for urban delivery services.
For the Salvos, Australian EV powertrain specialist SEA Electric has donated one of its early prototype trucks – based on a Smith Electric Vehicles ‘Newton’ model with an Avia chassis – that makes Salvos Stores the first charity retailer in Australia to have an electric vehicle on its distribution fleet.
Australia Post, meanwhile, has become the first Australian company to trial Fuso’s eCanter, which uses a powertrain developed by parent company Daimler and is billed as the world’s first electric truck from a major automotive OEM.
Speaking to GoAuto at the handover ceremony of the SEA-badged medium-duty truck at its Noble Park distribution centre in Melbourne’s outer southeast last week, Salvos Stores acting managing director Eva Zelos and general manager of operations Neil Lund said the electric truck would be a significant testbed as the organisation looked to develop a purchasing policy for its delivery vehicle fleet.
The national fleet stands at 84 vehicles working out of 14 distribution centres and servicing 331 stores across Australia. The vehicles make runs between household collection points and the distribution centres and stores, as well as deliveries to customers via its burgeoning Op Shop Online run through eBay.
Mr Lund acknowledged that the SEA vehicle, which is worth an estimated $50,000, was an early prototype which means its driving range is limited to about 150km between charging, but said it would be used within its limitations and posed no issues of range anxiety given its workload typically involved only short distances, stop-start driving (allowing for battery regeneration) and back-to-base runs.
Recharging to a “useable level” should take about six hours from the distribution centre’s three-phase power supply, and Mr Lund said there was scope for the vehicle to be upgraded with one of SEA Electric’s constantly evolving drivetrains that offer more power and a circa-300km range.
Currently, the electric motor produces 120kW.
“When we say it’s a testbed vehicle, we know that there are limitations to the range, and we know that we would look forward to greater range with (future) new vehicles,” he said.
Ms Zelos added that, as it stands, the truck should help the organisation reduce its CO2 emissions by about two tonnes each year. She also said that in Victoria alone, Salvos Stores made more than 40,000 deliveries a year.
Over at Australia Post, the Fuso eCanter joins a fleet of more than 2200 EVs on the road with the national postal service – primarily electric postie bikes and trikes making ‘last-mile’ deliveries – and will operate in Sydney’s CBD “over the coming weeks” before being returned to the manufacturer “for internal evaluation”.
As GoAuto has reported, Australia Post has also previously run trials with electric vans in Australia, including Renault’s Kangoo EV.
Australia Post’s general manager of transport and aviation, James Dixon, said the eCanter trial would “gauge the vehicle’s suitability for the business during customer pickups and deliveries” as part of its commitment to making its operations more efficient and sustainable, including through the use of electric vehicles.
Daimler has built about 150 Fuso eCanters and conducted trials in various cities including London, Tokyo, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and Lisbon.
The 7.5t truck is powered by a 115kW/390Nm AC synchronous electric motor and uses six Mercedes-sourced 360V 82.8kWh lithium-ion battery packs that offer a driving range of about 100km.
It can be charged to 80 per cent capacity in less one hour with a Type 2 charger, and needs eight hours for a full recharge using a standard domestic socket. READ MORE
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|Lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy and as a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire.|
- “Arthur, Chester Alan,” in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
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by Patrick Bond
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Durban, South Africa
August 28, 2013
The northern hemisphere summer has just peaked and though the torrid heat is now ebbing, it is evident the climate crisis is far more severe than most scientists had anticipated. The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a notoriously conservative research agency – will be debated in Stockholm next month, but no one can deny its projections:
“widespread melting of land ice, extreme heat waves, difficulty growing food and massive changes in plant and animal life, probably including a wave of extinctions.”
Even worse is coming, for a giant Arctic Ocean “belch” of 50 billion tonnes of methane is inexorably escaping from seabed permafrost, according to scientists writing in the journal Nature. North Pole ice is now, at maximum summer heat, only 40 per cent as thick as it was just 40 years ago, a crisis only partially represented in the vivid image of a temporary “lake” that submerged the pole area last month.
The damage that will unfold after the burp, according to leading researchers from Cambridge and Erasmus Universities, could cost $60 trillion, about a year’s world economic output. Global warming will speed up by 15-35 years as a result.
With these revelations, it is impossible to mask the self-destructive greed of fossil-fuel firms and their carbon-addicted customers. The ruling crew in the United States, Russia and Canada will enthusiastically let oil companies exploit the soon-to-be ice-free Arctic summers with intensified drilling, joined by unprecedented bunker-fuel-burning in the newly opening shipping lanes. | <urn:uuid:295e2c69-37aa-4e13-a730-f36b44c2d1c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/extreme-weather-more-extreme-greenhouse-gas-emissions-beckon-urgent-activism-by-patrick-bond/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00296-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931646 | 352 | 2.453125 | 2 |
In a non-stick skillet, put a little oil, heat and place the fish, turning it over and cook until tender.
For poor people, daily food—just staples, not “luxury” items like meat or fish—can consume as much as two-thirds of their income.
For a while we sit quietly digging through pieces of fish, the tiny bones getting stuck in our teeth.
Rich Cohen on the unlikely twists of history he discovered in writing his new book, The fish That Ate the Whale.
“We threw out a couple hundred pounds of fish, easily,” said Waltzer.
You cannot deceive me regarding the varieties of fish that come in cans.
This was certainly a fact; the fish had come by the coach the next morning.
They emblazoned the crocodile on their monuments, but never a fish.
A fish doesn't know anything about death; so he has no fear of it.
Why, there is that Irish boy; I wonder if he wouldn't sell us some fish?
Old English fisc, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German fisc, Old Norse fiskr, Middle Dutch visc, Dutch vis, German Fisch, Gothic fisks), from PIE *peisk- "fish" (cf. Latin piscis, Irish iasc, and, via Latin, Italian pesce, French poisson, Spanish pez, Welsh pysgodyn, Breton pesk).
Fish story attested from 1819, from the tendency to exaggerate the size of the catch (or the one that got away). Figurative sense of fish out of water first recorded 1610s.
Plural fish or fishes
Any of numerous cold-blooded vertebrate animals that live in water. Fish have gills for obtaining oxygen, a lateral line for sensing pressure changes in the water, and a vertical tail. Most fish are covered with scales and have limbs in the form of fins. Fish were once classified together as a single group, but are now known to compose numerous evolutionarily distinct classes, including the bony fish, cartilaginous fish, jawless fish, lobe-finned fish, and placoderms.
called _dag_ by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen. 9:2; Num. 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of the Jordan, so that the Hebrews were no doubt acquainted with many species. Two of the villages on the shores of the Sea of Galilee derived their names from their fisheries, Bethsaida (the "house of fish") on the east and on the west. There is probably no other sheet of water in the world of equal dimensions that contains such a variety and profusion of fish. About thirty-seven different kinds have been found. Some of the fishes are of a European type, such as the roach, the barbel, and the blenny; others are markedly African and tropical, such as the eel-like silurus. There was a regular fish-market apparently in Jerusalem (2 Chr. 33:14; Neh. 3:3; 12:39; Zeph. 1:10), as there was a fish-gate which was probably contiguous to it. Sidon is the oldest fishing establishment known in history. | <urn:uuid:42798a7b-c4f9-411c-9194-4307ce21a3a3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fish | 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 | 0.962043 | 733 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A global network of high-performance submarine cables forms the backbone of our digitally interconnected world. The core of these digital lifelines consists of sensitive optical fibers that transmit large amounts of data at top speeds over long distances using optical signals. Waelzholz supplies a special stainless precision steel strip for the manufacture of the heavy-duty tubes used to shield the optical fibers inside these submarine cables. This material not only reliably meets the stringent requirements for precisely defined material properties over numerous delivery batches, but also simultaneously possesses the weldability and forming properties relevant to the complex production process.
Even though satellites are increasingly being used particularly to connect remote regions to the global digital data network, leading digital corporations such as Google and Facebook are pushing ahead to expand the network of submarine cables based on optical fibers that span the globe. This is because only these can reliably transport the immense quantities of data generated by digital communication around the world at high speed. Today, over 400 submarine cables already carry well over 90% of the digital data traffic between the continents, and the figure is rising.
A map of the network on the website www.submarinecablemap.com shows the impressive extent to which these cables connect our world.
In theory, the speed at which data packets from an American website, for example, reach a destination in Europe via one of the transatlantic fiber-optic cables is no faster than via a conventional copper cable. In both cases, the transmission time is less than one hundredth of a second, which is shorter than the time it takes to blink an eye.
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Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant is getting a facelift on iOS and Android aimed at making it more useful for users, and also bringing a bit of brightness to what’s currently a rather dour interface.
The app’s biggest change is the launch of a button that lets users quickly choose between a suite of common actions, like viewing their calendar at a glance, checking reminders, or getting a weather forecast. The app itself looks friendlier, with a purple gradient background replacing a stark black, white, and blue color scheme.
On top of that, Microsoft also announced on Thursday that the iOS and Android versions of Cortana are coming to the U.K., so that Brits will be able to use the virtual assistant. Microsoft has been slow to expand Cortana’s geographic reach until the assistant has been set up to work with local social norms and other expectations.
The Cortana app is a key part of Microsoft’s strategy with its virtual assistant. Windows smartphones are an extreme minority compared to the iOS- and Android-powered devices that overwhelmingly dominate the market. If Microsoft wants its virtual assistant to be ubiquitous, it’s important to invest in a mobile app that works on other platforms.
The virtual assistant is a major feature of Microsoft’s Windows 10 push, along with its larger ambitions around powering intelligent assistants. Cortana is competing in a crowded market, against the likes of Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant.
In addition to the redesign, Microsoft also said that the app is faster than its previous version, which will be helpful for competing against other assistants.
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Careers, Jobs and Education Resources for: Bandera County, Texas
Bandera County, formed in 1856 from Bexar and Uvalde counties, is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population is 17,645. Its county seat is Bandera. Bandera is named for the Spanish word for flag. (See List of Texas county name etymologies.) Bandera County is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Sectarian riots in Northern Ireland
26 June 2001
A Protestant loyalist gang attacked Catholic homes in Belfast, Northern Ireland with paint bombs and stones on Sunday night. Elsewhere in the city, fireworks were thrown at a house and a petrol bomb was thrown at police, who also reported sporadic stone throwing throughout the Ardoyne area. The latest incidents follow three nights of rioting last week in north Belfast.
Said to be the worse disturbances in the city since 1998, the riots appear to have begun when loyalist youths (who support the continued union of Northern Ireland with Britain) hurled abuse and threw stones at children and their parents on the way to a Catholic school. Holy Cross Girls’ Primary School is just inside a loyalist area that borders on the mainly Catholic and pro-Irish nationalist Ardoyne district. Mrs. Anne Tanney, headmistress at the school, said, “We’ve had incidents in the area over the last 30 years, but never during the day when the children are here.”
Fighting then erupted between rival loyalist and nationalist gangs of stone-throwing youths. Later, hundreds of youths from both sides turned against the police, throwing heavy missiles as well as over a hundred petrol bombs and paint bombs. There has been a build-up to the conflict for some time in this part of the city, which contains 13 of Belfast’s 17 “peace lines” dividing Protestant and Catholic areas. More than 600 people have been killed in this small area in the course of several decades of sectarian conflict.
Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) chief Sir Ronnie Flanagan blamed loyalist paramilitaries for orchestrating the violence, calling the rioters “murderous scum”. Over 60 police officers were injured in the clashes in the Ardoyne area. Soldiers were also deployed on the streets to support the RUC operation.
Known paramilitaries were present in the crowds on both sides. But according to the Irish Times, leading IRA men were seen restraining the youths on the nationalist side.
Local police superintendent Roger Maxwell said, “There is some indication that there is a degree of orchestration by loyalist paramilitaries. The majority of the missiles came from the Protestant community last night, although there were some attacks on police from members of the nationalist community.” A report in the nationalist Irish News claimed that five cars filled with members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), a loyalist paramilitary group, went into the area and were later seen amongst the loyalist crowds.
A number of shots were fired at the police, who retaliated by firing rounds of a new type of plastic bullets, L21 A1, said to be potentially lethal. Security forces are now gearing up in preparation for July’s marching season, an occasion to flaunt Protestant supremacy when loyalists march to celebrate the victory of William of Orange in 1690. Fighting is particularly likely at the notorious trouble spot of Drumcree, scene of bitter conflicts in recent years when police have stopped loyalists marching down the predominantly Catholic Garvaghy Road. There are reports of secret contacts between the Orange Order organisers of the marches and loyalist paramilitary groups.
The RUC has shipped in two Belgian water cannon and the British army is sending an additional 2,000 soldiers, bringing its troop level to 15,200.
Further intervention by loyalist paramilitaries seeking to whip up sectarian conflict is increasingly likely in an attempt to undermine the institutions set up by the Good Friday Agreement of 1997. The larger vote received by the anti-Agreement Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in the British general election has given a boost to those sections of the unionist hierarchy who regard acceptance of limited power sharing with the nationalists/republicans under devolved rule as a betrayal of the union with Britain. In the election in North Belfast, Nigel Dodds, a well-known leader of the Democratic Unionists, defeated the previous Ulster Unionist MP.
Suspension of the institutions set up under the Good Friday Agreement—the Northern Ireland Assembly and power-sharing Executive—is possible if First Minister David Trimble, leader of the pro-Agreement Ulster Unionists, carries out his threat to resign on July 1. Trimble has said he would resign if the IRA refused to decommission its weapons by the end of June.
In May last year, the IRA agreed to put its weaponry “beyond use” and allow international inspectors to examine a number of its arms bunkers, but this has not satisfied the Ulster Unionists. Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, which has two cabinet ministers in the Executive, has been placed under pressure to decommission, not only from the Unionists and the British government, but also from the Irish government and the moderate nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
Having lost five of his party’s nine seats in the general election—three to the DUP and two to Sinn Fein—Trimble is threatened not only by Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists, but also by anti-Agreement hardliners in his own ranks. He kept his leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party at the annual general meeting last weekend. However, he was forced to bring his main anti-Agreement opponent, Jeffrey Donaldson, into the negotiating team taking part in talks with the British and Irish governments, which will make any compromise unlikely.
So far there has been no movement in talks on any of the contentious issues affecting devolved government in Northern Ireland. As well as IRA decommissioning, these were supposed to include reform of the RUC to increase the representation of Catholics in the overwhelmingly Protestant police force. In fact, the proposed Police Service of Northern Ireland will be so little changed that even the SDLP are opposed to it.
It was also agreed that “demilitarisation”—a reduction of the British army presence and its replacement by the police—would take place. Yet the minimal changes to the RUC have resulted in demoralisation and hundreds of resignations, giving rise to an increase in British troop numbers.
Meanwhile, First Minister Trimble has banned Sinn Fein ministers from taking part in meetings with the Dublin government.
Sinn Fein are strongly in favour of continuing the Good Friday Agreement. Not only has it brought them political office and financial rewards, but they also accept the rationale behind the accord—that the development of the North depends on attracting investment and utilising Northern Ireland’s pool of cheap labour, following the pattern of the Irish Republic.
Largely because of demographic changes—a higher nationalist youth vote—Sinn Fein for the first time received more votes than the SDLP in the British general election held earlier this month. Sinn Fein has refused to move further on decommissioning, fearing loss of face among its supporters.
Fears over the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly have been strongly voiced by the business community. “The companies that have invested here have done very well and continue to reinvest... our real issue is an image problem”, said Nigel Smyth of the Northern Ireland branch of the Confederation of British Industry, pointing to “uncertainty in the political situation” as the biggest problem faced by big business.
Smyth said thousands of new jobs had been created over the last period, mainly in the software and telecom area. The investment has resulted from the low wages paid as well as tax breaks from the British government. But there has been a simultaneous decline in jobs in areas such as textiles and shipbuilding, where traditionally many Protestant workers found employment.
Anxious to maintain the Good Friday institutions, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, will be holding crisis talks this week with the leaders of the unionist and nationalist/republican parties. US involvement will be much lower key than under the Clinton administration, with State Department Director of Policy Planning Richard Haass visiting Belfast to hold discussions with the various parties. President Bush has banned paramilitary groups from raising funds in the US, a move that was favourably received by the unionists.
Even if a last minute deal is negotiated, it can hardly bring stability to a political set-up that has enshrined sectarian divisions within its institutions. With the support of the governments in London, Dublin and Washington, the political concerns of ordinary working people in Northern Ireland are constantly channelled through the nationalist and unionist parties, preserving religious divisions and, above all, impeding the growth of a united movement of Catholic and Protestant workers pursuing their common social interests. | <urn:uuid:bfbcd92e-5b9e-488d-832a-927aa814f0b1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2001/06/ire-j26.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00488-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971872 | 1,761 | 2.3125 | 2 |
At the average music festival, each person creates about 15 pounds of garbage every day. The biggest component of that waste? Single-use plastic: water bottles, beer cups, straws, utensils, wrappers, and packaging.
For the past three years, Plastic Pollution Coalition has partnered with Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to reduce the amount of single-use plastic used. And it’s working. An estimated 1.5 million single-use bottles and cups were diverted from the landfill over the past three years at Bonnaroo.
The Refill Revolution is bigger than one festival. It's a movement to reduce our plastic footprint on this planet. Check out the voices of the Refill Revolution and learn what you can do in the slideshow below.
Photos by Brandise Danesewich @antimodel and Dianna Cohen
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Hannah Storer Green to Abigail Adams
Westfield August 18th. 1775
My Dear Friend
“To certain Trouble we are born
Hope to rejoice but sure to mourn.”
A serious truth this, which daily observation teaches, and experience convinces us of; for at the very moment that our hopes are at their height, trouble comes upon us like an armed Man, our hearts sink within us and we tremble with fear. Again our hopes rise, we anticipate the happiness of that day, when we shall gain the Victory over our worse than Savage enemies, when we shall meet and rejoice together again in quiet habitations. Here again our hearts are damp’d at the thought that tho’ we should be permitted to return, yet many of our friends may be laid in their graves, and here I cannot but recall to my mind our brave General, and your particular friend; who nobly lost his life in the cause of Liberty; regretted by all, except those who are dead to every feeling of humanity. Others being overborne with trouble, and lacking the necessaries of life, fall victims to the stroke of Death. Thus we go on balancing between Hope, and fear; hopeing for good but sure of —— I was a going to say evil, but I will not, why should I call that evil, which God hath appointed? and I doubt not will make it all turn for good; but still my friend, the human heart recoils at what has, and what still may happen.
I am glad for your sake to hear Mr. Adams is safe return’d tho’ I am sorry upon other accounts that there should be a separation of that noble body upon whom our welfare so much depends and to whom we are so much obliged. Our regards to him and thanks for the share he has had in the good work. May he go on and prosper, and nations yet unborn, arise and speak his praise.
I was concern’d when I heard of the engagement on Grape Island on account of your Fathers family. I imagine it must have put them in a great fright, I hope they are all well. Let me know particularly how they do, &c.
We are now at the distance of an Hundred Miles from our own habitation without any thing that we can call our own except a little matter for present use having left House and Shop with every thing belonging thereto, flying as it were for our Lives and at the same time not knowing our real danger, so as to have secur’d our Substance in case we should not return.—What is your opinion? Do you think there is any likelihood, of the towns being preserv’d and the treasures of it kept from being a prey in the hand of the enemy? Or do you give it over for lost? I shall take it kindly if you will write me as particularly as you can, as I know it is in your power to give me a rational account of the matter and which will be laying a great obligation upon Your Old Friend,
P.S. My kind remembrance to every enquiring friend. Should be glad to know about Mr. Abra. Hunt and his Wife, as they went to Braintree, whether they are well and whether he remains there or gone to the Army.
I should have wrote to you before if I’d had paper but I could not buy any here and had not Sister Green sent me some to write to her I could not have improved this opportunity.
Mr. Green has been looking over the above and says that he would not have had it gone upon any account without his best regards to you and yours, in which you may be sure I join him.
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Eastcroft farm is in Eastcott. It lies on the main road through this settlement but also has a little loop lane all of its own.
We can see its location towards the top right hand corner of this modern map.
And here’s a view along the main road, possibly in about 1920.
Eastcroft Farm is on the right. On the left is Ducks Farm and straight down the road is the Manor House in Eastcott. Horse power is being used to haul a load towards the cameraman.
Almost inevitably, the view is more wooded and concealed today.
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In the past 18 months or so, the small city of Meigs, Georgia has made headlines multiple times and rarely has the news been good. There have been stories of a dysfunctional city government, the mayor being arrested and voted out of office, the City Council voting to close the City’s police department and more. But this post is quite the opposite.
A group of Meigs citizens recently joined forces to make a positive difference in their community. The Meigs Community Civic Club, Inc, was recently formed to better the community through outreach and fundraising and has already made an impact in the community. Here are a few projects the Club has coordinated:
- March 2016 – The organization held a “Beautify Downtown Meigs” event where five large planters were placed on Main Street. Children were invited to attend and participate and were educated on the importance of each item on the flowers (roots, leaves, etc). Participating children were able to take home snacks and two plants.
- May 2016 – The club held a rummage sale and fish fry to raise funds for the association and to be invested in the town and the citizens of the Meigs area.
- October 1, 2016 – The organization will hold a second fish fry from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. and plates can be picked up at the Old Bank Building.
- October 22, 2016 – The Meigs Community Civic Club has chosen a needy resident in the town and plan to pressure wash her home, clean up, mow and sweep her yards and trim her plants.
- October 29, 2016 – The club will hold it’s first “Truck-N-Treat” Halloween Carnival where kids will be allowed to roast marshmallows and hot dogs, then trick or treat out of the trunks of cars and the beds of trucks.
- The organization is also planning events for Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as organizing a BBQ contest and community day.
According to Derwood Hickey, a member of the organization, “Our meetings are engineered to thoughts of what can we, as an association, do for the betterment of Meigs and it’s citizens. We hope to, with the use of fund raising and donations, assist some student in the Meigs area to continue their educational studies after high school by attending college or a technical school.”
The Meigs Community Civic Club meets the 4th Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the Meigs Community Center.
For more information about the Meigs Community Civic Club, contact Derwood Hickey at 229-683-3222.
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Topic: remote supervision
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I appreciate the comments of my readers. No, I am not suffering like Semmelweis. And I am not fighting the struggle alone.
In 1847 Viennese Physician Semmelweis was ridiculed for suggesting that attending OB physicians wash their hands between patients. He was subsequently called the "Savior of mothers," when deaths from "childbed fever" plummeted.
In 1862 Pasteur suggested the germ theory of disease. His ideas were met with ridicule for years to come.
In 1979 and 1981 Warren and Marshall discovered a bacteria in the stomach. They suggested that the bacteria (Helicobacter pylori) was pathogenic- and that it was associated with peptic ulcers amongst other things. Colleagues, who knew better, dismissed these ideas as nonsense.
Of course, all of these paradigm shattering physicians and scientists, who advanced our knowledge and medical practice in quantum leaps, are now highly revered heroes of history.
After years of rebuke, Warren and Marshall were given long overdue credit; they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2005.
The question is: Are the "Lyme Wars" just another iteration of the paradigm wars described by Thomas Kuhn in his famous essay "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions?" Or, is this particular process different, in some fundamental- perhaps Orwellian way? This is a debate I will not enter.
Many others have vivisected the Klempner study and other purported pillars of the IDSA view point. The notion that this single- highly flawed study should be allowed to discredit the work of hundreds of scientists and physicians is mind boggling, to say the least. As I have noted in the past, it is difficult to wed medicine and science. The practice of medicine has always given equal weight to the art and the science of medicine. Bench top, basic science research is clear. The basic scientific facts as they have been uncovered, offer unwavering support for our contentions. Clinical science is murky at best and is always open to criticism.
This blog is not science. It is a collection of fact, theory and clinical vignettes sent out into the ether of cyberspace, perhaps the equivalent of a modern day message in a bottle. I suppose my motive is similar to that of any other author who scribbles a note on a piece of paper and then sends it out adrift in the sea; perhaps by chance, It will be found, read by the right person- and make a difference.
It seems clear to me that documentaries, books and scientific assemblies offering compelling, and at times horrifying information, have thus far failed to scratch the armor coat of the other side.
I do believe that history is critical. We must never forget its lessons, as we move forward each day, with the knowledge that we are doing the best that we can.
I will veer off the subject of my blog for a moment. I am awestruck and brought to tears of joy at this incomprehensible moment in history. I could never imagined that I would live to see the prophetic vision of one of my personal heroes, Martin Luther King, become reality, as I now watch a black American take the highest office in the land, perhaps the world.
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How to Draw Carole Beekler from Golan the Insatiable
- Drawing Tutorials
- Cartoon TV
- Golan the Insatiable
- How to Draw Carole Beekler from Golan the Insatiable
Start the tutorial by making ovals & a circle.
Make outline for arms, hands, legs & feet.
Draw outline for face & neck.
Draw outline for eye, nose, lips.
Make hands, fingers & arms.
Draw lines as shown.
Make outline for hairs.
Draw retinas & lips.
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Charles Penty of Bloomberg reported this evening about Spain’s surging bad loans, and the problems that they are causing to the banking system.
The article noted the below headline in bold:
8 % of the bank loans are non-performing in February 2012.
First a chart of the Spanish housing bubble followed by our comments:
That is perhaps an understatement with mortgage rates between 2.3% and 3% – and it is generally variable with annual fixing. So any increase in interest rate will automatically raise the share of non-performing loans: If you can’t pay 2½% interest – you can’t pay – period. True 24% unemployment doesn’t help either.
“One of our concerns in Spain is to what extent contingent liabilities could pass to the central government,” said Andrew Bosomworth, Pacific Investment Management Co.’s
The question is whether nationalization of the banks is an option!
With 140 odd bio. Euros listed as “doubtful” there is no equity in Spanish banks. The Spanish government has advanced the banks plenty, so there is no way but a recapitalization of the Spanish Banks (note the plural). The open market does not seem an option for raising capital, considering the rotten balances – so that leaves the state.
But considering an interest rate on sovereign bonds of 6% – the ECB relief was short lived. Can the Spanish state raise the money?
What do the Germans say?
A quick browse in the European papers gives the clear answer: No.
Liquidity is not the problem – it is solidity.
German CB CEO Jens Weidmann to Reuters: “We shouldn’t always predict the end of the world when the long term interest rate of a country raises about 6% momentarily.” And added: “It should be an encouragement for continuation of the policy to win back confidence though reforms. It cannot be the concern of the ECB to help Spain with printing more money – for instance though further buys of sovereign bonds or through new long term credits for the Banks.
The German Ministry of Finance:
It is not seen that Spain need an assistance program nor wish to use such a program.
EU commissioner Olli Rehn points out, that there are no legal way for the EFSF (part of ECB) to extend credit to banks except through national governments. Even this is only imaginable IF a bank can document that it cannot finance over the capital market AND the national government not on its own can stem the plight of a distressed bank.
Spain has a massive private bad debt and an exorbitant public ditto.
My postdiluvian index including Spain reveals:
- The temporary pause in the price drop caused by crushing the banks has resumed where it left off.
- Figures earlier than Q1 2007 were not at hand. Trust the Spaniards to do nothing until it is to late.
The message from the EU is clear: Spain is on its own. Spain MUST perform on its promises.
But the real audience is the banks – not only in Spain: There is no such thing as “to big to fail”. What the EU might do is to prevent a country from going under with the banks, but it will be an expensive and meager lunch.
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When one company dominates a market it’s very difficult for others to break in without finding a different way consumers respond well to. In the realm of search, Google is king and holds the majority share of traffic and therefore advertising revenue. The only search engine to get anywhere near Google is Microsoft’s Bing, but that’s still a long way back.
If you are a tiny, start-up search engine how on earth do you compete with these giants? One such search engine has found a way, by rebelling against certain practices such as search engine tracking, and telling us some truths about the popular search engines that may just make you want to switch.
It may be clever marketing, but search engine DuckDuckGo has put up a page explaining how when you use a search engine like Google or Bing, you aren’t actually doing a real search anymore. Instead, you are searching within a filter bubble.
The way that Google makes money is by getting you clicking on search links and viewing adverts. To get you to click it makes sense to provide search results that match with our likes. So when you search for something, Google takes into account what it already knows about you. The end result being the search results are tailored to you rather than just the subject matter you put in the search box. This also means two people searching for the same thing will get different results.
This is what DuckDuckGo calls a filter bubble. It effectively shuts off certain results because Google doesn’t think you will like them. The results you get may still be relevant and useful, but its not the true, raw results anymore. And that filter bubble effect will only get worse over time as Google or other search engines learn more about you through your online habits they are tracking.
This may not matter to many people as long as they get to the information they need, but the flipside is you may never see some results that could change your view, or offer up a new perspective.
Read more at dontbubble.us
I’ve always known that the advertising results on a Google search are tailored to the user, but not the main search results. I always thought Google just offered the best results for that search term.
I can see why it makes sense to tailor them for the individual, but even so, I don’t like the fact I’m not getting the best results regardless of who I am. If I want further filtering I will adjust the search term accordingly, I don’t want Google or Bing, or whoever to do that automatically with no indication it is happening. | <urn:uuid:45acfebe-157e-43a8-a3bc-0a4a84b2bbac> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.geek.com/news/duckduckgo-popular-search-engines-dont-offer-true-search-results-1392855/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00468-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949791 | 539 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Smoking and Tobacco
What cigarette brands contain clove oil?
