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Coupling biophysical and micro-economic models to assess the effect of mitigation measures on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
Agricultural soils are a major source of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas (GHG). Because N2O emissions strongly depend on soil type, climate, and crop management, their inventory requires the combination of biophysical and economic modeling, to simulate farmers' behavior. Here, we coupled a biophysical soil-crop model, CERES-EGS, with an economic farm type supply model, AROPAj, at the regional scale in northern France. Response curves of N2O emissions to fertilizer nitrogen (Nf) inputs were generated with CERES-EGC, and linearized to obtain emission factors. The latter ranged from 0.001 to 0.0225 kg N2O-N kg-1 Nf, depending on soil and crop type, compared to the fixed 0.0125 value of the IPCC guidelines. The modeled emission factors were fed into the economic model AROPAj which relates farm-level GHG emissions to production factors. This resulted in a N2O efflux 20% lower than with the default IPCC method. The costs of abating GHG emissions from agriculture were calculated using a first-best tax on GHG emissions, and a second-best tax on their presumed factors (livestock size and fertilizer inputs). The first-best taxation was relatively efficient, achieving an 8\% reduction with a tax of 11 euro/t-CO2-equivalent, compared to 68 euro/t-CO2eq for the same target with the second-best scheme.
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|Publication status:||Published in Climatic Change, Springer Verlag, 2010, 98, pp.51-73. <10.1007/s10584-009-9653-8>|
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For all the talk about Donald being connected to Putin, we really should be asking how is Hillary? Check out this article by ‘Clinton Cash’ author Peter Schweizer.
Hillary Clinton touts her tenure as secretary of state as a time of hardheaded realism and “commercial diplomacy” that advanced American national and commercial interests. But her handling of a major technology transfer initiative at the heart of Washington’s effort to “reset” relations with Russia raises serious questions about her record. Far from enhancing American national interests, Mrs. Clinton’s efforts in this area may have substantially undermined U.S. national security.
Consider Skolkovo, an “innovation city” of 30,000 people on the outskirts of Moscow, billed as Russia’s version of Silicon Valley—and a core piece of Mrs. Clinton’s quarterbacking of the Russian reset.
Following his 2009 visit to Moscow, President Obama announced the creation of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state directed the American side, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov represented the Russians. The stated goal at the time: “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the Russian and American people.”
The Kremlin committed $5 billion over three years to fund Skolkovo. Mrs. Clinton’s State Department worked aggressively to attract U.S. investment partners and helped the Russian State Investment Fund, Rusnano, identify American tech companies worthy of Russian investment. Rusnano, which a scientific adviser to President Vladimir Putin called “Putin’s child,” was created in 2007 and relies entirely on Russian state funding.
What could possibly go wrong?
Soon, dozens of U.S. tech firms, including top Clinton Foundation donors like Google, Intel and Cisco, made major financial contributions to Skolkovo, with Cisco committing a cool $1 billion. In May 2010, the State Department facilitated a Moscow visit by 22 of the biggest names in U.S. venture capital—and weeks later the first memorandums of understanding were signed by Skolkovo and American companies.
By 2012 the vice president of the Skolkovo Foundation, Conor Lenihan—who had previously partnered with the Clinton Foundation—recorded that Skolkovo had assembled 28 Russian, American and European “Key Partners.” Of the 28 “partners,” 17, or 60%, have made financial commitments to the Clinton Foundation, totaling tens of millions of dollars, or sponsored speeches by Bill Clinton.
Russians tied to Skolkovo also flowed funds to the Clinton Foundation. Andrey Vavilov, the chairman of SuperOx, which is part of Skolkovo’s nuclear-research cluster, donated between $10,000 and $25,000 (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton’s family charity. Skolkovo Foundation chief and billionaire Putin confidant Viktor Vekselberg also gave to the Clinton Foundation through his company, Renova Group. | <urn:uuid:bd05fe7c-99a3-4744-b269-9260c49a8bab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/the-clinton-foundation-and-the-kremlin-more-connected-than-you-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00351-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953456 | 652 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Ramsey Tax Cycles
This paper asks whether tax cycles or tax smoothing represents the optimal policy in models without any extrinsic uncertainty. To answer this question, I develop a general framework for studying tax cycles in a large class of models that feature various types of frictions. This framework adds various wedges, resembling tax wedges, to the labour market, to the product market, and to money acquisition into an otherwise frictionless economy, so that it nests a large class of models used for policy analysis. I derive a criterion for this general framework that indicates when cycles are welfare-improving in a frictionless economy, and why frictions make cycles more likely to be optimal. I then calibrate two models with frictions, a labour search model and a monetary model, and show that cycles are welfare-improving under standard preferences. Copyright , Wiley-Blackwell.
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Our Planet is precious! As much as i love my profession, the downside remains!-
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world.
In 2015, it generated around 2.8bn tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 8% of the global total – a greater share than any country other than China or the US.
Cement use is set to rise as global urbanisation and economic development increases demand for new buildings and infrastructure. Along with other parts of the global economy, the cement industry will need to dramatically cut its emissions to meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals. However, only limited progress has been made so far.
What action can we take!?
I am personally passionate about implementing any and all best practices to help reduce the negative effect that my proffession has upon the natural environment. All of our waste is sorted, recycling at source where possible, any remaining spoil is then sent for further recycling- with effective rates of 90%+! We do not travel over 30 minutes to any project, only work local ! We always favour local suppliers, and reduuce travel reuirements so far as possible.
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We are proud to support the World Land Trust!
For every extension project completed we purchase an acre of land/rainforest/natural habitat to be protected for perpetuity, through the world land trust :
For smaller projects we plant trees.
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2 Which digital interconnect format is found on a Tascam DA-88 digital multitrack recorder? 3 On the Yamaha 02R96, what is the function of the LAYER button? 4. How many inputs are there on a fully configured 02R96? 5. On the 02R96, what does Selected Channel mean? What parameters are shown in the selected channel area? 6. Where on the 02R96 do you set the digital clock settings? 7. In Studio A, outputs 1-8 on the Digidesign HD192 interface show up on which inputs on the 02R96? Which layer is this? In studio A, outputs 1-8 of the 192 are shown as inputs 25-32 of the O2R, layer 2.
8. On the 02R96, which aux sends are used to create a Cue Mix (headphone mix)? 9. On a mixing console like the 02R96, when you are setting levels of incoming microphones, should you use pre- or post-fader metering? Why? 10. Describe the required clocking settings on the 02R96, the Digidesign HD 192, and the Digidesign SYNC I/O so that the HD 192 is the clock master. 11. Before you EVER plug a microphone into ANYTHING in Studio A, which setting on the 02R96 should ALWAYS be switched off? Extra Credit! Do a little research, and tel me three other digital consoles besides the Yamaha digital mixers? How many inputs, subgroups, what other features are there, etc? | <urn:uuid:e0517b12-44de-4431-ade4-88ed26173990> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Amazing-World-847646.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858772 | 323 | 2.125 | 2 |
Foreign travel advice
Cyclone season is normally between November and April but cyclones can occur throughout the year. Severe weather may result in flooding, landslides, and disruption to essential services and infrastructure. See Natural disasters
UK health authorities have classified the Federated States of Micronesia as having a risk of Zika virus transmission. For more information and advice visit the National Travel Health Network and Centre website.
There is no British diplomatic representation in the Federated States of Micronesia. If you need consular assistance, you should contact the British High Commission in Suva.
Only a few British tourists visit the Federated States of Micronesia every year. Most visits are trouble-free. See Crime
There is a low threat from terrorism. See Terrorism
The Islands of Micronesia are vulnerable to natural disasters including tropical cyclones, floods and severe droughts. See Natural Disasters
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Kindness in the Neighborhood: Educators around the world are bringing Mister Rogers’ wisdom into their daily work
Educators’ Neighborhood, an initiative at the Fred Rogers Center, helps educators around the world bring Fred Rogers’ messages into their teaching.
4 ways Pittsburgh is reshaping the future of teacher professional development
What are we teaching our teachers? In the Pittsburgh region, that question has new and innovative answers.
JAMbethekindkid, Inc. continues to set off chain reactions of kindness
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Mental health is a back-to-school priority for kids of all ages
Consider these helpful notes on mental health and social-emotional wellness from the “So Now What?” back-to-school series.
This webinar series offers tips on how to manage back-to-school
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Parents don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be involved.
When parents, grandparents and caregivers are involved in their kids’ learning, it makes a positive difference.
The power to connect — and separate — with technology
Teachers and parents are finding the best ways to use digital technology for effective learning, real communication and meaningful assessment.
Look to Fred Rogers for help on talking to kids about death, addiction, cancer — and even a pandemic
How to talk to your kids about big issues? “Everything Fred did was built on the idea that we can make what is mentionable, manageable.”
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There is an abundance of liquidity floating around the financial system, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s efforts to support the U.S. economy since the outbreak of the pandemic in March of last year.
And even if the central bank completes cutting its $ 120 billion in monthly bond purchases next year, “liquidity is expected to continue to grow and remain plentiful,” strategists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. said on Friday in a note.
This is important because investors and markets were assuming that a reduction – or withdrawal of the Fed’s quantitative easing – would be a first step towards tighter financial conditions, ahead of the bank’s decision. central to raising interest rates. The question in many minds has been whether, when, and to what extent the Fed might start cutting back on its buying – with still fresh memories of the tantrum tapping episode of 2013, which led to surging yields to long term.
JPMorgan’s analysis casts cold water on the hypothesis that the reduction alone will be enough to tighten conditions as much as many people think.
âEven if the Fed completes its cut next year, the record amount of cash in the system will remain,â Teresa Ho, one of the note’s authors, said in a follow-up email to MarketWatch.
Only a contraction of the Fed’s balance sheet would lead to lower liquidity levels and “this is unlikely to happen anytime soon,” she said. Based on this consideration alone, “we do not expect any significant tightening in financial conditions once the Fed completes its reduction phase,” although tightening could still occur through a rate hike.
As part of the Fed’s accommodative monetary policy, the central bank has regularly injected liquidity into the system through monthly bond purchases, inflating its balance sheet by $ 4 trillion since March 2020 and pushing the amount of financial system reserves at record levels.
Uncertainty over the timing and pace of the Fed’s cut “means reserves will likely continue to rise, at least for the next 6 to 12 months, potentially totaling an additional $ 1,000 billion,” according to JPMorgan. Ho estimates that the current minimum amount of uninvested money – or âmoney that has literally left the banking system and has nowhere to goâ – is just over $ 950 billion.
The main beneficiaries of the Fed’s QE, in dollar terms, have been bank deposits and money market funds, according to Ho and strategists Alex Roever and Kabir Caprihan. At some point, however, investors could start to move away from these options and âlook to bonds or other high-yielding asset classes,â they said.
This is important because it suggests that the bond rally earlier this week, which sent the 10-year TreasuryBX: TMUBMUSD10Y to its lowest level in almost six months, may have more leeway. But Ho says that’s not necessarily the case as it’s unclear where excess cash that hasn’t already been invested “ultimately gets reallocated.” âMuch of the money is institutional, owned by businesses, governments, states and local governments, and other owners, who may decide to spend it as needed. Some may decide to keep excess cash in cash. ”
Read: From banks to businesses: more deposits, please
Recent readings of US inflation well above 2%, along with a strong July jobs report released on Friday, helped open the door to the notion of a Fed that may be ready to take a more hawkish turn. This week, Dallas Fed Chairman Robert Kaplan told Bloomberg News that the central bank should start cutting back on asset purchases as soon as possible. And Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida has said he could be backed by an announcement to cut bond purchases this year, if the economy turns out as he hoped, and enough progress is made. could be achieved on the central bank’s targets for policymakers to start raising interest rates in early 2023.
JPMorgan is not alone in concluding that tapering will not be enough to tighten financial conditions: Senior trader David Petrosinelli of InspereX, an underwriter and distributor of securities, agrees. He adds that “yields are not going to rise significantly with this wall of money unless Fed officials start raising rates or the market helps them by pushing yields higher because there is a lot of money for too few assets “.
Many institutional investors, such as banks and insurers, “are still sitting on a ton of cash” even after this week’s bond rally, he said, citing anecdotal reports. And the recent surge in inflation has “exacerbated the productive deployment of cash balances in banks, insurance companies and other institutional investors,” he said by telephone on Friday. | <urn:uuid:8e0aac24-44c4-4c3f-b087-0ab02fb036ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dingwall.org.uk/the-abundance-of-liquidity-in-the-financial-system-will-not-go-away-even-after-the-fed-cuts-its-bond-purchases/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.961354 | 1,001 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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Fr Nichols, a Dominican friar, argues that the disappearance of other Christian and non-Christian religions would not necessarily be “a Bad Thing”, since the Catholic faith contains all the elements of truth, goodness and beauty that are present in other forms of Christianity and faith traditions.
He argues that Catholicism was crucial in the formation of England and suggests that the Church is well suited to remaking a “not terribly impressive culture” dominated by “supermarkets and sport”. [Ouch.]
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Episode 98: Lee Hamilton, PhD, of the University of Stirling is on the show to discuss the impact of omega 3 fatty acids on muscle function & metabolic health via inflammation & insulin sensitivity.
Lee Hamiton, PhD.
Lee Hamilton PhD. is a sports physiology researcher based at the University of Stirling.
Dr. Hamilton’s primary research goal is to understand the molecular basis of skeletal muscle plasticity (the ability to change depending upon environment). Muscle is a very plastic tissue with the ability to grow with extra loading and become more fatigue resistant with training. However, muscle will also waste with inactivity and loose metabolic flexibility with poor nutrition.
He is also interested in developing nutritional interventions to assist in maintaining glucose homeostasis in patients with Type 1 Diabetes.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why the metabolic function of muscle is so important
- Data on omega 3 fatty acids and muscle function
- Possible mechanisms of action: inflammation, insulin sensitivity, etc.
- Ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 in the diet: Is there such thing as optimal?
- Implications for high-fat diets
- Marine sources vs. plant sources (EPA + DHA vs. ALA)
- Incorporation of fatty acids into cell membrane
- Practical effects on muscle hypertrophy
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Nutrition and Exercise Sciences Journal Club
Jeromson et al., 2015 – Omega 3 Fatty Acids & Skeletal Muscle Health
Rodacki et al., 2012 – Fish-oil supplementation enhances the effects of strength training in elderly women
Smith et al., 2015 – Fish oil-derived n-3 PUFA therapy increases muscle mass and function in healthy older adults
Smith et al., 2011 – Dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplementation increases the rate of muscle protein synthesis in older adults: a randomized controlled trial
Vessby et al., 2001 – The KANWU Study
Frayn et al., 2002 – Substituting dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat changes abdominal fat distribution and improves insulin sensitivity
Esposito et al., 2004 – Effect of a mediterranean-style diet on endothelial dysfunction and markers of vascular inflammation in the metabolic syndrome: a randomized trial
George Fodor – “Fishing” for the Origins of the “Eskimos and Heart Disease” Story: Facts or Wishful Thinking?
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In this series, I have claimed that faith-based historical reconstruction should prioritize the aspects of Luke's claim. We may believe his confusing synopsis is true, but it is too discordant at face value to trust in detail without first arriving at some proper perspective. In other words, historical study of this passage should pause at his central claim - there was a census - and seek out a classical context for that much, alone. Details might, hopefully, become clear by the end of that process. We trust.
This sums up the series so far. (See preface & parts 1, 2 & 3.) Now let's make it practical.
It just so happens that I raised a separate question recently, about Herod and Augustus. I asked, since Josephus and Dio together reveal that the King was officially in disfavor with the Emperor for as much as one whole year, did Augustus actually punish Herod? If not, I said, Caesar's promise to treat Herod "like a subject" boils down to an empty threat, which would be very un-Caesar-like. But if so, what evidence do we have for any means by which Augustus might have punished his temporary-former friend?
One possibility, all historians should consider, is the census. Since I am trying to show that Luke's central claim is worth considering apart from its trappings, I suggest that even secular history should consider isolating this element of Luke's testimony for its own ends. So, back to the problem of this phantom punishment.
Chronology of German campaigning and one Damascene's travel plans have cast aspersions on Augustus' character. That is, according to me. Classical scholarship needs to respond. At least, so now say I. At any rate, the only historical evidence I am aware of to suggest Caesar may have punished Herod is the census Luke mentions.
Let me put it another way. If Luke 2:1-5 is accurate about anything, it is that the census happened. There is no better candidate for the cause of such a census than the punishment of Herod by Augustus. If the rest of N.T. chronology can be reconciled (and it can) and if Luke's central claim is reliable (which I certainly also believe) then this suggestion must be considered the most worthy option for beginning any reconstruction of the historical census.
Again, this is merely the beginning of reconstruction. I am suggesting Luke's evidence belongs as a part of a larger search for the history between Augustus and Herod. I will pick up again with the Josephus study linked to above... sometime soon.
Finally, please note that at this point we still cannot yet bring in the less clear details of Luke 2:1-5. Thankfully, we do not need to. We may pick up perspective on them as we go through more of the classical sources, but those points will actually remain an almost entirely separate issue.
Defending Luke's veracity is one thing. Reconstructing the historical event sequence is another.
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"Since childhood, the unknown has haunted me," says Vimalaji. She was fond of sitting in meditation when she was hardly five-years-old and continued to do so up to age 12 simply because, "it was such joy and bliss. I did not know why it was blissful, and still do not know how and why there is bliss," she confesses.
Her parents were Hindu Brahmins who enjoyed daily worship and chanting. When Vimala was 12 years old, she sat for 72 hours in a marathon meditation in her home. She was a brilliant student and read many classical Hindu religious texts and books on yoga.
Miss Vimala Thakar is a globe-trotting expert in Vedas and Upanishads, yogasanas and nature cures. She trekked about India for years with Saint Vinoba, serving the poor. Catapulted into an illumined state by the touch of J. Krishnamurti, she discusses modern physics with Dr. Fritzof Capra on its Vedic overlap. Humble, shunning money, publicity and crowds, she teaches the Eternal is here now: "You feel vast like the skies, deep like the oceans, lightness like the sunshine and the peace of the mountains within you. As the cosmos begins to confer all its qualities, one wants to share with one's friends only one thing: that it is possible to live in that dimension even when you may be surrounded by human beings."
Living on Wild Berries
After taking her masters degree with honors in philosophy at Nagpur, she went straight to the Himalayas and stayed alone for 75 days in the cave in Uttarkashi where siddha master Swami Rama Tirtha had meditated. She did not even take a pot or pan. She sipped water from the Ganges River, ate wild fruits and berries and meditated 16 hours every day. At the end of it, she felt intoxicated by the mantras and solitude and was astonished to gain some siddhis like seeing halos in color behind some people and some powers not unlike clairvoyance.
She then joined the Land-Gift Movement of Saint Vinoba Bhave. For about 6 years, she walked on foot, from village to village through practically every district of India from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu - getting gifts of land from the rich and giving them to the poor. She got up at 2:30 AM every day and walked 6 to 10 miles with Vinoba, during which he would often recite and explain Ishavasyopanishad or some other ancient holy text. It was a spiritual feast and a firsthand discovery of India for Vimala.
Dazzled by J. Krishnamurti
In 1956, she listened to talks by J. Krishnamurti in Benares and met him personally. She was spellbound and often sat alone in utter, deep silence for a whole day after a talk. "The intensity throbbing in his words had opened the doors to the irresistible presence of the Eternal," she relates. "When two minds experience the same state simultaneously, they go through a strange state of communion." The final stage of unfolding had begun for Vimala.
From 1956 to 1959, she continued her incessant travelling in India for the Land Gift Movement. Then she fell sick in November 1959, with bleeding and pain in her left ear, fever and headaches, sometimes becoming unconscious. A surgery on the ear did not help, and it was decided to take her to England for another possible surgery.
It was then that she met J. Krishnamurti once more. He offered to help her and said his mother used to say that his hands had healing powers. Vimala, at first reluctant, agreed to a trial. During six sittings, Krishnamurti held his right palm on her head and left palm on her left ear. Finally, her bleeding stopped, fever disappeared and her lost hearing returned.
Her general health improved but the healing "played havoc with my mind," she remembers. "Right from the first sitting, something new and strange has been pulsating through every nerve - a very strong and forceful current of vibrations passing through the head and the whole body," she told Krishnamurti. "It is like the invasion of new awareness, irresistible and uncontrollable. It has swept away everything. It is strange to see the total mind being born anew." Krishnamurti replied, "You have a serious mind. You were listening to the talks which were sinking deep into your mind. They were operating all the time. One day you realized the Truth."
Vimalaji wrote to her father. "A tremendous tempest has swept away everything with one stroke. I wish I could describe how I witnessed the ego being torn to pieces and being thrown to the winds. The centre of thinking has dissolved into nothingness."
She has tried to describe the undescribable explosion in the following words: "My romance and search for the unknown ended abruptly. There is the beginning of a new life which has no purpose, direction or pattern. It is overwhelmingly fresh, unbelievably new, and keeps one ever alert, keen and insecure."
Against Religious Labels
Now 69, Vimalaji has been travelling in 40 countries during the last 27 years - from Holland to Hong Kong and Argentina to Sweden, giving guidance, group meditations and talks published in five European languages. She also continues to visit and help in the trouble spots in India - Assam, Punjab and Kashmir - and meets with Gandhian followers and other peace-workers.
But she says she does not now belong to any organization, any country or any established religion and does not want to build any new organization or insist on any particular method or technique. She feels that the Vedas and Upanishads have a message of holistic approach to life, which is an indivisible totality. "If the source of all the universe and the container of all creative energies is nothingness and "no-beingness," she argues, "obviously we have to learn and find out if we can live as "nothingness and nobody-ness" so that the creative energy adds a new dimension to human life." "Religion is an inner revolution," she insists. "To be religious is to be committed to living; very few people are interested in living and discovering the meaning of life, personally, first hand." She feels that if more people live in daily meditation, civilization will pass on from an aggressive, violently competitive society to a psychology of friendship and cooperation, leading to a real authentic democracy. An expert in yoga, she gives guidance on yogasanas, breathing diet and practicing silence in daily life.
"Whether one is in India or elsewhere," she shares, "the moments of total solitude and communion with the wholeness are the real joys in life. The sense of connectedness with the wholeness is always there, in every movement of life. But communion in solitude has its own ecstacy! Incessant travelling becomes bearable due to this holy communion."
Vimalaji's USA contact: Ian Surrey, 75 Bellevue St., Newton Center, Massachusetts, 02158.
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Is your association an antique? Some associations date from the 19th century. The majority were founded in the 20th century. If your association’s constitution or articles of incorporation were written by hand or typed on something other than a computer, then your association is likely an antique.
How do antique associations stay relevant to their members and/or their mission in the 21st century? How does an association executive shake things up, re-engineer or repurpose an association so that it still provides value to its members or others who provide its financial support? This is a question many association executives are asking as they face declines in membership, conference and tradeshow attendance, and revenue.
There are no one-size-fits-all answers. But staying the same and not taking chances is not a solution. Here are some options to consider:
1. Reexamine your association’s membership. Don’t look at your current members, or membership program and benefits. Instead, think about what you would do if you were launching the association in 2014. Would you want to have members? Who would they be? What value would they bring to the association and what would they expect in return? Would they have a role in your association’s governance?
2. Reexamine your association’s purpose. That’s right, question your association’s very reason for being. Is your association’s purpose relevant in today’s world? If not, should you try to identify a new purpose, one that is not currently being filled by anyone else? Or should you declare victory and dissolve?
3. Apply zero-based budgeting to everything you do. Don’t assume that just because your association has always done something (or always done it one way) means that you should keep doing that same thing the same way for eternity. Ask some basic evaluation questions such as:
– Why do we need this program?
– Who does this program serve?
– What does this program cost?
– What measurable results do we get from this program?
– Is the cost of the program justified by the results we receive?
– Is there a better use for that money?
– If we were forming our association today, is this a program we would want to roll out?
4. Challenge your board. What value does your current board add to the association? What is the best governance structure for the future?
5. Make friends with your competition. This works better for professional associations and other nonprofits than for trade associations. But if there is another association that you have been partnering with over the years, give serious thought to whether 2014 is the year you should talk about a potential merger.
Executives who are willing to take risks and explore new options will be the association leaders of the first half of the 21st century.
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Rotifera are known to inhabit the sediment surface of running waters for a long time and many studies have found a high species richness. Benthic rotifers are among the most speciose taxa, and they occur both at the surface and within the bed sediments (hyporheic zone) at densities higher than other meiofauna.
Because they are small and difficult to identify, rotifers have not been explored thoroughly in stream ecology. But their ability to disperse rapidly, their short-generation times, and high species richness in streams however makes them useful assemblages in which to study ecological theory.
The great majority of species present in river sediment surfaces and deeper layers (or associated with mosses) correspond to Bdelloidea. The class Monogononta is represented mostly by the families Proalidae, Notommatidae (genus Cephalodella, Notommata) Dicranophoridae (genus Encentrum, Dicranophorus), Colurellidae (genus Lepadella).
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Weird wilderness tales, plus a storm lesson
There is more than the usual weirdness in the wilderness of late.
Fish are being caught in areas where they have not been known to historically frequent. The same is true for some other critters - beluga whales in rivers and bears in Bavaria, the first such sighting in 170 years.
Global warming impacts? Who knows.
Big fish are moving in strange ways. According to the Wall Street Journal, San Diego fishers last summer caught huge numbers of huge, 200-pound yellowfin tuna, while the more common and smaller albacore tuna seemed to have migrated more than 1,000 miles to the north by the coast of Washington.
The yellowfin harvest was good news for sushi lovers, but not so good for recreational fishers looking to catch albacore. Trips which usually netted a score of the smaller tuna per angler tapered off to near nothing.
The action picked up for swordfishers off Miami, though. Usually thought of as a deepwater, North Atlantic catch, swordfishing off South Florida has been booming of late, so good that some charter captains are running nighttime trips - something never done before.
And the catches are great.
Part of the reason for the swordfish bonanza may be more stringent international regulations on fishing, which has caused the stock to rebound. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials have said that the fishery has dramatically rebounded since 1999, hence the better catches for recreational fishers.
A juvenile beluga whale carcass was found in a river in central Alaska last week, about 1,000 miles from its usual haunts.
Belugas are those white whales with a prominent forehead. They're pretty smart as a rule - at least smart enough not to swim 1,000 miles away from their usual saltwater habitat.
Scientists speculate that the guy started chasing a school of fish up the river and just kept going.
And then there's Bruno, a bear that wandered across the Alps from Italy into Bavaria. Wild bears were wiped out in Germany about 170 years ago, making the 2-year-old Bruno an element of history.
He was friendly when first spotted, too, as only a 2-year-old can be. Hikers loved to see him scampering around in the forest.
Then Bruno found the joys of honey from beekeepers hives. And the joy of killing and eating sheep, pet rabbits and chickens.
Authorities reacted by declaring an open hunting season on Bruno, and he then proved his worth, eluding hunting dogs and even surviving a car crash. He also was able to dodge the bear traps set for him.
After a public outcry to "save the bruin," authorities have now said they want to catch him and return him to his native Italy.
We've got weirdness right on our doorstep, too. The Loop Current has moved close to shore, drawing with it billfish and dolphin-the-fish-not-Flipper.
Usually deepwater species, sailfish and dolphin have been caught just a few miles out in the Gulf of Mexico in the past few weeks. It's not all that uncommon for April and May, but somewhat odd for the current to flow so close to shore so late in the year.
Of course, Tropical Storm Alberto probably chewed up the current and its meanderings may have drawn it back to the usual deeper waters of the Gulf.
The current, by the way, starts in the Caribbean Sea and flows north between Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula. It splits just south of Louisiana, with one branch curving past Texas and the other flowing past Key West and the Florida Straits, where it becomes the Gulf Stream.