I recently had an unexplained pleural effusion with inflammed pleura. I am now an ex-smoker. I also had dental work a week before the effusion with a clove oil sedative placed under a temporary filling. The doctors have been unable to explain why this happened, as I have no disease or medical conditions. They said it was an allergic reaction to something because my eosinophil count was high. Any ideas?? Any cases reported with this type of allergic reaction to clove oil? I`m left to wonder why and fear another possible episode.
I am not aware of clove oil causing a pleural effusion or eosinophilia. Certain drug reactions can present with eosinophilia and pleural effusions but I have no knowledge what other medications you are on. There are several systemic disorders (malignancies, parasitism, eosinophilic pneumonias...) that can present with pleural effusion and eosinophilia. Further testing is warranted to exclude these disorders as an underlying cause. I would see a qualified allergist or pulmonologist for further evaluation of the hypereosinophilia.
Jonathan Bernstein, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
College of Medicine
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Yosef Abramowitz, an Israeli-American solar energy pioneer and cofounder of Arava Power Company in Israel, has begun making inroads into solar-powering Africa.
Today, Abramowitz and his companies Gigawatt Global and Energiya Global announced that they have secured $23 million in financing and about $710,000 in grants for an 8.5-megawatt solar energy plant in Rwanda.
The deal was announced in Jerusalem at a press briefing. An international consortium of investors has connected to underwrite and then build what is being hailed as East Africa’s first utility-scale solar field.
Abramowitz is the president of Gigawatt Global Coöperatief and is currently the CEO of Energiya Global, Gigawatt’s Israeli affiliate that provided seed money and strategic guidance for the African project.
Together the companies closed financing from the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund Norfund, Dutch development bank FMO, Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF) and the Norwegian engineering and procurement contractor Scatec.
The project, to be built on land owned by the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, will provide training for orphans raised there, and is expected to supply about eight percent of Rwanda’s energy needs.
The photovoltaic power project will include sun trackers to optimize collection, and is expected to help Rwanda wean itself from polluting diesel oil, which also has devastating health effects.
Abramowitz tells ISRAEL21c that Energiya Global is following the triple bottom line formula: “It’s a social impact model of how for-profit green energy business can bring humanitarian and environmental benefits,” he told us in an exclusive interview shortly before the international press conference in Jerusalem.
A wonderful place to do business
Grants for expenses include $400,000 from US President Obama’s Power Africa Initiative, and an EU grant of $310,000 from the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP), a partnership of the British, Finnish and Austrian governments.
Energiya Global installed the first two kilowatts of solar energy for Rwanda in February last year in a trial run at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. This refuge for orphans from the 1994 Rwandan genocide was founded on the model of Yemin Orde, a successful program in Israel that began by caring for child refugees of the Holocaust.
Abramowitz says the project will be online this summer and will connect to the country’s electricity grid. Rwanda has agreed to buy the power created in this first deal over the next 25 years.
The initial site will be also a testing ground for planning and developing future projects in Rwanda and East Africa. “We are hoping to deploy a billion dollars worth of solar energy in the next three to five years in developing countries to kill diesel use,” Abramowitz tells ISRAEL21c.
He emphasizes that the current project is good for investors.
“It’s phenomenal for Rwanda because our energy is much cheaper than diesel. And then obviously we will get support from the youth village in charitable fundraising to give them the benefit of training. This way, graduates of the village will be able to spread the knowledge of bringing solar power all over Rwanda and then East Africa.”
Agahozo-Shalom has been key in orchestrating this deal, says Abramowitz. “We have an amazing partner in this youth village. It was formed in the aftermath of genocide and the government there has been trying to take their people from darkness to light, like the Jewish people had to do after the Holocaust. It is also a wonderful place to do business.”
Learning from experience
Abramowitz is a cofounder of the Arava Power Company, which he helped start in 2006. Arava built a utility-scale solar energy field in Israel, the first of its kind in the country, at Kibbutz Ketura.
It was uphill every step of the way for Abramowitz, who had to coordinate –– and trail blaze –– among no fewer than 24 Israeli ministries.
“Israel was unfortunately a perfect training ground to overcome obstacles. I had to work between 24 government offices and waged 100 political statutory battles. In turns out that in Africa there are far fewer government offices,” he relates.
On top of that, “we developed a robust toolkit to overcome all objections and obstacles because of the difficulties and successes in Israel. This makes us qualified for East Africa,” he adds.
Rwanda is still recovering from the 1994 genocide and urgently needs power to fuel its economic growth. This will mark the first utility-scale solar PV project in the country. Another 20 megawatts are planned for a later stage.
Today, only 15 percent of the population has access to electricity, but the country aims to have 50% connected by 2017. A substantial part of that will be provided by renewable energy, like solar.
Ambitious? Not if you ask this solar energy pioneer.
“It takes a global village to raise a solar revolution,” said Abramowitz later at the press conference in Jerusalem. “There are 550 million people in Africa without electricity. Economic growth in developing markets depends on access to affordable, green power.
“The human race bears a moral and practical imperative to provide power for all, while also transitioning from burning fossil fuels to harnessing renewables. The Rwanda solar field serves as a proof-of-concept to successfully develop and finance commercial-scale solar fields throughout Africa and in the developing world.
“It is a game-changer for humanity and the environment.”
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It looks like that jpg to dae conversion is related to attempt to turn a JPEG picture (.jpg, .jpeg) to 3D model in Collada 3D Digital Asset format (.dae). Usually used to a apply the picture as texture to the model, or in rare cases transform he bitmap picture to 3D model.
Convert JPEG bitmap image format to Collada 3D digital asset exchange data.
We have found 7 software records in our database eligible for .jpg to .dae file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software - convert jpg to dae on Windows
One of the best bitmap graphic editing program
Convert from jpg file format
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|Yes, Adobe Photoshop supports dae file conversion as a target file type.||No||No||No||No||No||No||No|
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned jpg to dae. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
A 3D CAD translation softwate
A 3D general-purpose modeling program
An application for the planning of spaces and furnishings
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software - convert jpg to dae on OS X
A basic document and image viewer in Mac OS X
Mac version of popular digital image editor
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In recent years, the problem of base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) by multinational corporations has entered the public consciousness as a potentially important impediment to tax collections. The purpose of this article is to identify the nature of BEPS, consider empirical evidence of its magnitude, and evaluate proposed policy responses. There is considerable evidence that multinational firms arrange their affairs in a tax-sensitive manner, from which it is easy—indeed, perhaps a little too easy—to infer that beps is a serious problem. There are journalistic accounts of apparently spectacular international tax-avoidance schemes used by multinational corporations, though these stories commonly omit or misrepresent important legal and economic elements, making it difficult to know what, if any, conclusion to draw from them. On a serious level, the us Joint Committee on Taxation was recently charged by the us Congress with identifying extreme examples of BEPS among us corporate taxpayers, and produced a report that included six such examples. And statistical studies consistently indicate that multinational corporations report higher profit rates in low-tax jurisdictions than in high-tax jurisdictions, a pattern that is consistent with BEPS.
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|Subgroup||Series name||Percentage||WRB 2006 link|
|6.31||SHIRRELL HEATH||40%||Albic Podzols|
|6.43||RAPLEY||15%||Endostagnic Albic Carbic Podzols|
|6.43||HOLIDAYS HILL||15%||Ruptic Stagnic Albic Carbic Podzols|
|8.61||ISLEHAM||10%||Arenic Mollic Gleysols|
||Freely draining very acid sandy and loamy soils
This association includes a range of sandy and loamy soils under dry heath, woodland and bog in the Weald, and locally on Tertiary beds in Dorset and western Hampshire. It is found on Reading Beds near Puddletown in Dorset, on Bagshot sands on Brownsea Island and Arne Heath, and on Bracklesham Beds and river terrace and Plateau gravel between Matchams Park and St Ives. Very acid Shirrell Heath soils, sandy humo-ferric podzols, are dominant; similar humus podzols, Leziate series are comparatively rare. Where there are clay seams in the Tertiary beds, Holidays Hill series, stagnogley-podzols, are found. Stony Redlodge and Southampton soils are found locally in gravelly drift. Sollom soils are present in basin sites affected by groundwater, associated with Rapley, Isleham and Swanwick soils.
The association occurs in the northern Weald on Folkestone and Sandgate Beds, mainly in two large areas centred on Woolmer Forest and Hankley Common. Smaller delineations occur around Ambersham Common, Greatham Common and Parham Park, along the Lower Greensand outcrop north of the South Downs. Most of the land is wooded, but the open country ranges from dry heathland to valley mire, with a wide range of groundwater conditions. Peat is locally extensive flanking the river Wey, particularly where tributaries meet the main river. On farmland there are well drained sandy Frilford and coarse loamy Fyfield soils with wetter Swanwick and Shabbington soils on lower ground.
In Hampshire there are small areas in the western New Forest and in Ringwood Forest, mainly on sandy and clayey Barton Beds. Here, stony Redlodge soils are present on hilltops capped by river terrace and Plateau Gravel. There are some Leziate soils, humus podzols with iron-enriched subsoil layers, and Sollom soils in wet basin sites. Rapley, Isleham and Swanwick soils also occur.
The dominant Shirrell Heath soils are permeable and well drained (Wetness Class I) but the associated Rapley and Holidays Hill soils have less permeable compact or fine textured subsoil layers and are occasionally or seasonally waterlogged (Wetness Class II or III). Isleham and Swanwick soils are affected by groundwater and are waterlogged for long periods in winter (Wetness Class III or IV). They are difficult to drain because there is usually little fall to the streams and there is a risk of flooding in winter. The available water reserves in Shirrell Heath soils are small and droughtiness is a severe limitation for most crops.
Because the soils are coarse textured, infertile and often stony, much land is uncultivated and remains under woodland, forest or heathland. The better drained very acid and droughty Shirrell Heath, Rapley and Holidays Hill soils require heavy application of fertilizers and lime for successful cropping. There is some permanent grassland on lsleham and Swanwick soils and this has been improved in places by reseeding for use as summer grazing.
Pines, especially Corsican pine and Scots pine with their tap-root systems, are particularly successful as they can extract nutrients from horizons below the nutrient-depleted podzol horizons. Corsican pine yields better than Scots pine and for both species growth is better in Sussex than in Surrey. Some Douglas fir is grown in Woolmer Forest. Nitrogen is, however, in short supply on some heathland with a history of burning. The deficiency is aggravated where heather is allowed to remain in the understorey, because it absorbs nitrogen from the surface humus. The ability of trees to extract water and nutrients depends on the development of their root systems, so it is important to break up compact iron and humus-enriched subsoil layers in Shirrell Heath, Rapley and Holidays Hill soils and this land is often deep-tine ploughed before planting. There are no systematic micronutrient deficiencies.
The association includes much land used by the armed forces or for recreation; some valued for its flora and fauna is protected. Areas with public access are popular because of the attractive countryside and dry walking conditions. Much of Hankley Common and Woolmer Forest are used for military purposes but they and similar areas are also valuable as relicts of agriculturally undisturbed land. The podzols of the heathlands and commons probably date from Mesolithic times, when man began to clear the land of its forest cover. Heathland species invaded, causing the onset of podzolization and soil infertility. The relatively undisturbed acid soil profiles preserve pollen that is useful in reconstructing the vegetation, climate and environment of post-glacial times. Most of the heathland was settled in prehistoric times, and so is valuable archaeologically. Tumuli and bell barrows are frequent, for example at The Warren, Oakhanger, Greatham Common and Longmoor Inclosure.
Many heathlands in the Weald are designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Other heathland occurs in the New Forest. There is a wide range of vegetation types reflecting the variety of soils and groundwater conditions. Dry ericaceous heathland is usual on well drained Shirrell Heath soils and humid and wet heathland are common vegetation types on the less well drained soils as at Ambersham, Graffham, Lavington, Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons. Valley bog and mires occur on several commons, and they support a range of mire plant communities. Other vegetation types are found locally, for example, base-rich fen at Conford Moor, and acid grassland at Shortheath Common. Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) and gorse (Ulex europaeus) have invaded some heathland, and spontaneous regeneration of birch and pine also occurs. The heathlands serve as important habitats for animals, some of them rare. Reptiles such as the sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) and smooth snake (Coronella austriaca) are found on drier sites, with the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in humid heathland at Blackmoor and Woolmer Forest. Several commons have interesting insect and spider faunas, whereas others support birds such as the Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata).
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Sue, over on Sue’s Words and Pictures, mentioned that, when in doubt, she tends to classify unknown plants as “probably some kind of vetch”, and I’m pretty sure that today’s photo falls into that category. I’ve always called this sort of thing Bush Vetch, but a recent chat with Google (hoping he would confirm my superior knowledge of the natural world) proved frustrating. At first, he appeared willing to bolster my ego, producing several pictures very similar to mine, plainly labelled so as to induce feelings of smug satisfaction.
If I had any sense, I would have left it at that and gone on my way secure in my infallibility. However that first flush of over confidence pushed me to cross the Rubicon. What then was the difference between my Bush Vetch and, say for instance, Common Vetch?
In response to this enquiry Google produced another large selection of images – as close to identical to the first set as to cause me to wonder if he had misheard me. A quick application of the ‘Back’ button showed that the second set of photos was, in fact, a different selection. However, the differences among the individual pictures in each set seemed to be greater than the supposed differences between the sets themselves.
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In hopes that this week’s postings on the use of videos to promote libraries and government information will unleash a burst of creativity (or bring existing items to light), we have established a new FGI library page.
The page is called Audio and Video that Promotes Government Information or Depository Libraries and provides links to the following:
- Audio spots done by libraries or librarians (currently empty)
- Video spots
- Sources for visual materials
- Sources for royalty-free/copyright friendly audio
- Sites where you can post your video for free and get viewer stats.
Please send us links to anything that falls in the above categories. If anyone has suggestions for either software or tutorials on making videos/audio promos, please send links to those as well.
The software I used came with my computer and is now four years old, so I’m not sure I can recommend it to anyone. Check your computer. Chances are you already have video and audio tools on your computer! | <urn:uuid:4108b728-a1ea-4ede-a9c6-486bf0820499> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://freegovinfo.info/node/790 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00475-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923468 | 208 | 1.78125 | 2 |
I’m launching a new blog series called ‘Level Up‘. The aim of this series is to inspire my fellow nerds to create and take risks. So this first one is called: How to use the Force. Enjoy!
The Force (pre-Midichlorians) was perhaps the most magical ingredient of the beloved original Star Wars series. As a kid, I was enamored by the idea of being able to control things with just my mind. After seeing Empire Strikes Back (the best one of coarse), I was leaping around the house with my makeshift lightsaber and a outstretched arm trying to ‘will’ objects into the air. Inevitably, I was always disillusioned by the fact that I couldn’t Force choke my big brother right before my ritualistic daily beating. Regardless of my lack of Force power, I never gave up my infatuation with the idea of having sovereign control of objects- and I discovered that I didn’t have too.
I want to argue that the Force is actually a real thing used by many Jedis of today’s world. Artists, creators, and leaders use the ‘Force’ everyday when creating their art. Whenever, you impose yourself on a project, the sheer act of creation can be considered the ‘Force’. Author Hugh Macleod calls this imposing of the will ‘sovereignty’. See, whenever you react to a great comic book, novel, art, web series, movie, song, etc, what you are really responding to is the sovereignty more than just the work. The fact that someone ‘willed’ something into existence from the void of nothingness is what sovereignty (or the Force) is all about. Think about someone you personally know that wrote a book. Regardless of the quality or relevance of the book, the fact that she willed it into existence gives her instance credibility and respect. In your mind, she is a Jedi. This ‘Force’ like ability is what changes things in your life. Rarely, is there one magical book, song, or art, that is going to propel you from the depth of obscurity to your desired place in life. Rather, it’s the regular rhythm of you exercising your sovereignty (or Force) that will change what you do, where you work, who you work with, and most importantly, WHO YOU ARE. Stop comparing your self to another Jedi’s work and start focusing on the activities you have sovereignty over. It may be a knitting craft you sell on Etsy. It may be the ability to throw a creative party. It may be your passion for blogging. Whatever it is, if you do it enough and regularly, you will gain the attention of a tribe that will appreciate you- leveling you up to Jedi status. As Master Yoda says; Do or do not, there is no try.
While we might not be able to force choke or leap out of carbonite chambers, the Force does give us the ability to change everything about yourself and make an impact in this world. If you are feeling stuck in life, I promise you that a few earnest months of creating will get you unstuck in life real fast.
Don’t squander this innate power you have been given- and remember, may the Force by with you. Please comment and let me know how the Force has changed your life. | <urn:uuid:13a1e6f0-8e44-47a2-8004-65c47b42cc76> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://crazy4comiccon.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/level-up-how-to-use-the-force/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00020-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960836 | 703 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Research and Education Centers, Institutes & Programs
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Agricultural Experiment Station Research Centers
These centers conduct research on agriculture, natural resources and rural life and disseminate that information to Montanans.
Agricultural Marketing Policy Center
The Agricultural Marketing Policy Center sponsors research on agriculture and natural resource trade policies and their economic effects. It communicates this information to the public through various media.
American Indian Research Opportunities (AIRO)
AIRO provides educational and research opportunities for American Indian students in career fields where they are significantly under-represented. AIRO is a consortium of Montana's seven tribal colleges (Blackfeet Community College, Dull Knife Memorial College, Fort Belknap College, Fort Peck Community College, Little Big Horn College, Salish Kootenai College, and Stone Child College) and MSU-Bozeman.
Animal Resources Center
The center is a modern, centralized, laboratory animal facility for the care, use and production of laboratory animals used in teaching, research and testing at MSU.
The MSU Astrobiology Biogeocatalysis Research Center is a multi-investigator and multi-institution research team and partner center in the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI). ABRC's research is focused on early Earth and the catalysts that changed Earth from an abiotic, or non-living, planet to a biological, living world. This work supports NAI's goals in researching the origin and evolution of life on Earth and elsewhere in the universe.
Barley and Plant Biotechnology Programs
Programs include: MSU Sequencer Users' Group, EPSCoR Plant Biotechnology Group, Barley Genetics, P&S 541 and Barley Extension.
Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership
The Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership is part of the National Energy Technology Laboratory's (NETL) membership of regional partners that are working to create a nationwide network that will help determine the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
Blackstone LaunchPad - Montana State
The program introduces entrepreneurship as a viable career option and provides university students with a network of venture coaches and entrepreneurial support to transform new ideas into sustainable companies. With a physical presence at MSU and the University of Montana, Blackstone LaunchPad has the potential to generate some 380 new ventures in Montana over the next five years, according to the Blackstone Charitable Foundation.
Burns Technology Center
The Burns Technology Center, a division of MSU Extended University, strives to create a more accessible and effective university for the 21st Century through public access to lifelong learning, especially for isolated individuals and communities. BTC studies how innovative technologies can enhance teaching and learning; build partnerships between MSU and public/private organizations; and better share MSU¹s resources through public outreach.
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The Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE) is supported by a five-year Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award by the National Institutes of Health, Institute of General Medical Sciences (grant number 5P20GM104417-02). The long-term goal of CAIRHE is to reduce significant health disparities in Montana’s tribal and rural communities through community-based participatory research that is considerate of and consistent with their cultural beliefs.
Center for Biofilm Engineering
The Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) fosters a new approach to university engineering/ science education. Multidisciplinary research teams find solutions to and applications for bacterial communities called biofilms.
Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery
The Center for Mental Health Research and Recovery at Montana State University seeks to respond to specific challenges associated with diagnosing and treating serious mental illnesses such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia that severely restrict quality of life and are often a prequel to suicide. The Center is a collaboration between Montana State University and the Montana chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI). This Center combines clinical health and basic research resources to improve the process of diagnosing and treating serious mental illness through collaborative efforts between neuroscientists, social scientists, clinicians, engineers, and those affected by mental illness, and their families.
The Priscu Research group at Montana State University focuses on understanding the biogeochemistry and microbiology of icy environments. Led by Dr. John Priscu, the group conducts NSF and NASA funded research in both Antarctica and the Arctic, and is a part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) Program in Antarctica.
College of Nursing Office of Research
The College of Nursing Office of Research & Scholarship (CONORS) represents a centralized effort to strengthen research and scholarly productivity within the College.
Energy Research Institute(ERI)
The Montana State University Energy Research Institute is an umbrella for MSU's energy research and education programs, and encompasses more than 170 faculty, staff, and students working in fields such as clean-coal technology, fuel cells, wind, coal-bed methane, and biofuels.
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, identifies, develops and utilizes the state's academic science and technology resources. The program is designed to stimulate local action that will result in lasting improvements to the state's academic research infrastructure and increased national R&D competitiveness.
Functional Genomics Core Facility
Located in 308 Cooley Lab on the Montana State University campus, the Functional Genomics Core Facility was established with funds provided by the National Science Foundation and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, with ongoing salary support from Montana INBRE. The Functional Genomics Core Facility provides support to academic investigators throughout Montana and the Rocky Mountain west, through instrumentation, applications and services.
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Image and Chemical Analysis Laboratory (ICAL)
ICAL provides analytical facilities for the physical, biological and engineering sciences. These facilities are open to both academic researchers and the general public.
International Programs Office
The Office of International Programs seeks to bring international education to the core of the academic and cultural life of MSU. In today's world, every student, regardless of his or her major, needs to graduate with knowledge of other cultures and languages in order to succeed.
Local Government Center
The center strengthens the capacities of Montana's local governments to deliver essential community services efficiently. The Center conducts on- and off-campus training programs, provides direct technical assistance and conducts applied policy research on community issues.
Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
The Local Technical Assistance Program fosters a safe, efficient, environmentally sound transportation system by improving skills and knowledge of local transportation providers through training, technical assistance and technology transfer.
Montana and Northern Plains Troops-to-Teachers
The Montana and High Plains Region (Idaho, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Wyoming) Troops-to-Teachers Program assists qualified military personnel make the transition from the armed services to service in the classrooms of our schools.
Montana Area Health Education Center
(Montana AHEC) is one of six regional AHEC Centers of the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSM). AHECs provide educational programs for health care students and professionals and assistance in improving health care access.
Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit
Research at the Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit is problem oriented and provides our cooperators (Montana State University, Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, U.S. Geological Survey) and other agencies with useful and practical information needed to understand and manage fishery resources in the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.
Montana IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Opportunities (INBRE)
The Montana IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Opportunities offers faculty, undergraduate and graduate students throughout Montana enhanced research opportunities in the biomedical sciences.
Montana Institute on Ecosystems
The Montana Institute on Ecosystems (IoE) is a statewide community of scholars and partners with a shared vision to advance integrated ecosystem and environmental sciences and related fields. With operational hubs at Montana State University and The University of Montana, the IoE works across campuses, disciplines, and perspectives to provide science-based knowledge necessary to address environmental sciences topics, promote broader understanding of Montana's ecosystems, and foster solutions to pressing issues.
Montana Manufacturing Extension Center
The center increases the competitiveness of Montana manufacturers through direct, unbiased engineering and managerial assistance in partnership with other public and private resources.
Montana Microfabrication Facility (MMF)
The MMF is a shared-use cleanroom laboratory at Montana State University, available to university students and faculty as well as extramural users.
Montana Office of Rural Health (MORH)
MORH works to improve the quality of life for all rural Montanans by
- Ensuring affordable, accessible, high quality health care,
- Facilitating enhanced self-care and supportive care in the rural home setting, and
- Promoting healthy lifestyles that prevent disease, disability and premature death.
The MORH seeks to improve the health care of all rural Montanans through advocacy,
networking, partnerships, education, outreach, research, and service.
Montana Public Television - KUSM
Montana Public Television is the primary public television provider for the state of Montana. PBS services, instructional and outreach activities are provided to viewers throughout Montana through over-the-air broadcast and cable distribution. Montana Public TV is a service of Montana State University and the University of Montana.
Montana Space Grant Consortium
The consortium enhances aerospace research and education in Montana through research initiation grants, education enhancement grants, undergraduate research grants and a scholarship-fellowship program. The central consortium office acts as a statewide clearinghouse for information on NASA and other aerospace-related programs and takes an active role in alerting consortium faculty about opportunities in research and education with NASA and other space agencies.
Montana Water Center
The Center oversees water research, educates future water professionals and develops training materials for working water professionals. The Center is one of 54 located at land grant universities in each state, authorized by Congress through the Water Resources Research Act of 1964.
Museum of the Rockies
The Museum of the Rockies seeks to understand, preserve and interpret the natural and cultural history of the Northern Rocky Mountain region. It accomplishes its mission through research, collections, exhibits and programs for the education and entertainment of people of all ages.
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Northern Plains Transition to Teaching
The Northern Plains Transition to Teaching program moves seasoned professionals with established records of excellence into new careers in public school classrooms.
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
The Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NRMSC), formed by the U.S. Geological Survey, conducts integrated, interdisciplinary research in support of natural resource management in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
Optical Technology Center (OpTeC)
OpTeC conducts research in the rapidly growing field of electro-optics. Multidisciplinary research teams work with industry and other research centers to find solutions to industry problems and discover new application potentials in optical fields.
Plant Growth Center
The Plant Growth Center includes 29 greenhouses environmentally controlled by microcomputers, an insect quarantine unit, an indoor arboretum, labs and classrooms.
Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Wildfire PIRE is an NSF Partnership on International Climate, Fire, and People which focuses on the causes and consequences of fire.This interdisciplinary partnership brings together an array of fire scientists and managers and strives to be a leader in interdisciplinary discovery, education, and engagement focused on wildfire in temperate ecosystems on multiple continents.
The Renne Library of Montana State University-Bozeman offers research and information resources to students and faculty members, as well as serving Montana citizens and the state's business community. The Renne Library is a part of the Montana State University System Libraries.
Science Math Resource Center
The Science Math Resource Center (SMRC) sponsors professional development in science and mathematics education for MSU faculty, supports summer and school year opportunities in math and science for K-12 teachers and their students, and sponsors public awareness opportunities. The SMRC also promotes and funds the science Olympiad which brings 1,100 MT middle and high school students to campus each year.
Spatial Sciences Center
The Spatial Sciences Center (SSC) promotes and supports basic and applied research incorporating geographic information science, remote sensing, global positioning system, and spatial analysis; supports and facilitates undergraduate and graduate courses in spatial sciences offered through departments within MSU; and promotes the application of spatial sciences throughout MSU through outreach to faculty and staff.
The Spectrum Lab was established in 1999 to do state of the art research and development in optical electronics, to transition that new technology to Montana corporations and to provide enhanced educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
TechLink helps the private sector commercialize NASA, federal laboratory, and university technologies in order to solve industry problems, create or exploit business opportunities, and stimulate economic development in the five-state region of Montana, Idaho, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Thermal Biology Institute
The Montana State University Thermal Biology Institute (TBI) is a multidisciplinary program for studying thermal biology. The long-term goal is to understand how organisms respond and adapt to unique physical and chemical features of the thermal environment.
Western Transportation Institute (WTI)
The Western Transportation Institute’s mission is to make rural travel and transportation safer, more convenient and more accessible through research, development and testing, education and technology transfer. WTI has a broad focus of addressing everyday rural challenges, which encompass infrastructure, materials, corrosion, winter maintenance, transportation planning, engineering, human factors and ergonomics, ecology, Intelligent Transportation Systems and systems engineering. WTI research partners include over 45 states and 16 international countries.
Zero Emissions Research and Technology (ZERT)
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The use and study of computers is known as computer information technology (CIT). A “let” expression specifies a function or value that may be used in other expressions. It is a natural language construct that is often employed in mathematical publications, as well as a construct utilized in many functional programming languages. It’s a different syntactical structure for a where clause. Let expression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let expression) Allow expression – Wikipedia, networks, computer languages, and databases – to tackle real-world issues inside a business. Students who major in this degree are prepared for careers in application programming, networking, systems administration, and web development.
Similarly, What is the difference between information technology and computer?
Working with both hardware (such as CPUs, RAM, and hard drives) and software is a part of information technology (e.g. operating systems, web browsers, mobile applications). The field of computer science is concerned with the creation and testing of software and software systems.
Also, it is asked, What is a career in information technology?
Design, development, maintenance, and administration of hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration services are all part of IT careers. The information technology sector is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial business that continues to revolutionize the economy and the planet.
Secondly, What exactly is information technology?
Building a company’s communications networks, safeguarding data and information, creating and administering databases, assisting employees with computer or mobile device problems, and a variety of other tasks to ensure the efficiency and security of business information are all examples of information technology.
Also, What are examples of computer technology?
Telecommunications devices (such as telephones), information kiosks, and transaction machines are all examples of information and computer technology (ICT). Websites on the Internet. copiers and fax machines are examples of multimedia office equipment.
People also ask, What are the 6 types of technology?
While a single piece of technology may be used in several fields, technology is divided into six categories: communication, electrical, energy, manufacturing, medical, and transportation.
Related Questions and Answers
Which is better CS or IT?
According to the majority of experts, there is no distinction between CS and IT. It’s only that at big universities, CS is taught as an Engineering level subject. If you want to pursue Computer Science, you’ll need to study Mathematics and Science at a high level to meet the requirements.
Which is better CS or IT branch?
CS is considerably superior than IT. However, it is always preferable to prioritize your desire to improve. If you perform well in your degree, you will be placed in any MNC. Both courses are comparable, and if you do well, you will have a higher career placement.
What are the top paying IT jobs?
IT Jobs with the Best Pay $131,300 for an information security engineer. $137,400 for a DevOps engineer. $144,400 for an enterprise architect. $145,000 for a technical program manager. $145,400 for a software architect. $149,000 for an application architect. $153,000 for an infrastructure architect. $153,300 for a software development manager.
What is the salary of IT sector?
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), computer and information technology (IT) professionals earned a median pay of $91,250 in May 2020 . That’s much higher than the $41,950 median wage for all jobs.
What is the qualification for IT jobs?
In India, hiring managers search for a bachelor’s degree in either information technology or computer science, which are the two most fundamental requirements for an IT position. These qualifications (BE or B. Tech.)
Why is IT called information technology?
The use of computers to generate, process, store, retrieve, and share all types of electronic data and information is known as information technology (IT). In contrast to personal or recreational technology, IT is often utilized in the context of commercial activities.
What is the best course in information technology?
Data Science is one of the greatest IT courses in India. Computing on the Cloud. Cyber safety. Blockchain. DevOps. Visualization of data AI and Machine Learning in IoT (Internet of Things) (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning).
What are the 5 examples of technology?
5 Technology Examples You Can Use Right Now Mobile phones. 5 Technology Examples You Can Use Right Now Lights that turn on automatically. Falls are the leading cause of death and non-fatal injuries among the elderly. Monitoring of activity and health. You may utilize technology in a variety of ways. Computer tablets Cabinets with automation.
What are the 3 advantages of technology?
New technology provides benefits such as simpler, quicker, and more effective communication. improved and more efficient production methods There’s less waste.
Do you need math for IT?
What math courses are necessary for a career in information technology? You’ll master discrete math, differential equations, calculus, and linear algebra as part of any computer science degree program. If you want to study independently, you may locate online courses on each of these areas.
What pays more IT or Computer Science?
We’ll look at Computer Programmers, Software Developers, and Hardware Engineers in Computer Science. Computer Science has a wage advantage over IT in this category. A Computer Science degree will pay you around $12,000 more per year on average than an IT degree, a difference of 14%. IT is certainly the winner.
Do I need a degree to work in IT?
It’s a fallacy that you need a degree to work in IT, and if you’re considering a career change, you should be aware of the following: Over a quarter of IT professionals do not have a college diploma. Your present job-related abilities are transferrable. Hiring supervisors will be impressed with certifications, soft skills, and experience.
Which is tough CSE or IT?
in the CSE Math, Databases, Networking, Digital Logic, Software and Hardware Development, Machine Learning, Cryptography, and a variety of other disciplines will be covered. If you are interested in Computer Science, it is not difficult. It is entirely dependent on your commitment.
Which is easier CS or IT?
Information Technology (IT) is a wide term that includes everything from computer science to programming. As a result, it might be both simpler and more difficult. IT courses or majors are often wider but shallower than CS courses or majors, which are typically narrower but deeper in that field.
Is CSE and IT are same?
Information Technology is the discipline of engineering that works with the use of computers in companies, while Computer Science Engineering deals with the creation and development of computer components.
Is information technology hard to learn?
Is computer information technology a difficult subject? IT skills are simple to learn if you are eager to study and interested in technology. As they use their high school information technology abilities, an increasing number of students are choosing to attend classes online rather than on campus.
Is information technology still in demand?
IT continues to be a key source of new tech employment. The IT business continues to expand at a rapid pace. Indeed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 12 percent increase in employment between 2018 and 2028, which is substantially faster than the national average.
Is information tech in demand?
From 2020 to 2030, employment in computer and information technology jobs is expected to expand at a greater rate than the national average. About 667,600 additional employment are expected in these professions.
Which IT field is best for future?
Machine learning engineer is one of the top five future tech jobs. This section of artificial intelligence is perfect for students who are interested in computer science and want to work in a fast-paced and fascinating sector. User experience designer Engineer in robotics. Data analyst. Engineer for the cloud.
Whats the highest paying job an hour?
Hourly Jobs with the Best Pay Orthodontist. Copywriter. Director of creative development. Psychiatrist. Veterinarian. Simultaneous translator Reviewer of products. Artist specializing in commercial video effects.
How much is the salary of IT in Canada?
What is a good salary in England 2020?
According to the Office for National Statistics, the average UK wage in 2020 will be £38,600 for full-time work and £13,803 for part-time work. This is up from their 2019 numbers, which put the average UK income for a full-time job at £36,611 and £12,495 for part-time work.
What is a good salary in London?
A respectable living wage in London is between £40,000 and £50,000. Even after taxes, a gross income of £50,000 equates to almost £4,000 per month, which is enough for a single person to meet all living expenses and live comfortably in the capital.
How do I start a career in IT?
In eight easy steps, you may begin your IT career: Roles and jobs should be researched. Make a quick list. Learn how to program. Work on a project that is open-source. Enroll in classes. Make connections with IT experts. Experienced freelancer. Prepare to respond to technical queries.
Information technology is the study, design, development, implementation and application of computer-based information systems. It can be broadly divided into two categories: IT as a business function and IT as an academic discipline.
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Computer and Information Technology is a field of study that focuses on the use of computers in business, industry, science, and society. Computer Science is focused on theoretical computer science with a goal to build systems that can solve problems. Reference: computer and information technology vs computer science.
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I am in favour of schools in principle, with some reservations about what schooling can achieve. Schools cannot compensate for individual differences.
From time to time, children have to be excluded from school because their behaviour makes it very difficult to teach other children. Under the current rules, a pattern of disruption has to be tolerated for some time before the official processes can be commenced which eventually lead to a suspension, usually temporary, time-limited and with a cumulative upper bound of 45 days. Severe cases can be permanently suspended, which means that they are offered more teaching in other facilities.
It is hard to judge exactly how damaging this is to education, but it must be costly, because one disruptive child can damage the educational experience for 30 children. The disruptive child may be offered individual tuition, also costly, but potentially cost-effective if actually effective.
The UK Department of Education has released the 2017 figures for suspensions. The table below is from the downloaded spreadsheet details. I have listed them by the percentage “temporarily suspended” by ethnic group. The full list has groupings which can be extremely heterogenous, such as “Asian” covering both Indians and Pakistanis, so I have omitted those in favour of listing specific groups. I removed one “unknown” category because the ethnic background was unknown.
By way of benchmarking, White British children are excluded at the rate of 5.23%. If British teachers were prejudiced against other racial groups, then they would exclude foreign kids at higher rates. Inspection of the rates show this is an unsupported assumption. For example, another benchmark is the Chinese exclusion rate of 0.56% which is what is attainable using Confucian principles, which presumably can be inculcated to the general benefit of all children, and all teachers. Indian children at 0.84% are doing almost as well.
If teacher’s animus is against Black foreigners, then they have got their prejudices the wrong way around. Black Africans are definitely foreign, while Black Caribbeans are British born and have been exposed to as much local culture, cuisine and weather as the White British, yet the Black Africans are excluded at the lower rate of 4.21% and the familiar Black Caribbeans at higher rate of 10.2%.
Of course, every Western nation has its own history as to which immigrants arrived when, and from where. Those who arrive in a particular European majority nation may not be representative of their country of origin: Black Africans appear to be more selected in terms of education, Black Caribbeans less so. Equally, the Indian group is highly selected. Cross country comparisons, and comparisons with country of origin (or province or caste of origin in the case of India) would be informative.
Overall, the figures are very much like those collected in 2008, which suggests stability of behavioural characteristics over a decade.
It is hard to do admixture studies given the vague categories of “other” but the contrast between Black Caribbean and Mixed White/Black Caribbean is minimal. Perhaps these unions are mostly Black father/White mother and the former are dominant in influencing their children’s behavioural upbringing. Cultural effects are likely, to some degree.
I interpret these figures as showing that there are enormous behavioural differences between ethnic groups. Gypsies are 31 times more disruptive than Chinese, Black Caribbeans 18 times more so. Overall, I think the genetic hypothesis is the stronger interpretation for the majority of the difference, but a smaller cultural factor can also be argued for.
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A few days ago I had dinner at Indochine in New York City and not only was the food wonderful, I was seated next to French Vogue editor-in-chief Carine Roitfeld’s table who was there hosting, along with her son Vladimir, a dinner party in honor of her daughter Julia Restoin Roitfeld’s birthday.
That’s not where the night’s surprises ended – I was fortunate enough to be introduced to Hanna Astrom a demure, young woman from Lulea Sweden who was decked-out in some of her own wonderfully crafted designs. Called “Don The Verb” Astrom’s collection started in 2007 along with her partner Yanina Landsaat.
The two first met at the Don The Verb vintage store where, since its inception, Astrom was a regular customer upon moving to New York City in 2005 following four years of fashion design studies. As for Landsaat, she was born in Kiev, Ukraine, but grew up in Baltimore, MD. In New York, she worked for several fashion corporations in marketing and development, before opening her vintage store Don The Verb in May of 2006.
What’s so wonderful about Don The Verb’s designs is that they are clean-cut, stylish, and modern while being functional. The pieces are mostly made of simple shapes accented with purposeful details. One of the main inspirations for the line is the concept of uniform dressing. In fact, the first collection was called “New York Uniform” and was presented in-season for Summer 07, as part of Don The Verb’s one-year anniversary celebration. Astrom said that “the inspiration was everyday uniforms that could be worn throughout the day and into the night and where one’s identity could clearly be noticed. The pieces were all completely trans-seasonal, one size, hand washable and never wrinkled.”
Fall/Winter 2008 was shown during New York Fashion Week and drew inspiration from the 1920’s Erte Sketches and ancient Native American Indian clothing. “The collection, named "Modern Warrior", would have to adapt to all elements of an urban environment and still look stylized and practical,” says Astrom.
As for what’s to come, the Swedish designer says that the inspiration for the latest designs “came from summer in New York City. The human parade along with ice cream trucks, train announcements, black outs, brown outs, humidity, waiting in line to wait in line to wait in line. We celebrate feeling psychologically unsound. Everyone in the city feels it at one point or another. The collection is a bit unsound and unnerving. Some of the pieces do not have matching sleeves or the lengths are not equal. All the details are quietly worked into the pieces creating different variations in drapes and shapes.”
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The Reserve Bank will soon decide whether it's time to hike the cash rate. Is this likely to happen in April?
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is set to have its monthly board meeting at 2.30pm AEST to discuss whether it's time to increase the cash rate.
This comes off the back of last month's meeting, where RBA Governor Philip Lowe said that a cash rate hike this year is 'plausible'.
The RBA has maintained that the cash rate will not increase until inflation and wage growth are 'sustainably' within the 2 to 3% target range.
Inflation data from the ABS revealed that underlying inflation hit 2.6% in December 2021 - which is the "midpoint of the target band" according to Dr Lowe.
Until then the RBA had repeatedly missed its inflation targets for around seven years.
Wage growth also fell into the RBA's target range, rising to 2.3% in December 2021 according to ABS data.
With the prospect of a cash rate hike this year now on the cards, what are the odds the RBA will pull the trigger today?
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Sources: ABS; RBA
The votes are in: No rate hike is expected today
Tapas Strickland, NAB's Director of Economics, said "no change is expected" to come from the RBA's meeting today, but that the key focus will be on the final policy paragraph.
"The prior March post-meeting Statement concluded 'The Board is prepared to be patient as it monitors how the various factors affecting inflation in Australia evolve'," Mr Strickland said.
"With core inflation expected to blast through the RBA’s February SoMP forecasts, the RBA will have reduced scope to be patient in balancing the risks of moving too early against moving too late."
Mr Strickland said unemployment is already at its lowest since 1974 and set to dip below 4% next month, and NAB forecasts trimmed mean inflation for the March quarter to hit 1.2%.
"If the RBA removes the word 'patient', markets will take that as a sign of a clear nod to the importance of the March quarter's Consumer Price Index (CPI) and lines up a May or June for the first rate hike," he said.
Shane Oliver, AMP Chief Economist, also believes the RBA will leave the cash rate untouched today.
"We expect the first rate hike in June and the cash rate to reach 0.75% by year end and 1.5% next year," Mr Oliver said.
"The extra stimulus in the Budget increases the chance that the first rate hike is 0.4% rather than 0.15% (taking the cash rate to 0.5%), with the cash rate reaching 1% by year-end."
Anneke Thompson, Chief Economist at CreditorWatch, said the cash rate should remain unchanged for at least one more month as the Federal Election looms.
"It does, however, seem that inflation is here to stay, at least for the short term, and therefore a rise in the cash rate is imminent," Ms Thompson said.
"Even higher wage growth is forecasted once bonuses, promotions and other measures of labour elasticity are factored in."
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Dan Rather (New York, NY) Given his distinguished record and his long exposure on television around the globe, Dan Rather may be the best-known journalist in the world. He has covered virtually every major event in the world in the past 60 years. His resume reads like a history book, from his early local reporting in Texas on Hurricane Carla to his unparalleled work covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; the civil rights movement; the White House and national politics; wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia and Iraq. From his first days as the Associated Press reporter in Huntsville, Texas, in 1950, Rather has more than earned his reputation as the “hardest working man in broadcast journalism.”
In 2006 Rather founded the company News and Guts and became anchor and managing editor of HDNet’s DAN RATHER REPORTS, which specializes in investigative journalism and international reporting.
Over the many years of his career, Rather has regularly landed the biggest interviews with the world’s most important and compelling figures, from the famous to the infamous. Rather’s passion for the news, for getting the story and for taking on the most challenging assignments in journalism is unmatched. He has dedicated himself to delivering to the American public coverage that is fair and accurate, no matter the size and scope of the story. He has interviewed every United States president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and virtually every major international leader of the past 30 years. He landed two world exclusive news-breaking interviews with Saddam Hussein, in 1990 and in 2003. In 2004, as a correspondent for 60 MINUTES II, Rather also broke what was arguably that year’s biggest story—the abuse of prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. More recently, his “Dan Rather Reports” for HDNet has been honored with three Emmy’s for war and investigative reporting. The program was also honored with 2 “front page” awards for stories concerning the plight of women abroad.
Among the landmarks of his illustrious career was his tenacious and critically acclaimed live reporting on the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Rather spent 53 hours and 35 minutes on the air over less than four days beginning the morning of the attacks. In 2000, he anchored Election Night 2000, a marathon that kept him on the air continuously from 6:00 PM on Tuesday, Nov. 7, to 10:00 AM on Wednesday, Nov. 8.
Rather served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS EVENING NEWS from March 9, 1981 to March 9, 2005, the longest such tenure in broadcast journalism history. He helped to found 48 HOURS, a broadcast he anchored and reported for from its premiere on Jan. 19, 1988, through September 2002. He was a correspondent for 60 MINUTES from October 1975 to September 1981, and again from March 2005 to the summer of 2006. Rather also helped to found and served as a correspondent for 60 MINUTES II from its debut on Jan. 13, 1999, to its final edition in September 2005. His regular contributions to CBS News Radio included "Dan Rather Reporting," a weekday broadcast of news and analysis on the CBS Radio Network from March 1981 to November 2004.
During his forty-four years with CBS News, Rather held many other prestigious positions, including anchor of the documentary series CBS REPORTS and of the weekend editions of the CBS EVENING NEWS. He served as the CBS News bureau chief in London and Saigon and was the White House correspondent during the Johnson, Nixon and Ford administrations.
Rather joined CBS News in 1962 as chief of its Southwest bureau in Dallas. In 1963, he was appointed chief of the Southern bureau in New Orleans, responsible for coverage of news events in the South, Southwest, Mexico and Central America. During that time, he reported on racial conflicts in the South and the crusade of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He and the CBS News team he put together in Dallas broke the story of JFK’s death well before any official announcement. Rather began his career in journalism in 1950 as an Associated Press reporter in Huntsville, Texas. Later, he was a reporter for United Press International (1950-52), KSAM Radio in Huntsville (1950-53), KTRH Radio in Houston and the Houston Chronicle (1954-55). He became news director of KTRH in 1956 and a reporter for KTRK-TV Houston in 1959. Prior to joining CBS News, Rather was news director at KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston.
He has received virtually every honor in broadcast journalism, including numerous Emmy and Peabody Awards and citations from critical, scholarly, professional and charitable organizations.
Rather has also authored or co-authored eight books, five of which have become New York Times bestsellers, most recently Rather Outspoken released in May 2012.
In 1994, Rather was honored by his alma mater, Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, which named its journalism and communications building after him. On a more personal note, 1997 also saw the dedication of Dan's birthplace as part of the Wharton County Historical Museum.
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Will the FDA’s Unique Device Identification (UDI) initiative force hospitals’ clinical engineering departments to give up their existing inventory-tagging systems? That was one of several questions taken up by an FDA official and an industry expert at an Oct. 18 webinar sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
AAMI organized the session in advance of FDA’s draft regulation offering guidance on implementing the standardized, globally harmonized, barcode-like identification system. The draft is expected this fall. After a comment period, a new FDA rule will require manufacturers to affix a UDI tag to all devices so they can be tracked throughout their lifecycle in the healthcare system.
The participant who asked about hospitals’ existing tracking systems, Jim Bosman, a clinical engineering financial specialist at Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., expounded on his question. “Is any consideration being given to placing these labels in such a way that they’ll be easily accessible? Sometimes these serial numbers are on the back or somewhere a machine is installed and you have to pull it out from the wall to see the serial number,” he said. “I guess I’m just wondering if the FDA is considering these issues. I doubt the industry is bringing these considerations forward; it’s got to be coming from hospitals.”
“We’ve seen some of the materials-management systems and the things you describe about the asset tags,” replied Terrie L. Reed, the FDA’s associate director of informatics. “In trying to improve adverse-event reporting and integrating UDI into the adverse-event reporting systems, it may be initially that those [existing] asset tags and numbers would be retained, but, at the very least, we’re hoping there would be some sort of mapping between the UDI and the electronic materials-management systems to that asset number. At least you retain, at some point, the UDI assigned by the manufacturer even if there is something assigned at the local level.”
The concern about obscured serial numbers “sounds like a good comment to the proposed rule when it comes out,” Reed added.
“I don’t see this necessarily taking the place of the fixed asset tag,” said co-presenter Tom Werthwine, a global supply-chain executive with Johnson & Johnson, “but there’s a lot of value in using the manufacturer’s UDI number because it will be unique and it will give that traceability back to the manufacturer.”
Werthwine seconded Reed's call for comments on the regulation draft when it comes out. “We are looking for that kind of information to influence manufacturers, so it would be of benefit to us. And I have supported many medical instruments in product development, so I understand [searching for serial numbers] on the bottom and on the back and all of that. If we want them to be used, they should be in a prominent position.”
Some constructive criticism for the hospital contingent followed. “I’ve gone into a lot of hospitals and found the hospital’s fixed asset tag applied over the serial number of the manufacturer,” said Werthwine. “When you’re going through a recall situation, you don’t know what the serial number is because you have this tamper-evident, permanent, fixed asset tag on there. You have to crack the box open and look inside to determine, ‘Is this one of the products being recalled?’”
Werthwine recalled a hospital customer who wanted to know if the supplier could help track down a number of IV pumps that had gone missing. It turned out the hospital had transferred many patients without following up on returns of IV pumps from ambulance companies and other hospitals. “Because we knew what serial numbers we had sold that specific institution, we were able to go through a 100-mile radius and find their pumps sitting in other ERs and whatnot,” he said. “So this number will be unique and it would help for things like traceability, understanding where the device really is.”
Another participant asked if there was a connection between two widely used identification systems—Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) and Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN).
“I would say GTIN is UDI; it’s one way to have a unique device identifier,” responded Reed. “It’s the GS1 assignment of the Global Trade Identification Number. It meets ISO 15459, so it could be used for UDI. The GMDN is independent of GS1 (the most widely used supply-chain standards system in the world). It’s its own entity. There’s a GMDN | <urn:uuid:ce21a282-5af8-40a0-a0d8-be177faf6039> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.healthimaging.com/topics/imaging-informatics/webinar-ready-or-not-here-comes-fdas-unique-device-identification-initiative | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00333-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943376 | 1,018 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Diseases associated with aging in women
are difficult to correlate explicitly with
estrogen deficiency because aging and
genetics are important influences in the
development of such diseases. A number
of studies, however, indicate a profound
effect of estrogen deficiency in syndromes
such as cardiovascular disease (including
atherosclerosis and stroke) and os-
teoporosis--the loss and increasing
fragility of bone in aging individuals.
The amount of bone in the elderly
skeleton--a key determinant in its
susceptibility to fractures--is believed to be a function of two major factors. The
first is the peak amount of bone mass
attained, determined to a large extent by
genetic inheritance. The marked effect of
gender is obvious--elderly men experi-
ence only one-half as many hip fractures
per capita as elderly women. However,
African-American women have a lower
incidence of osteoporotic fractures than
Caucasian women. Other important variables include diet, exposure to
sunlight, and physical activity. The
second major factor is the rate of bone
loss after peak bone mass has been
attained. While many of the variables
that affect peak bone mass also affect
rates of bone loss, additional factors
influencing bone loss include physiologi-
cal stresses such as pregnancy and
lactation. It is hormonal status, however,
reflected primarily by estrogen and
progesterone levels, that may exert the
greatest effect on rates of decline in
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The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s (MIB) advisory banning condom ads on primetime has not gone down well among people in general and intellectuals and public health experts in particular who called it an exercise in vain and too 'Sanskari' a move.
It is not for the first time that condoms are being advertised on TV. In fact, in the 1990s, it was the government’s decision to advertise about condoms and its usage, in order to fight the diseases such as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and to promote family planning. Be it the Nirodh ad picturised on a wedding night or the famous ‘Hum Do Humare Do’, they were actually promoting the use of condoms, though indirectly.
A few years later came the ‘Balbir Pasha’ conceptualised by Lowe, which became the talk of the town and it went on encouraging Indians to use condoms.
What made the government issue an advisory?
As per various media reports, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) had initiated the move by writing to the MIB.
Shweta Purandare, Secretary General, ASCI, said, “In the past, we had not received these huge number of complaints. Something must have triggered this, maybe some ads have come up in recent times that crossed limits and that might be a reason for people to be upset. Nobody thinks that ads should be banned in totality. From ASCI’s point of view also, if there is an ad that is perfectly fine for viewing along with children and family, there would not be any problem.”
What could have been the thought that went behind issuing such an advisory? Purandare said, “We didn’t ask for a ban. We received a lot of complaints about certain condom ads that they were vulgar. When the viewers complained, the council reviewed the ads and found that there wasn't anything objectionable. So, we did not take action. But the complainants were of the view that these ads were inappropriate for children and should be taken off air. Then we mulled over the timing and channels but that is not under our purview. That is for the ministry to consider. Based on this, we only gave them the feedback from the complainants. We have not taken the decision, the MIB has.”
Vishal Vyas, General Manager (Marketing), TTK Protective Devices, (the company manufacturing Skore Condoms) believes that blanket ban for the category is not the right solution. "For our country, the need of the hour is to increase awareness of condoms and not to do something that impedes this process. Hence, yes, this ban is a step back," he said.
A section of the twitterati voiced their opinions, questioning the educational aspect of the condom ads. But, there are a lot of things that are pushed indirectly to make the message more interesting. There are ads from some a ‘specific brand’ wherein the protagonist stands in front of the camera and starts counting the services and benefits offered by that brand in a straightforward manner. A condom ad cannot go to an extent of using a black/whiteboard and giving out biology lessons. Indicative education and indirect encouragement is as important as direct messaging.
Purandare questioned, “What educational message is being given through these ads? To oppose this decision, people have suddenly brought about the issue of sex education.”
Brands may be using different ways to attract consumers by but at the end, the product promotes safe sex, feel experts.
“If consumers watch an ad, buy a condom and use it, the purpose is served,” said a brand custodian from one of the leading condom brands, on condition of anonymity. He further added, “Our legal department is preparing a comment to be sent to the ministry and hence, we can’t talk about it, but this is going to create a big challenge from the marketing point of view too. The category was expecting to grow at a healthy pace this year."
Revenue loss for condom companies and broadcasters
The Rs 800-crore category is still capturing mere 5-6 per cent of the country’s population of over 1 billion. Since the mindset of most people is still conservative, about 70 per cent customers do not ask for any particular brand of condom. It depends on which brand a pharmacy sells. In such a scenario, marketing becomes all the more important for the players in this category.
Another major player said, “A lot of investment and effort goes into creating variants and flavours. This is one thing that differentiates us from the competition. Sadly enough, the variants contribute less than 40 per cent of the total sales of any condom brand. In order to increase the profit margins, variants need to become faster-moving in the category and that needs advertising.”
A senior media planner mentioned, “This is going to affect both advertisers and broadcasters as it will restrict visibility. A lot of times, there are inventory crunches and other issues. But a restriction on time band will hurt the most. Condom brands do advertise on all other media platforms, TV still has no parallel when it comes to reach and effectiveness.”
On an average, each of the players in the category spends close to Rs 20-22 crore on TV annually. Considering the major brands like Manforce that has a 35 per cent market share, followed by Skore and Moods, which have about 11-12 per cent each, Kohinoor and Kamasutra with 8 per cent each and then, Durex with 2-3 per cent – the brands would be spending anywhere close to Rs 120-150 crore on television. The broadcasters, too, will be hit by this decision. The ad rates on primetime are over 10-11 times more than that of the lean hours of 10pm to 6am.
The implementation challenges
Deepak Netram, SVP, Lodestar UM, said, “To begin with, if there is a restriction on timing, we will need to figure how to create a suitable plan. Then when it comes to buying, deals on genres and channels operating on ROS or RODP through the day would need to re-calibrated. It will also be interesting to see what channel systems and controls will be introduced to keep track of this aspect.”
It might become an executional nightmare. Most places have implemented automated ad insertions and this restriction on a particular category will need major modifications in the systems. Planners, buyers and people who work in the operations will have a tough time.
While most condom brand ads have stayed out of too much sexuality, the recent ads featuring actors Sunny Leone and Bipasha Basu have been sensual to a higher level. So then, does the fault lie in the government’s execution or the decision is at fault?
Nima Namchu, Chief Creative Officer, Havas Worldwide, believes that, “While some brands walk the edge while making their commercials, it is not imperative for a condom ad to be risqué. Having said that, asking advertisers to tone down the content would have definitely been a more welcome move.”
Purandare explained that there are also norms of watershed hours followed internationally, according to which content for only adult viewing can be aired beyond certain hours. She suggested, “If somebody wants to be bold and push the envelope, they can do so in the watershed hours.”
Another industry observer pointed out another example of ‘imperfect’ timing. “There was a lot of hue and cry about showing toilet cleaner ads during dinner time. But it died down. How far can you impose bans and restrictions? I feel self-regulation is the key here.”
Vyas seconds Netram’s opinion on self-regulation, “The need today is to encourage more talk on condoms and not to hush it. Hence, this ban is not the order of the day. On the other hand, in a vast country like India, one should also respect the sensitivities of people and hence, it’s important from the brands’ and companies’ point of view to respect that and pro-actively practice self-regulation. This could be the desired scenario instead of the one we find ourselves in today.”
Are Condom ads actually sleazy?
I don’t think the government has banned family planning ads etc. during that time band. the sad part is that none of the condom ads spread awareness about the issues that you are talking about. condoms ads have reduced themselves to titilating sleaze & nothing more ...— Jitender Dabas (@dabas_jeetu) December 12, 2017
Don’t you think the responsibility lies with the condoms brands too ? They have not only been sleazy but also propagate a very very sexist ‘please-the-man’ narrative? And govt is not banning any safe sex, family planning ads between 6-10 I think.— Jitender Dabas (@dabas_jeetu) December 12, 2017
Jitendra Dabas, Chief Strategy Officer, McCann WorldGroup, has, on the other hand, criticised the condom brands for not behaving responsibly while promoting their products. In one of his tweets, Dabas said, “While the government order is faulty in its application of the logic used in the order, the condom brands have also brought this onto themselves by creating predominantly ‘sleazy’ advertising, which does make it unsuitable to be watched by kids.”
If we take a closer look at all the ads telecast on TV, there are sleazier ads from categories that have no reason to be sensuous. Be it the deo category or a major ‘sportswear and watches’ brand that tries to be sexually appealing for no reason. But all of this has never been ‘banned’ on prime time, though such ads have been tackled by the council on a case-to-case basis. Shouldn’t same principle be applied to the condom ads as well?
Some more reactions:
India has 1.6 cr abortions per year yet it has issued an advisory not to play condom ads between 6am and 10 pm. We should encourage responsible behaviour instead of being bothered about sensual images. Censorship cannot be to please the masses or vote bank https://t.co/8qeikqvZHl— Vineet jain (@vineetjaintimes) December 12, 2017
Such ads need to be played MORE between 6am-10pm. You rather have kids avoid unwanted pregnancy by wearing condoms than be bothered about sensual content. Kids have enough access to sexual content on the net. Censorship cannot be senseless or democratic https://t.co/MNWu4W1HCV— Vineet jain (@vineetjaintimes) December 12, 2017
Life is a strange cycle. If you're the type of adult who is so uptight, they are offended by condom ads, you're probably not going to get to use the product much. Or maybe because you don't get to use the product...you're offended by condom ads. #ThisJoke #Calmdown— Vir Das (@thevirdas) December 12, 2017 | <urn:uuid:343620f3-2dc7-421a-8307-507152e82444> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bestmediainfo.com/2017/12/condom-ad-curfew-an-exercise-in-vain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.9652 | 2,367 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Utamaro: Silkworm Cultivation: Stage number Seven (Sold)
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: Silkworm Cultivation: Stage number Seven (kaiko no tane o ? zu)
Series: Women Engaged in the Sericulture Industry ((Joshoku kaiko tewaza-gusa)
Date: ca. 1798-1800
The 12 pictures of this series show the stages in sericulture, silkworm cultivation, traditionally considered the purview of women. The color scheme of this series focuses on purple (in purple picture style murasaki-e), avoiding red. This print, the 7th of the series, shows the stage of the metamophosis, when the winged moth stage silkworms are used to lay eggs. The text explains the specific stage in more detail.