Loopy tale, chapter 2
The Loop Current made headlines last week as Tropical Storm Alberto lumbered past us. At 11 a.m. Monday, June 12, the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued this discussion on Alberto:
"The Air Force Hurricane Hunter airplane found that the center of the cyclone has abruptly reformed near the deep convention, and it is now relocated some 60 nautical miles to the northeast of its previously estimated position. The current intensity is adjusted to 60 knots. The storm has been interacting with the warm Gulf of Mexico Loop Current, which has likely been a contributor to the intensification. As Alberto continues north-northeastward, it will be departing the Loop Current and encountering a region of lower oceanic heat content."
As we all remember, the storm never became a hurricane and in fact weakened as it neared the coast in the Big Bend area of Florida. Lots of rain, not much wind.
You may also remember that Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma last year all passed through the Loop Current and received a steroid-like burst of energy in passing through those warm waters.
Here's a bit of a hurricane history lesson, from John Barnes' book, "Mother of Storms."
"A hurricane is a gigantic heat engine. That is, it converts a temperature difference into mechanical energy, like diesel, steam, gasoline, jet, rocket or turbine engines. But whereas a diesel engine, for example, converts (some of) the heat of the burning fuel to motion of the piston by releasing (most of) the heat to the cooler environment, a hurricane works by moving heat from the hot ocean surface to the cold bottom of the stratosphere - converting some of it to wind along the way.
"If the water is below 81.5 degrees Fahrenheit, more energy comes out of the wind to move the heat than the heat itself supplies, and the hurricane dies. But above 81.5, a hurricane doesn't just live … it grows. Each blast of cool air blowing over the warm, wet ocean grows warmer, rises, drops its load of evaporated water, and returns with a little more force each time."
The Loop Current is filled with warm water and is what Barnes calls a "hurricane formation zone." Watch for it later this year.
Here's a great quote from one of the TV weather guys last week. He was standing on a beach, trying to discuss the dangers of storm surge associated with Tropical Storm Alberto.
"You can see it right here at my feet," the guy said of storm surge. "The water has come all the way up to the beach!"
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Holy Family Academy
During this school year, Holy Family Academy has explored several activities including celebrating: Black History Month, Dr. Suess Birthday, Adams County 9-1-1 Operators and Resurrection Day. Our students are always excited about celebrating others while collaborating their learning skills. Teachers engage and prepare their students for upcoming events to showcase the student’s talent.
The kindergarten class put on a presentation for their teachers and parents. The students dressed in African attire reminding us of our Black Heritage by stating facts about the people who have or had an inspiration on their life. Every February in the United States we celebrate the lives, achievements, and history of African Americans in our nation. We call this month Black History Month or African American History Month.
Preschool, kindergarten students and teachers celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday the week of February 28 – March 4 as part of Read Across America Day — a national campaign that focuses on motivating children to be lifelong readers. One of Dr. Seuss’ books– “Wacky Wednesday” — was the inspiration for students and teachers to come to school dressed up in colorful, mismatched clothes, wigs, and hats, and with wacky hairdos.
Adams County 9-1-1 operators visited the school to inform our students of when to dial 9-1-1. Students assembled in the auditorium and listened as the 9-1-1 operators explained how to use
9-1-1. The operators passed out handout, flyers, coloring books to all students.
Easter is also known as Resurrection Sunday. It is a festival and holiday that commemorated the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as a Holy Week. The day of Easter is known to conclude the Passion of Christ which begins with 40 days of fasting Lent. The fast is concluded in the Holy Week. The Holy Thursday is the celebration of Jesus's last supper and Good Friday is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Holy Week ends on Easter Sunday. We educate our students by letting them know why we celebrate Easter.
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This past January, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a controversial statement to affirm a final rule requiring “most insurance plans to cover preventive services for women including recommended contraceptive services…”
These services include providing FDA-approved drugs like Plan B-the morning after pill and Ella-the week after pill.
Secretary Sebelius also gave nonprofit employers an additional year to comply or be set for consequences.
At the time of the statement, many high ranking officials in the Catholic Church as well as businesses owned by Catholics like hospitals expressed their concerns that the mandate violates their 1st Amendment right to freedom of religion. Many Catholics oppose what they call “artificial contraception.”
I personally wrote in an editorial sharing my concerns that this was a violation of the 1st Amendment.
With just two months to go before its full implementation, my fears appear justified and our government doesn’t seem to care.
Hobby Lobby, which has more than 500 arts and crafts stores in 41 states, filed a lawsuit against the government over the HHS mandate in September.
The business is self-insured and with the start of their next health insurance plan beginning on January 1, their failure to comply means they could end up paying crippling fines that could reach up to $1.3 million per day.
“By being required to make a choice between sacrificing our faith or paying millions of dollars in fines, we essentially must choose which poison pill to swallow,” said David Green, Hobby Lobby CEO in an interview with the Associated Press. “We simply cannot abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate.”
What’s even more amazing to me is how President Obama’s administration stood by their mandate in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Their position was they labeled Hobby Lobby as a “secular” business even though its affiliate “Mardel” sells Bibles and other Christian products. This label doesn’t really matter as the mandate is for both nonprofit and profitable businesses.
So on one hand, Hobby Lobby’s owners are being discriminated for their religious beliefs with this federal mandate. On the other hand, Hobby Lobby’s employees are protected from religious discrimination by another federal law.
This whole thing is messed up and is the reason this mandate should have never happened in the first place. It’s clearly violating the 1st Amendment and it doesn’t appear the U.S. government really cares.
Even in Secretary Sebelius’ original statement, she had the nerve to give nonprofit businesses a year to in essence change their beliefs or face the consequences. This isn’t the last we’ve heard of this issue as religious schools offering their own insurance have choices to make and so do so many other types of Christian-owned businesses out there.
Something needs to be done about this.
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Flame Retardant Drinks Mmmm. Who's up for a yummy, thirst-quenching flame retardant beverage? Pretty gross and scary to contemplate, right? However, Dr. Mercola says that, "Citrus-flavored sodas and sports drinks sold in the US typically contain a synthetic chemical called brominated vegetable oil (BVO), which was originally patented by chemical companies as a flame retardant." Imbibing BVO in "large doses" has been shown to cause reproductive and behavioral problems. I, for one, don't want to "be like Mike" that badly.
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Lutheran task force: Recognize gay unions
A task force of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America today recommended that its leaders officially recognize same-sex unions and allow gays in committed relationships to serve as clergy.
At the same time, the task force also asked members of the church to respect congregations and synods that disagree because they believe such actions would violate Scripture.
If approved, the measures would change current church policy that allows ordination of gay clergy, but requires them to be celibate. In the report, the task force proposed a four-step process that outlines a possible path for change, starting with recognition of same-sex relationships.
"The task force agreed that this church cannot responsibly consider any changes to its policies unless this church is able and willing in some way to recognize lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships," the report said.
The recommendation will be voted on at the Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis in August. Reaction to the recommendation was expected to range from elation to disapproval.
The task force stopped short of recommending a liturgical rite for gay unions or using the word marriage to describe them. But, the report said "most of the task force members believe that ways can be found within local congregations to surround the commitments of such couples with prayer."
Rev. Peter Strommen, the pastor who served as chair of the 15-member task force, said a context for public promises would help the church better define those relationships.
"Given we have no clarity or structure, we feel it's important for there to be an equivalent of public accountability," Strommen said.
In addition to the recommendations on ministry policies, the special church task force released a proposed social statement on human sexuality for the ECLA. Drawing from Martin Luther's spoken words that spawned the 16th Century Protestant Reformation, the task force called on its members to respect each other's views about same-gender relationships as grounded in conscience.
The statement entitled "Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust," recognized marriage as a covenant between a man and a woman, but also acknowledged same sex couples.
"It is only within the last decades that this church has begun to understand in new ways the need of same-gender oriented individuals to seek relationships of lifelong companionship and commitment," the statement said.
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US to replace `Negro` with `black` or `African-American` in census surveys
New York: The US Census Bureau has finally decided to drop its use of the word `Negro` to describe black Americans in surveys.
The term that came into use during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation , will be replace with more modern labels `black` or `African-American`.
According to Nicholas Jones, chief of the bureau`s racial statistics branch, the change will take effect next year when the Census Bureau distributes its annual American Community Survey to more than 3.5 million U.S. households.
He said that the move comes after months of public feedback and census research that concluded few black Americans still identify with being Negro and many view the term as "offensive and outdated," the New York Post reports.
According to the paper, first used in the census in 1900, "Negro" became the most common way of referring to black Americans through most of the early 20th century, during a time of racial inequality and segregation.
`Negro` itself had taken the place of `colored,` the paper said.
Starting with the 1960s civil rights movement, black activists began to reject the ` Negro` label and came to identify themselves as black or African-American, it added.
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Foreign and domestic investors have responded positively to India’s union budget for 2017-18 presented on February 1. In his budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley said there is now the possibility of phasing out the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), adding that a roadmap will be announced in the next few months.
The National Democratic Alliance government has undertaken substantial reforms in FDI policy over the past two years, and further liberalisation is under consideration, Mr Jaitley said in his budget speech.
The FIPB was set up in the early 1990s to approve FDI proposals up to Rs30bn ($445m) but currently, more than 90% of FDI inflows into India are under the automatic route. Regarding the FIPB’s replacement, Ministry of Finance economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das said in the Times of India that a system similar to a non-banking finance company could be created to deal with FDI proposals.
A big relief for foreign portfolio investors is that they are exempt from tax on indirect transfers from the assessment year 2012-13. In 2012, the Income Tax Act was retrospectively amended from April 1, 1962 to tax those transactions of shares or interest in a foreign entity deriving its value substantially from Indian assets.
Foreign portfolio investors, especially those investing in offshore funds, were apprehensive when the Central Board of Direct Taxes issued a circular last December saying these provisions apply in case of transfer of stake of investors in India-based funds located abroad but investing in India-based companies.
To address these concerns, Mr Jaitley proposed to exempt foreign portfolio investor in sovereign wealth, broad-based and regulated funds from indirect transfer provisions. He said a clarification would also be issued that “indirect transfer provision shall not apply in the case of redemption of shares or interests outside India as a result of or arising out of redemption or sale of investments in India which is chargeable to tax in India”. Consequently, stock markets have responded bullishly to the budget. | <urn:uuid:9f59b8b2-ceb9-448c-969d-a4bb0b3d08ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fdiintelligence.com/content/news/foreign-investors-give-thumbs-up-to-indias-budget-68406 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.965605 | 419 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Price formation on the Northern Victorian water exchange
The opportunity cost of water in the irrigation industry is a contentious issue at present because of the commitment made by the State and Commonwealth governments to get water out of the irrigation industry for environmental flows. The estimated value of the opportunity cost will affect farmers' claims for compensation. Variation in the opportunity cost over space and the functioning of the spatial market will determine whether the efficiency costs of a simple across the board reduction in rights can be mitigated by trade or whether strategic buy back of water is required. The extent of variation in the opportunity cost of water according to seasonal conditions will affect the cost of flow policies that impact on the reliability of rights. To date, most economic advice on this opportunity cost of water has centred on gross margin analysis of the main irrigation uses of water and the compensation of these industries across space compared to the quantity of rights held. However, there has been a large volume of trade on temporary water markets in recent years and there is potential for using this data to better understand some of the characteristics of water demand and the market for water. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of market data from the last 5 years of trade on the Northern Victorian water exchange. The nature of bidding behaviours and spatial and temporal variations in water prices is illustrated, and the impact of water allocations and seasonal conditions on water prices is estimated.
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Adam, Kevin and I have been working on a secure kegerator project. We made a kegerator that uses an Arduino Duemilanove with an RFID reader for access control, a solenoid for controlling the tap and a flow meter for recording how much beer was dispensed. We are reusing our Makerspace keycards and fobs for access. The system is pretty simple and only has a few components. We’ve done a couple of iterations on it so far and are currently working on a custom-etched Arduino shield for the components. While the system currently uses a little Nokia 5110 screen from AdaFruit, we are also working on a version that uses an android phone for display, data logging and cloud-connected goodness.
The old, tired way of storing and dispensing beer relies on cans and refrigerators. This simply won’t do for today’s tech-savvy connoisseur.
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Nokia 5110/3310 monochrome LCD + extras. These displays were used in old Nokia 5110/3310 cell phones (before the smart-phone fad turned every cell phone into a TV). It’s a 84×48 pixel monochrome LCD display. These displays are small, only about 1.5″ diagonal, but very readable and come with a white backlight. This display is made of 84×48 individual pixels, so you can use it for graphics, text or bitmaps. These displays are inexpensive, easy to use, require only a few digital I/O pins and are fairly low power as well.
To drive the display, you will need 3 to 5 digital output pins (depending on whether you want to manually control the chip select and reset lines). Another pin can be used to control (via on/off or PWM) the backlight – the backlight LEDs are wired to a transistor.
The display driver is a PCD8544 chip, and it runs at 3.3V so you’ll need a 3V supply handy (you don’t need that much current though, maybe 10mA tops). Logic levels must be 3V to prevent damage but we include a free level shifter chip so you can easily connect it to 5V logic such as an Arduino.
Of course, we wouldn’t just point you to a datasheet and say “good luck!” To make it easy for you to use the display, we’ve written a nice graphics library that can print text, pixels, rectangles, circles and lines! The library is written for the Arduino but can easily be ported to your favorite microcontroller. We also have a detailed wiring and usage tutorial with more information about the display and more photos.
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Northern Ireland's knowledge economy is at risk of running out of puff due to lack of funding, say experts
Northern Ireland must triple investment in research and development and increase venture capital funding in its knowledge economy because growth is now beginning to slow. That's according to Steve Orr, director of Connect at Catalyst Inc, who was speaking at the launch of the Knowledge Economy Index.
But Noel McKenna, chief executive of cyber security company Titan IC, said: "Northern Ireland has the opportunity to create its own Silicon Valley for cyber-security in Belfast".
However, the province is "struggling" to get enough top people for cyber-security roles, according to Stephen Wray, director of cyber risk services at Deloitte Digital. He said there was "zero per cent unemployment" in the sector.
Almost 40,000 people are now employed in the so-called knowledge economy here, boasting £5bn in sales each year, according to the latest report.
Professor John McCanny said he was concerned that smaller numbers of people here were studying PhDs.
"It worries me on a number of fronts," he said.
And Mr Orr said "our education system was designed in the Victorian age" and "needs to be modernised".
He said there must be a "primary focus on indigenous companies" first, alongside foreign direct investment.
But he warned the growth was "running out of puff".
He said that if spending slowed or investment staggered "it is only going to get worse".
Mr Orr said investment here must increase by around 10% to ensure growth continues.
And to do that he said Northern Ireland needed to triple its research and development spend to £1.5bn, as well as increase venture capital lending to £90m.
"We aren't going to be Cambridge or Oxford, but we are snapping at their heels," he said.
Meanwhile, there will be doubts over funding following the vote for Brexit, according to David Crozier, head of strategic partnerships and engagement at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen's University.
"There's always a risk... but on the opportunity side, if you look at the recent UK cyber-security strategy which has been published, the UK Government is doubling its investment," it said.
"Also on the plus side, the sectors that are covered by the knowledge economy, every one of those sectors requires cyber-security."
Ian Sheppard, Bank of Ireland's regional director for Northern Ireland, said one key to success for companies was to ensure they had access to markets outside the region.
Also addressing those gathered at the launch, Economy Minister Simon Hamilton praised our technology and innovation, and said it was "gaining a well-deserved reputation as a region where technology firms are thriving".
The knowledge economy includes firms involved in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, software, electronics, aerospace and financial technology. Firms in Northern Ireland contribute 30% of the total exports, while 70% of its sales are based outside the EU, according to the new report.
Mr Hamilton said: "It is very encouraging to see that we are experiencing record numbers of new knowledge economy companies being established and more people than ever employed in the sector."
The report shows that Northern Ireland is performing strongly in a number of areas.
That includes the number of new start-ups, the number of venture capitalist deals, and innovation.
However, it says areas which could still be improved include the overall level of investment, the number of publicly listed companies in the province and the volume of science and technology graduates.
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The ingredients are certainly there for a severe weather outbreak, but the triggering mechanism for widespread thunderstorm activity will be lacking this afternoon. This is thanks to a large complex of storms currently moving onshore from the Gulf of Mexico in central and south Florida. These storms are sending a large cloud canopy northward and thereby preventing us from heating up as much as earlier anticipated. This roadblock of sorts is also preventing the deeper moisture from being transported all the way into North-Central Florida where the greatest shear (or spinning of the winds) coincides with a warm front. The end result will be an environment over North-Central Florida that will fall short of potential in respect to the severity and coverage of the storms. We are certainly not giving the “all clear” as a few isolated stronger storms could still form later today, so please stay weather aware and check back with us often.
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2pm to 8pm: Widely scattered, but locally strong or severe thunderstorms developing from southwest to northeast. The strongest cells would be capable of large hail, damaging wind gusts, and isolated tornadoes.
Overnight after 3am: A final round of brief downpours and gusty winds will likely accompany the cold front toward daybreak. | <urn:uuid:a40d8e15-1117-4e47-9502-a4a7f9e7466d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wruf.com/weather/2013/04/02/beneficial-rain-and-strong-storms-likely-wednesday-night-through-friday-morning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00407-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95728 | 256 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The whole world is going digital. In Canada, from small startup businesses to multi-billion enterprises, everyone is adopting virtual data rooms. Virtual data room is a new method that is helping companies to secure and streamline data access. Many business owners prefer virtual data storage to physical data storage.
A virtual data room is similar to physical data storage, only that information is stored on the cloud in the latter. In a virtual data room, you can access, store, edit and share data from anywhere at any time easily. In this article, you will learn why virtual data rooms are more prevalent in Canada.
- Easy Accessibility
Although it is not a must to store data online, many businesses in Canada choose this option due to its easy accessibility. This is an essential advantage that physical data rooms do not offer. Employees, customers, and investors can easily access the data from any place and at any time, depending on their level of access.
The best virtual data room providers ensure that organizations do not suffer losses because of delays during data transfer. However, to ensure that there is easy access to data when you need it, choose a reliable company. There are some blogs where you can learn about the best virtual data room Canada can offer and everything you need to know. Reading such blogs will make your search process much easier, save time and help you decide.
- Save Time
Another reason why virtual data rooms are trending is that they help businesses save time. Since a virtual data room is hosted online, the information is available for a large number of people. Because of this, if you need to create an urgent document on time, change it and review it, geographical distance is not an issue. Furthermore, time zones are no longer an issue as the data is available to all authorized users 24/7.
- Better Security
Security is another feature that is making virtual data rooms more popular in Canada. Data security is a critical aspect for any business or organization regardless of size. These virtual data rooms offer multi-factor authentication services and data encryption to ensure data protection. This ensures that sensitive business data are not accessed by unauthorized users and are not available to hackers.
- Cost Lowering
To store data on physical data rooms requires loads of space to store physical files making it very expensive. However, virtual data rooms only take a small space to keep loads of information. With a land-based data room, businesses need to expand their physical data rooms as the business grows, leading to increased costs.
Furthermore, a business needs to budget for logistics costs to operate a physical data room, which increases as the business grows. This is not the same case with virtual data rooms. The effort needed in handling a virtual data room is less, thus lowering the costs.
The above are some of the reasons why virtual data rooms are trending in Canada. For any type of business, investing in a virtual data room is a wise decision. | <urn:uuid:48cb739f-e3ac-4c01-9e38-f4fe06662621> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foundersguide.com/why-virtual-data-rooms-are-trending-in-canada/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.935669 | 593 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Chinchilla Family History Group was formed in March 2010 by a group of genealogy researchers in the Chinchilla Group. It now has a membership of 20. The group meets monthly and have participated in workshops on the ''how to'' of family history researchand the Family Tree Maker program. Thanks to a funding grant from Western Downs Regional Council the group tripped to Brisbane to visit the Queensland State Archives and the Queensland State Library to further our research.
The ultimate aim of the group is to set up a Family History Centre in Chinchilla where researchers can access local archival material and have internet access to family history websites.
We are hoping to set up our own website where other researchers can access local family history. A project is already underway to locate and document lone graves and cemetries in the Chinchilla area as well as document, photograph and index the Pioneer Cemetry in Chinchilla.
These are early beginnings and we have big dreams. If you are interested in history of local Chinchilla families or history of the district, please feel free to contact our group. | <urn:uuid:808f54bb-5c08-4a52-b68c-86d50d4769ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://placestories.com/folks/cfhxgroup | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933848 | 222 | 1.75 | 2 |
Below are short bits & pieces on sportscard & baseball trading card collecting. |
Please wander around the website for more info, prices, values & images
on vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, sport and non-sports cards.
1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers
Checklist & Values
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1968 Topps Action All-Star Stickers Info, Checklist & Prices
1968 was an awesome year for Topps test & oddball issues with
Game cards, Player Posters, 3-D cards, Plaks, Discs, Punchouts
and these "Baseball Action Stickers" also called "Action All-Stars
"Baseball Action Stickers" were STAR-PACKED 3-panel sticker strips,
some with facsimile autographs. There were (16) different strips in the
set but only 12 are totally different. #13 thru #16 re-used panels from
#1 thru #12.
Strips were perforated, folded at joints and put in packs.
Boxes had 12 packs (10 cents each) with 1 sticker per pack. Sets could be
made back then for $1.60. Today, the Mantle panel goes for around $2,000.
Collectors often collect just individual panels as complete strips are
so scarce, fragile & EXPENSIVE.
Single panels themselves are quite scarce - in 20+ years PSA has graded
just over 200 TOTAL compared to over 1,000 1952 Mantles !!!
PROOF sheet below is missing the facsimile autographs.
Another interesting issue:
1960 Pirates Tag-Ons Baseball Stickers
Topps Vault & Proofs
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Topps Vault, Proofs & Blank-Backs
Auctioneer Guernsey's went thru Topps offices gathering over 3,000
items for the auction. Topps spokesman reported auction sales of
OVER $1.5 million !!! Additional sales were made from a mail-only
auction. Collector Keith Olbermann, at the auction, described it
as an archaeological dig.
Topps archive material continued to accumulate after the auction
ending up with another treasure of over 250,000 transparencies,
uncut sheets, color separations, art, photos, slides, proof sheets
& wrappers, canceled checks, contracts and one-of-a-kind
items to sell.
Note: You may be on that page right now.
Team Autographed / Signed Baseballs
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Autographed/Signed Team Baseball inventory
Team signed baseballs were the thing well before single-signed
balls exploded on the market.
What is a "Team Signed Baseball" ???
Simple answer: A ball with XXX
signatures of a certain team
for a certain year. What is difficult is the XXX
Baseball tons of roster moves make it nearly impossible to
"Get Them All".
Generally, team signed baseballs from early 1900's had 10 to 15
signatures, the 1940's that jumped to 18 to 25.
Joyce Sports Research Collection (Notre Dame) says "signatures must
include only members of a specific team from a specific year, and there
must be some approximation of completeness."
Not concrete but to me a "team ball" MUST have ALL the team's
STARS (unless a rookie or in season trade) and in today's market
at least 20, preferably more, and the manager.
Determining Age of Team Signed Balls
"Official" league balls have stamped signatures of current league
presidents on the "sweet spot".
Starting 1934/1935 balls were produced by Spalding (NL)
and Reach (AL). Rawlings took over in 1977/78.
Have a possible team roster at hand, ESPN & baseball-reference.com
have great sites), decipher a few signatures then solve the puzzle.
Note: You may be on that page now.
Baseball card collecting terms (part A)
Airbrushing is the art of touching up a photo prior to the card being printed.
It was generally done to remove imperfections or update or hide a players
jersey/cap logo. Because of advancements in print technology and computers this is
no longer needed.
All-Star card (AS) usually a subset card picturing a player who participated in the
previous seasonís all-star game. Topps created these in their 1958 High Number
issue and has continued the practice fairly regularly to date. Such cards
are usually designated in price guides with the abbreviation of AS.
Assorted A general mix of cards often containing many duplicates.
Auction items are sold to the highest bidder. Auctions used to be live
or thru the mail/phone but today most auctions are online.
Auction Catalog lists the rules and descriptions and often images
of the items in an auction.
Authentication verification that an item (card, autograph) is genuine. Most "game-used"
material inserts have a written declaration of authenticity on the reverse.
Authorized Issue card or memorabilia item that has been properly licensed. If
the item is of a player, his written permission must be given in order for it to be considered authorized.
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To help you Mind Your Body after age 45, here is the latest in health news from the past week.
This isn’t the first time I’ve written here about the health benefits of coffee, and it likely won’t be the last time. After all, coffee provides health benefits for chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, as well as liver disease. Now new research suggests it may help preserve our eyesight and stave off retinal degeneration caused by aging, diabetes and glaucoma.
We go from coffee to cola, now—and processed cheese, Parmesan, baking powder and other processed foods. They all contain phosphates, say the authors of new findings out of Vienna, Austria. The food industry uses them as preservatives. Consuming large quantities of phosphates stimulates production of the FGF23 hormone that negatively affects the cardiovascular system when sodium and calcium build up. Note the term, “large quantities,” here: People tend to consume cola in particular in large quantities, and we already know that drinking too much soda can cause a lot of other health problems.
Finally, if you’re taking aspirin without telling your healthcare provider, please don’t, and here’s why. Aspirin therapy simply isn’t for everyone. This week the FDA said the following: “Scientific evidence shows that taking an aspirin daily can help prevent a heart attack or stroke in some people, but not in everyone. It also can cause unwanted side effects.”
The FDA found that people who haven’t had a heart attack or stroke gain don’t anything by taking aspirin to prevent cardiovascular problems. In those people, it said, the benefit of aspirin “prevention therapy” hasn’t been established, but the risks associated with taking the medication—such as dangerous internal bleeding in the brain or stomach—still exist.
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It's not always media: Genes make women want to be thin
Researchers say some women’s desire to be thin might be driven by genes. The finding, published October 3, 2012, comes from a study of twins that shows some women are more susceptible to a desire to be skinny that has little to do with media influences.
Though environmental influences such as magazines, TV and movies do play some role in a woman’s desire to be skinny, Jessica Suisman, lead author on the study and a researcher in the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Psychology explains not all women ‘buy in’ to media pressure to be thin.
"This suggests that genetic factors may make some women more susceptible to this pressure than others”, Suisman said in a press release.
She explains that daily bombardment with “… messages extoling the virtues of being thin lead just ‘some’ women to develop what is called thin-ideal internalization.”
Suisman and her colleagues wanted to see just what role Western culture and other external factors have on a woman’s body image.
For their study, published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, the researchers looked at more than 300 female twins from the MSU Twin Registry, ages 12-22.
Suisman and her team measured how much twins wanted to look like people seen on television, in movies and in magazines.
There was a strong desire for thinness among identical twins that share 100% of their genes that wasn’t present with fraternal twins that share just 50% of genes.
The researchers also note that though environment influences some women’s desire to be thin, the impact of media isn’t as great as anticipated. Wanting to be skinny comes from other influences that are unique.
"We were surprised to find that shared environmental factors, such as exposure to the same media, did not have as big an impact as expected," Suisman said. "Instead, non-shared factors that make co-twins different from each other had the greatest impact” – for example friendship groups that place high importance on weight.
"The take-home message," Suisman said, "is that the broad cultural risk factors that we thought were most influential in the development of thin-ideal internalization are not as important as genetic risk and environmental risk factors that are specific and unique to each twin."
Kelly Klump, MSU professor of psychology and co-author on the study said in a press release that’s it’s important to consider both environmental and genetic factors that can influence women and their desire to be skinny.
Maintaining a normal body mass index is known to keep us metabolically healthy, Striving to be for the sake of looking like people on TV or in the movies can be metabolically and psychologically unhealthy and lead to eating disorders.
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Post: Wednesday September 11, 2013
Tokyo Station is the gateway to the international city of Tokyo. Tokyo Square Garden has opened in March 27th, 2013 as the new landmark in the Tokyo Station area.
Located in the heart of the Yaesu area, it is a 6 min walk to Tokyo station, has direct access to Kyobashi station, and is accessible from 5 other stations for a total of 24 different train lines.
Tokyo Square Garden
Steel Structure 24 stories & 4 basement floors
The Tokyo Square Garden has large astylar office spaces with single floors measuring over 1,000 tsubo that can be used for various office layouts. The building structure and equipment allows the continuation of business operations even during times of disaster. The developer also created a square full of trees and greenery, "Kyobasi no Oka (tentative name meaning "Kyobashi Hill")" of approximately 3,000 square meters, the building is setting up the target for the reduction of CO2 emissions of approx. 45% (office use only). From this increasingly vibrant area of Tokyo's business center, Kyobashi, where several other redevelopment plans are going on, a new business scene will arise and be transmitted to the world.
Rental Availability, details and floor plans of Tokyo Square Garden
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People are becoming more and more health-conscious. It’s a good idea to always know what you are putting in your body, and that’s why so many people are searching for how much caffeine is in a cup of coffee. There are limits to how much caffeine you should really have, and there are even some risks if you consume far too much coffee (or caffeine from other sources).
Of course, different types of coffee and different preparation methods can impact the caffeine that is going into your body. It isn’t always as simple as just measuring how many cups of coffee you can have; you might have to do a little bit more research than this.
In this guide, we’ve explored how much caffeine you should consume and the benefits as well as risks of this invigorating substance.
Caffeine is a stimulant, so it is technically a drug. This shouldn’t put you off, though. It’s not a particularly harmful stimulant, and it is estimated that most people in the western world consume some form of caffeine every day. It’s not just in coffee. You will find it in a number of soft drinks, tea, and even some food.
As a ‘stimulant,’ it has the job of…stimulating. It does this to your nervous system but also stimulates your heart and can increase your heart rate. It also has a similar impact on your muscles.
Caffeine works by blocking a neurotransmitter called adenosine which makes us feel tired. So, it can help to stave off the feelings of being a little sleepy as the day goes on. According to Trusted SourceWhat Is Caffeine, and Is It Good or Bad for Health? Caffeine is a natural stimulant consumed throughout the world. This article reviews caffeine and its health effects, both good and bad. www.healthline.com , it can also have an impact on neurotransmitters, adrenaline and even help to make your brain sharper and more active. You can see why so many people use it to get going in the morning or to help them to stay awake and alert later in the day.
There isn’t one simple answer to this question. The amount of caffeine in a cup of coffee greatly depends on a number of factors, which we will explore below.
The simplest answer is that coffee tends to have between 30mg and 200mg in a single serving. That can be a huge amount of variation, so you need to delve a little bit deeper to get an idea of what you are drinking. For example, an espresso shot may have around 75mg of caffeine, and even a decaf coffee may have a small amount of caffeine in it. Around 10mg is pretty normal. According to Trusted SourceHow Much Caffeine in a Cup of Coffee? A Detailed Guide An average cup of coffee contains 95 mg of caffeine, but some types contain over 500 mg. This article lists the caffeine content in different coffee types. www.healthline.com , “the average caffeine content of an 8-oz, brewed cup of coffee is 95 mg,” so this is a pretty good benchmark.
Below, we explore what factors impact how much caffeine is in coffee. It is possible that the exact same species and type of coffee can get different results based on how it is brewed, and the caffeine that extracts from the bean depends on all sorts of methods of preparation. In the modern age, we have more ways of making coffee than ever before, so it makes sense that people need to do a bit of research.
This is one of the most impactful aspects of how the caffeine content is altered. Depending on how you brew your coffee, there can be really big differences regarding how much caffeine is extracted. This can be because different coffee varieties are brewed for different lengths of time and that there are different techniques to brew the coffee.
Some of the popular brewing methods and types of coffee are listed below, with a very rough guideline of how much caffeine you’ll find within.
Obviously, there are many other different types of coffee out there, and these all have their own levels of caffeine.
The most popular brewing method is to use a dripper or to make a filter coffee, batch brewing is still really popular in the US, Europe, and elsewhere around the world. This doesn’t tend to have the highest level of caffeine, but these coffees can still pack a punch.
The average of a filter coffee sits at around 100 mg, but this can vary. Obviously, you also need to think a lot about the amount of coffee you drink. If you batch brew, it can be easy to keep revisiting the pot of coffee to get more of a fix, and this can start to add up, especially over the course of the day. Some people choose to mix it up and have some decaf coffee to level out their consumption.
The caffeine per ounce of coffee is another huge consideration. For example, espresso is one of the most potent when it comes to caffeine, but you don’t tend to drink more than an ounce or two of it at a time. If you did, you would probably get some extreme jitters.
Here are the rough calculations based on the average sizes. We’ve gone up to a 20-ounce cup of coffee, but keep in mind the fact that this is an absolutely huge serving, so we don’t recommend having too many of those in one day.
If you break it down, you’ll see that the espresso actually has much more caffeine per ounce, but this doesn’t mean that it is the highest content of any drink. A drip coffee usually actually has much more caffeine in it. Espresso has the reputation of being the drink that gives you more of a buzz, but is this actually true? Well, even though you’re probably consuming less caffeine than you would in a 12-ounce drip coffee or filter coffee, you can drink it very quickly, and it enters the system fast to give you a speedy pick-up.
The species and varieties of coffee can vary in terms of their caffeine content. In fact, with some types of coffee, it can be really hard to get information about how much caffeine is within.
The vast majority of coffee in the world comes from one species, the Arabica coffee plant. These don’t have as much caffeine as the second most popular type, Robusta, which can have up to two times as much caffeine. However, Robusta beans aren’t common, and the reason for this is because they don’t tend to taste as nice. Arabica beans are seen as the industry standard, and they tend to be much more flavorful.
If you do want to try Robusta, it’s easy enough to get your hands on some, but keep in mind the fact that the taste may not be as consistently pleasant (some people find that varieties of Robusta coffee have a rubbery taste).
There are so many different processes that go into making coffee. Before your barista gets hold of it, your coffee will have gone through a roasting process. Do you prefer a dark roast for more of a kick in terms of flavor?
When a roaster prepares beans, they expand in size, and the water that is grown inside them gets lost in the process, but it also loses caffeine as it is roasted. This is one of the quirks of coffee, and while some people assume that the strong flavor of a dark roast means more caffeine, the opposite is usually true. A light roast is a rare thing to find, but medium roast coffees tend to have more caffeine in them.
People are often a little bit confused when they learn that grind size has such a big impact, but it makes sense when you think about it. When coffee brews, the ground coffee is absorbed by the water and more finely ground coffee will allow more water to come into contact with coffee particles as it is forced through. This means that a finely ground coffee may also have more caffeine in it. This makes sense when you think about an espresso grind, which makes a really strong coffee.
No, we don’t mean whether you use filtered water or not. It’s all about the temperature. Higher temperatures tend to extract more caffeine, but there is also an important discussion about burning coffee. You want to make sure the temperature doesn’t get to too high a level as your coffee will taste horrible.
Water reaching 195°F to 205°F will extract more caffeine compared to low temperatures. Some people use other methods to brew coffee, and it is even fashionable to brew cold brew coffee, which can take 24 hours for the coffee to extract into the water at all. Less caffeine tends to be absorbed in this method. For the maximum, hot water run through finely-ground coffee will provide you with a caffeine boost.
Let’s run through some of the types of the strongest coffee and the ways in which you can enjoy a caffeinated drink. If you want to get energy quickly, then the following drinks could be a great solution. Of course, you need to consume coffee with caution, but there’s nothing wrong with wanting a coffee to give you a bit of a boost after the lunch slump, for example.
Espresso has a real reputation for being a strong coffee, but it might be a bit of a myth. Actually, it’s about being able to consume more coffee “per gulp.” You could drink a whole shot of espresso in seconds and quickly get about 100-200 mg of caffeine into your body. However, espresso is just one of the ways in which you can consume your coffee. You can drink drip coffee or filter coffee, and some people even enjoy barista-style drinks at home.
Doppio just means a double espresso. You can order one by asking for a doppio or just by asking for a double espresso. You’ll get the same thing. A serving of this can have around 300 mg of caffeine in it, which is roughly half of what you can safely have in one day, so make sure you don’t keep going back for more.
Lungos are also sometimes referred to as a long espresso. No more ground coffee is used than in an espresso, but they are extracted over a longer time. This leads some people to think that the drink will have a lot more caffeine in it, but this is not always the case. Caffeine extracts quickly, especially when you are drawing a drink like an espresso. This is a bigger drink, but the difference in caffeine is minimal.
The Lungo is the same amount of coffee with more water, and the ristretto is the same amount of coffee with less water. This means a more concentrated drink and a flavor that really can blow you away, but it is not going to have a difference in terms of caffeine levels.
There are a lot of brands out there that are trying to appeal to people by having a stronger flavor or by having huge levels of caffeine in their drinks. We’ve explored some of the top brands below, all of which use natural methods to create their coffee and don’t add caffeine artificially. These sorts of drinks can have the same impact as an energy drink without having any of the added chemicals.
Death Wish Coffee is maybe the best-known brand when it comes to giving a huge kick in terms of caffeine. You can read more about the coffee brand here. They have around twice as much caffeine per pack as some of the other coffees on the market, so how do they achieve this? Well, they blend Arabica beans with Robusta in order to incorporate more densely caffeinated beans in their blend. This means that they can pack in more caffeine but in the same serving.
The coffee has notes of cherry and chocolate, and conversely to what you may assume, it also has really low levels of acidity. You can also buy the coffee in a variety of different packages, including a massive 1lb bag.
Biohazard is one of the other coffee brands to be the strongest in the world! They’ve certainly got a basis for this claim as one cup contains around 900 mg of caffeine. That’s an incredibly high amount, so you do need to be a little careful. The coffee is available in a number of sizes, and they also sell wholesale to the industry. If you want, you can subscribe and save to get this delivered monthly. To prepare, you mix 4 tbsp of coffee with 6oz of water, which will give you a standard serving. Biohazard is made out of Robusta beans, but they are high-quality, and the taste is up there with Arabica varieties.
Banned Coffee has its branding pretty spot on. The drink is a blend of beans that has an incredible number of antioxidants to help your system and the sort of strong taste you would expect from this sort of coffee. Unlike a Hawaiian single-origin coffee, this is a blend that has three times the amount of caffeine as an energy drink might.
Napalm Extra Bold Coffee manages to have a more profound effect on your system than most other coffees, but this is made out of Arabica beans and small-batch roasted in America. This means that it is one of the most delicious coffees on this list. You can enjoy a full-bodied coffee not just because it’s loaded with caffeine but because it tastes good, whether you use a drip system, a French press, a Chemex, or any other preparation method.
A strong and earthy flavor combined with a real boost. This coffee is a blend of Arabica and Robusta, so you can enjoy that extra caffeine content. On top of this, the brand proudly supports charity, too. Their website states that “a dollar from every 1lb (16oz) bag sold goes to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a charity that supports military personnel suffering from traumatic brain injury”. The flavor is strong and earthy, so it divides opinion, but if you want to be able to truly taste your coffee, then this could be a good option for you.
Another smart blend of Robusta and Arabica beans, Shock Coffee has got something of a cult following, and the brand has about 50% more caffeine per drink than the average. The recipe is a secret, but it uses the two main types of beans, and the Arabica does make it taste great. The brand also offers some consumer guarantees.
So, let’s look at how caffeine can actually have such a huge impact on your body and even on your brain. There are so many different ways that caffeine actually interacts with humans, some of which you might not have known about. Of course, it is a stimulant, but what are the specific benefits of caffeine, and how does it make you feel brighter? It’s not all great news, there are some negatives regarding coffee, and we’ll give a balanced view of both the good and bad. Naturally, you can ensure that you get more of the benefits and not many of the downsides by consuming moderately.
First, let’s look at the benefits of caffeine. How does it actually help you? So many of us swear by our morning coffee, but is there anything in it, or is it a bit of a comfort blanket?
In the morning, we can suffer from something called Trusted SourceHow To Overcome Sleep Inertia In The Morning If you’re someone who always wakes up feeling tired and groggy in the morning, you may be feeling the effects of sleep inertia. The good news is, overcoming sleep inertia is pretty easy. According to experts, it’s all about making slight adjustments… www.bustle.com . Most of us feel pretty groggy when we first wake up, and it can take a little while to get going. This is totally normal, and there are some things you can do to tackle it as long as you know how and you are willing to actually drag yourself out of bed. You can make sure you take on plenty of fluids, get in the shower for a wakeup, or you can consume coffee. The stimulant effects are one of the most powerful ways that you can get going in the mornings, and that is why so many people swear by their morning cup.
You may think of drinking a cup of coffee before you start out your day’s work sitting at a desk, but did you know that it can be very beneficial for athletes, too?
Caffeine has an amazing effect on the body for exercise and competitive sports. If you have a dose between 3-13 mg per kg of your body weight, you can experience a number of different benefits. The stimulation effect is on the whole of the nervous system so you can feel more alive and alert, but there are also some studies that show other benefits. Caffeine can lower the pain and perceived exertion you have, so it feels like less of a struggle when you get to the level of running where fatigue would normally set in.
Caffeine can also be great before a challenging test or when you sit down to write that essay.
According to Trusted SourceA review of caffeine’s effects on cognitive, physical and occupational performance. Following low (∼40 mg or ∼0.5 mg kg−1) to moderate (∼300 mg or 4 mg kg−1) caffeine doses, alertness, vigilance, attention, reaction time and attention improve, but less consistent effects are observed on memory and higher-order executive function, such as judgment and decision making. www.sciencedirect.com , “alertness, vigilance, attention, reaction time and attention improve” when you consume caffeine, which means that you can perform better in scenarios where you need to be switched on and paying close attention. There are limited tests on whether it helps with things like memory, but it almost certainly helps with loads of other parts of brain function.
Ok, so we do love coffee, and a lot of people need to drink coffee every day to function at their maximum, but there are some downsides, too.
What are some of the side effects of coffee that may make you moderate your consumption and think about how much of it you are putting into your body?
It’s important to say that, in moderation, you are unlikely to experience more than just extremely mild side effects, but if you consume a lot of coffee, there is always the chance that the caffeine is going to hit you with some side effects. These may include:
We’re all different. Some people are far more susceptible to coffee and the way it can interact with the system. Your build can also make a big impact.
So, how do you make sure that you can use coffee and the caffeine that is in coffee, to your advantage, without having to deal with the side effects or to have to keep adding more cups of coffee to your daily routine just to feel the same effects?
It can be a good idea to have a little bit of a detox. This helps people to not be quite so reliant on coffee, and on a day where you do not have to do quite as much, it might be a good idea to consciously avoid caffeine. Some people do this for weeks at a time as a sort of ‘reset.’ Like any drug, your body and mind can build up a tolerance, so you have to add more to get the same impact, and this can mean that you are more susceptible to the side effects. Maybe only drink caffeine on workdays or something similar.
Find what works for you. It’s relatively safe to do some experimentation as long as you aren’t consuming absolutely loads of coffee. Start with smaller amounts and build up until you are feeling the positive effects but not getting dreaded ‘caffeine crashes.’ The dose can also relate to the time of day. You might find it better to consume coffee at certain times in the day by pre-empting that ‘lull’ some of us feel in the morning or at different times in the day when we are feeling a little bit groggy and tired. If you know you will feel like this after lunch, why don’t you make sure you’re having some coffee before the effects can set in? Whether it’s a breakfast blend in the morning or a hefty Robusta coffee in the afternoon, you can tailor your daily dosage.
Alternatives to coffee? Yes, there are plenty. These don’t all just have to be different ways to get caffeine into your system, either.
Caffeine is something that most of us consume every day. A lot of adults consider it essential for their daily routine. It’s impossible to say exactly how much caffeine is in each cup of coffee, and this depends largely on the preparation methods and even the varieties of coffee you buy. However, there is plenty of information in our guide to help you to work out the right levels of caffeine for your own needs. Everyone reacts a little differently to caffeine, and some people find that it has virtually no effect. Others find that it can leave them a little jittery. Keeping track of coffee and understanding what caffeine does to your system can make all the difference and ensure that you consume the right coffee for you. | <urn:uuid:59e64c55-b352-4972-9273-262aeae8b261> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stayroasted.com/how-much-caffeine-is-in-a-cup-of-coffee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.964613 | 4,444 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The 1000lb bomb was discovered by shocked fishermen off the Tyneside coast
The huge device, thought to have been jettisoned by a Nazi bomber during a coastal raid, was hauled up by stunned fishermen.
The trawlers were working three miles off the Tyneside coast when they caught the still active bomb in their nets.
The Royal Navy was called in to assess the device and transported it to the shallower waters of Whitley Bay so that it could be examined.
However, after determining that the explosives inside were still intact, bomb disposal experts lowered it back onto the sea bed.
It was later detonated one-and-a-half miles away from the Whitley Bay coast.
Expert divers from the Royal Navy inspected the device before detonating it on the seabed
A spokesman for the Royal Navy said members of their northern diving group examined the device and found it posed a threat.
In a statement, Tynemouth RNLI added: "Royal Navy Bomb Disposal team dived on the bomb, confirming it was a 1000-pounder, containing 286 pounds of high explosive.
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Industrial art gear sculpture
Industrial sculpture made of metal gears
Industrial art gear sculpture made of industrial metal gears by visual artist Giannis Dendrinos
Where did I get my inspiration about this industrial art sculptures?
This artwork entitled Wave is part of a solo exhibition on the theme of the “circle”.
This show took place in a gallery in Athens on December 2008. The artist’s intention was to symbolize the concept of parallel worlds by creating two intersecting half-circles. Each circle has its own elements within. This geometrical parallelism is a metaphoric expression of what could be parallel worlds. This spire sculpture is aiming to convey the evolution of life.
What is a gear and what is it used for?
What is the purpose of a gear?
What are the 4 types of gears?
There are three major categories of gears in accordance with the orientation of their axes
Parallel Axes / Spur Gear, Helical Gear, Gear Rack, Internal Gear.
Intersecting Axes / Miter Gear, Straight Bevel Gear, Spiral Bevel Gear.
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The vote to deny the Palestinian people statehood in the UN last night is one of the most cynical and deeply disappointing events in recent international diplomacy. The extent to which the UN is susceptible to US/Israeli pressure has effectively removed any reasonable prospect of peace and justice for the Palestinian people in the near future. Very few people in the world doubt that the manner in which the Palestinian people have suffered in the past 60 years is a major injustice: there is a clear majority in the UN at large, and in the Security Council specifically, for recognition of a Palestinian State and for the implementation of the 1967 UN Resolution prescribing the borders of Palestine. Following the genocide to which they were subject during the recent conflict in Gaza, that sympathy - and the guilt - of the international community, has increased greatly. The case for a Palestinian State is wholly irresistible: the debt owed to the Jewish people following the events of the Holocaust of 1943-45 is equaled by the suffering and injustice of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israelis. It is therefore a matter of substantial regret that the US/Israeli-led coalition against the Palestinians has failed to address their terrible plight. Gaza remains the world's outstanding injustice towards a people on purely racial grounds. Last night the US and Australia, abetted by UK, Nigeria, Lithuania, South Korea and Rwanda, denied peace and justice to the people of Palestine in defiance of the world.
A Palestinian State will happen, there can be no doubt of this: the momentum is building, recognition is happening unilaterally throughout the world and the US/Israel's ability to keep the international will at bay is weakening. Nevertheless it is a setback for the process and reveals how completely in the control of Israeli influence the US Congress and Presidency is. Great credit is due to China, France and Russia for pushing the Jordanian resolution, which has the support of the UN, so close to success. The outcome serves to reveal the reprehensible conduct of the US and Australia and is something of a national disgrace for Nigeria - which has already recognised Palestine, but cravenly abstained under US/Israeli duress. The UK wriggled uncomfortably but it was never in question that they would do as the US dictated - demonstrating yet again their inability to act independently of the US.
In spite of this, it is some comfort that the vote was 8 in favour of the resolution, 2 against, 5 abstentions: Although insufficient to carry the resolution, it provides a clear moral majority for the State of Palestine. It is to be hoped that the dismay felt by the international community to the actions of the US and those it controls may translate into positive actions to relieve the suffering of the Palestinian people and to renewed efforts to bring about the Palestinian State that the overwhelming majority of the world wish to see. On 31 December that would be a fitting New year's resolution for people of good will around the world!
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Qaddafi’s barbaric war on the uprising
Qaddafi's immediate and unrestrained ruthlessness is one of several factors that has helped the regime to mount a counterattack on rebel forces, says.
MUAMMAR EL-QADDAFI'S superior firepower, plus his willingness to use it against rebel forces and civilians alike, seems to have turned the tide against a Libyan rebellion that began February 17. By midweek, Qaddafi loyalists were bombarding Misurata, the only western city still in rebel hands, while gathering forces for an assault on Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city and the rebels' last key stronghold in the east.
Qaddafi's prompt and ruthless response to the uprising allowed little time for the rebellion to develop political or organizational cohesion before it was thrown into a military contest, town by town, against better-equipped and better-trained government forces.
In contrast to last week, it now seems that Western military intervention is increasingly unlikely in the short run, as Germany blocked a Group of Eight endorsement of a no-fly zone, and China and Russia were set to do the same in the UN Security Council.
The Obama administration, already wary about committing to a new armed conflict in the Muslim world, spent the week temporizing over the risks and effectiveness of a no-fly zone--and grew cooler to the option as Qaddafi seemed to be getting the upper hand. "With the advances made by loyalists, there is growing consensus in the Obama administration that imposing a no-fly zone over Libya would no longer make much of a difference," a senior official told the New York Times.
Arab commentators suspect that U.S. officials will be privately pleased if Qaddafi carries out a successful crackdown, since it could "create a firebreak between the revolutions in North Africa and its oil-rich Gulf clients," the Financial Times said in an editorial.
This assessment of what U.S. officials really care about was confirmed when officials voiced only muted caution as Gulf kingdoms sent troops into Bahrain on Tuesday. Armed forces from oil-rich Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates arrived to back up the Bahraini royal family's suppression of an uprising that began when Libya's did.
The U.S. Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, and in contrast to Obama's demand for Qaddafi's resignation, the U.S. has only counseled the Bahraini monarchy to offer some democratic reforms and practice "restraint" in its crackdown on the opposition.
The twists and turns of Western policy toward Libya highlight the hypocrisy of the imperialist powers. The U.S. and other powerful nations seemed to be leaning toward military intervention when the uprising was winning, not for the stated "humanitarian" reasons, but as an excuse to squelch dissent and confront the tide of revolution in the Arab world. The grisly truth behind the apparent turn away from intervention is that Western powers now expect Qaddafi, their ally just months ago, to do the job for them.
QADDAFI'S MILITARY offensive is led by two of his sons and staffed by tribal allies and other long-term recipients of Qaddafi's oil-funded patronage, including fighters from the nomadic Tuareg people, who have served in the past as proxy forces in conflicts with Libya's southern neighbors.
Early speculation that Qaddafi's 41-year reign might end with a military coup seems increasingly implausible as the top ranks of his military forces have remained loyal--and pushed back effectively against the rebels. The first rule of patronage politics is to "back a winner," especially a wealthy one, and Qaddafi is winning right now.
Since last Saturday, pro-Qaddafi forces have used rockets, tanks, artillery and warplanes to sweep into the eastern half of the country--storming the rebel-held refinery towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega, along with the key crossroads city of Ajdabiya.
The retreat of rebel forces in Ajdabiya set off a panicked flight of civilians toward Benghazi, 90 miles to the northeast, according to a Christian Science Monitor reporter on the scene. One fighter summed up the fear by telling the Monitor, "Qaddafi will be arresting and killing thousands if we lose."
In western Libya, pro-regime forces continued to lay siege to Misurata, the country's third-largest city after Tripoli and Benghazi. On March 15, the Independent reported that Qaddafi's forces "consolidated his stronghold around Tripoli by seizing the Zuwarah, the last rebel-held town west of the capital, after a heavy barrage of tank and artillery fire."
The previous week, government forces seized the western refinery town of Zawiyah in a furious tank and artillery assault that left the place "deeply wounded and shaken," according to a Time magazine reporter who went on a government-sponsored tour of the recaptured city. Demolished buildings ringed the central square, and a CBS reporter noted that fresh graves of fallen rebels were already bulldozed over.
By March 15, government forces, fresh from their western victories in Zawiyah and Zuwarah, were speeding east to join forces around Ajdabiya for what could be the final assaults on Benghazi and Tobruk.
The cohesion of pro-Qaddafi forces has so far formed a sharp contrast to the divided responses of the outside world.
The Arab League suspended Qaddafi's membership and then called for a no-fly zone, backed by the UN Security Council, over the objections of Syria, Algeria and Mauritania. The league's call was a departure from its usual refusal to support Western intervention in Arab states. Amr Moussa, the Arab League's secretary general, highlighted this hypocrisy by saying that a no-fly zone would be a humanitarian measure to protect Libyan civilians and foreigners and "not a military intervention," according to the Associated Press.
Moussa attributed the league's shift to the pressure of Arab populations that have been encouraged by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. But the Arab League rulers also had their own reasons to vote for action against Qaddafi, who has stung them for years with rhetoric exposing their client relation to the West--even as he slid into such a relation himself in the past decade.
The African Union (AU), on the other hand, rejected outside military intervention. Underlying the African rulers' defense of self-determination, of course, was a fear of setting a precedent for their own removal or the partition of their countries--one option that was initially floated for Libya when the rebellion grew most strongly in the east. Besides, many of these rulers are also beneficiaries in Qaddafi's extended oil patronage network, and Libya provides 15 percent of the funds for the AU itself.
In Europe, France's Nicolas Sarkozy stepped forward early to recognize the Libyan National Council (LNC), the rebels' leadership group based in Benghazi. He called for a no-fly zone and for direct attacks on Qaddafi's headquarters--which would be a replay of Ronald Reagan's airborne assassination attempt in 1986.
Germany, however, held out against military action and blocked NATO and the G8 from endorsing a no-fly zone (with Turkey's backing in NATO and Russia's in the G8).
The U.S. never openly endorsed a no-fly zone and, unlike Sarkozy, didn't leap to recognize the LNC as a replacement for Qaddafi's government. The council includes prominent defectors from Qaddafi's regime, along with figures who are less familiar to the West.
As the rebels' military fortunes declined, it looked like anybody's bet whether this improvised leadership body would continue to exist after this first round of Libya's rebellion. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met for just 45 minutes with unnamed representatives of the council behind closed doors in Paris--and did not emerge speaking of any commitment to the LNC.
NEVERTHELESS, EVEN the military defeat of the current rebellion would not signal the end of resistance to Qaddafi's regime. Qaddafi has outlived many other challenges to his power, but this one is by far the broadest and deepest.
Qaddafi is securing control of Libya's cities at the expense of hundreds or even thousands of lives, so his "victory" will leave people even more bitter than they were at the beginning of the rebellion. His reprisals against the rebels have only begun.
Qaddafi's offensive has been possible only by cementing his tribal connections in western Libya, which leave easterners out of effective national power. And even in the west, many chafe against his iron rule, including the Berbers known as the Amazigh, whose very existence has been denied by the regime and who joined in the uprising.
The Amazigh were activated by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt--and were instrumental to the rebel capture of places such as Zuwarah, one of the last towns to hold out against Qaddafi's forces in the east.
The string of revolts across North Africa and the Middle East provide a laboratory for potential rebels to draw practical lessons in how to defeat a dictator and extend democracy from words into living reality.
Comparisons of different national experiences are going on as the rebellions unfold. Why is the fate of the Libyan uprising, thus far, so different from the experiences in Tunisia and Egypt?
The Tunisian revolt possessed, in the first place, the element of surprise, and had the advantage of facing a ruling circle around Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali that was increasingly regarded, even by other members of the country's economic elite, as a narrow, family-based kleptocracy.
The Egyptian regime may have had deeper and wider roots than Ben Ali's, with connections extending through the top layers of the army and the capitalist class, but the revolt also had deeper roots than Tunisia's. As in Tunisia, there were multi-class crowds that poured out into the streets, but the Egyptian movement was also built on years of resistance from sources such as the Muslim brotherhood and a working-class movement with several years of development under its belt.