In the cloud-shaped borders, the text describes their activities, taken verbatim from the series of twelve chuban prints by Katsukawa Shunshô and Kitao Shigemasa, Kaiko yashinai-gusa. It is thought that these prints were made to help promote the silk industry. The text explains: “From silkworms which are making cocoons, good ones are selected, attached to threads and suspended. Out of cocoons the moth caterpillars emerge. A male and female are put together and moved onto papers. The females lay eggs. This is called uwako(?)”.
Condition: Excellent color. Very good impression and condition. Large sheet.
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon
Literature: Illustrated in Ukiyo-e zuten by Kiyoshi Shibui, p. 138. For others in the series: Asano, Shûgô & Clark, Timothy: The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro, Chiba City Museum of Art, 1995, pp.205-6, #325 & 326.
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- Taking care of your own emotional health and physical needs makes you a more effective caregiver.
- Consider seeking assistance with caregiving responsibilities.
- Recognize signs of stress. Talk with your doctor or a counselor if you are having trouble coping with your emotions.
One of the most important—but often forgotten—tasks for caregivers is caring for themselves. A caregiver's physical, emotional, and mental health is vital to the well-being of the person who has cancer. To be a good caregiver, you must be good to yourself.
How to cope
Caregivers may experience periods of stress, anxiety, depression, and frustration. The following suggestions can help keep you from feeling overwhelmed or burned out.
Find support. Feeling angry, guilty, alone, afraid, and/or sad can be common for caregivers. Talking with other people who are caring for a family member or friend with cancer can help you cope. Ask an oncology social worker to you with any local resources, such as support groups.
Recognize the signs of stress. The following are signs of stress:
- Feeling exhausted all of the time
- Getting sick more often than usual
- Not sleeping enough
- Feeling impatient, irritated, or forgetful
- Not enjoying things you used to enjoy
- Withdrawing from people.
Get help. This can mean hiring people to care for the person with cancer. Or, hire people to help you with chores, errands, or childcare to free up some of your time. Family, friends, members of religious groups, and people in community groups are often willing to assist. Accept their help and give them specific tasks.
Make time for yourself and other relationships. Spending time doing something you enjoy can give you a much-needed break. Taking breaks can help you continue to be an effective caregiver. Also, spend time with other people who are important to you. Maintaining those supportive relationships is important for your own health and wellbeing.
Learn about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). If employed, take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act. This act requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for employees who need time off to care for a seriously ill family member. Employers must continue benefits during the leave period, and some may allow a flexible or reduced work schedule. The FMLA also permits employers to provide leave provisions that are more generous than the act requires. Talk with your employer to learn about the specific provisions your company offers.
Be kind and patient with yourself. Many caregivers experience occasional bouts of anger or frustration and then feel guilty for having these feelings. Try to find positive ways of coping with these difficult feelings, such as talking with supportive friends and exercising. Journaling is another positive outlet.
Take care of your body. Make time to exercise, eat healthy foods, stay hydrated, and get enough sleep. In addition, re-evaluate your own health. The stress of caregiving can lead some people to develop or increase unhealthy habits, such as smoking, drinking too much alcohol, or using prescription medicine improperly. If you cannot make healthy changes on your own, seek professional help.
When to seek professional help
It is important for caregivers to pay close attention to their emotional and mental health. Several studies have shown that caregivers are at an increased risk for depression and anxiety. If you are having trouble coping with your emotions, talk with your doctor or a counselor.
Symptoms of depression include feelings of sadness and despair that interfere with daily activities. Other warning signs include:
- Loss of appetite or overeating
- Problems sleeping, such as not being able to sleep or sleeping too much
- Lack of energy
- Loss of interest in activities once enjoyed
- Trouble with focus, memory, and making decisions
- Feeling irritable and restless
- Excessive crying
- Headaches or constant, unexplained pains; physical symptoms that don’t improve with treatment
- Drinking too much alcohol
Anxiety is a common and normal response to a stressful situation, such as caring for a person with cancer. However, too much anxiety can lead to health problems and interfere with daily activities.
Symptoms of anxiety include:
- Trouble solving problems, making decisions, or focusing
- Feeling excitable or restless
- Increased muscle tension or feeling tense
- Unexplained and constant anger or irritability
- Not being able to sleep
- Too much worrying
Managing depression and anxiety
In addition to seeking professional help, other ways to help manage depression and anxiety include:
- Avoiding drinking too much alcohol
- Planning enjoyable activities with family and friends
- Joining a support group for caregivers
- Doing activities that bring you happiness and comfort
- Exercising — as little as 10 to 15 minutes at a time can help
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One Hundred Names for Love
by Diane Ackerman
Book lovers around the world today are no strangers to love stories. Some of these tales may be as passionate and romantic as Jane Austen’s works. Others could be as sensual as books like the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer. And some could be as poetic as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare. No matter how legendary or sweet a romantic narrative may be, no love story comes remotely close to the authenticity and the spirituality of Diane Ackerman’s memoir entitled One Hundred Names for Love: A Marriage, a Stroke, and the Language of Healing. Diane tells the story of her husband, Paul West, and how she rose to the occasion when a massive stroke that he suffered in 2006 handicapped him for an indefinite period and robbed him of his extensive vocabulary, something he had prided himself on for nearly his whole life. But as she learns to have patience with his incapability and cope with a seemingly dark future, what started as a dreary tale soon becomes a story of love, perseverance and hope.
While reading One Hundred Names for Love, I was reminded of something that I had heard a very long time ago; lovers who were meant to live long and happy lives together are lovers that share a language that only they can understand. With Diane and her husband Paul, even after the stroke I could say that this is true of them. This is the kind of book that lovers of all ages can and will enjoy if they read this memoir. If the reader has been [or is currently] married, engaged or in a committed relationship, they will understand Diane’s attachment to her husband and the language of love that often occurs between them and only them. In almost every other page Diane brings up a random memory of her and her husband together, sometimes just laughing together or watching the television or even just talking.As heart wrenching a tale as it was, One Hundred Names for Love also had a handful of shortcomings. Having never been in a relationship or dated anyone in my life,
I constantly found myself having a hard time relating to Diane as I was reading through the pages. Another low point of the story is that the pacing is very slow in the beginning, where Diane describes nearly every detail of what happened to her and her husband after the stroke, including her thoughts, feelings, and what Paul would say about his experience later on when everything was said and done. And because Diane kept going back and quoting her husband on the experience, more than once I found myself thinking “okay, even though it looks hopeless now we already know that he is okay now and just as capable of doing all of the things he could do before as he was in the beginning, so why do I need to keep reading this?”
With the low points of the book comes self-redemption. What Diane lacked in a good sense of pacing the story, she made up for with beautiful—and sometimes comedic—metaphors that kept my attention as I read her story. For example, she opens with her husband being in the hospital for a kidney surgery, and on the very first page she describes all of the tubes being stuck into his body as “a jellyfish with long tentacles, not really a fish at all but a gelatinous animal full of hidden symmetries, as well as lagoons and sewers, and lots of spongy and stringy bits. But mainly salt water. Lugging tubes and cables, he had joined the hospital’s bloom of deep-sea creatures.” And even though I was unable to relate to Diane’s story since I had never dated or been in a committed relationship before, the story still gave me advice and showed that commitment and perseverance are two of the qualities that make a relationship work. There will be times where somebody would want to give up when things are not going smoothly, but Diane’s story shows that if you really love someone, you have to commit to it no matter what. So while I was unable to look at the story and say “I know exactly what she had gone through,” I can still look back on the reading experience and say “I could really learn from Diane’s experiences and put what I learn to practice in the future.”
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An infectious diseases expert says pockets of immunisation resistance are putting Australia's measles-free status at risk.
Australia achieved its elimination status for measles in 2008, due to its effective immunisation program.
But last year there was an outbreak in New South Wales and now there are concerns the disease could take hold again.
The director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), Dr Peter MacIntyre, says more definitive action is needed.
"Had [the outbreak] continued for much longer than it did, we would have got to the point where we would have had continued measles transmission for over a year," he said.
"That would have meant that we could no longer say we didn't have home-grown measles."
Dr MacIntyre says it is a wake-up call.
"This could happen in another few years' time as more people who are susceptible to measles build up in certain areas," he said.
"It's telling us to further strengthen our efforts to ensure we are catching everyone who might be falling through the cracks."
Dr MacIntyre says some parts of Australia have a greater risk of a measles outbreak because of lower immunisation rates, such as northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Steve Hambleton says it is those areas which threaten Australia's position.
"Our elimination status is under threat because there are pockets of decreasing immunisation of our children," he said.
The AMA says anti-vaccination campaigns are partly to blame.
The solution, says Dr MacIntyre, is greater protection at a school level.
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This week’s question is, “Why am I always so tired? What about adrenal burnout? How do I get my energy back and heal my adrenals?”
First you need to know what your adrenal glands do, why they malfunction, and what can you do about it?
Your adrenals are really important, because they help you respond to stress. If you have chronic stress, your adrenals get beat up, and it is difficult to manage your life, and your energy plummets.
You feel tired and wired. You get palpitations. You feel anxious. You have trouble sleeping. You might crave salt. You may get dizzy when you stand up. You might have low blood pressure. You might even have sugar cravings, because your blood sugar can’t be regulated. All these are clues that you could have adrenal problems.
So, why do we get adrenal burnout?
We get it from the chronic, unremitting, ongoing stresses of everyday life: stresses of our families, stresses of relationships, stresses of work, the stresses of constant interaction with Facebook and Twitter and the online world, and all these inputs that never let us pause.
Now, how many of you know where your pause button is? I bet you don’t. I bet you haven’t found it yet, and you don’t know where to go to turn it on or how to turn it on.
Understanding your body’s response to stress
It’s really important to understand how the whole stress response works, why it goes wrong, and why, over time, your adrenal glands, which are these little glands that sit on the top of your kidneys, are not able to compensate for the chronic stress that you have in your life.
So, how do you know if you have adrenal burnout or if you’re on the way to adrenal burnout? It’s very simple. You ask yourself a set of questions, which are in my adrenal stress quiz that’s on my website. To take the adrenal stress quiz and other quizzes, please register here for the UltraWellness Community. Once registered, simply login here and go to your profile. Then, select Available Quizzes and choose the Adrenal Quiz. If you are already a member of The UltraWellness Community, just login here and follow the link to Available Quizzes.
Do you have any of these symptoms?
- Are you feeling tired and wired?
- Are you irritable?
- Do you have trouble falling or staying asleep?
- Are you having trouble with low blood pressure or low blood sugar?
- Are you craving sweets?
- Are you craving salt?
- Are you just feeling kind of overwhelmed?
If you have any of these symptoms, you might just have adrenal burnout.
At The UltraWellness Center, we do saliva testing to measure cortisol levels throughout the day. When you have adrenal burnout, your cortisol starts to go down, you can’t respond normally to the stresses of life, and you end up just feeling tired and crummy most of the time. We push ourselves with coffee. We push ourselves with stimulants. We push ourselves to feel better using things that don’t really work.
So, what does work? How do you heal your adrenals and regain your energy?
Find your pause button
It’s quite simple. You find your pause button. That’s the first thing to do, and I’ve found lots of different pause buttons that I like the push. You need to find yours.
I do it through yoga—that’s one of my favorite pause buttons.
I also use a hot bath at night. I call it the UltraBath, where you take two cups of Epsom salt, half a cup of baking soda, 10 drops of lavender oil, and you soak for 20 minutes. You end up with a really decreased stress response. In fact, they put lavender oil in babies’ baths, because it lowers cortisol and helps to balance their whole hormonal system.
Also, there are other things you can do. Massage is great, as is meditation and deep breathing. There are all sorts of tools and resources available for you everywhere—online, on my website, where you can actually be guided through the experience of how to do this.
In fact, one of my friends, Susan Piver, has something called the Open Heart Project, where you can join her online in a weekly guided meditation.
Very simple things have profound effects. Exercise is also really important—gentle, regular exercise like a morning walk, a light jog, a little bike ride. Do something out in the fresh air to get natural light that affects your pineal gland and helps reset your brain and the stress response.
I also recommend regular rhythm. Rhythm is key, because your hormones are balanced in rhythms. So, waking at the same time every day, going to bed at the same time every day, eating at the same time every day—these are the rhythms in life that help to reset your natural balance. Following your natural rhythms of work and rest during the day is also essential. Take natural breaks when you are tired. Our bodies function best on ultradian rhythm cycles of 90 minutes of activity punctuated by a few minutes of rest or zoning out! Naps are also a great way to reset. If you are all over the place, your adrenals are going to burn out.
Try my UltraCalm CD for more on how to create stress resilience learn several guided meditation and relaxation exercises.
Boost Your Stress Resilience with Supplements
Then, of course, there are some really simple things you can do with supplements. We use a lot of really wonderful herbs at The UltraWellness Center. We call them adaptogens, because they help you adapt to stress.
- Try Siberian ginseng or Rhodiola or Cordyceps. These are wonderful herbs that you can use to help balance your adrenal and stress response. I use Adreset, one to two caps, twice a day with my patients.
- Vitamin C 500 to 1000mg a day, zinc 30mg a day, B complex vitamins, two a day, especially vitamin B5: all these things help to balance your adrenals.
- Ashwagandha, magnolia, theanine (from green tea), and phosphatidyIserine can help calm an overactive stress response and improve sleep. The combination I use successfully with my patients is Cortisol Manager, one or two at night.
So, if you have any of these symptoms, if you’re worried about your adrenal stress response, if you’re thinking that you might have adrenal burnout, I encourage you to take some time, find things you like to do to hit your pause buttons, get into rhythm, try a few vitamins and herbs, and reset your life.
So, now I would like to hear from you…
- Have you ever experienced adrenal burnout?
- What’s worked? What hasn’t?
- How did you overcome it? Or maybe you haven’t.
Please share your experience with us in the comments section.
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Skill 4.2: Design and implement multi-site or hybrid network connectivity
The term hybrid cloud is used in many ways across the IT industry. Typically, hybrid cloud means to connect your local datacenters to the cloud and run workloads in both locations. This section covers connecting VNets to other VNets, as well as options for connecting your on-premises network to the Azure cloud. There are a range of connection types that can be leveraged for the many scenarios that you as a cloud administrator could face on the exam.
Choose the appropriate solution between ExpressRoute, Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site
When connecting your on-premises network to a VNet, there are three options that provide connectivity for various use cases. These include Point-to-Site virtual private network (VPN), Site-to-Site VPN, and Azure ExpressRoute.
Point-to-Site (P2S) virtual private network (VPN)
This connection type is between a single PC connected to your network and Azure VPN Gateway running over the internet. Sometimes referred to as a “VPN Tunnel,” this on-demand connection is initiated by the user and secured by using a certificate. The connection uses the SSTP protocol on port 443 to provide encrypted communication over the internet between the PC and the VNet. The P2S connection is very easy to setup because it requires little or no change to your existing network. The latency for a point-to-site VPN is unpredictable because the traffic traverses the internet.
P2S connections are useful for remote employees or those that only want to establish connectivity when they need it and can disconnect from the Azure VNet when they are finished with their tasks. In Figure 4-31, depicts an example of developers or testers that only need to connect to the Azure VNet when they are writing code or performing tests on their applications.
FIGURE 4-31 Remote Developers and Tester connecting to Azure VNet using P2S
Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN
S2S connections are durable methods for building cross-premises and hybrid configurations. S2S connections are established between your VPN on-premises device and an Azure VPN Gateway. This connection type enables any on-premises devices you authorize to access VMs and services that are running in an Azure VNet. The connection is known as an IPSec VPN that provides encrypted network traffic crossing over the internet between your on-premises VPN device and the Azure VPN Gateway. The secure encryption method used for these VPN tunnels is IKEv2. Just as with P2S VPNs, the latency for S2S VPNs is unpredictable because the network connection is an internet connection. The on-premises VPN device is required to have a static Public IP address assigned to it and it cannot be located behind a NAT. An example of a S2S VPN is shown in Figure 4-32.
FIGURE 4-32 S2S VPN connection between Azure and On-Premises
There is a variation of this S2S network where you create more than one VPN connection from your VPN Gateway typically connecting to multiple on-premises sites. This is known as a Multi-Site S2S connection. When working with multiple connections, you must use a route-based VPN type. Because each VNet can only have one VPN Gateway, all connections through the gateway share the available bandwidth. In Figure 4-33, you see an example of a network with three sites and two VNets in different Azure regions.
FIGURE 4-33 Multi-Site S2S Network with three locations and two Azure VNets
S2S VPNs should be used for connecting to Azure on a semi-permanent or permanent basis based on your plans for the cloud. These connections are always on and reliable (only as much as your internet connection though). If there are issues with your internet provider or on the public internet infrastructure, your VPN tunnel could go down or run slowly from time to time. Mission critical workloads running in Azure in a hybrid-cloud configuration should use ExpressRoute with a S2S as a backup.
ExpressRoute lets you connect your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection hosted by a Microsoft ExpressRoute provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365.
ExpressRoute is a secure and reliable private connection. Network traffic does not egress to the internet. The latency for an ExpressRoute circuit is predictable because traffic stays on your provider’s network and never touches the internet.
Connectivity can be from a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), any-to-any IPVPN network, a point-to-point ethernet network, or a virtual cross-connection through a connectivity provider at a co-location facility. Figure 4-34 shows the options for connecting to ExpressRoute.
FIGURE 4-34 Examples of ExpressRoute Circuits
ExpressRoute is only available in certain cities throughout the world, so it is important to check with a provider to determine its availability.
An ExpressRoute connection does not use a VPN Gateway, although it does use a Virtual Network gateway as part of its required configuration. In an ExpressRoute connection, the Virtual Network gateway is configured with the gateway type ‘ExpressRoute,’ rather than ‘VPN’
To connect to Azure using ExpressRoute, set up and manage the routing or contract with a service provider to manage the connection. ExpressRoute uses the BGP routing protocol to facilitate the connections between the routers on the network. There is support for the use of private and public Autonomous System Numbers (ASN), and public or private IPs depending upon which part of the Microsoft cloud that you are connecting to with ExpressRoute.
Each ExpressRoute circuit has two connections to two Microsoft edge routers from your network edge. Microsoft requires dual BGP connections from your edge to each Microsoft edge router. You can choose not to deploy redundant devices or ethernet circuits at your end; however, connectivity providers use redundant devices to ensure that your connections are handed off to Microsoft in a redundant manner. Figure 4-35 shows a redundant connectivity configuration.
FIGURE 4-35 Multiple Cities Connected to ExpressRoute in Two Azure Regions
As seen in Figure 4-36, ExpressRoute has three routing domains: Azure Public, Azure Private, and Microsoft. They are configured as an active-active load sharing configuration. Azure Services are assigned categories based on what they provide and have different IP Address schemes within the Azure regions.
Azure Private Peering Azure compute services, namely virtual machines (IaaS) and cloud services (PaaS), that are deployed within a Virtual Network can be connected through the private peering domain. The private peering domain is a trusted extension of your core network into Microsoft Azure.
Azure Public Peering Services such as Azure Storage, SQL databases, and websites are offered on Public IP addresses. You can privately connect to services hosted on Public IP addresses, including VIPs of your cloud services, through the public peering routing domain.
Microsoft Peering ExpressRoute provides private network connectivity to Microsoft cloud services. Software as a Service offerings, like Office 365 and Dynamics 365, were created to be accessed securely and reliably via the internet.
FIGURE 4-36 ExpressRoute Routing Domains
ExpressRoute can be purchased in different speeds and in one of two modes: Metered or Unlimited.
Metered All inbound data transfer is free of charge, and all outbound data transfer is charged based on a pre-determined rate. Users are also charged a fixed monthly port fee (based on high availability dual ports).
Unlimited All inbound and outbound data transfer is free of charge. Users are charged a single fixed monthly port fee (based on high availability dual ports).
There is also a premium add-on that can be enabled if your network is global enterprise in nature. The following features are added to your ExpressRoute circuit when the premium add-on is enabled:
Increased routing table limit from 4000 routes to 10,000 routes for private peering.
More than 10 VNets can be connected to the ExpressRoute circuit.
Connectivity to Office 365 and Dynamics 365.
Global connectivity over the Microsoft core network. You can now link a VNet in one geopolitical region with an ExpressRoute circuit in another region.
Choose the appropriate gateway
A VPN Gateway is a type of Virtual Network gateway that sends encrypted traffic over a public connection to an on-premises location. You can also use VPN Gateways to send encrypted traffic between Azure VNets over the Azure Backbone network. To send encrypted network traffic between your Azure VNET and an on-premises datacenter, you must create a VPN Gateway for your VNet.
Each VNet can only have one VPN Gateway. However, you can create multiple connections to the same VPN Gateway. An example of this is a multi-site connection configuration. When you create multiple connections to the same VPN Gateway, all VPN tunnels, including Point-to-Site VPNs, share the bandwidth that is available for the gateway.
A Virtual Network gateway is composed of two or more VMs that are deployed to a specific subnet called the GatewaySubnet. The VMs that are in the GatewaySubnet are created upon creation of the VPN Gateway. VPN Gateway VMs are configured to contain routing tables and gateway services specific to that VPN Gateway. You can’t directly configure the VMs that are part of the VPN Gateway, and you should never deploy additional resources to the GatewaySubnet.
When you create a VNet gateway using the gateway type vpn, it creates a specific type of VPN Gateway that encrypts traffic. The Gateway SKU that you select determines how powerful the provisioned VMs will be to handle the amount of aggregate throughput (network traffic for all devices sending and received through). It is important to note the Basic VPN Gateway is only recommended for very small networks with only a few users. The VPN options are captured in Table 4-8.
TABLE 4-8 VPN Gateway options
|SKU||S2S/VNet-to-VNet Tunnels (Maximum)||P2S Connections (Maximum)||Aggregate Throughput Benchmark|
Identify support devices and software VPN solutions
To facilitate a Site-to-Site (S2S), cross-premises VPN connection using a VPN Gateway, a VPN device is required to configured on-premises. These S2S connections can be used to create a hybrid solution, or whenever you want to secure connections between your on-premises networks and your VNets.
In partnership with device vendors, Microsoft has a validated a set of standard VPN devices proven to be compatible. These devices range from routers and firewalls to software that can be run on Linux or Windows servers. All of the devices in the device guide should work with the Azure VPN Gateways. If you have a device that is not listed, there is guidance from Microsoft on the standards that are supported and by using this information, it is possible to connect to the Azure network.
Identify network prerequisites
Connecting to the Azure cloud does require proper planning, and there are some very important steps to look at prior to configuring VNets and hybrid connections to Azure.
Here are some considerations that you should start with when determining how to connect your network to Azure:
IP address spaces It is critical that your IP address spaces don’t overlap with existing networks or those that you are planning for in the future. This is complicated even further when considering that you are most likely building more than one VNet in Azure. It is best to use an offline IP Address Management (IPAM), tool to ensure that all your networks are accounted for before you build anything.
Public IP addresses & AS numbers If you plan on using S2S or ExpressRoute connections to Azure, it is important to have public registered IP addresses. If you are using ExpressRoute or BGP with S2S connections having a registered AS number for your company is the proper way to configure the network.
VPN devices Making sure that you have an approved VPN device is the best bet for creating VPN connections to Azure. You should test these devices by creating a VPN to a test network to ensure that it works properly as a part of your Azure pilot project.
Estimated network throughput It is important to understand the amount of network traffic that goes from your site to Azure over the VPN Gateway. You need this information to select the VPN Gateway SKU to provision. This is also useful for deciding on the size of the ExpressRoute circuit if you chose to go with this type of configuration.
Subscriptions It is also important to consider the number of subscriptions that you have and if they have the same Azure AD Tenet associated with them. This impacts your network design because there are limits to the various configurations and the number of possible connections, depending upon how you configured the subscriptions for your company.
Implement Virtual Network peering service chaining
VNet peering allows you to connect two Azure Resource Manager (ARM), VNets located in the same region together without complex integration. The peered VNets must have non-overlapping IP address spaces. The address spaces in either VNet cannot be added to or deleted from a VNet once a VNet is peered with another VNet.
Once they are peered, the VNets appear as one network and the VM in the peered VNets can communicate with each other directly. The traffic between VMs is routed through the Microsoft backbone network in the same way that traffic is routed between VM in the same VNet through private IP addresses.
You can peer VNets that exist in two different subscriptions, if a privileged user of both subscriptions authorizes the peering, and the subscriptions are associated to the same Azure Active Directory tenant. There is also a limit of 50 VNet peerings per subscription.
Figure 4-37 shows two VNets in the North Central region peered together. Notice their IP address spaces do not overlap as this would make the peering impossible.
FIGURE 4-37 VNet peering between two networks in the North Central Region
Network Traffic flowing through VNet peerings is private, as it never touches any gateways or the internet. This connection is low-latency and high-bandwidth between resources in different VNets. The same speed considerations for VMs on the local VNet apply (based on the VM size). Once Vnet peering is enabled, VMs on each VNet will have the ability to use resources in one VNet from another.
It is important to understand that VNet peering is between two Virtual Networks. There is no derived transitive relationship across the peerings. If you peer VNetA to VNetB and then peer VNetB with VNetC, VNetA is not peered to VNetC. Figure 4-38 shows you a functional architecture of this and describes how VNetA is not peered to VNetC.
FIGURE 4-38 Vnet Peerings do not have a transitive relationship
You can configure user-defined routes that point to VMs in peered VNets as the “next hop,” IP address to enable service chaining. Service chaining enables you to direct traffic from one VNet to a virtual appliance in a peered Virtual Network through user-defined routes. Figure 4-39 provides a view of a network where service chaining is implemented.
FIGURE 4-39 Service chaining allows for the use of common services across VNet Peerings
Configure Virtual Network and Multi-Site Virtual Networks
You can connect VNets to each other, enabling resources connected to either VNet to communicate with each other across VNets. You can use either or both of the following options to connect VNets to each other:
Peering Enables resources connected to different Azure VNets within the same Azure region to communicate with each other. The bandwidth and latency across the VNets is the same as if the resources were connected to the same VNet.
VNet-to-VNet connection Enables resources connected to different Azure VNets within the same, or different Azure regions. Unlike peering, bandwidth is limited between VNets because traffic must flow through an Azure VPN Gateway.
Using VNet-to-VNet connections allows for connecting Azure regions to each other via the Microsoft backbone. This configuration allows for always on connections between the Azure datacenters.
Peering and VNet-to-VNet connections can be used together to enable all networks to see each other. Peering would be setup between one or more VNets within the same Azure regions and then one of these networks would have a VNet-to-VNet VPN setup. The Allow Gateway Transit must be turned on for these packets to be leveraged.
Creating a VNet-to-VNet connection across Azure Regions using a VPN Gateway using the Azure Portal
Figure 4-40 shows a diagram of what you should create. VNETA and VNETB are peered in the North Central Azure regions. Another VNet, VNETC, should be deployed to the North Europe region and then connected to VNETB via a S2S VPN.
The following steps capture the basic process of connecting these networks together:
Create gateway subnets on each VNETB and VNETC
Provision virtual network gateways on VNETB and VNETC
Create connections between the two networks
Configure VNETA to VNET B peering to Use Remote Gateway
Configure VNETB to VNETA peering to Allow Gateway Transit
FIGURE 4-40 Multi-Region VNet deployment using Peering in and VPN Gateway over the Microsoft Backbone
Create GatewaySubnets on each VNETB and VNETC
Using the portal, navigate to each of the VNets, and click the subnets link under settings. From the subnets blade select the +Gateway subnet and assign an address space using a /28 CIDR, as seen in Figure 4-41 and Figure 4-42.
FIGURE 4-41 Adding a GatewaySubnet to VNETB
FIGURE 4-42 Adding a GatewaySubnet to VNETC
Provision Virtual Network Gateways on VNETB and VNETC
Complete the following information for VNETB:
Gateway type VPN
VPN Type Route-based
Virtual Network VNETB
First IP Configuration Create New, VNETBGW-PUBIP
Location North Central US
FIGURE 4-43 Creating the Azure VPN Gateway for VNETB
Complete the following information for VNETC:
Gateway type VPN
VPN Type Route-based
Virtual Network VNETC
First IP Configuration Create New, VNETCGW-PUBIP
Location North Europe US
FIGURE 4-44 Creating the Azure VPN Gateway for VNETC
Create Connections between the two Networks
After you provision the VPN Gateways, create two connections in Azure to bring up the VPN tunnel. To create this object, open VNETB in the Azure portal, as shown in Figure 4-45. Under Settings, locate Connections and click it to open. When the Connections blade opens, click +Add.
Complete the VNETB Add connection blade by using the following inputs:
Second Virtual Network Gatewa VNETCGW
Shared Key A1B2C3D4E5 (any unique value matching on both sides)
FIGURE 4-45 Creating the Connection between VNETB to VNETC
This process needs to be repeated for VNETC. Open VNETC in the Azure portal, as shown in Figure 4-46. Under Settings, locate Connections and click it to open. When the Connections blade opens, click +Add.