These sources of political and organizational cohesion, binding together Egypt's movements at the grassroots, are what held Hosni Mubarak back from throwing the full weight of the army against the movement. He could be not be sure that the lower ranks wouldn't break and take sides, actively or passively, with the movement. The data for this calculation were also available to other members of Egypt's elite, including the top generals, who decided to cut Mubarak loose and preserve their own privileges, rather than running the risks of testing the army against the rising movement.
In Libya, Qaddafi seems to be teaching a lesson that is likely to be heeded by other dictatorships--and needs to be considered by others in the region who want to rise up against them. Qaddafi's offensive is showing the effectiveness of a prompt and ruthless response against an insurrectionary movement before it has had a chance to develop adequate political or organizational cohesion to stand up against the forces of the state.
The situation is a testament to Qaddafi's success in long-term games of divide-and-rule--not only in dividing the country's east against the west and tribe against tribe, but also in dividing a native population against a mass of low-wage immigrant workers, who make up as much as one-third of the population--and who come largely from sub-Saharan Africa.
The Libyan rebellion will rise again because its grievances are only perpetuated by Qaddafi's continued rule. The grievances of immigrants must be counted along with those of native-born Libyans, and future rebellions will need the participation of Black African workers--whose role in the recent revolt has ranged from bystander to scapegoat.
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An analysis of UNHCR’s 2018 Global Refugee Statistics
Australian political leaders regularly claim that Australia has one of the most generous refugee responses in the world. But what do UNHCR’s official statistics for 2018 tell us?
In its 2018 Global Trends report, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that the world’s refugee population had reached 25.9 million by the end of December 2018 and that another 3.5 million were seeking asylum.
Of these, 5.5 million refugees are Palestinians recognised under the mandate of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and 20.4 million are refugees under UNHCR’s mandate.
Source countries for refugees
The largest numbers of refugees are from Syria (6.65 million), Afghanistan (2.68 million), South Sudan (2.29 million), Myanmar (1.15 million) and Somalia (950,000). In 2018, the largest increases in refugee populations were from Syria (343,850), Democratic Republic of Congo (99,500), Afghanistan (57,230), Central African Republic (45,350) and Nigeria (37,850).
The number of people seeking asylum globally grew by 412,400, with much of this increase resulting from the crisis in Venezuela. In just 12 months, the number of Venezuelans seeking asylum grew by 316,250 to 464,230.
Official refugee population
The five countries hosting the largest number of refugees as at 31 December 2018, according to UNHCR, were Turkey (3.68 million), Pakistan (1.40 million), Uganda (1.17 million), Sudan (1.08 million) and Germany (1.07 million). By comparison, Australia’s official refugee population was 56,933 – 45th overall, 50th per capita and 88th relative to national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
These refugee population figures tell only part of the story. They exclude refugees who have been resettled but, in Australia’s case, they include those who have been given permanent protection onshore over the past 10 years and refugees on temporary protection visas.
As UNHCR statistics focus on identifying people for whom the agency has a particular responsibility under its mandate, these refugee population figures favour nations in which large numbers of refugees remain in unresolved and protracted situations and give less weight to the contribution of nations offering permanent protection and resettlement.
Many of the outlandish political claims within Australia focus solely on refugee resettlement, despite the fact that so few refugees get access to resettlement. In 2018, just 92,424 refugees were resettled from one country to another, less than 0.4% of the total refugee population.
Australia’s resettlement of 12,706 refugees during the 2018 calendar year saw the country ranked third overall for resettlement (behind Canada and USA) – second per capita and relative to national GDP (behind Canada).
Recognition of refugees through asylum processes
During 2018, 1.56 million people who sought asylum were recognised as refugees, through group recognition of refugees arriving in larger numbers, individual assessment of asylum claims or through granting temporary protection. The nations in which the largest numbers of refugees were newly recognised in 2018 were Turkey (402,550), Sudan (190,290), Uganda (180,660), Germany (105,540) and Cameroon (55,320).
Australia recognised 10,300 refugees in 2018, most of them given temporary protection visas. In global terms, Australia was ranked 29th for recognition of refugees in 2018 – 30th per capita and 60th relative to GDP.
Australia’s contribution through asylum and resettlement processes
The most accurate reflection of Australia’s contribution can be found by combining the numbers of given protection for the first time through an asylum or recognition process or given further protection through resettlement. In 2018, 1.65 million people had their refugee status recognised or were resettled.
By this measure, Australia recognised or resettled 23,002 refugees in 2018 (1.39% of the global total), being ranked 14th overall, 20th per capita and 60th relative to national GDP.
As numbers vary considerably across different countries from year to year, it is more useful to look at these statistics over a 10-year period. Between January 2009 and December 2018, Australia recognised or resettled 180,790 refugees.
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Reading Guide Questions
Please be aware that this discussion guide may contain spoilers!
- Countless memoirs have been published recently, yet Angela's Ashes stands out. What makes this memoir so unique and compelling?
- Discuss the originality and immediacy of Frank McCourt's voice and the style he employs -- i.e., his sparing use of commas, the absence of quotation marks. How, through a child's voice and perspective, does McCourt establish and maintain credibility?
- Ever present in Angela's Ashes is the Catholic Church. In what ways does the Catholic Church of McCourt's Ireland hurt its members and limit their experience? How does the Church protect and nurture its followers? What is Frank's attitude toward the Church?
- McCourt writes: "I think my father is like the Holy Trinity with three people in him, the one in the morning with the paper, the one at night with the stories and prayers, and then the one who does the bad thing and comes home with the smell of whiskey and wants us to die for Ireland." Was this your impression of Frank McCourt's father? How can Frank write about his father without bitterness? What part did Malachy play in creating the person that Frank eventually became?
- Women -- in particular mothers -- play a significant role in Angela's Ashes. Recall the scenes between Angela and her children; the MacNamara sisters (Delia and Philomena) and Malachy; Aunt Aggie and young Frank; Angela and her own mother. In what ways do these interactions reflect the roles of women within their families? Discuss the ways in which Angela struggles to keep her family together in the most desperate of circumstances.
- McCourt titles his memoir Angela's Ashes, after his mother. What significance does the phrase "Angela's Ashes" acquire by the end of the book?
- Despite the McCourts' horrid poverty, mind-numbing starvation, and devastating losses, Angela's Ashes is not a tragic memoir. In fact, it is uplifting, triumphant even. How does McCourt accomplish this?
- Irish songs and lyrics are prominently featured in Angela's Ashes. How do these lyrics contribute to the unique voice of this memoir? How does music affect Frank's experiences? How do you think it continues to influence his memories of his childhood?
- Frank spent the first four years of his life in the United States. How do his experiences in America affect Frank's years in Ireland?
The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary
Stop-Time, Frank Conroy
The Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle
Dubliners, James Joyce
The Liars' Club, Mary Karr
Ironweed, William Kennedy
Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories, Joseph Mitchell
Mother of Pearl, Mary Morrissey
A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien, Edna O'Brien
Later the Same Day, Grace Paley
Family Sins, William Trevor
Carry On Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse
Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe
This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff.
Unless otherwise stated, this discussion guide is reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster.
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UNION GROVE — The death toll in Eastern Kentucky following the catastrophic flooding has reached 25.
Experts believe these floods are one of the worst disasters Eastern Kentucky has seen in decades.
Hundreds of people are in danger and many are still unaccounted for.
Rescue Outreach, an animal shelter in Union Grove, has been working with Kentucky shelters for years providing resources and 'fur-ever' homes.
After learning one of their corresponding shelters, Kentucky River Regional Shelter located in Hazard County, KY was in danger they began to act.
"With all of the flooding and rain and disaster that's going on in Kentucky, this week has been special we've really made more effort to get more animals out," said Katy Scott, a coordinator with Outreach Rescue.
More than 60 puppies and kittens made their way out of the disaster and into Union Grove.
"So their surrounding counties are flooding right now. They have fosters and volunteers that have literally lost their personal dogs, foster dogs, lost their homes being swept away," said Director, Heather Hartman.
Luckily all of the fur babies will be able to get a second chance thanks to Rescue Outreach but there is still a great need. The organization hopes to fill a van with supplies to donate to Kentucky shelters.
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History of Trumbull Career & Technical Center
The congress of the United States passed the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Its purpose was to provide an adequate vocational education opportunity for youths and adults. With the passing of this legislation into law, vocational education would become a reality in the State of Ohio.
Basic information concerning the studies of employment and the needs of the Trumbull County communities had been made by the Ohio State Employment Service, the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, student and business surveys. The results of the surveys were clear. Twelve percent of our job market requires a college education. Consequently, schools must prepare youths to enter the other 88% of the job market upon graduation from high school.
Several school districts in Trumbull County could be joined together in a joint vocational education program for area high school youth, out-of-school youth and adults. The programs to be offered at this facility were to include such areas as agriculture, business education, distributive education, home economic education, and trade and industrial education.
If this joint vocational facility was to go into operation, it had to have a sponsoring board of education. The first sponsoring board of education was Niles City Schools: it was followed by Hubbard Exempted Village School District. Each school system that wanted to belong to the joint vocational school district had to send a letter of intent to join the district. Those letters of intent were turned over to the State Board of Education. In August of 1966, the first board of education was organized for the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School District August 17, 1966.
On April 7, 1974 the Joint Vocational Board was dissolved after five levy failures. On August 4, 1974 the JVS Board was reorganized. On August 21, 1975 a plan for the TCJVS was submitted to the Ohio State Department of Education for seven districts: Bloomfield, Champion, Farmington, Hubbard, Mathews, Newton Falls, and Southington. On March 18, 1976 a 2.9 mill combined tax issue was passed by these districts. The school districts of Bristol, Brookfield, Girard, Joseph Badger, LaBrae, Lakeview, Liberty, and Maplewood also joined the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School District. These fifteen school districts would be under the guidance of Leo Difford, who was the Trumbull County Director of Vocational Education for the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School District and who later became the first superintendent of the district on October 1, 1975.
After the levy passed, it was recertified to 2.4 mills on November 7, 1975 by the County Auditor. The process of planning the JVS was under way. Eighty-two acres of property on Mahoning Avenue had been selected as the site for the vocational school. This land was previously the “County Farm” and on June 23, 1976 the Trumbull County Commissioners leased it to the TCJVS.
The groundbreaking of the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School occurred on April 15, 1977. Warren City joined the JVS in September of 1992. The TCJVS name was changed to The Trumbull Career & Technical Center on July 1, 2000 to better reflect the school’s additional state mandates. Beginning with the 2002 school year four additional school districts joined the Career Center: Lordstown, McDonald, Niles, and Weathersfield.
The Trumbull County Joint Vocational School opened its doors to students on September 6, 1978; dedication ceremonies occurred on November 12, 1978. Board members at the time of the dedication included: Thomas M. Cooksey, Jr., President; Stanley Woofter, Vice President; Ronnie L. Burke; Marjorie Fenton; Beverly A. Friend; Ray L. Hicks; Albert Nye; and Beverly A. Richards, Treasurer. The total cost of this facility was 9.5 million dollars of which 4.84 million dollars came from the multi-purpose levy. Matching funds from the State of Ohio totaled 4.61 million dollars. In 2006 an Adult wing was opened, 44,000 sq. ft at a cost of 6.4 million dollars. Today TCTC has over seven acres under roof.
Of the 49 vocational districts in the State of Ohio, Trumbull County was one of the last vocational facilities to go into operation.
Ohio is one of the few states which have a diversified and complete program in vocational education. With the completion of the Trumbull County Joint Vocational School, 97.4% of youths and adults have vocational education available to them to gain the necessary skills and technical knowledge to obtain a job or to prepare to advance to a better job.
Moving forward into the future TCTC H.S. will have all classes certified as Tech Prep by 2013 and will continue offering Dual Credit Classes which give both H.S. and college credit simultaneously. | <urn:uuid:8c26fc30-6ee6-432b-a3bd-913414476629> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.tctchome.com/AboutUs.aspx | 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 | 0.975496 | 1,001 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Texas Lawmakers Look for the Cure to Fewer Doctors Taking Medicaid Patients
Pretty much everyone on Medicaid here in Texas receives care through a Medicaid Managed Care Program. It’s a big program serving the state’s most vulnerable populations, but there are some big problems. Mostly, there aren’t enough doctors taking part in the program to help serve these populations, and state lawmakers are trying to address that.
As always, step one in finding a legislative solution is to hold a hearing. For this problem, that duty fell to the House Human Services Committee.
“Medicaid Managed Care, as you all know, is now a really big deal in the State of Texas and our job and part of what the speaker wants us to do is to make sure that we make this program as good as possible,” said Democratic Rep. Richard Raymond of Laredo, the committee’s chair.
According to the Texas Medical Association, in 2000 67 percent of physicians were willing to take in new Medicaid patients. In 2014, that number dropped to only 34 percent.
“Most kids in our state get care because of Medicaid. And, so, it’s a critical program from my perspective and for my patients,” said Dr. Ryan Van Ramshorst, a San Antonio pediatrician who testified before the committee.
He says he’s proud to serve Medicaid patients in his community, but Van Ramshorst says the state needs to make getting more doctors to take part in the program a priority. One way to do that, he says, is to pay doctors more for taking those patients.
“We know that Medicaid pays roughly 70 percent of Medicare rates. I have friends that are practicing in San Antonio that either cap their Medicaid population or they don’t take them at all. And, as a pediatrician, I want these kids to be taken care of,” he says.
The program serves more than just the state’s kids. Nursing home and long-term care patients, as well as people with disabilities are also part of managed care. Dennis Borel with the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities told lawmakers they need to revisit the issue of how much they are paying doctors. He says the limits the Legislature set last year aren’t sufficient for the years to come.
“There’s been an erosion of 30 percent of that pay since its high-water mark, so we are way, way behind,” Borel said.
Lawmakers say they’re committed to improving the state’s delivery of health care to the state’s Medicaid population. Last year, the state Legislature passed a bill aimed at holding the insurance companies that run the Medicaid Managed Care program accountable for their network of health care providers. | <urn:uuid:69b2facd-4940-4a74-b7a4-eeebfca5faad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kut.org/health/2016-03-09/texas-lawmakers-look-for-the-cure-to-fewer-doctors-taking-medicaid-patients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.959038 | 580 | 1.859375 | 2 |
A new study from TTI’s Transportation Policy Research Center shows a correlation between increased oil and gas drilling activity and crashes in energy-rich areas of the state. The findings are based on a comparison of two timeframes: 2006-2009 and 2010-2013 in the Permian Basin, Barnett Shale, and Eagle Ford Shale regions.
In both the Permian and Eagle Ford regions, the number of new wells increased significantly, as did the number of rural crashes involving commercial vehicles, and the total costs of crash injuries.
The new well count in the Barnett Shale dropped, as did the number of crashes and their associated injury costs. The same was true in counties outside those three regions, where drilling activity, crash frequency and injury costs all decreased over the timeframes that researchers examined.
The current study follows an examination of the impact of increased drilling activity on pavement conditions, published earlier this year.
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Operation Cast Lead * by Clayton Eshleman
[In this piece Clayton Eshleman synthesizes a number of reports on the Gaza atrocities, to create an accurate & horrifying report on what happened when the Israeli army invaded. Given the short historical memory — a true if invisible plague in a country where news is instant sound-bytes with 5-minute shelf lives — even among those who claim liberal or leftist convictions, it is important to restate & re-member such events, even if they happened only a short 3 months ago. The piece was turned down by Jacket and bookslut.com, where it would have had more readers, probably — but here it is, on Nomadics:]
The night of January 3, 2009, Mas’ouda Samouni and her extended family of some 60 people, in the Al Zeitoun neighborhood of the Gaza Strip, were all moved by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) into one of their houses’ rooms. They managed to prepare food for the children from the poultry kept in the house, after which they were held in the room without food or water for almost 24 hours. When the children, hungry and thirsty, started crying, some of the men tried to reach the water tanks beside the house to fetch some water. All were shot at by Israeli soldiers; one of them was killed.
After a loud explosion family members saw flames flashing from an upper floor of the adjacent house, belonging to other family members. Some of the Samouni men tried to rescue them but they were immediately shot by the soldiers. Mas’ouda’s husband was fatally wounded.
The next morning the house exploded and collapsed. Mas’ouda’s 10 month old baby was killed while sitting on her lap.
A Samouni cousin, Rami, told the following story: “Israeli paratroopers entered our home, breaking everything in their way. They moved us from house to house. At one point there were 120 of us inside one house. They asked for my cousin Atiya’s ID and, when they saw it, shot and killed him. Atiya’s 12 year old son became hysterical and threw a stone at the soldiers who then shot and killed him too.
We were confined, without food or water, in the house. By the third day the situation had became unbearable. My 75 year old grandfather couldn’t take it any longer. He started angrily shouting at the soldiers demanding that they at least release the children. They shot him too and he died.
Because we were shouting at them, they got mad and told the mothers to hold their babies on their laps. Then they shot the babies. One was 3 months old, another 6 months old, another one year old.”
February 2, 2009. Souad Abed Rabbo said that there were 30 to 40 of her family members in their house in Jebel al-Kashif. Tanks began to shell in the neighborhood and Israeli soldiers shouted for everyone to come outside. Souad, her daughter-in-law and her 7 year old daughter all came out, each holding a white flag above their heads. They were accompanied by Souad’s three granddaughters, a 7 year old also called Souad, 4 year old Samar, and 2 year old Amal. When they asked the Israeli soldier on a tank in the garden for permission to leave, he just stared at them for several minutes, then opened fire, shooting the 7 year old in the neck and chest, who died instantly. He also shot the 2 year old in the chest and abdomen, disemboweling her. She died a little later. The 4 year old was also shot and at the time of the interview was paralyzed in a Belgium hospital. Souad was shot in the left arm and left buttock
A neighbor who was an ambulance driver tried to help them. The soldiers shot at him.
Souad’s husband, Muhammad, then carried the dead Amal out. Another family member carried the wounded Samar. Souad herself was carried out on a bed. As they left the house, Israeli soldiers shot around them.
They walked to Zemo Junction to find an ambulance. At the Junction there was a father and his young son with a horse and carriage. After they asked for help from the father, the soldiers first shot the horse and then the father who later died from his wounds.
Doa’ Al Banna, the day before her 15th birthday, on January 12, was sitting on the 5th floor balcony of her family’s apartment, with her two sisters. Suddenly she found herself lying amidst rubble, glass, dust and smoke. Her younger sister lay with her eyes closed as if she was sleeping. She was dead. Her older sister had a large wound in her belly and her intestines were visible. She was dead too. Doa saw that she was in the same condition, her belly torn open, her left hand torn off. She managed to walk downstairs, holding her bowels inside her belly with her uninjured right arm.
She underwent surgery and survived.
On January 4, Sabah Abu Haima was having lunch with her family, 16 people, including 9 children. Suddenly 3 rockets from F-16 fighters were fired into the house.
5 persons died. Some had their heads shot off. Sabah’s 8 year old son burned to death shouting “Mommy, mommy, we must pray.”
2 bodies were inseparable due to the heat.
When the survivors were leaving the house to go to the hospital, they were shot at by Israeli soldiers. 2 nephews died in this shooting.
Sabah Abu Haima said she could see no reason for her house to be attacked.
As of 29 January, it was calculated that 1417 people in Gaza had been killed. Of these, 236 were fighters, the rest civilians, including 411 children, 106 women, and 16 ambulance drivers. 33 health care centers were attacked. 21,000 homes were destroyed. Some 50,000 people have been displaced from their homes. Many mosques were also destroyed.
Extensive use of white phosphorus munitions (manufactured in Louisiana) has been documented. The dead include 3 women, 7 children, and a 15 month old baby. White phosphorus which burns at 1500°F, goes through flesh to the bone and reignites, upon contact with oxygen, when the burn is cleaned.
Hospitals and mobile clinics were specifically targeted, including a number of ambulances, by American-made F-16 jets and Apache helicopters. Many of these attacks took place during mercy missions that had been authorized by the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) and the Israeli Army. Israel’s intervention has been fueled largely by U.S. supplied weapons paid for with U.S. tax dollars.
The underlying meaning of the attack on the Gaza Strip appears to be one of creating terror without mercy to anyone.
Upon hearing of a ceasefire from 10 AM to 1 PM, Muhammad Shurrab and his two sons, Qassab, with a degree in construction engineering, and Ibrahim, a student at AlAzhar University, left their farm to drive to the Shurrab home in Khan Yunis. Muhammad waved to Israeli soldiers along the road who waved back. Their red Land Rover windshield was then hit by 22 bullets, wounding Muhammad’s left arm. The soldiers shouted at them to leave the car. Qassab got out and was shot in the face and killed. When Ibrahim got out, he was shot in the leg. Muhammad started to dial the ambulance center; soldiers shouted at him that they would kill him if he used his mobile phone.
Muhammad crawled to Ibrahim, who was lying bleeding in the road, and managed to call 101 on his son’s phone. The ambulance center told him that they had not been given permission to come to that area but that they would contact the media on his behalf. Hours passed, with Ibrahim crying “Father call 101,” which Muhammad repeatedly did to no avail. He begged the soldiers to give them first aid; his request was met with a warning shot. Ibrahim kept asking, “Are you satisfied with me, father” to which Muhammad said “yes, yes” again and again.
It became dark and very cold. Sitting on the ground in front of the crashed car, Muhammad placed Ibrahim’s head in his lap and covered him with his bloodstained jacket. He could not believe that a leg injury could cause death. Around 10 PM, he started receiving calls from local radio stations and human rights organizations. They only wanted to interview him and told him that he himself must phone for help. At a certain point, Muhammad cried out in a clear, sad, and trembling voice: “IDF, you murdered my son Qassab, my son Ibrahim is dying, either do something or let me die.” The answer was: “let the ambulance come and take you.”
A little after midnight, Ibrahim stopped breathing.
* This piece compresses, without distorting the information, a half dozen reports of what happened to various Palestinian families and individuals during the Israeli “Operation Cast Lead.”. These reports, along with much more information, are collected in the 92 page Final Report / Individual Fact Finding Mission into Violation of Human Rights in the Gaza Strip during the period 27.12.2008-18.01.2009, commissioned and organized by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and Palestinian Medical Relief Society. The full report is on line at: http://www.phr.org.il/phr/files/articlefile_1239020519406.pdf | <urn:uuid:9fbd7417-29f6-44d9-b701-dfb0680a981a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=1145 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00308-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986596 | 2,019 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Posted by Jay Fields on January 11, 2002
I don't much like Phrase Finder's explanation about going to a better place. Several years ago I read an explanation that also involved WW2. However, the gist was that the British government used to pay farmers for damages whenever a military plane crashed in their fields. Thus, when a plane went down, the unfortunate pilot "bought the farm." | <urn:uuid:2b632092-1e98-47c9-9070-761bf384556c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/842.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00044-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987682 | 81 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Concept Study of a 2.52m Test Flat Calibration System for Goodrich Corp.
Discovery Channel Telescope
The large optics shop polished the primary mirror for the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) which is to be housed at Lowell Observatory. The F/1.9 mirror blank was approximately 4.3 meters.
Arizona Imaging Spectrometer (Starlight)
A 16″ R-C telescope for a space shuttle experiment–This novel telescope’s optics and structure are made entirely of a metal matrix composite comprised of aluminum and silicon carbide. This design provides an athermalized telescope which is extremely rugged and achieves diffraction limited performance over a 1 degree field.
Gravity Probe B Facetted Quartz Block
A two facetted quartz blocks for the Gravity Probe B spaceborne experiment–These blocks have tenth wave requirements on surface figure and one arcsecond perpendicularity tolerances between facets in two planes.
Far Infrared Space Telescope Technology Demonstrator Mold
A 2 meter diameter convex F/1 sphere for the FIRST program–This convex sphere will be used as a mold for demonstrating replicating technology for graphite-composite based optics.
James Webb Space Telescope Technology Demonstrator
An ultra-lightweight 2 meter diameter, 2 mm thick demonstrator mirror for the JWSB program–The University of Arizona has developed a process to fabricate thin shells which can be actively controlled for figure correction. The shell will be attached to actuators which will be mounted on a carbon fiber support structure.
DCATT Primary Mirror
A 1 meter diameter aluminum mirror for DCATT (Developmental Cryogenic Active Telescope Testbed). The goal of the testbed is to represent in hardware an optical system that incorporates all of the functional elements envisioned in the NGST active optical system, and to investigate the viability and efficiency of candidate wavefront sensing and wavefront control techniques and algorithms. Arizona Daily Star story
Hughes 1.5 Meter Reference Sphere
A 1.5 meter reference sphere with a 10 meter radius of curvature. This mirror will be used in a cryo chamber as part of a testbed for sensor packages.
Greenbank Telescope Retroreflector
Designed and Fabricated a retroreflector design which achieves an acceptance angle of 120º compared to 24º for a typical cornercube reflector. 18 retroreflectors will be positioned on the perimeter of the Greenbank Telescope for measuring deflections induced by wind and gravity loading.
EUV Imager Mirrors
Nine F/0.5 primary mirrors to be used in a spaceborne EUV Imager. These mirrors were figured to an accuracy of better than an eighth wave with a surface roughness of better than three Angstroms rms.
SLOAN 2.5 Meter Primary
A hyperbolic F/2.2 2.5 meter primary mirror for the SLOAN digital sky survey. This telescope will be used to perform a digital sky survey in support of cosmology studies. The following article shows a detailed description of the implemented telescope complete with optical prescription, image analysis, and photographs: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/PBOOK/telescop/telescop.htm
Multiple Mirror Telescope Primary and Secondary Mirrors for the Smithsonian Institute and Stewart Observatory
Fabricated seven 1.8 meter diameter primary mirrors and six secondary mirrors. This telescope was based on new technology which utilized six primary mirror segments to effectively act as one monolithic mirror.
Allegheny Observatory 30″ Objective
Fabricated a 30″ doublet objective which was achromatized for the red. This telescope is used to search for planetary systems outside our solar system.
United States Naval Observatory Astrographic Lens System
Fabricated five lenses ranging in size from 8.5″ to 10.5″ which comprised the Astrographic Lens System. This system is used to take distortion free photographs of the sky in order to accurately track the movement of stars. This is arguably the best lens of its kind in the world.
Developmental Ultra-lightweight Metal Foam Telescopes for the United States Department of Defense
Fabricated several developmental telescopes which used metal foam primary mirrors. The mirror sizes ranged from 8″ to 16″ in diameter.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1.5 Meter Off-Axis Parabola
Developed a new technology for fabricating large off-axis optics. Fabricated a 1.5 meter optic for JPL and performed fabrication research on several other optics involved in the SDI program.
Optical System for the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer
Fabricated the optics for a spaceborne optical system which is used for geological studies. This work was performed by the following organizations: Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States Geological Survey, Dept de Recherche Spatiale (France), Max Planck Institut fur Aeronomie (Germany), and Technesche Universitat Braunschweig (Germany).
NASA Fabrication Experiments
Developed and utilized fabrication methods to produce large antenna reflector mold segments used for replicating optical surfaces. Fabricated several convex off-axis paraboloid optics for the Solar Telescope Project.
Bok 2.3 Meter Telescope Primary mirror
Fabricated a 2.3 meter primary for a telescope located at Kitt Peak National Observatory and operated by Steward Observatory.
2 Meter Aperture Collimator
Fabricated the optics for a three mirror collimator which produces a 2 meter diameter beam for the United States Army Missle Command.
High Gravity Environment Infrared Source Collimators
Fabricated several two element collimator systems for the United States Air Force which produced 6″ diameter unobscured beams and can survive a 10G load.
Test Optics for the 6.5 Meter MMT Conversion Primary Mirror
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NIH selects Clemson student for innovative program
CLEMSON — George Fercana of Greenville, a doctoral student in Clemson University’s bioengineering department, was one of 27 students around the country selected to participate in an innovative new program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center located in Bethesda, Md.
The Clinical and Translational Research for Ph.D. Students program is designed to highlight the collaborative process of translating basic research into practical clinical applications. The program encourages future scientists to consider a career in clinical or translational research.
“The NIH is the largest funding agency in the U.S. for biomedical research,” said Fercana, a native of Florence. “Understanding clinical and translational research from the perspective of the NIH is important for my development as a scientist, especially since my future career may involve my participation in clinical trials.”
This free, two-week program took place at the nation’s research hospital, known for the first use of chemotherapy to treat cancer and first use of zidovudine (AZT) to treat AIDS.
“A primary goal of this program was to highlight Ph.D. scientists conducting clinical and translational research at the NIH,” said Dr. Juan Lertora, faculty lead for the program. “This group of students was highly motivated and took advantage of this opportunity while also going through a formal didactic curriculum that introduced them to the ethical and scientific principles that guide research in human subjects.”
During the program, participants:
- met with clinician investigators and heard Ph.D. translational investigators present their research;
- participated in a mock institutional review board;
- learned the process of filing an investigational new drug application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and
- received tutorials on training and funding opportunities.
“This program taught me how to design robust studies and critically analyze the outcomes and implications of existing studies,” Fercana said. “I also had the invaluable opportunity to discuss the research performed at Clemson under the supervision and mentoring of Dan Simionescu, associate professor in Clemson’s department of bioengineering, with investigators at the Clinical Center and use their insights to help improve my studies here at Clemson University.”
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The 21st century killer picture being placed at the modern art exhibition’s wall can be described as the art masterpiece that is beautiful to death on one artist’s hand and is super cheap on the other one. In other words the application that possesses simple for understanding code base, uses the minimum amount of resources and realizes all of the requested by the customer or market requirements. Golang - is the perfect instrument for painting any networks projects and the main tool being used by the Ordnance Networks team of artists.
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Being a religious leader is as much a way of life as a career. It requires dedication and a strong belief in a particular faith.
It may take many years to become a religious leader because the role is often based on knowledge, experience and standing within the religion.
The titles and roles of the religious leader differ between faiths, but certain parts of the work apply to most religions:
Religious leaders may also have administrative duties, as well as working on committees, fundraising and visiting institutions such as prisons.
Some leaders also write regularly for religious publications, and others become involved in issues such as human rights and social welfare.
Religious leaders often work irregular hours. There will be set times for certain activities such as services and meetings, but religious leaders must be available for their followers at all times.
Leaders will spend time working in an office, either in a religious building or their own home. They may also travel to visit people, and some religious groups meet in people’s homes. Some ceremonies take place outdoors.
Some religious leaders may travel abroad to meet other members of their religion, or visit holy places. Others live a communal life, where they devote themselves to prayer and study.
To be a religious leader you should:
Religion still plays a part in modern society, and about two thirds of the UK population claim to believe in some form of supreme being. Christianity is still the dominant religion in the UK, but many other faiths are practised.
There are no set ways of being promoted, and each religion has a different structure. In some religions you may be recommended to fulfil a position by other more senior members; in others, you may have to apply for vacant posts.
Opportunities also exist to practice religion in the armed forces, as a minister, priest, imam, rabbi or pastor.
There may be opportunities to become involved in other areas of religious affairs such as administration, counselling, teaching, or interfaith relations.
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According to the United States Geological Survery (USGS), there are still locations where you can stake a claim if you find gold. The most likely states to find gold include California, Wyoming, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Colorado, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, Washington, North Dakota and South Dakota. You can go out and search on your own in any unappropriated federal land. However, the easiest way to get started is going through one of the recreational mining companies.
Chicken Gold Camp and Outpost
Chicken Gold Camp and Outpost (chickengold.com) is located in Chicken, Alaska. Not only does the site cater to present-day gold-hunting tourists, but it is built on the same site where an authentic 1930s gold mining camp was located. Learn about the history of gold mining in Alaska. You can stay at the campground or rent a cabin or single room. Other activities at the camp include kayaking, hiking and ATV trails and a local music festival.
The Phoenix Gold Mine
The Phoenix Gold Mine (phoenixgoldmine.com) is located in Idaho Springs, Colorado. You'll pan for gold on Trail Creek, which is where the Phoenix gold vein is located. This vein of gold was first discovered in 1871. You'll learn all about the history of the mine while there. The cost to gain access to the area includes a tour of the original mining operations and then the chance to pan for gold yourself. You also have the option of panning for gold all day, if you'd prefer to only pan. The location is open year-round.
Alta Ranch (alta-ranch.com) is located in Darby, Montana. You will pan for gold under an old mining camp. It is located only four hours to the south of Glacier National Park, making a trip to Alta Ranch a family vacation destination with access to one of nature's wonders within a day's drive. You can rent a cabin for the entire family. Other things to do in the area include hiking, horseback riding, hot springs and rock hounding or digging for gemstones.
Faith Creek Camp
Faith Creek Camp (angelfire.com/ak5/faithcreekgold) is located in Fairbanks, Alaska. You can rent a cabin near the creek and rent equipment to pan or dredge for gold. The facilities are primitive and the main activities involve the outdoor elements of hunting for gold, hiking and just enjoying the peace and quiet of nature. The camp is open from May 15 to September 15. If the weather remains warm enough, the camp is occasionally open after the September 15 date.
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Eye color genes may help forensic investigations
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have identified three new genes that determine subtle variations in human eye color -- clues that could help forensic investigators using DNA left at a crime scene to track down criminal suspects.
Researchers from the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands used a technique called a genome-wide association study, which scans gene maps, to analyze the eye color of about 6,000 Dutch volunteers.
The colors were then digitally quantified and collated using high-resolution photographs of the whole eye, and the scientists found that human eye color varies in many more ways than previously thought.
Previous studies on the genetics of human eye color used broad trait information such as "blue," "green," and "brown," the researchers, led by Manfred Kayser, wrote in the study.
But this study showed that variation in eye color runs in a continuous grading from the lightest blue to the darkest brown.
"These findings are of relevance for future forensic applications where appearance prediction from biological material found at crime scenes may provide investigative leads to trace unknown persons," Kayser said.
Kayser's team pinpointed three new genes which they said were "significantly associated" with quantitative eye color.
Together with previously identified ones, these three genes could explain more than 50 percent of eye color variance, they said -- the highest accuracy so far achieved in using genes to predict a complex human trait.
The study was published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Genetics journal on Thursday and is available here: here:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1000934
(Reporting by Kate Kelland, editing by Paul Casciato)
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‘Strong tourism & lack of toilet facilities’: Austria’s unique emerald-green lake ‘changes color’
The exact reason as to what affected the lake’s environment is unknown but locals attribute the “change” in color of the exceptional lake to the growing levels of algae, which might be both a result of warm winters or constantly growing crowds of tourists who do not shy away from urinating in the pond.
Hubert Sulzer, from the local mountain and nature rescue services told ORF that “strong tourism and a shortage of toilet facilities” might have played a significant role in the lake’s decline.
However, Gerald Weninger from Tragoss Tourism Association who has been living in the area for 20 years said that there was no need to worry about the algae’s appearance.
“When it is cold, the algae are gone. They have appeared again and again for a warm winter. But at a subsequent winter with minus ten, minus 20 degrees, they die again. I think the problem will resolve itself,” Weninger told ORF.
Gruner See located at the Styrian village of Tragoss, Southeast Austria is a renowned tourist attraction and a popular diving site. In June when the water levels of the lake reach their highest levels, trees, along with both a bridge and a bench end up submerged creating a picturesque underwater world. The site has been prohibited from divers and swimmers since January this year in a bid to protect the lake’s flora and fauna.
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Respectfully Remembering Bhagat Chhajju RamJi Gandhi of Jammu Dated 21-05-2019
( His 30th Death Anniversary falls on 22 May,2019) By: - Er. H. R. Phonsa
Bhagat Chhajju Ram (7-3-1907—22ndt May,1989) was the first SC Minister in J&K:- Bhagat Chhajju Ram was born at Ranbhir Singh Pura on 07-03- 1907 to Shri Bhanga Ram and Shrimati Hari Devi Ji. He was eldest of the three siblings: one brother and one sister. He was studying in8th class at Lahore when his father died. At the time of death of his father he had to quit his studies to take care of the his brother and sister at the tender age of 14 years. His parents belonged to Megh Caste , one of recognized Scheduled Castes out of 13in all in J&K. Bhagat Chhajju Ram was a tall fair colored but thin and lean personality. He was teetotaler and lived a simple but purposeful life. Bhagat Chhajju Ram was one among the first crop of Scheduled Caste political leaders in Jammu & Kashmir who contribute a lot for the welfare of his brethren. A fearless leader always expressed his views in clear terms without fear or favour. Once, while explaining the helplessness and discriminatory treatment meted out to his people he said “In J&K we see urea in fields and Khajurias ( A superior Brahmin sub title) in offices questioning is party leaders that where other are to go”. Ever since creation of J&K State and even after Independence , Khajuria, Dogra, Mangotra,Sharmas, Dubeys etc. Brahmns have dominated education, administrative employment, religious affairs. They were Prohits,Pujaries to the Hindu Rulers of the state so were advisors to this state Kings. So only a courageous Dalit with spine could make such remarks against the powerful ruling class. He mostly substantiated his speech with funny jokes, short stories to make home his point to his audiences .
Bhagat Chhajju Ram started his career as a tailor along with Sh. Duni Chand Bhagat. Due to 1947 turmoil Bhagat Chhajju Ram migrated to Jalander ( Punjab) and established his business in sports goods. But soon he returned back to his native place and started his old job of tailoring and subsequently as a cloth merchant. Bhagat Chhajju Ram was a committed Arya Samaji and had good rapport with the Mahajans a business community of his place. He successfully established Arya Samaj Mandir at RSPURA and at Shastri Nagar Jammu, his old age abode. He made good fortune out of his business. Bhagat Chhajju Ram was an honest person and he maintained this tag throughout his life. He was called Gandhi Of J&K. One of his relations told me that once he stated supplying milk to an army unit with his other partners. Bhagat Chhajju Ram soon pulled out of this business sensing corrupt practices adopted by his partners.
Bhagat Chhajju Ram followed Sadguru Kabir’s teaching and he established Kabir Kalyan Kendra Jiri , Kana Chak , Jammu, an important religious place associated with the supreme sacrifice of a Brahmin farmer Bawa Jitto along with his toddler daughter Kiri, for his rights. Bhagat ji wanted to display portraits of all Dalit Saints in this Kendra. Bhagat Chhajju Ram a man of clean habits, continued with this through out his life including morning and evening prayers as per Arya Samaj tradition throughout his life. Regular walking, massaging his body with Sarson ( Mustrad)oil formed his daily habit. Although he had studied only 8th class but had in depth knowledge of the poverty suffering of poor, so he was taking keen interest in ways and means of mitigation of their sufferings. Bhagat Chhajju Ram had political bent of mind from his childhood and had met Baba Sahib Dr. B.R. Ambedkar at Lahore. Bhagat Chhajju Ram was one among the founding fathers of Megh Mandal in early 1930. He got this organization merged with Harijan Mandal to make it broad based and representative of all Scheduled Castesthen known as Harijans. But instrument to merge Harijan Mandal with National Conference against wishes of many others. Bhagat Chhajju Ram contested unsuccessfully for the Praja Sabha in 1938 but was made member of the J&K Constituent Assembly 1951 . Bhagat Chhajju Ram ji had met Dr. Rajinder Prasad also along with Mahasha Nahar Singh another prominent Dalit leader.
Bhagat Chhajju Ram successfully contested elections for Legislative Assembly in 1962,1967,1983 and remained Minister in the state cabinet for pretty long time. Besides other departments he was Minister for Social Welfare department. Bhagat Chhajju Ram was also MLC. He was Vice President (1967-1970) and Acting President ( 1970-1972) of the Indian National Congress. For a brief period he became a member of the Communist Party when it was formed by many leaders like Ram Paira Saraf, K.D. Sethi ,G.L. Dogra and others. But soon he returned to National Conference. Bhagat Chhajju Ram had close rapport with many National and State leaders.
I had a personal acquaintances with Bhagat Ji from 1960 and he was instrument in getting me admission in the Regional Engineering College ( Now NIT) Srinagar in 1961 from where I passed out as a first Scheduled Caste Engineer in the J&K State in 1966. Till then no body from all Dalit castes put to gather had privilege to qualify as Engineer. Bhagat Ji also snatched for me first appointment by giving a tough duel with then PWD Minister, RS Jamwal in the presence of CM, Late G.M. Sadiq. Bhaggat Ji was ever ready to help all poor and deprived sections of society more so Scheduled Castes. Our leaders of that time namely, Bhagat Chhajju Ram, Babu Parmanand, Choudhary Guran Ditta Mal, Jagat Ram Aryan, Babu Milkhi Ram, Mahasha Nahar Singh and others had dedicated their lives in the welfare of the Dalit masses. They had their personal difference at times but for common cause they were one. The only common matter they did not co-operate, as required was lending helping hand to Amar Shaheed Bhagat Amar nath ji who undertook fast unto death for the cause of Scheduled castes Frankly speaking I also proposed Bhagat Amarnath ji to delay his decision as our samaj was not prepared for such a drastic step.But he was adamant to go ahead with his plans and the unfortunately we lost him. With their active fight of our leaders of the times 40 Housing plot were got reserved/allotted to Scheduled caste persons in the Shastri Nagar Jammu colony by the Housing department. Now we have substantial perence of our people there. This right of scheduled caste had been criminally ignored while developing Gandhi Nagar colony. With these leaders in the Medical and Engineering college Srinagar education the Scheduled caste students were granted with both facilities of Scholarship and education Loan against only one facility in the initial years. Some people do disservice to him by restricting him to a particular caste when he worked for all toiling humanity. This needs to be stopped forthwith.
This son of the soil passed away at his home in Shastri Nagar on 22nd May, 1989 at an age of 82 years. His services to the downtrodden masses shall be long remembered with reverence. Let us salute his memories and his services rendered to poor, neglected, illiterates, ill fed of our society.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
The recent opinion of the Ninth Circuit in Beville v. Ford Motor Co., Inc., 2009 WL 394809 (9th Cir. 2009), presents a nice illustration of two types of jury conduct that do not form a proper predicate for jury impeachment.
In Beville, Dawn Beville sued the Ford Motor Company, alleging that Ford's decision not to mandate a back-up alarm on one of its semi-truck models was a design defect and that the defect caused an accident in which of one of these vehicles backed up into Paul Beville, crushing and killing him. And after a jury entered a verdict in favor of Ford, Dawn moved for a new trial.
Part of the basis for her motion was that (a) one juror prepared a series of questions and answers while at home during a break in deliberations and discussed these notes with the jury, and (b) another juror discussed his personal experience with a forklift. The Ninth Circuit, however, found that neither of these alleged acts formed the proper predicate for jury impeachment pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b), which indicates in relevant part that:
Upon an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment, a juror may not testify as to any matter or statement occurring during the course of the jury's deliberations or to the effect of anything upon that or any other juror's mind or emotions as influencing the juror to assent to or dissent from the verdict or indictment or concerning the juror's mental processes in connection therewith. But a juror may testify about (1) whether extraneous prejudicial information was improperly brought to the jury's attention, (2) whether any outside influence was improperly brought to bear upon any juror, or (3) whether there was a mistake in entering the verdict onto the verdict form.
With regard to the juror's shared notes, the Ninth Circuit correctly found that the jurors shared notes were neither extraneous prejudicial information nor an improper outside influence because "the notes reflected the juror's internal thought processes, and there is no evidence the juror relied on extrinsic materials in preparing them." And with regard to the juror's forklift comments, the court again correctly concluded that "[t]he personal experiences described here were of the type permissible for discussion during juror deliberations." As support for this finding, the court cited to its previous opinion in Grotemeyer v. Hickman, 393 F.3d 871, 879 (9th Cir. 2004), where it noted that:
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Cherryholmes – A family’s flying leap into bluegrass
That last step might have played out very differently in some households, because the simple fact is, the Cherryholmes family was not raised in the bluegrass world at all. They had but the vaguest idea what the music even was as little as seven years ago — and the astonishing truth is that most family members had not even picked up an instrument, certainly not the ones they play today, or sung outside of church, before 1999.
In a story often told now, the Cherryholmeses — deeply committed evangelical Christians who oriented toward self-reliance and even survivalism and home-schooled their kids — reached a family crisis in ’99 with the death of their eldest daughter Shelly, at age 20, after her chronic heart problems. A casual trip to a bluegrass festival during the depths of their grief, and the closeness of the community and the spirit and musical fun spotted in the Jim & Jesse show onstage, led to Jere’s vision of forming a family bluegrass band to re-focus and energize them after their loss.
The family’s musical progression in the technically challenging genre since makes you wonder if they’d casually visited a medical convention whether they’d be a team of neurosurgeons now.
Sandy Lee started hitting the bargain record bins and the books, learning the original bluegrass repertoire. She’d studied music and theater growing up, and could read sheet music and play piano — but her interests had been more along the lines of Streisand-style pop and operetta.
Before the family bluegrass band was formed, Jere and Sandy Lee had a home keyboard studio where they were playing Celtic-oriented synthesizer music — shades of Enya and the Alan Parsons Project. (They’d been to a lot of Celtic festivals because Jere had been competing in Highland Games rock-tossing competitions!)
The band’s bluegrass teacher, Sandy Lee, and leader, Jere, were themselves students. For some time, what the band played and how they sang it was determined by what they could begin to handle.
Molly was first taught autoharp before moving on to fiddle when she was 6. Sandy Lee was learning bluegrass runs from standard texts, and teaching them to family members via piano even as she was learning chops on the mandolin herself. Since the family band needed a workable lineup of instruments, those were assigned, no arguments accepted. By all reports, Cia first found her banjo, and B.J. his fiddle, the worst choices imaginable. That, obviously, would change. The early introduction of dancing met some initial resistance too, but it’s an essential, memorable part of the act today, and everybody takes part.
Family musical prowess accrued through that relentless touring schedule, which really started to pile on in 2002. Mentors and influences including Jimmy Martin and the Vincents were encountered along the way, as audience response grew. The kids’ musical interests branched out to the likes of jazz fiddlers such as Stephane Grappelli to classical music — and, as their live twin-fiddle take on Bob Wills’ “Faded Love” shows, to western swing. A bit of the old Celt sounds and Sandy Lee’s prowess as a yodeler emerge onstage today as well.
Cherryholmes was never designed to be a gospel group — though, as with most trad bluegrass, there’s a set of testifying and praise songs within their shows. Their religious and moral sense does lead them to avoid certain venues and sorts of material — and for all their intensity, they place considerable emphasis on their desire to win larger audiences without falling prey to the familiar excesses of the pop music world. So there’s a lot of togetherness — on the bus.
In September, Jere had a crowd at Nashville’s Station Inn laughing about that: “I travel around with my family all the time. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day. And three of them are teenagers! Sitting on that bus after a fifteen-hour day, late at night, it was very easy to write a couple of murder ballads.”
Or, as Elvis-intense son B.J. puts it, “There are times where we just get sick of each other; we have to get away. A lot of bands tour 300 days out of the year, but they go home away from the rest of the band members the rest of the week!”
In fact, B.J. has become a fount of band ideas, in production and sounds. The Dirt Band’s “Workin’ Man” was turned into a harder-driving, old-timey/honky-tonk melange for the new CD at his suggestion, and he’s taking more vocal leads on tougher songs like that one now. Producer Ben Isaacs was impressed by bandleader Jere’s willingness to give all family members room to contribute ideas.
Today, the Cherryholmes kids are rising musicians in their own right, with quite sophisticated handles on bluegrass history and players. And just like their folks, their ambitions for the future are family-centered, unambiguous, and straightforwardly put.
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Foreign Service Method French Basic Course Downloads available!
Four levels are available to lead you to mastery of French. Once completed you will be able to understand spoken and written French; it will also allow you to actively engage in conversations with an abundant vocabulary of several thousand words. More information for French Basic...
This is a modern course, revised by Monique Cossard and the FSI staff. It follows a format of learning, practice and progress at your own pace, which is standard to these courses. For beginning students, the twenty-four units are designed for a six-month intensive training program of six hours of work per day, plus outside preparation. Each unit presents a situational topic introduced in a dialogue, and usually five grammar points. Each grammar point is preceded by grammar notes which generally are expressed in non-technical terms. Planned in four volumes, the French Basic Course was designed to help students reach a level of proficiency which will enable them to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations. The complete course comes with four books and 101 CDs. FSI French is also available in a Digital Edition on CD-ROM, with the recordings in MP3 audio files and the text in PDF format, and also as downloads.
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We are now offering a combined package of French Levels 1-4 pre-loaded on the iPod Touch 8 GB Flash portable music/video/software WiFi enabled handheld, or the iPod Nano 8 GB Flash memory player.
The new iPod lets you take music videos and TV shows on the road. Now you can study your French anywhere, with a portable audio package that is tiny, reliable, and robust! Tune up on your pronunciation, practice your verbs, work on conversation anywhere, with the entire set of lessons of FSI French. The player comes preloaded with all the MP3 audio tracks. With this tiny player, you can carry a year's worth of language lessons, practicing pronunciation and conversation drills with the audio tracks, read a PDF lesson on the Touch, or read or print it out on any computer. We'll also include a set of CD-ROMs of the courses that come preloaded, in case you would rather just use them on a computer the old-fashioned way, and as back-ups in case anything goes wrong.
Complete French On The Go Package with the iPod Touch $100 off! Was $495, now $395!
Comes with all four levels of Foreign Service Method French as audio MP3s preloaded on the iPod Touch 8 GB Flash portable music/video/software WiFi enabled handheld. $395 French 2-Level On The Go Package with the iPod Nano
Comes with the first two levels of Foreign Service Method French as audio MP3s preloaded on the iPod Nano, a portable music/video player with 8 GBs of storage capacity in Flash memory format. $325 More information for French On The Go!...
10 minutes a day Series with CD-ROM for French
Imagine speaking a new language! This Book / Interactive CD-ROM Series by Kristine K. Kershul, and Bilingual Books, Inc., will have you speaking a foreign language in no time. You'll communicate with ease and have those travel experiences you've always dreamed of. More on the 10 minutes a day Series...
Imagine speaking a new language! This Book / Interactive CD-ROM Series by Kristine K. Kershul, and Bilingual Books, Inc., will have you speaking a foreign language in no time. You'll communicate with ease and have those travel experiences you've always dreamed of. The 132-page Books are filled with exercises, Sticky Labels, Flash Cards and other study tools which fit cleverly into your daily routine to make learning enjoyable. The new Interactive CD-ROM brings these 10 minutes a day® study tools to your computer so you have more ways to play and have fun with your new language. Soon, you'll be ordering a meal, making new friends and finding your way around town—all in a foreign language. Now you're ready for the trip of a lifetime! (Windows and Mac CD-ROM).
Pimsleur Comprehensive French Courses
This is a state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken French. The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning quickly.
Power-Glide Ultimate Course for French For grades 9-12
Open the door to new skills and opportunities that only learning a new language can provide. With the most innovative and effective language teaching activities available, these courses start you on a path toward language fluency.
Ultimate Year 1 is easy enough for beginners, but robust enough to take you through the equivalent of at least 1 year of high school study. Ultimate Year 2 picks up right where the Year 1 course ends and provides the equivalent of at least 1 more year of high school study. And since Power-Glide is fully accredited through the Northwest Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities you're assured of quality and ease of obtaining credit. The activities in the courses are diverse enough to accomodate many different learning styles and aptitudes. You'll find music, stories, memory aids, Diglot-Weaves, you-are-there adventures, kinesthetic, visual, audio activities, and more. In addition, Power-Glide can be used with or without a teacher, or in groups or individually and self-paced. With Workbook, 4-6 audio CDs, and an interactive CD-ROM (Windows-Mac compatible).
Linguaphone Comprehensive Acquisition Bundle for French
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Many courses on the market today will list everything that you will learn line-by-line. Linguaphone courses teach you the language and how to use it. When you're finished with the course, you will not be able to simply repeat the phrases that you've learned, you will be able to create your own sentences and have your own conversations. Linguaphone will give you the necessary tools to actually use your new language and make it a part of yourself. Through the use of the Comprehensive Acquisition Course, you will quickly train and develop the 4 primary language skills: Comprehension (Listening & Understanding), Speaking, Reading, and Writing. Unlike traditional methods of learning a new language, with the Linguaphone method of language acquisition, you are in complete control of your learning. The courses were created with many different learning styles in mind. You can go as fast or as slow as you see fit. You won't be bogged down with endless, mind-numbing repetition and won't feel left behind.
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This revolutionary product is dramatically altering how language-learning is approached. The allTalk course is a favorite with language learners because of its combination of effective and entertaining learning that helps you learn a language and enjoy it!
Plus, with the allTalk Complete course you learn more and spend less. allTalk Complete is like three comprehensive all-audio courses together in one course. Sixteen hour-long all audio CDs let you learn in your car, while you exercise, or while relaxing at home. Learn 2000 words with the allTalk Complete course - much more vocabulary than any similarly priced course ... or as much as three levels of other comprehensive all-audio courses that cost many times more!
And now download the allTalk Complete All-Audio Course in a digital MP3 version, and get it today - and save $125 over the CD version! This is the same version, but without the phrasebook, and is great for the on-the-go lifestyle; learn on your iPod, netbook, or cellphone, wherever you are!
Linguaphone French allTalk Basic Starter Course
In this course, you will learn starting from a beginner/basic level of speaking and advance to a high-intermediate to low-advanced level of speaking. You'll learn communication skills in a variety of everyday circumstances and learn how to interact with native speakers at every turn.
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Linguaphone French PDQ Quick Acquisition Course
This is an amazingly efficient course that helps you quickly get on your feet with acquiring a new language. This course is great for students, travelers, and businesspeople.
You will learn how to communicate in a variety of situations from common situations faced by travelers and businesspeople, to everyday conversations in which you discuss yourself, your family, and your life. The key is learning to converse. With Linguaphone's PDQ course, you aren't just taught words and phrases, but you're coached on how to actually converse using your new language. No need to be glued to a computer or textbook, you can use the 4 audio CDs in your car, MP3 player, or any other CD player. They are a perfect on-the-go alternative to acquiring a new language. You can learn in your car and then reinforce your knowledge with the workbook/learning guide. Then, once you have a basic understanding of the language, you can dramatically increase your communication abilities through the acquisition of hundreds of phrases in our comprehensive 250-page phrasebook.
And now download the PDF Quick Acquisition Course in a digital MP3 version, and get it today - and save $20 over the CD version! This is the same version, but without the phrasebook, and is great for the on-the-go lifestyle; learn on your iPod, netbook, or cellphone, wherever you are!
Accelerated Learning Language Course for French
The Accelerated Learning method is a rich, multi-sensory "theater of the mind." All of your senses are involved so that learning a foreign language becomes as easy as your mother tongue. As children we all learned to speak not just by listening but by seeing and doing.
By imitating sounds, copying our parents' actions and associating the sounds with the actions speaking came naturally. With Accelerated Learning you learn your new language - Spanish, French, German or Italian - in exactly the same way that you learned your first language. Based on research from diverse experts in the field of education and psychology - from Bulgarian Georgi Lozanov who pioneered the use of Baroque music, to Howard Gardner of Harvard with his Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Accelerated Learning home study courses provide a wide variety of physical, visual and auditory stimulation. Because your whole brain is involved learning becomes faster, more enjoyable and much more effective. Each foreign language course contains the revolutionary physical learning DVD and booklet, 12 CDs (each 60 minutes long), text book with memory maps, the "name game", and a series of word cards and games.
Street French 1 through 3 The Best of French Slang and more!
The first in the series is Street French 1; The Best of French Slang:
Even after years of trying to learn French, you still have trouble conversing with a native speaker. Why? Because everyday French is filled with slang and colloquialisms.