Complete the VNETC Add connection blade by using the following inputs:
Second Virtual Network Gateway VNETBGW
Shared Key A1B2C3D4E5 (any unique value matching on both sides)
FIGURE 4-46 Creating the Connection between VNETC to VNETB
Configure VNETA to VNETB Peering to Use Remote Gateway
To allow packets from VNETA to cross the VPN Gateway configured on VNETB, reach VNETC, you must make a change to the VNETA-to-VNETB peering by opening VNETA in the portal to locate the peerings link. Then open the VNETA-to-VNETB, and select Use Remote Gateways in the Configuration section, as seen in Figure 4-47.
FIGURE 4-47 Enabling the Use remote gateways option for the VNETA-to-VNETB Peering
Configure VNETB to VNETA Peering to Allow Gateway Transit
To allow packets from VNETA to VNETC you must make a configuration change to the VNETB-to-VNETA peering. To do so, open the VNETB in the portal and locate the peerings blade. Select the VNEB-to-VNETA connection followed by the Allow Gateway Transit option in the Configuration section, as seen in Figure 4-48.
FIGURE 4-48 Enabling the Allow gateway transit option for the VNETB-to-VNETA peering
After the connection objects are created, it might take a few minutes for the connection to come up. Figure 4-49 shows the status of the connection object by looking on the Overview blade of VNETB-VNETC-Conn1.
FIGURE 4-49 Status of the Connection between VNETB and VNETC shown as Connected
Gateways and On-premises Connectivity
Any VNet can have its own VPN Gateway and use it to connect to an on-premises network. When VNets are peered, this doesn’t change. You can also configure VNet- -VNet connections using VPN Gateways. Even the VNet(s) are peered to other VNet(s).
When both options for VNet interconnectivity are configured, the traffic between the VNets flows through the peering configuration (that is, through the Azure backbone).
When VNets are peered in the same region, you can configure the VPN Gateway in the peered VNet as a method to point traffic to an on-premises network. In this case, the VNet using a remote gateway unfortunately cannot have its own gateway. A VNet can have only one gateway. The gateway can either be a local or remote gateway. In Figure 4-50, you see VNetA and VNetB located in the West Europe region peered together with VNetA providing VPN services to both networks. In this configuration, all three networks can reach each other.
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|Brown and rust mutants of the Syrian hamster are p and b genes of mammalian coat colours Journal of Heredity 78:128-129, 1987. Pubmed reference: 3584937.|
|1960||Robinson, R. :|
|Occurrence of a brown mutation in the Syrian hamster. Nature 187:170-1, 1960. Pubmed reference: 14437988.|
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The John Walker House contributes significantly to the cultural heritage and visual beauty of the District of Columbia. The house has long been known as the Gannt-Williams House and its date of construction initially thought to be circa 1805, but research in the Georgetown deed and assessment records shows that the house was not built until 1816-1817, when it was the property of Isaac Owens. The house represents a typical Federal-style townhouse found in Georgetown in the early nineteenth century.
In 1820, Isaac Owens is listed as a slaveholder in legal possession of five individuals. It is unclear whether he used enslaved laborers in the construction of the home. However, the site was an active site of enslavement in the 1820s.
In the twentieth century, the Walker House has been the home of Washington newspaper columnist Drew Pearson and John Walker, former director of the National Gallery of Art.
DC Inventory: November 8, 1964 (Joint Committee on Landmarks)
National Register: June 19, 1973
Within Georgetown Historic District
This site is included in the Capital City Slavery Tour for its owner’s enslavement of five individuals on the property. For further information on the role of enslaved laborers in the development of Washington, D.C. view the sources below or explore our Capital City Slavery Digital Exhibit. | <urn:uuid:dcdf1f12-3f0c-4cb0-9f66-386fd8e57304> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/635?tour=46&index=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.941919 | 271 | 3 | 3 |
U.S. Supreme Court: “Oyez, oyez, oyez. All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States...”
TIM O’BRIEN, correspondent: The Court's hearing itself began with an invocation to God...
U.S. Supreme Court: “...for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...”
O’BRIEN: The House of Representatives and the Senate also routinely begin with prayer...
U.S. Senate Chaplain: “Let us pray...”
O’BRIEN: ...and the Supreme Court ruled thirty years ago that doing so does not violate the First Amendment prohibition of government establishment of religion. But this week's case from Greece, New York—a predominantly Christian suburb of Rochester—may test the limits of such prayer. The prayers that open the town board's monthly meetings are almost always Christian, as are those who give them. When the case first went to court, only four of more than 130 prayer givers were non-Christian:
Father Alex Bradshaw: “We acknowledge the saving sacrifice of Jesus Christ...”
O’BRIEN: Father Alex Bradshaw, a frequent prayer-giver, is typical.
Father Alex Bradshaw: “We are approaching the end of the Easter season... And the Ascension of the Lord on Thursday of this week...”
O’BRIEN: A federal appeals court in New York ruled the town board had unconstitutionally favored the Christian faith after observing that “two-thirds of the prayers offered contained references to Jesus, Your Son, or the Holy Spirit.” Attorney Tom Hungar, defending the town of Greece in the Supreme Court, warned of the risks of allowing the government to engage in deciding who may offer a prayer or the language it may contain.
TOM HUNGAR (Attorney, Town of Greece, NY): To say you can pray in these words to these deities, but not in those words to those deities, that is government regulating the theological content of prayers, prescribing what is orthodox and what is not in religion, and that is contrary to our tradition of religious liberty.
O’BRIEN: The plaintiffs in the case, Linda Stephens who is an atheist and Susan Galloway who is Jewish, say their town governing board is a lot different from Congress. Their lawyer told the Court the town's prayers are inherently coercive.
DOUGLAS LAYCOCK (Plaintiffs' Attorney): You cannot refuse to participate in the prayer just before you stand up to ask the board to take discretionary action that affects you directly and personally. This is highly coercive. It is also a sectarian endorsement. This case is about Christians aggressively imposing themselves upon their fellow citizens with the power of government.
O’BRIEN: The justices appeared to be split along ideological lines, with conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Sam Alito most supportive of the town board. Alito pointed out that the opening prayers of the very first Congress were highly sectarian, much like those in Greece, New York. When the First Amendment was ratified in 1791, the country was largely Protestant—unlike today, when countless religions are represented. Several justices pointed out that crafting a prayer today that doesn't offend somebody could be daunting, if not impossible. | <urn:uuid:69540862-422b-4b37-ba96-96c097207e3a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/11/08/november-8-2013-legislative-prayer/20998/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00107-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953164 | 709 | 2.0625 | 2 |
I treated the two Lindas to a celebratory lunch last week.
Pink Linda and Red Linda.
They reminisced about their recent award ceremony over grilled salmon and ginger ale.
The award was in honour of Linda Chamberlain, who always wears pink.
Linda Coltman, whose wardrobe favours red, won the award.
“Seeing you talk about what you’ve been through, it gave me the guts to keep trying,” Coltman told Chamberlain during lunch. “It was a life changer.”
I’ve told you about Chamberlain before. She was illiterate, schizophrenic, living in a garbage bag in a park in Scarborough, yet she managed to claw her way off the streets into supportive housing and get part-time work on the very ward at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health where she’d once lived. She founded the Dream Team — psychiatric patients who speak publicly about their experiences and lobby for supportive housing — and runs a little charity that fosters the pets of people with mental illness when they’re in hospital. She’s also a comic, a clown and a drummer.
She’s as inspirational as you can get, not only for what she’s survived but for what she’s accomplished.
At 63, she is dying of bone and liver cancer.
As part of her legacy, her friends organized the Linda Chamberlain Pay It Forward Award. Coltman was the first winner and boy, was she a good choice.
First, what she survived: at age 12, Coltman was diagnosed with advanced Henoch-Schonlein purpura, an autoimmune disorder that she says transformed her kidneys “into Swiss cheese.” Her parents’ already shaky relationship ended; Coltman and her mother (who she says was abusive) commuted between the hospital and a woman’s shelter.
Coltman’s kidney transplant was successful. But, since then, she’s been chronically ill, suffering from internal bleeding, meningitis, panic attacks and depression.
“I had 28 surgeries in four years,” says Coltman, now 41.
Despite her ill health, Coltman finished high school with straight A’s and got a full scholarship to study pre-medicine at university. But, after only one year, she was forced to drop out. Her social assistance worker told her the government considered the scholarship to be income, Coltman says. If she continued taking it, her government-funded drug plan, providing meds she needed to survive, would be cut off.
She had a choice between life in poverty or a deadly way out.
Next, what she has achieved: while living in social housing in the city’s west end, Coltman helped rebuild a dilapidated playground and start a little soup kitchen offering neighbours $3 meals once a week.
She got into politics, volunteering for former Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy’s office and running for city council herself. (“I folded like a cheap deck chair in debates,” she says.) She was elected one of the first tenant representatives at Toronto Community Housing and lobbied for more security, accessibility and real tenant engagement.
More recently, she helped start and co-ordinate an intensive leadership boot camp for tenants, so they could find the confidence to speak out for themselves.
Although a great advocate for others, it took Coltman a long time to talk openly about her own poverty. When she heard about the award (which comes with a $500 cheque), she cried for a week.
“People like us don’t usually get awards,” she says during lunch. “We are told we can’t do things.”
“When we do get them, there never is money,” Chamberlain interjects. “A lot of awards I got, I had to borrow money to get an outfit.”
Six years ago, Coltman inherited some money from an aunt. She got off social assistance. And, later this month, she is moving out of Toronto Community Housing.
She bought a very modest house outside the city and is supporting herself working as a consultant.
Coltman is officially off the system. That makes her story not just one of survival and kindness, but also of hope.
However, like Chamberlain, she doesn’t know how much time she has left on the planet. The week she received her award, she was in hospital four times for blood transfusions. For years now, she has suffered from internal bleeding doctors still haven’t diagnosed, but she suspects it stems from the cocktail of transplant drugs she’s been taking for decades.
“Any time, I could bleed out,” she says.
In the time they have left, what do they want to do?
“I want to take lessons to swim,” says Pink Linda. “I love the water. I’m tired of swimming in the shallow end. And maybe a Hula Hoop class.”
Her friends have put together a book about her life. Chamberlain hopes the proceeds of its sale helps send survivors like her back to school.
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thomas at tkrahn.com
Mon Jun 24 13:06:35 CDT 2013
I'd be personally happy with 432.500 MHz. Not much traffic there in the
US and Canada and I don't know about a group that claims that frequency.
However according to http://www.hamradio.lt/bp-432.htm in IARU Region 1
is claimed for SSTV and linear transponder input. Don't know how
reliable that source is though.
In Australia 432.400 .. 432.600 is beacon range. Not sure if an APRS
tracker counts as a beacon?
In New Zealand 432.5 seems to be the FM calling frequency.
My thoughts on 432.900 MHz was because that beacon region is supposed to
be moved in the UK soon and it is close enough to the ISM range so that
most cheap RF chips can be used. It's outside the ISM range though which
means less interference in both directions.
I've heard that there is some APRS traffic on 70cms in China which I'd
like to hear more about, but I guess that regulations forbid operation
in China for most of us on this list anyways. Any clues about Japan,
South Korea etc.?
On 06/24/2013 12:12 PM, PE1RDW wrote:
> Region 1 already has 2 frequenties set aside for aprs on 70 cm,
> 430.5125 and 432.500, if you wish to use a frequentie that is the same
> in the whole world it would be smart to pick one of these, in the
> netherlands most trafic is on 430.5125 in 1200 baud leaving the newer
> 432.500 for faster aprs.
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Why aren't rabbits green?
Mikko J Kolkkala
mkolkkal at cc.Helsinki.FI
Sat Dec 21 13:00:48 EST 1996
Grace K Hsu (ghsu at ic.sunysb.edu) wrote:
: > Given the fact that rabbits are rather defenceless prey animals that
: > spend almost all of their life outside the warren eating against a
: > green background, why haven't they evolved to be green?
Partial explanation could be the poor ability of mammalian predators to see
colours - grass is not green for them!
On the other hand some avian predators have excellent colour vision, so
green fur _could_ be useful for rabbits.
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:) email: mkolkkal at helsinki.fi (: :) Division of Genetics (:
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Iran does not consider oil as a political tool but has the power to choose this option in the event of any Israeli or US aggression against the Islamic Republic, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi said."We don't consider crude oil as a political tool, however if necessary, we'll use it as a tool any way we need to," Qassemi said in response to a question in an interview translated into English by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television. "Right now, we believe everything's OK and that there is no need to use crude oil as a tool. However, I have to reiterate that in case we are urged to and in case we think it's necessary, yes, we will use this," he said in the interview posted on the television's website. Israel and the US have recently intensified their war rhetoric against Iran, saying that a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is in the offing. Iran has warned it will respond to any attack by hitting Israel and US interests in the Persian Gulf and analysts say Tehran could hit Western interests by closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world's oil passes. The Strait of Hormuz is the most important oil transit channel in the world, with some 15.5 million barrels or about 40% of all sea-borne shipped oil passing through in 2009, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US warships patrol the area since they were deployed in the Southern parts of the Persian Gulf and Iran has warned that if it comes under attack it would sink an oil tanker in the Strait in a bid to block the free move of the US Navy ships very easily and in a twinkling of an eye. Most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Iraq - together with nearly all the liquefied natural gas (LNG) from lead exporter Qatar - must slip through a four-mile (6.4 kilometer) wide shipping channel between Oman and Iran. | <urn:uuid:03727cb8-2c82-44b5-8d28-f546ca2120ac> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.arabtoday.net/business-244/minister-stresses-irans-power-to-use-oil-as-political-tool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718426.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00138-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973731 | 409 | 1.882813 | 2 |
ALEXKSANDR POUSHKIN, the Poet, was born at Petersburg in 1799 of good family, and died before he was forty, in the prime of his genius. The novel here offered to the public is considered by Russians his best prose work. Others are Boris Godúnof, a dramatic sketch, but never intended to be put on the stage, and The Prisoner of the Caucasus. Among his poems are “The Gipsies,” “Rúslan and Ludmilla,” “The Fountain of Tears,” and “Evgeni Onéghin.” The last, if I mistake not, was translated into English some years ago. Some of Poushkin’s writings having drawn suspicion on him he was banished to a distant part of the Empire, where he filled sundry administrative posts. The Tzar Nicholai, on his accession in 1825, recalled him to Petersburg and made him Historiographer. The works of the poet were much admired in society, but he was not happy in his domestic life. His outspoken language made him many enemies, and disgraceful reports were purposely spread abroad concerning him, which resulted in a duel in which he was mortally wounded by his brother-inlaw, George Danthès. His death was mourned publicly by all Russia.
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No matter what the world has turned to: Terrorists, Bombing, Killing etc. Whatever you want to say about how bad is our world right now. But, still there are many people out there who will make you restore faith in humanity. There are good people and there are the bad ones, but the good ones will always be less in number. Though the good work they are doing is keeping our hope life that still there is humanity left in us. Check out some of the heart touching images that prove humanity still exists:
Restore Faith In Humanity With These Images:
1. A Pakistani Waiter feeding a homeless man who can’t use his hands. Such great message in this pic.
2. A girl helping a soaking old man to cross the road, with her Umbrella.
3. A man giving his pair of Flip Flops to a homeless girl(while she’s crying).
4. A man rescuing kittens from the floods and taking them to the shore.
5. People trying to help a victim who got stuck under a burning car, after he met an accident.
6. Officers delivering the Pizza on time after the Delivery boy met an accident.
Also, check out: This 83-Year Old Man Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity.
7. Two Boys rescuing a dog from a Canal as the dog failed to climb the steep wall.
8. People working together to help rescue a person who got stuck between platform and the train.
9. Japan Traffic Police Officers clearing the road traffic for the Duck Family to cross the road.
10. A man helping an old woman to carry her belongings in a subway station.
11. Subway showed their ‘Big Heart’ by giving free meals to homeless.
12. Officer helping little ducks to cross the road.
13. Officer hugging a boy as he was crying.
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Figure study female form step by step process.
It's been a while since I did painting study of female figure. So I decided to do one or maybe a few quick figure painting study of a female body form. It was kind of rusty to begin with, struggle in the middle since it's been a long while. But after a couple hours in, it seems a bit easier but the result comes very close to what I want. I just want to study simple form of painting, not really going for the all the way realistic approach.
Note to take on this one is that, I should have established more edges to get the image looks really painterly and smooth.
I should try again soon.
I start off with drawing or sketch to constructed the shape and form where I will be painting over. I am looking for the post that are interesting enough to look at rather than static. Then I use soft edge round brush to establish values then skin-tone for the figure. As it progress, the softer look become more define using hard edge round brush. I hardly use any custom brush on this one, it's just a study to sharpen my skill on figure painting.
For beginner, you might want to look at the How to draw female body torso step by step (This one explain how to construct a body in the simple way for anyone to understand and how to draw woman figure hip pelvis (easy way to construct body and the hip which is very crucial in conveying feminine figure). Also gestures figures video tutorial and learn how to draw woman sheet.
Also check out the video tutorial go watch Drawing body muscle torso anatomy tutorial. And Drawing arm muscles bicep tricep There will also be some basic include there. Then you could try out the following tutorial.
Art Tips: "Artists have to love the work and take joy in what they can do. And, of course, they have to work hard to be able to know their full potential." -Frank Frazetta.
Here are step by step:
Female figure study sketch:
Drawing Software & Tools I used and recommended:
-Genius MousePen 6x8
-Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet
-Gimp (Free Download)
-Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Professional software)
*You can just use pencil, paper, markers on this one...just practice rendering.
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial I: Female Manga Fusion I
-Draw and Paint Women Body Tutorial II: Female Manga Fusion II
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki says relationships – and knowing when to move on from them – are the most important things for any entrepreneur.
Relationships are the most important thing for any entrepreneur, according to Robert Kiyoaski, author of the best-selling Rich Dad Poor Dad series of books, because every business person needs key suppliers like lawyers, accountants and a mentor, not to mention people who can do the things in a business that a founder and visionary cannot.
But entrepreneurs can outgrow those people he warned when he spoke to My Business in Sydney and outlined the methodologies in a new book he co-wrote with Donald Trump, Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't.
The book describes four things a successful business needs, namely:
- Leverage, the ability for a business to grow without its founder having to be the sole source of its products;
- Expandability, the quality of having a market beyond the first operation;
- Predictability, in terms of generating revenue even when the economy is performing poorly;
- The ability to attract finance, which Kiyosaki says is a consequence of achieving the three items above.
Midas Touch says entrepreneurs can achieve these four things using a model that assigns a value to each of the five fingers.
“Your thumb stands for strength of character,” Kiyosaki told My Business. “When you go into business you are on the streets” and character is critical to thrive in the face of adversity.
“Your index finger is about focus,” and Kiyosaki and Trump have an acronym to describe focus, namely ‘follow one course until successful.’
“Everyone knows what your middle finger stands for,” Kiyosaki quipped, quickly adding that it is about forceful and distinct branding. “People need to know who you stand for. Donald Trump stands for being the highest and best and opulence. Rich Dad is about making learning fun.”
“The ring finger is relationships. As the entrepreneur, you don’t need to be smartest by you do need good relationships.’
The little finger, he concluded, is “the little thing you do that no-one else does” and Kiyosaki said FedEx’s overnight delivery guarantee is an example of a unique offer that other entrepreneurs will do well to emulate.
As our conversation progressed, Kiyosaki repeatedly stressed the importance of relationships.
“I would say entrepreneurs should always seek good mentors,’ he said. “As I improved I had to seek mentors who had been to where I had not gone yet. Most people ask inexperienced people to be mentors.”
“Find someone who has gone where you want to go.”
Kiyosaki says his relationship with Trump works along those lines. “I feel fortunate that when I have a question I call Donald and ask,” he said.
For those of you who don’t have The Donald’s number in your mobile, Kiyosaki said you should at least be thinking about the need to one day upgrade your mentor – and the advisers to your business – to a Trump-grade source of support.
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The difficulty in specifying rewards for many real world problems has led to an increased focus on learning rewards from human feedback, such as demonstrations. However, there are often many different reward functions that explain the human feedback, leaving agents with uncertainty over what the true reward function is. While most policy optimization approaches handle this uncertainty by optimizing for expected performance, many applications demand risk-averse behavior. We derive a novel policy gradient-style robust optimization approach, PG-BROIL, that optimizes a soft-robust objective that balances expected performance and risk. To the best of our knowledge, PG-BROIL is the first policy optimizationmore »
Robotic manipulation of deformable 1D objects such as ropes, cables, and hoses is challenging due to the lack of high-fidelity analytic models and large configuration spaces. Furthermore, learning end-to-end manipulation policies directly from images and physical interaction requires significant time on a robot and can fail to generalize across tasks. We address these challenges using interpretable deep visual representations for rope, extending recent work on dense object descriptors for robot manipulation. This facilitates the design of interpretable and transferable geometric policies built on top of the learned representations, decoupling visual reasoning and control. We present an approach that learns point-pairmore »
There has been significant recent work on data-driven algorithms for learning general-purpose grasping policies. However, these policies can consis- tently fail to grasp challenging objects which are significantly out of the distribution of objects in the training data or which have very few high quality grasps. Moti- vated by such objects, we propose a novel problem setting, Exploratory Grasping, for efficiently discovering reliable grasps on an unknown polyhedral object via sequential grasping, releasing, and toppling. We formalize Exploratory Grasping as a Markov Decision Process where we assume that the robot can (1) distinguish stable poses of a polyhedral object ofmore » | <urn:uuid:1b91247b-b799-4128-bbb0-b47415d95fe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://par.nsf.gov/search/author:%22Balakrishna,%20Ashwin%22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.909555 | 491 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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"China Urban brings together some of the best new ethnographic work on the changing dynamics of time, space, and place in 1990s China. These essays take the reader into a wide range of localities, but always with an eye turned toward larger national and global transformations. China Urban also speaks to a wide range of debates in contemporary social and political theory, and it offers an innovative approach to the study of the urban in postsocialist China and elswhere. This volume is long overdue."- Ralph Litzinger, author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging "For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today's urban and urbanizing China, this book's the ticket."- Greg GuldinVom Verlag:
China Urban is a recent, ethnographic account of China's cities and the place that urban space holds in China's imagination. In addition to investigating this nation's rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasise the need to rethink the very meaning of the "urban" and the utility of urban-focused anthropological critiques during a period of unprecedented change on local, regional, national, and global levels. Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in order to fully comprehend the urban. Individual essays note the impact of legal barriers to geographic mobility in China, the proliferation of different urban centres, the differences in distribution of resources among various regions, and the pervasive appeal of the urban, both in terms of living in cities and in acquiring products and conventions signalling urbanity. Others focus on the direct sales industry, the Chinese rock music market, the discursive production of femininity and motherhood in urban hospitals, and the transformations in access to healthcare. China Urban will interest anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and those studying urban planning, China, East Asia, and globalisation.
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Penciclovir Sodium Topical cream
What is this medicine?
PENCICLOVIR (pen SYE kloe veer) is an antiviral medicine. It is used to treat infections caused by certain kinds of viruses. Examples of these infections include cold sores and herpes. This medicine will not cure herpes.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?
They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
suppressed immune function
an unusual or allergic reaction to penciclovir, other medicines, foods, dyes, or preservatives
pregnant or trying to get pregnant
How should I use this medicine?
This medicine is only for external use on the lips or face. Do not use in the eye or inside the mouth. If you do get this medicine in your eyes, rinse out with plenty of cool tap water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Wash your hands before and after use. Apply a thin layer of cream to cover all sores or blisters. Begin applying at the first sign of blisters or as soon as you have symptoms. Apply every 2 hours while you are awake or as instructed by your doctor or health care professional. Do not use your medicine more often than directed. Finish the full course prescribed by your doctor or health care professional.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once.
NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
What if I miss a dose?
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, use only that dose. Do not use double or extra doses.
What may interact with this medicine?
Interactions are not expected. Do not use any other skin products on the affected area without telling your doctor or health care professional.
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
What should I watch for while using this medicine?
Even though you are using this medicine, you can still spread the herpes infection to another person. Try to keep the sores (blisters) from making contact with another person's skin.
This medicine works best when applied very early in the course of an infection. Begin treatment at the first sign of infection. These signs include tingling, itching, or pain in the affected area.
What side effects may I notice from receiving this medicine?
Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
altered taste sensation
dulled sensitivity to touch
skin irritation or itching
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Where should I keep my medicine?
Keep out of the reach of children.
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The Bowen Reaction Series
In 1922, Norman Levi Bowen and his colleagues determined the sequence in which silicate minerals crystallize as magma cools (Chernicoff 56). This work made it possible to summarize a complex set of geochemical relationships, called Bowen's Reaction Series.
This series shows that silicate mineralscancrystallize from mafic magmas in two ways, in a discontinuous series or a continuous series.
- Essay on Pillar of Salt by Sandra Postel
- The Bowen Reaction Series
- This is about the Differences in Cyclones and Anti-Cyclones
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Legends of the Hidden Temple Game Shows Programs Television
Kids' game show cohosted by Kirk Fogg and Olmec, a giant stone head, that first aired on Nickelodeon in 1993. Each episode features a story about an artifact in the temple; six 2-person teams compete in elimination challenges, with the final team searching the labyrinthine temple to find the item.
Top: Arts: Television: Programs: Game Shows: Legends of the Hidden Temple
- Legends of the Hidden Temple - Overview, credits, temple layouts, pictures and information on game shows some programs of the more notable temple runs.
- Nickelodeon GaS: Legends of the Hidden Temple - Synopsis of the show with pictures and audio programs samples.
- Aaron's The Choices are Yours - Show summary, episode guide, game info, and pictures.
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DE-CRIMINALIZING SAME-SEX BEHAVIOR
Changes in state laws since the 1960s
Changes in legislation since the 1960s:
Prior to 1962, the U.S. military, and all of the states and territories
had maintained "sodomy" laws on their books -- some dating
back more than a century. Some were worded so generally that they would
even criminalize consensual oral sex in private between a married couple.
The penalties for violating sodomy laws -- often called a "crime against nature"
were often severe.
In 1961, Illinois "adopted the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code,
which decriminalized adult, consensual, private, sexual conduct. They
were the first U.S. jurisdiction to repeal its
sodomy law. 1,2
During the 1970s, laws were repealed in additional 18 states and two
territories: American Samoa, California,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Maine,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon,
South Dakota, Vermont, Washington state, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Alaska, Nevada, North Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands followed suit during the 1980s. Three more
jurisdictions, the District
of Columbia, Nevada, and Rhode Island did so during the 1990s. Arizona
repealed its law in 2001.
In the early 1990s, many conservative Christian individuals and groups,
including local organizations, state-wide groups, independent churches,
the National Association of Evangelicals, the Christian
Coalition actively campaigned to either defeat or overturn gay rights
legislation. Sometimes, the Roman Catholic Church and conservative black
pastors joined the battle against equal rights and protections for gays.
According to author Gary Comstock: "The leaders of this movement
advocated a codification of antihomosexual laws not unlike that of
colonial New England. Some even discussed, and others called for, the
reinstitution of capital punishment for homosexual behavior."
According to SodomyLaws.org, by late 2002, only 14 states,
Puerto Rico and the U.S. military still had enforceable sodomy laws on the books.
According to the Associated Press, laws in 13 states remain on the books.
"Sodomy," which has many definitions in law, is illegal for everyone in
Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Utah and Virginia. In addition, four
contiguous states, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, criminalize
certain forms of
sexual behavior between persons of the same gender, but permit them if performed by a
man and woman. 4
Penalties range from life imprisonment in Idaho, to 20 years
Oklahoma and Puerto Rico, to as few as 60 days jail time in Florida. Concurrent
fines range from $2,000 in Alabama and Louisiana to $500 in Texas. Of the
14 jurisdictions, only the law in Texas does not include a jail sentence.
Although these laws remain on the books in many jurisdictions, only a
few states still attempt to enforce them. It is probably
impossible to mount a successful repeal campaign in most of these states,
because of opposition from religious conservatives. It will probably
require an action of the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the laws.
- The text of the Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v.
Hardwick is online at FindLaw. See Footnote 7 at:
- Model Penal Code 213.2 (Proposed Official Draft 1962),"
American Law Institute.
- Gary Comstock, "Unrepentant, self-affirming, practicing: Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay People within organized
religion," Continuum, (1996), Page 12.
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from Amazon.com online book store
- We urge you to not make personal decisions based on this information. It is possible that additional states may have passed
new legislation between the time that this list was prepared, and now.
- "Laws in the USA," SodomyLaws.org, at:
Copyright � 2002 & 2003 by Ontario Consultants on Religious
Originally written: 2002-DEC-13
Latest update: 2003-JAN-17
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What two Disney characters have the same name?
While on vacation this summer (at Walt Disney World of course), a cast member asked me to name the only two Disney characters that shared the same first name. Well, the first two that came to mind were Chip (and Dale) and Chip (the cup).
Who is the second most popular Disney character?
The World's Favourite Disney Characters Rank Character Gifs 1Mickey Mouse3,560 2Donald Duck8,240 3Winnie the Pooh522 4Piglet9,213 21 more rows
Who is the most underrated Disney character?
Whether lacking representation in the Disney Parks or getting overlooked in the movies, these are the most underrated Disney characters. Quasimodo. Powerline. Roquefort the Mouse. Tod and Copper. Oliver. Grandmother Willow.
Who is the 1st Disney character?
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Before Mickey Mouse, there was his predecessor: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. For the first time, we're seeing footage of the first Disney character. The silent film in black and white dates back to 1928, when a young Walt Disney created Oswald.
Who's the oldest Disney Princess?
Snow White is the first and oldest Disney princess, who debuted in 1937. As we all know, she is the titular character of Walt Disney Productions' first animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
What was Tiana's last name?
Does Tiana have a last name? Tiana Rogers is Tiana's name in the 2009 movie The Princess and the Frog.
Is there a Disney character named Lily?
Lily: There are a number of characters named Lily or Lilly in the world of Disney. Examples include Tiger Lily from Peter Pan, Lilly Moscovitz from The Princess Diaries, and Lily the witch in Sofia the First. This name refers to the flower, which tends to symbolize purity and rebirth.
Is there a Disney character named Murphy?
Murphy is a character and antagonist from the TV show Sonny with a Chance. He is the offbeat security guard at Condor Studios, who takes his job a little too seriously.
Who is the best Disney villain?
Top 20 Most Iconic Disney Villains Cruella De Vil. Cruella De Vil, 101 Dalmatians' glamorous, sociopathic, and elitist villain, is on top of our list. Maleficent. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) is one classic villainess, the queen of sorcery and the master of revenge. Ursula. Scar. Mother Gothel. Evil Queen. Jafar. Captain Hook.
Who was Walt Disney's favorite princess?
Cinderella According to Ilene Woods, the voice actress for Cinderella, Walt Disney once said that Cinderella was his favorite heroine.
Which Disney Princess has dyed hair?
There have been many real-life renditions of the Disney Princesses, but we think Ariel Winter takes the crab cake.
Who is the most forgotten Disney princess?
10 Forgotten Disney Princesses Maid Marian. 'Robin Hood' Princess Eilonwy. 'The Black Cauldron' Nala. 'The Lion King' Megara. 'Hercules' Disney. Princess Atta and Princess Dot. 'A Bug's Life' Disney/Pixar. Kida Nedakh. 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire' Disney. Giselle. 'Enchanted' Disney. Vanellope von Schweetz. 'Wreck-It Ralph' Disney.
Are there any LGBT characters in Disney?
The Disney Channel, which launched in 1983, Disney XD, which began in 2009, Disney Junior, which launched in 2011, and shows on Disney+, along with the short-lived Toon Disney, have all occasionally featured lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) characters in their programming.
Who is the weirdest Disney character?
10 Weirdest Disney Character Designs That Don't Look Like They Belong 1 Maleficent Was Designed To Be Eerily Beautiful. 2 Chernabog's Massive Stature Is Far Outside The Realm Of Disney. 3 Cruella De Vil Is Severely Terrifying In Animated Form. 4 The Will O' The Wisps In Brave Are A Mystery.
Who came first Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse?
As fans of Disney Ducks will tell you, Donald Duck made his first appearance in the 1934 animated short The Wise Little Hen. But three years earlier, in 1931, the name “Donald Duck” appeared in the storybook The Adventures of Mickey Mouse.
Who is the youngest Disney character?
What is this? Snow White is the youngest Disney princess. She was just 14 years old when she met the prince when her stepmother threw her in the forest.
How old is Donald Duck?
86 years old Donald Duck made his first appearance on 9 June 1934, which means he was 86 years old in 2020.
Who is the 15 Disney Princess?
Age 14: Snow White. Age 15: Jasmine. Age 16, Ariel, Aurora, Merida, Moana and Mulan. Age 17: Belle.
Who is older Snow White or Cinderella?
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por John R. Fischer
, Senior Reporter | December 09, 2020
Acquiring and sharing clinical data to develop AI tools comes with a number of challenges, from addressing concerns over patient privacy to the way in which data is shared.
"We need to optimize protocols to minimize the risks of data. We need validated and frankly better methods of deidentification, and we need to investigate safer means of data sharing,” said Dr. Yvonne Lui, associate chair of artificial intelligence in the department of radiology at NYULH and a radiology professor at NYU School of Medicine, during a virtual session at the 2020 RSNA Annual Meeting.
She warns that certain practices, such as skull stripping, can alter the quality and accuracy of data used to develop AI. She also encouraged radiologists to work with manufacturers to avoid exposing identifiable information such as when it is placed in proprietary DICOM fields, and discussed the issues of HIPAA, which does not cover and protect certain forms of data, including research records, aggregated information from startup and technology companies, and medical devices.
“There is talk about whether we need to revise HIPAA. Do its 18 identifiers need to be expanded? Do we need to entirely re-envision HIPAA and make it less constrictive,” said Lui.
Another challenge can be academic industrial partnerships between institutions and companies, according to Dr. Julius Chapiro, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at the Yale University School of Medicine. These consist of M.D.s, Ph.D.s, engineers and computer scientists who work together to develop products such as AI solutions for medical imaging.
Chapiro says such a collaboration requires each side to understand what the other brings to the table and legalities around their work, such as protocols on profit and ownership rights. “Choose the right idea and identify the right data. Be aware of local and legal frameworks and stay on the safe side both from a legal and ethical perspective. Be aware of AI hypes. Don’t overpromise and underdeliver.”
Sharing information of any kind in healthcare also requires all healthcare players to understand their obligations in disseminating data and work together. “Everyone who participates in the healthcare system has a number of obligations to make the system better, to respect the people who are in it, respect judgements and address health inequities,” said Dr. David Lawson of Stanford University School of Medicine in reference to the 2013 Hastings Center Report: An Ethics Framework for a Learning Healthcare System
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The letter has city letterhead, but was not issued by the city.
"There is no environmental department in the city and Penticton did not issue this," he said.
The letter signed by someone named Susan Smith, environmental department manager, states "we are suspecting that unidentified planes are deliberately spraying chemicals over the city of Penticton."
UPDATE: Kelowna City Clerk, Stephen Fleming has confirmed the same letter using City of Kelowna letterhead has also been circulated. Fleming says the Kelowna letter was dated June 28 and also bore the signature of Susan Smith. As opposed to directing people to contact the premier, the Kelowna forgery asked people to direct their outrage to the Ministry of Environment. City of Kelowna officials contacted the ministry advising of the letter. | <urn:uuid:b09d9c79-f633-4c50-b02a-d7600b25e81e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread959590/pg1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00159-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963222 | 214 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Hot Oceans Are Killing Coral Reefs Around the World
For the past year, the world’s corals have been getting increasingly pummeled by climate change. Now with El Niño kicking ocean heat into overdrive, much of the world’s oceans have turned deadly for the world’s corals.
On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced a global coral bleaching event. This year joins the ranks of 1997 and 2010 as the only times on record that bleaching has occurred in all three of the world’s oceans that support coral at the same time.
A before and after image of the bleaching in American Samoa. The first image was taken in December 2014. The second image was taken in February 2015.
Click image to enlarge. Credit: XL Catlin Seaview Survey
All three global bleaching events have occurred in El Niño years, and the climate phenomenon definitely has a role to play. But the ever-rising temperatures underwater and above due to climate change are the biggest reason corals are currently dying off across a 4,600-square mile area in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
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“The baseline temperature has heated so much that reefs are no longer able to cope with what's normal in El Niño years,” Richard Vevers, director of the XL Catlin Seaview Survey, said. “These events are going to become more and more common as climate change goes on. Coral bleaching is such a spectacle; the equivalent above water would be a rainforest turning white.”
Once ocean waters warm past a certain threshold, coral begin to die off because they can’t support the algae that sustain them. The result is ghostly forests of white coral.
Coral reef bleaching and alerts since early July 2015.
Credit: NOAA Coral Reef Watch
Without the protection of reefs, small islands lose their first line of defense against storm surge as well as ecosystems that support fisheries and tourism for more than 500 million people. Reefs also support about a quarter of all marine species despite covering less than 0.1 percent of the world’s oceans. In addition to bleaching, ocean acidification and wild sea level swings due to El Niño are also conspiring to cripple reefs.
The current spate of bleaching began in 2014, a year that saw record warmth on both land and sea. Temperatures have since continued to climb in 2015 (and 2016 is already looking pretty hot, too), resulting in coral dying off everywhere from the Caribbean to Hawaii to the Indian Ocean’s Coral Triangle.
The die-off around Hawaii has been particularly worrisome with more than a third of the island chain’s coral experiencing bleaching since 2014, including areas that have never seen bleaching occur before. Mark Eakin, the coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch, said that by the year’s end, more than 60 percent of the state’s corals could suffer the same fate. All told, 95 percent of the corals in the U.S. are expected to be exposed to bleaching.
Because of the magnitude of the strong El Niño and the growing climate change signal in the oceans, Eakin said that NOAA is issuing an extended forecast for reefs through May for the first time. It is not a good forecast for reefs.
A marine biologist assesses the bleaching in Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii during O’ahu’s first ever mass bleaching event in late 2014.
Credit: XL Catlin Seaview Survey
“The worst part about it is if you look at Indian Ocean, its showing that the thermal stress is going to be worse in 2016 than 2015,” Eakin said.
NOAA scientists have been working with Catlin Seaview Survey to monitor reefs before, during and after bleaching events to see the impacts occurring in real time. Vevers and his team have been using high resolution, panoramic photography that provides valuable scientific information on how different species are affected by heat as well as powerful images that show the impacts of climate change on some of the world’s most delicate ecosystems.
A researcher photographing a heavily bleached coral in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii in October 2014. The captured images will be uploaded to Google Street View.
Credit: XL Catlin Seaview Survey
“One thing that imagery provides us with is information on places where we should be putting more investments and taking more action to protect reefs that may be resilient to climate change,” Eakin said. “The other is by demonstrating the rate at which we’re losing resources. It provides very valuable information on what we stand to lose by not addressing climate change and the importance of addressing climate change and doing it quickly. We stand to lose a lot.”
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Whether you have been a vegetarian for years or are just in the mood for something meat-free this evening, we’ve got you.
Vegetarian diets continue to increase in popularity. Reasons for following a vegetarian diet are varied but include health benefits, such as reducing your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers.
That said, a common concern about vegetarian diets is that they may lack sufficient protein. However, many experts agree that a well-planned meatless diet can provide all the nutrients you need, including protein.
The South African Poultry Association notes that there are many good sources of protein for the vegetarian, like beans and lentils, but did you know that the egg – one of few animal products that many vegetarians allow in their diet – delivers substantially more nutritional benefit than plant-based protein sources?
The association notes that one whole egg offers up 7g of protein which equates to about 13% of the average women’s daily protein needs.
“But there is an added benefit: eggs are a ‘complete protein’, meaning that the high-quality protein in an egg contains all of the nine amino acids we need. Amino acids are essential building blocks for protein, called essential because our bodies cannot make them on their own. Interestingly, foods that contain some but not all the essential amino acids are called incomplete proteins, and these include nuts, seeds, beans and some grains.”
“Eggs are also a source of key nutrients that may otherwise be low in the vegetarian diet, like vitamin B12. This is because animal foods like meat, chicken, and fish are the only sources of vitamin B12. One large egg provides 44 % of our daily B12 needs,” they say.
Whether you choose to be vegetarian some of the time or all of the time, go with eggs as part of a healthy and balanced vegetarian diet. Below is a recipe that you can also try making courtesy of the association.
Egg salad with zucchini and wild rocket
30ml olive oil
350g zucchini/baby marrow, sliced
30g wild rocket
6-8 eggs (boiled to your preference)
2 spring onions, sliced
100ml olive oil
1 lemon, juiced
1 tsp crushed garlic
½ tsp dried chilli flakes
Salt and pepper to taste
Slice the zucchinis in quarters lengthways. To char the zucchini, use a large skillet, sauté in olive oil over medium to high heat, season with salt and pepper and set aside.
In a flat salad dish or platter, layer the wild rocket leaves, zucchini, halved boiled eggs, and sliced spring onion.
For the dressing
In a glass jar, add olive oil, juice of one lemon, garlic, dried chilli flakes, salt and pepper to taste.
Shake and dress the fresh salad just before serving.
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News4 has learned Montgomery County has been asked to house unaccompanied minors from central America in a state facility until foster families can be found for them.
Maryland is looking to house up to 1,800 unaccompanied minors now in federal custody after crossing the border -- 25 of whom will be housed in Montgomery County.
"Montgomery County has always been a place that's welcomed and really addressed some of the challenges associated with minors that might be unaccompanied or trying to reconnect with family members that are here in the area," Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice said.
Councilwoman Nancy Navarro requested a hearing Tuesday to determine if her county is ready to house these minors.
"Mothers, parents, grandparents are choosing to basically put their children on this very horrific trek to come to our own country to save their own lives," Navarro said.
County executive Isaiah Leggett has reportedly offered support to these 25 children -- some of whom are already in the area -- beginning with education and health services.
"Mr. Leggett's given direction that we must do everything possible to help vulnerable children," Montgomery County Health Director Uma Ahluwalia said.
More than 100 unaccompanied minors were enrolled in the county's public school system last year.
"Montgomery County is home to half of all the immigrants of the state," Navarro said. "We have the largest Latino community. Logic would dictate that a lot of these children are probably trying to reunite with family members in this region."
Enrollment in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) has increased by 860 students in the past three years and will be further challenged by the addition of new international students.
"All of the unaccompanied minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador enrolling in MCPS do qualify for enrollment in the ESOL program where they receive instruction in English as a new language, as well as parent engagement and counseling supports," Montgomery County Public Schools ESOL Director Karen Woodson said.
The state of Maryland plans to send other unaccompanied minors to Prince George's County. Approximately 50,000 children have been detained at the border since October 2013. | <urn:uuid:0bfca656-a1bc-4b05-a659-44855e7bd311> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Montgomery-Co-Prepares-to-Accept-25-Unaccompanied-Minors-269119631.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974333 | 435 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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Bats need a pretty specific method of removal to ensure that you don't unlawfully injure or kill any of them. In fact, the laws surrounding bats and bat removal are not only confusing, but constantly changing too. Different states will have different laws, and unless you know the specific rules and regulations for the state or area in which you live, we do not recommend that you partake in any bat removal action.
There are some forty-odd different species of bat commonly found not only across the United States, but also across Canada. In order to safely and correctly establish a method of removal, you will need to have a greater understand of the different bat species. Some of them are are on lists for endangered or threatened animals, meaning that their appearance on your property should be reported to the correct authorities, rather than you trying to shoo them away.
In fact, if you have a bat problem — and that bat is considered to be an endangered or threatened species — you may find that local wildlife control exterminators with a particular enthusiasm for conservation will do the job for free or at a reduced price. You would need to call around and get a couple of quotes to work out the best approach for you.
Even if you are not faced with an endangered or threatened bat species, you are still likely to run into problems when trying to move them on. Bat colonies in the spring and summer are likely to be maternity roosts — mothers with their babies. You can't move the mothers without the young; otherwise, the young will just die. You can't remove the young without the mothers; otherwise, the young will just die … again. You can't get rid of just half the colony, so trapping really isn't a viable option. (Again, if you consult with a company who recommends trapping bats, back away … not slowly; very, very fast!)
Even bat colonies in the winter must be left alone. This is likely a hibernation roosts and those bats are going to be asleep there until spring comes around and they are ready to build up those maternity roosts again. If you disrupt a bat during the hibernation period (also known as torpor), you will affect the internal body temperature of the animal, causing it to burn energy quicker. The fat reserves it had built up before the hibernation period will then not be enough to see them through and you will kill that bat by way of starvation by accident, if it doesn't fall prey to predators or disease first.
All of this information might seem like a lot, but it all points to one possible outcome — in order to safely and humanely, not to mention legally, remove an entire colony of bats, you will need to call in a professional.
Sadly, this is not city or county animal services, who are usually not trained in bat removal (and may not be aware of the complicated rules surrounding the practice, thus giving incorrect information). It is also not a pest control service, either. Any company who states they will use poisons or fumigants to remove bat colonies should be avoided at all costs. This is illegal practice and you could get into just as much trouble as the person you're hiring, should you get busted for your bat-offenses.
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Hyperopia, or farsightedness is a condition where far vision is relatively clear, yet close vision is blurry. Roughly 25% of the population is affected by this refractive error, characterized by difficulty focusing on objects that are up close. In a normal visual system, light passes through the cornea and lens and comes into focus at the retina; in a hyperopic eye, light comes into focus behind the retina. This occurs for one of two reasons: either the patient’s ocular axis is too short, or the corneal focusing power is too weak.
Like myopia, hyperopia is also an inherited condition. Most children are farsighted, yet they usually do not have experience blurry vision. Children’s eyes are able to bend the light rays and place them directly on the retina when focusing. As long as the farsightedness is not too severe, hyperopic children will have clear vision for seeing objects at a distance and up close. As the eye grows and becomes longer, hyperopia lessens.
Symptoms of hyperopia are similar to myopia, only with close vision. Individuals may experience squinting, eye fatigue and headaches from trying to focus on close vision. The best way to diagnose hyperopia is by having an eye exam. Your eye care professional will use an instrument, called a phoropter to measure the degree of the refractive error. Then a prescription can be written for glasses based off of the phoropter measurement.
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Divorced parents who are raising teenagers have a lot to think about. Teenagers come with all the problems of adolescence and it can be easy for former California couples to make mistakes when it comes to co-parenting. Among the biggest mistakes parents make are failing to share information, cutting off communication, and failing to coordinate.
Because teenagers are growing up and developing independence and communication skills of their own, many parents assume the offspring will communicate issues with the other parent. This is a dangerous assumption though, as the child might be a totally different person with one parent than with with other. For this reason, divorced parents should maintain regular communication about the kids.
Communication with an ex-spouse can be difficult and emotionally taxing. It is important to maintain direct lines of communication though, and not to rely on the kid to deliver messages. That tactic can put too much pressure on a teenager and it can lead to messages not being delivered or being delivered late.
Failing to coordinate with the other parent can cause problems too. It is common for teenagers to get their drivers’ licenses, which can give them freedom, but it’s a freedom teens can abuse. Divorced parents should coordinate with one another so they know what’s happening in the kid’s life.
For people who have questions about co-parenting, an attorney might be able to help. An attorney who practices family law may be able to help secure a post-judgment modification of an existing custody and visitation arrangement if the age of the child makes the original order untenable.
Source: Your Tango, ““6 Mistakes Divorced Couples Make When Co-Parenting Teens”“, Karen Finn, May 16, 2019 | <urn:uuid:9a3f5623-1c2d-4d16-9743-0a448f0920f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gutilaw.com/blog/2019/05/co-parenting-mistakes-with-teens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.950801 | 361 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The Birthplace of Humanity.
AFRICA HAS THE
GLOBAL WARMING EMISSIONS OUT OF THE 6 CONTINENTS.
However, Africa is also likely to suffer from some of the worst consequences of climate change through droughts, famine, desertification, and population displacement.
SO HERE WE PRESENT
THE CONTINENT OF
and their issues with climate change, extreme weather, and global warming.
EXTREME WEATHER OF
Not enough water and environmental issues such as desertification are becoming huge problems in Africa, especially since Africa has one of the highest population growth rates.
Extreme weathers are getting more frequent. In some places, heavier rainfall, and others, longer droughts. They are resulted from atmospheric systems and climate change over fragile desert and tropic zones.
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A new World Health Organization report says that a cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has killed 775 people with 16,141 suspected cases reported across the African nation.
"Approximately half of cases have been recorded in Budiriro, a heavily populated suburb on the western outskirts of the capital, Harare," said the WHO.
AdvertisementOther badly hit areas include Beitbridge, which borders South Africa and Mudzi, which borders Mozambique, it added.
Earlier, the UN humanitarian affairs bureau said the death toll had reached 746, with 15,572 suspected cases reported.
The capital Harare is the worst-affected district with 189 deaths and 7,653 suspected cases recorded as of December 9, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement.
Zimbabwe's information minister on Tuesday insisted that the epidemic was "under control". The minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, said "We have enough chemicals to purify the water. We have got enough foreign currency to buy pipes" to mend sanitation lines. | <urn:uuid:2a212e47-946c-40b9-a117-fa8007e8a2cb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medindia.net/news/Cholera-Deaths-In-Zimbabwe-Rise-To-775-45040-1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00198-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952531 | 216 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Case studies of Dalit Women in Pakistan
By Pirbhu Satyani
“Education and Skills would change fate of my community”
Ms. Moolan Bai, age 65, a retired teacher, lives in Mithi, Pakistan. She is a chairperson of the Local Support Organization (LSO), a mini NGO in Mithi, Tharparkar supported by Thardeep Rural Development Programme (TRDP). By caste she is a Bangi. This community is placed at the bottom of caste hierarchy, as well as the Dalit sub-caste hierarchy. They are sometimes also called Gujrati as they came from Gujrat before the partition between Pakistan and India. In Mithi, there are around 60 households of her caste people. Her family all work as manual scavenger/sanitary workers. Ms. Moolan’s family is educated; her late husband was also teacher. She has three sons and one daughter, her daughter is health worker and one son is teacher. Ms Moolan’s father was working in the Railway as a sweeper. Although he was illiterate, he ensured that all his children got an education in the village Denghan Burgri, Taluka Jamesabad, District Mirupurkhas. Ms Moolan did her graduation from Tando Mohammad Khan, and was soon appointed as a teacher in Mir Ji landi girl’s school. After one year, she got a new job at Jamesabad Girls’ School. In 1965 she got married to Mr. Rano Mal in the town called Chelhar Tharparkar. At that time in Chelhar, there was no female teacher and little awareness of girls’ education. She encouraged various upper caste people to enroll their girls in school. Luckily today many of the upper caste educated females, who were her students, have become teachers.
“The fate of my community would be changed through education and learning of new skills, if the government gives attention to their development”.
Moolan says that she taught a few years in Chelhar. Then in 1982, her family shifted in Mithi town, where she started to teach in Mithi Government Schools. In her community, she was the only female teacher and her all children were educated. The community, she lived in with her family, was a separate colony known as “Bhangi Paro” where many worked as manual scavengers. This is considered one of the lowest, most polluted and degrading occupations. The whole community was therefore always treated as “polluting” by the majority of upper caste peoples. Ms. Moolan Bai says that social discrimination against their community was visible everywhere. For example, they could not use the same utensils in hotels, offices and workplaces. Due to their low profile work, there was no exception to mixing scheduled castes with other caste peoples, and even between the scheduled castes. “Discrimination has been exercised for long by the upper caste people”, Ms. Moolan says. She remembers how she used to have a separate glass for drinking water in school, although she had “good women colleague friends belonging to the upper caste”. Fortunately she was a head mistress, so her subordinates were showing her respect, and she did not feel discriminated against. But she always knew her limitations as a low caste woman. Ms. Moolan says that other women become double victims of social discrimination compared to her situation, due to their work situation. In her community most of the young girls do not work outside due to insecurity and harassment. She said manual scavenging is a hereditary occupation so their community doesn’t come out of this to change their profession by giving education to their children. However, others are also not ready to uplift their community. She said earlier there was hardly one percent literacy but since few years their communities have started to give some basic education to their children and currently 20 to 30 percent of their community children are enrolled in schools however this number would be increased if someone motivates to their people. Ms, Moolan said, her family had provided land for school free of cost that was constructed few years back in their hamlet but that dysfunctional due to unavailability of teacher and furniture, however their children are enrolled in other schools of government and privates in Mithi. Recently their community has received 10 more job opportunities from local MNA and all these jobs are low profile sanitary workers but there is no high profile or clerical job for their community despite some of their children are qualified for good job. Ms Moolan Shown CV of her nephew who possess MBA degree but he is jobless. She said, it is general impression from others that there community can’t do any dignified work except manual scavenger /sanitary work. Due to this indifference attitude in society against them their community people don’t be willing to give education to their children. Ms Moolan says: “The fate of my community would be changed through education and learning of new skills, if the government gives attention to their development. The upper caste people - at least the progressive ones - should sit with their community and encourage them, so they know their rights as equal citizens and can live a life in dignity and respect.”
Ms. Radha Bhil, age 34, lives in Sattar Nagar Mirpurkhas. For two years, she has been associated with a local NGO working as a social mobiliser. Besides this, she is also a founding member of Bhil Intellectual Forum (BIF), formed in 2012. Radha has a graduation degree. “After passing primary education in my village, I had to go to town for mid-level education. In school, I was harassed, teased and stared at several times by the young boys,” she explains. Describing the harassment, Radha says that it is common everywhere. “Women and girls from the lower caste or religious minority are easy targets for harassment, because the majority knows that they are weak and cannot take any action”, Radha says.
Radha got married in 1994 at the age of 17. She has five children: Four sons and one daughter. Her elder children are enrolled in schools. “They are discriminated in many ways, for example by being assigned to sit in the last rows in school, and being called nicknames. The attitude of fellow students is not good; sometimes they invite children from the lower castes to convert to Islam. In schools, the syllabus which they read is biased and discriminatory. Sometimes minority children cannot study their own religion in school, as the Muslim children can,” Radha explains.
“When people from our community visit other towns or cities, they cannot proudly introduce themselves as Hindu or scheduled caste/Bhil. Scheduled caste women face discrimination when they travel, in markets, hospitals and other public places, especially due to the way they dress, their language and colour. People make derogatory remarks against them. Female workers face more discrimination and harassment, particularly those who work in others’ home as cleaners or those who do agricultural labour in the field. They are sexually assaulted and harassed, but such news not come up on media. Young scheduled caste girls are raped by landlords and their Munchis. Sometimes these girls are asked to make their friends and guests happy. However, if any girl or woman resists, they are threatened with dire consequences or asked to return their debt and leave their village,“ she explains.
“Women and girls from the lower caste or religious minority are easy targets for harassment, because the majority knows that they are weak and cannot take any action,” says Ms. Radha Bhil.
“Ten years ago my younger sister-in law, who was married, was shot by a landlord as she refused to ‘make friendship with him’. She also witnessed an incident in the village Mubarak rind Tharparkar, where an entire scheduled caste family converted into Islam because they were indebted and the landlord wrote off their loan of Rs. 60,000.” Sharing another story, Radha recalls a case from 1993 in District Sanghar, where one of her daughters-in-law was taken by a Mangrio (Muslim) boy, where she was forcefully converted and remarried to him. After a few years he left her, and now she lives alone with no one to take care of her. Radha says that scheduled caste Hindus are not even allowed to bury dead bodies in upper caste graveyards. In one incident, a ten-day old body of a Hindu person was removed out from a Muslim graveyard.
Recalling her personal story, Radha says that after passing intermediate level in school, she was admitted for a PTC (teaching) course in Hyderabad. She got many good friends at the school, but she still experienced harassment. “One day I went to meet my Muslim friend in her home. After sitting with her for a while, my friend’s mother asked another family member to bring me a cup of tea; this cup was kept in a separate shelf for scheduled caste people. For a while, I remained silent and couldn’t respond. But after finishing the tea, I didn’t return the cup to them. When my friend asked why, I told her that ‘now this is my cup, and I will take it with me wherever I go, even if I visit you again.’ My friend was embarrassed and apologized, but I couldn’t say anything to make her realize the situation.” Radha remembers that when friends visited her home, some would eat at her place and others would not. “I would offer food to everyone, but wouldn’t insist. Nor would I bother to bring them special things from the market or neighbouring upper caste houses. In many scheduled caste families, this is otherwise the general practice; bringing and serving packed food from the market to upper caste people.”
Radha shares her views on ways to address the problem. “I know the problem is big, but it could be solved by taking multiple actions and steps. The first step would be to bring equality among scheduled castes, e.g. when inter-caste marriages are happening between scheduled castes. This would unite them and reduce hatred and discrimination within the community. Secondly, we should demand that the government eliminates hate speech in the school curriculum. Speaking on the issue of forced conversion of minorities and scheduled caste women and girls, she recommended that it be stopped through law and orientation of religious persons about the true interpretation of their religion. She said that an increasing number of minority and scheduled caste people in the national and provincial assembly should bring their plight at forefront of politics and mainstream their issues in public and political life.
Kirshana Lal (age 33) belongs to the Kolhi clan, which is at the bottom of hierarchy among scheduled caste and known as the most vulnerable caste. She lives in Hyderabad since 16 years, however originally she belongs to Tharparkar village Danagham Taluka Nangarparkar. She has Master degree from sociology and associated with NGO, where she work as counsellor in legal aid centre.
Her family is a victim of bonded labour; around 25 years ago they migrated from Tharparkar to barrage area for the search of livelihood, where they indebted by working as agriculture labourer to landlord, consequently her family moved from one landlord to another and from one city to another in Sindh including Kunri, Jhudo, Badin and Mirpurkhas. In that period her family suffered a lot and her education remained disturb, even the landlords didn’t like her family children get education. While taking a tag of scheduled caste and being a girl, even within family and community, she was not encouraged by anyone to continue her education but it was her own efforts and will, which helped her to continue education. After passing grade 8, she got married, fortunately her in-laws were good, so they encouraged her and in this way she completed her post-graduation from sociology.
Speaking on the issues of caste discrimination, she remembers the days when she studied in primary school in a village called Meeran Jo School, located near the Digree town in Sindh. “In school we girls from the Kolhi community were not allowed to drink water from a glass. When we were thirsty, we had to cup our hands and have water poured in our hands from high up. My fellow girls from the Meer caste were in well-dressed, so the teacher only gave importance to them and we were ignored. Even the attitudes of other fellow girls were not good towards us,” she recalls.