This fun guide is the first in a series of books that teach how to speak and understand the real language used daily on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends. Entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, word searches, and will have you sounding like a native in a flash.
This is continued with Street French 2; The Best of French Idioms:
This fully-illustrated guide explores yet another inside language that must be mastered in order to be considered truly fluent in French: idioms - those quaint and quirky expressions are impossible to understand literally (like "You're pulling my leg!") but are used in any conversation between native speakers. This book is packed with word games, dialogues using idioms, crossword puzzles, find-a-word grids, and special tips guaranteed to make you au jus ("up-to-date" or, literally, "juiced up") before you know it!
And finally, there is Street French 3; The Best of Naughty French:
This is the first step-by-step guide of its kind to explore the most common curses, crude terms, and obscenities used in France. This entertaining book is designed to help you understand the rudest taxi drivers, the most impertinent salespeople, and even the author's Aunt Mimi! Chapters include: Dating Slang, Non-vulgar/Vulgar Insults & Put-downs, Name-Calling, Body Parts in Slang, Sexual Slang, Bodily Functions, Sounds & Smells, plus the many uses of Merde, & Foutre.
The Twisted Doors (Les Portes Tordues) by Dr. Kathie Dior The Scariest Way in the World to Learn and Listen to French!
Whoever heard of of curling up on a nice, soft, warm couch to actually enjoy learning French? The first chapters are a warm-up, but you must learn them well or else!
Then, hang on tight to your pillow, for this will be the scariest way in the world to learn a language! The Twisted Doors is a bilingual French-English illustrated mystery and grammar combined with an accompanying audio CD. Just read along and listen to the captivating mystery and improve or perfect your comprehension of spoken French! Suitable for beginners, intermediates, self-learners, it offers educational material as taught at Purdue University's Gifted Education Resource Institute, was among the top 10 French resources picked by Laura K. Lawless for About.com, and received an AATF's editor rating of 5 Fleurs de lis. Each edition includes 46 chapters, 165 pages, 2-sided printing on 8½ X 10¾ high-quality paper, 37 victorian-like ink illustrations, and an audio CD with 46 tracks compatible with PC CD-ROMs, Mac CD-ROMs, car, portable, and home stereos. A package of 10 is also available for schools and teachers. | <urn:uuid:6eb9060e-8193-4c72-b1a0-e631e4e21f65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://multilingualbooks.com/french.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00343-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934313 | 2,976 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Indian Succession Act
This Act deals with distribution of property among legal heirs of the deceased person as per the will or testament. It includes Hindus, Budhists, Sikhs, Jainas, who have died after making their will. It covers all other persons as well who have died whether with or without making a will, however Muslims are largely governed by Muslims personal law.
A person, so long as he is alive is free to deal with his property in a way he likes. He is, by making a will, free to lay down his own scheme of distribution of his property after his death. This is known as testamentary disposition. The law of testamentary succession deals with the rules relating to passing of property on relations as well as others (as prescribed in the will).
The law of succession is classified as under :
Testamentary succession and intestate succession.
Testator : A person who dies leaving a valid will and testament.
Testament : Testament means “willâ€.
Testamentary : Pertaining to or concerning a last will and testament. A document which is testamentary (written in legal language) in character must be executed in accordance with the formalities prescribed by law or it will be given no effect.
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NOVA delves into the untold story of a secret U.S. Air
Force-run program designed to launch military astronauts on spy missions in
space during the Cold War.
the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) to be
leaders in space technology in order to gain an advantage in the Cold War.
the necessity for human involvement in the space spy program due to the
inability of America's first spy satellites to take useful pictures
during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
introduces a number of talented USAF members who were recruited and trained at
California's Aerospace Research Pilot School.
that the recruits were actually part of a secret crew selection for a military
the 1963 public announcement of the manned orbiting laboratory (MOL) program
and its stated goal of conducting experiments on the survivability of military
astronauts in space and their ability to observe and track objects on the
that the MOL was not actually intended for experiments, but as a highly secret
mission to spy on and photograph enemy targets in real time using a telescope
with a four-inch resolution.
the experiences of the crew involved in the MOL program, including how they
trained for working in space and how they were instructed not to tell
anyone—even their families—what they were doing.
the challenges of obtaining detailed photos of targets from space and reviews
the strategies developed to improve resolution, including lowering the MOL
orbit over points of interest and using a six-foot lens.
on the USSR's simultaneous development of a manned spy satellite.
the cancellation of the MOL project in 1969 in favor of the development of
unmanned spy satellites that could transmit high-quality video signals back to
Earth almost instantly.
on the Soviet's subsequent launch of Almaz, an orbiting spy station equipped with sophisticated technology
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When viruses invade microbes, many of the microbes die, but those that survive will grab some of the virus’s DNA and insert it into a CRISPR spacer. The microbe can then use this viral DNA to identify future viral invaders and target them for destruction. Cas enzymes are guided to viral DNA and then chop it up, so that the virus cannot replicate. Scientists discovered that they could use this CRISPR-Cas system to enter a cell, snip out any segment of DNA that they targeted, and then have the cell stitch a new gene into the open space. Moreover, they could do this not only for somatic cells, but also for germ cells (eggs and sperm). Doing it for germ cells would mean that the genetic changes would be passed down by the biological inheritance of offspring. Recent research has shown that this can be done with human embryos. This suggests the possibility that parents could use this technique to genetically enhance their children with genetic propensities for better bodies and better minds, and that this redesign of the human genome could be passed down by inheritance to the next generation.
Properly understood, this should teach us at least three lessons about human evolution—lessons about the Lamarckian character of biological evolution, about the natural sources of technological evolution, and about how evolved human nature limits the power of genetic technology.
First, notice that CRISPR is an adaptive immune system that learns from its experience with the viral enemies of microbes and passes on what it has learned to the descendants of the microbes. It has been generally assumed that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the evolutionary inheritance of acquired traits has been refuted by Darwinian biology. Actually, Charles Darwin himself accepted Lamarckian evolution as one of the mechanisms of evolutionary change. And CRISPR shows that Lamarckian inheritance really does occur in nature. Using CRISPR for the genetic engineering of children could become a form of intentional evolution in which parents use scientific knowledge and technology to direct the evolutionary inheritance of acquired traits for the improvement of human life.
The second lesson here is about the natural sources of the technological evolution of genetic engineering. We might see genetic engineering as manifesting the modern scientific project, first proposed by Francis Bacon in the seventeenth century, for the human mastery of nature for the relief of the human estate. We might think that such a conquest of nature requires the human invention of artificial tools. But notice that CRISPR is not a human invention but something that scientists discovered in nature. Microbes have been using CRISPR to edit their DNA for millions of years. Once we understand how this works in nature, we can then use it for genetic engineering. This confirms Bacon’s observation that “nature to be commanded must be obeyed,” because “all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural bodies,” and then “the rest is done by nature working within.” And thus we should see how the power of biotechnology is limited by the potentialities inherent in nature.
That leads us to the third lesson—how evolved human nature limits the power of genetic technology. A realistic assessment of genetic engineering avoids both the exaggerated hopes of the optimists and the exaggerated fears of the pessimists, because we should see that genetic engineering will always be limited in its technical means and its moral ends.
It will be limited in its technical means, because an individual's traits of personality and intelligence arise in unpredictable ways from a complex interaction of genes, brains, life history, and social environment that is not determined by one or a few genes. Genetic engineering can possibly eliminate some genetic disorders that are strongly influenced by a few genes. But the complex traits of the human mind are not genetically determined in any simple way.
example, proponents of human genetic engineering often say that it will allow
parents to increase the innate intelligence of their children by selecting
those genes that enhance intelligence.
But while there surely is some genetic contribution to human
intelligence, research in behavioral genetics suggests that intelligence arises
as much from environmental factors as from genetic propensities. Moreover, the genetic basis of intelligence
depends on so many genes interacting in such complex ways that it will be
impossible to control this through changes in one or a few genes.
Even if we could explain exactly the multiple genetic causes of intelligence, we would still have to explain how these genes influence neural activity and how genetic propensities and neural activity interact with environmental contingencies in the unique life histories of particular human beings. And all of this would presuppose that we could agree on how to define and measure “intelligence,” even though both scientific research and common-sense experience suggest that there are different kinds of intelligence—for example, analytic intelligence, verbal intelligence, practical intelligence, musical intelligence, and kinesthetic intelligence. For all of these reasons, we are unlikely to ever succeed in the genetic engineering of intelligence.
Genetic engineering will also be limited in its moral ends, because parents will want to use this technology to improve the chances that their children will be healthy and happy, and thus the parents will be guided by the same natural desires of our evolved human nature that have always motivated parents in the care of their children.
For these reasons, we should welcome genetic engineering as helping us to treat some genetic disorders, but we should not expect that it will ever fundamentally transform human nature. We should give up both the utopian hopes of the transhumanists and the apocalyptic fears of the bioconservatives.
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Over the past decade, the British welfare state has undergone the most fundamental reforms since World War II. Much discussion of current policy focuses on the global issues of cuts, privatization and the scope of the state sector. This book argues that the organizational reforms of the 1990s are also of far-reaching significance and will play a major role in setting the agenda for welfare policy into the next century. The new welfare settlement emphasizes decentralization, the use of markets, an autonomous managerialism, a stronger voice for consumers and a greater role for the private sector. Reformers claim that the changes allow a more efficient, flexible and responsive welfare system, while critics argue that they will lead to greater inequality and to discrimination against the most vulnerable groups of service users. This book differs from other recent publications in its emphasis on the changes in the organization and delivery of services.
It examines the emergence of the new managerial ideology in central and local government, considers the similarities and differences between the UK and other European countries and reviews policy change across the range of public services. The concluding chapter evaluates competing explanations of why the transformation has occurred and discusses future developments. The book provides a practical discussion of the issues, and should be of value to a wide range of students and welfare practitioners. | <urn:uuid:0c9b4c97-a213-4459-8762-5042673a0872> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.booksetc.co.uk/books/view/markets-and-managers-9780335157907 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00535-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92826 | 251 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Renzi says Italy afraid to prove its worth
Italians often have a distorted identity, says premier02 April, 19:53
Leaving a summit of European Union and African leaders in Brussels, Renzi said Italians often have a distorted "crumpled" view of who they are and fail to recognize their value.
"We are the seventh main United Nations donor," he said.
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FQHCs are struggling to care for an increasing number of underserved, disadvantaged, and at-risk populations. In most communities, especially in rural areas, sub-specialty care is not organized to promote prevention and early intervention, coordinate services, or monitor access to and quality of care. Moreover, public and private funding to subsidize care remains inadequate, despite growing community needs associated with increases in the uninsured and aging populations. Consequently, many people are left to seek care in emergency rooms, often as a last resort, in an unmanaged and episodic manner.
Telehealth365, Inc. has responded to these challenges by taking steps to design and implement new and innovative ways of providing care to serve these special populations. Medicaid and Medicare patient face the major barrier to adequate medical care continues to be the mal-distribution of medical specialists. Our current clinical partners continue to tell us that the availability of our OmniPresence Clinics coupled with our network of sub-specialists has made it possible for their communities to offer care to patients who would normally not have been able to receive any cardiology, endocrinology, dermatology or psychiatric care.
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Where is Pig's beloved stuffed hippo? He's looked high and low but Henry Hippo is nowhere to be found! The Super Readers shrink down to the size of ants and join teeny tiny Thumbelina on her GREAT BIG adventure to find her missing brother. They assist Thumbelina in her mission and Pig gets a helping hand along the way. Educational Objectives: To learn that you don't have to do things alone, explore the alphabet, practice the magic of spelling, and use the power to read to change the story. | <urn:uuid:8ffdaed4-12d9-45d0-b654-d94de7638ea6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tv.azpm.org/schedules/episode/3709/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.947269 | 111 | 2.296875 | 2 |
In 2012, biomedical engineering professor Chandra Mohan published a study in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy which outlined the use of a new drug that successfully treated lupus in mice and reduced the number of cases of lupus-related kidney disease.
Mohan, who serves as Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, worked closely with collaborators at Pharmacyclics, Inc. – a biopharmaceutical company that designs, develops and commercializes novel medical therapies and treatments – to conduct his research on this novel drug for lupus patients. Now, Mohan has received a $250,000, two-year grant from Pharmacyclics to expand this research by studying an improved version of the same drug on mice with several other autoimmune diseases.
The drug that Mohan and his Pharmacyclics collaborators are focused on works by targeting B cells, which are key cells in the immune system that lead to the development of lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that develops when a patient’s immune B cells begin producing antibodies which mistakenly attack the body’s own cells. Although why this happens remains a mystery, Mohan believes that by targeting and silencing these B cells, we may be able to stop or significantly delay the development of lupus in patients who have the disease.
And judging by the results of Mohan’s first attempt to study this drug in mouse models, there’s good reason to believe he might be on to something. “We found that this drug worked as an inhibitor to a key signaling molecule within B cells. In mouse models of lupus, we found it to be very effective – the mice had less antibodies and less kidney disease.”
But bad-behaving B cells aren’t responsible only for the development of lupus; B cells have been shown to play a role in nearly all autoimmune diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis to celiac disease. Based on the encouraging results from Mohan’s first attempt to study this drug in mice models, Mohan and his Pharmacyclics collaborators will now be expanding the research to look at whether the drug can be used as an effective treatment for many other systemic autoimmune diseases.
Most patients suffering from autoimmune diseases are treated with steroids, a class of immunosuppressive drugs which delay the development and progression of autoimmune diseases by suppressing the patient’s entire immune system. However, suppressing the entire immune system increases a patient’s risk for infections and other long-standing side effects.
In the past 50 years, only one drug has ever been approved for the treatment of lupus. The fact that the new drug Mohan is researching targets B cells selectively is a very exciting step forward for the treatment of lupus, he said. “The idea is that the more selective the drug is in targeting the causes of lupus, the fewer side effects there will be. Targeting the B cells without depleting them totally is what makes this drug so compelling,” Mohan explained.
Although this drug primarily targets B cells, that does not necessarily mean that the drug isn’t immunosuppressive. If Mohan and his collaborators find in this latest round of research that the drug is effective in mouse models of various autoimmune diseases, the next step will be for them to test how generally immunosuppressive the drug is.
The hope, Mohan said, is that even if this new drug is found to be immunosuppressive, it may carry fewer side effects than steroids and therefore could be approved as an alternative drug option for lupus patients. In a world where so few treatment options exist for lupus patients, adding a new option to the arsenal of drugs approved to treat the disease would be a major victory for lupus patients and healthcare providers alike.
However, Mohan said he remains cautiously optimistic about what the future holds for the treatment of lupus and other autoimmune diseases, explaining that his current research is “only the tip of the iceberg” in terms of introducing new, targeted therapies for the treatment of these diseases.
“One of the things that’s happening in the study of autoimmune diseases is the concerted effort to subset patients into different groups, as there are many different kinds of lupus,” Mohan said. “The idea is that if we can subset lupus patients according to the specific phenotypes they manifest or the specific molecules they possess, we can target therapeutics to that particular pathway.”
“In the next five years, there will be a much richer database of molecular information, and hopefully there will be 10, 20, even 30 different targets for therapeutics so treatments can be tailored to each patient,” he said. | <urn:uuid:1d6d69c6-f7d6-42ea-b8b6-58088437216d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.egr.uh.edu/news/201407/biomedical-engineering-researcher-receives-grant-study-novel-lupus-drug | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00454-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954661 | 1,002 | 2.59375 | 3 |
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ELA/ELD Framework “Cheat Sheet”
English Language Development
Become acquainted with the ELD standards, learn about instructional strategies that support ELLs, and explore online tools to help your ELL students succeed.
- View the California Department of Education’s English Language Development Standards.
- The ELA/ELD Framework bridges the CCSS ELA/Literacy Standards with the ELD Standards, for a more clear understanding of how to support ELLs through Integrated (for all) and Designated (for ELLs) ELD instruction.
- This table of contents “cheat sheet” will help you navigate the ELA/ELD Framework! (The grade-level chapters, which begin in chapter 3, are a particularly helpful resource for teachers.)
- See our ELA/ELD Framework vignette and snapshot resource that directly links to each vignette/snapshot, as well as highlights the content areas and grades addressed.
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Stem cell therapy is acknowledged as having great potential for the treatment of a variety of diseases in both people and animals. The use of bone marrow-derived stem cells is well established in the treatment of human cancer patients, and veterinary applications for bone marrow- and adipose-derived stem cells are being evaluated.
The present and potential clinical applications of mesenchymal stem cell therapy in cats are explored in a state-of-the-art review article published this month in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery.*
The review's authors, Dr Jessica Quimby, of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Ohio State University, and Dr Dori Borjesson, of the Veterinary Institute for Regenerative Cures at the University of California-Davis, consider the emergence of this new therapeutic strategy and the current understanding of the biology and immunology of mesenchymal stem cells.
They also summarise the outcome of clinical trials that have investigated the use of mesenchymal stem cells in the treatment of a number of inflammatory, degenerative and immune-mediated diseases of cats. Management of these conditions conventionally requires lifelong use of medication, with the potential for associated side effects. Some cats may not respond to standard treatment regimens, and the medication may not prevent progression of the underlying disease.
Trials of stem cell therapy for conditions such as feline chronic gingivostomatitis, a severe, painful oral disease estimated to affect up to 12% of cats presenting to veterinary practices, have produced encouraging results. So, too, have trials for enteropathies, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and for asthma. The treatment has been generally well tolerated, with few side effects and, in some cases, has proved curative. The use of stem cells in the treatment of feline chronic kidney disease, however, has been the exception. None of the studies conducted so far in cats have been able to replicate results seen in experimental models in rodents, where definitive decreases in kidney values were seen.
The authors conclude that mesenchymal stem cell therapy has great potential as a therapeutic option in feline disease, but that many questions about the logistics of its use remain to be answered. What is the ideal source of stem cells? What is the optimal route of administration? And what impact does tissue donor status have on stem cell function? Further research is already underway to investigate these aspects of this promising therapy.
*Quimby JM and Borjesson DL. Mesenchymal stem cell therapy in cats. Current knowledge and future potential. J Feline Med Surg 2018; 20: 208–216.
The article is free to read here.
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The F2000 is an assault rifle manufactured by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN Herstal).
The F2000 was first introduced to the public in 2001 as a versatile yet compact rifle. It has a short-stroke gas piston system with an adjustable gas regulator, and fires the 5.56 x 45 mm NATO cartridge from AR-15 magazines. Due to the bullpup arrangement, it is compact yet with a long barrel for accurate firing, although it is slightly heavier than most carbines, such as the G36K or the M4. It features forward ejection of spent shells and a P90-style ambidextrous fire selector, and the charging handle is fully adjustable for right or left handed users.
The standard F2000 comes with a plastic forward handguard and an optical sight with 1.6x magnification. The sight cover and sight itself can be removed to reveal a Picatinny rail. The forward handguard can be removed to equip a variety of accessories such as laser aiming modules (LAM), 40 mm grenade launcher with push-button safety, 12-gauge shotgun, M303 less-lethal launcher, or the triple rail found on the F2000 Tactical. The optical sight can be replaced with a special computerized fire control system designed for the 40mm grenade launcher. The fire control computer makes firing regular grenades much easier, though it cannot fire smart grenades. There is an Israeli system that uses the M203 and computerized sight to fire 40 mm airburst grenades. Neither of these should be confused with the 20 mm and 25 mm grenades of the U.S. OICW program.
Usage around the world
A Norwegian soldier with the F2000.The F2000 rifle is a relatively new weapon system and yet unproven in actual widespread military service. Reports from limited trial and service usage are scarce. Only recently has the F2000 rifle slowly began to be seriously considered by some countries:
The F2000 rifle has been used by the Belgian Army Special Forces Group since 2004 and is a potential successor to the FN FNC currently used by the Belgian Armed Forces as a standard assault rifle.
Peruvian special forces supposedly are actively using the F2000 rifle.
The Chilean Army Special Forces ("Fuerzas Especiales") use the F2000 rifle with the FN P90.
Saudi Arabia is rumored to have signed a contract with FN Herstal in 2005 for 50,000 F2000 rifles to complement their P90s.
In June 2006, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia signed a contract with FN Herstal to purchase 6,500 F2000 rifles as a new standard combat rifle for the Slovenian Armed Forces. This is arguably the first confirmed large-scale adoption for this rifle from a European and NATO member country.
In 2006, the Norwegian Armed Forces started assessing several assault rifles for their new standard combat rifle, among them the F2000.
In the 2006 Operation Astute, peacemaker-forces led by the Australian Defence Forces confiscated several of the weapons from the Timorese police forces. It is not known how the rifles came into the hands of the police forces.
The F2000 platform has a bayonet lug mounted near the muzzle, and has an adjustable gas regulator with two settings: "normal" for standard ammunition meeting SAAMI or NATO specifications, and "adverse" to send more gas into the system to ensure proper functioning when fouled or when using out of spec ammunition. The chamber, rotating breech block, and ejector mechanisms can be accessed by flipping up the access cover, or known affectionately by many operators of the F2000 as the “toilet seat†cover. Spent cases are shifted into the ejection chute by the polymer ejector mechanism. | <urn:uuid:9ecd55fa-2d20-4ac9-9f07-50dbad8df4af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gunslot.com/guns/fn-f2000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938346 | 769 | 1.523438 | 2 |
David Dies – Facing Death (audio)
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1 Kings 1.1-4; 2.10-12
Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm. 2 So his servants said to him, “Let them seek a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her attend the king and become his nurse; and let her lie in your bosom, that my lord the king may keep warm.” 3 So they searched for a beautiful girl throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the 5hunammite, and brought her to the king. 4 The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not cohabit with her. 1 Kings 2 Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. 11 The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.
1. Reactions to Death
2. Understanding Death
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FAIRVIEW, TX (HOOD COUNTY)
FAIRVIEW, TEXAS (Hood County). Fairview is a small rural community located off Farm Road 51 about four miles north of Granbury in northern Hood County. The hamlet probably began about the 1880s, and early settlers included the Baccus, Barton, Dillard, Liles, and Peveler families. The oldest grave in the Fairview Cemetery is that of Lewis J. Peveler, Sr., who died in 1883. By the early 1900s Fairview had a school, and the Fairview district was one of thirty-seven common school districts in Hood County in 1920. County highway maps in the 1930s showed the school and dwellings in the vicinity. By the 1950s the school had closed. No population figures were reported for Fairview until 2000, when the community reported thirty residents. In 2004 a longtime house of worship, the Baptist church, still had active membership, and Fairview Cemetery was still used by area families.
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Explore the robust features of Python to create real-world ArcGIS applications through exciting, hands-on projects
If you have prior experience building simple apps with ArcGIS and now have a fancy for developing a more challenging and complex desktop application in ArcGIS, then this book is ideal for you.
This book is an immersive guide to take your ArcGIS Desktop application development skills to the next level
It starts off by providing detailed description and examples of how to create ArcGIS Desktop Python toolboxes that will serve as containers for many of the applications that you will build. We provide several practical projects that involve building a local area/community map and extracting wildfire data. You will then learn how to build tools that can access data from ArcGIS Server using the ArcGIS REST API. Furthermore, we deal with the integration of additional open source Python libraries into your applications, which will help you chart and graph advanced GUI development; read and write JSON, CSV, and XML format data sources; write outputs to Google Earth Pro, and more. Along the way, you will be introduced to advanced ArcPy Mapping and ArcPy Data Access module techniques and use data-driven Pages to automate the creation of map books.
Finally, you will learn advanced techniques to work with video and social media feeds. By the end of the book, you will have your own desktop application without having spent too much time learning sophisticated theory.
This is an easy-to-follow, project-based guide that guides you through the whole ArcGIS theme with practical, real-world examples and a systematic approach.
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What Does Cervical Mucus Look Like After Ovulation When Pregnant
Dr. Angel Rivera
When you’re on the path to pregnancy, you become hyper-aware of every change in your body.
From measuring your basal body temperature to learning the days you are most likely to ovulate, you’re more tuned in to your body than ever.
One part of your monthly bodily changes you simply can’t ignore? Cervical mucus changes.
We have all the information you need if you aren’t familiar with cervical mucus monitoring.
We’ll cover the cervical mucus method of natural family planning, how to check your cervical mucus, and how to determine where you are in your monthly menstrual cycle by simply understanding your type of cervical mucus.
What Is Cervical Mucus?
When you feel a sudden dollop of unexpected moisture in your undies, you’re experiencing discharge of cervical mucus.
This material that ranges in texture and color comes from your cervix during different times of your monthly cycle.
Depending on where you are in your cycle, your cervical mucus changes.
Hormonal levels change during your cycle, which also causes the mucus your cervix releases to change.
Paying close attention to these changes can help you get pregnant or avoid getting pregnant.
While some people prefer hormonal birth control or prophylactics, others prefer a drug-free alternative to reproductive health and wellness.
Fertility awareness, also known as cervical monitoring, is often used as an ovulation predictor to determine when you are most fertile.
When you are in your “fertile window,” or the time of the month when it is most likely for you to become pregnant, you’ll either have sex to become pregnant, avoid it to avoid becoming pregnant, or use a backup form of birth control.
You can use the cervical mucus monitoring method and the calendar method (charting the days you begin and end your period) to help better learn your body and when you are most likely to ovulate.
How Does Cervical Mucus Change?
Your menstrual cycle consists of four distinct phases: menstruation, the follicular phase, ovulation, and the luteal phase.
During each stage, your cervical fluid changes and gives you clues about whether or not you are fertile.
The menstrual phase of your monthly cycle begins on the first day you start your period and ends on the last day of your period.
During this time, it’s virtually impossible to detect your cervical mucus because it combines with your period blood.
The follicular phase begins on the first day of your period, which overlaps with the menstruation phase.
The follicular phase extends past your period to the ovulation phase, which happens about 14 days from the first day of your period.
During the follicular phase, you may experience dry days because progesterone levels are rising.
Once your period is over, your body begins to prepare for ovulation. It isn’t uncommon to experience little to no vaginal discharge at this stage.
As ovulation approaches, cervical mucus changes significantly. There are three distinct phases of cervical mucus change during this period.
- Several days before ovulation. After your dry days, as your body prepares to release an egg, cervical mucus becomes thick and stretchy. The color may appear on toilet paper as slightly yellow and cloudy.
- Just before ovulation. Right before you ovulate (within 24 hours), cervical mucus changes again, and your body begins to ramp up estrogen production to stimulate the release of an egg. Cervical mucus during this time is similar to a raw egg white. Rising estrogen levels indicate your fertile time is approaching.
- During ovulation. Ovulation is a short window of time when your egg is released. An egg can live in your uterus for about 24 hours, so you should have sex during this window if you want to become pregnant. You’ll still have egg-white cervical mucus during ovulation.
Bottom line: If you want to get pregnant, now is the time. If you’d like to stay not pregnant, use a backup method of birth control.
After ovulation, cervical mucus changes again. You may experience a white discharge that is cloudy, thick, and tacky.
What Are the Changes to Cervical Mucus When You Become Pregnant?
If your egg is fertilized, your cervical mucus will change, and knowing what to expect can help you determine whether or not you are pregnant, even before you take a pregnancy test.
Cervical mucus after conception is generally thick, gelatinous, and transparent.
You’ll probably notice this about a week after your ovulation date. You may also experience implantation bleeding or spotting, which can last about 24 to 48 hours after implantation occurs.
What Are the Changes to Cervical Mucus in Early Pregnancy?
During the first few weeks after implantation, you may notice your cervical mucus changes from thick, gel-like, and clear to sticky, whitish-yellow discharge — known as leukorrhea (the medical term for vaginal discharge).
How Do I Check My Cervical Mucus?
If you use this method to determine your fertile window, you will need to know how to properly (and safely) check your cervical mucus. There are a few ways you can check your cervical mucus.
Index Finger Method
You can manually check your cervical mucus by inserting your index finger into your vagina and swabbing the mucus near your cervix.
This method may be more accurate for testing the texture and consistency.
Toilet Paper or Pantyliner Method
You can test the cervical mucus you pass by inspecting it on a piece of toilet paper or in a pantyliner.