Kirshana says: “Discrimination in cities has reduced to some extent, but in villages it is rampant. Scheduled caste women’s are easy targets of sexual harassment, kidnapping and forced conversions into another religion.” She describes how one year ago, a married woman from the Kolhi community in Judho town was kidnapped by a Muslim, as revenge
Ms. Kirshana Lal, Hyderabad, Pakistan: “Discrimination in cities has reduced to some extent, but in villages it is rampant”.
Against her husband who spoke against them.
After one month’s struggle, she was recovered but there was no punishment given to perpetuators as they were from influential caste.
“The incidence of kidnapping, forced conversion and sexual harassment of scheduled caste and minority girls are often and most frequently happening in the provinces of Sindh and South Punjab”, she explains. As a result, the majority of the parents hesitate to send their daughters to schools and out of the home. She points out some recent incidences involving two Dalit child girls. 14 year-old Momal converted into Islam, and 6-year old Viganti was raped. But no action was taken to punish the perpetrators. Kirshana says that despite the enactment of the law on Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace, there is very little implementation at the grass root level. The young Dalit women and girls, who work in the agricultural sector, are more vulnerable to violence, harassment and rape. But the media does not pick up such cases. The rape case of Kastoori Kolhan became a high profiled case in the national and international media. But no real action was taken, “Unfortunately justice is only for the rich; not for the poor and lower caste people. We cannot change our status, until we fight against this injustice. And to fight for justice, we need to educate our people,” Kirshana says.
Bhagwani Rathore (age 34) belongs to the Menghwar Caste in the village Godhiyo/Dabho Nijar. She was born in Mithi, the district head quarter of district Tharparkar, as her father was a government employee there. Ms. Rathore is a post graduate, and is currently associated with an NGO at a senior management level position. Luckily, she grew up in towns, and had the opportunity to get an education. “We did not have our own house in the town, and we used to live in upper caste community’s hamlets, as they had comparatively good houses available for rent. So I have a good experience of caste differences from my very early age, with regards to living and
“This form of discrimination is deeply rooted within us. To shape a positive society, awareness should be given to the children from a very early age about equality, equal rights and justice for all”, says Bhagwani Rathore.
Studying With Upper Caste Children
Rathore says: “The first time I was enrolled in a government primary school, I found that the majority of girls were from the upper caste Hindu and Muslims communities. The teachers and the students both introduced me as a Menghwar girl, saying “look one Meghwari came in a school.” But as time passed, I became friends with my class fellows and studied and played together with them, except when eating. Nor was I permitted to drink water from the same glass in school. When I passed primary school and enrolled in class six, the head teacher was from the lower Hindu Caste “Bhangi”. That meant that we both had separate glasses, even though she had a superior position in the school. But caste made her inferior too. “I used to study at a tuition centre after school, which was run by an upper caste teacher at his home,” Rathore recollects. “The wife of my teacher did not allow me to drink from their glasses. In school, whenever I answered a question, the teacher used to make all other the student realize that something extraordinary or unexpected had happened by saying “look... how intelligent the Meghwar girl is… shame on you all”.
Rathore says that most of the time, her friends and their families and neighbours used to say: “You don’t look like a Meghwar; you dress, study, and eat as an upper caste. I then used to feel proud of myself, knowing that I did not look like a Meghwar. Whenever relatives from other villages came to our home, I kept my background a secret with friends and neighbours. In that way I could maintain my good impression in the eyes of others. I never felt bad when I was treated differently in school or at a tuition centre. Sometimes I was ashamed of being a Meghwar girl, and wished I could belong to the upper caste community,” Ms. Rathore recalls. “As a child, I accepted whatever was practiced around me. I could not differentiate between wrong and right. But later, the awareness, exposure visits and the sharing of severe incidents of caste discrimination by elders made me realize the difference.”
“My mother, grandmother and other relatives always shared with me, how they were criticized by upper caste women, when they wore the same kind of clothes or jewellery in village as them. The lower caste women used to wear certain types of dresses and jewellery and were not allowed to stitch their clothes as an upper caste. My grandfather and uncle used to come to our home in groups, where they would discuss about land disputes with upper castes. Because my grandfather was approved to live on his own land, he had a separate well for drinking water. Having a separate well at that time meant that he was free from bondage from upper caste persons in the village,” Ms. Rathore explains. In Sindh, most bonded labourers are from the scheduled caste community. They are landless peasants; also known as Haris. Ms. Rathore says that if scheduled castes get entitlements to live and work on their own land, they can work on their choice, rather to work for others and be trapped into bondage.
“This form of discrimination is deeply rooted within us. To shape a positive society, awareness should be given to the children from a very early age about equality, equal rights and justice for all. In this way, discrimination can be stopped gradually,” Ms. Rathore says.
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Trouble is, it's come to imply difficulty, something arid and arduous, something crabbed and restricted, and of limited appeal to anyone who isn't a stone science junkie who knows her muon from her pion, the difference between RNA and DNA coding, and the meaning of every acronym NASA has ever coined. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but there can be too much emphasis on the science and not enough on the fiction, on the weight of cold fact rather than flights of imagination. Too often, so-called hard science fiction strives to be dully convincing, and forgets to be amazing.
And in any case, the definition is mostly redundant. Any fiction about the world as it is, rather than the world we imagine it might be, sticks to the facts. Isn't much of the enterprise of modernist fiction about realism - about the accurate replication not only of the external world, but also of the inner world, the world of the mind? And aren't we living in a world that's driven by science and technology? Isn't the present too often framed as being 'just like science fiction'? Which is to say, just like science fiction in the movies, which is rooted in science fiction from the 1950s.
The world as we know it is one thing; science fiction should be about something more. Should use the known as a jump ramp into implied spaces and possibilities. Should respond to the weirdness of actual science rather than reusing received notions and used genre furniture. Should be irresponsible. Should stop arguing with itself. Should fly. | <urn:uuid:ae965f24-774c-4486-b0c6-9fde34815678> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://unlikelyworlds.blogspot.com/2013/05/hard-problems.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00315-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969341 | 323 | 2.140625 | 2 |
A ponderous reading of the Strauss score, a meticulous, methodical staging of the Oscar Wilde drama. A radiant Salome, an unleashed Herod. Unsettling, sentient scenography. Unexpected magnificence.
High, very high Teutonic art unfolded under the gentle breezes of a cloudless Provençal sky. Shocking, blasphemous imagery — Jochanaan’s severed head on a serving platter at a replication of Da Vinci’s Last Supper, a crucified Herodias — appeared on the flat screen face of a very defined, very contained stage box, like the black and white moving images of primitive expressionistic film, but now widescreen, with the evolving shades of the alabaster skin of John the Baptist and Jochanaan’s black hair.
Conductor Ingo Metzmacher brought the 109 players in the pit of Aix’s Grand Théâtre de Provence (the Orchestra de Paris) to monumental volumes, molded into sumptuous harmonies when not raging and pleading in carefully delineated and paced blocks. Blocks created by venerable German stage director Andrea Breth to slowly and carefully enshrine the nascent, sick, very sick sexuality of the adolescent Salome, and the consummation of her desire. Blocks created by the settings of Austrian scenographer Raimund Orfeo Voigt that moved onto and out of a black floor that heaved with guilty rage and desire under an unsettled, nervous moon.
Within this, and in fact its maker was the unlikely Salome of Franco/Danish lyric soprano Elsa Dreisig, not-so-long-ago an Aix Micaela. If initially she was overwhelmed by the massive symphonic noise, by the time she consummated her desire — this in a white tiled bathroom/interrogation room/isolation cell — she attained a beautiful steely, silvery volume. Tones that sailed easily through the now solemnly beautiful orchestral sounds of fulfillment, when not assailed by the intrusion of Strauss’ nauseous dissonance.
Finally, the crushed Salome curled herself into a fetal position in the corner of her cell, and the hidden voice of Herod shouted needlessly for her slaughter. Salome’s death had been presaged in her dance — her psyche, the stage floor as it happened, was in full eruption. Four identical Salomes slowly, butoh-like, moved through a complex dream of inexorable emotional conflict.
British tenor Jonn Daszak, known to Aix audience through Andrea Breth’s hyper expressionist staging of Wolfgang Rihm’s Jacob Lenz (2019), was at once a protagonist and antagonist to Salome’s psyche. He shrilly dominated his operatic banquet — in fact Salome’s last supper, the Jews to his right erupting into hugely monumental discord, the Nazarenes on his left voicing miracles and salvation.
But the mise en scène, sentient to itself, had had enough. Director Andrea Breth simply stopped it all. We sat at a silent, still tableau `— a mute thunderclap — for the eternity of maybe only a few seconds. Strauss be damned.
The banquet continued. Herodias, enacted by soprano Angela Denoke, herself a famed, not-so-long-ago Paris Salome, echoed her daughter’s doubts and resolves, and in fact became one with her daughter.
The first voice we hear in Salome is that of Narraboth extolling the beauty of Salome and the beauty of the moon. Like the Salome of Elsa Dreisig, Spanish/Porto Rican tenor Joel Prieto is of beautiful, light lyric voice. He was the voice of a youthful innocence awakening to the forbidden desires of the world. He suicides, this innocence slipping into the precise chasm in the stages’s sentient floor where Salome, is confronting Narraboth, obsessed by horror of the Prophet’s body, and awakened to the horrors of her mother.
Jochanaan was sung by Hungarian bass baritone Gábor Bretz, a voice of enormous authority whose words were heard first everywhere in the stage box, then from random placements on Herod’s terrace, that was, as well, Salome’s emotional floor. Jochanaan’s severed, singing head was previewed on the table at Herod’s banquet table (Narraboth’s head on the floor beneath his feet) where Herodias shouted for its silence, and where the beaten Herod finally consented to the horror of Salome’s demand.
An extended, thunderous timpani roar, in an imposed fermata, brought the head of Jochanaan to Salome. The head was now hidden, and unseen, in a tin washtub. Strauss be damned.
Casting at Pierre Audi’s Aix Festival continues to be one of its greatest glories, these singers, and the impeccably cast Jews and Nazarenes, fully embodied stage director Andrea Breth’s blatantly Freudian world. It was a world brilliantly concocted scenically by designer Voigt, strikingly and remarkably subtly lighted by Alexander Kopelmann, and faultlessly executed by the Festival’s technical staff. Costumes, by Alexandra Charles, were based in the filmic early twentieth century.
Mr. Audi fearlessly confronted the fame of the recent Salzburg Festival Romeo Castelucci Salome with his own Salome. Worlds apart in the universal and particular these two productions will remain operatic benchmark productions for years to come.
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Cold weather death toll passes 100 in Ukraine
More than 100 people have now died as a result of freezing weather in Ukraine since last Friday, the government has announced in Kiev. Most of the 101 who died were homeless people and 64 of them were found dead on the streets, the emergencies ministry said.
Hundreds of others have been treated in hospital for frostbite, hypothermia and other cold-related conditions. Temperatures plunged to below -35C in parts of eastern Europe this week. At least eight more deaths were reported in Poland on Thursday, bringing the death toll there since last week to 37.
Cold weather deaths have been reported across eastern and central Europe.
Russia recorded cold 64 cold weather deaths for the whole of January, Interfax news agency reports, but it is unclear if this is related directly to the hard frosts which began last week. In Serbia at least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in mountainous areas, the Associated Press reports. In Italy, weather experts said it was the coldest week for 27 years.
In Ukraine, more freezing weather was forecast for Friday, with overnight temperatures set to fall to as low as -32C in the north and west. The authorities closed schools and colleges and set up nearly 3,000 heating and food shelters across the country. Health officials instructed hospitals not to discharge homeless patients, even after treatment, in order to save them from the cold.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov announced that the country had burnt 1bn cu m of gas in just three days. The country’s gas order from Russia for the whole of 2012 is 27bn cu m.
“It’s a very hard time for the country,” he said, promising that the difficulties would be overcome.
The Russian gas supplier, Gazprom, said Ukraine was exceeding the level of gas consumption envisaged in the contract. Most Russian gas exports to EU countries transit Ukraine. On Thursday Austria’s energy firm OMV reported a 30% drop in its supply of Russian gas, while Italy’s gas distributor Snam Rete Gas said its Russian gas was down by about 20%.
In the winter of 2009 Russia accused Ukraine of siphoning off gas meant for European customers. Gazprom cut supplies, leaving more than a dozen countries short of Russian gas.
Some, like Bulgaria, Serbia and Bosnia, are almost completely dependent on supplies via Ukraine and so were left with major shortages, during a very cold spell in Europe.
Source: BBC News
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How to Find a Birth Record in North Carolina?
What Are Birth Records in North Carolina?
Birth records are considered public records in North Carolina, but confidential information is usually removed when issuing uncertified copies to interested parties. A birth record is the official documentation of birth, and it includes every piece of information about it. The State of North Carolina and, indeed counties, did not maintain birth records on a statewide basis before October 1931. The only exceptions are Raleigh and Wilmington cities. Raleigh started recording birth events in 1890, while Wilmington began in 1904. The information embedded in a North Carolina birth record include:
- The full name of a child
- Date of birth
- Place of birth
- Sex of child
- Parents' names
- Mother's maiden name (first and last name)
- Mother's marital status at the time child's birth
- Place and date of birth registration, and the registration number
- Type of birth
In North Carolina, a birth record is legal proof of birth. It is used for a variety of reasons, such as passport applications, and social security programs.
How to Find and Request Birth Records Online in North Carolina
The Vital Record Office of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) has no provision for looking up or requesting birth records online. Persons who wish to obtain birth records online in North Carolina may use the services of some government-approved third-party vital record providers. The operations of these independent vendors are not limited by requesters' geographic locations. Requesters must, however, provide accurate information on the persons named in their records of interest when ordering North Carolina birth records online. They must also pay the required fees by any means advised by their choice third-party vital record vendors.
Considered open to citizens of the United States, public records are available through both traditional, government sources, and through third-party websites and organizations. In many cases, third-party websites make the search easier as they are not limited geographically or by technological limitations. They are considered a good place to start when looking for a specific record or multiple records. In order to gain access to these records, interested parties must provide:
- The name of the person listed in the record. Juveniles are typically exempt from this search method.
- The last known or assumed location of the person listed in the record. This includes cities, counties, and states.
While third-party sites offer such services, they are not government-sponsored entities, and record availability may vary on these sites when compared to government sources.
How to Get Birth Records in North Carolina
The State Vital Records Office and the Register of Deeds Offices (ROD) maintain records of births that have occurred in North Carolina from 1913 to date. The State Vital Records Office documents all births registered in the entire state and make the same available upon request by eligible persons. The ROD offices maintain records of births that occur in each county. To obtain certified copies of birth records in North Carolina, interested individuals must state their relationship to the person named on the document. Whether applying by mail or in person, they must also provide the following information:
- Full name on the record
- Record owner's date of birth
- Place of birth (the county or city in North Carolina)
- Parents' full names
In-Person Birth Record Request in North Carolina
Same day service is available for in-person birth record requests in North Carolina at additional costs to requesters. Interested parties can get copies of birth records at the County Register of Deeds Office (ROD), where the events occurred. Requesters can retrieve the contact information for each county ROD for more inquiries on how to obtain birth records in person at the county level. Similarly, the State Vital Record office provides a walk-in service for birth records applications. A requester must complete the Application for a Copy of a North Carolina Birth Certificate Form and provide a photo ID for an in-person request.
In-mail Birth Record Request in North Carolina
Interested individuals can order copies of North Carolina birth records via mail from the County Register of Deeds Office and the State Vital Record Office. A requester must provide valid photo identification and enclose the same with a completed Application for a Copy of a North Carolina Birth Certificate Form. An applicant wanting fast delivery of a requested record using the mail option will have to pay more than required.
Where Can I Find Birth Records in North Carolina?
Interested persons can find birth records in North Carolina at both the state and county levels. The Vital Record Office of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human services readily makes available birth records to eligible requesters at the state level. Requesters may also obtain birth records in North Carolina at the County Register of Deeds Office(ROD) if they know the exact county where such birth events occurred. For in-person request of birth records in North Carolina, interested persons may visit:
North Carolina Vital Records
225 N. McDowell St.
Raleigh, NC 27603-1382
- County offices of the Register of Deeds
The State Vital Records Office opens Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for walk-in service, save state government holidays. A direction to the North Carolina Vital Records Office is provided on their website.
Requesters' self-addressed stamped envelopes and copies of their photo IDs must be enclosed in mail applications to the County Register of Deeds Offices. They should write "Expedite" on the surface of the envelopes for faster delivery via mail. Persons interested in requesting birth records in North Carolina by mail may also send their applications via U.S.mail to:
North Carolina Vital Records
1903 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1900
They may also send requests via FedEx or UPS to:
North Carolina Vital Records
225 North McDowell Street
Raleigh, NC 27603-1382
How to Get Birth Records From a Hospital in North Carolina
In North Carolina, hospitals are not repositories for birth records. Hence, no individual can obtain a birth record from any hospital in the state. When a birth occurs in the hospital, such hospital will file an electronic certificate of live birth with the North Carolina Department of Human and Health Services (NCDHHS) within five days after the event. The Deputy Registrar of the NCDHHS processes the certificate and makes some required amendments. The office of the Deputy Registrar then files the certificate electronically with the State Vital Records Office. The State Vital Records Office is responsible for sharing a copy of such a certificate with the Register of Deeds (ROD) in the county where the birth occurred.
Can Anyone Get a Copy of a Birth Certificate in North Carolina?
The matter of who can or cannot obtain copies of birth certificates in North Carolina is dependent on the type of document being sought. The State Vital Records Office and local Register of Deeds Offices issue certified and uncertified copies of North Carolina birth records upon request. A certified copy of a birth certificate is a true version of the original document in the custody of the issuing authority. It is usually required for official and legal purposes. An uncertified copy of a North Carolina birth certificate is simply for informational purposes and cannot serve any legal or official use. Such certificates come in plain papers and are stamped "Uncertified" at the point of issuance.
Anyone can request uncertified copies of birth certificates in North Carolina unless legal restrictions apply. However, requesters must be able to provide complete and accurate information in their applications. In contrast, not everyone can apply for certified copies of North Carolina birth records. As specified by North Carolina law, NCGS 130A-93(c), certified copies of birth records in the state are only available to the following persons:
- Persons requesting copies of their birth certificates, spouses', sibling's, stepparents' stepchildren, direct ancestors' and direct descendants' birth certificates
- Authorized legal representatives of the persons named in the birth certificate
- Persons seeking information for legal determination of property and personal rights
Requesters' proofs of identification are essential in their applications. Any request that does not include valid photo identification is usually denied. The following photo IDs are valid for requesting birth records in North Carolina:
- Current passport or Visa bearing requester's photo
- Current government-issued driver's license and non-driver photo ID card containing an address that must match requester's address on the application
- Current Department of Corrections photo ID card issued within the last year
- Current student ID card and a copy of school transcript
- Current United States military ID
- The current United States or state agency photo ID for a person requesting a certificate as part of the agency's affair
An eligible requester who does not have any of these forms of identifications may provide readable copies of two of the following in their applications:
- Bank statement containing current address
- Valid utility bill with requester's current address
- Paystub with present address
- Temporary driver's license
- Car registration bearing requester's current address
- State-issued concealed weapon permit having current address
- Any letter from a government agency to the requester within the last six months (It must show current address)
- Requester's income tax return with current address
How Much Does a Birth Certificate Cost in North Carolina?
Requesting a birth certificate in North Carolina comes at a cost. Below is a breakdown of the fee by type of request:
- Search fee - $24
- Expedite charge (for same-day service, and it is optional) - $15
- Search fee - $24
- An additional copy of the same certificate - $15
- Expedited processing fee (certificate shipped by regular mail) - $15
- Expedited processing with expedited shipping (within the continental U.S.) - $35
The certificate search fee includes one copy of the requested document. Both search and expedite fees are non-refundable whether the requested record is found or not. For requests forwarded to the State Vital Records Office, fees are payable to the North Carolina Vital Records via the following:
- Certified check
- Money order
- Business check
- Credit or debit card (for in-person request)
- Cash (for walk-in application)
How Long Does It Take to Get a Birth Certificate in North Carolina?North Carolina Vital Records Office processes standard requests of a birth certificate for any birth that occurred before 1971 in not more than eight weeks. Regular orders for birth certificates of events from 1971 to date may take up to five weeks. However, expedited applications for birth certificates in North Carolina are usually fulfilled within five to ten business days. Note that processing times are effective the day the State Vital Records receive requests.
How to Expunge Your Birth Records in North Carolina
Record expungement is a legal process of removing certain information from a person's record and sealing or destroying such a document at the state repository. Although North Carolina allows the expungement of various state records, birth records are off the list.
How to Seal Your Birth Records in North Carolina
Sealing a birth record in North Carolina is related to adoption. Upon finalizing an adoption, the adoptee's original birth certificate and some other adoption papers are permanently restricted from public access. In such an instance, an amended birth certificate bearing the new name of the adoptee and listing the adoptive parents as the child's parents is issued. Sealing of birth records is primarily a part of the adoption process to protect birth mothers from the stigma of having children outside wedlock. It also shields adoptive parents and the adoptee from undue interference by birth parents.
How to Unseal Your Birth Records in North Carolina
At the end of an adoption process, the court seals the adoption records. There are appropriate steps to take to unseal such records while still protecting the interests of all parties involved. Unsealing birth records entails gaining access to adoption records. Any adoption record comprises both identifying and non-identifying information. Identifying information may include names, addresses, and other information capable of revealing identities. Non-identifying information is essentially descriptive information of the individuals involved in an adoption. A sealed original birth certificate in North Carolina can only be obtained by order of the court. The State Registrar will release a copy of an adoptee's original birth certificate upon receiving a certified copy of a court order authorizing its release. Such a document is certified as a true copy of a record that is no longer valid.
In North Carolina, the non-identifying information of a sealed birth record is accessible by an adult adoptee, adoptive parents, and a minor adoptee who is an expectant parent or already a parent. Interested persons may also use the confidential intermediary process to obtain North Carolina sealed birth records. In this process, a county Department of Social Services may act as a private agent to share identifying information for any of the following persons:
- An adult adoptee
- A birth parent
- An adult birth sibling or half-sibling of an adult adoptee
- An adult family member of a deceased adoptee
- An adult relative of a deceased birth parent
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Northwest in Washington, District of Columbia — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
This House was Occupied by Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
inventor of the telephone
Levi P. Morton
Vice President of the United States
Secretary of State
Location. 38° 54.45′ N, 77° 2.113′ W. Marker is in Northwest, District of Columbia, in Washington. Marker is at the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue, NW and Corregidor Street, NW, on the right when traveling east on Rhode Island Avenue, NW. Click for map. The Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion is presently used by the National Paint and Coatings Association. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1500 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20005, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Winfield Scott (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Independence of Kazakhstan (about 600 feet away); Daniel Webster Memorial (about 600 feet away); Theodore Roosevelt Worshiped Here Regularly (about 600 feet away); Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church (about 700 feet away); Metropolitan AME Church Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church (about 700 feet away); Admiral Miguel Grau (approx. 0.2 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Northwest.
Also see . . .
1. Alexander Graham Bell. (Submitted on December 9, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.)
2. Levi P. Morton. Morton might have been the President, had he accepted an offer from then Republican nominee James Garfield to be the running mate on the ticket. Garfield was elected, but assassinated later. (Submitted on December 9, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.)
3. Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion. (Submitted on September 9, 2012, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.)
4. Elihu Root Biography. (Submitted on December 9, 2007, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.)
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“It is just screaming and noise!”, “only aggressive people listen to it” and such other comments are unfortunately common preconceptions people still have about the genres of Hardcore and Metal. While the general acceptance has improved greatly within the last decade or two there are still plenty of such negative stereotypes.
As often with such preconceptions, a lot of them come from a lack of understanding. Thus I will give a historic explanation about the two genres and how they both developed. This will include song-examples to show the different developments within Hardcore and Metal and their consequent sub-genres over the decades.
Before I start with explaining the history of the two genres, I will clear up a very common preconception first - that this kind of music is aggressive and thus makes people aggressive.
While it is true that this music is aggressive, there is a common misconception that people have by equating aggression with violence. This is simply wrong. Aggression is vigor, drive and incentive. Channeling it in a healthy way can lead mankind to great achievements, but channeling when it is channeled in the wrong direction it can become a destructive force.
Thus instead of this music making people violent it works as a valve to release energy and aggression in a healthy way. Hence why more men listen to such music.
Now to the actual topic of the different variants and history of Hardcore and Metal as well as the development of plenty subgenres along the way. This development resulted in both genres overlapping more and more and creating fluid transitions from one to the next while still being distinctive during the 90s. To be able to understand those transitions a certain level of historical understanding is required.
Hardcore originally developed from the Punk-genre and is occasionally still labeled as Hardcore-Punk – usually to differentiate itself from the later developed eletronic/techno hardcore genre. Dead Kennedys and Black Flag can be refered to as the most known founders of that development, but some say that the Sex Pistols were the original and main drive for it.
All that started during the 70s when Hardcore was still as punkish at heart as possible. It based itself on politically oriented lyrics and expressing frustration with the status quo. That frustration could arguably be the reason for the development of a more extreme musical style in order to express the increased dissatisfaction and frustration with anger and rage.
It took another decade for the first bands to start breaking out of those strong and sometimes limiting ties to Punk. During 1981, the first bands changed their lyrical content to become more personal rather than politically oriented while still keeping the music as an expression of raw emotion. This change originally was very controversial within the scene, but has been widely accepted now.
Shortly after this first breakaway from pure Punk, a few bands decided to implement hip-hop elements. The most known example of that is Biohazard who later on also started to become increasingly influenced by Metal.
Despite all those developments, Hardcore still kept close to Punk, using the the music as a means to express raw emotion as well as having a “fuck off” attitude. Said attitude possibly helped bands start to involve different musical elements of Metal within the genre. This resulted in the fairly popular Post-Hardcore subgenre which later on had an increasing relevance in the final breakthrough of Hardcore and Metal overlapping towards the millennial. Prior to this breakthrough, Metal-influences were consequently rejected within the core-scene while other influences like rock, funk and jazz already found acceptance.
Furthermore Post-Hardcore was relevant in the development of the Emo-Hardcore (called Emocore) and it's attached emo-hype which brought exaggerated the emotional lyrics to an absurd extreme. This in combination with becoming more Pop than Hardcore, made Emo(-core) still get rejected within the Hardcore-Scene.
Important chronological song-recommendations for the key-developments of Hardcore:
Black Flag - Rise Above - 1981
Founding fathers since 1980
Minor Threat - Salad Days - 1985
First band with more emotional and personal lyrics.
NoMeansNo – Now – 1991
Showcasing Jazz and Funk influences already since their first releases in 1982
Biohazard – Punishment - 1992
Clear hip-Hop elements within the Hardcore-Sound
Furthermore the following bands offer a decent insight into classic Hardcore (Agnostic Front, H20), the harder and more modern Hardcore (Hatebreed, Sick of it All) and the musically more diverse Hardcore (Vision of Disorder, At the Drive-In, Refused, Glassjaw):
Agnostic Front - Gotta Go
H2O - Nothing to Prove
Hatebreed - Empty Promises
Sick of it All - We Stand Alone
Vision of Disorder - Imprint
At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
Refused - New Noise
Glassjaw - Siberian Kiss
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The Sustainable Defense Task Force Cuts
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and others in Congress plus leading defense experts have combined to recommend major cuts in the weapons systems for the US Defense Department. I am not surprised and New Wars has been warning that the military should learn to live within its means for some time. The splendid budgets of the last century is finally giving way to reality, as Third World powers nowhere near as immaculately equipped as Western militaries have arisen to change on a near equal basis.
We are near bankruptcy trying to contend with the forces of insurgency by deploying basically two militaries, one for the type of conventional warfare we are used to from the Cold War and the World Wars, to one in which the lowly infantryman and patrol boat is more important than a stealth bomber or trillion dollar missile defense program. For this cause its seems someone in Washington is getting the message that change is upon us, and a new way of warfare where high technology may not always be the answer. In fact, the tech very rarely compares to the right training and the will to take the fight to America’s enemies. Realistically, this has always been our strength, less about weapons, more about who we are as a people.
The following from a paper aptly titled Debt, Deficits, & Defense: A Way Forward, includes 14 proposed cuts:
- Reduce the US nuclear arsenal.
- Limit the planned modernization of the nuclear weapons infrastructure and reduce research activities.
- Selectively curtail missile defense & space spending.
- Reduce US military presence in Europe and Asia by one-third and cut military end strength accordingly.
- Rollback the size of US ground forces as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down.
- Reduce US Navy battle fleet from current 286 ships to 230.
- Only retire two Navy aircraft carriers and two naval air wings.
- Retire two US Air Force tactical fighter wings; Reduce F-35 fighter procurement by 220 aircraft.
- US Air Force Joint Strike Fighter cancellation or delay.
- US Navy Joint Strike Fighter cancellation or delay.
- End procurement of MV-22 Osprey and field alternatives.
- Delay procurement of the KC-X Aerial Refueling Tanker for five years; In the interim, retain and upgrade some existing tankers.
- Terminate the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle; field alternatives.
- Reduce base budget spending on R&D by $5 billion annually, including classified expenditures.
The study goes on to reveal that the above cuts would eliminate $138.7 billion from the Pentagon budget from 2011-2020. Space and time forbids me to comment on each proposal individually but I would like to touch on several which are of interest to New Wars and its readership.
- Nuclear cuts-This is a good idea. I would further propose doing away with the land based deterrent altogether and depending wholly on the Trident ballistic missile fleet. These should probably total a minimum of 12 boats.
- Cut Missile Defense-Another idea I support. A very expensive answer to a comparatively low tech problem. Almost any rogue nation can obtain ballistic missiles, and an arms race using First World weapons against Third World technology can only hasten our bankruptcy. Technically it rarely works very well, and I think MAD is the best options of two evils. Plus, it is mainly a “feel good weapon”, since it doesn’t work too well, it at least makes you feel like you are doing something to counter the rain of projectiles falling on you from space.
- A 230 ship navy-A very interesting proposal and not unexpected, even under current budgets. Here specifically is the fleet we will have after the knife:
- 9 aircraft carriers with 8 air wings,
- 7 strategic ballistic missile subs,
- 4 guided-missile subs,
- 37 attack subs,
- 85 large surface combat ships,
- 25 littoral combat ships,
- 27 amphibious combat ships,
- 36 logistics and support ships.
A few other quotes in this proposal stood out that echoes my own ideas on how we can get by with fewer high end warships–“Our present capacity to oppose the power of other nations at sea far outstrips the requirement.” In terms of conventional capability, we continue to invest in overkill. Against low tech forces, especially littoral attack craft and submarines we have been under-investing, as we consistently point out. This type of sea control as proven in past and present wars requires large numbers of cheap but good warships–corvettes.
Also this concerning forward deployment of ships–“Typically, between 105 and 125 ships are on deployment continuously… But the link between generalized “presence” and specific outcomes is too tenuous to warrant the cost.” Again I propose small warships, motherships and SSKs should replace our high end warships in forward basing, which would fulfill this presence mission at much less cost, allowing the conventional battlefleet to rest and train until required in war or crisis. This would entail drastically fewer large ships, probably less than the proposals here. | <urn:uuid:1d9b4352-6b67-4f16-af71-4ed66e9c4458> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://newwars.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/the-sustainable-defense-task-force-cuts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947762 | 1,052 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Original Apple computer could fetch $600,000 at December auction
By Chris Michaud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 will hit the auction block in December, where it is expected to fetch more than half a million dollars, Christie's said on Monday.
The so-called Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, named after its original owner Charles Ricketts and being sold on Dec. 11, is the only known surviving Apple-1 documented as having been sold directly by Jobs, then just 21, to an individual from the Los Altos, California family home, Christie's said.
"It all started with the Apple-1 and with this particular machine," said Andrew McVinish, Christie's director of decorative arts.
"When you see a child playing with an iPad or iPhone, not too many people know that it all started with the Apple-1," he added. "So to be able to own a machine that started the digital revolution is a very powerful attraction."
The computer is being sold by Robert Luther, a Virginia collector who bought it in 2004 at a police auction of storage locker goods without knowing all the details of its history.
"I knew it had been sold from the garage of Steve Jobs in July of 1976, because I had the buyer's canceled check," Luther wrote on a kickstarter page soliciting funding for a book on the machine's history.
"My computer had been purchased directly from Jobs, and based on the buyers address on the check, he lived four miles from Jobs."
In 1999, the Ricketts Apple-1 was acquired by Bruce Waldack, an entrepreneur who had just sold his company, DigitalNation. Waldack eventually lost his fortune, left the country and died in 2007. The Ricketts Apple-1 was auctioned at a self-storage facility in Virginia, where Luther purchased it. Continued... | <urn:uuid:a60c095f-d7e4-4935-9b44-bfaf1ee22997> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCAKBN0IN0ZX20141103 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00011-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983567 | 403 | 1.765625 | 2 |
A diamond cover for your gadgets
A lot of people complain about their gadgets getting scratched every now and then, and it is the same story with iPods, cell phones, PDAs and the like. There are many protective covers available for most products, but it looks like Nokia is trying to reinvent the concept. The Finish house, in fact, is developing a new coating for cell phones made with diamond-like material.
The manufacturing process is not that simple, check out the description: “To make the material electric current is fed through coal graphite. This creates plasma, which is directed towards a plastic casing by high-voltage electrodes. The coal ions penetrate the surface and bond to form an amorphous, diamond-like coating less than 100 nanometres thick. The process works at room temperature, meaning even cheap plastics can be coated this way.”
The new protective case has many benefits, it is conductive and anti-static for example, making sure that it will not get covered with dust. It is also environment-friendly (the material is biodegradable) and it should offer a much higher protection for a reduced cost.
There is an interesting link to the patent application (click here) where you can see more details about the invention. The patent description is as follows: “The invention relates to a cover, a mobile communications apparatus and a method for producing a coated cover for an electronic apparatus. According to the invention at least a part of the cover is coated with a DLC-coating, also called an amorphous diamond coating.”
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Date of this Version
2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011); doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134490
Current core networks are composed of high-end routers which are connected by high-speed fibers. These optical connections are commonly over provisioned and in low utilization. Many of them are combined together to form bundle links or composite links and the component links are referred to as sublinks. These physical sublinks could be SONET connections, Ethernet circuits, wavelengths on a fiber, etc and they could be shut down or brought up independently. Selectively shutting down sublinks during low traffic periods could save a large amount of energy while keeping the network topology unchanged. Based on this concept, we propose a local heuristical threshold based method to explore the potential energy-savings in the backbone network by adjusting the number of active sublinks in bundle links.
An experiment based on an Internet2 derived synthetic network was conducted to verify the performance of our method and the results show that 86% of energy consumed on ports of core routers could be saved when setting 90.0% as the link utilization threshold. The experiment also shows that setting 90.0% as threshold is safe enough to avoid data loss during extreme traffic increases in this case. Compared to previous proposed ILP (Integer linear programming) based global heuristic algorithms, our local heuristic algorithm can achieve energy-savings close to the optimum and greatly reduce the response time and the risk of data loss. | <urn:uuid:35d09cae-980b-4508-a0d5-1b853eed965c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cseconfwork/194/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00005-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938019 | 307 | 2.25 | 2 |
T’ai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art that focuses on slow, flowing movement from posture to posture. This liquid movement:
- Relieves stress
- Increases flexibility
- Improves balance
- Promotes a sense of centeredness and well-being
Exercise is a primary recommendation for fibromyalgia treatment, but many patients are worried that strenuous exercise can cause more pain. T’ai chi provides a good balance between gentle strength building and flexibility.
A study from Australia showed that people experienced a 25% reduction in their pain intensity when they completed the tai chi programme. The smooth, gentle movements help to relax you and keep your mind calm and focused.
To put it into perspective, 23% reported an improvement in their pain, and 32% reported an improvement in their disability after completing a Tai Chi course.
However, scientists believe that the ‘positive’ results only last for as long as the patient takes part in the Tai Chi exercises.
It is accessible to all ages and physical abilities and can be practiced on many levels, from a simple ‘meditative’ exercise to a martial art.
The best part is that you don’t even work up a sweat, even though you seem to be moving every muscle in your body. I found the breathing exercises extremely good.
Finding the right book on this subject is hard, as there are so many out there, and after chatting to my teacher, I think the best way to look at this type of therapy would be by going to YouTube and checking out some of the videos. As with Yoga, there are many different types of Tai Chi to choose from.
If you want to try it at home first there are a number of DVD’s you can follow. One excellent one which my husband bought is Tai Chi For Beginners, 8 Lessons with Dr. Paul Lam. | <urn:uuid:4cb80712-fbba-4e44-9460-367551b222f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://backpainbloguk.com/2018/02/27/tai-chi-for-fibromyalgia-and-low-back-pain-relief/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.964711 | 385 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Anglican world is well into its second (or is it third?) week of controversy over the question of sexuality. Under discussion yet again are the boundaries of sexual behavior for the Christian, how to think and talk sin, concupiscence and orientation, and the “real meaning” of the 39 Articles. This latest flap, however, has a new layer—well, perhaps not new, but at least more on display than at other times. It is the question of obedience.
I thought it was interesting, just to leap straight in, that the person who wrote the Dear Gay Anglican letter, when asked to take it down, did so in such a way that he reiterated the substance of the letter in the announcement of his obedience. He professed to be doing what he was told in the act of not doing what he was told. It was like unto those many occasions when I tell my children not to do something, and they say, “ok I’ll stop doing it” but they keep doing it even as they say they are not doing it.
I try never to put myself into the place of Jesus when I’m reading the Bible, but sometimes I feel that I do know what it must have been like for him to be always speaking plainly, except when he was teaching in parables so that they wouldn’t understand, and yet have everyone either not comprehend what he was saying, or, when they did, explain to him that he was wrong. It happens yet again in this morning’s gospel:
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
Because, don’t you know, death is bad, and Jesus is young and at the height of his popularity. He is not going to die, he is going to become an important political personage, or at least an influencer whose voice is needed at this crucial time. The last thing he’s going to do is die. Peter will ‘splain him—forcefully—saying it over and over again as if Jesus has just said something so unacceptable that he will lose all of his audience and all of his brand.
In response to Peter’s correction, Jesus tells Satan to get behind him. Peter falls back in a sulk (I imagine) because he is not trying to be #literallySatan but, out of love, to point out to Jesus that he, Jesus, is #literallyruiningeverything. Imagine it as a set of tweets, with all the crowds looking on, and you can feel how tense and unpleasant the whole exchange is.
But then Jesus turns to the disciples and doubles down. Not only is Jesus himself going to die—in shameful and brutal humiliation—the invitation to die is for everyone who is Jesus Curious. He calls “the crowd to him with his disciples,” so that not just the inner circle will hear this, but everyone, which ultimately includes me and you. This isn’t just for the elite and especially holy churchgoer. For the religious fanatic who will do anything to please his God. For the dumb-brick conspiracy theory aficionado who thinks that everyone is out to get him. The thing that Jesus says here is for everyone who will believe.
And the problem with it is that it is so simple—and yet so impossible. There is nothing within the realm of the Christian life that falls outside of the stark choice he sets down. In a time where binary choices are so problematical, where you are forced to choose between two things that might very easily go together—like everything having, for example, to do with the coronavirus—Jesus apparently doesn’t fear the possibilities of human ruin on the shoals of dichotomous thinking. Is he insane? Does he not know that we already have the inclination to think in too tribally exclusive ways? Doesn’t he want us to stop catastrophizing about everything? On the surface, it sure doesn’t look like it:
He said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s like save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
In illustration of this severe choice, the scriptures offer up the Near Sacrifice of Isaac. The two texts will be read together in many churches across America this morning. You know the one, where Abraham and Isaac go up the mountain together, and it slowly begins to dawn on Isaac that there is no lamb, nor ram, for the burnt offering, and that he himself is carrying the wood. He asks, “where is a lamb for the burnt offering?” and Abraham utters those curious words that only make sense when you finally see Jesus staggering under the cross beam, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering my son.”
It is a ruinous binary choice that God puts before us. Either you hang onto yourself, or you hang onto Jesus. Either you choose yourself, or you choose Jesus. Either you pick yourself, or you pick Jesus.
And when you pick Jesus, you can expect to be like Isaac, all the way to death, dying over and over again, the knife raised over you, thinking that the end has come, only to look up and see not the ram caught in the thicket, but Jesus dying in place of you on Golgotha. Each time you come up to the brink of yourself and find that he takes every last thing you ever wanted and needed away from you—and if this hasn’t happened, don’t worry, it will, at least at the hour of your own death—and in its place put himself. Over and over again are you invited to have this be your “lived experience.” Dying, you live. Living, you are always facing the death of your expectations, hopes, and finally your actual death.
Obedience, in this case, might feel not only insane, but impossible. I mean, consider Abraham with his only son, whom he loved. The writer takes pains to note that it is his “only son” because he has just had to send Ishmael away, even though he didn’t really want to. In his weakness, Abraham just wanted everyone to get along. He wanted there to be no consequences for his sin with Hagar. But he still has Isaac. And he is so so old. Isaac could certainly run away, or refuse. And he is his “only son” “whom he loves.” And yet he goes and does the most impossible thing because—and no one in the world looking on will ever understand this—his faith in God is a matter of the heart. It goes so deep that he has no other choice. The hope that is set before him is God himself. And he will have God more than he will even have his own son whom he loves. He makes his choice, he raises the knife, and, mercifully, the son is given back to him.
But only because God will deliver up his own son and not spare him. The only way you can give up any of the paltry, foolish, useless portions of yourself is because God delivered up his only son whom he loved and did not spare him.
It is awful. It is painful. It is death. But it is, in the moment that you make the choice and give up what God is taking from you, not the binary choice you think it is. The thing is flipped around, because of the cross. You think it is you really dying. But it is you really living. You can’t know that, though, until you do it, until you really do die “to yourself,” as Jesus commands you to do.
Having to give up the one thing—whatever it is—that you think you most need in order to be ok, that is the call of Christ to everyone who “comes after him.” No one is spared. You have to give up yourself—body and soul—in obedience to his will. Only then can you live.
Meanwhile, Satan and the world look on and are unimpressed. They think you are narrow-minded, foolish, out of step with the zeitgeist, and, increasingly, actually insane. You don’t care about “human flourishing,” that malleable and subjective standard by which we try to join our own happiness and plans to God’s will. You are less and less in step with the compassionate, though increasingly binary, choices that human nature sets before you. And here, finally, we see that ultimately the choice will come to you, one way or another. If you pick yourself and the world now, you will lose everything in the long run. You may think you can have it both ways for a while, but in the end, there is only one way and if you didn’t take it, it will be too late. Obedience, you will discover on the last day, would have been life-giving sanity.
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Successful Grants (Toolkit for Grant Success)
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The proposed research project focuses on constructions of disability in the Old NorseIcelandic Sagas of Bishops (byskupa sögur). Research for this project will take place over a twoyear period. The first year(202021) will be dedicated to data collection, consultation,...
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The heart of this project is careful textual analysis of "The Directory of Conscience" and "The Pilgrimage of Perfection" written by William Bonde, who joined the Birgittine community of monks and nuns at Syon Abbey early in the sixteenth century. The Birgittines played a...
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This Aboriginal and community-based, participatory research project aims to co-create knowledge about the holistic (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual) benefits to Indigenous youth of participating in northern games, and to identify factors that might be modified to...
"The Difference", a Novel: In 1908, a Canadian woman on a clipper ship in the south Pacific buys a small boy for four pounds of tobaccoDownload
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Over the next three years, I will research and write the first draft of a new novel. The Difference will examine the actions of a Canadian woman in 1908, wife of a clipper ship captain, who buys a small Tongan boy for four pounds of tobacco. The research required for The...
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: The study of language attitudes and their development is an interdisciplinary field of research, at the intersection of psychology, sociolinguistics, and speech-language pathology. To examine attitudes towards French dialects, we formed an interdisciplinary team with...
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The compulsory tattooed number on Holocaust survivors’ from Auschwitz acts as an embodied public record of the attempted extermination of Eastern European Jews during the Second World War. As Holocaust survivors are aging and dying these material archives are disappearing,...
SSHRC PG awarded 2019: In response to the well-documented threats to Indigenous cultures and languages, this Partnership project will support the revitalization and sustained daily use of multiple Indigenous languages by developing modern technological tools and resources for these languages in...
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This project seeks to challenge the stereotype of the forever foreigner by highlighting the liveliness and diversity of the Chinese diaspora community in Western Canada. The project draws upon the Strathcona basketball program in Vancouver, BC as a case study, examining...
A Comparative Investigation of Pedagogical possibilities of Digital Tools for Family and School Early Literacy EducationDownload
SSHRC Awarded Insight Grant 2013: The proposed research aims to investigate shifts in digital literacy practices in school and home in sites in Canada and Australia and to examine factors that might impede and/or facilitate digital literacy development.
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The importance of the body in fashion and the radical adoption of street styles by the elite go back to eighteenth-century Europe. This study examines the effects of the French Revolution on European and American style. It asks how 1790s fashion drastically changed to... | <urn:uuid:5ac48148-5386-4f3f-a4a2-5364e6322794> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://era.library.ualberta.ca/communities/8f446adf-bae4-49f5-84b7-6195718ca844/collections/18826f1d-a1f7-4466-9f0e-8ae88350b984 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.909326 | 752 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Movie theaters to install mobile phone jammers
When you are watching a movie in the cinema and you are watching it, suddenly someone nearby answers the phone, it will definitely make you very disgusted. Japan has recently developed a new material that absorbs radio waves from mobile phones without interfering with mobile phones outside movie theaters. Some cinemas in Hong Kong are very interested in this new invention and say they will consider installing it.
The latest invention in Japan is to install magnets inside wooden boards to absorb radio waves; installing this material in theaters will not affect mobile phones outside the theater. Several cinemas in Hong Kong have expressed interest in the new material, saying that if resources permit, they will consider installing it in cinemas.
Although Hong Kong cinemas currently appeal to audiences to turn off their mobile phones and pagers before the film is played, it has not been effective. Some cinema operators have suggested to the government to install cell phone jammer. The OFTA is planning to consult the public to study whether to authorize the person in charge of cinemas or performance venues to install mobile phone jamming devices. | <urn:uuid:0bc131d3-7e9a-4697-8c2d-8d361706eadd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://topsignaljammer.com/en-iq/pages/movie-theaters-to-install-mobile-phone-jammers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.94227 | 222 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Classic Collection - The Legacy of the Prophet
The Legacy of The Prophet; Translation of Nurul Iqtibas fi Mishkat Wasiyyah Al-Nabil li Ibn 'Abbas. The spiritual and worldly life of a Muslim is focussed on Allah. Success in both entails knowing Allah, loving Him, trusting him and worshiping him alone. It requires the Muslim to learn his religion, discipline his soul and refrain his conduct. The Muslim must have firm faith that everything that happens to him in this life is good for him, that his lord would never decree anything that would be detrimental and, as such, he is required to be patient and step fast in the face of adversity and great full at times of ease. In this treatise, the author, Ibn Rajab sets out to explain the advice the Prophet (s.a.w) imparted to Ibn 'Abbas, "Safe guard Allah and He will safe guard you. Safe Guard Allah and you will find Him in front of you. Know Allah in times of ease and He will know you in times of Hardship. When you ask, ask Allah. When you seek aid, Turn to Allah. The Pen has dried (after having written) all that would occur..." It would not be exaggeration to say that if a Muslim was to understand this Hadith and follow it closely, he would be well on his way to fulfilling the goals highlighted above. It is for this reason that Ibn Jawzi said, 'I pondered this Hadith and it struck me with awe; I was so astounded that I almost became light headed...the prevailing ignorance of this Hadith and the lack of understanding there off is truly distressing! 'Abdal Qadir Al-Jaylani said; 'Every believer should make this Hadith a mirror to his heart, his axiom, his shelter and his topic of conversation. He should act by it in all times of motion and stillness so that he can be saved in this world and the hereafter.' About the Author: Imam Ibn Rajab al Hanbali (736 - 795 AH). He was the noble Imaam, the Haafidh, the Critic, Zayn-ud-Deen ‘Abdur-Rahmaan bin Ahmad bin ‘Abdir-Rahmaan bin al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Abil-Barakaat Mas’ood As-Salaamee Al-Baghdaadee (due to his place of birth), Al-Hanbalee (due to his madh-hab), Ad-Dimashqee (due to his place of residence and death). His kunyah was Abul-Faraj, and his nickname was Ibn Rajab, which was the nickname of his grandfather who was born in that month (of Rajab). He was born in Baghdad in 736H and was raised by a knowledgeable family, firmly rooted in knowledge, nobility and righteousness. His father played the greatest role in directing him towards the beneficial knowledge. Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab, may Allah have mercy on him, was deeply attached to the works of Shaikh-ul-Islaam Ibn Taimiyyah, for he would issue legal rulings according to them and would constantly reference his books. This is since he served as a student under Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, the most outstanding student of Shaikh-ul-Islaam Ibn Taimiyyah, may Allah have mercy on all of them. But in spite of this, he (rahimahullaah) wasn’t a blind follower or a fanatical adherent (to his teacher). Rather, he would review, authenticate, verify and follow the evidences. Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab, may Allaah have mercy on him passed to the realm of the Akhira in Ramadaan, 795H. He died while in Damascus. | <urn:uuid:079e85a2-7eba-4048-a701-fdcc2fad2104> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://islamicbookstore.com.au/products/classic-collection-the-legacy-of-the-prophet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.97862 | 815 | 2.53125 | 3 |
October 4, 2012
10 astounding Apple facts
From an idea conceived and put into play, to a company worth a billion dollars and more, Apple has come a long way and has etched a mark for itself in the world of technology today. Well, the most of us these days are Apple admirers and have at least nearly been swayed by the company’s many creations. Here’s a list of 10 surprising facts you probably didn’t know about one of the world’s biggest technology company’s today.
10. The Apple iPhone has been hailed as one of the best-selling smartphones today. In 2011 alone, Apple managed to sell nearly 70 million iPhones! And that’s not all. The company has also vended about 30 million iPads and 59 million miscellaneous products. In other words, that’s nearly 5 products a second!
8. Apple’s first logo featured Isaac Newton seated below a tree, complete with an apple falling on his head! Later, the logo was modified a few times and winded up as the one you see on your Apple product today.
7. The Foxconn facility set up in China employs nearly 230,000 workers. These workers put the bits and pieces together to assemble iPhones. 25% of these workers live in the factory dormitory itself and are paid $1.80 an hour to begin with, a sum not many would work for!
6. If you’ve been under the impression that the likes of Canon and Nikon developed the first digital camera, you’ve been wrong all along. Apple pulled the veil off the world’s first mass-market-capable digital camera in 1994. Priced at a whopping $749, the camera had a 1 Megapixel resolution and could take just 8 pictures at a time.
5. The Apple 1, better known as Apple’s first computer, was launched in 1976. Priced at $666.66, this computer was a thousand times slower in processing than the current Apple iPad. Also, Apple manufactured only 200 of these computers which were considered a luxury in their day.
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Richard C. Iannuzzi has served as president of New York State United Teachers since April 2005, leading the union through a period of tremendous growth, with membership now at more than 600,000.
A leading voice in the labor movement at both the state and federal levels, Iannuzzi serves as a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers and of the New York State AFL-CIO. He also serves as delegate to the national AFL-CIO and as co-chair of the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition.
With nearly 500 full-time employees, NYSUT represents a diverse membership that includes in-service and retired members in New York’s public schools, colleges, universities and health care facilities, as well as several private schools and colleges, non-profits and government agencies. Its programs are provided from 16 offices around the state; its more than 1,000 affiliates bargain collectively for benefits, working conditions and professional improvements.
Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., in a union household, Iannuzzi taught elementary school in the Central Islip public schools for 34 years, including 20 spent as a fourth-grade teacher. He was active in his union from the beginning of his career, joining his local on strike in November 1970, his first year on the job.
As NYSUT president, he travels frequently around the state speaking to editorial boards and providing commentary on public radio delivering the union’s message on education and health care.
Throughout history, men and women of all ages have championed causes that brought to light abuses foisted upon humankind. These courageous people were able to Speak Up, Speak Out and enlighten the global community to take action against injustice and denial of human rights. Robert F. Kennedy was one such crusader for social justice and human rights.
In the spirit of NYSUT’s work for social justice, we have collaborated with the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights to provide you with lessons and resource materials on individuals who have defended human rights in all corners of the world. The lessons focus on defenders who spoke up for those with no voice, regardless of the threat of physical or psychological harm to themselves. These defenders Speak Truth to Power to ensure that others hear their stories and the stories of others.
The Speak Truth to Power lessons were designed by New York state teachers and bring to classrooms the passion of those who risk their lives for human rights. Their compelling stories are made real to students through a rich curriculum that is aligned with the New York State Learning Standards. The curriculum challenges students to think about how they can become defenders of human rights locally and how their actions will be felt globally.
I invite you to integrate these materials into your classroom curriculum. All the lessons are available online at www.nysut.org and at www.rfkcenter.org. Starting with one voice, a tiny ripple of hope, and growing, to quote Robert F. Kennedy, to “. . . a million different centers of energy and daring.” Thank you for moving forward the advocacy of these defenders.
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Montgomery Ambulance Service promotes good health during EMS Week
Do you know the signs of a stroke, or why high blood pressure is called the "silent killer"? Montgomery Ambulance Service members were out in full force last week for National EMS Week, educating and informing the public about these specific health issues and providing information. They handed out cards with the acronym FAST –– Face, Arms, Speech and Time, which can all indicate signs of stroke. They also held blood pressure clinics to educate on the silent killer which many times has no symptoms but can lead to many health problems. The EMS crew also handed out the bright pink envelopes "File of Life" which contains a form to be filled out by each household member and hung on the refrigerator so if the ambulance were ever called to the residence, all the information would be readily available.
Each day of last week the EMS volunteers were busy in the community, starting Monday, May 20, when they provided tours of the ambulance for school children at Holy Redeemer School. On Tuesday they took a tour of Seneca Foods to be better acquainted with the layout. Wednesday and Thursday they held blood pressure clinics at Frandsen Bank & Trust and Senior Dining. And on Sunday they attended a special EMS Appreciation Service at St. John Lutheran Church.
The Montgomery Ambulance Service members said they were glad to be able to educate and show their new rig. EMT Roland Vlasak stated that EMS Week gives them a chance to give back.
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Strong recently acquired a very rare and important board game—“The Jolly Game of Goose.” The game is printed on paper with old, yellowed tape on its folds. It is a prime candidate for intensive conservation (restoration) treatment. But why is it so important to the museum?
The game of goose is an ancient children’s game, possibly tracing its roots all the way back to an ancient Egyptian game called “Mehen,” which was played in early Old Kingdom times (2686–2134 BC). Later, Francesco de Medici of Italy sent a copy of this game to King Felipe II of Spain in the 16th century. The game went on to become one of the most popular games in Europe during that time.
The American goose game in the museum’s collection is based on an English version printed as early as 1831 called “Laurie’s New and Entertaining Game of the Golden Goose.” Our game is nearly an exact duplicate of that English game, except printed in reverse—the British goose faces right while the American version faces left. Our game is dated 1851 and is the only known copy of this game, printed in America, in an American collection today. Needless to say, we’re delighted that an important game collector made this item available to the museum.
The goose game is a classic race game. In fact, all race games invented afterward are derived from it. From Mouse Trap to Monopoly and from Candy Land to Chutes and Ladders, many of our most popular and best-loved games are traced to this simple model. So the museum’s newest game is one of the country’s oldest, and many games we play today are direct descendants of this 150-year-old goose! | <urn:uuid:362f5ea7-8f9d-4b16-b847-22b518564381> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.museumofplay.org/blog/play-stuff/?s=goose | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973823 | 374 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Description: Challenge to recovery plan for Mexican wolves.
WildEarth Guardians v. Zinke
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 10/14/2021 Order Download WildEarth Guardians et al.'s motion for summary judgment denied, Center for Biological Diversity et al.'s motion for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part, defendants' cross-motions for summary judgment granted in part and denied in part and Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan First Revision remand for further action, including inclusion of site-specific management actions. [The decision on the parties' motions for summary judgment did not address climate change.] 03/30/2019 Order Download Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part. Arizona Federal Court Allowed Pared-Down Challenge to Mexican Grey Wolf Recovery Plan to Proceed. A federal court in Arizona allowed conservation groups to pursue only some of their claims that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS’s) 2017 recovery plan for the Mexican grey wolf was inadequate. Plaintiffs alleged, among other things, that the recovery plan failed to utilize best available science to assess threats to the endangered Mexican wolf, including threats from ongoing and future impacts of climate change. The court concluded that it had jurisdiction under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) citizen suit provision to consider allegations that the recovery plan had failed to address certain problems identified by the agency. The court found, however, that other claims—including the claim that the recovery plan failed to incorporate best available science—were not cognizable either under the ESA or the Administrative Procedure Act. The court held that the ESA’s recovery plan provision does not impose a “best available science” mandate. The court also characterized many of the plaintiffs’ claims as disagreements with FWS determinations that were within the FWS’s discretion and therefore unreviewable. 05/24/2018 Complaint Download Amended complaint filed. 01/30/2018 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Conservation Groups Challenged Recovery Plan for Mexican Wolves. WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project filed a lawsuit alleging that the final Mexican wolf recovery plan violated the Endangered Species Act and Administrative Procedure Act. The plaintiffs alleged, among other claims, that the recovery plan failed to utilize best available science to assess threats to the endangered Mexican wolf, including threats from ongoing and future impacts of climate change. | <urn:uuid:89ae4ea3-05c1-4d11-bc61-1c4016ee4fdf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://climatecasechart.com/case/wildearth-guardians-v-zinke-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.922172 | 488 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The royal chapel of the Château de Versailles is a masterpiece of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, finished after his death by his brother-in-law, Robert de Cotte in 1710. It is dedicated to Saint Louis, patron saint of the Bourbons. The organ case was made by Philippe Bertrand (1708). The instrument itself was built originally by Robert Clicquot in 1711. A major transformation was carried out by Cavaillé-Coll in 1873. In 1936, this organ was sold to the Séminaire de Châteaugiron (and later to the Saint Martin church in Rennes) and Victor Gonzalez made a recontruction of the Clicquot-instrument. In 1995, a completely new instrument was made by Jean-Loup Boisseau et Bertrand Cattiaux, aiming to recontruct (again) the creation of Robert Clicquot and the additions of Louis-Alexander and Francois-Henri Clicquot.
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The Fed and How It Got That Way
Here is a quick history of the Federal Reserve and an overview of what it does.
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