However, it may be harder to determine the actual color of the mucus or the consistency unless you’re willing to get your hands a little dirty.
Speaking of which, ensure you’re using clean hands when inspecting your cervical mucus.
How Do I Use an Ovulation Test With the Cervical Mucus Method?
Ovulation test kits can help you determine if you are close to ovulation.
They’re easy to use and only require urination on a stick for a quick result. Many people trying to become pregnant rely on these to help determine when they have ovulated.
If your cervical mucus indicates that you are close to ovulation, an ovulation test can increase your likelihood of determining your fertile window.
What Other Things Affect Cervical Mucus?
In addition to bodily changes that affect cervical mucus, other lifestyle changes or health conditions can change your cervical mucus and make it harder for you to use the cervical mucus method of family planning.
If you’re breastfeeding and wondering when you might become fertile again, attempting to use the cervical mucus method might not be the best idea.
Breastfeeding can change how your cervical mucus is secreted and make it very difficult to determine whether or not you are fertile.
It’s never necessary to douche; douching can interfere with your body’s natural lubrication and cervical mucus.
If you rely on the cervical mucus method, avoid douching and using any other vaginal cleansing agent.
Suppose you have an underlying health condition that causes you to experience hormonal imbalances.
In that case, you may experience more vaginal discharge than normal, making it difficult to test your cervical mucus.
Having a vaginal infection changes your vaginal discharge.
You may experience foul-smelling, yellow or green, or itchy discharge.
If you suspect you have a vaginal infection, call your doctor. You may need treatment to help clear the infection.
When Should I Call My Doctor?
Your cervical mucus can tell a lot about your fertility, and changes to it can be one of the early signs of pregnancy.
If you’re experiencing infertility issues, you should contact your healthcare provider.
The field of obstetrics and gynecology has evolved, and there are numerous options for getting pregnant if you are experiencing fertility issues.
Healthy Pregnancy Awareness
It’s possible to become pregnant at any time during the month, but if you’re trying to start a family, using the cervical mucus method can help determine when you are most fertile.
When you become pregnant, changes in cervical mucus can give clues that reveal conception has happened. Checking cervical mucus is easy and relatively non-invasive, so you don’t have to worry that it will be too messy or invasive.
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This is the fourth article in our weekly series by Dr. Edward Sri on the new translation of the Roman Missal.
Of all the changes in the new Mass translation, two words which will be used by the priest at the consecration have evoked the most questions. Those two words are “for many.”
Currently, the priest has been referring to Jesus’ blood having redemptive value “for all”:
“. . . this is the cup of my blood,
the blood of the new and everlasting covenant.
It will be shed for you and for all for the forgiveness of sins . . . “
But the new translation of the Mass being promulgated on November 27 replaces the words “for all” with “for many.”
Some have raised concerns that the words “for many” limit the universal scope of Jesus’ saving mission. They hold that the new wording gives the impression that Jesus did not die on the cross for everyone–that He offered His blood in Calvary not “for all” but just for a select group of people, “for many.” This is a misunderstanding of the text.
First, this new translation remains closer to Jesus’ actual words from the Last Supper accounts in the Gospels. Jesus said that His blood was shed “for many” (see Matthew 26:28). It is also more harmonious with the Latin text of the Mass and with wording that has been used in the liturgy for centuries.
Most of all, this new translation points to the reality that, although Jesus died for all, not everyone chooses to accept this gift. Each individual must choose to welcome the gift of salvation in Christ and live according to that grace, so that he or she may be among “the many” that are described in this text.
A number of Scripture scholars have observed that Jesus’ language at the Last Supper about His blood being poured out “for many” recalls “the many” that are three times mentioned in Isaiah 53: 11-12. In this prophecy, Isaiah 53:10-12). Jesus, by speaking at the Last Supper about His own blood being poured out “for many,” was associating Himself with this “suffering servant” figure prophesied by Isaiah. Jesus is the one who offers His life for the “many.”
This should not be understood in opposition to the fact that Jesus died “for all” (1 Timothy 2:6). The other prophecies in Isaiah about the Servant of the Lord make clear that He has a universal mission, one that announces salvation to all humanity (see, for example, Isaiah 42: 1-10, 49:6, 52:10). In this context, the expression “the many” can be seen as contrasting the one person who dies–the Lord’s Servant (Jesus)–with the many who benefit from His atoning sacrifice.
Let us briefly consider one other change in the translation of the words of consecration: “This is the cup of my Blood” will become “This is the chalice of my Blood.”
While the previous translation of the Words of Institution referred to the “cup” of Christ’s blood, the new translation renders it “chalice.” This is a more accurate and more formal rendering of the Latin text of the Mass and one that underscores the liturgical nature of this vessel. This is no ordinary cup, but the Eucharistic cup (see Luke 22:20; 1 Corinthians 11: 25ff.) that the Lord consecrated at the Last Supper. This most sacred of vessels has traditionally been called a “chalice,” and this is the term used in the new translation.
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One of my favorite scenes in the movie Clueless is the scene where a pretentious college student quotes Shakespeare to back up some asinine point she's trying to make: "It's like Hamlet said, 'To thine own self be true.'" Cher (Alicia Silverstone), who saw the Mel Gibson version of Hamlet, points out that it was Polonius who said that, exposing the college student as a poseur who quotes works that she doesn't even remember accurately.
Anyway, "To thine own self be true" has to be the number-one "out of context" quotations -- literary quotations that are presented ironically or even unfavorably in context, but which are taken out of context and quoted as if they were supposed to be the author's pearls of wisdom. Polonius's big speech in Hamlet is one big collection of vapid cliches; "To thine own self be true," coming right at the end of the speech, is at once the biggest cliche of all and a perfect punchline (after many lines of setting out exactly how Laertes is supposed to behave, he tells him to be true to himself). To quote it as Shakespearian wisdom is to overlook the fact that Shakespeare didn't present the line as wisdom, he presented it as a joke.
Number two out-of-context quote is probably Shakespeare again: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," which, as was pointed out on the TV version of -- yes -- Clueless, is spoken by a bad guy. (Though even in context, it's still a funny lawyer joke.) Number three is Browning's "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world," which comes off rather differently in the bizarre dramatic poem it appears in, since it's sung by an innocent mill-worker and overheard by a man in bed with a woman whose husband they just murdered (sort of Double Indemnity in Victorian verse and set in Italy). | <urn:uuid:dd960f38-d376-4162-ab4e-c56b29ecaa52> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2004/10/out-of-context.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00021-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979855 | 413 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Friday, September 14, 2012
2 Subjects in LET
The Professional Regulation Commission announces that beginning September 2012, only two subjects, General Education and Professional Education, are to be given in the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) in the Elementary Level.
A distinct and separate component for the subjects in the licensure examination for professional teachers in the elementary level is provided in Board Resolution No. 2012-10.
The Board for Professional Teachers stated that preschool specialization and the Special Education (SPED) specialization form part of the pedagogical content of the Professional Education component. Likewise, the content courses specialization covers the same liberal arts subjects of the General Education component.
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In order for a Facebook survey scam to be successful, it has to make users do two things: propagate the scam further by “endorsing” it and complete at least one survey.
Even though there are always users who fall for the most basic scams, most of them learn fast and scammers have to constantly think of new lures and new ways of making the victims inadvertently spread the offending links.
In a survey scam recently spotted by BitDefender, the scammers have decided to trick the victims into promoting it by using a bogus CAPTCHA test.
The lure is a common one: “PHOTO! Girl accidentally sends dad SMS about her FIRST time! (This is the funniest thing ever!)”
In order to see what it’s all about, the victims are asked to verify their identity by solving a CAPTCHA:
Even though the offered “words” are too simple and clear to foil computers, it’s probable that many of the victims won’t give the issue much thought.
But a closer look at the “Submit” button might make them realize that something is off, as the “Comment” button can be seen in the background. Those who don’t and do what they are asked to will be posting on their profile the same message they fell for, complete with their “ha haha” comment.
From that point on, the scam continues as predicted – in order to watch the wanted content, the victims are required to complete one of the offered surveys. | <urn:uuid:1e112cd9-ad30-498e-bd4c-9fdb277cbc9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2012/03/12/facebook-scam-uses-fake-captcha-to-spread/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.964676 | 324 | 1.773438 | 2 |
RECYCLING ON SITE
Every one of our employees, whether working on the shopfloor or in our offices, has been long aware of the importance of recycling: paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, wood: it all gets sorted. Our waste treatment facilities are also regularly put to the test.
However, beyond the legal obligations, we are also keen to make good use of our other types of waste. Our lids are transformed into solid recovered fuel (SRF) thanks to a specific recycling process that we have developed. As for our cartons, they are made into PolyAl, a material used to make furniture and outdoor seating. Lastly, our biowaste products are sent off to methanisation plants.
Only waste that cannot be recycled is incinerated and every effort is made to minimise the amount that is subjected to incineration. Our Research and Development department is currently looking into alternatives to plastic packaging. | <urn:uuid:84e206e1-1ccb-4eef-b269-96ce15ea8181> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sill-entreprises.com/en/our-commitments/preserving-our-planet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961631 | 189 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Why Bag Grain?
Grain bagging has been in practice for many years. It originated in South America, but Loftness adapted the grain bag loading and unloading equipment for North American farmers, utilizing North American standards in design and components. The equipment is easy to use with many training resources available for beginners.
The actual grain bags are made from polyethylene and commonly available with 10- or 12-foot diameters in lengths up to 500 feet. These specialized bags are generally three-layer UV protected with an 18-month warranty. They work great for storing corn, soybeans, sorghum, wheat, sunflower, millet, oats, rice, barley and other grains. It’s also a suitable solution for storing some types of pelleted materials such as alfalfa pellets, ground corn or urea. The grain bags create a sealed environment, so grain quality is maintained until it is removed.
Today, North American farmers can bag grain with confidence, knowing that the products are supported by local dealerships, backed by factory-trained technicians and local sales representatives. And there are many reasons why farmers choose to bag grain. For example, it can:
- Speed up harvest by allowing the combines to keep moving, rather than waiting on trucks, the grain dryer, etc.
- Reduce the amount of labor required at harvest
- Be used to store wet grain before drying
- Be used to segregate grain by variety, moisture content, protein, etc.
- Expand the capacity of existing grain bins
- Save money versus other storage methods
- Allow producers to control their own marketing strategies
- Offer storage solutions on rented ground
Improved Harvest Logistics
Oftentimes, combines have to slow down at harvest time because they’re waiting on trucks or the grain dryer…or simply because of a lack of labor. However, farmers can save time by bagging grain directly in the field. This allows the combines to keep moving, and the grain can later be taken to grain bins, the grain dryer or the elevator as time allows or as trucking rates improve.
In a bumper crop year, grain bags are an excellent storage option when existing bins and local elevators fill up. Bags offer potentially unlimited storage potential.
Bagging a crop at harvest allows producers to market that grain later as prices improve. Grains can be be segregated by moisture content, protein and other factors to maximize premiums from the buyer. Grain bags are also an ideal option for storing organic commodities or niche crops separately.
Grain bagging costs a fraction of the amount to put up a new grain bin. Even more, grain bagging equipment can be depreciated faster than grain bins, and there are no property taxes on the grain bagging equipment or grain bags. | <urn:uuid:60711b12-d5d4-4ddb-861f-13fe48735641> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.loftness.com/product/why-bag-grain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.925882 | 580 | 2.125 | 2 |
Browse All Jewish Recipes: Jewish Appetizers | Passover Recipes| Kosher Recipes| Jewish Beverages | Jewish Soups | Jewish Salads | Jewish Vegetarian | Jewish Meat Dishes | Jewish Snacks | Jewish Desserts
Jewish cuisine includes a wide range of soups, best represented by the traditional ajo blanco, balkabagi corbasi and farfel (potato dairy soup). The ajo blanco basically means chilled almond soup with grapes and it includes sherry wine vinegar and peeled and halved grapes for a delicate texture and taste. The balkabagi corbasi or the pumpkin soup is a sweet soup with cinnamon and honey, but also soy yoghurt, all in a chicken stock.
Pages in category "Jewish Soups"
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Beef recall: Check your refrigerator
Oct 3, 2012 at 11:01 AM
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said beef and beef products from XL foods is being recalled from a variety of grocery stores.
The USDA’s list of affected grocery stores includes Walmart stores in Ohio, including Walmart supermarkets in Perkins Township, Norwalk and Port Clinton. In addition, it lists Kroger supermarkets in Ohio, although a Kroger spokeswoman said that’s an error and no local Kroger stores are affected.
The USDA said nationally the recall includes steaks, roasts and ground beef. It said Canadian inspectors reported the beef had been produced in unsanitary conditions and had an unusual high number of positive test results for E. coli bacteria.
A Walmart spokeswoman, Dianna Gee, said the only food products affected by the recall in Walmart’s Ohio stores are Great Value hamburger patties. Sam’s Club stores were not affected.
Customers can check their fridges and freezers for hamburger patties with the UPC codes 007874206246 and 7874201349.
All of the possibly problematic hamburger patties were yanked from the shelves days ago and everything on display now is safe, she said. There have been no reports of illnesses reported from Walmart meat products, she said.
As for Kroger, a spokeswoman for the chain’s Columbus division, which includes the Sandusky area, said the USDA list was in error.
None of the recalled beef is in stores in Ohio, said Kroger spokeswoman Amy McCormick.
She said the only stores Kroger owns that are affected by the recall are Fred Meyer, QFC and Smith’s stores in the western part of the country.
The USDA’s spokesman did not return a phone call inquiring about the accuracy of its list.
Bob England, director of Environmental Health for Erie County’s health department, said his department contacted Wal-Mart and Kroger Tuesday to make sure the stores were aware of the recall announcement.
England said the health department routinely tracks food recall announcements to make sure that local groceries are aware of them.
“If we see something that’s a major recall in the Midwest, we want to be all over it,” England said. “We want to make sure we act on these things.”
The beef recall isn’t the only food recall affecting U.S. consumers.
Sunland, a company based in New Mexico, is recalling almond butter, peanut butter and other nut products that are sold under a variety of brand names, including Sunland, Archer Farms and Heinen’s.
The products may be tainted by Salmonella. Salmonella illnesses possibly related to the foods have been reported in 18 states but not in Ohio, the company said. | <urn:uuid:366c54a7-c8ea-4db1-95e2-019ad6fcc8e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sanduskyregister.com/News/2012/10/03/Beef-recall-Check-your-refrigerator.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00375-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962183 | 596 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Spice Up Your Little Ones Taste and Smell Senses – How to Tackle A ‘Fussy Eater’
Posted by: Sue Atkins
I work with lots of parents 1-2-1 in my practice in Warlingham going through the “Fussy Eating Stage”
I have also been the expert on many radio phone-ins on fussy eaters whether they are 2 or 22 !
If you suddenly have a fussy eater on your hands – you’re not alone!
This daily diary will help you to plan your child’s diet, ensuring that they get just the right amount of proteins, vitamins, and carbohydrates that are so important.
Click Here to download for free my “Fussy Eaters Diary”
Click => Here to listen to my podcast on this topic.
Today I’d like to introduce you to Zainab Jagot Ahmed, the author of “Easy Indian SuperMeals for Babies, Toddlers and the Family.” Available to buy now from Amazon.co.uk.
Zainab is my guest blogger today and here is her advice.
“Fussy eating behaviour affects all parents at some point during parenthood – ‘I don’t like that’, ‘I don’t eat green food’… there’s always something wrong! It can be very stressful.
Fortunately for me, my three year old is a good eater and isn’t fussy. She has her moments when her little fussy pointy finger will come out and she’ll say ‘what’s that?’, ‘I don’t like that’. But overall, she is a good eater.
So how have I done this?
Well I always wanted my little one to be exposed to aromatic spices from a young age. Not just to be in touch with her culinary heritage (being British Asian), but to broaden her palate and to get her accustomed to trying new tastes and flavours. With nutritionists advising parents to limit daily salt intake for children, aromatic spices act as a wonderful substitute offering masses of flavour in children’s meals. Lots of flavour means tasty meals that are more likely to be gobbled down leading to a well-balanced diet.
There’s also some science involved here as our sense of taste and smell are both very closely linked, so much so that food would taste bland without our sense of smell.
“Most of what we consider our taste sensation is actually from our sense of smell.” – Patient.co.uk
Cooking meals with aromatic spices releases a delicious aroma in the air that will make little mouths water. So even though no salt or sugar has been added to meals, the aromatic spices will stimulate a child’s senses resulting in a desire to eat. As children grow eating delicious flavoursome meals they’ll not only be well-rounded healthy eaters, they’ll also be conditioned to know that home-cooked food means delicious food.
So my advice – if you can, don’t try to tackle fussy eating behaviours, stop them before they begin by cooking with aromatic spices from infancy. However, if you’re in the depths of despair with a toddler who will only eat three different types of food, these tips may help:
- Add aromatic spices to everyday meals. It will make meals taste delicious and the gorgeous aromas released will be so tempting it will make your little one’s mouth water.
- Toddlers want to enjoy the same meals as the rest of the family so cook up a family meal and simply remove a portion before any salt is added. Just remember to keep portion sizes in accordance with little appetites.
- Don’t be afraid of food rejection – keep introducing different tastes and flavours as taste buds develop over time.
- Set a place for your little one at the dinner table and try to eat together as a family.
- Never force your little one to eat and remember to say please!
So stay focused on your mission and remember you can still help your little one develop a taste for
delicious food, and stop a fussy eater in his or her tracks.
Explore Zainab Jagot Ahmed’s website here
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A macroscopic model of heterogeneous nucleation is used for a theoretical study of condensation of water-vapor/carrier-gas mixtures in a nonequilibrium nonstationary rarefaction wave generated in a shock tube. The results are compared with those from homogeneous nucleation. It is assumed that nucleation takes place heterogeneously on idealized smooth, spherical solid particles of Aitken nuclei, which are chemically and electrically inert. In the processes of heterogeneous condensation, the controlling factors are the size-distribution of nuclei, the concentration of monomers on the surface of the substrate and the activation energy of nucleation, which is greatly dominated by the contact angle of embryos. Of these factors, the most dominant is the contact angle. Due to the reduced activation energy, heterogeneous condensation results in less supercooling of the mixture and a faster approach to the equilibrium state. By choosing a suitable value for the contact angle, the numerical results can be made to fit some recent experimental data. Although this is not entirely satisfactory, it is probably preferable to changing the value of surface tension, which was done in the homogeneous-nucleation model in order to obtain agreement with the same experimental results. | <urn:uuid:05f71f22-8735-43b5-b69e-b017d83bfbad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977AIAAJ..15..215K/abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.9204 | 255 | 1.859375 | 2 |
A move put culture at the forefront of people's lives has been launched by city bosses.
Sunderland has produced a cultural strategy after intensive consultation with residents, visitors, cultural organisations and other groups.
Coun Mel Speding, cabinet member with responsibility for culture, said: "If you say culture, many people immediately think of opera, art galleries or the theatre.
"The truth is its all those things and much more - from a stroll on the beach to shopping in The Bridges or cheering on the lads at the Stadium of Light.
"In developing the strategy we wanted to find out what culture means to people, what kind of activities they currently enjoy and what opportunities they would like to have in the future.
"People throughout the city have had the opportunity to participate in the development of this strategy."
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Condillac, an associate of Rousseau and Diderot, was elected to the French Academy in 1768. His works -- including the Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746), Traité des systèmes (1749), and the Traité des sensations (1754) -- gave Locke's theories on the tabula rasa of the brain, in which all knowledge is derived from the senses, a biological basis. His work is in this respect similar to Hartley's.
In the Traité, Condillac begins by observing that "We do not know how to recall the ignorance in which we were born; it is a state which leaves no traces after it." In order to understand the processes by which the sense leave impressions on the subject, he imagines a marble statue with the potential to receive sensations, beginning with smell and proceeding through the other four senses. His consideration of the relationship between memory and sensation allowed him to do away with Locke's faculty of reflection. | <urn:uuid:14aeb6d5-aaa8-4324-a370-6bf2eca2f766> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/People/condilla.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.950239 | 209 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan who recently said sex education must be banned, comes in for some special treatment, as speakers at a Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) event stress that education is the weapon of combat in the current climate of sexual violence
The Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) had an event to launch a campaign seeking volunteers for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
The Shakti Mills venue, where a violation shocked the city and tore its reputation of being safe for women into shreds. Pic/Sayed Sameer Abedi
The campaign intends to motivate people to volunteer as parents, teachers and young people to come forth and take up CSE as a cause. They can advocate for inclusion of CSE in schools or conduct information sessions for adolescents.
Dr Usha Krishna at the mike
Doctors and counsellors can also volunteer their expertise and help FPAI. The Non Governmental Organization (NGO) held a press conference at the West End hotel (Marine Lines) on a wet Wednesday morning, where the focus was on why sex education is important.
(from l) Dr A Chhabria, Abha Singh, Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal and Harish Iyer at the event. Pics/Atul Kamble
According to the FPAI panel, sex education was the weapon with which one could combat the increasing sexual abuse of women and children. Speakers pointed out how newspapers were rife with reports of molestations and rapes in the city, sex education was all important. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan who had made a statement recently saying sex education should be banned in schools came in for special caustic treatment from the speakers.
The audience listening to the speakers
No agendas, please
First up, was gynaecologist Dr Usha Krishna who said that to become a volunteer, “One needs to have passion to work and not have a bias or agenda. There have to be no hidden agendas,” said the doc who may not be a celebrity face but scored high because of her disarming candour.
Alyque Padamsee believes in plain speaking
Krishna said to some laughs in the audience, “I have seen sets of volunteers who are often discussing the colour of curtains or the food going to be served at meetings. Some women who volunteer, cite excuses like: ‘I cannot come in to work if I have a paaaarty. Another stated, I cannot work when my son has exams’ and so on.”
For Krishna, it was commitment that was paramount. The doc suddenly stopped mid-sentence and said, “I have spoken about my experience with volunteerism. Perhaps I should stop now. Here, (she nodded towards the dais) are celebrity names and faces. Maybe, they should speak.”
Well-known Mumbai psychiatrist Dr Anjali Chhabria took the mike, saying straight up that it is time the people took the fight to the Health Minister. “He is regressing with these statements about banning sex education. Statistics have proven that where there is sex education, there is less rape. Compare the rape statistics of the US (low) with that of Nigeria (high) because in the former country, there is sex education.”
Chhabria stated that sex education not be restricted to schools but be introduced at remand homes, even police stations, in fact, everywhere where there is a need for correct information. Chhabria added, “If youngsters do not have information about safe sex practices, about what is sexual abuse, they are dangerously ill-informed.
How can one not talk about sex education? Does talking about alcoholism or drugs make someone into an addict?" she asked to a smattering of applause. “In fact, I want to meet this gentleman,” she said referring to Harsh Vardhan. “I want to invite him for a debate on sex education.”
The body beautiful
Chhabria’s “gentleman” for Harsh Vardhan was one of the kinder epithets used for the Minister and his inane statement.
Next up, theatre personality Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal said straight away, “Let me put this simply, less sex education means more violence against women and children. It is generally this demographic that bears the greatest brunt of sexual violence.”
According to Kotwal sex education teaches one about the human body and to learn how to respect it. “When a country thinks that vagina is a dirty word then we do not have much further to fall,” stated Kotwal who is the producer and part of the cast of the play, ‘Vagina Monologues’.
Kotwal called on PM Narendra Modi to make campaign catchline ‘achche din aane waale hain’ come true by introducing sex education for youngsters and create an atmosphere so that “decimation and subjugation” of women does not happen. She also spoke about the abhorrent practice of “female genital mutilation,” still prevalent in some communities.
“Women have told us (the Vagina Monologues cast and crew) about the horrors they have undergone and how they fought tooth and nail to stop their daughters from undergoing the same.” In the end, Kotwal stated to some laughter, “Women members performed the play, ‘The Vagina Monologues’ in Parliament in Britain and the European Union (EU). Imagine this happening here with the likes of some politicians here, I dread to think of that,” ended the actor with a shudder.
Iyer and fire
After all that talk about vaginas, it was time for a penis. “I wish these journalists write penis and vagina in their reports,” stated activist and supporter of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights, Harish Iyer. Iyer’s message focused on the fact that contrary to perception, boys too can be abused.
He shored up his argument by talking about how he was sexually abused by an uncle when he was a child. “People think that boys and men cannot be sexually abused because the stereotype is that the male has to protect and women have to be protected.
Now, things may have changed to an extent but earlier, if a boy were to complain about somebody touching him inappropriately, he was told, “Ek jhaapad laga do” and was dismissed as flippant. Iyer stated, “My mother too, did not take my complaint seriously, as she just never thought a boy could be sexually abused.
Don’t be like that, be enlightened, be educated like my mother is now and she actually tells people, that don’t take your child’s complaints lightly, boys too can be abused.” Iyer also warned against using innuendos and different kinds of words to describe the body's sexual organs.
“It gives an impression that one has to be ashamed of them. What is there to be ashamed about?” he asked. Sex education can help puncture myths and spread correct messages. “You can't leave everything to sanskaaaar” stated Iyer sarcastically.
Another perception that Iyer blew away was that he became a homosexual because he had been abused in the past. He also stated that all the dithering about Section 377 (the section that criminalizes consensual, adult gay sex) is nothing but the country, “playing football with us.”
He added, “I am not ashamed of being called gud, hijda, chakka (the last two do not refer to homosexuals) but I have a problem when the State tries to peek in when I have sex with men.” For advocate and women’s rights activist Abha Singh, actions speak as loud or louder than words.
Singh offered her legal services, “to help FPAI representatives imparting sex education, if there are false cases slapped against them. She said that today, “Youth is watching porn, wanting to experiment, sex education can combat misinformation.” She also stated that Harsh Vardhan (by now, he had become a familiar name, so no introductions were necessary) was making a statement based on a party’s ideology.
She added that, “Once you join a party you cannot speak against the ideology, or even have to justify a wrong” and that is why, despite being asked to, she did not join any political party. Last up, was the adman Alyque Padamsee who was murmuring his appreciation about what other speakers had said. Alyque’s mood matched his fire engine red shirt, as he said as soon as he reached the mike.
“I am known as a plain speaker and I will speak my mind. First of all, I want to congratulate Health Minister Harsh Vardhan as a brilliant mind... of the 17th Century.” This was met with laughter and applause. He then said without sex education, “Youth get sex information from pornography. It debases the human spirit and leads to dangerous situations in society.”
He added that he once asked a group of persons whether they would have sex with a stranger. “There was consternation and I was told how could I ask such a question. I then said, how many will have arranged marriages and a substantial number of people put their hands up.
I said well... what’s the difference?” Alyque added that the double think and double speak in our society as well as prudish, Victorian ways were a “hangover of the bloody British Raj.” He added, “During those times, even piano legs were considered sexy because they were curved, so the British put little skirts on to them. And this is the kind of rubbishy culture that we have imported and continues today.”
Post session, the floor was thrown open for questions and the FPAI said that they aimed to expand their sex education program to more schools in the city and the country as a whole. The candour of the speakers won the day for them. As schools go into the next academic year, one hopes one can hear more students say, there’s the bell for sex education class.
About the Health Minister
Dr. Harsh Vardhan is the incumbent Minister of Health and Family Welfare in the BJP-led NDA government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He represents Chandni Chowk in Delhi as a MP in the 16th Lok Sabha. Vardhan is a MLA representing Krishna Nagar in the Delhi legislative assembly since 1993.
He was also the Chief Minister candidate for the BJP in the 2013 Delhi assembly election. He generated controversy recently by stating on his website that sex-education in schools should be banned.
In his “vision” document for Delhi schools, Vardhan, himself a doctor, had said, “So-called ‘sex education’ (should) to be banned.”
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The United Nations’ Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP 27) that Egypt will host from 7 to 18 November 2022 in Sharm El-Sheik represents an opportunity for African countries to deliver their main message, which is that poorer countries bear the consequences of climate change despite their limited contribution to global emissions.
Moreover, they need more serious assistance to mitigate risks and damages and to achieve zero emissions targets that are “ambitious.”
In the past, Egypt’s goals in hosting such a world event were limited to just presenting its image and status to the world. Now, Egyptian thinking is propelled by national and global goals as much as the ambition of a greater Egypt.
Hamdi Sanad Loza, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for African Affairs, said in a statement to Daily News Egypt that Egypt attaches importance to the great international responsibility placed on it to lead the negotiations on the climate issue. He stressed Egypt’s keenness that the upcoming climate summit reflects the positions of African and developing countries, and turns promises and commitments into actions.
He added that the Egyptian ministries and authorities responsible for organising the conference are working as an integrated working group to come up with a distinguished Egyptian version of the COP that advances the Egyptian vision in leading global climate action and takes into account the interests of all countries and parties.
He noted that the ministry has held a series of consultations with a group of different countries and parties to hear their views on various issues related to climate change.
Loza explained that meetings were held by representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Environment with the United States, Russia, Japan, Zambia, and other like-minded countries.
He said that an evaluation was made of the results of the last session of the conference, which was held in Glasgow last November, and the ongoing preparations for holding the next session in Egypt.
During the consultations, the Egyptian side stressed the need to move towards implementing the various commitments made in the framework of the negotiations, while other countries, for their part, affirmed their full support for the Egyptian presidency to ensure the success of the COP 27.
Loza noted that developed countries, such as the US, have concerns that China and India will not commit themselves to cutting emissions and continuing to use coal.
He also pointed to the failure of developed countries to fulfil previous pledges to provide $100bn of annual assistance to developing countries to support their green transition.
A high committee was formed under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and comprised ministers and relevant government agencies to formulate specialised action plans to prepare for the summit in all aspects, with periodic follow-up reports in this regard.
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is following all the arrangements related to this huge international event and has expressed his keenness in presenting to the world the great progress that Egypt is witnessing in the field of the environment and transitioning to clean energy.
This comes within the framework of the state’s persistent efforts to fulfil its humanitarian obligations to protect the environment as well as presenting the image of the modern state in Egypt and its efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Strategy of Egypt’s 2030 Vision.
Al-Sisi also stressed the need to invest in the conference in order to achieve the greatest possible economic return by promoting tourism in Egypt and establishing specialised exhibitions on the side-lines of the conference.
Furthermore, he called for addressing national and African concerns on climate change issues and providing an opportunity to conclude partnerships with various international institutions to finance projects related to addressing climate change in Egypt.
In this context, the Ministry of Planning — in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment — launched the Environmental Sustainability Criteria Manual for the first time.
The proportion of green projects in the current year’s plan is about 30%, and it is targeted to reach 50% by FY2024/25. This is in addition to the efforts of the planning ministry in terms of evaluating the economic impact of various projects on the climate and innovative financing of green projects.
On the diplomatic front, Egypt has intensified its contacts with various parties concerned with the climate issue, as it has received over the past few days Alok Sharma — the President of the COP 26 that was held in the city of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.
Sharma affirmed his country’s readiness to support the Egyptian presidency of the COP 27 and to share the great experience gained by the UK while organising this important event to ensure its success.
For his part, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said that Egypt intends to build on what was achieved during the last session of the conference in Glasgow and to work to exploit the growing international momentum in directing global efforts to confront climate change.
He stressed the need to move from pledges to actual implementation on the ground, whether in terms of reducing emissions or adapting to the negative effects of climate change or climate financing for developing countries, especially African countries, as they are most affected by the consequences of climate change.
On his part, Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda announced that Sharm El-Sheik will become the first green tourist city in Africa and the Middle East in 2022. He noted that projects are being implemented in the city that are environmentally friendly and pave the way for a complete transition to being environmentally sustainable.
Additionally, the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa organised on Sunday a discussion session at the headquarters of the AU in preparation for the launch of a series of other events that it intends to organise in the coming months.
The first session focused on raising the profile of the Egyptian presidency of the conference, and was attended by numerous officials from Africa and around the globe
In the session, Mohammed Gad — Egypt’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and its Delegate to the AU — highlighted the importance that the African continent attaches to the issues of climate change.
He stressed the urgent need to understand the special circumstances of the countries of the continent and their efforts to achieve sustainable development, as well as the need to translate the pledges to support efforts to adapt to the consequences of climate change and provide climate finance to the countries of the continent.
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Women have made major strides towards equality with men, but new research shows there's one way in which they are catching up that could be harmful: drinking.
Excessive, harmful drinking
Women are now nearly on par with men in alcohol consumption, and the ill effects drinking has on health, a worldwide review finds.
Historically, men have been far more likely than women to drink alcohol, and to drink so much it affects their health. Older studies suggested as much as a 12-fold difference between the sexes, the researchers said.
Recent data suggests that the gap has closed. Women across the globe are now nearly as likely as men to drink and to engage in excessive, harmful drinking, said lead researcher Tim Slade. He's an epidemiologist with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Read: Parents influence teen drinking
"We can no longer think of alcohol use and alcohol-related harms as problems that just affect men," Slade said.
To track trends in drinking between the genders, Slade and his colleagues pooled data from more than 4 million people who were part of 68 international studies. These studies were published between 1980 and 2014. The studies included data collected between 1948 and 2014, representing people born as far back as 1891.
The researchers focused on three categories: any alcohol use, excessive use, and health and social problems related to drinking.
Men born between 1891 and 1910 were twice as likely as their female counterparts to drink alcohol. People born between 1991 and 2000 were about equally likely to drink, the researchers found.
More socially acceptable
At the same times, the gender gap for excessive drinking fell from 3 times higher for men to 1.2 times. The gender gap for harms associated with drinking fell from 3.6 times higher for men to 1.3 times, the researchers reported.
After accounting for potential bias, the researchers concluded that the gender gap for drinking fell by 3.2 percent with each successive five-year generation, but was steepest among those born from 1966 onward.
There's no single reason why more women are drinking, Slade said. It's likely that drinking has become more socially acceptable for women as they've joined the workforce, entered higher education in greater numbers, and have become more financially independent, he said.
Dr Victor Karpyak, an alcohol researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, agreed that social evolution likely has played a role in this trend.
Read: Drinking, weight, depression linked
"This is something which is mostly influencing access to alcohol and decisions that women in different societies make about whether they can drink, whether they can drink in public, whether they can drink in the company of males, and whether it's acceptable for women to exhibit signs of intoxication," Karpyak said.
Paul Rinaldi, director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai West in New York City, said women might also be tempted to drink to deal with the pressure placed on them to be a "superwoman" and manage both a career and family life.
"There is still a mandate for women in the workplace to do it all," Rinaldi said. "I think they really do feel the pressure to juggle things in a way that is different from men."
However, Rinaldi added that older statistics might underrepresent female drinking, since many women engaged in "hidden drinking" before it became socially acceptable.
With the rise in female drinking, public health officials need to step up alcohol interventions for young adult women, especially since there's such a wide variety of health problems associated with drinking, said Dr Geetanjali Chander. Chander is an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
Women in their 20s and 30s – "peak childbearing age" – are more likely to have a child affected by foetal alcohol disorder, and are more likely to develop liver disease and cancers associated with alcohol use, Chander said.
Read: What are you drinking?
"Women experience the biological consequences of alcohol use at lower levels of use than men," Chander said, noting that guidelines limit women to no more than seven standard drinks per week compared with 14 drinks a week for men.
The new study appears online in the journal BMJ Open.
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Elbow injuries involving multiple structures as the result of a traumatic event are described in the literature in a variety of ways, including:
- Complex elbow dislocation
- Complex elbow instability
- Complex traumatic elbow injuries
- Traumatic elbow dislocations
Regardless of the term used, recent studies propose the initiation of early rehabilitation for mobilization to minimize functional impairment if surgeons can achieve restoration of articular congruity and stability.1, 2
The Challenges of Treating Complex Elbow Injuries
Although receiving this population early in the wound-healing process is ideal, many complex factors can limit this from occurring. These complex factors can be related to the injury itself or the client. The difficulty with treating this population is that each injury is unique and requires a high degree of clinical reasoning from the clinician throughout the continuum of care to optimize outcomes and return patients to meaningful occupations promptly.
The clinician needs to collaborate with the entire healthcare team throughout the continuum of care to gain an understanding of how the structures are healing to apply the appropriate amount of stress to maximize surgical outcomes, maintain independence with activities of daily living, and ensure progress toward the patient’s goals.
Applying Clinical Reasoning and Evidence-Based Practice
Regardless of when in the wound-healing process or in which setting the patient is being treated, the treating clinician must possess a high degree of clinical reasoning and implement evidence-informed practice to progress the rehabilitation plan appropriately. The clinician must stay informed on current evidence to guide clinical decision making.
Due to this population being at risk of chronic instability, post-traumatic arthritis, and poor functional outcomes if a dislocation is involved, getting the facts beyond the diagnosis is essential.1 There is a lack of high-level studies in this population regarding optimal rehabilitation treatment and progression to optimize outcomes. Until higher level studies are published, clinicians are tasked to make clinical decisions throughout the continuum of care based on the following:
1. Information that is communicated by the surgeon
The clinician must continue communication throughout the rehabilitation process to gain information on the healing of the structures involved, findings on follow-up radiographs, and presence of intrinsic versus extrinsic limitations.
2. Symptoms the patient is presenting with
These might include persistent edema, pain, scar adherence, and decreased sensation or hypersensitivity.
3. What wound-healing stage the patient is in
Sometimes patients must be immobilized due to the nature of the injury, and the clinician may receive them later in the wound-healing process. Additionally, patients may have other medical conditions or complications, such as infection, which can delay the healing of structures.
4. Expert opinion
There are algorithms and treatment considerations available in the literature that can assist clinicians with the clinical decision-making process.
5. Biomechanical studies
These demonstrate optimal positions exercises should be performed in to increase the stability of the elbow while decreasing stress to healing structures.
6. Patient factors
Patient-centered care is of the utmost importance in addressing the Triple Aim of Healthcare and progressing toward the vision statements of rehabilitation practitioners. A comprehensive and holistic approach is essential for a return to meaningful occupations. MacDermid posits that evidence-based practice means clinicians should not exclude treatments when there is only low-level evidence but should change their practice once effective treatments have been identified.3
Treating complex elbow injuries and progressing the rehabilitation program can be overwhelming for a clinician inexperienced in managing this population. Regardless of what setting you practice in or how many years of experience you possess, mentorship and/or referral to a certified hand therapist is recommended to optimize outcomes by providing timely and appropriate interventions throughout the continuum of care.
- Wyrick, J. D., Dailey, S. K., Gunzenhaeuser, J. M., & Casstevens, E. C. (2015). Management of complex elbow dislocations: a mechanistic approach. Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 23(5), 297-306.
- Jones, A. D. R. & Jordan, R. W. (2017). Complex elbow dislocations and the “terrible triad” injury. The Open Orthopaedics Journal, 11, (Suppl-8, M7), 1394-1404.
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This kneeling Madonna in depicted in prayer and is dressed in a long garment with a central band.
Her head faces downward in an act of contemplation whilst she clasps her hands together in a sign of devotion and prayer. A veil, covering her hair, is depicted draping over the contours of her carved head, shoulders and back.
The figures exhibits a smooth and worn surface patina from touching and handling.
Estimated Period: Mid-20th Century (Or Before)
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Ibiza, Catalan island, Spain. Is the third largest of the Balearic Islands. It lies in the western Mediterranean 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Majorca.
Many of the locals live on farms and small villages scattered throughout the island.
Since the late 20th century the population of Ibiza has grown considerably, owing to immigration and the tourism that flourishes as a result of the island’s mild winter climate and its beaches. Ibiza city, San Antonio, and Santa Eularia del Río are the most-populated places.
Although the island’s size is relatively small, it is packed with amazing scenes, nice terrains and things to do. Ibiza is widely known for its wild nightlife, but there is also plenty of other exciting things to do during the day.
Why Visit Ibiza
When someone thinks of Ibiza, first thing that comes in mind is nightlife and they are not wrong. The clubbing season usually starts in May with the International Music Summit followed by Ibiza opening parties, and keeps rolling through the sizzling summer months until late September’s closing fiestas.
Also known as theCaribbeanIslandoftheMediterraneanSea, Formentera is located just 9 kilometers away from Ibiza. Beaches with the whitest sand and waters the clearest and most crystalline you could ever hope for have marked out this island as one of the most idyllic destinations in the Balearics. Many believe that the beaches on Formentera are among the best in the world and when you get there, you will think so too.
- Breaking Sunsets
Regarded as one of the best locations to watch the sunset on Mediterranean is Ibiza. No matter what time of the year it is, sea and beautiful scenery on the island will be offering breathtaking sunsets.
- Ibiza town
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A fun children's moment on the Bible story of Abram counting the stars at night
A short introduction to the Bible story, in which the children will learn something about the Bible story and which will leave them wanting to know more.
What you need:
- a bag
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On July 12, 1864, Major-General John Foster provided an update to Major-General Henry Halleck, Army Chief of Staff in Washington, with regard to operations outside Charleston. By that date, Federals troops had withdrawn from James and John’s Island. With that, Foster’s July offensive was closed – every column sent forth had returned, for better or worse.
Foster summarized the closing actions on John’s Island, noting the arrival of Confederate troops out of Atlanta to reinforce Charleston. He explained the decision to withdraw in military terms:
Having ascertained by reconnaissance that the establishment of enfilading batteries on the south side of the Stono would be of little effect against the well-traversed batteries of the enemy on the north side, and that to venture a general assault would be to incur a certain heavy loss, with doubtful results, I decided to re-embark at once, and after giving the men a few days’ rest to try the enemy at another point. The demonstration had proved perfectly successful in one respect, viz, impressing the enemy with alarm as to our purposes, and in forcing him to accumulate a large force to meet us. The troops were re-embarked (unmolested) on Saturday night and Sunday morning, and returned to their stations.
Indeed, Foster did not have the manpower for a prolonged siege akin to what took place the previous year on Morris Island. However, Rear-Admiral John Dahlgren was somewhat dismayed that Foster did not maintain pressure on James Island. Foster reported the loss of “33 killed, 133 wounded, 143 missing, 3 sunstruck, and 18 drowned by the upsetting of a boat.” Most of the missing men were from the ill-fated July 3 attack on Fort Johnson.
Foster could, at one level, call the operation a success. He had forced the Confederates to pull resources from Sullivan’s Island, Savannah, and Atlanta – small in number, however – to Charleston. And, after all, he was only supposed to engage in raids and demonstrations, according to guidance from Washington. He was not supposed to actually capture Charleston, at this time. And, as Foster went on to discuss, he still had plenty of initiative to spend. In addition to maintaining a steady bombardment of Fort Sumter, Foster planned to wreck the fort entirely with rafts filled with powder. Furthermore, as he had alluded to in his original plan, he looked to Savannah as a stage for another demonstration. Lastly, he was still after the railroad:
I am now collecting the four companies of cavalry, all the cavalry that remains in the department, for the purpose of a raid on the railroad. As the weather is too hot for infantry to march any distance, I propose to land the infantry and cavalry together, and push forward the latter to do its work, while the former holds the landing and advances as far as possible to give support.
Closing, Foster expressed overall satisfaction with his command:
The general health of the command is good. The late movements have had a decidedly beneficial effect on the troops, both white and black. The latter, especially, improved every day that they were out, and. I am happy to say, toward the last evinced a considerable degree of pluck and good fighting qualities. I am now relieved of apprehension as to this class of troops, and believe, with active service and drill, they can be made thorough soldiers.
The Confederate assessment of the actions on during the first days of July 1864 were somewhat different. Writing years after the war, Captain John Johnson considered the outcome with some pride at having deflected another Federal attempt to gain Charleston:
Although removed from Fort Sumter, this fighting on the adjacent islands, and particularly at Fort Johnson, involved the safety of the whole harbor, for it was imperiling the communications and threatening to turn or take in reverse all the principal fortifications of the Confederates. The land and naval forces of the attack were strong enough, but they were not pushed with the vigor that characterized the fighting on Morris Island. Had they been, they might have achieved in one week what the toilsome and bloody campaign of Morris Island failed to accomplish after twelve months – viz. the capture of Charleston. On the other hand, the Confederates, though thinly scattered over an extended coast deeply indented with navigable tideways, were ever on the alert, ever ready to contest the advance of their enemy, and did successfully repel all his attacks. This was done by the prompt concentration and placing of troops under Major-General Sam Jones, commanding the department, and by their admirable fighting under their respective commanders.
Thus in the progress of the war Charleston had twice driven back the forces of the Federal navy under DuPont and Dahlgren in 1863, and twice the forces of the Federal army under Benham in 1862 and Foster in 1864. The latter general was next to essay, with enormous expenditure of ammunition, the vain task of destroying Fort Sumter.
I think that when assessing Foster’s July operation, many historians give Johnson’s view a lot of weight. Perhaps unjustly, some have tipped the scales against Foster.
There is no doubt several opportunities arose during the period of July 2-10, 1864 in which, if exploited perfectly, might have lead to the capture of Charleston. But in all fairness, perfect exploitation is a rare occurrence on the battlefield. What would Foster have done with possession of Fort Johnson, held by a few hundred men, on July 3? Reinforce, with what? Likewise, had his later maneuvers turned Battery Pringle, did he have the forces to turn the next line (or two) required to gain the harbor?
In context of the moment that was July 1864, Foster commanded a supporting theater. His job was to simply maintain the status quo. He was to engage and pin down Confederate forces, without becoming so heavily engaged as to pull Federal forces into a greater engagement. With that in mind, regardless of how disgusted Dahlgren was in his diary, Foster’s decision not to press on with vigor was the right choice. At least Foster’s operation didn’t lead to another Red River – which was just the sort of distraction Lieutenant-General U.S. Grant wanted to avoid.
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FLOYD SCHOOL BLACK 1911- was located on a now abandoned county road between Floyd Road and Greenwood. It was in the corner of the woods. On April 7, 1911, Martha Clardy deeded the land for a church and school house to Trustees Edward Sutton, Jr., Salem Hughes, Sam Garrett, Fate Lytle, Krin
Owen, Shade Melord, and Edward Sutton, Jr.
Nothing but the Floyd cemetery remains.
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Kristina Marcelli Sargent is a mental health therapist who works with children in both outpatient and community based settings. After competing an art degree, Kristina went onto get her MSW and now combines her creative talents with her passion for mental health through her beautifully illustrated books aimed at enhancing socio-emotional development.
Teaching Mindfulness to Children
One of Kristina’s recent passions has been to teach young children mindfulness as a way for children to have some inner peace and inner safety despite their outer life circumstances. Mindfulness, put simply, is awareness in the present moment while noticing thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, feelings, and the surrounding environment in the moment instead of getting caught up in the thoughts and worries of past and future.
Although many people are familiar with this being very helpful for adults, this is also an excellent skill for children to learn too. Awareness is the foundation to all life experiences and skills. When children increase their awareness in the present moment, they can increase attentive skills, better regulate their feelings, make safe choices, and notice and attend others’ feelings. When children notice others’ feelings, beautiful things like empathy, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, and appropriate assertiveness skills can begin to grow.
Ursula Unwinds Her Anger
“Ursula Unwinds Her Anger” is a story about a dragon who doesn’t feel like she quite fits in with the dolphins she lives with but discovers she has a special talent. She changes colors with her feelings and uses this skill to teach others about feelings. The book teaches children mindfulness and relaxation skills such as deep breathing and noticing feelings while also letting them go. It is intended to help children discover inner peace and self acceptance and thus act in peaceful ways.
One of the most important things about dealing with anger is realizing it’s okay to be angry and there are safe ways to express it. In this story, the idea of using visualization and relaxation to “breathe” anger out is introduced as a relaxation technique for angry feelings. This book is accessible for children ages 3-10 and the adults in their lives who care about them. It introduces a fun way to think about feelings using color and lends itself to endless play and art activities to accompany the story.
Accompanying Activities: Kristina created a number of engaging activities to accompany the book that add more depth to the reading experience and reinforce the book’s message. Follow the links below to view instructions and download printables for activities designed to compliment the story.
Unwind Your Anger Printable Activity: This printable Ursula the dragon includes fire for children to write or draw what makes them angry that they would like to breathe out and let go of in their own lives. Children identify their own feelings along with anger triggers and end the activity with a deep breathing exercise.
Feelings Colors Worksheet: After reading the book, see if the child remembers the colors Ursula would turn with her different feelings in the story. Then have the child draw herself in the spaces above Ursula and identify which color she would turn if she turned colors with her feelings too!
Printable Feelings Cube: Color, cut, and tape to make your own feelings cube! Then take turns rolling the cube and either acting out the feeling (having the other person guess) or telling a time you felt that way! Another way to play is to tell okay things to do with the feeling that was rolled. For example, “it’s okay to be angry. When I’m angry, I like to take a quiet break.”
Kristina’s first book, Buttons the Brave Blue Kitten, is a story designed to help children (aged ~3-8) develop empathy, the ability to see how someone else is feeling from the other’s perspective.
The Creative Social Worker is a child and adolescent mental health therapist with special interests in trauma, play therapy and school social work. Her blog is dedicated to sharing interventions, resources, and activities with mental health professionals, as well as raising awareness about the social work field and assisting prospective MSW students with graduate school applications. | <urn:uuid:a7946d61-aaef-46f1-9500-cda01509ba25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swhelper.org/2015/04/23/ursula-unwinds-anger-mindfulness-book-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.951943 | 863 | 2.9375 | 3 |
PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD - PHOTOGRAPH MOUNT UNSIGNED - HFSID 174813
Sale Price $324.00
JAMES A. GARFIELD. Photograph Mount, unsigned. Sepiatone, 2¼x4 overall, image 2x3¼ (two surfaces). Captioned at lower margin: "President James A. Garfield". No photographer's imprint on verso. James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) served as 20th U.S. President from March 4, 1881-September 19, 1881, a total of six months and 15 days (the second shortest presidential term). Garfield had risen to the rank of Major General in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, before resigning his commission to take a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (1863-1880). A political moderate, Garfield was the compromise choice of a deadlocked Republican Convention in 1880, nominated on the 36th ballot and elected President by a narrow margin. Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker helped advance the cause of civil service reform which he had advocated. Both photograph and mounting sheet are lightly soiled. Minor show through of mounting glue (not at facial image). Overall, fine condition.
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“Motherless babies could be on the horizon after scientists discovered a method of creating offspring without the need for a female egg” (Telegraph, September 13, 2016). Scientists from the University of Bath have created mice using this new technique. They are now planning to test this process with animal skin cells. One thought is that the “technique raises the possibility that gay men, for instance, could have a child whose DNA was half of each of the couple” (ibid.). In theory, a man or woman could also fertilize their own cells, providing all the genes necessary to sire a child with genes from a single parent. Current technology would still require a woman to carry the child in her womb—at least for now (ibid.).
The Bible reveals that God has previously intervened in history when human activities have gone in destructive ways. At the tower of Babel we are told, “they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them”—so God confounded their language to stop this defiant act (Genesis 11:6-9, RSV). As mankind pushes into scientifically and morally uncharted territory, it will be interesting to see how far God will let this current attempt go before He intervenes again. For more on the future of science, read or listen to “Has Science Made God Obsolete?” | <urn:uuid:e0072bd9-164b-4d4e-b1f4-a85a2c485e7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/news-and-prophecy/babies-without-mothers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.950229 | 305 | 3 | 3 |
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security now incarcerates, via immigration detention, more people per year than any other state or federal agency. In 2012, the DHS detained over 429,000 noncitizens awaiting immigration hearings or deportation, at a $2 billion cost to taxpayers. Yet the DHS' new risk assessment technology, which comprehensively and individually assesses immigrant detainees and collects valuable data, makes it possible for Congress to improve detention practices while reforming broader U.S. immigration laws. With this risk assessment technology — piloted in Baltimore and Washington since September — Congress can now effectively decriminalize immigration detention without increasing risk to the American public.
In 2009, after a comprehensive DHS report recommending immigration detention reforms, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton announced they would "pursue detention strategies based on assessed risk" of flight from proceedings or public danger. President Barack Obama's reform proposal continues to support these "smart enforcement" strategies and less-costly alternatives to immigration detention. By enhancing infrastructure and technology, Mr. Obama said, DHS can "better focus its detention resources on public safety and national security threats by expanding alternatives to detention and reducing overall detention costs."
Last year, ICE began to collect and use risk-assessment data to better support its smart enforcement efforts. Since April, at least, ICE has had the ability to place its detailed risk assessment in each immigrant's file, with underlying information such as criminal and family history. Moreover, ICE's computer systems can now produce statistical reports and trend analysis of its risk assessments, to "better assess situations where [noncitizens] with similar characteristics seem to have different detention outcomes."
With ICE incorporating risk assessment into its arrest and detention practices, Congress now may have empirical support to codify into law the decriminalization of immigration detention. First, ICE's risk practices and data may render unnecessary the certainty provided by mandatory detention laws. For example, current U.S. law requires detention without bond of immigrants who have committed certain crimes — even long ago or quite minor ones, such as subway turnstile jumping or sharing marijuana cigarettes. ICE's data may show that individualized release determinations would not appreciably increase risk of flight or danger, especially regarding detainees with U.S. family ties. Congress should end mandatory detention based on categorical presumptions.
Second, ICE's risk practices and data may render unnecessary the overuse of immigration detention — currently, 34,000 detainee beds costing $166 per detainee, per day — and help Congress reform ICE's over-detention relative to U.S. criminal systems. For example, in New York from 2005 through 2010, 80 percent of ICE arrestees were denied bond, with fewer than 1 percent released with no bond. By comparison, in criminal cases continuing past arraignment, 1 percent of defendants were denied bail, with 68 percent released with no bail. Congress should provide that DHS and immigration judges consider clear criteria regarding flight or danger, as criminal judges do, based on the risk data ICE already collects.
Moreover, if immigration detention will be "truly civil," as Mr. Morton promised, a civil system should logically make less use of detention than a criminal system. Congress should reconsider its funding of 34,000 detainee beds, based on the assessed risk those detainees pose. Rather, Congress should safely and cost-efficiently increase funding for alternatives to incarceration costing $14 per day or less, such as electronic tracking, home arrest or community supervision.
Third, a comprehensive, accurate risk assessment of civil immigration detainees would help reduce the severity of ICE detention. Dora Schriro, author of ICE's 2009 report, called immigrant detainees "appreciably different" from criminal detainees — often with intact families and jobs, well-developed life skills and nonviolent conduct. Yet, as the American Bar Association documented, immigrants largely remain in facilities "designed to hold criminal offenders," many actual jails. Even ICE's new civil detention standards are still modeled after jail standards. The ABA's model immigration detention standards provide a forward-thinking blueprint for both less and less restrictive detention, tailored to civil immigrant detainees. Congress should adopt the ABA standards into law.
ICE's new risk-assessment technology allows Congress to take those three steps — ending mandatory detention; imposing criteria and decreasing funding for discretionary detention; and enacting civil detention standards — while empirically demonstrating the lack of additional risk. Reducing detention would also have other positive effects. For example, it would likely increase those immigrants' access to counsel, evidence and witnesses, in turn increasing the efficiency and fairness of backlogged immigration courts that now routinely grant continuances to self-represented litigants. Most fundamentally, though, tailoring our immigration laws and practices to actual risk would help ensure that in America, detention without criminal conviction remains the exception, not the rule.
Robert Koulish (email@example.com), a political scientist at the University of Maryland, is a research fellow at its Center for American Politics and Citizenship and teaches immigration law at its Carey School of Law. Mark Noferi (firstname.lastname@example.org) teaches an immigration seminar at Brooklyn Law School and chairs a subcommittee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York currently studying immigration detention. | <urn:uuid:df780154-ba92-4ffd-80b4-05abb3c0e24d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sun-sentinel.com/bs-ed-immigrant-detention-20130220-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00394-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939374 | 1,072 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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